The seaside pier on Tamna Island has become a huge storage site for supplies, and supplies from Nanyang, Shanghai, Toban, Sakhalin and Ezo Islands, as well as the Satsuma Domain, have been piled up here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although Tamna Island is Zheng Xi's horse breeding farm, and it is also the most profitable place for him (the horses that Wang Xinyu needs, but he has to pay Zheng Xian silver to buy), there are no farms and factories here that produce grain, cloth, ceramics and other daily necessities, and all the necessities of life have to be transported from other places.

However, raising horses is still a very profitable industry, raising a Don hippopotamus can get three hundred taels of silver from the hands of the Qiongzhou army, and the cost paid by Zheng Zheng is about one hundred and fifty taels of silver, of course, plus freight, horse mortality and shipwreck probability, as well as dividends distributed to others, military salaries paid to soldiers, etc., a horse Zheng Zheng Zheng himself earns almost thirty taels of silver.

At present, Zheng Xi has bred a total of more than 10,000 Don hippos, and these horses can bring him a net profit of 300,000 taels of silver.

Tamna Island also has 3,000 expensive large Western horses, including Arabian warmbloods, British thoroughbreds, Spanish Andalusian horses, and Western Regions Sweat Horses. The price of these large and good horses is expensive, the price of each horse is more than two thousand taels of silver, in fact, the cost of Zheng Xi breeding them is also very high, and although these large horses have very good momentum, their endurance is not good, and they are particularly delicate, and they can only be used as mounts for generals and officers, not as war horses for cavalry, so these horses are not raised much.

The largest number of Mongolian horses is still bred by Zheng Xi, Mongolian horses are short, the load capacity is small, and the speed is not fast enough, but the Mongolian horses have very good endurance, low food requirements, and the cheapest price, so the Mongolian horses have the largest number.

There are more than 50,000 Mongolian horses bred on Tamluo Island, each Mongolian horse is provided to the Qiongzhou army, only 50 taels of silver are charged, this price is actually very fair, in the past, the Ming Kingdom opened a horse market in Zhangjiakou and Kill Hukou, and bought a Mongolian horse from the Tumut Mongols and Chahar Mongols at least 100 taels of silver.

Many of the Mongolian horses that Zheng attacked now were captured from the Trans-Khing'an Mountains, or from the Buryat Mongols, and the Mongolian horses had very low food requirements, as long as there was pasture, and they were hardy and easy to breed. Although a Mongolian horse sold for only fifty taels of silver, Zheng Xi still made money.

In addition to selling horses, Zheng Xi also made money by training cavalry.

With the expansion of the cavalry of the Qiongzhou army, the Mongols and Manchurians who had surrendered to Cheng were no longer enough, and there were not many Han people who were good at fighting on horseback, so it was necessary to train new cavalry forces. Therefore, the new cavalry of the Qiongzhou army was selected from the infantry, and every soldier was sent to Tamna Island for special training since he was selected, so as to accompany him to grow up with the horses he would use in the future and cultivate a relationship with the war horses.

However, although Tamna Island was particularly suitable for raising horses and training cavalry, it did not produce food and other household items, and everything had to be transported from other places.

When Zheng Zheng was rich and the Ming army had a developed shipping industry, the location of Tamna Island was relatively central, between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese island, not far from Shanghai, and it was a transit point to Ezo Island and Sakhalin Island.

Therefore, on Tamna Island, as long as you have money, you can buy anything, high-quality rice from the Wa country, cold-water seafood from the north, lobster grouper from the south, mountain delicacies from the Outer Khingan Mountains, beef pork and cattle from the South Seas, tea from Jiangnan and Fujian, all kinds of spices and condiments, there are everything in the market here, and there are hotels of various flavors in several castles, where you can eat Jiangnan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Shandong cuisine and other dishes of different cuisines.

There are also some expensive industrial goods, such as silk, woolen sweaters, goose down coats, fine porcelain, gold and silver jewelry, glassware, etc., which can also be found everywhere in the store.

It's just that the prices of good dishes and luxury goods here are relatively high, and not everyone can afford to consume them. The general herdsmen who were immigrated here ate the grains provided by Zheng Xi for free, the dishes were vegetarian dishes, and small fish and shrimp were provided every other day or every few days, and they could eat meat three times a month.

Residents here have canteens and can cook at home. If you don't want to cook, you can eat in the cafeteria every day after registering. After registering, people who bring their families to come can receive a certain amount of miscellaneous grains every month, and they can also receive vegetables, potatoes and other non-staple foods every day, small fish and shrimp can be received once every three or five days, and occasionally they can receive pork, beef and other meat products.

The clothes worn by the shepherds were also provided by Zheng Xi, and they were all free clothes.

Each herdsman also has a fixed salary every month, although the salary is not high, 200 copper plates to one tael of silver a month, but because there is no money for food and clothing, people who bring their families here can buy some things they need.

As for people like Liu Lin with better family conditions, they can spend money to buy more expensive dishes to cook at home, and they can often eat fine rice and white noodles.

It's just that now the settlements are not finished, and every strong man who arrives here goes to cut wood, dig up the dirt, and build a camp. The settlements were built to the specifications of the barracks, with wooden fences built on all sides and a trench three feet wide and six feet deep dug outside. There is a drawbridge at the gate of the camp, and there are two arrow towers on both sides of the gate. On the wooden fence of the camp, there is an arrow tower every other way, and there are also forts in the camp.

Raising horses is much more difficult than raising cattle and sheep, and even the least picky Mongolian horses are much pickier than cattle and sheep, and horses eat grass only at the tip of the grass, and they eat different grasses in different seasons. In addition, hay was prepared for the horses and beans were prepared.

The horses are released and let them forage for their own food, and the horses can not go home for ten days and half a month, and will not come back until they have eaten the grass tips. When the horses come back, they are also fed beans to increase their nutrition.

Because the war horses are very delicate, the herdsmen who didn't know how to raise horses at first arrived here, only to find that raising horses is actually a very tiring thing.

Liu Lin, who has lived a good life without worrying about food and clothing since she was a child, has never suffered hardship, but she has unexpectedly become very strong. Having practiced some martial arts, she was very interested in horses, and soon made friends with them, especially a beautiful pony from the Western Regions.

It was an Arabian horse less than a year old, with a supple fur and beautiful big eyes. No one else was allowed to approach, but when Liu Lin approached, the horse became particularly docile.

Zheng Xi did not spend a lot of time on Tamna Island every year, and most of the time he went to Wa or Sakhalin. However, because the red-haired ghost went to the Wa Kingdom recently, Zheng Xi did not dare to go to the Wa Kingdom again, but went to Sakhalin Island and the Outer Khing'an Mountains to catch savages, capture the Rakshasas, transform the captives, turn these barbarians into brave warriors, and send new mercenaries to the Qiongzhou army.

Although Zheng Jing has his own private soldiers like Zheng Jing, but because he is close to Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong, he is far less autonomous than Zheng Jing in terms of military power, Zheng Jing is already a warlord based in the Americas, Zheng Xi is actually a transport merchant and war horse merchant who is attached to the Qiongzhou army, but he is an armed businessman.

But Zheng Xi still had no objection to Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong's status in the Ming Dynasty, because he failed, but Wang Xinyu generously let him go and gave him a large piece of land to have his own armed forces.

After more than two years, Zheng Xi also figured out that only by cooperating with the Qiongzhou army first and driving the Tartars out of the land of China could his life be better.

Thousands of miles away, on the distant American continent, on the northern part of the Zhengjinshan Peninsula, Feng Xifan was directing the Indians who had submitted to the Ming Dynasty to build castles, docks, and forts.

The so-called Zheng Jinshan Peninsula was later the San Francisco Peninsula. After discovering gold here, Zheng Jing named the peninsula Zheng Jinshan, and built castles and forts here, using this place as a second base for immigrants to the Americas.

Before the stone and cement of the main castle was completed, the Japanese people and the local Indians recruited built a palace out of wood and brick. Now Zheng Jing is sitting in this palace, with a small and delicate girl in his arms. It can be seen from the clothes on this girl that she is not a Ming person, but a Japanese person.

The girl's skin is snowy, her facial features are delicate, her two big eyes are watery, and she has a girl's flower-like smile on her face.

In order to support Zheng Jing's immigration to the Americas, the Satsuma Domain of the Wa Kingdom not only sent samurai and civilians to help, but also generously presented twelve beauties to Zheng Jing.

But Zheng Jing didn't like the adult women of the Japanese Kingdom, their eyebrows were trimmed to the size of soybean grains, their teeth were painted black, the powder on their faces was so thick that they could block bullets, and there were two red suns painted on both sides of their cheeks.

However, among the twelve beauties, there was a fifteen-year-old girl, because of her young age, it was impossible to dress up like that kind of person who could scare people to death, and she was still a woman without makeup.

This girl is actually the young lady of the Kayama family, a high-ranking samurai of the Satsuma Domain, named Kayama Shuko, and is the great-granddaughter of the famous Kayama Hidaka. The Kayama family was also a large family in the Satsuma Domain, second only to the Shimazu family. But because the Zheng family's fame in the Satsuma domain was too great, the Kayama family simply offered their own daughters.

Zheng Jing likes Kayama Shuzi very much, although this Japanese girl is not tall and small and exquisite, but it is choppy, and the pair is very large.

At that time, according to the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept, I didn't like big women, but liked thin and slender women. But Zheng Jing doesn't think so, his aesthetic concept is very similar to that of people who have traveled through time, and he especially likes big ones. If it weren't for the fact that he liked the big one, how could he not like the young Miss Tang, but he liked the fifth brother's mother, Chen Zhaoniang, because Miss Tang was not well developed and was too young, and Chen Zhaoniang was not only beautiful, but more importantly, very big and very attractive.

As soon as Zheng Jing saw Shuzi of Huashan, he was fascinated by her turbulent waves, and what was even worse was that Shuzi had very big waves, but she had a cute Lori face, which is the so-called childish face [Juru, that is the most tempting.

Wang Xinyu from later generations knows this, such a girl is the most attractive.

Of course, such a Japanese woman does not conform to the aesthetic views of the Chinese people back then, and only a traveler like Wang Xinyu, or an outlier like Zheng Jing, will like it.

After seeing Shuzi, Zheng Jing was very fond of her, and the two were like glue, and they were not separated for a moment.

Compared with Zheng Zheng, Zheng Jing had more autonomy and a strong army of his own, and with the development of the American continent, Zheng Jing not only had a large amount of gold and silver, but also had his own grain production base. It's just that at present, Zheng Jing's weapons and ammunition are still unable to be produced by himself, and they must be transported from the Dongfan Gun Factory thousands of miles away.

What made Zheng Jing feel a little angry was that if he wanted to obtain guns, armor and weapons, he had to exchange gold and silver, American specialties and captured war horses with Zheng Zheng.

Zheng Xi was nothing more than a middleman, obtaining weapons from Wang Xinyu and reselling them to Zheng Jing.

However, the contradiction between Zheng Jing and Zheng Xi was not completely resolved, Zheng Jing did not take it to heart, but Zheng Jing was still obsessed with Zheng Zheng's previous affairs. Zheng Jing believes that if it weren't for Zheng Zheng, maybe the current King of Yanping would already be himself, not the younger brother Zheng Cong who became a puppet for Wang Xinyu.

"No, we have to be in the Americas! To build a country that truly belongs to you! Zheng Jing called Feng Xifan and a group of other henchmen over to discuss this issue.

Feng Xifan said: "Lord Wang, the key now is that we don't have our own factory, and everything is controlled by others. It's okay if it's just subject to your brother-in-law, but the hateful Zheng Raid, our weapons have to go through his hands, he is still so dark, every weapon is much more expensive than others! We have mined so much gold and silver here, and it is all cheap for nothing! ”

Hong Xu thought for a while and said, "Lord Wang, why don't we put aside Zheng Xi and go directly to do business with the Franc machine?" Anyway, we have so much gold and silver in our hands, and we are afraid that we will not be able to buy guns and weapons? ”

Zheng Jing shook his head helplessly: "We bought weapons from Zheng Zheng, this is actually my brother-in-law deliberately giving profits to Zheng Zheng, and the gold and silver we mine here still have a part of my brother-in-law." If we don't buy weapons from Zheng Zheng, my brother-in-law won't be able to get gold and silver from us, and maybe he will be angry and instruct Zheng Zheng to attack us! ”

Wang Xiuqi proposed: "Lord Wang, we might as well take out more gold and silver to buy more weapons!" In addition, the familiar ones we have incorporated have all organized them into our own army! According to our estimates, our own Han army has a total of more than 5,000 people, and with the Han and Japanese immigrants, we can organize an army of 20,000 people. If we recruit more troops from the local natives, we can still recruit 50,000 horses! So we have an army of 70,000, and all of them soldiers! ”

Feng Xifan also understood, and echoed: "Yes! Let's expand our capabilities first! The American continent is rich in products, and we can afford to raise as many troops as we can! With strength, go and beat the Spaniards, and then we will build our own country and open factories! (To be continued.) )