"Right, how about my design?"

"Looks pretty good!"

As soon as he thought that he would definitely be able to live in it, Wei Hong immediately came to his senses, and he leaned over again and began to look at the drawing with great interest.

"It will be a three-storey building made of mahogany, cement and stone, with a Chinese-style roof and Western-style buildings, and the whole thing is a model building that combines East and West!"

"Oh......"

Wei Hong nodded in response to a word.

Well, Wei Hong didn't agree with Brother Hou's evaluation of the architectural design of the new Governor's Palace, because no matter how he looked at it, he thought it was a miniature version of the Red Mansion, which was nothing more than a triangular roof with cornices on the roof.

Of course, the design of this small building has a lot to offer, judging by the style of the window sills on the front of the building, the baroque columns on the front steps of the small building, the protruding entrance hallway, and the simple decorative lines with a sense of old-world postmodern art.

Wei Hong just wanted to complain about this design, but after peeking at Zezilia's expression of looking at his fiancé with a look of adoration in his eyes, he immediately realized that this "model of Chinese and Western combinations" was not for himself, so he immediately changed his words and said:

"Brother Hou is worthy of being an architectural expert, this architectural design ...... It's almost on par with the masters, huh...... That's right! It's a combination of East and West......"

As he spoke, he nodded frequently and grinned,......

Brother Hou smiled when he heard this, glanced at Wei Hong and responded:

"Really?"

"Of course!"

"Okay, now on to other important projects, this ...... Along the city walls, a few more improvised sheds will be built here for occupants and storage of building materials, well, the vacant land near the wooden pier at the mouth of the river will be renovated for the planned cargo storage yard, and a few more sheds will be built nearby for temporary storage of goods. ”

Hou Xianglin immediately changed his serious face and continued.

"Why is that?"

"In this way, from east to west, from south to north, there are two greenhouse-centered building complexes, which can cover all the construction sites under construction, and the greenhouses are also equipped with kitchens, and new chefs are needed, so Zilia has entrusted the duchess to recruit, so that foreign laborers can also have meals nearby, work and rest nearby, and the overall labor efficiency will be improved a lot."

Hou Xianglin further explained.

"Of course, Xiao Wei, in addition to playing an important role in the entire infrastructure project, from now on, you also have to take people to deal with public security issues, I used to grab my beard and eyebrows, and now I will hand it over to you, oh yes, in addition to the four gates of the west and south city walls, you need to send people to stand guard and guard, and you must also set up a city wall patrol team, in addition, like surveying and mapping the address of the floating wharf, building a wooden wharf trestle and cement-related technical work, your garrison is responsible for it."

"Hmm...... Got it. ”

"Obviously, these projects will take up your time for military training, but you have to understand that this is a special time, and we are not in a position to support a professional army that only has military training and no other work.

After all, the monthly salary of those recruited is not low, and it is necessary to work, and these people also know that the silver will not be given in vain.

Besides, their labor skills are indeed much stronger than those of the natives, they have always been the main force in building roads and various infrastructures, as for those indigenous men and women who range in number from 400 to 600, I have always adopted the attitude of doing whatever they can, anyway, this group of people does not spend money, just eating, and at present the labor skills of these people have improved, but on the whole they can only do auxiliary work. ”

Wei Hong also nodded at this time and responded:

"Yes, in this way, our labor force is still very insufficient, and these seemingly simple initial infrastructure construction will also take a long time......

"Well, all other works must be completed within two months, especially the floating dock and stacking yard for Nicole, as well as the storeroom, which must be surveyed and built before Nicole comes."

Hou Xianglin patted the tone on the table and said resolutely......

……

On the morning of the second day after the Pride left Xin'an City, Hou Xianglin had already begun to hype and sell the telegraph he had just learned.

He first sent a telegram to the Red Mansion to ask, when will the Nicole leave for Sin'an? When will the spare floating dock in that cave be brought over?

Red House called back quickly: about two months.

In the afternoon, another telegram came from Mornington Island:

"The Blue Wharf has been loaded with Nicole, but the specific departure date of the ship cannot be determined for the time being, because the dry season is coming, the family is now busy farming, and the Pride has also taken away part of the crew, and the labor of industrial construction has to be drawn from the Han people, so the family is currently very short of labor to dig coal......

The only difference between this steel floating dock and the red dock currently in use is the color of the exterior paint - blue, so everyone is used to calling it the blue pier for short.

It was Zezilia who received this call, and the sister had been waiting next to the transceiver, and since the family could not send a full-time telegraph for a while, she also accompanied her fiancé to participate in the training of sending and receiving telegrams a few days ago.

Probably because of her aristocratic education and young age since she was a child, this sixteen-year-old girl's brain seems to be much better than that of Hou Xianglin of Bensan, whether it is code memory or the flexibility of her fingers, she is better than him, so when Wei Hong is busy, Zilia naturally becomes a part-time telegraph operator in Xin'ancheng.

The girl is very curious about this legendary "Australian Thousand Miles of Communication Secret Technique", and is also a little in awe, although she has been strongly brainwashed by Hou Xianglin with terms such as "science", "technology", "radio" and so on, but as a Christian, she is still skeptical of Hou Ge's statements, and she really can't understand it, after all, the sister has not received nine-year compulsory education, so she has to pray to God before sending and receiving newspapers every time she dares to operate this "magical" exquisite device.

This is also one of the reasons why Hou Xianglin took his sister back to the Red Mansion and immediately sent her to Sunflower Girls' College to study, of course, this is a later story.

In the afternoon, Hou Xianglin, who received the reply from the Red Mansion, breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he still has a period of time to slowly carry out construction, and there is no need to rush to work, after all, this is very beneficial to ensure the quality of the project.

The next day, Wei Hong led some members of the garrison team to drive a small boat to survey and map in detail on the Hai'an Line in Xin'an City for two days, and finally determined the specific address of the Blue Wharf - just west of the estuary of the Xin'an River, less than 300 meters away from the Jiangkou wooden wharf on a section of the beach, here because of the alluvial fan of the eastern estuary, a small backwater bay has been formed, which extends less than 50 meters from the beach, and the water depth reaches more than 20 meters. This is the most suitable place to build a floating dock.

Immediately afterward, the garrison entered the construction site of the floating dock and began to work on the land facilities, including a square hardened with cement.

This square is 80 meters long and horizontal from east to west, and 50 meters deep from north to south.

On the north side of the square, near the shoreline, there will be four simple double-mountain storage greenhouses made of wood, and in front of the greenhouses there will be an open-air cargo yard fenced off by wooden fences.

The greenhouses and the yard are connected by several cement-hardened roads with a width of up to 12 meters.

This layout makes the whole dock area look very spacious and magnificent.

Next, after discussing with Wei Hong, Hou Xianglin finally determined the location of the new Governor's Mansion - located in the southernmost central area of the Blue Wharf Square, where there is a flat land with an area of about ten acres.

In view of the fact that the Blue Wharf is the core functional area of the entire Sinanseong, Hou Xianglin also specially planned commercial land, according to his vision, both sides of the Governor's Palace on the south side of the square, and the east and west sides of the dock square will be planned for streets and reserved for commercial buildings, Hou Xianglin believes that with the regular arrival of the Nicole and the establishment of fixed routes, Sin'an City will attract businessmen from all over the South Seas to do business here, and in the near future, these plots will become a prosperous commercial area.