Three hundred and eighty-fourth chapter eight feet of ambition
Shi Wei Bachi couldn't help but "hum" when he saw the land occupied by the Navy. The sea in Kaohsiung is like a local emperor, and everything revolves around the navy.
Of course Ming Lao would not point fingers at him, but the young navy officers under him were very important in the Senate's "slang" system.
You're welcome. Someone came to "visit" him every three days and asked him to solve various needs of the navy.
The Navy set up a coaling station in the "**" Cijin Camp in the old time and space as the First Fleet station. In addition to the battleships and supply ships of the Navy's First Fleet, light vessels of the Coast Guard were also stationed here.
Monitor nearby waters and escort transport fleets. This place has become an important naval base.
Originally, the Navy wanted to set up a base in Zuoying, but considering that its current strength is limited, it is not suitable to spread its strength. In order to save dock facilities and reduce workload, the first camp was established here.
Due to the large number of ships stationed and frequent entry and exit, Cijin has become an important part of the Kaohsiung area's infrastructure. The navy's base is not as simple as the army's. It can barely cope with tents and barracks. The navy has to serve warships, especially at the beginning of spring.
Steam engine-powered battleships with proven properties rely heavily on logistics.
In order to reduce the logistical pressure on Kaohsiung, the Joint Logistics Headquarters used local shipyards to set up a ship repair yard on Hong Kong Island to be responsible for the repair and maintenance of warships. It only dispatched repair ships to Kaohsiung for simple repairs, but the docks dedicated to the navy were
Piers, warehouses, barracks and coal stations are still needed.
The needs of the Navy squeezed out Wei Bachi's limited human resources. Wei Bachi was reluctant to see resources consumed by the Navy, but under the big hat of Operation Engine, he could not resist the demands of the Navy. Moreover, he himself was very
It is clear that without the existence of the Navy’s First Fleet, there would be no Kaohsiung City.
The carriage drove into the yard in front of the city hall, and the soldiers at the door raised their heads in salute. A naturalized citizen wearing an open-collar tropical cadre uniform came out and welcomed them into the main hall.
Wei Bachi asked: "Is the banquet ready?"
"According to your instructions, the reception has been set up on the terrace on the roof of the building."
A group of people went up to the terrace on the roof of the city hall. An awning had been set up here. Rattan tables and chairs were neatly arranged under the awning. The sea breeze blowing from the sea was very comfortable on the body. Rich dishes were already placed on the table.
Dishes. The bottles of chilled kvass and lemonade were covered with a thin layer of water droplets.
Zhong Lishi and others had lost their appetite after eating "navigation dry food" on the ship. Seeing a table full of delicious food, everyone's eyes turned green, and they didn't show courtesy to Wei Bachi. They all sat down and ate.
The cooked dish on the table is venison, which is Taiwan's second largest export product after deer skin. Venison is almost all lean meat, not much fat, and has a relatively light taste, which is suitable for the hot climate here.
Dr. Zhong saw that although the venison, pheasant, seafood and vegetables on the table were abundant, the cooking was very simple and the seasoning was not rich, and it was still the level of big fish and meat, which made him feel more and more secretive. He was originally a good eater.
When I was in Lingao for a few years, I felt bored after eating too much food in the Senate cafeteria, so I started cooking at home very early.
Seeing that the food here is quite abundant, I couldn't help but think about how to arrange my life here.
Looking out from here, you can roughly see the entire territory of Wei Bachi. Although the city hall, square, roads and piers are also presentable, if you look at the entire Kaohsiung city, it is just a huge shantytown.
It is a shantytown with regular buildings. The buildings that occupy the main area of Kaohsiung City are rows of unadorned stilt wooden houses coated with coal tar. There are some scattered two-story wooden houses scattered among them. Taiwan has many typhoons, earthquakes,
There are many mudslides, so this kind of wooden house is more adaptable to the environment.
The entire city of Kaohsiung is surrounded by earthen ramparts, bamboo fences and trenches. Along the line are wooden watchtowers with thatched roofs. With such a city as the center, some farmland and plantations have been opened up around it. It can be seen that it is not yet completed, and it is slightly
There are messy roads, trenches and channels. A little further along the road, you can see several settlements - newly built standard villages.
Speaking of "city-like" places, 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 desolate plain, and most of the vegetation is still original. Sitting on the roof of the European-style city hall in the center of such a city, I was dressed neatly and drank ice-cold lemonade, surrounded by people.
There were maids and servants to serve them. It made the senators suddenly feel like they were British in the colony.
However, the land they have cultivated is very pitiful. Except for the piece of land they are on, even the developed farmland looks like a small scar on the skin of the dense vegetation on the wasteland from the rooftop - the beach is covered with mangroves.
There are dense banyan trees, cycads, and bamboos everywhere...
From a tourism perspective, what they see now is the original beauty of a tropical seaside that is loved by petty bourgeoisie. However, each of these people feels worried and stressed.
We need to build this so-called Kaohsiung City, which looks like a European city in the early Middle Ages, into the capital of Taiwan, a regional central city connecting Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, a naval base, a political, economic, cultural, and industrial center, and a starting point for developing Taiwan. I don’t know yet.
How many years?
A group of people exchanged cups and changed cups. During the dinner, they asked about the development of Kaohsiung. Wei Bachi couldn't help sighing again. After his continuous efforts, the number of immigrants allocated to him for local resettlement has been expanded to 1
Thousands of people.
This allowed him to finally have a larger basic team based on the Tainan Agricultural Reclamation United that landed in the first wave.
But with the increase in people, the task has become heavier. After the purification is completed, these 10,000 people will be resettled in various residential areas according to President Wen's standard village allocation, and intensive state-owned farms will be established. Wei Bachi knows that although the Agricultural Committee has not
The goal of land reclamation has been set, but Kaohsiung faces the vast Chianan Plain, which was the most important agricultural area in Taiwan in the old days. From top to bottom, the expectations for agriculture here are very high. If I have been struggling for a year and failed to get it,
If he has achieved solid results, the mayor of Kaohsiung won’t have to work anymore.
Wei Bachi calculated several times and set his target to complete the reclamation of 30,000 acres of wasteland by the end of 1632.
These 30,000 acres of cultivated land, converted to his population of 10,000, means that each person needs to cultivate three acres of land in half a year.
This is still a bit difficult for the original ecological land, which is all raw land and dense vegetation. Especially the vegetation here is very developed. After fire prevention and burning, oxen are often used to plow the land without enough oxen power. They have to rely on manual hoeing to plow the land.
.
"... Opening up wasteland and cultivating land is a laborious job and requires tools. Except for the well-equipped Tainan United Army here, I have no tools to give them the quota of 10,000 people..." Wei Bachi said, "Bai Yu said
Give me a few steam tractors, but I don’t know when they will arrive. Fortunately, Feng Zongze is a good friend, and the horses and cows approved by the Planning Institute were delivered to me immediately." He said, looking at the farmland outside the city, "If there are
A tractor would be fine.”
None of the people who came here had any research on agriculture, so they couldn't comment. But Liu Zheng was very concerned about another matter.
"You are here to open up wasteland and farm, and those people who are eating people are not giving you any trouble?"
According to Liu Zheng and most of the elders, after landing in Taiwan, Wei Bachi had to play the role of a colonist who defrauded the indigenous people of their land with glass beads. Unexpectedly, there was no contact at all.
Wei Bachi shook his head: "It's not like the natives have retreated from here long ago. I don't know why? The special investigation team's report said that there were originally native villages and rice fields here. When we first landed, we found that many places were indeed
It's been cultivated. I don't know why they all went inland."
Liu Zheng knew this: "They suffered losses from the pirates of the Ming Dynasty. When the pirates landed on them to cut off their heads, the pirates suffered losses and came back to take revenge. They killed them like they were chopping melons and vegetables, and then ran inland.
These savages don’t know how powerful they are without using a knife!”
"The natives here basically didn't show up except for some people who snooped quietly at the beginning. However, they don't have contact with us and don't come to the market." Wei Bachi took the cold towel handed by the life secretary and said,
Wiping the sweat on his forehead, he said, "Last year, the Haitian had a fight with them here and killed many of them. So now they hate and fear us. I heard the Han hawkers doing business say:
We are almost like monsters among people. This is good, it saves me having to coax them into writing the land deed for sale..."
Dr. Zhong smiled: "This will happen sooner or later. Don't say that the natives are uncivilized, they are still very affectionate towards their land."
Fang Jinghan had always been concerned about his inspection mission. He heard that there were vendors who had contacts with native people, and he was immediately interested. He needed a guide to carry out the inspection trip. He immediately asked for details.
Wei Bachi said that he renovated a small port in the west of Kaohsiung City, and then built a commercial street next to the port.
The purpose of setting up this commercial street is not entirely to make money, but more to obtain various information through trade with the local Han people and indigenous people, and to see if we can develop a few leading parties.
"What is the attitude of the natives around here towards outsiders? Are they headhunters or not?"
"I heard from the natives that there are the so-called Fengshan Eight Clubs here. They don't have the habit of headhunting. However, they are not very popular with outsiders. Killing a stranger is a common thing for them." Wei Bachi said.
, "When the Haitian came for reconnaissance, they also suddenly attacked the reconnaissance team."