Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1137 Eight-foot Ambition

When Wei Bachi saw the land occupied by the Ministry of the Navy, he could not help but "hum".The navy in Kaohsiung is like a local emperor, and everything revolves around the navy.

Of course, Mr. Ming would not tell him what to do, but the young naval officers under him—in the "slang" system of the Senate, the young officers specifically refer to military fans who were not airmen or professional technicians in the old days— ―It seemed very impolite.People came to "visit" him every three days and asked him to solve the various needs of the navy.

The Navy set up a coal filling station in the Qijin camp of the "National Army" in the old time and space as the first fleet berth.In addition to the warships and supply ships of the First Fleet of the Navy, light ships of the Coast Guard are also stationed here to monitor the nearby waters and escort the transport fleet.This place is already an important naval base.

Originally, the navy wanted to set up a base in Zuoying, but considering the limited strength at this stage, it is not appropriate to disperse the strength, and also to save dock facilities and reduce workload.The first camp was set up here.

Due to the large number of ships stationed and frequent entry and exit, Cijin has become an important part of the infrastructure in Kaohsiung.The base of the navy is not as simple as that of the army, and it can barely deal with it with tents and barracks.The navy has to serve warships, especially steam-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 set up a ship repair yard on Hong Kong Island using local shipyards to repair and maintain warships. Repair ships were only dispatched to Kaohsiung for simple repairs. Trestles, warehouses, barracks and coaling stations are still needed.

The needs of the navy squeezed Wei Bachi's limited human resources.Wei Bachi was very reluctant to watch the resources being consumed by the navy, but under the big hat of engine operation, he could not resist the request of the navy.Moreover, he himself is very clear that without the existence of the First Fleet of the Navy, there would be no Kaohsiung City.

The carriage drove into the yard in front of the city hall, and the soldiers of honor at the gate raised their salutes at the same time.A naturalized citizen wearing an open collar tropical cadre uniform came out and ushered them into the main hall.

Wei Bachi asked, "Is the banquet ready?"

"According to your instructions, the welcome is set up on the terrace on the roof."

A group of people went to the terrace on the roof of the city hall—the sunshade has been set up here, and the rattan tables and chairs under the sunshade are neatly arranged, and the sea breeze blowing from the sea is very comfortable on the body.There are rich dishes on the table.The chilled kvass and lemonade bottles were covered with thin beads of water.

Zhong Lishi and the others had lost their appetite after eating "navigation dry food" on the boat. Seeing a table full of delicious food, everyone's eyes turned green, and they didn't show courtesy to Wei Bachi, and they all sat down and ate.

The cooked food on the table is venison -- which is Taiwan's second largest export material after deerskin.Venison is almost all lean meat, not much fat, and the taste is relatively light, which is suitable for the hot climate here.

Dr. Zhong saw that although the venison, pheasant, seafood and vegetables on the table were rich, the cooking was very simple and the seasoning was not rich.He used to be a good eater, but after several years in Lingao, he felt bored because he ate too much food in the canteen of the Senate House, so he started cooking at home very early on.

Seeing that the ingredients here are quite rich, I can't help but think about how to arrange my little days here.

Looking out from here, you can roughly see the whole picture of Wei Bachi's territory.Although the city hall is very majestic, and the squares, roads, and docks are also decent, but looking at the entire Kaohsiung City, it is a huge shantytown—just a shantytown with well-organized buildings.The buildings that occupy the main area of ​​Kaohsiung City are rows and rows of unadorned stilt wooden houses painted with coal tar.There are some scattered two-storey wooden houses walking among them.There are many typhoons, earthquakes, and mudslides in Taiwan. This kind of wooden house is more suitable for the environment.

The entire city of Kaohsiung is surrounded by earth barriers, bamboo fences and moats, along which are wooden watchtowers with thatched tops.With such a city as the center, some farmland and plantations have been opened up around it.You can see unfinished, slightly messy roads, ditches and channels.Extending a little further along the road, you can see several settlements - the newly built Standard Village.

When it comes to "like a city", there are only the city hall, the dock and a commercial street outside the city gate in the northwest of the city.

Further outside, there is a large barren plain, and most of the vegetation is still original.Sitting on the roof of such a European-style city hall in the middle of the city, fully dressed and drinking iced lemonade, surrounded by maids and servants.It made the elders suddenly feel like the British were in the colonies.

However, the land they cultivated was pitifully small.Except for the piece of land they were on, even the developed farmland looked like a small scar on the skin of the lush vegetation on the wasteland from the top of the building.The beach is full of mangroves, and there are dense banyan trees, cycads, bamboos everywhere...

From the perspective of tourism alone, what they see now is the original ecological beauty of a tropical seaside that petty bourgeoisie love.But each of these people felt worried and stressed.

It is necessary to build this so-called Kaohsiung City, which looks like a European city in the early medieval period, into the capital of Taiwan, a regional central city connecting Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, a naval base, politics, and economy.The cultural and industrial center is the starting point for developing Taiwan.I don't know how many years it will take?

A group of people exchanged cups and glasses, and Wei Bachi couldn't help sighing again when asked about the development of Kaohsiung.After his continuous efforts, the number of immigrants assigned to him for local resettlement has been expanded to 1.This allowed him to finally have a larger basic team based on the Tainan Land Reclamation United team that landed in the first wave.

But when there are more people, the task is also aggravated.These 1 people will be resettled after the decontamination is completed, and they will be allocated to various residential areas according to Wen Zong's standard villages, and intensive state-owned farms will be established.Wei Bachi knew that although the Council of Agriculture did not issue a wasteland reclamation goal, Kaohsiung faced the vast Jianan Plain, which was the most important agricultural area in Taiwan in the old time and space. From top to bottom, the agricultural expectations here are very high .If I didn't come up with a solid performance after tossing for a year, the mayor of Kaohsiung doesn't have to do it.

Wei Bachi made several calculations, and the target he set for himself was to complete the reclamation of 1632 mu of wasteland by the end of [-].

The 1 mu of arable land, converted to his [-] population, means that each person has to cultivate three mu of land in half a year.

This is still a bit difficult for the original ecological land with all the raw land and dense vegetation-especially the vegetation here is very developed, and the cattle often have insufficient cattle power to plow the land after fire prevention and burning.Had to rely on manual hoeing to plow the ground.

"...opening up wasteland and farming is a laborious job, and it takes a lot of tools. Except for the Tainan United team, which is well equipped, I have no tools to give them the 1-person quota given to me..." Wei Bachi said, "Bai Yu said to give me a few I don’t know when the steam tractor will arrive, but fortunately Feng Zongze is still a friend, and the horses and cattle approved by the Planning Institute were delivered immediately.” He said, looking at the farmland outside the city, “It would be nice to have a tractor .”

The people who come here have no research on agriculture, so naturally they can't comment.On the contrary, Liu Zheng was very concerned about another matter.

"You open up wasteland and farm here, didn't those cannibals bother you?"

According to Liu Zheng and most of the veterans, after landing in Taiwan, Wei Bachi had to play the role of a colonist holding glass beads to defraud the aborigines of their land.Unexpectedly, there was no contact at all.

Wei Bachi shook his head: "Not at all—the natives have retreated from here long ago, I don't know why? The report of the special investigation team said that there used to be native villages and rice fields here. When we first landed, we found many places It is indeed well cultivated. I don’t know why they all went inland.”

Liu Zheng knew this: "They suffered from the pirates of the Ming Dynasty. When the pirates landed on them to cut off their heads, the pirates came back to take revenge and killed them like melons and vegetables, so they went to the inland. These savages don't know how powerful they are without a knife!"

"The natives here have basically never appeared except for some people who came to spy on them quietly at the beginning. But they don't come into contact with us, and they don't come to the market." Wei Bachi took the cold towel handed by the life secretary, Wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, "Last year the Haitian had a fight with them here and killed many of them. So now they hate and fear us. I heard a Han peddler who came to do business say: We are almost the same as monsters with people. That’s good too, so I don’t have to coax them into writing a title deed to sell the land..."

Dr. Zhong smiled: "It will happen sooner or later. Don't say that the natives are uncivilized, they still have a lot of affection for their land."

Fang Jinghan has always been concerned about his investigation mission, and when he heard that a peddler had contacts with the natives, he was immediately very 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 set up a commercial street beside the port.

The purpose of setting up this commercial street is not all to make money, but more to obtain various information through trade with local Han people and indigenous people, and to see if we can develop several leading parties by the way.

"What is the attitude of the natives around here to outsiders? Headhunters or not?"

"I heard from the natives that there are so-called Fengshan Eight Clubs here. They don't have the habit of headhunting. But they are not very popular with outsiders, and killing a stranger is a common thing for them," Wei Bachi said. , "When the Haitian came to investigate, they also attacked the reconnaissance team suddenly."

(End of this chapter)