195 Rich and Willful
Two taels of silver a month, and you still need to eat and fill. Is it true or false?
When Zheng Zhilong brought Zhuqiuzi to the neighborhood of Bengang to attract young and strong people, everyone was a little unbelievable.
Such good treatment is enough to recruit people to work hard!
You know, some of the soldiers and wars are not as high as that. If you dig a piece of soil and build a wall, you will get such a high wage?
This guy is not a personal trafficker, right?
Zheng Zhilong patted his chest and promised that this shopkeeper Zhu was his friend, so there was absolutely no problem. Everyone was still skeptical and hesitant.
What if someone doesn’t pay for the money after finishing his work?
Zhu Qizhu had no choice but to use his trump card and spread the money directly.
As long as you are willing to go, you will pay a month's salary in advance and you will pay immediately!
Now, it’s amazing, with more than 100,000 people, and there is no one who doesn’t want to go.
If everyone goes there, it is naturally impossible. Even if the red goods are not short of money, there will be so many people on the construction site!
Besides, the elderly, weak, women and children cannot do this kind of work.
Finally, he thought of the easiest way, which is to carry the ammunition box. As long as he could carry the ammunition box weighing 70 or 80 kilograms from the boat, and then carry it on and off, he could work, regardless of men and women.
This time, most of the people were finally eliminated.
However, more than 30,000 people passed the test.
The construction site of Jelanzha Castle is so big, and more than 30,000 people will definitely not be able to stand. The 20,000 people are crowded, and it is enough to dig the second and third floors at the same time.
This is not a big problem. There are more than 30,000 people in more than 30,000 people. If you have extra people, you can find clay and burn red bricks near Dayuan City. Anyway, red bricks must be used for building city walls or barracks.
In this way, the people who passed the test took their wages and set off with their own hoes, on a cart, boat, and tower ships.
Anyway, it doesn't take half a day to drive from Bengang to the senior officer at the speed of a ship. More than 300 wheels and more than 20 tower ships and gunboats were stuffed with people, and it only took about 20,000 people in one trip, and more than 30,000 people, and it was finished in two days.
With so many people pulling over, the progress of the project is a bit scary. The second and third floors of earthen platforms are formed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The burned red bricks are piled up like small hills, and there are still several a day.
There are no professional houses these days. In the countryside, whether it is digging foundations or bricks and walls, they ask neighbors for help, and they don’t say anything to ask for the engineering team. Therefore, the young and strong people in the countryside basically burn bricks and walls, let alone digging soil. That’s their old business. It’s not too fast to do it. With the speed of more than 30,000 people, the main project of the Relanzha Castle may be completed in less than a month.
As for the barracks, mail towers, turrets, etc., there are no such many people to build behind.
When Zhu Qizhe saw the progress, he simply cut out the walls of Dayuan City and handed them over to these people.
After all these things were arranged, he went to the dock to find Zheng Zhilong again.
Zheng Zhilong was still busy as usual. The obsession that everyone had walked behind him, but he didn't respond.
Zhu Qizhu had no choice but to pat his shoulder and said laughing and crying: "Brother Zheng, please take a break, I want to ask you for help."
Zheng Zhilong put down his work and said curiously: "What's wrong? What else is there?"
Zhu Qizhuo said directly: "I want to buy some plowing oxen, do you have any way?"
This is easy to say. Zheng Zhilong also bought a lot of plowing ox when he moved the victims from Fujian.
He nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, how much do you want?"
Zhu Qizhi estimated that, "Let's get ten thousand heads first, and I'll talk about it later if I need it."
Oh My God!
When Zheng Zhilong heard this, his chin almost fell to the ground.
He swallowed and asked weakly: "Do you know how much a ox cost?"
Zhuqiu said indifferently: "How much does it cost?"
Zheng Zhilong calculated carefully: "You should know that oxen can only plow the land when they grow up, and calves must not plow the land. When oxen grows up, they can be at least 5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000!"
Isn’t it just seven or eight hundred thousand taels? It’s amazing that you are.
Zhu Qizhuo nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, please send someone to contact the seller quickly. I will ask someone to go to Jinling City to get the silver."
OK, you have more money and you are awesome.
Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, I don't know why you bought so many cows. Fortunately, I have acquaintances in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, otherwise, these tens of thousands of plowing oxen wouldn't be able to get together."
Of course, buying oxen is used to cultivate the land.
These days, there are no plowing machines. If you turn the ground, you either use manpower to dig or plow with oxen.
If people dig, a strong man can't plant a few acres of land, so it's different if there are oxen. If a family has a cow, it's fine to plant more than 20 acres of land.
He had ordered people to inform the princess Ma Ruiling to send 10,000 young and strong men and her family in batches. Moreover, the sowing season is approaching, so the ox must be prepared naturally.
Zhu Qizhu didn't explain much, and he beat him and left.
Zheng Zhilong looked at his back, shook his head and sighed.
Alas, this guy is so rich, more than 30,000 yuan in young and strong, his two-month wage is more than 100,000 taels, and ten thousand oxen 7 times is nearly one million taels. After spending it, this guy didn't even frown.
About a month later, the first group of young and strong men and their families in Nanyang finally arrived. They also arrived with fifty thousand-pound giant cannons and one hundred five-hundred-pound giant cannons.
Anyway, there will be no big battle between Nanyang and Sichuan for a while, so he simply ordered people to pull over 500 kilograms and 1,000 kilograms of giant cannons and various shells.
The Jelanzha Castle is almost completed now, and the three-story wall and a barracks of thousands of people have been built long ago. If the fort is inconvenient, he has not ordered anyone to build it, because communication is extremely inconvenient now, and he does not know how many giant cannons his family can collect for him to send.
As soon as the giant cannon arrives, the fortress cannons can be built. He will place all of these 150 giant cannons on the wall of the Relanzha Castle. The first floor is placed with fifty doors and five hundred kilograms, the second floor is also with fifty doors and five hundred kilograms, and the third floor is placed with fifty doors and one thousand kilograms.
He wanted to create a semicircular barrage to completely seal the entrance of the bay. As long as an enemy ship dared to approach the entrance five miles, he would be bombarded by three rows of artillery arrays.
As for the effect, you naturally have to try it out.
After all 150 giant cannons were built and placed, he began to test the effect. With his order, a shocking sound was heard, and the sea near the entrance of the bay was suddenly filled with water columns soaring into the sky.
This effect is pretty good. Although the range of pig iron solid bullets is shorter, they are enough to block the entrance.
Immediately afterwards, he ordered people to replace the armor-piercing bullets and test the fire for another round.
"Boom boom boom", another shocking loud noise, the range of the soaring water column was wider, and some shells even hit the opposite island.
Well, this effect is not great.
Zhu Qizhe looked at the island opposite and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
It seems that it is the device that designs a device to adjust the angle of the gun barrel.
He was thinking about it, but Zheng Zhilong ran out of the dock in fright.
What's going on? Why did such a dense roar of cannons sound? Could it be that the Dutch came over?
It's impossible!
He pulled a subordinate and asked, and found out that it was Manager Zhu who was testing the cannon.
This guy has so much money!
Of course he knew that Zhu Qi ordered people to send 150 giant cannons, and he couldn't figure out how much it would cost.
Problem, these giant cannon shells are not cheap either, they can fire a round of tens of thousands of taels!
What is the difference between this constant ejaculation and throwing silver into the water?
Chapter completed!