Although large groups of Qing troops evacuated from the south bank of the Mongolian River, a brand-new Karen post remained, with a hundred armored soldiers stationed there. This was to monitor the movements of Beihai Town and to inform the nearby border residents that the Qing Dynasty
's rule remains.
Because the Eight Banners outside the Pass still implement the system of "integration of soldiers and farmers", these armored soldiers not only have to stand guard, but also open up wasteland and cultivate land on the south bank of the Mongolian River.
At the end of February, Liu Zheng, the newly married Doctor Hong and his wife also came back. At the same time as they arrived in Beihai Town, there were also a large number of pharmaceutical equipment and a quotation list for a set of small fertilizer production equipment.
Zhao Liang and Fang Hua decided to do some research first, firstly to select technical workers, and secondly to select the site for the synthetic ammonia plant in advance.
In March, as the weather gets warmer, the snow on the outer northeastern land begins to gradually melt. Groups of geese returning from the north appear in the sky, and from time to time they will sound "quacking".
In Beihai Town and Fuldan City, preparations for spring plowing, no less than a big battle, have begun.
For the fertile Sanjiang Plain, the first thing the civil affairs department should do is to ensure the maturity of the reclaimed land. The maturity of the land is actually to make the raw land "three connected and one leveled", with roads, water, electricity and
The site must be flat to ensure high yields from the farmland.
After Beihai Town captured Fuldan City last year, the young Yidingba Mangon led the civil affairs exploration team before winter and traveled across the vast wasteland from the north of Fuldan City to the south bank of Xingkai Lake. According to Chen Qingsong
The obtained survey data allowed us to complete the planning and design of the first batch of 50,000 acres of high-standard farmland in the three months of winter.
The starting point of everything is road construction.
Under the command of clerks sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Qing refugees from all over the country, eager to eat and clothe themselves, wielded shovels and hoes and joined the road construction army. At the same time, Zhao Xin signed an order to allow the two places to
The army sent officers and soldiers to take turns, put down their weapons, picked up farm tools and joined in spring plowing production.
After two years of continuous learning and exploration, the agricultural machinery team led by Wan Zao and Shiosuke (these people's names have been used before, everyone just needs to know that they have been naturalized as Han Chinese) have become completely proficient in mastering the skills.
The use of these machines. They were divided into two teams, each carrying out spring plowing work in Beihai Town and Fuldan City.
Outside the vibrant Beihai Town, more than a dozen 50-horsepower tractors and four 9620RXs, which are like monsters in the wasteland, are dressed in eye-catching green paint, dragging a large combined land preparation machine, and begin to work on the ground. The purpose of this is
In order to accelerate the rise of ground temperature, the surface soil will be thawed in advance.
A few days later, large chunks of cultivated land finally revealed their true appearance. The surface of the soil was darker and lighter. When the water in the low-lying land flowed away along the drainage ditch, the surface color was basically the same, and the topsoil melted away by about three centimeters.
You can start sowing and fertilizing.
The current spring crops in Beihai Town are still mainly wheat, mainly because pasta can withstand hunger. Wheat seeds are varieties bought by Zhao Xin from another time and space. They are drought-resistant in the early stage and wet-tolerant in the later stage. They grow and develop quickly and can mature when the head is down.
, the average yield per mu reaches more than 400 kilograms.
In order to avoid soil degradation caused by excessive use of chemical fertilizers, Chen Qingsong organized people to prepare a large amount of organic manure last autumn. These organic fertilizers were cut into small sections from autumn wheat straw and shrub branches, and then piled up and down in a latitude and longitude pattern.
Pour excrement water on top to let it ferment. After a few months, the manure has been dried into small pieces of gray-black fertilizer.
The drivers responsible for sowing are all the most skilled vehicle commanders in the agricultural machinery unit. When a 9620RX is towing a seeder and fertilizer spreader, the working width can reach 15 meters. The vehicle commander responsible for driving must make the seeder move straight forward.
The walking track should avoid missed sowing and re-sowing; it must be consistent when turning at the edge of the field. Otherwise, the sowing quality will be poor, which will directly affect the yield. It is not obvious at the beginning, but when the wheat sprouts emerge, it will be embarrassing!
This is a competition between people and cruel climate. Due to the short frost-free period in the outer Northeast and the heavy rainfall in summer, spring sowing of wheat must be done quickly to ensure that year's harvest.
Against the background of the rumbling sound of machines, Zhu Dagui, a farmer from Linzhang, Henan, was leading his fellow farmers to spread gravel on the widened road. Looking at the four behemoths in the farmland in the distance, Zhu Dagui had only one thing in his mind at the moment:
A surge of excitement. He could not imagine that the land could be cultivated like this.
A long whistle sounded, indicating that it was time to rest. The refugees who had been busy for two hours put down their work and gathered in groups according to their groups to sit on the roadside to rest and drink water.
"Mom! It's only been a few days, and thousands of acres of land have been plowed! Brother Dagui, do you think these are the gods that the gentlemen invited from the sky?"
"What nonsense are you talking about! That's called a machine. Haven't we all told you about it? It's all made by gentlemen, and there are people inside who control the machine. It needs oil to start it!" Zhu Dagui wiped it with the towel hanging around his neck.
He sweated and drank the warm water from the bowl.
"According to me, gentlemen are not mortals!" As soon as he said this, the farmers around him nodded in agreement.
"Tsk, tell me, how much oil do you need to drink in a day? Brother Dagui, can I use this oil to cook vegetables?"
"Eh~! You only know how to eat. Even five cornbreads in a meal can't feed your turtle grandson! That oil is not for people to drink!"
In winter, in addition to setting up literacy classes, the civil affairs department also organizes weekly meetings for the village chiefs and team leaders of the refugees. In addition to explaining the rules and regulations of Beihai Town, the meetings also use pictures to display various mechanical equipment. Just looking at the pictures is not enough.
How about it, but when the civil affairs organized them to visit the real objects, they almost scared these farmers to death!
Zhu Dagui remembered that the first time he saw the machine with a large wheel that was almost as tall as himself, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed. If the civil affairs had not used pictures to promote that it was for farming, Zhu Dagui would have thought that the old man
You want to feed yourself to the machine!
Thinking of this, Zhu Dagui smiled sheepishly. They, the refugees, had been joining the road-building army for seven or eight days. The people from the civil affairs told them that the road was more than 400 miles long and could go all the way to Fur in the northwest.
Dancheng. Once the road between the two places is opened, it will be possible to go back and forth in two or three days.
Zhu Dagui thinks that the job of building roads is quite good. Although it is very hard, in addition to eating three meals a day on the construction site, he can also receive a salary of five silver dollars every month. Five silver dollars, the civil affairs cadres are holding a lecture.
Shi said that this money combined with one tael of silver from the Qing Dynasty could buy almost 100 kilograms of wheat!
At the end of February, Beihai Town finally began to issue currency internally, and at the same time, shops in the two towns also began to open for business. In addition, two savings banks will also open their doors in April.
After Zhao Xin's team of 300 "secret agents" opened the shop, they followed Li Ji's previous instructions and ran in every day to wander around if they had anything to do. In addition to having their own fields, they, the old residents, all had their own factories.
Working there, the income is very good, with an average income of more than 20 yuan per month.
Buy a wok today and a kettle tomorrow. Some people carry newly bought lanterns and alarm clocks and start chatting and laughing all the way out of the shop, for fear that others will not know. Influenced by these people, those who came early In Beihai Town, families with people working in workshops began to walk into shops and buy the daily necessities they needed.
As for the refugees from Henan and Shandong who came to Henan at the end of last year, they looked at the proud old residents with faces full of expectation and envy. As long as they work hard for the masters, they will have all these things.
As shops open for business, the cafeteria in Beihai Town continues to shrink in size. Currently, the cafeteria only provides three meals a day to school children and Zhao Xin and others. As for the old residents, they have already bought cooking utensils to go home. Cooking.
A few days later, some colorful materials and a dozen sets of Ming Dynasty-style women's clothing appeared on the shelves. The women in Beihai Town finally began to get rid of the labor insurance uniforms that remained unchanged all year round, and calculated how much materials to buy and how much they could give them. Make new clothes for yourself and your family.
Girls such as Shen Xuan and Tang Xiao are the happiest about the various materials and clothing styles that appear in the shops. Shen Xuan is okay, she still has a few sets of clothes she brought with her, but Tang Xiao and the others are not very happy these days. The girls have long been tired of wearing Beihai Town's labor-protection cotton-padded clothes every day.
In the outhouse of Shen Jingdan's house, the dazzling Shen Xuan was wearing a Ming Dynasty Hanfu that Zhao Xin bought for her, and kept looking in the mirror. Shen Jingdan and Oginoto on the side also kept admiring.
"I didn't expect to see the clothes and clothes of my motherland here! How come Zhao Xin even knows this?"
"Yes, sir. I didn't expect that Tianchao's clothes are so fascinating. Ah Quan looks so good in this!"
Listening to the two people's compliments, Shen Xuan's face showed a bit of shyness, but she felt happy in her heart. She was currently wearing a secretly woven gold gauze skirt with a lion playing ball, crane, sesame and hibiscus pattern, and a outer layer. Plain white long coat with vertical collar and partial lapel. Under the light, the long coat is covered with peony patterns of broken branches. Two dark red bird-leaving-cage pattern ribbons are tied under the right armpit, and a pair of plain shoes are worn on the feet. Bow shoes made of colored satin and embroidered with several flowers.
At this time, there were several knocks on the door, and the sound of girls chirping came in.
"Miss Shen, are you at home?"
"Dad, it's Xiao Tang and the others who are here. They agreed to come over and see these clothes."
Shen Jingdan shook his head helplessly, stood up and went to open the door. He felt that Beihai Town was very good, but the lack of servants was the worst thing. When a guest came to the house, many things had to be done by himself or Oginoto. Right now Beihai There were already tens of thousands of people in the town, and Shen Jingdan thought it was time to mention this matter to Zhao Xin.
When seven or eight girls walked into the house, they didn't even bother to salute. They were immediately blinded by the bright clothes on Shen Xuan's body. Envy and praise began to flow from all the tongues, and the Shen family immediately became a dish. The market is so ordinary. Shen Jingdan’s brain is buzzing!
"You guys chat, I'll go for a walk."
At this time, all the girls remembered that they had forgotten to salute and hurriedly said hello to Shen Jingdan.
Shen Jingdan nodded with a smile, picked up a fur cloak hanging on the clothes rack, and walked out of the house with a smile. He walked slowly and leisurely to the seaside. Everyone he met on the road knew that he was Zhao Xin's prospective father-in-law. They all greeted him politely; this made Shen Jingdan very proud.
He was thinking about something and unknowingly arrived at the door of the factory where the dry dock was located. When the security police stationed at the door saw Shen Jingdan, they smiled and stepped forward to say hello, and then let him in.
Shen Jingdan has only been here once before, and that was when the excavation of earth had just begun. In the current factory area, a huge dry dock is almost completed, and the laying of another one has just begun.
At this time, a group of workers were inspecting the drainage system in the built dock. No one noticed Shen Jingdan standing on the top of the dock. Looking at the huge dock in front of him, Shen Jingdan couldn't help but be stunned.
"Is this the industry that Zhao Xin talked about? It can really change the world and move mountains and seas!"
The two dry docks have the same shape, with three sides facing the land and one facing the water. They are composed of a dock opening, a dock room, a dock door, a drainage system and an irrigation system. Because the current power shortage is too large, the planned lifting equipment and power system are not available. Installation, just leave space.
The completed dock is 12 meters deep, 250 meters long, and 50 meters wide. In order to ensure its completion as soon as possible, in addition to using mechanical equipment, Beihai Town also mobilized tens of thousands of people to participate in the construction; just the steel and steel materials Zhao Xin purchased for this purpose Cement alone costs tens of millions.
"Boss Shen, why are you here?"
Shen Jingdan turned around and saw Chen Qingsong walking over with a few people.
"Mr. Chen, I just came over to take a look. Beihai Town's extraordinary craftsmanship is really amazing!"
After the two of them bowed their hands in greeting, Shen Jingdan curiously asked how to use the dock.
Chen Qingsong said: "To put it simply, you must first fill the dock with water. When the water inside the dock is level with the water outside the dock, open the dock door and use the towing equipment in the dock to slowly pull the Thor into the dock. Then bring the Thor into the dock. The water in the dock is drained, and the Thor is allowed to sit on the keel pier at the bottom of the dock. After the maintenance is completed, water is poured into the dock until the water level inside and outside the dock door is equal, the dock door is opened, and the ship can be undocking."
"I see. It's better to see than to hear! I also saw the dock for repairing Fu Ship when I was in Jiangnan, but it was far less huge than here." Shen Jingdan turned around and looked at the Thor docked at the dock, thinking to himself. Be sure to come and take a look when the dock is in use.
In the office of Beihai Town, Zhao Xin is planning to go north to Kuye Island next month. In addition to Zhang Bo, the future head of the oil department, hundreds of workers and a company of troops who arrived earlier will also accompany him.
We can't put off the oil matter any longer. We must take advantage of the spring floods in Heilongjiang to head north. Even if the Tartar Strait has not yet thawed, it is better than wasting it here. In any case, without oil, many things later will not be possible. Development. Just the refueling money for the new ship can turn Zhao Xin into a pauper! In the end, he will be forced to become a warmonger.
But the inland river ships that can be mobilized at present are patrol boats and official boats, which cannot accommodate so many people.
"Looks like I have to buy two more boats."
Because he has bought boats many times, Zhao Xin is familiar with various ship types. He carefully recalled the various ship types he had seen and felt that the most suitable one at present is a catamaran passenger ship with hundreds of passengers. This This kind of ship can sail in both inland rivers and offshore waters. First of all, the multi-deck structure has many cabins, restaurants and sanitary facilities are sufficient; secondly, it has good anti-sinking; and the speed and power of the ship are also large enough.
The most important thing is that this kind of ship is not expensive compared to cargo ships. Zhao Xin remembers that a second-hand ship with more than 300 passengers only costs a few million.
Now the number of sailors in Beihai Town has reached more than 200, and more than 30 of them have initially mastered ship driving. If Liu Sheng or Deng Fei leads the team through the Tartar Strait (the narrowest point in the north is only 7.3 kilometers),
It shouldn't be a big problem.
So that night, Zhao Xin returned to Fuldan City. He found Liu Sheng, and after some discussion, Zhao Xin left in a hurry.
The next morning, Serdan and Elu received orders from Liu Sheng. They would lead their respective reconnaissance teams north to camp somewhere on the south bank of Xingkai Lake until the first advance team arrived next month.
Evacuate.
Serdan and his son, Monk Zhanger, were confused, but they still carried out the plan resolutely. They packed their bags, prepared supplies, and set off two days later. Among the accompanying team, the former Yidingbaman Gong and Wukanbei were also recruited as new recruits.