Turn the time point back to Nanming three months ago. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At the mouth of the Mohu River, a fleet of Chinese immigrants who had traveled thousands of miles from Belitung Island finally arrived at their destination. The technology of the distant voyage is about to unfold in front of the immigrants.

The voyage of a month or two was windy and bumpy. They had previously established three small gathering places on the west coast of this continental-style island, and each gathering place had three or four hundred immigrants and a certain number of guards, so the number of immigrants arriving here had dropped by one-third, and it also made them spend more than half a month on their trip.

Today is the day they arrive at Mohu, but their luck is not very good. Today, the situation at the mouth of the Mohu River is not very good, not only is there a strong wind, the wind and waves are high, but also the rain is foggy.

The estuary of the Mohu River, which the fleet needs to deal with, is also a relatively tortuous waterway, and the river is in the shape of a spoon in the shape of the Big Dipper, and they can only appreciate the beauty of this tortuous waterway that connects to the sea.

Inside of this relatively tortuous waterway, it is a huge lake in the shape of a gourd. The Mohu River, which flows from the interior of Nanmingzhou, meanders and narrows as it flows through the Mohu River, then suddenly opens up to form two gourd-shaped lakes, which then meet with another stream named the Swan River, and finally flow westward into the vast Indian Ocean.

It is also the best and safest place to moor boats.

Named Swan Lake, Mohu City is located on the shores of Swan Lake, which will be one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the future. Whenever the sun is shining, the turquoise waters of the Mohu River jump and shimmer with crystalline multicolored glow, which is even more sparkling under the sunlight. Large flocks of black swans often swim leisurely on the river, and large flocks of seagulls inhabit the river beach.

So the life of the immigrants is good, but the road forward is a bit tortuous.

Before their grand purpose could be achieved, they would first have to climb the shores of Swan Lake and find out if there were any indigenous people in the surrounding area. It was here that they were going to establish China's first city on Nanmingzhou.

The last time the exploration ship came here showed no signs of Aboriginal life, that doesn't mean there will be no one living now. The indigenous people of this land do not seem to have developed an agricultural civilization, but live by fishing, hunting and primitive animal husbandry.

Fifty members of the advance team rowed inland along the Mohu River in six small rowing boats. Their first task was to reconnoiter Swan Lake, and the other was to investigate the hydrology. Although in such a short interval, it is unlikely that there will be any significant hydrological changes here. But the fleet must be careful and careful.

The boats carried weapons, rations, tents, bedding, flares, etc., which were firmly fastened to the boat with a net, and among the contents they were some trade goods such as liquor, cotton cloth, knives, iron pots, etc., in order to prevent bribes from the natives in case they were encountered, or to trade with each other.

According to the information collected by the imperial court on the history of Western colonization, the natives were very fond of these little things.

Regardless of how the two sides will go in the future, now that the Chinese immigrants have not yet gained a firm foothold, it is better not to be in conflict with the indigenous people.

The wind and waves at the mouth of the sea are a bit strong, and there are no breakwaters and trestle bridges built by later generations, and it seems that the small rowing boats may tip over at any time when they are thrown into the water. But this could not stop the advance of the advance team.

When the advance party was all out of the water and left the ship, the rain became heavier and the sky was drizzling.

The time in Nanmingzhou has been counted as summer, but the rain hits the face coldly. The splash of the water waves is also cold and cold.

A petrel flies proudly like a black lightning bolt. One moment the wings split the waves like blades, and the next the body pierced through the rain like sharp arrows. It fluttered its wings in the wind and rain, and flew steadily with the direction of the wind.

Zhang Gou's feet were like nails, standing straight on the bow of the boat, and the undulating waves seemed to have no effect on him. Some of the soldiers of the advance party stumbled and almost fell, but he swayed with the rocking of the boat, and did not move a single step under his feet. Several of the soldiers were a little pale, not only because of the current storm, but also because of the suffering they had suffered along the way. Some of the immigrants, including the soldiers, who had fallen ill on the way, could only lie in the dimly lit bilge hammocks, panting and moaning.

The advance team members descended to the rowboat by rope ladder, and then began to row hard to the mouth of the Mohu River, and then began to measure the depth of the water and mark the course.

The whole operation lasted for several hours, just as an estuary. It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon that the six rowboats, which had explored the sea near the estuary, rowed deeper.

The waves on the sea gradually became smaller, but it was still very difficult for the rowing boat to move forward, and the cold waves hit the cabin, on the oilcloth raincoats, and on the faces of the team members, blurring everyone's vision. In the distance, the sea and the sky were gray, and only the occasional cry of petrels reminded everyone to fight the wind and waves.

Floating on the surface of the sea are some water hyacinths fixed to the bottom of the water with small iron anchors, and the gourds are also tied with conspicuous red ribbons, which are the channels marked for large ships. The tonnage of the lightest ship in the fleet was also hundreds of times larger than that of a tiny rowing boat. The draft is so deep, naturally you can't shuttle and sail at will like a small boat, otherwise it will be troublesome if you run aground or hit the rock.

Two hours later, when the sky was getting dark, and with the hard work of the group, the six rowboats finally crossed the 'Spoon' waterway and entered the interior of Swan Lake. The water is much calmer, with only a few slight undulations, and large flocks of black swans frolicking on the lake. Zhang Gou looked around, in a confused rain and fog, the lush forest in front of him and on both sides of the bank was so fresh.

Just like walking on the prairie for a long time, a delicate red flower is far more 'eye-catching' than a green meadow. After being on the sea for a long time, Zhang Gou felt that the green in front of him was so verdant Cistanche.

Zhang Gou instructed the team members to row the rowboat towards the left front shore, which was better than the land and various conditions on the right bank of Swan Lake, that is, the south and north. When the boat ran aground when it was about to reach the shore, all the crew disembarked en masse, jumped into the waist-deep water, shouted the trumpet and pushed the boat ashore in unison.

From the shore to the endless reeds, as a virgin land, the environment here can be said to be 'protected' very well. In September and October of the Chinese lunar calendar, it is already snowing heavily in the north, and it is summer here in Australia. The blue reeds swayed in the wind, and countless waterfowl roosted in the reeds.

Zhang Gou chose the weakest place and pounced on it, and without encountering any danger, they 'killed' a way with machetes and arrived on the shore safely. During this time, they frightened countless water birds, including the black swans.

The feathers are curly, the whole body is black and brown, the long pointed beak is red and bright, and it has a graceful and luxurious style.

Many of the felled reeds were dragged to the shore and laid out neatly on the ground, and these things could be said to be very good materials, and after being yellowed, they could be bundled to build a simple house, and they could also make mats, and the ears of reeds could be used as brooms, and tidbits could be used to fill pillows. Plus this thing can be used to raise livestock! It can also be incurred. It can be said that it is a useful baby.

Before it got completely dark, the rain stopped. The advance team set up tents on a dirt slope where no traces of human activity could be found, and no traces of large animal activity could be found, and simple earthen walls and fences were erected overnight.

The latter is to cut down the trees directly, there are many trees here, especially large trees. Visible!

Cut off the branches of small trees or large trees. Tie three branches and put them on the earthen wall, and this can be used.

According to the exploration bureau's understanding of the indigenous people of this place, the aborigines of this continent-style isolated island have a very low cultural level, and may still be in the primitive tribal slave era. There will be no muskets here, and perhaps even bows and arrows will be rudimentary, or even have no bows and arrows. One of the greater functions of fortifications is to block and separate each other and give the two sides a space for communication, rather than relying on fortifications to block the bows and arrows of the natives.

It was not until noon the next day that the large fleet sailed into Swan Lake.

The course of the Mohu River is only three or four hundred meters, and after deducting the shallow water on both sides, the water surface in the middle that can be navigated by the fleet is quite relaxed. And once the fleet entered Swan Lake, it was like running from a narrow road to a square, too wide.

Zheng Ji stood on the bow of the ship and looked at both sides of the river, the vast water area was at least ten miles wide from north to south!

"Harvesting reeds, clearing the site, building trestle bridges, building simple docks......" Zheng Ji quickly entered the state of 'governor'. A small boat of immigrants was brought ashore at a sound of minus zero, and these poor jingling immigrants wept bitterly after they were down-to-earth. China is still more of a continental people, and even those fishermen who are adrift at sea have never walked such a long sea route again, including the Tan people.

And the wind and waves in the ocean are completely different from the wind and waves in the near sea, I don't know how many people have dreamed in their dreams of their ship being wrecked or killed, or the taste of stepping on the land by themselves, and now they can't wait to put their feet on the solid earth.

But after the venting cry, these people's emotions are quite stable, because they are still acceptable to the place in front of them, and even very satisfied.

Such a big lake, flat land. The basic land promised by the state of 10 acres per person is absolutely sufficient.

If they can move faster, they can harvest a season of cereals this year. It's summer here.

By the time these migrants moved to the shore one by one, Zhang Gou had already taken 30 people to explore the interior. The remaining twenty advance team members on the shore cleared a clearing of the boss, and the felled trees fell to the ground.

Not far from the foothold is a sharp corner that protrudes into the water. But it didn't make the water flow at the foothold any faster. This 'peninsula' that protrudes into the water will also be encased in camp, which is a safe place.

The deck of the big ship became noisy, and the crowds of people who came and went were constantly being sent off the ship by the crew with cranes, and bags of supplies were hoisted from the deck to the rowboats, and after the supplies were loaded, the rowboats were used to carry supplies and personnel to the shore one by one.

As soon as the fleet entered Swan Lake, it was far away from the wind and waves at the mouth of the sea, and the wind and waves on the water surface made it almost impossible to feel the hull fluctuations. The sick in the cabin were sent to the deck one after another, and then transferred to shore on a priority basis.

When Zhang Gou and his team returned to the same place three days later, they saw that a fence had been set up within a few hundred meters around the foothold of the advance team, and a simple camp had been built. Even though the fences were all made of blackened tree trunks, tents stood in neat rows, with room for drainage and gutters around them, and he could see a few bare-bottomed children running around the tents.

More immigrants worked hard under the command of the architects who arrived with the ship. They had to dig the ditches outside the camp, they had to dig the drainage ditches inside the camp, they had to level the land, cut down the trees, clear the land, dig the foundations, and so on.

This virgin land, which has rarely been set foot by human footprints before this, and is full of primitive and natural atmosphere, has ushered in a new page of its own with the efforts of 2,000 Chinese immigrants and 3,400 armed forces, including the security team.

In February of the fourth year of Chengtian, the second batch of immigrants from Nanmingzhou had already set off from Taiwan by boat.

God took good care of Chen Han very much, and there was no major disaster in the first immigration operation. This second batch of immigrants obviously reassured Chen Ming. It also made Chen Ming no longer have to worry about this matter.

He could now concentrate more on India and the upcoming envoy of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Oh, and the Russians.

The defeat in the Battle of Lake Balkhash will change the domestic situation in Russia, and Chen Ming has not relaxed his collection of Russian intelligence in the past two years, and Sweden and France are his good partners in this regard.

Although the Russians won the Ottomans in a bullish manner, and also cooperated with Austria to divide Poland, they made a lot of money in terms of land area, but their national strength was also exhausted.

As for the war over the development of Lake Balkhash, the Swedish ambassador to Nanjing, Carl Johann Tisilius, considered it the last ditch of the Russians. "Victorious, the war continues; Defeated, the Russians will withdraw from the war. ”

Including his old friend, Robin Lustig, the representative of the Swedish East India Company, and many European envoys and representatives, they all made such predictions.

Then Chen Han should also start negotiations with the Russians. Finally, there are the Ottomans...... (To be continued.) )