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. Far beyond 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, and these belongings naturally belonged to Yang Fan.
Chen Zuwang had no good impressions of Japanese pirates. These were beasts and they caused great harm to the people in the southeast.
With one order, all the wounded were thrown into the sea.
The five who were intact went straight to the sticks and asked where their lairs were.
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 beggars. I, 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. I just removed all the cities in 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 too 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 said thoughtfully.
"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?"
"If we do this, we will directly raid the pirates' lair and build a stronghold there. There should be no big problem in the short term. If you think about it, the North Koreans don't dare to destroy this group of Japanese pirates, and we don't have to be afraid of them." Chen Zuwang said.
"I think it will work. Let's do it this way. 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. This pirate's lair will be run as our stronghold after it is captured," Ming Yan said.
"Okay, let's do it." Chen Zuwang and Chen Liang also nodded in agreement.
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 surrounding sea.
On the way back, the wind was against us, so 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 will begin soon. Now more than 200,000 disaster victims have been settled on the plain of Rock Beach. Villages of various sizes are dotted here and there.
Although the land is still saline-alkali land, most of the stones have been collected. The land was also 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 won't 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 eat a lot of food. It's not that Yang Fan can't afford to feed them, but it's easy to cause problems if they don't find something to do for them.
The origins of these victims are complex and there is no way to carefully screen them. Some religious figures who rebel against professional households cannot be ruled out. After all, it’s not good to be too idle.
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, just pick the ice from the river and spread it on the ground. As the climate warms, the ice will gradually melt.
The melted fresh water will flow onto the land, and the salt will dissolve in the water and then seep into the underlying soil. This brings the salinity and alkali of the upper soil to the deeper 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. It can be seen how cold the climate is.
This was especially true along the Great Wall, where the ice was two to three feet thick.
It is very inefficient to rely on people to use chisels to cut the ice. The regiment training directly dispatched engineers to drill holes with black fire and explode the ice floes accurately. Then water was poured on the river banks and on the land to freeze ice channels to drag these huge ice blocks.
After the ice is harvested during the day and exposed to the river water, it will freeze again in just one night.
These past two months have been very hard for the victims. There was no rest and I was exhausted.
However, no one complained, after all, everyone was clothed and fed. Even in the good years when the family had land, they never had enough to eat.
Here are cornmeal pancakes and cakes. Cabbage soup, radish soup, and wok soup are enough. You can eat as much as you want, as long as you don't waste them.
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 various villages. Everyone is still pulling the ice blocks 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 prepared to keep working on it.
Yang Fan has asked scammers to buy seeds of modern sea rice and other salt-tolerant crops. Be ready to plant in spring.
A large Lanzhou waterwheel will be built along the river to bring water up and develop rice fields. Sea rice seeds are planted in this part, and the saline-alkali land can 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.
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 in saline-alkali soil, but the yield will be low.
But no matter how low the yield is, it is still much more 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 out. I looked at my 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 also seemed to be looking forward to it.
