Chapter 248: Forceful Means
Each ship was loaded with about 200 men, and in addition to the sea wolf's soldiers, the first batch of immigrants on board were mainly slaves and prisoners captured in the battle with the official army.
The captives have been screened, and the available captives have been incorporated into the new battalion of the sea wolf, and after retraining and education and brainwashing, they will be assigned to serve in the navy and army.
As a consumable resource, these people were sent to the port of Dagou together with some Southeast Asian monkeys purchased by sea wolves, and as the first batch of pioneers, they were invested in the early development of the port of Dagou.
In later generations, the port was Kaohsiung Port, but in this era, the berthing conditions of the port were not very good, the water depth in the port was not very deep, it was difficult for heavy ships to enter the port and berth, and there were no wharf facilities for them to use.
But fortunately, there are no 10,000-ton giant ships in this era, even if the Seawolf currently has the largest ship, the displacement is only two or three captured Dutchman's five or six hundred ton ships, the largest large plywood ship, that is, the flagship of Wet, the full load displacement is only about 800 tons, sailing into the port of Dagou, there is still no problem.
Therefore, the current problem of the water depth and berth of the dog port is not a big trouble, and it is enough for the sea wolf to use it for many years.
Although there are no facilities in the port for the sea wolf to load and unload cargo, the good thing is that Xiaotian has done his homework in advance.
Since the second half of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he has continuously sent personnel and ships to the port to investigate, to find out the topography and hydrological conditions in the port, and draw detailed drawings.
This time, when he began to send people to the port of Dagou, he also towed some floating trestles that had been built in advance, and the trestles were equipped with detachable poles and simple manpower cranes.
These floating trestles, after being towed by the fleet to the port of Dagou, only need to be towed to the shore, sink into the water, lay wooden piles for fixation, and soon can be used, and the prefabricated floating trestle has been installed on a variety of unloading cargo poles and simple cranes, which can soon unload the ship's personnel and goods to the shore.
As long as the first batch of people and supplies are unloaded, then things will be easy, and this first batch of people and supplies will be used to build docks and camps.
Before the second group arrives, they can quickly build a relatively complete dock facility and a camp with a seat bridgehead to meet the arrival of subsequent personnel.
In order to speed up the progress, Yu Xiaotian even ordered the carpenters to make a large number of semi-finished wood, all of which are made of wooden houses, with uniform specifications and structures.
Such wooden houses can be erected in a few days at the earliest, and the accommodation conditions are much better than using temporary soft tents.
In less than a month after the ships were dispatched in early March, the fleet returned to Tamsui City, and all the personnel and supplies on board had been unloaded at the port of Dagou.
And Yu Xiaotian also personally took the second batch of ships to Dagou Port, went to Dagou Port for inspection, the number of the second batch of ships increased by more than a dozen this time, the ship was mainly loaded with personnel and various tools and some food, a total of about 2,000 people were transported, plus the first batch of 2,000 people transported in the past, so that Dagou Port in a very short period of time, has thousands of scale of labor.
Combined with the strength of three army infantry companies and one naval company, the general force was no longer able to drive them out of the area.
When Yu Xiaotian arrived at Dagou Port after several days of sailing, as soon as he entered Dagou Port, he saw a lively scene at a glance.
Countless laborers are busy on the shore of the port like ants, transporting all kinds of materials to the shore, carrying out intense construction, the prototype of a wharf, at this time has begun to appear on the shore, several wooden trestle bridges, at this time have been deep into the sea water in the port from the shore.
At this time on the shore, a camp had already appeared, and new wooden houses had been built in the camp, and of course many tents and temporary straw huts had been erected to shelter the garrison and laborers from the wind and rain.
Around the camp and the dock, there are many sea wolf soldiers, carrying muskets or holding spears and swords and shields, patrolling back and forth vigilantly, and on the periphery of this area, more than a dozen arrow towers up to several meters high have been built, and there are also many sea wolf musketeers standing on them, patrolling the surrounding situation back and forth with vigilant eyes.
Several light dhows patrol the harbor and beyond, watching over the movements of the laborers on the docks, who are not fuel-efficient lamps, either ruffians or savage Southeast Asian monkeys.
These people are going to make trouble when they smoke the cold, so they must use strong pressure to do it, and if they are not careful, some people will find a way to escape, so they must take precautions.
When Yu Xiaotian went ashore, he raised his eyes and saw a forest-like high pole near the pier, these high poles were more than three meters high, but they were not light poles, because on each high pole, there was a corpse hanging, and the corpse was hung on the pole with his neck.
Yu Xiaotian roughly counted, there were at least dozens of corpses hanging here, so he frowned slightly.
Seeing Yu Xiaotian's eyes sweeping over the hanging corpses, the officer who came to greet him immediately said to Xiaotian: "Qi Yu master, these guys are all guys who have been making trouble here these days, either they want to escape and be caught, or they are trying to attack the sentry and seize weapons to resist, and there are also those who incite others to make trouble behind their backs.
But after hanging these guys, the situation here has been much better these days, and they have become very honest when they look at these hanged guys! ”
"Tiancheng, since this place is handed over to you, then you can watch it take care of it! What to do, I'm sure you'll be measured! It's just a pity that there are dozens of laborers! Hehe!
But fortunately, after eliminating these black sheep, it is estimated that the efficiency will be higher! There's nothing wrong with you doing that! Yu Xiaotian did not express dissatisfaction with this officer.
And this person he called Tiancheng, his full name is Ma Tiancheng, is a company commander in the original army, this person is also one of the early personnel who joined the sea wolf, about forty years old, studied a few days of private school, is a bit of a literate person, but is also a good soldier, used to be on land because of the defeat of the family, with people darts, as a dart master, but later for some reasons, went to sea to become a pirate.
After returning to Yu Xiaotian, he was sent to the war camp because of his experience of walking darts, and gradually mixed into the position of company commander. ‘
Yu Xiaotian has been observing him for a long time, and found that this Ma Tiancheng is steady, decisive, daring to take responsibility, and his brain is quite flexible, so he is a good talent.
In the army, if Yu Xiaotian hadn't transferred him here this time, one of the commanders of the newly formed army battalion this time would definitely fall on his head.
But Yu Xiaotian thinks that this Ma Tiancheng is a good material for management, although staying in the army can give full play to his ability, but such talents are now in short supply, of course, they have to be used in the most important place, so after weighing it, he still transferred Ma Tiancheng out of the army and sent him here as a temporary commander.
Ma Tiancheng is not a stupid person in this regard, and immediately realized the significance of this transfer to him, although he likes to do things in the army very much, and the future seems to be good, he can do it to the level of battalion commander, and there will definitely be room for improvement in the future, but compared with the current position, it is far less important than this position.
Because he can be responsible for the development of the Dog Fighting Port, for him, it is equivalent to completely entering the high-level of the Sea Wolf, which is definitely a big member of the Sea Wolf, if he does a good job, then it is likely that he will be the future city lord of the Dog Fighting Harbor.
Therefore, for this transfer, Ma Tiancheng was secretly surprised, immediately packed his bags and took office, and led the team to immediately rush to the side of Dagou Port, where he presided over the affairs of the preliminary development.
After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Ma Tiancheng immediately put his legs together and saluted Xiaotian with a standard military salute, although for the time being he was responsible for the development of the dog port, but he did not take off the army uniform on his body, and his establishment was still in the army, so he always maintained a military attitude.
"Thank you for your trust, I will do my best to do things well here, and never let down the love of the big boss!"
"Well, you don't have to swear by it! Since you have been asked to take charge of this matter, I believe in your ability, let's talk about the other situation here? Yu Xiaotian nodded with satisfaction.
"The rest of the water here is okay, but the problem of clean water is not easy to solve for the time being, although the humble official has ordered that all drinking water here must be done in accordance with the regulations, and it must be boiled and drunk, but because of the labor intensity here, many people still have diarrhea!
Therefore, the next step is to solve the problem of clean water first! The humble plan is to build a large reservoir here, and use the method of filtering water taught by the big boss to prepare more clean drinking water, which can ensure that the laborers here can also drink clean water when they are working, and save the stomach at every turn!
Although these laborers are all scum, it is not a pity to die, but once there are too many deaths, it will still affect the development here! Inevitably, the remaining scum will be scared and unwilling to work hard! But now there is too little soil and cement here, and I am afraid that this reservoir needs a lot of soil and cement, and I hope that the big boss can help solve it. Ma Tiancheng said.