Chapter 65 Improving the construction of the town
Xiao Lin has not been crazy with his mother, as the top leader in charge of a small town with more than 20,000 people, he usually has a lot of things. With such a large population, it is no longer possible to rely on Xiao Lin to buy food. Even if they all eat compressed biscuits, filling the truck is not tender and makes these people last for a month. Nowadays, the main food sources of the town are fruits and beast meat. The Indians, however, did not have the habit of collecting food, and exterminated so many Indian tribes that they did not get any inventory at all.
The townspeople are already urgently mobilizing to clear the land, but there is still a lot to be done. The most difficult thing is that these whites and Indians are not as proficient in land matters as the Chinese. They are for planting, which is the kind of small, non-scale, not very high-yielding planting. The white people did not grow rice at all, and they had little experience with the high-yielding crops of corn on the American continent. The Indians are even more so, they don't have much experience in planting.
Fortunately, as the descendants of the Inca Empire, the people of the Eagle tribe are quite good at growing corn. In order to complete the self-sufficiency of food as soon as possible, all the people of the Eagle tribe went into battle, except for the Eagle and Apache, who had to lead a group of people to work in the land every day during the day, and received guidance from Xiao Lin in modern agricultural technology at night. In fact, Xiao Lin didn't know much about this, and he just read according to the agricultural textbooks he bought from the 21st century.
Fortunately, Xiao Lin still has Qu Jun, a good helper, in the 21st century, Qu Jun helped Xiao Lin complete a terrace design drawing that is enough to produce food for 30,000 people. There isn't much machinery, but the 21st century has more sturdy and sharp shovels and hoes. In addition to the most important food, there are still a lot of things that the town lacks right now.
Second most important after food is the town's drainage pipes. The rainy season is approaching, and the town has no drainage facilities at all. Except for the middle highland area, which is only large enough for 500 people, the rest of the terrain is not high. If the rain is too heavy, about 90% of the entire town will be flooded with rain. At that time, I didn't have to do anything, I soaked in water every day, and it would be strange if I didn't get sick, and how could I work.
Xiao Lin also remembered that the rainfall here was not very heavy before, and there were many trees to help block it. But now the trees around the town are either cut down or burned, and in the summer, it starts to rain heavily. Although it is not as frequent as the spring rains, it is very large each time. Now the town, except for those gravel roads, is basically muddy.
However, Xiao Lin has little to do about laying underground water pipes for the time being. Because it is impossible to rely on Sholin to purchase iron or cement pipes from the 21st century. These things are big and of little value, and it's a big loss to ship them in the 21st century. However, in order to make durable and strong cement pipes, there must be enough cement and steel bar.
The main raw materials for the manufacture of cement are limestone, clay and iron ore fines. In order to control the setting rate, less than 3% gypsum is added to the clinker. Xiao Lin has been looking for a long time, and there are not enough limestone veins in the vicinity. The Indians who had been living here before, and no one knew where there was enough limestone. In the midst of his sorrow, Babu finally returned.
In this era, cement had not yet been invented. The first cement was invented in 1774 by Smitton, an engineer who was commissioned to build a lighthouse in the English Channel to guide the way for passing ships. He used limestone, clay, sand, and iron slag to burn, crush, and mix it with water, and then poured it into the water, and the mixture was not diluted in the water, but became stronger and stronger. In this way, he finally built the first beacon lighthouse in the English Channel.
Babu had certainly never seen cement, but he had overheard the novel word during a previous casual conversation with Chaulin. He learned about the role of cement from Xiao Lin's mouth, and he has always been mindful of this thing. This time he went to New York, and he stumbled upon the limestone for sale in New York. Limestone can be preservative, although it cannot be used for food preservation, but there are still many places where it is needed, such as lime mortar, a commonly used building material nowadays.
Having discovered the most important raw material for cement, Babu could not let it go, and seven of his wagons were loaded with limestone. The smell made everyone stay away from them, except for the people who drive, and even the people who drove were blindfolded and nosed with gauze. As long as they are able to see basically, they do not let any excess skin come into contact with the limestone-filled air.
These seven truckloads of limestone are enough to build a pipeline several kilometers long, and as long as the diameter of the pipe is slightly reduced, it is enough for the camp for the time being. As long as the drainage pipes are installed in a few low-lying places, it will be enough to use it, and the town will not be completely flooded. The delighted Sholin happily praised the attentive Babu. As a reward, the position of commander of the first battalion of the second regiment of the newly formed Yanhuang Trading Company escort team was Babu's
However, now Babu could not stay in the town and lead the army. The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment was only fully staffed and did not begin military training. Because the company had so much work to do, they were all pulled to help with some manual work. Just right, with enough meat, let them train their bodies a little better. Moreover, many of the things that Babu brought back this time were very useful. So, he's going to have to go again in the near future. When Shilling brought back a new batch of counterfeit pounds from the 21st century, he would continue to go to New York to source the same kinds of raw materials, and in larger quantities.
Of course, before this, as an old mercenary who had been the mayor of the town, he was not idle. Babu was transferred to the agricultural management team by Sholin, where he helped oversee the cultivation of farmland and the cultivation of crops. Finally getting out of this matter, Xiao Lin can also start to build the town's power plant. Electricity is arguably the most important foundation of modern society. Today, steam is still used in Europe, and it has been fully developed.
If Xiao Lin uses steam power, he will not be able to surpass them, but may be pulled apart. Previously, the town had only a dozen diesel generators to power some key places. For example, the small workshop that assembles bullets and grenades relies on these generators to work. For this reason, every time Shawlin returns from the 21st century, he has to carry at least five barrels of diesel. This kind of thing, Xiao Lin is also annoyed.
In order to get rid of the situation of dealing with diesel, he didn't know how much he had to do before he finally bought a set of high-power coal mine generators used in the 80s of the 20th century from the government warehouse. The whole unit is divided into three parts, Xiao Lin can only transport one part at a time, and this time he will transport the first part over. In just two months, the entire generator set can be fully transported. Although it was a technology from the 80s, it has enough power generation capacity to support the current town.
In order to ensure that the last part was installed to generate electricity, Xiao Lin had already started the design of the town's power lines and the site selection and construction of the town's power plant. For the time being, Xiao Lin can only think of these things. These are also some of the most critical things for the current town. If Zhang Yaling hadn't mentioned it in his spare time, he wouldn't have remembered to care about people's spare time.
Humans are not robots and cannot work all the time. Especially those white people who like to club, when they were in Europe or the American colonies, but no matter how difficult life is, they all need to come to the bar after a day of work to have a drink and laugh with the call girls. When they arrived in Yanhuang Trading Town, although they had a lot of things that they didn't even think of, their spare time became buying a bottle of beer and a few cans from the grocery store to eat and drink with friends.
The key thing is that Xiao Zhen is still short of women. There was no shortage of Indian women, and when they attacked the tribes before, these women were not harmed. However, white women are in dire need. Among the people Tony brought in at the beginning, they were generally bachelors without families. The people who Shawlin snatched from the town run by the Pandey family before were also bachelors.
These whites and Indians look down on each other, and there are many single men on one side and more single women on the other, but they just don't want to combine with each other. Xiao Lin is really worried that these white strong men will have problems if they hold back for a long time. For women's things, Xiao Lin knows a good way, and that is the very prosperous inflatable doll industry in modern society. Don't think that Shawlin is a soldier and doesn't know this. He had also seen the sale of these things on the Internet, and he clicked in to take a look at them out of curiosity. These things can also add a commodity to the grocery store.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the town began to grow at a breakneck pace. I believe that it won't be long before Xiao Lin's ambitions can be supported. What he didn't know, though, was that the town was about to face a new challenge. Whether to gain opportunities in challenges and enter a faster development track, or to be hit to the ground, Xiao Linlin's decision will be the decisive factor.
Because the Addams family has suffered losses at the hands of Shoren several times, and the Pandey family has suffered heavy losses. Regarding the existence of Shawlin, and Tony's death, it is impossible to hide it from others. If nothing else, Charlie Mill, the head of the British colony, began to ask what was going on because of the irregular movement and attrition of the army, as well as the demand and consumption of weapons.