On May 21, 1643, on the west coast of Zhifu Bay, more than a dozen local fishermen squatted on the ground in fear. They had just been forced by a group of blonde and blue-eyed men to get a short hair with swords and guns, and then were driven into several sheds made of wood to take a bath. This process was definitely not peaceful, and many people cried, but facing the fierce soldiers, everyone still had to choose to surrender.

More than two months ago, the Qing army took a boat to cross the sea, and broke through Laiyang County, Qixia County, Ninghaizhou, Chengshanwei, and returned. They besieged Fushan County and attacked Dengzhou, but they did not stop and then retreated. In the more than a month when the Qing army was rampant, the local people suffered great disasters, and they were also afraid of these brutal foreign invaders from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, they basically did not resist what the people in the East Coast asked them to do.

After taking a shower, everyone suddenly found that their original ragged clothes had been taken away by others! Oh my God, their important property was taken away, which made many people unacceptable. But before they were sad, those who seemed to be military men also brought a lot of light blue clothes for everyone to wear. The styles of these clothes were a bit strange, but the materials felt very good to the touch, and they looked very strong and wear-resistant, which was much better than the one they originally had. This style was really ugly, but there was no way. It was better to wear than not. Let's deal with it first.

Luo Tiansheng touched his short hair, put a set of sky blue denim clothes on his body, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly realized that the clothes were surprisingly fit. "It's amazing. These barbarians are a bit ingenious. This dress is actually better than the cloth of Fuji Clothing Village in Ninghaizhou City. I'm afraid it's not that it takes several taels of silver to buy it."

Luo Tiansheng was caught by the people on the east coast of the Langyan Duntai yesterday. He was arrested with him, four or five old soldiers and nearly twenty of their relatives. It was a very unlucky saying that Luo Tiansheng was a gentry in Dezhou and a clan of Luo Guoshi, a Jinshi in the tenth year of Chongzhen. This time, he was ordered by his brother to visit a Luo Guoshi's old friend. Ninghaizhou had just been poisoned, and Luo Guoshi was very concerned about the whereabouts of his friends, so he specially sent his clan members to visit.

But he didn't expect that when he passed by Huodun, he encountered the East Coast people sent troops to wipe out the nearby pier. So he and the soldiers in the pier who had just come back from the Tartars, and their families were captured and plundered to the place in front of him.

"This place should be not far from Zhifu Island. I'm afraid it's ten miles away from the Huodun platform yesterday." Luo Tiansheng thought to himself, "What are these Semin people plundering a group of bitter soldiers here? It's all sand, or it's a water area (swamp area) on both sides of the Dagu Jiahe River. It's not a good place no matter how you look. They are digging and draining the water, but it seems they want to build a fortress and moat here. What a strange thing, just these hundreds of people want to force themselves to occupy this place?" Thinking of this possibility, Luo Tiansheng couldn't help but shake his head. The situation is chaotic and the building is about to collapse! This world is not only thieves and the Tartars invaded, but even the Semin people who came from somewhere were coming here to cede the land and defend themselves. It's really outrageous!

"Why are you shaking your head? Why don't you go to work?" A strange accent sounded in your ears. Luo Tiansheng suddenly felt excited. He was still in their hands. I don't know what their methods were, or be more careful. Therefore, a flattering smile quickly spread on his face and said to a semen army man who urged him to work: "Don't be upset, the villain will go to work now." After that, he put on the cotton gloves sent to him by the East Coast people, grabbed a shovel, and ran to the construction site where the digging was ahead.

At this time, with the sharp copper whistle of the soldiers and supervisors on the east coast, thousands of North Korean men and women who were still squatting on the ground to rest on the entire huge construction site immediately stood up, and then silently walked towards their contracted area under the guidance of the foreman and began the hard work.

The terrain here is mainly based on sand dams. Just like the large area of ​​sand dam land on the coast of the east coast, the sand dams here are also very barren, and basically no food is planted. It often costs a lot of money to improve the soil before it can become fertile fields. In the southwest of sand dams, there is a large area of ​​Dagujiahe alluvial plain. In this alluvial plain, weeds and bushes are scattered, and floods are flooded every time during the flood season, which does not disappoint the reputation of Dagujiahe as "harm water".

No matter how you look at this land, it is a "bad land" where birds can't shit, but Mo Ming still decided to build the fort here. The fortress he had initially planned was about one thousand meters around. The walls faced the south and west with polygonal bastion structures, and the north and east with normal linear city walls. In addition, a dock was built outside the east wall, and several trest bridges directly into the sea were built on the dock, and several forts were equipped. In this way, the prototype of a port fortress was found.

As for the floodplain in the southwest of the planned fortress, Mo Ming decided to build a small artificial reservoir. On the one hand, it serves as a barrier to the city walls on the west and south sides, and on the other hand, it can also build a secret passage to the city directly to serve as a source of water for the military and civilians in the fortress. Of course, in case of precautions, some wells must be dug in the fortress and some water collection facilities such as rainwater collection pools to prevent water cuts when they are trapped for a long time.

After calculation, the project volume is actually quite large. According to the existing thousand North Korean migrant workers and more than a hundred captured Ming fishermen, I don’t know that I will be busy until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month. Now there are some messy tents everywhere on the shore, and barbed wire mesh is everywhere. A lot of supplies are piled on the grass in the open air. The soldiers of the 102nd Company only covered them with a layer of oil cloth and ignored them. There is no way, there are too many food, arms, cloth and other supplies, and there are not enough tents to stack them, so I can only deal with it in this way.

The three ships including the "Polang" had already set off to Jingyi County to pick up people and livestock. Now the three ships anchored in the harbor are the "Fubo", "Lehai" and "Baobab" that came after maintenance from Heishui Port. They arrived here last night. The cabin was loaded with some livestock transported from Jingyi County, a large number of fir, birch and other timbers of Heishui Port, as well as about 70 or 80 recruited Sakhalin Island natives. Mo Ming was very enthusiastic about these newly arrived natives. After rewarding them with a large amount of property, he organized the group of about 130 indigenous soldiers into the 3rd Squadron of the Standing Team, as an important garrison force in the Yantai Fortress in the future.

"Captain Mo, Heishui Coal Mine had officially released coal on May 8. They dug a few more shafts in the mountains. I sent 300 North Korean men to dig coal. A while ago, the ships returned from Jingyi County brought a batch of new labor, and I sent 400 more people to the coal mine area. At present, they can deliver more than 200 tons of coal every day. It is quite troublesome to transport. The coal mine is several kilometers away from the port. At first, we could only carry the coal out of the mountain with manpower. Later, after we got some horses back from Jingyi County, our work became easier." Sergeant Johnson, who came to report to Mo Ming from Heishui Port, took the work report at hand and said sternly.

"It's a bit too much for more than 200 tons of coal every day, so we can't use that much at all." Mo Ming sat on a rattan chair and said, "Build a coal washing plant on the mountain. The raw coal harvested is washed and then transported to the Heishui Port Pier for storage. As for the manpower, you can choose from those coal miners. We don't need so many people to dig coal at the moment. By the way, how to solve the safety problem? Are these North Koreans obeying orders? Has anyone escaped?"

"The group of North Koreans who were captured by us last year, and some former Li Dynasty exiles captured from Jeongyi County a while ago, promoted some people to serve as foremen, and asked them to supervise the remaining North Koreans to work. Their families were all left in the city at the foot of the mountain. I asked them to exchange the harvested coal for food every day. They were not stupid. It was a word for death if they escaped alone in Sakhalin Island. There were continuous mountains and primeval forests everywhere. It was difficult for a single person to survive the winter. They either died of cold and hunger or were eaten by bears." Johnson said with a smile, "The situation is not bad at the moment. There were only people in groups of three or three to escape, but later they all ran back. I demoted them all to slaves."

"Well, it's a good job." Mo Ming nodded at him with approval, and then continued to ask: "I'm not worried about the coal mine. But the brick kiln factory has to be done quickly. You have also seen that Yantai Fortress is now starting to be built, and we urgently need a large amount of bricks. You must also be careful about this matter. The silt in the Heishui River and the coal powder washed from the coal washing factory are all good raw materials for burning bricks. In short, this matter must be done! I don't want the Yantai Fortress to be built before June next year due to the lack of building materials!"

"I understand. When I go back, I will take this matter as a top priority." Sergeant Johnson nodded vigorously and said, "This brick kiln is expected to produce three million standard bricks annually. I will send a hundred people to work on this matter. The kiln body will be completed by the end of this month and will be put into use next month. At that time, I will send a large number of workers who make bricks to go there, and I will definitely not delay the construction here."

"There should be nearly 3,000 Koreans in Hei Shui Port now, and our guards are less than 300. We must be careful and there must be no trouble." Mo Ming thought about it and reminded him, "Arrange 500 people to go to Yuanbo Port on Rishi Island to build a wharf. There is no need to send guards. Such a large island has no food, so where can I go? Use the fishing boat in the dock to send them some food regularly. If the construction period is slow, deduct a batch of rations, so don't worry about being unfair. In addition, the second dock in Hei Shui Port will also be officially started, and the timber drying factory will be gradually prepared. A batch of farmland will be reclaimed in the Hei Shui River Valley. The waterways of the river port must be dredged, and trade cannot be delayed. Damn, there are so many things! I'll leave it to you. I can't walk here for the time being, don't let me down!"
Chapter completed!