Shanghai Nandao does not produce x-products, which are the favorite goods of Dutch people. Skade thought, maybe we can also follow the example of the Dutch in engaging in intermediary trade. Large-scale imports of Japanese fabrics and porcelain from the mainland were then sold to Dutch people. The Dutch people have always suffered from Zheng Zhilong's strict blockade of coastal trade. Because the textiles sold to the Dutch people by the monopoly Zheng Zhilong are very expensive, they cannot satisfy the Dutch people's desire to make huge profits.
What if we were to sell to the Dutch? Diao Sikaide came up with this idea. As long as the price is slightly cheaper, the Dutch will come to Lingao to purchase x silk. Or let them go directly to Erya Port for transactions.
Of course, considering that the Ming Dynasty itself has a very large demand for spices, the Dutch bringing spices can be regarded as filling the shortage of export materials in Lingao. Since the Dutch used violence to interrupt the export and sales of spices in the Molucca Islands, Spices are very expensive. However, Zheng Zhilong and others are still willing to accept the spices from Hesheng people as trade goods. Obviously, the profit from selling them to the mainland is still considerable. Can we also make profit from this punishment? Si Kaide took a pencil and smeared it on the paper. Thinking about how to force the Dutch to sign an unequal treaty and how to make the contents of each treaty as beneficial to themselves as possible. The weight loss period is coming to an end tomorrow.
When he was thinking hard, the phone rang again. Someone reported that there was a telegram from Hongji Station.
The trading station was attacked by bandits at Hongji," the voice on the phone said urgently.
What? "Skelder couldn't help but call out. The female secretary who was always waiting for orders outside the door immediately opened the door and came in. Skade waved at her and asked her to go out. What's going on? Are there any casualties?"
The specific situation is unclear. The telegram said that all the bandits at the trading station have been repelled. "The indigenous clerk responsible for exchanging information said nervously on the phone.
Send the telegram up immediately. "Hurry up." Skade is most worried about the safety of Hongji Station. He must know that it was he who strongly advocated opening Hongji. Wan Hongji caused trouble, such as Bekai being killed by monkeys or capturing him. The Ministry of Colonial Trade Don't think about being re-elected as a minister. At most, you will always be the Chief Secretary of the Department of Colonization and Trade.
The telegram was immediately delivered by the clerk who was running all the way. Skade grabbed the note and saw that there were only a few words on it. There were only a few words more than what the clerk dictated.
This is a bullshit telegram that says nothing. "Si Kaide went crazy and quickly called to ask about the specific situation of Hongji station and if he wanted to reinforce Diao immediately."
Skade issued instructions like a barrage of instructions and then picked up the phone to answer the Navy Command."
Bekai has spent nearly two months in Yalong Bay.
In the past two months, for the first time, he was truly in charge of the situation and was separated from the command of his direct leader. At first, he was really not used to it, but as time went by, he became more and more into the role.
The first week was the hardest. He stayed in a small enclosure, surrounded by a marine secretary and a prisoner. The secretary didn't get a C-level account at first. He thought there would be no problem buying a C-level account, but he was struggling when he slowly went to look at the goods. Nowadays, all the C-level products have been sold out, and there is not much D-level left. Beikai bought a pound with a better-than-nothing attitude, which is still acceptable. After all, the life secretaries have undergone special training. Compared with the slimming camp, The female naturalized people who came out looked very pleasant.
What can be seen on this deserted beach, apart from the bamboo people, are the wild mountains and wild mountains outside.
Although the scenery of Yalong Bay is picturesque, it still makes people feel ferocious in Beikai's opinion. More than once, he looked at the captured pirate slag ship that Yan Maoda left for them when he left, and estimated that if something happened, these ships Is it safe to take them to Haiyang to cross the northern float? He felt a little uncertain.
The Zhennan Express originally said it would be back in four days, but it actually took a whole week to wait. Zhang Datang came back with the Zhennan, which reassured Bei Kai. This old pirate was very familiar with the situation in Vietnam, and he had such a powerful ship in his hands. Common thieves and pirates had nothing to fear from Zhennan. The ship brought him a lot of rice and daily groceries from Haiyang, and also brought him more than a hundred Beizhe farmers with withered faces. This is all because the fleeing peasant Yan Maoda, who was forced by the Northern Dynasty's brutal expropriation and conscription, recruited them all at a very low cost.
These Beiqi farmers and the five pirate captives became the first batch of miners in the Hongji butterfly mine. Now that Beikai had enough food, tools and building materials in the warehouse, he immediately started a large-scale construction project in Hongji. .
Bekay organized the miners to set up a separate labor camp outside the bastion. The accommodation is a simple semi-underground shack. Another trench was dug outside as a defensive measure for Jian Wei.
The miners immediately started digging at the No. 1 Cat Shit Mine. Each worker used the tools provided by Bekai to dig out the coal, put it in baskets and transported it to the seaside on a purple electric trolley, where it was piled in the open space next to the dock to wait for transportation. Although Yan Maoda did not instruct him to start digging media immediately. But Bekai believed that it would be of great benefit to improve his reputation in the Senate if he could get the first ship from Lingao to return without being empty.
Bei Kai found that a miner can dig out 0 kilograms per hour using simple iron tools and carry it to the yard with a backpack or a trolley. Even if a miner works for just 1 hour every day. The coal production per person per day can reach half a ton.
Another week later, two transport ships from **O Shipping Company arrived at Hongji. In addition to more building materials and tools, one hundred naturalized laborers were also brought. This group of workers will be used as the core force of Hongji Station. In addition to basic laborers, there are also a small number of trained clerks, hygienists, and skilled workers including blacksmiths and carpenters among this group of people.
With twice the number of workers, things get done faster. Workers built wooden trestles from prefabricated parts. The original earthen fence was also expanded and a second earthen embankment and trench were built around the earthen fence. The area occupied by the new earth dike circle was greatly increased to form a so-called barbican. The residences, administrative facilities, warehouses and other buildings of naturalized migrant workers were located in the barbican. Six 4-pound cannons were also unloaded from the ship. All naturalized migrant workers are also equipped with the militia's standard helmets, standard spears and machetes, which greatly increases Bekai's sense of security.
**o Shipping ship loaded more than 100 tons of anthracite coal on its return trip. Although the quantity was small, it had great symbolic significance. Skade took this matter and boasted about it at the Executive Committee meeting and the Senate. The news also appeared in the "Lingao Times". After Bei Kai received the news, he was both happy and worried. Now he had to give birth to butterflies here to serve his country.
With naturalized migrant workers and indigenous managers as the backbone, Bekai reorganized the work flow. Naturalized migrant workers immediately began building a light railway. It stretches from the charcoal storage yard to the Maoshi No. 1 mine. Running on it are ore bucket trucks transported from Lingao. The miners are now divided into teams and their work efficiency has been greatly improved... A team of 3 people uses shovels to dig and dry the bucket truck that can quickly fill the zag load. And one person can quickly get this car to the yard. There are 3 bamboo bucket turners and 3 shovel workers. Calculated based on the workload per day and hour, 7n8 tons of coal can be obtained. On average, about 200 people, including naturalized migrant workers, work in the mines. The daily coal output can reach more than 1,000 tons. This coal output is enough for **O Shipping to open a dedicated coal transportation line. The big ship Qionghaidie finally did its job worthy of its name and became a special ship for transporting coal.
The increase in coal transportation volume has made coal loading and unloading in Hongji a bottleneck problem. Qionghai Coal quickly shipped steam turbines, boilers and bucket elevators. Then a large fixed water tank was delivered to provide clean drinking water to the workers.
Then more naturalized migrant workers were sent to Hongji. As the scale of Hongji’s development expanded, the demand for manpower began to emerge. People were needed to build houses, build tracks, maintain machinery and equipment, load and unload goods, and even cook. By the end of February next year, the number of workers in Hongji had expanded to 0 people. Among them, 0 people were naturalized and the others were recruited from the local area of Beixi. Many people who could not bear the squeeze of taxes and military service were recruited from Haiyang. The station was sent here, and there were also people who came over the mountains after hearing the news. The increasing number of local miners and their families in Beixi soon formed a simple settlement outside the outer fortress.
The settlement was protected by a trench and a bamboo fence with a sharpened top. Between the miners' settlement and the barbican is a sidewalk paved with cinders and coal grinding stones. Next to the sidewalk, the cooperative has opened a large canteen. In order to improve the efficiency of the workers, make full use of the labor force and let them cook for themselves. It is obviously a waste of time to provide higher-end food and alcohol. The increase in the number of miners selling various commodities in small restaurants and cooperative stores attracted commercial department Li Mei to personally come to Hongji to open a cooperative branch in the base station according to the model in Nanbao. In addition to selling various commodities and handling exchange services. The main purpose is to promote the use of circulating coupons.
There is a small settlement in the other direction of the Hongjibao miner settlement, which is dedicated to the new people recruited from the local area. This is the weight loss camp of Hongji Station. People living in the camp receive free meals while their job is to build roads. To ensure no contact with other mining students. a.
