Fortunately, these fishermen's homes don't have too much, and it doesn't take much time to clean up and move. At 10 a.m., the Speedy set off from here with seven small wooden boats and more than 40 fishermen, and two hours later, the odd-looking flotilla finally caught up with the large force in the waters northeast of Cat Ba Island. And after seeing this "huge" fleet of eight large ships, the fishermen, who were still a little apprehensive in their hearts, also settled down. Many of them were amazed to see such a large ship for the first time.

The fleet sailed eastward across Halong Bay, an area of islands and beautiful maritime scenery that attracted immigrants to the deck to watch. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet arrived at the coast of what would become the port of Jinpu, and then turned north along the coast to continue its journey. About half an hour later, the piloting "Speed" signaled that it was about to reach its destination, and asked the fleet behind to start slowing down.

After passing through a strait about 300 meters wide and 600 meters long, the harbor that the expedition had previously selected finally appeared in front of the fleet. This natural harbor has a coastline of about 500 meters, and there are no reefs or sandbars near the shore, and the water depth is ideal. Immediately on the south side of the harbor, there is a small hill with an altitude of about sixty or seventy meters, and the islands on the other side of the strait hold the entire passage in and out of the harbor.

On July 21, 1627, the ninth day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the Great Tomorrow's Apocalypse, the colonization team from Victory Port finally arrived at the destination of this trip.

According to the landing plan drawn up in advance, the "Feisu", which had a shallow draft, docked first, and after surveying the water depth and currents along the coast, it notified the ships behind to dock in turn. The first to land are still members of the military police and armed militia, who are required to demarcate the landing zone near the shore and to enforce a certain number of guards around the landing site. Although it is a no-man's land, there are still a lot of wild beasts, and the last time the expedition team came here, they saw rhinoceros and crocodiles, but there are still tigers, leopards, bears and other fierce beasts that have not yet appeared in the forest here, and they are not careless for a moment.

During the two-day voyage, the civil affairs department divided the temporarily recruited migrants into groups and distributed the 200 migrants from Victory Harbor to these groups in a one-to-four ratio. Each group of immigrants is maintained at about 100 people, and the new immigrants are led by immigrants from Port Victory, who have been living in the commune for at least a month, and who have been brainwashed in various ways to set a good example for the newcomers in terms of compliance with the law.

In addition to the crossers, militia and crew, this fleet carried a total of almost 1,000 immigrants, and if the relevant departments had not prepared for this number of immigrants, it would have been a mess after landing. Fortunately, the traversers had already had the experience of landing once, and this operation seemed much calmer. There is a special person who is responsible for directing the migrants to drop off their luggage at the designated location and immediately put into the ranks of unloading the goods. The entire fleet was unloaded on the shore, and the migrants were like a column of ants, constantly carrying the cargo on their shoulders to the shore.

No one was clearly dissatisfied with this arrangement, partly because the armed militia in charge of maintaining order in the surrounding area had a certain deterrent effect, and on the other hand, on the way here, the relevant authorities had already explained the situation to the migrants, and they were well aware that the large bags and small bags they were carrying now were the materials they would depend on for their future survival here. This includes food to eat, tents to live in, tools to use, etc., and if they want to settle here, moving these supplies off the ship is the task that must be completed at the moment. Moreover, all these materials were provided by these overseas visitors who called themselves "Haihan people", and they wanted to eat other people's homes, so it was natural to sell their labor to work for others.

Liu Shanxia led a group of migrants to start leveling the ground in a relatively flat place that had been selected in advance, and all other infrastructure projects could be postponed, but the camping ground was the first problem that had to be solved. The Executive Committee did not expect that the first immigration recruitment would be on such a large scale, and that the lodging needs of the more than 1,000 people could not be met by setting up tents alone. There are more than a dozen prefabricated houses, but they are only for the office living and storage of some important materials for the people stationed here, which is just a drop in the bucket for the current situation, and the prefabricated houses at least have to build a fixed structure with ground beams, which is not a work that can be completed on the day of landing.

Liu Shanxia's solution to this situation is to seize the time and build some simple bamboo and wood huts on the shore to settle these migrants temporarily. It only takes a week or so for the immigrants to live in a more sturdy boathouse, which is not unacceptable for the war refugees who have abandoned their homes and property, and in fact most people come here for a stable living environment, and the quality of accommodation is not their primary consideration.

An hour after landing, the first tents had been set up on the shore. These tents were not used to house people, but to store some important supplies unloaded from the ship, such as food, cement, gunpowder, etc. In view of the fact that the number of immigrants had already exceeded the estimates, several leading figures of the colonization team, after a short period of deliberation, decided not to rush to build a road to the inland mining area for the time being, but to build the settlement first, and at the same time transfer the goods on board, so that the ships could set off as soon as possible and then make a trip to the area around Thanh Hoa.

The colonization team believes that after the population here exceeds 1,500, there will be basically no shortage of manpower in the initial development and construction plan. As for the scale of coal mining in the future, it will probably need to be linked to the sea capacity of the crossing group. At present, the Ministry of Shipping estimates that 500 to 800 tons of high-quality coal can be shipped back to Shengli Port every month, so the number of miners needed in the local area is 5 or 600 is enough.

At this time, Gu Kai and Qian Tiandun brought a few people and were doing another very important thing here in Xiaoshanbao on the south side of the port.

At present, although the traversal group has not yet formally established a political power and shown its banner, every traverser has taken it for granted that the group to which he belongs is the most promising emerging regime of this era, and as for when it will start to use the name of "Haihan Republic" to the outside world, it is only a simple matter of time.

The establishment of the first overseas colonies also provided a practical example for the future expansion of the Haihan Republic, which was of great significance to the entire Crossing Group. Therefore, the executive committee specially found a few local stonemasons to make a two-meter-long sovereign monument with a width of half a meter on all sides, and asked the colonization team to take it to Xingang and find a place to erect near the port.

After a group of people from the headquarters went ashore and walked around the vicinity, they decided to choose this place as the site for the erection of the sovereignty monument. First, this place is relatively conspicuous, and it is easy to see after landing, and second, there are solid stones under the surface floating soil here, which is suitable for pouring the sovereignty monument. So he immediately dispatched a few laborers and lifted the sovereignty monument off the ship.

This granite sovereign stele looks small in size, but the weight is more than 700 catties, and several laborers finally lifted this stele to the hill bag, followed by a few people, carrying a few bags of cement with a basket.

Under the command of the traversers, the laborers first used hoes and shovels to cut off the floating soil on the ground, and then used chisels and hammers to carve out a stone trough in the stone floor. This process was very time-consuming, Qian Tiandun only waited for about ten minutes before leaving, as the military commander, he had to keep an eye on the dock to prevent any chaos. Gu Kai waited patiently for a full hour, and the sound of clanging stones finally stopped. The laborers carefully erected the monument into a stone trough and straightened it, and then someone next to it poured the mixed cement to the roots, so that the monument was firmly integrated with the ground.

As for the content of the sovereignty monument, the Executive Committee has also discussed it thoroughly, and finally decided to simplify it as much as possible with reference to the form of the sovereignty monument of the later republics, because it is likely that this thing will need to be built on a large scale in a few years, and if the regulations are too complicated now, there will be a lot of trouble when it is built in the future. So the content of the first overseas sovereignty monument of the Haihan regime was born, which is consistent on all sides, with two one-foot square characters engraved vertically on the top, and the words "1627 Haihan Executive Committee Established" engraved below, and all filled with red paint, which can be seen from afar.

According to the historical records of later generations, "the establishment of this sovereignty monument symbolizes that the Republic of Haihan has embarked on the road of conquering the world, and the people present are all jubilant and applauded, and thousands of immigrants celebrate that this place has since been included in the rule of the Haihan Executive Committee and has become a new paradise......

But in fact, when the sovereignty monument was completed, there were only hungry Gu Kai and seven or eight tired laborers on the hill, there was no applause and cheers at all, and there were no jubilant people, everyone had the same idea in their minds, and hurriedly finished going down the mountain for dinner!