Chapter 56 Infrastructure

The next day, the supermarket has been largely completed, in fact, it is very simple, completely open-air operation, each stall is a small shed, but today is not at all like yesterday, overcrowded, today this is like a ghost domain, except for the intern of the business class: Wei Deqiang is busy before and after the dispatch staff, there is no one in the people, which is too unexpected.

Yang Qi looked at the scene in front of him, everything that is abnormal is a demon, there is something wrong here!

"Someone!" Yang Qi shouted.

"Yes." Gao Chengzhen stepped forward and said.

"According to yesterday's list, I went door-to-door to investigate the situation, why didn't I come after the declaration?" Yang Qi said a little angrily.

"Yes!" Gao Chengzhen immediately arranged for his subordinates to go forward.

Yang Qi has a lot of things, can not be delayed here, since this matter is stranded, and the funds in hand are in place, then start with the infrastructure of the grange, first according to the difficult households in the city provided by Wei Dayong and the household class, recruit manpower from it, clean up the domestic garbage in the city, transport it to the outside of the city for centralized incineration, and then sell the burning materials to the farmers of the grange as fertilizer, the domestic garbage in this period is completely composed of organic matter, The leftovers such as swill are recycled to feed poultry or turned into pig feed, so these domestic garbage after high temperature disinfection, is a good inorganic ion fertilizer, convenient for crops to absorb, and the money from selling fertilizer can be used to supplement the city's sanitation work.

The first work content of the work class is to rebuild the roads and other infrastructure in the grange, Yang Qi emphasized the importance of the drainage system, all the streets and alleys must have drainage canals, the laying inside must establish a roadbed, on this basis to lay a large bluestone, so that Yang Qi did not expect that the brick kiln technology at this time has been very developed, convenient, what he did not expect is the fired bluestone slab, not only convenient and very good quality, can withstand a full load of carriages from above, This can solve a big problem of Yang Qi, the green brick refining in the grange is often on the verge of bankruptcy because of the scarcity of orders, but I didn't expect such a large order not only to save the brick smelter, but also to stimulate it to expand its business, the brick smelter began to recruit a large number of workers, production, it recruited some bankrupt farmers in the grange have become full-time workers, to solve some social problems, paving also needs workers, Ma Tingyin suggested that Yang Qi directly recruit forced labor, free labor, was rejected by Yang Qi, and issued a notice, From now on, Yang Qi ruled the jurisdiction, exempted from all forced labor, changed to paid recruitment, and unified management to solve the problem of food and accommodation, for a time Yang Qi's prestige in the grange skyrocketed, the call to support him came and went, this call for another person fell into a panic, he did not expect that he had been "educated" for many years The hearts of the people were so hot.

The engineering class is not only in charge of infrastructure construction, but also responsible for the exploration of iron ore, saltpeter mines, coal mines, water conservancy facilities construction, etc., to ask Yang Qi so many departments, the busiest only one of the work class, for this Yang Qi recruited more than 20 people for the work class, respectively, to undertake the organization and follow-up work of each project, the work class not only has scholars but also craftsmen, they did not expect that they could one day reach the salary of the county, but also work with these talents, their own sense of professional honor was instantly stimulated, These craftsmen are really spontaneously working overtime and working hard day and night, and the scholars are compared to each other, and at the same time, it also stimulates the arrogance in their bones, people in other departments usually walk briskly to increase work efficiency, and people in the work class are completely moving forward by running, and colleagues in other classes are hiding from them when they see them, for fear of being accidentally bumped into.

Under the passion of work is the continuous improvement of efficiency, iron ore, saltpeter mine, sulfur, coal and other locations, are marked on Yang Qi's map in turn, at this time the Grange has been seriously insufficient, Yang Qi found Yang Yue, let him send people to Muzhuang, recruit relevant practitioners, after a short period of training can be on the job, then completely recruit displaced people to complete, but all foreign refugees, all registered military households, willing to come, unwilling to retreat!

In the Ming Dynasty, the military household was the most inferior household registration in addition to the lowly registration, and the children of the military household were not allowed to take the imperial examination, and in the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to change the household registration, only the downgrade was easy, such as the civilian registration to the craftsman or the military registration. Even so, Yang Qi still harvested more than 1,000 strong men and their families, and a total of more than 4,000 people moved to the Grange, which was not rich, and the Grange was facing a huge test: building a city! This is also a huge test for Yang Qi, everything has a sequence, Yang Qi must produce firecrackers as soon as possible, but the production of firecrackers must be iron-making, and the best material is nothing more than steel, both ductility and toughness are much stronger than the physical properties of iron, and it is not easy to blow up, and the biggest problem in steelmaking in this era is the furnace temperature, if you want to increase the furnace temperature, you must coke, so the first coal mine was mined, coincidentally on the hill on the side of the Grange near the Gaobai Mountain, there is a coal mine, the iron ore is located between the coal mine and the Gaobai Mountain, There is a big river named Huaining River thirty miles to the south of the iron mine, because of the mountainous reasons, there is a relatively large drop here, forming a small waterfall, here is the best place to build a waterwheel, the mountains on both sides, so that a small canyon is formed here, there is a large open land next to it, just to build a variety of workshops.

Soon there was a team of more than 300 people gathered here, in the next few days, a steady stream of wood from the Gaobai Mountains transported, huge special bluestone was also fired out and transported here, the number of people continued to increase, the number of people in less than three days has exceeded 1,000 people, with the workers to come, there are many new military women and the elderly, they were assigned to the job of paddle laundry and cooking, the same daily wages, is the steady progress of the project here, Yang Qi and explained some precautions, safety production and other detailed rules, And he returned to the Grange.

The latest edition of the Yellow Book made by Wei Dayong and Hu Jiao has a total population of more than 7,700 people, including more than 2,600 people in Chengding, more than 800 elderly people, a relatively large female population, more than 3,200 people, and more than 900 children, which is three times the number of people in the Yellow Book provided by Ma Tingyin! Now that the population is booming again, it seems that the work of the household school will be busy for some time.

When Yang Qi returned to the Grange, Gao Chengzhen had already investigated the situation of the merchants and stall owners who had not come by registration.