Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 250 Changhua Fort

Wang Luobin held a commanders' meeting in the poop of the Zhenhai, and all the main cadres attended, including Li Haiping on the Hangzhou, who also came back for the meeting.

"This is our first important exploration point," Wang Luobin said, "The Shilu Iron Mine is just upstream of the Changhua River."

"Our exploration team is ready and ready to go at any time." Cui Yunhong said in high spirits.

"Not busy," Wang Luobin spread out the map, "Shilu is quite far from the Changhua River Estuary, about 50 kilometers away in a straight line, most of which are hilly and mountainous areas, and the round trip will take at least two days. Two days later, the fleet has to stay here for more than five days."

"Too optimistic." Mu Min frowned, "There are very few Han people in Changhua County, and Li District is just outside the county seat. The exploration team has to go deep into Li District and deal with them along the way. It's not so fast."

"Just bring a few Li people from Lingao—" Wang Luobin felt a little annoyed.After Mu Min's work in the Li district, the relationship between the cross-country and Lingao's Li Dong is quite good, and the trade between the two parties has grown by leaps and bounds.Mu Min also plans to recruit students from Li District for ethnic classes after the national school system matures.

"It's useless, the Li people here are not the same as those in Lingao." Mu Min checked the information of the Li people in Hainan Island.Most of the Li people in Changhua are Meifu Li, while the "Bupei Li" in Lingao belong to Wu Li. Not only are their languages ​​completely different, but their cultures are also different in many ways.

"Is Mobil Li easy to deal with?"

"It's easy to fight, but it's not easy to fight. The reputation of the Han people in the local area is very bad." Mu Min smiled bitterly. Since she was transferred to the Li Miao Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has dealt with Li people a lot. The government is asking for money, and the merchants are cheating money. However, the merchants are still welcome, after all, the salt and groceries they bring are things that are needed for life.”

"Let's pretend to be traders and enter Li District."

"It's best to find Shuli here in Changhua County to lead the way."

"Let's go to Changhua County tomorrow to have a look."

It took a long time for the exploration team to go back and forth. Wang Luobin decided that the fleet would not stay here, but set up a camp on the side of Sanjia Port and stationed a small team to meet the exploration team. If the results of the exploration are encouraging, this The camp can be expanded into a permanent fortress.

After the camp was built, the fleet set off for Yazhou to explore Yulingang and Tiandu Iron Mine.Wang Luobin decided to build a camp in Yulingang according to the situation, and then continued northward, circled Hainan Island for a week, and then returned to Lingao.

After the route is opened, if it is officially decided to mine certain mines, a regular route will be opened.

"If I remember correctly, the Tiandu Iron Mine is relatively easy to mine, and the executive committee is likely to start there. However, Changhua has high-quality quartz placer, which is also very important to us."

"Yulin Port is a high-quality naval port." Li Haiping said.

Wang Luobin said: "I'll talk about this later, when I have iron, I can talk about anything."

"I have a question," Cui Yunhong raised her hand. "You're just talking about the Li people in the Li district. Why don't you tell us how the government will respond? We're building a camp here in a big way, won't they come out to interfere? D-Day There are more than 500 fully armed brothers in Lingao, how many people can we keep in this camp?"

"Don't worry," Wang Luobin took out the mission information given to him by the intelligence committee, "Changhua County has only a total of 670 registered households, and a total population of 600—men, women, old and young, all of them are in it. .There are at most 500 people in Changhua County. If you want, it’s not a problem to take them down immediately and make you the county prince.”

"What if the pirates come?"

"You are too timid, aren't you?" Li Haiping was dissatisfied, "Forget it, brother, I will stay and help you. I have a 56 and a half in my left hand and a Glock in my right. Let's see if any pirates who don't open their eyes come, my brother will catch them." In order to line up and give you a chrysanthemum storm." Everyone laughed.

Cui Yunhong didn't like this kind of joke very much, but knowing that Li Haiping was kind.I had no choice but to hold back.

Wang Luobin smiled: "According to the information, there is no reason to think that pirates will come to Changhua. What is there to grab in Changhua?"

After further discussion, it was decided that the fleet would rest here for two days, concentrate on building the camp, and mine a batch of quartz sand to take away.

The two ships adjusted their disembarkation positions so as to be as close to the shore as possible. Wang Luobin, Li Haiping, Mu Min, Cui Yunhong and others led more than 30 soldiers ashore in small boats, and went to a village to inquire.Residents in the village saw their strange looks and looked suspicious, but they did not run away. Xiong Buyou communicated with several dialects, and learned that because of the flood in Wuni Port in the early years, a lot of fields were washed away. , The port was silted up so badly that seagoing ships could no longer enter and leave for a long time, so Sanjia Port became the main port for merchants and people in the county to enter and exit.But here is far away from the county seat and across the river, which is very inconvenient.The common people near the county town are complaining.As for the ruins, it was indeed a camp of the Ming army 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 ruined base of the Ming army in Sanjiagang. According to the site survey of the survey team, there is a freshwater well here, the foundation is ready-made, and there are still many stones available on the original site.

Wang Luobin ordered: "Take out all the ballast stones in the bilge as building materials, and replace them with quartz sand for ballast." It would be a crime not to take such good quartz sand back, since it is ballast anyway and does not take up cargo space.

So they all went out, took out their hoes and soil baskets, and started digging on the beach like this.The people in the village looked at it strangely. This group of people had to quit, just digging the sand that was everywhere on 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 brought out on the spot immediately attracted the strong laborers in the village to come out.Not long after, the snow-white beach had been dug up to pieces, and the ballast of the two ships was also full of bags of quartz sand.

The camp is a matter of great importance, and the sailors will do it themselves.Before departure, it was expected that some permanent and semi-permanent buildings might be built locally, so some cement, iron, wooden structural profiles and hardware were brought on board, and various tools were also prepared.The half-baked carpenter Huang Zhazi was the construction worker, and he used the pulley to lift the construction.By evening, more than half of the Changhua camp had been completed.Yellow Claw first repaired several houses that were in good condition, repaired the outer walls, and added roofs with tents.The outer wall of the camp was originally one foot high, but it collapsed quite badly, and a lot of it was demolished by nearby villagers. It was very difficult to repair all of them. Only the wall was repaired to chest height, and many new fences were erected on it.

The size of the camp was greatly reduced. After all, there were only a few guards left here, and it was too big to control.The final camp consisted of only three houses surrounded by a parapet and a well.Originally, there was a ditch outside the entire Ming army camp, which had been silted up to the point where it was almost invisible, and it was not restored.

Wang Luobin named this place Changhua Fort.Since Li Haiping volunteered, he will be the first commander of Changhua Fort.The remaining team consisted of two sailor squads, and the fleet left enough food for forty days, as well as a lot of ammunition and grenades.In addition to Li Haiping, the traveler who was left behind included the exploration team who went to Shilu for exploration, and several people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Committee.

Because we don't know the future development prospects here, the conditions in the new Changhuabao are very difficult. The only thing that can be called modern is a 15W radio station and a matching hand-cranked generator.Several people are lonely in different places, and the radio is the lifeline.

"It's not far from Lingao." Wang Luobin instructed before leaving, "You have to call the main station every day and keep in touch. If there is any problem, Bopu will send a speedboat over, and the rescue will definitely come within 24 hours."

"No problem." Li Haiping said confidently. In fact, he secretly complained. He was not afraid of any danger, but a few people were left on this coast, living a primitive life with nothing to do. There is no electric light, which is too uncomfortable.

"We can return to Lingao in 20 days at most, and we will definitely send ships back in No. 30 days. You must pay attention to safety and ensure the actions of the exploration personnel. Try not to conflict with the locals." Wang Luobin instructed.

"Understood. Don't worry."

On the second day, the work of house repair and mining continued. The team was led by Mu Min, Xiong Buyou and other personnel from the foreign affairs department. The group all changed into local clothes and carried several backpacks containing some daily necessities. groceries.The special investigation team sent several people to follow behind for protection.

It can be said that Changhua County can't afford to be troubled by their arrival.Compared to D-Day when there was a beacon fire in Lingao, and there were brave people coming from the countryside, this place is simply undefended-almost no pedestrians can be seen on the road.A group of people walked along the road, and the channel of Changhua River dried up into sections at this time, and there were sandy areas exposed everywhere on the riverbed to pass through.This is a typical tropical savannah climate, which belongs to the hottest place in Hainan. It is only March now, and the temperature is already around [-] degrees Celsius. The group of people are already sweating profusely before they can walk far.

"It's dry and hot, it's almost the same as Africa." Mu Min was afraid of getting sunburned, so she wore a blue flower bucket that Li women often wear.He wrapped his head tightly with a handkerchief, and put on a straw hat.The clothes are tightly dressed, so it is naturally the hottest.

The sea sand plain here stretches from the sea to the inland, and sand dunes can be seen everywhere.During this period, there were river branches formed by seawater intrusion.Big trees are almost invisible, but various shrubs are luxuriant and young leaves are clustered.From time to time, goats can be seen looking for tender grass among the rocks and sand.

"Changhua Milk Goat, it's delicious—" Xiong Buyou thought about eating again.

"mutton?"

(End of this chapter)