[Fourth Wednesday Bullet! ] Rolling all over the ground for collections, tickets, reviews]

Northeast corner of Ushijima.

On the west side of that little haven, about three feet away from the beach, a large pit more than one man deep had been dug; In the big pit, dozens of shirtless men, wielding hoes and shovels, were doing happily.

Chu Fan stood on the edge of the pit, looking at the gray-haired Ming Ye in the pit, who was also bare-chested and wielding a hoe digging hard, he couldn't help but be a little unbearable while being moved.

When this dock was still in the Tianjin shipyard, Ming Ye and Situ Xiong settled down with him, ten zhang long, two zhang five wide, and one zhang five deep; After digging, a bracket is laid at the bottom to support the keel; Set up a stone water gate, and use a water wheel to drive the sea water out for reuse.

A dock of this specification can build a Daifuku ship of up to 800 materials, and of course, it is not a problem to build a warship of 600 materials; When this dock is finished and the keel is laid, a second dock of the same size will be built.

Chu Fan planned to build a total of four docks, two large and two small, and the small one should be able to build ships below the sea cangship - of course, after the small dock is built, it will first be used to renovate the warships of the six major families.

Looking at the hot dock construction site, Chu Fan came to the north around the big pit, just as the stuffy man pushed a wheelbarrow over, and on the wheelbarrow was a big rattan basket, which was used to transport soil - the soil dug out of the dock happened to be used by Ling Ming to pile up a fort on the headland, and the stuffy man and his escort detachment were arrested to do this.

When the stuffy man saw Chu Fan, he bowed down and grinned, but he didn't say anything, and after putting on the soil, he pushed it towards the northeast headland.

Chu Fan frowned slightly, not because the stuffy guy didn't greet him, but because he remembered the performance of the sullen egg in the gourd that day.

That day, when the green skins began to babble, the people who were a little brave among the homeless people stood up and reasoned with each other, but this stuffy guy with a detachment of twenty escorts was indifferent, just standing aside and watching stupidly.

At the beginning, he chose Stuffy Boy to be the captain of the detachment to defend Niujima, because he was gentle and obedient to commands, but judging from his performance that day, Stuffy Boy still lost a little bit of blood courage and momentum.

Maybe the atmosphere was not so tense at that time, Chu Fan was relieved after thinking about it - the performance of the stuffy man in Nagasaki was still decent, and Chu Fan believed that if there was really a critical moment, he should be able to inspire the courage of the stuffy man.

If you don't think so, you can't help it, his manpower is too tight, there are only a few people in the old guard, and now the focus is on training recruits, a radish and a pit, how much room for him to choose calmly.

Seeing Chu Fan frowning, Ling Ming, who was following him, thought that he blamed himself for delaying the training by using the escort detachment to build a fort, so he quickly explained, "Childe, their training can't be delayed anymore...... I waited for them to finish their morning practice before letting them carry the earth...... The manpower is too tight, and I can't do it. ”

Chu Fan nodded, he also knew that it was not easy to create anything, especially the first task of the Ushijima base at the moment was to build a cigarette factory, and it was necessary to make 50,000 cigarettes and deliver them to the Kato family before the end of June.

After thinking about it, Chu Fan groaned, "Brother Ling, I also know that you are embarrassed...... In this way, I will recruit twenty or thirty more people in the second batch of Dengzhou recruitment, and I will give you a hand. ”

"That dare is good, that dare is good!" Ling Ming was overjoyed, and said in a loud voice, in addition to the escort detachment under his command now, there are only a few old guys left, and there is really a shortage of people.

"The escort detachment should still focus on training," Chu Fan said as he looked at the team members who came and went, "The afternoon time is used to learn to read and write, and it can't be occupied." ”

After seeing the dock and the north fort, Chu Fan took Ling Ming and Chen Shangren back and walked back, passing by the wooden trestle bridge on the south side of Xiaogang Bay, he looked at the eagle boat moored there, stopped and asked Chen Shangren, "Uncle Shi, is this boat enough?" If it wasn't enough, I wrote a letter to Li Guozhu and asked him to transfer another ship over. ”

Chen Shangren thought for a while and said, "It's best to be able to transfer it...... We don't dare to go to Jeju next door to buy things now, so we can only go to Gangjin in the north, and it takes three days to come and go, and of course it is more convenient to have an extra boat. ”

Chu Fan nodded, and continued to walk towards the accommodation camp in the south, and began to ask for a boat in his heart, how to ask Li Guozhu for a boat, what boat to want.

After walking for more than forty minutes, the group came to the accommodation camp located on the east side of Nanshan Mountain, and Chu Fan smiled as soon as he entered the camp.

I saw that in the open space in the camp, four children were lying on the ground and gurgling grass, among which the one with pigtails was the little girl who Chu Fan gave her oil cakes on the edge of the Shahe River last year.

Chu Fan walked over, and just as he was about to chat with them, he saw a few children scattering and running away.

After the little girl ran out a few steps, she hesitated and stopped, looked back at Chu Fan frequently, and finally moved her calf timidly, returned to Chu Fan and bit her finger and said, "I recognize you, you are the uncle who gave me the cake to eat." ”

Chu Fan squatted down with a smile, stared at the little girl's misty and surprisingly large eyes, and said, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Xiaohua." The child replied, still a little timid.

"What's your father's name?"

"My father's name is Wang Denghai."

Chu Fan raised his head and thought about it, and soon found this name in his memory, knowing that he was a blacksmith.

Take a closer look, although Xiaohua's face is still sallow yellow, but a little blood can be faintly seen on her cheeks, and it is estimated that if you eat a full meal for a while longer, you will be able to regain the freshness and tenderness of apples.

Reaching out to dust off the broken grass knots on Xiaohua's brand-new flower clothes, Chu Fan's heart was filled with a huge sense of achievement: recalling the tragic situation of Xiaohua shivering in the cold wind, and then looking at her energetic appearance now - it is with his own efforts that Wang Denghai has the opportunity to work, so that Xiaohua can live a carefree life, this sense of accomplishment cannot be obtained no matter how much money is made.

Suddenly, Chu Fan thought of an important thing again, touched Xiaohua's head, stood up and said to Chen Shangren, "Uncle Shi, we have to open a primary school." ”

"Hmm...... Well? Chen Shangren was still looking at the little tweed with a smile, and he didn't react for a while.

"Now that the weather is hot, you can build a shed first, get a whiteboard and some black charcoal, and then you can start teaching the children to read and write," Chu Fan said to himself, "Well, yes!" Teach the children during the day and teach the workers how to read and write at night! Kill two birds with one stone! ”

Thinking of this, Chu Fan thought of his three teachers and nephews. I am busy now, how can I have time to concentrate on learning with them? It just so happens that they are now used to teach, and teaching is mutually beneficial--but they are all pampered noble sons, can they let go of their bodies?

He was having a headache when a gong sounded on the top of the South Mountain.

Who's coming?