Chapter 3 A Difficult Beginning (1)
"It's over!" Xiao Mingli roared and cut off the last axe with all his strength.
With the sound of "swish la la", an oak tree more than ten meters tall fell to the ground, splashing smoke and dust on the ground.
"Which one is the first one?" Liu Dafa handed over a cigarette. Xiao Mingli was not polite, and lit it directly, took a deep breath, and sighed with satisfaction: "The third one."
Before Liu Dafa traveled through time, he worked in a sales company. He had an average communication skills and was very unsatisfied. He lived with Xiao Mingli for a while, and the two of them with similar personalities established some relationships over and over again.
"You said..." Liu Dafa hesitated and hesitated for a long time and said, "You said we have really traveled through time. I can't believe it until now, but the wave of Indians I met yesterday didn't look fake."
"Can that be fake?! You have also seen the corpse. There are still Indians dressed like this these days?" Xiao Mingli looked up at the sky, "We were sailing on the Yangtze River when something happened, but in the blink of an eye, we were here. Where is this? The seaside! The southern hemisphere!"
Xiao Mingli was speechless. This was the kind of unlucky man who drank cold water and stuffed his teeth. He finally took a leave and slowly returned to his hometown to visit relatives on a steamer. He originally thought that this journey was a rare pleasure, but who knew that God arranged for you to act like this.
Liu Dafa was also speechless. He looked at the sun hanging in the northern sky, and thought about the situation when the Indians' wooden arrows shot at them yesterday, and couldn't help but tremble.
"Don't think too much!" Xiao Mingli is a person who is at ease with the situation. Everything is already like this. Why not settle down with peace of mind. He patted Liu Dafa on the shoulder and comforted him: "The ship is loaded with a lot of food, which is enough for us 568 people to eat for a long time. Let's work first, don't think about those that have nothing."
"Dingling!" A "Beiyang Army" wearing a blue military uniform, with dragon patterns embroidered on her cuffs and sunglasses slowly flew past her bicycle. He carried a high-precision hunting crossbow on his back, and there were crossbow arrows and steel balls in the basket. This was the department that was officially established last night - the Security Team.
After Peng Zhicheng's efforts, the guard team was finally set at 62 people. Peng Zhicheng served as the captain and Wang Qinian served as the deputy captain. The team was divided into 4 squads, each squad with 15 people, all of which were equipped with high-precision hunting crossbows. One of the squads was a fast motorized force equipped with mountain bikes, responsible for the periphery patrol. Two of the remaining three "infantry squads" were arranged around the logging team, one left and one right, closely guarding the safety of the logging team. The other squad was deployed on the construction site on the north bank of the river. Each squad was equipped with two telescopes, which were kept by the chief and deputy squad leader.
Only a few tug-of-war, more than a dozen axes were found in the cabin, and two people were using these backward tools to log. In addition, most of them were novices and were afraid of being injured or damaged equipment, so the progress was not very fast. In the morning, sixty or seventy trees were piled up in the yard on the bank of the river. After removing branches and bark in the yard, these trees tried to transport them across the river to the opposite bank to lay them. Several groups of people on the other side of the river specially processed the fresh wood into plates.
According to the principle, fresh wood must be dried naturally or dried before it can be used, otherwise the wood will deform and bent in the future. However, it is not a big problem to build a simple wooden house to temporarily live in. In the committee's plan, everyone's housing will be brick houses in the future. Burning bricks is not a high-tech job. Stand up a soil kiln, find some clay to make bricks, and then burn them directly after the shade is dry, which is very convenient.
In Uruguay, according to "expert" Gao Mo, there are many rocks with calcium carbonate as the main component, such as limestone, marble, etc. There is a hill with limestone as the rock on the south bank of the river. Shao Shude was very excited when he discovered it in the morning. With limestone, he can burn cement by native method. This substance called "artificial volcanic ash cement" has better corrosion resistance than ordinary silicate cement. After being mixed with slurry lime, it can harden in air and water, and is especially suitable for humid or underground environments.
Perhaps because of the character of his character, he found another clay land at noon, and now it was all in full. Shao Shude was excited and decided to immediately go to the other committee members to discuss the allocation of personnel, and strive to set up the brick kiln and lime kiln first.
On the north bank of the river, Lao Zheng, the chef on the freighter, and a group of old uncles and aunts, were preparing meals for everyone. In the morning, the owner of the tow boat, Lao Zhang, took a group of relatives to catch some fish in the river. The number was not large, so he cooked several large pots of soup together, and each person had a small bowl. The staple food was white rice, and the side dishes were canned lunch meat. The white rice was enough, and the canned food was one for each person.
After Shao Shude finished cooking, he found the other committee members and said while cooking: "You have to allocate personnel for me. Let Xiaoqian be responsible for the simple housing. Anyway, he is also studying architectural design. I plan to set up the brick kiln first. Now I need bricks everywhere to build. Lime kilns and cement kilns should also be done as soon as possible. With these things, a lot of construction can be done quickly."
"What materials are needed for a standing kiln?" asked Ma Vest.
"The main thing is bricks. You need to use kiln walls, chimneys, and fire pits. Well, there are also refractory powders. If you are more particular, it is better to have some refractory insulation materials."
"There are some bricks, but many are refractory bricks. But I definitely can't give them all. In the future, refractory bricks are required for iron and steelmaking. Do you know the importance of steelmaking? This is the basis of our survival! Everything else has to be on the side." Ma Vest is a technical mate, and what he has been thinking about is his steel industry.
"No need to do much. I will build a small earth kiln now and use it. This kind of small earth kiln is a backward thing after all, and its energy consumption is high. In the future, we will still have to consider the last wheel kiln or even the tunnel kiln." Shao Shude automatically filtered out the second half of the vest, and he knew that this person was a technical resident, with a very good business quality, but he was a little bad in dealing with people.
"Where can I arrange a manpower now?" Ma Qianzu sighed heavily, but glanced at Liu Weimin quietly.
How could Liu Weimin not understand Ma Qianzu's little thoughts? But now it is time when everyone needs to work together, he is too lazy to care about it. If he wants to be the evil man, he will do it himself, at least for everyone. "We have a total of 352 young and middle-aged male labor force. 62 people in the security team, 10 people in the freighter left behind, and 280 people in the remaining labor force. Currently, 50 people in the logging team and 12 people in the wood processing team; 60 people in the construction team, mainly laying foundations, digging reservoirs and toilets; 10 people in the sanitation and epidemic prevention and disinfection; 10 people in the fishing team; 20 people in the simple wooden houses, which is mainly due to insufficient supply of boards; the rest are burning wastelands, leveling the land, and digging ditches in the agricultural team." Liu Weimin took a look and felt that the agricultural team had too many people, "Or why do you transfer people from the agricultural team?"
"You can leave the burning of wasteland to women. You can also put it aside if you are not very urgent." Ma Ganzu achieved his goal and immediately followed up, "80 people were transferred out of the agricultural team. Lao Shao, it is enough for you to set up a small kiln to give you ten people. I will take the rest of the people to mine limestone. How about it?" Ma Ganzu had long felt a sense of crisis about his work of caring for everything and not doing anything. Now that he has the opportunity, he naturally wants to do more to strengthen his voice.
This proposal hit Shao Shude's mind, the importance of limestone is incomparable, and the work will be carried out one day earlier.
Wang Qinian and Xiao Bailang were all right, and Liu Weimin was a little worried about the reaction of the captain of the agricultural team, Jin Kela. Considering that these materials are needed to be used in the blast furnace in the future, Ma naturally agreed. Peng Zhicheng raised his hands to agree, because the cement brick and stone houses and walls can greatly improve their defense capabilities.
The resolution was passed immediately. After dinner, Shao Shude and Ma Ganzu went to the agricultural team to ask for people. Although Jinkola was extremely reluctant, she knew the importance of the matter and had to let them go.
Shao Shude picked three people with experience in bricklayers, plus seven small workers, and went to choose a site for the kiln. The kiln was set on the south bank of the river because it was convenient to obtain soil. Ma Ganzu's mining team brought all the bricks, refractory powder and cement needed to build the kiln, and then left a group of people to help Shao Shude level the bottom of the kiln, and the rest continued to mine to the southwest. The mining team will operate in two shifts, one mining, and one holding a hunting crossbow to rest and be alert.
With the help of the mining team, the bottom of the kiln was flattened very quickly. Next, Shao Shude directed the workers to start mixing refractory slurry, and then personally lay the bottom of the kiln and build the walls with several masons. These tasks were not very heavy. In the evening, the bottom of the kiln and the fire pit had been laid, and the kiln walls were half completed. The next projects include kiln doors, kiln door tunnels, chimneys, flue, slope feeding outlets, suspended ceilings, etc. In addition, clay bricks and bricks were made to make shade dry sheds. This is not something that can be completed in a day or two, so you have to take it slowly.
The progress of the simple wooden house was very slow, and it took half a day to build five or six rooms. Qian Hao was so anxious that he could not keep up with the supply of boards. At present, the logging team had only a dozen tug-of-war and axes. In addition, there were many novices, so the logging speed always started, and the corresponding processing speed of the boards was restricted.
The cut branches, bark and corner wood are collected by women as fuel and stored. After all, a large amount of fuel is used to burn bricks next. If you use coal, everyone will feel distressed and will not agree. At present, there are only a few thousand tons of coal, and there are many places to use coal in the future. It is a little bit before there is no new source of coal. In addition, the woman also organized a collection team, a mowing team, etc. to do some work to collect food, firewood, etc.
When the last few rays of sunshine on October 8 were about to disappear on the horizon, hundreds of people scattered on both sides of the river began to pack things in an orderly manner. Due to the slow progress of the construction of simple wooden houses, most people can only live on boats. The logging farm and limestone mine on the south bank of the river will not be left to guard them, and labor tools will be stored in the brick kiln, and they will come to collect them when construction starts tomorrow. Two sheds were built on the side of the brick kiln, and a squad of the guard team stayed here to prevent anyone from destroying the brick yard. Lao Zhang's son Xiao Zhang led a wolf green dog named "Little Tiger" and strengthened the guard here. As for the north bank of the river, a squad of the guard team was also stationed, and the residence was several simple wooden houses built during the day. Lao Zhang led the wolf green dog "Huahua" to take charge.
"The logging team damaged two tug-of-war during the day." At the work summary meeting at night, Ma Wei introduced to everyone with a lot of pain. "Not only that, the logging team also suffered two arm strains, and they were probably going to have to recuperate for a while. Many people had bubbles on their hands, and tomorrow's logging progress would probably be slower." The logging team is in charge of Ma Wei. Ma Wei is used to heavy work in the steel mill. This work is really nothing to him. Unfortunately, he is a bunch of new players, and many of them are office otakus. When he first does these physical work, his performance is naturally not much better.
The following several members talked about their work in charge and coordinated with each other to exchange opinions. Peng Zhicheng and Wang Qinian were responsible for safety work, so naturally there was not much to talk about.
Xiao Bailang has been a fisherman for one day today, but unfortunately the fishing catch is limited. He is planning to go fishing in the upstream of the river tomorrow. Unfortunately, the other committee members were worried about safety issues and had to give up.
Ma Ganzu talked about the limestone mining today. He was also a group of novices and had serious experience. At present, he could only explore while mining. At the end, Shao Shude asked him to borrow a group of people.
Because from tomorrow on, Shao Shude will prepare bricks for burning bricks. After the bricks are made, they need to dry in the shade in the shade shed. According to the current weather in Uruguay, Shao Shude estimated that it would take half a month for the cloud to be buried in the kiln to burn, so he needs to prepare in advance.
Liu Weimin is in charge of logistics and agricultural work. Currently, agriculture is mainly led by Jin Kela, the captain of the agricultural team, so he doesn't have to worry about it. His main job in the near future is to bring a group of women's soldiers to collect firewood. Because according to Shao Shude's calculations, the small brick kiln currently under construction is burning bricks once. If it is calculated at 900-1,000℃ for 3-4 days, it takes about tens of thousands of kilograms of firewood. This is a very terrible number. The total number of weeds, branches, barks and other collected every day is less than one thousand kilograms. The small brick kiln is about a few days to complete. After completion, it will take about ten days to burn the first batch of bricks. The time is still quite tight.
Chapter completed!