Since the beginning of the preparations for war and the expansion of the army a year ago, the Ministry of Construction and the Military Police Department have stepped up the construction of the fortification group of Shengli Port. In the first phase of the project, which ended last year, the construction of a total of eight batteries and 24 gun emplacements on the east bank of the barracks area was completed, and of course the artillery and artillery were not yet fully in place. The second phase of the project is to focus on the forts on the Yulin Peninsula and establish a good fire coverage area for the channel entering Shengli Port from the east and west directions.

However, compared to the first phase of the project on the east shore of the harbor, the Yulin Peninsula jutting into the South China Sea is not conducive to the construction of large-scale projects, and only an early warning observation post has been built at the highest point before that. From the beginning of the new year to the end of February, the Ministry of Construction continued to invest in labor to rush to build the second phase of the fort, and 70% of the estimated amount of the project has been completed so far, and it will definitely be completed in the next month.

Due to the steep terrain of the second phase of the battery, there were not as many gun emplacements as in the first phase, only six batteries and eighteen gun emplacements. But even so, the scale of the completed Victory Port Coastal Defense Artillery Fortification Group must be second to none in the Far East, and the fire output capacity of the Geranza City, which the Dutch were building on the island of Taiwan, was far inferior to the coastal defense battery in Victory Port.

Of course, the large number of artillery emplacements required once again put great pressure on the Military Police Department. In order to give full play to the power of these batteries, the military police department needs at least a shore defense artillery force of about 300 people. In addition to the continuous training of new artillerymen, there are also two different opinions in the military police department on how to arrange the current limited artillery.

One is that it is believed that it should be based on defense first, and that there is no external fighting in the near future anyway, so the existing army artillery should be dispatched to serve in the coastal defense artillery fortifications on a priority basis in order to give full play to its role. Another opinion is that since the recruitment of naval personnel has now begun, then the artillery should give priority to the ship, otherwise the shipyard is now desperately rushing to produce the warship will not have much meaning, and how much difference can a warship without artillery be from a civilian ship?

While the military and police departments were arguing, the navy's recruitment plan was in full swing. Perhaps the results of the expedition played a role, and the navy's recruitment work went very smoothly, and the number of young people who signed up far exceeded the advance estimate of the military police department. The Military Police Department expected to recruit 300 reserve sailors in the first phase, but the actual number of applicants exceeded 1,000 within three days, not counting those who voluntarily switched from civilian sailors to warship sailors.

In this preparatory work for the Navy, the Ministry of Maritime Transport has fully cooperated with the work of the Military Police Department, and has also publicized the policy to the sailors and crew members under its command, so that all those who voluntarily transfer to serve on warships will be able to enjoy the same treatment as soldiers of the Haihan People's Regiment in the future, and whether it is income, casualty pension, labor points, and so on, they will be a step higher than the current treatment. For such a **, naturally many brave people choose to change careers and enter the naval system anyway, they are all sailing at sea, and the risks are the same, but the naval death pension is several times higher than that of civilian sailors!

On 25 February, the first batch of post-war emigrants from Annam arrived at the port of Shengli and loaded eight large ships. According to the number provided by the North Vietnamese, there were more than 1,400 people, of whom more than 1,000 were young and able-bodied men. Not surprisingly, eighty percent of these immigrants were Confederate prisoners of war from the Great War, and every 10 of them were tied in long strings with ropes, and the scene was spectacular when they disembarked.

In this civil war, the North Vietnamese finally captured more than 10,000 South Vietnamese combatants, and Thang Long Province will definitely not waste food to feed these people in vain, and it happens to have a cooperation agreement with the Haihan side to provide 2,000 people per month, so most of the final flow of these people will go to the control area of the crossing group. In addition to the port of Shengli, the port of Heitu also received a small number of prisoners of war and assigned them to more dangerous jobs, such as the workshop that was very toxic to human nature and made coal tar. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

Fortunately, the Executive Committee had already received a report from the troops stationed in Vietnam that the labor camp had been expanded ahead of schedule, and a special branch of the labor camp had been built between Shengli Port and Tien Du Industrial Zone, and most of the prisoners of war who arrived at Shengli Port this time would be assigned to the new labor camp to serve hard labor, and their job was to participate in the construction of the first rail transit line between the two places.

The first phase of the rail transit line between Shengli Port and Tianduku is about nine kilometers long, and the track is laid on a single line, in order to reduce the difficulty of construction, the whole line is located on the west bank of the Tiandu River, avoiding the trouble of building bridges. In order to facilitate the wrong traffic, two sections of two-way double-track passages will be built at a distance of three kilometers and six kilometers. The second phase of the project will complete the construction of the double line and extend the track to the western end of the Yulin Peninsula, covering the entire Shengli Port area. The estimated construction period for the entire project was originally eight months, but after the agreement with North Vietnam for the relocation of migrants, the Ministry of Construction has begun to adopt a multi-site construction method, which is expected to shorten the construction period to between five and six months.

By the end of February, about 60% of the construction progress of the rail transit line has been completed, and the Ministry of Construction is also trying to speed up the construction of the project, and strive to hold a completion ceremony as a gift when the anniversary of the crossing of April 1.

Because in the first few months of the crossing, the Ministry of Construction has made great efforts to build the road, although it is only an ordinary dirt road, but it has also reduced a lot of workload for the current track construction project, mainly to pile up gravel roadbed, lay sleepers and tracks. After the track is laid, the workers will have to further widen the existing road surface, because the next step of the Ministry of Construction is to solidify the ordinary road surface between the two places as a whole to improve the road capacity and avoid the need to deploy a lot of manpower to maintain the road during the rainy season every year.

After the introduction of a large number of prisoners of war and overseas laborers, the labor cost of construction projects through the group also dropped rapidly. Originally, almost all of the people involved in these infrastructure projects were naturalized citizens, and the use cost of non-naturalized citizens was only less than one-fifth of that of naturalized citizens, so the cost of the entire project was greatly reduced. Construction workers, who had already developed some basic trades, were assigned to new construction sites for more skilled work.

The housing problem has been a common topic in the Executive Committee, but it has not been properly resolved until then, and the reason is simple: a simple shortage of labor. The steady flow of people from North Vietnam can alleviate this problem, and the Ministry of Construction is finally able to start the construction of the long-awaited personal dormitory with multiple projects under construction at the same time.

Since a considerable part of the crossing group has been dispersed and assigned to the area outside Shengli Port, in fact, there is no shortage of accommodation conditions in the early days of the Zài crossing, such as the No. 1 base, there are even seven or eight prefabricated rooms vacated as temporary guest houses for entertaining foreign merchants. When regular guests such as Li Nai and Luo Shengdong come to Shengli Port, they usually stay directly in the guest house in the base. And the ordinary traverser has now changed from a room for six or even eight people in the early stage of the crossing to a situation of two or even one person in a room.

But as these people who enjoy the life of the city in the future, the prefabricated house is not a long-term plan after all, everyone has worked hard to come here to carry out construction, but also look forward to enjoying the life of the people as soon as possible, and the accommodation conditions are one of the most basic standards. Although the conditions are limited now, it is impossible to build a deep house compound for everyone with a hundred or ten domestic servants, but at least everyone should have a decent house. Now that the Ministry of Construction has taken the initiative to put forward a plan to build individual dormitories, the Executive Committee has not hesitated at all on this proposal, and unanimously approved the implementation of the priority right assessment of personnel, building materials, etc., even ahead of the Shengli Port Business District, second only to the Yulin Fort and the rail transit line.

Regarding the housing structure of individual dormitories, the Ministry of Construction has prepared several sets of plans for a long time, and finally after the voting of various departments, the construction difficulty of the relatively low construction difficulty was selected. However, compared with the barracks-style tube building in another time and space, the plan of the Ministry of Construction is more similar to the structural design of the express hotel, each room is not large, but it is equipped with a separate bathroom. In order to reduce the workload, the interior furniture, decoration, etc. are also adopted to adopt uniform standards.

Of course, if you are willing to toss it yourself, you can also register with the Ministry of Construction first, and the Ministry of Construction will also set aside the corresponding rough house to be taken care of by the homeowner. However, in terms of the amount of work undertaken by the Crossing Crowd at the moment, I am afraid that no one has the extra spirit to decorate the house by themselves.

Considering the difficulty and safety of the construction, the dormitories of the tube building have only two floors, and the houses on each floor are relatively distributed on both sides of the corridor, and each building has a total of 40 households, whether it is a single or a couple, they can be divided into one suite, and those with children can apply for two suites as appropriate. As for the kitchen problem, the Ministry of Construction did not make special considerations, after all, now all of them are eating big pot rice, and a special canteen will be built next to the dormitory area. This not only facilitates everyone's life, but also avoids the fire safety problems that are easy to occur in collective dormitories.

Although such a dormitory still has not gotten rid of the nature of a collective dormitory, it is tantamount to a rebirth for the traversers who have lived in the prefabricated house for almost a year. Starting in early March, the Ministry of Construction will start construction of new dormitories at the No. 1 base of Shengli Port and the No. 2 base of Tiandu, and will begin to organize a public lottery to divide the rooms.

Because of the limited speed of construction, the delivery of houses can only be carried out in batches, and it is impossible for everyone to get new houses at the same time. For the sake of fairness, we can only use the lottery to solve the contradiction of insufficient supply and demand. Almost all of the people in the Shengli Harbor area participated in the lottery from 1 to 3 March, and even a few people from the Cliff Office took turns to return to Shengli Harbor in two days to draw the lottery. As for the personnel stationed in North Vietnam and Guangzhou, it is indeed too far away to arrange to participate in the first batch of lottery room benefits.

The first batch of welfare houses totaled 80 sets, and Shengli Port and Tiandu each had 40 sets, and according to the different locations of the units, the members participated in the lottery in the two places. Proportionally speaking, the participants in the lottery basically have a one-quarter chance of getting welfare housing, and the winning rate is still relatively high.

The members of the Executive Committee who came to the scene as leaders were the first to draw the number, which was also their only bit of "preferential treatment". However, the members of the executive committee probably didn't wash their hands before the lottery, and they almost wiped out the whole army, and only Ning Qi was the only one who shook a suite of nine people. But he was not embarrassed to enjoy this glory alone, but took the initiative to transfer it to Yuan Ruoxiu and Zhu Ping on the spot, and this move also received applause from the crowd present.

Due to the nature of the unit, most of the people stationed in the Tiandu area are subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, and the 40 suites are almost covered by the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry has become the biggest winner of this lottery and house distribution activity. And the worst loss was the shipping department, no one won the lottery from beginning to end, but the people in the shipping department didn't care very much, and left after shaking it. After all, if you don't win this time, there will be a next time, it's just a matter of waiting for two more months, and sooner or later there will be welfare housing allocated to you.

The dormitory for the members built this time is not a long-term standard housing, in fact, there are a large number of first-floor and first-floor single-family housing designs in the drawing library of the Ministry of Construction. However, due to the large amount of construction, it cannot be promoted as a standard configuration for members at present. Moreover, according to the long-term planning plan of the Executive Committee, Tiandu and Shengli Port are not the main commercial and residential areas in the future, and now they are building a large number of buildings, and they will still face the problem of collective demolition and relocation in a few years, so there is no need to spend so much effort. However, the kind of tube buildings that are being built now can be gradually increased in the future and used as dormitories for naturalized workers.

In addition to the two dormitory sites, ground breaking has also begun on the barracks area on the east side of the harbor. Now that the expansion plan for this year has already begun, the Military Police Department expects that the number of combat personnel will be at least doubled from less than 1,000 by the current year, and that the existing barracks will not be able to accommodate too many personnel. Now that there is a relatively stable supply of building materials and labor, the Military Police Department will naturally not lag behind, and plans to build its own barracks dormitories with brick and stone structures, and the standard is according to the current dormitory in the tube building, but the living density is several times larger.

According to the figures provided by Anxi, the general manager of the salt farm, the monthly output of the salt farm in Shengli Port has reached about 350 tons, and the annual output is expected to remain above 4,000 tons. If measured by the production capacity of the same era, this is simply astronomical, and it is more than enough to meet the civilian salt of the entire Hainan Island. The salt markets of the mainland and North Vietnam, which were difficult to balance a few months ago, are now largely able to loosen their grip and gradually increase their supply.

However, in contrast, the development of the Iron Furnace Port, which only began in October last year, is obviously much slower, and although it has become two communes and thousands of immigrants have moved in, the progress of the construction of the salt works is not very fast, and the current output has not reached the level before the expansion of the Shengli Port salt works. The main reason for this is that the Iron Furnace Port is far away from the Shengli Port, and many production tools and materials have to be transported from the Shengli Port to the Iron Furnace Port by guò ships, which consumes a lot of time between coming and going. In addition, in the period of about a month before and after the dispatch of troops to attack South Vietnam, due to the shortage of sea transportation capacity, there were also some problems in the supply of materials in the iron furnace port, which caused the stagnation of the salt works construction project.

To solve this problem, the two communes of Iron Furnace Port are building salt production facilities and a valley passage to the west. As long as this seven-kilometer-long land passage can be completed as soon as possible, then the Iron Furnace Port can be directly connected to Tiandu, and the time required for the transportation of materials in the future can be reduced by at least half compared to the current one.

In addition to the immigrants from Tielugang, there was also a group of people who were involved in the construction of this valley passage, that is, the people of Fushantong who had been relocated from the inland mountainous areas. According to the agreement with the Executive Committee, hundreds of Li families in Fushantong were resettled in this valley between Tiandu and Tielugang, and the People's Government was responsible for providing them with the goods and food they needed for their daily life, and the Ministry of Agriculture instructed them to cultivate mountain forests and grow various mountain cash crops. The Executive Committee also encouraged them to participate in the construction of the road leading to the Iron Furnace Port, and to pay for their labor in the necessities of life such as salt. In terms of labor costs alone, these relocated Li people are not much different from prisoners in labor camps.

In addition to this valley passage, the Lebanese are also opening up another land passage to the Yalong Bay Agricultural Development Zone. This passage also starts from Tiandu and ends at the coastal plain of Yalong Bay between Shengli Port and Tielu Port. In terms of length, this passage is nearly half shorter than the route from Tado to the port of Iron, but the terrain is slightly more complicated. At present, the Yalong Bay Agricultural Development Zone has relied on nearly 1,000 immigrants who moved in in the early stage to reclaim and plant crops with an area of more than 2,000 acres, of which sugarcane, which is particularly valued by the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture's development plan, at least two to three communes will be maintained in the Yalong Bay Development Zone in the future, and this seaside plain will gradually be built into the largest sugar producing area near Sanya.

Tong Guò participated in the Vietnamese Civil War, imported a large number of labor from Vietnam, and in a series of projects such as engineering construction and agricultural development, the group is gradually getting rid of the bottleneck of human resources and accelerating the pace of construction. Although the Shengli Port area is still not a monolith, the special social environment created by the existence of the group has begun to emerge with various construction projects