Monday, May 12. Yin.

Pastor Francis walked briskly along the road paved with broken bricks and cinders with a few immigrants, and in front of him were a few girls from the Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau. These little girls are all practitioners in the medical industry who originally traveled through the middle school, or hospital nurses, or medical school students. The Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau is a second-level unit directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Civil Committee, with a formal establishment of 10 people, and its main work includes sanitation and disinfection of public places, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and physical examination of immigrants.

In addition to the Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau, a central hospital has also been established. The hospital is also a second-level unit under the Civil Commission, and has a number of formal surgeons, including the ship doctor Wang Liao. Due to the lack of medical equipment, and the fact that some of the modern medicines carried during the crossing have been consumed, it is difficult for these doctors to cook without rice, and they can only diagnose some diseases, which can play a limited role.

Mo Xiaoxi was a graduate student majoring in public health at XX Medical University before the crossing, and at this moment she naturally took on the important responsibility of the Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau.

"Toilets should be disinfected with lime regularly." Walking into the wooden house area where the immigrants lived, Mo Xiaoxi said: "During the day, the front and rear windows should be opened to keep ventilation. ”

Pastor Francis guessed and understood what Mo Xiaoxi meant, and hurriedly instructed his immigrants to start working.

After inspecting the residential area, leaving a group of immigrants to work, Mo Xiaoxi and a few little girls came to the engineering team that was digging sewer facilities. Most of today's engineering team is building wheel kilns, and there are only about a dozen people assigned to the excavation of sewers, so the progress is naturally not fast.

Liu Dafa and a group of construction team workers were lazily digging the earth, and when they saw a group of young girls, they suddenly became energetic.

"How many of you?" Mo Xiaoxi frowned and said, "Didn't you transfer a batch of immigrants?" Where have all the people gone? ”

"Hey!" Liu Dafa was also depressed, "When did the executive committee look at our construction team?" Before this man came, he was intercepted by the bastards of the Agricultural Bureau! ”

"What?! How can they do this! Mo Xiaoxi was furious, "If you say that something good can be changed, I'll go back and ask Xiao Mingli to see what he can explain!" After saying that, he turned around and left with a group of indignant girls.

"Hey! Girls, don't go. Let's talk! Liu Dafa was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and scolded the eight generations of the ancestors of the Agricultural Bureau in his heart.

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Jinkora shook a soybean plant in his hand, making a rattling sound. Most of the bean leaves have fallen off, and the bean stalks have turned yellow. When the pod is removed, the film that provides nutrients between the pod and the kernel is gone, which is a sign of the maturity of the pod.

"Send the scythe down." Jinkora looked at the sky and worried that it would rain in the next few days. This is also the reason why he ran to the Executive Committee in the morning and solemnly asked the Executive Committee to suspend the rest of its work and make the soybean harvest the focus of its work in the past few days.

These sickles are made by stamping and forming with a hydraulic forging hammer, and then cutting the blade and installing the handle by hand. The production process is a little rough, but the quality is not enough. In order to successfully complete the soybean harvest, the executive committee temporarily mobilized nearly 400 men, women and children to harvest 1,000 acres of soybeans.

Ma Ganzu threw himself into the harvest work with a sickle, and due to the shortage of manpower and in order to avoid unnecessary criticism, the members of the executive committee and the heads of various departments who did not have work also participated.

The growth of soybeans can only be said to be very average, in the absence of chemical fertilizers, the yield of one acre of land is about fifty or sixty catties. The crossing crowd harvests the soybean above the root system and then threshers it uniformly in the drying field. Due to the action of rhizobia, the root system of soybean can fix the nitrogen in the air into ammonia and supply it to soybeans, which has an immeasurable effect on fertilizing the field, so this harvest is limited to harvesting only the parts above the soybean root system.

The harvest continued until the sun went down in the evening, and when Kinkora looked around, he saw that he had almost harvested more than a third of the area. Seeing Ma Ganzu and a group of other members of the executive committee sitting on the ridge drinking water and resting, Jin Kola walked over.

"Now the food problem cannot be ignored." This is Shao Shude's voice, "Nearly half of the flour and rice we brought with us at the beginning have been consumed. In the future, if the migration continues, the rate of food consumption will increase dramatically. The amount of grain we can harvest in the coming year is limited to size. So we have to find a way to get food as soon as possible, and the more the better. ”

"What are the possible sources of food right now?" Ma Ganzu asked: This issue should indeed be taken seriously.

"Number one: fishing. The fishery resources of the lake in the upper reaches of the Dayu River are abundant, and we can set up a base there for fishing, and even carry out local processing. With these fish, we get a lot of protein supplements, and we can also reduce the consumption of food. Shao Shude said, "Second: trading. This is more difficult because we don't have a lot of people to trade with right now. The next time Kuaite arrived was almost October, and his ship couldn't carry much food, and most importantly, Europe was also short of food, very short! It is very difficult for us to buy food on a large scale in Europe. ”

"It's not feasible to buy food, so you have to be self-reliant." Ma Ganzu said: "This time the soybeans can almost harvest more than 50,000 catties, other crops wheat is not expected, but potatoes can be harvested a few stubble, but unfortunately the yield is not very much." I don't think it's realistic to sustain the scale of immigration in a short period of time. Big Fish Lake still has to be won! Since there are so many resources over there, there is no reason for us to turn a blind eye. After we go back to this matter, we will sum it up together and try to get a charter out, and then we will vote at the meeting. By the way, old Kim, you've come just in time. Tomorrow, you will organize a group of people to thresh, dry, and store the bean stalks harvested today, and hurry up. ”

"That's fine." Jincola sat down and took a sip of water, and said, "The warehouse is also ready, and it will be put into storage as soon as it is dried." ”

"By the way, old Jin, how are you going to thresh? Threshing by hand? Shao Shude asked suddenly.

"What? Can you make me a threshing machine? Jinkola's eyes lit up.

"I don't have the skills." Shao Shude smiled, "You can go to the vest and ask him to arrange someone to make a hydraulic thresher, this thing is not complicated, and the blacksmith can make it by himself." ”

"Alright, I'll go find him in a moment." Jinkora grinned.

The soybean harvest lasted for three days, and by the evening of May 15, all 1,000 acres of soybeans had been harvested. God has been very face-saving these days, except for the first day which was cloudy, the next two days were sunny, which made Jinkora, who had been worried about the rain, secretly relieved.

After the soybean harvest, the executive committee gave everyone a few days off and then continued to work on each project, and at the same time began to discuss and prepare for the proposal to establish a permanent base on the shore of Dayu Lake.

On May 26, the wheel kiln was finally completed after the construction team worked overtime and took turns to build. This wheel kiln theoretically produces 15 million bricks and tiles per year, but in fact, due to human factors, the output cannot be so high, and the annual output of bricks and tiles is about 10 million. However, this has also greatly alleviated the shortage of construction materials in the crossing, and many long-delayed construction projects can be launched.

The completion of the wheel kiln has also freed up a large number of manpower, and the development of Dayu Lake, which has taken shape in the discussion of the Executive Committee, can enter the implementation stage.

According to the resolution of the Executive Committee, it was decided to establish a base near the confluence of the southeast shore of the Lake and the River. The base is a small fortress structure with a wall and a dormitory for 200 people. In addition, there are two wells: the well water is groundwater, slightly brackish, which can be used as domestic water, and can also be used as drinking water at critical moments; There is a rainwater collection tank, a sedimentation tank and a filtration tank. In addition to this, there are public toilets, canteens, bathhouses, supply warehouses (including armory), watchtowers, etc. A fishing wharf will be built by the lake, and the road from the wharf to the fort will also be repaired.

Of course, the most important facility in the base is the fish processing plant. Due to capacity and transportation problems, most of the fresh fish and shrimp will be processed into salted fish, fish floss, fish sauce, fish bone meal and other products in this processing plant, except for some fresh fish and shrimp that will be shipped downstream for consumption.

This is the first real dispatch base of the traversal, the executive committee solicited the name of the stronghold from the vast number of traversal, and finally officially named this stronghold Dingyuan Fort according to the ranking. Focusing on the construction of Dingyuan Fort and fishery work, the Executive Committee set up a Dingyuan Fort Pioneer Team. The establishment of the development team is tentatively set at 100 people in the construction team (temporary establishment, withdrawn after the end of the construction period.) ）； 20 people in the fishing team of the newly established Fisheries Bureau, and 60 workers in the fish product processing factory, an enterprise directly under the Executive Committee; 25 guards of Dingyuan Fort; 3 cooks, 1 doctor, 1 boatwright, 1 trainee blacksmith, 1 fishing net repairer, 5 handymen; There are 217 people in total.

For this Dingyuan Fort pioneer team, the traversers showed great interest. Many people came to the executive committee to recommend themselves, hoping to take up positions in the development team, so that Xiao Mingli, who was in charge of personnel selection, was noisy all day long.

On June 30, 1631, after a month of tumultuous preparations, the fleet loaded with men and supplies finally set out.

The first team of the pioneer team consisted of more than 100 construction teams and escort teams, and the rest of the people would rush to join them after the fort was built. In addition to building materials, food and water, the ship was accompanied by two four-pounder guns, two eight-pounder guns, 50 hunting crossbows and 30 arquebuses.