mtl008 Chapter 123
Chapter 123
Chapter 123: Developing Dongying Island! Build a naval base!!
By this time, the 10th sail battleship had been launched.
Zhu Xiongying waited for the sail battleship to be equipped with the latest copper cannons and divine rockets, equipped with enough ammunition and flintlock guns.
While studying the situation in Dongying.
At this time, he looked at the map of Toei and his eyes rested on Sajima.
Sashima is the largest island outside the four islands of the Toei mainland, with an area of more than 800 square kilometers.
He remembered that Sashima was once the largest gold and silver mining area in Toei.
Especially the gold mines.
More than 200 years later, the Toei people discovered gold on Sajima.
At its peak, Sajima’s gold production used to exceed half of the entire Toei! At that time, Sashima produced 40 tons of gold (1.08 million taels) and 60 tons of silver (1.62 million taels) per year
At this time, the Eastern Partition coincided with the period of division between the North and the South.
Nominally, the island was under the jurisdiction of Uesugi Junchun, the Kanto governor of the Northern Dynasty.
But at this time the island is still a place where birds do not.
It’s just a penal colony for prisoners.
Thousands of inhabitants of the island, all after the criminals and criminals.
Zhu Xiongying estimates that the reserves of gold mines on this island are at least more than 100 million taels, while the reserves of silver mines may exceed 200 million taels.
“Let’s take this island first.”
“Use this as a base, and then gradually expand and occupy the Kanto region.”
“Then, swallow the four islands of Dongying mainland!”
Zhu Xiongying soon informed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao of this policy.
When the two of them heard this, they couldn’t help but be shocked.
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, “What? ”
“A small island, there is so much gold and silver?!”
“One hundred million taels of gold?”
“Two hundred million taels of silver?”
“And you can take it without fighting?”
“Groove!”
“Good grandson…”
“Grandpa approves of you.”
“Quickly occupy this island!”
“How many craftsmen do you want? Tool? ”
“Grandpa has approved them all for you!”
……
Ten days later, Zhu Xiongying was ready.
10 sail battleships, with a total crew, 8,000 soldiers, and 2,000 artisan farmers.
2 newly built Galen ships with a total crew, 1,000 soldiers and 1,000 artisan farmers.
The ship also carried a large amount of supplies, including ammunition, seeds, seedlings, chemical raw materials and so on.
Zhu Xiongying intends to mine on the island at the same time, but also carry out reclamation.
Establish Sashima as a well-established military base.
Strive to build their own unsinkable aircraft carrier near the main island of Dongying.
In this way, you can attack and retreat.
You can occupy all the ports of Dongying step by step.
Then gradually encroach on the interior of the island.
Strive to take down this country of gold and silver as soon as possible…
Soon after, the Daming naval fleet with 12 advanced ships set out from the mouth of the Xinjiang River.
This time, Zhu Xiongying brought Qi Jiguang, Deng Zilong, Zheng He, Nelson, Zheng Chenggong and others.
The fleet went to sea along the Yangtze River from near Songjiang Prefecture.
Then head north towards Dongying.
From Shineguchi to Sajima, the sea route is about 5100 li.
The original speed of Zhu Xiongying’s fleet was about 34 li per hour.
At this time, coupled with the 50% increase in the double purple qi on his body, the speed had exceeded 51 miles per hour.
Therefore, these 5,100 li sea routes only take 100 hours, that is, more than 4 days.
However, Zhu Xiongying swept up along the way and destroyed several remnants of the wokou and pirate dens.
Killed many people and captured another 4,000 able-bodied prisoners.
So, about seven days later, they came to Sajima…
After going ashore, the criminals on Sashima Island were panicked when they saw this.
Zhu Xiongying found a man who was proficient in Mandarin, bilingual and more tame and obedient.
This person’s name is Saburo Higashino.
Zhu Xiongying ordered, “You issue a notice for me.” ”
“We are Daming Overseas Reclamation and Mining Company.”
“Come here to mine and reclaim the wasteland.”
“Anyone who is willing to come to our company to work…”
“Two sets of overalls per person.”
“Provide a full meal for three meals a day.”
Then, he ordered 4,000 Yokou pirate captives, led by 3,000 Daming artisan farmers, to begin the work of reclamation and mining.
At this time, Zhu Xiongying brought a lot of sweet potato seedlings.
At once, 1,000 acres of sweet potatoes were planted on Sajima.
Then, 1,000 drops of high-power production accelerator are used.
In addition to Zhu Xiongying’s own smooth purple qi bonus.
Daming harvested 1,000 mu of sweet potatoes in 10 days, a total of 5 million jin.
At this time, the Daming army, crew, craftsmen, and farmers came a total of 12,000 people.
4000 prisoners were captured.
Plus there are 5,000 inhabitants on the island.
That’s 21,000 people.
5 million catties of sweet potatoes, 1.2 catties per person a day, can be supplied for nearly 200 days.
Therefore, basic rations for the next six months will be sufficient.
Then, Zhu Xiongying expanded the sweet potato planting land to 5,000 mu.
Another 3,000 mu of high-yield rice and 3,000 mu of high-yield wheat were planted.
In this way, even if the population of Sashima doubles again.
Even without the use of high-power growth promoters, the food produced is sufficient to supply the needs of all the population of Sajima, so that Sashima can continue to function normally.
At this time, the life of the inhabitants of Sajima was extremely difficult.
The criminals and the descendants of the criminals are poorly clothed and hungry.
Seeing the people from Daming, all of them were brightly dressed, their heads were held high, and their lives were very rich.
Even the captives were able to eat three full meals a day.
Moreover, working for them, I heard that they can also receive two sets of attachment clothes.
Suddenly, the local residents of Sajima were moved.
Soon, a sporadic group of Sashima residents signed up for Daming’s overseas agricultural and mining company.
Gradually, the number of people increased.
In the end, the registration team even crowded the door of the Daming camp.
Report adults.
“Sashima has a population of 5,012, and adults with a full labor force are 3,411 in total.”
“This time, a total of 3,384 people signed up to join our farming and mining company Can Cel.”
At this time, Higashino Saburo ran over excitedly to report.