Chapter 309. Xanadu
The graceful flute floated briskly on the bow of the ship, and the harsh sea breeze blew on the brass statue of the sword-wielding goddess in the bow of the ship, and there were even ice cubes floating in the sea, so that the ships sailing along the shore had to carefully deviate to the deep sea to escape.
The sky was unprecedentedly clear, with only a few white clouds floating on the sapphires, it was simply the northern beauty in the song of ice and fire, and this sea area was estimated to have been experienced only by the Jurchens in the white mountains and black waters.
At this time, Mao Jue's ship was less than seven, not that he had a bad idea to hit the reef, only to go out of Lutun Island, a total of less than 100 kilometers, on the straight coast of North Asia, a prominent coastline surrounded by the ocean, the excellent sheltered harbor is impressively blocked in front of the fleet, the far north harbor is numerous, if you are not mistaken, that is the famous Russian east coast city of Vladivostok, the Chinese in Vladivostok.
With this good thing, can Mao Jue miss it? On the same day, the anchor was laid here, more than 2,000 people were unloaded, and enough building materials were shed, but there was not much food left, 2,000 stone was enough to eat for two months, anyway, it was not far from the Dongjiang River, and it was necessary to transport it again.
However, the desire to open up a new world made Mao Jue have no patience to wait for the Vladivostok guard to slowly raise the city wall, and transferred a few officers from his own soldiers to serve as the commander and deputy commander of the guard, and on the third day, he impatiently drifted north.
Although the scenery on the sea is beautiful, but it is also crooked after watching it for a long time, wrapped in a cotton turban, Mao Jue is yawning and sitting on the towering stern fleet building, a fishing rod thrown into the sea, squinting and holding a pot of hot tea I don't know how long, the bait below has long been gone and does not pull the fishing line.
On the chair next to him is a "snowman".
Isn't it unwell? Adriana was wrapped in a full six or seven layers of snow coat, the outer leather and the inner cotton, saying that she was sitting on a chair, rather than being stuck on the chair by her clothes, Mao Jue was not around, and there were three braziers next to her, on a cold day, the sailors who operated the sails put their hands in their arms from time to time to warm up, and then apply a little lard to prevent freezing and cracking, this girl is good, covering her head and sweating.
Let Sakura Ji have a headache with the thick copywriting, and let herself stay by her side as a guard, this is the fourth day that she has accompanied Mao Jue out to bask in the sun.
For what, smart as Adriana doesn't know in her heart, and blames herself for meeting these Dutchmen, making herself a little messy, Mao Jue is not a fool, so he naturally sees the clue, he is waiting for his showdown!
Can! This is not even about his own life, but also about something that is indescribable to the point of incomprehension, the last time he entrusted himself to Mao Jue, he only entrusted himself, and now, in his identity as the leader of the Dongjiang River, in the face of huge interests, can he still defend himself as always?
"Old man......"
"Huh?"
In the middle of the foreign girl's expectation, Mao Jue opened her eyes in a daze as if she had just woken up, but before Adriana could hesitate to say something, an excited shout suddenly came from the bow of the boat in front.
"It's land! It's coming! ”
"I'm going!"
The fishing rods were all skimmed, holding the teapot and dragging the cloak, Mao Jue ran forward like a cocoon chrysalis, but it made Adriana who was stuck in the chair dumbfounded, and the corners of her mouth twitched wildly for a long time, but this girl also smiled suddenly, and like a big bear, with the small hands wrapped in the cloak, pulled herself out of the chair, and ran away.
"Wait for me!"
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At this time, the bow of the ship, it was really an unprecedented world in front of everyone, the Black Pearl, as the flagship, fell in the middle of the fleet to the left, and the herringbone frame those small functional ships forward, when it appeared, it was already very close to the land in front of it.
Different from the imaginary snow, after all, it has not yet entered the Arctic Circle, under the blowing of the sea breeze, a large piece of land on the shore is exposed, revealing the burnt yellow hay mat inside, a large plain is exposed in front of the snow-capped mountains behind, the raging river rushes straight into the sea, the mouth of the river is hundreds of meters without ice, on the shore, the dense primeval forest is endless, every tree is covered with snow cover, and ice skates hang from the branches.
Just by virtue of the timber resources of this forest, this trip is not a loss, the Li family has been cutting down for thousands of years, and such high-grade trees are only found in the deep mountains and old forests, but here it is directly next to the shore and not far from the mouth of the river can set up a shipyard, which is a hundred times more advantageous than the shipyard in Lutun Island.
There is also this plain, although compared with the endless North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain or the Songnen Plain is far behind, but compared with the small plains of the Wa Kingdom, it is much more open, not to mention 70,000 people, 700,000 people are estimated to be put down here.
What a fresh virgin land!
At this end, Mao Jue was fascinated, and at that end, the people carried on the ship also rushed out of the cabin and rushed to the bow of the ship, after all, this is the place where they will take root in the future, looking at the snow, many people have a look of fear and dazedness on their faces.
Looking at it, Mao Jue suddenly reacted coldly, and the entire bow of the boat seemed to lean forward.
Four or five hundred people all gathered together, the sharp bow of the boat pressed deep into the seawater, and seeing that the butt of the boat seemed to be raised, Mao Jue shouted sadly.
"All back, weightless! Don't rush this meeting, land today, anyone can see it!"
It's a pity that at this time, the prestige of the Dongjiang general is not so good, where can a group of homeless people care about listening to him, and they are still looking at the shore with their heads like a stupid goose, no one pays attention, and on the sloping deck behind them, the barrels and locks began to slide down.
At this end, Adriana squeezed behind, and it seemed to follow in the direction of Mao Jue, cold, a sound of cooing came from behind her, and she turned her head in amazement, and the next second, fear appeared in the pupils of the foreign girl, and a bucket with heavy fresh water rolled over her.
"Be careful, run!"
screamed, the foreign girl seemed to be hiding to the side, but her kind reminder hurt herself, turned her head suddenly, and the homeless people around her ran away again, and hit Adlena, who was wrapped like a dumpling, directly on the ground.
These padded jackets are really bad, I can't struggle for a long time, and when I look up again, the bucket has rolled in front of me, and my eyes are pressing, and this girl is screaming at the top of her throat.
"Ahh!!h
Fluttering ridge ~ pushed by the bucket, more than a dozen homeless people who didn't have time to dodge fell directly into the sea like dumplings.
With a grunt, Adriana opened her eyes in amazement, but just saw Mao Jue holding his head and humming there, and at the last moment, he stepped on the side of the boat and made a rocket charge, pushing Adriana out, but it was too hard, and his head hit another big barrel, and he grinned in pain.
"Go back! If you don't roll, throw it into the sea to feed the fish!"
The sailors on this ship were annoyed, and the first mate directly took out the whip to punish the sailors who made mistakes, and hit the crowd with his head and face, and all of a sudden, the frightened homeless people finally dispersed, and the hull became balanced again.
Adriana rushed to Mao Jue's side like an anxious cocoon chrysalis, her voice was crying, and she shook Mao Jue anxiously.
"Sir! Master! Are you alright? ”
"Don't worry, I was naughty when I was a child, and my head was not much clearer than now, and I still ...... your man"
Baring his teeth and grinning an ugly smile, Mao Jue withdrew his hand, but before the force was finished, a stream of heat flowed down from his head, looking at the red hand, this product also shouted sadly.
"Oh Mom! Bleeding, doctor! Lao Tzu is bleeding, Lao Tzu is finishing!!"
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It was a small episode, the orderly Dongjiang fleet was chaotic for a while, and then it was calm under the whip and gun butt of the garrison and boatswain, and it sailed for more than an hour, and the huge fleet arrived at the coast of the big island in front of them.
In a blink of an eye, Mao Jue was already wrapped like an Arab, his head was tightly wrapped in three layers of gauze on the left and three layers on the right, bulging, and he was still muttering in his mouth while walking down the ladder of the boat.
"One blood for one blood! O Present World! ”
Maori Sakura, who was holding her right hand, was dazed, but the first time it was on this Black Pearl how Adriana couldn't understand, although the left and right three layers of big cotton jacket that Mao Jue forced to put on were dragged down, but her fair little face was still like a boiled crab, red and hot, and her left hand was holding Mao Jue, who was shouting that he was confused, and he couldn't wait to bury his little brain in his arms.
On the other hand, he also rushed down from the boat, Luo Zhige obviously did not have this kind of blessing of Qi people, he hurriedly ran to the front with a shovel, and found a place on the dry grassland and dug down desperately, following him, more than a dozen personal soldiers also joined the battle group, and in the blink of an eye, a big pit more than one meter deep was pouted down.
Another shovel of soil pouted, this old Liaodong who fled as if holding gold, tremblingly picked up the soil, and the next second, he shouted excitedly.
"The soil below is soft, it's not frozen here, you can farm! You can farm! ”
"You can !! farming"
The soldiers also shouted excitedly, and the waves spread from the shore to the boat, and then to the sea, as long as they could cultivate, these simple Han people could take root, and almost all of them cheered and raised their hands and shouted.
"You can farm!"
Looking at the pieces of pleasure, the corners of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help but hang a smile.
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The next step is down-to-earth, down-to-earth work.
In later generations, there is a word called the Chinese miracle, and now Mao Jue does not have so much ability, and he can't create the miracle of the Ming Dynasty, but the Dongjiang miracle can be performed.
In the past two days, the vast army of displaced people has landed on the shore with their hands on the boat, and it is indeed poor and white, but compared with the American colonists in the New World, the Dongjiang pioneers are too convenient.
About 500 meters away from the river, the huge camp was settled, and the men, carrying axes and saws, rushed into the forest on the shore, and with a creaking sound, the towering giant log fell down in response, and was immediately dragged to the shore by the oxen pulled by the boat.
The earliest houses of mankind were built of wood, just on the bank of the river where they landed, and there were also groups of men with axes and saws, desperately polishing, and the freshly cut down trees began to be split into firewood here, and the excess branches were used as firewood, and they were burned red in the brazier, and the planks accumulated slowly accumulated there.
At the other end, from the transport boats that were dragged into the river, bags of finished cement were constantly being carried down, and familiar cement pools opened up on this new continent, and with the rumbling sound of explosions in the distance, together with the broken stones on the mountain, they were mixed into concrete and filled in the dug foundation.
This city is not a one-time thing, it will take hundreds of years to use, and it is next to the riverside plain, and it must be protected from flooding and subsidence, and the foundation must be laid first.
It's a bit like playing a game, in which Lo Zhige is pointing with a drawing, if you look at it from a bird's-eye view, the city foundation with a circumference of several kilometers is like a chessboard slowly unfolding on the horizon, and each homestead is of average size, with 2,000 foundations horizontally and vertically, filled with reinforced concrete.
There were exceptions, however, as the north side was as wide as forty homesteads, and a dozen homesteads as long as the entire excavated foundation was filled with reinforced concrete, where the future governor's palace, barracks, warehouses, cells, and other important facilities of the new city were located.
A new city like the old Tang Dynasty Chang'an City was opened in just a few days, and a rough outline was unfolded.
Leaning on a small hillside not far from this huge and noisy construction site, Mao Jue put his small tea table on it again, boiling tea, while watching the homeless people on the shore shouting trumpets to split wood, the dry steaming, and even bare in the cold winter.
It's no wonder that most of the princes and generals, when they are famous, are willing to build a lot of construction, this feeling of watching the building rise from the ground little by little, a wave of inexplicable joy lingers in the heart, that sense of achievement, really nothing can be replaced, the mouth is stinging with tea, but Mao Jue's eyes did not leave the construction site below for a moment.
"Come up with a name!"
Just when he was distracted, a crisp voice came from his ears, carrying a freshly caught salmon, Adriana was funny and walked up quickly.
Not to mention, I really didn't think about this problem, Mao Jue couldn't help but be stunned, but after a while, looking at the girl sitting in front of him, a wicked smile appeared on his face......
(End of chapter)