The air was filled with the acrid smoke and dust after the explosion of explosives, and the choking smoke shrouded the mine pit and refused to disperse for a long time. A group of mine trucks, pulled by the whirring and steaming small locomotive, clanked towards Huangniling.
Driving towards the mining surface on the top - this is a commuter car transporting mid-shift workers to work. A simple bench is installed on the flatbed car. The workers sit or stand. They are all fully armed: wearing rattan safety helmets, 24
Labor protection masks with layers of gauze, labor protection glasses made of glass and coconut shells, thick miners' overalls, and towels tied around their necks... These are all naturalized migrant workers, the basic team of the Mining Bureau, and the members of the Australian and Song Dynasty regime in Sanya.
The mass base. Providing adequate labor protection reflects this consideration - the most difficult period in Sanya's development is over, and it is inappropriate for the Senate to continue to consume purified and trained labor in human-life-filling development.
Very uneconomical.
The sun shines in the bare valley. The green, tropical-style valley has turned into Zhuotong Mountain, exposing the red soil. The dense vegetation in the valley has been removed, and the mine car track for transporting ore and a
Thousands of telegraph poles formed a network at the bottom of the valley and on the hillside. The steam engines installed everywhere spewed out black smoke and steam from time to time, and the roar of the machines came from Tiandu's repair shop.
All that is left of the Tiandu River is a filthy stream in the center of the river bed - what flows inside is industrial wastewater discharged from the mines and Tiandu's small machinery factory - and domestic sewage is used to irrigate a small amount of nearby developed fields.
The reason for the decrease in river water is that the reservoir built upstream of Tiandu Town has been completed, which intercepts the incoming water from the upstream and is used to supply domestic water in Tiandu Town and industrial water in the mines. The flow of Tiandu River is not large, so it is not built.
Reservoirs cannot guarantee water supply.
Now is the dry season in winter. The water inflow from the upper reaches has been greatly reduced. The reservoir no longer releases water. The natural water flow in the entire lower reaches of Tiandu River has been completely cut off.
A group of half-naked slaves were unloading carts of iron ore that had just been transported from the mining surface to the mine in the valley. Their half-naked bodies were covered with ore powder, and their straw hats and cloth strips around their faces were
The only labor protection measure. "Leaders" selected from the most reliable naturalized people monitored the labor of the slaves. There was one "Leader" for every 50 people. They did not hold whips or sticks, but carried a
A cloth bag filled with bamboo slices.
Every time a basket of ore is loaded and unloaded, the slaves take a bamboo token from the foreman. If you want to have enough to eat, you have to complete the work quota and collect the specified number of bamboo tokens. The result of slow work is not enough to eat.
They had no energy to work for two days, and eventually starved to death under heavy physical labor. Slaves who refused to work were directly executed, and their bodies were hung on the gallows in the slave camp to dry - until new victims were hung.
The foremen monitor the entire labor process. They do not carry weapons. No matter what weapons they carry, one person has no chance of winning against fifty people. Carrying weapons will only make the weapons fall into the hands of the rioters if they encounter resistance.
As a back-up, at least one squad of soldiers will be deployed to perform vigilance duties near any place where slaves work together. Armed riot control can be deployed at any time. Sentinels built on towers on hillsides and mountain tops use telescopes to monitor the mines and valleys at all times.
Every corner - according to the order, these sentries have the right to shoot at any time any "suspicious" slave.
At first, the slaves' work efficiency was not high, but after a few days, the slaves thoroughly understood the "Kun Thief" labor policy, and the production efficiency immediately improved. In fact, in Sanya's mines and roadbed projects, slave labor was more efficient than many
The estimates of the elders who doubt slave labor are much higher. Regarding this point, the former HRs in the Planning Institute do not believe that it is the result of high-pressure policies. The key lies in effective labor management.
"Sweatshops with a minimum salary can be settled, but slaves who don't even have the right to live can't be settled?" said an HR veteran who once worked in a sweatshop, "The labor efficiency of slaves is really so bad, in the South
When slave owners are well fed and spend a lot of money to buy slaves from Africa, what are they going to do to fight for it?”
The arrival of the first batch of Southeast Asian slaves gave the Sanya region finally a substitute for consumption. Of course, there are still very few slaves and not enough for large-scale consumption, but at least it has been possible to remove naturalized migrant workers from some of the most dangerous and arduous
was freed from his job. During the meeting, Quarkchon and Wang Luobin stated that by the end of March 1631, he could guarantee the importation of 1,500 slaves every month. If more investors could be found, Batavia would
The supply of goods is guaranteed, and 2,000 people per month is not a problem.
Wang Luobin made a rough calculation: 1,500 slaves can be transported every month. In the 10 months from March to December, 15,000 slaves can be transported. Excluding certain permanent losses by the end of the year, the number of slaves in Sanya should be 10,000. Not only
It is enough to ensure Tiandu's mining tasks, and can also be used to mine Damao's manganese ore and phosphate ore. At the same time, a considerable part of the labor force can be used in ports, roads and other infrastructure construction.
Compared with the Planning Institute, which can only allocate manpower bit by bit, and also cares about the accident rate and death rate per 10,000 tons, using slave labor is really refreshing. As long as the Planning Institute can allocate enough to Sanya to exchange for slaves
With sugar and rum, labor is no longer a shortcoming restricting development.
It has been almost two months since the mine started mining at the end of October. Despite problems such as insufficient labor and intermittent supply of explosives, by mid-January 1631, mining from the Huangniling open-pit mine
The iron ore that came out still formed several hills of about ten meters high in the stockyard. According to this progress, the conditions for officially opening a regular iron ore freight route between Lingao and Sanya have been met - although the first
The shipment of iron ore was one month later than Wang Luobin expected.
For the export of iron ore, the railway extending from the mine to Anlei Pier has been built, but the loading and unloading equipment at the terminal is not yet in place. Without rubber, there is no most convenient and effective belt conveyor, so the manufacturing director department can only trial-produce chains first.
Tipper. This kind of equipment was supposed to be installed and debugged before the end of December 1630. Due to the quality problems of the chain, there was no trace of the equipment until the end of the New Year.
Ji Runzhi inspects the ongoing infrastructure construction site of Jinling Industrial Zone. This place is still a barren hillside. Ji Yuan is using instruments for surveying and mapping, and Ji Shu is holding the benchmark. This is the Jinji on the west side of Tiandu Town
Although the Ling area is called "Ling", it is actually a small gentle slope with a large area of flat land. There is also an abundant water supply from the Sanya River nearby, making it more convenient to develop manufacturing industries.
Sanya's planned industrial enterprises: coconut processing factories, soap factories, food factories... all of these industrial enterprises will start construction in 1631 and be completed and put into production that year. Especially the coconut oil production of the coconut joint processing factory, there is a shortage of materials everywhere.
It is an urgently needed project for the bottlenecked Lingao industrial system.
"I wonder how these guys are celebrating the New Year." Ji Runzhi angrily recorded a few key points in his notebook - if the Sanya development plan hadn't been further refined, he wouldn't have had to.
He stayed in Sanya, but he considered that when he went back to celebrate the New Year, he would have to attend to a large set of public and private affairs activities such as debriefing, writing reports and socializing, so he did not have much time to prepare a master plan for the development of Sanya.
If the plan cannot be adjusted in time, it will bring a lot of trouble to the following construction-especially the material distribution and large-scale equipment dispatch of the Planning Institute. In the end, Ji Runzhi decided not to return to Lingao in the New Year, but to stay in Sanya to continue to prepare and revise the plan.
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Sanya's past planning was quite crude, and there were many unreasonable things in it, especially in the layout of Sanya City. After Ji Runzhi arrived in Sanya, he re-prepared Sanya's overall plan.
First, he modified the use of Anyu. The old plan was to build Anyu into a port and trade city as a model for traveling across the country. However, after on-site investigation and research, Ji Runzhirun believed that the area of the flat land was too small.
, this piece of land is slightly more than 1 kilometer long from north to south and more than 600 meters wide from east to west. As a town, it is so-so. As a model city showing the image of the crossing country, it is really unbearable. In the new plan, the status of Anyou is greatly reduced, and it is only used as an output.
Dedicated port for iron ore use.
Ji Runzhi believes that the location of Sanya City should be based on the layout of the old time and space, choosing the mouth of the Sanya River. Although the mouth of the Sanya River cannot be used as a large port, there is a large area of flat open space around it, which is suitable for building a city. As the entire Sanya Special Economic Zone
The center of life and business. The mouth of the Sanya River is used as a small fishing port.
The military and port functions are centered on Yulin Fort, east of Gouling Mountain and along the west side of Yulin Port. The coastline here is 5 kilometers long. In the old time and space, it was the location of the Yulin Military Port. In this time and space, it is also used to build an army and navy base.
and large commercial ports. At the same time, large-scale cargo warehousing and logistics centers are arranged.
To the southwest of Yulin Fort, the slopes of the Dadonghai-Luhuitou area with mountains and sea are designated as future resorts and health care areas. Although the Senate has no intention to carry out construction in this area at this stage, it is important to protect the local vegetation and ecology.
, we can start by avoiding pollution from industry and shipping.
Although there are mountains in the Dadonghai area, they are very low. In fact, they are just a transportation channel connecting the Yulin base and Sanya City. It is not difficult to build roads or even railways connecting the two places.
The role of Tiandu remains unchanged: in addition to being the seat of the Mining Bureau, it will also form the industrial center of Sanya together with the Jinling Industrial Zone to the west.