There seem to be a lot of people in the logging team, but in fact, there are only about ten people in four teams in charge of logging. Half of this is because the technical work of logging is not something that everyone can do, and it is simply a risk for those who have no special training and zero experience, whether it is a chainsaw or a big axe, it is not something that can be played with new hands. The other half is that the felled trees are not left on the ground, but have to be dragged aside, cut off and stacked together for later use. The cleared vacant land has to find a way to shovel the tree stumps on the ground, which is also very labor-intensive. It is no exaggeration to say that the amount of work required to support the logging is much greater than the logging itself.

Regarding the cut down trees, after seeing the actual situation, Bai Kesi originally planned to classify and stack them according to the tree species, but Cai Hongzhan felt that this was too troublesome, so he simply classified them according to usable wood and non-usable wood, such as those mangroves that could not be made into wood, they were directly classified as non-usable wood, and kept to dry them for firewood or to build a kiln to burn charcoal in the future.

The personnel of the Ministry of Agriculture were independent of all departments in the landing operation, as their first task was to build a concentrated shack for poultry and livestock on land. You must know that it has been seventy-two hours since these poultry and livestock were loaded on the ship in Yingzhou on the 29th, and even if these poultry and livestock can bear it, the members of the Ministry of Agriculture who are responsible for taking care of these guys on board can no longer stand the soul-piercing smell. The Ministry of Agriculture's supply list has a total of six horses, six sheep, eight cows and ten pigs, as well as dozens of chickens, ducks and geese, in addition to six Labradors specially purchased by the Military Police Department.

By lunchtime, two-thirds of the way the floating dock had been built, and Tao Donglai, who was in charge of the project, estimated that it would take another hour at most to complete the work and start stopping the ship to unload. The progress of the logging team is worrying, and the progress of the teams responsible for cutting down the trees is relatively smooth, but the manpower responsible for the subsequent processing of these trees is somewhat unable to keep up. The two Bobcat utility vehicles that were in charge of leveling the yard were empty, and the command quickly transferred them to the lumber yard to help haul the wood, which greatly improved the work efficiency.

Lunch was prepared by the cooking team of the logistics department in the kitchen of the "New World" and then sent ashore by boat, and the main dish was two large tin buckets of potatoes and roast beef. Before that, the cooking team was not idle, and four times in the morning with boiling water alone. Seeing that it was time to eat, the people who had been tired all morning did not need orders from the headquarters, so they slowly stopped what they were doing, and then began to line up in front of the cooking master.

The executive committee and the group of people from the landing operation command were not even idle during meal time, and they gathered in a circle to communicate the situation while eating, and at the same time made adjustments to the work arrangements for the afternoon.

The wharf team reported that the temporary toilets set up on the beach were too small and not enough to use, so that there were several queues and congestion in the morning, and Tao Donglai said that the construction department would immediately dispatch construction machinery to build another temporary toilet after lunch. （.）

Bai Kesi mentioned that the logging team was obviously not moving fast enough, because the logging work had to be followed by leveling the ground and then building prefabricated houses. According to the current progress, let alone build a board house before the sun sets today, and even the work of leveling the ground will not be completed. After discussion, the agricultural group agreed to borrow a few cows for the logging team to haul wood, but there must be someone from the agricultural group responsible for supervision, you must know that these cattle are carefully selected by Yuan Qiuye, and even if there is an accident, it will be a heavy responsibility accident for the agricultural group.

Ningqi mentioned the issue of drinking water. The amount of drinking water that ships carry is limited, and at least until the base's water supply system is set up, don't expect to be able to bathe in fresh water or anything from the reserves. The Executive Committee procured two small freshwater treatment systems, but it was clear that there was no way to build a separate water treatment unit in the field until the main body of Base 1 was completed. Of course, this problem is the same thing as what Bai Kesi said, that is, we must speed up the construction of the base, and only by completing the basic construction of the base can the follow-up supporting construction work keep up.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the preliminary construction of the floating wharf was finally completed without any work-related injuries, and all the construction workers stood in front of the wharf to complete a group photo, and this photo is also considered by later researchers to be the historical witness of the pioneers who completed the "No. 1 Project" here. The Executive Committee took over the command and announced that the bay, which would later be known as Yulin Port, would be named "Shengli Port". Of course, things like the erection of a monument will have to wait at least until the area is expanded into a permanent pier in the future, and we don't care about superficial things at the moment.

Half of the original dock team was immediately assigned to the logging team to assist with the ground leveling work, while the rest began to work on the floating dock reinforcement piling. As soon as the dock was built, the unloading began, and the first thing that was unloaded from the ship was the various construction materials, and the command's goal was to complete the foundation leveling work within today's time, and to arrange for most people to spend the night on land.

By this time, the logging team had cleared most of the area of the football field near the shore, and the ground was full of potholes because of the stump treatment, and the foundation of the station had to be leveled at least first. Fortunately, several construction machines that landed in the early stage have now been vacated, and they are all in battle to fill the pits, and the efficiency is not low.

In order to shorten the project time, the foundation construction of the prefabricated house in the planning also had to be shrunk to a certain extent, and the entire foundation area was not solidified after leveling the ground, but the ring beam was poured with fast-drying cement according to the planned size of the prefabricated house. By this time tomorrow, you will be able to lay the floor on the ring beams and build the house frame.

While Tao Donglai and a few people were personally completing the final pouring work, others had already begun to set up large field tents and assemble multi-layer iron frames in the open space next to them. Under the deployment of the headquarters, the logging team also turned around and first helped the agricultural team build a simple livestock hut by the Tiandu River, and finally brought the livestock and poultry back to land after floating at sea for three days.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Chujie and his reconnaissance team finally returned, and they actually brought back two local fishermen. It's just that Yan Chujie and the few people he brought with him didn't understand the Hainan dialect, and they didn't know what to say after asking for a long time along the way, so they had to bring it back first. Of course, Yan Chujie's American-style equipment did not escape everyone's eyes, and Meng He expressed strong contempt for his behavior of "worshipping foreigners and flattering foreigners", and even Gu Kai, a fake foreign devil, muttered "Turtles are not soil, and their combat effectiveness is five". Yan Chujie was willing to spit out the meat he ate in his mouth because of a few words of mouth cannon attack, and quickly changed the topic.

According to Yan Chujie, they found a small fishermen's village about four or five miles away from the landing site, that is, at the western end of Shengli Harbor. Although the houses were already empty when they went, it was clear that the inhabitants had just left, and they must have gone into the mountains to hide after seeing the fleet. As for the old man who was caught, he probably came back from outside the village and didn't receive the news, and he happened to be arrested by Yan Chujie, who was squatting in the village.

Tao Dong came to see these two aborigines of this time and space, they were all dressed in tatters, dark and thin, short in stature, if it weren't for the bun tied with a strip of cloth on their heads, the appearance was quite similar to the Vietnamese monkeys in another time and space. Both of them were full of fear in their eyes, and their hands and feet were also cowering, and they didn't know where to go.

Ning Qi sighed and said: "It is recorded in historical records that Yulin Port was plundered by Southeast Asian pirates many times in the Ming Dynasty, and there was still a garrison here during the Wanli period, but it is now the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and the Ming Dynasty army at this time, you all know it...... They must have thought that we were pirates who had come here to rob us, and they were probably thinking about how to save our lives. ”

Tao Donglai thought for a while and then ordered: "In this way, let them eat something first and release our kindness." By the way, don't we have several Hainan locals in our team? Find out where they are, and call one of them to come over as an interpreter. ”

The two fishermen were a little overwhelmed when they saw the white rice and roast beef with potatoes served, and it took a long time for a group of people to make them understand that this was food for them. What everyone didn't expect was that the two fishermen actually knelt down and kowtowed respectfully, and then they picked up the lunch box and ate it.

The translator was soon found, this young man named Zhou Hengxing is a native of Danzhou, Hainan, Li nationality, before participating in the crossing in the Danzhou City Cultural Center work, has an understanding of various dialects and ethnic languages in Hainan, and is currently temporarily assigned to the Ministry of Information Industry in Menghe to do data collection work. Although the two fishermen spoke in ancient dialects, fortunately, Zhou Hengxing, a native of Hainan, finally matched the code after repeatedly asking in a variety of dialects. After some careful interrogation, I still got some useful information from the two fishermen.

The two fishermen, one old and one young, are a father and son with the surname, and the two were indeed caught by the reconnaissance team as Yan Chujie guessed, after going out for a few days and just returning to the village. According to the father and son surnamed Yu, there are more than 20 households and 60 or 70 people in this small fishing village on the west side of the harbor. Of course, the rice fields that lack scientific planting technology will not have any impressive harvest, and basically belong to the "Wangtian Field", and how much can be harvested depends on God's mood. In addition, this village has been plundered by pirates two or three times in recent years, so the father and son surnamed Yu also said that the villagers must have fled into the mountains when the situation is not good, and it will take ten days and half a month to return.

As for the Ming Dynasty garrison, which everyone is most concerned about, according to the father and son surnamed Yu, on the high slope of only three miles west of the village, there is a beacon tower where the guards are stationed. During the Wanli period, a general flag was stationed here, but now there is only a small flag left, and the establishment is not full. Seeing such a large fleet entering the harbor, it is estimated that those guards have already smeared oil on the soles of their feet and fled for their lives.

Tao Donglai turned his head sideways and asked Ning Qi softly when he heard this: "What is the structure of this general flag and small flag?"

"There are ten soldiers in one flag, five small flags in one general flag, and two general flags are the establishment of one hundred households. Ning Qi knew that Tao Donglai was not familiar with these historical materials, so he patiently explained it to him.

Tao Donglai nodded: "That's how many soldiers there are, there are a hundred miles from here to Yacheng, and when they go over and bring the reinforcements back, it will take seven or eight days at the earliest, right?"

Ning Qi shook his head and said: "That's not necessarily, if they have a boat on the other side of the Luhuitou Peninsula, the time to return to Yazhou can be shortened by at least half, and I must remind you that Yazhou has already set up a water village front division during the Wanli period, and a special general position was added during the Jiajing period to be responsible for commanding the water army of Yacheng Water Village." Even if the army in the late Ming Dynasty was corrupted, Yazhou Water Village is not full of troops now, but there should still be more than a dozen boats and hundreds of sailors. If Yacheng gets the news and sends troops over, eighty percent will take the sea route. ”

Tao Donglai laughed: "That's good, I'm afraid they won't come, we just lack labor here!"