Chapter 459 Construction Progress of Changhua

August 28, 1629, the tenth day of the seventh month in the second year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Changhua County, Danzhou.

Almost all the troops stationed in Changhua came to the port to say goodbye to the chief engineer Liu Shanxia who was about to leave here. In fact, Liu Shanxia's arrival here was not too long, only about three months, according to the construction period of the entire project.

To be honest, this period of time was just the beginning. But he had to leave here early to take charge of the next large project in accordance with the arrangements of the executive committee.

In order to maintain a smooth construction progress after Liu Shanxia left, the technical staff of the Ministry of Construction, including Liu Shanxia, ​​have worked overtime in the past two months, and have made a construction plan for the next six months in advance, which will be used by Changchun.

The planned railway line from Huagang to Shilu Mining Area is divided into several construction sections. As long as the construction is carried out according to technical standards, there is no need for Liu Shanxia to stay here and keep an eye on the construction site.

Of course, this journey is not without major technical difficulties. For example, the railway bridge crossing the tributary of the Changhua River near Shilu is definitely one of the biggest engineering problems encountered by the Ministry of Construction after the crossing. Fortunately, this bridge

The span is not large. Even with the current construction level, it is completely possible to build a railway bridge that can accommodate freight trains. It just takes a little more time and the cost of building the bridge is a little higher.

After Liu Shanxia leaves Changhua this time, he will first return to the base camp to report on his work, and then he will take a boat north to Hong Kong Island to organize and direct the preliminary work of local development. After starting construction on Hong Kong Island, Liu Shanxia will have to return to Annan.

At present, the bilateral negotiations on the concession demarcation in Da Nang have ended, and the development of Da Nang has entered the countdown stage. At that time, the base camp will also have to send engineering personnel like Liu Shanxia who can take charge of the project to the local area.

Several ports entered the construction stage almost at the same time. Such small-probability incidents came together and basically drained all the manpower of the Ministry of Construction. The main reason for this is of course because the Executive Committee is eager to expand externally and hopes that

It can spread Haihan's influence to a wider area in the shortest possible time, and the development of Annan's port and Hong Kong Island is an opportunity that cannot be missed in the opinion of the Executive Committee, even if it means that the original

As long as the tight engineering power is squeezed even more, it is well worth it.

This situation will continue for a long time to come. Although the local technical personnel recruited one after another have been receiving training and serving as foremen in some projects, they want to be independently responsible for the project and provide the executive committee with

To share the worries, it still takes a certain amount of time to slowly accumulate experience. The requirements for this kind of technical work are much higher than ordinary labor. Even if you are a professional craftsman in this era, it will still take a long time to adapt to Haihan after entering the Ministry of Construction.

style engineering design and construction.

For the ongoing road construction project in Changhua, the temporary departure of Liu Shanxia and other technical personnel will have a certain impact on the progress of the project. However, compared with other areas under Haihan's rule, the strict military control implemented in Changhua

The system can, to a certain extent, minimize the negative impact.

As of now, the total number of prisoners of war and refugees transported from Annan to Changhua after March this year to offset war debts has exceeded 5,000, plus more than 1,000 naturalized civilians and nearly 2,000 people transferred from the base camp.

Haihan controlled a population of nearly 10,000 people in the Changhua area, which was more than twice the number of people under the jurisdiction of Changhua County.

Starting from Changhua Port to the end of the construction site more than 20 miles away in the southeast, thousands of people are working hard every day to get the rail transit line from Changhua to Shilu open to traffic as soon as possible. During this stretch of road, a

A total of three immigration camps and two larger hard labor camps have been built, and three companies of the militia and army have been stationed, totaling more than 500 armed forces.

Changhua County, which was once regarded as a hidden danger in the early stages of construction, has now become insignificant. There are only two local hard labor camps where slave laborers are imprisoned. Their area is larger than that of Changhua County, and their population is also larger.

However, the Changhua garrison commander Xiao Laosan, who took the initiative to establish a relationship with Haihan, has been enjoying a good life recently. After reaching a preliminary cooperation agreement with Haihan, Xiao Laosan quickly accepted

When it came to the so-called "office funds" sent by the Haihan store in the city, according to the agreement, Xiao Laosan began to turn a blind eye to the Haihan armed personnel in the area - although this so-called militia group did not march into Changhua.

city, but almost every day you can see these militiamen on the top of the city pressing large groups of slave workers to build roads on nearby construction sites.

Every day as soon as it gets dark, Haihan militiamen with live ammunition can be seen escorting prisoners in long lines with shackles to work on the construction site. These people often line up near the planned route, and then sit on the ground,

A square stone that was transported is slowly pounded into goose egg-sized gravel with a small hammer. When the weather is fine, this stone-pounding queue is often several miles long, with more than a thousand people, and the sound of hammering continues all day long.

Echoing in the wilderness outside Changhua County. In Changhua, a small place with a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, the formations created by the Haihan people were quite spectacular.

Xiao Laosan once visited the construction site outside the city to see this inexplicable road construction method. He really didn't understand what the Haihan people were thinking. Do they want to use this kind of gravel to pave a road? The road is very bumpy.

Can it pass smoothly?

However, after he went there, he became even more confused. The workers piled up the gravel, buried sections of sleepers on top, and then brought up long iron tracks and laid them on top of the sleepers. Xiao Laosan also asked Qiao Zhiya

Several times, but every time Qiao Zhiya smiled mysteriously and just asked him to wait patiently.

Until one day, Xiao Laosan was on the top of the city when he heard roars in the distance outside the city. Soon he saw a big black monster smoking white smoke along the gravel railway track from the seaside.

Speeding over. Xiao Laosan's eyes almost fell to the ground. He had never thought that there was such a strange thing in the world. The Haihan people spent so much money to build such a strange road. It turned out that it was just to let people

This big guy can travel quickly in the wilderness.

Xiao Laosan didn't even bother asking someone to notify the county magistrate. He got off the city tower and went straight out of the city to the construction site, intending to see what this big guy was up close.

After getting closer, Xiao Laosan realized that this thing was far more complicated than he thought. Just seeing the transmission spokes of those big iron wheels made people feel dizzy. And this big iron guy was dragging behind him.

There were two carriages with only chassis, and they were all packed with tied sleepers, which were piled as densely as a hill.

Xiao Laosan walked around this big guy several times, but he didn't see what was dragging or pushing it forward. Finally, Qiao Zhiya stepped forward and answered the question in his mind: "You see the coal piled behind the front of the car?

Have you? This car relies on burning water with coal to propel it forward."

"Use coal? Boil water?" Xiao Laosan only felt that the more he listened, the more confused he became. It was not unusual to use coal to boil water. The Haihan shop in the city always sold very cheap briquettes. It was better to use it to boil water for cooking than to burn firewood.

It's much more convenient. But how this matter is connected with the big iron lump in front of him, Xiao Laosan is still puzzled.

"You don't have to think so clearly, you just need to know that after we build this road, it will only take about an hour to get there from here to Shizidong inland by using this new type of transportation!"

Qiao Zhiya also understood that it was difficult to explain this kind of scientific knowledge to a big boss like Xiao Laosan in just a few sentences, so at the moment he only talked about the uses and not the principles.

Xiao Laosan, the highest military officer in Changhua County, knew where Shizidong was located. He started from Changhua County and traveled westward along the Changhua River. After about sixty or seventy miles, he arrived.

People with good foot strength can walk to Shizidong in the Li people's village in almost a day. However, Qiao Zhiya said that this big iron bump can shorten the journey to about an hour, which surprised Xiao Laosan again.

As a low-level officer who has received basic military training and mastered certain military theories, Xiao Laosan is very aware of the important role that mobility can play in combat. The monster created by Haihan obviously has extremely high mobility, and

It can also carry a large amount of cargo - or a heavily armed Haihan militia. If this thing is used in wartime, it will really be a terrifying tool.

However, the Haihan people don't seem to have such plans, and the route of this thing also has very large limitations. Just building this special road for it to pass will have to consume a lot of manpower, financial and material resources, and two or three more will be built.

Yue has only built about ten miles of road. It is definitely impractical to use this thing for fighting. Of course, there is nothing in Changhua County that is worth the Haihan people spending so much time on. Xiao Laosan

He is very self-aware of this. The only thing he can conclude is that the Haihan people spent so much time building this road to Shilu, obviously not just to help the local Li people move their homes out of the mountainous area.

That's all.

The doubts in Xiao Laosan's heart are destined to not be answered in the near future. In addition to Huang Sanmu, the time traveler and the cave owner of Shizi Cave, there are only a few naturalized cadres in the Changhua area who know where this road leads.

What kind of treasures are buried in this place? Because insiders are involved in their own interests, they will never reveal the secrets of Shilu to the outside world. When the outside world learns the truth, it will probably have to wait until around the time when the Shilu Iron Mine is put into operation.

The people resettled in the Changhua area, including prisoners of war who were assigned to hard labor camps, their mission here is not just to build tracks. Nearly ten thousand people live here, and the daily supplies they need are a number that cannot be ignored.

, the infrastructure project here may last for several years with the development of Shilu Iron Mine, and if the people's supplies rely on the transportation from the base camp for a long time, it will undoubtedly occupy a considerable amount of transportation capacity, which is more inclined to use the limited transportation capacity at sea.

Not a good solution for the Executive Committee on Foreign Trade.

In order to achieve local supplies of basic life as soon as possible, a considerable part of the labor force assigned to Changhua has undertaken the task of opening up wasteland and farming. Since there are few residents in Changhua County, the ownerless wasteland outside the county has become a target for reclamation.

The geographical conditions and climate here are very similar to the Annan Red River Delta across the sea. The Ministry of Agriculture believes that it is very suitable for large-scale planting of rice crops. In only the first two months of construction, the workers, under the command of technical personnel from the Ministry of Agriculture,

More than 3,000 acres of rice fields and more than 1,000 acres of vegetable fields have been cultivated on the banks of the Changhua River. Many various fruit trees transplanted from the base camp are also planted in the fields.

Of course, eating vegetarian food alone is definitely far from being able to meet the energy supplement needs of heavy manual labor. It is obvious that relying solely on the few original small fishing boats in Changhua Fishing Village cannot meet the current situation. The Ministry of Shipping transferred ten displacement boats from the base camp.

New fishing boats of about 50 tons carry out fishing operations in the offshore waters of Changhua Port every day. In addition to supplying Haihan's nearly 10,000 people, the seafood caught there is occasionally excess production capacity that can be supplied to Changhua County.

people. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture also sent commissioners to direct the construction of livestock breeding centers, and cattle, donkeys, pigs, chickens, ducks and other livestock were brought from the base. However, in-demand commodities such as milk and eggs are generally only

Supplied to local traveler cadres.

In addition to basic meal supplies, the executive committee is also trying to gradually improve various infrastructure and permanent civil administration institutions in Changhua. Institutions such as hospitals, schools, police stations, etc. are all under construction or have already been built.

It has reached the operational stage. It is said that the preparation for the establishment of the Changhua Port Management Committee has also been put on the agenda of the executive committee. If no major accidents occur, Qiao Zhiya, who has performed well here in the early stage, is very likely to be appointed.

The administrative leader of Changhua District. Although he also holds a military position, judging from the current personnel situation, Changhua District cannot find anyone more suitable for this position than him.

When Qiao Zhiya applied to be transferred out of the chemical laboratory a few months ago, he probably never thought that he would get a promotion opportunity so quickly. Although Changhua is a vast place with a sparse population and poor living conditions, in the future Shilu

After the iron ore is developed, supporting coal and iron industries will need to be built in the Changhua area. It is certain that the island will become an industrial hub in the future, and the development prospects are quite good. Qiao Zhiya himself is engaged in chemical engineering. For him, a

A purely industrial city has a natural sense of intimacy, which is one of the reasons why he immediately responded to the executive committee's call and was willing to come to Changhua to stay.
Chapter completed!