Qiongzhou Mansion, Yazhou, Hongsha Town.

This is the location of the famous ends of the earth, and has always been the most miserable place for officials assigned by literati.

Indeed, in this day and age, this is the land of the wilderness.

In Hongsha Town, the air with a strong smell of fish, the courtyard walls built with shells, and the big cacti on the beach all tell the people that this place is desolate.

However, since ten gunboats and thousands of people came to the sea at once, Hongsha Town was also lively.

The people in the town have provided all kinds of conveniences for this sailor, houses, vegetables, fish and shrimp, etc., and some fishermen have good water skills and boat skills on weekdays, and they want to join the army. Of course, this is definitely not the military and civilian situation of the Ming Dynasty, but it depends on the various metals of white flowers and yellow clarity taken out by this army.

In this era, the army does not loot, but on the contrary, it also takes out money to buy things at a more appropriate price, which is not unique, but also rare.

The person who came was the left wing of the Nanzhong Army Naval Division, Zhang Xiaohu's fleet.

In addition to the manpower of the fleet itself, it also carried a battalion of soldiers, and the front battalion of the Xuanwu Battalion arrived with him on the same ship, and here, in the future, it will be an outpost, springboard, and stronghold of the Southern Chinese Army. To the east, to Luzon and Ryukyu, to the west is Nanchu, and to the south is Manraka.

When he arrived in Yazhou, in addition to being polite to the local state and county officials, and taking out some goods to these officials who were assigned to the ends of the earth, telling them that they would not have to worry about the attack of the bandits, Zhang Xiaohu devoted himself to the construction of this Yulin Port.

Boatloads of burnt ash were brought in, along with Ha Jing's staple products, refined salt and rice, as well as knives and axes made of nine-turn steel, which were almost divine weapons in the eyes of the Li people in the mountainous areas, as well as pots and pans.

"Go to the sailor camp to work! Tube rice! You can get a day's worth of food by working for a day! You can get five catties of salt by working for a month! Dry for three months to get a knife or axe! ”

Such news spreads like wings in Lijia Village and Miaojia Village. Young adults from various villages have come to Hongsha Town to try their luck.

Sure enough, Hongsha Town, which used to be slightly more prosperous than a fishing village, has now become a huge construction site.

In the pen of the students who had learned the skills of surveying and mapping, a paper map was drawn, local fishermen were paid to pay for it, and the light and dark reefs and shoal sandbars and waterways on the route were clearly marked on the chart.

Using the "worthless" industrial products, Zhang Xiaohu hired a large number of migrant workers to carry out a careful construction of Yulin Port: Luhuitou, Maling, Nanshan Ridge and other mountains protruding from the sea, such terrain was well utilized, and forts and lighthouses were built like the east and west Maozhou Islands in the sea.

"That's it! Just wait for the lord to send someone to send the cannon, and our Yulin Port will be completely completed! "Standing on Ximaozhou Island and looking into the harbor with a telescope, the fortification construction of Yulin Port is not much better than that of Cam Ranh Bay and Hongji Port, and even surpasses it.

After all, Zhang Xiaohu was born as a pirate, and what he is best at is sneak attacks and exploiting loopholes. Therefore, in the process of construction, his habitual thinking is how to prevent others from taking advantage of loopholes, or how to set traps for others, so that the fleet that tries to sneak attack will fall into a situation where it is impossible to advance and retreat, and it is attacked from three sides.

The forts on the island and on the top of the hill were built in accordance with the style of the fortress and the terrain of the mountain, and the routes of the ships that might come were deduced in advance, and according to the results of the deduction, the battery firepower was arranged, forming a combination of the battery fire and the submarine terrain, and the effect of light and dark killing. Perhaps a circumventive detour to evade battery fire would have caused the ship to run aground on a sandbar on the seabed, becoming a live target for artillery fire.

However, at the moment, there was a lack of artillery on the batteries. One or two guns were installed in each battery to fill the façade, and a few more guns were removed from the gunboats.

"Your Excellency!" A pro-soldier reminded Zhang Xiaohu, "There's a boat coming over there!" ”

Zhang Xiaohu put his hand on the pergola and looked west, where the water and sky meet, a little white sail is sailing in his direction under the afterglow of the setting sun. He raised the binoculars in his hand and looked westward, and ordered the soldiers in his mouth.

"Lose that horse! If it's a passing boat, you can get on the boat and go out with Lao Tzu to collect money for the road! If you get off the muzzle of Lao Tzu, you have to pay Lao Tzu! ”

He pointed the lens of the telescope at the incoming ship, and suddenly he screamed! "Hah! It's your own people who come! ”

On the boat that came, the iron-blooded eighteen-star military flag of the Nanzhong Army Navy Division was hung high on the mast, and on the bow of the ship, a guy who was also holding a telescope was also looking in the direction of Maozhou Island.

"Little Liuzi is a bastard, he actually built this place like this, so, so," he did this several times, and he couldn't remember how to describe the military port in front of him.

The person who came was Zhang Xiaohu's third brother, Zhang Xiaoqi.

"Eight eighteen-pounder guns, each with fifty solid shells, twenty howitzers, and associated gunpowder."

"This month's military salary of the left wing, vegetable gold. A total of 12,000 taels, 4,000 taels of allowance for going to sea, and 1,500 stone for next month's ration. In addition, there are 1,000 stones of salt and 1,000 pieces of cloth entrusted by the Han Yuan firm to sell on your behalf. ”

With a list in hand, the two brothers began to hand over on the pier pier.

"In addition, there are also supplies of one hundred desperate knives, one hundred and fifty mourning guns, and forty firearms for the Xuanwu front camp, and you have also collected them."

In addition, the bulk of the goods brought by the fleet was an extremely large cargo - burnt ash.

"Little Liuzi, I don't understand, what are you doing with so many ashes after you have submitted several times? Build roads? However, it is very flat here and around, and even if you build the ground with ash in the fort, I am afraid that you will not need such a large number, right? ”

While urging the Li laborers to remove the ash barrels on the ship, Zhang Xiaoqi took out the third brother's style and chattered with Zhang Xiaohu.

Zhang Xiaohu took off his black goggles, pinned the brass frame to the cool hat made of bamboo very casually, bent down, squinted at a pair of small eyes that were blown by the sea breeze and couldn't open them, and carefully searched for something on the trestle, and after a while, he screamed violently, "Lao Tzu, look where you are still running!" ”

Zhang Xiaohu tightly pinched a wriggling thing in his hand and handed it to Zhang Xiaoqi, "Third brother, do you still know this thing?!" ”

"Sixth uncle, what is this?" From behind Zhang Xiaoqi, a pair of small-headed melons emerged.

"Big dog, two dogs! You are still the descendants of our Zhang family, and you still grew up on the ship! Zhang Xiaoqi scolded in a low voice, "And the face to ask what is this?" It's a ship maggot! ”

At the same time, he handed the maggot in his hand to his two nephews, and asked them to take a closer look at this little life, which was hated by all those who begged for a living at sea. While asking his third brother, "Why did you bring these two boys?" Does the fourth brother know? ”

The eldest dog and the second dog are the sons of Zhang Xiaobiao, the fourth elder of the Zhang family, and the only two remaining males in the Zhang family's generation, and the rest were killed in the father-killing seizure launched by the boss of the Zhang family.

"Oh, your fourth brother has been promoted, he has been transferred to the feudal clan, and now he is in the Pingshun camp, and he has become a prefect! It's even a command of tens of thousands of people! ”

After voting for Li Shouhan, Zhang Laosan, that is, this Zhang Xiaoqi, because he was good at mobilizing the shipping schedule and managing the ship was a good hand, was assigned to the Han Yuan firm, and the fourth Zhang Xiaobiao, because of the injury to his legs and feet, could no longer carry out his life at sea, so he arranged to be a town mayor not far from Hejing, and after a few years, he was also excellent in the evaluation.

However, it doesn't matter if you go there to take office, these two sons, but from the chaos, in exchange for the lives of a dozen pro-soldiers, you can't just follow yourself to that kind of wild place, the third and fourth discussed it, and felt that they could follow the example of the ancients and send their sons as hostages, and they could also show their loyalty.

"I wrote a letter to the lord with your fourth brother, saying that Pingshun has just been pacified, and there are many things to do, and it is inconvenient to take the children to go, so I want to leave the eldest dog and the second dog in Hejing to study, it is best to go to the martial arts hall, and I will serve the lord in the future!"

Then, the lord comforted him with kind words, and left a house for your fourth brother in Ha Jing Mansion, and asked people to arrange for these two little guys to go to the cultivation class of the martial arts hall to study. As a result, alas! It's also a family misfortune! ”

Referring to the misfortune of his family, Zhang Xiaohu couldn't help but twitch the muscles on his face, and he remembered his brother who killed his father and slaughtered his brother.

"Sixth uncle! Uncle Six! The big dog held up the wriggling little worm and ran to him with joy.

"What do you say this thing is?" 、

"Boat maggots!"

Although it is said to be maggots, it is actually a type of clam, which is a type of shellfish, and it is said to taste good. However, this kind of thing that tastes good eats wood as food. Moreover, if it is not prevented, the maggots living on the boat and the pier trestle will cavate a boat or a trestle in half a year, or at most ten months.

In order to prevent this little life from pursuing food and the continuation of the race, people at that time had to put a boat into the river every few months and soak the bottom of the boat with fresh water in the river to get rid of these nasty little creatures.

Now, the bottom of the ship of the Nanzhong Army Naval Division, thanks to the Bodhisattva copper mine of Zhenla, has begun to gradually carry out the brass bottom, and the activity space of these small lives has been greatly compressed, but the wharf and trestle bridge of the Yulin Military Port newly built by Zhang Xiaohu are mainly built of wood!

"That's why I've asked you to send the ashes several times!" Zhang Xiaohu explained to his third brother with a tiger face.

Gradually replace the wooden trestle components with cement pouring components, which is very beneficial to the life of the trestle and wharf.

Walking on the streets of Hongsha Town, officers and soldiers stopped to salute Zhang Xiaohu from time to time along the way, and some local leaders knelt on the side of the road with their own clansmen and kowtowed to Commander Zhang.

"Sixth, this town is too small and too chaotic!"

After looking at the street scene for a while, Zhang Xiaoqi clicked his lips and came to a conclusion about Hongsha Town.

There's no way not to feel small!

Just imagine, a town store with a permanent population of only more than five or seven hundred households and more than three thousand people, suddenly two or three thousand young and middle-aged men poured in, and then came at least twice as many native laborers, and people from nearby villages and towns came here to find a job.

Even if there are some people brought by Zhang Xiaohu, there are inspections with a little experience in urban management, but there are many people who can't stand it here to find a job, and there are people everywhere who want to find a person who can sell their labor in exchange for food, clothing, and daily necessities.

There are even more savage natives who have not gotten rid of their wild spirit, and they have replaced many unpleasant things with wine, and they use the smell of alcohol to fight on the streets, molesting women in the past.

The squires of Hongsha Town cried to Zhang Xiaohu countless times to complain about their grievances.

"My lord, you are here to defend us against the pirates, but now the bandits dare not come, this barbarian is here again! You've got to take care of it! ”

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