Winter in the countryside should be the calmest and most leisurely time of the year, because at this time the autumn harvest has ended, and spring ploughing has not yet begun, so except for a few farmers who are still planting winter crops, farmers who have been busy for three seasons can finally take a good rest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 In addition, after the autumn harvest, the peasants usually have a little spare money on hand, prepare New Year's goods, and buy some household goods, sometimes a few pieces of cloth, make a new dress for the child, or make a silver lock. The silver circle blesses children with health and longevity. Some merchants will carry carts and come to the village to buy, and every time they will attract the whole village to choose and buy.

But this winter, the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village on the shore of Jiaozhou Bay, but there is no leisure look, every morning, the huge roar breaks the silence of the early morning of winter, countless birds are so frightened that they fly from the nest into the gray-blue sky, squeaking and screaming.

But soon the birds found that they could not return home, for the trees on which they had lazy to live were falling to the ground with a piercing and sharp sound of ironwood grinding, and their nests, and their nests, and their unhatched eggs or newborn chicks, fell to the ground along with the trees, and it was only the cheers of the people that drowned out the desolate chirping of the birds.

Marseille's gaze fell from the birds in the sky to the ground, and he saw that the villagers had already divided into small groups, around the felled trees, taking turns to see the axes and knives in their hands, cutting the branches on the tree poles, and some people were picking out eggs and chicks to prepare for the improvement of their lives.

After a while, Marseille said to Wang Qinjiu, the militia captain beside him: "The trees on this piece of ground have been almost cleared, hurry up and get all the stumps ready, and I will arrange for a bulldozer to come and shovel the ground in the afternoon." ”

Wang Qinjiu agreed, and said, "Chief Ma, don't worry, I promise that nothing will happen." The chiefs' machines are really powerful, even ten cows can't compare, if it weren't for the chiefs, only these ten days of hard work, it would have been able to come out in such a large area. ”

Marseille nodded, turned his head, and saw that on the other side of the avenue, there was a wasteland overgrown with trees and weeds ten days ago, and at this time it had become a vast field of nearly 1,000 acres, not only could not see a single tree, but even the ground had been turned over, and nearly 100 villagers were in the field, with shovels and hoes, mashing large pieces of dirt that had been shoveled, and clearing out the stones and roots in the soil.

The Qingdao headquarters returned to Tianjin for the year-end meeting, Wang Sheng took over the administrative work of the Qingdao area, and Ma Sai and Zhang Yunjiang took over the post of director of the Wangjiazhai Village Committee. A few days later, a batch of machinery and equipment was shipped from Tianjin, including four excavators, two bulldozers, six chainsaws converted from cutting machines, and 1,000 pieces of furniture such as axes, machetes, hoes, sickles, and shovels. So Marseille immediately began the work of clearing the wasteland of Wangjiazhai.

Originally, the village committee made a plan to build 3,000 acres of land before spring ploughing, but the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village did not believe it at all, because in this era, large-scale land reclamation is a huge project, although in the old time and space, the construction of 3,000 acres of land is not a big project at all, but in this era, it is not a project that can be completed by an individual or a village, and requires a lot of manpower and material resources, unless there is an official to organize. In ancient China, large-scale land reclamation could only be done in the form of military cantonments, and only the army could easily mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources.

In this era, if only the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village want to open up 3,000 acres of fields, it will take at least two to three years, because the reclamation is not only to remove all the trees, shrubs, weeds and other plants on the ground, just cutting down trees, it is not an easy thing, an adult labor force, can only cut down 3-5 trees a day, and the roots of trees, shrubs, and weeds have to be uprooted, so the entire ground needs to be turned over, otherwise the foundation buried in the ground will rob the crops of nutrients for fertilizer. And the ground should be leveled, not only to flatten the protruding parts, but also to fill in the sunken area, the horizontal height difference is generally not more than 3%, otherwise there will be uneven irrigation.

If it is only land preparation, the workload is not too large, but the reclamation is not only to prepare the field, but also to dig ditches, the introduction of irrigation water sources, the amount of canal is the largest in the reclamation, generally accounting for more than half of the total amount of work, if in the area far away from the river, the proportion of the amount of work to open the canal is higher. Therefore, no one in the entire Wangjiazhai village believed that the traverser could open up 3,000 acres of land before spring ploughing. It's just that seeing the traversers full of confidence, no one dares to ask for this boring, of course, a few people are holding the psychology of watching jokes.

Of course, Marseille, Zhang Yunjiang and others are aware of these situations, but they have the bottom in their hearts, after all, the power of modern mechanization is far from being comparable to manpower in the era of small-scale peasant economy.

But after the start of construction, only on the first morning, relying on six transformed chainsaws, nearly 300 trees were cut down, and all the villagers were shocked.

However, it is not enough to cut down the tree, but also to remove the stump and roots, which often requires more manpower than cutting down the tree, and sometimes digging a hole more than a meter deep.

Ma Sai and Zhang Yunjiang divided the villagers into groups of 6-8 people, and gave them axes, machetes, hoes, shovels and other work furniture. Although these trees are not good materials, and wood is not the main material for industrialization, but in the future to develop through the group, a large amount of wood is still needed, so it is not harmful to prepare more, and the small branches are left for firewood, and the leaves are concentrated separately, as compost materials, anyway, a tree will not be wasted.

Another group of people is responsible for removing the stumps, but they don't have to dig the stumps out of the ground, they just need to dig up the soil around the stumps, and then it's the bulldozer's turn.

When the bulldozer first started, the huge roaring sound frightened many villagers, and some people thought that some monster was coming, but when they saw the bulldozer drive to the stump, they could easily shovel up the half-loose stump with only a big iron bucket in front of it, and at least half of the manpower could be saved compared to pure manpower, and the roots and stumps were equally useful, and they could be used as wood or firewood; as for the removal of shrubs, it was easier to shovel down directly, and then crush them. Therefore, the villagers were exclaimed.

After removing the trees and shrubs from the ground, the next step is to clear the wild grass. Wildflowers and other diameter plants, although this kind of plant is not difficult to clean up, but because of the wide coverage, so the workload is still not small, according to the traditional practice is to ignite and burn out, and the burned wood and grass ash can also be mixed in the soil as fertilizer, but this is time-consuming, this fire burns, at least two or three days; second, it is dangerous, because the winter is dry and cold, one is careless and easy to cause a large-scale fire; third, it is to pollute the environment, although the traveler does not consider environmental protection issues now, but the smell of burnt paste after the fire will remain for at least ten days, which is not comfortable。 What's more, after burning, the land has to be turned over again, and the rhizomes of wild grass and wildflowers are completely cut off, which actually saves much trouble.

Of course, the traverser will not use such a primitive technology, but dispatch four excavators, weeds or anything do not need to be cleaned up at all, four excavators start together, a shovel down, you can dig the ground more than half a meter deep hole, weeds, wildflowers are all dug up by the roots, and then let them mix in the soil to rot naturally as fertilizer.

Only then did the villagers know that the powerful things in the hands of overseas Chinese are not only two bulldozers, but also these four excavators, and they don't know how many powerful things this group of people still has.

After the excavator turned over the ground, engineers came to measure the flatness of the ground with a laser level, and instructed the bulldozer to level those parts and fill in those parts, and then organized the villagers and the German prisoners to go to the field to use hoes and shovels to mash large pieces of soil, and separate the stones buried in the soil or larger rhizomes.

As a result, on this day's time, the finishing of the ground actually exceeded 200 acres, mechanized strong production capacity, so that all the villagers were dumbfounded, if it is purely manual, relying on the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village, to complete the day's work, it will take at least two or three months. The villagers also once again respected the traverser, just looking at the workload of this day, before the spring ploughing, it is really not a big deal to build 3,000 acres.

By the next day, the traversers divided the four excavators into two batches, two of which continued to work together to prepare the ground, while the other two dug trenches at the edge of the land that had been prepared yesterday, and the excavated soil was used to level the ground or push the roads in the fields. In addition, there are engineers to measure the land, the land according to the size of 3 * 222 meters, divided into one acre of long squares, each 100 acres of land divided into a large grid, around the push up about half a meter high, about 1.5 wide field road, the inside of the grid also dig out a width and depth of half a meter of the diversion ditch, and the outside of the canal to connect, so that it can be convenient for irrigation.

And the motivation of the villagers is obviously much higher than on the first day, because everyone knows that the reclaimed fields are also distributed to each family for cultivation, which means that when the spring ploughing of the next year, the fields they cultivate will be doubled, and the overseas Chinese have reduced all the miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous contributions, and the actual burden of the villagers has been greatly reduced, so they can really live a good life for a few days.

More than 10 days of work in a row, the newly cultivated fields that have been completely sorted out have reached more than 1,000 acres, and there are more than 300 acres of preliminary finishing, and the ground needs to be further subdivided, and the engineering personnel began to measure the geological water ripples, and designed the project of the diversion canal, but the water resources in Shandong are still relatively rich in this era, and there are several rivers near Wangjiazhai Village, and it is not difficult to divert water, so the goal of 3,000 acres can definitely be completed.