The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 613 Building Bigger and Bigger
Coming to Dayuan again, Ding Yi was also very excited when he saw the continuous forts and warships in the port.

During the year he was away, every time Ruan Siqing came over, he would bring his letter, and Zhao Dashan's letter back. Zhao Dashan strictly followed Ding Yi's requirements and made the construction here better and better.

"The new ship should be built by Daren Shipyard." Suddenly Ruan Siqing pointed to the distance excitedly.

Ding Yi looked at it calmly and saw a new 1-material warship slowly sailing out of the port. On the body of the ship was written: "Xingang No. [-]."

Ding Yi attaches great importance to the shipyard. After taking over the big staff, the first thing to do is to build the shipyard and Xingang City. At that time, these two large-scale buildings started at the same time.

For this reason, more than a dozen superb shipwrights and master craftsmen were brought from Lushun.

At that time, two shipyards were selected. The first one was about 8 kilometers south of Tainan City, probably near the current Dayuan Longshan Temple, and it was called Longshan Shipyard.

This location is really well chosen. Surrounded by land on three sides, it is not afraid of the sea breeze. There is an entrance and exit for large ships, and it is in the middle of Yuguang Island and Longshan Temple.

Ding Yi built a row of forts on both sides of Yuguang Island and Longshan Temple. The first phase is six forts each, and there will be more forts in the second phase.

As long as the turret is built, it will be exactly the same as the tower defense game. The enemy's warships will not be able to enter at all. All the way in, they will be hit by the turrets on both sides of the road.

The shipyard was built frantically in the early stage by the local people and the raw and cooked fans who took refuge in it. It took more than a year. It was completed in February this year, and other supporting factories were also completed in May.

In July, the first [-]-material warship was delivered from the factory. It used local large wood in Dayuan. Most of the wood here is fir and cypress, and it was too late to dry in the shade. It took more than a year to build the shipyard. It has been cloudy for about two years. This kind of built ship is estimated to be useless after one to two years.

But Ding Yi used this support for two or three years in the early stage, and at the same time let the craftsmen accumulate experience. After the first few batches of ships are eliminated, the subsequent warships are made of wood that has been dried in the shade, so they will last for a long time.

This Xingang No. 1 is the second ship in the shipyard here, a [-]-material warship.

According to Ding Yi's plan, the shipyard will gradually upgrade, build another [-] feeder ships, build another [-] feeder ships, and start building a third-tier battleship like the Tainan by the end of the year. The boat is more durable.

Judging from the stockpile in Lushun, there is a lot of wood that has been overcast for ten years.

Ding Yi watched Xingang No. [-] drive out of the port, and he was quite complacent in his heart.

Although a lot of human, material and financial resources have been invested in Dayuan in the past two or three years, it has finally paid off.

This is also the only harvest in Dayuan in the past two or three years, that is, two warships, and the rest is investment.

This kind of investment is enough to support tens of thousands or even more than [-] soldiers and horses for other general soldiers of Ming Dynasty.

But Ding Yi believes that the initial effect is a little slow. When the senior staff is on the right track and can be self-sufficient like Denglai and Jeju, the potential at that time will be infinite, and it will even surpass the Lushun headquarters.

Not long after, their boat came to the shore, Zhao Dashan, Song Fei, Zhu Xiangyang, Yao Xinhan, Xu Erxian, Chang Jiangang, Pilut, Duan Gaolin, Xu Zhi, Arah, Naqige, Misha, and Madhu Waiting for the big officials, civil and military, to wait for them on the shore.

Seeing Ding Yi, everyone was overjoyed and came to greet him with fists in their hands.

Ding Yi brought a lot of things with the ship this time. There were 20 craftsmen and teachers trained by Lushun's own school.

In addition, Dengzhou pulled over 6 strong, [-] victims, a boat of refined salt from Dengzhou, a boat of cloth, iron, etc., two thousand Lumi blunderbusses, [-]-pound guns and other small artillery, dozens of Franc machine guns each. Door.

As far as the cargo of these dozens of ships is concerned, the population is not counted, but it is worth 10,000+ taels of silver, and it is a waste of money.

In the past, Ruan Siqing brought all the salt for the officers, because at the beginning there was a shortage of manpower, and they had to build and hoard fields and cut down trees.

Since last year, salt has been boiled and sun-dried here, and fishing has also been taken into account. It is estimated that this is the last time Ding Yi transports salt here. In the future, the salt here must be self-sufficient. As long as you have enough for yourself, you don’t need to make too much, and you don’t need to sell it. The main thing here is to make sugar.

"My lord, I miss you to death." Zhao Dashan choked up when he saw Ding Yi, his eyes turned red, and he was about to hug him.

"Damn girl, you're disgusting." Ding Yi pushed Zhao Dashan away.

Everyone laughed.

Zhao Dashan was not embarrassed, and wiped away his tears: "I am sincere."

"Fuck off, it's only true when you're drunk at night." Ding Yi laughed.

Everyone said yes in unison.

That night, everyone naturally drank to their heart's content. Zhao Dashan also took out wine, but he didn't know it was brought by that foreign businessman.

The next day, Ding Yi called the senior officials Zhu Wenwu to a meeting, and everyone also reported the situation of the senior officials to him.

This time they were not in the meeting room, but they were patrolling around and introducing along the way as before.

Ding Yi looked at the second shipyard first.

Tainan Shipyard is located in the southeast of Tainan City. It is also a good place surrounded by land on three sides, and the impact of typhoons is relatively small.

It is currently under construction, and it is estimated that it will be completed by the end of this year, and shipbuilding will start in March next year.

The scale of this shipyard is relatively small. In the future, it will mainly build small warships and merchant ships of [-] materials and below.

And Longshan Shipyard will mainly build three-tier battleships in the future.

But in Zhu Xiangyang's words, there is still a shortage of workers, tank craftsmen.

Ding Yi sends a lot here every year, and he is also collecting and cultivating here, but it is still not enough.

Up to now, the gun factory and gun factory have been built, but there are not enough craftsmen to make guns and guns. The guns here are all bought in Macau, and the guns are delivered by Lushun, and only a few craftsmen are responsible for maintenance.

Because Ding Yi was still mainly a shipbuilder in the early stage, guns and blunderbuss were mainly repaired, not made.

"No rush." ​​Ding Yi laughed when he heard this, "It took us seven or eight years to develop in Lushun."

"Your school is doing very well now. You must maintain it and let more people learn knowledge. After five or six years, all the talents we have cultivated will be enough."

Everyone naturally nodded in agreement.

In the past few years, with the development of Lushun, more and more talents have been cultivated by himself. This time Ding Yi brought over a hundred craftsmen and teachers. In the next step, under the development and training of talents, the big staff will definitely be faster.

After visiting the shipyard, Ding Yi visited Xingang City.

This is currently his largest city in Dayuan, bigger than Tainan City.

Tainan City was mainly built by the Dutch in the early stage, and Ding Yi could not enlarge it.

Xingang City is a big city that he has built with all his strength. After two or three years of construction, it has not been half completed.

The early planning area of ​​Xingang City was 12000 mu, but later it was built bigger and bigger.

Because there are more and more buildings and people to be put in, Zhu Xiangyang has continued to expand since he came, and it has reached about 20000 mu at present.

The inner city, gun factory, and gun factory were completed in advance. In the inner city, all the family members and officers of the 20th Battalion were moved in. This also forced Oboi and the others to fight to the death for the Ming army and the Dadu Society in the early stage.

The two sides fought for more than a year, and only a few months ago, Mutu ended the battle and finally conquered the Dadu Society. When Ding Yi heard that Oboi was dead, he was also hesitant. This is a historical celebrity.

The crowd accompanied Ding Yi around Xingang City. Zhu Xiangyang kept introducing the plans after the reconstruction to Ding Yi. He was not a craftsman himself, but the craftsmen all passed him the plans. He memorized carefully that every place and detail Even if he could say it, Ding Yi listened very seriously.

Their thinking is different from Ding Yi's before. Originally, Ding Yi wanted to build Xingang City into a war fortress, and designed many forts around it.

But Zhu Xiangyang said, Tainan City is a defense base for war, and now we have stabilized our foothold in Dayuan, and we have a large number of soldiers and horses. Human and material resources are put in this aspect.

So when Ruan Siqing came last time, he brought a letter from Zhao Dashan and Zhu Xiangyang, and Ding Yi immediately agreed after reading it.

Now they have cut down a lot of forts, and kept the city walls and shooting forts and a small number of enough forts, saving a lot of material and manpower.

The completed Xingang City will be a comprehensive large city, with 10 defenders, at least [-] people, and a maximum of [-] people.

According to Zhu Xiangyang's scale, Xingang City may not be completed in one or two years, and may be completed in four or five years, but after completion, it will be a big city no smaller than Quanzhou.

Although Ding felt that it was a bit exaggerated, but when he thought about it carefully, instead of expanding in the future, it is better to complete it in one step. According to the speed of their immigration and conquest, the population that can be controlled here will definitely increase in the future.

After visiting Xingang City, Ding Yi went on to meet the heads of the various tribes one by one to express his condolences. He brought a large number of Japanese handicrafts and Korean specialties, and sent a batch to the chiefs of the various tribes, regardless of whether they were familiar or familiar. Fans are all overjoyed, thank you General Ding very much.

In the next few days, Ding Yi was non-stop, focusing on sugar refining, hoarding fields, building iron pots, etc.

I am very pleased with what I have seen and heard along the way, and I feel that the investment of millions of dollars in the past few years has not been in vain.

At present, Dayuan has a total of 20 mu of farmland here, and another [-] mu of farmland in the newly conquered Dadu Society (but it was destroyed by Ding Yi's soldiers before, so there must be no harvest this year).

When Ding Yi left last year, he gave Zhao Dashan the goal of hoarding 19 mu of land by June this year, which has been successfully completed.

Moreover, the territory of Dadu Society is the largest plain in Dayuan, the Jianan Plain, which can store hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

In Zhu Xiangyang's words, adding the current population of Dadu Society, it is expected that the farmland will reach more than 35 mu next year.

"How many controllable populations are there now?" Ding Yi asked at this time: "Where do we control it?"

"Combined with the conquest of the Dadu Club and other fan clubs, we can now control the total population of 13 in the south and west of Nantou County."

Ding Yi nodded, expressing his satisfaction. When he left last year, there were only more than 8 people here. After their non-stop emigration, trading with merchants, and conquering the Fanbu, the increase was nearly [-] a year, which is quite impressive.

Of course, the main reason is that the Dadu Club was conquered this year and gained more than 3 people.

Judging from the map, Nantou County is probably a little south of Taichung in later generations, and Ding Yi can control the territory, which is about one-eighth of the senior staff.

This is already very remarkable, after all, he has only been in the top position for about two years.

The Dutch have been operating here for more than ten years, and they have shrunk to the city of Zeelandia, and the controllable territory is less than one-fifth of Ding Yi's current situation.

"Then I'll come back next year and set a goal for you." Ding Yi said with a smile at this moment: "Next year the population will exceed 15, and the farmland will exceed 40."

"No problem." Zhu Xiangyang and others said in unison.

Then Ding Yi asked about the income and expenditure here.

The fields on Dayuan's side are the best. There are rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. The ratio is coordinated and the distribution is reasonable, because there are too many fields to store here, and it just takes time.

Now their taxes here are divided according to each ethnic group. The Han immigrants are [-]%, the Fan people are [-]%, and the Mongol Manchus are [-]%. But they give the Fan people more land and less land than the Mongolian Manchus. In terms of overall income, the Fans surpass the Mongolian Manchus.

On average, the tax revenue of Sanbutian is about [-]%.

Last year, the tax collected by all members (Dadu Community Land was not included at the time) was 35 shi.

Zhao Dashan and the others used it for themselves and the new immigrants, including the Mongolian Manchu soldiers who came over. They used it for nearly 28 shi, and only [-] in stock.

This year's grain consumption is also very large, because the Dadu Society has to be raised, and the fields of the Dadu Society must have been destroyed by them in the early stage, so there will be a harvest next year.

But this year their population has increased by tens of thousands. As long as the fields are stocked up and there are no natural disasters, there will definitely be more surplus food next year.

Last year, the sugar production that Ding Yi was most concerned about was also greatly increased.

The sugar producers here are mainly Fan people, as well as surrendered Mongolian women and Manchu women, and they quite like sugar.

Because these three tribes were short of sugar whether they were on the grassland or in the mountains before.

The special seniors here mainly make refined white sugar, which is their favorite.

According to Duan Gaolindao, there are now 15 workers planting sugar cane to make sugar, with a monthly output of [-] catties of white sugar and [-] catties of brown sugar, reaching a record high.

The sales are still the same, mainly sold by Ruan Qingsi to Japan along the way, secondly, merchants from various countries in Southeast Asia sold by Da Yuan for barter, and thirdly, Song Fei went to Macau to buy artillery, and sold it to Luzon and other places by the way.

A large amount of cloth, ironware, iron materials, copper materials, spices, medicinal materials, and even dogs, pigs, cattle, etc. were transported by merchants from various countries in exchange for sugar.

At first everyone ignored why Ding Yi wanted to change it, but now it proves that Ding Yi's method is very good, saving Ding Yi from sending a boat to buy it everywhere.

Because there are too many things that the boss needs to exchange for, you let Ding Yi buy goods everywhere, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Now someone else delivers them, and they can sell them in the shopping mall here, whether they are raw or cooked. Whether it is Han people or Han people, they can use food and money to buy what they need.

Like many former students of Guishun Ding Yi, they now prefer to wear commoner clothes instead of animal clothes.

"Although the production of sugar is quite high, this area is not very profitable at present. The actual sales can get about 10 taels per year." Duan Gaolin said at this time.

Most of the sugar was exchanged by Ding Yi for various supplies, and then used to encourage the Manchus and Mongols to make a living, and to ensure a continuous supply of livelihood necessities on Dayuan Island.

(End of this chapter)