On January 20, the Pride arrived at Xiaowanshan Island.

Just twenty days ago, the last batch of men transported by the Assassin arrived at the new wharf at the western end of Dawanshan Island, which had been relocated directly from the same place by the people of Dawanwan Water Village, and the name had not changed: Yongtang Wharf.

With the vigorous assistance of Zhong Qiao and Aoliang, it took less than five days before and after, and more than 1,200 men, women, and children, a total of more than 300 households, finally landed on Dawanshan Island safely.

From then to now, the industrious Han people have not only re-erected the water village and wharf at the western end of Dawanshan Island ---- far away from the east beach wharf of Xiaowanshan Island, but also reclaimed 600 acres of wasteland, and it is expected that another 900 mu will be reclaimed within a month, reaching a scale of 1,500 mu, which is almost an area of one square kilometer, accounting for half of all arable land on Dawanshan Island.

At present, the supporting water conservancy facilities are also under construction.

By the end of January, 500 acres of watered land has been planted with sweet potatoes in time, this kind of grain crop has been spread from the Americas to the southeast coast of the mainland at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the yield is quite considerable, the current climate on the island is also suitable for planting, is one of the important rations of the people in Dayuan Village in the future.

Because of the season, another 1,000 acres of land will be planted with a small taro and local white sweet potato, which only takes about two or three months to mature, can be used as food and vegetables, and after harvesting, it is just in time for the sugarcane planting season.

The Qiao family will then provide sugarcane seedlings to the people of Dayuan Village, which come from the coastal areas of western Guangdong, which is a sugarcane producing area, and where the Qiao family has a grange.

Therefore, the 1,000 acres of land will be planted with sugarcane for a long time in the future, and all the sugarcane produced will be purchased by Australians, which will obviously be a major source of income for the people of Dayuan.

Although Dawanshan Island has an area of 10 square kilometers, but excluding the coastline area, the real land that can be reclaimed is only about 3,000 acres, of which the water and soil conditions are the most suitable for reclamation, which is about this 1,500 acres of land.

Of course, there is a lot of arable land left, but most of it is some dry land, sloping land and mountainous land mixed with stone and soil, although it can also be cultivated, but it is obviously a bit labor-intensive, so in the eyes of Ren Ke Xiaoai and them, the reclamation of these lands is purely more than worth the loss.

However, the people of Dayuan Village soon gave the brothers a lesson---- the hard-working and intelligent Han people are really experts in land reclamation, they never let the land that can be used be barren, in the face of these relatively barren land, the people of Dayuan Village transplanted the Guanxiang trees from Dayuan Bay, and later, these trees not only lived, but also grew very well.

After all, the spice business is the original main business of the people of Dayuan Village, and the villagers will not give up this earning livelihood soon.

At the same time, Gao Jun, the owner of the village, decided to cooperate with four Chinese businessmen in Macao and participate in their maritime trade business, among which spices were originally a cooperative business with the Zhong family, and the sugarcane business was related to the Qiao family.

Gao Jun has decided to buy a ship to go to sea, first follow Zhong Qiao's two families to run a business, one of which is that he is excited by the condition that the Australians are willing to provide him with Australian goods, before the owner of Gao Zhai personally learned what Australian goods are, he is even more unhesitating to buy a ship to do maritime trade.

Another reason for Gao Jun's move is that all the expenses for the relocation and reclamation of the village are paid by the Australians, and it is the Australians who have freed themselves and the villagers from misery, so Gao Jun has made up his mind to hand over the more than 1,000 villagers to the Australians to manage, including agreeing that Xiao Ai will recruit garrison soldiers among the men, and also asking the Australians to send more than 50 teenagers in the village to the navigation school on Xiaowanshan Island to study.

Half of the teenagers were over 14 years old and less than 18 years old, and they were soon recruited into the student training team, nominally becoming Xiao Ai's personal soldiers, while some of the girls were taken in by Dr. Huang as apprentices in the pharmaceutical factory.

In any case, for the people of Dayuan Village, Gao Jun is still the owner of the village in name, but he has basically left the specific affairs in the village alone.

This is Gao Jun's major life decision.

Because he thought very clearly, and saw very clearly---- the situation has undergone major changes, for the Gao family, the way out is to do business with the Australians, especially to do maritime trade with the help of four Chinese businessmen---- is the real promising career, not to be the owner of this hard-working and unpromising Laoshzi village......

At 10 a.m. on January 20, when the Pride arrived at the Yuantang Wharf on Dawanshan Island, the crew of the Pride was surprised to find that the small strait between the two islands had changed dramatically.

In the last time I came, the coast of Dawanshan Island, which was originally a desolate area, has now abruptly erected a wooden water village, the island is full of smoke, the figures are crowded, there is a wharf on both sides of the strait across the sea, and there are several small boats sailing between the two shores, making the whole strait seem very lively.

When the Pride approached the East Beach Pier on Xiaowanshan Island, Ren Ke and Xiao Ai had been waiting on the pier pier for a long time, behind them, there were more than 200 men, they stood on the beach in a neat line, although their clothing colors were varied, but the styles were basically the same, all the same color of short shirts, shorts, straw sandals, plus a hat on their backs, holding a flat pole and rope in their hands, obviously these people came neither for the inspection nor training of the visitors, but as porters.

These men were part of the garrison, and since the arrival of the Dayuan Bay waterhouse, Ren Ke and Xiao Ai, who had a strong sense of crisis, expanded the size of the garrison in time, and they planned to expand the number of guards according to the number of Type 57 rifles and Federation Type 1 single-shot handcuffs brought to him by the Pride, so that there would be 550 guns on the island.

If the two sailing ships purchased shortly after, this force should be able to deal with a medium-sized Qing attack.

At present, there are more than 500 adult males in Dayuan Water Village, of which there are more than 300 strong men, and the garrison is not a full-time army, they are actually non-full-time militiamen, and there are an average of two to three days of military training a week.

Obviously, this is a copy of the Ming military household system, which will not affect agricultural production too much, and the military training will be canceled when the farm is busy, and the agricultural slack will be added to make up for it, which is different from the Ming military household system, in the training system, the training is much stricter, and the weapons and equipment are more powerful.

In fact, for the time being, there are only forty-five teenagers around Ren Ai and the two of them, and they have the best training performance among adults, according to Ren Ai's plan, these people will be trained to become grassroots officers, and make a talent reserve for the formation of a full-time army in the near future.

It is clear that this contingent of teenagers is still growing, because the Red Chamber has agreed to allow the Macau side to "intercept" adult or semi-adult orphans from the church and other channels.

At this time, on the deck of the Pride, the brothers hugged warmly, among which Ren Ke received special treatment, and his partners from the Pride congratulated him on withstanding the "baptism of war".

Ren Ke's performance in that battle has already been known to everyone through telegram exchanges, except for a few quick ridicule Ren Ke to vomit after shooting, all of them expressed their admiration for his calm response in the battle, everyone thought that this was a great beginning, from then on, everyone no longer regarded Ren Ke as a scholar who could only talk on paper.

Now everyone is recognized ---- several young people, including Wei Hong, Ren Ke and Airush, who have all experienced real battles of a certain scale in the New World, and are military talents in our group, and everyone is very happy about this, after all, through several large and small battles, a few military usable people have finally been born in our group, which is indeed a thing worth celebrating.