There were 1,500 combat soldiers stationed here in Kaohsiung, and Zhao Han handed over the two thousand wings to Mao Geng, which was considered to have been transferred on the spot in the Kaohsiung Special Zone.

Mao Geng brought eight disciples, and in addition, a group of remedial people recruited in Xinhua have also been recruited.

He recruited soldiers and horses in Xinhua four times, attracting more than 200 people in total. However, when he heard that he was going to the wild island, more than half of them were preparing to leave the Mao Family Workshop (it was still the Mao Family Workshop, and Mao Geng had not yet burned himself to claim the Mao Family Group). However, he turned around and left the Mao Family, and there might not be a better place to go, because the Su family, Fu Family and the Dun Family would not accept these people who left the Mao Family Workshop, and the West China Construction Company would not open this opening unless someone was willing to go to Cham City. It would be better to go to Taiwan than to go to Cham City! In Xinhua, except for the Mao Family Workshop and these companies, it is difficult to find a better owner, so many shaken members finally decided to go to Taiwan. Anyway, they had left their hometown once, and Xinhua only made a short break and could not be considered their hometown. These rebellious people who were full of spirit of invasion have once again joined the ranks of immigrants.

Ninety-three people came from the Mao Family Workshop, some of whom even brought their families with their families, and a total of 231 people were there. Mao Geng decided to treat these people who followed him to Taiwan.

The newly built houses in Kaohsiung are still mainly temporary. Everything is like this. First, seek to have something and then improve it, so it is not possible to build brick and tile houses for people for the time being. However, a large number of trees here in Kaohsiung came in handy. Mao Geng adopted the method of local materials and adopted the standardized and modular house building design. All temporary houses were built into log houses. Without exception, these log houses all borrowed the idea of ​​frame-based house building in later generations, that is, like building a pavilion, first erecting the surrounding columns, and then erecting the roof and covering.

With cement tiles, after having a pavilion frame, people can move in first, and then nail the surrounding log walls and doors and windows. Log houses use a lot of horse nails and nails to connect and fix logs, which is the same as the consideration of building a wool boat. This temporary house can be demolished into logs at any time. The logs removed can be used for other purposes, which is very consistent with the concept of circular economy. In any case, log houses are better than bamboo buildings. For this reason, the remedial people who have transformed from Xinhua to Taiwan are at least quite satisfied with housing.

Zhang Haisan also came to Taiwan from Xinhua this time. Mao Geng felt that Zhang Haisan was a good person and should be able to help him in Taiwan. Instead, staying in Xinhua was so lucky, so he invited Zhang Haisan to Taiwan. Zhang Haisan made a little weighing, and resigned from Xinhua's official mission and led the Mao Workshop to Mao Geng. On the tenth day after Chen Liang left Penghu, the Mao Workshop led by Zhang Haisan also arrived in Penghu. Soon they moved to Kaohsiung and participated in the first phase of Kaohsiung's construction. One month later, more than 700 log houses were built in Kaohsiung, and everyone moved into the log houses, which was settled down.

On this day, Zhao Yan accompanied Han Tuozhou to Kaohsiung, took a quick look at it, and then came to Mao Geng's Chief Executive's residence.

The Chief Executive’s residence is slightly different from the log house, that is, the walls around are covered with brick walls and the windows are equipped with glass, and the others are no different.

Sitting in front of the oval table, Zhao Yan praised first:

"Mr. Mao was unique and came up with a way to find this log house. I didn't expect that so many log houses would be built in just over thirty days, which is really not easy!"

Mao Geng hurriedly modest:

"The Duke of the State praised it! After all, these houses are not as good as brick and tile houses. They are just to allow military soldiers and personnel to temporarily have a temporary residence. After a transition, they can only live in a formal brick and tile house after a year. I am ashamed!"

Han Tuozhou was naturally very surprised to see a town suddenly popping up in Kaohsiung. In comparison, the construction speed in Taipei was as slow as a snail. However, Mao Geng’s office in Kaohsiung is also very simple, so it is of course faster to build it. Taipei is the capital of Taiwan, so of course it must be very particular. According to the custom of building a city in the Song Dynasty, Taipei will at least build a city. If it is built in this way, I am afraid that it may not be completed at this time next year.

Han Tuozhou felt that the "Kaohsiung Special Zone" built by Mao Geng had no plans for the city, which seemed to be too special. It was just that there was an appointment before, and Mao Geng had the final say in this special zone. Han Tuozhou also knew that Zhao Han was very puzzled by Mao Geng's move, but it was hard to question it. However, Zhao Han was inconvenient to speak, so he could touch it indirectly:

"Haha, Chief Executive Mao's approach is fast and fast, which is admirable. But I am a little puzzled. If the city is not built here, if the barbarians attack, there will be no fear of one thousand two thousand barbarians. If thousands of barbarians flock to come, if there is no city as a support, will Chief Executive Mao be sure to hold on?"

Mao Geng knew that although this was a question raised by Han Tuozhou, it was actually Zhao Han's question. Even Guo Xi had previously questioned that it is a customary practice to build a city these days, not to mention that there are hostile barbarians around him nearby. In the hearts of all the people in the Song Dynasty, the first thing they had to do was to build a city to protect themselves. However, Mao Geng had no such plan so far. Mao Geng picked up the wooden stick and pointed at the sand table, looking confident:

"Please look at the Duke of the State, Lord Han, although there is no city in Kaohsiung, it has been pulled up with double-layer barbed wire mesh. There are mines buried between the barbed wire mesh. Oh, this mine is a spontaneous iron cannon. If someone forcibly crosses the outer barbed wire mesh, he will step on the spontaneous iron cannon. Even if he is not killed, he will be injured. The garrison troops will know that someone has invaded immediately, and our army has enough time to defend. The indigenous weapons here are primitive, and it is not enough to worry about them. Even if they can cross the first barbed wire mesh, it will be difficult for them to cross the second barbed wire mesh. Even if they cross the second barbed wire mesh, they will have to return in vain in the end."

"Landmines, spontaneous iron cannons? What kind of powerful weapons did Mr. Mao invent?"

Zhao Han was a little excited, and was a little dissatisfied with Mao Geng not reporting the matter immediately.

When he saw Zhao Yan like this, Guo Xi quickly picked up a sample of a mine and explained:

"I reported to the Duke of the Kingdom, this is this thing. I sent someone to Penghu the day before yesterday, but for some reason I failed to report it to the Duke of the Kingdom in time."

This time, Zhao Han went to Taipei first and then came to Kaohsiung from Taipei, so he naturally didn't know about landmines.

Zhao Yan saw that this was just a ceramic ball-like thing, with a circular protrusion protruding in the middle. He was curious and asked:

"But somehow it exploded spontaneously?"

Mao Geng was beside him, and at this time he took out a small wooden box, then pushed it open, picked up a wooden stick from the wooden box, and said to Zhao Han:

"Duke, please see."

Zhao Han paid attention to it, and then he found that one end of the small wooden stick had a thick round head, with a gray-black round head, and I didn't know what it was. I saw Mao Geng pick up the small wooden stick and quickly slashing through the side of the wooden box. With a "cry", the end of the small wooden stick burned.

"The reason why this landmine can explode spontaneously is the same as this match. In fact, this is the same as the scythe."

Han Tuozhou smiled and seemed to understand the joints. In the early years, it was popular to use thin wood chips dipped in sulfur to cause fire. The matches mentioned by Mao Geng seemed to be based on the same principle.

Zhao Han was curious and took the "match" handed over by Mao Geng. After careful examination, he found that one side of the wooden box was originally a thick porcelain piece. The porcelain piece was as rough as whetstone. There were two grooves on the porcelain piece. The one Mao Geng just now seemed to be a groove.

Mao Geng also tried to pull out a small wooden stick and stroke it in the groove of the porcelain piece in the same way, but did not ignite the wooden stick.

"Try harder."

The second time Zhao Yan finally ignited the small wooden stick and couldn't help but feel happy.

Speaking of which, Mao Geng has adjusted the formula many times in order to make this match. There are glass powder, matte ore (antimony trioxide) powder, sulfur, and trace amounts of nitrate on the head of the medicine. However, it seems that the match is still a little too safe. If it is not operated properly, it is more than ten percent of the chance of being inflammable.

"The same is true for this mine. When a person steps on the mine, the mechanism inside will rub, ignite gunpowder, and the mine will explode immediately."

Landmines are better, so they don’t need to consider safety factors, so they explode as soon as they touch them.

Zhao Han was very excited for a moment, but then he felt a little weak:

"It's a pity that the power of this iron cannon is not good. Even if it is considered to be blown up, it's mostly scary. At most, it hurts the legs and feet. Unfortunately, Mr. Mao's invention."

Zhou Xun next to Guo Xixian couldn't help but speak:

"Qi Gong, the gunpowder in this mine was much more powerful after being allocated by Mr. Mao. The day before yesterday, a barbarian crossed the first barbed wire, stepped onto the mine, and was killed by the bomb."

Zhou Xun was the commander of the Two Thousand Chamber Army. He witnessed this incident with his own eyes and was still deeply shocked. However, after Mao Geng went to see the scene, he judged that the unlucky guy died because he did not receive timely treatment and lost too much blood. It was not necessarily that the mine could kill people on the spot.

"really?"

Seeing that everyone on Mao Geng nodded, Zhao Han was very excited and looked at Mao Geng and said:

"What can Mr. Mao do to greatly increase the power of gunpowder?"

Mao Geng thought to himself, I just added copper oxide to it, and the most important thing is to purify the nitrate. So he made a request as follows:

"Duke, please ask the imperial court to transport a batch of salt. The officials will try it in Kaohsiung to see if the gunpowder can be increased a little more. Gunpowder is also used to burn cement quarrying here. If the officials can explore a set of ways to increase the power of the explosion, they can teach the military weapon supervision. At that time, the military power of the Song Dynasty can reach a higher level."
Chapter completed!