After completing the task assigned by Zhang Idol, Zhao Hao set off for Tamna Island.

Soon after going to sea, I met Jinke with three blacktail ships to escort and arrived in Xingang City early this morning.

The fleet was moored at the half-built wharf in Xingang, and Tang Youde, Zhu Jue, Park Chengxing and others had been waiting for a long time and warmly welcomed Gongzi to come and inspect.

The wind and waves were calm along the way, and Zhao Hao rested well. He walked down the wooden gangway in high spirits with the sound of kimchi-scented music. After greeting everyone, he didn't care about resting, and he inspected the first city he built overseas with great interest.

He instructed Tang Youde that Xingang City was a model city. In the future, the group will build many cities overseas, and we will learn from the experience and lessons of Xingang City. Therefore, it is necessary to build the city with a strict mentality of establishing standards, and set an example for those who come after it.

For this reason, he also tempted Old Tang to consider erecting a statue of him in the square in front of the city hall in the future, the bronze kind.

"Then we'll have to lose weight." Hearing this, Tang Fatzi smiled, patted his belly and said, "Otherwise, it's scrap copper." ”

"Hahaha, it's okay, hollow." Zhao Hao laughed, his clothes are not as good as newcomers, he is a rare Tang fat man.

"Hey, Childe is a deep routine." Tang Youde couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Then you have to lose weight, and you have to lose weight, and you look good when you are thinner." ”

"Won't it be over if you let the statue master carve you a little thinner?" Zhu Jue on the side said with a smile. The two have been acquaintances in Xishan Company for a long time, and they have become partners at this time, so they are naturally more familiar.

"Hey, great idea." Tang Youde was overjoyed when he heard this: "Then you have to make him handsome." ”

"Alright, don't think that far yet." Zhao Hao stood on the dock, looking at the progress of the project here, I am afraid that it will not be completed by the end of the year. "Hurry up and build the dock first, so that we can welcome guests."

"Oh, son, this is in a hurry." Tang Youde frowned when he heard this: "Tamna Island is windy and waves, and Gabo Island in the south is too small, so there is no shelter at all. Lao Niu said that it is necessary to build a long breakwater on the periphery of the wharf to block the intrusion of waves, so that there is enough water depth in the port, oh yes, and a stable water surface to meet the basic functions of various ships berthing, loading and unloading, entering and exiting the port. ”

Lao Niu is Niu Yiqun, the elder of the cow, he is the vice chairman of Chongkaisi, and he is the one who led the team to Tamluo Island for construction this time. The Sansha Wharf of the Sand Boat Gang was built by the old cow and people, and he also led people to build a winter sea pond, so he has rich experience in this area.

Therefore, the two construction sites of Xingang City and Tamna Garrison Area on the island are both in charge of the construction of the wharf by Niu Yiqun. Unfortunately, Lao Niu went to the east yesterday, so he didn't see him today.

"The breakwater is not easy to repair." Tang Youde then introduced: "You have to take advantage of the low tide to get a wooden cage first, and then fill the cage with stones. Several layers of wooden planks are nailed to the outside of the cage, and then sandbags are stacked on the outside of the wooden cage on the outside of the weir wall to make it waterproof. The water in the cofferdam is then drained, and only then can the concrete be built. The cofferdam can't be built much, so it can only be built slowly into the sea. ”

"Fortunately, there is a long reef outside the harbor, parallel to the shore, which can be used as the foundation of the cofferdam, otherwise this work would not have been able to be done." Zhu Jue smiled and said: "I think that when I came to Gongzi, I saw that this place could be used to take advantage of the geographical advantages, so I chose to open the port here, right?" ”

"Haha, that's what to expect." Zhao Gongzi nodded without any heart. After all, he had been on a yacht here in his previous life, and he was very impressed by the southernmost port on Tamna Island.

It seems to be called Musippo Port or something, right? But it doesn't matter, I'll never call this half-earthy broken name again anyway.

In later generations, the port here was built with a wide breakwater on the reef that already existed. In addition, the inner side of the breakwater also doubles as a pier, so that the entire harbor can be berthed in one circle, which can provide hundreds of berths.

Later, if a few trestle bridges were built in the harbor, thousands of ships could easily be berthed at the same time, which was enough for a prosperous commercial city.

A few hundred meters to the south, there is another natural harbor that can be used for future expansion. It's just that Zhao Hao estimates that it won't be needed in a few decades.

But in the long run, of course, there is better than nothing. Zhao Hao took a fancy to the huge potential here, so he chose to lease here permanently.

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The dock is a hundred-year plan, and it is indeed urgent.

Besides, the war with Japan is still in a state of war, and he wants to carry out trade with Japan within the year, so Zhao Gongzi will not urge. Surrounded by everyone, he left the dock.

When the guards withdrew, Che Zhuzi and others hurriedly waved the 'spirit injection stick' to drive the Japanese husband to the pier carrying sandbags.

"Hurry up, it's ebbing! Don't want to have lunch again! ”

"Speed me up, lazy seed!"

The shouts of the Li Dynasty overseers resounded through the docks. Although the face is a bit hateful, how can the captured Japanese laborers have any enthusiasm for work? It's all about their yelling, punching and kicking to inject energy to ensure progress.

With such a discordant picture, Tang Fatzi naturally wouldn't let Zhao Gongzi see it, and he had already taken him to the Xingangbao construction site, which was five hundred meters away from the wharf.

At this time, the sun is high, the construction site is in full swing, and the workers are busy on the high scaffolding. Li Dynasty hired workers to push truckloads of cement, sand and other building materials from the material preparation yard next to the wharf with wheelbarrows, and then hoisted them onto scaffolding with pulleys for the craftsmen of the Celestial Empire to use.

Tang Fatzi brought a rattan helmet, but Zhao Hao shook his head, what is there to look at at the big construction site, it is dirty.

But Zhao Gongzi has his own saying: "It's a prototype now, what's there to see?" Let's go to the top and see the silhouette. ”

Tang Fatzi knew Zhao Gongzi's temper too well, so he immediately asked people to prepare a car and drove Zhao Gongzi to the long wall in the north.

said that it was a wall, but it was actually similar to the side wall built by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong. And it's taller and stronger...... After all, it is a rough stone concrete wall with a width of two meters and a width of one meter four at the top, and in the foreseeable future, except for the power of heaven and earth, it is estimated that no one will hurt it.

There are also wide watchtowers on the wall every 100 meters, and artillery emplacements are reserved to arm this place at any time and become the first line of defense against enemy attacks.

Zhao Hao climbed a watchtower and looked at the Xingangbao construction site from a high place, and an octagonal outline was clearly visible.

As I just said, Zhao Gongzi wants to use this place as a model and testing ground for many overseas cities in the future, so he has invested a lot of effort.

This 'Xingang Fort' was designed by him by combining the advantages of the Ming Dynasty's enclosed houses and the western fortresses. In terms of being prepared for danger in times of peace, the Ming Dynasty was no more cautious than Zhao Gongzi.

In the middle of the octagonal view is an oversized square enclosure. The protrusions of the eight corners change the enclosure from a convex polygon to a concave polygon. Such an improvement made it possible for the enemy to attack Fort Newport at any point, exposing them to fire from all sides. With its concrete main structure, complete perforations and gun emplacements, and an encircling moat, this 16th-century Tamna Island is absolutely impregnable.

Zhao Hao's goal for Fort Xingang was to withstand the brutal siege of tens of thousands of enemy troops without falling for a year when foreign aid was cut off.

Although at present, it seems that Zhao Gongzi is purely overcautious. How could the Li Chaoren attack Xingang City? Those pirates don't have the strength to attack.

But Zhao Hao firmly believes that his caution is by no means superfluous. For he knew very well that he was at the end of an age of peace, and that the seventeenth century, when the heavens and the earth were falling apart, was about to roar.

When the time comes, the great earth will change color, the mountains and rivers will be shattered, and the European powers and pirates on the seas will be a hundred times stronger than they are today. Xingang City, which is isolated overseas, if it does not have this self-defense ability, it will only become someone else's food at that time.

In fact, there is no need to look so far, just 20 years later, 300,000 Japanese troops will invade Korea in a big way. If you can foresee this, you have to prepare in advance for anyone else, right?

Zhao Hao's plan is that if his strategy against Japan cannot achieve the intended results, he will turn the entire Xingang City into a fortress, rather than just building a castle.

I can't say these words to the people below in advance. He can only stay in his heart and come at his own pace step by step.

~~

Of course, Fort Newport is not just a military building, it is also the administrative and commercial storage center of the entire Newport City.

In the future, a series of core institutions and important buildings, such as the city hall, the Tamna Chamber of Commerce, the arbitration court, the prison, the arsenal, the bank, the police station, and the warehouse of valuables, will all be located here.

Fortunately, Fort Xingang is large enough, and there are 375 acres of land in the square enclosure alone. The eight corners of the land add up to almost 300 acres. There are four counties in Daejeong, which is one-third larger than Jeju Museong.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is Newport City.

But Zhao Gongzi adhered to the purpose of doing things in a high-profile manner and making a name for himself in a low-key manner, insisting that it was not a city or a fort, so Xingang City became Xingang Fort.

In fact, this kind of nominal degradation or alienation abounds in Zhao Hao's system. After all, no one is more convinced than him, Emperor Taizu's ancestral motto of 'building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king'.

For example, his army is called the security team, which has only recently been upgraded to a police force. Xingang is not called Xingang County or Xingang Government, but Xingang City.

The city was a large administrative unit in later generations, but in this era it was only a market, such as the east and west markets of Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Zengtou City, which was attacked by King Chao, was a trade distribution center outside the county seat. It's the same thing in this dynasty.

Therefore, Tang Youde, the mayor, sounds like a big official in later generations, but in the eyes of the people of this dynasty, he is just a village owner.

Therefore, Tang Fatzi was a little reluctant to come, he was a financial director in Xishan Company, and his contacts were all high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital, which was called a proud life. Zhao Gongzi suddenly sent him to this lonely overseas Tamluo Island, as a small village owner, Tang Fat Man naturally wanted to cry.

ps. There are a lot of messy things before the holiday, so let's do two more. Tomorrow there will be three watches.