In the end, he decided to start with basic construction...Build a pier in the southwest. Level the revetment and build a trestle that extends to the sea with a water depth of more than 25 meters. To ensure that large and medium-sized ships of the Navy and Dabo Shipping Company can
It can be loaded and unloaded directly without transfer. The dock itself is protected by a three-story bastion. Surrounding the bastion is a small fortified residential area. Lu Wenyuan settled 30 households here, mainly from the original island.
fishermen.
These people are his "navy", guarding the docks, patrolling Longkou Bay, and inevitably fishing to improve food.
As for Lu Wenyuan's headquarters, it was located on the mountain of Qimu Island. On the top of the mountain, a watchtower was first built to monitor the entire island and nearby waters, and also served as a lighthouse to guide the fleet into the port in the future.
The island has poor water resources and all water sources are in the mountains. The farm is located right next to a water source.
Not only does it directly control the water source, it also builds water collection ponds and channels around it to concentrate the water sources in the mountains and store it in the water collection ponds. The excess water is then discharged down the mountain through the channels and can be temporarily used as agricultural water.
The Big Qimu Bird's swing area is small and water sources are scarce. In the long run, it is not a suitable base. According to the plan, it is just a transit base built to cooperate with the Dengzhou operation. However, the fortified farm itself is very solid and a large amount of relief will be stored in it.
Food rations, clothing, quilts, and sanitary supplies.
There are water collection ponds, large warehouses, headquarters and residential areas in the farm. There are also standard barracks that can be used by a company. In addition to the protection of a masonry wall with crenellations, there are six small double-story convex buildings.
The forts are guarded. According to the plan, each fort will be equipped with an artillery piece.
The land outside the mountains is leveled a little, and the land above the tide line is used to plant reed millet. When Kong Youde's incident occurs, he can scoop it up to set up tents and mats, and a refugee camp can be set up in an instant. As a test, it is also to solve the problem of building a base.
To solve the problem of housing for the workers, he first built ten "longhouses" with simple wooden structures, reed mat roofs and walls. Each house could accommodate people.
In addition, there are a number of supporting buildings such as kitchens and toilets that are now in operation and are considered to be able to basically meet the needs.
However, the thermal insulation performance of this kind of mat tent is very poor and it is not strong. It is barely okay in summer. In winter, if the refugees are not given enough winter clothes and cold-proof equipment, it may be completely symbolic.
But the need for more and better facilities also involves the issue of transporting supplies from Hong Kong. Lu Wenyuan knows that most of the transportation capacity is now transporting supplies to the newly opened Taiwan base.
It's probably impossible to make a special trip to the forward base to transport supplies.
Almost all the building materials used to build the Qimu Island base were purchased locally, and the craftsmen were also hired from the local area. Thanks to the Jesuit relationship with the Catholic Church in Shandong, Sun Yuanhua and other Catholics at all levels took care of him. Lu Wenyuan was there.
The local administration finally did not turn a blind eye. He built the first phase of the Qimu Island base without using almost any naturalized personnel.
Lu Wenyuan was deeply impressed by the poverty and low prices of Dongsanfu. It was far from being compared with Jiangnan and Guangdong. There was cultivated land everywhere, but the crops on most of the land grew poorly.
The villages near Mu Island are all very poor without exception. Lu Wenyuan hired workers to work locally, even for such low wages that the labor was free of charge, and all he wanted was to be given three meals a day.
Due to the extremely cheap labor force, Lu Wenyuan recruited a large number of workers: no matter men, women, old or young, everyone was needed. Those who had the strength to do heavy work, and those who did not have the strength to do light work. Using a large amount of cheap labor, Qimu Island Base's first
The first phase of the project progressed rapidly. By early August, 60% of the project had been completed.
The workers also reclaimed fields, built canals and catchment tanks, and built windmill towers. The windmills had to be transported from Lingao. They planted the first batch of reed millet on the newly reclaimed fields and sown Haiying seeds on the beach mudflats.
Vegetable seeds.
In order to protect the construction on the island and prevent idlers from mixing in, although Lu Wenyuan did not dig a trench on the long embankment, he built a wicker fence that looked inconspicuous. After taking root, it was filled with sand and gravel and it became very strong. This was used on the Loess Plateau.
This method of intercepting flash floods and improving soil erosion can create a large number of fields in the gullies.
On the whole, the construction on the island seems to be prosperous. Despite this, Lu Wenyuan still hopes that reinforcements will arrive soon, especially the northbound detachment to quickly land on Jeju Island, so that at least some supplies can be transported to him along the way. Not to mention, just
This pile of three-eyed blunderbuss and artillery made him feel uneasy. As for this group of dishonest and malnourished country warriors, he also felt very unreliable.
The only ones he could rely on were the naturalized people under his command, especially Huang Ande. Seeing him practice his country bravery in a decent manner every day made him feel at ease.
That Zhao Yingong was handed over to Wang Qisuo, and he has now recovered. Now he is the deputy captain of the Xiangyong Team. It can be seen that he has good fists and kicks, and can also shoot a bow and arrow. He is worthy of the dual identity of a salt owl and a military household.
Based on overt and covert investigations and conversations, Lu Wenyuan roughly understood Wang Qisuo's basic status: he was a local military household, selling private salt to make a living, and there was no one left in his family. This situation was very common among naturalized people.
It's common and not surprising. Lu Wenyuan didn't take it seriously either.
"Lao Ao movies, new Ao movies are released... Guan Yunchang warms wine and kills Hua Xiong, Spider-Man fights Spider-Man, Teacher Cang bravely fights against the evil Yanei, The Adventures of the Five Dao Man..."
Along with the crisp sound of gongs, the shouts of vendors came from the street. Children in the alleys rushed to the street entrance, took out a handful of copper coins from their arms and threw them into the vendors' hands, while shouting: "Let me go first."
Look, let me look first."
This is an ordinary morning in Guangzhou. Every day, there are 176 such vendors walking in the streets of Guangzhou, setting up more than 300 "Australian film machines" in the market, bringing unique products to children and adults in this time and space.
Visual entertainment that belongs in this time and space.
Skade, who was wearing plain clothes, was sitting on a carriage and witnessed this scene, with a smile on his lips.
"Layingao Film" is similar to the "Layang Film" in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In a wooden box, a spring is used to drive a ratchet mechanism to drive a film reel, and the pictures on the film are played continuously, and the viewer has to pull the rope himself
To wind the clockwork, everyone knows that it is an Australian product, so it is called an Australian watch. The light comes from daylight collected through a lens, and at night it is illuminated by an oil lamp, but the effect will be much worse.
This thing was requested by the Ministry of Colonial Trade and the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda, and was designed by a machinery factory. Compared with the traditional "foreign box", the structure has been improved, the weight and volume are reduced, and the effect is enhanced.
This entertainment greatly increased the burden on Lin Hanlong's optical factory. The main component of "Australian View" is the lens. Although the performance requirements are very low, they have to be ground out one by one. For this reason, Lin Hanlong had to negotiate with the veterans of the machinery factory.
Together they developed a device that could batch-grind simple optical lenses.
The Ministry of Colonization and Trade certainly did not develop this set of things to entertain the people of the Ming Dynasty, nor to increase income. Although the vendors who obtained the "franchise" from Zichengji said that the profits from this business were not bad, the "franchise fee" of several hundred taels per year was
The income from renting "Australian movies" can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket in the entire Lingao economic system.
The important point is to promote publicity, especially to spread the "Australian lifestyle". To build momentum for the upcoming commercial center. At the same time, to attract people from the Ming Dynasty to immigrate to Hainan Island.
Guangzhou is the gathering place for the wealthy population of Guangdong. As long as the concept of Lingao as "a bright light" and "a paradise" is established here, it will not only attract those poor people who are struggling to make a living and hope to pursue a new life,
It can also attract some wealthy people.
Before the second counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Planning Institute mentioned the problem of too small economic aggregate and scale at an enlarged meeting of the Executive Committee on National Economic Work. And the thing that restricts all this is people.
Industry requires a large number of people. Especially when the industrial system of the Senate is at a very low level, it has to rely on human sea tactics to expand production capacity. Therefore, collecting manpower has become a top priority.
They did not hesitate to invest almost all the strength of the Senate in the engine plan, and the ultimate goal was to gain a large number of people.
Although the "Australian film" publicity campaign has a negligible effect on the overall labor accommodation plan, it can still have a great impact in the long run.
"Come and see, the latest Australian movie, Australian workers have moved into new houses, large iron factories are turning molten iron, and farms are producing thousands of kilograms of rice per acre..."
The hawker changed another part of the film: this part is a film that nakedly promotes the "new life". Because the content is novel, it also attracts many people to watch. After all, Australians are already "famous" in Guangdong, and many people want to
Learn more about them.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..." Guo Yi, who was also sitting in the carriage, still wasn't used to cigars, so he put down the cigar in his hand.
"Sir Guo, cigars are not cigarettes. Don't inhale them into your lungs. The smoke is too strong." Skade slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, "You are now the representative figure of Australian style in Guangzhou.
Mr. Fashion, you have to pay attention to details."
"Mr. Fashion, it's all your idea. I was forced to smoke this thing in the past and I didn't smoke or drink."
"Shit, you work in a powerful department and you don't smoke or drink? How can the boss use you?" Si Kaide turned a blind eye to Guo Yi's complaints, "You have to show your talent more gracefully, so that the rich people will accept it.
Spend money!”
This matter has always been a pain for Guo Yi. He worked very hard back then, but he didn't get a deputy section officer until the D-Day. Of course, the reason was definitely not that he didn't smoke or drink.