Chapter 825 Military Observers

Tian Yeyou has been staying in Heitu Port all year round. The old members of these special operations battalions basically recognize him, and he is also familiar with these veterans who enlisted in Heitu Port in the early days. Tian Yeyou said with a smile: "I know you, when you two brothers were together

Heitugang, your brother is still working as a foreman in the mine, right?"

"Yes, yes, last time I went back to visit relatives, my brother said that when he got married, Chief Tian even offered me a glass of wine." Ruan Jun nodded in response. For naturalized people, this is a great honor.

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"Being a company commander... is not bad, there is a bright future!" Tian Yeyou would not hesitate to say a few words of encouragement and praise when meeting an old friend in a foreign land.

"Thank you, Chief! By the way, if there is anything you need to do at this moment, please ask the Chief for instructions!" Although Tian Yeyou's encouragement was very official, it was very useful to Ruan Jun, who quickly expressed his attitude.

Tian Yeyou said: "First organize people to unload all the tools on the boat, and then prepare a place for us to live. I will learn about the situation today, plan the route, and then enter the mountain tomorrow."

The people Tian Yeyou brought here this time are all apprentices he has accepted one after another in recent years. As far as the field of mining exploration and mining is concerned, he will definitely become the founder of this industry in a few years. He will be regarded by Haihan throughout his life.

The many large-scale mineral deposits excavated will become legends talked about by future generations of practitioners. Of course, these achievements are inseparable from the support of the large database brought during the time travel. With the approximate location records of the relevant mineral veins, people like Tian Yeyou

It will be much easier for practitioners to explore for mineral deposits.

Although the gold reserves in the Jinguashi area are not small, they are not concentrated in one or two places, but are scattered in many small veins in the mountains. Therefore, in terms of mining methods, it is unlikely to be like Tiandu.

Like Shilu and Heitugang, if you excavate a large vein, one pit will be enough to dig for more than a hundred years or even longer. Scattered mining will bring more difficulties to management and transportation. As a developer of mining plans,

,Tian Yeyou must take into account various situations that may occur.

In addition, the current era is three to four hundred years different from the time when Tian Yeyou came here before traveling. What Tian Yeyou saw at the beginning was a mining area that had been mined for a hundred years. There was a certain gap between the topography and the current undeveloped natural conditions.

Redefining the location of ore veins is not an easy task.

That night, Tian Yeyou carefully learned about the surrounding environment from Ruan Jun and others who had arrived earlier. Although there was no threat from foreign enemies for the time being, there were many dangers in the primitive jungle. In addition, there were also five or six miles of mountain roads from the seaside to the mining area.

The terrain in this area is relatively complex, and it is unlikely that a rail transportation system from the mine to the seaside will be built directly like Shilu and Heitu Port. Therefore, mineral processing and smelting, worker accommodation, supporting living facilities, etc. must all be located in the mining area.

It will be constructed nearby to improve the work efficiency after the mine is put into production.

The next day, Ruan Jun led a team to escort Tian Yeyou and others into the mountains for prospecting. Half a day after they set off, the first group of immigrants arrived at the seaside of Shen'ao Bay, along with various tools and building materials.

This group of immigrants came from the Penghu Immigration Base. Qian Tiandun didn't even have time to transport the immigrants to the two strongholds of Tamsui River Estuary and Jilong Port that he had just occupied. According to the arrangements of the Executive Committee, he sent the immigrants to the gold mine first.

Although it is not possible to mine gold immediately, the Executive Committee's requirement is to have enough labor locally ready to start production at any time. Before that, they will take on the task of building docks and roads.

Although the scale of gold mining in the Jinguashi area cannot be compared with the previous large mines, it is planned to arrange at least two to three thousand miners here to maintain daily production, plus family members, security personnel, management personnel, etc.

Wait, the permanent population of this area will remain around 4,000 people in the future.

At the same time, the naval forces involved in this operation did not stop to rest. Their task was not only to cover the landing of the army, but also to conduct surveys of northern Taiwan along the coastline after occupying Jilong Port. This operation

The purpose is two-fold, one is to verify and correct the maps currently used by the Navy and the Ministry of Shipping, and the other is to clear out Spanish immigrant settlements that may be left on the east coast of Taiwan Island.

According to historical records and the confessions of captives, Spanish colonists attacked the Kavalan tribe in the Lanyang Plain of Taitung a year ago and seized actual control of this area. In the following year

, some immigrants have been resettled in this area one after another, but it is not known whether these people have fled the settlement after learning the news that Jilong Port was captured by the enemy. Although these immigrants may not have the ability to threaten the mining areas to the north.

, but it is a hidden danger after all for Haihan. If it is not cleaned up, the military and the bosses of the executive committee will not be completely relieved.

However, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture are currently not very interested in developing the Lanyang Plain, which later became Yilan County in Taiwan, because the areas currently controlled by Haihan on the western coast of Taiwan can still house at least tens of thousands of immigrants safely.

The pressure will not be as great as on the east coast. Due to the lack of natural harbors on the east coast of Taiwan, it is difficult for the military to deploy permanent maritime armed forces here, and each expansion will require days of quarrels in the Executive Committee.

The Army is even more unwilling to disperse and deploy its limited troops to garrison in these small corners.

On March 13, the navy arrived at the mouth of Lanyang Creek and discovered a village built by colonists not far upstream. However, as expected, most of the immigrants who settled here had fled, leaving only

More than 20 people who did not want to return to Luzon Island stayed here. The navy did not encounter any resistance, and these immigrants who already knew what happened obediently chose to surrender. Of course, if the Haihan people did not come, they

It is probably impossible to live here for too long, because once the Kavalan people, who have a blood feud with the colonists, know that the Spanish armed forces have withdrawn here, they will definitely come back from the mountains to liquidate these invaders. By then, most of these immigrants will be outnumbered.

He will also end up dying in a foreign country.

For the local indigenous Kavalan tribe, Haihan currently has no intention of actively getting close to or recruiting them, because according to Spanish records, the Kavalan people are more mature than the Pingpu aborigines who generally live in the coastal plain.

They were more aggressive and more ferocious. The reason why the Spaniards went to war against them was because all the passengers and crew of a Spanish merchant ship that ran aground here were killed by indigenous warriors. Haihan successively occupied the island of Taiwan in a short period of time.

There are many areas on the coastline from south to north, and there is no energy to deal with the indigenous people in these non-occupied areas. Anyway, the shipbuilding ability of these indigenous people is extremely poor, and the boats that go out to sea for fishing are still at the level of canoes, which is not enough.

to threaten the Haihan settlement beyond the scope of their daily activities.

Haihan's operations in Taiwan since October last year have been going very smoothly. From surveying the Zhuoshui River to later choosing the Kaohsiung area as the main target, he then went north along the coastline to attack the Spanish strongholds. During this process, he encountered many obstacles

The difficulties and resistance were extremely limited. It took less than half a year to basically complete the control of the northern and western coastlines of Taiwan. Although the long eastern coastline is still unclaimed, there will indeed be no other threats in the short term.

competitors have emerged.

This achievement was basically advocated and implemented by the military. Although there were many voices of opposition and doubt in the early stages of the operation, they believed that developing Taiwan after occupying Penghu was somewhat controversial. After all, the island of Taiwan has a very small population.

Infrastructure facilities are almost zero, and development requires a huge amount of resources, which seems to go against Haihan's plan to expand rapidly to the north. However, after the military's consecutive victories, opposition voices gradually decreased, especially when the Ministry of Industry transferred Taipei Chicken to

After the gold mining project in the Cong area was rediscovered, those who questioned the excessive military expenditures for the attack on Taipei also shut their mouths - no matter how large the military expenditures are, it cannot be as large as an entire mine buried underground that has not yet been mined.

gold mine.

Haihan's frequent military maneuvers in the past six months have not completely escaped the eyes of the Fujian Ming Army. The Ming Army military observers stationed at the Penghu base are not free of charge. Warships in the port frequently come in and out, and various military

The large-scale mobilization of supplies was obviously a sign of military action. But before Haihan announced it himself, they did not know where the real target of Haihan's army was. Although they knew to some extent that Haihan might be on Taiwan Island

There were further moves, but they really didn't expect that not long after the Haihan people took Kaohsiung, they would be interested in the Spaniards from the north.

However, the degree of cooperation between the two parties has been very in-depth, and the Fujian government does not need to worry that Haihan's hidden actions will be detrimental to the areas under his rule. Haihan has invested in quite a lot of business in Fujian, especially in Zhangquan and Zhangzhou.

It will not be of any benefit to Haihan itself if Fujian is messed up, and the Fujian officials know very well that the Haihan people are only interested in the population and market of the Ming Dynasty. As for the land, it seems that only a port that facilitates trade is enough. And the Haihan people

They attach great importance to sharing the same ancestors and are not as difficult to get close to as the Westerners. Whether it is trade or other aspects, they have always taken good care of the Ming people. This has been quite well received by Fujian officials and people.

Evaluation. Haihan people, including the naturalized people who worked for Haihan, are even more accepted in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou than in Guangzhou.

For Xu Jiaqi, the military representative stationed in Penghu, this is indeed the best job he has ever had since joining the army. If he was a little cautious about living and stationed on the land of the Haihan people at the beginning, after a long time,

Xu Jiaqi actually felt that this was much easier and more interesting than leading troops to fight, and the personal treatment was not bad either.

The residence of the military observers of the Ming Dynasty in Penghu was the courtyard of the government office when this place was under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty long ago. Considering that this was the face of the Ming Dynasty, the Fujian government funded the renovation and decoration here. Of course, the military observers were in Penghu.

The food and clothing here are all paid for by themselves, and Haihan will not bear these expenses. However, this is just a drop in the bucket for the Xu family, which controls more than 70% of the entire maritime trade in Fujian.

Xu Jiaqi's daily job is to observe the daily operations of the Penghu base, such as the maintenance of naval ships, the training of special operations battalions, the transfer of materials and personnel at ports and terminals, etc. As for Haihan's external military operations, such as the previous deployment to Tainan

To occupy Kaohsiung Port, one must apply to Qian Tiandun, the local supreme commander of Penghu, and only after his approval can one go with the army to the front line to observe the battle. Of course, with Haihan's past combat methods and achievements, such a battlefield observation

It can be said that there is not much danger. As long as Xu Jiaqi has the opportunity, he will follow him to make a splash and experience Haihan's advanced tactics.

If the original purpose of dispatching military observers was to learn advanced military technology from the Haihan people and to play a certain role in prevention and surveillance, then these two purposes have basically lost their effectiveness now.

Senior officers of the Ming Dynasty like Xu Jiaqi have been dealing with the Haihan military for a long time. Naturally, they know that the weapons sold by the Haihan people and the tactics taught by the Haihan people are all second-class goods that were ambushed. As for the first-class good things, of course

They keep it for themselves. Although the Fujian military orders Haihan arms and equipment at high prices every year, when comparing the two cars, it is easy to see that what they buy are backward weapons that the Haihan army no longer uses. Of course

Well, for the Ming army, these weapons were still very advanced and had obvious advantages in performance over the weapons produced under the supervision of the Ministry of War. For Xu Xinsu, who lacked a sense of security, these weapons were still a necessity worth spending a lot of money to buy.

Of course, it does not mean that the advanced weapons equipped by the Haihan Army are completely unavailable. As long as they can afford the big price, at least a few rifles can be produced. However, the structure of the breech-loading rifle used by the Haihan Army is different from that sold to

There are obvious differences between the muzzleloading matchlocks and flintlock muskets of the Ming army, and it is technically difficult to imitate them. This is not just a matter of parts and assembly accuracy. The weapons currently used by Haihan are inferior in material and processing technology.

There has been progress. Even if the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can imitate the exact same rifle by hand, there will still be a significant gap in actual performance. Moreover, the gunpowder used in Haihan weapons has always been something that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty cannot imitate. This

The impact on weapon performance is also inevitable.

As time went by, the Ming Army gave up on this idea, and they still had to buy what they should buy. As for the coveted advanced rifles, they could only wait until the weapons of the Haihan Army were upgraded. And the rifles were just

Haihan weapons and equipment are relatively difficult to imitate, but it is more troublesome to imitate other weapons.
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