1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 143 Landing in Newport
Fortunately, these fishermen don't have too many belongings, so it doesn't take much time to clean up and move.At ten o'clock in the morning, the "Flying Speed" set off from here, dragging seven small wooden boats and more than 40 fishermen. Two hours later, this strange-looking small fleet finally caught up with the large force in the northeast waters of Cat Ba Island. .After seeing the "huge" fleet of eight big ships, the fishermen who were still a little uneasy also settled down.It was the first time for many of them to see such a large ship, and they couldn't help but be amazed.

The fleet crossed Halong Bay eastwards. There are many islands in this area, and the beautiful sea scenery also attracted immigrants to come to the deck to watch.At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet arrived at the coast of the future Cam Phu Port, then turned north along the coast and continued on its way.About half an hour later, the pilot "Flying Speed" issued a signal that it was about to arrive at the destination, and asked the fleet behind to start slowing down.

After passing through a strait about 300 meters wide and 600 meters long, the harbor selected by the expedition team last time finally appeared in front of the fleet.This natural harbor has a coastline of about 500 meters. There are no reefs or sandbars near the shore, and the water depth is ideal.Close to the south side of the harbour, there is a small hill with an altitude of about 70 meters, which just guards the entire passageway in and out of the harbour, with the islands on the opposite side of the strait.

On July 1627, 7, the ninth day of June in the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, the colonization team from Shengli Port finally arrived at the destination of the trip.

According to the landing plan formulated in advance, the "Feisu" with a relatively shallow draft docked first, and after checking the water depth and current along the coast, it notified the ships behind to dock in sequence.Members of the military police department and armed militia are still the first to land. They need to delineate a landing area near the shore and implement a certain degree of security around the landing site.Although this is a no-man's land, there are still a lot of wild beasts. The expedition team saw rhinos and crocodiles last time, but there are still tigers, leopards, bears and other fierce beasts that have not yet appeared in the forest here. Also be careless.

During the two-day voyage, the civil affairs department divided the temporarily recruited immigrants into groups, and distributed [-] immigrants from Victory Port to these immigration groups at a ratio of one to four.Each immigrant group is kept at a size of about [-] people, and the immigrants from Shengli Port are responsible for leading the new immigrants. These naturalized immigrants who have lived in the commune for at least one month have undergone various methods of continuous brainwashing, and will obey the law. Set a good example for newcomers.

Except for the crossing people, the militia and the crew, this fleet carried a total of almost 1000 immigrants. If this number of immigrants had not been prepared by the relevant departments, it would have been a mess after landing.Fortunately, the people who traveled through have already had the experience of landing once, so they seemed much calmer during this operation.There is a special person in charge of directing the immigrants to put down their luggage at the designated location, and then immediately join the ranks of unloading.The entire fleet is unloading on the coast, and the immigrants are like a row of ants, constantly transferring the cargo on the ship to the shore by carrying it on their shoulders.

No one clearly expressed dissatisfaction with this arrangement. On the one hand, the armed militias in charge of maintaining order played a certain deterrent effect; The immigrants have made a speech, and they are very clear that the large and small bags that are being carried now are the materials they will rely on to survive here in the future.This includes the food they will eat in the future, the tents they will live in, the tools they will use, etc. If they want to settle here, moving these materials off the ship is a task that must be completed now.Moreover, these supplies are all provided by these overseas visitors who call themselves "Haihan people". If they want to eat and live in other people's homes, it is only natural to sell their labor to work for them.

Liu Shanxia brought a group of immigrants to start leveling the ground on a relatively flat place selected in advance. At present, all other infrastructure projects can be postponed, but the campsite is the problem that must be solved first.The executive committee did not expect the first immigrant recruitment to be on such a large scale. Just building tents could not meet the accommodation needs of more than 1000 people. Large-scale military tents are used, but they can only accommodate half of the population at most.There are more than a dozen prefabricated houses, but they are only used for the office and residence of the people who are stationed here and to store some important materials. It is just a drop in the bucket for the current situation, and the prefabricated houses must at least be fixed with a ground beam structure, and this is not something that can be done on the day of landing.

Liu Shanxia's solution to this situation is to hurry up and build some simple bamboo and wood sheds on the shore to temporarily settle down these immigrants.Immigrants only need to overcome it for about a week before they can live in stronger boat-shaped houses. This is not unacceptable for war refugees who have abandoned their homes and properties. In fact, most people can come here. The purpose of coming here is to seek a stable living environment. As for the quality of the residence, it is not their primary consideration.

An hour after landing, the first batch of tents had been set up on the shore.These tents are not used to live in people, but to store some important materials unloaded from the ship, such as food, cement, gunpowder and so on.In view of the fact that the number of immigrants brought in by this batch has exceeded expectations, after a brief discussion among several leaders of the colonization team, they decided not to rush to build roads leading to the inland mining area for the time being, but to build settlements first, and at the same time transfer The goods on board allow these ships to set off as soon as possible, and then go to Qinghua area for a trip.

The colonization team believes that after the population here exceeds 600, there will be basically no shortage of manpower in the preliminary development and construction plan.As for the scale of coal mining in the future, it probably needs to be linked to the sea transportation capacity of the Transit Group.For now, the Ministry of Shipping estimates that [-] to [-] tons of high-quality coal can be transported back to Shengli Port every month, so the number of miners required locally is [-]. Compared with the base camp, the development and construction here is more important. Manpower requirements are not so urgent.

At this time, Gu Kai and Qian Tiandun brought a few people, and they were doing another very important thing here at Xiaoshanbao on the south side of the port.

Although the time-traveling group has not formally established a political power to show its banner, every time-traveler has taken it for granted that the group he belongs to is the most promising emerging power in this era. As for when it will start to use it externally " The name of Haihan Republic is just a matter of time.

The executive committee is now dispatching colonization teams to build seaports and settlements here in the Beibu Gulf. This is undoubtedly an act of expanding territory through colonization in the [-]th century, and the establishment of the first overseas colony is also a pavement for the future. The expansion of the Haihan Republic provides a practical example, which is of great significance to the entire time travel group.So for this reason, the executive committee specially found a few local masons to make a two-meter-long and half-meter-wide sovereignty monument, and asked the colonization team to bring it to Xingang and find a place near the port to erect it.

After a group of people from the headquarters went ashore and walked around around, they decided to choose this place as the erection point of the Monument of Sovereignty.First, this place is relatively conspicuous, and it is easy to see after landing. Second, there are solid rocks under the floating soil on the surface here, which is perfect for pouring the Monument of Sovereignty.So they immediately dispatched a few laborers to lift the Sovereignty Monument from the ship.

This granite monument of sovereignty looks small in size, but it weighs more than 700 kilograms. Several laborers managed to lift the monument to the small mountain bag, followed by several people, carrying it on their backs. A few bags of cement come up.

Under the command of the crossing crowd, the laborers first used hoes and shovels to dig out the floating soil on the ground, and then used chisels and hammers to forcibly cut a stone groove on the stone ground.This process was very time-consuming, and Qian Tiandun left after only waiting for ten minutes. As the chief military officer, he had to keep an eye on the pier to prevent any trouble.Gu Kai waited patiently for a full hour before the clanging stone chisel finally stopped.The laborers carefully erected the Monument of Sovereignty into the stone trough to straighten it, and then someone nearby poured the mixed cement to the root, so that the Monument of Sovereignty was firmly combined with the ground.

Regarding the content on the Monument of Sovereignty, the Executive Committee has also gone through a full discussion before, and finally decided to use the form of the Monument of Sovereignty of the later Republic as a reference, and simplify it as much as possible, because this thing will probably need to be built on a large scale in a few years. , If the regulations are made too complicated now, there will be a lot of trouble when building in the future.So the content of the first overseas sovereignty monument of the Haihan regime was born in this way. The words "Committee Standing Committee" are all filled with red paint, which can be seen from a long distance.

According to the historical records of later generations, "The establishment of this monument of sovereignty symbolizes that the Haihan Republic has embarked on the road of conquering the world. Under the rule of the society, it has become a new paradise..."

But in fact, when the Monument of Sovereignty was completed, there were only a hungry Gu Kai and seven or eight laborers who were too tired to stand on the hill. One thought - get that done and go down the mountain for dinner!
(End of this chapter)