Governor Lu Si and Zhu Ciao were inspecting the seaside. When they saw the houses that had suddenly been built by the seaside, they were so scared that they trembled.
"This is too shocking! Your Majesty, are these your craftsmen?"
"Yes, they were all sent by Zhen to develop the Leizhou Prefecture!”
In the second town center, Zhu Cixi recruited 10,000 farmers.
The leveling requirements for every Town Center were the same. If the second Town Center wanted to level up to Level 4, it also needed to reach the 50,000 population limit.
Moreover, as long as one of the towns leveled up, the town center that would be built in the future would be built according to the highest-grade town center.
Zhu Ci Xin felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he would have waited for the town center of Qiongzhou Island to level up to level 4. Then, he would have built this town center, and it would have directly reached level 4.
Since it had already been built, Zhu Ci Xin could not go back on his word.
The 10,000 farmers were divided into 1,000 groups. They arrived at the center of the town and began to build houses, cut down wood, and excavate minerals.
Blacksmiths, cement factories, and brick factories were also built in the center of the town.
After ten days, the second town center had already taken on the appearance of a small city.
It was even more majestic and lively than Leizhou City.
Many of the citizens in Leizhou Prefecture liked to go to the second town center.
The prices here were cheap, and the key was the town's market, where all kinds of materials were available.
Lu Si was greatly shocked. He had never expected such a situation to happen.
Looking at the rapidly expanding town center, and how it had become more prosperous than Leizhou City's town center in less than half a month, Lu Si could not believe his eyes.
"Your Majesty, in less than half a month, the city next to Hai 'an County has surpassed Leizhou City, and its scale is still expanding!”
Zhu Ci Xin was very calm. The town center had indeed expanded very quickly in the early stages.
In less than half a month, the number of buildings in the second town center was the same as that in the first town center of Qiongzhou Island. There were four shipyards and docks.
However, this also consumed a large amount of resources. The resources stored in the first town center were basically all consumed by the second town center.
There were less than 20 million yuan left in the food reserves after a month.
In order to continue the uprising, Zhu Ciao was prepared to use 20 million units of food to recruit the southern army's sword card players and spearmen.
1000 units of food would be enough to recruit one person. 20 million units of food would be enough to recruit 20,000.
10,000 southern swordsmen and 10,000 southern spearmen.
These 20,000 soldiers belonged to the second city center.
The food that Zhu Ciyao used to recruit soldiers was dried fish and sweet potatoes.
The rice and potatoes were stored in the granary built in the center of the town.
Zhu Cixi would not store rice and potatoes into the system's food resources.
The soldiers 'rations were these grains and potatoes.
The granary in the center of the second town stored all the rice and potatoes transported from the granary in the first town.
It would take another four months for the crops in the second town to be harvested.
In the granary, there were 20 million catties of rice and 50 million catties of potatoes. These were the harvests from the farmlands in the center of the first town.
The farmers and soldiers in the center of the town each consumed three catties of food a day.
The food stored in the granary was enough for the soldiers and farmers to consume.
20,000 soldiers were training in the barracks in the second town center.
Zhu Ci Xin was prepared to personally lead these twenty thousand soldiers.
The remaining 400 flintlock soldiers, 500 musketeers, and 500 three-eyed musketeers were temporarily stationed on Qiongzhou Island.
The soldiers were training in the camp. Inspector Lu, who was already suspicious of life, was now even more suspicious of life.
"Your Majesty, why do I feel like I'm dreaming? There are actually so many soldiers!"
Zhu Ci Xin was very calm as he pointed at the military camp.
"These are all people who are willing to go through fire and water for Great Ming! As for their weapons and armors, they were naturally forged by my blacksmith shop!”，Zhu Ci Xin lied without blushing at all.
Lu Si did not suspect anything. In the past few days, many civilians had indeed come from all directions and entered the military camp.
"Your Majesty, we have a strong army now. I don't think we need to fear Slave Jian anymore!”
Zhu Ci Xin laughed coldly.
"Jiannu Tartars, what are you afraid of?"
He had been in Leizhou Prefecture for more than a month and finally received a messenger pigeon from the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Zhu Ci opened the note. It was the information written by the Jinyiwei.
"The Tang Emperor knew that I was still alive and decided to abolish Longwu's reign name, but Zheng Zhilong rejected him! The Brocade Guard also said that Zheng Zhilong had sent 400 warships south to find the reason for the disappearance of the cargo ship.”
Lui Si was a little flustered.
"Four hundred warships. According to the time, they should be reaching Qiongzhou Island soon, right?”
"Yes, probably in the next few days or so!”
"Your Majesty, are you going back to Qiongzhou Island?”
"No need. The resources stored in this month are enough. I will arrange for people to build another 200 warships!”
The four shipyards at the center of the second town also began to produce warships.
In 25 days, he would be able to complete the construction of 200 warships.
During this period of time, the two hundred warships of Qiongzhou Island were responsible for patrolling the sea.
On the 30th of July, the weather was clear and cloudless.
Zheng Zhilong's brother, Zheng Hongkui, led 400 warships and appeared on the surface of Qiongzhou Island.
Zheng Hongkui looked at the warships on the surface of Qiongzhou Island through his monocular and felt his head swell.
"Motherf * cker, when did such a large scale warship appear on the surface of Qiongzhou Island? This warship is obviously much bigger than ours!”
The aide beside Zheng Hongkui looked at him and shuddered.
"General, this is not good! The flags on these warships all had the words 'Great Ming' written on them!”
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