At the same time, the naturalists of Pimont are doing a good job in the Chagan Basin, and under the guidance and supervision of these people, they can now get about fifteen tons of iron ore a day, and it is expected that it will not be long before the daily shipment of mineral sands to the sea will reach twenty tons, or even more.

According to the naturalist's report, the young people who surveyed the tribe were now happy to find that they could get a steady stream of food without having to go out hunting or gathering, and although they were a little more tired and busy than before, they were able to eat real rice and drink delicious spirits, and the most pleasing thing was that these were available almost every day!

This is completely different from the old days, when it was completely dependent on luck and the prey given by God to eat, and now, the young people of the tribe do not want to live the days of hunger and fullness.

However, the elders and priests of the tribe still complained, saying that these young people were too ignorant, and that doing so would cause the mountain gods to punish them!

He also said that the spirits brought by outsiders were not a good thing, because this drink made people crazy, and now many tribes have a miasma of smoke and alcohol at night, mainly caused by these wines.

Some of the priests also blamed themselves more and more, saying that this must be our usual sacrifice of impiety, causing the gods to send these disasters to disturb the peace of the tribe and disturb the hearts of the tribe, obviously this is a precursor to the great disaster, so the sacrifices are more and more devout to carry out the sacrifice activities, they force these young people to participate in the same, and some sacrifices even use their own blood to directly sacrifice to the gods of the tribe.

Obviously, few young people are now serious about these sacrifices and the chatter of the elders, and the tribe continues to be mined, and eventually even most of the women give up collecting wild bananas and pineapples to join the stone digging crowd......

So the old people began to sigh that the way of the world seems to have changed, and no one can say whether it is a blessing or a curse......

Now, back to the construction site of the hot new security tax area, as the time for the possible departure of the Nicole is getting closer and closer, Hou Xianglin Wei Hong and his men are getting busier and busier, after more than a month of construction, the deep-water wharf at the mouth of the Xin'an River has finally been completed, and soon, ships of all sizes from Dili Port come here to unload iron ore and coal blocks.

To the delight of Hou and Wei, some other natives from the vicinity of Xin'an City began to come here to look for work, and the reason for this is still unclear, but according to the inaccurate news brought by Daddy Loka, it may have been some unusual turmoil in the jungle.

Father Loka personally told Wei Hong that he didn't know why, but the jungle, which used to be relatively peaceful, is now becoming more and more unpeaceful, and all kinds of fleeing and migrating tribes have disrupted the original division of the jungle.

As a result, there were constant conflicts between the tribes, and the people who had eaten the delicious meals of the Australians in Sin'an finally remembered the place where it was peaceful and well-fed......

As the ore carriers appear more and more frequently on the wharf, the iron ore and coal in the stacking area of the Xin'an wharf are also piled up more and more, which not only requires a lot of labor to unload the ore, but also needs a lot of labor on several construction sites not far away.

When the natives discovered that almost anyone, including women and children, could find jobs in the wood-walled area where they could get steamed buns and rice porridge, and gradually more and more people came here, and later, the natives of the nearby tribes almost flocked to it.

On these days, outside the gates of the wooden walls of Xin'an City, before eight o'clock in the morning, a group of natives with their tools will gather, and the type of work can be seen from the types of tools they carry, some with burlap bags, which are used to carry sand on road construction sites, some with backpacks, which are for the various buildings under construction, and those with wooden sticks in their hands and ropes hanging from their shoulders, obviously these people will go to the docks to work as porters.

A considerable part of the crowd is a family that supports the old and the young, after all, even the elderly, as long as they have sharp legs and feet, they can find a job to eat.

At eight o'clock in the morning, when the simple wooden door made of iron bars and mahogany was opened, the natives who had been waiting outside the door would flock in.

The people who entered Sinangju were not an organized group, they gathered completely spontaneously, and there was no special person to assign these laborers, and they and they were free to find construction sites within the walls and choose the jobs that suited them.

It's just that there are various fences on different construction sites, and if these people want to go in and do it, they have to go through the "vetting" of the soldiers of the garrison, and the task of these soldiers is to see if you are suitable for the job here, of course, mainly based on physical strength.

Once the entry permit is obtained, a foreman will come to him or her to explain the work, the construction site has a wide variety of work, all kinds of people, the site is also very busy, but faintly still very orderly, people perform their duties, each does their own work, there is a division of labor and cooperation, this is the result of Hou Xianglin's perseverance in training his subordinates for several months.

In order to make full use of these laborers, Hou Xianglin according to the different physical conditions, divided into many types of work, the remuneration between different types of work is very different, the local people or go to the dock square to carry ore and wood, or go to the road construction site to hit stones, can also go to the river beach to dig sand, pick up pebbles, of course, there are also through the inspection, you can go to the construction site of the Governor's Mansion to do odd jobs, where the work is more complicated, if you do not do well, there is no second time, however, there is the best treatment, the food is also the most abundant.

In fact, the job that can earn the most food is to go to the dock to carry ore and wood, but it is a heavy physical work, people with average physical strength usually last less than two or three days, and the porter there will get a wooden stick of different lengths for each trip to carry the goods, the long sign means that the trip is more, and the short sign means that the trip is less, with this sign can get a certain amount of rice at the end of the evening or exchange for other things according to their preferences, such as brown sugar, rum, cloth, iron hoes, sickles, fire sickles and iron pots, etc.

Of course, if you want silver, you can do that, and as time goes on, more and more people want it.

Obviously, it is not easy to exchange these things and silver, a strong man needs to carry ore on the dock for a whole day, and can get a reward of about a penny or more silver, if you can hold on for a month, there will be an income of more than three taels of silver, you know, in the entire Nanyang region, the average monthly income of a well-off family is four taels of silver, so the income of a dock porter is definitely high in the eyes of local ordinary people.

For those who do not want or do not have the physical strength to work as a coolie on the docks, they can also go to the construction site not far away and find a banner where two of the Governor's men have assigned him or her the task of the day, such as mixing mortar, carrying stones, and laying hands on the wall, or a Governor's men will carry around collecting large stones and loading them on ox carts to carry them to the construction site.

The elderly, half-grown children, and women can also find "easy jobs" such as hammering stones, carrying debris, and carrying water.

Of course, this type of work is much less paid in the evening, except for a full meal.

But in any case, the local people in the neighborhood are very happy to have such a job opportunity, people often go to the city as a family, go to work at different construction sites, and then gather to go home in the evening, the men carry ore at the wharf, and the women take their children to do chores at the construction site, not only the whole family has solved the problem of eating for the day, but also can bring food home to the old people in the evening......