Chapter 144 Murder Case

The construction team commanded by Liu Shanxia completed the construction of thirty large military tents and twenty simple bamboo and wood shacks before dark. Each tent can accommodate twenty people, and the bamboo and wood shacks can accommodate

Ten people can make do with accommodation for about 800 people. As for the remaining people, they will have to spend the night on the ship tonight. Fortunately, the ship has docked, and it will not be like sailing on the ship.

So bumpy.

This time the more than ten cauldrons brought by the colonization team were all put to use. Under the command of the militia, the immigrants lined up in front of the cauldrons waiting for their meal. Today's dinner was rice porridge with vegetables.

, although there is little oil and water, at least it is well managed. The executive committee attaches great importance to this overseas colonization operation, and even allocated nearly half of the food reserves to the colonization team to prepare for emergencies. According to the current population size, the fleet

There is no problem in ensuring the supply of food for more than two months. The land near the port is very limited and is not suitable for large-scale agricultural development. After the colonization team takes root here, they will send people to the east of Hanoi

Purchase grain in grain-producing areas.

Of course, as the ruling class travelers and the naturalized people who followed the travelers all the way from the base camp, they all have small kitchens to cook. They can enjoy all kinds of game meat brought from Hainan. Although everyone is divided into

There is not much on the head, but it is still a bit greasy. The most important thing is that the naturalized people have meat to eat to reflect the difference in treatment from the new immigrants. Many children looked at the queue with the smell of meat and salivated.

The old man is hanging at the corner of his mouth without knowing it.

However, this unfair situation will not last long. Starting from tomorrow morning, the headquarters will let the fishermen who brought their belongings go out to fish, and organize small-scale hunting teams to hunt some wild animals nearby.

to supplement the meat diet.

After dinner, people from the headquarters returned to the conference room one after another. To be more precise, it should be called the conference tent, and began to prepare for the regular meeting in the evening. According to the agreed time, the headquarters first contacted the executive committee through the radio and gave a brief report.

progress here, and then listen to the latest instructions from the Executive Committee.

In addition to congratulating the colonization team on their successful arrival at their destination, the Executive Committee also informed the colonization team of the news that after the Executive Committee passed an internal voting resolution, the new port was named Black Earth Port with a result of 6 to 2.

Gu Kai did not participate in this vote. Of course, this vote in his hand cannot change the result. The name is easy to understand and vivid. There are coals buried all over the ground. Isn't that just black soil?

After the brief contact with the executive committee ended, the next step was to summarize all aspects of the situation and discuss the next work arrangements. First, Liu Shanxia, ​​who was in charge of the project command, put forward his opinion: "Building prefabricated houses is a technical job, and we basically

You have to do it yourself, there is no way around it. But these immigrants can help build the boat-shaped house. We have brought a dozen workers from the base camp who can build boat-shaped houses, and we can let them direct these Vietnamese, which will make the efficiency faster. In addition, we have brought a dozen workers from the base camp who can build boat-shaped houses.

I need to allocate more manpower to me tomorrow, otherwise some people will not be able to go ashore to spend the night tomorrow night."

After getting a positive answer from Gu Kai, Liu Shanxia continued: "The piers on the seaside can only use trestle type now. We are not yet in a position to build a permanent pier. Forty or fifty people are enough to build the trestle bridge. Now we use wood

There are many places, so the logging team needs to arrange more people, otherwise it is likely to be held back by the wood."

"We can organize immigrants to cut down trees and clear the passage at the same time to open up the land route from the port to the mining area as soon as possible." Zhou Hengxing suggested: "In this way, Lao Liu and his engineering team can save a lot of time when they start to build the road.

"

"Isn't there someone from the United States who has served as an engineer? Tomorrow, you can bring the tools to survey and map the route and do some preliminary preparations." Liu Shanxia added.

"OK, no problem, leave it to me." Qiao Zhiya raised his hand and said, "By the way, my name is Qiao Zhiya."

"You'd better be careful when you organize immigrants to go into the forest to cut down trees. Before dinner, one of the immigrants was bitten by a snake that jumped out of the grass. He died before he could be treated." Qian Tiandun, who had just entered the tent, interjected.

: "There are a lot of poisonous insects in this place. I asked the immigrants to dig isolation ditches outside the residential areas. In the future, wherever people move around, the ground must be cleaned up."

Diseases, poisonous insects, and ferocious beasts are undoubtedly the most deadly threats in tropical forests. Although the colonization team made various preparations for this before setting off, they still could not avoid the loss of manpower. Fortunately, this unlucky guy

He is not a time-traveler, otherwise the nature of a small accident would immediately rise to a major accident.

"Report!" Someone said outside the tent.

Qian Tiandun got up and went out for a while, then quickly returned to the tent: "Something happened in the immigration camp. I want to go over and deal with it."

"What's wrong?" Gu Kai saw his unkind expression and immediately asked.

"There are a few restless guys, but they have been caught by our people." Qian Tiandun put his hat on his head and said sadly: "These monkeys are indeed born dishonest! It seems they really need to be killed.

All it takes is a few chickens to set the rules."

Although Qian Tiandun did not explain what happened, it seemed that the situation was serious, otherwise there would be no need for him, the military chief, to personally come forward to resolve it. Several leading figures exchanged glances with each other, decided to suspend the meeting, and followed Qian

Tian Dun left the tent and went to see what happened first.

The camp area of ​​Chuanzhong was arranged at the foot of the mountain at the southern end of the port, while the immigrant residential area was located to the west closer to the inland. In order to facilitate management, the colonization team divided the new immigrants into male and female camps, with a fence in the middle.

Separate. Militia posts are arranged around the camp, and there are also mobile patrol teams that patrol the entire camp from time to time.

Even so, something happened in the end. A group of people from the headquarters quickly rushed to the location of the accident - the women's camp located at the south end of the camp.

Four young men had their hands tied behind their backs and were kneeling on the ground dejectedly. Next to them was a teenage boy who was crying profusely. Gao Qiaonan and several militiamen were guarding the side. When they saw Qian Tiandun coming, they hurriedly

He stood at attention and gave a military salute.

Qian Tiandun raised his hand to return the salute, and then asked: "What's going on?"

"About ten minutes ago, these guys robbed the two siblings' belongings. Maybe they resisted, so they killed the sister out of desperation. I happened to lead the patrol team passing by and caught these guys on the spot.

A few guys." Takahashi Nan pointed to the tree a few feet away: "The girl's body is there, they probably want to drag her into the woods."

Gao Qiaonan pointed like this, and Qian Tiandun discovered a body lying in the grass under the tree. He walked over and squatted down, and immediately there were militiamen next to him holding torches to light him up. Qian Tiandun checked for a while.

Suddenly, I noticed that there were obvious bruises on the neck of this female corpse. It looked like someone had strangled her neck and suffocated her to death. This girl didn't look very old. In later generations, she would probably be a high school student.

appearance.

"Do these people have any accomplices?" Qian Tiandun asked after standing up.

"No, there were just these few people on the scene, and not one of them escaped!" Minami Takahashi was obviously very proud of his performance.

Qian Tiandun pointed at the young boy who was still crying and said, "Which of you can get him away first? I want to interrogate these people."

"I'll do it." Zhou Hengxing, who was good at dealing with people, volunteered and took the young man away, half persuading and half pushing him away.

"Gao Qiaonan, clean up this place. The victim... first carry it to a corner in the camp and put it there for one night. Don't let wild animals eat it. Be careful not to disturb the people in the camp. If anyone asks, just say

He was bitten by a snake." Qian Tiandun then ordered: "These four people should be taken to the headquarters."

The trial process did not take much effort, and the facts of the case soon came to light. These four guys were all deserters who ran away from the battlefield in Hue. They followed the colonization team to Black Tu Port, originally thinking of having a good time here.

I was living a lazy life, but I saw that everyone who came here was assigned a large number of labor tasks and was subject to strict management. They even had to queue up to eat and go to the latrine. Life was not as easy as imagined.

They were tempted to leave here.

But it is not easy to leave this isolated place. According to what these Haihan people said, the nearest inhabited place is more than a hundred miles away from here, and there is no flat land road to the outside world. The only way to leave here is

They can take a boat. If they want to escape from this place, they must first have a boat, and second, they must have enough supplies to consume during their escape.

The boat is relatively easy to find. These people have already taken a fancy to a few small wooden boats on the shore. As long as they leave here overnight and wait until dawn to find a nearby island to hide for three or four days, the chance of escaping the pursuers will be very high. But

Supplies are not that easy to handle. The Haihan people's three meals a day are distributed collectively, and there is only porridge but no dry food. It is impossible for one person to escape with a bamboo tube of porridge, right?

One of them accidentally discovered that a young man in the same tent had a lot of dry food in his luggage, so he planned to find an opportunity to rob him. After dinner, the young man took his package out of the men's camp and went to the women's camp.

Find his sister and prepare to hand over dry food, belongings and other things to her for safekeeping. After all, the women's camp is relatively safer than the men's camp.

But just then the four thieves appeared. Unfortunately, their robbery process did not go smoothly because everyone had been searched before boarding the ship. They had nothing to threaten each other and could only rely on their bare hands.

They robbed their sister and encountered desperate resistance from the two siblings. Fearing that they would call out to them, two of them pushed their sister to the ground and strangled her neck. Unexpectedly, her life was taken. It happened that Takahashi Minami was leading the team.

The militia patrol passed by here and captured these guys without any effort.
Chapter completed!