Lu Ming

Chapter 95 Dredging Newport Creek

The morning sun rises in the east, illuminating the earth, and it is a fine weather again.This bare rotten land by the Xingang River finally ushered in large-scale development today.

The flow of people rolled in from the direction of Chikan. These people brought various tools and came to the planned kiln area base. They divided into several groups and started busy.

Tainan's climate is dry and wet, with 80% of the year's rainfall concentrated in summer, so the local rivers experience high and low seasons as well.

It is already November, standing on the river bank with a height of 11 meters, washed out by summer floods, and can clearly see the Xingang River flowing slowly below.The stream surface is only more than 4 meters wide at this time, and there is a riverbed span of more than 10 meters from each of the river banks on both sides. This can be clearly calculated: Xingang Stream can easily exceed the width of 10 meters when the flood is rushing in summer.

A large number of laborers found two gaps from the river bank at this time. Most of them went directly to the river bank. A small number of people took shovels and pickaxes and built the two gaps out of the soil steps to facilitate getting up and down.

Someone was already installing the boom on the shore, and one end of the metal boom painted in the opposite color was sticking out of the river bank, and a chain hoist was installed at the head.

For the first time, a large number of human activities have appeared on the primitive and messy riverbed that has existed since ancient times.

All the stones were picked up and put into baskets, whether they were pebbles washed away over the years or large chunks of rock that had only arrived with flooding in recent years.The basket was picked under the river bank, and then tied to the iron hook extended from the chain hoist. When a bamboo whistle sounded, a few people shouted and pulled the bamboo basket full of stones ashore.

Handling of wood is more difficult.After the flood, there were many big trees rushing from the upper stream scattered across the riverbed and the stream, and some of the big trees became natural bridges connecting the two banks.Although the location of bridges changes every year, as long as you walk upstream and downstream, you can always find such natural bridges.

People first used axes and short saws to remove the miscellaneous branches on the big wood, and then according to the length of the tree, they organized their manpower and made concerted efforts to carry the logs back to the shore, shouting chants.

The original river of the 17th century, with dense shoals.At the moment, the Crossroads are not capable of fully dredging the Xingang Stream, but the stream near the south bank must be dredged.For the shoals of sandbars south of the central waterway, temporary dams will be built to dig out drainage channels, and the sand will be dug away to build houses and pave the way.

The above work will continue downstream until Xingang Creek exits the sea.The lagoon near the sea outlet will also be renovated according to the situation.

In short, the ultimate goal of crossing the public is: a small boat loaded with building materials starts from the base of the kiln area, goes out to the sea along the Xingang River, and then circles along the string of sandbars in the outer sea, enters through the Dayuan channel, and then crosses the sea. Crossing the Taijiang Inland Sea, unloading the goods to Chikan Wharf.

This is the logistics solution designed by the Ministry of Infrastructure.

You must know that the base of the kiln area is in the middle reaches of Xingang River, and the straight-line distance from Chikan New Area is more than 3.5 kilometers.There is no Cummins and no asphalt roads at the moment. If the building materials produced in the kiln area go overland, the efficiency will be horribly slow.

A laborer carrying a burden or pushing a cart can only deliver a maximum of several hundred kilograms of goods to the field after a half-dead exhaustion.A small boat, with two or three boatmen, can deliver two or three tons of cargo by whistling. It seems like a long way to go, but in fact, water transportation is a big advantage.

The only thing that needs special arrangement is to arrange some trackers at Xingang Xikou. Sometimes when the wind direction is not suitable, the trackers will pull the boat back to the kiln area.The boats on the return journey are all empty, and they don’t need a few trackers, so they probably won’t show that kind of bitterness and hatred in their eyes; what’s more, in the plan of Chuanzhong, all laborers must be paid, and they are nothing more than foreigners. Labor does not have three insurances and one housing fund.

This is how the vigorous construction of the kiln area began.

Chen Dong was wearing denim overalls and was standing on the riverbank. At this moment, he lifted the net cover on his head and silently watched the busy workers on the riverbed.

"The progress of the project is still good, why do you have such a long face?" asked Feng Guanjie, who was also wearing a bamboo hat and dressed as a Dragon Inn.

"Hey, the progress is good, but I'm afraid it won't last!" Chen Dong said with a frown.

"You mean malaria?" Feng Guanjie reacted: "Didn't you already order the stagnant water to be buried first?"

"Aren't people dead when filling the pit?" Chen Dong pouted.

Feng Guanjie smiled and said, "There's no way to do that. There's no way that people can't be killed in engineering. We don't even have enough labor protection clothing now, and we have to build a river in the 17th century. Hehe, just thinking about it is exciting."

"Sigh" Chen Dong sighed: "This death will definitely affect the progress, and the malaria medicine will not be approved?"

"Cut" this time, it was Feng Guanjie's turn to curl his lips: "Don't look at what's going on in the forum. Right now, it's just a small reserve of samples. If it is used on a large scale, Bai Shuchao will first disagree. This thing is resistant to drugs!"

"Besides, who will use it and who won't use it?" Feng Guanjie shook his head: "Climbing up the chemical technology tree honestly is the right way, and the rest are only temporary solutions."

"Well, that's the only way to do it." Chen Dong nodded: "Let me know, the cleaning of the river will be carried out by foreign workers in the future. The upstream must be cleaned at least 5 kilometers, and the downstream to the sea outlet. In addition, the drying kiln should be covered first. "

The drying kiln is the most urgently needed building at the moment, and it is also one of the simpler ones among many material kilns: when the wood is dried, the temperature in the kiln usually does not exceed 80 degrees, which is less than that of other kilns that start at more than 1000 degrees. Refractory bricks are required, and construction requirements are also low.

Long-dragon-shaped drying kilns are built with pebbles, river sand, and precious stock cement.The first drying kiln built by Chuanzhong, in order to save materials, is only 2.5 meters high, 3 meters wide, and 20 meters long.

To this end, Cao Chuan also made a special trip to the later generations and brought two sets of atmospheric pressure boilers and some pipes.The belly of the boiler is filled with all kinds of accessories, many of which will be used in other projects in the future, including the pipes are stuffed with small parts.

The 2-meter-high, cylindrical atmospheric pressure boiler is installed in the middle of the outside of the kiln body. The boiler and the kiln body are connected by pipes, and a shed is built hastily on the top of the head.

The pipes that go in include air inlet pipes and return air pipes. The pipes are installed above the kiln body and parallel to the kiln.The hot air inlet duct is connected to the boiler outlet, and the return air duct leads to the fan.The roof of the kiln is equipped with a dehumidification window and an axial flow fan.At present, because there is no electricity, all the places where fans are needed are manually operated.

It took 5 days to install and debug all the drying kilns.In view of the fact that this project is too small, although it has some commemorative significance, the big bosses basically did not come on the day of the ignition. After a simple small ceremony, the boss of the Ministry of Industry, Comrade Zou Guoqing, who has been tucked in his tail for a while, smiled all over his face. A lit matchstick was thrown into the boiler hearth.

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