Chapter 1137: Kongtai Foreman
The vitality of these tortoises is actually quite tenacious, and it is better to feed. In addition, Marin is taking the tropical route, and it is not hot along the way. It shouldn't be **** two turtles.
However, two of the Galapagos tortoises were too timid, and the boat rocked left and right while sailing in the sea. This environment is very different from the land that Galapagos tortoises usually live on, which caused the two tortoises to panic. Therefore, the two dead Galapagos tortoises were actually scared to death. After all, coming from the calm land to the unshakable ship is really scary, oh no, it is scary turtle ...
The remaining 13 Galapagos tortoises are also not in a good state of mind. After all, the tortoises are not very suitable for the life of sea bumps. It is not bad to stick to it.
So, when he arrived at the peaceful island of Keelung, Marin's first thing was for people to lift all 13 Galapagos tortoises off the boat and fix them. Yes, lift the boat. Because it is too slow for the tortoise to run on its own. So, let people carry it faster.
In addition, the horses brought by Marin were also taken off the ship for repair. These horses are more adapted to the life on board, because they are all farts that have been specially selected to stay on board. Although none of them are famous horses, they are tall and strong, and they look bluffing. In fact, this typical European warhorse, although strong, runs fast, but has poor endurance. Generally, knights don't ride much when they are on the road. Otherwise, the horse's physical strength is prematurely consumed, and it is not needed when fighting is needed. It is said that in the 19th century, due to the shortage of horses and no horses for transfer, many cavalry soldiers often led the horses during the march, fearing that they would be too long and cause the horse to be damaged. Only horses of good endurance such as Mongolian horses and Arabian horses can ride for a long time, but they must also rest frequently. For a march that spans thousands of miles like the Mongolian cavalry across Eurasia, one person must have two horses, or even one person with three horses.
Of course, Marin is not far away to bring warmth to Daming. The reason why he chose this high-headed Malaysia is to bluff people, especially to fool those literati. Those literati who do not understand horses, like riding a tall horse. For example, the champion of the Ming Dynasty, like to ride a tall horse and tour the streets to praise officials. If riding a short southern horse, this street is also shameful. Therefore, the European high-profile Malaysian horse brought by Marin is definitely a popular weapon for scribes.
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The master of Marin came, and Kongtai, as the local manager, naturally had to come to meet him in person. However, when Marin had just landed on Heping Island, Kongtai was not on the island. Upon inquiries, it turned out that Kong Tai supervised the construction of the city on the island of Taiwan on the opposite side of the south side of Heping Island ...
In the beginning, after Kong Tai arrived in Keelung for the second time, with the help of Liu Laogen, he lived a few Pingpu indigenous people near Keelung and bought a piece of land on the other side of Heping Island at a relatively low price.
After that, Kong Tai let people build a small bunker on the opposite land, and arranged for the people to grow sweet potatoes on the shore as a source of food for Heping Island.
On the south bank of Keelung Bay on the opposite side of Heping Island, a few square kilometers of coastal land were replaced by Kongtai. Kongtai sent people to cultivate 500 acres of land and plant sweet potatoes. The yield of sweet potatoes is more than 1,000 jin per mu (without pinching the flowers), two crops have been harvested, and the total output exceeds 1 million jin. Now, next to Majiabao, Conteite built a warehouse to store sweet potatoes.
Moreover, in order to facilitate the cultivation of land, Kong Tai also sent people to quietly use smuggling boats to buy ten farming cattle from Hujian Meizhou Island.
Although farming cattle is a treasure in Daming, it is not easy to sell, but Kong Taiken can't stand a high price!
In Daming, the price of a cattle is only six or seven silver, which is very cheap. In order to buy cattle, Kong Tai shot 20 silver pieces, three times the normal price. Driven by huge profits, Hu Jian's smugglers naturally helped 10 cattle.
Know that these smugglers are the ones who demand money and die. Although the cattle are registered in the government, it is difficult to buy through normal channels, but these bold smugglers directly hired the desperate to steal cattle, stupidly stole 10, and sent them to Kong Tai overnight. Stealing cattle in the Ming dynasty was a major crime and was sentenced to exile. However, after the smugglers offered a reward of 2 two silver and one cow to each desperate man, they quickly got enough 10 cows. But as soon as they changed hands, they sold 20 for two ...
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In the beginning, Kong Tai planned to wait for Marin's fleet to come and build the city on the south bank of Keelung Bay. To this end, Contete asked Amerigo, who returned home, to bring the news back, and Malindo brought some cement. And Marin did bring a lot of cement this time.
It's just that after a long time, Kong Tai discovered that the Pingpu indigenous people near the south bank of Keelung Bay seemed to be milder and not barbaric. So he changed his plan and sent someone to land to build the city in advance.
Plus, his men mined a lot of stones on Heping Island, which could be used to lay foundations for the city walls. Later, more and more stone was mined, which was completely enough to build a city wall. As a result, Kong Tai immediately sent people to take advantage of agricultural leisure to build a city wall on the land.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient stone, Kong Tai also hired local Pingpu people to help mine the stone. Moreover, he also built several earthen kilns to burn bricks to make up for the shortage of stone. As for the fuel for burning bricks, there is so much wood nearby ... Later, when the output of bricks exceeded the amount of stones, Kong Tai asked the craftsmen to build the stone outside the city walls to strengthen the walls. On the inside of the wall, bricks are mainly used ...
When Marin arrived, Kong Tai was supervising the construction of the city wall on the south bank of Keelung Bay. At this time, this small town with an area of one square kilometer was basically completed on all sides. However, the city gate has not yet been completed, and there are no buildings in the city, just a pure super courtyard ...
What made Marin cry is that Kong Tai actually organized the young and middle-aged people of many villages in the nearby Pingpu ethnic group through Liu Laogen and Jilong Village ’s young translators to help them build the city walls. Otherwise, the progress is not so fast.
Indigenous people in many nearby villages are estimated to have five or six hundred young and strong men hired by Kong Tai to help build the city walls. Of course, they will not work as bricklayers, mainly in accordance with the instructions of the bricklayers sent by the Beihai Kingdom, and put the masonry to the designated location. The final technical work is still the craftsmen of the North Sea country ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ However, most of the physical work has been done by these indigenous young people, and the masons of the North Sea country actually do not spend much physical energy. In construction, brick and stone handling is the main physical activity.
And according to Kong Tai ’s adjutant, Kong Tai hired these young and strong indigenous people with low wages, but the sweet potato rice was enough, occasionally provided some venison and fish, and then each gave a small packet of salt every ten days ...
Just like this, the local indigenous youths sold themselves to Kong Tai as a migrant worker ...
In fact, this is not difficult to understand. In the eyes of people in Beihai, salt may not be a valuable thing. After all, Marin is a big salt producer, and Beihai will never lack salt. To the indigenous people of the Pingpu ethnic group on Taiwan Island, salt is very valuable. A small packet of salt (less than half a catty) for ten days is definitely a very generous reward. What's more, Kong Tai is in charge of working on the construction site. Sweet potato rice is inherently sweet, much better than the local indigenous people usually eat. Moreover, venison soup is also available from time to time. Those venisons were all hunted by the nearest hunters with bows and arrows purchased from Kongtai and used to exchange salt with Kongtai. And Kong Tai, when he and his men ate too much, used it to cook broth to entertain the young and strong. More importantly, the soup has salt ...
Furthermore, Kong Tai has a fishing team, and he goes fishing from time to time. Therefore, the indigenous migrant workers can still drink fish soup from time to time ... This is definitely a fairy-tale day for the Pingpu people who are still in a semi-primitive society. Therefore, Kong Tai, the blackhearted foreman, crushed them so well that they were as happy as they were. After all, the food here is much better than their original. Just because there is salt in the food, they have never been able to do it often before ...
