The air was filled with the spicy smoke of the explosives, and the choking smoke hung over the pit and refused to disperse for a long time. A convoy of pit trucks, towed by a small steaming locomotive, clattered toward the mining face on the Yellow Niling Ridge -- a commuter car that transports mid-shift workers to work. A simple bench is mounted on the flatbed. Workers sit or stand. They were all armed: rattan hard hats, 24-layer gauze masks, glasses made of glass and coconut shells, thick miners' overalls, and towels tied around their necks...... These are naturalized migrant workers, the basic contingent of the Mining Bureau, and the mass base of the Ao-Song regime in Sanya. It is this consideration that is reflected in the granting of adequate labor protection - the most difficult period in the development of Sanya is over, and it is very uneconomical for the Senate to continue to spend purified and trained labor on life-filling development.

The sun shone on the bare valley. The valley full of greenery and tropical style has been transformed into Mt. Mt. Wet. Exposed red dirt. The dense vegetation of the valley was removed, and the minecart tracks and telegraph poles that carried the ore formed a web on the valley floor and hillsides. The black smoke and steam emitted from the steam engines installed everywhere from time to time, and the roar of the machines could be heard from Tiandu's repair shop.

All that remains of the Tiandu River is a polluted stream in the middle of the riverbed -- which flows industrial wastewater from the mines and Tiandu's small machine factory -- domestic sewage is used to irrigate a small number of nearby developed fields.

The reason for the decrease in river water is that the reservoir built upstream of Tiandu Town has been completed, and the incoming water from the upstream is intercepted and used to supply the domestic water of Tiandu Town and the industrial water of the mines.

Now it is the dry season of winter, the water from the upstream has been greatly reduced, the reservoir no longer releases water, and the natural water from the lower reaches of the entire Tiandu River has been completely cut off.

A group of half-naked slaves, unloading truckloads of iron ore that had just been brought from the mining face in a valley pile. Their half-naked bodies were covered in ore powder, and straw hats and strips of cloth around their faces were the only measures of labor protection. The slaves' labor was monitored by "foremen" selected from among the most reliable naturalized people. There is one "foreman" for every 50 people. Instead of carrying whips or sticks, they carried a cloth bag filled with bamboo chips.

For each basket of ore, the slaves took a bamboo plaque from the foreman's hand. If you want to eat well, you have to complete the work indicators and put together the bamboo cards with the prescribed numbers. As a result of the sabotage, he did not have enough to eat, and the next day he had no strength to work, and Zuihou was gradually starved to death under heavy physical labor. Slaves who refused to work were executed outright, and their bodies hung on gallows in slave camps to dry - until a new victim was hung up.

The foremen monitored the whole process of labor, they did not carry weapons, no matter what weapons they carried, one man had no chance of winning against fifty people, and if they resisted, they would only let the weapons fall into the hands of the rioters.

As a backing, at least one squad of soldiers was assigned to perform in the vicinity of any place where slaves worked in groups

Vigilance missions. Armed violence can be thrown into at any time. Sentinels on the hillsides and towers on top of the hill kept a telescope on every corner of the mines and valleys - they were ordered to shoot at any "suspicious" slave at any time.

At first, the work efficiency of the slaves was not high, but after a few days, the slaves thoroughly understood the employment policy of the "thief", and the production efficiency immediately increased. In fact, the efficiency of slave labor in the mines and roadbed works in Sanya was much higher than the estimates of many skeptical patriarchs of slave labor. In this regard, the former HR officers at the Planning Institute do not believe that this is the result of the adoption of high-pressure policies, and the key is that effective labor management is carried out.

"If a sweatshop with at least human rights can be settled, can a slave who does not even have the right to live be settled?" Zai, a veteran of HR who used to work in a sweatshop, said, "The labor efficiency of slaves is really so bad, and the southern slave owners are full of food and spend a lot of money to buy slaves from Africa, so what are they going to do to fight a war for this?" ”

With the arrival of the first batch of Southeast Asian slaves, Sanya finally had a requisite for consumption. Of course, there are still very few slaves and not enough large-scale consumption, but at least they have been able to free the naturalized workers from some of the most dangerous and arduous work. During their meeting, Quark and Wang Luobin said that by the end of March 1631, he could guarantee the importation of 1,500 slaves per month. If more investors can be found, the supply of goods from Batavia is guaranteed, and 2,000 people per month will not be a problem.

Wang Luobin made a rough calculation: 1,500 per month. It can reach 15,000 people in 10 months from March ~ December. By the end of the year, excluding a certain amount of permanent attrition, the entire Sanya should have 10,000 slaves. Not only is it enough to ensure the mining task of Tiandu, but it can also be used to mine manganese ore and phosphate ore in Damao, and at the same time, a considerable part of the labor force can be used for ports, roads and other infrastructure.

Compared to the fact that the Planning Institute can only allocate manpower little by little, and has to take into account the accident rate and mortality rate per 10,000 tons, it is really refreshing to use slave labor. As long as the Planning Institute can allocate enough sugar and rum to Sanya in exchange for slaves, labor will no longer be a shortcoming restricting development.

It has been more than two months since the mine began mining at the end of October. Despite the shortage of labor and the intermittent supply of explosives, by mid-January 1631, the iron ore mined from the Huangniling open-pit mine had formed several small hills about ten meters high in the stockpile. At this pace, the conditions for the official opening of a regular iron ore freight route between Lingao and Sanya have been met - although the first batch of iron ore will be shipped a month later than Wang Luobin expected.

For the transportation of iron ore, the railway extending from the mine to the Anyoule Pier has been built, but the terminal loading and unloading equipment is not yet in place. Without rubber, there would be no most convenient and effective belt conveyor, and the manufacturing director department could only try to produce a chain dumper. This equipment was supposed to be installed and commissioned by the end of December 1630, due to the quality of the chain

, until the end of the New Year, the equipment has not been seen.

Ji Runzhi inspects the ongoing infrastructure construction site in the Jinling Industrial Zone. The site is still a barren hillside. Ji Yuan was using instruments to carry out surveying and mapping, and Ji Shu was holding the benchmark. This is the Jinjiling area on the west side of Tiandu Town, although it is called "Ling", it is actually a gentle slope with a small slope, with a large area of flat land, and there is a river water supply of the Sanya River with abundant water nearby, and it is more convenient to develop the manufacturing industry.

Industrial enterprises in Sanya: coconut processing factory, soap factory, food factory...... All of these industrial enterprises were to start construction in 1631 and be put into production that year. In particular, the coconut oil production at the coconut processing plant is a much-needed project for the Lingao industrial system, which is short of materials and full of bottlenecks.

"I don't know how these guys are having a good New Year." Ji Runzhi stupidly wrote down a few key points in his notebook -- if it weren't for the further in-depth refinement of the Sanya development plan, there would be no need for him to stay in Sanya, but he considered that when he returned for the Chinese New Year, he would inevitably have a large set of public and private affairs activities such as debriefing, writing reports, and entertaining, so he did not have much time to compile the master plan for Sanya's development.

If the plan cannot be adjusted in time, it will bring a lot of trouble to the following construction - especially the material distribution and large-scale equipment scheduling of the Planning Institute, Zuihou Ji Runzhi decided not to return to Lingao in the New Year, but to stay in Sanya to continue to prepare and revise the plan.

Sanya's planning in the past was quite simple, and there were many unreasonable points, especially in the layout of Sanya, after Ji Runzhi arrived in Sanya, he compiled a new overall plan for Sanya.

The first is that he modified the use of Ann Amusement. The old plan was to build Anyoule into a port and trade city, as a model for crossing the country. However, after on-the-spot investigation and research, Ji Runzhirun believes that the area of this flat land is too small, this land is slightly more than 1 kilometer long from north to south, and more than 600 meters wide from east to west. In the new plan, the status of Anyoule was greatly reduced, and it was only used as a dedicated port for the export of iron ore.

The location of Sanya City, Ji Runzhi believes that it is still in accordance with the layout of the old time and space, and chooses the estuary of the Sanya River. Although the Sanya estuary cannot be used as a large port, there is a large area of flat open space around it, which is suitable for the construction of the city. As the living and commercial center of the entire Sanya Special Economic Zone. The Sanya estuary is used as a small fishing port......

Military and port functions are centered on Yulin Fort and are arranged along the east side of Gouling Mountain and the west side of Yulin Port. The coastline here is 5 kilometers long, and it was the location of the Yulin Military Port in the old time and space, and it was also used to build an army and naval base and a large commercial port in this time and space. At the same time, a large-scale cargo warehousing and logistics center is arranged.

To the southwest of Yulinbao, the slopes of the Dadonghai-Luhuitou area are zoned as future resorts and recuperation areas. Although the Senate has no intention of building in this area at this stage, it is possible to protect the local vegetation and ecology from being polluted by industry and shipping.

Although there are mountains in the area of the Great East China Sea, but

The mountain is very low, in fact, it is a traffic channel connecting the Yulin base and Sanya City, and it is not difficult to build a road or even a railway connecting the two places.

The role of Tiandu remains the same: in addition to being the seat of the Mining Bureau, it will also form the industrial center of Sanya with the Jinling Industrial Zone to the west.