The people in the prospecting team had nothing to do for the time being, so Zhao Xu arranged to work with the construction team to build the dock.
This is the most urgent matter at present.
If there is no dock, people can get on the raft, but it will be difficult for some large goods to get on the raft.
Building a dock requires driving thick logs onto the river bed.
Huge logs cannot be erected manually.
The logging team members placed the logs cut into sections under the giant tree.
Then a rope was tied to one end of the log. The other end was tied to the cow, and then it was slowly pulled to the river.
Then the logging team will cut the log into the required length and saw one end into a pointed shape.
The logs are also placed on a fire to carbonize the surface and remove part of the moisture, which can extend the service life.
Originally it is best to use retting or shade-dried wood.
But now there is no time, so we can only make do with what we have and build the dock first.
Even if the service life is shorter, there is nothing we can do.
The next step is how to nail these wooden stakes to the river bed.
Before nailing the wooden stakes, you must first clear the river bed.
The exploration team sent several team members with good water skills down to the river.
"The river bed is basically full of stones. We need to move these pebbles away first," a team member who went into the water shouted.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work. All the team members who go into the water will add two taels of wine tonight, and the venison will be enough." The people in the hunting team gained a lot today, and it was rare for Zhao Xu to be generous.
It is quite troublesome to preserve venison during this season.
If pickled, they don't have that much salt.
If it is smoked, it will affect the taste.
So it’s better to eat more while it’s fresh.
"Okay, captain, you can rest assured." Several people heard that they could add wine, and they instantly became excited and no longer felt cold.
Pairing venison with wine is delicious!
People on the shore have used long and strong logs to build a gantry crane and extend it to the water.
There is a pulley block connected to the crossbar of the gantry crane.
A long iron cable was dragged down from the pulley block.
The end of the iron cable was divided into four strands and connected to a large wooden board.
The team members in the water can move the pebbles underneath to the water surface and place them directly on the wooden board.
The stones in the water are not that heavy due to the buoyancy of the water. Only when they reach the surface of the water and put them on the wooden board, you need to exert special force.
Zhang Xu had nothing to do, so he stood by the river and watched the construction of the dock.
This is the most important link. In the future, this will be the transfer station connecting the traffic lines on the West Road.
In a few years, maybe this place will develop into a city.
China has the largest population in the world and deserves more living space.
This is something the president always says. Many people question why the president does not put all resources into domestic development.
Why do we have to occupy so many barbaric countries?
The explanation given by Dong Shuheng was to consider future generations.
The living space of this generation is enough, but what about future generations? Are they going to follow the old path of dynasty changes again?
On the contrary, the president's statement is more acceptable to ordinary people, because they no longer have to worry about the second and third children at home... they can stay at home and divide the family property.
The key is that they don't have that much property to divide.
As long as you register your child to immigrate, you can get a large piece of heirloom land.
The baby can also spread the branches and leaves of the family, so why not?
The opponents were mostly domestic conservative landowners and gentry.
These people themselves are unwilling to go out. Now that ordinary people have left, the rents for tenant farmers are decreasing year by year.
Otherwise, you won’t be able to hire tenants at all. If the rent is too high, you might as well sign up to immigrate and become your own landlord!
With many large-scale farms put into production, the price of food is also decreasing year by year.
Although the state has been intervening to prevent it from falling too quickly, the general trend is that it is falling.
The more enlightened gentry and landlords have already completed the transformation. They have invested in factories and large farms overseas. Not only has the family's strength not shrunk due to the decrease in domestic land income, but it has expanded a lot. Only these people still stick to the old tradition.
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Naturally, they don't want to watch themselves slowly die.
As a result, there is now a voice in China opposing foreign expansion.
It's just that the Renaissance Army has not suffered too much losses yet, and they can't find any reason to oppose it.
The people's livelihood in the country is indeed improving, and the people do not listen to them.
So there is currently no market for this kind of sound.
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People from the hunting team came back one after another, and the prey had to be taken to the river to be cleaned first.
Especially the internal organs of red deer need to be cleaned repeatedly.
The hairy belly that Xiang Rongxin misses is more difficult to clean.
There are also some members of the hunting team casting nets by the river to catch fish.
In the evening, the cook has to make soup. Venison is similar to mutton, so the soup will be most delicious if paired with fish!
There were about 2,000 people in the entire team, and almost no one was idle.
Everyone is performing their duties under the leadership of their respective captains and squad leaders, and are busy with the things at hand.
Zhao Xu's schedule was also relatively tight. After all, the Danu Lake was their destination.
Moreover, before setting off, the superiors had already told them to hurry up.
Because the British may also organize people to advance westward to prevent the Chinese from advancing eastward.
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Most of the people in the team do heavy physical work, and they must keep up with the food.
Fortunately, the forests here are rich in animal resources.
Although this is the north, there are not so many fruit trees in the woods.
But all the animals in the north are big and fat. A red deer is really about the same size as a horse.
Even if the ferocious brown bear encounters a hunting team, it will only be used as food.
Here, humans with guns are at the top of the food chain.
"Captain, look, what did I find?" the prospecting team member who was salvaging pebbles from the water suddenly called, with a hint of joy in his voice.
Zhao Xu hurried forward.
I saw a unique stone placed on the slate. Because the main body of the stone was brown, there was a golden metal material inlaid on it.
Under the long-term erosion of the river water, the metallic luster is very dazzling.
OMG!
All the work in everyone's hands stopped.
This is a nugget of gold! Such a big man must have had at least a hundred taels.
Everyone was thinking about it in their hearts, and the desire to possess even flashed in some people's eyes.
"Hang it up quickly! Be careful." Zhao Xu quickly ordered.
"Call Supervisory Committee Member Zheng over. Captain Liu, come and take a look. Maybe you'll make a big discovery."
Zhao Xu sent Wang Li beside him to call Supervisory Committee member Zheng Yaonian over.
It's best to have the supervisory committee witness this kind of thing, otherwise if someone gossips in the future, Zhao Xu won't be able to explain clearly.
Liu Zhi is the captain of the prospecting team. He is a professional. Naturally, this gold nugget must be given to him first.
Liu Zhi's eyes never left the gold nugget. If he could discover a big gold mine, then reporting it would be a great achievement.
As for embezzling this nugget of gold, no one really dares to do it.
So many people have seen it, and if you want to embezzle it, everyone must take care of it.
This is just a piece of nugget gold worth hundreds of taels, and it only costs a few thousand yuan when converted into Chinese yuan.
It's really not worth it.
At this time, the nugget of gold had been hoisted up.
Liu Zhi took it in his hand and rubbed it carefully.
Inlaid with gold is a piece of limonite.
This shows that there are not only gold mines but also iron ores around here.
The Renaissance Army discovered gold deposits in many rivers in Alaska.
Now China's largest gold mining company, Alaska Mining Company, started because of the gold mines in Alaska.
Nowadays, people go to Alaska by boat at their own expense to go gold hunting every day.
Gold mining has been regarded by some ordinary people in China as an opportunity to change their own destiny.
Under Dong Shuheng's instruction, many Chinese newspapers published many guiding reports.
Most of them introduce someone who became a rich man overnight because he went to Alaska to pan for gold.
In fact, there are such people, but they are only a minority.
Most people work in gold mines after they go there. Although the wages are not low, they are not enough to make people rich.
Dong Shuheng’s propaganda like this is just to deceive more immigrants.
As a government, it is indeed unkind to provide such one-sided guidance.
However, in order for the people to move, Dong Shuheng even issued mandatory laws, so why should he care about this matter?
After those people arrive in Alaska, most of them will stay there to receive land allocated by the government and become local farmers.
Zhao Xu knows what it means to discover a gold mine.
A large number of people will flock here by then.
The government is likely to set up a separate state capital here. Then as the leader of the first pioneer team.
Zhao Xu is very likely to become the head of the newly formed government.
Zhao Xu, who has some political ambitions, naturally hopes that the more people here, the better.
"Old Liu, what do you think of this nugget of gold?" Zhao Xu asked anxiously when he saw Liu Zhi holding the nugget of gold in his hand, stroking it, and looking at it carefully, but said nothing.
"Captain Zhao, this is a good thing. It is pure natural gold nugget, and it is an associated mine. If you send it to China, you can enter the mineral museum." Liu Zhi said.
"Sure, then let's keep it intact and send it back." Zhao Xu said.
"Captain Liu, I think if we send more people into the water, we might be able to get another piece."
The two hit it off immediately.
Then there was another wave of people going to fish for stones.
When everyone sees that they can get a piece of gold, they know that even if it is not their own.
But it would be a great achievement if you can catch it.
There are also many rewards available.
Everyone was very motivated and soon they fished out a large load of pebbles, but the gold nugget was gone.
However, Liu Zhi still found a high content of gold sand in the river sand fished by the team members.
So this river is a gold mine, and gold can be mined here in the future.
Of course, this matter can only be confirmed for the time being.
Zhao Xu sent a team back to pass the news back to Dongzhou.
He doesn't have time to pan for gold here, it is their task to establish a stronghold.
The pebbles emerged from the water, revealing the river bed underneath.
Of course, there is no need to move out all the pebbles.
As long as four circular areas are clearly defined and the wooden stakes can be driven in, it will be fine.
On the other side, the logging team also carried the processed wooden piles over.
The thick wooden pile that could be carried by one person was put on the iron cable. As the workers pulled the iron cable, one end of the wooden pile was lifted up.
Then everyone moved the other end of the wooden pile to the river.
The people in the water slowly moved it to the correct position and temporarily fixed it with three thin logs.
Immediately afterwards, everyone replaced the iron rope with a large iron block. They would use it to drive the wooden pile in after a while.
As night fell, the camp fence at the edge of the clearing by the river had been built. A gate was left facing the road in the woods.
Wang Hua also asked people from the hunting team to set up some traps outside the camp fence. Hunters are professionals in this regard.
The gate is a hanging door that opens and closes with iron cables, and a trench is dug outside the door.
In the future, if conditions permit, we can also build a moat and use water trucks to lift water from the river.
Don't think about it for the time being, the Blazers don't have time to waste here.
The logging team and the hunting team are back.
Groups of huge bonfires were lit inside and outside the camp.
Seen from the sky, the entire camp looks like the eyes of a black giant beast.
It's the only light in the endless darkness around you.
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