Chapter 171: Reclamation and Reservoirs
Daishan Island is shaped like a maple leaf, with endless mountains in the middle, and the true flat land is located in the southeast, east and northern coastal areas of the island. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Gaoting Town is located in the southeast of the flat land, this flat land is about more than 10 square kilometers, if it is completely cultivated, it can reclaim more than 10,000 acres of cultivated land. But now only a few hundred acres of land have been mined near the fishing village by the sea, and the rest of the place is a wasteland overgrown with weeds.
At this moment, it is winter, the weeds of the entire wasteland are dry, and hundreds of soldiers under the inspection department are setting fire to the field under the command of Jin Yufei. The flames lit, the smoke billowed out, and dozens of fires ignited throughout the wasteland.
In close proximity to villages and towns, barriers have been erected. The barren grass at the foot of the mountain was also cleared, this is setting fire to the barrenland, not setting fire to the mountain, of course, we must not let the fire spread to the mountain and set the mountain forest on fire.
After the fire burns the weeds, when the cattle are bought, they can be cleared first, the fields are cleared first, and the seeds can be sown in the spring.
Daishan Island is located in the south of the Yangtze River and has a warm and humid climate, which can be used to grow wheat as well as rice. However, if you want to grow rice, you need to transform a large number of paddy fields, Daishan Island is just a small island, there are no river forks on the mainland, and the available water sources are relatively poor, so it is not very suitable for growing rice.
At Shafu's suggestion, Daishan Island was dominated by wheat.
The central part of Daishan Island is a continuous mountain range, and during the rainy season, abundant rainwater rolls down from the mountains and flows into the sea through the rivers of the plains. After careful consideration, Ren Siqi decided to build a reservoir so that the rainwater from the rainy season could be stored in the reservoir and could be used for irrigation of grain fields.
Ren Siqi, Sha Fu and others traveled all over the mountains north of Gaoting Town, and after several days of investigation, they decided to build a large reservoir at the foot of Moxin Mountain in the northwest of Gaoting Town. There is a large valley surrounded by mountains, which is originally a natural reservoir, and there is a pond formed by the accumulation of mountain springs at the bottom of the valley all year round, and the exit of the southern section of the valley is only less than a mile wide.
After choosing a location, Ren Siqi transferred 200 soldiers from the navy army to build the embankment.
The bottom of the valley is dug deep and wide, and the excavated soil is transported out of the valley to form a dike, and then the inner side of the dikes is built with stones, the amount of work is not too large, but the backward construction conditions of the Ming Dynasty, the whole down 200 people also have to spend a month to complete.
"Xiucai," Mao Shibai still used the old name to Ren Siqi, "Xiucai, why don't you recruit people to do these jobs?" The brothers went to Japan to work for a few months, and now that the New Year is approaching, it is time to rest. ”
With the victory over the Dutch and becoming an inspector, Ren Siqi has become more and more majestic in the hearts of everyone, and now few people dare to raise objections to what Ren Siqi commanded, except for Mao 18 and others, of course.
"Eighteenth brother, I know that the brothers are hard. However, they are no longer just ordinary crew members, but soldiers of the inspection department. Soldiers must not be lazy, otherwise they will have no combat effectiveness. Moreover, the construction of the reservoir is for the consideration of our inspection department and for our great cause. Ren Siqi explained. Now Mao Shiba's thinking is still in the pirate stage, yearning for a free and easy life, and has not yet become a soldier's consciousness.
Mao Shibai listened with a puzzled face, they are usually lazy, and now the military discipline promulgated by Ren Siqi is becoming more and more strict on everyone, and many crew members can't stand it.
Many people can't understand why they are obviously a crew member, but they are pulled over to do such a thing, they don't dare to talk to Ren Siqi, so they often muttered in front of Mao Shibai. As a result, there is such a phenomenon, some people are working hard, some people are lazy from time to time, and some people are openly hiding aside and doing nothing by virtue of their old qualifications.
Ren Siqi took Mao Eighteen Xiong and others to inspect the construction site, and the situation he saw in front of him made his heart burn with anger.
Seeing Ren Siqi coming with a sinking face, some lazy people began to work hard, and some eyeless ones were still lazy.
"Hurry up, the owner is here!" A wizened crew member quietly kicked another crew member, who was lying in a stone nest with his eyes closed in the sun.
"Don't make a fuss, let me sleep a little longer." With the felt hat covering his face, he thought his companion was joking, but the momentary silence made him feel that something was wrong, and he hurriedly picked up the hat covering his face and opened his eyes.
"Captain, no, Lord Inspector!" He jumped up with a sneer and lowered his head in front of Ren Siqi.
"Shi Wu! You followed me when you were in Luzon, right? Why, do you think that the current life is not beautiful and you are not motivated? Ren Siqi asked coldly.
"No, no, no, Lord Inspector, I'm just a little tired, so I'm going to work." Shi Wu blushed and hurriedly picked up the shovel, desperately shoveling the dirt.
Ren Siqi let out a long breath, suppressed the anger in his chest, and a sentence stored in the depths of his mind suddenly emerged.
"An incompetent manager will complain about the laziness of employees, while a good manager can motivate employees."
This is from the memory of later generations of company executives, Ren Siqi suddenly found that in the past few months, he has been forced to live, from thinking to acting completely with the instinctive memory of this life Xiucai, and almost forgot that there are still memories of later generations of executives in his mind.
Thinking of this, Ren Siqi was like an initiation, and many ideas poured out. Isn't it just to increase the enthusiasm of everyone, it's not very difficult.
The two hundred soldiers belonged to nine boats, and Ren Siqi had the heads of each ship summoned in front of him.
"Everyone, I know that everyone is very hard, but there is no way, there are so many people in our Daishan Inspection Division, and your family members will also take it over in the future, there will be more and more people, the daily consumption of food is too large, we can't rely on buying it completely, we must reclaim our own fields, so this reservoir must be built as soon as possible."
"In order to build it as soon as possible, I will distribute the amount of work according to the number of people on each ship. Those who do a lot of work every day will be rewarded, and I will tell the man to add a meat dish. Those who have done the least amount of work and those who have done poorly have no vegetables, so let's eat dry rice. ”
"After all the work that the ship is responsible for, you can go back to rest in advance and prepare for the New Year. If you can't finish it, then spend the New Year on this construction site! ”
There are still more than 20 days left before the Chinese New Year, and it will definitely not be completed with the current progress. However, Ren Siqi believes that as long as the enthusiasm of everyone can be stimulated, it will not be a problem to repair this embankment a year ago. (To be continued.) )