The captives on the shore worked hard, but unfortunately the progress was not very fast, after all, these men were professional soldiers rather than professional carpenters, and axes and saws were not as easy as the knives and guns they were accustomed to. By noon, a team of talents led by Luo Shengdong was able to prepare the timber used to build the trestle. After half a day's intense labor, the captives, who had only a bowl of white rice porridge in the morning, had begun to feel empty, but now there was no food to offer them, and the only thing they could eat was a large vat of light salt water placed on the shore.

The other team in charge of entering the inland land reclamation was a little better, and there were no large forests in this flat area, which saved a lot of trouble, so their task was to cut all the shrubs and weeds in the area demarcated by Gao Huan, and then pile them together to burn them into ashes, and at the same time, they had to dig a ditch at the edge of the demarcated plot to prepare for the next step of water diversion and irrigation. After one morning, they had already dealt with an area about the size of two football fields, and there were about 20 acres of land, and at this rate, there was still hope that they could complete the task of clearing 50 acres of land stipulated by Gao Huan before the sun went down.

In addition, the wasteland development group also had a small harvest in the process, and the weight was not light, and the largest one actually required three people to lift it. Of course, these results were finally handed over to the short-haired leaders of the labor camp, and they will eventually become the last dish for the crossers tonight.

What the captives didn't know was that the fifty acres of area that Gao Huan had demarcated for them was slightly larger than the area of this era. It is recorded in the "Food and Goods Chronicles of the History of the Ming Dynasty" that "Fantian is near Guo as the upper land, and the far is the middle land and the lower land." Five feet is a step, a step of two hundred and forty is an acre, and a hundred acres is an acre. "According to the weights and measures of the Ming Dynasty, the area of one mu is about 10% smaller than that of later generations. It's not that Gao Huan intends to rectify them, but that the weights and measures used by the traversal crowd must be based on the future generations, and if the current measurement standards are to be used in this regard, it will only cause great confusion to the traversal people's own work.

The captives didn't have lunch, but the overseers' traversers couldn't go hungry. At noon, a small wooden boat rowed across the river, and the food was delivered by local fishermen who had come to do odd jobs. Today's cooking class is the previously well-received paella, the use of various spices makes the air fill with an attractive smell, and the entire east bank of the Tiandu River can not smell this fragrance only the group of hard-working people who are still burning plant ashes.

The group of people carrying wood on the shore smelled the smell of the food on the boat, and they all unconsciously slowed down their movements, and some of them were already swallowing their saliva with their throats. Seeing this, Gu Wei got up, opened his voice and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and do things, I will have a chance to eat one more meal tomorrow after I finish it!"

Hearing this, the captives suddenly realized why the shorthairs had to stipulate that they could exchange points for three meals a day. If you only eat two meals a day, I'm afraid you won't be able to last three or five days, and your body will collapse, and then your body will not be able to support it, and you can't get points if you can't complete the task, so there is no hope of regaining freedom, and it seems that it is also necessary to take half of the points to exchange for enough food.

Only a very small number of smart people among the captives figured out that this was a "trick" by Shorthair, intending to use some means to make them keep spending their hard-earned points. Luo Shengdong even spontaneously linked theory to practice: "Since General Zhang's brother-in-law opened a gambling stall in Yazhou City, every time General Zhang Shen often pulls the officers in the village to gamble after paying his salary, making everyone's military salary go in and out of his left hand.

But in addition to worrying, Luo Shengdong also knows that he has no power to change anything, everyone knows that points are the only way to let them live, even if it is him Luo Shengdong, isn't he still holding the hope of saving enough points to regain his freedom one day?

The hungry captives continued to work mentally in the afternoon, occasionally someone wanted to be lazy or take a slightly longer rest, without the guards to speak, Luo Shengdong and the group leaders would naturally speak out to urge, and some of them would even make gestures and kicks. When the trestle began to pile in the water, the sun had already begun to set in the west, and Luo Shengdong was so anxious that he jumped into the water to straighten the wooden stake. Even so, the progress of the project is still slower than planned, and it will definitely not be able to complete the task if it continues at this point.

Just when Luo Shengdong was about to feel desperate, a group of people from the wasteland development team completed the task ahead of schedule and returned to the shore. Luo Shengdong grabbed the life-saving straw now, and he didn't care about the gray faces of these people, and he didn't even let his face wash and drove these people to the trestle construction site again. After this merging into one, we hurried and hurried to finish the construction of the trestle before the sun went down.

When Cai Hongzhan paced back and forth on the trestle to accept the project, Luo Shengdong felt that his breathing was a little unsmooth, and he remembered that when the Hainan Wei commander came to Yazhou to inspect a year ago, he had inspected his subordinates, and he didn't seem to be as nervous as he is now.

Finally, Cai Hongzhan nodded to Gu Wei and signaled that the trestle project had passed the acceptance. Gu Wei didn't mean to be greedy for all the work, and patted Ren Liang next to him on the shoulder and said, "I'm done overseeing the overseer, and I'll leave the rest to you." ”

Ren Liang smiled slightly, stood on the bow of the boat and cleared his throat, and then said loudly: "All the staff, listen! Now the team leader counts the tools of the group, and after handing them in, stand in line according to the group!"

In view of the large number of iron tools used in the labour, the captives could not be kept overnight for safety reasons, so they had to be counted and handed over after the completion of each day's work, and distributed before the next day's work began. It's a little more troublesome, but the safety first principle pursued by the Executive Committee will not change because of this.

Finally, after these things were completed and all the prisoners were lined up on the shore in an orderly manner, Ren Liang began to announce the results of today's labor: "Today, both teams have completed the scheduled labor tasks, so everyone can get the basic two points. ”

There was a burst of exhalation from the crowd, and it seemed that everyone's hearts had been hanging until Ren Liang announced the results.

"In addition, the Wasteland Reclamation Team helped to build the trestle after completing their own tasks, so everyone in the Wasteland Reclamation Team can get an additional bonus point. Ren Liang added a good news unhurriedly.

As soon as the news was announced, there were people in the crowd on the shore who could not hide their excitement on their faces. It's just that because of the rules, no one dares to speak directly. And this directly led to Ren Liang after registering whether to use points to exchange for three meals, more than a dozen people in the wilderness team almost without exception raised their hands, and now they have three points in their hands, and they can take one point out in exchange for tomorrow to be full, and the work must be a little easier than today.

And the rest of the people, who only scored two points, hesitated for a while, and then began to raise their hands in twos and threes. These people have limited knowledge, and they may not understand the deep meaning of Shorthair's arrangement, but if they can't eat enough tomorrow, I'm afraid they won't even be able to keep the basic two points. Luo Shengdong looked around, sighed, and then raised his hand weakly.

After returning to the barge's cell, Luo Shengdong found that the ten sailors had also returned, so he asked them how they were doing today.

The helmsman Liu Shun is the sailor leader of this ship, and when he heard this, he shook his head and said: "I have been running a boat in Shuizhai for almost ten years, and I have never been so tired, Lord Luo, look at these brothers, they are all as tired as dogs!"

After Luo Shengdong's careful questioning, he learned that these sailors were arranged to operate the Haicang ship to patrol the sea in the morning, and of course there were a lot of short hairs with loaded guns on the ship. In the process of sailing, Shorthair asked these sailors to constantly change the course, raise and lower the sails, and repeat many times, and even asked them to do many damage management measures such as how to plug leaks and how to extinguish fires on the ship, as if they wanted to learn how to operate the ship. In the afternoon, the sailors were taken to a freshly leveled spot on the shore and began to build a shed, and it is said that Shorthair was planning to build a shipyard to make his own wooden boats. Of course, after a hard day's work, these sailors also received two points. Like Luo Shengdong's team, in order to ensure that they had enough body to complete tomorrow's hard labor, the sailors also chose to exchange points for food.

After listening to this, Luo Shengdong sighed and said, "It seems that we will hardly have a bright future. ”

Liu Shun was shocked: "Why did Lord Luo say this?"

"Today, the short-haired thieves drove us to the east of the river to open up wasteland, and I think the land they have demarcated is only a thousand acres. The short-haired thieves are cultivating wasteland and cultivating land, repairing factories and building ships, and they are bound to settle here. Luo Shengdong reluctantly said his analysis of what he knew.

What Luo Shengdong couldn't imagine was that the Shorthairs didn't just plan to settle here, but to transform this place into a www.biquge.info of Biqu Pavilion that would compete for global domination in the future. However, the future overlords will not be able to enjoy the fine clothes and food at this time, and there are still thousands of tasks waiting for them to spread out one by one. For example, although it was already night, the perimeter of Base No. 1 was lit up, and a group of young people were working overtime to build the perimeter fortifications of Base No. 1 in accordance with the requirements of the Military Police Department and the Ministry of Construction.

Because the current conditions in all aspects are very limited, the defensive wall of the fortification can only be mainly civil structure for the time being, with two layers of arm-thick wood as the wall, and the middle is filled with about a foot of sand, which can effectively prevent the opponent's long-range attack weapons. In addition to the prominent angular defense department, a high-low multi-segment three-dimensional defense system will be adopted to ensure that the advantage of concentrated fire is fully exploited within the range of the Type 56 semi-automatic. Coupled with the trench on the periphery, which is almost complete, a miniature moat can be formed outside the No. 1 base after the water of the Tiandu River is introduced.

According to the estimate of the Ministry of Military Police, after the completion of the fortifications, the traversers can easily resist the attack of three to four thousand troops in the No. 1 base at least under the condition of early warning, but if you have to face the military force equipped with artillery, the current protective wall is still a bit insufficient, and can only be rebuilt and strengthened when the conditions allow in the future. Of course, in accordance with the Executive Committee's guiding principle of "defending against the enemy's extraterritoriality," the idea of future military development will definitely be to build a powerful fleet of maritime gunboats to protect the security of Shengli Harbor, and with the establishment of artillery units, the corresponding coastal defense batteries will also appear at the key positions at the mouth of the harbor, and the security of the No. 1 base will be greatly increased at that time.