Wild North America 1846

Paradise Island East Harbor (Port Moresby)

This is an encircling blue coast, located at the southeastern tip of Paradise Island (New Guinea Island). The climate is as mild as spring, with 1,100 mm of precipitation a year. The annual temperature is between 20 and 26 degrees, with very small temperature differences.

Around Donggang, there are scattered large and small island groups, with countless beautiful bays full of tropical style. The scenery is so beautiful that it feels like a lost paradise.

The entrance of Donggang is surrounded by two mountains. The entire port is like a big-bellied bottle. After entering from the entrance, it suddenly becomes clear that it is an irregular bay of about 26 square kilometers.

Deep in the bay is a flat valley and hilly terrain, with lush and towering trees growing there. The dense forest extends very close to the coast. The white sandy beach and the blue bay form a beautiful picture.

The fleets arriving here have anchored one after another, and the nearest one is only more than 120 meters away from the coast, which shows that the water depth here is very good and it is an excellent harbor.

More than 10 small boats unloaded from the cargo ship began to transport people and supplies to the shore one after another. These small boats were equipped with propellers driven by 12-horsepower diesel engines, making them very convenient in the bay.

Dong Jie arrived in a small boat with the expedition team that was the first to land. This expedition team is composed of retired soldiers, surveyors and administrative personnel. Equipped with guns and machetes, a total of 166 people will be divided into four teams to survey the gentle valley.

From the coast where people are located, you can see mountains towering in the distance. This gentle valley area is quite large, roughly estimated to be thousands of square kilometers.

The expedition team will be divided into four groups and go deep into the jungle to survey the terrain, rivers, forest species and local flora and fauna, and plan to return in five days.

The expedition team will determine the location for establishing a new town, which must be located at a high altitude, with reliable river water nearby, ventilated, far away from tropical flash floods and mudslide disaster areas, and with relatively solid geology, etc.

When the expedition returns, large-scale arson and land reclamation will begin. The gasoline carried on the freighter is for this purpose.

It is almost impossible to open up such a large area of ​​lush forests and shrubs simply by manpower. After the fleet has replenished fresh water and part of the fodder for cattle and sheep, it will separate half of the ships and continue sailing to another new town 2,870 kilometers away.

New Xi'an.

There are only more than 2,100 people who can stay in Donggang to participate in the development. They can only carry out early planning and colonization work. In the future, they will mainly rely on a large number of Chinese immigrant labor from the land of China to comprehensively promote development and colonization.

Therefore, many extraordinary measures were used, including burning mountains with fire.

After the expedition team set off, they chose a relatively spacious open area. Dong Jie began to direct the people who disembarked to set up a tent area and a row of more than 20 stoves. They allowed the people on board to come down to bathe by the river, prepare logging tools, and prioritize unloading steel bars and construction.

Materials such as masonry, machinery and equipment for brick kilns.

three days later

The materials unloaded on the shore were piled up like a hill. The people who disembarked formed a logging team of 18 to 20 people. A total of 35 logging teams were organized and began to expand outward along the campsite, felling and cutting down the large trees in the surrounding forests.

Remove the branches, cut into large pieces and pile them up.

Only two days of work

The camping site has been expanded by more than 500 meters to the outside, forming a spacious open space of nearly 1.8 square kilometers to ensure that after setting fire to the mountain, the mountain fire will not affect the materials in the camping site.

At this time, the four expedition teams that went out to explore came back one after another, bringing back hand-drawn topographic maps of the valley, which were finally spliced ​​together to show a clear appearance of the entire valley.

In this gentle valley area of ​​more than 1,000 square kilometers, there are 27 rivers, large and small, originating from the mountainous area. Among them, there are three main rivers. The largest one is called "Bishui River". The river is 375 meters wide at the mouth of the sea, and the water quality is clear and sweet.

, is a very good source of drinking water.

Following the Yudai River upstream, less than 10 kilometers away from the coast is a stretch of gentle hills. It belongs to the Mesozoic granite geology, with floating soil up to 6 to 9 meters deep on the surface. It is a perfect place to build a town.

After Dong Jie met with several main persons in charge of the Donggang Construction Headquarters, they quickly decided that the future Donggang City would be built on this gentle hilly area. In addition, the port area, warehouse area, fishery production area and residential life were planned.

District and other key areas, roll up your sleeves and get ready for a big fight.

Hundreds of barrels of gasoline were transported to the shore and then dumped along the planned area. When a fire was ignited, the flames were blazing, and the fire line several kilometers long was truly spectacular.

For safety reasons, all personnel retreated to the ship and watched the spectacular fire burning scene in front of them from a distance.

When a tropical forest burns, the moist shrubs and leaves produce a large amount of thick smoke, which rolls up into the clear sky, like countless black dragons playing happily.

a few hours later

The thick smoke that covered the sky blocked the sunlight, making the sky dark, and the black debris flying in the air fell like rain, with some residual heat.

In the valley in front of you, you can see a clear fire line advancing forward, and the "cracking" sound of burning is endless. Because of the division of the river, the fire in the area to be developed on one side of the Bishui River is particularly fierce, as if it is shaving its head, and the large forest is swept into the flames.

On the other side of the Bishui River, the vegetation was still lush and the forest was green. The sparks flying in the air and the burning branches falling in the wind fell in the forest and were quickly extinguished.

The shrubs and forests in the tropical rainforest have a lot of water and are relatively humid. It is difficult to ignite without a strong combustion accelerant such as gasoline, and even if it is ignited, it will be extinguished quickly.

Violent wildfires At night, the fiercely burning fire head changed from a fire line to a fire point, and the fire was not as big as it was at the beginning.

At dawn the next day, only dots of fire heads could be seen in the distance among the billowing smoke. By around 10 a.m., the fire heads were no longer visible and only the billowing smoke filled the air.

At this time, looking back at the results of the day and night of burning, the huge valley in Donggang seemed to be bald, becoming scorched and ugly. The burned area was almost 40 square kilometers, showing clear areas because of the obstruction of the river.

The densely packed black tree trunks in the burned area point directly to the sky, looking extremely desolate. Although the outer layer of the bark of these trees is burnt, the inside is still untouched, but it plays a very good drying role.

After a large tree like this is felled, it is cleaned up and sent to a sawmill to be cut into cubes, planks, and strips. It can be used after one week of drying in the shade, which is equivalent to the effect of one to two years of exposure to the sun and shade after felling.

It's just more crude and simple, and may cause some big trees to burst internally and turn into useless wood.

But this is not a problem. On the paradise island, which is full of forests, the stock of trees is an incredible number, and even if it takes a hundred years to cut down, it will not be able to cut them all.

Dong Jie was generally satisfied with the effect of the Burning Mountains this time. However, considering that a large number of Chinese immigrants would arrive later and more fields and plantations would need to be opened, he decided to implement the second round of Burning Mountains while the conditions were favorable.

Soon, thousands of barrels of gasoline were transported to the shore, and a fire was lit again, causing the newly bright sky to be shrouded in black clouds again, making it dark.

The second fire burned the mountain more effectively than the first. It burned for three days and three nights, and was doused by heavy rain in the afternoon.

This heavy rain fell for most of the day, washing away a large amount of black ash after burning. The Bishui River turned into a black water river, and a thick layer of black ash was washed into the bay, forming a black spiral in the bay.

Ocean currents carry floating and sinking.

At this moment

The people who came ashore have already started working in full swing. Fifty walking tractors have begun to plow the land on a large scale, rake it, compact it, and use gravel to build roads that extend along the Bishui River into the distance.

Another construction team of 10 people dug out the obstructing tree roots on the road one by one and hung them on walking tractors or bullock carts to drag them away.

As for the more large tree roots and overheated trees in other places, we can only wait until a large number of Chinese immigrants arrive to deal with them, and we have no time to pay attention to them for the time being.

More than a dozen large fences have been built beside the forest on the other side. Cattle, sheep, and poultry from across the ocean live here leisurely, and pregnant ewes even gave birth to more than a dozen lambs.

The picking team went deep into the forest and picked a lot of mushrooms, fungus, wild fruits and fresh wild vegetables, allowing the builders of Donggang to eat fruits and vegetables they had not seen for a long time and feel very energetic.

The industrious builders took the lead in opening up dozens of acres of land, sowing vegetable seeds, and planting vegetables, peppers, cucumbers, edamame, tomatoes, cabbage and eggplants. Under suitable climate and soil conditions, it only takes more than 20 years to plant vegetables.

You can have fresh vegetables within a day, while others will take a little longer.

The immigration ships and cargo ships parked in the river bend gradually left, leaving only a few cargo ships carrying coal and kerosene still anchored, waiting to unload.

by the bay

Hundreds of large floating logs form a temporary dock that stretches into the bay. The two ends of these large logs are connected with I-beam beams, and are fixed in the seabed mud with crossed I-beam beams. A half-foot-thick wooden square is paved on top.

, a layer of reinforced concrete is poured on top of the wooden cubes to form a flat temporary dock.

Machinery and equipment, steel, cement, grain seeds and other bulk materials unloaded from the dock are continuously arriving on the shore, indicating that the development of Donggang has entered a new stage.

On this scorched land, more than 2,100 builders worked enthusiastically. The road from the port to the town was quickly built, and more than 10 wooden bridges crossing the streams along the way were also completed one after another.

Next step

Entering the urban land leveling stage, the land that needs to be leveled initially covers an area of ​​4 square kilometers. Weeds and rocks need to be cleared, and deep-buried tree roots need to be cleared. The land must then be plowed, raked, and compacted to form a foundation for construction.

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on the basis of

According to the topographic characteristics of the town, the planning department used lime lines to draw commercial streets, concentrated housing construction areas, urban drainage ditch routes, residential areas, administrative areas and educational areas, as well as factory areas downwind of the town, and constructed them in different categories.

In the early stage, tents stood on the flattened land. In the future, this place will become a lively neighborhood, with buildings with strong Chinese characteristics rising from the ground, and become a beautiful city on the Pacific Ocean.

at the same time

New Xi'an, a straight-line distance of 2,400 kilometers away, is also following similar procedures to burn down wasteland, build docks, and build new towns.

The cargo ships and immigration ships that unloaded supplies headed straight to the land of China in the northwest, where hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees were already waiting eagerly for a new life.