Chapter 143 Landing in New Port

Fortunately, these fishermen's belongings are not too much, so it does not take much time to pack and move. At ten o'clock in the morning, the "Speed" set out 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 northeastern waters of Cat Ba Island. After seeing this "huge" fleet of eight large ships, I was originally a little uneasy.

The fishermen also settled down. It was the first time for many of them to see such a large seagoing ship, and they couldn't help but marvel.

The fleet crossed Halong Bay eastward. There are many islands in this area, and the beautiful sea scenery also attracted immigrants to come to the deck to watch. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet arrived at the coast of Cam Phau Port, and then walked along the coast

Turn to the north and continue moving forward. About half an hour later, the pilot "Speed" sent a signal that it was about to reach its destination and asked the fleet behind it 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, and there are no any nearshore

The rocks, sandbars, and water depth are also ideal. Close to the south side of the harbor, there is a small mountain with an altitude of about 60 to 70 meters, which happens to guard the entire channel in and out of the harbor from the island on the opposite side of the strait.

On July 21, 1627, the ninth day of June in the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty, the colonization team from Victory Port finally arrived at their destination.

According to the landing plan made in advance, the "Speed" with a shallow draft docked first. After checking the water depth and currents along the coast, it notified the following ships to dock in sequence. The first to land was the Military and Police Department.

members and armed militia, they need to demarcate a landing area near the coast and implement a certain degree of vigilance around the landing site. Although it is an uninhabited land, there are still a lot of various wild beasts. The expedition team saw them here last time

There are rhinos and crocodiles, but there are still tigers, leopards, bears and other beasts that have not yet appeared, living in the forests here, and you can't be careless for a moment.

The civil affairs department divided the temporarily recruited immigrants into groups during the two-day voyage, and distributed the two hundred immigrants from Victory Port to these immigration groups in a ratio of one to four. Each immigration group maintained

With a scale of about a hundred people, immigrants from Victory Port are responsible for leading the new immigrants. These naturalized people who have lived in communes for at least one month have been continuously brainwashed in various ways and will make good contributions to the new immigrants in terms of obeying the law.

example.

In addition to the travelers, militiamen and crew, this fleet carried a total of almost a thousand immigrants. If the relevant departments had not been prepared for this number of immigrants, it would have been a mess after landing. Fortunately,

The travelers had already landed once before, so they seemed much more calm during this operation. There was a dedicated person in charge of instructing the immigrants to drop off their luggage at the designated location, and then immediately get into unloading. The entire fleet was unloading on the coast.

, the immigrants, like a line of ants, continued to transfer the goods on the ship to the shore by carrying them on their hands and shoulders.

No one clearly expressed dissatisfaction with this arrangement. On the one hand, the surrounding armed militias responsible for maintaining order played a certain deterrent effect. On the other hand, on the way here, the relevant departments had also reported the situation here to the police.

The immigrants have given a speech, and they all know that the large and small bags they are carrying now are the materials they will need to survive here in the future. This includes the food they will eat in the future, the tents they will live in, and the supplies they will use.

Tools, etc. If you want to settle here, moving these supplies off the ship is the current task that must be completed. Moreover, all these supplies are provided by these overseas visitors who call themselves "Haihan people".

It is natural to sell your labor to work for others.

Liu Shanxia led a group of immigrants to start leveling the ground at a relatively flat place selected in advance. At present, all other infrastructure projects can be postponed, but the camping site is a problem that must be solved first. The executive committee did not expect the second

With such a large scale of immigration recruitment at one time, tents alone could not meet the accommodation needs of more than a thousand people. Although the colonization team brought almost all the large military tents that could be freed for use this time,

At best, it can only house half of the population. There are more than a dozen prefabricated houses, but they are only for the office workers stationed here to live and store some important supplies. It is only a drop in the bucket for the current situation.

Moreover, the prefabricated house must at least have a ground beam to fix the structure, which cannot be completed on the day of landing.

Liu Shanxia's solution to this situation is to seize the time and build some simple bamboo and wooden sheds on the shore to temporarily settle the immigrants. The immigrants only need to overcome the problem for a week or so before they can live in a more solid house.

Living in a boat-shaped house is not unacceptable to war refugees who have abandoned their homes and property. In fact, the purpose of most people coming here is to seek a stable living environment. As for the quality of the accommodation,

It's not their first consideration.

An hour after landing, the first batch of tents had been set up on the shore. These tents were not used to house people, but to store some important materials unloaded from the ship, such as grain, cement, gunpowder, etc. In view of the fact that this batch of tents had arrived

The number of immigrants has exceeded expectations. After a short discussion, several leading figures in the colonization team decided not to rush to build roads to the inland mining areas for the time being, but to build settlements first, and at the same time transfer the goods on the ships, so that these people can

Several boats can leave as soon as possible and make a trip to Thanh Hoa area.

The colonization team believes that after the population here exceeds 1,500, there will basically be no shortage of manpower in the initial development and construction plan. As for the scale of coal mining in the future, it probably needs to be linked to the maritime transportation capacity of the Crossing Group.

At present, the Ministry of Shipping estimates that it can transport 500 to 800 tons of high-quality coal back to Victory Port every month. Therefore, the number of local miners required is 500 to 600. Compared with the base camp, the development and construction here is more important.

The requirement for manpower is not that urgent.

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

Although the time-traveling group has not yet officially established a political power and shown its banner, every time-traveler has taken it for granted that the group they belong to is the most promising emerging political power in this era. As for when it will start to be used externally.

The name "Haihan Republic" is just a matter of time.

The Executive Committee is now sending a colonization team to build a seaport and settlement in the Beibu Gulf. This was undoubtedly an act of expanding territory through colonization in the seventeenth century, and the establishment of the first overseas colony also set the stage for the future.

The expansion of the Haihan Republic provided a practical example, which was of great significance to the entire crossing group. Therefore, the executive committee specially found a few local masons to make a piece of sovereignty that was two meters long and half a meter wide on all sides.

Let the colonization team take the monument to Xingang and find a place to erect it near the port.

After a group of people from the headquarters went ashore and walked around the area, they decided to choose this place as the erection point for the sovereignty monument. Firstly, this place is relatively conspicuous and can be easily seen after landing. Secondly, the surface of the soil here is

There was solid stone underneath, which was perfect for pouring the Sovereignty Monument. So a few workers were immediately dispatched to lift the Sovereignty Monument from the ship.

This granite sovereignty monument looks small in size, but it weighs more than 700 kilograms. Several workers managed to lift the monument to the hillside with great difficulty, followed by several people carrying it on their backs in baskets.

Several bags of cement came up.

Under the command of Chuanzhong, the workers first used hoes and shovels to remove the loose soil on the ground, and then used chisels and hammers to cut out a stone trough on the stone ground. This process was very time-consuming, and Qian Tiandun only waited ten minutes.

He left in a few minutes. As the chief military officer, he had to keep an eye on the dock to prevent any trouble. Gu Kai waited patiently for a full hour before the clanking sound of stone chiseling finally stopped.

Come down. The workers carefully erected the sovereignty monument into the stone trough and straightened it up. Then someone nearby poured the mixed cement into the roots to firmly combine the sovereignty monument with the ground.

As for the content on the sovereignty monument, the Executive Committee has had a thorough discussion before, and finally decided to use the form of the sovereignty monument in later republics as a reference to simplify it as much as possible, because this thing is likely to 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. It is consistent on all sides, with the words "Haihan" engraved vertically on the top.

The words "The Haihan Executive Committee was established in 1627" are engraved below the one-foot-square large characters, and they are all filled with red paint, so they can be seen from a distance.

According to later historical records, "The establishment of this sovereign monument symbolized that the Haihan Republic had embarked on the road to conquer the world. The people present were all rejoicing and applauded. Thousands of immigrants celebrated together and this place was incorporated into the Haihan Executive Committee."

Under the rule of the society, it will become a new paradise..."

But in fact, when the Monument of Sovereignty was completed, there were only the hungry Gu Kai and seven or eight exhausted workers on the hill. There was no applause or cheers at all, and there were no cheering people. Everyone had the same idea in their minds.

A thought - finish it quickly and go down the mountain for dinner!
Chapter completed!