692 Little Wanshan Island
The 800-material galleon, which was a combination of East and West, was named the "Assassin" by the brothers.
According to the later memories of the parties involved, it was the brothers who each wrote three names on the paper, and then pinched the small paper ball in the city and asked Lilia to draw lots.
The brother thinks that this method is very fair, otherwise, for the sake of the naming of the ship, I am afraid that it will be pending for a while.
This way of naming ships still had some influence on the future, and for a while, everyone used this method to decide on the name of the ship.
Well, although the name is very strange, but when the brother in Macau reported the name of the ship to the Red Mansion, it did not cause everyone's complaints, probably the main reason is that everyone is very busy now, and there is no time to pay attention to the reason for these things, in short, everyone agrees with this name, after all, in Macau, the brother and wife as a party, everyone has the right to name by default, which is everyone's usual attitude towards this kind of thing.
On the 15th of September, Aelosh and the group of tenants and slaves recruited by the Qiao family landed on a very inconspicuous desert island at the southwestern end of the Wanshan Islands.
On the map of the Old World, this place is called Little Wanshan Island, but now in the New World, it is an uninhabited desert island with no name.
The island is located at the southwest end of the Wanshan archipelago island group, with Baili, Dongao, Putai and Huangmao islands as barriers in the north, and is close to Dawanshan Island less than one kilometer away.
Of course, these place names are old-world, and in this era, all of them had no permanent population, except for a few of the islands that fished for the sea, which seasonally visited to collect seafood.
Therefore, whether it is for the Ming Dynasty in the past or for the current Qing Dynasty, this is currently an extraterritorial and barbaric place, and of course there is no official place name.
As one of the first people to land on these desert islands, the Dai Ai brothers were the default owners of the naming rights for the islands, but the brothers obviously didn't have much interest in it, so they still used the old world names.
When Xiao Ai told the names of these islands to the Qiao family Zhuang head and the handlebar style around him, everyone was surprised that this Qiao family's aunt was so knowledgeable, saying that after only listening to these names, and then looking at those islands, he suddenly felt that the uncle was deeply named Sanwei, in short, everyone was complimentary, and Ai Rushi was very useful for this, and he would not break it.
After preliminary exploration, the area of this small Wanshan Island is about a little more than four square kilometers, the coastline is dominated by granite and limestone cliffs, the terrain is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack, although half of the island is rocky landforms, there are many depressions between the mountains and rocks, these places are fertile and relatively gentle, usually with dense woods and shrubs.
The latitude here is close to the tropical ocean climate zone, the precipitation is relatively large, and the low-lying areas of the island often have small ponds and streams between the ravines, so the island is quite rich in fresh water.
All in all, although the island is not big, it is rich in all kinds of resources, and after exploration, he believes that there are not only raw materials for cement factories and brick factories, but also yellow and white fine sand beaches under the cliffs, and perhaps raw materials for glass factories.
Moreover, the geographical location here is relatively remote from other islands, far away from the main waterways of shipping, so the construction here is very much in line with the consistent idea of "low-key development and making a fortune quietly" emphasized by the Supreme Executive Committee.
At eight o'clock in the morning of this day, when the red sun was rising and the water was calm, the fleet led by Irush first arrived at the north side of a small peninsula in the southeast of Xiaowanshan Island, which was far away from Dawanshan Island, and there was a small harbor with a white sand beach next to it.
Xiao Ai stood at the bow of the boat, took a telescope to observe this small bay, and then looked at Dawanshan Island not far away, and after a moment of silence, he named this bay Dongsha Bay.
After arriving at the destination, because the draft of the spire was deep, the boat could not get to the beach, but fortunately, the ships of this era were already equipped with lifeboats and other small boats, so Xiao Ai first asked the village leaders to take the tenants and various tools to go ashore in small boats in batches, and the first task of these people was to build stilted wooden houses.
The site of the construction of the house has been surveyed for a long time, and it is a peninsula-shaped platform on the south side of Tung Sha Wan.
Soon, the villagers, under the leadership of several Qiao family stewards, went ashore by boat and waded ashore.
To Xiao Ai's surprise, there was no confusion in the process, and all the men who came ashore first, carrying all kinds of logging and house-building tools in their hands, while the women helped carry construction materials from the boat to the beach.
These living and production materials are ready-made, and the brothers have already prepared them, mainly some wood, because the carrying capacity of the fleet is limited, and there are no materials such as bricks and tiles that are heavy.
Under the leadership of Zhuang Tou, the tenants and slaves went directly to the terrace on the south side of the small peninsula after going to the beach, and the brother had personally surveyed there, the platform is located in the southeast corner of Xiaowanshan Island, except for a small stream valley similar to an isthmus connected to the land, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the potential is slightly relatively high, the field of vision is wide, and it is relatively dry.
The stream on the west side flows down the hill to Dongshawan below, and it is relatively easy to obtain domestic water, which is indeed a suitable place to establish a settlement.
Xiao Ai didn't say much about the construction of settlements, and after landing, the villagers quickly got up to work on their own under the assignment of Zhuangtou.
Obviously, the villagers are no strangers to this kind of thing, and later Xiao Ai learned that these villagers are not local natives, but from all over the world, and some people's hometowns are far away in Lingbei.
So those things like logging and building houses and opening up land don't need Xiao Ai to worry about anything at all, and in terms of his resume and experience, he doesn't need to worry about anything.
Xiao Ai is self-aware, he thinks that these things should be handed over to the villagers to take care of themselves, I am a layman, and if I point fingers too much, I may cause chaos to others.
Of course, Xiao Ai also has a big thing to worry about - building a dock.
For this kind of technical work, the villagers are completely unfamiliar with it, how to construct, what to do first and then what to do, completely depends on Xiao Ai's on-site command, and must be guided in detail.
Fortunately, he had the help of more than 40 sailors who came with the fleet, so the project went well, and soon after, a medium-sized wooden pier appeared on the white sand beach on the east side of Xiaowanshan Island---- and the trestle bridge extended more than 30 meters from the beach to the sea until the water was three meters deep.
The wooden piles at the pier were able to drive to this depth, thanks to the excellent water quality of the sailors and the abundance of timber prepared in advance, and even so, the project took seven days to complete.
This dock is currently able to dock ships like the Pride, and obviously a giant ship like the Nicole can't dock directly.
The completion of the wharf project made the villagers and sailors admire Xiao Ai a lot, and they all said with some admiration that this son-in-law of the Qiao family looks like a son-in-law with clear eyebrows---- except for his tall figure, but he really didn't expect that this son-in-law commanded everyone to work and really had two brushes.
In fact, Xiao Ai has been traveling south and north with the Pride for so long, and he has participated in the construction of a lot of docks.
So today's Irush is more or less half an expert in repairing docks.