Chapter 88 Expedition to Taiwan

They despise these vulgar Chinese pirates, who are greedy and cruel, but at the same time they are very cautious. Their ships are dilapidated, dirty, and poorly equipped. Even if they are a relatively large pirate, there are only some very old artillery and some simple guns.

The western toothpants also often exchange fire with some pirate ships, but they have almost never failed. These pirates have never received any effective training, let alone know how to use firearms. They often begin to fire or fire at a long distance during battles, and simply shoot at their Spanish warships. It doesn't play any role, just give them courage.

The most common way for these stupid Chinese pirates to fight is to fight on the fami, relying on the advantage of their manpower to engage in a hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

But this tactic has no effect in facing their Spanish warships. Their Galion sailboats and even the old Clark ships are tall and equipped with many artillery. It is difficult for Chinese pirates to effectively climb onto their ships and spread their sailors. War, often beaten up as soon as they meet.

Therefore, these Spaniards all look down on these Chinese pirates and feel that they can easily defeat these Chinese pirates and capture the Chicken Cage Bay as long as it is necessary.

Schwar thought and shook his head slightly and said, "Although this makes sense, this group of pirates who call themselves sea wolves have no conflict with us. On the contrary, they are partners. They send us some goods we need every year, and they are not like other Chinese businessmen and pirates. Similarly, we only want silver, and we don't want anything.

And it is a pleasant thing to deal with them. We don't have to pay them all the money. It's rare to use canvas, Indian cotton cloth and wood that can't be sold as a means of payment.

In addition, you may not know that this group of Chinese pirates who call themselves sea wolves are said to be quite powerful and have great power to control a large area of the sea.

If we use force with them to give up Chicken Cage Bay, it is likely to push them to the Dutch.

At present, as far as I know, these pirates are not like the previous Li Dan or other pirates. They have colluded with the Dutch to help the Dutch * Chinese merchant ships coming to Manila, nor have they attacked our merchant ships.

Once we use force to force them to give up the Chicken Cage Bay, they will be angry and fall to the Dutch and join the team that came to Manila. They may even block the channel to come here after we control the Chicken Cage Bay, and not allow any Chinese businessmen to come and If we make a deal, in that case, even if we get Chicken Cage Bay, it will be useless!"

Schwart's words immediately reminded these legislators and businessmen, so the crowd bowed their heads and whispered to each other. After a while, someone put forward another opinion.

"Mr. Governor, if we can't use force against them easily, then I think that we can not occupy Chicken Cage Bay for the time being. On this map of Formosa, there are many other places for us to moor our ships to build the city. Although these places are not as good as Chicken Cage Bay, we can First occupy a foothold over there, and then negotiate with those Chinese pirates.

If they are interesting, we can force them to give up the chicken cage bay, and we can pay them some money or supplies as a deal to buy the chicken cage bay and ask them to leave there!

In this way, we will not offend them, establish an enemy, and may become friends with them in the future. Please help us block the Chinese ships going to the members and let them trade in our port!"

After listening, Shierwa thought for a moment, smiled and nodded, "This is a good way. If they can understand, it is good for both of us, but now there is a new problem, so how much money should we pay them in exchange for them to withdraw from the chicken cage. What about the bay? If they want to open their mouths as the Chinese saying goes, what should we do?

At this time, these legislators began to quarrel. Many people think that Shierwa really value Chinese pirates too much. If those Chinese pirates do not agree to such conditions, then there is nothing to discuss. At that time, they must be expelled by force. Go out of Jilong Bay, so that these vulgar Chinese pirates can know that their Spaniards are not easy to mess with.

After dealing with Chinese pirates and sea merchants for a long time, these Spaniards have a strong sense of superiority and make them very arrogant and do not pay attention to these Chinese pirates at all.

After a fierce debate, Shierva finally had to compromise and decided to prepare to send troops. After arriving in the northern part of Taiwan Island, he first occupied a place to land, and then began to negotiate with the sea wolves in Jilong Bay. According to the usual measurement method of the Chinese people, they can pay up to 20,000 yuan. Two silver in exchange for them to give up Chickenlong wan.

If they still don't agree, then use the fleet to block Chicken Cage Bay, fight with them, forcibly capture Chicken Cage Bay, and drive them away from there.

So the Spanish people in Manila, under Schwar's orders, began to prepare for the dispatch of troops.

Yu Xiaotian did not know what the Spaniards were busy with at this time, but he probably knew the course of historical development. If history had not changed significantly, the Spaniards would have occupied the northern part of Taiwan Island for nearly two or three months.

After he was in Tamsui City for more than a month, seeing that all kinds of affairs here began to get on track. When he began to move forward steadily according to his requirements and plans, Yu Xiaotian decided to leave Tamsui City and go to Jilong Bay to see the situation there.

Although he also plans to build a cement factory in Danshui City, it is not a big problem to build a cement kiln because the problem of crushing has not been solved. Even if he does not know what a modern cement kiln is like, he uses the soil method to build a small vertical cement kiln. It is not difficult to groping and burning cement.

The biggest problem of building cement kilns is still the problem of crushing. At present, he has built more than a dozen small water mills to produce soil cement. The daily output of such water mills is very low and cannot meet the needs of serious cement production.

The main raw materials of cement are nothing more than limestone, clay, coal and gypsum.

At present, limestone, clay and gypsum are already around Tamsui City, and the reserves are still quite large, but no coal mine sites have been found, so coal has to be transported from the land.

However, it is not very difficult to buy coal from land. Fujian has a coal mine, and you don't even have to go too far. You can organize the supply of coal in Xinghua Prefecture.

In the current time and space, coal is not a rare thing. The amount is small and the price is very cheap. Moreover, Fujian and Guangdong do not like to use coal to make iron. Because the quality of iron produced by coal is not as good as the iron produced by charcoal, the iron farms here use charcoal as fuel for ironmaking, so Although there are coal mines and people mining in Fujian, there are not many users.

Purchasing coal from Fujian does not consume much financial resources, but it will be more troublesome and consumes a lot of transportation capacity. However, because the sea wolf does not intervene in land transportation when purchasing coal, the whole process is basically transported by ship. A ship can carry at least dozens of tons of coal, and Dafu ship can even load it. More than 100 tons of coal, even if a cement factory is built on the freshwater side, it will not be a large cement factory. The amount is not large, which can fully meet their needs.

There is only one reason that bothers Yu Xiaotian now, which is the problem of crushing raw materials. Now relying on stone grinding and stone crushing raw materials alone, the production efficiency is too low. It is necessary to develop a new type of grinder to expand production. Otherwise, relying on these stone grinding to crush raw materials is really a problem. No problem.

But Yu Xiaotian is not omnipotent. Although he knows a lot about machinery, it is still a little too difficult for him to design a large crusher immediately. In addition, even if he can design it, with the current processing technology, it is estimated that it is difficult to make it, so he can only put it down for the time being. One thing, when I have time, I'm playing with this guy.

At the beginning of March, the entire road construction project and water conservancy project of Danshui had been fully rolled out, and a large number of immigrants were driven to the fields. Under the leadership of the village chiefs and the supervision of the sea wolf, they began to dig ditches.

A large number of hard laborers also worked hard at the road construction site under the supervision of the muzzle and bayonet. From time to time, there will be a rumble of gunfire in some places, but this is not the sea wolf masses *, but some road construction points, blowing cannons and stones.

Even the wooden factory is now busy. The craftsmen are busy making all kinds of water trucks and chicken buses every day. They also have to make wheels for the damaged chicken buses and replace the wheels of the damaged chicken buses.

During this period, some people found that one of the hard laborers destroyed production tools in order to be lazy, and the chicken bus was damaged a lot.

For this reason, Yan Youde secretly observed and caught several guys who secretly destroyed the production tools on the spot. First, he served them with a leather whip. Then this guy broke their bones one by one with an iron bar and kept them from dying. Finally, he tied them to the wooden stakes on both sides of the construction site of the construction site and did not give them Eat and drink, and bask in the sun until they die of hunger or death in the sun.

Such cruel means suddenly curbed the crooked wind of people making bad ideas and destroying production tools, and reducing the damage rate of chicken buses and various production tools.

(Come back and take a break and leave after the update! My son still has a low fever, which hurts me so much!)