Chapter 187 Nanwang

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian sent a large number of people to build iron furnaces in the local area, smelt these coal and iron mines on the spot, transport the finished iron ingots to Weitou Bay, and ship them to Taiwan Island for the first-to-see industrial use on Taiwan Island.

In the next step, he has made plans to build an earth steelmaking furnace directly in the Longyan area of Zhangzhou Prefecture, carry out steelmaking on the spot, transport the steel to Weitou Bay, set up a hydraulic factory directly in Quanzhou, digest part of the steel on the spot, and produce ordnance locally and directly deliver it to the military.

Fujian officials can only turn a blind eye to these practices of Yu Xiaotian. Officials from all over the world have the intention to stop them, but they dare not speak easily. Some gentry are very dissatisfied with forcibly annexing land from them to set up various workshops in order to occupy the land in Xiaotian Circle. Some people have initiated * and gathered some People go everywhere, trying to make the government stop Yu Xiaotian from doing this.

However, Yu Xiaotian is now completely unscrupulous. As long as he finds someone stumbling him behind his back, in a few days, the whole family will be inexplicably missing, or the leader will die inexplicably. He uses this method of knocking mountains and tigers to block these people's mouths. In addition, he is also willing to spend money. After dredging, those officials have short hands and soft mouths, so they can only open one eye and close one eye.

Therefore, with the full promotion of Xiaotian, a large number of workshops have also begun to appear in some coastal areas of Fujian, directly using local manpower and material resources to produce various industrial products.

At the end of eight years, the first hydraulic workshop built by Sea Wolf Group in the area of Houxi Town, Tong'an, Quanzhou, was officially put into operation.

This factory occupies hundreds of mu of land and covers a considerable area. It can almost be called a castle. It is completely managed. No idle people are allowed to enter or leave without authorization. Moreover, Yu Xiaotian sent a platoon of infantry to garrison. Not far away, it is Gaopu City. Once disturbed, immediately Support is available.

This factory was built by Sea Wolf more than a year ago. At the beginning, many people thought it was just a Zhuangbao, but later, when someone saw from afar that there was a large shed, many unknown machinery and several turbines were installed, someone realized that this would become a A large workshop.

However, all the people who enter and leave here keep their mouths shut. No one knows what is going to produce in it. This workshop is actually the first arsenal set up by the sea wolf on land. It is specially designed to produce all kinds of guns for the family army, which can be equipped for the family army on the spot.

Yu Xiaotian kept a close eye on industrial matters, and since Sun Yuanhua arrived in Taiwan and obtained Yu Xiaotian's mechanical principle, he fell on it and began to have a strong interest in mechanics.

Even during the period when Yu Xiaotian led his troops to go south, Sun Yuanhua kept sending letters to Yu Xiaotian. In the letter, he asked Yu Xiaotian some mechanical questions, or discussed some academic issues related to mathematics and geometry with Yu Xiaotian. On the contrary, such a life made Sun Yuanhua feel very comfortable and did not think about it every day. More things, when you open your eyes and your mind is full of various formulas and calculation numbers.

Although Sun Yuanhua started late, his starting point is much higher than that of Zhang's blacksmith. He has quite good basic mathematical and theoretical knowledge. Many principles that Zhang blacksmiths can't understand can be easily solved in his hands, so Zhang blacksmith's learning of this new Mr. Sun I also admire it very much. I go to Sun Yuanhua to ask for advice every day when I have nothing to do.

Moreover, Sun Yuanhua also asked Yu Xiaotian to find a way to get his three sons to Taiwan Island. His three sons themselves followed Sun Yuan to learn a lot of Western chemistry and made great achievements in mathematics and geometry. After arriving in Taiwan Island and seeing their father safe, his three sons volunteered to stay here. Li became Sun Yuanhua's right-hand man and the first batch of mechanical students.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also selected more than 20 of the smartest students for Sun Yuanhua, all around 11 or 12 years old, all of whom were orphans. They specially followed Sun Yuanhua as students to learn all kinds of Western studies, especially mechanical knowledge.

So, the mechanization process of the Seawolf Group is still very early, but as long as these students are gradually trained, it will play an extremely important role in promoting China's industrialization process in the future.

Yu Xiaotian did not plan to eat a fat man in one bite. Now he has trained many engineers or mechanical experts, but what he needs to do now is to first plant some seeds, let these seeds germinate and grow, gradually bloom and scatter, so as to achieve a large number of scholars with specialized studies in the future.

So everything is just the beginning. As long as he takes this step, as long as he guides the learning style in the future, no one can stop the pace of the industrialization process of the Chinese people in the future. Sooner or later, China will become the world's first industrialized country.

In addition, considering the next military operation, a large amount of food and various mules and horses will be needed. After returning to Weitou Bay, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the dispatch of the first fleet and two additional infantry battalions to Jeju Island to completely control the whole Jeju Island by force. In his hands, Jeju Island was completely transferred to his banner.

As for whether the * dynasty is happy or not, he doesn't care at all. Anyway, although Jeju Island is important to them, they have no force to take it back. In name, it still retains the government on Jeju Island for the time being. Every year, it should send them some bad horses and send them a Some bad horses and some taxes were nominally not completely separated from the * dynasty, but in fact it was equivalent to incorporating the whole territory of Jeju Island into his jurisdiction.

After this military operation, after taking stock, the island has only a variety of horses, more than 30,000, and the number of cattle and sheep is also as high as tens of thousands, which can basically meet his next equipment of several cavalry battalions and heavy battalions, and can also meet the mule and horse modification of several of his artillery battalions.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also issued a new order to the one-eyed dragon. After cleaning up the large pirates along the coast of Guangdong, he immediately went south and went to the Li Dynasty in Vietnam to capture the area of Halong Bay, where he would initially build a strong castle, and send people to explore there. Hongji Coal Mine.

Hongji Port is 50 kilometers north of Haiphong, Vietnam. It is the largest coal field in Vietnam and even Southeast Asia. Moreover, the mining operation is simple and can be carried out open-pit mining. The quality of the coal produced is very good, the sulfur content and phosphorus content are very low, and the reserves are large enough for him. There is no problem in mining for 200 years.

Although China's inland coal reserves are very large, Yu Xiaotian knows that Shanxi, Henan and other places contain a large number of coal mines, but the coal mines there are difficult and transportation is not easy. I'm afraid that a large number of mines will not be possible for a long time.

However, the high-quality coal reserves in the south are not rich, so he suddenly remembered the area of Hongji Port in Vietnam, which is a super large coalfield, and the quality of the coal produced is very good. It is the most important coal mine export port in Vietnam.

And he has a natural hostility to Vietnam's black monkeys, just like the Japanese. This small country has often resisted the jurisdiction of mainland China in history. From time to time, it will fight with the court on the mainland. In the Song Dynasty, it even invaded Nanning.

This small country in later generations is even more in the South China Sea and can't get along with China. It is born to feed unfamiliar white-eyed wolves, so now that he has the strength, it's okay to beat them first.

Over the years, he has bought a large number of Vietnamese monkey slaves from pirates to engage in various basic development work on the island. He has never felt pity for these Vietnamese monkeys. As long as he still has a breath, he has to find a way to squeeze out their labor force. If he really can't do it, then it's kind. Human destruction.

The pirates even plundered many Vietnamese women, most of whom were married to sea wolves as wives, which solved the problem of his imbalance between men and women.

Although Vietnamese women in this era are really not in line with his aesthetics, they are still very popular for those soldiers who can't find their wives. At least they can solve the problem of human desire!

In addition, there is another advantage of capturing the area of Halong Bay, which is that you can directly obtain the rice produced in Vietnam locally. In this era, due to the promotion of rice in Vietnam, and a large number of land has also been occupied by some dignitaries. These dignitaries of the Lebanese dynasty in Vietnam accounted for thousands of acres of land per household. Most of them occupy tens of thousands of mu of land,

Every year, these great estates can cultivate rice fields and accumulate a large amount of rice for them by squeezing the serfs at hand. If they can't finish these rice and are reluctant to give them to the serfs, they will find a way to export and sell them.

Therefore, in the coastal area of Beibu Bay, a special market town has been formed. Many Chinese businessmen started to buy and sell Daming goods there, sell them to Vietnamese people, and then buy rice from Vietnamese people and transfer them to Fujian, Guangdong to earn high profits.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, although there was no chaos between Guangdong and Fujian, the national grain price soared due to the lack of grain in the north. In the past, when Fujian was the most expensive, a stone of brown rice could only sell one or two halves of the price, but at this time, the price of grain almost rose to two taels of silver. Some.

However, the grain price sold in Vietnam is only six or seven cents, and you can buy a stone of rice. Every year, 200,000 stones of rice are exported to the outside. How can Yu Xiaotian let go of such a good place to raise grain?

Over the years, his hand has long reached there, killed several Ming grain merchants trying to compete with them at sea, and almost monopolized the grain exports there. Nowadays, those large households of the Li Dynasty have basically exported grain to the Sea Wolf Group and were transported back to Taiwan Island by sea wolves into ships or Weitou Bay is stored.