Dingguo Bay is completely different from Singapore, Singapore is an open port city, after nearly two years of construction, has become a world-famous port, merchant ships from all over the world dock here, replenish fresh water, replenish food, crew can go ashore to buy goods, even Wang Xinyu's nemesis Dutch can come to Singapore to do business. But Dingguo Bay is completely different, this is a semi-hidden military city and industrial town, except for the allies of the British, even the Portuguese with cooperation agreements and the Spaniards with Lend-Lease agreements do not know the specific location of the city, let alone the Dutch, the Dutch, at present, the Dutch do not know that there is a big city hidden in this jungled bay.

The harbor of Dingguo Bay is open, and the shore is a flat plain, which is not conducive to the construction of fort defense. However, Wang Xinyu skillfully used the dense towering trees on the shore to build many forts hidden in the woods. Similar to the beachhead of later generations, once the enemy landed, it was not easy for them to find the hidden artillery forts, but the defenders could hide in the hidden low artillery forts and shoot deadly shells outside.

In addition to the low dark castles, there are also many castles built on artificial earth slopes on the shore, which are six or seven meters higher than the shore wharf, all of which are earthen platforms built with a large number of captives and slaves, and then build small castles more than ten meters high on them, forming a series of forts.

There were six such small castles in total, plus thirty low artillery forts, which formed a formidable defensive firepower.

Yanping City by the Cangshui River is also a big city. This big city was built half a year earlier than Singapore, and after two and a half years of construction, it is already a bustling big city. In addition to the Han Chinese and Green Camp captives relocated by Wang Xinyu, there were also many Eight Banners captives, Annan captives and Burmese captives who settled here.

Dorolon was a Manchurian who was captured in the Battle of Xiamen Sea that year. The status of the Eight Banners prisoners of war was the lowest that year. And the status of the Manchu Eight Banners was even lower than that of the Mongol Eight Banners captives. Many of the Green Camp and Mongol prisoners were freed after two years of hard labor, or even a year and a half, but the sentence of the Eight Banners like Dorolon was not reduced for a single day. After three years of hard labor, he finally had a certain amount of freedom to own his own land. Except for the grain grown and handed over to the Nanyang Company, the rest was kept by himself.

Dorolon had a large bald head that was bright enough to reflect the sun, and most of the Bannerman captives who came here had a large shaved head like him. After all, the climate here is hot, and it's uncomfortable to grow your hair. But when I first came, there were still people who were reluctant to cut off the money rattail pigtail at the back of their heads. As a result, the Ming army issued an order of "keep your head without braids, keep braids without braids", and after cutting a group of braided fans with knives in hand, the Manchurian flag people had no choice but to cut off their braids honestly.

As for cutting off the braids, it is necessary to keep long hair. Or shaved heads, or short hair, then no one cares.

Although it is said that a man like Dorolon could not leave Yanping City after serving his sentence of hard labor, his life is much better now. There's so much land here that you can't use it up. When Dorolon arrived, he learned to grow crops such as sweet potatoes and corn. In addition to handing over the food, there is too much food to eat, and the surplus grain can be sold to the local indigenous people. They can exchange gold, silver, and brass for game, furs, and mountain delicacies.

Because Dorolon did not know how to grow rice and wheat. If he wanted to eat rice and white noodles, he had to exchange them with other prisoners of war. Since sweet potatoes and corn are high-yield crops, it always takes more than a dozen catties or even dozens of catties to exchange for one catty of rice and white flour.

Even so, there were too many sweet potatoes and corn grown by Dorolon to breed chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep, and open a milling workshop. Make starch from the sweet potatoes and corn that you can't eat.

Because Dorolon had become a boss, the local government allowed him to recruit ten captives to work for him. So Dorolon recruited ten captives as workers, including three local natives, two Annamite, and two Mongols. Two Green Battalion soldiers and one Burmese. The captives were fed and lodging with him, and they were paid a penny of silver every month.

The sales of starch is still very good, the starch made of sweet potatoes can be used to make snacks such as vermicelli, and several famous local snacks in Dingguo Bay are made of sweet potato flour.

One of the first snacks is cold cold powder, boiled with a paste made of sweet potato flour, let it cool, it will condense into pieces, and then cut into strips, first chilled with cold well water, and then take it out and mix it with chili oil and sesame seeds, sprinkle some green onions on top, that taste I don't know how fragrant! Although it is hot, the humidity is also high, so eating something spicy is good for your body. Another snack is fried noodles, which are made from sweet potato flour and stir-fried with meat, eggs, shrimp and vegetables. The last one is called steamed rice rolls, which is made of sweet potato flour on the outside, wrapped in fresh shrimp, pork or beef, vegetables, eggs, radish, etc., and steamed in the basket, it is a mouth-watering delicacy.

Because the yield of sweet potatoes here is so high, the people here have come up with several ways to make sweet potato flour.

As for the use of corn flour, it is relatively less, except for the use of starch when stir-frying, it is used to make multigrain steamed buns, corn pancakes, wowotou and the like.

A few months ago, several new ships of prisoners were sent to Yanping City.

Dorolon happened to be on the dock at the time, and he saw Cai Yu disembarking from the boat at a glance. Seeing this handsome-looking banner woman, Dorolon was stunned for a moment, among the banner people, where are there several such delicate women!

Readers who have seen all kinds of grid photos in the late Qing Dynasty will know that there are few beautiful women in the banner, and 99.99% of them are miserable, and if it weren't for the women of the Han Eight Banners to improve some genes for them, it is estimated that it would be even more unbearable to witness.

Cai Yu's father is Cai Shiying's younger brother, who is Han Baqi, and her mother is also from Han Baqi, because of her parents' genes, and she looks like her mother, so she looks good. If it weren't for the fact that they were captured here, such a banner woman would have to marry at least a governor-level child, and it would not be Dorolon's turn at all.

Let me explain here again that not all beautiful women can enter the palace, and whether they can enter the palace mainly depends on their status. The flag people are of pure blood. Their status and appearance are often inversely proportional, after all, they are the genes of purebred Tunguska savages. On the contrary, it is the Han Eight Banners with a lower status, because it is the gene of the Han people, and the growth is better.

"I'm going to take a Mongol captive! Recruit Tsai! "After learning that this woman's name is Cai Yu, and this banner woman is considered a semi-free body, and she can be free without hard labor. Anyone can take it as long as they want it. Upon learning of this, Dorolon went to the government and demanded that a Mongol who did not listen to him be dismissed and replaced with this woman.

Speaking of the Mongols, Dorolon was on fire, and the two Mongol captives were not captives at all, they were lazy in Dorolon's workshop, and they had a very bad temper, and they were angry at every turn. Dorolon regretted dying. Why did two Mongols be recruited to work at that time? However, the local government refused to allow the return of goods, because it was chosen by Dorolon himself, and he had to be responsible for the life of the two Mongols. These two Mongols once went to apply for a job in the Ming army, but because they were disabled, they were screened, and if Dorolon fired them, the two Mongols would have nowhere to go, and the other jobs were basically full. They had no choice but to go back and continue to do hard labor as coolies.

Now another group of prisoners had arrived, and Dorolon insisted on the return of one Mongol. Replace Cai Yu back.

A local official replied: "If you want to fire a Mongol, he will have to go back to work as a coolie!" ”

"I don't care!" Dorolon said angrily, "The Mongolian is lazy and lazy, and he tries to be lazy every day when he works, and I basically raise him for nothing!" People like them should go back and continue to work as coolies! ”

The official advised again: "You have to let Cai Yu go to your side." But she is semi-free and has the power to make her own choices. If she doesn't, we can't force her to go to you. ”

"How could she not?" Dorolon raised his eyebrows confidently and said, "I have good living conditions here, and my life is very good. She is still the boss, how could she refuse? ”

"That's good! Just go and ask her if she's willing! If she agrees, then we allow you to fire a Mongol you don't like. The clerk replied with a malicious smile.

Dorolon went to ask Cai Yu, and the answer he got was one word: "No!" ”

If you ask again, the word "no" becomes the word "phew".

Dorolon found himself asking Cai Yu when a Han Baqi on the side stared at him malice! Look at the dress of this Han Baqi, dressed in silk Hanfu, except that his hair has not grown up, he is no different from the Han people in other aspects.

"It's Han Baqi again! These damn dog minions! They, like the Mongols, are not a good thing! Dorolon said indignantly in his heart. Defeated by Zheng Chenggong's men, Dorolon did not feel ashamed. was defeated by the Ming army on the battlefield, which shows that the Zheng army is indeed powerful. He didn't feel ashamed to be sent here as a coolie, after all, he was a prisoner. However, the Han Eight Banners and the Mongols looked down on people, which made Dorolon very angry, they were originally a group of soft-boned dog minions, when was their turn to be arrogant?

But Dorolon didn't know that Cai Yu was Cai Shiying's niece, although she was a prisoner, she was a female dependent after all, and she could still take an escort when she came here.

After Wang Xinyu arrived in Yanping City, he checked the situation of the prisoners here. After that, he made a suggestion: "Cannibalism is rampant on Dongfan Island, harassing us to develop gold mines. Don't we have a group of Manchurian Eight Banners captives here? We can recruit them as corporate escorts and let them come out to deal with cannibalism! ”

It is indeed a very good way to use the prisoners of the Eight Banners to join the Nanyang Company Escort and use it to deal with those cannibals. In the jungles of Borneo, musketeers are not necessarily easy to use, and a group of excellent archers can play a great role, especially the Manchurians, who were originally hunters in the jungle, and after a period of training, it is indeed a good choice to use them against the local savages.

"Recruit Manchurian Banner people as soldiers?" When Dorolon saw the notice posted at the gate of the city, his heart moved, and he decided to apply for a soldier. After they come here, whether it is the Green Battalion, the Han Eight Banners or the Mongols, they will all have the opportunity to join the Ming army. But they didn't have the opportunity to re-employ jobs and take up arms again as soldiers. Now seeing this notice, Dorolon is naturally very moved, he wants to take up arms and return to the battlefield, only the battlefield is his best home.

"Boss, why is your mill going to be sold?" The indigenous worker asked in stiff Chinese.

"That's right! I'm going to be a soldier! We Manchurians are born warriors! I was defeated by the Han people before, and I got here. Now go and fight the Han people, I want the Han people to know that we are not fighting badly! Those Han Eight Banners, Mongols, they are not our opponents! Dorolon replied.

Dorolon sold his fields and workshops and joined the Nanyang Company Guard. At the same time, he also gave himself a Chinese name, called Wang Peng.

Soon after joining the Nanyang Company Escort, their weapons were issued. Wang Peng's weapons consisted of a long knife that could be used with both one and both hands, and an elaborate new composite bow, a combination of horn, elm, and ash, with pulleys that pulled the string with as little force as possible. It can be said that this is quite an advanced bow and arrow. Originally, this new type of bow was to be mass-produced and supplied to the Ming army. However, after all the archers of the Ming army were replaced with this new type of bow, the training of the new archers was complicated and long, and it was not as cost-effective as training musketeers, so Wang Xinyu provided the extra combined bows to the Nanyang Company escort.

"It's a good bow! Such a bow is labor-saving and powerful! Wang Peng couldn't put it down, stroking the bow and arrow in his hand. Wang Peng was scornful of some Eight Banners soldiers who abandoned bows and arrows and used muskets, believing that muskets were too slow to fire and were far less useful than bows and arrows. It wasn't until he encountered the Russian army later that Wang Peng changed this idea.

After three months of training, Dorolon, who changed his name to Wang Peng, stepped aboard a clipper ship bound for North America. When they sent out a few sets of winter clothes, Wang Peng was already suspicious. The boat went all the way north along the coastline, getting colder and colder as it went, and only then did Wang Peng muster up the courage to ask Zheng Jing, who led the team: "Lord Wang, didn't you recruit us to go to Borneo to kill cannibals?" How did you get north? Where are we going? ”

Zheng Jing replied coldly: "Go to Dongzhou!" Go over there and expand your territory. It's too easy to kill cannibals in Borneo, it's not something an elite like you should do! Those things are enough to be handed over to the second and third generations of Eight Banners who grew up in Guannai! ”

"Dongzhou?" Wang Peng asked.

"That's right! But now I'm going to take a trip to the slave and help my uncle deal with the Rakshasas! Zheng Jing replied. (To be continued.) )