The Marines gently pushed away a bundle of branches in front of the cave, revealing a shallow cave filled with three Westerners, all wounded, one of whom was more seriously wounded, the moans of pain that this man made.

Sudden bright light into the cave, the three Westerners all closed their eyes tightly, the platoon commander knew at a glance that this was the Dutch who had slipped through the net by Qingdao, he did not hesitate to shoot into the cave first, the soldiers did not wait for the platoon commander to order, they also raised their guns to shoot into the hole, after the ping-pong gun, thick black smoke rolled up in the hole, ten minutes later, the black smoke in the cave dispersed, and the three Westerners inside all whined and mourned.

The platoon commander took out a dagger and went into the hole, "Poof, poof, poof." The platoon commander cut off the three heads with a sharp dagger, and then ordered a squad of soldiers to transport the three bodies to the dock, where a ship dedicated to throwing corpses was moored.

The engineers watched the soldiers transport the corpses, and several of them had already begun to vomit, especially the engineer Chen, who vomited the most and vomited all the pancakes he had just eaten, not counting the jaundice water.

Seeing this situation, the survey mission could not be carried out any longer, and he only needed to announce that everyone would return to the city and come back tomorrow to investigate.

Geologists are first and foremost tasked with finding coal, and as long as there is coal, the machines can be running and the factories can be started.

For the time being, Makin strictly forbade the Legion of America to cross the area set by the Dutch, because crossing this area would be an unknown tribe of Indians, and Makin strictly implemented the policy of high mountains, first taking root on Long Island, and then advancing deep into the Americas, so as not to clash with the Indians for the time being.

This limited the scope of the search for coal by the geologists, who strongly requested to cross the border to find coal, and the reason they gave to Makin was that there were no conditions for the formation of coal mines in the Long Island area, so they judged that there could be no coal mines that could be mined in the Long Island area, and that the scope of the coal search must be extended outward.

If it was to be extended, it was necessary to drive the troops over, and he Majin could not call the shots on this point, so he sent a telegram to Gao Junshan, relaying the request of the geological expert to Gao Junshan.

At this time, Gao Junshan was in Xichang, and after receiving Ma Jin's telegram, he immediately gave him a clear answer:

The call has been received. On the question of calling for the army to advance westward, I believe that the time is not yet ripe. You are far away from the land, it is difficult to start a business, everything must have a foundation, and Long Island is the foundation of your life in the Americas. Don't be in a hurry, be down-to-earth for greater development. You can make a list of the items you urgently need at the moment, and the first 10,000-ton ship in China will bring you the first batch of supplies, as well as more immigrants.

After receiving the telegram from Gao Junshan, Ma Jin held a meeting at the city hall and conveyed the emperor's will.

After the meeting ended, Ma Jin left Lin Zhenggang behind.

Ma Jin asked, "Does Assistant Lin have a high opinion?" ”

Lin Zhenggang said: "We must vigorously build the infrastructure of Chang'an, especially the infrastructure of the wharf, after the wharf is built, our large ships can enter the port, and only then can we get a steady stream of domestic material support." There is also the fact that the construction of houses must be accelerated, and we still have several thousand people stranded on ships, which is a great waste of manpower, they live on ships, they have to eat and drink, and they cannot create the value of their labor. Our priority now is to give full play to the power of all labor, not to build some coal mines, to build electricity, of course, these things are to be done, but not now. ”

Ma Jin also agreed with Lin Zhenggang's view, asking: "What should we do now?" ”

"We can develop a few towns and fishing villages near Chang'an, and I found that there are a lot of whales here in South America, and we can encourage fishermen to fish, and then we can build shipyards and logging teams, and the trees cut down by the logging teams can be provided to shipyards and construction sites," Lin said. In this way, the fishermen go to fish, the workers go to work, the students go to study, in short, when everything is normalized, things are much easier. ”

"This way, we can move all the migrants on the boat down and divide them into towns and fishing villages, so that they can have something to do," Ma Jin said. ”

Lin Zhenggang said: "That's right. The steamer still has to wait to return to England to bring in the 15,000 migrants stranded in Britain, and we still have a large amount of supplies stranded in Britain, and we need to hurry up. ”

Ma Jin said: "I immediately convened a meeting, organized geological experts to explore the terrain, set up a fishing village, and stopped exploring any coal mines for the time being." ”

Lin Zhenggang added: "It is also a national policy of China to distribute fishing boats and fishing gear to fishermen. ”

"I'll explain all of this in this meeting." When Ma Jin said this, he thought for a moment, and then said, "You come with me to this meeting." ”

Lin Zhenggang said: "Obey the order!" ”

Makin set up a village working committee on Long Island, which is now tasked with planning the establishment of a fishing village.

Thirty miles from Chang'an, the village working committee found an abandoned small fishing village, which had been abandoned for more than 30 years and was established by the Indians.

The geological experts who came here to investigate the area reported the results of the investigation to Ma Jin: "Mayor Ma, this fishing village has been abandoned for more than 30 years, and we analyze from the architectural remains of the fishing village, which is a fishing village built by the native Tu people, and the items excavated from the soil can also prove that this fishing village once belonged to the local Tu people, to be exact, the Indians." ”

"It can't be a Dutch residence?" Makin asked.

"There is no such possibility, there is no trace of Europeans in terms of architectural style, and the abandoned objects are more than 30 years old, much earlier than the Dutch discovered America." Geologists have also put to good use the knowledge that Takayama has taught them.

The reason why Makin asked to prove whether the fishing village was Dutch was not because he had any interest in the Dutch, but because he was worried that there were still Dutch people on the island.

He ordered the village working committee to build a new fishing village on the site, and the name of the fishing village was left to the committee to consider, and after the discussion of the committee, the fishing village was finally named Zhouzhi Village, which is derived from Zhouzhi County in Xi'an.

With the fishing village, a shipyard was also established, and just on the edge of Zhouzhi Village, a logging team was also set up in this village in order to facilitate the rapid supply of timber to the shipyard.

After the emigrants disembarked from the steamer, all the supplies on board were also moved, and twenty-five three-thousand-ton steamers, and two five-thousand-ton steamers, loaded with beaver skins piled up by the Dutch in warehouses, sailed across the Atlantic to England under the escort of a Zhenghe-class battleship. ()

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