After seeing the two of them off, Li Fushou saw that it was getting late, so he got up and walked towards the backyard.

Back room

There was no wind in the inner room with heavy curtains, and there was a faint smell of sandalwood. Mrs. Gu Liuyan was cushioned with a brocade cushion behind her. She was leaning against the bed and talking to Mrs. Tian (Tianniuer) and Mrs. Qin (Shiqin) who were visiting her. She heard the sound of her footsteps and turned around to look at her.

Seeing the master come in, Mrs. Tian and Mrs. Qin hurriedly stood up to salute, and gave them a blessing.

"No need to be polite, I'll see my wife." Li Fushou walked to the bed and sat down, and asked softly; "I looked good today, but I heard the news about my hometown?"

"You can't hide anything from the master." Gu Liuyan's beautiful face radiated the charming luster of a young woman. She smiled gently and told the wet nurse. "Take the master to show it to the master. It's a coincidence that the master came today. I was tired of sleeping just now when I was playing."

The wet nurse brought the young master as she said, which was very different from the one she had just given birth a few days ago. She was so cute that she was sleeping with her eyes closed.

Looking at these eyebrows, they looked very much like Li Fushou.

The family sat together and chatted softly, and the warm atmosphere lingered on the side. This moment was particularly beautiful.

Shangri-La Island, Qingshui River Basin

Entering the wide Qingshui River from the Coral Sea, the vast river in Qingshui River is about 40 kilometers away, and two cargo ships anchored along the river bank. Two 280-ton sailboats are traveling between the anchorage and the wooden trest on the shore, transporting various supplies.

It's already early October

It has been ten days since the Tuolian fleet arrived in Tianshu Town under the planned capacity. A simple wooden trest bridge of more than 200 meters was initially formed and went straight into the depths of the river berth. The construction coolies are expanding to both sides, punching one sharpened log after another into the mud of the riverbed. The logs are connected with thick channel steel, and then thick wooden boards are laid on it, finally forming a "t"-shaped wooden dock.

This work mainly involves the construction of Dutch prisoners. They stood on the wooden frame around the logs. Seven or eight people were shirtlessly carrying large hammers weighing up to 500 pounds, shouting the horn of labor, and smashing the sharpened logs one after another, smashing the logs deep into the silt on the shore.

There are large charred marks left on the shore of setting fires. A circle of fences are surrounded on the cleared open space, rows of neat tents are arranged, and one stilt building after another is under construction, and the outline of the town is emerging.

In the camp

Under the simple wooden shed, more than 20 large stoves were built. The stove was burning well. The churning broth, steamed buns and steamed rice were cooked in a large iron pot. The aroma of the rice was dispersed from afar, attracting mouth-watering.

On the planned Tianshu Town site

After a large-scale burning here, all the branches and leaves of the bushes turned into thick black ashes, and towering trees were cut down. The Dutch coolies dug out one tree after another, dragged them away with tractors, and cleaned up the site.

The tractor team then came on the field and towed the land deep into it with a rotary tiller. After the fertile land with a smell of mud was deeply turned, it lost moisture and became dry after exposure to the sun. Then it was broken and compacted with a machine, and added a layer of coal ash powder layer to compact it, and then it became a solid town site.

On this basis

Use white lime to outline the areas, divide the core commercial areas, administrative areas, residential areas, greening areas, dock storage areas, cultural and entertainment areas and industrial areas, and then build them one by one according to the planning blueprint.

Since there is no funding to build a complete drainage facility, instead digging open drainage ditches along the street direction, it not only saves money but also has good results.

One big tree after another in the forest in the distance was cut down, and was transported to the wood yard by a tractor after cutting off the branches and leaves. The wood yard is now piled like hills, and the disk saw connected to the diesel engine made a harsh squeal, and the round wood was opened into wooden boards and strips of different sizes for building a house bridge.

The army's camp is on the edge of the forest in the distance. They have sent armed soldiers to follow the exploration team to explore further places. In this rarely visited area, everything must be planned and built from scratch.

Shangri-La Chief Manager Wu Xuewen and a group of people stood on the town site, pointing at the large-scale planning blueprint to solve specific problems in construction.

"Logistics team, what is the situation with our labor and machinery arrangements now?"

“Report to the Chief Executive;

Today, Xingji has arrived in total 3,110 colonial team members, 1,621 prisoners from the Netherlands, 482 armed guards, 37 tractors, six trays, 71 mules and horses, and several livestock and poultry.

In terms of manpower distribution;

The dock construction team used a total of 720 Dutch prisoners, including 320 coolies responsible for driving logs into the riverbed, divided into eight groups, each group of forty people. Each time, 8 to 10 people worked together to use a 500-pound hammer and replaced shifts in turn. In addition to eating and sleeping, the progress is quite good.

There are 66 coolies responsible for the connection of thickened channels, divided into two groups, one on the left and one on the right, and the other on the right, and 80 coolies responsible for laying thick plates on the wharf, more than 200 coolies responsible for transporting wood, more than 11 cooks cooking, more than 20 foremen captured, and more than 30 seriously ill patients have been isolated and resettled.

There were more than 1,300 people in the forest logging team, including 400 Dutch coolies.

There were about a thousand people in the leveling team, mainly members of the tractor team, and 500 Dutch coolies were used.

Our manpower is mainly concentrated on the wooden house construction team. Currently, 72 stilt buildings have been started at the same time, which accounts for more than 1,400 people. In addition, there are sawmills, large kitchens and two sailboats to transport supplies.

Oh... By the way, we also sent 4 survey teams to a total of about 80 people, and the military also sent two platoons of troops to protect them."

After listening to the report, Wu Xuewen held his hand in front of his chest and thought for a while, and asked, "How many days will it take to build a dock?"

"It will take about three weeks to report to the chief executive according to the current construction progress."

"Can you speed up the progress by drawing more staff?"

"I'm afraid not, because the working surface of the dock expanding to both sides is so wide. Now it is expanding to both sides at the same time. The four groups on each side are the maximum. There is no place to stand when more people go up, which is in the way."

"Since that's the case, let's keep the current situation." Wu Xuewenming knew what his subordinates said made sense. In the current situation of complete manpower construction, the speed of dock construction is no longer slow.

The development of new towns in the Red River Valley has formed a complete set of methods and methods, which have been proven to be very efficient in practice.

The problem is that the first batch of immigrants will arrive in the near future. Several nearby rivers urgently need to build bridges to facilitate personnel and tractors to get in and out, otherwise the progress of land reclamation will inevitably be affected.

Although these rivers are not wide, the water flows fast and the riverbed is relatively deep. Without building bridges, you cannot advance to the deeper wasteland.

If it really doesn't work, I can only suspend the construction of one dock and draw up coolies to build several urgently needed bridges to meet the current urgent needs.

After his plan was settled, Wu Xuewen asked again, "How is the progress of the wooden house construction team now?"

“Report to the Chief Executive;

Our wooden house construction team is building a total of 72 stilt houses with up and down specifications and more than 300 auxiliary rooms. It is planned to be completed within ten days.

If the speed of the wood drying kiln can keep up, the second batch of single-story stilt buildings will be much faster. It is planned to start construction of 160 buildings, and nine to ten workers will participate in the construction of each building, and it will be built in two weeks."

Seeing the stern look of the general manager, the person in charge of the sawmill's timber drying kiln shrank his neck and replied helplessly. "Reported to the general manager, we have built 6 timber drying kilns and are doing everything we can to increase the supply of wood. The boards are better. The most troublesome thing is the square material used as the load-bearing foundation. Because the square material is thick and the baking time is long, it usually takes 2 to 3 baking times to be out of the kiln. This process cannot be urgent, otherwise the high temperature will cause warping of the square material, cracking deformation and other problems."

"Then why haven't you actively found ways to solve the production bottleneck?" Wu Xuewen was not easy to fool and asked sternly.

"Reporting to the main manager, we are building two new wood drying kilns. The problem now is that there is a lack of high-power blowers and the power of the diesel generator is insufficient. Our application report was submitted two days ago, but no one knows when the new equipment will arrive. We recommend that you saw the too thick square material in half. This will greatly improve the efficiency of drying and basically meet the construction needs. However, they are unwilling to do so in the wooden house construction team." The person in charge hurriedly explained.

Seeing the ball kicked back, the head of the wooden house construction team suddenly became anxious; "There is no such reason. Why did a good big wood break in half just now? In this way, we cannot guarantee the strength of the ring beam. There is also the wooden pillars that are subjected to force from top to bottom. Can two small pieces of material have a large piece of material that is strong? You are just ruling out the responsibility, but we are responsible for the quality of the wooden house we built..."

"Okay, stop arguing..."

They were very angry. Seeing that the two were about to start arguing on the spot, Wu Xuewen immediately stopped him, otherwise the argument would be endless and time would be delayed, and no problem would be solved.

Faced with the supply and demand contradiction, Wu Xuewen thought for a while and said, "The material bottleneck problem of wood air-dried kilns must be solved, otherwise it will drag the entire house construction work.

In this way, the large wooden square used for the bearing capacity of the pillars still maintains the complete drying process, which is not enough to save time. As for the ring beam part, you can dry it in half, and then connect it with a wooden tenon after the drying is finished, and add a few more iron hoops, which will not affect the use or strength, and can also increase the yield of the wood air-dried kiln.

The timber factory will hurry up and launch a new drying kiln. You can use manpower before the mechanical blower is in place. People can't let the urine die. Then you can just allocate a hundred white-haired coolies. Two drying kilns are not enough, so at least 6 more drying kilns must be built.

I'll give you three weeks to the timber factory, and you must do it all for me, otherwise you can ask."

"As for the low-level duties, the timber factory will never hold back."

"The construction team follows the orders of the adults."

Since Wu Xuewen made a decision, the two people in charge who looked like cross-eyed just now bowed to accept the order, and neither of them had the courage to contradict the chief executive.

In fact, these are all contradictions arising from the hot construction. If the timber factory wants more equipment, the construction team is simply afraid of trouble.

Saw the big wooden square in half, then use a wooden tenon to reinforce it after drying it. How much labor will be wasted?

Not only does it divert valuable manpower, but it also greatly increases the workload of the house construction team. This is not 10, 8 large woods, and hundreds of them are often used to calculate. It makes people feel numb when they think about it, and it is inevitable that they are afraid of difficulties.
Chapter completed!