Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 262 Wang Tao's Ideal

"What about the material?"

"Bricks and cement. The fleet left us a few bags of cement, and some bricks and tiles. We make the planks ourselves. Anyway, we don't need much to repair the culvert. Just buy iron nails and lime from the market opposite."

"Alright, I might as well go to the Anyou Market tomorrow to sell some goods, so as not to use the 50 taels of emergency reserves."

The next day, Wang Tao took Wang Degang, Shi Jinxi and others changed their clothes and went to Anyou City.This time he brought a simple four-color gift, which is considered to be a visit to the place after the completion of the new house.Naturally, Hu Xun also socialized and gave two soup sheep as a gift.He also took the opportunity to lament the bitter experience, saying that it is not easy to maintain the place, the county has no money, there are many urgings, and the pressure is very heavy. Since shopkeeper Wang wants to establish a village here, it is natural that he has to socialize with the county and make a title deed. Various miscellaneous tax assessments will inevitably be shared together in the future.The words are extremely polite.Wang Tao naturally agreed to all of them.Try to win the tolerance and support of local forces and the current guiding ideology of cooperation with indigenous forces.

Wang Tao took people around the market and sold some soju and sugar - both of which were very popular, and got some loose money.I bought a few bolts of indigo-dyed homespun, and I wanted to find a tailor to make some local clothes—the first-year military uniforms of the sailors were too conspicuous.But there were no tailors in the market, so I had to ask Hu Xun for advice and asked his servants to make some.I bought some rice, pumpkin and some vegetables in the market to improve my meals.I saw iron pots and clay pots for sale, so I bought a few too.Everyone packed up and was about to leave when they saw live chickens on the market for [-] cents each. Wang Tao bought five or six chickens and asked Hai Bing to tie them up and hang them on poles to take them back.

After leaving the gate of the village, I found a lime kiln by the sea that specializes in burning lime from oyster shells, and bought a few sacks of lime.Shi Jinxi bargained for a long time among the fishermen on the seashore, and bought a small sampan for a tael of silver. The boat was small and could only accommodate seven or eight people, but it was enough for use in the bay.Back in Yulin Fort, Wang Tao took care to put the pots and clay pots in the kitchen for use - in the future, he would not need to take a lunch box to cook.Anyway, I can make some soup, cook rice or something.

"You bought so many chickens to prepare tooth sacrifices?" Lao Di was a little surprised.

"Eat eggs. Raise chickens." Wang Tao took care to put down the chickens. "It would be a waste not to raise chickens in such a large yard."

"Chicken droppings all over the floor? It stinks!"

"Will you come out around a chicken pen?"

"What shall we feed the chickens?"

"Leftovers. Coconut meat is also fine. Put the chickens outside the fort during the day, let them find food for themselves, and just come back at night to feed some feed. It's very economical." Wang Tao has a plan in mind.

"This is an all-natural green grass chicken. Well, it's up to you." Lao Di wondered if Wang Tao suddenly wanted to be a farmer.He remembered something and took a copy of a telegram from his pocket.

"What is this?" Wang Tao took the telegram. It was an encrypted telegram. The call sign of the sending call was the Hangzhou number of the expedition team, and the call sign of the receiving call was the main station of Lingao Telecom.

"Strange, this is not a telegram from Hai Mi."

"That's right, Shen Yuefeng accepted the report and couldn't decipher it with the cipherbook. It must not be Haimi's."

"This is rare. When we set off, didn't we say that the expedition team used Haimi to generate power? Even the left-behind fortresses like us use Haimi to communicate."

"And it was sent from the Hangzhou, not the flagship Zhenhai."

"It's probably a telegram from the intelligence port or the internal affairs port. Only they have this power."

Wang Tao led people to cut branches from the woods and gravel from the beach, and built a chicken coop and a chicken pen under the fence of the Yulinbao compound.When the weather is bad, put them in the pen for activities.

Some of the sailors came from farming families and were no strangers to these things. Seeing that the chief was engaged in agriculture with great interest, they all became interested. Some people suggested to grow some vegetables by themselves, so as not to waste chicken manure and human manure.

"No way, but also human poop?" Lao Di was taken aback.I remembered that when I was training in the countryside, the smell of the big pits of manure on the roadside was really ecstasy.

"Of course, otherwise the toilet would be full?"

"I was going to open a ditch and wash it directly into the sea with water."

"It's a waste to rush into the sea, just dig a hole outside the fort, and just wash it into the hole. Put a cover on it, so it won't stink."

"Let me declare in advance, when the time comes to gain weight, don't ask me to do it—"

The vegetable garden is outside the wall of Yulin Castle, in a corner sheltered from the wind.However, the soil layer on the coast is thin and gravel.Direct planting will not survive.Wang Tao asked people to build a flower pond of about 50 square meters with big stones for drainage.Then take the sailors to dig the land on the hillside, transport them back with the trolleys left by the Zhenhai, and fill them in one by one.

Everyone else was bewildered by the exuberant drive of the former trainer, as if he was ready to call it home.Bai Guoshi couldn't help asking if he planned to stay in Yulin Fort for a long time in the future.Wang Tao laughed:

"Of course not. My goal is that the executive committee will give me a large piece of territory in the future, and then I will lead my large family and hundreds of immigrants to colonize the wasteland and become a lord. Now practice first, and then you will have experience. .”

"Oh?" Bai Guoshi became interested, "Where do you want to colonize?"

"Australia, Tasmania or New Zealand, it's all fine." Wang Tao was a little tired from working, and took out a pipe from his pocket. Wang Degang filled it up for his master quickly, and burned water from a nearby fire. On top of the pile was a piece of red-hot wood.He took it and ordered it, and took a few puffs beautifully:

"Smoking shredded tobacco is much better than smoking that damn holy ship brand cigarettes—" He exhaled a puff of green smoke, "China, let the executive committee manage it slowly."

Wang Degang asked curiously: "Master, where are you talking about?"

"On the other side of the sea." Wang Tao pointed to the sea level, "There is a big island with evergreen all the year round."

"Why don't I and you be neighbors in the future." Bai Guoshi suddenly yearned for this kind of life: blue sky and white clouds, green pastures, and snow-capped hills—this is probably what he felt when he watched the episode of Lord of the Rings back then. Impressions from New Zealand.

"Okay, but can your girlfriend promise you to marry a bunch of young wives?" Wang Tao teased him with a pipe in his mouth.

"Zhao Xue——she's not my girlfriend yet." Bai Guoshi was a little embarrassed, "We'll talk about it later, we are not allowed to have concubines, servants and the like can always be brought along."

"You are really an obedient and innocent man. But I don't think Xiaobai, you might like to live this kind of life." Wang Tao chuckled, "Who can tell what will happen in the future? It’s a world metropolis even better than New York and Shanghai. It’s not bad to be a veteran cadre in a metropolis in the new world.”

The vegetable garden work lasted for two days, and everyone fenced this precious vegetable field to prevent wild animals from intruding.Then he went into the work of digging ditches.Bai Guoshi and Shen Yuefeng went out to explore every day, because Jiang Hanqiu's immigration plan was likely to be implemented, so in addition to investigating resources, they also took into account the search for possible future colonization sites and land for reclamation.

Lao Di led another group of people to dig the canal, which he had never done before.However, the Great Library compiled and printed a booklet "Simple Measurement and Construction" and distributed it to the expedition team.According to the book, I made some measuring instruments such as a level.The diameter of the water intake channel is not large, but it needs to be covered with soil, so it must be dug deeper.The water intake is located on the river bank mainly composed of sand and gravel, and the water drawn is relatively clean.It's also not easy to detect.The intake is below the waterline most of the year, except during the dry season.

The canal passes through the city wall and leads to the courtyard. A reservoir was originally built here, but it was originally drawn from the moat of the city moat, and the water quality is not as clear as that drawn directly from the river.After the river water is introduced, it can be used after sedimentation.Excess water is passed through another channel to the toilet to flush the latrine, and the sewage flows directly into the compost pit outside Yulinbao.Sandy soil will absorb excess water quickly.For safety and sanitation, a wooden cover was added to the pit mouth.Wang Tao made a hole in the lid again, and inserted a bamboo pole through the middle.

"What is this for?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Drain the methane inside."

"Can't be used as fuel?"

"It's too little. But if a cigarette butt goes down, it's enough to paint the wall with dung."

Finally all the channels were covered with shingles and covered with earth.After a few days, the traces will fade away, and no matter what channels, they will no longer be visible.

While Wang Tao and the others were engaged in infrastructure construction, Bai Guoshi and Shen Yuefeng caught a red deer on the way of an investigation. This small deer meat was tender and delicious. After dragging it back, there was almost nothing left, only a piece of skin was left. And the clean bones that have been gnawed, even the deer intestines have been washed, salted and hung under the eaves to dry.

There are many beasts here, and it doesn't even need to go too far into the mountains.Hunting mainly depends on Shen Yuefeng. He has hunting experience and the level of shooting.He was even more sophisticated than Bai Guoshi.In order to save bullets and avoid causing big disturbances, hunting was carried out with steel crossbows, and Shen Yuefeng kept hitting common game such as pheasants and rabbits.It is a blessing to have such an experienced hunter as Shen Yuefeng for these people who are engaged in heavy physical labor every day to feed the entire left-behind team.

Seeing that Shen Yuefeng was able to hunt prey back every now and then, Wang Tao started thinking about something else.So he proposed to dig a well in Yulin Fort.

"What are you digging a well for?" Lao Di was baffled by this suggestion.

Bai Guoshi objected: "The groundwater here must be salty. Apart from bathing, it can't even water the vegetable garden."

"Who said you need to use the water inside?" Wang Tao said, "This is a refrigerator! Do you understand the refrigerator?"

The ancients did not have refrigerators. Except for areas in the north where rivers can freeze, ice can be stored in winter and used in summer. In other places, if you want to store perishable food such as pork and mutton, you can only use wells.No matter how high the temperature is, the temperature in the well is generally maintained at more than ten degrees Celsius, which is enough to preserve it for a few days.

So they started digging again.Well digging is a technical job prone to accidents.Although there are instructions on how to dig wells in the "Simple Measurement and Construction" in their hands, Wang Tao dare not act rashly.At this time, there were not many masonry and limestone. Wang Tao crossed the bay again to buy materials in Anyoule City. When he saw several wells in the city, he heard that some local people were digging wells as a side job and hired them for construction.

The groundwater level in Yulin Fort is very high, and the water came out within five or six meters.Because the purpose is not to fetch water, the diameter of the well is less than 1 meter, and the walls of the well are made of bricks. The well-drilling master praised the cement, yellow sand and lime mortar they used, because the adhesive force is really good, and they offered to give them a few bags. For cement, he would not charge the cost of drilling wells, but the left-behind team had no spares, so he had to politely decline, saying that there might be some in the future.

Wang Tao said: "This shows that there is a market for many of our products. There is no need to stare at the mirror for white sugar, there is a market for cement—"

"The demand for cement is pitifully low." Shen Yuefeng dismissively said, "It's not like you haven't seen what the common people here use to build their houses—it can be done with plaster. That is to say, the work of building walls of wells, cement mortar It shows its superiority."

Wang Tao thinks about it too. I really can't see anything that is particularly in demand here.Although white sugar and shochu are easy to sell, the local consuming population is really small, and they will be saturated if they can't sell much.

"Let's collect resources honestly. Let the Foreign Affairs Department worry about the business."

After a few days of investigation, Bai Guoshi surveyed a timber cutting site, which is about 3 kilometers away from Yulin Fort, but it is near the bay, and the timber can be dragged out for 300 meters before entering the sea.If it was carried by human shoulders and hands, it would be impossible to transport the timber felled every day to Yulin Fort.

The job of most of the sailors is to cut wood here every day. The cut trees are barreled on the spot, dragged to the seaside with ropes, and groups of 5 to 10 wood are tied with rattan to form wooden rafts. 4 to 5 rows form a group, and they are dragged by sampans to the beach in front of Yulin Fort and then dragged ashore.

Although there is a link of sea transportation for timber transportation, the whole labor is still extremely difficult.Fortunately, Shen Yuefeng can continuously provide meat, even if there is little, more or less is meat, and Shi Jinxi continues to provide seafood.Several chickens also contribute some eggs every day.The food is not bad.In order to boost morale, Wang Tao said a paragraph every night no matter how tired he was.In order to raise the awareness of the soldiers and masses, he no longer talks about jokes like "Official Fighting", but instead talks about "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" every day.And from time to time, he added some fangs against the Song Dynasty, connected with the current situation, and played a big role in order to show the great image of the Traveling Group against the Ming government and save China.After talking about Yue Chuan, Wang Degang wanted to do a stand-up comic to relax the atmosphere, and then let everyone go back to sleep.After this implementation, the morale is actually good.

(End of this chapter)