Survival: food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

Kim Cora wasn't in a very good mood. The reason for this lies in the fact that the committee "attaches great importance to agricultural work" and that the people regard food as their heaven and do not first find a way to solve the grain problem. In his view, this is all because the committee is full of "contractors, bureaucrats" and other people who "don't understand science". In a month's time, the soybean planting season in South America will begin, and the 200 bags of Northeast soybeans in the cargo hold are well preserved and can be sown as seeds. The land here is so fertile, it is completely uncultivated virgin land, and the harvest will be good next year.

Until yesterday noon, he was still ambitious and ready to do a big job. He was busy burning wasteland, clearing land, digging ditches, explaining the characteristics of soybeans to his subordinates, and training them in agricultural knowledge.

Unfortunately, all this came to an abrupt end at noon on October 7. Ma Ganzu, an "idler" and "bureaucrat", forcibly took most of the manpower from him under the pretext of mining limestone. The lime kiln and cement kiln have not yet appeared, so the limestone is mined first. It made him almost crook his nose.

"It's all shit!" Jinkora spat the ground and continued to dig deep into the field with an iron pickaxe, "I don't even know how to make a farm implement, I don't know science at all." ”

"Captain, these acres of land have been watered, can you sow seeds?" Zheng Bin, a high school student with pimples on his face, ran over and asked with his face up.

Zheng Bin, this young man, is more realistic, let him do whatever he wants, Jin Kela still likes it.

"Well, that's fine. The acres of leeks on the left are the bags of black seeds, don't take it wrong. The lime-sprinkled acre on the right is planted with amaranth, which prefers alkaline soil. Grandma's, the lime is kind of useful. "Both acres of land are sprinkled with plant ash, remember, leeks are watered every two days, and amaranth is not watered." When my acre of land is neatly organized, you can bring the green vegetable seeds again, and we will plant them too. ”

"Yo, old gold, it's kind of like doing farm work." A young man with black-rimmed glasses walked up to him with a laugh and a bicycle, "Agricultural University is not in vain." ”

"Go, go!" Jin Cora didn't have a good breath and said, "Why are you Languo all the way here?" Fix me a digester? ”

"How is that possible?" The glasses man Lan Guo smiled bitterly, "I'll give you the tree fence." There are many trees on the logging team that are not suitable for processing into boards, and Commissioner Liu asked me to pull them over for you and enclose the seedling fields first. These vegetable seeds are important to us and are non-renewable resources for a short period of time. To put it mildly, it is more important than people, and you have to take care of it. No, I'll bring someone to build a fence for you. Your place is too far away from the freighter, Wang Qinian will bring people in tonight, and he will be responsible for security in the future. ”

"It's still Committee Member Liu who understands science." Jin Cora said, and then asked, "When will the biogas digester be repaired?" In the future, farming will require farm fertilizer. ”

"There's no material." Lan Guo spread his hands, "Although the committee has a little cement and bricks in their hands, Shao Shude is still there in the morning shouting that it is not enough to repair the chimney bricks, how can it be assigned to other places." So you can wait for the first batch of bricks to be burned in the brick kiln. ”

"No matter how many batches of bricks I burn, it won't be my turn." Jin Kola was a little discouraged, "Housing, toilets, canteens, bathhouses, office buildings, aqueducts, cisterns, cement kilns, lime kilns and even building walls, which one should not use bricks and cement, wait until the Year of the Monkey." ”

The man with glasses sneered, he didn't tell Jin Cora that not all the bricks and cement in the hands of the committee were given to Shao Shude to repair the kiln, and Duncan, who had worked in the waterworks for many years, was presiding over the construction of a simple water purification facility under the "key care" of the committee.

At present, the main source of water for the crossing is several small streams on the north bank of the river, which converge in a low-lying area to form a large wetland. The wetland is about 500 meters away from the river bank, the water quality is very good, and the amount of water is also considerable, but the distance is a little far, and the water is not very convenient and not very hygienic. Duncan then proposed to the committee a plan for the excavation of an aqueduct and the construction of a water purification facility, which was quickly approved.

The committee not only transferred most of the construction team to him, but also transferred a batch of precious cement and building materials. After a day's hard work yesterday, a sedimentation tank 25 meters long, 5 meters wide and 4 meters deep has been dug, and today the excavation of the filter tank and reservoir has begun.

The source of the water is naturally the wetland stream, which is fed into the sedimentation tank through an aqueduct about 100 meters long. Due to the generally high water table here, the canal was temporarily muddy and then bricked when the conditions improved. The inlet and outlet of the sedimentation tank are blocked by wooden planks, and after the slow-flowing stream water enters the sedimentation tank, the sediment and other substances in the water will naturally settle under the action of gravity, and then enter the filter tank through the outlet.

The filter tank is divided into two layers, and the bottom of the first layer is covered with coarse sand, which is used to filter large particles of suspended solids; A layer of fine sand is spread at the bottom to filter fine particles. The filtered water is stored in an open structure covered with wooden planks to prevent dust from falling and evaporating.

This kind of purification measure is actually extremely primitive and rudimentary, first of all, the water source lacks a coagulation process, and when it comes out, there is also a lack of disinfection process, but in the current lack of alum and chlorine, this can only be done.

All three pools are reinforced concrete, and the project consumes a large amount of steel and cement at the Commission's disposal. But when it comes to the health of the traversal, no one says anything.

Compared with the "extravagant" materials used in water purification facilities, the construction of public toilets, another livelihood project, is not satisfactory. The simple toilet built on the north bank of the river is really "simple" to the extreme, it is simply a pit dug in the ground, and then a few wooden planks are placed on it, and some reeds and thatch are spread on the top, and the men and women are also separated by wooden boards. There are no leakage prevention measures, fortunately it is far from the drinking water source, the problem is not big, and the health department regularly disinfects it with lime. When the official toilet is built, what awaits this improvised temporary toilet will be landfilled.

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Shao Shude now has a headache, and he has tried to save bricks as much as possible when repairing the kiln, but now he finds that the remaining bricks for building the chimney are still insufficient. There is no way, you can only engage in a mixed structure of bricks and stones, bricks can save a piece is a piece, it is really not good, and then reduce the height of the chimney.

In his original plan, the chimney of this small brick kiln was 20 meters high, and the height of 20 meters would ensure that there was enough pressure difference between the top and bottom of the chimney to facilitate the exhaust gases. Now it seems that this plan is very unrealistic, and it seems that it will be up to the sky if you build ten meters.

Now his command has skyrocketed to 30 people, except for the 10 people who repair the chimney, the rest are "playing with mud" to make bricks. In the morning, the construction team sent a few people to build him some shaded brick sheds, and brought some tarpaulins and thatch. The bricks cannot be exposed to rain or sun, so they must be placed in a shed to dry naturally, and it is best to cover them with some thatch and rain cloth, just in case.

The size of the brick is 240×115×53mm (length× width × height). After retrieving the clay, carefully remove the debris inside, and then grind the mature soil. After mixing the cooked soil with water, it is formed in a wooden mold, and then stacked in a shed to dry. Each brick is ventilated at a certain distance from each other to make it easier to balance the moisture in the brick.

The bricks are generally dried in the shade for half a month, and they can be fired in the kiln. With this small earthen kiln of Shao Shudeli, more than 12,000 bricks are burned at a time, and the annual output of 1.4 million bricks is calculated based on 3 days of burning. In fact, the production capacity cannot be so high, limited by various factors, this kiln can produce 1 million bricks per year, Shao Shude will wake up with a smile in his dreams.

And to repair a house for the crossers, a three-room bungalow costs almost 20,000 bricks, and the annual production capacity is enough to build fifty houses. Moreover, there are so many places where bricks are used nowadays that it is impossible to go all of them to the houses built by the traversers, and of course, the three-room house is indeed too extravagant for the committee to approve it.

"It seems that continuing to build more kilns and expanding production capacity is the right way." Shao Shude sighed, "I hope the good weather can be maintained in the past few days, so that I can also fire the first batch of bricks as soon as possible." ”

The progress of the logging team's work today was extremely slow, and many of them were blistering on their hands and grinning in pain when they picked up axes. Coupled with the faint movement in the woods and the heart-rending barking of the wolf and green dogs, everyone's spirit was highly tense. Peng Zhicheng suspected that the Indians were snooping on the people, but he did not dare to search deeply, so he had to observe carefully and strengthen his vigilance. Fortunately, this forest is relatively sparse, so as long as you keep your eyes open, you don't have to worry about anything.

A pontoon bridge was built between the banks of the river with tall logs, and the rows of logs were firmly tied together with sturdy vines soaked in oil, and it was no problem for a dozen or twenty people to walk. Xiao Mingli and Liu Dafa carried a piece of wood and staggered to the other side. The first few two-knife carpenters in the woodworking plant with a group of "apprentices" were in full swing to process the boards, which were basically taken away by the workers who were waiting to build simple wooden houses as soon as the boards were processed.

After most of the day, the number of simple wooden houses in the residential area increased to fifteen. The wooden houses are arranged in a tight line, as this saves the timber of a wall. A tall lookout post was erected behind the side of the wooden house, and a young man in a blue "Beiyang New Army" uniform was holding a telescope and observing the surroundings from the lookout post. A similar lookout post is being built on the south bank of the river, between the brick kiln and the lumber yard.

Smoke rose from the canteen not far away, and Xiao Bailang and a group of part-time fishermen were returning from the river with a huge amount of catch. Looking at this situation, Xiao Mingli actually had a feeling of quietness, and the exhaustion all over his body seemed to dissolve in an instant.