Chapter 67 Construction Preparation

Yu Xiaotian then wrote down this matter and arranged someone to inform the people of the council, so that he began to purchase coal from the land in the near future, freeing up several large ships, specially used as coal carriers, and transporting a large amount of coal to freshwater. It is useless for the time being. Pull it back first, so as not to save a land official one day. The government turned against him and prohibited the land from exporting all kinds of raw materials to his sea wolf.

It's better to plan ahead. In addition to coal, the sea wolf currently relies most on iron and iron ore on land.

At present, through more than two years of efforts, he has established a supply network for purchasing iron materials on land, continuously absorbing iron materials from the land and transporting them to fresh water and Nanri Island for storage. At present, the reserve is quite large, at least enough for them to use for a year.

At present, they don't have much demand for iron ore. Seawolf casting cannons and guns are temporarily using raw and cooked iron directly purchased from land, which can be used directly. However, taking advantage of the opportunity, sea wolf still imported some iron ore and temporarily stored it and stacked it in a material yard near the freshwater wharf. In short, this thing will be willing to It can't be wasted. It's better to save raw materials than silver.

Although silver is a good thing, it is of little use for Xiaotian. It can only be used as a capital reserve. No matter how much it is deposited, it is of no use.

Therefore, he has always insisted on immediately purchasing the silver into various raw materials. Even if it is not needed, it must be stored first, especially some raw materials that are not self-sufficient at present, and it is also related to people's livelihood and war preparedness raw materials, which is the focus of procurement.

Among them, copper iron, saltpeter and sulfur are naturally the big ones, but at the same time, things such as sugar, cotton, cloth and grain are also the focus of sea wolves. As long as the price is right, they will buy them in large quantities and store them first.

Now there is a large area in Tamsui City, and many large warehouses have been built to store these production raw materials and living raw materials.

And the largest warehouse in the freshwater city is probably the grain depot. At present, even if it is fresh water and chicken cages, it is enough for them to support without a grain of grain a year.

However, this has also caused the sea wolf to work for so many years. In fact, not have much money been stored in the silver library, and the remaining silver is only used as a reserve, which is enough to feed the sea wolf for several months. The money earned has been replaced with various raw materials. .

At this point, Yu Xiaotian thinks that he has done a good job. At least he knows better than anyone that he should reserve useful things in advance, not silver, because once it is used, there are many times when there is silver that may not be bought, but he saves a lot of silver and becomes useless things.

The matter of road construction and canal repair was also put on the agenda at the same time as Xiaotian's order to carry out major sanitation. Yu Xiaotian personally selected some people who knew this matter, scattered them into various immigrant villages, began to plan ditches and road traffic, and drew a detailed picture with the help of this canal construction. Freshwater map, revise and supplement the original map.

Maps are a rare thing in this era. It takes considerable manpower and material resources to draw maps. Even so, without modern cartography and modern measurement tools, even maps drawn by masters are very rough and inaccurate.

But this kind of thing is not easy to solve for Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian only learned a little bit about modern cartography from the textbook, but after a long time, what he got from the teacher was basically returned to the teacher.

So he can only let his men draw the map with the current means as much as possible, but he only requires more detail and accuracy.

Yu Xiaotian sent an advance team to draw a map in the area of Tamsui before, and has obtained a more detailed local topographic map. However, after the completion of Danshui City, with the gradual expansion of the area of the settlement area and the continuous reclamation of the land, the original terrain here has changed more or less. .

In addition, the immigrant village is also constantly established like bamboo shoots, which requires updating, supplementing and modifying the original map to meet their needs.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to take advantage of this time's construction of water conservancy and road construction, and also update the map, send more investigation teams, investigate and search outside the immigration area, and draw a larger map to meet their needs for expansion here in the future.

Although this matter is easy to say, it is difficult to do. Nowadays, the immigration area of Tamsui City is quite large, and the terrain is relatively complex. This is not a plain area, but mostly hilly terrain. Moreover, there are many streams and hydropower resources in this area are relatively rich.

But even so, if the ditches and channels are not planned in advance, once the construction starts, the irrigation drainage ditches will not work, but may have a negative impact.

Therefore, the trend of the ditch also has the location of water diversion and drainage. It is necessary to make a special choice. In addition, we should at least have an understanding of the height of the terrain. Before construction, plan as much as possible to avoid too many mistakes. At that time, the ditch will be dug out, but the water cannot be introduced into the ditch. At that time, this work I did it for nothing.

Therefore, although Yu Xiaotian was anxious, he did not dare to rush to start work. Instead, he sent people to do this first, planned the channel road, and then began to organize construction.

As for construction manpower, Yu Xiaotian decided to dig ditches and use the labor of various immigrant villages on the spot. The specific organization is responsible for each township and village. The sea wolf is only responsible for providing certain tools to meet their needs. As for the problem of eating, it is borne by the immigrants themselves. Of course, there is no need for wages.

This is because Yu Xiaotian feels that it must be good for immigrants when they should be good, but they can't be spoiled, because water conservancy projects that directly benefit them. Once repaired, they are the first beneficiaries. With water conservancy ditches, their farmland can be watered in the dry season. They can also drain excess rainwater in the rainy season, so that they can get direct benefits from it.

So if all this kind of thing is still borne by the sea wolf, it is too much, so this water conservancy project requires immigrants from each village to work and contribute themselves. If necessary, the sea wolf can organize human and material resources to help.

Of course, for the immigrants who have just come here, there is no foothold, no harvest, and the food problem has not been solved. Naturally, the food supply will still be borne by the Sea Wolf Group. Otherwise, if the ditches are not dug out, these new immigrants will probably starve to death. No one will do this. Of.

However, Yu Xiaotian decided to undertake the road construction, because if immigrants are allowed to undertake road construction while digging ditches, the amount of work to be undertaken by immigrants is too large, and it is now during spring ploughing, and immigrants have to cultivate while carrying out water conservancy. If the road is repaired again, it may affect this year's harvest and seriously affect spring ploughing.

The road construction cannot be dragged to the idle time, because when digging ditches, it will inevitably stagger with the road, and digging ditches will take out a lot of earthwork, which can just be used to repair roads. If you miss it, you will have to use human and material resources twice in the future, which will It causes waste and loss of human and financial resources.

In addition, since ancient times, road construction has basically been organized and invested by local governments to complete. Only by the people themselves can build some rural roads or farmland. Like this kind of road network that connects the whole immigration area, and wants to be built by immigrants. However, it is not appropriate.

This is also a cost that sea wolves must pay, and this kind of investment will also recover costs for sea wolves. In the future, sea wolves will charge 30% of the food produced by the farmland of the pioneer villages as food to meet the needs of the sea wolves themselves, although the road benefits immigrants and makes it easy to travel. However, it is also beneficial for sea wolves to strengthen their ability to control their territory, and the road is a sharp weapon for them to effectively control these immigrant villages in the future.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to let the sea wolf be responsible for the road construction. In terms of labor, he mainly used the purchased slaves and the hard laborers of the original hard labor camp here.

For this kind of project that requires a lot of labor, the labor volume of road construction itself is very large, and the labor intensity is also very high. In addition, there are no modern engineering machinery available now. All of them have to rely on human and animal power to complete, and even the animal power is seriously insufficient. Spring ploughing takes up a large amount of cattle and animal power. Basically, it depends on manpower to complete it. In this way, it is inevitable that there will be some casualties. Immigration is the basis on Yu Xiaotian in the future and can not be consumed casually, but it is worthless for these hard laborers and slaves.

So during the period of sanitation and rectification, Yu Xiaotian also arranged the construction of canals and roads, so that the township leaders and villages could go down to start the preliminary mobilization work, and began to allocate tools to make various stone tools and vehicles for road construction.

Stones are easy to make. The most indispensable thing in Taiwan is stone, especially the marble reserves are extremely rich. Now Danshui City has its own quarry, and there are also many masons. It is not easy to carve dozens of such large stones.

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