Lu Ming

Chapter 226
The dead are gone, and the living are still busy.

Post-disaster reconstruction started immediately, and the number one task ahead of all work was dredging the river.

Due to torrential rain and mountain torrents, the entire Tainan Plain is now a shallow marsh, with continuous puddles everywhere, some of which have been connected into temporary lakes.And immediately after the typhoon, a large number of workers started to clean up the water with tools.

Water will attract mosquitoes, and when there are mosquitoes, malaria will appear.Therefore, digging canals to divert water and repairing river courses have become the top priority at the moment.The "Haidilao" No. [-] ship, which was busy in the Taijiang River, was also dispatched urgently, starting from the lower reaches of the Xingang River, and cleaning up the boulders and sediment that came with the mountain torrents along the way.

Of course, all of this is a palliative, not a permanent cure.The only way to change the drought and flood environment in a region is to build dams.

In the history of Tainan, it was not until the Japanese occupation period that Japanese engineer Yoichi Hatta designed and built the "Chianan Dazhen" series of water conservancy projects.And the core of this series is the Wutou Mountain Reservoir.

After the completion of the entire project, the Jianan Plain increased from the original 5000 hectares of paddy fields to 15 hectares.The irrigation area covered the three counties of Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan, and it was the largest water conservancy system in Southeast Asia at that time.

Water conservancy engineering is so attractive.Once the crossing forces also come up with such a project, how many immigrants can be supported by 15 hectares, or more than 200 million mu of rice fields?
However, this is of no use.

Historically, the Japanese began to introduce steam-powered machinery for large-scale civil engineering in 1920, including shovels, pressure water jets, and gravel transport vehicles; on this basis, it took seven years to complete a 3078 meters through the diversion tunnel connecting Wushanling to Zengwenxi.

And the current industrial strength of Transit is very deformed: it seems that there are high-tech, but the scale is generally small, and the entire industrial system is far from the scale of the Japanese back then, so it is impossible to build a dam.

The only way is to build a few small reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Xingang River for emergency. As for the large reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Zengwen River, the current crossing committees are beyond their capabilities.

The so-called destruction is ten thousand times easier than construction.

During the reconstruction period, tens of thousands of temporary scavengers vigorously started the dredging campaign.It was not until 5 days later that the surrounding silt and mud were cleaned up.

After the initial restoration of normal order, although a large number of workers began to return to the factory, the subsequent disaster reduction work is still busy.

The good thing is that today's time-traveling forces are no longer as short of people as they were when they first opened.Since colluding with the boss Xiong in Fuzhou, a certain force has operated through the Fuzhou station during this period of time. Under the default of the government, it has been operating immigration to Tainan, and the effect is quite good.

In the original history, there was a severe drought in Fujian in 1628, and there were many hungry people.With the support of Xiong Wencan, Zheng Zhilong "give three taels of silver to each person, and a cow to three people." In this way, tens of thousands of victims were fooled into going to Taiwan.In fact, Fujian doesn't have that many cows at all, and in the end it just pays some money to finish the job.

And the recruiting methods of the big officials are different from that of Lao Zheng.There is no silver or cattle here, but Dazuan has clean and beautiful affordable housing, abundant food, miraculous medical care, and ample job opportunities—any hungry person can find a stable development space here.

When the first batch of hungry people was "fooled" until the big staff started working, soon someone went back and brought the whole family out.Because there is a rule from the senior officials: single people live in dormitories, and couples with children can apply for a wooden house with zero down payment.The more children you have, the better you can apply, and all children go to school for free, and take out meals.

The power of example is powerful.

As word-of-mouth gradually spread among the cross-travelers, more and more hungry people came to seek refuge one after another.On the other hand, Fuzhou Railway Station is open to all visitors: anyone can come, even poor asses.Of course, the wool comes from the sheep, and all expenses, including boat fares and huts, will eventually be slowly deducted from the immigrants' wages.

This is the reason why a certain force's population has skyrocketed recently: a large number of unplanned Fujian immigrants began to enter Daguan one after another, coupled with the immigrants from Hangzhou, the local assimilated aborigines, the crossing crowd suddenly discovered overnight that the total population under their rule The number actually exceeded the 6 mark.

This is very reassuring. You must know that the total number of people in many small counties in ancient times was only a few thousand.

Now that the manpower is sufficient, many of the previous small-scale work can be carried out smoothly.Now Dayuan's industrial layout based on the troika of industry, mining, infrastructure, and agriculture has been formed. A large number of middle-aged laborers are gathered in these three industries. The whole society is thriving and prosperous.

After dredging the river, a large number of people began to maintain the residential quarters after the disaster.The most affected by this typhoon is the first batch of dormitories built by the people who traveled through.

Since the business had just started and there were insufficient resources in all aspects, the roof structure of the dormitories designed by Zheng Yangyang was a little weaker.As a result of the typhoon, the roofs of a large number of old dormitories with mortise and tenon structures were blown off, and a few collapsed, and all the people in the houses were drowned.

And this maintenance will solve all problems at once: the roof of the old dormitory will be reinstalled according to the roof structure of the new dormitory, the structure will be strengthened, and all hidden dangers will be eliminated.

With the increasing number of immigrants and the increasingly complex composition, the residential areas on the Chikan side have also made constant adjustments.From the 10-person dormitory in Yishui at the beginning to the 40-person dormitory in the later period, and then gradually evolved a large number of small households living alone, the evolution of society is obvious.

And this evolution is inseparable from industrial development.From the early manual tamping piles, to the later gas pile smashing machine, to the abandonment of the tenon and tenon structure, and the large-scale use of iron nails and wood screws to cross these simple-line dormitory buildings designed by the public, in fact, the internal technological content has been constantly changing. improved.

You know, if it weren't for the participation of more and more construction machinery and the "assembly" of these building block houses entirely by manpower, then the speed of construction of dormitories would definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of the influx of immigrants, let alone those specially designed for complete construction. Family-ready cottage for living alone.

Today's Chikan New District already has the appearance of those small residential towns of later generations: rows of small wooden buildings are divided into a flat chessboard by straight roads, and all communities are isolated by neat camphor trees along the road.On a clean and tidy road paved with gravel, a gas shuttle bus with a carriage is moving slowly, and it is full of workers with ruddy complexions, wearing linen T-shirts and cropped trousers.

The most lively place forever is naturally the Chikan Concrete Street with a width of 30 meters.The funny thing is that the width of this street was only 4 meters in the original design drawing. Later, when it was found that the situation was not good, the Chikan District Government urgently demolished several rows of simple dormitories and widened the street.

Of course, no one can be blamed for this.You must know that when the people across the Taijiang River crossed the Taijiang River for the first time, the opposite bank was still a barren land full of weeds and mosquitoes; the designer originally planned this land according to the scale of a small town in the western United States, so the road is naturally less than wide. where to go.

Immigrants who will soon become "imperial people" from the Dayuan people, the happiest thing now is to go shopping and shopping on Chikan Avenue after get off work at night.

Chihkan Avenue at night is like the pedestrian street of the later generations. The street is full of bright street lights, various government-run shops and barbecue stalls, and a large number of people wander here.

Generally speaking, the most popular people on the avenue are those awesome characters with girlfriends. They can seduce a small number of girls from textile factories and fire hat factories to go shopping, even if they seduce a Japanese girl, this kind of person It is also a bully.

As for those dicks who can't make a fart with three sticks, are honest and honest, and haven't adapted to the unrestrained management style of Chuanzhong, they can only swallow their saliva and watch eagerly as the pigs with cabbage take out their work points tickets to invite girls to eat roasted stones Spotted fish.However, apart from cursing a few words that this guy will go bankrupt and eat big cakes tomorrow, they have no better way - anyone who dares to make trouble will be arrested and sent to log.

It is not easy to open a store on Chikan Avenue.Because the current commercial structure of the crossover is not free trade in essence, but a model of unified purchase and sales with extremely strict control.

All the people under the rule of Time Traveling, in terms of nature, they are somewhat similar to the state-owned enterprise workers: work and life are arranged by the upper class, and these people do not have many choices.

And the current business model of Transit is also very unique: the industrial products in the kiln area base, except for those cost-effective goods listed on the export list, the production of other daily necessities is not large, and the quantity is just enough for local people to consume. can.

The advantage of this model is that it takes into account both foreign exchange earnings from commodity exports and the accumulation of local industries.But there are also disadvantages: the private economy is temporarily suppressed.

That is to say, if a wealthy businessman from the Ming Dynasty intends to buy a government-run store on Chikan Street to open a grocery store, he will find that there are no local products to enter—all the groceries are directly distributed to various government-run stores. his share.He also couldn't buy such pretty items as kerosene lamps, because they were all prepared for big forces like the Dutch.

No way, in the extremely slow social environment of the 17th century, the people across the world could not get various industrial raw materials in large quantities, so they could only use this method to overcome the bottleneck period.

Of course, as the situation in Zhejiang and Fujian slowly unfolds, and with the continuous delivery of large-tonnage cargo ships from the Dayuan Shipyard, this tight unified purchase and sales situation will soon be produced by the kiln area. disintegrated.At that time, I am afraid that the people who travel through the sea will tie up some wealthy businessmen to revitalize the economy.

(End of this chapter)