Lu Ming

Chapter 82 Sub-base

That night, Mr. Cao was parked in a small private room specially prepared for him next to the office. Many people in the company took turns to visit him. Everyone solemnly and silently greeted him at the door. CEO Xia stood at the door and kept talking softly. Say to everyone, "Let him rest, he's too tired."

Well, the originally planned more grand ideological seminar was forced to be postponed because the mascot fell down, and the retreat is over, so we can only be pragmatic first.

Across the Taijiang River.After this week of mindless burning and the loss of more than a dozen European lives, at least as far as the eye can see, there is no more terrifying lush vegetation.Weeds and shrubs are the natural invisibility of indigenous people, and they are also natural hotels for mosquitoes and various insects and parasites.

The open land with a burnt scent is the best barrier for outsiders, just like the rotten land of the undead.

So many people couldn't have died.However, when the burning of the wasteland penetrated 10 kilometers inland, the fire mages began to be frequently pierced by the natives - the nearest village was not far away, and the natives did not want to be smoked into bacon.

A large number of people were busy on the other side of the Taijiang River at this time.In the future, the Dutch will build the commercial street and the Chikan Tower, the center of their rule.This place is across the river from the Dayuan Business Hall. The aborigines of Chikan Society have long been driven inland by pirates and the Dutch. Now, the Banda people and their original owner: Hongmao are busy on this hot land.

All the laborers are doing the same thing right now: leveling the land.Some small soil packs with an altitude of only three or five meters were shoveled out, and the soil was taken to fill puddles, pits, and some small lagoons.The plan of the traveler is much grander than that of the Dutch: with Chikan City as the center, there are residential areas, dock areas, and commercial areas.The flat Jianan Plain makes the design drawings very easy to draw. The natural and large streams have already divided the blocks, and only a little adjustment is needed, and it is a piece of land that can be photographed.

Feng Guanjie is in charge of the project here, and he designed the drawings of Chikan Town himself.The two sand ships that entered the port yesterday brought 150 Mingren employees and 30 traversers. The strength of the company has been greatly strengthened overnight. The traversing forces that have been nesting in Dayuan Island and dare not make big moves can't wait to divide them today. Manpower to build sub-bases.

2.5 kilometers north of Chikan New District is Xingang Stream.With Xingang Stream as the boundary, the south bank is now bare and covered with ash of grass and ash, while the north bank still retains its original appearance.

Headed by Xia Xianze, more than 20 people from the infrastructure and industrial departments have all gathered on a mound on the south bank of the Xingang River to make gestures and give pointers.

Apart from the shovel and dirt, the Traversing Congregation can be called nothing at the moment.To compete for hegemony, it is necessary to engage in industry, and the pre-requisite to engage in industry is infrastructure, but the company does not even have qualified building materials.

Everyone came here to step on the spot today because the plan of the kiln area that Chen Dong took out was designated here.Of course, the drawings of the kiln area are all kilns: wood drying kilns, brick kilns, cement kilns, charcoal kilns, dry distillation kilns.
The kiln area has a lot of dust and must have industrial facilities. These all require water, so it must be built by the fresh water river.The lower reaches of Xingang River are often flooded by seawater, and it is not very suitable for industry - this stream will be called Yanshui River in later generations.

However, the control range of the traversal force can't reach any further places at the moment. Even the land under the feet is requisitioned by the company because of its own words. Therefore, Zeng Wenxi, who is farther away, doesn't need to be considered. Move the site to the upper reaches of Xingang Creek, where everyone is standing now.

"If there's no problem, then let's do it. First, burn some bricks to build a house. There is really no room for people inside and outside the business hall. The shanty towns urgently need to be demolished." After everyone discussed the location, Xia Xianze finally made a decision.

"Boss, it's not a layman." Chen Dong said with a smile.

"Oh?"

"All the houses in Chikan New District, except for the castle, will be made of bamboo and wood in the future. So the top priority should be the drying kiln and wood processing factory." Chen Dong pointed at the tofu blocks on the blueprint with his hand, While giving the boss science.

"Brick kilns require a lot of manpower and equipment to operate, and we don't have that right now. If there is a brick making machine, is there no electricity for the time being? When you make a kiln brick by hand, my bamboo and wood dormitory has already been built. Community!"

"Oh, is that so? Is Zhumu's dormitory reliable?"

"Please, you are discriminating against the coastal people. They have lived in bamboo and wooden houses for thousands of years. By the way, the American imperial people also protested!" Chen Dong despised.

"Bah, when the typhoon comes, it's like building blocks. Don't think I'm a layman. I've done real estate before, okay?"

Chen Dong rolled his eyes and looked like he was going to fart: "North America is draughty, and it's called a hurricane, and the Ali Mountains are behind us. Is it that exaggerated? According to you, the natives have long been blown to Fujian. No wonder the real estate company crossed, cut." Someone muttered the last sentence in a low voice.

Xia Xianze looked left and right at the other people in the Infrastructure Department, and found that all of these people were watching the sea with birds, smiling, knowing that he had probably made a mistake, and quickly changed the subject: "What about the power? Don't you want to burn the kiln? , making bricks, where does the steam come from? Where's the coal? Where's the electricity?"

When Xia Xianze asked such a question, Chen Dong couldn't bear it - he was engaged in civil construction, and his understanding of the prime mover was to connect a wire from a telephone pole at the village head, or to start a diesel engine.
Burning the wasteland made everyone at least no longer need to cover their faces with gauze, so today, many people in the crossing crowd were smoking cigarettes.After talking about motivation, everyone unanimously focused their attention on a group of people who were squatting on the side and gathered to smoke.

Comrade Zou Guoqing has been waiting for this moment for a long time!

Since they came to the top, these bastards have not treated the engineering brethren as human beings: what is night shift, watching prisoners, helping the cook, anyway, the hard work is all engineering dogs.No way, who let the industry have nothing to do?
Can't play without a professional now?
Hehe, Zou Guoqing knew that Xia Xianze was staring at him, but he just pretended not to know, crouched on the ground with a cigarette in his mouth and made a gesture of respect, very sweet.

"Zou Guoqing! What are you making a fuss about? You were the one who fooled everyone to Taiwan at the beginning, so what is the motivation for you to wash your feet?"

Zou Guoqing got up and gave a standard fake military salute: "Give me the Yuandou number, and tomorrow the people from the Ministry of Industry will go to dig for oil, and the results will be seen within two months. Boss, I will write a military order to you on the spot!"

"Dig a fart, is it in a hurry? Don't talk nonsense, talk about what to do now." Xia Xianze's tone softened.

Zou Guoqing clapped his hands and shrugged his shoulders: "What else can I do? Burn firewood."

(End of this chapter)