Wang Luobin held a commander's meeting in the stern of the Zhenhai. All the main cadres attended, including Li Haiping from the Hangzhou, who also came back for the meeting.
"This is our first important exploration point," Wang Luobin said. "The Shilu Iron Mine is located in the upper reaches of the Changhua River."
"Our exploration team is ready and ready to go at any time." Cui Yunhong was high-spirited.
"I'm not busy." Wang Luobin spread out the map. "Shilu is quite far away from the Changhua River Estuary. The straight-line distance is almost 50 kilometers. Most of them are hilly and mountainous areas. The round trip will take at least two days. In addition, it will take at least two days for local exploration.
Two days, the fleet will have to stay here for more than five days."
"Too optimistic." Mu Min frowned, "There are very few Han people in Changhua County. Just outside the county seat is Li District. The exploration team has to go deep into Li District and deal with them along the way. It won't be so fast."
"Just bring a few Li people from Lingao -" Wang Luobin was a little annoyed. After Mu Min's work in Li District, the relationship between Chuanzhong and Li Dong in Lingao is now quite good, and the trade exchanges between the two parties are even better.
Rapid progress. Mu Min also plans to recruit ethnic class students from Li District after the national school system matures.
"It's useless. The Li people here and the people in Lingao are not the same thing at all." Mu Min checked the information about the Li people in Hainan Island. Most of the Li people in Changhua are Meifu Li, while the "Bupei Li" in Lingao belong to the Yu Li people.
, not only the language is completely different, but the culture is also different in many ways.
"Is Mobilei easy to deal with?"
"It's easy to fight but not easy to fight. The reputation of the Han people is very bad in the local area." Mu Min smiled bitterly. Since she was transferred to the Li and Miao Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she had a lot of dealings with the Li people. "In their view, the reputation of the Han people is
The government is asking for money, but the vendors are cheating. But they still welcome the vendors, after all, the salt and groceries they bring are necessary for daily life."
"Let's pretend to be traders and enter Li District."
"It's best to find a familiar person in Changhua County to lead the way."
"Let's go to Changhua County tomorrow to have a look."
The exploration team took a long time to go back and forth, so Wang Luobin decided that the fleet would not stop here. Instead, he would set up a camp at Sanjiagang and station a small team of people to assist the exploration team. If the results of the exploration were encouraging, this
The camp can be expanded into a permanent fortress.
After building the camp, the fleet set off for Yazhou to explore the Yulingang and Tiandu iron ore. Wang Luobin decided to build a camp in Yulingang as appropriate, and then continue north, circumnavigating Hainan Island and returning to Lingao.
After the routes are opened, if it is officially decided to exploit certain mines, regular routes will be opened.
"If I remember correctly, Tiandu iron ore is relatively easy to mine, and the executive committee will probably start there. However, Changhua has high-quality quartz sand deposits, which is also very important to us."
"Yulin Port is a high-quality naval port." Li Haiping said.
Wang Luobin said: "We will talk about this later. When we have iron, we can talk about anything else."
"I have a question," Cui Yunhong raised her hand, "You are just talking about the Li people in Li District. Why don't you tell us what the government's reaction will be? We will build a camp here in a big way, won't they come out to interfere? On D-Day
There are more than 500 armed brothers in Lingao, how many of us can stay in this camp?"
"Don't worry," Wang Luobin took out the mission information given to him by the Intelligence Committee. "Changhua County has a total of only 672 registered residences, and a total population of 2,600 people - men, women, old and young, adults and children.
They are all inside. There are at most five hundred people in Changhua County. If you are willing, it will not be a problem to capture them immediately and make you the county magistrate."
"What if pirates come?"
"Are you too cowardly?" Li Haiping was dissatisfied, "Forget it, brother, I'll stay and help you calm down. I have a 56 and a half in my left hand and a Glock in my right hand. Let's see if any blind pirates come. Brother, I'll catch you.
We lined up to give you an ass fuck." Everyone laughed.
Cui Yunhong didn't like this kind of joke very much, but knowing that Li Haiping had good intentions, she had no choice but to hold back.
Wang Luobin smiled: "According to the intelligence, there is no reason to think that pirates will come to Changhua. What is there to rob in Changhua?"
After some further discussion, it was decided that the fleet would rest here for two days, concentrate on building the camp, and at the same time mine a batch of quartz sand to take away.
The two ships adjusted their positions to get as close to the shore as possible. Wang Luobin, Li Haiping, Mu Min, Cui Yunhong and others took more than 30 soldiers ashore in small boats and found a village to inquire about the residents of the village.
Seeing that they looked strange and suspicious, but did not run away, Xiong Buyou communicated in several dialects and learned that Wuni Port had a lot of fields washed away and the port was silted due to the floods of the Changhua River in the early years.
The situation is so severe that ships have been unable to enter and exit for a long time, so Sanjiagang has become the main port for business people in the county. However, it is far away from the county seat and across the river, which is very inconvenient. The people near the county seat are complaining. As for that
The ruins were indeed a Ming army camp in the past, but they have been abandoned for a long time.
The survey team surveyed the surrounding terrain and decided to build a camp on the Ming army's abandoned fortress in Sanjiagang. According to the survey team's on-site survey, there was a fresh water well here, the foundation was ready, and there were still many stones available on the original site.
Wang Luobin ordered: "Take out all the ballast stones from the bottom tank and use them as building materials and replace them with quartz sand as ballast." It would be a sin not to take back such good quartz sand. It is ballast anyway and does not occupy cargo space.
So everyone went out, took out hoes and soil baskets, and started digging on the beach. The people in the village were surprised. This group of people had no choice but to dig out the sand all over the ground. What could it be?
Baby? A young man came to inquire. Xiong Buyou immediately recruited workers. The sugar, salt, sewing needles and other things that were brought out on the spot immediately caused all the strong laborers in the village to come out. After a while, snow-white
The beach has been dug up to pieces, and the ballast cargo of both ships is full of bags of quartz sand.
The camp is of great importance, and the sailors have to do it themselves. Before departure, they had anticipated that some permanent and semi-permanent buildings might be built locally, so they brought some cement, iron, wooden structural profiles and hardware, as well as various tools on board.
Everything was ready. Huang Zhao, a half-time carpenter, served as the construction worker and used pulleys to lift the construction. By evening, more than half of the Changhua camp was completed. Huang Zhao first repaired a few houses that were better preserved and patched up the outer walls.
A tent was used to add a roof. The outer wall of the camp was originally one foot high. It collapsed badly and was demolished a lot by nearby villagers. It was difficult to repair it all. The wall was only repaired to chest height, and many new structures were erected on it.
fence.
The area 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 only contained three houses and a well surrounded by a parapet. The original perimeter of the entire Ming army camp was still
There was a trench that had become silted up to the point where it was almost invisible and has not been restored.
Wang Luobin named this place Changhua Fort. Since Li Haiping volunteered, he served as the first commander of Changhua Fort. The remaining team consisted of two naval squadrons, and the fleet left enough food for forty days.
, as well as a lot of ammunition and grenades. In addition to Li Haiping, the other members of the group left behind were the exploration team that went to Shilu for exploration and several people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Committee.
Because we don’t know what the future development prospects will be here, the conditions in the new Changhua Fort are very difficult. The only thing that can be called modern is a 15w radio and a matching hand-cranked generator. A few people are alone in a different place, and the radio is
lifeline.
"This is not far from Lingao." Wang Luobin instructed before setting off, "You must call the main station every day and keep in touch. If there is any problem, Bopu will send out a speedboat and will definitely come to the rescue 24 hours a day."
"No problem." Li Haiping said with confidence, but in fact he was secretly complaining. He was not afraid of any danger, but that a few people were left on this coast and lived a primitive life with nothing at all.
There was no electric light at all. It was so uncomfortable.
"We can return to Lingao in twenty days at most, and we will definitely send a ship back on the thirtieth day. You must pay attention to safety and ensure the actions of the exploration personnel. Try not to conflict with the locals." Wang Luobin instructed.
"I understand. Don't worry."
The next day, the work of building houses and mining continued. Led by Mu Min, Xiong Buyou and other people from the foreign affairs department, the group all changed into local clothes and carried several backpacks with some daily necessities in them.
Groceries. The special reconnaissance team sent a few people to follow behind for protection.
It can be said that Changhua County was unprepared for their arrival. Compared with the beacon fire in Lingao on the dth, and the brave people coming from the countryside, this place was simply undefended - almost no pedestrians could be seen on the road.
Moving along the road, the Changhua River dried up into sections at this time, and there were exposed sandy areas everywhere on the river bed. This is a typical tropical savanna climate, which is the hottest place in Hainan. It is only now
In March, the temperature was already around 30 degrees Celsius, and the group was already sweating profusely after not walking very far.
"It's dry and hot, just like Africa." Mu Min was afraid of getting tanned, so she wore a green flowerpot commonly worn by Li women. She wrapped her head tightly with a handkerchief and wore a straw hat.
.Wearing tight clothes will naturally make you the hottest.
The sea sand plain area here stretches from the sea to the inland, with sand dunes everywhere. During this period, there are river branches formed by the intrusion of sea water. There are almost no big trees, but various shrubs are luxuriant and the young leaves are clumps. From time to time, goats can be seen.
Looking for young grass among the rocks and sand.
"Changhua suckling sheep is so delicious -" Xiong Buyou thought of eating again.