On the banks of Hubei Lake, there are wretched wives and wives, dense jungles, beautiful mountains and rivers, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance.

If you come here to escape the summer heat after retirement, it is indeed a good place.

Taichang sighed secretly, then said decisively: "Let's start."

A wave of order flags, hundreds of wolf-toothed warships immediately lined up in ten rows and headed towards the river bank. The first ones were the modified ships with hanging hoists.

However, what they are going to build this time is not a temporary dock, but a permanent dock.

This is actually very simple. They just need to hang the brackets of two temporary docks together, build a dock about meter wide, and then reinforce them with wooden piles on both sides and lay a layer of thick wooden boards in the middle.

Ebei Lake is the widest section in the upper reaches of the Ebei River.

This place does not look like a river, but rather a lake. Therefore, Taichang simply named it Ebei Lake.

The southernmost section of Hubei Lake has deep water areas suitable for docking armed merchant ships. However, the deep water area is not wide, so only a dozen large docks can be built to docking armed merchant ships.

Other places are suitable for docking wolf-tooth warships and flying dragon warships.

This problem is not very big, because many tributaries in the upper reaches of the Hubei River can only enter the Dragon Warship and the Wolf-Tooth Warship. Even if this place becomes an important transit place in the future, the nearby ones will definitely be mainly light ships.

As for the transfer of goods, it is almost enough to make the large dock a little longer and be able to dock one hundred armed merchant ships at the same time.

After all, the carrying capacity of an armed merchant ship is over one million kilograms, and a hundred armed merchant ships are over one million kilograms of cargo. It takes a lot of hanging hoists to load and unload so many goods at one time.

It is already very good to be able to load and unload so much goods every day, at least it is enough at this stage.

As for the development of more goods in the future, you can find places to build several large wharfs in the middle and lower reaches of the Hubei River.

Anyway, the railway line will extend northward along the west bank of Hubei River. Even if it is built along the Arctic Ocean, it will only take two or three years at most, so there is no need to hurry.

The most important thing now is to build the port terminal and city here, and connect the Ming Dynasty's railway network with the Hubei River system.

Taichang looked at the quick movements of the navy soldiers and couldn't help but nodded slightly. It seemed that these ten piers could be fully built in just one morning at most.

Moreover, the whole morning was enough for the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion to pull over 10,000 wooden chariots.

Next, we can pull the elites of the Shenwu Camp on Cao Bianjiao and the captives of the Siberian Khanate.

He thought about it carefully, then asked, "Liqing, how many wolf-toothed warships have been mobilized in the past two days?"

Yuan Keli sighed slightly and said, "There is no way. Most of the Langya warships have gone to the Yeni River Basin, and there are only a thousand left in the Hubei River Basin.

Although Weichen ordered the Feilong warship to go everywhere to inform him, there are only about 500 wolf-tooth warships gathered on the Bian Jiao's side."

Five hundred ships are really a bit short, but it doesn’t matter much. Anyway, it takes at least seven or eight days to bring the materials for building cities and large wharfs.

Taichang nodded slightly and said, "If there are five hundred ships, just five hundred ships. Send the flying dragon warship to inform the transformed dragon, arrange people to pull the prisoners by hand, and each ship will be filled with more people.

Anyway, it's just a day's voyage, and it's still on the river, so there's basically no danger, so you can plug as much as you can.

In short, we must strive to bring all the prisoners and soldiers of the Shenwu Camp over within seven days.

As for their war horses, it doesn't matter if they put them there first, and it's not too late to go and pull them when the armed merchant ship comes.

By the way, let all the prisoners take their tents, and keep their cattle and sheep there first and don’t bring them.”

Yuan Keli hurriedly bowed and said, "I understand."

After saying that, he bowed and walked away quickly.

At this time, Taichang couldn't help but look into the jungle to the south.

The railway has started to be repaired here, and I don’t know when it will be repaired.

Logically speaking, it takes only three or four days for tens of thousands of people and dozens of large machines on more than a hundred miles of railways.

However, the terrain here is quite complex, not only with jungles, but also with mountains, and the railway cannot turn too big.

It is indeed not easy to build a railway in this terrain.

Fortunately, there were enough large machines to mobilize this time, including cutting trees, wood and gravel. Otherwise, it would probably take several months to repair this terrain with manpower.

Zhu Cilang was holding up an exquisite small telescope with interest and watching the navy soldiers build a dock. He didn't hear Taichang speak for a while, and thought Taichang had left.

As a result, he turned around and saw Taichang staring at the jungle in a daze.

He couldn't help but curiously, "Grandpa Emperor, what are you thinking?"

Taichang smiled and said, "I am thinking about building a railway. Do you know why we should build the railway here?"

Zhu Ciyang thought for a while, and then said seriously: "Is the railway built to transport food and supplies?

After all, there are so many soldiers here, it’s not okay to have no food to eat.”

The view is a bit one-sided.

Taichang continued to smile and said, "I will teach you a very useful sentence. This sentence means to build a road before you want to be rich.

In other words, if you find that somewhere is poor and backward or deserted, and wastes great resources, the first step is to build the road.

This is how Siberia today, including the original Nuergandosi.

Because there is no road, it is inconvenient for ordinary people to come and transport materials. Even if a large amount of timber is harvested and a large amount of minerals is mined, it is impossible to transport them out. Therefore, a large amount of resources are wasted here.

For example, the wood here, the jungle you have seen these days is only a small part of it. It is located west of Yeni River until Nuergandus, and there are almost all such dense forests everywhere.

Think about it, how much wood is there in the dense forest larger than the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty?

Even if we don’t plant trees, we will cut down some big ones to allow other trees to grow naturally. It is a slightest idea to cut tens of millions of materials or even hundreds of millions of materials here every year.

Now even ordinary wood costs at least a cent of silver. Think about it, how much does it cost?

There are also the grasslands and arable land here. If you plant all the grain and raise cattle and sheep, how much does it cost a year?

There are also the mineral deposits here, and the value is even more immeasurable.

Think about it, if we repair the road, how much money can we make in a year?”

Well, okay, Zhu Cilang's little head still can't figure out the account.

He thought for a while, and then said weakly: "Grandpa Huang, you said that logging wood, growing grain, raising cattle and sheep, and mining requires a lot of people, right?

There seems to be no one here.

Moreover, I heard from them that winter is so cold here, it is much colder than in the capital, and you can freeze people to death if you go out and walk around.

Can ordinary people stay in such a cold place?"

This is indeed a problem.

It would be fine if we just send troops to garrison, but in winter, people would just stay in the city and stay in the house and not go out.

It would be different if it was a large-scale development. Tens of millions of people could not stay at home for more than half a year, right?

Not to mention anything else, if you run out of food, meat, vegetables, charcoal, coal, etc., you have to buy some.

No one can store everything he needs to use for more than half a year.

Traveling in winter is indeed a big problem, what should I do?

When Taichang heard this, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

That morning, the navy soldiers indeed built all ten docks that were docked on the Wolf-Tooth Warship, and the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion also pulled over 10,000 wooden chariots.

Taichang directly ordered the soldiers of the Southeast Camp to arrange 10,000 chariots into two square formations, one large and one small.

The small one in the middle, all the front of the car was facing inward, and that was left for the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate.

There was a large circle of outer circles, with all the fronts facing outward, which were left for the soldiers of Shenwu Camp and Southeast Camp.

Moreover, the outer periphery of the formation is exactly where the city wall is built.

In this way, it will be much more convenient for the soldiers of the Shenwu Camp and the Southeast Camp to take care of the prisoners. As long as the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate are driven into the small carriage array in the middle, it will be as difficult as siegeing the city.

Shortly after the formation of the car was laid, the soldiers of the Shenwu Camp also rushed over with prisoners from the Siberian Khanate and wolves.

These guys can really stuff them. There were hundreds of people in a wolf-toothed warship, and this trip directly attracted 50,000 or 60,000 people.

If we add the soldiers of the Southeast Camp who are rushing to the chariot, there will be 60,000 or 70,000 people. The city and port dock seem to be able to start construction.

However, Taichang was not in a hurry to start construction.

Because now the construction can only be started to dig the foundation of the city wall.

If someone comes to dig this thing, more than 100,000 people will have to dig it for several days.

It would be different if you use an excavator for railway construction to dig, and it would be easy to dig in one day.

Anyway, the materials for building the city and the port dock have not arrived at this time, so he doesn't have to hurry up for one or two days.

Cao Bianjiao transferred the prisoners very quickly. In five days, he pulled all the others from the 100,000 Shenwu Camp soldiers and more than 100,000 Siberian Khanate prisoners except those who stayed to take charge of war horses, cattle and sheep.

At this moment, the car arrays of large and small were suddenly crowded with dense tents everywhere.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help frowning slightly.

There are nearly 300,000 people, so we can't always let them be idle.

He stared at the jungle in the north for a while, then asked, "Liqing, where is the railway built?"

Yuan Keli hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, according to the Clippers, the railway is only more than twenty miles away from here.

Moreover, there are basically jungles in the middle, and there are no high and low mountains. I believe that they will be able to build the railway the day after tomorrow."
To be continued...