Chapter 8: A New Manhattan (3)
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A total of 61 military or paramilitary personnel were involved in the catastrophe. These included 24 members of the Customs Anti-Smuggling Team on the 516 Anti-Smuggling Ship of the Customs, 19 armed police officers who participated in the anti-smuggling operation, 6 police officers of the Economic Investigation Team, 17 riot police officers or ordinary police officers who prevented the escalation of the wage incident of dock workers, and 1 female bailiff who was on vacation at the time.
In addition to a retired veteran police officer who joined later, and a number of young veterans, the organized disaster relief operation on the day of the catastrophe was quickly carried out under the coordination of Zheng Quan, the anti-smuggling captain of the customs.
Even if everyone is busy in fear and confusion since the beginning of the cataclysm, disaster stress disorder, a psychosocial disorder that cannot be escaped, is becoming more and more pronounced in the Manhattan community and beyond.
Regardless of the loss of some of their loved ones, just the moment when the sky collapsed and the heavens and friends of a certain time and space were separated forever, many people showed all kinds of elusive words and deeds after a tiring day.
People with military or paramilitary backgrounds are much calmer at this time, and some of the younger policemen, even if they are in a trance, are still under the command of old soldiers like Zheng Quan.
As a result, the Self-Help Committee has a strong military-organized style from the beginning, and even if a few former government officials join, it will not change the current militarized management atmosphere of the entire Manhattan community.
The unavoidable fact of crossing the world, the entire group of people must re-examine the way of life in the future, and perhaps more people are still waiting passively in confusion, but Zheng Quan and other members of the self-help committee have to think about how to restore a minimum of normal life order all day long.
In view of the high risk of the overall external environment, the Self-Help Committee focused all of its armed forces outside of the Manhattan community, but the repeated vicious brawls and nuisance of women in the community have gradually become overwhelmed. To this end, the Community Security Department under the Self-Help Committee, which is served by Liu Mingjun, the father of female bailiff Liu Lanxi and a veteran police officer, was formally established.
Liu Lao is 68 years old this year, a retired veteran police officer with rich work experience in various grassroots positions in the police department, and his crazy digging and searching for women after the catastrophe once made all the young men present embarrassed.
Tong Guò Su Zining further sorted out the personnel situation during this period of time, and Liu Lao, with the help of Liu Lanxi, the daughter of the bailiff, organized several former dock warehouse security guards.
From the military and civilian labor protection supplies in a dock warehouse, many uniforms similar to those of urban community security guards were turned out, which just gave the newly formed community security officers a unified identity label. In addition, under Liu Lanxi's emphasis, several young female cleaners from the rural docks have also been organized to take charge of the safety of the women's residential areas that are currently set up separately.
The limited number of modern firearms was simply not possible, so the rubber batons of the former riot police squad became the only equipment of the community policing team. Every day, the veteran police officers and their daughters will take the security officers to wander around the community, and when they encounter emergencies, they can only temporarily deal with them according to some public security management regulations of the old time and space.
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If the time is still accurate, the calendar has flipped to October 20. The weather was so cold that the Manhattan community began to distribute thicker clothing.
In the past few days, Su Zining's main job has been to coordinate and organize people to carry out the internal and external affairs of the Manhattan community, while Yan Xiaosong is still in charge of the excavation and sorting of materials at the crossing site.
Early this morning, the Self-Help Committee issued geological and mineral exploration work around Manhattan. Not only is the usable building materials that can now be collected at the ruin sites almost exhausted, but more importantly, winter in North America is fast approaching.
The global Xiaoice climate from the late 16th to the 17th century led to lower average temperatures in North America, and the Manhattan area itself was within the northern hemisphere winter snow line, and only the damp wood cut down was obviously not suitable for winter heating dye.
Jiang Zhaolong, the head of the Ministry of Industry of the newly established self-help committee and a former middle-level manager of a state-owned iron and steel company, and Lin Youde, an engineer at a high-tech metal processing enterprise in the south, also put forward a plan for the production of cement and bricks, which requires the identification of a location that can facilitate the collection and processing of raw materials.
For this reason, Su Zining visited almost everyone who he thought was reliable according to the personnel records, and finally determined three candidates. An Shaoqing, a middle school geography teacher who drew a map of the area around Manhattan by hand, was the first to be chosen.
The second is a young man who used to study in the geothermal exploration major of Beijing University of Geosciences, and the unpopular major that birds don't directly made the party abandoned after graduation, but now he happened to be pulled by Su Zining to be a strong man.
The third was an assistant engineer at the Coal Mining Bureau in a small county in Shanxi, a 32-year-old who was already a little bald at a young age, and was part of the tour group on the day of the disaster.
The scope of the survey was identified in three areas, the first on the west bank of the Hudson River, the former Jersey City, and the second on the Brooklyn area of Long Island across the east bank of the Manhattan River. The third is the farthest, Staten Island, 10 kilometers southwest of Manhattan Island.
Historically, the construction of Manhattan's downtown area did not leave the support of these three places. It is believed that even if time travels, the Manhattan community will still need to obtain various raw materials for future development from these three places.
Due to the complex topography of coastal terraces, watersheds and forests, and because it is located on the mainland, the danger is very high, so it is temporarily excluded from the exploration scope by An Shaoqing.
The northwestern coast of the Brooklyn area on Long Island is separated from the Manhattan community by the East River, which is less than 1 kilometer wide, so An Shaoqing and his colleagues boarded the forested riverbend area in northern Brooklyn at noon that day.
The first day of exploration paid off quickly, with a large stretch of riparian sedimentary zone at the edge of the forest rich in clay, a nearby sandstone area with limestone deposits at your fingertips, and even a considerable amount of easily mined marl. This kind of natural cement mineral, which can be used almost with a simple firing, made An Shaoqing, a literary and artistic youth, yell, for almost half an hour.
"Hmm...... It is very close to Manhattan, and the raw materials of cement and bricks can be mined and produced locally, and can be developed into an industrial area in the future! Su Zining recorded it carefully in his diary, and then looked at the concave river bay terrain in front of him and pointed, "Mr. An, on your world tourism map, is the Brooklyn Shipyard here?" ”
The answer is yes, there is another record in Su Zining's diary.
"It's a pity there is no coal." An Shaoqing lifted his glasses, and showed a sad expression after being excited, "Although the surrounding forests here are very dense, we can't burn charcoal first and then burn bricks and lime, right?" Moreover, if charcoal is to be fired, it must first have a special brick cellar. ”
"Well, it's a question of whether it's a gentleman's egg or a gentleman's chicken...... Since the early development of the Manhattan colony was able to produce small amounts of iron on its own far from Europe, it is clear that there must be no shortage of coal and iron ore in this area. Su Zining touched his chin, closed the diary, stood up and stretched.
It was getting dark, and the idea of spending the night in this place was almost death, so the entire exploration team had to take a fishing boat back to the Manhattan community.
"Su Zining, come here!"
In the distance, Yan Xiaosong, who had been participating in the Brooklyn field trip as a soy sauce player, shouted, and the young man was squatting in the middle of a sandstone beach by a small river.
"It's broken animal skin, apparently artificially stripped by hand." A piece of fur that was already a little rotten appeared on Yan Xiaosong's hand, and then turned it over, revealing a smooth inner skin surface, "It's an Indian." ”
"Well, historically, Long Island was the territory of the Delaware Indians, but in the relevant records, the Indian villages on Long Island should be in the west-central part of Long Island." Su Zining frowned, secretly worried about discovering evidence of the Indians' activities so quickly.
"Long Island is nearly 200 kilometers long from east to west, and if the Indians are really in the middle of Long Island, as you say, then this should also be the very edge of their activities, after all, the forests and rivers here are complex, and it is not something they can do every day to get here." Geography teacher An Shaoqing quickly put forward his own opinion.
"Don't forget that the Dravare Indians are a fishing and hunting people, and since their sphere of influence is spread across the entire lower reaches of the Hudson River, it is not so difficult for Indians to appear here." Su Zining threw away the rotten and damaged fur and turned his head to the forest to the east, "Anyway, we also plan to take the initiative to contact them, so we will take the opportunity of exploration and call that tour guide Li Xiang next time." ”
"You're more optimistic than I am...... How do I remember that there are about 30 languages of the North American Indians, and are you sure that our two knife Indian translators can understand it? Yan Xiaosong looked at his friend with a smile, and a playful smile appeared again.
"Imagine if we suddenly save a dangerous Indian girl in this dangerous place, and the girl's father happens to be the head of a local Indian village, then such an opening will ensure that we will fool them."
"Well, buy the whole of Manhattan for $24, right?" Su Zining smiled bitterly and pursed his lips, "I forgot to tell you that the hard currency of the North American Indians is a special kind of shell ......"
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