Chapter 9: A Busy Beach

Hearing Xie Mingfang's suggestion, Sun Wenbin's head shook like a rattle, "That's not good, our Ministry of Agriculture can wait for this organic fertilizer." ”

Xie Mingfang suddenly felt like vomiting, she only felt that she seemed to have smelled the smell of fattening, "Okay, whatever you want, anyway, it's up to the people in your agriculture group to deal with the fattening." She turned around and went back to the small tent of the construction team next to the beacon tower, and began to discuss with the construction team how to design and build the toilet.

"We have a number of people below 600, and it takes 12 according to a squatting position of 50 people, and the ratio of men and women is relatively strong, so there are nine squatting positions in the men's toilet and three squats in the women's toilet." Shi Li, who is now helping in the construction team, gave a suggestion, in his opinion, in fact, the women's toilet squatting actually needs two more, but the men's toilet does not need so much.

Xie Mingfang shook his head again and again, "Men are often accustomed to solving problems on the spot, and often find a remote place to release pressure when they can't hold back the toilet. ”

"Why? There are fewer women than men in this crossing, less than one-tenth of the number of men, why do you need so many toilets? Shi Li was a little surprised, he thought that his distribution was already biased towards women enough, but as a result, he directly doubled.

"Women spend longer than men going to the toilet, and the odds of queuing are much greater than men's, so the demand for toilet squatting is actually higher than that of men, so I think at least this ratio is needed to ensure sufficient efficiency, so that women don't run to occupy the men's toilets."

This sentence caused a group of men to laugh, and they also had a deep understanding of the long queue in front of the women's toilet door when they went to the toilet, so they quickly approved the toilet design plan.

The design drawings didn't take 20 minutes to come out, in fact, it was not very difficult, that is, dig a big pit in the ground, and then build toilets and rooms on both sides, as for the roof, the asbestos tile and other planning committees were reluctant to provide, the construction team in accordance with the original beacon next to the house next to the roof, with dead branches and leaves to build the roof, as long as it is not a strong wind above level seven, basically there is no problem. But the problem soon arose: there was no construction machinery here, and forklifts were clearing bushes and filling small pits with water on the edge of the jungle not far away. This is a very important thing, Vietnam is a place where snakes are more common, in the nineties there are often legends that there are pythons that can swallow people, although it will not let the crossing people be swallowed by pythons, but no one wants to sleep with a snake next to the sleeping bag in the middle of the night. It is even more necessary to fill the puddles, which are very prone to mosquitoes, which are particularly susceptible to tropical diseases, such as dengue fever and malaria. So at this time, the construction team can only look for labor on its own.

Soon Shi Li ran to the tent of the manpower group, but for the time being, he still failed to find labor.

Since Yang Feng steadily anchored the Dongfeng in the harbor, he has become the commander of this landing operation in the heart of the Executive Committee, and has become a knife to cross the sea forces in the crowd. But soon something surprising happened, under the command and operation of Yang Feng, he skillfully lifted several warehouses loaded with various sundries and equipment directly to the floating dock, and when the person in charge of handling it found out, the front section of the floating dock was already full. At this time, these silos and the goods on them are two or three tons, and people will definitely not be able to move, and the diesel forklifts that were originally used to load these cargo silos are now still lying firmly on the foredeck of the Dongfeng, and now there is no place to put them even if they are hoisted down. At this time, although the floating dock is connected, but it is inconvenient to disassemble, and the dock module cannot be directly sent to the shore, otherwise it will capsize, if it falls into the sea and then fishes, it will be a big trouble. Now the command team could not find a way to transport these barns and cargo directly, nor could they lift these things back to the deck of the Dongfeng, so it was now necessary to rely on the manpower team to mobilize all the ordinary laborers who did not have work at hand to disperse and move the cargo on it, and then relocate it to the shore.

In the distance, some of the traversers were already beginning to clear the flat land that had just been cut down in the jungle, they were wearing mosquito-proof hoods, their training uniforms were tightly pulled up, and all their bare skin was smeared with a thick layer of cool oil, even so, there were still four or five traversers who reported to the medical team that they had just been bitten by mosquitoes. The medical team is also at a loss at this time, malaria is not a disease that occurs immediately, it has a certain incubation period, and there are a lot of drugs for the treatment of malaria, but it can't withstand being bitten by mosquitoes and using it like this. They had to scrub their bites with alcohol and let them continue to work with cool oil. Now the work is a real race against time, maybe in a few days there will be an outbreak of malaria here, maybe nothing at all, but in these days, the traversers must clear this jungle out of a large flat area that can be used as a living area, and also isolate a barrier at least ten meters from the surrounding jungle to prevent mosquito infestation.

The medical team is sad at this time, the doctors here have everything, dentists, surgeons, internal medicine, anesthesia and plastic surgery, mental hypnosis, everything can be found proficient, but the infectious disease is a blank, and now they are in the tent of the medical team frowning about this matter. Before becoming a dentist, Tian Feihu had taken some courses in infectious diseases at a medical school in the United States, but he was not able to graduate, and he never expected to be temporarily appointed as the director of infectious diseases during the landing operation.

"Okay," said the tall doctor with a round face and a pair of large glasses, now sitting at the discussion table in a white lab coat. "Our main task now is to prevent the outbreak and epidemic of a tropical infectious disease such as malaria, and the second is to monitor the food safety of the people who cross the population. The first thing is very difficult to do, because the incubation period of tropical infectious diseases is not necessarily and varies from person to person. Generally speaking, there is a possibility of malaria outbreak in about 14 days**, and we doctors need to keep at least half of the people back on the ship to avoid infection from mosquito bites, and if symptoms appear, we will also send the patient directly to the ship for care and treatment. Tian Feihu wiped his glasses, rubbing the itchy area and continued. As for the second thing, we are relatively simple, we mainly prevent them from hunting on the beach and in the jungle, I don't know if there is schistosomiasis in Vietnam now, but if they go down to swim in the river, there is probably a danger of being cold, although the sun is very warm today. In addition, some fish, shrimp, sea crabs and the like in the sea do not know if there is a possibility of a large amount of diarrhea, so if the fishing boat waits for the fish, we need to check it first, and then after it is cooked, we need to check it again. It's going to be a bit of a hassle, but if we do it now, we'll reduce the likelihood of a massive diarrhea or a large number of people falling ill. ”

At that moment, someone lifted the curtain and ran in. "Doctor, I felt like I had been touched by something on my neck just now, and now I feel a little numb."

He Yongkang, who was in charge of surgery on the side, hurriedly got up and called Xu Qing to come over and check it out.

The person who came took off his clothes a little, revealing a small piece of skin on his neck, and there was something the size of a black bean on it, and He Yongkang, who saw this, couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, could this be a tick?

He couldn't help but take out his glasses and put them on, and looked closely, this black spot was only a small piece, and there was a bean-sized thing hanging on the outside, which must be a tick. "Where do you feel it? Does anyone else feel the same way? ”

"No, it's just me, I walked near a bush that I hadn't cut down and suddenly felt a little itch on my neck, and then I started to feel a slight tingling, so I just ran here."

"That's right, you have to find a doctor for this kind of thing, and if you pick it up by yourself, it is likely to be dangerous." He Yongkang turned to Xu Qing as he spoke. "Bring me a bottle of alcohol."

Then Xu Qing quickly handed a bottle of alcohol to He Yongkang, He Yongkang took out a cotton swab, dipped the bottle with alcohol, and then asked Xu Qing to close the bottle, and then used the alcohol-stained cotton swab on the body of the tick and began to smear. After a while, the tick began to curl up on its feet, and then fell into the small basin that He Yongkang had placed under it. He then carefully examined the vicinity of the bite wound and found no head of the tick, and carefully examined the anesthetized tick to make sure it was intact, and then carefully smeared the wound with iodine. Then he instructed: "Now the disinfection is disinfection, but it does not guarantee that it will be fine, if there is fever, inflammation and ulceration of the bite site or erythema, you must seek medical attention in time, do not take it lightly, it will kill people." ”

Hearing this, the traversers couldn't help but shudder. "Is there a cure? Give me a shot, I'm a little scared. ”

"It's okay, I didn't have a severed head in it just now, so don't worry about it, just pay a little more attention."

After sending this crowd away, He Yongkang returned to the conference table just now. "It's not just mosquitoes that we're worried about, ticks, fleas, and bed bugs are all contagious diseases, so remember to put up some slogans so they don't know what to do when they get bitten."

"But where are we going to put these slogans and all that?"

"That's right, there are not many walls here except for trees and trees."

"I suggest that there is a bulletin board in front of the toilet and the cafeteria, and we can just post it there, because everyone must visit these two places anyway."

Suddenly, the curtain was lifted again, and I saw a bumpy foreign girl rushing in with a camera, crackling and crackling.

"You are?" Tian Feihu was a little confused, who is this? He had been in the United States before, and he had only made peace with the main fleet before the crossing, and the crossers here basically didn't know each other. The only person I knew, Lin Shenhe, Lin Chuanqing, was looking for land with the construction team at this time, preparing to dig up the dock and build a factory, Carter was driving a bulldozer on the beach to build a road at this time, how could there be any Americans?

"Hello, I'm Catherine, from the news group, and we're going to create a newspaper today, and I'm here to get the material." Catherine stretched out her hand and shook hands with Tian Feihu. Then he clicked and clicked to take pictures of the doctors inside one by one.

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"We only have so many tons of paper with us, and we still have so many things to do, what kind of newspaper are you doing now? There is no electricity on the beach except for the computer room! Even if the Planning Commission approves your plan to run a newspaper, you will have no place to print it! You're still making color newspapers, are you kidding? We don't have enough ink, we can't print much at all. It's just a waste! Zhou Liming, who was in charge of the printing department, jumped three feet high and pointed in front of Zhao Yong. Don't count on that, first, I can't get you precious colored ink to print newspapers; Second, 600 newspapers is too much, we only have more than 500 people here, why do you use the newspapers you print too much? Are there any natives here who will come to buy it? Thirdly, paper is definitely a precious material now, and unless you can provide it yourself, don't even think about it. ”

Zhao Yong was very depressed, he had just run to Yang Minghuan to talk about how he had gotten permission to run a newspaper, but now he was directly stuck in the printing department. It's no wonder that Zhou Liming really doesn't have electricity on this beach. At this time, an engineering team was rowing a small boat along the floating dock to lay power pipelines to transmit the electricity generated by the auxiliary engines on the Dongfeng. At the same time, a water pipe was laid to continuously feed the fresh water from the desalination equipment to the stainless steel water tower on the beach.

At this time, the people of the communication group were carrying a batch of equipment to the beacon tower, and they purchased several sets of PHS equipment that were eliminated in the early stage of telecommunications, and also ordered hundreds of PHS mobile phones that had been discarded. Different from the old time and space, this is a time and space with no communication interference at all, in the old time and space to "feed and" famous PHS mobile phone at this time is surprisingly good signal, before the communication group of people in the communication balloon also set up a PHS antenna, north latitude they a group while walking while testing PHS's call distance, actually until almost more than ten kilometers offshore before disconnecting. At this time, what they want to install on the beacon is a complete set of communication base stations, with this set of base stations, they can meet the PHS communication problem within more than 10 kilometers. Just as they were carrying equipment to the beacon tower, Tan Le, who was in charge of the installation and commissioning work, heard someone calling him outside. He turned his head, and it turned out to be Du Yande.

"What's the matter?" Looking at Du Yande's face that had been sunburned, although the executive committee didn't do much physical work, they did run around on the beach without rest.

Du Yande wiped the sweat from his hot face. "The Executive Committee asks you to come up with a solution to connect the three communication devices on the flagship, namely the communication radio, walkie-talkie and PHS, so that we can effectively play the role of our radio."

Tan Le wiped the sweat on his forehead that was about to flow into his eyes a little annoyed, "Are you guys really okay with me?" The band used by the mobile phone and the radio station is a completely different matter, how can it be connected to the grid? ”

Before he could finish speaking, one of the people carrying the equipment on it ran down. "Brother Tan! Brother Tan! ”

Tan Le turned his head, and Gu Fulin, who was leading the naval radar battle, ran all the way down. "What are you doing here? Install such a base station in the beacon tower, we have already set up a radar on it, you get a wireless base station here, you are not afraid of interfering with each other, we will not be able to use it? ”

Looking at Gu Fulin, who was sweating profusely, Tan Le also replied a little annoyed: "Only this beacon tower is the tallest building in the vicinity, if there is a mountain, of course we won't get here to install the base station." If we can't set up a base station at the highest point, what are the advantages of our wireless communication department? If you install a base station on the ground, it is better to communicate directly with a roar. ”

"But our radar is also necessary, now we have a foothold, if there is an enemy naval attack, there is no early warning of radar, then what a fart?"

"What about radar early warning, why don't you get an early warning aircraft? The current enemy navy is nothing more than wooden ships, and if they run in, they will shoot them out indiscriminately, and they will not pose any threat to us, right? ”

"No threat?" Bu Zhongfu, who drove down, suddenly became angry, "What do you mean that there is no threat?" They fired a solid iron bowling ball, and the steel plates on our Dongfeng could not stop a few close-range shots, and if they were to rush close to the littering oil tank, they would be able to ignite the cargo on board, and the damage caused to us would be absolutely irreparable. ”

"But this communication is second to none! If there is no communication, even if you find the enemy, can you report it by a little wolf smoke? Tan Le pointed to the beacon tower under his feet. Without communication, even if you find something in the early warning, it will be in vain, and the command will still have to be blind if you don't understand the situation. ”

Du Yande hurriedly interjected: "Don't quarrel first." ”

This sentence still had some effect, and no one in the communication group and the military group immediately spoke, and they all turned their heads to look at Du Yande.

"Let me ask first, are the radio waves emitted by your radar and base stations directed?" Du Yande thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

"Yes, radar emits directional radio waves in the direction of the ocean, so that when it encounters a ship on the sea, it can reflect the echo and distinguish it after receiving it."

"Our base station antennas are also yes, and they need to emit radio waves to 360 degrees. Our band is 1900 to 1920 megahertz, and their radar is only a few tens of megahertz, so it shouldn't be affected. Someone on the side said.

"We have a high frequency band, so we won't be interfered with by them, but they will be interfered with by us." Tan Le said. "This kind of thing often happens, and the G network often disturbs the situation that the airport radar is jammed."

"Then," Du Yande began to come up with a bad idea, "can it be installed in a directional manner, anyway, the radar is mainly to monitor the sea surface, and there is also a radar on the Dongfeng." As for your communication base station, you can only install it on the land side, so that it won't interfere with each other, right? ”

Neither party has professional radar installers and base station installers, and there is no way to refute Du Yande's bad idea, so they try to install it in this way.

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Because of the reasonable arrangement of the human resources team, the crossers on the beach were grouped once they went ashore, and then the team leader accepted the task to dispatch them, and there was no situation on the beach where some people were tired and half dead, and some people could have time to lie on the beach and bask in the sun. However, because the target time to be achieved by each group was precisely arranged to the minute before landing, the construction of this toilet was never distinguished. In the end, Carter, the American construction engineer of the construction team, took advantage of the rest of the excavator to skillfully drive the excavator out, and dug a pit directly by dividing five by two at the location of the large pit where he was selected to dig and store the reincarnation of grains. Xie Mingfang was full of praise for a while, and then called a few guys in the construction team who were engaged in design to go to the wood yard with saws and axes to select wood.

After Carter successfully borrowed a small farm truck to haul the required wood to the side of the pit, the construction team began to process and install the wood around the location of the latrine. Carter has a license as an architectural engineer in the United States, and the toilets he designed happen to be all wooden structures, and looking at the drawings that are accurate to the number of millimeters and angles to the minutes and seconds, several people who specialize in woodworking can't help but smile bitterly.

"This old beauty treats us as CNC machines, right? Not to mention that I haven't done hand tools to process wood for so many years, and now these woods are wet, if they are dried after being built now, this toilet must not become a strange shape? ”

"Whatever, anyway, this toilet is a temporary one, at most it will be replaced at the beginning of next year, and it will be installed later."

After more than three hours of frantic construction, even lunch was sent to the work site to eat, and they finally completed the construction of the toilet at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

From the perspective of the old time and space, this is simply a worse building than a work shed, with low beams and columns, crooked wooden walls, covered with thick leaves and thatch, and the partition between the squatting positions inside can only prevent the squatting people from seeing each other, but this is the first building built by the Crossing Crowd, so that the comrades of the construction team stand in front of the toilet for a long time and feel excited.

"This can be regarded as Crossing Project 1, right?" Sun Wenbin on the side said with a smile. But in the blink of an eye, his face changed, and he yelled at a medical team member who was carrying a lime bucket and was about to throw it into a pit that had not yet had time to inject the reincarnation of grains.