With a whistle sound, the water supply ship of "Grocery Store No. 2" slowly docked on a wooden pier. This is the west side of Tierra Tierra in the Strait of Magellan, near the port of Aalto in later Chile. After experiencing a difficult voyage, "Grocery Businessman No. 2" finally docked on this simple fortress made of logs after experiencing a difficult voyage.

"I really want to go to the Taoist temple to burn incense this time. It's so scary!" As soon as I got ashore, Lieutenant Jiang Yaohui, who was the captain of "Grocery Store No. 2", kept shouting, and the crew members who followed him also agreed with a look of fear. It turned out that when they were approaching their destination, the boat sailing at night passed by a large iceberg, which was so scared that everyone who could not find the iceberg in time was sweating afterwards.

What a joke? No matter how hard the hull made of red sandalwood is, even if it hits a giant iceberg, it will immediately fall apart even if it hits a huge iceberg. You can imagine that on a dark and westerly wind roaring early spring night, a group of sailors struggling helplessly in the cold sea water, and were swept away by the waves in just a while.

There are some buildings on the pier - all wooden structures. Some people wearing denim work clothes are walking out of the wooden house in groups of three or three, looking at the new ship with a slightly excited gaze.

They all knew this ship. A water supply ship from the First Navy Fleet traveled between the Pacific and the Atlantic many times. After her sister ships had sunk in the strait one after another, the ship was still magically unharmed. The time they passed by the iceberg in the early morning was the closest time they were to death, but they still escaped this disaster with great luck. It has to be said that sometimes their lives are really hard.

Each time the supply ship arrives, it will bring a lot of supplies to the miniature settlement named Beech Castle. Of course, there are a new group of immigrants who come together - local residents call it "unlucky". This means that these guys are so unlucky that they are sent to such a place where birds do not shit.

Since the town is called Beech Castle, as the name suggests, it is naturally because the surroundings of this town are full of dense beech forests, and even the town itself is built on a small piece of beech forest.

According to preliminary surveys by the Ministry of Agriculture of the East Coast, a large number of Southern Celestial Forests are distributed in the vast area extending to southern Tierra Tierra. The forest surfaces that run across the entire Southern Patagonia are actively vast. They are composed of two species of the genus Falconia: relatively short Antarctic beech (evergreen) and tall dwarf beech (deciduous trees, and a small number of birch-like dwarf beech). These tree species can generally grow to more than 20 meters high, and may be about 30 meters high. They can grow in barren land or mountains with relatively thin soil layers. The growth rate is extremely slow and often takes about two hundred years to grow. Therefore, the wood is extremely dense.

Later, when the Chilean government was in financial difficulties, it opened the logging rights of these forest lands to private and foreign companies, which once caused the area of ​​the South Keduko forest in Tierra Tierra and the entire Southern Patagonia region to be significantly reduced. As a last resort, the Chilean government began to take protective measures, and Goldman Sachs in the United States also bought a piece of forest land in 2004 and gave it to the International Wildlife Conservation Association. The Karukinca Nature Reserve was established to maintain its natural appearance.

Of course, in the 17th century Tierra Tierra del Fuego, it is still a virgin land without any trace of development. The dense forests, beautiful wild animals and clear and sweet river water, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance, can't help but make newcomers here feel like this place is like a fairyland on their own.

However, now the East Coast people have arrived here, and there are 45 local immigrants and 33 exiled prisoners. It is worth mentioning that there are only seven women here. Relying on some supplies and equipment sent by the navy, these immigrants began to cut down trees and build camps at designated locations along the coast, and successfully built a micro-village town that can be lived in for hundreds of people - a small town that will be planned to make a living by logging and livestock.

When winter just began, the Magellan Intelligence Station north of the strait supported fifty Patagonians. After these tall men, who were generally about two meters tall, came to the island, they built a Taoist temple of a large scale without saying a word, and then a religious ceremony was held to make the Italian Catholics from Tuscany, who were originally from the settlement, look at it very sideways.

After all the facilities were almost completed, when the snow stopped in mid-October, these people began to walk out of the wooden houses, and then gradually cleared the snow on the roads inside and outside the villages and towns to prepare for the subsequent logging work. The wood here is provided for the Pacific Shipyard in the north of Arakan Free City. The shipyard is still in the construction period, and the personnel and equipment are not in place. Even the factory buildings have just begun to be built, but these do not prevent the Beech Fort from starting trial mining of forest land outside the town.

After everything here is on track in the future, the State Council will also build a timber drying kiln and a timber processing factory here to make use of the rich beech resources here on the spot, and lay the foundation for the local economy. With these basic industries and the policy support of the Executive Committee in the future, the population of Tierra Tierra will soon be enriched. After all, on this large island with an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers, the minimum winter temperature is often only minus 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, and it is not much when it exceeds minus 10 degrees Celsius. In addition, the precipitation here is different from other areas in Southern Patagonia. The annual rainfall is extremely abundant, so it still has great development prospects. Later Chileans and Argentines will not develop their own treasures, and people on the east coast will not be polite. I believe that with the arrival of a large number of Ming people, this quiet area at the end of the world will surely usher in huge changes.

"Sir, what good things have you brought this time?" Sergeant McKinley, who was the left-behind place, came over and asked in a fur coat. He was wearing a sheepskin coat. The famous beaver leather coat in Tierra Tierra had not appeared in this era. Because later residents of Tierra Tierra in the 1940s introduced beaver to develop the leather industry, and this animal was still missing at this time. However, the introduction of beaver was a huge disaster for the forests on Tierra Tierra, because this small animal would constantly build dams and turn its residential areas into swamps or wetlands, resulting in a large number of forests drowning, which was obviously inconsistent with the original intention of the people on the East Coast to develop the forest industry here.

However, beaver was not introduced, but something else was introduced on the East Coast.

"Goats, sheep, horses, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, etc., of course, the most special thing is four North American bisons and seven or eight reindeer transported from the Far East through endless hardships." Jiang Yaohui, who was successful in his youth, did not have much impetuousness in his tone of his peers. He slowly lit a pipe for himself, and then said: "The livestock I mentioned earlier, including Far East reindeer, will be concentrated and raised first, and will be distributed to individuals after the population expands. As for those North American bisons, let them reproduce freely. In the future, we will continue to place more of their kind on this big island, and strive to make their footprints spread throughout the Tierra del Fuego, haha."

"Fortunately, it's not all livestock, there are people! Women!" Sergeant McKinley absent-mindedly listened to his boss's nagging, staring intently at a group of people slowly descending from the deck of the ship.

"It's a pity that it's an Indian woman!" Sergeant McKinley sighed regretfully at the end of the day. But if you think about it carefully, this is the best result. The Executive Committee was able to give women to their colony, which was just around the corner of the world, which itself showed an attitude of importance.

Following the ship "Grocery Store No. 2", there were sixty new immigrants and twenty exiled prisoners, including twenty Crandy women and ten Malay women. The arrival of these women unsurprisingly detonated the morale of the men in Beech Town. Even the seven women in the town secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was not so good to be stared at by dozens of big men. Now someone finally came to share the burning gaze projected behind them all day long. There was nothing better than this. But how could those lowly Indian women and Malay women compare with themselves? Thinking of this, these "seven golden flowers" from the Ming Dynasty and Poland involuntarily straightened their chests.

After a new batch of immigrants disembarked, the old immigrants immediately began to use simple pulley booms under the command of the crew to unload goods: a small amount of weapons and ammunition, a large amount of flour, soybean meal, alcohol, salted fish and meat, metal tools, building materials, etc. Especially those building materials, the local government department hopes that they will find a local address to build a small brick and tile earth kiln to produce some brick and tiles, so as to gradually improve the various facilities here. After all, the whole city cannot be made of wooden structure, right?
Chapter completed!