"It's down!" Xiao Mingli roared and used all his strength to cut down the most axe.

With the sound of "snorting", an oak tree more than ten meters high fell to the ground, splashing smoke and dust all over the ground.

"How many are they?" Liu Dafa handed over a cigarette. Xiao Mingli was not polite, he ordered it directly, took a deep breath, and sighed with satisfaction: "The third tree." ”

Liu Dafa was a salesman in a company before he crossed over, and he was very unsatisfactory because of his average communication skills. For a while, he and Xiao Mingli lived together, and the two with similar personalities came and went and established some relationships.

"What do you say......" Liu Dafa hesitated for a long time and said, "Do you say that we really crossed." I still can't believe it, but the wave of Indians I met yesterday doesn't look like a fake. ”

"Can that still be fake?! You have also seen the corpse, there are still Indians dressed like this in these years? Xiao Mingli looked up at the sky, "We were still sailing on the Yangtze River when we had an accident, but in the blink of an eye, we were here." Where is this? Seaside! Southern Hemisphere! ”

Xiao Mingli was a little speechless, this person was unlucky like this, he stuffed his teeth when he drank cold water. I finally took a leave of absence and took a ship back to my hometown to visit relatives. I thought this journey was a rare enjoyment, but who knew that God arranged for you to perform such a play.

Liu Dafa was also a little speechless, looked at the sun hanging in the northern sky, and thought about the situation when the wooden arrows of the Indians shot at them yesterday, and couldn't help but shudder.

"Don't overthink it!" Xiao Mingli is a person who is at ease with what happens, things are already like this, it is better to settle down with peace of mind. He patted Liu Dafa on the shoulder and comforted: "The ship has loaded a lot of food, which is enough for 568 of us to eat for a long time." Let's get to work first, and don't think about what you don't have. ”

"Jingle bell!" A "Beiyang Army" dressed in a blue military uniform, embroidered with dragon patterns on his cuffs, and wearing sunglasses, rode a bicycle slowly, carrying a high-precision hunting crossbow on his body, and crossbow arrows and steel balls were placed in the basket. This is the department that was officially established only last evening - the garrison team.

After Peng Zhicheng's efforts, the number of personnel in the garrison team was finally set at 62. Peng Zhicheng served as the captain, and Wang Qinian temporarily served as the vice captain. The squad is divided into 4 squads of 15 people each, all of whom are issued with high-precision hunting crossbows. One of the squads is a fast-mobile unit equipped with mountain bikes, which is responsible for patrolling around the perimeter. Two of the remaining three "infantry squads" are arranged around the logging team, one on the left and one on the right, to closely guard the safety of the logging team, and the other is deployed on a construction site on the north bank of the river. Two telescopes are also issued to each class, which are kept by the principal and deputy squad leaders.

Only a few saws and a dozen axes were found in the cabin, and the logging team worked in pairs, using these backward tools. In addition, most of them are new hands, and they are afraid of injury or damage to the equipment, so the progress is not very fast. In the morning, there were only sixty or seventy trees piled up in the yard on the bank of the river. The trees are removed from the yard and then transported across the river to the opposite bank of the barricade, where a group of people specialize in processing the fresh timber into planks.

It stands to reason that fresh wood must be dried in the shade or dried before it can be used, otherwise the wood will be deformed and bent in the future, but at present, it is not much of a problem to build a simple wooden house for temporary living. In the committee's plan, in the future, everyone's housing will be brick houses. Burning bricks is not a high-tech work, set up a clay kiln, and then find some clay to make bricks, and burn directly after drying, which is very convenient.

In this part of Uruguay, according to the "expert" Gaumo, there are many rocks with calcium carbonate as the main component, such as limestone and marble. It happened that there was a small hill with limestone as the rock mass on the south bank of the river, and Shao Shude was very excited when he found it in the morning. With limestone, then cement can be fired by the soil method. This substance, known as "artificial pozzolana cement", is more resistant to corrosion than ordinary Portland cement and can harden in air and water when mixed with slaked lime, making it particularly suitable for wet or underground environments.

Maybe it was an explosion of character, and at noon he found another piece of clay land, and now it was all done. Shao Shude was excited, and decided to immediately go to the rest of the committee members to discuss the allocation of manpower, and strive to erect the brick kiln and lime kiln first.

The north bank of the river. Lao Zheng, the cook on the freighter, and a group of elderly uncles and aunts are cooking for everyone. In the morning, Lao Zhang, the owner of the tugboat, took a group of relatives to catch some fish in the river, and the quantity was not very large, so they boiled several large pots of soup together, and each person shared a small bowl. The main dish is white rice, and the side dish is canned luncheon meat. There is enough white rice, and one canned food per person.

After Shao Shude finished eating, he found the rest of the committee members, and said while picking up the rice: "You have to allocate manpower for me, and let Xiaoqian be responsible for the simple housing, anyway, he also studied architectural design." I'm going to erect the brick kiln first, and now I'm going to build it everywhere, and I need bricks everywhere. Lime kilns and cement kilns should also be carried out as soon as possible, and with these things, many constructions can be carried out quickly. ”

"What materials do you need for a vertical kiln?" Vest asked.

"It's mainly bricks, and it's all about building kiln walls, chimneys, fire pits, well, and refractory powder. If you are particular, it is better to have some refractory insulation materials. ”

"There are a few bricks, and a lot of them are refractory bricks. But it definitely can't be all given to you, and in the future, refractory bricks will be required for iron and steelmaking. You know the importance of steelmaking, it's the foundation of our survival! Everything else has to be put aside. "Ma Jia is a skilled man, and what he has always been obsessed with is his steel industry.

"It doesn't take much. I'm going to build a small earthen kiln now, and I'm going to use it. After all, this kind of small earthen kiln is a backward thing, and the energy consumption is high, so we still have to consider the upper wheel kiln or even the tunnel kiln in the future. Shao Shude automatically filtered out the second half of the vest, and he knew that this person was a skilled man, and his business quality was quite good, but he was a little worse off in the world.

"Where can we deploy manpower now?" Ma Qianzu sighed "heavily", but the corner of his eye quietly glanced at Liu Weimin.

How could Liu Weimin not understand Ma Qianzu's careful thoughts, but now is the time when everyone needs to work together, and he doesn't bother to care, if he wants to be this evil person, he will do it, at least for everyone. "We have a total of 352 young and middle-aged male workers. The 62 people of the garrison team were removed, 10 people were left behind on the freighter, and 280 people were left to call up the labor force. At present, 50 people are assigned to the logging team and 12 people are involved in timber processing; The construction team of 60 people is mainly laying foundations, digging cisterns and toilets; 10 people for sanitation and epidemic prevention and disinfection; 10 members of the fishing team; 20 people were built to build simple wooden houses, which was mainly due to the lack of supply of boards; The rest are burned by agricultural teams, leveling the land, and digging ditches. Liu Weimin took stock and felt that the manpower of the agricultural team was too much, "Why don't you transfer people from the agricultural team?" ”

"Burning waste can be handed over to women to do, and not very urgent work can also be put aside first." Ma Qianzu achieved his goal, and immediately followed, "80 people from the agricultural team are transferred out, Lao Shao, it is enough for you to set up such a small kiln for ten people, and I will take the rest of the people to mine limestone, how about it?" Ma Ganzu had long had a sense of crisis in his work of managing everything and not caring about anything, and now that he has the opportunity, he naturally wants to do more to strengthen his right to speak.

This proposal is in the heart of Shao Shude, the importance of limestone is incomparable, and the work can be carried out after mining a day earlier.

Wang Qinian and Xiao Bailang are indispensable, and Liu Weimin is a little worried about the reaction of Jin Kela, the captain of the agricultural team. Considering that these materials will be needed in the blast furnace in the future, Ma Jia naturally agreed. Peng Zhicheng raised his hands in favor of it, because cement masonry houses and fences can greatly improve defense capabilities.

The resolution was adopted immediately. After eating, Shao Shude and Ma Qianzu went to the agricultural team to ask for someone, although Jin Kela was very reluctant, but he also knew the seriousness of the way, so he had to release him.

Shao Shude selected three people with experience as masons and seven small workers, and went to choose a site for the kiln. The location of the kiln is set on the south bank of the river, because it is convenient to take soil. Ma Ganzu's mining team moved all the bricks, refractory powder, and cement needed to build the kiln, and then left a group of people to help Shao Shude level the bottom of the kiln, and the rest continued to mine in the southwest. The mining team will operate in two shifts, one mining and one with a hunting crossbow to rest and keep watch.

With the help of the mining team, the bottom of the kiln was leveled quickly. Next, Shao Shude instructed the small workers to start mixing refractory slurry, and then personally laid the bottom of the kiln and built the kiln wall with several masons. The work was not very heavy, and by the evening the bottom of the kiln and the fire pit had been paved, and the kiln walls were half completed. The next project also has kiln doors, kiln door tunnels, chimneys, flues, slope feeding ports, ceilings, etc., in addition to making clay bricks, building bricks and dry sheds, which can not be completed in a day or two, you have to take your time.

The progress of the simple wooden houses was slow, and it took half a day to build five or six of them. Qian Hao was so anxious, but he was helpless, the supply of plates couldn't keep up. At present, there are only about 20 saws and axes in the logging team, and there are many new hands, so the logging speed has always started, and the corresponding board processing speed has been restricted.

The cut branches, bark and scraps of wood are collected by the women and stored as fuel. After all, a lot of fuel is required to burn bricks next, and it is estimated that everyone will be distressed and will not agree to use coal. At present, there are only a few thousand tons of coal, and there are many places where coal will be used in the future, and a little bit can be saved before there is no new source of coal. In addition, women also organized collection teams, lawn mowing teams, etc., to do some work within their ability to collect food, firewood and grass.

When the last rays of sunlight were about to disappear into the horizon on October 8, hundreds of people scattered along the banks of the river began to gather their things in an orderly manner. Due to the slow pace of construction of simple wooden houses, most people are currently confined to boats. The lumberyards and limestone mines on the south bank of the river will be left unguarded, and the tools of labor will be stored in the brick kilns and will be collected tomorrow when the work begins. Two sheds were built with wooden planks on the side of the brick kiln, and a squad of guards remained here to prevent anyone from destroying the brick yard. Lao Zhang's son, Xiao Zhang, led a wolf and green dog named "Little Tiger" to strengthen the guard here. As for the north bank of the river, a squad of garrisons was also stationed, and the residence was a few simple wooden houses built during the day, and Lao Zhang led the wolf and green dog "Huahua" to sit in charge himself.

"During the day, the logging team damaged two saws." At the work summary meeting in the evening, Ma Jia introduced it to everyone quite painfully. "Not only that, but the logging team also had two arm straines, and I am afraid that they will have to recuperate for a while. Many people have blistered hands, and tomorrow's logging will probably be slower. "The logging team is in charge of the vest, and the vest is used to doing heavy work in the steel mill, which is really nothing to him, but unfortunately he has a bunch of new hands under him, many of whom are office otaku.

Next, several committee members talked about the work they were in charge of and coordinated and exchanged views with each other. Peng Zhicheng and Wang Qinian are in charge of safety work, so naturally there is not much to talk about.

Xiao Bailang worked as a fisherman for a day today, but unfortunately the catch was limited, and he was going to go fishing further up the river tomorrow, but unfortunately the rest of the committee members were worried about safety and had to give up.

Ma Ganzu talked about today's limestone mining, and his subordinates are also a group of novices with a serious lack of experience, and they can only explore and mine at the same time. After talking about the most lucrative, he was asked by Shao Shude to borrow a group of people.

Because from tomorrow, Shao Shude will prepare bricks for burning bricks. According to the current weather in Uruguay, Shao Shude estimates that it will take half a month to dry in the shade before it can be stacked into the kiln to burn, which needs to be prepared in advance.

Liu Weimin is in charge of logistics and agricultural work, and agriculture is currently mainly in charge of the head of the agricultural team, Jin Kola, so he does not need to worry about it. His main job recently is to collect firewood and grass with a group of women's soldiers. Because according to Shao Shude's calculations, the small brick kiln currently under construction burns bricks once, and if it is burned at 900-1000 °C for 3-4 days, it will take tens of thousands of catties of firewood and grass. This is a very terrible number, and the total amount of wild grass, branches, and bark collected every day is less than 1,000 catties. The small brick kiln is almost a few days away from completion, and after completion, it will be about ten days before the first batch of bricks can be burned, and the time is still quite tight.

Everyone chatted for a while, and then they dispersed, after all, they were very tired after a day of work, and they still had a lot of things to do tomorrow.