The next day, Cheng Lei set off with the cement plant construction team that was looking for them. Because they had encountered lion dogs and beasts in the Gobi Desert, Cheng Lei deliberately brought all the Night Lion Squad and Viper Squad as their escort.

The chariot and the carriage that the new recruits had bought to pull supplies rumbled out of the east gate of Yinta City and headed northeast. A few days ago, Xing Chenghui's caravan back to the city brought back the remaining gasoline to Cheng Lei, and now he doesn't have to worry about gasoline.

The limestone mine is located 30 kilometers away from Yinta City, which is greatly affected by the Gobi desert landform, and the wind and sand are raging, and the climate is very unstable. However, the city is surrounded by dense protective forests to prevent the invasion of wind and sand, and there is also a mound in the northeast of the city that can shelter the city from wind and sand, otherwise people would not be able to live in the city at all.

The mound is only five kilometres away from the limestone mine, and Qi Mi's planning blueprints placed the cement plant on the west side of the mound. The purpose of this is to prevent the wind and sand in the Gobi Desert from affecting the production and life of the workers, and second, to use the mound as a buffer zone, which can buy them a lot of time and space if the vicious lion, dog beast or other species in the Gobi Desert want to be unfavorable to them.

Cheng Lei feels that this plan is very reasonable, this high-level student specializing in civil engineering is different, and Qi Mi, who did not think of many details, has already done a very thorough job. In this way, the mounds can be used as a barrier, and they are not far from the limestone mines, which is also very easy to transport.

It's just that a team needs to follow with you at all times to protect during transportation, and the cement plant also needs to be protected, so Cheng Lei brought the Night Lion team and the Viper team together. After coming here, the chances of changing the guard and recuperating may be very small, and it may not be until the cement plant is fully completed and put into operation.

Moreover, although the current cheetah squad has a good skill level, Li Changcheng has hardly taught the use of firearms and the knowledge of various advanced equipment. If they are allowed to come here rashly and encounter any danger, the chances of an accident are much greater.

Cheng Lei and Qi Mi have already discussed the process of producing cement, which is simply that after limestone and clay, iron-containing ore and coal are crushed and ground into powder respectively, they then pass through an iron cylinder with a diameter of more than one meter designed by themselves, and mix the raw materials evenly with manual control.

Then put the mixed materials into a preheating machine of their own design for preheating, and below the preheating machine is the drawing that Qi Mi has developed after half a month of careful consideration, and asked Xilin to help go to the capital Sun City to order a kiln for firing cement. The preheated raw materials in the preheating machine can be slowly poured directly into the kiln for firing, and finally the cement comes out.

Cheng Lei finally understood why no one in the entire Scorching Sun Federation went to produce cement, because there was generally no electricity in most places here. The equipment of cement factories in the West is driven by electricity, and as long as it is electricity, these Easterners of the Scorching Sun Federation do not consider it at all.

It is not easy for Qi Mi to design these machines that can barely produce cement with manpower, but he also gave Cheng Lei a preventive injection, whether the cement produced can be used or not, and whether it is enough to mark, he doesn't know in his heart. After all, he was only a graduate student in architecture, and it was difficult for him to do this.

Under Qi Mi's command, the workers first built some temporary sheds as resting places. In this way, the construction of the house can be carried out after the cement plant is officially completed. The current manpower to build the cement plant is okay, but when the official start of construction is still overstretched, at least more than 100 more people have to be recruited to barely be enough.

And after Qi Mi finishes training them, I don't know how many people will be brushed down, and if there are too few qualified people, they can only continue to recruit and train. Cheng Lei felt that he had thought about this matter too simply, and it was impossible to do anything overnight!

The cement factory has Qi Mi here to coordinate and command, and Cheng Lei can also be completely assured, what he has to do is to go back to the city for material distribution and the deployment of various personnel and materials. He thought to himself a little self-deprecatingly, he was about to become the captain of the logistics team.

Just as the construction of their cement plant was in full swing, many pairs of eyes were watching them in the Gobi Desert to the northeast. The vicious and vicious lion beasts were silently scanning the people who had caused them to suffer great losses, and the chariots that were no less than Hades in their eyes.

"Husband, you're back, look at the soil on your body, go and change your clothes first!" Qinglan's concern always makes Cheng Lei feel like his heart is about to melt, and it feels good to have a wife.

Cheng Lei hugged Qinglan over, kissed her and said, "Didn't I tell you, wife, call me husband in the future...... Tell me, do you miss your husband? ”

"Old ...... Husband, how awkward this title is, oops, your body is dirty, and it stains me......" Qinglan wanted to push Cheng Lei away but couldn't push it, so she had to let him hold herself.

Cheng Lei smiled and said, "Now we are both very dirty, go take a bath, wife?" ”

As he spoke, he picked up Qinglan and walked towards their bedroom, ignoring Qinglan's struggles and anger, and took her to take a bath. After taking a bath, of course, there will be some clouds and rain, and Xiao Beisheng is newlywed.

Cheng Lei only returned to Yinta City from the cement factory site this morning, and he stayed at the construction site for a total of three days, and did not come back until all the equipment of the cement plant was completed. Qi Mi said that the next work is to start installing and debugging equipment, and there is a shortage of manpower, so Cheng Lei is specially taking the Night Lion team back to recruit workers.

He had already instructed Shao Qian to go to the city and put up a notice, listing all the conditions and remuneration for recruiting workers. Cheng Lei was a little worried that if people saw that they were going to work near the Gobi Desert, they would all back down, after all, it was inaccessible and there were all kinds of dangers.

Cheng Lei was dressed up by Qinglan in a new look, and the dusty appearance when he first came back was gone. He wanted to hurry to the place where the workers were recruited to see what was going on, after all, without workers, the cement factory would only be an empty shell, and an empty shell would not be able to produce cement.

The worker recruitment office is set up a hundred meters to the right of the camp gate, and as soon as Cheng Lei came out of the camp gate, he saw that even the gate was full of black pressure and a large bustling crowd. These crowds formed a large circle, three circles inside and three circles outside the recruitment office that had been set up before.

Cheng Lei thought to himself, why are there so many people! He quickly asked the two cavalry members who had come out with him to do the escort work to separate the crowd, and he squeezed in. After entering, he saw Shao Qian standing next to two tables, surrounded by members of the Night Lion Squad who maintained order, and those who surrounded them only left them a small circle with a diameter of less than three meters.

"What's going on, why are there so many people?" As soon as Cheng Lei came in, he asked Shao Qiandao.

Shao Qian said helplessly: "Today, as soon as we posted the notice, some people began to sign up, and then slowly gathered the crowd, and now there are more than 300 registrations." In addition to watching the excitement, there are many people around who want to sign up! ”

While talking to Cheng Lei, he also commanded the two team members who were making records to register, how busy he was. Cheng Lei was a little crying and laughing, he was still worried about not being able to recruit so many workers, but now it seems that there is no need to worry at all. He had no idea what a salary of fifteen silver culens a month would carry in the eyes of ordinary people.

Except for a few people who do not work properly, the rest of these people are peasants who do odd jobs for the wealthy gentry or farm for the big landlords, and the salary they get is only a pitiful copper coin. They almost don't have a decent piece of land in their own homes, and they struggle to make ends meet every day. This fifteen silver Karen a month can give their whole family the opportunity to eat well and even eat well, who can not be moved, who can not be blushing?

In a short time, Shao Qian recruited five hundred people who signed up. Cheng Lei motioned for him to end the registration, and Shao Qian shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, today's recruitment is now over." Please rest assured that we will have many opportunities to recruit workers in the future, and those who have not registered can continue to sign up at that time. Scatter, disperse! ”

Those people heard that they had recruited enough people, although there were still people who were unwilling, but there was nothing they could do, so they had to go home in a huff. After the crowd dispersed, only the five hundred people who had signed up were left, and Shao Qian announced that they would come directly to the camp at eight o'clock tomorrow morning for a medical examination, and then let them all disband.

"Captain, how can I pass the physical examination?" Shao Qian asked.

Cheng Lei pinched the registration book with his hand, and said while flipping through it: "According to our previous recruitment standards, people with good health, strong quality, and certain cultural knowledge are the best!" ”

Shao Qian said with some embarrassment: "The first two are easy to say, but this last one, I don't think it's easy to do." The education popularization in Yinta City is very poor, and I am afraid that there will be no ten people out of a hundred who have read books. ”

"Then you need those who seem to be smart and smart, they learn things quickly, and when the time comes, we can look for them to train them systematically."

"Okay captain, I got it."

Cheng Lei explained to Shao Qian the specific matters of tomorrow, and he tried his best to let go of these things now and handed them over to his subordinates to do, in order to cultivate their various abilities. When the army is expanded in the future, Cheng Lei hopes that each of them can become the commander of hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands. Now start training them from various details, and slowly after their consciousness is raised, they can become real generals.