Hou Xianglin just nodded suspiciously when he heard this, He Sizhi was really fine, he immediately saw that the Governor had some doubts in his heart, worried that these people would never return, but He Sizhi responded firmly that with the white flour steamed buns and white rice porridge and a small plate of pickles, the natives will come back, because the daily staple food of these natives is cassava and bananas, white rice and white noodles are rarely eaten, and even real salty salt is rare, so the wonderful taste of this meal is estimated that the family will remember it for a long time, so please rest assured, Loka will come back, but the adults don't know that when it comes to work, the natives are not good.

Hou Xianglin nodded after listening to this, knowing that Lao He was saying that the local people were very lazy and very ineffective in their work.

However, Hou Xianglin still feels that as long as there are more people, it will be more or less helpful to his own engineering construction, he now has less than 400 people in his hands, and there is no construction machinery, relying on manpower to carry out construction, which makes him feel pressure.

Today's free trade zone is a wasteland, everything is starting from scratch, and Hou Xianglin has to build not only a wooden border wall, but also a crossing wharf that can connect the two sides of the Xin'an River, as well as the deep-water coast wharf that has been explored for a long time, and the road to connect these sites.

According to the agreement between Nicole and Sun Lao and Captain Gu before leaving, about less than three months, Nicole will come back, these two bigwigs told him very firmly before returning to Mornington Island, they will definitely bring another set of steel floating docks from the old world in the cave to Xin'an City, so that in the future, Nicole can directly dock in Xin'an City to load and unload goods, Sun Lao said that this move can almost establish the core position of trade in Xin'an Free Trade Zone.

Because the steel floating pier is painted blue, it is also called the Blue Pier, and this blue pier will be installed on the coast of Sinanseong for a long time.

Although the amount of work on the floating dock is much smaller than that of a normal trestle dock, it also has a lot of supporting works, such as the dock square and the storage area, in addition, there are roads that connect all these areas.

Therefore, Hou Xianglin has been trying to find labor everywhere.

However, before doing all this, there was one more priority: the defensive fence of Sin'an City, and he had to fence off the entire bonded area as soon as possible for security.

In view of the existing conditions, Hou Xianglin planned to temporarily enclose the free trade zone with a wooden fence wall, and then send escorts to patrol and guard the fence on all sides, and only then did he dare to live in this chaotic and barbaric place and carry out all kinds of construction with peace of mind.

So, if there is a local indigenous workforce on board, it is of course something that is not desirable.

Sure enough, after about half a morning, Hou Xianglin and his subordinates found a large group of men, women, and children, about 200 people, coming from the west bank of the Xin'an River, most of whom were women and old people, and there were half-grown children who had not grown up, and people were holding all kinds of guys in their hands, including wooden sticks, bamboo baskets, and ropes.

However, Hou Xianglin's subordinates were still startled by this scene at the beginning, and many people hurriedly reported to the governor that there seemed to be a gang of robbers in the distance.

However, after putting down the binoculars, the Governor ordered that he should send a few men to the Governor's Palace in Dili City and to the Manor of the Duchess of Margaret, and bring some of the rice and white flour that we had stored there.

Hou Xianglin looked at the soldiers of the escort team with nervous faces and said, This is our labor force has arrived.

Seeing that the people were still puzzled, the Governor said again, "Who of you has ever seen a baby who went out to rob and took a nursing baby?" Is the whole family in waves?!

Although everyone couldn't understand what a wave of flow meant, the whole family understood these words, and finally reacted, it turned out that this was the native who went to the governor's house to eat in the morning? Well, the Governor has said that it's not a meal, it's labor......

However, Hou Xianglin finally had to admit that He Sizhi did know more about the indigenous people than himself, and he did underestimate the laziness of the natives.

The main reason is that although these tribesmen and women will carry stones from a distance, but the number seems to be very small, the old man and the half-grown children are holding a few pebbles in their arms to come over, the women have a basket is good, but it is only a half basket of pebbles of different sizes at a time, and it is especially carried by three people slowly rubbing together.

The most laughable thing is that the natives will never work for more than two hours at a time, and basically after this time, they will lazily lie down on the spot, and then wait for the meal to eat.

When the gang had finished their lunch, the natives had to ink until the afternoon, and before the sun was about to set, they brought in a few small piles of stones, and then waited for dinner......

Well, Hou Xianglin finally had the feeling that he had been wronged, he had to call He Sizhi and a few other people together, and asked them to quickly formulate a standard for exchanging labor for steamed buns and gruel, Hou Xianglin said that with the number of stones that these people have transported to the scene so far, at most each person will be given a bowl of gruel and two steamed buns, and this group of lazy people must not be allowed to open up and eat to their heart's content.

However, the tried-and-true piecework system of the Governor, which could mobilize the enthusiasm of the people for production, was a bit out of order for the natives.

Although the number of steamed buns and gruel served on the second day was much reduced, the natives were still content and did not protest, and the most important point was that the natives moved as many stones as yesterday, neither decreasing nor increasing, and there was no change in the time of rest.

Hou Xianglin was very depressed about this, and he sent He Sizhi to Luoka to negotiate, saying that if you want to eat more and better, you should bring more stones!

Unexpectedly, Luo Ka shook his head and said that the food is already very good, as long as it is enough to eat, there is no need to work hard? Why should you be tired of yourself? We're content too, right?

Luo Ka also said with four fingers, we are very grateful to the white adult, Hou Xianglin couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this title, and said in his heart What is this name? He Sizhi, who is good at observing words and colors, immediately explained that in the eyes of the natives, those with lighter skin tones than them are called white people, and if you respect your old man, you will add the word adult.

He Sizhi also relayed Luo Ka's words, now the tribe is very peaceful and happy, this is all because of the gift of the white adult, when we get through the difficulty, we will go back to the jungle, we swear, in the future, the white adult comes to the tribe, our things are the adult's, including the woman Yunyun......

Well, Hou Xianglin found that this is indeed a conflict of cultural concepts, when we laugh at people who are lazy and do not seek progress, who knows that it may be difficult for people to understand why you are so tired of yourself......

So Hou Xianglin had no choice but to say to Luoka, since you thank me, can you find some more tribes to come over for dinner, oh no! It's to move stones, and the treatment remains the same, but if anyone is willing to move more, I'll give more steamed buns here!

Not to mention, Loka did, and a few days later, about two hundred men, women, and children came running over with stones and pebbles to eat......

However, it is precisely because of this that the reputation of Hou Dashan suddenly spread all over the streets and alleys of Dili City and the surrounding areas.

Half a month later, every day, the surrounding natives joined the crowd to collect stones.

Although these people don't bring many stones, Hou Xianglin obviously won't let these people go because of this, well, these people will definitely not leave before the meal, so Hou Xianglin simply used this group of laborers to do other work, he will according to the needs of the project, to these people to add work such as smashing stones, leveling the ground and carrying materials, and it is piecework, such as every basket of gravel, or carry a certain amount of materials, the laborer will get a piece of bamboo coated with colored paint, and the people rely on this piece of bamboo, You can get an extra white flour steamed bun at the time of cooking.

Although the work efficiency of these people is very low, after all, there are many people and great strength, and Hou Xianglin's various projects finally began to advance slowly......

More than half a month later, a new simple road was finally added to the free trade zone, which is a gravel road that runs through the entire coastline of the free trade zone, and the width of this road reaches 12 meters to the small wooden wharf on the west bank of the Xin'an River, so that the water and land transportation between the free trade zone and Dili City has been initially established.

Of course, this is just the beginning of a large-scale construction of the new security tax district.