Chapter 144 Murder
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 shack can accommodate ten people, which can solve the accommodation problem of about 800 people. As for the remaining people, they will have to spend the night on the boat. Fortunately, the boat has already docked, and the boat will not be as bumpy as it was during the voyage.
This time, all the more than ten cauldrons brought by the colonization team were put to use. Under the command of the militia, the immigrants lined up in front of the cauldrons to wait for their meals. Today’s dinner is rice porridge and vegetables. Although it’s not very oily, it’s at least filling. The Executive Committee attached great importance to this overseas colonization operation, and even allocated nearly half of the grain reserves to the colonization team in case of emergency needs. According to the current population size, there is no problem in ensuring the supply of food transported by the fleet 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 purchase grain in the grain-producing areas east of Hanoi.
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, and they can enjoy all kinds of game meat brought from Hainan. Although the amount allocated to each person is not much, it is still a bit profitable. 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 longingly at this line of meat-smelling queues, drooling at the corners of their mouths while the elders didn't realize 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, the 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, briefly reported the progress here, and then listened 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, who was on the Tuochuan team, did not participate in the voting. Of course, his vote could not change the result. This name is easy to understand and vivid. There is coal buried all over the ground. Isn’t that just black soil?
After the brief contact with the Executive Committee, the next step is to summarize all aspects of the situation and discuss the next work arrangement. First, Liu Shanxia, who was in charge of the project command, put forward his opinion: "Building prefabricated houses is a technical job. We basically have to do it ourselves. There is nothing we can do about it. But the boat-shaped houses can be built by these immigrants. We brought more than ten people from the base camp." A worker who can build boat-shaped houses can let them command these Vietnamese, which will make the efficiency faster. In addition, I will have to allocate more manpower to me tomorrow, otherwise some people will not be able to go ashore for the night tomorrow."
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. Now we use wood There are many places, so the logging team must arrange more people, otherwise they may be held back by the wood.”
"We can organize immigrants to cut down trees and clear the passage at the same time, so as 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 that guy from the United States an engineer before? 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, such loss of manpower was still unavoidable. Fortunately, this unlucky guy was not a time traveler, otherwise the nature of the minor accident would have immediately escalated into 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. It only takes 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 resolve it. Several leading figures exchanged glances with each other, decided to suspend the meeting, and followed Qian Tiandun out of the tent to see what was going on.
The crossing camp is located at the foot of the mountain at the southern end of the port, while the immigrant residential area is located further inland to the west. In order to facilitate management, the colonization team divided these new immigrants into male and female camps, and they were specially separated by fences. 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 eventually. A group of people from the headquarters quickly rushed to the scene of the accident - the women's camp located at the southern end of the camp.
The four young men had their hands tied behind their backs and knelt on the ground dejectedly. There was a teenage boy next to him who was crying profusely. Gao Qiaonan and several militiamen were standing guard nearby. When he saw Qian Tiandun coming, he quickly stood at attention and saluted a military salute.
Qian Tiandun raised his hand in return, 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."
When Gao Qiaonan pointed, Qian Tiandun discovered a body lying in the grass under the tree. He walked over and squatted down, and immediately there were militiamen holding torches to light him up. Qian Tiandun checked for a while and noticed that there were obvious bruises on the neck of the female corpse. It showed that someone had strangled the neck and suffocated to death. This girl doesn't look very old. In future generations, she will probably look like a high school student.
"Do these people have any accomplices?" Qian Tiandun asked after standing up.
"No, there were just these few people at the scene, and none of them escaped!" Takahashi Minami was obviously very proud of his performance.
Qian Tiandun pointed at the young man 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.
"Takahashi Nan, tidy up this place. The victim... first carry it to a corner in the camp and put it there overnight. Don't let wild animals eat it. Be careful not to disturb the people in the camp. If anyone asks, just tell him 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 from the Hue battlefield. They followed the colonization team to Black Tu Port. They originally wanted to live their lives here eating and drinking, but they saw that everyone who came here was assigned a large amount of money. They had to wait in line even to eat and go to the hut. Life was not as easy as they imagined, so 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 Can take a boat. If they want to escape from this place, they must first have a boat, and secondly, they must have enough supplies to consume during their escape.
Boats are easier 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 so 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 having dinner, the young man carried his package out of the men's camp, went to the women's camp to find his sister, and prepared to hand over dry food, belongings and other things to her sister for safekeeping. After all, the women's camp was 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. Robbery only to be met with desperate resistance from the two siblings. Two of them were afraid that they would call out, so they pushed their sister to the ground and strangled her neck. Unexpectedly, they killed her just like that. Fortunately, it happened that Takahashi Minami led the militiamen on patrol and passed by here, and they killed all these guys without any effort.
(End of chapter)