Chapter 89 Renamed Keelung

The road construction progress also began to accelerate. The first road from Tamsui City to Chuanliao started work together from both ends with the efforts of hundreds of hard laborers. It took only a month to completely repair it.

Before leaving Tamsui City, Yu Xiaotian personally checked the construction quality of the road and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the road.

As an important main road, this road is built according to their first-level road, which is ten steps wide. There are drainage canals two meters deep and four meters wide on both sides of the road. The roadbed is crushed or rammed by repeated crushing and strong three-way soil. The road is paved with a layer of sand and gravel, as well as lime and slag, and also pass through the reverse The crushing is very smooth and strong.

The pavement section is also curved, with high and low sides in the middle. A few days ago, it rained, but the water on the road was immediately discharged into the drainage ditch, and then discharged into the freshwater river along the drainage ditch. There was no water at all. Only a few places were not well built, some water, but it was also immediately The person has been repaired.

Now the road has completely changed. It is very comfortable to walk on it. It is also much more convenient for cattle carts to transport some materials. When pulling carts, it also saves a lot of effort. Even if there are many ox carts on the road together, there will be no congestion on the road.

Many immigrants came to see the bustle. When they saw such a good road, they were curious to walk on the road. They were full of praise. Looking at other roads under construction and extending towards their immigrant villages, they couldn't help but look forward to each other. When all the roads are completed, he It is much more convenient for us to come to Danshui City. Whether it is purchasing, handing grain or buying some small local specialties, it has become much more convenient.

In addition, the continuous extension of canals in farmland also gave them the hope of a bumper harvest. In the past, when they were on land, the people had no ability to build ditches except that large families sometimes had human and material resources to build some ditches in their fields for irrigation.

And people's farmland irrigation and drainage are very difficult. For many years, they have to rely on the harvest. If God takes care of it, they can still eat a few full meals after a year. But if God doesn't do well, it will be miserable if there is a big drought or flood. Many families basically have to fall a grain. The end of the collection, but the government still came to collect it when it came to deliver the grain. In addition to Zhengfu, there are countless additions. Even if the more prosperous family encounters such a year, it will be ruined by the family.

Especially in the past two years, the war in Liaodong has been tense, and the daily life has been even worse.

But here with the sea wolf, they saw hope. Many people came here last year and were empty-handed. The sea wolf not only distributed them farm tools, but also took care of them to eat and prevent them from starving to death. They also allocated plots for them to cultivate, give them to farm, give them grain seeds, and let them grow.

Now I still take them to build ditches and spend money to build roads, and this life is even more promising.

Speaking of which, they used to pay grain and taxes to the government on land, but when did the government manage their life and death? If they met a good official, once they encountered the disaster year, not to mention giving them relief, they could report to the court and strive for a relief for them, even if they were the Qingtian master.

But when the government can't remember to build a road for them and help them build ditches. On the contrary, the means and names of making money are endless. Even if one day you are in a good mood and want to build a bridge or something, you still have to let everyone gather other members. There are officials and officials. I have to make a lot of money from it, and the imperial food I paid is really used to feed the dogs.

After they arrived here, they found that the big head of the sea wolf was different from the government. They were always planning to do good things for them one after another, and the place here was becoming more and more peaceful. At the beginning, the natives would attack and disturb them from time to time. Now they are suppressing the sea wolf department. Next, many locals in the vicinity were repaired and scared, and some of the excessive local tribes were simply destroyed. Now their days are more and more hopeful day by day.

Many people will not go back even if they are asked to go back to land now. Even if they die here, they are willing to stay here to follow the sea wolf.

Yu Xiaotian saw that the situation here had entered the track and began to move forward steadily, so he quietly left the fresh water, took only two boats, loaded some fresh water shipped to the chicken cage, and headed for the chicken cage.

In Jilong Bay, the current boats are more and more lively than when Yu Xiaotian came last time. Before Yu Xiaotian's boat entered Jilong Bay, he saw a lot of sails on the sea outside Jilong Bay from afar, and many small fishing boats were fishing on the sea.

And there is also a flying fast boat with a sea wolf flag hanging high on the sea, and there is also a whaling boat with a sea wolf flag, which seems to be towing a hunted whale and is driving towards Chicken Cage Bay.

The flying-shaped fastship stationed here found two boats with Yu Xiaotian from afar, so he immediately turned the bow, greeted them, and fired three cannons to show his welcome to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian's boat is still the two-mast fastboat. There is a golden wolf flag with a red edge hanging high on the mast, which is a symbol of his identity. As long as the sea wolf tribe sees this flag, they will know that Yu Xiaotian is coming in person, so he will come to welcome him immediately.

Under the guidance of the patrol flying-shaped fastship, Yu Xiaotian took the ship into Chickenlong wan and heard the sound of the flying-shaped fast ship's salute on the sea, and the three forts also sounded salutes, and a mass of white smoke rose.

Blackhead, Sun Baoqiang and others quickly took people to the dock to welcome them. When Yu Xiaotian was on the boat, he greeted people to carry down a box from the ship and entered Keelung Fort here under the guidance of Blackhead and others.

The name of Jilong Village has now been changed to Keelung Fort, which was ordered by Yu Xiaotian to change its name before the Chinese New Year. With the name of later generations, plus the homophonic of the word chicken cage, it was renamed Keelung, which means Base Changlong, which is also very good. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not wait for others to change its name and directly changed the name to Keelung Fort. .

In this way, Keelung Fort sounds much louder than the previous chicken cage village, and everyone is happy to modify it in this way, and the island outside the mouth of Chicken Cage Bay was also named Peace Island by Yu Xiaotian according to the name of later generations. I don't know who will change these place names in the future.

Before entering Keelung Fort, Yu Xiaotian saw the whaler in a better harbor. He did bring back a big whale. The gray-white whale had already died at this time. The whaleboat was tied with a rope, and its body was covered with wounds. Around the body, There are many empty wooden barrels floating to prevent whales from sinking into the water after the cable is broken.

The whale weighs at least more than ten tons. Although Yu Xiaotian's arrival is a big deal, it is not enough to divide the whale.

Sea wolf whaling has formed an industry and is now a pillar industry in Keelung Fort. Now it has more than a dozen professional whaling ships. These boats are scattered in the sea about dozens of kilometers around Taiwan Island. Once whales appear, they will be killed. If you are unlucky, These whaling ships serve as large fishing boats to fish on the sea.

When the boat was in Xiaotian, he saw that a wide wooden slide had been built on the north shore of Keelung Fort, and a livestock winch was installed on the shore. When the whale was dragged back by the whale boat, someone connected the cable to the shore and tied it to the winch.

The cow began to drag the winch and slowly drag the whale ashore through the wooden slide. Dozens of workers helped on the shore to drag the whale ashore, and immediately began to divide the dead whale on the spot.

They are quite skillful. Some are responsible for peeling, some are responsible for cleaning up the internal organs, and some are specially responsible for dividing whale meat, separating whale fat and whale meat, putting them on carts, and quickly transporting them to the shed on the shore for processing.

There are no refrigeration facilities at this time. Although ships will be sent to the north to transport ice every winter, this ice is far from enough to handle so much whale meat and fish.

Therefore, the fish and whales that arrive on the shore should immediately enter the factory for division and pickling, marinate whale meat and fish with coarse salt, and then send them to the drying site for drying or directly for smoking to make preserved meat or bacon, and then store them for a long time.

After the whale fat is separated, it is immediately sent to boil, boil it into whale oil, store it in a large wooden barrel, and then send it to a soap workshop on Nanri Island or freshwater to make soap, or store it for consumption. It is also distributed to all parts of the sea wolf for use as grease for maintenance weapons.

Nowadays, Keelung's whaling industry and fishing industry have formed a fairly systematic way of handling. After a whale arrives on the shore, it will be divided and processed, including the whale bone will not be abandoned in the end. It will be smashed and transported to powder, or used as feed or as waste. In short, there will be nothing left for the use of Zhuangtian, which can be regarded as completely used.

This is not like the great development of the Western whaling industry in later generations. Whaling ships hunt whales in large quantities at sea, only collect whale fat, and boil them directly into whale oil on the ship. A small amount of the rest is left with some meat for them to eat, and the rest is discarded into the sea.

Now the sea wolf can't bear to waste it like this. Any part of the whale will be recycled. This is a gift from nature to human beings. Whaling has already hurt the sky. If it is wasted again, it will be too much.

(I didn't sleep last night, and the little guy still had a fever. I'm so anxious! I'm stunned now! Also, thank you wdj1972 for your reward! Thank you very much!)