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Chapter 189 Galen Ship

Along the coast of Shandong, people continue to board the Taiping ship to Liaodong.

These people are either refugees who lost everything in the war, or farmers who were persecuted by gentry usury. Now they are all going to Liaodong under the organization of Taiping to start a new life there.

With the opening of Taiping bank branches in various parts of Shandong, and under the encouragement of Taiping, countless Shandong people started their journey to the east of the Guandong 300 years in advance.

They took a lucky boat along the coastline to Dengzhou, and then went to Jinzhou. There are construction sites everywhere in Jinzhou, and there is a shortage of labor.

After the family arrives in Jinzhou, the younger members of the family will go to the construction site to work, and the rest will be assigned to new land to cultivate. Each household can be allocated [-] acres of land, and each family is encouraged to reclaim wasteland. .

A young man who works on the construction site for a day can get enough food for the whole family. If he can eat enough, he will also have land.

Fortunately, they were given cattle and iron farm tools, otherwise they might not be able to cultivate so much land.

The railway from Jinzhou to Shenyang has also started construction. According to the plan, this railway will extend to the former Harbin area.

After entering May, the Ministry of War stopped the delivery of food and salaries to Liaodong. Not only that, the Ministry of Households also thoughtfully gave Zhang Zongxian a quotation, saying that if he wanted food, he would buy it from them.

Fortunately, as long as it lasts until autumn, the whole Liaodong will not need Zhang Zongxian to subsidize the grain. Looking at the quotation, Zhang Zongxian wants to laugh.
Now, 200 million shi of various grains are handed over to the land outside the side wall every year. 80 households outside the side wall have been resettled and 5000 million mu of land has been reclaimed.

There is no shortage of food, and the people outside the wall all raise horses, cattle and sheep.Corn stalks and potato roots are good fodder, so that the people outside the side walls can basically eat meat once a week.

However, transporting these grains to Liaodong was still a great loss, and Zhang Zongxian didn't want to buy grain from the Ministry of Households, so he opened a special port in Dengzhou to allow any ship to dock.

As long as the food is shipped over, it can be exchanged for high-value commodities shipped from Shaanxi, such as: cotton cloth, sweaters, glass, soap, clocks and so on.

The Grand Canal is also within the territory of Shandong, so naturally a lot of grain flows out of the canal. The semicolons in various parts of the Taiping also endorse the bills, and you can buy grain with the bills.

The purchased grain is then sent to Liaodong via Dengzhou. This cycle is much more cost-effective than simply transporting grain from Guihua City.

As the demand for ships continues to increase, many large ships that originally lived in Jiangnan also went to Dengzhou to earn freight. They first bought grain from Jiangnan, then shipped it to Dengzhou, and then exchanged high-profit commodities from Dengzhou for return. Jiangnan.

The demand for ships in Dengzhou has not only driven the local shipbuilding industry, but even the shipyards in Jiangnan are busy, which has also led to an increase in the price of shipbuilding timber.

The wood must be dried in the shade for more than three years before it can be used for shipbuilding, which inevitably leads to higher prices. Coupled with hoarding by merchants, the price of shipbuilding wood is one price per day, which seriously affects the development of the shipbuilding industry.

After Zhang Zongxian learned of this, he quickly organized his disciples to build a drying kiln. The drying kiln is a drying room with circulating air equipment, which can adjust and control the temperature and humidity of the air.A drying kiln with a thermometer and a steam engine was built in no time.

In this way, there is no need to wait for natural drying, and the wood can be dried in the shade in three months, and as the test increases, the time will become shorter and shorter. Although the wood does not need to be naturally dried, it can be used for 30 years. It's time for iron-hulled ships.

However, Zhang Zongxian did not plan to make such a technology public. Instead, he took advantage of the large number of mature trees in Liaodong to build a special factory in Jinzhou to process the timber and then sell it to the shipyard.

With the increasing prosperity of Dengzhou Port, it naturally attracted ghosts who were already pirates. The first one to visit was the Dutch ghost who monopolized the export trade of Ming Dynasty. They wanted to visit Zhang Zongxian and hoped that Zhang Zongxian would give them free trade. s right

They want to exchange silver for silk, want to establish a business house in Dengzhou, want an exclusive port, and even want to sign an exclusive trading right with Zhang Zongxian.

After Zhang Zongxian in Shenyang learned of Guilao's request, he directly told his disciple Wang Guofu that he should reject Guilao's request, and told them that they must follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty. You can buy whatever is sold to you.No other requirements are allowed.

Let the sailors who are still in training get ready to face the ghosts at any time. Zhang Zongxian is worried about his disciples' response. He rushed back to Jinzhou from Shenyang overnight, preparing to deal with the provocation of the Dutch ghosts in Jinzhou.

After getting a clear refusal, the Dutch ghosts moved their minds. Although they only had one Galen ship, they wanted to cut off the shipping from Dengzhou to Jinzhou, so as to force Dengzhou to agree to their conditions.

Zhang Zongxian, the ghost guy, has never had any good impressions at all. Although the navy does not have a big ship, the rockets of the Legislative Army are already capable. They can fly 1000 meters in a straight line with a charge of [-] catties, which is just right for dealing with big ships.

Moreover, it also developed incendiary bombs for naval battles. The incendiary bombs made with the oil extracted from the Yanchang Oilfield must surely surprise the ghosts.

During this period, a complete patrol mechanism has been established, and several pirates who robbed the transport ship have been sunk. Moreover, the direct distance from Dengzhou to Jinzhou is not far, and the navy can fully conduct a full cruise.

The Dutch devils first observed the warships of the Ming Navy Navy, and after finding that there were no warships that could compete with their ships, they threatened Dengzhou directly outside the port, either agreeing to their conditions, or cutting off Dengzhou to Golden State route.

The Legislative Army has always emphasized the spirit of attack. Facing the provocation of the Dutch devils, the navy immediately dispatched five big blessing boats to rush towards the Dutch devils' Galen ship.

Naturally, the Galen boats came faster than the Fuchuan, but the Dutch devils took advantage of it. Seeing that the Fuchuan was not equipped with artillery, they wanted to take advantage of the artillery to destroy these five big Fuchuan.

Under the deliberate release of the water, the Dafu boat gradually approached 2000 meters away from the Galen boat, and then the Dutch devils operated the Galen boat to aim the side of the Dafu boat, and prepared to sink the Dafu boat with cannons.

The navy officers and soldiers on the Dafu ship have all received the education of Zhang Zongxian, so they naturally understand what the ghost is doing?While measuring the distance, they loaded the rockets.

What is installed on the Daifuku ship is a four-shot launcher that can rotate 360 ​​degrees. When it reaches a distance of 800 meters from the enemy ship, the bow launchers on the five Daifuku ships fired successively, and fired [-] rockets towards the Galen ship. .

(End of this chapter)