Chapter 63: The Construction of Los Angeles (I)

The invasion of the late Qing Dynasty powers brought about the humiliation of modern China, and also brought a lot of changes, such as the previous Cao Yun, from the canal to the sea, the development of shipping, so that the whole Tianjing Port changes are very lively, Tianjing and SH compared with another scene, still busy, into the Tianjing City, but there is a feeling of the old Yandu, the Tianjing is too close to Yandu, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Beijing flavor is still relatively strong.

Tianjing is one of the few industrial cities in China, Qixin Yang Ash Field, Huachang Match Factory, Zhili Machinery General Bureau, and Beiyang built a large-scale industry here, it can be said that the industrial population of Tianjing is more than SH and Hankou, and the emerging Tianjing City, one-third of the population, is related to industry.

Walking on the street of the patio, the shop comes from the strong industrial atmosphere, really to the patio, you will feel the strength of the patio, the street is sold, you can actually see a lot of machine products, and even some machines, no wonder in history, the output value of the patio has always been the first in China.

And, in the distance, Los Angeles is already the territory of the eldest young master of the Luo family.

If someone has not been to Los Angeles for half a year, if they come again now, I am afraid they will not be able to recognize the appearance of Los Angeles, which has completely become a large construction site, and there is less than a month before the frozen ground time, and another highway, the road from Los Angeles to Tianjing, is also under construction.

How big the heart, how big the goal, how big the success, this sentence, is the wisdom of the saying, 20 square kilometers of industrial area, has begun a full range of construction, everywhere is digging the foundation. During the frozen period, the excavation of the foundation will be very difficult, and the construction of 20 square kilometers cannot be completed overnight. You can't let the people who have been recruited so hard spend half a year in Los Angeles in vain, it's too wasteful.

On this, Luohe has a certain mistake, he did not make preliminary preparations a few months ago, Luocheng and Huaxia are too backward, everything has to be coordinated by him, take three acids and two alkalis as an example, each of which is a project of several millions. Fortunately, the dragon group helped him a lot!

The planned infrastructure construction is also in progress, and it is necessary to be self-sufficient in actual combat! The plan has already been implemented, and the personnel specially sent by the dragon group have carried out the implementation of the plan!

Various industrial preparations have been established, which will not be enumerated here. (Because of the characteristics of the Luohe Space Gate, the Dragon Group has to wait for the results of the Big Star Project!)

The planned 20 square kilometers of industrial area, now, because of the construction of several large factories, all at once used 3 square kilometers, of which, the cotton mill covers the largest area, 2 square kilometers of land, the most important thing is that the foundation, unlike other factories, is almost a comprehensive foundation, recruited from all over the country Qingzhuang and masons, now working in Los Angeles, up to 15,000 people, cotton textile factory construction site, there are almost 3,000 people, the rest, except for a large part of the construction site allocated to Los Angeles to the patio, are in the five small factories。

People are easy to do, plus a large number of bulldozers, rollers, and the existence of tower cranes, the rational use of machinery and equipment, has been, has become the characteristics of Los Angeles, greatly accelerated the speed, Qian Hu with more than 3,000 people, forced to live in more than half a month, completed the construction of the cement plant, here, also appeared, cotton textile factory, with the help of 3,000 people, all the foundation has been laid, the most important No. 1 workshop, has also entered the tense construction of the steel structure, compared with the huge cotton textile factory of the cement factory, in all aspects, are much easier, although the room is more wide, covering a larger areaHowever, there is only one floor, a 4.5-meter-high factory, which is enough to accommodate all the people and machines, and the precise design and simple structure make the construction process faster and faster, and Los Angeles is changing day by day.

The first workshop, can accommodate 300 sets of 50 cotton spindles spinning machine at the same time, the number of cotton spindles up to 15,000 spindles, is the design, the largest plant, now, 300 spinning machines have been basically in place, the plant has a prototype, it is estimated that up to half a month later, the first batch of workers, as well as spinning machines, will be stationed, cotton spinning mills, will be at an amazing speed, after planning and recruitment, only half a month, put into production, which is a miracle in China.

The army, it can be said that it is a key direction in Los Angeles, the military camp is also different from the private house, one aspect of security knowledge, it can become an ordinary place to live in peacetime, and in wartime, it must become a fortress, even if it is surrounded by superior forces, it needs to be able to hold on for a long time, which has always been a place that the eastern army does not pay attention to.

Military engineering is nothing more than reinforced concrete, reinforced concrete of this era, for heavy artillery below 100 mm, it is simply a nemesis, for most of the rooms, even the arrangement of light and dark fire, will be poured with more than 50 cm of concrete.

After a month or two of hard work, the time is still early, and after the big construction here comes to an end, the military camp in Los Angeles will be arranged and placed next to the industrial zone, so that it is easy to manage and protect, a battalion barracks, at most 100 rooms, in the mode of a three-story small building, dozens of people, it is almost the same, as long as the project of the cotton mill is almost completed, you can send personnel over.

Streams of cold air went south one after another, so that the temperature in Los Angeles dropped sharply, after entering October, this situation is particularly obvious, cotton has also reached the final stage, although it is said that a few more days of planting, it is OK, but the cold climate, for the growth of cotton is very unfavorable, after a series of calculations and tests, the day of cotton picking, finally arrived.

Cotton was planted three months ago, after being studied by experts, and can best meet the current stage of the anti-Japanese world.

Around the middle of October, the cotton finally came to the day of picking, it is already the limit of picking in Los Angeles, the temperature fluctuations are very obvious, at night, it has entered the zero degree, the land has not become frozen soil, but the temperature is also extremely low, if the mainland cotton is not long enough to grow, and after reasonable irrigation of water and fertilizer, with a huge plant, I am afraid it is difficult to stick to it, for this reason, as early as the beginning of October, the measures to protect the roots and keep warm have been adopted.

Fortunately, 15 days of persistence has increased the yield of cotton by about 3% per mu, that is to say, an acre of land is almost 10 catties more, which is not a small number, so that the output has gone one step further, and these new amounts are net earnings. Zhao Shuming and the others smiled almost from ear to ear, as early as a month or two ago, they were sure that they wanted to make money, but how to make money and how much money they made were not sure.

As early as more than a week ago, for cotton picking, each family is making preparations, the original workers of the farm, they will be the main force, but the personnel are still not enough, according to the prediction of the old farmers, a week later, Los Angeles will rain sleet, not suitable for cotton picking and drying, so, at least within 2 days, to complete the overall picking work.

Within 2 days, 210 hectares of picking were completed, relying only on the existing more than 3,000 workers on the farm, it is absolutely not possible, and most of the surrounding labor force was recruited by various factories in Los Angeles in various names, but several major families still found cotton pickers from SX, or even SX, because of the huge output, the reward is also very high, if an acre of land can be completed within half a day, it is 1 yuan, and if it is a day, it will be reduced to 7 jiao.

Rao is like this, this kind of treatment is also extremely high, just odd jobs. 2 days, again before planting wheat, is exactly a gap, 2 days to complete two acres of land. The minimum is also 1.4, more may be 4 yuan, if the speed is faster, two days to do more, maybe it will be more.

More than 7,000 people were attracted to come, and the total number reached more than 10,000 people, and it should be no problem to complete the picking in 2 days.

The yield per mu is about 290 catties. The cotton yield is about a quarter, that is, about 70 catties of lint, according to the current price of 0.32 yuan per catty of cotton, the income per mu is about 21 yuan, which does not know how to grow grain. txt full works download how much more, after deducting wages and costs, this income is very amazing, so, an average of 1 yuan per acre of land, which is very easy.

At the time of picking, many landlords were not notified. But how big is Los Angeles, thousands of cotton pickers, and there is no deliberate secrecy, and soon, everyone knows that the cotton in Los Angeles is about to be picked.

For more than half a year, cotton has been planted in Los Angeles. Everyone saw that in July, transplanting, many families also bought a part of the cotton plants, their cotton plants. Almost half a month ago, the picking was completed, the results are very gratifying, the average per acre, from the original 70 catties, climbed to 180 catties, the yield of lint has increased more than 3 times, everyone can see the benefits of planting cotton.

Ordinary land, just a accumulation, most of the family, the reason why they buy land, is because land is a resource, a resource that can continue to appreciate, but the output of land, whether it is with the money Zhuang Yinhao, or with the merchant sitting business, the difference is not a little bit and a half, long-term farming may earn a little more, will not exceed 2 yuan, tenants to plant, it is less, tens of thousands of acres of land, harvested every year, is just a little grain, in the green and yellow not to be sold, maybe can earn a little more, when the grain is sold, almost not much income, many landlords can only sell a part, the rest, often put there, rotten or broken.

Cotton is not the same, even if there are more and more people planting cotton now, but cotton is still in short supply, from cotton cloth, to cotton jackets, quilts, cotton shoes, the more north, these pay more attention, in the past, the general harvest is below 70 catties, or the situation of day care, an acre of land produces about 10 catties of lint, can be sold for three or four yuan, but can not grow food, continuous cultivation, will also make the land fertility decline, income will be a little more, but soon to hand, not many people are willing, now it is different, more than 3 times the lint output, suddenly cotton has become different, although the cost of input is high, seeds, fertilizers, and some other managementThe manpower is also a lot higher, but the income is also high, an acre of land has increased by 10 times, and I heard that there are more of the reclamation companies.

Such rumors, in the whole Los Angeles landlords, where is very marketable, people who know cotton, compared with their own cotton, in comparison with the cotton of the reclamation company, they know that the output should be inferior, but how much more, it needs to be weighed, the reclamation company as early as two months ago, has been listed separately, as a company mainly engaged in agriculture, all aspects of equity have also been stripped out, and a Los Angeles commercial company has been set up for overall management, and now the cement factory, cotton mill, flour mill, brick factory and highway company, and even Qian Hu's engineering team, have also been included in this commercial company, for the time being is just a prototypeThe specific arrangement still needs to be determined slowly.

The standards of the reclamation company are also listed, the land is included in the management of the reclamation company, according to the plan of the reclamation company, the overall planting, management, harvesting and sales work, the final benefits, deduct the necessary expenses, such as the labor company, the company's expenses, and taxes, etc., the final income will be divided into three parts, 30% will be withdrawn to the reclamation company, as the management fee of the reclamation company, 20% As an investment in public construction and equipment, it also takes into account a small part of charity, such as building primary schools, building bridges and roads, etc., and only the remaining 50% of the income will be used as the income of the landowner.

In this way, it is equivalent to a decrease of almost 5 percent, and the income is handed over to others in vain, if it is not a particularly huge difference, I am afraid that no one is willing. Many landlords are interested in cooperating with the company, but few have succeeded in taking this step.

At the harvest site, more than 10,000 people have been scattered into the land they are responsible for, sparsely sparse, but in the field, groups of landlords and housekeepers are standing there, especially the person who is responsible for measuring there, and there are the most people standing.

Luohe is already prepared, measuring there, is an empty field, one is more convenient to measure, the other is also convenient for these people to see, the land of these landlords, into the scope of the reclamation company, is a step that Luohe has long planned to implement, the land of Los Angeles, more than 9 into 5, are concentrated in the hands of the big landlords, of which the Hou family is the most, thousands of hectares of land, once incorporated into the scope of the reclamation company, can provide sufficient and excellent raw materials for the production of cotton, Luohe is not focused on a city, only in Los Angeles has enough raw materials, will avoid being stuck by others, the road of Los Angeles industry, will do better。

Luohe and Liu Shu stood together, their expressions were relaxed, next to them, they were the leading figures among the landlords, Hou Jinsheng, the head of the Hou family, was suddenly in the list, he was absent-mindedly chatting with the landlord next to him, but his vision and attention were still on this side of the measurement, thousands of hectares of land, if you want to plant cotton, you need to arrange it in advance, he is also an investor in the cotton textile factory, and he is also involved in the highway companyNow it depends on how much this output is, if it is really much higher, for the sake of profit, it will not matter.

Other landlords, how can they not have the same idea, even Liu Shu is a little nervous, the first large-scale planting of cotton, the harvest can be seen, how much the harvest is, this is very important.

With an order, 210 hectares of land, tens of thousands of people began to move quickly, each person two acres of land, the speed of this picking has also continued to climb up, cotton planting is very regular, the distance between each cotton plant, is also absolutely scientifically calculated, to ensure sufficient sunlight and water and fertilizer and other aspects of the balance, unlike other cotton fields, planted full, even people can not stand.

Referring to the equipment of the overworld, a line, masks, comfortable cloth bags, and some head covers were made for the cotton pickers, so as to prevent them from being injured by cotton, and to ensure efficiency, there were some skilled cotton pickers, and the efficiency was obviously very high, a lot faster than the least of their peers.