The dead are gone, and the living are still busy.

Reconstruction begins as soon as possible, and the number one task ahead of all work is to dredge the river.

Due to heavy rains and flash floods, the entire Tainan Plain is now shallow, full of puddles, some of which have become temporary lakes. As soon as the typhoon passed, a large number of workers began to clean up the water with tools.

Mizusawa attracts mosquitoes, and if there are mosquitoes, malaria will appear. Therefore, digging ditches to divert water and repairing rivers has become the first priority at present. The "Haidilao" No. 2 boat, which was originally busy in the Taijiang River and was a little smaller, also urgently dispatched to start upstream from the lower reaches of Xingang Creek, cleaning up the boulders and sediment that came with the mountain torrent along the way.

Of course, all of this is a palliative, not a cure. The only way to change the drought and flood environment in an area is to build dams.

In the history of Tainan, it was not until the Japanese occupation period that the Japanese engineer Hatta Yoichi designed and built the "Jianan Dazhen" series of water conservancy projects. And the core of this series is the Wutou Mountain Reservoir.

After the completion of the whole project, the Jianan Plain will increase from the original 5,000 hectares of paddy fields to 150,000 hectares. The irrigation area covered Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan counties, and was the largest water conservancy system in Southeast Asia at that time.

...... That's how tempting water conservancy projects are. Once the crossing forces also carry out such a project, how many immigrants can be fed by 150,000 hectares, that is, more than 2 million acres of rice fields?

But it didn't help.

Historically, the Japanese began to introduce large-scale steam-powered machinery for civil engineering in 1920, including bulldozers, pressure water jets, and sand and gravel trucks. On this basis, it took seven years to complete a 3,078-meter-long diversion tunnel that runs through the Wushan Mountains and connects to Zengwen Creek.

However, the current industrial strength of the people is very deformed: it seems that there are high-tech and sophisticated products, but the scale is generally small, and the entire industrial system is far from the scale of the Japanese, so it is impossible to build a dam.

The only way is to build a few small reservoirs in the upper reaches of Xingang Creek for emergency response, as for the large reservoirs in the upper reaches of Zeng Wenxi, the current crossing committee is really not able to catch it.

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The so-called destruction is 10,000 times easier than construction.

During the reconstruction, tens of thousands of temporary scavengers began the dredging campaign with a bang. It wasn't until 5 days later that the surrounding silt and mud were cleaned up.

After the initial restoration of normal order, although a large number of workers began to return to the factory, the subsequent disaster mitigation work is still busy.

The good thing is that the crossing forces today are no longer as short of people as they were when they first opened. Since colluding with Boss Xiong in Fuzhou, a certain force has operated in the center through Fuzhou Station during this time, and under the acquiescence of the government, it has wantonly operated immigration to Tainan, and the effect is quite good.

In the original history, there was a great drought in Fujian in 1628, and there were many hungry people. Zheng Zhilong, with the support of Xiong Wencan, "people give three taels of silver, and three people give one cow"...... In this way, tens of thousands of victims were fooled into going to Taiwan. In fact, there are not so many cattle in Fujian at all, and in the end, it is just a little silver.

And the number of ways to recruit people on the big man's side is different from Lao Zheng. There is no silver and no cattle here, but there is a clean and beautiful house, abundant food, miraculous medical treatment, and ample job opportunities—any hungry person can get a stable space for development here.

When the first boatload of hungry people was "fooled" into getting to work, someone soon went back and brought the whole family out. Because there is a rule on the part of the adults: single people live in collective dormitories, and couples with children can apply for a set of wooden houses with zero down payment. The more children there are, the better it is to apply, and all children go to school for free.

The power of example is powerful.

As the word of mouth gradually spread, more and more hungry people came to the door one after another. And Fuzhou Station is not refused: anyone can come, and the poor can be bare-assed. Of course, the wool comes from the sheep, and all expenses, including boat fares and huts, will eventually be slowly deducted from the wages of immigrants.

This is the reason for the recent population explosion of a certain force: a large number of unplanned Fujian immigrants began to enter Dayuan one after another, plus the immigrants transported from Hangzhou, the local assimilated natives, and suddenly found that the total population under their rule had exceeded the 60,000 mark.

This is very gratifying, you know, the total number of people in many small counties in ancient times was only a few thousand.

Now that there are enough people, a lot of the previous small work can be carried out smoothly. Nowadays, the industrial layout of the troika of industry and mining, infrastructure and agriculture has been formed, and a large number of middle-aged laborers have gathered in these three industries, and the whole society is thriving and vigorous.

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After the dredging of the river, a large number of people began to maintain the post-disaster residential complex. The most affected by the storm was the first dormitories built by the Traders.

At the beginning, due to the fact that the business had just opened and the resources in all aspects were insufficient, the dormitories designed by Zheng Yangyang were weaker in terms of roof structure. As a result, the typhoon passed, and a large number of old dormitories with mortise and tenon structures were blown off, and a small number collapsed, and all the people in the houses were poured into soup chickens.

In this maintenance, all the problems will be solved at once: the roof of the old dormitory will be reinstalled according to the roof structure of the new dormitory, the structure will be strengthened, and all hidden dangers will be eliminated.

With the increasing number of immigrants and the increasing complexity of the composition, the residential areas in this area of Chihkan have also made continuous adjustments. From the initial 10-person dormitory, to the later 40-person dormitory, and then gradually evolved into a large number of small households living alone, the evolution of society is obvious.

And this evolution is inseparable from industrial development. From the early manpower ramming piles, to the later gas pile smashers, and then to the abandonment of mortise and tenon structures, iron nails and wooden screws began to be used in a large area...... The dormitory buildings with these simple lines designed by the public are actually constantly improving the technological content of the interior.

You know, if it weren't for the participation of more and more construction machinery, relying entirely on manpower to "assemble" these building block houses, the speed of dormitory construction would certainly not be able to keep up with the influx of immigrants, let alone those single-home huts specially prepared for complete families.

Today's Chihkan New District has the appearance of those residential towns in later generations: rows of small wooden buildings are divided into smooth chessboards by straight roads, and all neighborhoods are isolated by neat camphor trees on the side of the road. Clean, neat, gravel-paved pavement, gas shuttles with bodies on them slowly moving, filled with ruddy-faced workers in linen T-shirts and cropped pants.

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The most lively place is of course the 30-meter-wide Chihkan Cement Street. Funnily enough, the street was only 4 meters wide in the original blueprint...... Later, when it was discovered that the situation was not good, the Chihkan district government urgently demolished several rows of simple dormitories and widened the streets.

Of course, no one is to blame for this. You must know that when the crossing of the Taijiang River for the first time, the other side was still a wild land full of weeds and mosquitoes; The designers originally planned the land on the scale of a small town in the western United States, so the road was naturally not much wider.

Dayuan People's ...... These immigrants, who will soon become "people of the empire", are now happiest to go shopping and shopping on Chihkan Avenue in the evening after work.

At night, Chehkan Avenue is like a pedestrian street in later generations, with bright street lights, government-run shops and barbecue stalls, and a large crowd of people wandering here.

Generally speaking, the most popular people on the avenue are those awesome characters with girlfriends...... A small number of girls can be seduced from textile factories and fire hat factories to go shopping, even if it is a widow, this kind of person is also a.

As for those dicks who can't beat a fart with three sticks, are honest, and haven't adapted to the unrestrained management style of the traversal, they can only swallow their saliva and watch the pigs who arch cabbage take out their work tickets and invite the girl to eat grilled grouper. However, they had no better way than to curse a few words that this guy would go bankrupt tomorrow and gnaw on the big bread - those who dared to cause trouble were arrested and cut down.

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It's not easy to open a shop on Chihkan Avenue. Because the current business structure of the company is not free trade in essence, but a unified purchase and sales model with extremely strict control.

All the people under the rule of the people are a bit similar in nature to the workers of the state-owned enterprises in those days: their work and life are arranged by the upper echelons, and these people do not have many choices.

The current business model of the cross-cutting public is also very unique: the industrial products of the kiln base are listed on the export list of those cost-effective goods that are marketed around the world, and the rest of the daily necessities are not produced in large quantities, and the quantity is just enough for local people to consume.

The advantage of this model is that it takes into account the foreign exchange earnings of commodity exports and the development of local industries. But there is also a downside: the private sector has been temporarily suppressed.

In other words, if a wealthy businessman of the Ming Kingdom wants to buy a government shop and open a grocery store on Chihkan Street, then he will find that there are no local goods to enter—all the groceries are directly distributed to the various government stores, and there is no share of him. And he couldn't buy such a good thing as a kerosene lamp, because it was all for a big power such as the Dutch.

There was no way, in the extremely slow social environment of the 17th century, it was impossible to get all kinds of industrial raw materials in large quantities, so they could only adopt this way to tide over the bottleneck period.

Of course, as the situation in Zhejiang and Fujian slowly opens up, and with the continuous flow of large-tonnage cargo ships from Dayuan Shipyard, this tight unified purchase and sales situation will soon be disintegrated by the massive production of commodities in the kiln area. At that time, I am afraid that I will have to cross the sea to tie up some wealthy businessmen to invigorate the economy.