Chapter 695: The Founding of Vladivostok
800,000 materials, converted into tons, there are hundreds of thousands of tons, aside from the transportation personnel, there are more than 100,000 tons of materials alone, although these materials are not enough for the construction of the entire city, but they are almost the same.
At present, the port is far from being built, but the temporary port that can accommodate the dock of ships has been built, and in this temporary port, it can supply more than 6 large ships with more than 10,000 materials, and dock and unload at the same time.
Personnel is the easiest, as long as there is a ship, you can automatically come down, and the belongings you carry will follow them, those materials, in the face of sufficient manpower, are not a problem, the key is a variety of machinery and equipment.
To build a new city, a lot of equipment is needed, and this is not the early stage of the establishment of the Dinghai Navy, at that time, the Dinghai Navy has just been established and does not have anything.
Now the Dinghai Navy has been established for a long time, and it has developed quite well in all aspects, especially in infrastructure construction.
Up to now, Dinghai has completed the urbanization construction of Dinghai Island, which has a population of more than 10 million, and the city's style is not much worse than those megacities in later generations, except that there are no skyscrapers above 100 meters, more than 40 meters, and even 50 meters of buildings abound.
Later, the construction of Ryukyu, Jeju Island, and Hokkaido began, except for the Ryukyus, which were more attentive and better, and the other places were only rough development, but a huge living circle spanning 25 million people and growing at an alarming rate every year, the construction efforts were very large.
Zhao Xin knew that some things in later generations, such as tower cranes, construction tools, and some convenient small tools, were all made out, except because there was no breakthrough in hydraulics and power, bulldozers and excavators, and there was no way to make them, and the construction of the navy was quite mechanized.
This is also the key to ensure the speed of construction, set the navy in 4 years, from a border island, to develop into a super modern city, the efficiency of this construction is very high.
At present, in the vicinity of Vladivostok, a land of about 20 square kilometers has been found before, which is somewhat insufficient to build a super-large-scale city, but a border port and turnover city, there is no problem.
50,000 construction troops, more than 5,000 sets of various machinery, as well as cement and steel bars suitable for construction and solidification in the alpine zone, it can be said unceremoniously that only construction is needed.
More than 50,000 people, divided into more than 800 different engineering teams, began the construction work, although it is a new huge city, but there is no need to build a city defense, at most, set up 8 fortresses next to it, you can protect the city to it.
In the Liaodong Peninsula, you have to worry about whether you will encounter the superior cavalry of the Liao State, but this is in the northeast, or even the northeast that is already close to the ocean, around, there are only nomads and Jurchens, and even in a sense, the Jurchens are not very active in this place.
Most of the Jurchen tribes are in the mountains, mostly active in the white mountains and black waters, and the distance here is still a little far, and there are only some simple tribes around, and there are not many powerful ones.
At the same time, the first batch of 100,000 troops landed in 8 directions, and the combat effectiveness of the army with thermal weapons, as long as you are careful not to be close to the cavalry, is invincible in this era.
Efficiency, specifications, speed, these are the eternal topics of the navy, countless workers, like worker ants, crazy construction, one by one buildings rise from the ground, the first is a few huge buildings.
With the steel structure as the main body, thousands of tons of steel are used just now, and a large building is constructed, and such buildings are the most numerous in the new city.
Even in the 21st century, Vladivostok, developed by Russia, as one of Russia's largest ports and large cities in the Far East, has a total population of only 600,000 people.
This has something to do with the total population of Russia, which is a little smaller, but to a certain extent, it is also related to the degree to which Vladivostok can be accommodated.
According to current estimates, Vladivostok can accommodate between 1 million and 1.2 million people.
This greatly restricts some of the characteristics of Vladivostok, the huge city, not only needs enough territory to accommodate industry and agriculture, the same, also needs the support of the surroundings, the navy is a special case, that is in Zhao Xin's full support, absorbing the nutrition of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, which was developed, Vladivostok, naturally does not have this condition.
In terms of positioning, Dinghai has positioned him as a port, a storage base and a logistics base, so a warehouse that can store materials is the best choice.
At the same time, to quickly build a large city, the masonry structure is not as fast as the steel structure, as long as the steel is sufficient, all kinds of auxiliary equipment are complete, about 3 months to complete the construction of a 5000 square meters of 3-storey large warehouse.
Of course, the materials of these steel structures are not used by the navy, because considering the problem of high cold in the north, the bricks on the exterior wall, the windows, and even the steel structure itself will take into account the problem of keeping warm, which will also slow down the overall speed.
50,000 people are working like crazy, all kinds of prototypes have appeared, and Vladivostok has turned from a wasteland by the sea into a large construction site, almost every day.
At the same time, the speed of high-speed construction of Vladivostok is still accelerating, because the follow-up materials and personnel are constantly replenished, and when the second, third, and even fourth batch of ships arrives, the construction personnel of Vladivostok reached 200,000.
The average number of construction workers per square kilometer reached 10,000 people, what is the concept, there is one person almost every other section.
These people are not all involved in the construction of Vladivostok itself, when the initial construction that requires manpower is arranged in place, and the follow-up, only the details are needed, and there is no need to use various large machinery, leaving about half of the people to continue to complete the construction of Vladivostok, and the rest are sent out.
The Navy landed in August, and it took a month to build Vladivostok to the prototype, and then from September to mid-October, this one-and-a-half-month period was extraordinarily crucial.
The Northeast, the high-latitude region, into the solar calendar of October, the lunar calendar of September, the cold winter has arrived, this cold winter is very terrible, it is not ordinary people can bear it at all, outdoor construction, will also be reduced to the extreme.
At that time, even if the Navy has all kinds of warm clothes, but what to do with the frozen land, the frozen soil in winter will make the construction difficult, I don't know how much it will be raised, and then the work will be delayed in vain, and it will not work.
The last month and a half is the day when everything is decided, and what the navy has to do now is to build all kinds of roads on a large scale.
That's right, it's the roads, although these roads can't be compared with the high-grade roads on Dinghai Island, nor can they be compared with those in Haizhou, but they are at least equal and strong, and can allow large carriages or other vehicles to drive on them.
This is the key, the entire north of China, vast and boundless, not to mention Mongolia, even in the entire northeast, a Heilongjiang, there are 450,000 square kilometers of land, in the middle, not to be added, the land that was once taken by Russia, adding up to almost one million square kilometers.
The Northern Song Dynasty has a population of hundreds of millions and a huge production capacity, and his area is only more than 3 million, plus the northwest, plus Youyun, in fact, the increase is not much, the Youyun together, maybe 150,000 square kilometers, plus the 250,000 obtained by the northwest, it is only 400,000 square kilometers.
However, there are more than 400,000 in one Heilongjiang River, and if you add the Outer Xing'an Mountains and those north of the Heilongjiang River, it is one million, such a huge territory, hundreds of thousands of people, scattered into it, I am afraid that there will not even be a bubble, and there is no perfect transportation environment, so what to occupy.
The northern nomads, even the Liao State, their combat effectiveness, in front of the musket, it is all paper, if you are ready, you can't compete with the land force of the Dinghai Navy, but that is under the premise of complete logistics, if, if the logistics is insufficient, the musket and artillery, will become a burning stick, how much effect can the burning stick have, holding a rifle and fighting the cavalry, it is really an egg to hit a stone.
In order to avoid this situation, logistics is the key, although in the spring, the permafrost thaws and you can move, but the muddy land will have a huge impact on logistics, and roads must be built in advance.
Before, following the first batch of landing vanguard troops, there were about 30,000 people, following the road construction, with the help of various road repair machinery, plus the requirements for the road are not very high, as long as it can support two or three years, it is not a heavy-duty truck, but a horse-drawn carriage, this speed is very fast, in just one month, almost 400 kilometers of road through.
Almost along the direction of Vladivostok, to the west, a total of 5 roads were built, the farthest from Vladivostok has reached 110 kilometers, and now, 120,000 people have been added, and there are some heavy tools that are difficult to transport, the speed of construction has been significantly accelerated, and in the month and a half from September to mid-October, the efficiency has increased by more than 10 times compared with before.
In other words, in this one-and-a-half-month period, a total of 4,000 kilometers of roads have been completed, and the longest one is more than 220 kilometers away from Vladivostok.
This is not a short distance, you know, Harbin is only less than 500 kilometers away from Vladivostok, which is already halfway through.
With the support of roads, almost all of the 270 kilometers around Vladivostok were included in the management of the Dinghai Navy.
In such a huge, more than 40,000 square kilometers of land, in fact, the number of nomads is quite small, this piece of land, compared to the inland, is relatively fertile, but it seems not very suitable for the growth of grasslands, and there are no animals and plants in the dense forest, so the ability to bear is relatively low, the average per square kilometer is only 5 people, that is, more than 40,000 square kilometers of land, that is, about 200,000 people.
These people, of course, were arrested, and the Dinghai Navy is in the northeast, and there are many projects to be built, whether it is a road, a mine, or a fortress connecting the key points of each road, which needs people to build, and these people are constantly sent over to do manual work.
In October, the area around Vladivostok was affected by the oceanic climate due to its proximity to the sea, and the temperature was slightly higher, but after mid-October, the snow still fell.
The snow in the Northeast, it is really like falling, from the bottom, there is no stop, at most after the clearing, wait a few days, before the snow melts, it is another snow, one by one, the temperature has also dropped significantly.
Within a hundred kilometers of the sea, it is a little better, and it is barely possible to carry out activities outdoors, but beyond a hundred kilometers, it is completely different, where it has entered the continental climate, and in October it has begun to freeze, and by the middle of October, it is almost impossible to start work.
In just one and a half months, 4,000 kilometers of road construction has been completed, which seems to be nothing, but if it is calculated according to the shrouded distance, it is not far from the core position set before, because of the proximity to winter, the army of the Dinghai Navy is collected and fought, at most no more than 100 kilometers of roads, in order to ensure sufficient logistics, once it comes to the spring of next year, it will be different, with the help of a large number of horses, you can quickly maneuver, sweep the entire Heilongjiang line, when the time comes, It's the real one.
Winter, especially in high latitudes, is unfriendly to any living thing, and the extremely cold climate makes it almost impossible for all creatures without warm facilities to live here, especially in the ice-covered world, which is quite inconvenient to move.
The same is true for the Dinghai Navy, they have been prepared for a long time, and they began to shrink, with Vladivostok as the core, and within a range of 80 kilometers around, 10 satellite cities can accommodate 800,000 people according to Vladivostok, and the other satellite cities, each containing 20,000 people, can accommodate a total of 1 million people.
This is also all the personnel sent by the Dinghai Navy to the Northeast, the army is almost 500,000, the people add up to about 300,000, and there are 200,000 prisoners, almost all of which can be accommodated, and there is almost a surplus.
In the days of the cold winter, the Dinghai Navy reduced the activities of the outside world, and retreated in the city, but the corresponding work was not reduced at all, a steady stream of ships, constantly going to Vladivostok, transported a large number of logistics materials and supplies, similarly, some of the construction inside Vladivostok is also continuing, when the long winter passes, Vladivostok as the center of this piece of land, will become the Dingjun, the most solid base.