1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 144 Murder Case
The construction team commanded by Liu Shanxia completed the construction of 20 large military tents and 800 simple bamboo and wood huts before dark.Each tent can accommodate [-] people, and the bamboo and wood hut can accommodate ten people, which can solve the accommodation problem of about [-] people.As for the rest of the people, they will have to spend the night on the boat to make do with it. Fortunately, the boat has docked, and the boat will not be as bumpy as it was during the voyage.

The dozen or so cauldrons brought by the colonization team were all put to use. Under the command of the militia, the immigrants lined up in front of the cauldron and waited for dinner.Today's dinner is rice porridge with vegetables. Although there is no oil and water, at least it is full.The executive committee attached great importance to this overseas colonization operation, and even allocated nearly half of the grain reserves to the colonization team for emergencies.According to the current population size, there is no problem in ensuring the supply of food transported by the fleet for more than two months.The land near the port is very limited and not suitable for large-scale agricultural development. After the colonization team takes root here, they will send people to the grain-producing areas east of Hanoi to buy grain.

Of course, the traversers who are the ruling class and the naturalized people who followed the traversers from the base camp all the way here have small kitchens, and they can enjoy all kinds of game meat brought out from Hainan.Although there is not much distributed to each person, it is still a bit greasy. The most important thing is that the naturalized people have meat to reflect the difference in treatment from the new immigrants.Quite a few children were staring at this line of meat-smelling queues with longing eyes, and the elders were still drooling at the corners of their mouths without realizing it.

However, this unfair situation will not last long. Starting tomorrow morning, the headquarters will let those fishermen who brought their belongings go out to sea to fish, and organize small-scale hunting teams to hunt some wild animals nearby. to supplement meat.

After dinner, the people in the headquarters returned to the meeting room one after another. To be precise, it should be called the meeting tent, and began to prepare for the evening regular meeting.According to the agreed time, the headquarters first got in touch with the executive committee through the radio, briefly reported the progress here, and then listened to the latest instructions from the executive committee.

In addition to congratulating the colonization team on their successful arrival at the destination, the executive committee also informed the colonization team that after the executive committee passed an internal voting resolution, the new port was named Heitu Port with a result of [-]-[-].Gu Kai, who was in the colonial team, did not participate in this vote. Of course, this vote in his hand could not change the result.The name is also simple and easy to understand, with a vivid image. There are coals buried all over the ground, isn't that black soil?
After the short contact with the executive committee, the next step is to summarize the situation in all aspects and discuss the next work arrangement.First, Liu Shanxia, ​​who was in charge of the project command, put forward his opinion: "Building prefabricated houses is a technical task. We basically have to do it ourselves. There is no way to do this. But the boat house can be built by these immigrants. We brought a dozen from the base camp. A worker who can build a houseboat can let them command these Vietnamese, so the efficiency will be faster. In addition, I will send more people to me tomorrow, otherwise some people will not be able to go ashore overnight."

After getting Gu Kai's affirmative reply, Liu Shanxia went on to say: "The pier by the sea can only use the trestle type now. We don't have the conditions to build the Yonggu Wharf for the time being. Four or fifty people are enough to repair the pier. Now we use wooden ones. There are many places, so the logging team needs to arrange more people, otherwise it is very likely that they will be hindered by the wood."

"We can organize immigrants to cut down trees while clearing the passage, so as to open up the land route between the port and the mining area as soon as possible." Zhou Hengxing suggested: "In this way, Lao Liu and his engineering team can save a lot of time when they start to build roads. "

"And the one from the United States who has been an engineer? Tomorrow, you can take the tools and go to survey and map the route, and do the preparatory work." Liu Shanxia added.

"OK, no problem, leave it to me." Qiao Zhiya raised his hand and said, "By the way, my name is Qiao Zhiya."

"You better be careful when you organize migrants to cut trees in the forest. One migrant was bitten by a snake that jumped out of the grass before dinner, and he died before he could be treated." Qian Tiandun, who had just entered the tent, interjected. : "There are a lot of poisonous insects in this kind of place. I have organized immigrants to dig isolation ditches outside the residential area. In the future, wherever people move around, the ground must be cleaned up."

Diseases, poisonous insects, and beasts are undoubtedly the most deadly threats in tropical forests. Although the colonization team has made various preparations for this before departure, such a loss of manpower is still unavoidable.Fortunately, this unlucky ghost was not a time traveler, otherwise the nature of the small accident would immediately turn into a major accident.

"Report!" Someone outside the tent said.

Qian Tiandun got up and went out for a while, then quickly returned to the tent: "Something happened in the immigration camp, I'm going to deal with it."

"What's the matter?" Seeing his unkind expression, Gu Kai immediately asked.

"There are a few guys who are restless, but they have been caught by our people." Qian Tiandun put his hat on his head and said darkly: "These monkeys are indeed dishonest by nature! It seems that they really have to be killed." It takes a few chickens to set the rules."

Although Qian Tiandun didn't explain what happened, it seemed that the situation was serious, otherwise he, the chief military officer, would not need to come forward to solve it himself.Several brainy figures exchanged glances with each other, decided to suspend the meeting, followed Qian Tiandun out of the tent, and first went to see what happened.

The crossing camps are arranged at the foot of the mountain at the southern end of the port, while the immigrant settlement is located closer to the inland west.In order to facilitate management, the colonization team divided these new immigrants into two battalions of men and women, and separated them with fences.Guard posts of the rear militia are arranged around the camp, and there are irregular mobile inspection teams that will patrol the entire camp.

Even so, something went wrong in the end.A group of people from the headquarters quickly rushed to the scene of the accident—the women's camp at the southern end of the camp.

Four young men knelt down on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs.Next to him was a boy in his teens who was crying in a mess.Gao Qiaonan was standing guard with a few militiamen, and when he saw Qian Tiandun approaching, he stood at attention and gave a military salute.

Qian Tiandun raised his hand to return the salute, and then asked, "What's going on?"

"About ten minutes ago, these guys robbed the property of the two siblings. They might have met their resistance and killed my sister in desperation. I happened to take the patrol team past here and caught the two brothers on the spot. A few guys." Gao Qiaonan pointed to the tree a few feet away: "The girl's body is there, they probably want to drag her into the woods."

With Gao Qiaonan's pointing finger, Qian Tiandun found a dead body lying in the grass under the tree.He walked over and knelt down, and immediately there were militiamen holding torches to illuminate him.Qian Tiandun checked for a while, and noticed that there were obvious bruises on the neck of the female corpse, which showed that someone strangled her neck and suffocated to death.This girl doesn't look very old, and in future generations, she might look like a high school student.

"Do these people have any accomplices?" Qian Tiandun asked after getting up.

"No, there were only a few people at the scene, and none of them escaped!" Gao Qiaonan was obviously very proud of his performance.

Qian Tiandun pointed at the crying boy and said, "Which one of you can get him away first? I want to interrogate these people."

"Let me do it." Zhou Hengxing, who was good at dealing with people, volunteered to step forward, half persuading and half pushing the boy away.

"Gao Qiaonan, clean up here. The victim... first carry it to a corner in the camp and put it there overnight. Don't let the wild beasts eat it. Be careful not to disturb the people in the camp. If anyone asks, just say They were bitten by a snake." Qian Tiandun continued to order: "These four people, take them to the headquarters."

The trial process did not take too much effort, and the facts of the case soon became clear.These four guys are all deserters who ran out from the Hue battlefield. They followed the colonization team to Heitu Port. They also have to be subject to strict management, and even have to queue up to eat and go to the latrine. Life is not as easy as they imagined, so they are tempted to leave here.

But it is not easy to leave this isolated place. According to these Haihan people, the nearest inhabited place is more than a hundred miles away from here, and there is no flat road leading to the outside world. Can take a boat.If they want to escape from this place, firstly, they must have a boat, and secondly, they must have enough supplies to consume during their escape.

The boats are easier to say, these people have taken a good look at the small wooden boats on the shore, as long as they leave here overnight, and then wait until dawn to find a small island nearby to hide for three or four days, the chances of escaping the pursuers will be great.But the supply is not so easy. The three meals of the Haihan people are distributed collectively, and there is only porridge but no dry food. It is impossible for one person to escape with a bamboo tube of porridge, right?
One of them accidentally discovered that a certain boy in the same tent had a lot of dry food in his luggage, so he planned to find an opportunity to rob him.After eating dinner, the boy left the men's camp with his package, went to the women's camp to find his sister, and planned to hand over dry food, belongings and other things to her for safekeeping. After all, the women's camp is relatively safer than the men's camp. .

But at this moment, the four thieves showed up. It's a pity that their robbery process was not smooth, because everyone was searched before boarding the ship, and they had nothing to threaten each other, so they could only rely on bare hands He tried to rob, but encountered desperate resistance from the two siblings.Fearing that they would cry out, two of them pinned their sister to the ground and strangled her neck, who would have killed her just like that.It just so happened that Takahashi Minami led a team of militiamen to patrol and passed by here, and they didn't need much effort to catch these guys all at once.

(End of this chapter)