Regarding Long Xu's idea, Lieutenant Oleg, the cavalry officer who was responsible for the security and defense work here, had different opinions. He believed that those Chalua people hiding in the west like rats in the mountains, which were not easily found. And maybe they had a hundred soldiers who could fight, or two hundred or even more. If they did not face the battle head-on but adopted guerrilla tactics, the East Coast people would have a headache.

"Maybe we will have a lot of undeserved casualties, but the enemy may not be damaged a lot." Second Ensign Oleg added, "I suggest that it is better to defend on the spot. During the day, our cavalry are responsible for reconnaissance, the army infantry are responsible for guarding, and at night, they will pull up barbed wire around the camp and arrange sentry positions, so that those savages will have no choice but to do anything to us."

Long Xu looked at the former Zaporoze Cossack in his thirties and had to admit that what the other party said made sense. He wanted to solve the problem once and for all, which was obviously unrealistic. Therefore, as Second Lieutenant Oleg said, it would be better to calm down. Ensuring the smooth completion of the railway and the completion of the walls of the Canyon Fort was his first priority, and nothing else was important.

The wall designed in the Canyon Fort is about 900 meters long - a typical inland castle. There are currently 300 immigrants from Ninghaizhou, Shandong, and about 500 South African construction workers to build railway stations here. The houses at the railway station have basically been completed. This group of workers from South Africa are currently building freight yards, parking lots, repair shops and other facilities. The number of South African labor workers widely active in the East Coast Republic has reached more than 16,000. Since they only need to serve for three years, they can get the status of free people in South Africa, so these people are still very enthusiastic about working. With their efforts, railways and roads in China have been paved. Houses and warehouses have been built. Trucks of ore bricks and tiles have been produced, which has played a huge role in the construction of the East Coast Republic of China.

South Africans were building railways, while Ming immigrants from Shandong were building city walls and wooden houses for their temporary residence. The wooden houses were one by one, which was told to them by their superiors. They didn't understand very well that the temporary residences in other places were two or even four. They couldn't figure out why they were one by one. Is there too much wood that came back from the top? However, their doubts were quickly answered, which made them extremely excited.

About one hundred Serbian female slaves wearing denim uniforms distributed by the east coast were sitting in a dozen large trucks from the direction of the southern railway line. With the shouting of the coachman, these female slaves stood beside the construction site in a small cloth bag, which contained some clothes and a small amount of silver dollars distributed to them by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and stood ignorantly next to the construction site.

The construction site of the Canyon Fort, which was originally whistle, command, and horns, suddenly became quiet. Hundreds of Ming people immigrants straightened their backs and stared at a large group of "newcomers" there.

"It's a woman!" Soon someone spread this exciting news to every corner of the construction site, and everyone suddenly had no intention of working. They were all elite men, most of them were in their twenties, and a small number were in their teens or thirties, but they had one thing in common - that is, they were all bachelors.

Yes! Due to various reasons, such as war, famine, poverty, etc., it has created a large number of bachelors in Shandong. They are not even easy to have a full meal, let alone marrying a wife. The gentry's families are full of maids, but they are so poor that they can't get a wife until they die. Now they have to follow these barbarians to the east coast, but they don't expect to be in a hurry to run. Or they have to be lucky. Not only do they have to share houses, but they heard that they will also have to share land, cattle and sheep. Now they may even share their wives! God is sorry, who will help me go back to Shandong to see if there is any smoke from my family's ancestral grave!

The East Coast cadres who had been supervising their work very strictly did not urge them to work anymore, but gathered together, as if discussing something. After the discussion, they went through the handover procedures with the person in charge of the convoy who escorted these women. After all this was done, Agnelli, the interim head of the government affairs of the Canyon Fort, announced that in the next construction work, he would divide everyone into several groups, each group would take part in part of the work. The management cadres would score each person, and the top 150 people with the highest scores would be able to select a wife according to their rankings.

These Serbian female slaves were bought by the East Coast people from the Ottoman Empire for a large price. These people are theoretically the "property" of the East Coast Republic government because they are legally slaves. In other words, these female slaves bought from the Ottoman Empire do not have the right to choose their own destiny, and they can passively accept the arrangements of their "masters". According to the plan, after they are assigned to new male immigrants and live for three years, they will be able to register and obtain all the rights of the free people. This has been clearly told to them from the first day they arrived on the East Coast, and they basically accept or default on such destiny - this is much better than being a slave until they die in their lifetime.

As the largest "goods" imported from the Ottoman Empire, the trade of female slaves is becoming more and more prosperous between the two countries. The Ottomans rely on this and export of livestock to balance the huge deficit between the two countries' trade, while the East Coast people have always followed the principle of "money is useless, materials are only useful", so most of the profits earned are basically spent on buying female slaves and horses. There were about 500 female slaves brought back from the Ottoman Empire, except for one

In addition to the 150 people, there were 100 people assigned to Ningjin Fort (Jose Pedro Varella Village) to the south - named after more than 200 garrisons from the Weihai Wei Ningjin Fort. In addition, about 250 people were assigned to Xiayihe Fort. It is expected that they will arrive at the dock before mid-next month. There were about 250 Malay women coming with them, which was considered to give the bachelors of Xiayihe Fort a little surprise and benefit.

After explaining the policy clearly to these Ming people's immigrants, the enthusiasm of these people was immediately greatly stimulated. On the same day, some individuals who exceeded the task began to appear. After the management cadres gave these people high scores, everyone was in an uproar. The next day, they immediately completed their rated tasks at a faster speed, and then began to work overtime. Even when it was time to eat, the public canteen, which had been crowded, was much deserted, and there were only a few dozen people in the eyes.

The older Ming people, who are about thirty or forty, are eating. Their bodies are not as good as those young men. They are exhausted to complete their tasks. Work overtime again? Let me spare me! Anyway, I heard that there will be a second batch and a third batch of women in the future. What are you anxious about? Those immigrants who took the initiative to work overtime went to the cafeteria to get a few beef buns. After eating, they continued to work. They did not reluctantly finish the work until it was dark when the management cadres came to urge them to stop work.

Faced with such a situation, Agnelli, the head of the civil affairs of the Canyon Fort, was very happy, and Long Xu, the commander of the 103rd Army Company, who has been on guard duty in the past few days, also felt a little funny. Hormones are really the best stimulant for men. In his opinion, these Ming people were like animals in heat in spring, full of endless energy. However, the construction progress was really much faster. More than a dozen warehouses, town governments, military camps, residences, etc. have been built, and even the underground drainage ditches have been dug. Immediately, another group of about three or four hundred French people may be transferred to the east. Old residents of Livornia came to live with these new Ming people. After the new labor force was in place, the construction speed would become faster. After the city wall was built, the Chalua barbarians would have no choice but to do anything to them.

During these times, the hundreds of cavalry of Lieutenant Oleg had been cruising around the Canyon Fort and had also bumped into several groups of Gauchoma bandits. According to him, the Gaucho people liked to act collectively, with only five or six people a few, and even seven or eighty people even. These people were equipped with flintlock pistols, rifles, leather armor, Spanish stingers that they could never afford, and they were cruising on both sides of the West Ridge, waiting for an opportunity to attack the lonely East Coast farmers, herdsmen, police, messengers, etc. I don’t know where these people were supplying, and where their nests were, but it is certain that these people were absolutely colluding with the Chalua barbarians, because according to some captured Gauchoma bandits, they had never attacked the Chalua villages, and sometimes they could get supplies from them.

They did not attack the Chalua people, perhaps because these warlike barbarians were poor and had no good fortune, but it was impossible to say that there was no trick. Perhaps it was the hateful Spanish missionaries who were making a bridge from it, so that these Gauchoma bandits who had no fixed place could rest and replenish the Chalua villages that lived in the Negro River basin, thus gaining the ability to continue to fight.

What a bastard! Long Xu held the hilt of the commander's knife on his waist tightly with his left hand, and he felt a little angry. From the end of August to mid-September, he had lost a messenger who had traveled to and from Xiahebao to deliver messages, three immigrants who went out to chop wood, and a patrolman who was killed at night patrol. Although the Gao Qiao people suffered greater losses, such incidents are still endless, which is extremely annoying. The Gao Qiao people rarely get anything from the East Coast people, but they are still in a dim way. Don't they have to eat? Who sent them money? Humph, the Jesuit monks, their hearts and actions are punishable! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!