Stimulated by the bright prospects, everyone's enthusiasm for work has been fully aroused, and the chief officers of various departments have personally come to the front line to command, which has also greatly improved the construction speed of the entire port area. Immigrants now have the guarantee of three meals and a stable place to live, but they do not show much resistance to the requirement of overtime.

The traversers had already accumulated a lot of success in Victory Port, and at this time, they also repeated the same old tricks, such as the competition between workers through guò groups, and the teams that were able to complete the predetermined tasks with quality and quantity were rewarded, such as a fish or a piece of venison for dinner. The reward may not seem like a big one, but when you actually see someone else have meat in their bowl and you can only eat greens, the psychological imbalance is enough to motivate workers to work harder.

Under the encouragement of Qian Tiandun, Takahashi Nan took strict supervision measures against the logging team. In just 48 hours, the logging team opened a three-meter-wide passage through the valley. The follow-up engineering team only needs to further trim and fill in the passage, and then they can start laying sleepers and tracks in the valley.

Liu Shanxia, commander of the engineering team, optimistically estimated at the regular meeting of the management committee that as long as the current construction speed can be maintained, the completion of the entire coal transportation track can be completed five to seven days earlier than expected.

In view of the excellent performance of the logging team, the management committee specially approved hundreds of catties of seafood to supplement the meat nutrition of the logging team, and verbally praised the supervisor of the logging team, Naturalized Corporal Takahashi Minami at the regular meeting. However, the management committee's kindness was wrong, and more than a dozen people, including Takahashi Minami, suffered from diarrhea because of eating seafood, and many people had symptoms of seafood allergies, so the management committee had to quickly stop their seafood supply plan and increase the staffing of the hunting team to ensure that there was enough meat to provide these heavy workers.

The logging team brought all the timber cut down from the road to the camp, and began to erect a two-meter-high log wall on the periphery of the camp. The construction of public facilities such as water reservoirs, canteens, bathhouses, and public toilets in the camp has been completed, and the management committee has also begun to carry out more standardized management of the migrant camp. Vices such as open defecation are strictly forbidden in the camps, and those found are punished with a day's fasting. Sleeping, dining, and gathering must also be carried out in accordance with the rules set by the Commune, and this standardized management was first adopted by the Executive Committee in the Commune. (.) Such a system has proved to be very effective, and the standardized management implemented in the daily life of the people can allow these ordinary people with little education to establish a sense of compliance with rules and disciplines in a short period of time, which is a very important means of management and governance for the cross-border people, who only account for about 3% of the local population.

In addition to erecting a solid wall around the camp, a trench one meter deep and two meters wide was dug outside the wall, and fortifications were built near the entrance passage, and sentry towers were erected in the direction of the migrant camp and the port, and militia were on duty 24 hours a day. No local settlers, even those coming from Victory Harbor, were allowed to enter the camp without permission.

This is not only to protect the management committee from these local immigrants, but more importantly, to consider that in the event of a foreign invasion, then the management committee must at least have a relatively strong base to protect itself. Of course, relying only on the arquebuses of the militia could not make the management committee gain enough security, and the two 6-pounder army guns hidden in the camp were the ultimate weapons of the management committee. In the current shortage of artillery, gunpowder and gunners, this can be regarded as one of the special care given by the Executive Committee and the Military Police Department to the colonial stronghold of Black Earth Port.

The speed of construction of the wharf in the port area is also quite impressive, and after sufficient manpower and raw materials, the trestle bridge on the wharf extends almost at a speed visible to the naked eye in a few days. If it weren't for the local cement supply, which could not be solved for the time being, Liu Shanxia even wanted to let this side directly start building a permanent wharf.

Just when everyone was in full swing hoping to complete the infrastructure and put the coal mine into operation as soon as possible, a basin of cold water fell from the sky and poured cold on the group of people in the management committee.

Although it has entered the rainy season at this time, everyone has already been psychologically prepared for the coming of the rainstorm, but when it really comes, everyone in the management committee is still so angry that everyone in the management committee collectively scolds their mother.

The rainstorm was ferocious, with more than 20 millimetres of rain falling in the first three hours. Although the rain decreased slightly, the amount of precipitation still exceeded 100 mm within 24 hours, and the management committee had to reluctantly upgrade the level of the rain from heavy rain to heavy rain.

The danger caused by the torrential rain was immediate, as the improvised shacks built in the migrant camps began to leak without exception, and some low-lying areas were already flooded and backfilled. The management committee had to organize the relocation of some people who could no longer live in the shacks to live in military tents that were originally used to store supplies.

From the second day of the rain, the entire camp and the port area became muddy, and many areas that had not had time to dig drainage ditches turned into swamps. Although the management committee expected the rainy season to come, it was not fully prepared for it. There was not enough rain gear to allow the migrants to continue working in the rain, and almost all construction sites had to be temporarily suspended until the rain stopped.

The management committee did not dare to take the risk of allowing the migrants to continue working in such a heavy rain, it is a trivial thing for people to be tired and sick, but if there is a flu in Heitu Port, it will be a disaster for the medical level of this period. Although the colonization team is also equipped with medical personnel, it is obviously impossible to deal with a large-scale outbreak of influenza, which is much more risky than the delay in the construction period, and even Gu Kai, who is bent on achieving some outstanding political achievements here, has to consider this public health and safety issue that may threaten the future of Heitu Port.

But God clearly did not intend to let the management committee and his immigrants pass the test, and soon the militia on duty near the valley sent a warning that the water level in the valley was beginning to rise rapidly. Liu Shanxia and Qiao Zhiya braved the rain to check the situation, and when they came back, they both had black faces.

"A good news or a bad news, which do you want to hear first?" Qiao Zhiya asked.

"Let's start with the bad news. Gu Kai immediately made a decision: "So that at least we won't despair after hearing the latter news." ”

"The river is about to overflow, and if we don't do something about it, I think at least half of our migrant camp will be flooded by tonight at the latest. Qiao Zhiya said in a heavy tone.

There was silence in the tent, and it was clear that the news was shocking to everyone. Gu Kaiqiang smiled and asked, "It seems that we are only half a day away from the end of the world, so tell me what the good news is?" You should have found Noah's Ark upstream, right?"

"The good news is that the river doesn't have a lot of water, and even if it floods the camp, it won't wash away all of us, and even the possibility of drowning people is very small. Liu Shanxia wiped his wet hair vigorously with a towel, and replied with a muttering mouth.

"What kind of good news is this......" Xie Chun was very dissatisfied that they still had the heart to joke at this moment.

"Well, really good news. Liu Shanxia put down the towel, sat down and lit a cigarette: "If we organize people to raise the riverbank near the camp now, then we should be able to avoid this flood." Of course, the premise is that this rain should stop as much as possible, otherwise it will rain for another three or four days...... I think it would have been safer for us to get on board at that time. ”

"In that case, let's not sit in the tent. Gu Kai stood up and began to give orders: "Zhou Hengxing immediately went to organize the immigrants, and the young and strong laborers were all drawn out, and they listened to Lao Liu's command to raise the riverbank." Qian Tiandun went to check our important supplies, just in case, it is best to command the militia to build a waterproof embankment around the warehouse first, and everything else is secondary, if our grain is washed away by the water, then the matter will be big. Others who don't have specific tasks should first obey Lao Liu's command! Please remember that what we are doing now is not only for the sake of these immigrants, but more importantly for ourselves!"

As a result, a vigorous flood fighting and rescue campaign was launched in the 17th century in the small coastal port of the Beibu Gulf. Although these time-travelers may have been playing the role of unknown little people or even losers in the previous time and space, no one flinched at this critical moment, and everyone responded to Gu Kai's call and rushed into the pouring rain.

Led by the pioneers, hundreds of migrants braved the rain to raise the riverbank before it overflowed, avoiding the danger of the newly built camp being washed away by flash floods. Everyone who comes down from the front line of the rescue gets a steaming bowl of ginger soup, which is boiled in the canteen with freshwater fish caught from the river two days before, which can dispel some of the cold in the body of these wet people. At the same time, the logistics department also prepared hot water and dry clothes, so that these tired and exhausted people could do their best to restore their spirits. However, despite all the preparations, many people still had a variety of cold symptoms that night, which kept the medical staff busy all night.