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- . Chapter 213 Xinlan City Building
Jiukong¡¯s position in the harem of the Black Water Kingdom finally has a mistress, and there are two at once. As long as a few more princes are born in time, the country of the Black Water Kingdom will really be stabilized.
At the beginning of their wedding, Zhu Ming of course had to spend as much time as possible with his two beloved wives, and several close ministers also donated various tiger penis, deer antlers and other treasures collected at home.
The man from Huadu personally took hundreds of soldiers and went to Sumatra Island to hunt a live tiger and brought it to the palace. He said that eating a live tiger would make him as ferocious as a live tiger, so that the king would be born soon. Xia Lin'er.
It really made Zhu Ming dumbfounded. He ate so many powerful and powerful tonics and kept them until he had a nosebleed and died.
Here Zhu Ming spent the first month of the seventh year of Zehan in the gentle countryside, and in Zhanzhou, it was the scorching summer sun.
As for the current calendar of the Heishui Ming Kingdom, which is the calendar used by the Ming Dynasty, there is no obvious function of distinguishing the four seasons in Nanyang. At least in the mainland of the Heishui Ming Kingdom, it is summer all year round, which is not a big deal. difference.
Zhanzhou is completely opposite to the Ming Dynasty, but no one wants to change it. Those Han people think that this is the ancestral law and want to change it, while the Nanyang natives don't think there is anything wrong with it. For them It doesn't matter whether it is winter or summer in December, and they don't need to remember whether it is Qingming or Grain Rain when they are sowing. They just need a tool to record the year.
At this moment, in Zhanzhou, the summer of the first lunar month of the New Year, Xinlan, the largest settlement, is a busy and even chaotic scene.
New mines were built one by one, but the iron smelting plant was not built so fast. Whether it was Zhao Xin officially or privately, the big merchants Lin and Wang were looking at the ore reserves in the continent. Indispensable, this continuous vein of minerals is already richer than all the iron ores in the Blackwater Ming Kingdom.
Therefore, these big forces are all striving to go to large-scale iron smelting workshops, so the iron ore excavated in recent days has been transported to Xinlan through the newly built Chima Road. Now the entire settlement The outside was piled with large and small iron ore, and every ship that transported supplies to Xinlan would load some and take them back to the Blackwater Ming Kingdom. From that day on, the returning ships had never been empty.
With more and more people of all kinds in Xinlan, there are still many people who do not belong to any force, but are simply adventurers. Now the Blackwater Ming Kingdom also has the profession of adventurer.
"These people were inspired by some Yi people who came to the Blackwater Ming Kingdom. These Yi people can wander around the world. As people under the most powerful Chinese civilization, they cannot roam around the world.
These adventurers hope to mine high-value mineral deposits such as Zhanzhou gold mine and silver mine. Only in this way can they make a fortune and even be favored by the country's leader Zhu Ming, and become a high-class person.
And many adventurers have begun to come into contact with the local indigenous people. Some of the rare objects of the indigenous people have also been exchanged for some small gadgets, which have become bargaining chips for them to seek advancement.
I feel that the current increasingly chaotic situation, and the security of the Xinlan settlement and the repair of the roads to the outside world, all need someone to do it, but now it is all placed on the head of Zhao Xin, the commander of Zhanzhou, and those big Businessmen did not assume corresponding obligations.
So Xin Zhao has already written to Zhu Ming to establish a government office in Xinlan.
The ship that brought the reply also brought news of Zhu Ming's wedding, which caused a carnival in the Xinlan settlement. A small amount of rice cakes was brought out, and even the Siamese slaves could take a sip. Although the news It was more than half a month late, but it also allowed the laborers who developed Zhanzhou to party all night long.
Zhu Ming fully agreed to Zhao Xin's request, and at the same time sent him several capable students from the Free School to assist Zhao Xin, because considering that the current situation in Xinlan is still complicated, it would be better to follow the military camp establishment for the time being. Therefore, no special administrative officers were dispatched, and the entire burden still fell on Zhao Xin's shoulders.
Everything is ready for a moment.
Originally, the 800 soldiers under Zhao Xin were both soldiers and city guards, which diverted the attention of the only armed force under Zhao Xin. Now there are actually many local natives who dare to sneak around Xinlan. situation, this also made Xin Zhao's first thing to change the current army management model.
Just like in the Blackwater Ming Kingdom, fifty soldiers were assigned to serve as head catchers. Xin Zhao selected a hundred more civilians to follow these soldiers, and these one hundred and fifty people formed the Xinlan Army. The most basic security force.
From now on, Zhao Xin¡¯s soldiers who were replaced from the 800 black-clad guards set up a small military camp next to Xinlan. They were fed, housed and trained in this military camp.Finally put aside some of Xinlan's chores.
Next, Zhao Xin established a tax office.
In the Blackwater Ming Dynasty, everyone who paid taxes was convinced by the clear understanding of various taxation points. However, because Xinlan only had more than 20,000 Siamese slaves led by Zhao Xin in construction and labor for a long time, there was no way to collect taxes. Everyone collects it, and Zhu Ming also encouraged everyone to freely develop Zhanzhou, so Zhanzhou has no tax for a long time.
But things are different now. The predecessors planted trees, and the settlement of Xinlan is already small and large. Moreover, the iron mine has been occupied again. Ships have transported a lot of valuable goods, and various industries in Xinlan have also been integrated. It has begun to develop vigorously. If taxation is not improved, Xinlan will continue to develop in an disorderly manner. Is it possible that it will really be a dragster of the Black Water Ming Dynasty for the rest of its life.
So Xin Zhao¡¯s goal at this stage is very clear: after acquiring huge minerals, stop letting Blackwater Mingguo subsidize it locally.
The first things to be announced are ship tax and toll tax.
All private ships docking in Xinlan need to pay taxes based on tonnage, and all carriages and horses going to mining areas for mining and transportation need to pay toll taxes.
We can¡¯t always build roads and ports for free for merchants. After the announcement is made, all kinds of people are allowed to submit their protests freely. Although the tax will definitely be distributed, this is also an opportunity to collect public opinion.
The Blackwater Ming Dynasty has long started to implement such protest delivery. It is anonymous for individuals and there is no loss. Therefore, it has greatly promoted the enlightenment of the Blackwater Ming Dynasty. Now the officials do not dare to do it. The protest box is locked and cannot be opened for a whole year, so this measure still serves as a big wake-up call.
After the tax was announced, surprisingly, only a few letters of protest against the slightly higher tax rate were received. This was simply unimaginable in the Blackwater Ming Dynasty.
Zhao Xin once wondered if it was because people who came to Zhanzhou were generally illiterate and could not write complaints?
In private, many people secretly understood it before solving the doubts in Zhao Xin's mind. These liberal merchants and civilians have already been full of New Lan's smoke.
Although it is a newly built settlement and cannot be too demanding, for the civilians who are used to the order and tidiness of Liberty City and Shipcun Port, Xinlan is too chaotic. Originally, Zhanzhou Commander Zhao Xin did not collect taxes, but instead Helping build roads makes it hard for everyone to talk about it.
Now Commander Zhanzhou has begun to collect taxes, hehe, I'm sorry, these businessmen have no complaints about collecting taxes, but after the taxes are collected, if the situation in Xinlan is still the same, then what awaits Xin Zhao will be a snowstorm of impeachment shape.
And in such a sensitive period, something big happened to Xinlan.
After an adventurer used a lot of small gifts to gain the trust of a native tribe near the mining area, he not only slept with the daughter of the chief of the native tribe, but also stole the chief's token, a ring with a large multi-colored stone inlaid on the top. Scepter.
Colorful stones have been recognized and recognized by everyone for their value. Since Zhao Xin paid tribute to two of them, there were many more colorful stones. Merchants quickly thought of the value of this beautiful gemstone. Now the market is full of colorful stones. Stones are scarce, and for the time being they are still priceless.
And this adventurer became evil-minded after seeing the colorful stone scepter of the native tribe.
It didn¡¯t matter that he stole the colorful stone and ran away. The poor tribe suddenly went crazy. The tribe that dared to get close to these outsiders and even trade with them became angry.
Although they were still in a fairly primitive Stone Age, the uncivilized natives were also intelligent. They quickly spread the news to other tribes.
Suddenly, the natives' hatred of these outsiders spread like wildfire, and a small storm was brewing without Zhao Xin and others knowing it.
As a general with a naval background, he now not only has to manage a team of 800 people on the landing, but also manages the food, drink, and toilet of a large camp with a population of 30,000. Zhao Xin is really miserable, and he is busy every day. Got to be dizzy.
So in this case, he ignored the importance of intelligence work. In his mind, those natives who still hunted with stone spears were not a concern at all.
But what he didn't expect was that in the few months after arriving at Zhanzhou, he did not suppress the natives. The natives used local specialties, peculiar emu eggs, kangaroo skins, and legendary magical powers. The kangaroo's sperm vesicle was exchanged for a large number of iron tools.
Some unprincipled adventurers even traded the finished swords to the natives and informed the natives of some basic forging methods to change the shape of iron.
After possessing iron tools, the natives felt that they had a certain ability to fight against these invaders. oneThus began a long-planned attack.
Although the civilization of the natives is low, it does not mean that they are fools. Although there are many small teams of prospecting and mining in the wild, they have not attacked any team.
Gathering together all the most elite hunters in their prime from seven or eight large nearby tribes, the natives organized a team of several hundred people.
Although the number is small, these warriors are the most capable in each tribe, and many of them are famous figures for a long time. When the natives meet, they bump noses and chests to say hello.
They more or less have some iron weapons in their hands. Although swords are still rare, almost everyone has one short spear with an iron head.
In the middle of the night, when everyone was sleeping soundly, there were only more than 20 city patrols in the Xinlan camp acting as guards. In Zhao Xin's view, these night watchmen were more for guarding against wild beasts. He did not guard against the natives. Count as enemies.
"The military camp just a few hundred meters away also had only a small number of people on duty at night, so when the attack suddenly occurred, chaos broke out in the camp that was not originally orderly.
Those natives also have very limited night attack capabilities. They usually stay in shacks or caves at night.
So when they broke into the unfenced camp without any obstruction, they shouldn't have done anything. Those fierce natives could only rush up and kill anyone they saw.
They were not good at setting fires, and they didn't know how to attack the camp with galloping horses. Fortunately, it was like this. So after the camp was in chaos for a while, the merchants and Siamese slaves did not suffer many casualties, so they gradually became a few A group of forces gathered together and lit the torch.
Xin Zhao was resting in the military camp. A huge noise in the distance woke him up. Fortunately, he separated the military camp from the settlement early, which allowed him to mobilize the weapons at hand without any difficulty. military force.
The well-trained soldiers of the Zhanzhou Legion quickly assembled in armor, and with a torch in hand, they formed a formation outside the Xinlan settlement.
Xin Zhao did not dare to throw soldiers into the camp rashly, as it would cause greater chaos.
When the people running around in the camp saw the neatly arranged military formations outside the camp, their hearts suddenly became distracted again.
Many people who ran outside the camp in the chaos also found the backbone. They ran towards the brightly lit place, and soon thousands of people gathered behind the military formation.
The hundreds of natives who were initially hunters were gradually fended off by the caravan guards who began to resist. Their crude iron weapons were far inferior to those of the caravan guards, and they lacked mobility and fell into a huge trap. In the camp.
In this situation, there is no easy way to communicate. I see that the natives have been gradually trapped in the northeast corner of the camp. The caravan guards at the front are only about 300 people. It is still difficult to strangle these natives. .
Xin Zhao finally gave the order to move, and the army marched towards the camp under the command of shouts. The fearless natives even gave up the opportunity of street fighting in the camp and rushed out, but they could not break it without the iron weapons in their hands. The hard armor on the soldiers on the opposite side.
What I thought was a simple hunting operation like hunting a kangaroo turned into being hunted.
In the darkness, the helpless natives were not fools, and Zhao Xin's army was not strong enough to surround them. So after the offensive was thwarted, they finally let out strange whistles and disappeared into the darkness in the distance. Run away.
In the chaos of the night, fortunately, the slaves in the camp were organized in accordance with the regulations of the military camp, so no major riots occurred. Moreover, the camp was prosperous at this time, and there were not too many negative emotions for the time being. Otherwise, Such a period of chaos, if someone with good intentions instigates it, it will be over.
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The other loss was that a small half of the rice grain in a granary was stolen. Although the loss was so small, Zhao Xinxin felt quite depressed and self-blame.
"I am too arrogant, thinking that I can cover the sky with one hand in Zhanzhou, but if a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an ant nest, the slightest carelessness will lead to destruction."
What came today was a team of hundreds of people equipped with horses and sophisticated weapons. Such an attack in the middle of the night could wipe out this huge camp. These Siamese slaves and merchants would be slaughtered like pigs and dogs or commit suicide. Trampled to death.
Xinlan Camp is such a big place, and defense has to be put on the table.
To carry out defense, the best way in this era is to build cities, although this will occupy a lot of labor and lead to the collapse of mines.??Excavation efficiency has slowed down, resulting in economic imbalance. Most of the food now needs to be transported from Sumatra or Java. This may lead to the economic collapse of the Zhanzhou Development Group, but the city construction is still urgent. On the table, I had to do it.
After convening the officials under their command and representatives of several large business groups, everyone felt that Xinlan's defense was too weak, and Xin Zhao could not afford to raise more soldiers, so it was impossible to expand the army in the short term. , everyone expressed their support for building the city.
The northwest corner of Zhanzhou has many mountains and dense forests, and there is no shortage of materials for building a city. However, building a city is not a trivial matter. The camp can be chosen close to the seaside, but it is best for the city to be farther away from the shore.
So it was time to re-select an address. Xin Zhao specially allocated a team of 2,000 slaves to excavate rocks, cut down trees, and prepare for building the city. At the beginning, he did not seek to be complete and large, as long as the residential area and commercial area could be enclosed. Just stay in the city.
The news of the construction of Xinlan City was also sent to the Free City. Although Zhu Ming is now trapped in the royal palace and the gentle countryside, he still values ????this new world of Zhanzhou that he discovered first-hand. When he saw the news of the construction of Xinlan City, he also expressed Agreed.
This is at least a solid bridgehead, from which we can continue to expand inland.
And after the city is built, both the living conditions and the living conditions will be greatly improved. Such overseas cities will be able to survive on their own.
After summoning Ma Sal, there was still a slight surplus in the treasury, so Zhu Ming transferred all of it to Xinlan City without hesitation. This city building was a huge expense and should not be taken carelessly.
No decent cities have been built yet, they were all looted and repaired, except Funancun Port, but Funancun Port is not surrounded by walls now, and most of them rely on forts to guard key points.
Therefore, this new orchid city that was built from scratch has attracted the attention of many people in the Heishui Ming Kingdom. Many construction craftsmen took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Zhanzhou, and Zhu Ming was sure of it one by one.
This is a big business opportunity for all-pervasive merchants. Originally, most of the goods shipped to Zhanzhou were materials and labor. Now many merchant ships ignore the ban on taking them to sea and bring a lot of them. Once the city is built, it is about to be destroyed. There are many people who have settled down and started families, which is not an option.
Chapter 213: Building the City of Xinlan
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