Section 14 yields initial results

"Who would come to this wilderness to steal the railroad tracks, are they impatient?" Zhuo Tianmin disagreed.

"And picking up shell skins at the artillery range, what is that?" Xi Yaya said, "In addition to Anyoule City, according to the report of the special investigation team, there are still some scattered settlements in the Sanya Special Economic Zone. Can you guarantee that they won't come and steal the rails? ”

The problem is that there are very few settlements within a radius of dozens of miles, and Zhuo Tianmin can't imagine how many thieves there will be in the population of less than two or three hundred in these poor settlements. What are they going to do with the railroad tracks? He felt it was just an excuse.

Sure enough, at the subsequent meeting of the Sanya Military Committee, Xi Yaya proposed: In order to clean up the surrounding environment, a comprehensive "law and order rectification" activity should be carried out within the jurisdiction of the Sanya Region.

The specific measures are to renovate all the villages in this area in the same way as in the city of Anyule, to concentrate the population, and to forcibly migrate to the settlements under the control of the crossing group. In a word, labor intensification.

"You are engaged in a strategic village, and I firmly oppose it." Zhuo Tianmin strongly protested, "The merger of the village is a trick made by Japanese devils and American soldiers, and you are going to pick it up too?" ”

"No matter what it's called, it just works." Xi Yaya expressed calmness.

But everyone didn't think it was interesting, not that they felt that it was a harassment to the villagers, but that the labor force that could be increased by the big campaign was limited, and it would take manpower and material resources to settle it. The cost-effectiveness ratio is not high. Zuihou only approved a courtesy visit to these villages, to get to the bottom of each village, and by the way, to see if there was any resource information to gather.

"Instead of being arrested and forced to work, it is better to tempt with material benefits." He Fanghui said, "Besides, since they can live, there must be a certain degree of development in the surrounding area, and we can still obtain resources from it." I propose to open a local cooperative and use the exchange of goods to penetrate into the hinterland. ”

"The potential consumer population in a few villages is too small."

"And the Li people in the interior," He Fang replied, "they have no money, but they have mountain goods." We exchanged salt, sugar and all kinds of daily necessities with them, so that they became dependent on Sanya's trade. Recruit partners among the Li people. In the future, when we go deep into the Lebanese district to establish political power, they will be the right civil base, and they will not only do business to make money - in fact, we don't need to make money, do we? ”

"This can be left to the immigrant households. We don't need to do everything, let the cooperative set up a consignment point, find a few small traders to operate, and we will come up with policies to provide the source of goods. Wang Luobin said, "But I went to see the foundation of Xia An Amusement, this piece of land is too small, and the new city is almost lined up." In the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to expand into a big city. ”

"Ji Runzhi is doing planning research." "He also thinks there were major omissions in the original plan." How to revise it, he will get a report in three days. ”

"Let's talk about the progress of the project--" Wang Luobin is most concerned about this question, "when will the ore be released." ”

"Now I am organizing people to rush to the road to Huangniling. Labor in three shifts of construction. Zhuo Tianmin spread out the drawings, "Huangniling is not high, and the terrain is not complicated. The main problem with road construction is that the vegetation is too dense. It's a lot of work to clean up. He looked at the manual, "In a week, the road will be built, but the road is not of high grade, and only people and wheelbarrows can pass." ”

"To be able to get people up is to win." "As long as people can go up, they can clean up the mine while building roads, and they can do both." ”

Wang Luobin had participated in the investigation of Tiandu Mine at the beginning and had a good understanding of the local geology. The reserves of Tiandu Mine are not very large, but the burial is very shallow, and the diameter of the pit that can be mined is only 300 meters. The ore body is unconventional, as long as the topsoil is stripped and the mining section is pulled up, it can be mined, whether it is manual or mechanized mining, it is very convenient.

The most important way to quickly peel off the topsoil is to blast the hill as a whole. In the past, when Nambo was being developed, there was a large-scale blasting that was uncovered. However, Panda did some field exploration and said that it was very difficult.

"To peel it off in its entirety, not to mention the difficulty of the jishu - I don't particularly understand this - but to see the situation on the mountain, it takes at least ten tons of yellow explosives." Panda said, "It's not black powder. ”

Everyone knew it was impossible. Not to mention where the ten tons of nitroglycerin explosives came from -- the oil used to make glycerin is still a scarce material, and even if there are ready-made explosives, shipping them by ship is a risky job.

"It's better to build a local explosives factory, even if it's only black powder." "The next mining requires a lot of explosives, and it is always inconvenient and unsafe to transport them from Lingao. Besides, there was originally a copra factory to be built here to extract oil, ready-made coconut oil."

"This is for the future, what now?" Wang Luobin asked.

"If it's safe, let's shoot a small cannon first, and peel off the soil and stone layer by layer. until the ore layer is exposed. Black powder and ammonium nitrate were enough for a month. After blasting, a working face is manually cleared. If there is a working face, it will be mined by hand, and then it will be used to put small cannons. "That's the safest way to do it." It's no better here than in Nanbao, where gunpowder is close at hand, and if it doesn't work, it's a big deal to blow it up a few more times. ”

"Let's do it." Wang Luobin clapped, "Ants gnaw bones, gnaw them apart little by little." Other construction sites should also be stepped up. In particular, the fortification projects and wharf facilities in Luhuitou and Yulinbao must be completely built before the summer. ”

With the increase in rainfall in the summer and the danger of a typhoon hitting head-on, the temporary wooden houses and makeshift piers are now in danger of being destroyed by waves and typhoons if the infrastructure is not completed in time.

The entire Sanya Development Headquarters is full of energy: the veterans work almost day and night, and the lights are not extinguished all night. Everyone knows that the Senate and the Executive Committee are looking at Sanya, and the sooner the first ship of iron ore is shipped out, the louder the voice in the Senate will be in the future.

Hundreds of laborers worked day and night under the command of Zhuo Tianmin, repairing roads and leveling foundations; Ji Runzhi eats and sleeps in the temporary shed at the Tiandu construction site, while designing, drawing and constructing; Li Haiping simply slept on the fort construction site on the top of Luhuitou Mountain, which had just been blown up, and all the sailors became laborers; Sun Xiao's daily work is to count and fill in countless reports, and the precise table counts the daily labor deaths, injuries, and illnesses; the status of manpower replenishment; Classification of material consumption and inventory status, project completion, and jihua earthwork ......

These data reports do not need to be reported back to Lingao in real time. The representative of the Planning Institute only reported on the progress of the project on the daily telegram and the manpower and materials that needed to be replenished. However, after Wu De took office, he particularly emphasized the need to establish a sound file system, requiring all projects to establish archives. for future reference, lessons learned and accountability.

Wang Luobin watched the various marks on the project schedule on the drawing board of the headquarters in Yulinbao, and every day the cable telegram reported the latest progress of each construction site to the general headquarters, and he constantly drew marks on the schedule that exceeded or failed to meet the standards on time, and adjusted labor, machinery, and materials. Calculate how long it will take for the iron ore to be shipped out. According to Jihua of the Planning Institute, the first ship of ore after D-Day, 18 months later, the production scale of 10,000 tons of iron ore per year was formed. After 24 months, it was expanded to 60,000 tons per year.

Seeing this schedule, Wang Luobin's heart was a little bottomless. This work is much more than his previous work experience. He has been a project leader in the past, but this is the first time he has worked on such a large and critical project, not to mention that he doesn't really have much knowledge of infrastructure mining. I had to bite the bullet and learn as I worked.

Overall, the situation is improving. Work-related fatalities have fallen to an acceptably low level, and people who have been recuperating from malaria are beginning to regain their ability to work. For the first time, the number of available labor force has shown a recovery growth, and according to Sun Xiao's prediction, they will not need to replenish new labor from Lingao in the short term.

The brick making machine that had a catastrophic industrial accident has been repaired, and now it is running normally except for some minor faults in the occasional part damage. The brick kiln of the Sanya brick and tile factory is a continuous kiln using wire rope and iron slide car, which is much more efficient than the wheel kiln of Lingao. In addition to cement, steel and bamboo reinforcement, which also rely on the supply of Lingao, bricks, stones, and lime have been completely solved locally in Sanya. The construction of a wood processing plant is also in full swing. Once completed, it will not only provide enough building materials to supply the local area, but also supply wood products and by-products to Lingao. The tonnage of the warehouses previously occupied by these bulk cargoes will be replaced with coal. At present, the demand for coal in Sanya is gradually increasing.

The requirement of the Planning Institute is that Sanya must ensure that there is at least 15 days of coal reserves in addition to daily coal use. The importance of steam engines and boilers for the crossing group has risen to the point of "dependence".

The only problem is that the quality of the boiler is still worrisome, and the failure rate of a large number of steam engines and boilers manufactured by surprise is very high, which once affected the progress of the project. At his request, Zhan Wuya sent a special maintenance team composed of all veterans to carry out a major overhaul of all the boilers and steam engines used in the project.

Panda led the demolition team to continuously blast everywhere, and the whole Yulin area was full of cannonade, and the laborers and immigrants knew that it was a blast, but for the people of Anyou City, the sound of cannons suddenly increased their uneasiness. I thought that this group of "Australian pirates" didn't know which way they were fighting.

Hu Xun stayed in a temporary detention center by the sea, where he had food and drink every day, could take a shower, and allowed his family to bring a change of clothes, which was very favorable. It's that none of the people around him are recognized by themselves, and they can't help but feel empty. I wonder what this group of pirates - he now knows that they are the so-called Australian pirates - is going to deal with himself?

He was worried about his own life, and he was afraid that this group of pirates would be bad for his family, Hu Xun had several little wives, and a daughter who had reached the age of fourteen to be in the boudoir. It's not the fat that everyone covets, not to mention that they are still pirates on the old sow with the lights out

The daily sound of cannon fire only exacerbated his fear. Inland, as far as he knows, there is no shili except for the Li people. It is clear that fighting the Lebanese does not require such an indiscriminate use of firearms. As for the officers and soldiers, even if they were to come, they would only come by sea, and they would never come from the recklessness of the land.

He had been trying to know something from his guards—where they had come from, what they had done here, and most importantly—what they were going to do with themselves. But the guards did not say a word to him, and it was the simplest and most necessary thing to say, and it was the same between them. Hu Xun thought about the origin of these expressionless people? They can stand face to face for several hours without saying a word to each other.

After almost a month of agony waiting, someone finally came to see him.

The person who came was an Australian - Hu Xun knew that he and the so-called shopkeeper of the king of Lingao were all the way, and they were both so-called Australian shorthair. He was seen to be of medium height, burly in shape, with a shaved head, a double chin, dark bags under his eyes, and thick lips. He wears a short gray coat often worn by Australian shorthair, and straddles a backpack and a hat. His appearance and dress far exceed all of Hu Xun's social experience, and he can't figure out what kind of way this person comes from.

He Fanghui politely asked him about his living condition and physical condition here.

"I'm fine. Your people treat me as a prisoner at this level. Hu Xun said with a wry smile.

"Hehe," He Fang laughed back, and patted him on the shoulder affectionately, "Old Hu, I didn't say you, in another twenty years, you will be grateful to be our prisoner when you think back today." ”

Hu Xun was completely speechless, thinking that it was the first time for such a shameless guy to see it, and he was still grateful for being robbed of his own inheritance by you? What kind of is this

But he didn't dare to show it, so he had to make promises. Seeing that the people were very interested, he hurriedly asked how his house was doing.

"Everything is fine with your family." He Fang replied simply, "Still in the original house, I sent a few policemen to take care of you outside your house, everything is safe at home, you can rest assured." ”

"Thank you, Master He." When Hu Xun heard that his house was safe, he was slightly relieved. His whole family is fish and meat on the knife, and there is no need for the other party to deceive himself.

"You don't have to stay here." He Fang replied, "Let you go home today." ”

took care of him at the moment, packed up his things, and took him out of the office of Anyoule City. The wind and sun outside were beautiful, and the sun was dazzling, so that Hu Xun, who had not been out of the house for a month, spun around for a while, and almost fell to the ground. Then he returned to his house under the "escort" of a special person.

Walking on the street, the appearance of Anyoule City has changed greatly, the original wall has been demolished, and some of the houses on the street have been demolished. Only a few jiyuan and small restaurants are still open. The inn where the merchants stayed was also unharmed, and there were men in black coats and belts guarding the door.

The house has not changed, but the door is closed. When I returned home, I was pleasantly surprised. Fortunately, everyone was safe and sound, and the pirates didn't come to harass them. They also send vegetables, fish, shrimp and grain every few days for no money

"Everything is peaceful at home, not even a penny or a mosquito is missing, but all the things you have stored in the public treasury outside are gone......" his wife still chattered to herself.

"Don't worry about that little bit of money." Hu Xun waved his hand impatiently, "People are willing to take it, and even the family is gone." What else do you say about the stuff in the library"

Hu Xun's mind was very confused, and he didn't know what this group of people wanted to do. It seems that this guy, who will call himself a high-ranking person and a self-proclaimed Australian, is ready to stay here for a long time. You can see what they mean by looking at their construction efforts.

When Hu Xun was distressed at home, he didn't know that he had just escaped the terrible fate of being wiped out. There are two different opinions on how to deal with the former Baozheng of Anyoule City in the Sanya Military Committee. The most extreme is that Hu Xun is the head of the old Shili, who is likely to seduce the government and is a potential threat, and that he should be executed for security reasons, along with his family. The other believes that Hu Xun just took advantage of the loophole of the government's lax control and became a local tyrant. He didn't have many bad deeds, and he was familiar with the local situation, and he still surrendered on his own initiative, killing him would inevitably make the traversers fall into a reputation for brutality. If you encounter this kind of person again in the future, won't the other party have to resolutely resist to the end?

"His whole family is now under our control, and any change can destroy his whole family immediately. And it is justified in its name. "He tried to save his life.

"Hmph, do we need anything to justify?" Xi Yaya scoffed at this, "Let's be honest, this person is of little use to us, and leaving it is a hidden danger." As for our reputation - brutality is also a weapon. ”

"This is on the same level as the Huns and the Mongols. Not good. Wang Luobin thought about it again and again, and felt that it was better not to make too many enemies at this stage. In the end, it was decided to keep him as an example for recruiting rebels in the future.

So Hu Xun was placed under house arrest at home and not allowed to go out. Ten servants may be left in their household. The only people left behind were maids, old mothers, and old men over 50 years old. All other servants were "confiscated".

Among Hu Xun's three sons, except for one young son who was less than ten years old, the other two were sent to Lingao to "study", which was equivalent to hostage. Hu Xun couldn't understand how Lingao became an Australian, but he was powerless to stop them, so he had to pack up and send them on the road.

It turned out that Hu Xun's master, after a period of review, was retained as a clerk under He Fanghui's subordinates. As for the leader of the Zhaiding, he was originally a pirate and also had some kung fu, so he was brought back to Lingao to join the navy recruit camp.

Originally, the Zhaiding of Anyoule City had a local family to form a labor team, and the bachelors were transported back to Lingao to supplement the labor force. As for Hu Xun's fellow clansmen and relatives, none of them were sent to Lingao for resettlement.