Author: Use your soul to aim

Chapter 189 Galen Ship

Along the coast of Shandong, people continued to board the Taiping ships heading for Liaodong.

These people are either refugees who lost everything in the war, or farmers who were forced to use usury by the gentry. They are now heading to Liaodong under the organization of Taiping to start a new life there.

As branches of Taiping bank branches began to open in various parts of Shandong, countless Shandong people started their journey to Guandong three hundred years in advance with the encouragement of Taiping.

They took the Fuzhou boat along the coastline to Dengzhou, and then headed to Jinzhou. There were construction sites everywhere in Jinzhou, and there was a huge shortage of labor.

After a family arrives in Jinzhou, the younger members of the family will go to work on the construction site, and the rest will be assigned to reclaim new land. Each family can be allocated a hundred acres of land, and each family is encouraged to reclaim wasteland.

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A young man working on the construction site for one day could get enough food for his family, enough food and land. The people burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm, and each household cultivated more than one hundred acres of land.

Fortunately, they were given oxen and iron farm tools, otherwise they might not be able to cultivate so much land.

Construction of the railway from Jinzhou to Shenyang has also begun. In the plan, this railway will extend to the former Harbin area.

After May, the Ministry of War stopped sending food and salary to Liaodong. Not only that, the Ministry of Household Affairs also thoughtfully gave Zhang Zongxian a quotation, saying that if he wanted food, he could buy it from them.

Fortunately, as long as it lasts until autumn, Zhang Zongxian will not need to subsidize grain in the entire Liaodong. Looking at the quotation, Zhang Zongxian wanted to laugh. This is Duke Chu of Donglin in the Ming Dynasty. He is really loyal to the country!

Nowadays, 2 million shi of various grains are handed over to the land outside the border wall every year. 800,000 households have immigrated outside the border wall, and 50 million acres of land have been reclaimed.

There is no shortage of food, and the people outside the border wall raise horses, cattle and sheep. Corn stalks and potato roots are good feed, so the people outside the border wall can basically eat one meal of meat a week.

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However, transporting these grains to Liaodong was still very costly, and Zhang Zongxian did not want to buy grain from the Ministry of Revenue, so a port was opened in Dengzhou to allow any ship to dock.

As long as the grain is shipped here, it can be exchanged for high-value commodities shipped from Shaanxi, such as cotton cloth, sweaters, glass, soap, clocks, etc.

The Grand Canal is also in Shandong, and naturally a lot of grain flows out of the canal. Taiping's semicolons in various places endorsed the bills, and you can buy grain with the bills.

The purchased grain is then sent to Liaodong via Dengzhou. This cycle is much more cost-effective than simply transporting grain from Guihua City.

As the demand for ships continues to increase, many large ships that originally made a living in Jiangnan have also gone to Dengzhou to earn freight. They first buy grain from Jiangnan, then transport it to Dengzhou, and then exchange high-profit commodities from Dengzhou for return.

Jiangnan.

The demand for ships in Dengzhou has not only driven the local shipbuilding industry, but also the shipyards in Jiangnan are extremely busy, which has also led to an increase in the price of shipbuilding timber.

The wood must be dried in the shade for more than three years before it can be used for shipbuilding, which inevitably leads to higher prices. Coupled with the hoarding of merchants, the price of shipbuilding wood is one per day, which seriously affects the development of the shipbuilding industry.

After Zhang Zongxian learned about this, he quickly organized his disciples to build a drying kiln. A drying kiln is a drying room with circulating air equipment, which can adjust and control the temperature and humidity of the air. The drying kiln equipped with a thermometer and a steam engine was quickly built.

In this way, there is no need to wait for natural shade drying. The wood can be dried in the shade in three months, and as the number of tests increases, the time will become shorter and shorter. Although the wood does not need to be naturally dried in the shade, it is durable and can be used for thirty years.

By then, the world will be dominated by iron-hulled ships.

However, Zhang Zongxian does not plan to make this technology public. Instead, he will take advantage of the abundance of mature trees in Liaodong and build a special factory in Jinzhou to process the wood and then sell it to shipyards.

As the port of Dengzhou became increasingly prosperous, it naturally attracted pirates who were already pirates. The first to visit were the Dutch ghosts who were determined to monopolize the export trade of the Ming Dynasty. They wanted to visit Zhang Zongxian, hoping that Zhang Zongxian could give them free trade.

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They wanted to exchange silver for silk, wanted to build a business office in Dengzhou, wanted an exclusive port, and even wanted to sign an exclusive trading right with Zhang Zongxian.

After Zhang Zongxian in Shenyang learned about Gui Lao's request, he directly told his disciples Wang Guofu to refuse Gui Lao's request and told them that they must follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty and buy whatever is sold to you. No other requests are allowed.

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He asked the navy who were still in training to be ready to face the ghost guys at any time. Zhang Zongxian was not worried about his disciples' response and rushed back to Jinzhou from Shenyang overnight, preparing to deal with the provocation of the Dutch ghost guys in Jinzhou.

After getting a clear rejection, the Dutch ghosts had a weird idea. Although they only had one Galen ship, they wanted to cut off the shipping from Dengzhou to Jinzhou, so as to force Dengzhou to agree to their conditions.

I have never had any good impressions of the ghost guy Zhang Zongxian. Although the Navy does not have large ships, the rockets of the Legislative Army are already capable. They can fly a thousand meters in a straight line with a charge of twenty kilograms, which is very useful for dealing with large ships.

In addition, incendiary bombs have also been developed for naval battles. The incendiary bombs made from the oil extracted from the Yanchang Oilfield will definitely give the ghosts a surprise.

During this period, a complete patrol mechanism has been established, and several pirates who robbed transport ships have been sunk. Moreover, the direct distance from Dengzhou to Jinzhou is not far, so the navy can fully patrol the entire journey.

The Dutch devils first observed the warships of the Ming Navy. After finding that there were no warships that could compete with their steamships, they directly threatened Dengzhou outside the port, either agreeing to their conditions or cutting off the arrival of Dengzhou.

Route to Jinzhou.

The Legislative Army has always emphasized an offensive spirit. Faced with the Dutch provocation, the Navy immediately dispatched five Dafu ships and rushed towards the Dutch Galen ship.

The Galen ships were naturally faster than the Fu ships, but the Dutch were too powerful. Seeing that the Fu ships were not equipped with artillery, they wanted to take advantage of the artillery to destroy these five big Fu ships.

After deliberately releasing the water, the Dafu ship gradually approached two thousand meters away from the Galen ship. Then the Dutch Japanese used the Galen ship to aim its broadside at the Dafu ship, preparing to use cannons to sink the Dafu ship.

The navy officers and soldiers on the Dafu ship had all received the education of Zhang Zongxian, so they naturally understood what the ghost guy was going to do. They measured the distance while loading the rockets.

Installed on the Daifuku ship was a four-shot launcher that could rotate 360 ​​degrees. When it reached 800 meters away from the enemy ship, the bow launchers on the five Daifuku ships opened fire one after another, hitting the Galen ship with two rounds.

Ten rocket rounds.
Chapter completed!