"Where's the material?"

"Bricks and cement. The flotilla left us a few bags of cement. There are also some bricks and tiles, and we make our own planks, so it doesn't take much to build a culvert anyway. Iron nails and lime can be bought at the opposite market. ”

"It's okay, why don't I go to the Anyu Market tomorrow to sell some goods, so as not to use the fifty taels of emergency reserves."

The next day, Wang Tao took Wang Degang, Shi Jinxi and others to change their clothes and went to Anyou City. This time, he brought a simple four-color gift, which was considered to be the completion of the new house to visit the place. Hu Xun naturally also entertained and gave two soup sheep in return. He also took the opportunity to sigh bitterly, saying that it is not easy to maintain the place, there is no money in the county, there are many urges, and the place is very heavy, since the king shopkeeper wants to set up a village here, he naturally has to have a meal with the county, make a land deed, and all kinds of miscellaneous taxes will inevitably be shared together in the future. The rhetoric is extremely polite. Wang Tao naturally agreed one by one. Try to enlist the tolerance and support of local shili and the guiding ideology of current cooperation with indigenous shili.

Wang Tao took the men around the market, selling some soju and sugar, both of which were very popular, and got some loose money. I bought a few horses of indigo-dyed homespun cloth and wanted to find a tailor to make some local clothes - the sailors were too conspicuous in their first-year uniforms. But there were no tailors in the market, so I had to ask Hu Xun and his servants to do some again. I also bought some rice, pumpkin and vegetables to improve my diet. See iron pots and clay pots for sale. Bought a few too. Everyone packed up and was about to leave, when they saw that there were live chickens sold in the market, two cents of silver, Wang Tao bought five or six, and asked the sailors to bundle them and hang them on the flat poles and take them back.

When I went out of the village, I found a lime kiln by the sea that specializes in burning lime with oyster shells, and bought a few sacks of lime. Shi Jinxi bargained among the fishermen on the beach for a long time, and bought a small sampan for a tael of silver, the boat was very small, and it could only hold seven or eight people when it was full, but it was enough to use in the bay. Back in Yulin Fort, Wang Tao took care of the pots and clay pots in the kitchen to use—there was no need to take a lunch box to cook and eat in the future. I can boil some soup and cook rice or something.

"You bought all these chickens and came back to prepare the tooth sacrifice?" Lao Di was a little strange.

"Eat eggs. Raising chickens. Wang Tao took care of the chickens and put them down, "It's not a waste to not raise chickens in such a large yard." ”

"Chicken manure all over the floor? Stinks to death! ”

"Come out in a chicken pen."

"What do we feed the chickens?"

"Leftovers. Coconut meat is also available. During the day, put the chickens outside the fort, let them find food by themselves, and rush back at night to feed some feed, which is very economical. Wang Tao is confident.

"It's still an all-natural green grass chicken. Well, whatever you want. Lao Di wondered if Wang Tao suddenly wanted to be a farmer. Remembering something, he pulled out a copy of the telegram from his pocket.

"What is this?" Wang Tao took over the telegram, which was an encrypted telegram, the call sign was the Hangzhou number of the expedition team, and the call sign was the Lingao Telecom Main Station.

"Strange, this is not a message from the sea secret."

"That's right, Shen Yuefeng couldn't translate the codebook after receiving it. It's certainly not a sea secret. ”

"This is rare, didn't you say that the expedition team didn't use sea secret power generation when you set off? Even the left-behind forts like ours are connected by sea secrets. ”

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

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

Wang Tao led people to cut branches from the woods, brought gravel from the beach, and built a chicken coop under the walls of the Yulinbao compound. Plus a circle of chicken pens. When the weather is not haode, put them in the bar.

Some of the sailors were from peasant families, and they were no strangers to these things, and when they saw that the chief was engaged in agriculture with great interest, they were also interested, and some suggested that they grow some vegetables themselves, so as not to waste chicken manure and human manure.

"No, do you want human poop?" Old Di was taken aback. I remembered that when I was training in the countryside, the smell of the big pit of manure on the roadside was really ecstatic.

"Of course, wouldn't the toilet be full?"

"I was going to make a ditch and wash it straight into the sea."

"It's a waste to rush into the sea, just dig a pit outside the fort, just rush into the pit, put a lid on it, and it won't stink anywhere."

"Let me declare in advance, don't tell me to do it when it's time to get fat—"

The vegetable garden is located outside the walls of Yulinbao, in a sheltered corner. However, the soil along the coast is thin and gravelly. Direct planting is not viable. Wang Tao asked people to build a flower pond of about 50 square meters with large stones and do a good job of drainage. Then he took the sailors to dig up the mud on the hillside, and transported it back with the trolley left for them by the Zhenhai, and filled it in one by one.

Everyone else was bewildered by the ex-trainer's exuberant drive, as if he was ready to make it his home. Bai Guoshi couldn't help but ask him if he was planning to stay in Yulin Fort for a long time in the future. Wang Tao haha smiled:

"Of course not, my goal is to give me a large piece of territory in the future. Then I led my large family and hundreds of immigrants to colonize the wasteland and become a lord. Practice your hands now and you'll have experience later. ”

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

"Australia, Tasmania or New Zealand, you can do it." Wang Tao was a little tired, took out a pipe from his pocket, Wang Degang quickly filled it for his master, and sandwiched a piece of red-hot wood from the nearby fire with boiling water. He took it and took a few puffs:

"Smoking cigarettes is much better than smoking that damn Holy Ship cigarette roll—" he spat out a puff of green cigarettes, "China, let the group of people in the Executive Committee take care of it slowly." ”

Wang Degang asked curiously, "Master, where is the place you are talking about?" ”

"On the other side of the ocean." Wang Tao pointed to the sea level, "There are big islands that are evergreen all year round." ”

"Otherwise, I'll be neighbors with you in the future." Suddenly, he longed for such a life: blue skies and white clouds, green pastures, and snow-capped hills - this is probably the impression of New Zealand when he saw the Lord of the Rings tidbits.

"Okay, but can your girlfriend promise you a bunch of little wives?" Wang Tao teased him with a pipe.

"Zhao Xue - she's not my girlfriend yet." Bai Guoshi was a little embarrassed, "I'll talk about it then, the little wife is not allowed, and the servants and the like can always be brought." ”

"You're really an obedient and innocent man. But I don't think you necessarily like to live like this. Wang Tao smiled hesitantly, "Who can say what will happen in the future, maybe Lingao will be a shijie metropolis that is better than New York and Shanghai." It's also good to be an old cadre in the metropolis of New Shijie. ”

The work in the vegetable garden lasted for two days, and the precious vegetable field was fenced to prevent wild animals from breaking in. Then he threw himself into digging ditches. Bai Guoshi and Shen Yuefeng went out every day to explore, because Jiang Hanqiu's migration was likely to be carried out, so in addition to surveying resources, they also took care of finding possible colonies in the future and land for reclamation.

Lao Di himself led another part of the people to dig the ditch, and he never did this work. However, the Grand Library produced a booklet, "Simple Surveying and Construction", which was distributed to the expedition. According to the book. I made some measuring instruments like spirit levels. The diameter of the water intake channel is not large, but it needs to be covered with soil, so it is dug deeper. The water intake is located on the bank of the river, which is dominated by sand and gravel, and the water is relatively clean. It's not easy to spot, either. Except for the dry season, water intakes are below the waterline for most of the year.

The aqueduct led through the walls to the courtyard, where a cistern had been built, but it had been drawn from a moat, and the water was not as clear as that brought directly from the river. After the river water is introduced, it can be used after sedimentation. The excess water is sent through another channel to the toilet to flush the pit, and the sewage flows directly into the manure pit outside Yulinbao. Sandy soils absorb excess water very quickly. For safety and hygiene, a wooden cover was added to the pit mouth. Wang Tao made another hole in the lid and entered a bamboo pole with a middle opening.

"What is this for?" The crowd was puzzled.

"Drain the biogas out there."

"Can't be used as fuel?"

"Too little. But if a cigarette butt goes down, it's enough to smear the walls. ”

Zuihou added a tiled lid to all the channels and covered them with mud. In a few days, the traces will fade, and no matter what the channel, it will not be visible.

While Wang Tao and the others were engaged in infrastructure construction, Bai Guoshi and Shen Yuefeng caught a red muntjac on the way to an investigation, this small venison was tender and delicious, and after being dragged back, there was almost nothing left, leaving only a piece of skin and gnawed clean bones, and even the deer intestines were washed and brushed, salted and hung under the eaves to dry.

There are so many beasts here that you don't even need to go too far into the mountains. Hunting main kao Shen Yuefeng, he has hunting experience. Speaking about the level of shooting. is much more sophisticated than Bai Guoshi. In order to save bullets and avoid causing large movements, the hunt was carried out with steel crossbows, and Shen Yuefeng constantly hit pheasants, rabbits and other common game. Eating the entire left-behind team with a mouth full of oil, for these people who engage in heavy physical labor every day, it can be regarded as an experienced hunter like Shen Yuefeng.

Seeing that Shen Yuefeng came back from every once in a while to hunt prey, Wang Tao started to think about other things. He proposed to dig a well in Yulinbao.

"What are you digging a well for?" Lao Di listened to this suggestion and felt incomprehensible.

Bai Guoshi objected: "The groundwater here must be salty, except for bathing, you can't even water the vegetable garden." ”

"Who said they were going to use the water in it?" 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 the river water could freeze, which could store ice in winter and use it in summer, and other places to store perishable foods such as pork and mutton, they could only use wells. It doesn't matter how high the temperature is. The temperature inside the well is generally maintained at a temperature of more than ten degrees Celsius, which is enough to store for several days.

So he started digging the well again. Digging a well is ジシュ work and is prone to accidents. Although there were instructions on how to dig wells in their "Simple Surveying and Construction", Wang Tao did not dare to act rashly. At this time, there were not many bricks and limes, Wang Tao crossed the bay again to buy materials in Anyoule City, and saw that there were several wells in the city, so he heard that someone in the local area took drilling wells as a side business and hired them to construct them.

The groundwater level in Yulinbao is very high, but it only takes five or six meters to get out of the water. Because the purpose is not to get water, the diameter of the well is only 1 meter, the wall of the well is made of bricks, the master of the well praised the mortar of the cement yellow sand lime they used, because the adhesion is too good, and proposed that as long as he is willing to give a few bags of cement, he will not charge the cost of drilling the well, but the remaining team has no left, so he has to politely decline, saying that there may be in the future.

Wang Tao said: "This shows that many of our things have a market. There's no need to keep staring at the mirror and sugar, there is a demand for cement in the market-"

"The demand for cement is pitifully low." Shen Yuefeng was disdainful, "It's not like you haven't seen what the houses of the common people here have built - it's okay to use plaster." That is, the work of building the wall of the well, the cement mortar shows its superiority. ”

Wang Tao thought about it, and he really didn't see anything in particular demand here. Although sugar and soju are easy to sell, the local consumer population is really small, and they are saturated if they can't sell much.

"Let's be honest about gathering resources. Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs worry about doing business. ”

After a few days of investigation, Bai Guoshi surveyed a timber harvesting site, which is about 3 kilometers away from Yulin Fort, but close to the bay, and can be dragged out of the timber for two or three hundred meters to the sea. If it were carried by manpower, it would not have been possible to transport the timber cut down every day to Yulinbao.

The work of most of the sailors is to cut wood here every day, cut down trees on the spot to make barrels, drag them to the sea with ropes, and tie 5~10 pieces of wood into wooden rows with rattan. 4~5 rows in a group, dragged by sampans to the beach in front of Yulinbao and then dragged ashore.

Although there is a sea transportation link in transporting timber, the whole labor is still very difficult. Fortunately, Shen Yuefeng can provide a steady stream of meat, although it is small, it is also meat, and Shi Jinxi continues to provide seafood. A few chickens also contribute some eggs every day. The food is not bad. In order to boost his morale, Wang Tao has to say a paragraph every night, no matter how tired he is. In order to raise the consciousness of the soldiers, he no longer talks about jokes such as "Officialdom Fight". The purpose of saying "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" every day is naturally to make some ideological and educational preparations for the war with Jianyu in the future. And from time to time, he added some poisonous fangs to the Great Song Dynasty, linked with the current situation, and gave full play to it, so as to highlight the Weiguangzheng image of the crossing group against the Ming government to save China. After talking about Yue Chuan, Wang Degang also had to come to a stand-up comedy to relax the atmosphere, so that everyone went back to sleep. After implementing it in this way, the morale is actually good.