For this reason, Li Junming estimated that if there were nearly 100,000 immigrants on Zixia Island, there would be no problem at all in opening up one million mu of arable land by the beginning of spring next year, when Operation Changfeng was over.

Obviously, in order to build supporting facilities for this million acres of land, in addition to the canals and wells, the highway that runs through the north and south of Zixia Island has become a very important infrastructure, so in order to seize the time to build the road, but also to ensure the quality of the project, the main force of the construction of this project is not the villagers, but the Zixia Island garrison.

The construction command of the highway is in charge of Wei Dongli, the deputy captain of the garrison, who has been the foreman of the construction site and water and electricity decoration contract for many years on the construction site in the old world, and is probably the most familiar with the civil construction site in the entire crossing group, except for Hou Xianglin.

During this period of time, the garrison was very busy, and the team of more than 1,000 people was divided into two teams to carry out military training and various constructions in shifts, the former was in charge of Ren Ke, and the latter was in charge of Wei Dongli.

In this way, the brothers led thousands of people to work day and night, hurriedly repairing roads, not only building thousands of shacks for the new immigrants, but also cutting down a large amount of timber and piling it nearby.

After doing these urgent tasks, he went to the dock to help - in mid-August, Zhu Beiguo Peng Qiang arrived at Zixia Bay with a new ship, bringing new dock facilities to Zixia Town Wharf - manpower tower crane and a complete set of reinforced concrete prefabricated deep-water wharf components, which is to allow Nicole to directly dock on the important facilities of Zixia Town Wharf.

On the evening of September 5, the Nicole left the Zixia Island pier and rushed to Sin'an City with more than 800 male and female orphans from various sources, where the Nicole was to return to the Red Pier with various cargoes, including ore and coal.

Now, the construction of various projects on Zixia Island has also entered a peak period.

Ren Ke was very difficult to recruit more than 800 young people from the third batch of immigrants as soldiers of the garrison---- the main reason for the difficulty was that the Han immigrants were attached to the land and nostalgia, so that most of the immigrants were really not interested in eating food and becoming soldiers, but they still recruited some people, but the number was a little unexpected.

According to Ren Ke and Wei Donglian's investigation, these soldiers who were finally recruited were not honest farmers in the village in the past, they seemed to be more like gangsters in the village, they seemed to be born unwilling to farm honestly, and in the eyes of the elders in the family, these people belonged to the "unsuccessful" people.

Obviously, Ren and Wei had no choice, they knew that in the eyes of most immigrants, it would be difficult for the army, even if it paid a high salary, to win the favor of the peasants who were allocated land, not to mention that it was impossible for the Ministry of Finance to allocate more than the standard capitation fee for them to support the army.

Ren Ke was a little desperate about this, he sent a telegram to the Red Mansion saying that he did not want his garrison to be composed of a group of rural gangsters, and also sent a telegram to Wanshan Island, strongly complaining about Xiao Ai and others' Hu interception behavior, and also accused Wanshan Island of ignoring the overall situation, which will seriously affect everyone's great cause of crossing.

In response to Ren Ke's somewhat angry telegrams and difficulties, Sun Lao immediately sent a telegram to comfort Ren Ke and said, don't be so pessimistic, the gangsters in the village are also young people, and young people can shape them.

Sun Lao also said that we should look at the problem from another angle, and under normal circumstances, the conservative squires and clansmen regard those young people who are more active-minded, unsatisfied with the status quo, and who are always producing all kinds of moths---- these people may have all kinds of faults and rebellious personalities, and some people are even lazy - for many young people, the days of working all day long to get enough food and clothing are indeed hopeless, and it is no wonder that some people fall into the negative situation of being lazy and lazy.

However, we should not blame these young people, you should understand one thing: how desperate it is for a person to realize that he has been working desperately all his life with no room for advancement?

Therefore, the passivity and rebellion of young people is mainly a social problem, and in general, it is no wonder that young people are young.

So, for us, these young people are actually a valuable resource, in short, people can be used, as long as these people are molded with rigorous training, over time, these people will be excellent soldiers.

Don't forget, the so-called honest peasants who only know how to immerse themselves in farming are actually not very productive, and their IQ is also a problem, and those people may be able to become obedient soldiers, but they cannot become excellent soldiers......

Sun Lao's enlightenment to Ren Ke still played a role, so Ren Ke and Wei Dongli together sorted out the set of "military regulations" that Wei Hong trained the blacks in the naturalization camp in Xin'an City, extracted the strictest and even cruel military methods, and used them to train these village gangsters - Ren Ke and Wei Dongli had a consensus on this: military training should be strict to the point of making these gangsters afraid.

Fortunately, the quality of the soldiers that Ren Ke brought to Zixia Island in the early stage is quite high, and these soldiers come from two aspects: one is from Dayuanwan Water Village, and all of them are single or orphans - who would leave their hometown and run to this desert island where only birds come to?

The other part is the orphans brought out by Dai Xiaoshan and Xiao Ai from the four Chinese merchants, most of these soldiers have taken courses for a few days in the night school on Wanshan Island, and have received military training for a period of time, many of them have also participated in the battle with the green battalion soldiers in the Dayuan Bay Water Village, this group of people is now the backbone of Ren Wei and the others, and now that the garrison has been expanded, all of them have become officers, at least they are also squad leaders, and the existence of these people gives Ren Ke and Wei Dongli the confidence to manage these soldiers well, including those gangsters.

In addition to the rigorous military training, there were various engineering constructions - the construction of the Black Stone Road was just one of the relatively easy labors, in addition to the construction of the wharf, logging, etc.

Every Monday to Saturday, the soldiers are divided into two teams, led by the captain Ren Ke and the deputy captain Wei Dongxi, either military training or work, fortunately on Sunday there is a full day of rest time, the food on weekdays is so good that the immigrants on the island are envious, plus a lot of military salaries, free clothing, shoes and hats---- speaking of which, it is still good to be a garrison soldier.

So later, many young people volunteered to participate, basically, of course, the squires and ordinary villagers in the village were also very happy---- after all, these gangsters did not give the village clansmen and elders a headache on weekdays, and now these gangsters have such a place, and someone is in control, it is simply a happy situation.

If it weren't for Li Junming leading the migrants to other construction projects in time, the migrants would have continued to open up wasteland.

At the end of October, Li Junming issued a timely decree to the governor, requiring the per capita reclamation area to reach 30 mu – that is, peasant households that exceeded the allocated land by 10 mu should be paid for other projects.

Because the dry season is approaching and the farming season is about to begin, Li Junming decided to seize the big project during this time - the new Qinzhou wharf.

The Black Stone Road turns northwest at the mouth of the river, reaching a cape at the northern end of Zixia Island, there is a complex coastline near the cape, and there are more than a dozen large and small desert islands outside the cape, because of the geological process and the existence of island groups, the ocean currents there are turbulent, scouring out deeper waterways than other land shelves, so it is also a good place to build a deep-water harbor.

Soon after, with the efforts of the soldiers of the garrison, a new wharf appeared on the coastline on the east side of the cape, because it is said that most of the immigrants living in the nearby reclamation came from Qinzhou Bay in Guangxi, and these immigrants were originally tenant slaves of Mu Tianbo Mansion, after Wu Sangui occupied Kunming, more than 3,000 of them fled to Qinzhou Bay, ready to board the ship to go south to the Hebei Kingdom of the Li Dynasty - at that time, the Zheng lord of Hebei State was also recruiting Han people to go south to reclaim the wasteland, but before boarding the ship, Chen Shangchuan sent a ship to take these people to Dongshan Island, Finally the group got on the Australian ship.

So Li Junming placed this group of people near this cape, and also named this place Xinqinzhou.

There is timber here, Li Junming and Wei Dongli with 2,000 migrant workers and 1,000 garrison soldiers built a large wooden wharf here, the name is called Xinqinzhou Wharf, its geographical location and water depth conditions are really good, if on the existing basis, with cement prefabricated parts to further extend the trestle into the sea, you can let Nicole dock directly.

A few years later, the wharf became an important overseas military port for the Commonwealth of Australia.