XIX The First Economic Crisis and Its Solution
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The addition of more than 70 strong laborers has greatly alleviated the human resource tension that the crossing is facing, iron ore, limestone, coal ...... Large quantities of minerals are sent to where they are needed. After digging enough ore, Pang Yu took them to the brick kiln outside the city to learn how to make bricks, and used the standard mold method to fire a large number of modern standard 240x120x60 standard green and red bricks, with standard bricks and cement mortar. Pang Yu was finally able to design the house in the modern way he was accustomed to it.
After burning the bricks, it is to build the house, and Pang Yu has spent a lot of effort in explaining the bricklaying skills, mainly Ding Heshun, not to mention those ancient people, even the ordinary engineering team members who are modern people have never done this. In fact, Pang Yu has never done it himself, but he has been on the construction site for a long time, and he has seen craftsmen and masters do it before. When he came to operate it himself, it felt quite rusty.
Ms. Hu Wen's high-end toilet has finally been completed, don't look at this small toilet, behind it is a complete set of modern building system support, to be able to build this toilet also means that the public has been able to reproduce some simple modern building structure system in the Ming Dynasty, which is very important for their next construction work.
The final product is a rectangular building. Three-metre-high, one-sided sloping roof, the roof still covered with thatch – a question that Pang Yu met with strong protests from several lesbians. But he said that he had no choice: laying the tiles evenly and firmly on the sloping roof was a very technical work, and it is said that the ancient craftsmen often divided their apprentices when they did this work. In modern times, only the masters of the garden engineering team still have mastered this craft, but for Pang Yu, an office animal who was only used to drawing in front of the computer, he did not know this craft.
He could only assure his comrades that the sloping side of the roof of the toilet was facing the whole yard, and anyone who climbed on it and tried to peep into the yard would be able to see it. In addition, when the crossing community has a better relationship with the locals, it is possible to hire local craftsmen to do the work - if there are local people who can do it.
The sewage pit behind the public toilet is dug deep to store a large amount of green and high-quality organic fertilizer. Wu Nanhai of the agricultural group and Li Jingcheng of the chemical group have already booked the fertilizer here in advance, and they are still competing for this.
Finally, a wall was built in the yard with surplus bricks and stones to separate the work area from the sleeping area (living area). Originally, there were not many people living in the city and there was no need to divide the functional area, but with the gradual improvement of the construction of the green zone, more and more people on the ship chose to move to the city to live, plus more than 70 captive laborers, at most more than 150 people lived in the green zone, and the entire county warehouse compound was stuffed.
The participation of these local workers has also contributed to another development - the interaction with the locals has become smoother. After making sure that the men would not escape, the Travelers gave them some freedom to move around the city.
Someone once asked what would happen if someone did escape...... Ade smiled and pointed to a chart on the wall, which recorded the names, places of origin, family members, and addresses of all seventy-eight laborers! This guy's tracking skills that he practiced in the detention center really didn't blow it. Through a few pleasant individual conversations, or warm and frank group chats, those simple and naïve Ming Dynasty hillbillies have honestly explained all the matters they can master. Of course, those imperial officers and soldiers from Danzhou were natives of their hometowns, and even the pirates introduced the situation of their old nests clearly, and they were afraid that the discipline would not be understood in detail enough.
For this reason, Ade also boasted proudly: If there were any government officials in the Ming Dynasty who could compare with half of his ability, Liu Xiang, the leader of the big pirates, would have been uprooted long ago, and there would be no scum left.
This information is thoroughly grasped, and even if those laborers want to escape, they have to consider the consequences. The traversers had already made a promise to work here for three years to confess their crimes, and then they would be released and returned home. But as a collective, if someone runs away early, all the laborers will be punished together.
The system of joint sitting was very effective in this situation, because the workers automatically watched each other, and even if someone really had the idea of escaping, their companions would immediately stop it. The power of the masses is always huge, and Ade doesn't have to worry about who to guard at all, he only needs to set the rules, encircle several labor leaders, and the rest of the matter will be solved within the group.
With these dozens of locals able to freely enter and exit the gates of the "Green Zone", it is only natural that they become a bridge between the traverser and the locals. Purchasing goods has become more convenient, and it is now common to see some fish from the sea and wild game from the mountains on the tables of travelers, all bought from nearby fishermen or hunters.
There is a lot of trading with the locals, and of course you can't use modern coins to coax people like you did with the dismissal, but you can't do stupid things like buying a pig for fifty taels of silver. The most commonly used currency in daily transactions is rice, which is processed by a thresher and slightly mixed with a brightener to give it a snow-white and translucent look and is in excellent condition, and is extremely popular in the local market. Every time you go to the market, you only need to push a cart of rice out, and you can basically exchange for enough meat and non-staple food. It's not bad to go to the beach to find fishermen, one pound of such refined white rice can be exchanged for two pounds of fish, which is still the freshest.
However, in this way, the consumption of grain has increased greatly, and if the grain reserves are wasted in this way, I am afraid that it will not be able to support the next harvest period, and Wunanhai's farm will not see any benefits for a while...... Pang Yuxie and others held several meetings, hoping that everyone could be restrained and not run to the warehouse to steal rice in three days. specially named the names of several girls - Wang Jiaojiao, Zhu Yueyue, Su Duxue, and Zhuo Ying...... Wait, lately, they have been eating dried fish fillets as snacks, and it is obvious that there is a suspicion of heavy shady scenes in the process of material transactions they are responsible for.
Of course, these girls refused to admit it, and insisted that the fishermen's uncle saw that they were cute and voluntarily gave them away.
But if you don't trade, you have to face the dry pickles and radish strips after you get used to eating them, and of course your temper will not be good. Master Li in the kitchen has been verbosed several times, and the angry old Li threw the spoon several times and shouted that he would not do it.
This dilemma lasted for a while, until Wu Nanhai applied to build a salt pan by the sea.
The original purpose of the salt works was only to meet the needs of the people who were crossing - they were running out of salt on their ships, and the perverts of the chemical group, who had never been able to find saltpeter mines, had recently begun to toss some chlorate explosives, which required large quantities of sodium chloride - table salt.
It is not difficult to build a salt factory by the sea, Pang Yu has visited the Xuwei salt factory in Lianyungang City before, and he still has a little impression of the modern salt making process and site requirements. After discussing with a few knowledgeable comrades, the drawings of the salt works were quickly drawn.
Evaporation Ponds, Conditioning Plates, Crystallization Plates, Crystallization Ponds...... The noun sounds quite complicated, but in fact it is nothing more than some large and small cement pools. However, the location of the construction should be slightly chosen to ensure that there is enough seawater to fill the reservoir at high tide, and the salt flats themselves cannot be affected by tides or storms.
There was no power supply on the seaside, and the pumping machine could not be used, so we had to build a number of pedal waterwheels to lift the seawater in the reservoir to the evaporation pond, and then pump it into the regulating plate (also known as the regulating grid) and the crystallization plate (also known as the crystalline grid) step by step, and finally enter the brine pond. The salt brine is clarified by the brine pond and poured into the crystallization pool, and it only takes 12 hours on a sunny day for the brine in the crystal pond to condense into coarse salt.
In the modern salt factory, the whole process is operated by machinery, and there is no condition to cross the crowd, so it can only be done by manpower. Fortunately, the amount they needed was not too large, and the salt works did not need to be started every day, and the salt prepared once or twice should be enough for the group to use for a long time - Pang Yu had thought so when he first designed it, but soon he realized that he was wrong.
And it's a big mistake.
Those natives of the Ming Dynasty must have become very tenacious after joining the group of traversals. Because they will face all kinds of unbelievable "miracles" anytime and anywhere. In addition to movies, electric lights, walkie-talkies, all sorts of modern mechanical ...... Even the two large glass mirrors that hung casually on the walls of the cafeteria were rare items that they had never even thought of in their lives.
However, all of this together did not have the impact that the salt works had on them when the salt was first produced, which was something that all the modern people present did not expect. When the white salt soil was gathered by the wooden chopsticks and brought out of the crystallization pond one by one, many indigenous laborers actually burst into tears. Some even jumped out of the salt pond and stuffed a handful of coarse salt cubes into their mouths despite the danger, and if it weren't for Ade's timely use of sticks to rush up and break people up, the hillbillies would have had to be dragged to their stomachs for salt poisoning.
"*** What's going on, how many times have you said it to be calm! Calm! Don't make a fuss about everything! ”
In front of most of the traversers, including all the lesbians, the gaffe of these indigenous laborers made Ade, who was in charge of their management, feel embarrassed. In addition to the day-to-day management of the laborers, Ade, the head of the "human resources team", is also responsible for teaching them some daily knowledge, and judging from today's reaction, his teaching seems to have been less successful.
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