Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 386, busy building the city

"Hey~ Hey~Pull the radish~ I can't pull it out, grandpa, come on, come on and pull the radish~"

"Bah~"

The way to open it is wrong.

"Hey yo~ hey yo~"

On the edge of the primeval forest near the bend of the Tamsui River, a group of men stretched their arms and chanted, cutting logs with the big saws made by the Miyun Iron Works.

"It's about to fall~ It's about to fall, get out of the way~"

"Boom~"

Accompanied by a slight shaking of the ground, a two-foot-diameter tree fell directly, and the men who felled the wood suddenly showed smiles.

Ryukyu is densely covered with primitive forests, and the trees are very tall, and there are many kinds of precious and high-quality trees among them. Now that the city is going to be built, these firewoods are naturally indispensable in the early stage.

"The quality of the ironware from the Miyun Iron Works is undeniable. It's awesome~"

Someone looked at the ironware in his hand, and it was branded with the four characters of Miyun Iron Works. The ironware produced by Miyun Iron Works is of good quality and cheap. The key is that there are various styles that no one has seen before.

For example, the saw in front of us is specially designed for logging. It has handles on both ends. When logging, the two sides push and pull each other. Logging is very labor-saving. A big tree can be easily knocked down in two or three strokes.

"Isn't that right? This is the property under Mr. Liu's command. Mr. Liu has always been the most honest in his work and never lied to us."

Someone nodded and said.

"Work, work~"

The leader smiled and signaled everyone to continue logging.

In a flat area not far away, many advance team members have leveled out a piece of land with sickles, axes, saws and other tools in their hands, and all the weeds, trees, etc. on the land have been cleaned up.

"This piece of land is very good, the terrain is very flat, and there is a river above it that can divert water to build tap water, and a drainage ditch can be dug below to build an underground drainage system. In addition, it is close to the river bend, and the river bend can be used here. Come meet the docks and harbors, which can be used to moor ships in the future."

Li Yuanshan held a map in his hand. This was the topographical map of the surrounding area that he had spent time drawing in the past few days. After choosing and choosing, he finally chose the place to build the city, which is the flattened land under his feet.

Dong Mu on the side also had a map in his hand, which was exactly the same as Li Yuanshan's, but he couldn't understand the content on it at all, such as the scale, latitude and longitude, and the lines on the map, which were very different from the maps he had seen before. There are so many differences.

However, he still pretended to listen half-understood, at least he was the captain of the advance team, even though he had been ordered before coming here, to listen to Li Yuanshan in terms of building the city, but he still had to show his existence to some extent .

In addition to him, there was a needless father-in-law beside him, Eunuch Zhang, who was the supervising army sent by Emperor Hongzhi. He also looked at the map in front of him with black eyes, and he also couldn't understand the things on it, but He also pretended to understand.

"Dong team, Zhang Gonggong, if there is no problem, we will build the city here?"

Li Yuanshan asked the two with a smile.

"Our family has no objections. We can build a city wherever we want, as long as we build a house as soon as possible. Living in tents every day is really uncomfortable."

Eunuch Zhang said at the top of his voice, he is a eunuch in the palace, and he has no part to speak in the palace. He thought that he would be able to live a good life this time, but who knew he was sent to such a wild place as Ryukyu Island I have suffered.

Living in a tent every day, he dared not go out at night, because the mosquitoes outside were too severe, and it was terribly hot during the day, which made him, a lifeless eunuch, very uncomfortable.

"I think this place is also very good. It can be attacked in advance and defended in retreat. It is very suitable for building a city."

Dong Mu pretended to be very serious and said these words to show his existence.

After getting along with Li Yuanshan and the others for a long time, he felt that he didn't seem to understand anything, but Li Yuanshan and the others seemed to understand everything, not only knew how to sail, how to fire guns, but also to draw maps, and even how to build cities. ?

Compared with them, I feel that I am a mud-legged person, a country bumpkin, and I don't understand anything, which is unacceptable.

"Since both of you have no objections, we will officially start the construction."

Li Yuanshan nodded with a smile and said.

"Our current manpower is too small, Dong team, can we go to Fujian to recruit some manpower, here is just across the river from Fujian, it is very convenient to go back and forth."

"In addition, we need buffaloes for land reclamation, so we can go to Fujian to buy some buffaloes."

After thinking for a while, Li Yuanshan articulated some of the difficulties in front of him.

It is definitely not an easy task to build a city on a piece of barren land, especially with the two thousand people in front of me, if we want to speed up the progress, we must have more people.

Before coming here, Liu Jin had already made it clear to Dong Mu and Li Yuanshan that they could recruit manpower and purchase materials from Fujian to build the city.

Of course, Liu Jin has also made two-handed preparations. In the north, people have been arranged to go to Henan, Shandong, Beizhili, and Shanxi to recruit people, and batches of them will be transported to the Ryukyu side.

Fujian is very close to Ryukyu, separated by a strait, and travel is very convenient. Quanzhou in Fujian has been an important point of the Maritime Silk Road since ancient times. It has mature ports and supporting industries, and even shipbuilding in Quanzhou. The industry was very prosperous in Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

The treasure ships that Zheng He sailed to the West were basically made in Quanzhou. It can be seen from this that the shipbuilding industry in Fujian is actually quite developed, but it was closed to the outside world after the Ming Dynasty, and the shipbuilding industry in Quanzhou, which has flourished for hundreds of years, is also All of a sudden it went off.

"Okay, okay, Eunuch Zhang and I will go to Fujian, recruit some people, and buy some buffaloes~"

When Dong Mu heard Li Yuanshan's words, his eyes lit up immediately. In fact, Li Yuanshan didn't mention it, he was ready to mention it.

There is nothing here in Ryukyu, and there are so many mosquitoes, he doesn't want to stay here for a long time, and now he can take this opportunity to go to Fujian for a walk.

"Yes, yes, Captain Li, you are knowledgeable and talented. You are indispensable for building a city. The two of us don't know how to build a city. It's useless to stay here. Just go to Fujian for a walk. Recruiting people is still possible."

When Eunuch Zhang heard this, he immediately nodded his head again and again. He likes this job. Anyway, as long as he doesn't stay here, it's fine. As for the supervising army, do we need to supervise the army?

This place is far away from the capital, and there is no war. He has already made up his mind to pay attention to any army that needs him to supervise. After going to Fujian, he will find an excuse to stay there, and come back when he can go back.

"Okay, then I will trouble you to go!"

Of course Li Yuanshan knew why they agreed so readily, and it was fine if they left, so he could do things freely without asking for their opinions on everything.

Soon, the advance team was divided into two parts. Dong Mu and Zhang Gonggong took some people to drive the boat to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, preparing to recruit more manpower and purchase various supplies, while Li Yuanshan began to take The rest of the people began to build the city vigorously here.

Level the land, plan the layout of the city, excavate the underground drainage system, build a water system, build a simple peripheral fence with wood, and build a fort...

There are so many things that need to be arranged one by one, but none of these can trouble these people in the advance team.

In the advance team, there are a large number of backbones drawn by Liu Jin from the industries under his command. These people used to be mud-legged, and they did things like carpentry, masonry, farming, blacksmithing, military households, and so on. Yes, but without exception, they all come from poor backgrounds.

People from poor backgrounds are very hard-working, so naturally they don't say anything when they work.

After working in the industry under Liu Jin's command, he began to learn various things, such as literacy and hyphenation, and management. He was hardworking and hardworking, so he was able to become a backbone.

With these people, plus these students who graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy, Li Yuanshan arranged things, and everything was arranged in an orderly manner.

Those who dig trenches are responsible for digging trenches, those who log are responsible for logging, those who build tap water are responsible for building tap water, and those who reclaim land are responsible for reclaiming land. Everything is arranged very properly without any confusion.

Under the arrangement and leadership of these people, the project progressed very smoothly.

"After this water pipe is connected, the tap water is considered complete~"

In just three days, the water supply project was completed.

Here in Danjiang upstream of Jiancheng, the advance team members dug ditches to divert water, built pools with cement, and then used the water pipes produced by the Miyun Iron Works to fix the tap water.

"The water pipe is connected, and the water can be started!"

When the water pipes were connected, some people ran to the height of the fort, and used semaphore to shout to the tap water pool in the upper reaches. Soon, the people at the tap water pool also used semaphore to reply.

"Open the gate~"

Following Li Yuanshan's order, Zhang Lun turned on the faucet, and immediately gushing water flowed out of the faucet.

Although it is not the first time for everyone to see this tap water, in Tianjin, here in Tianjin New City, tap water is almost everywhere, and everyone has seen it when they were training in Tianjin Maritime Academy.

But now everyone finally understands what this tap water is all about. I used to think that this tap water was incredible. You just need to turn on the switch, and the water will come by itself. It is very magical, very incredible.

Now that everyone has built this tap water by themselves, they immediately understood that it is actually quite simple. It is nothing more than building a few large pools on it and connecting them with pipes. There is nothing unusual, but convenience is indeed convenient. It feels great.

　My family lives in the countryside, and I used to carry water for many years when I was a child~ What I envy the most is the place with running water.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)