The vitality of these turtles is actually quite tenacious and easier to support. In addition, Marin takes a tropical route and is not hot all the way, so two turtles shouldn't have died.

However, two of the Galapagos turtles were too timid, and the ships were shaking left and right when sailing in the sea. This environment was too different from the land where the Galapagos turtles lived, which caused panic among the two turtles. Therefore, the two dead Galapagos turtles were actually scared to death. After all, it was indeed quite scary to come from the calm land to the shaking ship. Oh no, it was a scare tortoise...

The remaining 13 Galapagos turtles are not in good spirits. After all, the turtles are not very adapted to the bumpy life at sea, so it would be good to persevere.

So, when we arrived at Peace Island in Keelung, the first thing Marin did was to let all 13 Galapagos turtles be carried off the boat and repaired. Yes, carry off the boat. Because it was too slow to let the turtles run by themselves. So, let the turtles be carried faster.

In addition, the war horses brought by Marin were also taken off the ship to repair. These war horses are more suitable for life on the ship, because they are all flattering to life on the ship after selection. Although they are not powerful horses, they are tall and strong, which looks more intimidating. In fact, this typical European war horse has great strength and fast running, but has poor endurance. Generally, knights do not ride very much when they are on the road. Otherwise, they will consume too early.

The physical strength of a horse cannot be used when it needs to be fought. It is said that in the 19th century, due to the shortage of horses and no war horses to transfer, many cavalry often marched with horses when marching, for fear that they would get rid of the horses for too long. Only horses with good endurance such as Mongolian horses and Arabian horses can ride for a long time, but they also need to rest frequently. For example, the Mongolian cavalry, which spans the Eurasian continent and often takes thousands of miles, must be one person, two horses, or even three horses.

Of course, Malin did not travel thousands of miles to bring warmth to the Ming Dynasty. The reason why he chose this kind of high-headed horse was to fool people, especially those literati. Those literati who did not understand horses liked to ride a high-headed horse. For example, the top scholar in the Ming Dynasty liked to ride a high-headed horse and parade and praise the officials. If he rode a short southern horse, it would be embarrassing to parade. Therefore, the European high-headed horse brought by Malin was definitely a weapon that literati welcomed by literati.

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As the master of Marin came, Kong Tai, as the local manager, naturally had to come to greet him in person. However, when Marin had just landed on Heping Island, Kong Tai was not on the island. After inquiring, it turned out that Kong Tai was supervising the construction of the city on the main island of Tai Island on the south side of Heping Island...

After Kong Tai arrived in Keelung for the second time, with the help of Liu Laogen, he fooled several Pingpu natives near Keelung and bought a piece of land across the river on Heping Island for a small price.

After that, Kong Tai asked someone to build a small bunker on the other side of the river and arranged for the people to plant sweet potatoes on the shore as a source of food for Heping Island.

In the southern coastal area of ​​Keelung Bay on the other side of Heping Island, several square kilometers of coastal land were exchanged by Kong Tai. Kong Tai sent people to reclaim 500 acres of land here and planted sweet potatoes. The yield per mu of sweet potatoes was more than 1,000 kilograms (without pinching flowers), and two crops had been collected, with a total output of more than one million kilograms. Now, beside Majiabao, Kong Tai has specially built a warehouse to store sweet potatoes.

Moreover, in order to facilitate the farming, Kong Tai also sent people to secretly buy ten plowing oxen from Hu Jianmeizhou Island through smuggling boats.

Although plowing ox is a treasure in the Ming Dynasty and is not sold easily, it cannot resist Kong Taikong's price!

In the Ming Dynasty, a plowing ox was only six or seven taels of silver, which was very cheap. In order to buy plowing ox, Kong Tai took 20 taels of silver each, which was three times the normal price. Driven by huge profits, Hu Jian's smuggler naturally helped to get 10 plowing oxes.

You should know that these smugglers are all people who want money and live. Although the oxen are registered in the government and it is difficult to buy through normal channels, these bold smugglers directly hired outlaws to steal oxen, and stole 10 and sent it to Kong Tai overnight. Stealing oxen was a serious crime in the Ming Dynasty and was sentenced to exile. However, those smugglers offered a reward of 2 taels of silver for each oxen, and quickly got enough 10 cows. But after replacing the goods, they sold 20 taels of silver for each oxen...

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At the beginning, Kongtai planned to wait for Marin's fleet to come and then build a city on the south bank of Keelung Bay. For this reason, Kongtai specially asked the returnees to bring news back and asked Marin to bring more cement. Marin came this time, and he did bring a lot of cement.

However, after a long time, Kong Tai discovered that the Pingpu natives near the south bank of Keelung Bay seemed to be gentle and not savage and ferocious. So he changed his plan and sent people to build the city in advance.

In addition, his subordinates mined a lot of stones on Heping Island, which could be used to lay foundations for the city walls. Later, more and more stones were collected, which was enough to build the city walls. So Kong Tai immediately sent someone to build the city walls on the land during the slack farm.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient stone, Kong Tai also hired local Pingpu people to help mine quarry. Moreover, he built several earth kilns specifically for burning bricks to make up for the problem of insufficient stones. As for the fuel for burning bricks, there were too many wood nearby... Later, the output of bricks exceeded that of stones, Kong Tai asked the craftsmen to build stones outside the city wall to enhance the firmness of the city wall. Bricks were mainly used on the inside of the city wall...

When Marin arrived, Kong Tai was supervising the construction of the city wall on the south bank of Keelung Bay. At this time, this small town with an area of ​​one square kilometer, the four walls were basically completed. However, the city gates have not been completed yet, and there are no buildings in the city, just a pure super compound...

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! What made Malin laugh and cry was that Kong Tai actually organized the indigenous young and middle-aged people from many villages affiliated with **pu people to help them build the city wall. Otherwise, the progress would not be so fast.

It is estimated that five or six hundred young and powerful people from the indigenous people in many nearby villages were hired by Kong Tai to help build the city wall. Of course, they did not know how to work brickwork, mainly according to the command of the masons sent by the Beihai Kingdom, and put brickwork in the designated position. The final technical work was the craftsmen from the Beihai Kingdom. However, most of the physical work was done by these indigenous young and powerful people, and the masons from the Beihai Kingdom did not waste much energy. When building, the transportation of brickwork was the main physical work.

According to Kong Tai's adjutant, Kong Tai hired these indigenous young and strong people, and the salary was very low. He only had enough sweet potato rice, and occasionally provided some venison and fish, and then gave each person a small bag of salt every ten days...

In this way, the local indigenous young and strong sold themselves to Kong Tai as a migrant worker...

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. In the eyes of the people of Beihai, salt may not be a valuable thing. After all, Malin is a big salt producer, and Beihai will never lack salt. But in the eyes of the Pingpu natives of Taidao, salt is a very precious thing. Giving a small bag of salt (less than half a pound) in ten days is definitely a very generous reward. Moreover, Kong Tai is responsible for the rice when working on the construction site. Sweet potato rice is sweet, much better than the local natives usually eat. Moreover, there is also venison soup supplied from time to time. The venison was driven by nearby hunters with bows and arrows purchased from Kong Tai to exchange for salt with Kong Tai. Kong Tai, when he and his subordinates had enough food, he also used it to cook broth to entertain the indigenous young and strong people. More importantly, salt was added to the soup...
Chapter completed!