The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 550

Kous' surrender is a good thing for both him and Ding Yi.

As a Catholic, he didn't want the soldiers to die in vain, and Ding Yi also wanted their ships.

In this battle, three third-tier battleships from the East India Company were obtained in one fell swoop. Except for the Nar, which needed to be repaired, the other two ships were complete.

In this way, the four third-tier battleships of the entire East India Company were all in the hands of Ding Yi.

Ding Yi will keep them all in Dayuan, so that no navy or naval warship of any country will be stronger than him in the vicinity of Dayuan, and neither can Zheng Zhilong.

When Zheng Zhilong fought against the Dutch and Liu Xiang, he mobilized fifty large ships and a hundred fire attacking small boats. In the end, one was sunk, one was burned, and one was captured. The rest of the Dutch ran away.

This time Ding Yi learned his lesson and used North Korean boats to block their retreat. Kous really couldn't escape, because he knew he couldn't escape.

Ding Yi's cannonballs will explode, and as long as one hits, the ship may sink if he escapes.

After the fall of Cous, Ding Yi's navy had four third-tier battleships.

He was also full of confidence at this moment, and said to Xilao: "Back when Zheng Zhilong fought the Dutch and Liu Xiang, the Dutch only dispatched one third-tier battleship, and Zheng dispatched 150 ships to win."

"Now we have four ships, hahaha, it's really cool."

Xi Laojing was dissatisfied and said: "Master Ding, my navy also needs a third-tier battleship."

"Don't worry, when the Longevity Island is built, equip your navy first. Believe me, our Longevity will only be stronger than the Dutch." Ding Yi patted Xilaojing on the shoulder.

After the war, Ding Yi led his people to board the Grand Officer. He had a lot of things to do this time, and because he was busy, he wished he could use several of them.

First of all, he transported 1 post-Golden Soldiers and [-] Mongolian households, bringing in a total of nearly [-] people. After returning, the Koreans will help them transport them again, and there are [-] Mongolian households waiting to be transported.

The North Koreans dispatched more than 100 ships to help him transport people. In return, Ding Yi asked them to bring back [-] catties of sugar. The North Koreans were overjoyed and kept thanking them.

The accompanying Korean navy generals witnessed the history of Ding Yi's defeat of the Dutch. When they spoke to Ding Yi, they showed great respect.

Before leaving, they said that the former Korean Kingdom and General Ding could maintain their friendship forever.

On October [-]th, after a day's rest, Ding Yi took people to watch the shipyard and craftsman's office of the senior officials, and listened to Zhao Dashan's report.

Although Da Yuan's shipyard and craftsman bureau started relatively late, with the strong support of Lushun, and the fact that they are also collecting talents everywhere, they have already reached a small scale.

After nearly a year, the first shipyard is about to be built, and simple maintenance can be carried out at present, and the ship can be built by March next year at the latest, but there are relatively few shipbuilders and shipwrights, and there are only more than 200 people in total, and the shipbuilding speed must be far behind Not as good as Lushun.

The location of the second shipyard is also good. There are currently more than 1000 people in the early stage of reconstruction. When there are manpower, the construction will be officially started.

There are only more than 100 workers and craftsmen in the firearms department of the Taiyuan Craftsmanship Bureau, which is even less than that of the ship department. They mainly repair guns and blunderbuss. In addition, they only make Lumi blunderbuss, iron armor, and cold weapons here. For the time being It does not make cannons and flintlock guns, but can produce [-] Lumi blunderbusses per month. The output is very low, and it is mainly used in rotation.

At present, Zhao Dashan has the second battalion of Song Fei Navy and the fourth battalion of Xu Erxian, with a total of 3000 people, a battalion of [-] infantry, and [-] tribal soldiers. The number of soldiers and horses has broken through [-], which is Ding Yi's most leading general.

In the past nearly a year, Zhao Dashan continued to conquer, expand the territory, and immigrate. The current population under his rule has reached [-].

The new farmland is 3 mu, plus the original, a total of 17 mu.

The monthly production of granulated sugar here is 13 catties, and the main production of white sugar is [-] catties per month. Compared with the Dutch, the efficiency is greatly increased.

In addition, the monthly output of brown sugar is [-] jin. The brown sugar is mainly sold to the Ming Dynasty, and the white sugar is mainly sold to Japan and Luzon.

Japan is the largest user of sugar consumption.

The output is so high because Ding Yi's policies and work norms are well implemented, so the efficiency is much higher than before. The workers are all paid to go to work, and they are orderly and serious when they go to work.

But because most of Ding Yi's candy is not for sale, this piece is actually selling money.

He mainly used sugar in exchange for various materials, including people, but only about a quarter of what was actually sold.

But when Ding Yi left, the goal given to him was to have a population of 6 and grain fields of 19 by June next year.

Therefore, these two items have not been achieved at present. The main reason is that the population is too small, the population is small, the labor force is small, and the development is slow due to the small labor force.

Ding Yi naturally wouldn't scold him, he could only encourage him. He didn't expect that immigrating here would be difficult, unlike Dengzhou where there are refugees everywhere.

The lives of ordinary people in Fujian, Guangdong, are generally better than those in the inland provinces of Ming Dynasty, so immigration is quite slow. Everything depends on grain fields and money to lure them, and now they mainly rely on merchants to bring them in exchange for sugar.

Fortunately, this time Ding Yi brought nearly 1 people here, and arrested nearly [-] Dutch people. The population he could control on the island finally reached [-].

Zhao Dashan told Ding Yi that it is easy to hoard land here, and there is too much to hoard. The main reason is that it is far away, and the second is that there are people who will disturb him, so he needs more people to conquer and fight those who refuse to be tamed. Will rebel.

Ordinarily, Zhao Dashan has a lot of soldiers and horses, and he also has a lot of power, but last time Ding Yi sent Yao Xinhan and Zhu Xiangyang successively to share most of the power in Zhao Dashan's hands.

After Zhu Chaoyang arrived, he became the magistrate of Tainan City and was in charge of all land storage, craftsmen, logistics, immigration, education and other affairs.

He is also responsible for distributing the food and salaries of the soldiers and horses stationed in Taiwan, and supervises the blunderbuss and weapons made by him. If the weapons and blunderbuss handed over to Zhao Dashan are unqualified, he will be asked for punishment.

And Zhao Dashan can't interfere with all his government affairs, and is only responsible for the military.

Yao Xinhan and Zhao Dashan are both Ding Yi's elder brothers, but they don't like fighting and have been working in business.

Yao Xinhan is the magistrate of Xingang City, responsible for all business operations of the officials, including sugar management, transportation and sales, transactions with ships, registration, and transactions with local Fan clans.

Zhu Xiangyang is also in charge of education here, and Ding Yi attaches great importance to education, and there are many local Tu people, so the first thing he did after he became a senior official was to establish a school.

Now there are more than [-] classes in the school here. Local children (including Shengfan and other ethnic groups) who are over seven years old must come to school, and three meals are provided free of charge, and they go home after eating in the evening.

Therefore, no matter whether they are new or old, they are willing to send children to school, so that they can help Ming people to work and make money as adults without bringing children.

There are more than 12 children under the age of 700 in the school, and there is also a large class for adults. Anyone from all ethnic groups who are willing to learn Chinese can come to learn, and people from the Ming Dynasty who are willing to read and write can also learn. There are also two to three hundred students, which add up to nearly Thousands of people.

According to Zhu Xiangyang, most of the students who come to school are basically equivalent to the officials and aristocratic families of the Ming Dynasty (the family has no worries about food and clothing). Ordinary students rely on self-study and work with Ming people. Live and learn like this, after all they need to live.

When everyone was talking about this, Yao Xinhan suddenly thought of something: "Master Ding, a few days ago there was an Italian who brought something in exchange for a thousand catties of sugar. Jin candy was exchanged back."

"What? Show me." Ding Yi encouraged them to change things, so during this period of time, they have changed a lot of weird things, and there are all kinds of things, but most of them are useless, or have been used. There is.

Ding Yi would lose money by exchanging in this way. Some foreign businessmen exchanged them with inferior goods or seeds, but Ding Yi insisted on doing this despite everyone’s persuasion. Everyone was a little confused.

Ding Yi believed that they had just occupied Taiwan at this time, and foreign businessmen didn’t know Ding Yi very well. After a year or two, they knew Ding Yi’s desire for new things and knowledge, and they would definitely bring more fresh things over. .

Yao Xinhan and the others brought Ding Yi to a warehouse. The warehouse was huge, and everyone was dumbfounded when they entered. There was everything in it, in a mess, all of which were exchanged for sugar by businessmen from various countries in the past year.

There are a lot of books piled up in one corner, these books are basically useless, but Ding Yi said that foreign books are also needed, so they all changed them, Ding Yi flipped through them casually, and asked, it seems that Spain has the most books, now here There are more Spaniards passing by.

Because they occupy Luzon, which is their largest stronghold in Asia.

He can't understand it, and he doesn't care. Anyway, the non-technical agronomy books here, ten catties of sugar, are very suitable.

"This is a globe. This is a good thing." Ding Yi suddenly saw a novelty.

(End of this chapter)