After the sky cleared, the sun slowly climbed up the ridge, shining on the light blue sea, the bay in the bay one after another ships anchored in the bay, a few small sampans sailed in the bay, the sea breeze blowing from the mouth of the bay, straight into the chicken coop bay.

This is Jilong Bay, the northernmost part of Taiwan. Five days ago, the bay, which had been dormant for more than a decade, welcomed a group of guests, guests from the north, who, of course, were also hosts.

Normally, the captain of the cruiser "Fubo" would rest on the warship, but now he is in this abandoned European fortress.

"This is the city of San Salvador that you mentioned earlier, with a circumference of about 130 meters, a fortress wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, built by Valdez, the first governor of the Spanish chicken coop and freshwater, and the Spaniards also spent ten years expanding the fort one after another, and built four round bastions around the city. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, there was a "chicken coop battle", the Dutch sent troops to attack the city of San Saldo, and after a fierce shelling, only the western fortress of the city remained. That's where we're now......"

As the captain of the cruiser "Fubo", Shen Hefei had already obtained information about the chicken coop before this voyage, and it was the Dutch who worried him the most, but now it seems that this is obviously a bit too worried.

"However, after the Dutch conquered here, it was only a few years before they abandoned this city, after all, for the Dutch, they now specialize in southern Taiwan, so this time we have a good deal, at least we don't need to storm Jilong Island......"

This time to the south, Shen Hefei naturally knew very well that his task was to open up a port here, and use it as a base, and gradually expand southward, and because of this, the conflict with the Dutch may be inevitable, so as soon as he entered Jilong Bay, he ordered people to rebuild the fortress on the island.

However, only in the past five days, the once destroyed fortress has been simply repaired, and twelve 18-pound guns have been installed—the most powerful artillery guns cast by the Loyal and Righteous Army Cannon Foundry, and this time in order to strengthen the defense of Jilong Bay, the fleet specially ordered as many as eighteen guns.

Of course, one of the more important reasons why these guns were brought at that time was that if the Dutch were encountered here, they would be needed to storm the fortress. But all was good, the Dutch had long since abandoned the fort and Chicken Coop Bay.

"Sir, now is only the first step, we still need to get the support of Shengban, otherwise, we are likely to fall into the predicament of the Spaniards back then, because the villages of Shengban of Jinbaoli Society and Big Chicken Coop Society on the island were captured by the Spanish army, so they refused to sell food. Manila's supply ships could not arrive in time, and many Spaniards fell ill or starved to death, and the survivors had to eat dogs and rats to feed their hunger. It wasn't until a Chinese businessman came to the chicken coop to sell grain that the situation improved. Now, although there are more than 4,000 people from us who have come and taken prisoners, those Shengfan naturally dare not sell us grain, but it will be difficult to sustain us just by relying on the grain carried by the ship, so we have to attack the area around Hongmao City with the help of Shengfan, obtain food from the hands of local Shengfan, and colonize the local area......"

As Shen Hefei's assistant, Yuan Pengyuan is a native of Fujian Province, and he is a businessman, and he even came to San Salvador City to traffic sulfur in his early years, but this is all in the past, more than ten years ago, he lost everything, and became a noteworthy scribe in Zheng Jun, if it were not for Xu Yuanda's recommendation, I am afraid that he would not have entered Zhu Mingzhong's sight at all, and became an assistant on this voyage, of course, his task is to contact the local Shengfan, and resume the production of sulfur mines as soon as possible.

"To the new, contact with Shengfan and colonization, naturally you are responsible, you have to do this matter quickly, the fortress of this chicken cage island is the gateway to the chicken coop, I will build it as soon as possible, as for the life of this island, ......"

In the silence, with his hands behind his back, Shen Hefei looked at the bay and said silently.

"It's not a way to stay here, you have to move out anyway, either they take the initiative to move out, or we kick them out, these days, you go and do this well!"

Although he did not say the words "If you are not of my race, their hearts will be different", but for him, he naturally would not tolerate the shadow of life on the "Keelung Island", where the future "Keelung" is located, and in his plan, there should not even be those prisoners serving hard labor here.

"Don't worry, I'll find a way to persuade them to get out of here these days!"

After arriving at the chicken coop, Yuan Pengyuan noticed that the people on the island were all watching them with panicked eyes, perhaps they had been in contact with the Spaniards and the Dutch, and accepted their rule, but their numbers were too limited. But there were only one or two hundred men, and now they were faced with a force of nearly four thousand, although more than two thousand three hundred of them were taken prisoner by the Green Battalion. For these two Shengfan tribes with a population of only a few hundred people, they will naturally be terrified because of this, and they will not resist leaving here.

However, what really worries Yuan Pengyuan is not those Shengfan near Keelung, although they are headhunters, but they can't see the difference in strength between the two sides, what really worries people is those green camp prisoners, will they work here honestly?

"Whoa......

With every step, the sound of the shackles made Lu Chuanfeng feel the pain in his ankles, and although it had been so long, he still hadn't gotten used to the days of being a hard laborer.

What sin have I suffered?

Again, when carrying the wood to the barracks construction site, Lu Chuanfeng secretly thought in his heart, after being captured from Suqian, he fell from the sky into the eighteenth layer of hell, originally he thought that he reported his name, and then confessed, and then offered silver, at least to save his life, and then was released home. But in the end, the development of things was far beyond his imagination, not only was the Lu family confiscated all their family business, but even more than 40 salt merchants in Yangzhou were confiscated from their family business, and several people were beheaded.

Even in the brothel on this chicken coop island, he also saw a few daughters who were originally salt merchants' concubines running cheap businesses there, every time he thought of this, Lu Chuanfeng's heart was painful, and he would worry about his wife, children, little sister and other family members, where are they now?

Thinking of what happened to his family, Lu Chuanfeng even wanted to die, but on the other hand, he didn't know that this was probably God's retribution for the Lu family!

"Retribution, ......"

Again, secretly muttering in his heart, Lu Chuanfeng buried his head and continued to carry the wood, this time, he couldn't see the slightest appearance of Master Lu in the past, and there was no difference between him and the captives around him, but there was always some unwillingness in his eyes.

"I don't know, what kind of place is this? If you can escape......"

This thought was just a flash, looking at the "tattoos" on the faces of the surrounding hard labor prisoners, after the Battle of Suqian, all the captured Qing soldiers and the merchants accompanying the army were remembered as "black faces". Although there is only one word "rape", Lu Chuanfeng knows that this word distinguishes them from ordinary people, when they reclaimed the land, it was not that no one tried to escape, but before they escaped for several miles, they were beaten to death by the people.

With such a word on his face, even if he wants to escape, where can he flee?

"Dude......"

At that moment, a man walked up to him and whispered.

"I heard someone say just now that this team is going to draw 500 people to the south to go to the Tamsui River, is my brother willing to go with me?"

It was Bai Guangtao who came to him to speak, he was a native of Luzhou and was captured by the Loyal and Righteous Army when he was delivering information to Dasu. All he could think about in his mind was how to get out of here.

"Freshwater River?"

Bai Guangtao's words made Lu Chuanfeng stunned for a moment, and said with some puzzlement.

"What's that?"

"The devil knows what the place is, anyway, brother, didn't you see, we took such a long boat ride to get to this place, you look at those students, what do they know? The younger brother heard that if we go south, there is still the territory of Hongmaoyi, if our brothers can escape to the place of Hongmaoyi, then ......"

Bai Guangtao's words were not loud, and after he heard the news, his heart moved the idea of escaping.

"When the time comes, our brothers will be able to escape!"

"Where is the Red Hair?"

As a salt merchant, Lu Chuanfeng is no stranger to Hongmaoyi, and there are even churches opened by Hongmaoyi in Yangzhou, those people say that they are Yi, but they are much kinder than those Manchurians, if they escape to the territory of Hongmaoyi, maybe there will be a way to live.

Seeing that Lu Chuanfeng was still a little hesitant, Bai Guangtao whispered.

"Brother, these days, it's not like you haven't seen it, we just arrived here, there are more than a dozen people who lost their lives because they didn't accept the water and soil, no one in this place treats us as human beings, if we don't think of a way, maybe this life will be lost!"

When he reminded Lu Chuanfeng, Bai Guangtao's eyes narrowed into a slit, and the reason why he came to lobby Lu Chuanfeng naturally had his considerations.

"This, this ......"

Thinking about the people who have died in the past few days, and then thinking about the work in the past few days, the overseer will take the bamboo stick and draw it on his body if he is not satisfied, Lu Chuanfeng hesitated and said.

"This, this, even if you pick people, how can there be so many people here who can pick us?"

"Brother, the younger brother naturally said this to you, there is a way for the younger brother, you are not ......"

Pointing to Lu Chuan's body, Bai Guangtao said softly.

"There's also a jade pendant!"