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Almost every month, at the port of Pudong in Shanghai, China, a cargo ship arrives from Singapore in the South Seas, and when the cargo ship lifts its hold cover, it unloads the hoarded cargo, a half-meter square of gray and white things. This is a natural rubber sheet.

China, perhaps the industry is not developed, but for China, but he has the world's largest automobile manufacturing plant, the world's first mass-produced car, the first truck, since two years ago, the automobile factory was put into operation, Tianma Automobile Company in Pudong, has produced the world's 80 cars, 80 tires, and it is the cars and tires that make China the world's largest rubber importer.

In the same way, rubber is one of the most important strategic materials, and it must be used to make airplanes, artillery, automobile wheels and ship seals, wires and wrapping wires, etc., but now, no country in the world has realized that rubber, an industrial raw material condensed from the rǔ juice of the Brazilian clover rubber tree, has been integrated into human social life almost everywhere.

However, in China's official documents, rubber, steel, coal, and oil are regarded as the four major industrial raw materials of the modern economy and society, and they are also problems that China is trying to solve.

"Our economic conditions dictate that we need to use coins to import machinery, not rubber as a raw material."

Half a year ago, in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, when faced with a huge import of rubber of more than 10 million yuan per month two years later, a conversation between His Majesty and his "businessman" reached the ears of Yuan Shikai, who had just been promoted to Minister of the Interior.

Yuan Shikai, as the Minister of the Interior, after inquiring about some overseas Chinese in Nanyang and making full preparations, naturally walked into the palace and recommended to His Majesty that the Ministry of the Interior be responsible for solving the problem of "localization of rubber".

"You can try to reclaim land in Hainan, plant rubber trees, and ask overseas Chinese in Nanyang for help in seeds and technology."

Since ancient times, the emperor has no jokes, and the emperor has made the final decision to reclaim land in Hainan to plant rubber plantations, and Yuan Shikai, who is good at speculation, naturally regards this matter as the first priority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and rubber may be the most powerful bargaining chip for him to ask His Majesty for credit.

In May, when the vast majority of the land of China is still in the sunshine of the chūn tail, Hainan Island is full of fresh blooms...... There is no winter here at all, and Hainan Island, located in the tropics, has even just sent away a typhoon, and the torrential rain brought by a typhoon has turned the mountain xiǎo stream into a river and the river into a flood peak.

However, at night, Hainan, which is full of primeval forests, is still as quiet as ever. In the middle of the tranquil rainforest, all you can see are a dozen simple thatched huts made of bamboo and wood, gray méngméng, wilted and scattered in the open space surrounded by miscellaneous trees.

When the cold moon is in the sky, the insects and beasts in the forest are chirping, and the cry of the owl makes people feel particularly panicked. In a barbed wire fence compound, in simple bamboo and wooden sheds, people sleep on the Chase bunk with their heads on top and their feet facing outward.

Sleeping like this has a sense of dependence and security, and it is also to prevent the invasion of wild beasts, especially the clouded leopard. Clouded leopards often bite their necks first. There are clouded leopards on Hainan Island, and the reclamation farms here are well known, and the workers who have been sent to the reclamation area from all over the world must carry out safety education, and how to prevent wild beasts from invading is one of the most important contents.

At the end of the day, when people were resting in the humble sheds, under the light of the searchlights, soldiers patrolling back and forth could be seen from time to time, their uniforms were no different from those of the Guards, the only difference was probably the word "inside" on the embroidered armbands.

But even so, there were still people in the shed who couldn't sleep, and people could be heard muttering in the bunk from time to time.

"If the clouded leopard comes, they can kill it with one shot, but if the python comes, what will they do?"

Although he was muttering, after doing more than a dozen hours of work, exhaustion hit people, and people fell asleep one after another. In the second half of the night, suddenly someone jumped up with a "wow" from the NV Tongpu, and everyone woke up, thinking that it was a wild beast. In the sāo movement, some people went to pick up bamboo poles, tools such as machetes, saws, hoes, etc., and after work every day, they had to go to jiāo, and they could only use bamboo poles and wooden sticks for self-defense.

The screams from inside the shed made the NV soldiers standing outside the mén rush to come over, and with a flashlight, a humā snake with thick arms crawled from the ground back to the field and disappeared into the grass. ,

"Okay, go to bed"

The words of the NV soldiers have a strong Cantonese accent, the guards of the NV battalion are NV soldiers, and the NV soldiers are mostly from Liangguang, because in these two places, most of the NV people are not wrapped in Xiǎo feet, so they will pass the inspection when the Ministry of Internal Affairs recruits NV guards.

And being so frightened, it was difficult for the NV people in the shed to close their eyes again, so Suo Xìng sat up and chatted. A young NV man looked at the moon in the sky stupidly, and tears flowed from his eyes in the blink of an eye.

"When is this hard day a head?"

Such a sigh from the NV people was exchanged for a burst of sighs, and the tired and haggard faces had no hope for the future.

"What kind of sin is this?"

Then a muffled cry rang out in the shed, and the child would cry after being awakened by the screams of the adults.

"What are you crying about, there will be a life tomorrow"

The cry reached outside the mén, and the nv sound was heard.

"Hey, don't cry, I'm going to work tomorrow."

After a sigh, the people fell asleep again.

In the early morning, over the work camp, there was a loud and long military horn sound, and in the sound of the password, groups of people lined up in the open space of the work camp, assembled, came out, lined up in a neat column of more than a dozen roads, and then shouted slogans with the command of the commander next to the team.

"One, one, two, one, two, three-four..."

In the muddy, heavily trampled work camp deep in the rainforest, workers drank a bowl of gruel and rushed down the road with dry food and farm tools on their shoulders.

The so-called road is nothing more than two deep ruts in the primeval forest carved out by people with machetes, axes, and saws, and then by ox carts in the red earth. The torrential rain brought by the typhoon made the road as slippery as a mirror, and the soaked mud powder cemented up and became thicker and thicker on the wheels, and the workers had to shovel the mud off every time they walked through it.

The red mud sticks to the soles of the shoes, no matter how you shake them off, you can not get rid of them, you stick a layer of sticky one step, the more sticky the more you go, the heavier the shoes, and the thicker the soles are. So, the workers here are barefoot. In order to deal with the mud, their ox carts were tied with iron sheets on wooden wheels, and they also used sack pieces to wrap the hooves of the oxen pulling the carts, which they learned from the locals.

People have always had an amazing ability to adapt.

As the men walked towards the reclamation area, the NVs drove ox carts around the camp to clear the fields, and according to the self-sufficiency policy of the centralized work camps, they had to plant the first crop of rice before they "broke the nǎi", while more of the NV people made rattan chairs and simple tools from the rattan that the men brought with them when they got off work.

In the river's hydraulic sawmill, the logs that float down the river are dried in the drying room and then processed into planks, which are sent to the seashore and loaded onto ships to be shipped to big cities such as Guangzhou and Shanghai.

A few minutes later, the rainforest was once again in the air as a puff of smoke rose from the distance of the red earth as far as the eye could see, and the deep green of the primeval forest was fading one by one. There are now more than 100 farms on Hainan Island, and nearly 300,000 workers are like silkworms eating mulberry leaves, munching on the forests and grasslands that cover this red earth.

Reclamation is a combination of man and fire, trees, vines, thorns and shrubs are mostly cut down manually, only miscanthus grass and weeds are set on fire, everything here must be fully utilized, trees are sawn into logs, leftovers, thorns are used as dry fuel, as for the vines are used to weave various tools and chairs, wooden boards, rattan chairs, rattan hats and tea bottle shells are now the main output products of the work camps in Hainan.

In the primeval forest that no one has penetrated for thousands of years, the sky trees abound, the waist of the big tree is thick and leafy, and the roots are mixed underneath, and this kind of tree is treated with hoes, machetes, and big iron saws. For the reclamation team, their nightmare is to encounter a giant tree like the banyan tree and get into trouble. Use a saw to cut off the atmospheric roots that hit the ground one by one, cut off the branches that stick out in the shape of an umbrella, and then concentrate on the main trunk. Several people took turns pulling the big board saw, and when the sawing was almost there, they tied a thick rope to the tip of the main trunk, and concentrated a dozen people to hold and grasp the reversal. The body of the tree swayed and fell, the commander shouted, the palm saw quickly dodged, and everyone pulled the tree down with all their strength. To sawn off one of these large banyan trees, it would take a dozen people a day of hard work, not including digging up the roots of the tree that stretched out like a swarm of snakes. ,

The reason why it is a nightmare is because their workload has always been linked to food, for the chiefs, no matter what "banyan trees are difficult to gnaw", what they need is to gnaw off the green sè here, and then use manpower and animal power to plow the land of luǒlù, rake it flat, divide it into large squares according to the area of 100 acres as a grid, set aside the position of the shelterbelt around it, dig out the soil for planting rubber seedlings in the square, and align the rows horizontally, which is the future rubber forest section. Moreover, in the mountainous area, after clearing the mountain, it is necessary to build terraces around the mountain along the slope.

What are worker ants, perhaps for the thousands of workers working in this primeval forest, they are even worthy worker ants, but next to these worker ants, there are guards with rifles and military dogs, and it is under the supervision of these guards that they will be as industrious as worker ants

"Ah......h

Suddenly a scream from a busy worker attracts the attention of nearby guards. Looking there, I saw a large python coiled in the woods, its head swaying, its half-closed eyes with mucus hanging from the corners of its eyes, and its eyes glowing with a crystal blue light. This python, commonly known as the southern snake, has a skin that can be retracted like a retractable rubber with its mouth open and can swallow a pig whole, and of course the python can swallow a person in one bite.

"Hurry up and still be stunned what to do, nòng to die it, everyone will have ròu to eat at night"

The guard, who had blown the air conditioner, shouted at the frightened people, and when they heard that there was ròu to eat, everyone's eyes lit up at the same time, remembering the big python ròu they had eaten a while ago. Just when the python wanted to escape, dozens of big men surrounded it with thick bamboo poles and began to hit the python with bamboo poles and hoes. The annoyed python stretched its head higher than a human, exhaling in its mouth, foamy saliva spilling several feet away, and its tail frantically entwined the xiǎo tree next to it to crack.

After more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, the head of the python was flattened under the stick, and the foreman wearing the armband of "squad leader" in the crowd began to shout for the workers to clean up the big tuǐ thick python, although he was the foreman's squad leader, but his life was just making up, but he ate better and slept better than other people in the work camp, and even he had his own room, and his wife and children lived with him. This alone is enough to make others envious of their stomachs.

"xiǎo heart point, xiǎo heart point, the skin must be peeled carefully, I estimate that this skin must be worth at least 100 points, this is a day of work for ten people"

Qingna, who was wearing the armband of "squad leader", shouted from time to time, this leather is beautiful when it looks good, as for whether this leather will become the leather shoes or xiǎo wallet of the lady and sister xiǎo, he doesn't care, what he cares about is the competition with the forty-fifth class.

"If we win this month, the chief said, that class won the title of labor commando, that class will live in the stilt house first, if we win for ten months in a row, then the days of the wife and children will come back."

Qing Na couldn't stop shouting, his words made the guy who originally only had ròu in his eyes, suddenly Xiǎo heart rise, a beautiful python skin more than ten meters long, was quickly peeled off, and a guard walked over.

"Sir, look at this skin,......"

Qing Na flattered the chief to show the skin, while the guard looked expressionless, and finally the guard finally squeezed out a little smile on his face, the huā pattern of the skin was more beautiful than expected.

"Lao Qing, one hundred and three points, you are almost one hundred and ten points more than the forty-fifth class, this month is no day, eleven people work a day, enough for them to catch up"

Finally, the guard added earnestly.

"But you have to work hard, and you can renovate it before you can regain your life, understand?"

"Yes, thank you, sir."

When Qing Na heard this, he hurriedly thanked him, and there was more expectation in his eyes.

"I will do a good job of transformation and live up to the grace of national transformation"

As soon as the afternoon thunderstorm passed, the sun came out hot. The raindrops that covered the treetops had not yet dried, shiny, and shiny in the sun. The wet ground was roasted by the scorching sun, and steam was rising. In this hot land, thousands of workers are still working on the red earth to reinvent themselves.

The people who were stooping down and digging holes there in a line looked tired, their faces were gray, their cheeks were sunken, and their eyes were deep. The clothes on their bodies were half dry and half wet, and the edges of the water trails were covered with a faint salty white, which was the sun on their heads and the hot steam under their feet when their clothes were wet and dry, dry and wet, and at this time to accurately describe the situation on their foreheads, they had to use this idiom that had been used indiscriminately again - sweat like rain. ,

But even so, the work always has to be done, they dig rubber xùe in the red earth, and each xùe digs a bamboo stick, when counting the progress of the work, it is also used as the basis for individuals to get work points, if this kind of work is diligent, a person can get twenty or thirty points a day, and only ten points of work for food, and the rest of the work can be exchanged for some money.

Money, working here also has a reward, although limited, but every month when receiving wages, it will always make adults xiǎo children excited for a while, for adults, that money carries their hopes for the future, although it is only one or two yuan, but the people in the work camp know that when they "transform" well, they can take that money, do something xiǎo business or something, it is always enough for the family to make ends meet.

As for xiǎo children's happiness, it is because when they distribute money, some small bits and pieces are either folded into candy or féi soap or something, and being able to eat a candy is enough to make them happy for several days.

“…… 20,000 soldiers and 570,000 forced workers. Before the arrival of the rubber planting season in July, the whole area needs to reclaim 1.5 million acres of rubber ......"

When inspecting the progress of the project, Mu Qiangguo did not look at the workers, but muttered in his heart the order issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the past he opened a rubber plantation in Nanyang, but now he is working as a technical consultant here, since he came here two months ago, he muttered in his heart whether Lord Yuan's rubber plantation can be completed as it is.

But now he had no doubt that the guards here always had all sorts of ways to get the workers to complete their tasks on time, and these workers seemed to be in full swing one by one.

"Tired?"

Looking at a worker next to him who was digging a pit covered in mud and had no even look in his eyes, Mu Qiangguo asked casually.

"If you go back to the chief, I am not tired, I will definitely do a good job of transformation and live up to the grace of national reconstruction"

When the man said this, Mu Qiangguo noticed a flash of light in his eyes, as if he was expecting something.

"Mr. Mu, ...... you ask this?"

The officer next to him, who was wearing a black military uniform and holding the rank of captain, immediately laughed out loud, and it was the commander of the 095 work battalion who laughed loudly. In practice, he was the supreme commander of the work battalion, and theoretically he held the power of life and death in the battalion, and the mention of him made all the workers look in awe.

However, since Mu Qiangguo came to this camp, he didn't seem to have seen what he used to maintain his "personal authority".

But he could feel that sometimes, all he needed to do was look at the worker, and he didn't need to make them tremble.

"You should ask them what they want, not whether they are tired or not"

Mu Qiangguo was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the person who was working hard again, what did they want?

Raising the horsewhip made of beautiful black python skin in his hand and pointing at the workers, the officer spat out a wordless and tasteless.

"Labor in exchange for freedom"