Chapter 190: Preparation of Supplies

There is no large coastal plain near the port of Heitu, and the mountainous terrain makes it difficult to develop agriculture in the area, and it is certainly not feasible to cultivate rice on a large scale like the east coast of Vietnam. However, after the management committee's on-site investigation in the local area, it is believed that some tropical cash crops, especially those that can produce spices, rubber, edible oil and other crops suitable for mountain planting, can be planted on a large scale in the local area. The relevant personnel have even begun to plan planting areas in the mountains and forests near the Black Earth Port, and they will start to work hard just after the main capital operation has agricultural materials.

The Executive Committee is very happy to see this kind of proposal by the Black Soil Port Management Committee. If Heitu Port can develop a situation of multiple industries in parallel, its own hematopoietic function will undoubtedly be greatly strengthened, and the time for the Executive Committee to recover the initial investment will be shortened a lot.

In addition to a large number of seeds, thousands of hoes, shovels, axes, saws, chisels, hammers and other tools are also part of the agricultural input. Since there is no iron ore in the local area of Heitu Port, all iron products must be imported from the base camp, which will be an irreversible situation for a long time to come. Of course, for the Executive Committee, this little trouble is not a bad thing, and if the overseas colonization sites are completely free of dependence on the base camp in terms of material supply, it will make the base camp feel not very at ease.

In terms of building materials, the main materials required by the Black Earth Port are cement. The local area is similar to Sanya, there are very rich forest resources, and there is no shortage of timber, but the management committee still hopes to build some cement buildings in the local area, such as the local residence of the crossing people, the warehouse where important materials are stored, and the fortifications near the port. However, a limestone mine has been discovered in the local area, and the construction of a lime kiln is currently being planned, and the next step is to prepare for the cement kiln directly. Due to the abundance of local fuel, whether it is to build brick kilns, lime kilns, or cement kilns, it is much more relaxed than that of the base camp. After a while, local cement production may exceed that of the base camp, and it may be reversed.

In terms of food, since the local population has skyrocketed much faster than expected, the first shipment of food can last for several months, but because there is no food production in the area, it is time to start preparing for a rainy day. The returning cargo ship will deliver 30 tons of newly harvested rice to the port of Heitu, which can slightly relieve the local food pressure. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

However, it is not very scientific to send grain to the base camp for a long time, and according to the original plan, the grain problem of Heitu Port still has to be solved in Vietnam. In addition to subsidizing a certain amount of cash, the Executive Committee also prepared a trade material that was intended to be bartered for grain from the Vietnamese side.

This trade material is the invincible salt, and the production cost of the salt industry is enough to beat all the competitors of the same era, and it can quickly occupy the market by dumping at low prices anywhere, and it is naturally difficult for a small country like Vietnam to resist the invincible price offensive. Moreover, due to the deterioration of the situation in Vietnam, the military confrontation between the north and the south has caused a large number of coastal residents to flee for refuge, and the coastal salt works located in Hue, Quang Tri, South Quang Binh, Ha Tinh and other places have all fallen into paralysis.

In the main grain-producing areas east and south of Hanoi, most of the land belongs to the royal family and nobles and other big landowners, and the grain grown on these lands cannot be eaten by the nobles, but it will never be given to the poor people, and the grain prices in the country are at a very low level all year round, about one-third to one-quarter of the grain prices of the Ming Dynasty. The crossing group traded much-needed salt for food they didn't particularly care about, and the win-win outcome was acceptable for both sides.

Of course, the Executive Committee will not forget to take this opportunity to promote its own industrial products, glass products, soap, matches, these things, since the rich people of the Ming Dynasty will buy, then Vietnam will definitely save the same market, it is necessary to prepare some samples to explore the market trend.

As for the promotion of military products overseas, the Executive Committee is really powerless, and it will take some time to complete the order for "Fu Ruifeng", and even the muskets that were originally intended to be issued to the militia have been put away and sold to Li Nai. However, the gunpowder had to be sent to Heitu Port again, because most of the gunpowder that had been transported before had already been used in the construction of the track, and the current gunpowder reserves in Heitu Port were even lower than the safety line, and even the gunpowder packs distributed by the two guns had been disassembled and used.

In addition, consumable materials such as medicines also need to be replenished regularly. Of course, the medicines brought by the crossing group from the afterlife will definitely not be used by ordinary people, but out of humanitarian considerations, the Executive Committee still asked the Yazhou Office to purchase a batch of traditional Chinese medicine from the pharmacy in Yazhou to clear away heat and dampness, as well as to treat some common diseases, and prepare to send them to Heitu Port with the cargo ship this time.

In terms of staffing, the internal run-in speed of the Heitu Port Management Committee is obviously faster than expected by the Executive Committee, which is probably due to the disaster relief work played a certain role in promoting it some time ago. Judging from the current situation, the three main departments of civil affairs, production, and military and police in the local area have coordinated quite well, and in particular, Qian Tiandun, the military chief officer who caused a lot of controversy before his departure, almost relied on dozens of militiamen who had undergone two months of short training to maintain local public order and order. Fortunately, although the influx of immigrants was quite fast, there was only a robbery and murder case in the early stage of construction of Heitu Port, and then it was quickly dealt with by the military and police department, and several criminals were hanged in public, and after that, there were no other evil incidents, which effectively ensured the smooth progress of the production and construction tasks, and Qian Tiandun, as the military commander, was indispensable.

According to Qian Tiandun's report, the local government has begun to select personnel and establish local militia organizations. Since the local population has stabilized at the level of more than 2,000, Qian Tiandun's report set the militia establishment as a company, which of course does not include the part of the militia sent by the base camp in advance. However, due to the lack of local materials, the militia's clothing, training equipment, and weapons and equipment could not be solved by themselves, so Qian Tiandun also submitted relevant material applications.

On Qian Tiandun's material application list, the first thing that was crossed out was firearms and artillery, and the executive committee believed that the local militia had just begun to be selected, and there was no need to rush to arm it in place. Having said that, there really isn't any extra equipment in the base camp's arsenal to send to Black Earth Harbor.

Secondly, the clothing applied for was also crossed out, and although there were still some camouflage training uniforms brought at the beginning, the base camp also needed to expand the army, and these equipment must be reserved for the "Central Army" to be used first. Since there is no local textile production area in Shengli Port, all fabrics and dyes can only be imported at present, and even some ready-made garments need to be ordered from Yazhou, and the supply of a steady stream of immigrants is still too late, let alone the purchase of uniform clothing for overseas garrisons. Therefore, the Executive Committee could only reluctantly refuse this request, and asked the local military and police departments to overcome difficulties and adapt measures to local conditions as much as possible to see if there was a way to order some cloth and clothing from Vietnam.

Of course, the Executive Committee is not completely unkind, and considering the actual law enforcement needs of the Military Police Department, it has prepared a batch of iron weapons, such as waist knives, spear tips, and so on. As for equipment such as batons and shields, you can solve them locally.

Because the group has begun to implement the internal settlement system, the vast majority of these materials are not provided to the port of Heitu completely free of charge, but as a form of investment from the central government to the local government, part of which is deposited in the form of long-term interest-free loans, and the port will gradually repay the output of the port. After this part of the funds is repaid, it will be distributed according to a certain proportion, most of the local fiscal revenue of Heitu Port will be handed over to the base camp, and a small part will be retained for the operation of local infrastructure and management institutions.

The preparation of these materials is not much, but there are indeed many departments involved, so all the executive committee members will be notified to attend the meeting. The various departments, especially the production units, were given their own tasks for the preparation of materials, and the job of the executive committee members was to supervise the smooth progress of these preparations and to complete the basic preparations before the cargo ship returned to the port of victory.

The most stressed sector is not the metallurgical workshop, which has the heaviest production tasks, but the salt mill commune, which is still in a state of post-disaster reconstruction. Production at the saltworks has not returned to normal levels due to the tropical storm that had destroyed a large number of houses in the Yanpan commune a few days ago and caused the loss of tons of salt stocks. A large number of working people are still working on housing rehabilitation, and the current daily salt production is only one-tenth of the pre-disaster level.

In order to help the Yanchang Commune overcome this difficulty, the Executive Committee had to suspend the construction of factories in the inland industrial zone and send the limited number of construction workers to the Yanchang Commune to help the members build housing. In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again in the future, this time the Ministry of Construction simply took one step and loaded all the recently produced bricks and tiles on a ship and pulled them to the Yanchang Commune.