The counting of the three fleets was finally completed after several days of work. In www.biquge.info modern fleet, the total number of peacekeepers, sailors, volunteers, and construction workers is more than 3,000, less than 4,000, which is the smallest population of the three fleets. In addition to more than 15,000 soldiers, the main population of the Republic of China is peasants, with a number of 60,000, and more than 30,000 other workers, merchants, intellectuals, craftsmen and other occupations, which makes the fleet of the Republic of China a population of 100,000. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 27,000 sailors, nearly half of whom were combat-ready and capable of serving as soldiers, and of course they were all qualified sailors.

According to rough estimates, the total population of the three fleets is as high as 130,000 men, which is already on par with a sizable town in China.

While the statistics were being carried out, Bai Nan, together with the heads of China Railway and China State Construction, led a group of peacekeepers and workers to help Africa, and began to set up simple tent camps on land. The peacekeeping battalion and the engineering team have carried a lot of materials such as tents, and for the time being, everyone will not live on land from the ship, and the tents will be mainly for the workers, and they will start to build houses in the future to accommodate 130,000 migrants from different places and times.

On the construction site, bags and bags of cement have been unloaded from the ship, not only did the Changmao ship carry some construction materials, but even the statistics team found imported "foreign ash" on some small steamers of the Republic of China, such materials as sand are easy to obtain by the sea, and it seems that firing bricks and stones is not difficult for engineering teams accustomed to assisting third world countries. It's just that if you want to build high-rise buildings, steel bars are indispensable, and China Railway has brought a lot of steel rails, but it is not so easy to smelt steel rails to get steel bars.

"These rails are all special steel, there is absolutely nothing to say about strength and life, and they are used to make steel bars for building materials, which is simply a tyrannical thing!" Song Nianqun, an engineer at China Railway, scoffed at the attempt to "appropriate" their rails.

Of course, if the rails can really be used, Bai Nan will definitely agree to use them, but now the rails can't be directly turned into steel bars, and Bai Nan will not go against Song Nianqun's meaning, he said: "Sooner or later, we all have to make steel by ourselves, and when we get to this place, it is not possible to go back to be primitive people, we don't have any industrial equipment here, but on the side of the Republic of China fleet, there are many Chang Kaishen dismantled from the mainland and prepared to be transported to Taiwan's industrial equipment, and there are some basic steelmaking and chemical equipment, although it is not very advanced, but at least it can be used." The final committee is preparing for the establishment of the Industrial Bureau, organizing talents to explore and beneficiate in this area, and after finding the ore, we may be able to open mines and make steel, and you will have steel bars to use. ”

After all, Song Nianqun is a real science and engineering talent, he sighed and said: "It would be nice if it was so easy to build a factory, Lieutenant Colonel Bai, what you said is right, but there are a lot of things in this, now the industrial bureau in your mouth has not been built, and the exploration team has no shadow, I think, when the steel is really smelted, it will be half a year at the earliest." ”

Bai Nan also felt that what Song Nianqun said was actually reasonable, there are many innate advantages in industrial production, knowledge beyond the times, and even they brought some industrial equipment, but it is definitely not an overnight thing to build a factory, from plant construction to equipment commissioning, to final production, there is a long process.

"It seems that industry is a slow job, little by little, and now the most important thing is to ensure the rations of these 130,000 people." Bai Nan thought to himself.

The problem of 130,000 mouths just eating is very fatal, and the food stored in the fleet of the modern people is enough for the 4,000 people of the modern people to eat for three months, after all, it was considered that it was in the Indian Ocean, and finding a suitable port could be replenished, so it would not overprepare food. In the Ming Dynasty, there were special grain ships in Zheng He's fleet, carrying all kinds of food, not only some multigrain flour, but also rice from Southeast Asia. The Republic of China has the largest population and the greatest pressure, but Bai Nan was lucky to find Chang Kaishen's grain carrier in the fleet, as well as a batch of grain seeds aided by the Americans.

All this grain is obviously less than 130,000 people to eat for three months, and even if the traversers start to level the land on the land and reclaim the farmland now, it will take at least a hundred days or more to mature, of course, as long as the reclaimed land begins to produce food, then the entire colony will no longer face any food crisis, and it will not be a problem to feed these hundreds of thousands of people.

The decision-making group considered the need to intensify access to non-staple foods and alternative foods during this period. For example, the wild West Coast of North America is still a paradise for all kinds of creatures, and there are many large animals that can provide meat, such as bison, caribou, and even aggressive creatures such as brown bears, grizzly bears, and wild boars. Tens of thousands of these large animals live in California alone, such as the bison, which can weigh up to a ton of adults and hunt a certain amount, so meat consumption in the colonies is not a problem.

In fact, Zheng He's fleet had a kind of horse boat, carrying a batch of horses, cattle and sheep as riding tools and meat, Zheng He himself also proposed to get all the livestock on the horse boat to the land, for captivity, after the scale expanded, the colony had a stable source of meat. Moreover, Zheng He's fleet had hundreds of horses, which were of great value, not only for patrolling the perimeter, increasing safety, but also for hunting.

After the decision-making committee deliberated, it was ready to form a "cavalry company", the peacekeepers were obviously not good at horsemanship, but Zheng He's Ming Dynasty soldiers were obviously not very proficient in the use of firearms, but the Republic of China could still get some people who could ride horses and have marksmanship. Zhao Daling arranged for Liu Fangwu to do this, and this general is also relatively talented, especially in military training.

Liu Fangwu planned to form a "hunting cavalry" mainly based on the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, but Zhao Daling obviously would not let the hunting cavalry be completely composed of the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, and still installed a few peacekeepers as team leaders and other roles. The captain of the hunting cavalry has not yet been determined, obviously there are no capable candidates on the side of the peacekeepers, and the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China do not know who is trustworthy.

In short, this work has to be done slowly, and it takes a lot of time to select a hundred or so hunters from tens of thousands of people.

In addition to forming hunting horses for hunting, the decision-making committee also advocated increasing the food feed of the entire colony through fishing. Bai Nan already felt that the California they crossed was simply a treasure land, the climate was very suitable, except that it did not rain much in the summer, the local resources were very rich, not to mention the abundant oil and frenzied gold mines, and on the coast of California, the upwelling brought by the cold snap made it also a famous fishing ground. Fishermen can catch a lot of fish here, although there are no professional fishing boats in the colony now, but many boats are still equipped with huge fishing nets, and the fishermen do not need to do anything extra, just open the big nets and walk around, and they can bring a large number of fish to the colony.

This is still only on paper, and recruiting fishermen and sailors with a certain amount of experience, preparing fishing gear, and assigning fishing boats are all things that need to be done.

Bai Nan waved away these messy thoughts in his head, if you really want to settle down in California, there are too many things that need to be done, fortunately, the manpower in the colony is relatively sufficient, and the basic affairs can be carried out, if there are only a few hundred people who cross here, I am afraid that their lives will be very difficult, and it is not easy to protect themselves, and the Western colonists and local natives who may appear at any time may bring them huge losses. Problems such as food and development will also limit them. Take industry as an example, there may be very capable engineers in the crowd, but there is a lack of skilled workers, a lack of industrial organizations that can form a system, and it is impossible to develop a factory by a few people or dozens of people. Even if they were able to absorb the natives of this era, it would be a daunting task to lead them into the industrial model. So most likely, these people were slowly assimilated by Westerners or aborigines, or some of their knowledge was used by the people of this era, and it was an extremely long process, and it was almost impossible for them to develop a civilized society with the color of later generations.

Fortunately, there are 130,000 people who came to the Los Angeles colony, with a variety of knowledge reserves and survival skills, and even a lot of industrial equipment and other materials.

Yang Honglin, an engineer under the Industrial Bureau, smiled, opened a few pages on the tablet in his hand, and showed it to Wang Kai: "If you want to build a house, it doesn't matter if you don't have steel bars or anything, we can build a low floor, but it won't work without bricks." So our task in the past two days is to build a brick kiln first, take the local soil, and fire red bricks. I've already reported to the decision-making committee. ”

Bai Nan was curious: "What kind of fuel is used to burn bricks?" Charcoal? ”

Yang Honglin shook his head and said: "There are not too many tall trees near Los Angeles, and the vegetation is not particularly lush, so we think it is better not to destroy it too much." Charcoal doesn't provide much heat, so I discussed with a few engineers that we might as well use coal. ”

Bai Nan smiled bitterly: "It's naturally good to use coal, but where to find it?" ”

Yang Honglin shook the tablet in his hand with a big smile and said: "Those of us who study geology will always put all kinds of information in the computer, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now, I not only have information on large and small minerals in California, but also information on the whole of North America and other regions." Although California is not a large coal-producing province, there are still some small deposits such as lignite, and the distance is not far, and we don't need too high-grade coal mines to burn bricks, lignite is enough. ”

Bai Nan couldn't help but be excited: "That's really good. ”