Jinzhe Ferry, as the name suggests, Hot Spring is a port with hot springs.

This is the outer port of Ishimi Yinshan. Because Ishimi Yinshan is located in the deep mountains and it is inconvenient to transport on land, the local official who managed Ishimi Shan then dug a mountain road of more than ten miles, connecting the mine and this natural harbor, as a port for silver export and an unloading terminal for materials required for mine operations.

The entire hot spring is actually a narrow fjord, with long piers on both sides, surrounded by mountains, and a large outlying island at the entrance of the fjord. No matter how big the wind and waves are, they cannot affect the ships in the pier. They are indeed unique in geographically.

As Japan's largest silver mountain, Ishimi Yin Mountain produces an annual silver output of up to one million taels, so it was naturally repeatedly contested by Daming. The Daming people built a series of castles to defend the Yin Mountain. On the outlying island at the entrance of Hot Spring, a Shinshan City was built to defend against the thieves attacking from the sea.

The headquarters of the Wenquanjin Water Police Department was rebuilt using this Zhishan City.

"Use" means to demolish all the castles that were originally built with stones in Hot Spring, and then use those stones and cement to build a brand new castle.

This bastion almost occupies the entire island. Well, mainly because the island itself is not big, only a little over 25,000 square meters.

The stolen basin has three layers, like an irregular multi-layer cake. One layer is the highest, nearly five meters long, mainly for wave prevention.

Because the tall stone walls poured from wool concrete stand straight on the reef. After being beaten by the wet sea water for only a year, the stone walls were already covered with thick moss. The moss was slippery and the possibility of climbing from the outside was completely eliminated.

On the first floor of the fortress, there are gun positions on all sides, as well as female walls to protect the musketeers. Between the first floor and the second floor, there are only four wooden ladders that can be removed at any time. The second floor also has gun positions and female walls. In the internal warehouse, two months of water and military supplies are also stored.

Moreover, the square city tower divides the first floor into four unconnected areas, which seriously limits the scale of troops invested by the siege.

In this way, if one layer is unfortunately lost, the coast guard officers and soldiers can retreat to the second layer and hold on for more than two months.

The situation on the third floor is similar, with wooden ladders that can be removed at any time, gun positions and female walls, which store the amount of water and military supplies for the month. The square city tower also divides the second floor into four corners so that the coast guards who retreat to the third floor can last for another month.

There is also strict access control discipline in the castle. For example, outsiders must be disarmed when entering the castle, make an appointment in advance, and do not enter, and the number of people cannot exceed three. The fort gate is closed before the sun sets, and it is absolutely not allowed to open until dawn. After nightfall, all stairs must be guarded. Under no circumstances can be left alone, etc.

On the breakwater and dock on the west side of the basin, hotels and prisons are specially built to accommodate visitors and captured prisoners.

It is necessary to be so cautious. This is the Warring States Period in Japan, surrounded by tigers and wolves, and it is also the gateway to Japan's No. 1 Silver Mountain. The island is too close to the shore and can even swim over when the tide is low. As long as a trace of flaws is revealed, it will inevitably be attacked by those cruel and powerful names, powerful men, bandits, and water thieves.

Even the honest farmer may pick up a hoe, a fork, turn into a "warrior hunting" at any time, suddenly show his fangs and bite it hard.

Therefore, the three most important things for the officers and soldiers stationed in this dangerous place are safety, safety, or safety!

The security area even allows them to abandon all facilities outside the castle, including warships, when necessary, and withdraw them to the city to stand for help.

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Therefore, Mr. Zhao came here this time and was the top priority of the inspection, which was also safe.

Standing on the high castle, looking at the mountain on Shijianshan in the distance, the mountain blowing the city of Tianshou. Wang Rulong told Zhao Hao that even if he encountered the worst situation, such as the castle being besieged, the carrier pigeons being hunted, and the continuous strong winds and waves were not allowed to go out to sea, the reinforcement fleet in the security area would set off on the tenth day of the severance of contact and arrive here within half a month.

"So as long as they can hold on for a month, there will be no trouble!" Wang Rulong said in a deep voice.

"How is it, do you have confidence?" Zhao Hao asked Hua Feng, director of the Wenquanjin Water Police Station, who was standing beside him.

"Young Master, don't worry, we have already sworn to persevere until the last one!" Huafeng hurriedly replied loudly, "As long as there is still someone who can move, the Japanese slaves will not want to take down our castle!"

"Relax," Zhao Hao smiled and said, "Don't be so tragic."

"Hehe, yes." Hua Feng smiled contemptuously and said, "The little Japanese don't even have a cannon, and he still wants to attack my hot spring mountain city? Go dreaming! I can even waste them to death!"

"Let you speak well, not brag about Bo Yi!" Jin Ke glared at him, but in fact, this was already the most cautious general under his command. There was no way, it was too difficult to let these guys from the Qi family army take the Japanese seriously.

"Yes." Huafeng shrank his neck and whispered: "This is just talking well..."

"Oh, by the way," Zhao Shizhen, who was following Zhao Hao, asked, "Have you tried the thunder fireball equipped with you?"

"It's so good!" Hua Feng said with praise: "Absolute weapon to defend the city!"

"Oh, what thunderbolt fireball?" Zhao Hao was stunned when he heard this. Obviously he had never heard of it before.

"This is a gadget that my nephew transformed from "The General Yao of Wu Jing". Because it is an old antique, he did not alarm his uncle." Zhao Shizhen explained.

"Come on, let's take a look." Mr. Zhao was interested. He felt that the weapon he could be attracted to by his eldest nephew was definitely not that simple.

"Yes." Huafeng quickly instructed his men to go to the ammunition depot to get a few thunderbolt fireballs.

Zhao Hao took it and saw that he was indeed not very good-looking... The main body was a complete piece of bamboo, with a piece of bamboo left at one end as a handheld handle. It looked like a bamboo scoop for wine.

The eldest nephew told Zhao Hao that there were four kilograms of black gunpowder and more than thirty sharp pieces of porcelain, which was actually a big firecracker with added materials.

He asked Zhao Hao to hide from a safe distance, then ignite the fuse with a fire sniff, and took it in his hand for two seconds before dropping the thunder fireball from the top of the city.

With a bang, it was like a bolt from the blue. Before the bamboo tube fell on the reef, it exploded in the air.

Zhao Hao saw that the powerful impact force blew the broken porcelain pieces and bamboo tubes into pieces, scattering and thumping on the reefs and walls!

"What a good guy, prefabricated fragmented grenade!" Seeing that the range of killing could be about ten feet, Mr. Zhao couldn't help but shout.

"Grenade, a good name!" Zhao Shizhen said in front of him when he heard this: "But only if he explodes on his head can he have such a large range of killing."

"This thing is first-class in the city," he said with some dissatisfaction: "But the problem is that you can't throw it far. Of course, there is no problem when defending the city, but it is useless when fighting in field and naval warfare."

"Well, throwing is the right direction, so you can improve slowly. Even if you can't use it on the ship for a while, you can still equip it to the Marines." Mr. Zhao gave positive affirmation and reserved a piece of equipment for the fourth class.

"Yes!" Getting affirmed by my uncle was Zhao Shizhen's greatest motivation, and he immediately responded with great enthusiasm.

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Then, Mr. Zhao visited the military warehouse again.

The island is humid and it is difficult to store food for a long time, so the warehouse is located above the second floor, and rice, flour and beans are kept in sealed in large jars. The side food is mainly sausages, bacon, bacon, fish, air-dried chickens and ducks, moldy and dried vegetables, dried kelp, chickens and ducks, chickens and ducks, chickens and ducks, and eggs.

In the armory, gunpowder is wrapped in oil paper and put in porcelain jars, then stuffed with wood, and sealed with yellow mud. Spare guns are also applied with grease inside and outside, wrapped in oil paper...

In short, no matter what item is, the difficulty of preserving is much higher than that inland. If you do not have the method of properly keeping it, you will be out of ammunition and food and the weapons will be scrapped within one or two months...

This is all through continuous discovery, improvement, and accumulation of experience little by little. Only a rigorously trained army will pay so much attention to details. If we can achieve this level, there may only be Zhao Hao's coast guard troops in the world. Even the Qi family army is limited by the cultural quality of officers and soldiers, it is impossible to do it.

Moreover, even if it is scientifically managed and strictly managed, the losses here are ridiculously great. The entire water police station has 1,000 people and 30 ships, and the annual military expenditure is as high as 100,000 taels of silver!

This wouldn't be able to afford it if there was a mine at home.

Well, but there is really a mine in his house...

While visiting the silver warehouse on the third floor of the castle, Mr. Zhao saw a full warehouse of silver ingots!

These silver ingots were excavated and refined from Shijian Yinshan and then transported to the hot spring. After the officers and soldiers of the Water Police Department accepted the case under the castle, they lifted them up with Popeye cranes installed on the third floor to store them in the warehouse.

Every three months, silver ships will follow the main fleet to come to the hot springs and Jinqing stocks once. This has been repeated five times.

"How much money is this?" Mr. Zhao asked someone to tear open the seal of the wooden box and enjoyed the visual impact of his eyes.

"One box of one hundred silver ingots, one silver ingot is fifty taels, and this is a total of one hundred boxes." Jia Youcai, the police commissioner in charge of the silver treasury, replied hurriedly.

"That's 500,000 taels." Zhao Hao looked at the whole room and couldn't help but think that 500,000 taels were just that much. This young master knocked Lao Wang for millions of taels, which was indeed a little cruel...

"So, can there be 500,000 taels of silver put into warehouse in one quarter?"

"Last year is almost the same. This year's improvement is obvious. I can send it to Yinshan twice this month, and it looks like a hundred thousand taels." Jia Youcai said.

"Then I won't get two million and four million taels this year?" Zhao Hao was overjoyed when he heard this. He expected that after using the Ming Dynasty's silver refining technology, the output would almost double, that is, the annual output would be two million taels. Unexpectedly, it would be more.
Chapter completed!