Yan Maoda stood on the top of Mao'er Mountain. The mountain is 400 meters high, steep and rugged with rocks, making it difficult to climb. The reason why Yan Maoda climbed up was so that he could have a condescending look at the terrain in this area.
Mao'er Mountain is an iconic hill on the coast of Hongji. It is said that a "Zhenzu Emperor" wrote "poetry" here, and later a group of so-called "celebrities", "heroes", "heroes" and the like came here.
It is called "Poetry", so it is also called "Poetry" Mountain locally. This mountain was also related to the Vietnamese Revolution in the 1950s. According to some "revolutionary memoirs", during the French rule of Vietnam,
There is a flagpole on the top of the mountain. From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, on May Day and September 2nd every year, Viet Cong members would climb up the mountain and hang the "national flag" on the flagpole on the top of the mountain.
"There is no need to hang the national flag here. We can build a lighthouse to indicate the arrival of ships." The secretary next to Yan Maoda said. He overlooked the earth and the ocean. Maoer Mountain is a stone mountain, half of which protrudes into Yalong Bay. The coastline is full of hills.
and hills, only at the foot of Mao'er Mountain is a 23-kilometer long strip of flat land along the seaside. The Hongji City of the old time and space was here. And Hongji City was established by the French.
It was gradually built on the basis of Hongji Coal Mining Company.
"What river is that?" Yan Maoda asked, pointing to a wide river that entered the sea a few kilometers away.
"This is Beitang River." Bei Kai said, "It is also called Bai Dang River. It is said that the Yuan army was defeated by Chen Xingdao at this mouth." He also learned a lot about Vietnamese history because he studied Vietnamese.
"Oh, it turns out it's still an ancient battlefield. It seems that the armed trading station is also at great risk." Yan Maoda looked at the rolling river. The river is wide and dotted with sandbanks. The tide is rising here, and the rising tide is yellow water. The river flows.
The water is turquoise, with a clear dividing line in the center of the river, which is very spectacular.
"Where is the best place to locate a commercial station?" Yan Maoda asked. As a member of the exploration team, Bekai led a team to explore here and was very familiar with the surrounding geographical environment.
"Of course the most suitable place is at the foot of the mountain, in Hongji City in the old time." Bei Kai said and pointed, "There is flat land here, where houses and storage yards can be built. The conditions for building a port are also good. You can also use nearby pipelines.
The Beitang River water is used for coal washing and domestic use."
"What about defense?" Yan Maoda was very concerned about this.
"Since it is a trading station, the scale of the fortifications must be appropriate to prevent the trees from attracting the wind. Besides, it has to be too big and strong. Not only will it require a large stall, but it will also require more soldiers." Bekai put down the hat on his head.
, "Let's try to use peaceful means. The executive committee's intention now is that we don't want to have a big fight here."
Yan Maoda nodded: "Indeed. Let's go down the mountain."
At the foot of the mountain, the navy and sailors of the Zhennan have begun to build a temporary earthen fence on the shore, surrounded by a trench filled with standard bamboo sticks. The construction of the sentry tower built with prefabricated parts is in full swing.
In the open space in the middle of the earth fence is a wooden house built with prefabricated parts. This is Bekai's residence and office. The marines who are responsible for security work live in the wooden barracks on the other side.
Bekay was a little frightened when he thought about having to work and preside over the development in this dirt wall - apart from 30 sailors and a 12-pound mountain howitzer, his most reliable thing was a silicon 2-watt radio, powered by his maid
Responsible for operations. The fear of being alone on a desolate coastline is unspeakable. But I can't be a softie right now - after this opportunity to be my own boss slips away, I want to become a senior official.
It's difficult.
"You need to overcome it for the time being." Yan Maoda probably also felt that this facility was a bit crude - if 10,000 Vietnamese troops were to be sent here, they would have to be here. "I will immediately arrange for ships to transport construction materials when I get back, and the workers and guards will be there."
come here."
Bekai forced himself to act like a hero: "It's okay. We have 30 sailors and one cannon, which is enough to resist the local bandits and pirates. The Northern Li Dynasty will not have enough to eat and launch a large army to deal with us."
"It won't take three or four days to send you all the materials for the expansion base - the sea route is very close from Lingao!" Yan Maoda tried his best to reassure him, "I will have the Zhennan come back as soon as I return to Lingao.
It will always be at your disposal. Zhang Dascara is very familiar with the situation in Vietnam and will be an effective assistant."
"This is great." Bei Kai was overjoyed. With the Zhennan and Zhang Dascara here, it made people feel more at ease. Even if it didn't work, they could board the ship and escape. He said: "Zhang Dascara knows that there are sea and land routes here."
Everyone is familiar with it and very useful talents”
Yan Maoda looked around: "Where is the open pit here?"
"Mao'er Mountain is not an open-pit mining area." Bei Kai came to Hongji last time to personally preside over the digging of detection pits. He has first-hand information on the distribution of coal mines. "The underground in Guang'an is almost entirely coal, but the open-pit mining area is
Of those few, the largest open-pit mine is in Jinpu - inland, 15 kilometers away from here."
"So far? I thought it was on the beach."
"There is also coal on the seaside." Bekai said, "We dug an exploratory hole last time."
The result of exploring the pits was that there were coal veins everywhere under the hills in this area. The disadvantage was that most of them were buried deep and required digging shafts to mine them. It took Bekai almost a week to find a coal mine 3.5 kilometers away from Mao'er Mountain.
An open-pit mine was found under the hill. The mining surface is very small, with a maximum diameter of less than 400 meters, but the burial is very shallow, with a covering soil layer of only 2 meters. It is the shallowest mine they have discovered within 5 kilometers around Mao'er Mountain.
Already.
The two people were escorted by sailors and walked on the overgrown wasteland for more than 20 minutes. Fortunately, this is the seaside, the sea breeze is strong, the vegetation is not dense, and the grass is not high. Yan Maoda can still vaguely see the land that was previously developed.
Traces of the path that came out. The deep ruts of the Zidian trolley can still be barely discerned in some places.
Walking to the foot of the hill, you can see that a small circular pit has been dug here. There is water at the bottom of the pit, turning it into a stagnant pool. There are overgrown weeds around the pit. Apparently no one has come since Bekai and the others left.
Pass here.
"We named this place Mao Shi Pit No. 1." Bekai laughed, "The coal quality is very good, it is all high-quality anthracite. There are almost no impurities. At that time, we on the Great Whale dug it in a week.
We bought one hundred tons of coal. Unfortunately, we had to go to great lengths to develop this place. We didn’t have the strength to invest at that time, and later Lao Chang negotiated an agreement with the Wu family to exchange sugar for coal. There are also many coal mines in Wu Yujia’s estate that can be mined.”
"So the Hongji coal we use now is not actually produced by Hongji?"
"Hongji Coal is just a commercial name." Bei Kai has spent many days in the exploration team and has been to Hongji. He knows a lot about the ins and outs. "It means the coal shipped out from Hongji. In fact, it is Guang'an-this city.
The name of space and time is Guangning - the coal produced. The real Hongji coal should come from Jinpu - the largest open-pit mine in the Hongji mining area."
Yan Maoda looked at it and found that it was 4 kilometers from the mine to the sea. A small railway or something like that had to be built to improve the efficiency of coal transportation. It would be best to wash the coal on site - there is ready-made river water here. He thought twice and asked: "This
How much coal can be produced from the pit?"
"Bai Guoshi has read our exploration data and said that at least 40,000 to 50,000 tons can be mined - this is a conservative statement."
"Fifty thousand tons!" Yan Maoda thought that this number was not worth mentioning in the old time and space - the peak coal consumption of a 200,000-kilowatt medium-sized thermal power plant in one hour was more than 40 tons. It would only take 2 months to fully mine 50,000 tons.
Consumption. But it is an incredible resource for Lingao's industrial system. Especially Hongji's side is all anthracite with high calorific value, which is much better in calorific value than the inferior lignite produced in Guangdong currently used. In terms of coalification raw materials
It can also play a big role in filling the gap - the current operating efficiency of the coal coking complex plant of the Ministry of Chemical Industry is not high, only reaching 40% of the designed production capacity - the lack of sufficient coal security is a bottleneck problem.
"This mine can mine 100 tons a day, which is 3,000 tons a month. It can be mined for seven or eight months." Yan Maoda calculated.
"100 tons per day is too low. Wu De is definitely not satisfied." Bekai said, "If push bucket trucks and small rails can be used, even without animal power and other tools and equipment, each miner can complete 1 to 1.2 tons of mining per day.
It can be done by 100 workers equipped with simple tools such as shovels. I think it is at least 200 tons per day. Only then will the executive committee feel that the development of Hongji is meaningful. The executive committee may also allocate some mechanized equipment.
Come over and assist in coal mining, so that 500 tons per day is possible."
"Based on 200 tons per day, Maoxing No. 1 can only be mined for three months. What should we do next? Go deeper into the interior?"
Bei Kai had already planned: "We can continue exploration in three months. There is coal everywhere underground in Guangning. I believe that other open-pit mines can still be found nearby. Moreover, the 50,000 tons of Mao Shi No. 1 are open-pit reserves."
, if you are willing to continue digging deeper, there are still coal belts that can be mined. But the investment in construction is huge."
"In the long run, we will have to completely control the Hongji-Jinpu area sooner or later." Yan Maoda sat on a stone beside the mine, looking at the black water at the bottom of the pit, "Miner, how are you going to solve it?"
"First send a group of naturalized miners to work as basic workers, and then recruit some local people." Bekai said, "Zhu Fuyuan said that the lives of farmers here are very hard. There is even less arable land in Hongji area, and they all grow upland rice. The yield is very low.
It's on the low side, and the taxes of the Li Dynasty are not light either. Two upland rice and one miscellaneous grain are not enough to eat, and people starve to death every year. It should be able to recruit a lot of workers. It's just that we know too little about Beiqi."