The first thousand six hundred and sixty-three chapters half of the Tang Dynasty Jon
Faced with Ren Zian's almost cheating request for a temporary increase, the Moroccan officials agreed after some hesitation.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree, there is no way to fight!
You can't drive it away even if you rush it.
If they really provoked the Tang Dynasty, they would send people to land in a matter of minutes, and it would not be that difficult to wipe out the entire Morocco.
With the Moroccans being so knowledgeable, Ren Zian finally felt a little more balanced and began to take charge of the reconstruction of Ceuta.
The reason is not construction, but reconstruction.
That was when the Moroccans withdrew, and the Tang Dynasty promised them that they could take away everything they could, so many people not only took away fine materials, but also the wood of many houses, and some of the more precious stones.
People took it apart and packed it up and took it away.
If time were not pressed, they would probably be able to empty out the entire port, and not even an ordinary stone would be left.
There is no way, even though these Moroccans are still preparing to build a new city close to the Tang Dynasty, hoping to rely on the advantage of the Tang Dynasty for trade.
The Moroccans were so hasty, but the Tang Dynasty was too lazy to continue construction in their dilapidated and petty port city, and just burned it all.
Do a high-temperature sterilization and then sprinkle with white lime or something to completely remove the traces left by the Moroccans.
Finally, rebuilding begins.
Datang had extensive experience in building overseas colonies and naval bases, and had ready-made drawings for various fortresses and forts.
There are just no workers.
The precious soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are naturally not used to do hard work, and it is not a problem to float on the sea all the time. Therefore, more than 200 marines were left to garrison ashore, as well as several warships and ships transporting supplies. The huge
The fleet is returning to Cadiz.
As for the labor force to build the city, part of it is local Moroccans. As part of the agreement between the two parties, Datang will hire some Moroccans to build the city as compensation for the ordinary Moroccan people to leave Ceuta.
However, Datang decides how to recruit and who it wants. Datang recruits young people according to the local market price, as long as they are young and strong.
All the people who are recruited are required to be clean and rosy. In order to prevent their hair from getting dirty, they are even required to shave their heads. They also have to go through certain examinations and must be in good health. There are hidden dangers.
Never want it.
Of course, there are also people who don't want to take a shower and be inspected.
But whether you love it or not!
The world is so big and there are so many people. There are so many people who are willing to work for the Tang Dynasty. It’s not like the people of the Tang Dynasty don’t pay their wages.
In order to speed up the progress, Datang even went to Cadiz to recruit a group of Spanish workers.
Relatively speaking, the Spanish are much more interesting. On the one hand, they are a maritime colonial country. Their people have more contact with foreign affairs and have stronger psychological endurance.
Moreover, the Tang people have been in Cadiz for many years. The local Spaniards have more or less interacted with the Tang people. Even if they have not interacted with them, they have heard that the Tang people have unusual mysophobia.
These Spaniards usually wash themselves clean before coming to recruit.
There are even many Spaniards who apply for the job who can also speak Chinese.
It is nothing new for Spanish, Portuguese or even English people in Europe to work for the Tang Dynasty. In fact, these Europeans or West Asians exist in many overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty.
For example, when the Tang people had European diplomats and soldiers hiding in the embassy area, how could they communicate with the local indigenous people and purchase supplies? In fact, they had to go through the European indigenous people who worked for the Tang Dynasty.
These European natives usually work very hard for the Tang Dynasty in order to obtain the Temporary Residence Permit of the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible.
Once you can obtain the Datang Temporary Residence Permit, it means that you have become half a Datang citizen, you can freely enter and leave all overseas territories of Datang, and enjoy certain benefits.
Even if you don't go to other places and still stay in the local area, you are still superior to others.
This is something that many indigenous people who worked for the Tang Dynasty struggled to pursue, not only these European indigenous people, but also many indigenous people in West Asia and India.
To work for Datang, knowing Chinese is naturally a must.
Jon Dallis is such a Spaniard. He was born in a poor family in Cadiz. He worked as a porter on the dock at an early age, and then became a sailor and went to sea. He went to America and even followed
The treasure fleet has been to Datang.
Later, he followed ships on the South African route for a long time, had contact with people from the Tang Dynasty, and even learned Chinese.
Before the Tang Dynasty came to Cadiz, he might have been a sailor for the rest of his life. If he was lucky enough not to be killed by pirates or the sea, then he would return to Cadiz with his savings after a certain age and withdraw money.
An equally ordinary woman gives birth to children, and then her son will live a life similar to hers.
But the arrival of the Tang Dynasty changed everything.
When the Tang Dynasty people first arrived in Cadiz, many local people did not understand the Tang Dynasty people, and they were afraid of bathing. Therefore, it was still difficult for the Tang Dynasty people to recruit people to do things for them. For this, they usually had to pay
Only with relatively high wages can we recruit enough manpower.
At that time, Jon had been to the Tang Dynasty and South Africa. Knowing how awesome the people of the Tang Dynasty were, Jon took a shower, shaved his head, dressed up neatly and went to apply.
Although he was illiterate, he joined the army early and knew Chinese from the beginning, so he did quite well among the Spaniards hired by the Tang Dynasty in Cadiz. He is currently the captain of a construction team.
, brought Spanish employees to help Datang build city walls, ports, houses, etc.
This time, Datang wanted to build a port city in Ceuta, and a large amount of infrastructure needed to be built, which naturally required manpower to manage, and there was a lot of it.
There are only a few people from the Tang Dynasty in Europe, and most of them are naval officers, and the rest are diplomats. As for ordinary people, there are actually not many.
Therefore, Datang had to hire a large number of local people to carry out the infrastructure construction in Ceuta, including some construction management personnel.
And Jon is one of them.
He was transferred to Ceuta together with more than a dozen Spanish skilled construction workers under him.
When their ship arrived at the port of Ceuta, many lowly employees looked at Jon!
“This is Ceuta? It’s not like before!”
“I remember that Ceuta used to be a troublesome place, but now it’s all in ruins!”
Even Jon was amazed by the generosity of the Tang Dynasty. He knew that the Tang Dynasty captured Ceuta without firing a single shot.
Or to be more precise, the Moroccans directly gave the entire Ceuta Port, including the surrounding ten kilometers of land, to the Tang Dynasty.
However, they did not see a complete port city, only ruins.
Naturally, they didn't know that for Datang, it would be better to burn it all down and rebuild it again than to expand on the original basis.
This can also re-plan the entire city.
Besides, in fact, Ceuta was not that big before. This place had been occupied by the Portuguese for many years, and the Portuguese only engaged in maritime trade here and used it as a supply port. They had no intention of vigorously developing the local area, so the population
There have never been many, and the area of the port city is also very limited.
If it is a larger city, it will not be easy to burn!
The construction of Ceuta was planned from scratch, and the most important facilities fell into two categories.
The first is the basic terminal facilities such as docks and warehouses. It turns out that Ceuta also has a port, but they are all small ports. They cannot satisfy the people of the Tang Dynasty for berthing thousands of tons of large warships or merchant ships, so the construction of the dock is very important.
Yes, once a wharf is built, warehouses supporting the wharf must also be built, otherwise a solitary wharf without supporting facilities will be useless.
The second category is military defense facilities such as city walls, fortresses, and coastal defense forts. The Tang Navy planned to build Ceuta into a strategic location guarding the Strait of Gibraltar, so large-scale coastal defense forts, city walls, and fortresses and other related defense facilities were built.
It is also indispensable.
Especially in the Tang Empire, it was destined not to have too many soldiers in Europe, and it was necessary to be prepared to hold on for a long time with a small number of troops. Therefore, various defensive fortresses and forts were indispensable.
Furthermore, the people of the Tang Dynasty were generally very defensive in overseas colonies and were particularly afraid of death. They would basically build fortresses wherever they went. The Tang Dynasty built a lot of bastions, basically in every larger overseas territory.
There will be, even many of them are just leased places, or simply when the local indigenous people allow the Tang Dynasty to build commercial stations in some ports, the Tang Dynasty people will choose to build fortress-like commercial buildings.
Ceuta is no exception. The main city will still be a huge bastion building, cooperating with the coastal defense forts.
Ten kilometers away, there is a border line that is about tens of kilometers long. The Tang Dynasty is not prepared to ignore this border line, but is planning to simply build a wooden fence or something. It may not be of great military use, but it has symbolic significance.
There are still some, and several outposts and bunkers are set up at the same time for patrolling.
Within the boundary line, all the way to the city of Ceuta, it is a wilderness, and Datang has no intention of reclaiming these areas for the time being.
Not to mention whether the place was suitable for heavy land, there were not many people in the Tang Dynasty farming.
After Jon arrived in Ceuta, he quickly received his task. He led a team to build one of the coastal defense batteries.
When he saw the design drawings, he was once again shocked by the power of Datang.
Although he has been working for the Tang Dynasty for several years and has even applied for a temporary residence permit from the Tang Dynasty, he can barely be regarded as half a Tang Dynasty citizen.
He naturally knew a lot about the power of the Tang Dynasty.
But now when he saw the design drawings, he was still shocked...