After completing the task assigned by Zhang's idol, Zhao Hao set off for Danluo Island.

Shortly after going out to sea, I met Jin Ke with three black-tailed boats to escort and arrived in Xingang City early this morning.

The fleet was moored on the half-built pier in Xingang. Tang Youde, Zhu Jue, Park Chengxing and others had been waiting for it for a long time and warmly welcomed the young master to come for inspection.

The wind was calm along the way, and Zhao Hao rested well. With the sound of playing music with the strong smell of kimchi, he walked down the wooden gangway in high spirits. After greeting everyone, he didn't have time to rest and happily inspected the first city he built overseas.

He instructed Tang Youde that Xingang City is a model city. In the future, the group will build many cities overseas, and at that time they will learn from Xingang City’s experiences and lessons. Therefore, we must build this city with a strict attitude of establishing standards and giving examples to latecomers.

For this reason, he also seduced Lao Tang, and in the future he could consider erecting a statue of him, such as copper, in the square in front of the city hall.

"Then we have to lose weight." Fatty Tang smiled and patted his belly and said, "Otherwise, it's a waste of copper."

"Hahaha, it's okay, it's hollow." Zhao Hao laughed. He was not as good as a newcomer than a newcomer. He just missed Fatty Tang.

"Oh, the young master is just a deep routine." Tang Youde couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Then you have to lose weight, it's better to lose weight."

"Will you get married if you let the statue master carve it thinner?" Zhu Jue said with a smile. The two of them were old acquaintances in Xishan Company, and they became partners at this time, so they naturally became more familiar with each other.

"Hey, a good idea." Tang Youde was overjoyed when he heard this, "then he has to be more handsome."

"Okay, don't think so far." Zhao Hao stood on the dock, looking at the progress of the project here, I'm afraid it won't be completed by the end of the year. "Hurry up and build the dock first to welcome guests."

"Oh, young master, this is not urgent." Tang Youde frowned and said, "Danluo Island is windy and strong, and the Kabo Island in the south is too small, so it has no effect at all. Lao Niu said that a long breakwater must be built outside the dock to block the invasion of the waves and give the port enough water depth. Yes, there is also a stable water surface to meet the basic functions of various ships being parked, loaded and unloaded, and entering and leaving the port."

Lao Niu is Elder Niu Yiqun. He is the vice chairman of Chongkaiser. He is also the one who led the team to Danluo Island for construction this time. Sansha Wharf of the Shachuan Gang was built by Lao Niu. He also led people to build a winter seawall. He has rich experience in this area.

Therefore, Niu Yiqun is responsible for the construction of the wharf in the Xingang City and Tanluo Guard Area on the island. Unfortunately, Lao Niu went east yesterday, so he didn't see him today.

"The breakwater is not easy to repair." Tang Youde continued: "When the tide is low, we must first set up a wooden cage, and then fill it with stones. Several layers of wooden boards are nailed on the outside of the cage, and then pile it with sandbags on the outside of the weir wall to make waterproof. Then drain the water in the cofferdam, so that the concrete can be started. The cofferdam cannot be built very large, so we can only repair it in a day and slowly go into the sea."

"Fortunately, there is a long reef outside the port, parallel to the shore, which can be used as the foundation of the cofferdam, otherwise this job would not be done at all." Zhu Jue continued with a smile: "I think the young master chose to open a port here because he saw this place with the help of the geographical advantage, right?"

"Haha, I have this consideration." Mr. Zhao nodded without any guilt. After all, he had been riding a yacht here in his previous life and was very impressed by this southernmost port on Danluo Island.

It seems to be called Muserpu Port or something? But it doesn't matter. Anyway, it will never be called this half-local and foreign name.

The port here in later generations built a wide breakwater on the reef that originally existed. Moreover, the inside of the breakwater also serves as a wharf, so that the entire harbor can be moored in a circle, and almost hundreds of berths can be provided.

If you build a few trests in the harbor in the later stage, you can easily moor thousands of boats at the same time, which is enough for a prosperous commercial city.

Moreover, it is several hundred meters south, and is next to another natural harbor, which can be used for future expansion. However, Zhao Hao estimated that it will not be used within decades.

But in the long run, of course it is better than not. Zhao Hao chose to rent here forever because of his huge potential.

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The dock is a century-old plan, and it is indeed impossible to be impatient.

Besides, he is still in war with Japan, so he can't start trade with Japan this year, so Mr. Zhao stopped urging him and left the dock surrounded by everyone.

When the guards retreated, Che Zhuzi and others there quickly waved the "spiritual injection stick" and drove their Japanese husband to the dock with sandbags.

"Hurry up, it's down! Don't think about having lunch if you're too slow!"

"Speed ​​up, lazy!"

The shouts of the supervisors of the Li Dynasty resounded throughout the dock. Although they looked a bit abominable, the Japanese workers who were arrested had no enthusiasm for labor? They could only ensure progress by yelling, punching, kicking and injecting energy into the process.

With such a discordant scene, Fatty Tang naturally would not let Mr. Zhao see it. He had already taken him to the Xingang Fort construction site, which was five hundred meters away from the pier.

At this time, the sun was rising high, and the construction site was in full swing, and the workers were busy on the high scaffolding. Li Chao hired workers from the material preparation yard next to the dock, pushed trucks of cement, sand and gravel and other building materials with wheelbarrows, and then hung them on the scaffolding with pulleys for use by craftsmen in the Heavenly Dynasty.

Fatty Tang brought the rattan hard hat, but Zhao Hao shook his head, "What's the big construction site good-looking? It's so dirty."

But Mr. Zhao said: "It's just a prototype now. What's the best thing to look at? Let's go to a high place and see the outline."

Fatty Tang knew Mr. Zhao’s temper so much that he immediately asked someone to prepare a car and took Mr. Zhao to the long wall to the north.

It is said to be a wall, but it is actually similar to the side wall built by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong. It is taller and stronger... After all, it is a thick stone concrete wall with a bottom width of two meters and a top width of one meter four meters. In the visible future, no one except the power of heaven and earth may have harmed it.

There is also a large viewing building every 100 meters on the wall, and a cannon position is reserved. This place can be armed at any time and become the first line of defense to resist enemy invasions.

Zhao Hao climbed up a viewing building and looked at the construction site of the Newport Fort from a high place. The octagonal outline was clearly visible.

As I just said, Mr. Zhao would use this place as a model and test site for many overseas cities in the future, so he bet on a lot of hard work.

This "Xinggang Fort" was designed by him in combination with the advantages of the Ming Dynasty's walled house and the Western prism. In terms of being prepared for danger in times of peace, there was no more cautious in the Ming Dynasty than Mr. Zhao.

On the overlook, there is an oversized square walled house in the middle of the octagon. The eight corners protruding parts make the walled house from convex polygon to a concave polygon. Such improvements allow the enemy to be exposed to the attack of multi-faceted firepower no matter where they attack Xingang Fort. With the main structure made of concrete, complete perforation and gun positions, and the moat surrounding it, it is absolutely impregnable in this Danluo Island in the 16th century AD.

Zhao Hao set the goal for Xingang Fort to endure the cruel siege of tens of thousands of enemy troops without falling for a year without falling.

Although it seems that Mr. Zhao is purely over-caution. How could the Li Chaoren attack Xingang City? Those Japanese pirates, Bolang Jimen do not have the strength to attack.

But Zhao Hao firmly believed that his caution was not redundant. Because he knew very well that he was at the end of a peaceful era, the 17th century when the sky collapsed and the earth was about to roar.

At that time, the world will change color, the mountains and rivers will be broken, and the European powers and pirates on the ocean will be a hundred times stronger than today. If Xingang City, which is lonely overseas, does not have this ability to defend itself, it will only become someone else's food.

In fact, there is no need to look that far. In just twenty years, 300,000 Japanese troops will invade North Korea on a large scale. If you can predict this, anyone else has to prepare in advance, right?

Zhao Hao's plan was that if his strategy for Japan could not achieve the predetermined results, he would make the entire city of Xingang a fortification rather than just building a castle.

These words cannot be said to the people below in advance. He can only keep them in his heart and follow his own pace.

~~

Of course, Newport Fort is not just a military building, it is also the administrative management and commercial warehousing center of the entire Newport City.

A series of core institutions and important buildings such as the future city hall, the Danluo Chamber of Commerce, the arbitral tribunal, the prison, the arsenal, the banks, the police station, the precious warehouse, etc. will be set up here.

Fortunately, Xingang Fort is big enough, with only a square walled house, there are 375 acres of land. The eight corners of land together are almost 300 acres. It is as big as four Dajing County towns, one third larger than Jeju Mucheng.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is Newport City.

But Mr. Zhao adheres to the principle of doing things at a high profile and making a low profile, insisting that it is not a city or a fort, so Xingang City has become Xingang Fort.

In fact, this nominal downgrading or alienation is everywhere in Zhao Hao's system. After all, no one is more convinced than him. Emperor Taizu's ancestral teaching of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king".

For example, his army is called the Security Team, which has only been upgraded to the police team recently. Xingang is not called Xingang County or Xingang Government, but Xingang City.

The city was a very large administrative unit in later generations, but in this era it only means a market, such as the East and West Markets of Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Zengtou City, which was attacked by King Chao Tian, ​​was a trade distribution center outside the county town. The same was true in this dynasty.

Therefore, the mayor Tang Youde was a very powerful official in later generations, but in the eyes of this dynasty, he was just a village leader.

Therefore, Fatty Tang was a little unwilling to come at the beginning. He was a financial director at Xishan Company and was dating all the nobles in the capital. He was so proud of his life. Mr. Zhao suddenly sent him to Danluo Island, which was lonely overseas and became a small village leader. Fatty Tang naturally wanted to cry.
Chapter completed!