Chapter 1143： Form a rattan soldier

The work of bringing in the victims was relatively smooth. Marin gave enough money. How can the smugglers of Ningde and Lianjiang have no reason? Therefore, the ground snakes of the two places immediately acted to find the victims.

Last year, Ningde and Lianjiang were hit by typhoons and frosts, and there were many victims, probably a total of seven or eight thousand people. However, some victims later turned to relatives who were in good condition, but they were able to survive temporarily. But there are no relatives who can help, and they can only gather outside the county to wait for the government's relief.

The relief system of the Ming Dynasty is still relatively complete. The court has four large warehouse systems (preparatory warehouse, Changping warehouse, Yi warehouse and social warehouse). Among them, Yicang is located in prefectures and counties and is used exclusively for disaster relief. Under normal circumstances, the two counties of Ningde and Lianjiang (Ningde here refers to Ningde County, which belongs to Funing Prefecture) can only solve the problem of the victims by relying on the grain storage in Yichang.

However, it is not normal now ...

Why? Because Liu Jin has the power to blackmail local officials, local officials have to arbitrarily gather money and "filialize" Liu Jin. Otherwise, sure to be wearing small shoes.

It is precisely that the Zhixian of Ningde County and Lianjiang County went to Beijing to report their work, and Liu Jin extorted a large amount of "filial" silver. In order to fill the shortfall, Zhixian of the two counties chose the pre-paid rice of Yicang to fill the hole.

But unfortunately, natural disasters occurred in both places last year, and both prefectures were dumbfounded ...

Lianjiang County is a little better, because it is close to the provincial city of Fuzhou, plus the relationship between Tao Yongwen and the provincial capital tycoon in Lianjiang Zhixian County, I borrowed some rice from Changping in Fuzhou and finally stabilized the trend. However, because the deficit was a bit large before, there were still hundreds of people who did not get enough food. The porridge in some porridge sheds is too rare to see rice.

Ningde County is more miserable. Wangfeng of Ningde Zhixian County has no way to borrow food and can only support it. Due to lack of rice, there is almost no rice in Yicang in Ningde County. The porridge put in the porridge shed is basically similar to clean water. In order to raise rice grains, Wang Feng took out his family pension to buy rice subsidies, but it was still not enough.

In addition, seeing that Renzhi County is about to end his term, Wang Feng never wants to see any twists and turns. Therefore, he decided to conceal the facts, falsely report the disaster, avoid leaving stains on his political achievements, and affect the new mission after the end of his term. To this end, he used hard means to order the relatives of those victims to help them. However, there are still 2,000 or hundreds of victims who have no relatives to accept, and are living in the squatters outside the county.

Therefore, the smugglers in Ningde and Lianjiang can send people directly to the shantytowns outside the city to mobilize at night.

When I heard that the immigrant Dongfan Island could eat enough food and eat fish and venison, many victims could not stop drooling just because of this. Then, without any hassle, these victims followed the boat and went out to sea ...

And Marin's fleet also came to the sea near Ningde and Lianjiang, waiting for the arrival of fishing boats from smugglers ...

The transaction between the two parties is on the sea. After the number of people in Marin (mainly Zhuangding) is paid, they pay according to the number of people, and the money is cleared. When these victims were transported to the sea, many people were too hungry to climb the big ship. It was Marin who arranged for his soldiers to help him before taking the victims to the boat.

But after getting on the boat, and then seeing that the ship was full of blonde "fans", the victims were shocked. Some people saw the peculiar looking Marin and others, and they were so scared that their urine came out. After all, in the middle of the night, everyone was afraid to see a group of strange-looking foreign devils.

However, this is not a problem. Marin directly asked people to take out the roasted sweet potatoes that had been prepared and handed them over, quickly dispelling their vigilance. The sweetness of roasted sweet potatoes quickly made the victims forget the fear and began to eat it. But roasted sweet potatoes are very easy to choke on. Therefore, many of the victims on the ship choked their eyes because they ate anxiously. Fortunately, Marin also expected this. He prepared a large bucket of cold boiling water and fed it to the victims, but there was no choking.

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Marin's battleships are very large. Ten 500-ton battleships have installed more than 3,000 victims in one trip. Then, at dawn, the fleet returned to Tamsui.

The next day, when the government offices of the two county towns of Ningde and Lianjiang opened the city gate and came to the shantytown of the victims, they were surprised to find that the victims were gone ...

The government officials were overwhelmed and quickly reported to the two prefectures. The two Zhixian were also taken aback and quickly sent someone to investigate. Soon, news came that these victims may have gone to sea by boat to make a living in Dongfan Island ...

The news was that Marin deliberately let those smugglers release it. After all, Marin will deal with the Ming Dynasty in the future. The victims will be known this time. So, instead of hiding it, let's put some news out first.

The moods of the two Zhixian counties are very complicated. As a county in Lianjiang, Tao Yongwen was still uncomfortable with the loss of hundreds of people. Because the population is decreasing, it means that his county magistrate is incompetent. But at the same time, he also had some joy in his heart-he finally got rid of these burdens ...

Ningde Zhixian Wang Feng was pleasantly surprised. He will leave office at the end of the year. At this time, he is most afraid of the victims ’exposure, especially the victims’ death or trouble. Therefore, when I heard that these victims left Ningde for Dongfan Island, I was greatly relieved.

Although two or hundreds of people have been lost, they are all disaster victims and unstable factors. In this transition ... Ah is not a critical moment for promotion. If someone can take away the victims without causing problems, he is desperate ...

That's it, with the acquiescence of two Zhixian County, this matter passed. And Marin also got the coveted population ...

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After returning to Taiwan, Marin divided the population-he divided 1,000 people to Keelung to reclaim the land near Keelung Bay. In this way, Kong Tai and his soldiers and craftsmen can get rid of the heavy agricultural production labor. Before, due to lack of labor, Kong Tai and his soldiers had to grow sweet potatoes together.

As for the other more than two thousand victims, they were all placed near the Tamsui River near Tamsui Fort. In order to ensure their safety, Marin organized these strong men and built ten large defensive walls to house the victims. The surrounding walls are made of mud, which is not very strong, but it is enough to resist the possible attacks by local indigenous people.

Next, Marin naturally organized these victims to use mud to ram the adobe house. This kind of house has low cost and is fast to build. The most important thing is low cost ...

Then, at a high price, Marin bought a large number of agricultural tools and some cattle from the smugglers. After the farm tools and cattle are in place, it is natural to grow sweet potatoes ...

Taiwan Island has a warm climate and is not cold in winter. What's more, it is the end of spring, and it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes. The Zhuangding and young women among the disaster victims started the cultivation of sweet potatoes under the guidance of the farmers sent from Jilong Village. However, when planting, Marin especially emphasized that when sweet potatoes are planted this year, when weeding, we must pinch off the flowers of sweet potatoes ...

Farmers are stunned-can you still bear fruit by pinching off the flowers? But Marin emphasized that this is not a crop with no seeds, and it does not require seeds, but tubers, so there is no need to flower and bear ...

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While organizing immigrants to plant sweet potatoes, Marin also ordered the selection of 200 sturdy and brave young men from the victims to serve as militiamen to help Van der Beck guard the Danshuibao.

However, when it comes to training these young men, Marin has some difficulties. The young and middle-aged of these victims, because of chronic malnutrition, are relatively thin and short, similar to those of the indigenous Fan people. It stands to reason that they should be allowed to practice muskets. Because, the musketeer does not need to be too strong.

But Marin is not so worried about these people. After all, do n’t look at these people as disaster victims, but they are the victims of Daming ~ www.novelhall.com ~ may not be able to look at the "fans" of Marin these North Sea countries. Therefore, Marin did not want them to master powerful muskets, so as not to be backfired.

The other is that the northern coast of Taiwan Island is rainy, and the musket may not be of much use. Because most Taiwanese defenders use matchlocks, and matchlocks are most afraid of rain ...

If you are guarding the city wall, you can ignore the rain problem by adding a roof. But the army can't shrink in the city, it has to go out. In particular, when it is necessary to conquer the Taipei Basin.

And these militiamen, Marin's plan, is to use them to fight against the rebellious aborigines. Therefore, they only need to be able to maintain a military advantage over the indigenous people. As for pirates? Don't think, just hide in the castle and resist ...

Marin began to plan to train the militia selected by these Hu Jian victims into European-style pikemen, but when they think of the javelin of the Taiwanese aborigines, it seems that the spearmen are more disadvantaged ... because the aborigines can throw the javelins completely run. But because of their familiarity with the local mountains and forests, the spearmen cannot catch up with them ...

Since you want to guard against the aboriginal javelin, the sword shield soldier is the best choice ... but the wooden shield is not good quality, and it is too heavy ... It seems that the rattan brand is the best ... Marin thought of the rattan player in Qi Jiguang's Yuanyang array ...

So, he found Liu Laogen again and ordered:

"Send someone to go inland to find out, who will make rattan cards, and who is good at using rattan cards ... Then, heavy money is hired to come over as an instructor ..."

"Master, this is ..."

"I want to form a rattan soldier!"