Chapter 1459 Dongjiang Immigration Village

Haihan's familiarity with resettlement work is no less than their military literacy. In the past nine years, they have established no less than ten colonies in areas outside Hainan Island, and accumulated rich practical experience during this period. Although the plain in the northwest of Lushun is only

Only land demarcation and boundary surveying were carried out, but this did not prevent Haihan from formulating an infrastructure plan tailored for the people of Dongjiang Town.

Haihan planned ten immigrant villages and two central towns for the settlement of Dongjiang Town. Except for two of the towns, which were rebuilt on the basis of old towns that had been abandoned during the Hou Jin occupation, the other immigrant villages needed to be rebuilt from scratch.

This amount of work cannot be completed in three to five days. The first batch of more than 2,000 laborers sent by Dongjiang Town can build one or two villages in half a month, which is considered very efficient.

Due to time pressure, there is no need to consider the time-consuming and labor-intensive brick and tile houses. Even quarrying and logging are tight, and there is currently not enough manpower to build brick and tile kilns. Therefore, the only way to build a residence is to build a house with simple bricks and tiles.

The main structure is a shed. Considering that the weather is getting warmer and the insulation performance of the house is not so high, the design plan prepared by the Ministry of Construction is based on the boat-shaped house, which is the most common in the southern colonies, and uses local forest trees as the main building materials.

After the immigrants have settled down in the shack, the walls will be treated to meet the thermal insulation needs in winter.

Liu Shanxia from the Ministry of Construction also hurried back from the Jinzhou Isthmus on the day the immigrants arrived in Lushun. He had been watching the construction progress at the bastion construction site in the north a few days ago, but the resettlement work at the rear was equally important.

We can only rush back first, spend two or three days to guide the infrastructure work in the resettlement area, and then go back to the north to focus on the defense line reconstruction project.

However, Pidao also sent many professional civil craftsmen this time, so Liu Shanxia only needed to let them understand the drawings drawn by Haihan, and then instruct them to follow the plan. Based on past operating experience, it took him half a day to explain

, one day of practice is almost enough. Of course, before starting to build a house, you must first prepare the required building materials.

Therefore, after the immigrants arrived at their destination, they only got a very short rest period, and then they were organized to cut trees in the nearby mountains and forests. Fortunately, these people knew that what they were doing was building their own homes, and they were still very motivated to work.

Satisfied, they did not show much resistance. At this time, even those who had doubts about Haihan's arrangements temporarily chose to obey and joined the labor force with enthusiasm.

There are more than a hundred temporary houses to be built in each village, and the building materials required are not even a little bit. Fortunately, the forest resources are very abundant nearby. Even if these two thousand people work day and night to cut down, it will take a year and a half.

Not only are there mature trees around, more than a dozen improvised logging teams use axes and saws to work in the forest, while the remaining people begin to clear the ground, dig foundations, and build roads and drainage facilities in the designated area.

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Hundreds of tents were erected densely in the wilderness outside the village planning area. Until the temporary housing is built to a certain scale, most of these immigrants have to live in tents temporarily. With the food aid they received

Likewise, these tents were temporarily borrowed from Haihan and were all military canvas tents.

On the outside of the tent community, you can see a row of earth stoves built by the immigrants with adobe. Since the food rationing system is currently implemented, the immigrants' daily source of food is the collective canteen set up here. Among their daily rations, the cost

The relatively high price of white rice is served every two days. At other times, potatoes, corn, beans and other coarse grains are the main meal. The meat is basically salted fish. The immigrants occasionally hunt rabbits, deer, and pheasants in the forest.

Game such as these will also be brought back to the canteen as a snack.

Two days after the official start of the infrastructure project in the resettlement village, Sha Xi and Chen Yixin also came here to observe the progress of the construction. Of course, Chen Yixin was not so enthusiastic about the construction progress of the resettlement village. He was more concerned about whether these newcomers had taken good care of themselves.

Following the instructions of the Haihan foremen will not cause some trouble for the managers. If he discovers any security risks, he must deal with them in the bud before they occur.

However, Chen Yixin's worries seem to be a little unnecessary. Although Dongjiang Town has been in decline for a long time, it is still a serious military establishment. Most of the people who were moved to Liaodong are military relatives. Even if they have not been in the military, they have family members who have served or are currently serving in the military.

The understanding of military orders is still deeper than ordinary people. Before they set off, the General Military Office had repeatedly warned them to follow Haihan's arrangements when they arrived in Liaodong. In addition, after arriving in Lushun, there were several thorns in Chen Yixin's place.

After being whipped, this treatment of killing chickens to scare monkeys also had a certain deterrent effect. After arriving at the station, everyone was assigned extremely heavy labor tasks, and when they were busy, they had no time to think about making trouble.

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Sha Xi's focus is on the internal civil affairs system of Dongjiang Town. He is more concerned about whether the military management system of Dongjiang Town has penetrated deeply into the people. This is related to whether the military-civilian separation and resettlement plan formulated by Haihan can achieve the expected results.

The effect. Although it won't cause any big trouble, Sha Xi does not want an uncontrolled paramilitary force to exist in his jurisdiction in the future. He has even considered the corresponding countermeasures, which is to try to make the Dongjiang Town supervisor

The heads of the civil affairs at all levels have stepped aside, or simply asked them to be transferred out of the place, and Haihan will arrange personnel to take over the civil affairs affairs. Although this may cause dissatisfaction or even resistance among the people of Dongjiang Town, Sha Xi believes that this is just a small matter.

Trouble is at least much better than not being able to fully control the situation.

But Sha Xi soon discovered that he was just as worried as Chen Yixin. The people sent by Dongjiang Town obviously did not have professional military qualities, and might even fall far short of the militia standards. They were only against the military.

He was just familiar with the regulations. After observing for a while, he simply randomly called a few people from the labor team and had a short conversation one by one to understand each other's situation. Although the number of samples in this kind of sampling survey was not large, Sha Xi

Still, I quickly learned some valuable information.

In the early years, Dongjiang Town's military sources mainly came from Liaodong. Because it faced great external military pressure, it became normal for military personnel to receive military training. However, since the Jin army went south to occupy the entire Liaodong continent and drove Dongjiang Town to the sea, it was in a state of

Dongjiang Town, which was short of supplies, had to reduce the number of regular troops as much as possible and reduce the number of daily trainings to save the consumption of combat supplies. Later, the food supply became increasingly tight, and food shortages began to occur on Pi Island from time to time. Even the daily training of the regular army

It has basically been interrupted, not to mention civilian armed organizations.

Later, the Haihan people appeared and provided a large amount of supplies to Pidao, which finally allowed Dongjiang Town to breathe a sigh of relief. However, in the process of Haihan recruiting immigrants from Pidao, in addition to a large number of Liaodong refugees who had no way to go, there were also

Many people in Dongjiang Town have also chosen to leave the bitter cold place of Pi Island by joining the new master. Especially those veterans with military experience are Haihan's favorite recruits.

As long as these people are not physically disabled, after recalling Haihan and training, it only takes a few months to transform into Haihan and fight. And the reward they can get for working for Haihan far exceeds that of those who serve in Dongjiang Town.

Treatment, this kind of routine spread among the people, and soon Haihan recruited a large number of retired veterans.

As a result, the people who have stayed on Pi Island and have not left have relatively limited military talents, and their desire to participate in the war is also relatively low. Otherwise, they would have joined the troops of Dongjiang Town or enlisted in Haihan.

Recruited. However, due to the limited resources at hand, Shen's uncle and nephew could not expand the scale of Dongjiang Town's armed forces. Instead, under Haihan's suggestion, they embarked on the route of elite soldiers. The General Military Office selected from the army

A small number of elites were sent out to be reorganized according to the Haihan military system, and weapons provided by Haihan were distributed. The new army was trained by Haihan military advisers.

At present, theoretically Dongjiang Town still maintains a troop establishment of about 4,000 people, but in fact, the only one that can actually be mobilized to fight is the new army trained by Haihan with the help of Dongjiang Town. The other troops can basically only serve as auxiliaries.

The army is responsible for tasks such as logistics and transportation. As for the more than 10,000 people, I am afraid that even a militia of 300 people cannot be raised at the moment.

Although Sha Xi was not yet completely sure that the information he had visited was objective fact, he at least felt a little more relaxed about the information. Moreover, he did not concentrate on one place when searching for random interview subjects, and the stories of several people were basically the same.

, its credibility is still relatively high.

The official in charge of civil affairs in Dongjiang Town knew that the two high-ranking Haihan officials who came to inspect the work had extraordinary status, and their attitude was very humble. They kept nodding and bowing behind them, for fear that something would go wrong. On the contrary, ordinary people did not know about these two Haihan officials.

What's so special about the status of officials? Compared with the officials of Dongjiang Town, they are a little less awe-inspiring.

After hearing the news, Liu Shanxia, ​​who rushed from another construction site, finally arrived. He personally took the two of them to watch the construction status of the first resettlement village and explained the current construction arrangements to them.

"You have also seen that even if there is a labor force here, the progress of the project is not very fast, so Shaxi, don't expect too much to draw people from here. Even if you can draw people, the military will first draw them to the frontline construction site.

It's much tighter there than this place." Liu Shanxia pointed out Sha Xi's little plan as soon as he came up. However, Sha Xi didn't take it seriously after being pointed out, and just smiled in response.

When Haihan builds immigrant villages in colonies, he usually starts planning months in advance, preparing corresponding building materials and prefabricated parts, etc. Once construction starts, standard simple shacks will be built at an extremely fast speed. This is allocated to Dongjiang Town.

This immigrant village did not have time to do much preparation work, let alone make various prefabricated parts needed to build houses in advance. Even if Haihan had this ability, he would definitely use it in Lushun Fort first.

By the way, most of the immigrants who recently moved to Lushun from Shandong are still living in tents. Shaxi will definitely not give up good things to the resettlement work in Dongjiang Town.

So after two days of construction here, only the foundation construction work of a small part of the houses has been completed. The wood harvested from the nearby mountains and forests needs to be processed to a certain extent before it can be used for building houses. Currently working here

Even if dozens of carpenters are working at full capacity, it is still difficult to meet the demand for building materials on the construction site.

"One step is slow, each step is slow, and the felling and processing of wood has become a bottleneck, causing all subsequent construction progress to be slowed down." Liu Shanxia said helplessly: "At the current speed, the construction period may be longer than expected.

The time is more than doubled.”

Chen Yixin asked: "Can we adjust the number of people involved in carpentry and send more people to cut wood?"

Liu Shanxia said: "Of course I have thought of such a simple method a long time ago, but the problem is that there are not enough tools available at present. On average, only twenty people have one big saw. Even if double the number of people are sent to cut down trees, the efficiency is still not high.

Where to go."

Chen Yixin muttered: "If there are not enough here, we can only transfer as much as possible from the Shandong base. I remember that there are still a lot of messy tools in the warehouse on Zhifu Island."

Liu Shanxia nodded and said: "I have sent a telegram back and asked the next ship to Liaodong to bring it over. As long as it is related to civil engineering, I will ask for any tools!"

Sha Xi was thinking about other things at the side, and then he said calmly: "Since the construction progress here has slowed down due to lack of tools, there is a lot of idle labor, I think it is better to transfer some first

When people go to Lushun Fort, they can help with the project there first. When enough tools are available here, it won't be too late to come back and start work here. Anyway, it's only thirty miles away from Lushun, so it won't take half a day.

The time has come."

Liu Shanxia immediately shook his head and objected: "Thirty miles is true, but the round trip is sixty miles. This trip will take up half a day, so why not just stay here and work. Even if you don't chop wood, you can at least do something.

Simple tasks such as building roads and leveling the ground. I say Shaxi, don’t keep thinking about your little calculations. The military hasn’t even taken people from here yet, so don’t worry about it!"

Liu Shanxia mentioned it once before, and now he said it again. The words were very straightforward. Sha Xi knew that this elder brother had a straight temper, so it was not easy to talk about the transfer of manpower from here again in front of him.

However, Sha Xi still has something to say about the current construction status of the Dongjiang Resettlement Village: "At the current pace, it may take a month or two to build one resettlement village. Then ten resettlement villages will be built to cover more than 10,000 residents."

If everyone is settled, wouldn’t it take a whole year to move there? I think it’s more practical to order a batch of tents first, because maybe some people will have to live in tents until next year.”
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