Sending away Gu Kai, who had a sad face, Tao Donglai didn't take this matter too seriously. There are indeed a few people in the Crossing Group who have a similar mentality to Gu Kai, thinking that since they have come to this time and space, they should create a more idealized social system, such as equality for all, equal pay for equal work, and so on. But Tao Donglai knew very well that this so-called system of absolute equality was impossible to achieve, after all, the vast majority of people abandoned their original lives and came to this time and space for the great purpose of liberating the toiling masses. Like Gu Kai and Ruisha, the behavior of hanging slogans such as "equality", "freedom", and "democracy" on the lips of later Western politicians all day long is actually quite limited in terms of influence both within the crossing group and among the naturalized people. The vast majority of people still recognize the existing cross-group structure, with a very small number of elites as decision-makers, cross-crossing people as leaders, and naturalized people as implementers, such a pyramid structure is more suitable for their own development needs.

Nothing. Early the next morning, Tao Donglai went to the canteen alone to check the operation of the logistics department.

Compared with Shengli Port, Heitu Port has a more concentrated residential area and a larger population density, so the canteen here is divided into two places, north and south, and Tao Donglai's south canteen is mainly facing the staff of the management committee, military and police personnel, a small number of immigrants who moved from Shengli Port in the early stage, and some local women and children. The content of breakfast is very simple, rice porridge with pickles, but there are indeed a lot of ingredients added to the porridge, in addition to the common sea vegetables, there are even a small number of dried scallops. The special breakfast was slightly better, with an egg and a half-foot-long fish per person.

Soon a group of people from the management committee also appeared in the canteen, and after everyone had breakfast together, Tao Donglai ordered Gu Kai, Zhou Hengxing and Tian Yeyou, and asked the three of them to inspect the local residential areas and production areas with him, while Wang Tom was responsible for checking the status of local ordnance and military facilities. The military chief Qian Tiandun is still on the Tushan Peninsula, and the entourage assigned to Wang Tom by the management committee is actually Naturalized Corporal Gao Qiaonan.

Tao Donglai saw Takahashi Nan leading a group of militiamen standing straight outside the cafeteria, wearing a camouflage training uniform, and carrying a musket almost as tall as him, and couldn't help but quip: "Takahashi Nan's attitude is very good! I see him at any time as if he is ready to go to the battlefield immediately." ”

Zhou Hengxing coughed dryly and said, "Corporal Gaoqiao Nan's local cousin is still very good. Since he was in charge of the security patrol work in the residential area, the local law and order situation has improved significantly. I heard that Lieutenant Qian had sent a report to the Military Police Department requesting that Takahashi Minami be given a first-class promotion so that he could be given a substantive position. ”

"Yes, there is such a thing. Tao Donglai nodded and admitted this rumor: "The military police department has such a small number of people, and in the future, a large number of grassroots officers will still have to be selected from the naturalized people, and more capable people like Gao Qiao Nan can be properly trained." In addition, because a training camp will be set up on the Tushan Peninsula in the near future, the local militia may need to send some of them there as military advisers, so a company of militia will be added to the Heitu Port, and the soldiers will be screened among the local naturalized people, and the specific matters can be implemented when Lieutenant Qian returns from the Tushan Peninsula. ”

This news did not surprise everyone in the management committee, in fact, Qian Tiandun had been more or less angry with them before this. In fact, everyone knows very well that the expansion of the army is only a matter of time, and if the Crossing Group wants to rapidly expand its territory externally in the future, it must rely on strong military force. It's just that up to now, apart from the military industry, the construction of the army has not brought real and visible direct benefits to the crossing group, which is also one of the important reasons why the civilian system opposes the expansion of the army.

However, in the place of Heitu Harbor, even the pacifist Gu Kai no longer opposes the expansion of the army, because compared to the base camp, the military and police forces here are too small. There are a total of more than 100 military and police personnel stationed in Heitu Port, and they have to be stationed in several places, and there are not even twenty mobile personnel in peacetime.

The first place Tao Donglai inspected was the naturalized residential area of Heitu Port. After the flooding, the residential area of the port was relocated to a fairly high ground on a mountain plain in the southern part of the port area. According to the original planning of the Ministry of Construction, public facilities such as bathhouses and toilets were built in the residential areas here according to a certain residential density, and the private houses were almost all built according to the model of Shengli Port, and a large number of neat boat-shaped houses formed a small community.

The residential area here is divided into four areas according to the north-south direction, A, B, C, D, and Tao Donglai noticed that each boat-shaped house has a wooden house number nailed to the outside, which is composed of the area number plus a numeric number, such as No. A 13. Zhou Hengxing said that this is an ongoing attempt by the civil affairs department, and in the future, it will gradually compile household registration files for local naturalized people.

This type of civil administration in the port of Heitu is different from that of the base camp, which has a social system based on communes or units, and the settlements are more dispersed. In order to establish files on naturalized citizens, civil affairs departments must rely on units to collect and sort out information. However, because the industry is relatively single and the residential area is relatively concentrated, there is no commune system with a base camp, which can be said to be another attempt to carry out the civil administration system. The experience gained from the establishment of this household registration system will also be used in the civil affairs work in Sanya in the future, and a standardized management system will gradually be formed.

Most of these boathouse communities were built after the floods at the beginning of the port, so the drainage ditches around the community were dug deep and wide, and all the boathouses were at least one foot above the ground. Even if the flash floods were to be repeated, the damage to the settlements would be extremely limited.

On the periphery of each settlement there are tall wooden watchtowers, on which the militia stand guard at night. In addition to the fixed-point posts, there are also special night patrol teams that will patrol the community from time to time. Speaking of which, these security measures taken by the Black Earth Port even go far beyond the base camp. For example, there are no sentinels on duty at night in each commune, at most two or three people are responsible for night duty and regular patrols, so as to prevent the occurrence of nighttime fires.

At the northern end of the settlement, right next to the port area, several fishing boats can be seen slowly leaving the port. The focus of Tao Donglai's inspection today is naturally the freight terminal area a little further north.

The design of the wharf here is also based on the cargo terminal that is currently in the construction stage of Shengli Port, but the overall scale is only about one-third of Shengli Port. At this time, several coal carriers were docked on the wharf, and the laborers were constantly loading the coal stacked on the wharf into baskets. Tao Dong looked at it for a moment and then shook his head slightly and said, "The efficiency is too low." ”

Gu Kai continued: "Regarding this matter, we have submitted an application to the Ministry of Industry for the development of a belt conveyor device, whether it is manpower, animal power or steam power, but I don't know when it will be used." ”

For bulk cargo, such as coal, which needs to be transshipped on a large scale over a long period of time, the relevant departments must take into account the efficiency of the transportation process. To this end, all of the current coal carriers have undergone minor modifications to their cargo holds in order to load and unload cargo more quickly. At present, the existing track from the mining area to the port area of Heitu Port, and the track from the port area to the Tiandu Industrial Zone in the planning of Shengli Port, these major projects are also built to improve the efficiency of transshipment. However, everyone seems to have forgotten to consider the efficiency of the process of loading from the dock to the ship, as is the case now, first loading the coal into the frame on the dock, and then pouring the coal in the basket into the cabin after two laborers are carried on the ship, which virtually reduces the work efficiency.

Fortunately, they have quickly realized the problem in practice, and it is not too difficult to remedy it. At present, although the production capacity of the Ministry of Industry to manufacture steam engines is still relatively limited, it is not difficult to get two sets of animal-powered belt conveyors to improve the efficiency of bulk cargo transfer on the wharf. And as long as there is a suitable interface on the power transmission mechanism, it is easy to transform it into steam power when the conditions are right in the future.

At the west end of the wharf, there is a track about one meter wide that extends inland, which is the largest engineering coal transportation track since the opening of the port of Heitu. The actual length of this track is more than 1,500 meters, and it is still running on a single line, with only a double track at the middle end to facilitate the staggering of rail cars departing from both sides. Gu Kai said that according to the planning of the management committee, the construction of the double track will begin early next year, when the coal transportation capacity from the mining area to the port area can be doubled.

These coal trucks were transported by ship after the base camp had built a good site and wheels, and after arriving here, the four compartment walls were built with wooden planks on the chassis and could be directly put into use. Each coal truck consists of four wagons, which can carry about ten tons of coal at a time, and can be pulled by only two to four livestock. Although the transportation efficiency is not high, the cost of use is very low.

At the foot of the hill north of the port, there are several workshops, mainly brick, lime and cement kilns, which are produced for local infrastructure projects. Because of the large amount of dust, these properties are also located far away from residential areas, although they are only about a kilometer away, but this is already considered a humanitarian consideration by the management committee.

The management committee also wanted to apply for the introduction of the glass industry in the port of Heitu, but the executive committee rejected the request after consideration. It's not that the executive committee is worried about the leakage of glass manufacturing technology, after all, many key technical indicators are in the hands of the technical personnel, mainly because the base camp is also desperately expanding the production capacity of glass products, and there is no technical personnel to be dispatched, but there are still a large number of technical job gaps that need to be filled.

These workshops are the northern end of the existing territory of the Black Earth Harbor, and further north are large areas of uninhabited mountainous areas, and no one usually penetrates these dense forests except for hunting parties with loaded guns.

Tao Donglai and his entourage turned back to the south and walked along the coal transportation track. Gu Kai pointed to a mountain pass in front of him and said, "After passing through that mountain pass, it is the mining area." ”

At present, the Black Earth Port mining area is divided into three mining sites, all of which are open-pit mining mode, one of which is to produce coking coal in high demand in the base camp. Before entering the mining area, Tao Donglai saw several charcoal kilns emitting black smoke. It is also part of the Black Earth Port's coal industry, where some of the coking coal is made into coke and transported back to Shengli Port, and asphalt is extracted from the coal tar obtained in the process. It's just that the production environment and production equipment here are extremely primitive, and the naturalized people working here are all blackened by soot, and they can't see their original appearance at all.

After arriving at the first mining site, Tian Yeyou, who is the head of the mining department, began to introduce the production situation to Tao Donglai: "This mining site was the first place we identified when we came to investigate, so we named it No. 1 mine. At present, 400 laborers work in the mine every day, and the daily production of raw coal is about 25 to 28 tons. ”

Tao Donglai noticed that the diameter of the pit here was about 200 meters, and as the excavation continued to take on a funnel-shaped, the deepest point was at least about 10 meters. The coal excavated by the miners below is continuously carried to the surface by small carts and loaded onto larger flatbed trucks. After each cart is filled, the livestock are hauled and taken to a designated coal washing yard, where the coal is sorted before being loaded onto a wharf or a charcoal kiln where the coke is burned.

Seeing Tao Donglai frowning, Tian Yeyou seemed to guess what he was thinking, and said first: "We will set up a winch-type coal truck here in the near future to further improve the transportation efficiency. ”

In later generations, open-pit coal mines were loaded by large trucks, and there was no problem with the transportation capacity. However, the current Heitugang mining area obviously does not have such conditions, and the way of manpower trolleys is too inefficient, so the relevant departments are constantly trying to improve the transshipment efficiency in this process.

Tao Donglai's face softened slightly when he heard this, and then asked about the work arrangement here. Tian Yeyou did not dare to slack off, and carefully introduced them, including the scheduling mode of these workers, work remuneration, food supply, and so on. Gu Kai had been counting on Tao Donglai to ask him the questions he had mentioned the night before, but Tao Donglai obviously didn't intend to fulfill his wish, and after listening to Tian Yeyou's explanation, he quickly ended his inspection in the mining area.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tao Donglai convened a meeting of the Black Earth Port Management Committee and the heads of some production units, first, to convey the recent plan of the Executive Committee to the Black Earth Port, and secondly, to explain a series of agreements recently reached with the North Vietnamese side. Wang Tom also made a brief report to Tao Donglai on the military inspection.

Compared with the energy spent on the Tushan Peninsula, the inspection team's inspection work in the Heitu Port area seems to be a bit of a dragonfly and a passing taste. But this is also something that can't be helped, Tao Dong's trip was originally scheduled for ten days, but now it has been eight days, and the main purpose of foreign trade has been achieved, it is time to consider the return trip. In addition, Tao Donglai believes that as far as the situation he saw during the inspection is concerned, the life and production order in the Heitu Port area are relatively well maintained, the development is quite stable, and the leadership team of the management committee is quite united, and there are no obvious defects worthy of the inspection team's picking.

At the end of the meeting, Tao Donglai announced the decision to return the next day, so he followed the reception banquet the night before, and this night he continued to practice for Tao Donglai and others.

Early the next morning, the "Speed" sailed away from the Black Earth Harbor with a wave of goodbye, but they still had one last place to go before returning to Victory Harbor.

At five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Fushuizhou Island appeared in the crew's field of vision. This small island, isolated in the Gulf of Tonkin because of its location right in the middle of the coast between the two places, was built by the Executive Committee as a safe haven and transshipment relay station on this route.

At present, there are a total of twenty personnel stationed on Fushuizhou Island, but none of them have crossed the crowd. This is also something that cannot be helped, compared to the existing settlements, the living environment here on Fushuizhou Island is indeed a little worse, and almost all supplies except fresh water must rely on cargo ships coming and going. When the construction of the island's living facilities first began, a few travelers came to live for a while, but soon they couldn't stand the boring and monotonous life here and applied to be transferred back to Heitu Port.

When the Speedy landed on the island, almost all of the people living on the island flocked to the pier to meet them. These people stationed on the island were all Vietnamese immigrants, and some of them were the first batch of refugees to immigrate to Heitu Port, and they almost knelt down to kowtow when they saw Wang Tom on the pier again.

Compared with the lonely traversers, these immigrants are indeed able to endure hardships. However, they were willing to accept this arrangement and had their own purpose, and the management committee promised that as long as they lived on the island for half a year, they could emigrate to settle in Shengli Port, where the living conditions were far better than those of Heitu Port. With this treatment, the job of garrisoning the island became a fragrant bun among the naturalized people of the Black Earth Harbor, and it is said that the number of people who signed up for the garrison on the island was scheduled until 1630.

The island's living facilities are simple, with a small pier and several boat-shaped houses, and the only major project is to build a huge cistern near the pier to store fresh water. In addition to supplying practical fresh water to incoming and outgoing ships, this facility also has a preparatory function of providing fresh water for future steam-powered ships, which will consume much more fresh water than their crews to travel at sea.