Chapter 146: Surveying the Road
From the moment Qian Tiandun announced the execution, there was no sound in the crowd in the audience. At the moment when the wooden plank under the prisoner's feet collapsed, many people even stopped breathing. All the immigrants witnessed the whole hanging, watching several prisoners die quickly on the gallows, and even those who had previously shouted "hang them" were so shocked by the sight before them that they could not make a sound. Judging from the reaction at the scene, there is no doubt that this public execution has achieved very good results.
After the last prisoner hung his head weakly, Qian Tiandun held his watch and waited for a full minute before signaling two doctors, Johnson and Morgan, to come forward and check on the prisoner's condition.
Two doctors carefully examined the condition of the four prisoners, removed the sacks from their heads, examined their pupils, and finally confirmed that all four were dead. After getting the doctor's examination conclusion, Qian Tiandun picked up the microphone again, looked at the immigrants in the audience, and said: "In the future, all acts that hurt people's lives in Heitu Port will be dealt with by hanging like these people, and everyone should take caution! In addition, I also ask you to rest assured that our Haihan Executive Committee has the determination and ability to protect everyone's safety!"
Many immigrants do not know what kind of existence the "Haihan Executive Committee" Qian Tiandun is talking about, but from the repeated policy propaganda of the Haihan people, they can vaguely feel the strength of the "Executive Committee", and all those under the management of the "Executive Committee" must have enough reverence for the "Executive Committee". This is exactly what the Executive Committee hopes to achieve by publicizing the policy, and the people of this era are very limited in terms of knowledge, vision, and ideological level, and the Executive Committee intends to use the simplest and most effective brainwashing method to establish its authority among the naturalized people.
This method has already achieved good results in the base area of Hainan Island, and the colonization team will naturally transplant this simple and effective method to Heitu Port to continue to use. At present, it seems that in addition to the usual policy advocacy, it seems that the combination of appropriate violent punishment is more effective. After all, the time that these new immigrants spent with the colonization team was too short, and their words alone may not make them change their original ideology and living habits.
The victim's younger brother suddenly ran to the stage, knelt straight in front of Qian Tiandun, and then began to kowtow with a bang. Seeing this, Qian Tiandun hurriedly pulled him up, but as soon as he pulled his knees off the ground, he knelt down towards Zhou Hengxing and continued to kowtow.
Zhou Hengxing stepped forward to support the young man, sighed and said to Qian Tiandun: "This child is also pitiful, I learned about the situation at home with him last night, the family members died in the war, and finally fled here with my sister, but I didn't expect my sister to encounter this kind of thing again...... War orphans!"
Qian Tiandun comforted the young man with kind words: "Live well, so that your dead family will be at ease." After a while, we will send you to a place with better conditions than here, where you can go to read and write, and learn knowledge. ā
The young man raised his head and looked at the two of them and said, "The villain is not going anywhere, the villain is willing to be a servant to the adults, and begs the adults to take them in!"
Qian Tiandun and Zhou Hengxing glanced at each other, and they both showed a wry smile on their faces. Of course, they could understand the child's thoughts, he probably thought that he was too young to do any heavy work, and he was afraid that he would be sold somewhere else. Instead of being a servant elsewhere, it is really better to worship directly under the door of these big people who avenge their families, even if they are the lowest servants, at least they will not be too resistant psychologically.
At this time, Gao Qiao Nan had already brought the militia to the stage to collect the body, and Qian Tiandun and Zhou Hengxing took the young man to the tent of the headquarters, intending to deal with this matter well. After all, this is the first murder case handled by the colonization team in Heitu Port, and the execution of the prisoner is naturally an aspect that has been paid close attention to, but the treatment of the victim's family cannot be ignored either, which represents the attitude of the command to the local people in a certain way.
The immigrants gathered in the audience gradually dispersed under the command of the militia, and the excitement was over, and a full day of labor tasks awaited them. What will happen to those who don't want to work and want to steal and cheat, they have just seen, if they don't want to be a corpse floating in the wind on the gallows, then it is better to work according to the arrangement of the foremen.
After increasing the investment in logging work, the construction of the entire camp has also been accelerated. The density of trees here is higher than that in the area of Tiandu, and a large number of logs are simply processed and used to build wooden houses. The command has given a death order to the engineering team to complete at least one wooden house warehouse within this day, so that the ship's food, gunpowder, cement and other materials can be unloaded onto the shore for storage.
In addition, the engineering team has to complete the foundation treatment work for more than 10 prefabricated houses where the people live today, and this time the executive committee allocated all the quick-drying cement to the colonization team, and this kindness can not be wasted, taking advantage of the weather in the past two days, the engineering team has to quickly build the prefabricated houses. Now the time has reached the rainy season, and the weather can change, and it is difficult to say whether it will rain in the second half of the month in Heitu Port.
The Ministry of Shipping also hopes to unload the cargo on board as much as possible, and then it can rush to the eastern coast of Vietnam to rush the refugees. If they are fast enough, then during the construction period of the port area of Heitu Port, at least 15 to 2,000 people can be brought in from the east coast. The speed of this immigration has greatly exceeded that of the Sanya base camp, which took a full three months, and the population under the rule is only 2,000.
Today, the four departments of mining, military police, engineering, and civil affairs formed a joint group to survey the route from the port area to the mining area, and the engineering team should work out a road construction plan here according to the survey number and the transportation requirements put forward by the mining team, and then the civil affairs department will deploy and arrange labor, and the military police department is responsible for maintaining order and safety in the construction process.
Liu Shanxia and Gu Kai both came to this place for the first time, but fortunately, Arida Yeyou and a few people from the North American Gang led the way, and they saved a lot of work on the way. The last time the expedition had already done a preliminary topographical survey, this time the team brought more specialized tools and equipment to make a more detailed calculation of the planned route.
"This valley is only about 400 meters, and the trouble is that there is a small river at the bottom of the valley, and we are worried that the river may swell and wash away the road during the rainy season, so your engineering team needs to think about the construction plan here. Tian Yeyou moved forward while briefing Liu Shanxia and the others.
"If it is in Sanya, this matter will be more troublesome, but it is not difficult to solve this place, it is nothing more than spending more manpower. Liu Shanxia pointed to the front and said: "Last time, Qiao Zhiya also said that the road in this place has to be built a little higher, and the amount of work will be relatively large." But fortunately, we now have enough manpower, if two hundred is not enough, we will come to four hundred, and if four hundred is not enough, we will come to eight hundred, and it is not difficult to dig through the road of several hundred meters. ā
"Can the soil here lay the track?" Gu Kai is more concerned about the transportation of the coal mine after it is put into operation than whether the road can be opened in the shortest possible time.
"The vegetation here is in good condition, we don't have to worry about landslides or mudslides, and some of the more important sections of the road are enough to build stone retaining walls on both sides of the road. Open the road in front, and you can follow all the way to lay sleepers and tracks. Liu Shanxia pointed to the other end of the valley and said, "If we go by, we can advance more than 50 meters a day, and the laying of the track may be slower, but it will definitely be completed by next month." Unfortunately, the conditions here are not ideal, and if the two ends can be worked together, the construction period can be shortened by half. ā
As he spoke, everyone had already walked out of the valley, and Tian Yeyou began to introduce the several mining points that the expedition team had identified last time: "If we have enough manpower, I will build yƬ to excavate five mining points here at once, and one of them is very good quality coking coal, which is very useful for steelmaking and ironmaking in the base camp." ā
Gu Kai asked, "Five mining sites, how many miners do you need?"
"The coal mine here is very shallow, and it is enough to use open-pit mining, so there is no such thing as a tunnel operation, and the more manpower you put in, the faster the mining will be. If 1,000 miners can put in, I think we can mine at least 2,000 tons a month, which is enough for several months at the base camp. Tian Yeyou is very confident in the production capacity of the coal mine, and continued to wave his arms and said excitedly: "This is only the level of human mining conditions, if we invest more mining machinery here in the future, then this output can easily increase a lot." ā
"It would be nice if we could transport them all back, in the final analysis, our sea capacity is not enough!" Gu Kai didn't express the same excitement when he heard the prospect described by Tian Yeyou, because he had a better understanding of the current situation of the crossing group: "Now these ships are desperately pulling back, and it is very good to be able to pull back more than 1,000 tons a month." ā
"Take your time, with coal in the future, our product line will be richer, and there will be more and more things that can be sold. In the eyes of a geologist like him, having energy is undoubtedly equivalent to having a qiÄ.