Chapter 1019: Majiapu

The stronghold built on Heping Island is not big, it is about the size of a dock. More precisely, it is a barracks with small walls.

Originally, building a castle was a safer way. After all, the castle's defensive capabilities are more powerful. However, in Marin's plan, this stronghold on Heping Island was only a temporary stronghold. Even if you want to build a castle, you have to build it on the land beside the Keelung River, not on the small slap island of Heping Island.

Therefore, the final choice is to build a barracks with a small city wall on Heping Island as a foothold. Anyway, this stronghold, the threats faced at most are scattered Japanese pirates, barracks with city walls, enough to resist.

Now it is not during the Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates have not grown. The current size of the Japanese pirates is only a few dozen, and those with more than a hundred are considered large. The Japanese pirates did not grow bigger until they merged with the Ming pirates, but they have not yet. Moreover, authentic Japanese pirates are nothing more than samurai warriors with swords, and they have no ability to siege. Therefore, a small city wall, coupled with a musket, is enough to deal with the Japanese pirates composed of warriors.

Moreover, unlike the general city walls, the newly built stronghold walls are all covered. In this way, even if it rains, it will not affect the use of guns.

Keelung faces the Pacific Ocean and there are many rainy days every year, so it is not called "rain port". If the city wall is not covered, once it rains, the guns cannot be used. It would be dangerous to meet the martial arts pirates who took the opportunity to climb the city. Therefore, according to this feature, Marin specially ordered the construction of the "covered" city wall, and there were also prominent "flying cornices" that facilitated the muskets to extend beyond the city wall. In this way, the musket is not easily damp when shooting.

Originally, Marin also planned to help Jilong Village build a compound. Unexpectedly, the iron tools left by Kong Tai last time were fully utilized by them, and a large amount of stone was excavated. Then, without waiting for the arrival of the Marin people, they built a large stone wall with stone materials and had good protection.

Heping Island is not an estuary alluvial island, but belongs to the settlement coast. In other words, it was separated from the island because of settlement.

Therefore, there are plenty of stones on the Heping Island that can be mined. Although it is not a precious marble, it is enough to build walls and fortresses.

However, this stronghold built by the North Sea State on Heping Island does not intend to use stone. Mainly, it's too slow to wait for stone mining. Therefore, the 100 bricklayers from Beihai directly started to remove the bricks from the ship, and then began to mix the cement, preparing to build a common wall of later generations with bricks inside and paste cement outside.

Of course, because it has a defensive effect. Therefore, the surrounding wall is not a hollow pile, but a solid wall.

But even so, the defensive power of the fence is not high, mainly afraid of shelling. After all, the cement outside the city wall is just an ordinary coating, without steel bars as "ribs". The concrete wall without bones and bones is also afraid of being hit by iron ball shells.

Fortunately, there is no artillery for the Japanese pirates to guard against. Moreover, this stronghold is also temporary. When building a castle on the land of Keelung, you must use the bones.

However, even the castle on the land uses bamboo and bones. Of course, that's enough. There are bamboos on Taiwan Island. After all, they belong to the East Asian ecosphere. The cost of rebar is too high. At present, only the capital city of Aurich in the North Sea is reinforced concrete, and it has not been used elsewhere. It is because it is difficult to process steel into steel bars, not to mention that there is not much steel now. Now there is no wire drawing machine, all wire rods are drawn by blacksmiths by hand, the cost is very high. If you use reinforced concrete everywhere, if you have money like Marin, you will also go bankrupt. As it happens, there are bamboos on Taiwan Island. Therefore, Marin intends to use bamboo-reinforced concrete when constructing fortifications and river embankments on Taiwan Island. Although the effect can't catch up with reinforced concrete, but the win is cheap. For things that take a lot, cheap is king. The quality of the industrial products of later generations in China is not good, but why can they be sold globally? It's cheap. Rich people will pursue quality, and the poor only look at the price ... And for now, the vast majority of people in the world are poor. Therefore, low-cost things are king. As for quality, just make it ...

Of course, it depends on the stage. For example, in the later generations of China, in the 20th century, everyone was very poor, so bargains were very popular. But before Marin crossed, many people had money, and the pursuit was different. Bargains are no longer sought after. Many lords with gold chains are not willing to buy them at low prices ...

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When building Wubao, the savvy Jilong Village Zheng Liu Laogen took the initiative to help with the village's situation. Of course, Kong Tai did not treat them badly. Every day at noon, Kong Tai will give those helping Guanfan. In addition, each person still has money to pay every day. But Liu Laogen didn't want money, only food and salt. This thing is the rarest villagers living overseas. Of course, the iron tools and farm tools brought by Kong Tai made them even more eye-catching.

Kong Tai did not disappoint the villagers. He announced that he would give the villagers a batch of iron farm tools after the stronghold was repaired. In this way, the villagers worked harder.

Then, Liu Laogen gave Kong Tai another big surprise-he told Kong Tai that the villagers had collected a lot of stone in order to build the village wall. Nowadays, there is still a lot of stone surplus ...

Kong Tai was straightforward and presented the iron farm tools in advance. And Liu Laogen also took out the excess stones accumulated in the village ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ to Kong Tai.

After receiving the batch of stones, Kong Tai was very happy. He commanded loudly:

"Take all the stones to lay the foundation!"

Using stone to lay the foundation can make the building stronger and stronger. Marin once told Kongtai-Taiwan Island earthquake, the building must be strong enough. Moreover, it is best not to get any high-level. Otherwise, the shock is gone. Moreover, the people living in the upper floors have no time to escape ...

Therefore, in this stronghold on Heping Island, the houses built in the tall surrounding walls are all bungalows, and they are not separated from each other. In the event of an earthquake, it is easy to run out.

Of course, the bungalows built with cement bricks are not so easy to collapse. Only when there is a big earthquake will it collapse.

In addition, for a big person like Kong Tai, his bed is also specially made to prevent shock.

How to make it specially? The entire bed is actually made of steel. Moreover, there is an iron cover on the bed. Even in the event of a major earthquake, the roof collapsed, the bed was covered with an iron cover, and the collapse of the bungalow was not a threat, so people sleeping on the bed would not be dangerous.

Of course, this is just a worry for Malin Qi. In fact, how could such a bad luck encounter a major earthquake? The earthquake was not encountered in a century. However, this preparation can be considered well-prepared.

Even in the future, Marin plans to build a reinforced concrete house for his young son Ma Yun on the island. After Ma Yun was to be the owner of the island, he lived here all year round, and the possibility of a major earthquake was not small. Therefore, it is necessary to get a reinforced concrete house with strong earthquake resistance. Although the cost is relatively high, the use of steel bars in a single house is affordable by Marin ...

And this newly built stronghold, Marin named Majiabao, the first fortress, naturally Lord Kong Taikong ......

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