With the sound of dinging, a village has begun to take shape. Many of the cut down trees are processed into building materials, either used to build wooden houses, arrow towers, or to build walls.

The construction team and sailors who arrived here with the ship were working on the plan and drawings, and they were working on the construction period as soon as possible. The village was built at the end of the deadline, so that the fleet personnel could have a stable foothold on the shore.

It is now early February, and this site will be completed at the end of February, and then it will be expanded outward with this as the core.

In the late summer, the village should be expanded into a fortress with general defense capabilities, with an exterior wall composed of rammed earth and wooden fences, which can block the attack of an enemy of a scale of thousands of people.

On this basis, a second round of expansion will be carried out. When winter comes, it must be expanded into a small town that can accommodate more than 2,000 people for a long time. It has all kinds of living facilities and defense facilities, and it will become a trade base that can effectively defend itself.

By then, this city called "Vladivostok" will be initially completed, preparing for a new round of expansion to the next year.

It is a bit rushed to build a city of such a large scale in this wilderness in this lonely and overseas country, so this team as an advance team must race against time to carry out construction as planned, and build the small city when winter comes.

When winter comes, the bay will freeze and ships cannot be navigated. People stationed in the stronghold can only rely on the materials hoarded in advance to spend the winter. If the preliminary preparations are not done well, it is likely that they will stay in the spring of the following year. When the company's fleet comes back, they will only see a dead city.

No one wanted to see this scene, so as the city building envoy of the Maritime Bureau, Xie Wending dared not take it lightly.

At this time, he and his entourage commanded on the construction site, coordinated various affairs, and ensured a "good start".

The city building envoy of Vladivostok is Xie Wending's position. The Maritime Department and Beiyang Trading Company both attach great importance to the future development prospects of Vladivostok, so they attach great importance to the construction of Vladivostok, mobilize manpower and material resources to go north, and build Vladivostok in batches.

Now it is February, with the southeast wind blowing, and many fleets of ships will arrive here one after another, transporting a large amount of supplies, bringing more personnel, and dividing up work and working together to prepare for the newly built Vladivostok city to survive the first winter.

Xie Wending's responsibility is to be fully responsible for the construction of the city. As for trading with the local Marine tribe and hiring their people to assist in the construction of the city, the "trade representative" Lu Wuji was responsible for it.

With Lu Wuji in charge of business and hiring personnel, Xie Wending's burden was lighter, but it was not so easy to build a new city in this barren land.

He knew that he had to consider everything that once a problem occurred in a certain link and delayed construction period, it would lead to a series of problems and delayed progress.

Not to mention that the various fleets that were scheduled to arrive here one after another may have various changes during the voyage, resulting in the failure of the materials to be transported and the additional personnel to be dispatched. This is also a question that Xie Wending must consider.

In order to prevent accidents, the city building plan has many emergency measures so that the city building team can face various emergencies as calmly as possible and ensure that everything is ready when the winter freezing period arrives.

According to local militarists, this bay will freeze in winter, and the ice age is about November of that year to February of the next year. Of course, this is the date after being converted to the Central Plains Calendar.

By then, although the entire bay will not be frozen, the floes on the sea will affect the waterway and make it impossible for the sea ships to navigate normally.

Moreover, when the sea surface freezes, the ships anchored by the sea will be frozen or squeezed by floes. The bigger the ship, the more unlucky it is.

The method adopted by the Marine boatmen was to tow the fishing boats ashore, but for the trading company fleet, such a large sea boat could not be towed ashore at all.

If all ships go south and return, it is not good, so it is necessary to dig a "dock" to let the ships enter the dock and drain the water in the dock to help the sea boats survive the cold winter. Digging the dock is also a big project.

But there must be a dock, because even in order to allow the ship to survive the winter, it must provide necessary places for the repair of the ship. As an important trade base, Vladivostok must have the ability to repair the bottom of the ship.

In other words, there must be a ship repair yard to maintain and repair ships traveling to Vladivostok, and thus there must be supporting facilities such as woodworking plants.

Therefore, the task of building a city was arduous. Xie Wending couldn't help but sigh when he looked at this uninhabited coast.

Originally, it would be much more convenient to build a city near the Marine Tribe on the west coast of the bay, but the Maritime Trading Company and Beiyang Trading Company considered it from many aspects, and finally chose to build a city on the east coast of the bay.

This "ji"-shaped bay is divided into east and west coasts, and the location of the east coast (Vladivostok) is actually a peninsula. The coast of Vladivostok is located is the west coast for this peninsula.

The reason for this site selection is mainly for long-term considerations, because Vladivostok, as an important base of Beiyang Trading Company, must assume the function of "forward base".

Just like the meaning of the Liucheng in Yingzhou to the official army's attack on Liaodong.

In a few years, Vladivostok will become larger and larger, not only as a trade base, but also as a stronghold for pioneering groups and the "home port" of the expedition fleet.

The increasingly larger Vladivostok will inevitably change the attitude of the local Marine tribe. No one is sure whether the other party's attitude will become better or worse, so choosing to build a city on the easily guarded peninsula is a long-term solution.

This also laid a good foundation for Beiyang Trading Company to deal with various departments of the Marine Department.

The marsh, also known as "Su Shen" and "Wu Ji", are all braided. According to the living areas of each tribe, there are different names for the living areas of each tribe. The ones living in the Heishui River Basin are called "Heishui River Basin", and the tribes living in the Sumoshui River are called "Sumoshui River".

The marsh is actually a general term for many tribes living in the Baishan and Black Waters of the Central Plains court. The living customs of each tribe are different. There are differences between the marsh and marsh. There are also many tribes within the marsh.

The places where various tribes live are said to be under the rule of Fuyu Kingdom. Although Fuyu Kingdom is no longer here, there are some connections between the tribes, which are united or fought against each other.

Among them, Sumo Mohe is located in the southernmost part of the Zhumo Mohe, so it has contact with the western Liaoning region. Most of the people from Sumo Mohe who came to the Central Plains to meet the emperor during the years came from Sumo Mohe.

The Mohe tribe in western Liaoning that Lu Wuji and others are the various tribes of Sumo Mohe, and the territory occupied by Sumo Mohe is very wide. The Mohe tribe on the north and the East China Sea is one of the Mohe tribes.

According to the news that Lu Wuji came back from inquiry, it seems that the relationship between the various divisions of Sumo and Hei Shui Martial Arts is not very good.

Beiyang Trading Company will use Vladivostok as its base and continue to explore sea and land northwards, and sooner or later it will contact the black water moth in the north. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Vladivostok's location will be chosen on the east coast of the bay, which will appear to be "independent".

As he thought about it, Xie Wending felt his head swelling. He only knew the name of Mary before, but he didn't expect that this Dongyi actually had so many inside stories. The relationship between the various departments was complicated and made people feel a mess.

Fortunately, he only needs to be responsible for building a city, and naturally there are other capable people to do the connections with various departments of the Marine in the future.

Looking at the busy construction site and looking at the drawings, Xie Wending recalled the wooden model of Vladivostok City that he had seen again.
Chapter completed!