Wei Bachi couldn't help but "hum" when he saw the land occupied by the Admiralty Department. [Read the latest chapter] The Navy is like a Turkish emperor in Kaohsiung, and everything revolves around the Navy.
Of course Ming Lao would not point fingers at him, but the young navy officers under him - in the Senate's "slang" system, young military officers specifically refer to military fans who are not from the old air force or professional and technical personnel - ―It seems very rude. Someone came to "visit" him every three days and asked him to solve various needs of the navy.
The Navy set up a coaling station in the Cijin camp area of the "**" in the old time and space as the first fleet station. In addition to the warships and supply ships of the Navy's First Fleet, light vessels of the Coast Guard are also stationed here to monitor nearby waters and escort transport convoys. This place has become an important naval base.
Originally, the Navy wanted to set up a base in Zuoying, but considering its limited strength at this stage, it is not appropriate to spread its strength. It also wants to save dock facilities and reduce workload. The first camp was established here.
Due to the large number of ships stationed and frequent entry and exit, Cijin has become an important part of the infrastructure construction in the Kaohsiung area. The navy's base is not as simple as the army's. It can barely handle it with tents and barracks. The navy has to serve warships, especially steam engine-powered warships like Lichun, which have a proven nature, and rely heavily on logistics.
In order to reduce the logistical pressure on Kaohsiung, the Joint Logistics Headquarters used local shipyards to set up a ship repair yard on Hong Kong Island specifically to repair and maintain warships, and only dispatched repair ships to Kaohsiung for simple repairs. However, docks, trestles, warehouses, barracks and coaling stations dedicated to the navy are still needed.
The demands of the navy squeezed Wei Bachi's limited human resources. Wei Bachi was reluctant to watch resources being consumed by the navy, but under the big hat of Operation Engine, he could not resist the navy's request. Furthermore, he himself knows very well that without the existence of the Navy's First Fleet, there would be no Kaohsiung City.
The carriage drove into the yard in front of the city hall, and the soldiers at the door raised their hands in salute. A naturalized citizen wearing an open-collar tropical cadre uniform came out to welcome him. Welcome them into the main hall.
Wei Bachi asked: "Is the banquet ready?"
"According to your instructions, the reception has been set up and will be set up on the terrace on the top of the building."
A group of people went up to the terrace on the roof of the city hall - an awning had been set up here. Rattan tables and chairs were neatly arranged under the awning. The sea breeze blowing from the sea was very comfortable on them. Rich dishes have been placed on the table. The bottles of chilled kvass and lemonade were covered with a thin layer of water droplets.
Zhong Lishi and others had lost their appetite for the "navigation dry food" they originally ate on the ship. Seeing a table full of delicious food, everyone's eyes turned green, and they all sat down to eat without being polite to Wei Bachi.
The cooked dish on the table is venison--this is Taiwan's second largest export product after deer skin. Venison is almost all lean meat, not much fat, and has a relatively light taste, which is suitable for the hot climate here.
Dr. Zhong saw that there were plenty of venison, pheasant, seafood and vegetables on the table. However, the cooking is very simple and the seasoning is not rich. It is still the level of big fish and meat, and it feels more and more like a pearl. He was originally a good eater. During his high school years, he felt bored after eating too much food in the Senate cafeteria, so he started cooking at home very early.
Seeing that the food here is quite abundant, I couldn't help but think about how to arrange my little life here.
Looking out from here, you can roughly see the entire territory of Wei Bachi. Although the city hall is very grand, the squares, roads and piers are also presentable. But looking at the entire Kaohsiung City, it is just a huge shanty town - just a shanty town with regular buildings. The buildings that dominate Kaohsiung City are rows of unadorned wooden houses on stilts coated with coal tar. There are some scattered two-story wooden houses walking among them. Taiwan has many typhoons, earthquakes, and mudslides. This kind of wooden house is more adaptable to the environment.
The entire city of Kaohsiung is surrounded by earth ramparts, bamboo fences and trenches, and along the lines are wooden watchtowers with thatched roofs. With such a city as the center, some farmland and plantations have been opened up around it. You can see the unfinished and slightly messy roads, trenches and channels. Extending a little further along the road, you can see several residential areas - the newly built standard villages.
Speaking of "city-like" places, there are only the city hall, the dock and a commercial street outside the city gate in the northwest of the city.
Further outside. It's just a large barren plain, and most of the vegetation is still original. Sitting on the roof of the European-style city hall in the middle of such a city, neatly dressed and drinking iced lemonade, with maids and servants waiting on my side. It made the senators suddenly feel like the British were in the colony.
However, the area they cultivated was pitiful. Except for the piece of land they were on, even the developed farmland looked like nothing more than a small scar on the skin of the dense vegetation on the wasteland. The beach is covered with mangroves. There are dense banyan trees, cycads, bamboos everywhere...
From a tourism perspective, what they see now is the original beauty of a tropical seaside that is loved by the petty bourgeoisie. But each of these people felt worried and stressed.
This so-called Kaohsiung City, modeled after an early medieval European city, must be built into the capital of Taiwan, a regional central city connecting Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, a naval base, and politics and economy. It is a cultural and industrial center and the starting point for developing Taiwan. I wonder how many more years it will take?
A group of people exchanged cups and changed cups. During the dinner, they asked about the development of Kaohsiung. Wei Bachi couldn't help sighing again. After his continuous efforts, the number of immigrants allocated to him for local resettlement has been expanded to 10,000. This allowed him to finally have a larger basic team based on the Tainan Agricultural Reclamation United that landed in the first wave.
But when there are more people, the task becomes more difficult. After the purification is completed, these 10,000 people will be resettled in various residential areas according to President Wen's standard village arrangement, and intensive state-owned farms will be established. Wei Bachi knew that although the Agricultural Committee had not set a target for land reclamation, Kaohsiung faced the vast Chianan Plain, which was the most important agricultural area in Taiwan in the old days. From top to bottom, the expectations for agriculture here were very high. . If I have been struggling for a year and haven't produced any solid results, I don't need to be the mayor of Kaohsiung anymore.
Wei Bachi calculated several times and set his target to complete the reclamation of 30,000 acres of wasteland by the end of 1632.
These 30,000 acres of cultivated land, converted to his population of 10,000, means that each person needs to cultivate three acres of land in half a year.
This is still a bit difficult for the original ecological land, which is all raw land and dense vegetation - especially since the vegetation here is very developed, and oxen are often used to plow the land after fire prevention and burnout, and the oxen are often insufficient. They had to rely on manual hoeing to plow the ground.
"...Opening up wasteland and farming is a laborious job and requires tools. Except for the Tainan United Army, which is fully equipped, I have no tools to give them the quota of 10,000 people..." Wei Bachi said, "Bai Yu said to give me a few machines I don’t know when the steam tractor will arrive. Fortunately, Feng Zongze is a good friend, and the horses and cows approved by the Planning Institute were delivered to me immediately." He said, looking at the farmland outside the city, "It would be great to have a tractor. .”
None of the people here have any research on agriculture, so naturally they can't comment. But Liu Zheng was very concerned about another thing.
"You are here to open up wasteland and farm, and those people who are eating people are not giving you any trouble?"
According to Liu Zheng and most of the elders, after landing in Taiwan, Wei Bachi had to play the role of a colonist who defrauded the indigenous people of their land with glass beads. Unexpectedly, there was no contact at all.
Wei Bachi shook his head: "Not really - the natives have retreated from here a long time ago. I don't know why? The special investigation team's report said that there were originally native villages and rice fields here. When we first landed, we found many places It was indeed cultivated. I don’t know why they all went inland.”
Liu Zheng knew this: "They suffered losses from the pirates of the Ming Dynasty. When the pirates landed on them to cut off their heads, the pirates suffered a loss and came back to take revenge. They killed them like they were chopping melons and vegetables, and then ran inland. These savages don’t know how powerful they are without using a knife!”
"The natives here basically didn't show up except for some people who snooped quietly at the beginning. However, they don't have contact with us and don't come to the market." Wei Bachi took the cold towel handed by the life secretary and said, Wiping the sweat on his forehead, he said, "Last year, the Haitian had a fight with them here and killed many of them. So now they hate and fear us. I heard the Han hawkers doing business say: We are almost like monsters among people. This is good, as it saves me from having to coax them into writing the land deed for sale..."
Dr. Zhong smiled: "This will happen sooner or later. Don't say that the natives are uncivilized, they are still very emotional about their land."
Fang Jinghan had always been concerned about his investigation mission. He heard that there were vendors who had contacts with native people, and he was immediately interested - he needed a guide to carry out the investigation trip. Now ask for details.
Wei Bachi said that he renovated a small port in the west of Kaohsiung City, and then built a commercial street next to the port.
The purpose of setting up this commercial street is not entirely to make money, but more to obtain various intelligence through trade with the local Han people and indigenous people, and to see if they can develop a few leading parties.
"What is the attitude of the natives around here towards outsiders? Are they headhunters or not?"
"I heard from the natives that there are the so-called Fengshan Eight Clubs here. They don't have the habit of headhunting. However, they are not very popular with outsiders, and killing a stranger is a common thing for them." Wei Bachi said , "When the Haitian came for reconnaissance, they also suddenly attacked the reconnaissance team."
