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Chapter 181 Railway Construction Site (Third Update, Please Subscribe)
It is not easy to expand thousands of miles.

But more importantly, hold on to the land!
In fact, even as the king of Araucania and Patagonia, Zhu Xianhai nominally owns a large area of ​​land including the Pampas grassland, but in fact, the actual control area is only the area around Nanhua. An area of ​​[-] kilometers and several fortresses near the North River, and then the city of Linhai in Araucania.

Without him, underpopulation cannot be effectively controlled in practice.

In order to form effective control, in addition to population, transportation is also extremely important.With a railway planning map obtained from the system, on April 1862, 4, the first railway in Nanhua was laid and started construction!In the ensuing months, tens of thousands of laborers went to the construction site.

With the sound of horseshoes trampling down on the grassland, dozens of cavalrymen came from a distance on horses, and the cavalry escorted by the cavalry was none other than Zhu Xianhai. As usual, he was wearing a green military uniform.

In front of him is a busy construction site.

There are about five or six hundred people on this construction site, and all of these laborers live in tents without exception. Among them are new immigrants registered in the education camp, as well as "old immigrants" who have left the new education camp. However, in On this construction site, there is no difference in the work they do. It is nothing more than a monthly allowance of 2 yuan for new immigrants, while the monthly salary of 6 yuan for old immigrants.

Other than that, there is no difference in what they eat. No matter if they are from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, or Anhui, they are all devouring stick noodles and steamed buns.As for rice, it is definitely not available here, if you are not used to it, you have to get used to it, or you will not eat.The laborers are almost all grouped together in one group. On the construction site under militarized management, there will never be such things as fellow villagers getting together. They are all based on shifts and platoons as a unit, eating and resting.While they were eating, the squad leaders were still shouting:
"Hurry up and eat, you have to work when you're full! The emperor ordered that the railway must be laid to Neuquen before the end of the year, otherwise there will be no good fruit for anyone!"

Hearing the threatening words of the squad leaders, Mr. Zhu showed a wry smile on his face. He is the "emperor" in the mouth of the squad leaders. Now his status as the "king" is no longer a secret. From the eyes of the Chinese people, the king!Definitely the emperor.

Of course, his wry smile was not because of the heavy errands borne by the laborers. In fact, the section from Nanhua to Neuquén was basically on the grasslands, and there was no need to climb mountains and ridges, just leveling the land and tamping the foundation.

Where is the real difficulty?After passing Neuquen, we entered the Andes Mountains, which is the most difficult road!
Build a railway from Nanhua to Linhai City on the Pacific coast!
Must be completed within 1864!

This railway is not only responsible for immigration, it is also the second line of defense in the north of Nanhua.

Railways can not only run trains, but also run armored trains. It is not realistic to create a bunch of steam tanks on the battlefield, but there is no problem with dozens of armored trains. Having armored trains is equivalent to having mobile fortresses one by one. , They are combined with Beihe Fortress to form a complete defense system. No one in this era can break through this defense system!

It is precisely because of this that extra requirements are put forward for the construction period.

But if it can't be completed on time, what can Zhu Xianhai, who is called "the emperor's father" by the team leaders, do with these miserable laborers?
At most, the battalion commanders of the battalions were unlucky.

Different from the construction of this era, in order to speed up the construction progress, Zhu Xianhai deliberately chose the "segmented construction" technology of later generations, that is, to divide the thousand-kilometer railway from Nanhua to Neuquén into 20 sections, each with a battalion. Through the simultaneous construction of 20 sections to speed up the progress of railway construction!

The quality of the railway in this year is definitely not comparable to that of later generations, so the construction is also fast. If everything goes well, the railway will definitely be repaired to Neuquén by the end of the year, but this is only the completion of the roadbed, and it will take some time to lay the rails.

Just as Zhu Xianhai and his party were leading the horses and walking on the construction site, the horn for work over there sounded, and the laborers hurriedly carried their tools and continued to work.

When the workers were busy building the roadbed, a middle-aged man in cloth clothes and glasses was next to the roadbed, holding an abacus from time to time, as if he was calculating something, when he was calculating the result, there was another The company commander in a blue long-sleeved shirt trotted over.

"The progress of the third company fell behind by 5% yesterday, and it must be completed today, otherwise, the meat meal for the third company will be cancelled."

The man didn't question the supervisor's order, and there was no need to question it. On a militarized construction site, it was necessary to complete the work on time, otherwise it would be military law!

That's going to kill your head!

Even if the head is lost, if the punishment is downgraded, the salary will be greatly reduced.For those who finally put flowers on their collar badges, who would be willing to be downgraded?Company commander, size is also an officer!An official who can manage hundreds of people!

Looking at the scene where the supervisor assigned tasks to each company from a distance, Zhu Xianhai nodded slightly. Now these people are almost used to militarized management.

This is a good thing!
Get used to it!

The railway construction site is the best place for militarized management. Workers here adapt to collective life and accept militarized management. Once they get used to it, they will naturally not contradict Nanhua's militarization of the whole people in the future.

It took more than ten minutes to assign the work of the day to the four companies. Hu Xueyan was about to go to the foreign technician and asked him to check the route. When he turned around, he saw the cavalry coming.So he took the initiative to step forward and said enthusiastically.

"Military masters, the journey is safe and sound, but you want to rest on the construction site?"

There are no settlements on the grassland itself, at most there are only a few Mapuche tribes. It is normal for cavalry to train or mobilize on the grassland, and to rest on the construction site.

But as soon as the words fell, Hu Xueyan discovered that these people were not cavalry, because the leading youth did not have a flower title on his collar badge.

Young man, no flower title...

In an instant, Hu Xueyan recognized the identity of this master—it must be the "emperor" in the people's mouth, and the "lord" in the high-level mouth, so he hurriedly bowed his hands and changed his bow.

"Oh, little Hu Xueyan has met the lord, please greet the lord!"

Zhu Xianhai's identity in Nanhua is quite complicated, because the identity of the king is called "the emperor", but he is also called "the lord" by the company's senior management, while foreigners call him "the boss". The complicated identity actually depends on the title. Who is the object of.

The reason why Hu Xueyan called "the lord" was simply to exalt his status - after all, this title is tantamount to calling himself a "subject".
Hu Xueyan!
The name sounds familiar!
Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, Zhu Xianhai asked about the progress of the project, and Hu Xueyan naturally reported it truthfully. After listening to his report, Zhu Xianhai said.

"The progress is not bad. As long as the progress is maintained, the foundation construction can be completed by the end of the year. It should be no problem to strive for the opening to traffic in the first half of next year. By the way..."

Nodding slightly, Zhu Xianhai asked casually.

"Where is your ancestral home?"

Hu Xueyan quickly replied.

"Return to the Lord's words, Jixi, Huizhou, Anhui."

(End of this chapter)