Chapter 422 Labor Reform Today's Marine Brigade of the Whole Family Army has only been familiar with weapons and equipment, and has not yet had time to conduct tactical campaign drills at and above the regimental level.Quanxu also needs actual combat drills to run in the army, of course, this is not the most important thing.On top of that, he is in dire need of gold right now.It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.After using advanced weapons and equipment and defeating the opponent by crushing, Quan Xu didn't want to use backward weapons anymore.Ordered messengers to go to Taipei to give an ultimatum to the Spaniards, while Quan Xu, led by Jiang Baisheng, visited the treasures left behind by the Dutch in Tainan City.In addition to a large amount of food, spices and various equipment, more importantly, a considerable amount of silver and gold, however, Quan Xu was a little disappointed.There's a lot of silver in it.All were struck by the Dutch, and came in different denominations, four guilders, one half guilder, one guilder, one hundred and fifty guilders, two guilders, two guilders, two guilders, and three guilders.A guilder is twenty st, and the st is equivalent to about five cents, which is about twenty st. pounds sterling.There are two kinds of gold coins, the face value is seven guilders and golden horse sword, which can be exchanged for an additional two hundred and eighty shillings, that is, fourteen pounds.The other is the Gold Duka, which is exchanged at a rate of one to one hundred shillings, which is five pounds.After counting, there are more than 183,000 silver horse sword coins located in Tainan, about 4,941 kilograms, and as for the gold duka, there are only more than 40,000 pieces, equivalent to 560,000 pounds, weighing about 1,233 kilograms in total.Unfortunately, these gold coins have no cultural value, they are very new, and they should be the gold and silver that the Dutch have expropriated from Taiwan or nearby, minted into silver coins or gold coins, and shipped to the Netherlands mainland.Quan Xu remembers that in addition to the shortage of oil and iron ore, Taiwan has gold, silver, copper, coal, sulfur, diamond, platinum, uranium, strontium, quartz sand, rutile, monazite, and rare metal elements such as zirconium, titanium, and thorium.In particular, the gold mine is very famous, and it is one of the provinces with the largest gold production in China.After Quan Xu counted the gold coins, he left the silver coins, less than five tons of silver, which was worthless in the future generations, but it could be of great use in the late Ming Dynasty.As for gold, you're welcome.Originally, Quan Xu wanted to go back to the furnace to re-mint it, but thinking about this batch of gold coins, except for the appearance of a Dutch horse sword, the other workmanship was very rough, even if this batch of gold was thrown back, they thought that this was a group of cultural relics cost elements who had been robbed.On the contrary, there will be a kind of suspicious effect.After preliminary statistics on Zheng's surrender, the surrendered Zheng fleet totaled 102 large and small warships, including 22 Junk warships, 39 blacktail ships, 41 bird ships, and more than 4,500 sailors and soldiers.The highest level is Zheng Zhibao, followed by Yan Keying, and then Shi Lang.How to arrange more than 4,500 people became a puzzled question in Quan Xu's heart.For the development of Taiwan, Quan Xu is not ready to give up, he wants to throw these people into the mine to mine, or build bridges and pave roads, in the words of later generations, it is called labor reform, commonly known as labor reform.How to plan, Quan Xu didn't think about it.In the southwest of Tainan City, this is the large camp set up by the Dutch, and the outer camp wall has not been demolished, forming the current prisoner camp.In the face of the five or six chongs and five six and a half of the whole family army, these Zheng pirate captives are very honest, not honest, not good, there are a few pirate leaders who surrendered, disgusted that Quan Xu did not pay attention to them, and began to want to make trouble.As a shuttle of bullets passed, the scene suddenly fell silent.The seven-foot-tall man, whose arms were thick as a bowl, was beaten into a pile of rotten meat, and he didn't even have a corpse left, which was too shocking.In this prisoner camp, the area is very large, covering an area of seven or eight hundred acres, and the outer area is a circle of barracks made of wooden stakes and earth, and the style is very rough.More than 4,500 captives came to this camp, their eyes rolling, everything here was too foreign to them.There were only more than 100 soldiers in the whole family army guarding them, and several corners of the battalion were arranged with light and heavy machine gun positions, and more than a dozen light and heavy machine gun groups played the role of guards.Looking at those light machine guns or heavy machine guns, no one dared to move, they were very honest and very cooperative, let them eat when they ate, let them bask in the sun, let them line up.After a pillar of incense, more than 4,500 captives lined up in a chaotic line.Quan Xu also looked at the pirates, and saw that most of them were in tattered clothes, skinny, and had vegetables on their faces, although they didn't look like they were skinny, and they weren't much better.Quan Xu sighed in his heart, the Zheng family's pirates are really not very good, and they are all hungry.If Zheng Zhilong heard this, he would definitely die of grievance, not everyone is as hung as Quan Xu, even if Quan Xu doesn't farm, he can feed thousands of people.However, the problem is that Zheng Zhilong has no choice.For pirates, in fact, they do not deserve sympathy, because they are a group of locusts, unceremoniously transfer their suffering to ordinary people, and if they rob at sea, the people who run the maritime merchants will not be clean in these years.Although it is said that Zheng pirates rarely come ashore to loot villages and towns, less does not mean that there are none.Quan Xu looked at the captives and said, "Ben Shuai......
What should I do with you?
You scum, eyes in the crotch?
Ben Shuai is the chief soldier of Liaodong, Ben Shuai and your well water do not violate the river water, and I did not go to you to trouble, you actually grabbed Ben Shuai's territory, really I am a noodle, with you pinch?
”The pirates wailed: "Spare your life!
The villain is also forced to do this, and the leaders forced us to do this!
”More of them won't even beg for mercy, so they just pestle indifferently, waiting for the judgment of fate."
Shut up!
Who shouted just now?
Stand up for me!
”Suddenly, the audience fell silent.Quan Xu scolded angrily: "A manly man, dare to be a daring man, even if he is a pirate, what if he is a pirate?
What about the robbery?
As long as you dare to act, I respect you as a good man!
But you don't even have this responsibility, garbage, a bunch of garbage!
I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you bunch of trash, so I'll give Lao Tzu ears up and listen!
”The pirates were silent.Quan Xu looked around at everyone with sharp eyes, and his voice was loud: "You have all done a lot of evil, and if you fall into my hands, you are unlucky!"
I will separate you, and throw some of you into the mines to dig and some of you to the farms to cultivate the land, and you will have to do the hardest and most tiring work, without wages, two meals a day, and you will have to wash away your sins with your own sweat!
”At this time, Quan Xu is no longer the original Quan Xu, Quan Xu was short of people at the beginning, and even the victims and bandits could use it, the key is that the Zheng Pirate Group is already full of mountains, and these people are actually white-eyed wolves who can't be fed.Quan Xu's second fleet has people, but there are no ships, and now it has received more than 100 warships of the Zheng clan that are in good condition, although the cannon garbage of the Zheng pirates is a big deal to replace it.Anyway, there are a lot of people who need artillery, and there are no buyers.As soon as Quan Xu's words fell, the pirates were in an uproar."
Bang bang bang......"
Quan Xu took out his pistol and fired three shots at the sky, and the scene was quiet all of a sudden: "Shut up, listen to Ben Shuai!"
This commander will find out what bad things you have done, and determine the duration of your hard labor according to the severity of the situation, the light one year and a half, the heavy one will serve three to five years of hard labor, and the escape will be doubled!
Of course, if you perform well, you can have your sentence commuted, and if you are willing to stay here after serving hard labor, Ben Shuai can give you a piece of land to settle down, or let you continue to work as a miner in the mine!
This commander guarantees your personal safety during your hard labor, as long as you don't play tricks with me, you can all survive the hard labor peacefully and become good citizens again!
”The pirates stopped arguing this time and looked at each other.They thought they were going to be finished, and they were going to do hard labor, and with their current physical condition, they should be exhausted to death in a few months at most!
But listening to Quan Xu's tone, they can still eat enough to eat while serving hard labor here, and their personal safety is guaranteed, and the best thing is that they can survive for three or five years at most, and if they perform well, they don't even need three or five years!
This......
That doesn't sound too bad, they don't care about wages or anything, and having enough to eat is more important than anything else these days!
It seems more comfortable to do hard labor here than to be a pirate, at least to eat!
As a result, these Zheng pirates were divided into several units and sent to various farms or mines to undergo labor reform, and Quan Xu did not break his promise, and the food that should be given to them was not reduced, although it was a little worse.Although there is rice, don't think about white rice, brown rice, barley rice can be eaten to your heart's content, and occasionally you can eat a salted fish and kelp soup.Maybe it's because the sound of guns and cannons of the whole family army left a terrifying impression on them, no one dares to run, no one makes trouble, everything is very peaceful.On the thirteenth day of the first year of the fifth year of Chongzhen, that is, the fifth day of Quan Xu's arrival in Tainan, with the Venetian ocean-going fleet and the Huizhou merchant fleet, and the fleet leased from Dengzhou, he carried all the members of the Second Fleet of the Navy, as well as the first and second brigades of the Marine Brigade, and the headquarters of Ma Yinghu, the whole family army that had been transferred before.There were 500 or 600 large and small ships, transporting more than 20,000 soldiers of the whole family army to land in Tainan.The members of the Marine Brigade are fine, but Ma Yinghu's department is extremely embarrassed, no matter what, they are no longer needed to fight.The joint command of the whole family army in Taiwan was formally established, with Vice Admiral Mao Yuanyi as the commander-in-chief, commanding the members of the Second Fleet to take over the warships captured from the Zheng family, and the machine gun divisions and marine brigades returned to the formation.These days, Quan Xu is not idle, he refilled four hunting submarines with fuel, and built a standing oil depot in Anping Port.After the preparations were completed, Quan Xu convened a meeting of the Taiwan Expeditionary Force of the whole family army to arrange.