East China Sea, Shamen, Tuoji Island.
"General Manager, this time we killed 23 soldiers from the Dengzhou Navy Battalion and captured 52 people, including their commander Yang Jiyuan. We also captured an 80% new escort ship and 21 cannons; Twenty-six people were lost, and the number of injured was almost the same as those killed in the battle. There were also more than 20 people. In terms of ships, Boss Yu's bird ship sank in the battle. The other two ships were also more or less injured, but it did not affect the sailing. !”
At this time, Tuoji Island was no longer as desolate and desolate as when Kang Lin led the expedition fleet. After more than ten days of non-stop work, Chiyang's new immigrants not only leveled a lot of land, but also built a large amount of land on it. Many wooden buildings were built! In addition to the two wooden trestles in the dock area and a reinforced lookout tower housing four artillery pieces, the hard-working new immigrants also built many temporary buildings between the town center and the militia training center, such as boat-shaped houses. , public toilets, material storage yards, large warehouses and so on. In short, the current Tuoji Island is like a slum where the lower class people live in Europe, dirty, chaotic and overcrowded!
However, this cannot be entirely blamed on them. After all, the island is too small and somewhat difficult to display. In addition, there is no special designer to design it, so the entire layout looks a bit chaotic. In addition, there are not many new immigrants in Chiyang who can do heavy work. A large number of young and strong people are either recruited by the officers under Kang Lin to strengthen the regular flag army, or they follow Jia Liu, Ma Jiu, and Hu Jin to hang out in the reserve army. There are some crooked melons and cracked dates left, and those that the army does not take will have to be given priority to logging and quarrying. Therefore, less than ten individual and collective residences have been built these days, and this means that in addition to the old, weak, women and children, and some injured and sick people Guys, everyone else can only find a place to live by themselves. A large number of new immigrants who have finished their work have simply eaten in the canteen and then found a dry corner under the boat-shaped house and fell asleep. past. How does this make the environment better? You know, it was originally a place for livestock, but now there are people living there, and there are more than one. The large amount of defecation made the already bad environment of the temporary camp even worse, until the fleet The general manager Liu Laoliu sent a special person to supervise, and only after these guys who were treated like beasts did they change slightly.
Back to business! An hour after returning to Tuoji Island, the commander of the rescue fleet, You Degong, met the chief manager Liu Laoliu again in a room on the second floor of the town center. The injured old guy was lying on his side on a large bed at the moment. He was resting on a low fur couch, and the copper stove next to him was burning Arhat sandalwood, the finale product of the famous incense shop "Qingyan Pavilion" in Dengzhou. The dense aroma irritated the former's nose and itched, but considering that this was a ship The team's second-in-command is assigned to a room, and sneezing randomly will be considered disrespectful by the latter! So this guy could only endure the discomfort at the tip of his nose, bent down to salute his immediate superior, and began to report the latest battle situation to him!
"Boss Yu's ship has sunk. This is not a trivial matter. When you go down, write a report and submit it to Han Sheng's staff. In addition, help me speak to the trainee staff officer of the staff to tell Boss Yu and the others. Transferred to the sailing ship to be a sailor. Anyway, if the ship wants to start moving, there are no twenty people at all. Let them get acquainted with it first, and let them tidy up and clean it by the way. ! At least, when the big leader comes back, I don’t want to see any stains or dirt on it..."
"Okay, Mr. Liu, I will do it now!" After listening to Liu Laoliu's instructions, You Degong immediately bowed his hands respectfully and accepted his errand. Then he saw that the former had nothing else to give him. , and retreated quietly! And Liu Laoliu lay on the couch for a while, feeling that the air in the room was a bit dull, so he got up and slowly opened the window of his room, and cast his eyes on the busy construction site!
On the land surrounding the town center, the industrious new immigrants, under the command of the foremen, have expanded a space about ten feet wide from west to east along the former's fortress wall, which is divided into equal-sized areas by four horizontal lanes. Blocks, with various small flags planted on each open space, are places for future construction of shops, residences, and workshops. Of course, there are also two-story boat-shaped houses built on some open spaces. That is what I mentioned above. The first batch of simple houses mentioned were places for the elderly, weak, women, children, and the wounded and sick to rest. It was during working hours, and most people were busy at the construction site. Only some new immigrants who worked shifts had eaten a simple breakfast. They rested and slept soundly in the space under the boat-shaped house. They stayed up late and worked all night, and now they were extremely sleepy. Therefore, even the coming and going of other new immigrants working the day shift failed to wake them up.
Next, beyond this area, there is a rammed earth wall construction site under construction outside. After brainstorming, Liu Laoliu decided to stop building the wall of the Chiyang base when it reached nine feet (2.7 meters). Tuanji is surrounded by the vast sea. There is no point in building a wall that is too high. It is better to build it as high as possible. It would be more practical to save energy and materials and make the surrounding turrets and the turret in the middle of the wall more sophisticated. So with a stroke of his pen, this guy raised the height of the turrets around the wall to one foot and a half (4.95 meters), and the construction area It has also reached three or four square meters. It can accommodate three or four people at ordinary times, and a one-pound Folang machine can be stationed on it. In wartime, the manpower can be doubled to strengthen the defensive firepower! As for the wall between the turrets, Chiyang's senior management believes that rammed earth is enough. The reason is the same as that of bamboo and wooden houses. It saves money, is quick and easy to rebuild. With the current conditions in Chiyang, can they still expect to use specialized Are the city walls made of blue bricks to build the wall? Please, those bricks purchased from Dengzhou have other uses and cannot be used indiscriminately here.
Finally, there is the area outside the city, let's call it the area outside the city. Although the wall of the guerrilla hundred households has not been completed yet, Liu Laoliu still stubbornly regards it as the area outside the city! After crossing an eight-nine-foot-wide trench, outside is the main commercial area and workshop area of the future guerrilla Baihusuo (or Tuoji Baihusuo). The former is currently only divided into the open space outside the north and south of the Baihusuo. In some areas, we have not started to level the land and build houses, but the most basic work of setting fire to the grass and bushes has been almost done. In addition, in order to pile up the food, wood, cloth, tea, brown sugar, ironware, porcelain, lacquerware, medicinal materials, sulfur, red copper, folding fans, screens and other materials seized from previous battles, Liu Laoliu and others were still in the Baihu Station A large cargo yard and large and small warehouses were built near the sea in the southeast and mountains in the northeast! Therefore, if someone takes a bird's-eye view from the mountain, they will find that Tuoji Baihusuo is like a big turtle that keeps stretching its head and kicking its legs. Although it moves slowly, it is constantly expanding to the surroundings thanks to the efforts of many small people as small as gnats. Your own living space...
"It is estimated that by the time the boss comes back, the canteen, bathhouse, timber logging camp, carpentry workshop, and material warehouse will all be repaired. By then, the soldiers returning from the expedition will be able to have a good meal, take a shower, and feel comfortable Lie down in your barracks and have a good sleep! Next, it is time for us to accumulate strength and develop the economy. With the large amount of food, gold, silver, wood, and materials brought back by the leader, as long as the fleet works together , in one winter, we can double our strength! I believe that by then, Donghaiwei and Dengzhou Town will no longer be able to do anything to us. Thinking about these beautiful days, it’s really a bit look forward to……"
"Master, this ship basically does not need major repairs. We only need to replace the damaged ship plates. Given our current conditions, we can only repair the ship plates. If there are other problems with the ship, we really can't repair it! By the way, we It will take a long time to complete the construction of the shipbuilding factory. Is it really necessary to wait until the leader returns from Korea before anyone takes us craftsmen seriously?"
People who have the same idea as Liu Laoliu include Gong Sancai, the temporary shipwright leader. This man, who is nearly fifty years old, is currently wielding a hammer in his hand to smash the damaged planks of the rush boat, while his young apprentice is While complaining endlessly, he handed him various nails. One count, two counts, and three counts. This guy knocked not only the planks of the ship, but also money! Old Gong is the head shipwright and only has a basic salary of one tael of silver per month. Therefore, if he wants to earn more, he has to pray for more ships to be repaired. As for whether anyone will take him seriously, when will the shipbuilding factory be built? , but it’s none of his business.
Only his apprentice, that innocent-looking kid, took this seriously. By the way, this kid originally wanted to be a reserve soldier. Later, the bosses saw that he was too young and sent him to be an apprentice. So when he opened his mouth, he always asked questions like Chang Jiansheng, always looking cynical. , either I criticize this or I can’t stand that! To be honest, Gong Sancai actually dislikes his new apprentice. If he had a choice, he would rather choose a few guys who don't look stupid from a group of honest farmers with mud on their feet to serve as his apprentices. I don’t want to be an apprentice to a war madman who wants to be a soldier all day long, because that is really a waste of his energy! And my energy is used to make more money to support my family of two, four and six, such as driving nails on the trophy ship, repairing holes and so on! When he thought that he would be rewarded with two taels of silver after completing this business, Old Gongtou swung the hammer in his hand even more vigorously!
"If you have time, you should practice more with hammers and axes. Next time you are so good and criticize this and don't like that, I will send you to the reserve army again. Even if you spend a few more money, I will I have to kick you away, you little bastard..."
