When Yu Xiaotian arrived here, there were many small boats and large boats going back and forth between the island and the shore, constantly transporting various materials back and forth.

A temporary wharf was also erected in the eastern part of the island for unloading goods, and many people were busy on the island, shouting trumpets, unloading some building materials from the ship, and transporting them in ox carts to the fort under construction, where they were handed over to the craftsmen.

There is even a road built on the island for this purpose, which is paved with gravel and some slag, and crushed with stones, so that the materials can be transported much more easily.

There are also some stonemasons who simply mine stone on the island and use it directly in the construction of forts to reduce the cost of transportation.

The logs harvested on land, in order to make it strong and durable, not easy to rot, before transporting over, are set on the fire to bake and burn, one is to force out the moisture of the wood, so that it is not easy to deform after use, and the other is that some moths and insect eggs or termites in the wood can be burned to death through high temperature baking, so that they can be blamed in the fort in the future, and there is a carbonization layer formed on the surface to make it less likely to rot again.

After all, there are too many rainy days in the area of Jilong Bay on Taiwan Island, and the air here is also very humid.

However, in order to make the fort stronger and last longer, the weighing structure of the main body here is mostly built with stones, reducing the use of wood and making it more durable.

When Yu Xiaotian arrived here with the fleet, the fort here had already begun to take shape, a hexagonal multi-prismatic fort had been erected, and it had initially entered the final stage.

Yu Xiaotian didn't wait for the boat to be stable, so he jumped from the boat to the trestle with a strong step, and didn't talk nonsense with the black head who rushed to greet him, and said directly: "Let's talk while walking, let's go and see how the fort is built!" ”

The black head has long been accustomed to Yu Xiaotian's style of doing things, and waved his hand to let his subordinates start unloading the boat, arranging food and accommodation for the new immigrants, and the more than 200 Chen Jiu's subordinates who were brought in by Xiaotian also found a place to settle down first, and sent someone to take care of them, saving them from making trouble.

The guards, under the leadership of Liu Wang, protected Yu Xiaotian and let the black head lead the way towards the fort.

"How are you doing here? Did anything big happen? Yu Xiaotian asked the black head as he strode towards the fort.

The black head immediately replied: "There is nothing serious, just a month ago, a gang of thieves passed by here, trying to get a handful of people from us!"

But they were discovered by us early, and before they could do anything, I led people out to kill them, and killed a dozen of them, caught more than two of them, and the remaining two dozen ran fast before I was caught!

These 20 or so captives were all sent by me to quarry stones and cut wood! Grandma's people don't even look at who we are, so they dare to come here to make trouble! Hey!

In addition, during this period of time, when I sent a ship out of Lu to patrol, I ran into a few merchant ships, made two votes, grabbed two boats, and got a batch of things, which were stored in the stockade of Wanzi first, and when I went back, I could take them with me.

By the way, five days ago, there was also a group of local natives who also ran out of the mountains and forests, trying to grab things from our camp.

They killed six of us and snatched a woman who was cooking, but we also killed a dozen of us and arrested seven or eight! Please, the boss! ”

Yu Xiaotian listened as he walked, nodded and said, "You are indeed careless!" But for example, you're doing a pretty good job in general! The award is still going to be awarded! But when dealing with the natives, you remember, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, since this tribe dares to provoke us, we can't spare them!

I have brought you thirty more soldiers this time, and twenty new flintlock pistols to strengthen the strength of your guards here.

The more than 200 Chen Jiu's subordinates were used as coolies first, and whoever did a good job was promoted to be the foreman, and after a year, if they could behave, they could be cleared of their status as prisoners of war and transferred to the reserve camp for training! When you turn around, you can join the ship to do things, or you can go into the barracks to do things!

Those who are particularly good can directly transfer jobs and become our personnel, but if anyone wants to make trouble here, do you know what to do with it! Those who should not be soft, must not be soft, let them understand a truth, follow Lao Tzu, obedient people have meat to eat, disobedient people have boards to eat! The one who makes trouble is looking for death!

After these people give it to you, find me the tribe that attacked our camp, and use thunder to make them understand that it is okay to be friends with us, but if you want to be our enemy, you will destroy them! ”

The black head repeatedly said that he had written down Yu Xiaotian's orders, accompanied Yu Xiaotian while talking, and soon came to the construction site of the fort.

After approaching, Yu Xiaotian found that the scale of this fort was slightly smaller than he thought, but it was no problem to accommodate fifty to one hundred guards, the height had now reached two zhang, but there was no sign of capping.

Most of the main body of the walled wall is made of staggered stones mined on the spot, and the joint parts of the stones are bonded with lime and yellow mud commonly used by craftsmen.

Yu Xiaotian stretched out his hand and touched the seams between the stones, some of the seams were good, and the gaps were very small, but the gaps in many stone cracks were relatively large, and they looked rough in workmanship, Yu Xiaotian was somewhat disappointed in this.

At this time, the foreman who was in charge of the construction of the fort here rushed over when he heard the sound, and saw that Yu Xiaotian was observing the stone joints of the fort, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "Master Qiqi, this joint is indeed a little rough!" I hope that the big boss will forgive his sins! It's just that among those of us who came, there were really no very good stonemasons, and the stones were of different sizes, and there was no time to grind them out, so they had to be used in order to rush the work, so the joints were not easy to do, and they could only be filled with gray sand, but please rest assured that the wall built up is no problem! Hold on to it! ”

Yu Xiaotian didn't bother too much about this matter, because he knew very well who the people were sent here, the stonemasons were not absent, but they were also some stonemasons who did rough work, and most of the stones were mined by ordinary people, and it was good to be able to mine the stones.

Moreover, the construction period he requested was also short, and the craftsmen here were limited, so they could only make do with these irregularly shaped stones to build the walls, and it was already a good effort to do this.

What's more, the fort he wants at the moment can't be pursued too high, as long as he has enough defense, it's fine, but he didn't think that he had to turn this fort into a high-quality project, he had no time, no energy, and no spare money to throw it at the beauty.

So he nodded his head in agreement with the foreman's statement, and began to take a closer look at the fort.

The fort covers an area of about one acre, that is, a thousand square meters, and the structure is indeed in the form of a fortress that he wants, a combination of stone and wood, and a small amount of stucco is used in some places.

In terms of shape, this fort has a bit of a combination of Chinese and Western flavors, with some characteristics of Western architecture and Chinese architecture. The craftsmen had never seen a bastion built by a real Western country, so they had to use their imagination to build the fort.

Therefore, the fort built by this is a bit nondescript in appearance, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little disappointed, but he is not too entangled in this regard, at the moment he pursues pragmatism, as long as it can be used, beauty is secondary, so even the necessary decoration, he did not ask the craftsman to do it, saving a waste of time.

Therefore, this fort looks earthy, the whole is blue-gray, and the carbonized wood on the surface is exposed in some places, which is even more ugly.

Yu Xiaotian walked into the fort, there were many people working on the fort, and when he saw the foreman carefully accompanying Yu Xiaotian into the fort, they all hurriedly stopped what they were doing and gave Yu Xiaotian a salute.

"Don't be polite, hurry up and get to work! It's too hot, finish early and rest early! Blackhead! Yu Xiaotian said while waving his hand.

"The subordinates are here!"

"How's the room and board for the craftsmen?" Yu Xiaotian asked the black head.

The black head hurriedly lowered his head and replied: "The subordinates don't dare to slack off, try to arrange it well, this can be said by Liu Jiangtou himself!" ”

The foreman hurriedly said with a smiling face: "Thank you for your concern, the black boss is really good to the little ones, he has enough food every day, enough water to drink, and the shed is ready, so that the big guy has a place to sleep and can go to the sea to bathe!" Give the little ones meat back every three or five days, and this day is more moist than when the little ones were on land! ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "You are tired, so naturally you should do this!" If you are not satisfied, just tell me, as long as I can do it, I will try to do it for you!

Blackheads, these craftsmen do manual work, we must let them eat well, and they must eat and drink cleanly, and they must not be infected with diseases for this, otherwise I will not spare you! ”

"Subordinates obey! Be sure to remember the instructions of the great master! The blackhead nodded yes.

And Craftsman Liu hurriedly bowed down again to thank Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian also stopped talking nonsense, and asked Craftsman Liu to take him around the inside of the fort and watch the structural layout inside the fort.

This fort is basically in accordance with his idea of the internal design, the bottom of the arrangement to dig a large water cellar, used to store water, can ensure about 100 people, here for two months will not appear lack of fresh water, and this water cellar built also has a special channel to collect rainwater, usually only by rainfall, the cellar can be stored, and even do not need to go to the shore to transport fresh water, once the cellar is full, it can also be directly discharged, there will be no flooding of the Seventh Army.

Yu Xiaotian praised this design, in this way, it saves a lot of manpower and material resources, and also saves a lot of time to transport fresh water, if it is besieged here, close to the rainfall, it is basically impossible to break the water here, which also ensures the demand for fresh water for the personnel inside the fort, which is a very good design.