Wang Luobin held a commander's meeting in the stern of the Zhenhai. All the main cadres attended, including Li Haiping from the Hangzhou, who also came back for the meeting. [No pop-up novel website]
"This is our first important exploration point," Wang Luobin said. "The Shilu Iron Mine is located in the upper reaches of the Changhua River."
"Our exploration team is ready and can go out at any time." Cui Yunhong said energetically.
"I'm not busy." Wang Luobin spread out the map. "Shilu is quite far away from the Changhua River Estuary. The straight-line distance is almost 50 kilometers. Most of them are hilly and mountainous areas. The round trip will take at least two days. In addition, it will take at least two days for local exploration. Two days later, the fleet will have to stay here for more than five days."
"Too optimistic." Mu Min frowned, "There are very few Han people in Changhua County, and outside the county is Li District. The exploration team has to go deep into Li District and deal with them along the way, so it won't be so fast."
"Just bring a few Li people from Lingao." Wang Luobin was a little annoyed. After Mu Min's work in Li District, the relationship between Chuanzhong and Li Dong in Lingao has been quite good, and the trade between the two parties has advanced by leaps and bounds. Mu Min also plans to recruit ethnic class students from Li District after the national school system matures.
"It's useless. The Li people here and the people in Lingao are completely different." Mu Min checked the information about the Li people in Hainan Island. Most of the Li people in Changhua are Meifu Li, while the "Bupei Li" in Lingao belong to Qian Li. Not only are their languages completely different, but their cultures are also very different.
"Is Mobili easy to deal with?"
"It's easy to fight but not easy to fight. The reputation of the Han people is very bad in the local area." Mu Min smiled bitterly. Since being transferred to the Li and Miao Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she had dealt with the Li people a lot. "In their view, the Han people The government is asking for money, but the vendors are cheating. But they still welcome the vendors, after all, the salt and groceries they bring are necessary for daily life."
"Let's pretend to be traders and enter Li District."
"It's best to find a familiar person in Changhua County to lead the way."
"Let's go to Changhua County tomorrow to have a look."
The exploration team took a long time to go back and forth, so Wang Luobin decided that the fleet would not stay here. Instead, he would set up a camp at Sanjiagang and station a small team of people to handle the exploration team. If the results of the exploration were encouraging, This camp can be expanded into a permanent fort.
After building the camp, the fleet set off for Yazhou to explore the Yulin, Ganghetian and Du iron mines. Wang Luobin decided to build a camp in Yulingang depending on the situation, and then continue northward, circumnavigating Hainan Island and returning to Lingao.
After the routes are opened, if it is officially decided to exploit certain mines, regular routes will be opened.
"If I remember correctly, Tiandu iron ore is relatively easy to mine, and the executive committee will probably start there. However, Changhua has high-quality quartz sand deposits, which is also very important to us."
"Yulin Port is a high-quality naval port." Li Haiping said.
Wang Luobin said: "We will talk about this later. When we have iron, we can talk about anything else."
"I have a question," Cui Yunhong raised her hand, "You are just talking about the Li people in Li District. Why don't you tell us what the government's reaction will be? We are building a camp here in a big way, won't they come out to interfere? D-day There are more than 500 armed brothers in Lingao, how many of us can stay in this camp?"
"Don't worry." Wang Luobin took out the mission information given to him by the Intelligence Committee. "Changhua County has a total of only 672 registered residences and a total population of 2,600 people - men, women, old and young, adults and children. They are all inside. There are at most five hundred people in Changhua County. If you are willing, it will not be a problem to capture them immediately and make you the county magistrate."
"What if pirates come?"
"Are you too cowardly?" Li Haiping was dissatisfied, "Forget it, brother, I'll stay and help you calm down. I have a 56 and a half in my left hand and a G1 in my right hand. Let's see if any blind pirate comes. Brother, I'll catch him. I'll line up to give you an ass fuck." Everyone laughed.
Cui Yunhong didn't like this kind of joke very much, but she knew that Li Haiping meant well. I had no choice but to endure it.
Wang Luobin smiled: "According to the intelligence, there is no reason to think that pirates will come to Changhua. What is there to rob in Changhua?"
After some further discussion, it was decided that the fleet would rest here for two days, concentrate on building the camp, and at the same time mine a batch of quartz sand to take away.
The two ships adjusted their positions to get as close to the shore as possible. Wang Luobin, Li Haiping, Mu Min, Cui Yunhong and others took more than 30 soldiers ashore in small boats and found a village to inquire about. The residents in the village were suspicious when they saw their strange appearance, but they did not run away. Xiong Buyou communicated in several dialects and learned that Wuni Port had a lot of fields washed away and the port was silted due to the floods of the Changhua River in the early years. The situation was so severe that ships could not enter or exit the sea for a long time, so Sanjiagang became the main port for merchants and people in the county. But it is far away from the county seat and across the river, which is very inconvenient. The people near the county seat are complaining endlessly. As for the ruins, it was indeed a Ming army camp in the past, but it has been abandoned for a long time.
The survey team surveyed the surrounding terrain and decided to build a camp on the Ming army's abandoned fortress in Sanjiagang. According to the survey team's on-site survey, there was a fresh water well here, the foundation was ready, and there were still many stones available on the original site.
Wang Luobin ordered: "Take out all the ballast stones in the bottom tank and use them as building materials and replace them with quartz sand as ballast." It would be a sin not to take back such good quartz sand. It is ballast anyway and does not occupy cargo space.
So everyone went out, took out hoes and soil baskets, and started digging on the beach. The people in the village were surprised. This group of people had no choice but to dig out the sand all over the ground. Could it be some kind of treasure? Some young people came to inquire, and Xiong Buyou immediately recruited workers. The sugar, salt, sewing needles and other things that were brought out on the spot immediately caused all the strong laborers in the village to come out. After a while, the snow-white beach was dug to pieces, and the ballast cargo of the two ships was filled with pockets of quartz sand.
The camp was so important that the sailors took matters into their own hands. Before leaving, we had anticipated that some permanent and semi-permanent buildings might be built locally, so we brought some cement, iron materials, wooden structural profiles and hardware on board, as well as all kinds of tools. Huang Zhao, a half-assed carpenter, served as the construction worker, using pulleys to lift the construction. By evening, more than half of the Changhua camp was completed. Huang Claw first repaired a few houses that were in relatively good condition, patched up the exterior walls, and added tents to the roofs. The outer wall of the camp was originally one foot high. It collapsed badly and was demolished a lot by nearby villagers. It was difficult to repair it all. The wall was only repaired to chest height, and many new fences were erected on it.
The area of the camp has been greatly reduced. After all, only a few people can be left to guard it. It is too large to control. The final camp consisted of only three houses surrounded by a parapet and a well. There was originally a trench on the periphery of the entire Ming army camp, but it had become silted up to the point where it was almost invisible, and it has not been restored.
Wang Luobin named this place Changhua Fort. Since Li Haiping took the initiative to volunteer, he was appointed as the first commander of Changhua Fort. The remaining team consisted of two squadrons of marines. The fleet left enough food for forty days, as well as many ammunition and grenades. In addition to Li Haiping, the other people who were left behind were the exploration team that went to Shilu for exploration and several people from the Foreign Affairs Department and the Intelligence Committee.
Because we don’t know what the future prospects of this place will be, the conditions in the new Changhua Fort are very difficult. The only thing that can be called modern is a 15-meter radio and the supporting hand crank. A few people are alone in a remote place. The radio is a lifeline.
"This is not far from Lingao." Wang Luobin instructed before leaving. "You must call the main station every day and keep in touch. If there is any problem, Bopu will send out a speedboat and will definitely come to the rescue 24 hours a day."
"No problem." Li Haiping said with confidence, but in fact he was secretly complaining. He was not afraid of any danger, but that a few people were left on this coast and lived a primitive life with nothing at all. There was no electric light at all. It was so uncomfortable.
"We can return to Lingao in twenty days at most, and we will definitely send a ship back on the thirtieth day. You must pay attention to safety and ensure the actions of the exploration personnel. Try not to conflict with the local life." Wang Luobin instructed.
"I understand. Don't worry."
The next day, the work of building houses and mining continued. Led by Mu Min, Xiong Buyou and other people from the foreign affairs department, the group all changed into local clothes and carried several backpacks with some daily necessities in them. groceries. The special reconnaissance team sent several people to follow behind for protection.
Changhua County could not bear to be disturbed by their arrival. Compared with the beacon fire in Lingao on the dth, and the brave people coming from the countryside, this place is simply undefended - almost no pedestrians can be seen on the road. As a group of people moved along the road, the Changhua River dried up into sections, and there were sandy areas everywhere on the river bed that could be passed through. This is a typical tropical savanna climate, which is the hottest place in Hainan. It is only March, and the temperature is already around 30 degrees Celsius. The group of people can't walk very far and are already sweating profusely.
"It's dry and hot, just like Africa." Mu Min was afraid of getting tanned, so she wore a cyan flower bucket often worn by women in Li. He wrapped his head tightly with a handkerchief and put on a straw hat. Wearing tight clothes is naturally the hottest.
The sea sand plain area here stretches from the seaside all the way inward, and sand dunes can be seen everywhere. During this period, there were river branches formed by seawater intrusion. There are almost no big trees to be seen, but various shrubs are luxuriant and their young leaves are thick. From time to time, goats can be seen looking for tender grass among the rocks and sand.
"Changhua suckling sheep is so delicious -" Xiong Buyou thought of eating again.
"mutton?"! ~!
