Paradise Island East Harbor (Port Moresby)

This is an enveloping type of Cote d'Azur, located at the southeast tip of Paradise Island (New Guinea Island), the climate is mild like spring, with 1100 mm of precipitation a year, and the perennial temperature is between 20~26 degrees, with a very small temperature difference.

Around the East Harbor, there are scattered large and small island groups, and there are countless beautiful bays full of tropical style, and the scenery is breathtaking, as if it is a lost paradise.

The entrance of the East Port is the terrain between two mountains, and the whole port is like a big-bellied bottle, which suddenly opens up after entering from the mouth gate, and is an irregular bay of about 26 square kilometers.

Deep in the bay is a flat valley with lush trees, dense forests that stretch close to the coast, and a beautiful picture of white sand and blue bays.

The fleet of ships arriving here has dropped anchor, and the nearest is only about 120 meters from the coast, indicating that the water depth here is very good, and it is an excellent harbor.

More than 10 small boats, equipped with 12-horsepower diesel nose-driven propellers, began to move people and supplies ashore from cargo ships, and moved around the bay with ease.

Dong Jie and the first expedition team arrived in a small boat, an expedition of retired soldiers, surveyors and administrators, armed with guns and machetes, a total of 166 people, who would be divided into four teams to survey the gentle valley.

From the coast, you can see the mountains rising in the distance, and this gentle valley is quite large, roughly estimated to be more than a thousand square kilometers.

The expedition will be divided into four groups to survey the jungle, survey the terrain, rivers, forest species and local flora and fauna, and plan to return in five days.

The expedition will determine the location of the new town on the condition that it is located on a high ground, has reliable river water nearby, is well ventilated, is far away from tropical flash floods and mudslides, has relatively solid geology, and so on.

When the expedition returns, a massive arson of the land will begin, and the gasoline carried on the freighter is for this purpose.

It is almost impossible to open up such a large area of lush forests and shrubs by manpower, and after the fleet has replenished the water and some of the fodder for cattle and sheep, half of the ships are divided to continue the voyage to New Xi'an, another new town 2,870 kilometers away.

There are only more than 2,100 people who can stay in Donggang to participate in the development, and they can only carry out the advance planning and colonization work, and then mainly rely on a large number of Chinese immigrant labor from the land of China to comprehensively promote the development and colonization.

Therefore, many extraordinary means must be used, including burning the mountain.

After the expedition set off, Dong Jie began to instruct the crew to set up a tent area and a row of more than 20 stoves, so that the crew could come down to bathe by the river, prepare logging tools, and give priority to unloading steel bars and masonry, machinery and equipment for building brick kilns.

Three days later

The materials unloaded to the shore were piled up like a hill, and the disembarking personnel formed a logging group of 18~20 people, and a total of 35 logging groups were organized, and began to expand outward along the campsite, cutting down the large trees in the surrounding forests, cutting off the branches, and cutting them into sections of large trees and piling them up.

It's only two days of work

The campsite has expanded more than 500 meters to the outside, forming a spacious open space of nearly 1.8 square kilometers, ensuring that after the arson of the mountain, the mountain fire will not damage the materials of the camp.

At this time, the four expedition teams that went to explore came back one after another, bringing back hand-drawn topographic maps of the valley, and finally spliced together to present a clear appearance of the entire valley.

In this gentle valley area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, there are 27 rivers of all sizes originating in the mountainous area, among which there are three major rivers, the largest is called "Bishui River", the river surface of the estuary is up to 375 meters wide, the water quality is clear and sweet, and it is a very good source of drinking water.

Following the Yudai River, less than 10 kilometers away from the coast is a continuous gentle hill, belonging to the Mesozoic granite geology, with a surface of 6~9 meters deep floating soil, which is the best place to build a town.

After Dong Jie met with several main persons in charge of the Donggang Construction Headquarters, he quickly decided that the future Donggang City would be established in this gentle and hilly area, and in addition, key areas such as the port area, warehouse area, fishery production area and residential living area were planned, and he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job.

Hundreds of barrels of gasoline were transported to shore and dumped along the planned area, where a fire ignited and blaze, and the line of fire several kilometers long was spectacular.

For the sake of safety, all the personnel withdrew to the ship, and watched the spectacular burning scene in front of them from a distance.

When the tropical forest burns, the damp shrubs and leaves produce a large amount of smoke, which tumbles into the clear sky, like countless black dragons playing happily.

A few hours later

The smoke blocked the sunlight, darkening the sky, and the black dust in the air fell like rain, with a little residual heat.

In the valley in front of you, you can see a clear line of fire moving forward, and the "crackling" sound of burning is endless, because of the division of the river, the fire in the undeveloped area on the side of the Bishui River is particularly fierce, as if shaving the head to engulf a large area of the forest into flames.

On the other side of the Bishui River, the grass is still lush and the forest is green, and the sparks flying in the air and the burning branches falling in the wind are quickly extinguished when they fall in the forest.

The shrubs and forests in tropical rainforests are very moist and difficult to ignite without the strong accelerant of gasoline, and even if they do, they will be extinguished quickly.

When the Menglie Mountain Fire reached night, the burning fire turned from a fire line to a fire point, and the fire was not as big as it was at the beginning.

At dawn the next day, only the sporadic fire in the thick smoke could be seen in the distance, and by 10 o'clock in the morning, there was no fire in sight, only the billowing smoke.

At this time, looking back at the results of the burning of the wasteland in one day and one night, the huge valley of Donggang seems to be bald, becoming charred and ugly, and the burned area is almost 40 square kilometers, showing clear blocks because of the barrier of the river.

The dense black trunks of the trees in the burned area point to the sky, which looks extremely desolate, and although the outer bark of these trees is charred, the inside is still not touched, but it plays a good drying role.

After such an over-the-top tree is cut down, it is cleaned up, and sent to the sawmill to be sawn into timber, planks, and strips, and can be used after a week of drying, which is equivalent to the effect of one to two years of exposure to the sun after the tree is felled.

It's just more crude and simple, and it may cause some large trees to explode inside and turn them into waste wood.

But that's not a problem, on a forested paradise island, the number of trees is an incredible number, and it won't take even a hundred years to cut them down.

Dong Jie was generally satisfied with the effect of burning the mountain this time, but considering that a large number of Chinese immigrants arrived in the later period, he needed to open up more fields and plantations, so he decided to take advantage of the current conditions; The second round of fire was carried out.

Soon, thousands of barrels of gasoline were transported to shore, and a fire was lit again, so that the sky that had just brightened was once again covered with black clouds, and it became dark.

The second fire burned the mountain better than the first, burning for three days and three nights, and then was extinguished in the afternoon in a torrential rain.

The torrential rain rained for most of the day, washing away a large amount of black ash after burning, and the Bishui River became a black water river, and a thick layer of black ash was washed into the bay, forming a hovering black current in the bay, carrying floats and sank.

At this time

The people who came ashore were already in full swing, and fifty walk-behind tractors had begun to turn the land on a large scale, raking and compacting it, and building roads out of gravel that stretched along the Bishui River into the distance.

Another construction team of 10 people cut up the roots of the trees that were in the way one by one and hung them on walk-behind tractors or ox carts to haul them away.

As for the more big roots and over-the-top trees in other places, they can only wait for the arrival of a large number of Chinese immigrants to deal with them, and there is no time to pay attention to them for the time being.

On the other side of the forest, more than a dozen large fences have been built, cattle and sheep from across the ocean, poultry live leisurely here, and the belly ewes even give birth to a dozen lamb cubs.

The picking team went deep into the forest and picked a lot of mushrooms, fungus, wild fruits and fresh wild vegetables, so that the builders of Donggang could eat long-lost fruits and vegetables, and their spirits were greatly invigorated.

The industrious builders took the lead in carving out dozens of acres of land, sowing vegetable seeds, planting greens, peppers, cucumbers, edamame, tomatoes, cabbage and eggplants, and under the right climate and soil conditions, it only takes 20 days to eat fresh greens, and the rest takes a little longer.

Migrant and cargo ships parked in the bay are leaving, leaving only a handful of cargo ships carrying coal and kerosene, still at anchor, waiting to be unloaded.

On the edge of the bay

Hundreds of large floating timbers form a temporary pier jutting into the bay, these large timbers are connected at both ends with I-beams and fixed in the seabed silt with crossed I-beams, which are paved with half-foot-thick timbers and poured with a layer of reinforced concrete on top of the timbers to form a flat temporary pier.

The machinery and equipment, steel, cement, grain seeds and other bulk materials unloaded from the wharf continue to arrive on the shore, indicating that the development of Donggang has entered a new stage.

More than 2,100 builders worked enthusiastically on this scorched land, and the road from the port to the town was quickly completed, followed by more than 10 wooden bridges that crossed the stream.

Next

Entering the stage of urban land leveling, the initial land that needs to be leveled covers an area of 4 square kilometers, and it is necessary to clean up weeds and rocks, clean up the deep buried roots of large trees, and then plow the land and rake it flat and compact, forming a foundation that can be built.

On this basis

According to the topographical characteristics of the town, the planning department uses lime lines to draw commercial streets, concentrated construction areas for houses, urban sewer ditch routes, residential areas, administrative areas and educational areas, as well as factory areas downwind of the town.

In the early stages, tents stood on the leveled land, which will become a lively neighborhood in the future, rising from the ground for buildings with strong Chinese characteristics, and becoming a beautiful city in the Pacific Ocean.

meanwhile

New Xi'an, 2,400 kilometers away in a straight line, is also setting fire to the wasteland, building wharves and building new towns according to similar procedures.

Cargo ships and migrant ships unloaded supplies headed for the northwest land of Shenzhou, where hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees had been waiting for a new life.

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