As a result, the Supreme Executive Council decided to use all the materials in the cavern to strengthen the dock loading and unloading facilities, including steam engines from the Old World, Stirling engines, and a small portion of steel.

Under the unity of the people, everyone finally completed the two conveyor belts before Nicole returned, this project was greatly praised by the crew of Nicole, and the crew could finally be at sea for ten or twenty days, and they could no longer be so tired of loading and unloading goods, but left a part of the crew to continue the loading and unloading operations, and most of them could go back to the Red House to rest, which was very pleasant.

Not long after the completion of the dock conveyor belt project, the Nicole returned, and the various industrial groups, which had received a second batch of labor support, were finally able to start building larger industrial projects.

Some time ago, all kinds of industrial equipment in the cave had been transported to the No. 9 railway line of the Xiliu River and the Yimi River respectively, and Lao Ba and others took advantage of the short leisure time to deploy labor force and began to go all out to install various industrial equipment.

After the arrival of the second batch of laborers, Lao Wang and Lao Zhu were finally able to transfer nearly 200 new laborers to support various industrial groups, so the construction progress of industrial projects was greatly accelerated.

At the beginning of July, the first installation in place is a series of chemical equipment, Mr. Zhao led the chemical team to carefully combine the relevant chemical equipment, in addition to all the three acid and two alkali production equipment, the new production line also includes small rubber plastic refining processing equipment and two sets of seawater desalination and seawater salt chemical equipment.

Following the completion of the three-acid and two-alkali combined chemical plant, Mr. Zhao and they extended and integrated the related product chains, and after expanding on the basis of the original coal dry distillation production line, a new production line called "coal coke salt chemical complex" was established, which was located on the north bank of the estuary of the Xiliu River and adjacent to the joint alkali chemical industry.

At this point, the chemical team finally completed the assembly and construction of most of the chemical equipment and chemical projects in the cave, and formed a whole chemical industrial zone in the Xiliuhe estuary area.

Because of the proximity of this area to a large white quartz sand beach, which later developed into an industrial town, it was called Baisha Town, and this area is also called Baisha Industrial Zone.

Soon after, this huge chemical consortium was integrated into a giant company, called "Baisha Chemical Group", with Zhao Xihe as chairman and Qiao Xiaomu Gui Xianning as vice president and chairman of the board of supervisors.

It must be mentioned here that in a few years, Baisha Chemical Group will eventually develop into a chemical empire that dominates the world.

Simultaneously with the construction of Baisha Industrial Zone, there are also industrial projects of the metallurgical group.

By the end of June 1658, the latest equipment installed in the metallurgical industry was a set of miniature hot rolling production lines.

Subsequently, after receiving labor support, Holley presided over the construction of this joint production line called the "Iron and Steel Smelting Complex", which was matched with the "Iron and Steel Coke Smelting Complex" presided over by Quan Zhenhai, and together formed a steel production industrial chain from smelting to forming steel.

The industrial zone is located on the coastline one kilometre north of the Baisha industrial zone, where a railway branch line to Line 9 has just been completed under the auspices of Cao Limei, and another Stephenson 040 tank-type light steam locomotive has been put into operation in the cave, while Cheng Dong is busy training five teenagers from Macau, who he hopes will become qualified train drivers in a few months.

This steel base is far away from the original pyrite boiling furnace and iron-smelting cupola, and is actually far away from the low-grade pyrite mine in the upper reaches of the Xiliu River, the only iron ore source on the island.

The reason why we want to build the steel base on the seaside of the mouth of the Xiliu River is that in the foreseeable future, large-scale raw material input will come from overseas, and near the steel base, there is a small bay suitable for the establishment of a deep-water wharf, once the deep-water wharf is built, Nicole can dock directly, in that case, it is undoubtedly the most convenient and economical to receive ore and coal from overseas nearby, and to smelt iron and coke steel nearby.

Accompanying the steel base is a planned coal-fired power plant, which has been included in this year's work plan.

Obviously, the construction of the wharf is the key to the key, for this project, Hou Xianglin, who is far away from Timor Island, has been semi-detached from his post as governor, and now he is recruiting a construction team of about 200 people in Xin'an City, this construction team is a bit complicated, including local natives, citizens of Dili City, as well as blacks and other races from the naturalization camp, Hou Xianglin plans to train these people intensively for a few months, and then directly take this team to take the Nicole to repair the dock here.

Of course, this project is to collect money, and the payer - Party A is a related company to be established by Baisha Chemical Group and Metallurgical Group, and a few days ago, Hou Xianglin has officially submitted a business plan to the mutual fund by telegram.

"Federal Pacific Construction Co., Ltd." will become a new starting point for Hou Xianglin's life and career.

Behind the Baisha Industrial Zone, next to the No. 9 railway line, is the Non-ferrous Metallurgical Industrial Zone hosted by An Hengtong, although it is only a newly sorted out flat land, as long as the Nicole can transport copper ore from Timor Island back to Oecussi, then all the relevant smelting equipment in the cave will be moved here.

He and Ren Ke are currently working on a project that produces small quantities of metals such as copper and tin each week, with his wet-smelting heap leaching ponds in the pyrite area of the upper reaches of the Xiliu River and on the beach on the south bank of the Xiliu estuary.

For the current industrial construction, these non-ferrous metals are very valuable and far from meeting the needs of various industrial groups, and in the final analysis, Anhengtong's non-ferrous metallurgical business depends on copper ore from Oecussi and copper purchased from overseas by the Pride.

And Ren Ke stayed here in An Hengtong for a short time, he has repeatedly proposed to the Supreme Executive Committee, hoping to let him out before the end of the year, he even put forward a plan to build Zixia Island, expressing his willingness to take a group of laborers to go there to reclaim land from scratch, the Supreme Executive Committee appreciated Ren Ke's positive attitude, but did not express his opinion on this construction plan.

Obviously, this is because Ren Ke's plan needs to divert a part of the labor force to Zixia Island, which has been complained by various industrial groups and companies at home, saying that unless you Ren Ke can have your own source of labor like Hou Xianglin ** and them, otherwise, all your reclamation plans are unrealistic.

Recently, however, the Huotang Club has also carried out a "war game deduction" on Ren Ke's plan, and recently the members of the Huotang Club have often engaged in this kind of deduction, of course, in their spare time, and the locations are also scattered in two ships and two places, and they often discuss these deductions through telegrams, which has not caused any other waves except that Xiao Fei, who is in charge of receiving and receiving telegrams in the Red Mansion, is a little annoyed.

In a recent war game, Ren Ke suggested that he should be deeply involved in the court power struggle of the Sulu Kingdom, and strive to obtain thousands of Han tenants from there on a large scale at one time, and then immigrate these Han tenants to Zixia Island to develop and reclaim the land.