1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 65 Gold!

With muskets, long knives, and organized team battles, the attacking natives were defeated in less than 10 minutes.They scattered in all directions, turned around and ran out of the camp. Without organization or break, they swarmed into the narrow valley.

The natives in the camp roared and chased after them, and stabbed the backward natives to the ground one by one with the sharp wooden sticks in their hands.Some aborigines even picked up stones cruelly and beat the injured aborigines to death.

"How is Datou?" Niu Hu and others did not follow the natives to chase the fleeing enemies, they carried Ding Datou to the side of the thatched hut and lit the torches.

"His thigh was stabbed by a sharp wooden stick, and he almost lost his descendants!" Li Fade checked Ding Datou's injury for a while. There was a huge blood hole in the upper thigh, which had been tied up with cloth strips.But the blood still kept oozing out, staining the entire lower body red.

"The blood doesn't seem to stop..." Niu Hu frowned and said, "Find me a rope."

"There is no rope here!" Li Fade smiled wryly, "There are a lot of rattan.... What are they for?"

Niu Hu turned his head to look, and there were indeed many rattan sticks hanging outside the dilapidated thatched hut, with some dried meat strung on it.

"The cane is too thick, it's not suitable." Niu Hu shook his head, "Take off your belt and give it to me! You need to stop the bleeding for the big head." He was on a boat, and he saw Qi Tian use a thin rope to give the seriously injured To stop the bleeding, he decided to do the same.

"Niuhu, is Ding's condition okay?" Marciolo stepped forward and asked with concern.Fighting side by side brings everyone closer.The injury of the companion also touched the heartstrings of everyone, worrying about his injury.

"I can't die for the time being!" Niu Hu was so rough that he stopped Ding Datou's bleeding, and stood up, "Tomorrow, we will go back as soon as the sky is bright."

It was night, and the leader of the aborigines in the tribal camp came over and talked and gestured with Niu Hu and the others, implying that they would help avenge the incoming aboriginal tribes.For this reason, he asked his tribe to bring many stones of various shapes.

In this regard, Niuhu and Marciolo looked at each other and smiled wryly at each other.They came to find ore, not just any stone to collect.

"Hey, this stone...why does it look like gold?" Li Zhongxi said in a low voice.He used to be in Daming and was a gold miner in Shanghang County, Fujian Province.Unbearable to bear the oppression of the government and the mine supervisor, he fled with others, and finally moved to Luzon.

When other people heard the words, they stepped forward to check.A palm-sized stone, the whole is golden yellow, and there are many granular things on it.

"Golden dog head?" Li Zhongxi said uncertainly.

"There are a few more here!" Li Fade picked up another golden stone from the ground, "Could it be that this thing is gold?"

Seeing that they were interested in those few stones, the native leader quickly signaled that they could find more, and they could give them all, hoping to help their tribe fight against the enemy.

"There is no way to be sure, so take these stones back." Niu Hu had never seen gold before, and Li Zhongxi was not sure, so he simply suggested taking all of them back.

As for whether he wanted to help the indigenous people fight, he didn't explicitly refuse, and gestured, saying that he would go back and report to the big boss.

In the early morning of the next day, Niu Hu and other members of the prospecting team packed up their luggage, packed all the ore specimens, and made a wooden stretcher to carry Ding Datou back to Jianye.

The leader of the indigenous tribe sent two old men and more than a dozen middle-aged natives, carrying some dried meat, wild fruits, furs and other gifts, to return with Niuhu and others to seek help.

After a week of high-intensity construction, the Jianye City camp has reached a considerable scale.There are more than 160 rows of wooden houses and nearly [-] rooms, all of which are covered with thick grass.The only shortcoming may be that the doors and windows are empty, which seems to be leaking everywhere, and there is still a certain distance from the real residents.

Tall wooden towers were erected in all four directions of the camp, with two people stationed in each, to warn of possible threats around them.

On the southern edge of the camp, Qi Tian asked people to build fifteen small earthen kilns in one go, which can burn more than 3000 bricks at one time.He plans to use bricks and stones to build a larger brick kiln and cement kiln one after another when more than 9000 bricks are fired three times.

Once the large brick kilns are built, these temporary small earthen kilns have fulfilled their historical mission and will be demolished one by one.In the place they vacated, it is planned to build a pottery workshop to meet the daily needs of everyone in the camp.

"This brook can be transformed into a reservoir, otherwise, the river will flow into the sea for nothing." Qi Tian, ​​Cao Xiong, Yu Fukun, Qi Dajiang and others stood together one kilometer to the east of the camp. On a high slope, he pointed to a large swamp and brook, and said: "And with this reservoir, we no longer need to worry about the shortage of water for domestic use and agricultural irrigation."

"Such a large brook! If it is transformed into a reservoir, it will require tens of thousands of people? How can we have so many people!" Yu Fukun said in surprise.

"Renovating the reservoir is not a one-step process." Qi Tian explained with a smile: "We can first dig a small reservoir of 300 meters square to meet our current water demand. In the next few years, we will have a little more people waiting for us. It can be expanded slowly. With this reservoir, all the farmland transformed around us can be turned into irrigated land.”

Qi Tian pointed to the sparsely forested and flat land around him, and continued, "If we can develop all these lands one after another, it will not be a problem to feed tens of thousands of people! At that time, we will buy more guns and cannons." , Not to mention dominating one side, but trying to protect yourself is no problem."

Cao Xiong nodded after listening.At that time, Marshal Mao of Pidao relied on only a small island and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Under the constant threats and attacks of Houjin, they could all develop and grow, and existed for seven or eight years, making Houjin like a thorn in his throat.And where they are, apart from the Dutch who are thousands of miles away, there is no strong enemy nearby. Could it be that they can't develop?
When it comes to future development, everyone is excited.Establish a foundation and establish a kingdom, and everyone will be like when the Ming Dynasty was founded, with generations of princes and princes, rich and honored for a hundred years.This is completely different from the situation and state of mind after the defeat of Dengzhou, when everyone only wanted to pray for survival.

"Boss, there seems to be a warning signal from the camp..." Yu Fukun said suddenly, looking sideways at the direction of the camp.

Everyone was shocked and listened attentively.Sure enough, from the direction of the camp, there was a faint sound of a horn.

According to the prior arrangements, if the people working around the camp heard the horn sounding the alarm, they would all hide within the wooden fence of the camp.

"Huzi, you come back right after your motherfucker came back, why did you bring back more than ten... dark savages?... It made us a false alarm!" Hu Wen was so angry that he kicked Niu Hu.

Niu Hu and a group of people carried the injured Ding Datou back to the camp, and were spotted by the guards on the watchtower from a distance.When they saw more than [-] people, armed with various weapons, heading straight for the camp, they immediately blew the warning horn.

At this moment, in the camp square, hundreds of people were curiously surrounding the dozen or so natives, surprised at their dark and ugly appearance, and despised them for being naked and wearing only leather skirts...

After Yu Fukun came, urging them to continue their work, the crowd slowly dispersed.Seeing these stupid aborigines who could only laugh, Yu Fukun was also a little at a loss, and led these aborigines to eat with gestures.

"You helped them fight and won the battle." Cao Xiong asked Niu Hu in a deep voice.

"Well, those aborigines really don't need to be beaten, I can kill ten of them!" Niu Hu said proudly.

"Not beaten? How did Ding Datou get hurt!?"

"Ah?..." Niu Hu was at a loss for words, he couldn't say, was Ding Datou too careless, and was injured by a group of Zhan Wu scum natives?

"Huzi, you did the right thing by not promising those natives to help them continue fighting." Qi Tian knew that Cao Xiong was feeling sorry for every brother who managed to get here, not blaming the cattle and tiger guards for their disadvantages.

"I don't know how many people and how powerful the other party is. That's why I didn't dare to agree to them..."

"Everyone here is precious, and we can't waste the fight between the indigenous tribes at will. Therefore, we can clearly refuse their request for help!" Qi Tian said decisively.

"That's right! When a bunch of natives are fighting, we shouldn't easily intervene....It doesn't do any good!" Cao Xiong nodded in agreement with Qi Tian's statement.

"They gave us gold..." Niu Hu actually wanted to help the indigenous tribes he had contacted.

"Gold?" Qi Tian picked up a piece of dog's head gold on the wooden table curiously, "Is this gold?" Looking at this golden stone, he was a little suspicious.After all, the gold seen in the previous life was all processed.This is the first time he has seen such a primitive gold nugget.

"It's gold!" Niu Hu said happily: "Li Zhongxi confirmed it on the road, the dog's head gold, with a little processing, you can make gold with high purity!...The group of indigenous people said that they still have There are many, if we want, you can find them for us!"

Everyone in the wooden house gathered around one after another, playing with these primitive gold nuggets, with a look of obsession on their faces.

"How many people know about gold?" Qi Tian asked solemnly.

"Only the ones from our ore hunting team... and the ones from this house." Niu Hu replied.

"Uncle,...all of you, don't spread the news about the discovery of gold to more people, let alone Hanzhou!" Qi Tian solemnly said to everyone.

"Why?" Hu Wenjin asked blankly.

"Uncle Hu, do you like gold?"

"Everyone likes it!"

"If those natives have a lot of gold and don't want to give it to you, but they look weak, what should you do?"

"Steal his mother!"

"If the Dutch, or other forces stronger than us, know that we have gold, what will they do?"

(End of this chapter)