The battle ended quickly, and five Japanese pirates were captured alive, as well as more than thirty half-dead wounded.
There was nothing else in the cabin except food and fresh water, which contained a full 35,000 taels of silver. It far exceeded everyone's expectations.
Everyone is very excited. If the master can agree to Mingyan's plan in the future, everyone will get rich.
This silver was obtained from the Japanese trade on this ship.
All the Koreans were killed by the Japanese pirates, so these belongings naturally belonged to Yang Fan.
Chen Zuwang had no good impression of Japanese pirates. These were beasts and they caused great harm to the people in the southeast.
With a single order, all the wounded were thrown into the sea.
Five of them were intact, so they directly grabbed the stick and asked them where their lair was.
Under three trees, what can you ask for?
If the highest human pain level is rated at ten, bone pain can reach nine.
No one could stand this, whether it was used by King Li Chuang to trap corrupt officials or Chen Zuwang used it to trap Japanese pirates, it worked equally well.
After pinching out the brains of three diehards in succession, the remaining two finally collapsed and howled for mercy.
"They said their nest is in a fishing village on Jeju Island." Chen Zuwang said to Mingyan and Chen Liang.
Mingyan nodded and said: "Jeju Island was a horse breeding place in the former Yuan Dynasty. Later it was owned by the Ming Dynasty. It was occupied by the North Korean beggar for nothing. The Ming Dynasty didn't take it seriously. Now it should be regarded as the name of the Ming Dynasty.
The territory will be managed by North Korea."
Mingyan took out a one-meter-square chart from the aluminum alloy tube. This was the satellite map of later generations given to him by Yang Fan. All the cities had been removed through Photoshop.
The topography of this era has basically not changed much, but the coastline, cities, roads, villages, etc. have changed greatly. The map is empty and needs to be re-marked.
Looking at Jeju Island in the picture, Mingyan nodded with satisfaction.
"The location of Jeju is so important. It is between the Ming Dynasty, North Korea and Japan. It is a strategic location on the sea. If we can control it, it will be very beneficial to the master's next plan. Even if there is a small port as a base, it will be very useful.
It’s valuable.” Mingyan muttered.
"What you mean is that we just keep doing nothing and raid their lair."
"Yes, after opening the sea, we will rent a large fleet to transport the first batch of loggers to Vladivostok. We need a midway supply station. Jeju Island is to the west of the Tsushima Strait, right on the middle road from Tianjin to Vladivostok.
The location is particularly suitable, and the area there is large and suitable for raising horses. If we build a base there, it will be of great benefit to our future operations in Vladivostok."
"Yes, for such a large-scale immigration, it would be much better to have a midway base." Chen Zuwang also agreed.
Chen Liang asked: "Will we attract North Koreans if we build a stronghold there?"
"By doing this, we directly raided the pirates' lair and built a stronghold there. There shouldn't be much of a problem in the short term. If you think about it, even the North Koreans don't dare to destroy this group of Japanese pirates, so we don't have to be afraid of them." Chen Zuwang
said.
"I think it works, so let's do it. Let's move all the money to the Star and burn this lucky boat. We will return to Beitangkou first. Then we will take the 500 men from the battalion assigned to us by the master to attack by boat.
After conquering this pirate's lair, we will operate it as our stronghold," Ming Yan said.
"Okay, let's do it this way." Chen Zuwang and Chen Liang also nodded in agreement.
The sailors and soldiers began to rush to bring silver to the Star.
After moving the silver, he took advantage of the change in wind direction to rotate the mast, reverse the car, and pull out the collision angle of the bow.
The few people who stayed on the ship started to light fires everywhere, and then boarded the Star from the gangplank.
The Star raised sail and returned.
This lucky boat began to burn brightly.
In the night, this lucky boat gradually burned into a torch. It was already dark, and the firelight illuminated a large area of the sea around it.
On the way back, there was a headwind and we had to go in a zigzag pattern.
However, the wind is still very strong, and the speed of the Star is not slow, it can reach ten knots.
Yang Fan was very busy today, with a lot of documents to deal with.
Spring plowing is about to begin. Now more than 200,000 disaster victims have settled on the plain of Rock Beach, forming villages of various sizes dotted here and there.
Although the land is still saline-alkali land, almost all the stones have been picked up and the land has also been divided.
Although the dam has not been repaired, it cannot be flushed with water to clean the saline-alkali land and transform the saline-alkali land into fertile farmland. After all, the reservoir will not be repaired until the spring of the year after next.
But Yang Fan is not going to be idle. There are so many people who have nothing to do and they have to eat a lot of food. It's not that Yang Fan can't afford to feed them, but it's just that if they don't find something to do for them, problems can easily arise.
The sources of these disaster victims are complex, and there is no way to carefully screen them. It cannot be ruled out that some religious people rebel against professional households. It is not good to be too idle after all.
Yang Fan went online more than a month ago and saw a news report saying that there was a new way to transform the saline-alkali land along the coast of Tianjin in later generations. After reading it, Yang Fan felt that he could adopt it too.
This method is actually very simple. It is to collect the ice from the river and spread it on the ground. When the climate gets warmer, the ice will gradually melt.
The melted fresh water will flow to the land, and the salt and alkali will dissolve in the water and then seep into the lower soil. This will bring the saline and alkali in the upper soil to the deep soil.
The soil used for planting is only one or two feet of soil on the surface. It does not matter whether the deep soil below is saline or alkaline. On the contrary, infiltration can be used to kill insect eggs and reduce pests and diseases.
Just pay attention to the depth when plowing the land and don't turn up the lower saline-alkali soil.
So after picking up the stones, the victims had no time to relax, and then took advantage of the severe cold weather to go to the river to collect ice.
The climate has become colder and colder in recent years. Last year, even Taihu Lake was frozen, and carriages with heavy loads could be driven on the lake. This shows how cold the climate is.
This is especially true along the Great Wall, where the ice is two to three feet thick.
Relying on people to use chisels to cut ice is very inefficient. The regiment training directly dispatched engineers to drill holes with black fire powder and blast open the ice floes accurately. Then water was poured on the river embankment and on the land to freeze the ice channels, and the
to tow these huge blocks of ice.
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In the past two months, the victims have worked very hard. They have not been able to get any rest, and they are all exhausted.
However, no one complained. After all, everyone could have enough food and clothing. Even in the good years when the family had land, they never had enough to eat.
There are enough cornmeal pancakes, steamed cakes, cabbage soup, radish soup, and wok soup. You can eat as much as you want, as long as you don't waste it.
There was a lot of salt in the soup. These poor people couldn't afford salt, so how could they dare to put it in such an open manner?
But no one wastes it at all. They eat as much as they can. Not only is there nothing left, but the bowl is even licked clean.
Food that falls on the ground will also be picked up and eaten. Anyone who dares to throw away things will be beaten into a dog by the angry people without being punished by the village head.
At this time, ice cubes of various sizes were piled up in the fields of each village. Everyone was still pulling the ice cubes deeper into the fields along the long ice path.
As long as the ice has not melted and the ice tunnel can still be used, they are ready to keep working on it.
Yang Fan has asked the scammer to buy seeds of modern sea rice and other salt-alkali tolerant crops, and prepare to sow them in spring.
The Lanzhou Waterwheel will be built along the river to lift water and develop rice fields. Seawater rice seeds will be planted in this part, and the saline-alkali land will be washed into fertile land in a few years.
In the inland areas, river water cannot reach them, so we have to wait until the dam is built and the reservoir releases water to wash away the salt and alkali.
Although the renovation cannot be carried out this year, we cannot be idle and dig a pressurized water well on every acre of land. Now that Zunhua's open-hearth furnace has been put into operation, steel production has increased significantly, and there is no problem in producing hundreds of thousands of pressurized water wells.
As long as there is water and salt-alkali-tolerant corn seeds, crops can be grown on saline-alkali soil, but the yield will be low.
But no matter how low the yield is, it is still much higher than the impressive yield of a few bushels per mu in saline-alkali land in this era.
Yang Fan finished giving instructions on the spring plowing plan and stretched himself. He looked at his watch and it was already midnight.
Tomorrow the bride's dowry will be delivered, and Aunt Mei and Mei Xiang will come over to make the bed and decorate the new house for the couple.
When he thought that he would be able to live a happy life without shame or shame in the future, Yang Fan seemed to be looking forward to it.
This chapter has been completed!