Twenty days later, another gravel road was built that stretched east-west through the middle of the western part of the free trade zone.

Next, the construction of a gravel road under the wooden wall on the southern boundary of the free trade zone also began, which will extend one kilometer from east to west and will circle the wooden wall and extend to the west coast, eventually enclosing the western area of the two square kilometers of the new security tax area, and finally forming a "field" shaped traffic layout.

After this period of construction, a wooden wall consisting of three sides, a wooden wharf on the river bank, a blue wharf square and a storage building, as well as a tall conjoined house and several gravel roads as the temporary governor's palace, formed the original appearance of the new Anxi City.

Xin'anseong ---- a city that was later hailed as the "Pearl of the South Seas" by the world, and it was from this time that it began to appear frequently in various historical records.

In the near future, with the increasing prosperity of Xin'an, the original four-square-kilometer urban area is no longer enough, so according to the agreement reached between the Australian Federation and the Portuguese and local Aborigines, Xin'an City has doubled to the south and west, and since then Xin'an has two areas, "Old City" and "New Territories", according to the agreement reached between Macao and Portugal, both the Old City and the "New Territories" are indefinite leases.

Since then, Sinanseong has gradually developed into a bustling metropolis in the new world, a world-class financial and trade center, a world-renowned free port, and a bustling city that never sleeps.

At that time, except for some remaining street names, such as Muqiang South Road and Caopeng Street, which have imprinted the historical traces of the city, Xin'an City has completely lost its original appearance.

Of course, that's another story.

Back in February 1658, when the large-scale infrastructure construction of Xin'an City entered the stage of mainly wharves, in addition to the construction of the trade plaza at the Blue Wharf, a large open-air cargo yard, a simple warehouse and several wooden wharves on the river bank, Hou Xianglin devoted the main labor force to the construction of the deep-water wharf at the mouth of the river.

This is the second pier of Tan An Port.

Although it is said to be a deep-water wharf, it is relative to the wharf in Dili Port, Hou Xianglin knows that at about this time, the family should also send a ship to Sin'an City, and he estimates that the Pride will come first, because he knows that it will be difficult for the family to mine enough coal for the Nicole to sail away.

Therefore, he hoped to build another pier at the mouth of the river before the Pride arrived in Sin'an, and after exploration, the water depth there would allow the Pride to dock and serve as a supplementary pier to the Blue Pier.

However, at this time, Hou Xianglin suddenly faced a labor shortage, which almost brought these projects to a standstill.

There is only one reason, about 80 percent, that is, more than 500 natives have returned to the jungle.

The reason is simple: the cassava in the mountains and jungles is ripe, and bananas, breadfruits, and some tropical fruits that can satisfy hunger seem to bear fruit, so after these two months of green and yellow passing, most of the locals choose to leave the construction site in Sinanseong and return to the traditional life of the people who have not changed for thousands of years.

Looking at the people who happily walked out of the wooden wall, Governor Hou was very depressed, now there are less than 100 people left in the greenhouse, mainly the elderly, women and children, although these people can't eat much food, but they can't do much work, especially those dock projects, basically some heavy manual labor, seeing that the family ship is about to arrive, Pimont also told himself that he will bring hundreds of tons of coal and iron ore to the Australians, these minerals will be used in exchange for Australian glassware and mirrors, Therefore, Hou Xianglin urgently needed a group of strong laborers to repair the dock for him.

So Hou Xianglin decided to ask Pimont and Duchess Margaret for help, and two days later, at an average price of three taels of silver per person per month, Hou Xianglin hired more than 100 strong laborers in Dili City and the Duchess's estate, these people were mainly black and Portuguese mixed-race, and the only reason they joined Hou Xianglin's labor force was that the wages were high, not only for food and shelter, but also for good food.

A few days later, Hou Xianglin, who had regained labor support, decided to immediately build a deep-water pier that would allow the Pride to dock directly at the confluence of the Xin'an City and the Xin'an River.

In this era, wood is the main material for building wharves, and this wharf at the mouth of the Xin'an River is no exception, fortunately, the most important thing on Timor Island is the primeval forest, wood is good and cheap, however, you need to spend money to hire people to cut down and pull it over, obviously the most expensive place is not the wood itself, but labor.

Therefore, Hou Xianglin issued a notice outside the governor's palace in Dili City:

"Australia's new federal security tax district will buy high-quality timber and stone for the construction of the docks at market prices, and the new governor will pay for these supplies in cash."

Only three days later, some Dili merchants came to the mouth of the Xin'an River with small river boats carrying all kinds of wood and stones, and the simple wooden wharf by the Xin'an River soon became very lively.

Another thing that made Governor Hou happy was that after almost a week, the Luoka family came back with the people of the tribe, and there were more than 200 people, a small half of whom were strong men!

Hou Xianglin was secretly happy for the reason for the return of the tribesmen - after people had eaten "Australian rice" for a month, the children and adults in the village suddenly found that the food made from cassava flour was so rough that it was difficult to swallow, even if mixed with mashed bananas, it was not as delicious as the steamed bread, white rice porridge and pork ribs broth on the construction site.

So under the example of Daddy Loca, the people in the tribe dragged their families to the construction site.

In the following ten days, Hou Xianglin began the construction of the Jiangkou Wharf and the Blue Wharf stacking yard and warehouse with these patchwork laborers.

One day in late February, two small boats rowed across the Xin'an River and stopped near the dock site on the west bank. With the support of the servants, a beautiful woman slowly walked down on the board of the ship. At this time, He Sizhi, who was beside Hou Xianglin to report the progress of the work to the governor, immediately rushed to the shore to greet him.

The beauty who visited the construction site was Zeziria.

So Hou Xianglin also smiled and walked briskly, he looked at the girl's dress with satisfaction, which was the classic dress of Western European girls in this era that he liked very much, with a long tunic skirt and a wide-brimmed women's hat.

However, Hou Xianglin somewhat restrained his expression after approaching the girl, because he always felt that he looked at the girl's demeanor like a lewd uncle looking at the little white rabbit.

The girl is wearing a white round-neck lace edge balloon sleeve shirt on her upper body, and her lower body is a green multi-layered long skirt, with a red and blue tight waist wrapped around her chest in the middle, embroidered with a few golden tulips, highlighting the girl's bumpy body, a white wide-brimmed women's hat is worn on her head, a touch of yellow hair with black and brown naturally hangs down her shoulders, a green bow on the hat, white stockings, and clogs.

A moment later, the girl appeared on the river embankment with a flower umbrella.

Apparently the girl is in good spirits today, with the jewelry on her head and the large necklace on her chest shining in the sun.

Zezilia was greeting Brother Hou from afar---- since last month, when the lonely man and widow were in the same room in the dock stilt house, the two collided like magnets, and the dry wood caught fire......

A few days after the incident, Hou Xianglin officially proposed to Her Excellency Duchess Margaret to marry her sister-in-law, and the Duchess just looked at Zezilia's eyes and agreed to the marriage without hesitation.