It was not difficult for Liang En to find the previous immigrant fleet, because the route of that fleet was provided by Liang En, so he could easily track the other party.

So after arriving in Alaska, Liang found traces of the previous fleet—apparently, the bad climate in the north had caused some damage to some of the ships, so they temporarily found some places to repair the ships.

"The good news is that the fleet has suffered only minor losses. The main purpose of the stop here is to take care of immigrants who are not good at long-distance navigation. After briefly examining the traces on the shore, Liang En breathed a sigh of relief.

Although everyone, including the immigrants themselves, knew that being the first pioneers would suffer huge casualties, Liang wanted to lose as few people as possible in the pioneering.

Judging from the traces on the shore, the fleet had only single-digit casualties at best, but the entire fleet apparently took advantage of the fact that it took two or three days to repair the spot before leaving, and replenishing it with some fresh food.

Over the course of the next few days, Liang discovered a number of repair points and learned an important fact that the naval fleet and the ordinary people's migrant fleet were completely different things.

To take the simplest example, a navy can sail for a month or two and take a short break at the end of the voyage before going into battle, but an immigration team is absolutely not allowed to do so.

If we want to reduce the loss of people at sea, we must provide more supply points and more time to rest, otherwise it will be difficult for migrants as civilians to afford such long offshore voyages.

"The next step is to build more supply sites on the west coast of the Americas, preferably small settlements, or even those unresupplied sites if the conditions are not available—"

On the way south, Liang sat at his desk in the cabin and carefully recorded his observations along the way, especially some newly discovered omissions.

For example, information on supply points was very important, because in the past, he had mainly worked with short-term migrants, and he did not need to think about it.

As for the information brought by the modern society, it does not help much, and the experience of migration in the modern society is either a short distance, or a distance that cannot be stopped at all, such as the Atlantic, or a long-distance migration after the advent of the steam age, none of which corresponds to the current situation.

Of course, this system is not so easy to establish, small settlements in the north are unlikely to be attacked, but it is difficult to survive in winter, while southern settlements are at risk of being attacked.

Worse still, given that these settlements will remain small for a long time, the question of how to ensure the security of the settlements in the south is a very serious one.

As for uninhabited settlements, it is considered impractical after simple consideration: the creatures in the south may lead to the destruction of uninhabited settlements, considering that the density of migrant ships will not be very high in a short period of time, and the operating costs of uninhabited settlements cannot be afforded.

"But it is much easier to open up in the south than in the north, so as the development progresses, I believe that a series of settlements will naturally form on the route."

After writing the last stroke, Liang En closed the notebook and walked out of the cabin, while Ao Lei stood at the top of the mast and temporarily acted as a lookout, looking into the distance with a telescope.

"The boat is fine, and if there are no accidents, we will be able to meet the previous immigration team by this time tomorrow." Seeing Liang En come out of the cabin, Ao Lei jumped lightly onto the deck of the ship, and then spoke to him.

"That's good." Liang En nodded and continued. "Let's take a rest, you know that there are a lot of things to deal with in newly developed lands—"

At noon the next day, the dhows of the Ryan family arrived on the island known in the modern world as Prince Rupert, where the entire fleet of immigrants was now located, as they had guessed.

At this time, the island was in full swing, and a large number of people were building their own settlements on the island with the help of the foundation left by Liang En, and according to the pioneering tradition, the first to build was a defensive facility.

For example, the camp is now surrounded by a wall more than 3 meters high and more than 3 meters thick, which is composed of two layers of wooden piles and rammed earth in the middle, and there is a trench created by the excavation of soil on the periphery.

However, unlike traditional defensive buildings, this building is a standard field fortress that can fully utilize the power of various gunpowder weapons, and Liang En can also see several small-caliber artillery pieces arranged on the city wall.

Some of the deliberately sharpened branches were buried in the trenches and on the periphery of the trenches, forming a simple, but well-established defensive system with the walls.

In addition, Liang En found that all the trees thirty or fifty meters outside the fort had been cut down, apparently to clear the field of vision and firepower.

As the ship approached, Liang saw that it was not only the immigrants and the fleet that were working on the construction site, but also a group of people who were clearly indigenous from their dress to appearance.

Judging by the expressions of these natives and the way they look now, it is clear that they are not captives. It's a specially hired worker, at least the smile that can't be faked after getting enough income.

As soon as the ship was parked and disembarked, several officers came up and ushered Liang and the others into the newly built core fortress, and then briefed him on the current state of the frontier.

Originally, it was intended as a temporary wintering territory, so the entire fortress was built as quickly as possible as the core, but soon everyone changed their plans.

Because Liang En's previous preparations were so sufficient, they found that it was completely too late to build even according to the long-term settlement, so they immediately revised the original construction plan.

In a short period of time, they have successfully built a building system with a sufficient level of defense, and at the same time, they have also completed the contact and initial subjugation of the surrounding natives-

Liang En didn't see the natives the last time he came, because most of the natives in the area lived a primitive safari life, so he didn't meet them the last time he came.

But they knew about Liang En's existence - when Liang was here to cut down trees, level the land, and cut rocks with extraordinary strength, one of them saw it from a distance.

Those actions were like miracles in the eyes of the locals—the level of the practitioner was closely related to the development of the civilization in which they lived. The more populous and prosperous a place is, the more cultivators will communicate, and everyone's cultivation will also improve as a whole.

Therefore, what Liang En did before was completely impossible for the local cultivators, so it would naturally be regarded as a miracle. A miracle that cannot be replicated by their powers.

So when the fleet came to a place that was considered a miracle by the locals, and began to build various buildings on it, those people were naturally curious to investigate the situation.

For the local natives who were not hostile, these Song people, who had rich experience in pioneering, naturally knew how to get in touch, so after a series of exchanges, the two sides successfully reached a preliminary agreement.