Chapter 150: Post-Disaster Reconstruction
The heavy rain lasted for three full days before it slowly stopped, and although the camp was muddy, the management committee immediately began to organize the migrants to save themselves. The heavy rains made one-third of the simple shacks in the camp uninhabitable, and the engineering team organized laborers to tear down the simple shacks that had been crumbling in the wind and rain and rebuild them with stronger and more reliable wooden boats.
Several wooden houses in the management committee survived the rainstorm without any suspense. Because of the abundance of timber here, when the management committee built these wooden houses for stockpiling, they were all thigh-thick logs, one end buried in the earth as a wall, and their sturdiness was far greater than that of the movable board houses fixed to the ground with cement ring beams.
The lower areas of the camp have formed several ponds of various sizes due to the accumulation of water, and the deepest places have exceeded a metre. The engineering team instructed the laborers to dig a drainage ditch that went straight to the river outside the camp and slowly drained the rainwater that had accumulated in the camp. These puddles had to be drained and filled, otherwise they would quickly breed a large number of mosquitoes and flies, which could cause an outbreak in the camp.
In order to avoid the emergence of a post-disaster epidemic, the medical team gathered some of the injured and sick immigrants together for treatment. However, the number of medicines brought by the medical team is very limited, and the first thing to ensure the safety of the people who cross the country is to ensure the safety of the people, and most of the migrant patients have to resign themselves to fate.
The Military Police Department also strengthened patrols in the camp, and Qian Tiandun specially convened a small meeting of the people from the Military Police Department, clearly stipulating that all traversers must personally lead the patrol team, and if anyone tries to take advantage of the chaos after the disaster, they must be severely punished, and those who are serious can be dealt with on the spot. However, Takahashi Minami, who has always been active, failed to participate in this operation, because of the sequelae of seafood, he was still lying on the sick ** at this time. After Qian Tiandun went to see it once, he found that he had been dehydrated due to diarrhea, and even his mind was a little confused, and he doubted whether this guy could survive this hurdle. The only thing Qian Tiandun could do was to give the glucose powder allocated to him to Takahashi Nan to take water to help him relieve the pain of dehydration, and the rest of the matter could only be decided by God.
At the regular meeting that night, the chief officials of various departments of Heitu Port began to summarize the various situations after the disaster one by one.
First of all, it was reported by Zhou Hengxing, the chief civil affairs officer, that on the second night of the continuous torrential rain, a shack collapsed in a violent storm, resulting in the tragic death of two migrants, which were the only two unlucky ghosts in the course of the disaster, and only a few migrants were slightly injured. The warehouse used by the management committee to store important materials was built at a high place at the beginning, and the waterproof measures were relatively thorough, but there was no loss.
At the same time, Zhou Hengxing immediately organized migrants to mine a lime mine in the interior of the village, because a large area of disinfection was needed in the camp, and the management committee did not have any disinfectants at hand, and quicklime disinfection was the easiest and feasible method at present. In addition, although the important materials did not enter the water this time, judging from the weather conditions here, the air humidity is very high all year round, and the moisture-proof treatment with lime is also a necessary means.
Next, Gu Kai made a report on the situation of logistics supply. In order to get people rid of the cold in time, ginger, pepper, chili, curry and other seasonings have been used in large quantities in the meals of these days, so the heavy rain has quickly bottomed out the various spicy seasonings in the local inventory. However, the cost of this is well worth it, and for the time being, at least it has effectively avoided the emergence of a large flu. The only trouble is that the variety of condiments that can be used in the kitchen will become very limited in the next few days, which is not good news for the people who have already eaten their mouths.
However, Gu Kai immediately added a piece of good news, because the management committee has also been in contact with the base camp during the rainstorm, and after learning of the damage here, the executive committee decided to send the "Lightning" to deliver a batch of seasonings and medicines to the black soil port as soon as possible for support. If the road is smooth, the "Lightning" will arrive at the port of Black Earth in three to four days.
The content of the report of the Military Police Department was relatively simple, and Qian Tiandun ended his speech with the phrase "one qiē is normal." Perhaps it was the public hanging a few days ago that made the immigrants feel uneasy, or perhaps the intensive patrols of the Military Police Department played a role, and there were no violations of law and discipline after the disaster, and the good law and order situation saved the Military Police Department a lot of worries.
In the end, Liu Shanxia made a report on the current construction progress, he has been fighting on the front line in the past few days, and he can sleep for two or three hours at most every day, and his mental condition is not very good, and his eyes are full of red bloodshots.
Liu Shanxia held a cigarette in one hand and a pre-arranged outline in the other, and said in a hoarse voice: "Everyone has seen the situation in the camp, and we must take two to three days to restore the facilities in the camp before we can start the infrastructure projects related to mining again." In addition, the two small wooden bridges we built over the river have been washed away by the flash flood, and it will take at least a day to rebuild. Fortunately, we were ahead of the schedule in the previous few days, so the construction period of the whole project will not be too delayed, as long as we can follow our own plan step by step, there is still a great possibility of completing it on time. ”
Gu Kai was a little worried: "Lao Liu, don't work too hard, it's not a big problem to complete this project a few days early or a few days late, if you are tired here, who will command the rest of the project?"
Liu Shan Xia Qiang smiled: "It's okay, when these two days are over, give me a day off, and let me make up for my sleepiness." ”
Zhou Hengxing said: "That's it, Lao Liu's food and rest, I will arrange it, and ensure that Lao Liu eats and sleeps well during his stay in Heitu Port!"
Due to various reasons, the original plan for the transfer of migrants was delayed for several days, and after the weather cleared, the fleet that had been at anchor in the port for a week was loaded with supplies and immediately set off from the port of Heitu. The management committee hopes to use the limited time before the coal mine is put into operation to rush as many migrants from the east coast of Vietnam as possible, because the population required for both coal mining and subsequent construction of supporting industries is not a small number. According to the results of the discussions that everyone has discussed these days, in the future, if Heitu Port wants to build a large-scale coal industry base, it needs at least four to five thousand working people, and the resident population must reach the level of at least six or seven thousand. Although it is impossible to do it in one step, it is always a good thing to take advantage of the current chaos in Vietnam, and rush to transport more people who don't need money. Once the coal mines are mined, it will be difficult for the limited capacity at sea to import people as quickly as it does now.
The "Feisu" and the two sea training ships also set off together, and in line with the principle that the ship does not run empty, they will also go to the Thanh Hoa area to load some more immigrants and pull them directly back to Shengli Port. At this time, the "Lightning" had already set off from Shengli Harbor, which was basically in a state of no ships available, and the early warning at sea was handed over to several naval warships of Luo Shengdong. The Executive Committee was obviously not reassured by this state of affairs, and had sent a telegram requesting that several ships on this side return to their shores as soon as possible.
Two days later, the fleet once again arrived at the coast near Thanh Hoa, where Qian Tiandun and Xie Chun would dock with six large ships for two days, slowly collect the migrants, and then load them to Heitu Port. After each of the two sea training ships loaded about 100 immigrants, they pulled anchor and sailed eastward with the "Feisu" to return to Hainan Island.
Half a month after departure, the small fleet finally returned to the familiar harbor. The crew saw two Ming warships cruising on the surface of the sea in the waters outside Yulin Point, needless to say, these must be mercenaries brought here by Luo Shengdong as a temporary maritime garrison.
Curious Vietnamese immigrants have poured onto decks, vying to see what their benefactors have known as a "paradise." Compared with those immigrants who will be transferred to Heitu Port to work as miners, these people are undoubtedly much luckier, in addition to enjoying better medical care, education and other social security, their working environment will be much better than that of Heitu Port, which is still in its infancy.
In the early days of the crossing, due to the shortage of labor, the executive committee deliberately relaxed the epidemic prevention for immigrants, but now as the cross-crossing group has embarked on the track of steady development, various basic population import regulations are also gradually improved. The prevention and control of foreign epidemic diseases has now become a very important part of the migration work. The simplest and most effective way to prevent and control the epidemic against new immigrants under the existing conditions is to take a bath and change clothes. As soon as they disembarked, they were escorted into the collective bathhouse by a group of militiamen dressed in green, and some of their worn-out clothes were burned off.
The militia asked the militia to brush each other's skin clean, and many of them had probably not been thoroughly washed like this since birth. If one of them tried to get away with it, he would immediately eat the sticks wielded by the militiamen, and from time to time there were screams of beatings in the bathhouse. It also reminded the others to give up the idea of leaving things to chance, and rubbed their brushes and coarse cloths vigorously on the backs of their companions, and everyone came out of the bathhouse with a red complexion, like steamed prawns.
The immigrants did not understand why their new masters required them to wash their bodies so cleanly, and some even secretly wondered if these Haihan people had a habit of eating people, and some of the armies were said to kill people for food when they were short of food. They probably never imagined that one day they would even be so trembling in the shower.