On January 4, 1655, this day was the second day that the travelers walked out of the cave.

For the engineering construction committee led by Hou Xianglin, there is a lot of work to be done today, in addition to continuing to open up fire isolation zones to the south, burning wasteland, building vegetable gardens and breeding farms, and at the same time starting road construction.

For this reason, at the dinner discussion last night, Hou Xianglin suggested to everyone that Cheng Dong should join the committee, and the task was to be responsible for the construction of the railway embankment and roads, and this proposal was unanimously approved by everyone on the spot without objection.

The construction of the railway embankment will be planned by Cheng Dong and Hou Xianglin, and Cheng Dong will be responsible for directing the construction.

Cheng Dong is now the driver of one of the earth-shovel loaders, and the reason why Hou Xianglin appointed Cheng Dong is that the current road construction needs to combine the future railway subgrade construction into one, which is the result of Cheng Dong's repeated reminders to Hou Xianglin a few days ago.

So the whole project was divided into two parts from this day on, burning the wasteland and building the road.

On this day, from the morning to the evening, the three bulldozers led by Hou Xianglin advanced 100 meters along the north-south fire isolation zone without stopping, and then turned around and came back, widening the open land for another 20 meters, and after completing this operation, they turned due east and opened a 30 to 40-meter-wide fire isolation zone along the foot of the hill, and finally circled until the east bank of the Moon River, and above the hill was the Red Mansion, and the purpose of opening this isolation zone was to protect the Red Mansion from being affected by the burning fire.

Obviously, once this project is completed, people will safely set fire to the north, east and west sides of the Red Mansion at the same time, so as to completely change the ecological environment around the Red Building, so that people can move around the building safely and freely, and will not be harassed by wild animals and mosquitoes.

At this time, on the east side of the open land outside the cave gate, another group of tightly wrapped drivers were driving various construction machinery and began road construction under the command of Cheng Dong.

They drove all the excavators, earth-loaders and rollers out of the cave, and the first task of the construction team was to dig a drainage ditch on one side of the open field, and then pile the excavated earth on the east side of the open field to prepare the rammed earth roadbed for the subsequent construction of the railway.

The first to be put into work was the excavator fleet, led by Song Chen, with more than a dozen excavators and earth-loaders lined up along the eastern edge of the open field all the way to the south, which was a spectacular scene.

However, because most of the drivers are beginners, the vehicle driving is slightly clumsy, and a few of them go crookedly as if they are drunk, but fortunately, the land is very flat, and the distance between the construction vehicles is far enough from each other, and the open area is also very spacious, so except for some small scratches and occasional stalling and wheel sagging, there are no major operation accidents......

At this time, on the west side of the open field, there is a small group of people who are tightly wrapped in gasoline filling plastic bottles, and they are going to burn the land that has been burned again today, and completely burn the remaining grass in the plot to prepare for the next step of construction.

Early in the morning, on the roof of the Red Building, a group of women and children were also pointing there.

A lively construction scene in the distance attracted the children and female teachers who were doing morning exercises on the roof, and the children even wanted to go out to play.

However, the teachers' reply was absolutely not, because according to many people, the land that had just passed the fire was actually full of dangers, and even in the vicinity of the open field, especially near the Moon River, where it was said that there were still crocodiles.

Therefore, these children, in fact, including the ladies, can only stand on the roof and watch the scenery, of course, this is also a kind of adjustment, otherwise it will really go wrong.

At ten o'clock in the morning of this day, at the urgent request of Lao Zhu, a five-ton truck crane lifted all the livestock and poultry cages in the cave, so that the livestock and poultry could finally bathe in the sunshine of the new world.

When it was almost noon, Lao Wang and Lao Zhu also went out to investigate the planned vegetable garden and farm respectively after wrapping themselves tightly.

At this time, Lao Wang Lao Zhu's vegetable garden and farm plot have been basically burned out, look to the west, more than 100 acres of land has been extended to the east bank of the Moon River, although there are still clusters of unburned grass near the south creek, but there is no large area of half-human high artemisia grass area on this land, so it gives people a feeling of sudden openness in the field of vision, looking at the land with green smoke everywhere, smelling the satisfactory aftertaste of gasoline and plastic bottles burning, under the clear sky, mosquitoes have been greatly rare.

So Lao Wang and Lao Zhu decided to go deep into the plot to inspect the layout of the houses and farmland roads on the spot.

As a year of field activities, although the two of them know that there may be certain dangers there, they really need to hurry up and enter the construction stage, and the big guys are still counting on this land to be planted and cultivated as soon as possible to supply the table.

After Lao Wang arrived at the scene, he first carefully took some soil samples in several locations, put them in his hand and looked at them with a magnifying glass, smelled them with his nose, and then twisted them with his fingers, and even licked them on the tip of his tongue, and finally nodded and said, It's okay, this soil is really no problem for growing vegetables.

Lao Wang also suggested to Lao Zhu, who accompanied him, that this vegetable garden is close to your farm, and the manure of those livestock can also be collected to make fertilizer, and it is best to build a biogas digester or something, Lao Zhu nodded and had no objection, but responded that the biogas digester or something should be done slowly, anyway, now you don't need these fertilizers, you see this land that has just passed the fire, grass and wood ash is an excellent fertilizer, and growing vegetables here is simply not ideal.

After hearing this, Lao Wang said a few good and good, then said goodbye to Lao Zhu, and went back to the cave to take care of the seeds.

Yesterday's plenary resolution said that the construction project does not need to be done by the two old men themselves, and that the two of them only need to stand next to them and make their mouths on the line, and everyone said that the main task of your two elders now is to take care of all kinds of crop seeds and livestock and poultry in the cave, these seeds and animals are excellent breeds, and they are the precious wealth of the travelers in the new world, and there is no room for the slightest mistake.

In the afternoon of the same day, the vegetable garden plot that passed the second fire can finally start the construction of the vegetable garden, through careful measurement, the area of the land that has passed the fire is about 60 acres, which is far away from the beach sand, the salinity erosion of seawater is very low, and it belongs to the freshwater alluvial fan area of the Moon River, not to mention the fertile soil, the terrain is still very flat, and it is easy to take water.

The key is that it is very close to the gate of the cave, which is very convenient for daily field management and vegetable picking and transportation, and Lao Wang predicts that the yield of this vegetable garden will be very high.

Therefore, Lao Wang plans that a small half of the land here will be used for the seedling experiment of various other crops, and only about less than 40 acres of land will be used for cultivating various vegetables.

Now, the biggest project of the vegetable garden is actually to plough the land, tidy up the fields and dig the aqueduct, the construction plan and drawings are discussed in advance, at a glance, everyone even does not need to be staring at the scene to know how to do.

Therefore, the vegetable garden project only used two shovel loaders, three excavators and two tractors, and it only took one day to complete the 60 acres of land in the vegetable garden.

Subsequently, with the efforts of everyone, manpower and machinery together, not only completed the excavation of the 100-meter aqueduct of the vegetable garden, but also dragged the plough and rake to level and plough nearly 50 acres of land, and the excavator also sorted out the ground and small ditches by the way, and dug a large septic tank near the farm on the edge of the vegetable garden - because Lao Wang still plans to use the rich humus here to build a biogas cellar.

By the evening of the next day, the main canal for the vegetable garden had been completed.