The most arrogant in history

Chapter 765: Invincible Fortress.

Ye Kun was very pleased and called back to encourage Guan Bao, praising his efficiency.

In the next two months, Ye Kun led everyone to build a new general city in the southern part of Datang Island.

The new city covers an area of ​​1,500 acres and has a population of more than 6,000.

It is surrounded by city walls, simple fortifications, and even moats in some areas.

City defense soldiers were deployed to patrol day and night.

There are only natives on the island, and their fighting capacity is very poor. For the natives, such fortifications are an invincible fortress!

With the addition of advanced guns, bows and crossbows, even 100,000 natives would not be able to break through such a simple small town.

Besides, the natives on the island were not capable of organizing a decent attack.

The supply ships sent by Guan Bao came in an endless stream.

In addition to a large amount of grain, there are also various grains, vegetables and tree seeds, various daily chemical products, various cloths and silks and linens, and various tools.

Twenty steam engines and matching lathes were also brought.

Lathes are used to process wood because there is so much wood here.

Ye Kun organized craftsmen to set up a large wood processing factory, working overtime day and night to produce various wooden boards and square materials for building wooden houses and creating various furniture.

There were three large indigenous tribes on the island, which established friendly relations with Ye Kun and gradually started barter trade relations.

The natives used various game, gems, fruits, and animal skins in exchange for refined salt, ironware, porcelain, glass, and brown and white sugar from the General City.

Brown sugar and white sugar are produced locally.

Because the climate here is suitable for growing sugarcane.

There were also indigenous tribes that presented many young women to Ye Kun.

Ye Kun ordered the educators to provide unified training to these women, teach them simple Chinese, and marry them to young soldiers to start families.

As the communication deepened, Ye Kun discovered that the natives here were actually easy to get along with.

Give them a few matches and salt, some crude china and glassware, and some iron tools, and you can have a good conversation with them.

So, Ye Kun changed his strategy and decided to take a peaceful approach and appease the natives on the island.

On the evening of the sixth day of April, Ye Kun hosted a banquet for the largest indigenous chief in the area, He Liqing.

Of course, He Liqing's name is a transliteration, meaning tall mountain.

With the help of the interpreter, Ye Kun and He Liqing had a pleasant communication.

Ye Kun rewarded a large number of supplies, including two large pendulum clocks, five small pocket watches, ten small monocular handheld telescopes, two binoculars, five lighters, and two large boxes of matches.

There are also ten barrels of various fine wines, a large amount of delicious food, as well as one hundred sets of ready-made clothes and one hundred mosquito nets.

Not to mention other gold, silver, and various treasures.

He Liqing was shocked. He followed Chinese etiquette and bowed: "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty is so rich. Thank you very much!"

Ye Kun smiled and said, "You're welcome. We came here to be friends and brothers with you. I hope that we Han people and you locals can always be at peace and build this land together so that everyone can live a good life."

He Liqing said: "The cities and cabins built by you Han people are very beautiful. Can you teach us?"

"No problem, you can arrange for some smart young people to come to our General City to study."

"Thank you, Emperor of the Great Han Dynasty." He Liqing nodded and asked again: "How big is your Great Han Dynasty? Is it bigger than ours?"

Ye Kun smiled: "We have 10,000 such general cities in the Han Dynasty. The largest city is a hundred times larger than the general city. Your tribe has 30,000 people, and the population of our Han Dynasty is 10,000 times yours."

Ten thousand times, of course that’s just bragging.

Anyway, He Liqing doesn’t know either.

Sure enough, He Liqing was so scared that he stuck out his tongue and clasped his fists towards Ye Kun to express his admiration.

Ye Kun continued to accompany the drinking and said, "I hope you can introduce more tribal leaders to me. We need a lot of friends to build this land together."

He Liqing said: "There are several large tribes to the north, but they are blocked by the rainforest. If you can cut through the rainforest and build a road, you will have many friends."

Ye Kun asked: "How wide is the rain forest?"

He Liqing replied: "It takes a whole day for one person to cross the rain forest."

It seems like this guy has no concept of distance.

There is no civilization on the island and no mature units of measurement.

He didn't recognize the large pendulum clock and pocket watch that Ye Kun gave him.

After the interpreter finished translating, he whispered, "The rain forest to the north is actually only about 20 miles wide, but it is very long and almost cuts off Datang Island."

"Then let's just split the rain forest apart. We have plenty of experience."

Ye Kun nodded and said to He Liqing, "We can provide the tools and technology and be responsible for the survey, and you can provide the people. Together we can open up the northern rainforest, okay?"

He Liqing agreed readily.

The next morning, Ye Kun invited He Liqing and professional surveyors to go to the rainforest to check it out.

After looking at the edge of the rainforest and listening to He Liqing's introduction, Ye Kun understood.

This is a plain swamp covered with tropical trees.

It is difficult to build roads in such places, but it is possible to build canals.

A canal of more than 20 miles is simply child’s play!

Ye Kun asked the interpreter to translate: "We can provide the tools, and you can provide the manpower to open a river here. Later, we can take a boat, pass the river, and cross this rain forest."

He Liqing nodded: "I can row a boat, but I can't dig a river. I can provide people, but you have to provide food."

Ye Kun laughed: "It's a deal!"

Two days later, He Liqing brought three hundred people to help Ye Kun dig the canal.

Ye Kun smiled bitterly: "Three hundred people don't seem to be enough."

"There are too many people, and I'm afraid there won't be enough food."

"No matter how much, there is always food to eat."

Ye Kun was very arrogant and pointed at the big stove in the camp: "All of you can come here and eat."

He Liqing was overjoyed and sent his men back to call for help.

Ye Kun is already at the scene, arranging the work of excavating the canal.

Everyone started digging from south to north, cutting down trees first.

The trees were sorted and all the useful wood was kept.

Useless saplings were cut right there on the spot using a steam locomotive, piled up high to dry, and used as fuel.

Some of the natives under He Liqing do not know how to use tools and need simple training.

During the first two days, progress was slow.

As the work progressed, tools and construction facilities were put in place, and progress gradually accelerated.

Ye Kun adopted a two-step approach. First, he dug a small river channel and built a raft to facilitate transportation on the small river channel.

After advancing three or four miles, they widened the river channel and moved forward step by step.

In order to facilitate travel, a Feihong Bridge was built over the river.

Seeing Ye Kun build a bridge in one day, He Liqing was so surprised that his jaw dropped. He kept saying: "The Han people are so smart. The Emperor of Han is so smart..."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "In fact, we Han people are brothers with you. Because one thousand years ago, one of our ancestors came to Southeast Asia and gave rise to you today. You see, we all look the same."

He Liqing was very happy and asked, "Why are we not as smart as you even though we are brothers?"