Next, Hou Xianglin led this group of rabble to build two thatched greenhouses in the shape of double mountains on the side of the simple gravel road.

Well, later everyone had to admit that Brother Hou had a preference for this type of building, and wherever he went, this kind of building with Hou Xianglin's characteristics would be repaired.

These greenhouses are used for people, and I think that Hou Xianglin recently discovered that a small number of native women did not return to the jungle village after finishing their work, but nested nearby by a newly repaired fence wall for the night.

Hou Xianglin immediately sent someone to find out, it turned out that because the way home was too far and it was not safe at night, these women stayed.

So Hou Xianglin immediately built such a greenhouse, and arranged these women and children to enter it, which can be regarded as a shed.

Later, more and more of these greenhouses were built, and many of them were adapted to local conditions, leaning against a wooden wall on one side and enclosing the other three sides with low wooden fences, a bit like an old-world refugee camp.

In fact, it was indeed a refugee camp, and since then some local women and children have lived in it for a long time, especially the women of the Loka tribe, and in the process of labor, a few of them have gradually accepted the concept of "more work and more rewards" - after all, white flour steamed buns, white rice porridge and pickles are delicious in the world, and the more the merrier.

Although in the beginning, people with this idea would be ridiculed and even ostracized in the tribe, Hou Xianglin was very trustworthy, as long as he brought more stones, or worked with him for more than two hours at a time, he would pay for steamed buns or white rice porridge at the predetermined price.

However, the natives resolutely did not want silver, unless a woman suddenly wanted to put a little headdress on her head or something, and would exchange some mountain goods and fruits for some silver.

The reason why the natives don't want silver is that these people don't have the concept of money, and the natives don't believe in this kind of thing, and only think that those things that can be eaten and used are the most real and useful things.

In order to retain the local labor, Hou Xianglin also set up a room nearby, sent a special person to cook, and a special person to manage and clean these greenhouses, just like that, the local people work during the day, and enter the greenhouse at night to rest, so this time, Hou Xianglin found that there are more and more natives staying overnight, undoubtedly, this greenhouse has improved the sudden labor efficiency to a considerable extent, Hou Xianglin is very happy, there is really a bit of the old world construction site here.

Although these natives gathered spontaneously, and there were no restrictions on their work and rest at night, they did maintain a dynamic balance in the number of laborers here, and as time went on, more and more natives came to work here, and at the peak, it could even reach nearly a thousand, although this was not long after.

However, Hou Xianglin's later attempt to divide the canopy into men's and women's camps failed completely, because the natives didn't buy it at all, and Hou Xianglin couldn't distinguish between family intimacy, so he had to give up and told the soldiers who maintained order that as long as there was no conflict in the canopy, they would let it go.

In fact, fortunately, although the conditions in the greenhouse are simple, it is also very worrying to be in a state of mixed living between men and women, but the living order in the greenhouse is quite good, there is no conflict and fighting, and there is no theft.

Obviously, the tribes that Luoka found were all close to his own family, but even so, Hou Xianglin felt a lot about the simple customs among the natives.

Therefore, with such a group of usable laborers, coupled with the continuous progress of his Chinese and Japanese followers, Hou Xianglin's life is a little easier, and he can now focus most of his energy on supervising the quality of the project, and those very specific construction site management, including the acceptance of materials and daily labor management with the tribe that collects stones, is basically handed over to He Sizhi and other Han and Japanese people, who can communicate with the local people and have certain management experience.

Hou Xianglin's instructions to these managers were: not to let people be lazy, but also not to push the natives too much, anyway, the piecework system, with the difference in treatment, will eventually induce those who are willing to work more to join the crowd of work.

Obviously, because the people who stay in the greenhouse can get a relatively good rest, and they have more labor time than those who only come here for the purpose of eating, this group of people can also earn a few more steamed buns than others.

In order to encourage these people, Hou Xianglin also asked his subordinates to provide extra breakfast to those who came to work every morning, so those who stayed in the greenhouse overnight could get an extra steamed bun and a large bowl of white rice porridge in the morning, so after about half a month, there were more than 300 "resident population" in the greenhouse.

Apparently these people have gradually broken away from the tribe and the jungle, and people concentrate on working on the construction site every day in order to get a stable three meals a day.

According to Hou Xianglin's later recollections, some of these people were actually the first group of residents in the first overseas territory of the Australian Federation, and later they all became citizens of Xin'an City, as for the jungle and the tribe, they could never go back, because these people could no longer adapt to the life in the jungle tribe......

Just a month after the Loka tribe was contained, a two-kilometer wooden fence wall was erected in the half-man-high grass, this wooden fence is divided into two layers, the outer layer is two meters high, the inner layer is three meters high, and the whole wall is composed of closely arranged thick logs, coupled with a dense triangular support structure, making this double row of wooden walls appear very tall and thick.

There is a four-meter-wide gap between the two rows of fences, the inner wall is fifty centimeters higher than the outer wall, and the inner row of fences has small fence gates at intervals, and the inner side of each fence wall is also equipped with wooden steps that can stand people, and there are six exits throughout the wall, and there are defensive barricades and sentry posts near each exit.

There are also twelve towering lookouts on three wooden walls, and the wooden walls are built on a half-meter-high rammed earth platform, so the actual height of this wooden wall is more than three meters.

Obviously, Hou Xianglin was referring to some of the old world fortifications, and if there were a certain number of musketeers and cold weapon defenses, this double row of wooden fences should be a very effective barrier to block the attack of the cold weapon army.

This is the result of Hou Xianglin's labor of leading a convoy of nearly 400 people and almost the same number of natives, nearly 1,000 people, working from morning to night every day, without a day off, and working continuously for more than a month.

According to the agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Timor Viceroyalty of the Portuguese East India Company, the area of the new security tax area is four square kilometers, and this land spans the banks of the Xin'an River, which is divided into two areas, east and west, each with an area of two square kilometers.

In view of the existing conditions, Hou Xianglin decided to develop the land plot in the west section of the Xin'an River first, which is mainly from a safety point of view.

Because the course of the wide Xin'an River is a natural barrier, and of course it is also a relatively difficult area to defend, it is much safer to first develop the land on the west bank, let the river bank face the relatively safe direction of Dili City, and then use the city wall to enclose the two most difficult sections of land in the south and west, than to let the river bank face the dangerous and wild west.

As it turned out, it was Hou Xianglin's decision that allowed the city to occupy a favorable defensive position in the face of native attacks.

After completing the large project of the wooden wall in the western district, in the next month, Hou Xianglin made persistent efforts and commanded this construction team of nearly 1,000 people to start building roads in the city.

Ten days later, a second gravel road with a length of one kilometer appeared within the wall, which extended south along the west bank of the Si An River to the gate of the wooden wall, which was the southern gate of Si An Shing.

Although the width of the road is only two horse-drawn carriages side by side, it is probably the widest and smoothest road on the island of Timor, and it connects to the south of the shack at the south gate, to the north of the "governor's palace" at the mouth of the Xin'an River, and to the simple wooden wharf on the riverbank.