Seeing off the two, Li Fushou saw that it was not early, so he got up and walked to the backyard.

The inner room of the back house

There was no wind at all in the curtained inner room, and there was a faint smell of sandalwood, and Mrs. Gu Liuyan was wearing a brocade cushion behind her, and she was leaning on the side of the bed to talk to Mrs. Tian (Tian Niu'er) and Mrs. Qin (Shi Qin) who came to visit, and when they heard the sound of footsteps, they turned around to look at it.

Seeing the old man come in, Mrs. Tian and Mrs. Qin hurriedly got up and saluted, and received a blessing.

"No need to be polite, I'll come and see Madame." Li Fushou walked to the bed and sat down, and asked softly; "I look good today, but I heard the news from my hometown?"

"I can't hide anything from my lord." Gu Liuyan's beautiful face glowed with the charming luster of a young woman, she pursed her lips and smiled lightly, and told the nurse to speak; "Bring the son to the lord to see, it's not a coincidence that the lord came today, he was just tired and fell asleep a little earlier."

The nurse brought the little boy according to her words, which was very different from the one who had just been born a few days ago, the little face was white and chubby, and she was sleeping with her eyes closed.

Looking at these eyebrows, it looks like Li Fushou.

The family sat together and chatted softly, and the warm atmosphere lingered on the side, and this moment was extraordinarily beautiful.

Shangri-La Island, Qingshui River Basin

From the Coral Sea into the wide Qingshui River inland river, up to a distance of about 40 kilometers in the wide bay, along the river bank anchored anchor two freighters, two 280-ton sailing ships are going back and forth between the anchorage and the shore wooden trestle, transporting various materials.

It was already early October

It has been ten days since the colonization fleet arrived in the planned town of Tianshu, and a simple wooden trestle bridge of more than 200 meters long has taken shape, straight into the depths of the river bay, and the construction coolies are expanding to both sides, driving one sharpened log after another into the silt of the riverbed, and the logs are connected to each other with heavy channel steel, and then thick planks are laid on it, and finally form a "T" shaped wooden wharf.

The work consisted mainly of Dutch captives, who stood on wooden frames around the logs, and seven or eight men carried bare-chested hammers weighing five hundred pounds, shouting in unison the trumpets of labor, and smashing the logs into the sharpened logs again and again, and smashing the logs deep into the silt on the shore.

There are large scorched black marks of arson on the shore, a ring of fences has been set up on the cleared lots, rows of neat camp tents are arranged, and one stilted building after another is under construction, and the outline of the town is beginning to appear.

In the camp

Under the simple wooden shed that was built, there was a row of more than 20 large stoves, the stove was burning brightly, and the big iron pot was cooking churning broth, steamed buns, steamed rice, and the aroma of the rice was far away, causing people to salivate.

On the site of the planned Tianshu Town

After a massive burning, all the bush branches and leaves turned into thick black ashes, the towering trees were cut down, and the Dutch coolies dug out one root after another, dragged them away by tractors, and cleared the site.

The tractor team then came to the field, dragging the rotary tiller to turn the land deep, with the smell of mud and the fertile land deep turnover, after the sun exposure lost moisture and became dry, and then with machinery to break it layer after layer of tamping, add coal ash layer to tamp, add gravel layer tamping, it becomes a solid town site.

On this basis

Use white lime to outline a piece of area, divide the town core business district, administrative area, residential area, green area, wharf storage area, cultural and entertainment area and industrial area, and then build one by one according to the planning blueprint.

Since there is no money to build a complete sewer facility, it is replaced by digging open drainage ditches along the direction of the street, which not only saves money, but also has a good effect.

In the distant forest, one tree after another was felled and transported by tractors to the lumber yard, which is now piled up like hills, and the rattling of the coiled saws connected to the diesel engines cut the logs into planks and strips of different sizes for the construction of house bridges.

The army's camp is at the edge of the forest in the distance, and they have sent armed soldiers to follow the explorers to explore further afield, where everything has to be planned and built from scratch in this inaccessible area.

Wu Xuewen, the head of Shangri-La, and a group of people stood on the town site, pointing at the large blueprint and solving specific problems in construction.

"Logistics team, what is the current situation of our labor and machinery arrangement?"

"Report to the Governor;

A total of 3,110 colonists have arrived, including 1,621 Dutch prisoners, 482 armed convoys, 37 tractors, six saws, 71 mules and horses, and a number of livestock.

in the allocation of manpower;

A total of 720 Dutch prisoners were used in the wharf construction team, including 320 coolies who were responsible for driving logs into the riverbed, divided into eight groups, each group of 40 people, each time by 8~10 people using 500-pound hammers, taking turns to change shifts, in addition to eating and sleeping 24 hours without stopping, the current progress is quite good.

66 coolies responsible for thickening the channel steel connection, divided into two groups, one left and one right at the same time in turn to change shifts, 80 coolies responsible for laying the thick slabs of the wharf, responsible for transporting wood, more than 200 coolies of thick channel steel, 11 cooks for cooking, more than 20 prisoner foremen, and more than 30 seriously ill people have been isolated and resettled.

The forest logging team consists of more than 1,300 people, including 400 Dutch coolies.

The field leveling team consisted of about a thousand people, mainly members of the tractor team, of which 500 Dutch coolies were employed.

Our main focus is on the hut construction team, which is currently working on 72 stilted buildings at the same time, accounting for more than 1,400 people alone, as well as a sawmill, a large kitchen and two sailboats to transfer supplies.

Oh...... By the way, we also sent four survey teams with a total of about 80 people, and the military also sent two platoons of troops to accompany the protection. ”

After listening to the report, Wu Xuewen held his hands on his chest and thought about it for a while, and asked; "How many more days will it take to build the terminal?"

"According to the current construction schedule, it will take about three weeks."

"Can more people be deployed to speed up the process?"

"I'm afraid not, because the working surface of the dock is so wide on both sides, and now it is expanding to both sides at the same time, and four groups on each side are already the maximum, and more people have no place to stand up, but it is in the way."

"In that case, let's maintain the current situation." Wu Xuewen knows that what his subordinates said makes sense, and in the current situation of completely manual construction, the speed of wharf construction is not slow.

The development of new towns in the Red River Valley has developed a complete set of methods and methods that have proven to be very efficient in practice.

The problem is that the first batch of migrants will arrive in the near future, and several nearby rivers urgently need to build temporary bridges to facilitate the movement of people and tractors, otherwise the progress of land reclamation will inevitably be affected.

These rivers are not wide, but they are fast-flowing, and their beds are so deep that it is impossible to advance deeper into the wasteland without bridges.

The only way to do this was to suspend the construction of the wharf on one side and dispatch coolies to build a few urgently needed bridges to meet the immediate needs.

The plan in his heart has been decided, Wu Xuewen asked again; "How's the cottage construction team doing?"

"Report to the Governor;

Our wooden house construction team is building a total of 72 two-story stilted buildings and more than 300 auxiliary houses, which are planned to be completed within 10 days.

If the speed of the wood drying kiln can keep up, the second batch of single-storey stilted buildings will be much faster, and it is planned to start construction of 160 buildings, each with nine to ten workers participating in the construction, and it can be built in two weeks. ”

Seeing the stern eyes of the chief manager, the person in charge of the wood drying kiln of the sawmill shrank his neck and replied helplessly; "Back to the general manager, we have built 6 wood drying kilns, is doing everything we can to increase the supply of wood production, the board is better, the most headache is used as a load-bearing foundation of the square wood, due to the large thickness of the square wood, the baking time is long, generally after 2 ~ 3 times of baking before being able to get out of the kiln, this process must not be urgent, otherwise the temperature is too high will cause the square wood warping, cracking deformation and a series of problems."

"Then why haven't you been actively looking for ways to solve the production bottleneck?" Wu Xuewen was not easy to fool, and asked sternly.

"Back to the general manager, we are building two new wood drying kilns, the problem now is the lack of high-power blowers, diesel generators are not enough electricity, our application report was submitted two days ago, but when the new equipment can arrive no one knows, we suggest that the thick square wood will be sawn in half, so that the drying efficiency will be greatly improved, basically able to meet the needs of construction, but the wooden house construction team they are unwilling." The person in charge hurriedly explained.

Seeing the ball kicked back, the person in charge of the wooden house construction team suddenly became anxious; "There is no such reason, why should a good big wooden square be broken in half, so that we can not guarantee the strength of the ring beam, and the wooden column is stressed from top to bottom, can two small pieces of material have a large piece of material to be forced? You're just shirking your responsibility, but we're responsible for the quality of the wooden houses we build......"

"Okay, stop arguing......"

The anger was very big, and seeing that the two were about to quarrel on the spot, Wu Xuewen immediately spoke out to stop it, otherwise the quarrel would not end and delay time, and no problem would be solved.

Faced with the contradiction between supply and demand, Wu Xuewen thought for a while and said; "The material bottleneck problem of the wood drying kiln must be solved, otherwise it will delay the entire housing construction work.

In this way, the large wooden square used for the bearing of the pillar still maintains the intact drying process, which is not time-saving. As for the ring beam part, it can be dried in half in one piece, and then connected with a wooden tenon after the drying is over, and a few more iron hoops are put on, which does not affect the use and does not affect the strength, and can also improve the output of the wood air-drying kiln.

The timber mill seized the time to go to the new drying kiln, the mechanical blower was not in place before the first use of manpower, people can not let the urine suffocate to death, when the time comes, you will be allocated a hundred white coolies, two drying kilns are not enough, at least 6 drying kilns must be built.

I'm going to give you three weeks to get it all done, or you're going to have to ask. ”

"If you obey orders, the lumber mill will not hold back."

"The construction team obeys your lordship's orders."

Since Wu Xuewen has made a decision, the two cross-eyed persons in charge just now bowed down to receive the order, and none of them had the courage to contradict the chief manager.

In fact, this is all a contradiction in the hot construction, the timber mill wants more equipment, and the construction team is simply afraid of trouble.

A good large wooden square is sawed in half, and then connected with a wooden tenon after drying, and reinforced with an iron hoop, how much labor is wasted?

It not only diverted valuable manpower, but also greatly increased the workload of the housing construction team, which is not 10 or 8 large wooden squares, but hundreds of them, and it makes people's scalp tingle when they think about it, and it is inevitable to be afraid of difficulties.

Wu Xuewen suppressed his subordinates with absolute prestige, basically playing 50 boards each, all on the premise of ensuring the construction of Tianshu Town, trying to overcome the current difficulties, making preparations for a steady stream of immigrants, and laying a solid foundation for the large-scale development of the Qingshui River.