The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 461 The Fall of Hainan
It's a pity that the speed of the warships of the Ming army can't keep up with the warships built by the Huang family, and it can't compare with the modified No. [-] Fuchuan, so all the sailors of the Ming army are enriched to work on the merchant ships and warships of the Huang family.

The Huang family has now built a port and a large dock in Bopu Port, Lingaojiao. Although this is not a natural deep-water port, it is only compared to the later generations with [-]-ton giant ships.

At present, the Huang family does not have a battleship of more than [-] tons. It is no problem to dock a sea-going ship of [-] tons here, so the short-term conditions can be fully met.

Bopu Port is located in the Beibu Gulf of Hainan, not far from the mouth of the Wenlan River. The beach here is gentle, the water is clear and the sand is white, and the scenery is full of strange rocks. It is a traditional offshore fishing ground for fishermen.

The Wenlan River originates from Ma'anling in Danzhou and runs through the whole area from south to north. The total length is nearly [-] miles, and the water volume is abundant. The first large reservoir built by Huang's family is upstream and has been put into use.In the future, a large area of ​​land can completely guarantee the harvest under drought and flood.

Because the Wenlan River has a large drop and plenty of water, the Huang family built many hydraulic machines, including as many as [-] crushers for crushing stones. The hydraulic drive saves a lot of manpower and animal power.

Grind the gravel into powder, burn it into block cement and then grind it into cement products. The first batch of cement produced by Huang’s family used stone mills for grinding surface. One donkey can only finish one day a day. The production of [-] jins of cement.

Now that the output of Huang's iron and steel has doubled, the steel mills are driven by water power, the efficiency has been greatly improved, and the impurities in the cement have been greatly reduced.

After several years of development, refractory brick technology has also made progress, and different products can be provided according to different needs. The commonly used refractory bricks fired with kaolin containing alumina and silica can fully meet the general requirements.

It is too easy for the Huang family to obtain the temperature within [-] degrees for firing Portland cement and refractory bricks. After five or six years of technological innovation, the quality of the cement is now improving with each passing day, comparable to ordinary cement in later generations.

With hydraulic machinery providing a large amount of raw materials, and the technology of producing cement by shaft kiln method is becoming more and more mature, Lingao has a large amount of local storage such as clay, limestone, and gypsum, so the output of cement in Lingao is already the first in the Huang family. , and of course the world's number one.

The thermal efficiency of the traditional brick and tile kilns in Daming was too low. Huang Sheng had seen an ancient thermal equipment wheel kiln for the production of bricks and tiles in later generations.It has the advantages of continuous production, high output, various fuels, low construction cost and high thermal efficiency utilization.

The Huang family needs to build too many houses for various purposes. Since the sixteen-room wheel kiln has been put into operation on a large scale in the Huang family system, the cost of producing bricks and tiles is half that of Daming, and the output is as high as the same amount of labor. Four or five times.

Now the master craftsmen and technicians are studying the use of hydraulic machinery to make brick embryos. It is said that they have entered the experimental stage. If successful, the brick embryo making process that requires the most labor will save too much manpower.

Ge Chengjie has built a five-foot-tall lighthouse in Lingaojiao, which has become a local landmark. The structure is of course made of bricks, stones, steel bars, and cement, which is guaranteed to last for more than a century.

There are three other buildings like this, one forty miles apart, which not only become the navigation mark for Huang's ships, but also benefit too many fishing boats, and will be built around Hainan Island in the future.

The Bopu Dockyard has been put into operation. The technicians are mainly backbones drawn from Huangjiawan Island and "Huaxia Island". They have also recruited many family craftsmen who used local methods to build fishing boats. Now the dockyard is intensively rebuilding the seized Ming army warships. Boat.

The Huang family has been operating in Lingao for three years. There are tens of thousands of people who have migrated here. They have achieved a unified language, writing, and weights and measures within their own system.The people of the Huang family all speak Huang's official dialect, which is the Mandarin of later generations.

Ge Chengjie and the staff of the Intelligence Department have figured out the dialects of various parts of Hainan Island, and recruited people who can understand and speak each language.

As long as there is money and food, all kinds of talents can be obtained in Daming, and those areas where Li people live in areas with obscure languages ​​also need commodity circulation, although most of them use barter, there are also business opportunities.

The Han people are so shrewd, they can be said to have racked their brains to make a living.

Small traders walking through villages and villages carried and carried heavy goods on their backs, endured endless exploitation, and risked being murdered by bandits and bandits, and went into deep mountains and dense forests hoping to get food and clothing.

Therefore, there are many small vendors who understand several village languages, and they also know who in the village can understand the Chinese dialects of different places in Hainan.

They were afraid of being serious about everything, and Ge Chengjie and the others did it seriously. They hired hundreds of local Han people who could speak several dialects to work in Laigao at a monthly salary of one tael and four buckets of rice, and learned the language and Chinese characters every day.

Such a monthly fee is not worth mentioning in Huang's family, but it is a dream of high income in the barren Hainan Island, and there is no danger. Too many locals with language talents flock to accept the selection.

The Huang family provided pencils and books for free, and all the civil officials and local braves participated in the teaching. These people who are willing to learn multiple dialects already know how to use a variety of skills without overwhelming them. A hard study.

Not only that, all Hainan locals hired have received free education. Among the indigenous people in Lingao, except for the elderly, it is fashionable for young people to be able to speak Huang's official dialect.

After more than a year of education, I have achieved outstanding results, and the Huangjia Mandarin has spread rapidly. It is no longer an obstacle to completely seize Hainan Island in the future.

The Ming army in Guangdong was really vulnerable. The Guo Huaiyi pirate group became more and more fierce. His men immediately went ashore, playing the banners of "Guo Dawang", "Walking for the Heaven", "Autumn without crime", "Guo Jiajun only robs the government and does not kill the people." , not paying food."

He also compiled a nursery rhyme that was widely sung: "Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine, and open the city gate to welcome King Guo. When King Guo comes, he doesn't pay for food. Eat his mother, eat her mother, there is enough to have King Guo. Inappropriate Poor, no food, folks have a good time."

Of course, this is the method Huang Sheng taught Huang Dongshan. Li Duyan used this lie to deceive many poor people into being cannon fodder for him.

If they don't pay food, what will Li Duyan's men eat?They don't have Huang Sheng's huge business network and industrial system to feed back agriculture.

Li Duyan's bandit soldiers only destroy but do not produce, and it is obviously unsustainable to rely solely on robbing big households and the court.The imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty was too poor!The big landlords, rich peasants, and self-cultivating farmers went bankrupt one after another, and finally the landlords had no surplus food!
Huang Sheng had spread this lie ten years earlier, so he wondered how Li Duyan's bandit soldiers would deal with it in the future?How can they confuse the common people?

In fact, Huang Sheng's propaganda can be done without paying for three to five years.So it's really not a lie, it's just time-sensitive.Of course it is impossible to never pay food. How could a state machine be born without taxes?

Due to the good propaganda, the common people were arrested by Guo's pirate group without any worries, and more than a dozen counties along the coast of Guangzhou were breached and [-] to [-] people were kidnapped.

The description of breaking through the county is inaccurate, it should be surrendered in the hope of the wind, the county magistrate here has no soldiers at hand, Huang Dongshan arranged for the surrender and soldiers with high force value to enter the city first to promote that King Guo's army will not kill ordinary people, because the leader Guo With great ambitions in his chest, he is ready to crack the earth and become a king.

The magistrates and subordinate officials of the soft-boned county fled one by one, and the county magistrates who were about to swear to live and die with the city never got a chance, and they were often tied up by hidden soldiers and ordinary people swarming up as soon as they appeared.

The Huang family also used the method of building slaves to seize Daming City, and adopted a spy war to behead them. No, they did not kill the leader of Daming City, but captured it.

After Guo Huaiyi's pirates entered the city, they did not kill or set fire, nor did they plunder the common people. Very little.

Therefore, it is often heard that after the enemy broke the city, many women would choose to avoid humiliation and commit suicide, and the killings caused by the looting of Guangdong were very small.

(End of this chapter)