1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 230 Foundation Building
Weihaibao Wharf welcomes the arrival of three Hanzhou transport ships. Along with a large amount of supplies, there are more than 200 immigrants, which makes the population of Weihaibao exceed 1000. Let's build their homes together.

Wang Zhenliang, as the commander of Weihai Fort, welcomed the increase in population.Because according to the planning of the Hanzhou People's Government, Weihai Fort will be built into an important base for going north and south.In addition to being responsible for the transportation of materials to a series of supply points on the eastern route in the future, they were also an important node for immigrants from the Ming Dynasty to arrive in Hanzhou in the later period, so as to go south.

Therefore, a large amount of construction materials and a large number of labor forces in Hanzhou will be transported to Weihai Fort one after another, hoping to build it into an important transit base and material transportation base in the shortest possible time.

That being the case, Weihai Fort cannot develop passively and slowly like Haijiao Fort and Beikou Fort in the north.Wang Zhenliang was the first batch of Ming people to immigrate to Hanzhou. He was not as lucky as Pan Qifeng.

However, as a former property owner in Huaibei, his knowledge and adaptability are beyond ordinary people.From the beginning of the establishment of the Civilian Government, he served as a farming officer under the agricultural affairs, then to the deputy chief of the civil affairs, and finally after the establishment of Weihai Fort, he was transferred by Qi Tian to be the first commander of Weihai Fort.

The commander of the newly colonized land is naturally not the official position of the guards of the Ming Dynasty, but a civil affairs official who is subordinate to the civil government and has the same rank as the chief officer.

Moreover, according to some officials of the civil government, this year, after the three-year period for some farmers to divide their land, several towns such as Jianye City and Heishan City will partially cancel the control of reclamation and resume normal rural management.Then the establishment of prefectures and counties above the countryside is naturally a matter of course.

In the future, it may not be said that Weihai Fort will become a prefecture after it develops.For this reason, in addition to planning and building Weihai Fort, Wang Zhenliang also set up two settlements in the northwest and southwest directions five or six kilometers away from Weihai Fort, and moved more than 100 people there.

After more than half a year of reclamation, more than 2000 mu of wasteland has been reclaimed near Weihai Fort, of which more than [-] mu has been planted with potatoes, sweet potatoes, sorghum, and soybeans.If, wait for all the remaining farmland in the second season to plant grain.Perhaps next year, Weihai Fort will be able to partially achieve food self-sufficiency.

Now, everything is to lay a solid foundation for the later development.
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Two light "Flying Fish" slowly docked at the wooden pier of Fort Jinhua (now the city of Lai in Papua New Guinea), and more than a dozen Hanzhou natives surrounded them excitedly.

I finally saw people from Hanzhou. I used to experience the prosperity of Jianye City and Heishan City, but now I was dispatched to this deserted island by Master Hanzhou. Although there were two batches of people and supplies. .However, they still feel that life is a bit "hard".

However, they dare not have the slightest complaint.Master Hanzhou usually looks peaceful and gentle, but he is merciless when it comes to killing people, not to mention that they also have many powerful fire-breathing sticks (guns) and fire-breathing barrels (cannons).

In Jinhua Fort, the Hanzhou natives had to bring the Luzon natives to build the basic living houses and warehouses in the camp.Although I have been trained for a long time before coming here, the wooden houses and warehouses I built look crooked, and they are not as beautiful and tidy as the ones built by Master Hanzhou.

Dong Fengshan took a look at the camp. They are all stupid savages. After more than two months, they only built more than 40 wooden houses, two rows of warehouses, and the outer defensive wooden fence, which was also loosely built.Aren't they afraid that the cannibals will come and eat them all!
Dong Fengshan found the Hanzhou native leader who was in charge of the camp, and reprimanded him a lot.They were ordered to re-enforce and encrypt the outer defensive wooden fence in the next month, so that it must be able to block the attacks of wildlings.

At the same time, he also asked the Hanzhou natives to clean up the area 500 meters around the camp before resupply next month, and to properly reclaim some farmland and plant vegetables in it.

What a bunch of stupid savages, without food, they can survive for more than two months!
After dropping off personnel and supplies to Jinhua Fort, the two "Flying Fish" led by Dong Fengshan sailed out of the bay and continued to explore northwest to find and determine the next transfer point for immigrants on the eastern route.

In mid-May, the exploration fleet sailed to the vicinity of Manokwari, the northeast end of the Bird of Paradise Peninsula in the northwest of New Guinea.Considering that on the return journey, the two "Flying Fish" will pass through Weiyuan Fort to bring the rotating marines back to the mainland of Hanzhou.Therefore, after drawing the nautical chart, the fleet hurried back.

So far, after nearly nine months of exploration, Hanzhou has understood and mastered the detailed sea charts of most of Weiyuan Island (Guinea Island), and in fact controlled the southeast peninsula of the island.A solid step has been taken for large-scale immigration from the Eastern Front in the future.

In addition, as long as Hanzhou firmly occupies Fort Weiyuan (now Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea), it will form a key with Cape Fort (now Bamaga, Australia) on the opposite mainland of Hanzhou, linking Hanzhou The east and southeast of the mainland became the rear in the geographical sense, laying the foundation for the development and rise of Hanzhou.
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"This is the new shipyard where we build large ships and professional warships?" Cao Xiong looked excitedly at the two huge shipyards in front of him.

"Yes, this is the new shipyard for our Hanzhou to build large warships in the future!" Qi Tian said proudly.

The new shipyard is only more than 500 meters away from the original shipyard. Hanzhou used more than 2000 people to forcibly excavate a channel of more than 100 meters from a shoal area, leading directly to the new shipyard.

On the shore of the new shipyard, the original dense forest has been completely cut down, and the earth hills and rocks have been removed. Hundreds of construction workers are busy building a new fort here to protect the safety of the new shipyard.

The tight coastal defense turrets and narrow access passages will make it difficult for any incoming enemy to attack the shipyard from the sea.But it can only be difficult to launch an attack from the land, but on the land, it will face the heavily defended fortress and the heroic Hanzhou Marine Corps.

"How long before this shipyard can start building ships?" Cao Xiong asked.

"A week later, the shipbuilder should be able to settle in and start building the ship."

"Is there enough ship material in stock?"

"So far, Hanzhou has stockpiled all kinds of ship materials and tools. It is estimated that three to four ships can be built for a large ship like the Pioneer."

"It's not enough!" Cao Xiong said, "At least ten ships will be built within two years!"

"There's no rush." ​​Qi Tian said with a smile, "Even if we build so many big ships, we don't have that many sailors!"

"Oh!" Cao Xiong smiled wryly. Hanzhou still has a small population base. It seems that there will be a shortage of people in everything.

"Build two professional warships first, and strengthen our Hanzhou maritime attack force." Qi Tian said: "We must at least grasp the sea control in the northern waters of Hanzhou, and form a defense against Xinxiang Fort, Jianye City, Beikou Fort, Haijiao Fort and Maritime security on the front line of Fort Weiyuan.”

"You've thought well!" Cao Xiong nodded, "At the gate of our Hanzhou's house, we don't just let people come and go whenever they want. To prevent any immigrant ships from being sunk by others in the future! "

Qi Tian nodded, the revenge against the Portuguese must be implemented, otherwise, how will we gain a foothold in Nanyang and conquer Nanyang in the future.

"The daughter-in-law in mainland China is pregnant with a child." On the way back to Jianye City, Cao Xiong said casually.

"Oh, I'm going to have another nephew!" Qi Tian said with a smile.

"She has been pregnant for three months, and she still has to go to a girls' school to teach." Seeing that Qi Tian didn't understand what he meant, Cao Xiong simply pointed it out directly.

"The women's school is just teaching, it should be fine."

"She is the niece and daughter-in-law of the chief executive of Hanzhou, and the sister-in-law of the chief executive of the civil government. She shouldn't show her face like this."

"Uncle, you treat the people of Hanzhou a little differently. The garment workshops and embroidery workshops in Jianye City are all women."

"Decent!" Cao Xiong glared at Qi Tian angrily.

When he was in Dengzhou before, Qi Tian, ​​who had read some books, used to put so much emphasis on education and observance of etiquette, but how come he didn't care about it when he came to Hanzhou.Shouldn't a woman just give birth at home and take care of the housework?
"Uncle, there are some men in this world who are not too strong than women. Besides, the population of Hanzhou is dwindling and manpower is insufficient. How can we let all the women sit idle at home?"

"I didn't say to let all the girls stay at home." Cao Xiong said patiently, "Daughters-in-law in mainland China have different identities after all!"

"However, she doesn't want to stay at home. She likes to teach students in a girls' school."

"You..." Cao Xiong was angry, "You son of a bitch, how can you have the same virtue as the third child?"

"I just said, it turns out that the third brother also wants the third sister-in-law to come to the women's school to teach."

"You have a daughter-in-law, and let her come out to do things?"

"Of course, as long as she wants."

"I don't know what to say!" Cao Xiong waved his hands, dropped Qi Tian, ​​and rode straight towards Jianye City.

"Little bastard, it's full. It's time to find him a wife!" Halfway, Cao Xiong thought.

After entering Jianye City, Cao Xiong got off his horse and walked slowly. Seeing the increasing number of pedestrians on the street and the neat rows of houses, he suddenly felt particularly at ease.

At noon, several teams of students from the Army and Navy Training Institute lined up and marched towards the cafeteria.Several childish children shouted and followed beside them, trying to walk in a uniform pace.However, they were quickly grabbed by their respective parents and dragged away from the direction of the queue.

Workers in the workshop, who were closing shifts in twos and threes, walked on the road, chatting and laughing with each other, discussing, and narrating their interesting experiences or problems arising from their work.

Several Marine Corps officers in blue and black military uniforms with resolute expressions rushed outside the city, about to convey the latest military deployment made by Hanzhou to the soldiers in the barracks outside the city.

In a building in the south of the city, hundreds of students were in their classrooms, respectfully saluting their teachers.Then, holding the book in his hand, he walked quickly towards the cafeteria.

Jianye City, Heishan City, New Huai'an, Kaiyuan Fort... The towns and villages built by Hanzhou seem to be bursting with a kind of high-spirited vitality.

In the first three years of Hanzhou's establishment, the foundation has been established.

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——End of the second volume

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