Afterwards, everyone sighed and said, it is really not easy to engage in engineering construction in this era, we have a small wharf are tossed like this, before it was just talking, once it really worked, only to know that the great work of the ancients is worthy of the word greatness......

Zhu Beiguo recorded his mood on the day in his later diary as follows:

“…… This project may seem unremarkable, but it is the first step for us to try to enter the sea under the existing conditions, because without a wharf, there is no trade foothold, and there is no sea trade route.

From now on, we will gradually get rid of the constraints of the humble docks of this era, and in the foreseeable future, our cement docks will be built larger and larger, and our large-tonnage ships will be able to dock anywhere without hindrance - as long as we have dock facilities there, we will be able to trade there, we will be able to establish trade routes, and we will not be subject to man, and the docks will be the decisive factor in sea dominance...... In the foreseeable future, such marinas will be spread all over the archipelago! No, it will be all over the South Seas! All over the world! This will be a sign of our conquest of the seas......".

Once the dock was completed, the rest of the ranch's construction projects were much easier, the building materials were readily available, and the Pride brought three small excavators to the Sydney Island dock before it went to sea, so that the work on the ditches and ponds was immediately progressing by leaps and bounds.

This time, Hou Xianglin also made a big deal to build the pasture roads on the island into concrete pavement, which was ready-made, and the sand and gravel were also made of local materials.

Sydney Island is flat, building a road is not a troublesome thing, first tidy up the foundation a little, and then even the sand and gravel do not need to be screened and mixed directly with cement to become simple concrete, and then directly paved on the planned ground---- anyway, the island will not run heavy trucks, this kind of pavement in the old world is definitely a tofu slag project in the new world but is a very good quality road.

The road work progressed quickly, with the initial pasture area of less than 100 hectares, so it took less than ten days to complete a concrete road from the pier to the marshland in the north of the island, and to circle the marsh.

At the same time, the second project was completed: the repair of the reservoir and the excavation of the ditch.

Several excavators worked on the edge of the swamp, digging out the swamp silt formed for thousands of years, three days later, an irregular circular pond was initially formed, and the silt was piled up on the edge of the pond to form a low embankment, gradually, the groundwater emerged, the water storage function was played, and a small pond dam reservoir was built.

Of course, it is not enough to have only one place in the reservoir, Lao Zhu's design requirements are that different livestock should be separated, pigs, cattle, sheep and poultry have their own activity areas, and each area has a relatively independent reservoir.

According to this plan, four smaller ponds were dug around the large ponds less than 100 meters apart, and the problem of drinking water for pasture livestock was completely solved.

The third project, the construction of various houses around the central pond and the four small ponds, and the roads connecting them, was a bit more complicated, and a week later four twin sheds and four rows of tall and airy livestock sheds were built, all of which were covered with cement and separated by low walls. The rest of the project is the wall, the workload of this project is relatively large, the group was divided into three groups, a small part of the people continued to carry cement and mix concrete, another part of the people took brick knives to follow Brother Hou to learn to build the wall, and the other part of the people picked up stones everywhere on the island, and after a week, the stones on the island were almost clean.

After all, this island is not big, in line with the principle of saving cement, everyone has no plan to directly use cement to build the wall, although now there is the ability to produce cement and bricks, but it needs to consume energy and equipment, the wall or something with those materials is too luxurious, everyone would rather work hard to find ready-made stones in nature, rather than easily consume the fruits of their labor, even if it is a bag of cement, a brick.

There is a consensus on this point, so no one complains about anything.

As the weather gradually becomes cooler and drier, the progress of the project is getting faster and faster, the fruits of everyone's hard work are fruitful, from late January to early February in ten days, all the ditches, fences, livestock greenhouses, poultry houses, greenhouses, bamboo buildings and other facilities in the pasture have been completed, before the Spring Festival on February 11, the construction of the ranch is finally fully completed, and the rest is the moving work of the farm outside the gate of the cave.

From early January to early February, a shift team of eight people worked in the cement and brick factories until the weather was really bad, and every few days, when the cement tanks were filled with bulk cement, the cement was shoveled into large clay pots and transported by train to the cave gates.

There, another eight-person road construction team is building a cement road from the cave gate to the dam site on the east bank of the Moon River, the team's maximum workload is to mix concrete by manpower, and the stones and sand are collected from the bank of the Moon River little by little, because of the help of construction machinery, it took three weeks to complete the cement road of more than 200 meters, and finally completed the task before the Spring Festival.

Hou Xianglin proudly announced at the completion and acceptance that this road is the world's first real cement road, although in terms of concrete ratio, in the old world can only barely meet the standard, but everyone is still very excited to look at the smooth and smooth road surface, Hou Xianglin also said that he will establish an international standard for cement and cement pavement labeling, and to add his name to it - "the world's Hou's cement and cement pavement international standard".

"What's the name? It's really cool to say it haha......"

Brother Hou said to everyone with a trembling face.

Although a group of science and engineering men scoffed at this, setting professional standards for the world is the ultimate professional pursuit of all engineering men, so there is no too much ridicule of Hou Xianglin.

In fact, not only did Hou Xianglin really do it later, but all the industrial professionals in the Red Mansion also did it.

Of course, that's another story.

In addition to bulk cement, the cement plant also poured prefabricated cement blocks of various shapes, including cone, square, long, etc., large and small prefabricated parts are placed in the yard outside the plant, all these cement prefabricated blocks will be used for the interception of the Moon River, playing a similar role as a caisson.

The supplies were eventually transported by rail to the cave gates, where truck cranes loaded the blocks onto tractors and transported to the dam construction site on the east bank of the Moon River.

One thing that has to be said is that all kinds of construction projects have reached this point, and more than half of the oil from the Old World has been consumed......

February 12, 1657 AD, is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Ding You Year of the lunar calendar, and people who go to sea to train or work at various construction sites have a three-day holiday according to custom.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Elder Sun wrapped a meal of seafood and prawn-filled dumplings for everyone, and eleven or two indigenous children also participated in the dinner, and now these children can clumsily use chopsticks to learn to pick up dumplings like adults, while Tao Tao and Ba Haidong discipline these children like kindergarten aunts.

Judging from the somewhat sluggish looks of these two little teachers, the nearly one-month career of raising children has tired these two big children enough!

In fact, it is.

Know that educating this group of children starts with not defecating in the hallways and on the floor!

Coupled with the language barrier, that level of exhaustion...... Well, these two young boys and girls gave the uncles and aunts present a sleep-deprived look on the spot, and experienced it for themselves......