At present, the Hetao base area is under such conditions, the amount of materials brought from the company is very small, and the materials brought from Liaodong can not be used. Now is the initial stage of construction in the base areas, and the demand for materials in all aspects is extremely great, so we can only make use of the existing conditions and solve the problem on the spot in the base areas.

For example, next to the open-pit coal mine found in the northern mountains of Guihua City, there are several earth-based coking workshops. The coking method is simple and outrageous, dig some square deep pits, smear the walls with clay, put the washed and selected coal in the deep pit, seal it with refractory bricks, and then ignite the coal in the deep pit, after a period of time, all the gas is burned, and it is considered to be coke.

There is also the north bank of the Yellow River in Baotou, where a soil blast furnace for ironmaking has also been built. This blast furnace is made of refractory bricks in situ, the shape is round, hollow like an altar to hold ore and fuel, the furnace opens the door to produce iron, the furnace opens a blower, the fuel adopts the company's soil method to refine the coke, the blast equipment uses the original leather bellows, the use of the Yellow River in the waterwheel as power, the volume of the soil blast furnace is more than 30 cubic meters, a furnace can produce four or five tons of pig iron.

Soil cement is to dry limestone and clay in a fire pit, and then grind it into flour with rural stones, and also use rural flour baskets to sieve fine. The gypsum ore is heated to 130-180 degrees in an iron pot and fried to yellow-gray, and the same is ground and sieved finely, which is used to adjust the solidification speed of cement.

Although the marking of soil cement is not enough, the anti-corrosion effect of soil cement is better than that of ordinary cement, which can be used for toilet urinals, pigsties, livestock sheds, manure tanks, ammonia reservoirs, compost cellars, livestock troughs, silage ponds, irrigation canals, etc., especially for underground engineering, the effect is better than ordinary cement.

It is even simpler to burn bricks by soil method. First, pour water on top of the clay and soak it in water. Manually stir fully to maximize the viscosity of the soil, and then roll the outer ring of the mud ball with sand, and then pour it out at the inner end of the billet bucket to the cool billet field. The dried adobe is stacked in the kiln and fired into bricks, and the adobe has been fired into bricks, and on the top of the kiln, it is sealed with soil, and the soil is used to form a circle, and water is poured into the soil circle, and the fired one is transformed into blue by the method of water catalysis.

Although the data of all aspects of the various building materials and raw materials produced by the soil method are not up to standard, the production capacity is also very low. It also consumes a lot of labor costs, but it still plays a great role in the initial infrastructure construction work of the base area.

Zhou Lin, the member of the Standing Committee in charge of agriculture in the base area, also set up an agricultural group in the base area with several employees of the company. Moreover, during his field trip to Bayannur, he also formulated this year's summer ploughing plan.

The base agricultural team mobilized six agricultural detachments along the north bank of the Yellow River to plant autumn corn and sweet potatoes, even though the best sowing period for potatoes had passed. But Zhou Lin still planted a lot, as for the yield. Let's go low.

At present, there is no shortage of cattle and horses in the Hetao base area, and during this time, several woodworking machines in the shipyard have been working day and night, producing a large number of wooden curved plows and other wooden agricultural tools. During this time, the base has been "making steel", so the foundry workshop of the shipyard. It also works day and night, working overtime to produce all kinds of iron tools and farm tools.

In the early days of the construction of the base area, there was a great demand for various tools and farm tools. Although the industries in the base area are all small workshops using the local method of production, and the quality of the products produced is extremely poor, it still effectively guarantees the infrastructure construction in all aspects of the base area.

Lü Yongren's current job is mainly to manage the Mongol prisoner camp. During this time, he screened out a large number of poor herdsmen, and then sent them to various grassroots nomadic squadrons in the grasslands of the Far East.

The rest are the various construction sites in the Hetao base area, including the mining site, the forest farm, and the construction section of the road from Guihuacheng to Ulanqab. There is also a group of Mongolian young herdsmen who have been arranged to plant pasture grass in various places.

The three newly formed animal husbandry detachments in the base area have also been assigned tasks, and they are in the process of establishing a livestock base in the Hetao base area on the south bank of the Yellow River. In the future, the nomadic pastures in Ordos will become the livestock base of the Hetao base area. In the future, the three animal husbandry detachments will also work in the company's pastures and carry out resident animal husbandry.

The breeds of livestock are limited to cattle, sheep, and horses, and large-scale pig and chicken farms will be opened in an effort to build this area into a base animal husbandry base within a few years.

At present, a large number of Mongolian herders are cultivating large-scale pasture grass on the south bank of the Yellow River in the Taunei area. Far Eastern Company has been planting large-scale forage grass in the Liaodong and Lingnan grasslands for several years.

Every time the nomadic detachments in the Far East arrive at a pasture, when the cattle and sheep have eaten about the same, they will organize all the herdsmen of the detachment to concentrate on pasture planting. In addition to selecting varieties with high yields, priority should be given to varieties with high regeneration capacity and high density, and they should also be resistant to trampling.

During the annual slack period, peasant households in various parts of eastern Liaoning should also organize peasant households to carry out large-scale pasture planting activities. Planting grass is an effective measure for soil and water conservation, planting crops on the loess slope of about 15 degrees will lose 18.5 tons of rainwater per mu and wash away 2.7 tons of soil every year. The same sloping land planting alfalfa only loses 1.2 tons of rainwater and washes away 31 tons of soil per year, which reduces the runoff by 93.75% and the amount of erosion by 88.65% compared with crops.

Some forage grass also has the effect of fertilizing the land, the rhizobia of alfalfa, can fix the free nitrogen in the air, increase soil nitrogen, and have a strong root system, each mu can produce thousands of catties to thousands of catties of fresh roots, can greatly improve the content of soil organic matter and the formation of soil aggregate structure. There is a saying among the folk that "alfalfa has been stubble for 4-5 years, and it will not be finished for three years after turning".

Planting grass is conducive to improving the ecological environment, maintaining the ecological balance of the ecological environment, simply put, the living environment of people in the natural world. The cultivation of pasture grass in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is of great significance.

Throughout the summer, the Hetao base area was busy, and there was a scene of labor in full swing here. The work in the Hetao base area has also been gradually carried out.

A large number of cadres and backbone cadres of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment also left the Luliangshan base area. Song Tao led a battalion of the reinforced field regiment to meet them, and he was now joined with them.

They gathered a large number of displaced people in the Shanxi region and are conducting training for the displaced people in a place in Yan'an Prefecture, Shanxi Province. In the near future, Song Tao will lead the displaced people, who have been trained for nearly a month, to launch several operations in the Shanxi region to loot a batch of grain and other materials, and then rush back to the Hetao base area with the displaced people. (To be continued.) )