Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 259 Entering Baoshan

In order to save time, the expedition team was divided into two teams again. One team was led by Wang Luobin to inspect the mine in Tiandu, and the other team was led by Chen Haiyang to build Yulin Fort locally.

Finding Tiandu is much easier than Shilu.As long as you go up the Tiandu River, you can find Huangniling. The famous Tiandu Iron Mine is on this mountain.

The expedition team took a rowboat and continued up the long and narrow bay. On both sides of the river were continuous mountains covered with dense vegetation. Some people had been here in another time and space, and they searched hard for the familiar scenery.

"We should roughly follow the route of G224." Wang Luobin looked at the map, "Maybe we only need to walk 2 kilometers to get there."

At noon on April 2th, the Tiandu expedition team successfully found the mouth of the Tiandu River. According to the map, it was not far from Daan.In the past, it was only a few kilometers away from Tiandu Town in later generations.However, Tiandu Town itself is not the location of the Tiandu Iron Mine. The iron mine is about 3 to [-] kilometers away from the town.

The expedition team abandoned the boat and landed here, and went up the river. The valley is surrounded by dense primitive tropical rainforest. village.Wang Luobin stopped for a long time with the map and the north needle, and then announced that this is Tiandu Town.

"Tian Du Iron Mine is still a few kilometers ahead, everyone, come on."

Following Wang Luobin's encouragement, the group continued to go up the river, and the road beside the river was very difficult to walk.There are many kinds of snakes, insects and leeches here, and all kinds of flying insects are like weaving. Fortunately, everyone is equipped with a full set of tropical equipment as required, mosquito net hats, tropical training uniforms that cover the whole body, especially the openings of the clothes. The leaching of leeches, especially the appearance of rows of dry leeches clinging to the branches and leaves when walking near some wetlands, "stand up to greet" people collectively, makes people get goosebumps.

"Check your cuffs and trousers!" Liu Zheng gave instructions.

After crossing the river valley, Wang Luobin asked everyone to rest and shake off the leeches on the clothes and equipment.Check again for a winning bid.Fortunately, the defensive measures were in place. Although the leeches worked hard, the best result was just getting their heads into the outer layer of the canvas.However, seeing the messy leech corpses all over the ground, Wang Luobin also felt that it might not be so simple to develop Tiandu.

"I don't know whether it will work or not to fight pesticides on a large scale."

"No need for pesticides." Liu Zheng observed the twisting dead bugs, "Changing the ecological environment here can kill it. It's too humid here, if we fill in the swamp area, it will disappear naturally."

Walking forward for less than 1 kilometer, there is an open river valley in front of you, surrounded by mountains on all sides.This should be the location of Tiandu Village. The famous Tiandu Iron Mine should be on the Huangni Ridge in the southeast of it.

The problem is that the vegetation here is too dense, no matter how you look at it, you can't see which mountains are yellow soil.Although the mining area of ​​this Tian monolithic mine has a radius of five or six square kilometers, the diameter of the mine developed by later generations is only 300 meters.It's a bit difficult to find this place.

"In addition to being close to the port, the development here is no less difficult than Shilu." Wang Luobin said, "It takes a lot of work to remove a lot of vegetation."

"It would be great if the railway can be built, so that both machinery and manpower can be transported in."

"The problem is that there is no manpower." Wang Luobin sat on a big rock, "Back then the Japanese mined Tiandu, relying on filling it with human life in exchange for ore. What we lack most now is human life—"

"What's the problem with this? From now on, all the captured slaves will come to mine." Liu Zheng's nationalism burst out, "There are Malay natives in Southeast Asia, why not start a slave trade! Use them as consumables! "

"This is all for the future. Who should we fill in now? It's difficult." Wang Luobin stared at this barren virgin land.The expedition team was spreading out in all directions, surveying the mine with instruments and knocking out rock samples.There are also people mapping the terrain here.

In the afternoon, the expedition team had roughly detected the location of the Tiandu Mine according to the information of later generations, dug trenches, and excavated a ton of sample mines according to Wang Luobin's instructions.

"Dig so much? Are you going to carry it back? Do you expect to rely on this ton of iron ore to make steel?"

"If you want to send it back for trial, the iron and steel plant doesn't have such a small furnace." Wang Luobin felt that it was too little for one ton—this kind of iron ore with more than 60.00% iron ore can be directly put into the open hearth furnace for steelmaking, which requires two Tried again.

"Okay, but let me tell you the truth, I have to call everyone to carry the ore, otherwise the members of our expedition team will be exhausted to death."

At present, the entire expedition team began to dig ore profusely. Fortunately, one ton of ore is not too much, and more than ten people can dig for an hour.

After the sample mine was collected, the expedition team completely covered the exploration trenches of the mine with soil—this resource is not known to the local people for the time being.

Tiandu iron ore is also an iron ore with extremely high iron content, so that during the Guangxu period, a local gentry only used a small square furnace and a dozen workers to smelt pig iron bricks in batches to supply the market, making huge profits for a while. rich.Wang Luobin didn't want such a thing to happen in advance at this time.

"Everyone have a good rest tonight, we will go to Damao tomorrow."

"Where is Da Mao?" Liu Zheng was sweating and covered with dirt. He wanted to take a bath but was afraid of encountering leeches. A big moose popped out.

"It's a manganese mine with a reserve of 100 million tons." Wang Luobin said, "This is an important raw material for making special steel."

"Boss, don't you want another ton of samples?"

"One ton is unnecessary." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "500 kilograms is still required." Everyone glared.

The next day, the expedition team advanced inland again.Before departure, Wang Luobin used the radio to call the fleet, and asked Chen Haiyang to send someone to transport the ore. At the same time, he paid special attention: "We must ensure the secret shipment, especially not let the local people know what is being shipped."

After arriving at the site that is said to be the Damao Manganese Mine, the expedition team began to take samples and explore trenches throughout the mining area.This place is much harder to find than Tiandu Iron Mine.After five or six days of tossing and turning, the expedition team almost turned into groundhogs. They turned over the surrounding soil layer. Chen Haiyang had finished transporting the iron ore, but the expedition team did not come back, so he quickly sent another group of people over. Help to explore the groove.

In the end they did find a small outcrop of manganese ore, but the real vein was ten meters deep.Mining is still quite difficult.

"Wang Gong, I think this manganese mine is for the time being—" Liu Zheng is no different from Mei Heizi, "The shallowest place is ten meters, and there is still water coming out from below. If we don't dig a tunnel, I'm afraid it will be useless."

Wang Luobin looked at the dark trench in front of him.I am afraid that the mining of the big unraveling style is out of the question.But excavating a tunnel involves a series of supporting projects: pumping water, blowing air, raising the tunnel, supporting... After all these things go down, even if all the local methods are implemented, it will be a huge project.

"Let's dig up a few dozen kilograms of samples and withdraw them." Wang Luobin looked helpless.

"Look what this is, is it a copper mine?" Suddenly someone showed him a piece of ore.

Wang Luobin picked it up and saw that it was a gray stone with a light green, glass-like luster.He weighed it with his hand, and scored it with his Swiss Army knife to try to see how hard it was.

"I didn't expect that there are really good things here!"

"What?!" Several people surrounded him.

"This is phosphate rock!" Wang Luobin was very excited - the match, one of the artifacts of crossing, must have this thing to be born.From this point of view, phosphate rock is much more useful than manganese rock.He lit the lighter and set the corner of the ore on fire.The flames glow green.

"That's right, this is phosphate rock!"

The role of phosphorus is basically known to everyone. Even if you don't know that it is used to make matches, you know that it is an important farm fertilizer.Now phosphate ore has been discovered next to the manganese ore. The discovery that was thought to be a bit tasteless suddenly became extremely valuable.

"Where did you find it?"

"It's on that hill." The person who discovered the ore quickly pointed out the location. Wang Luobin was more excited than finding the manganese ore, and hurriedly walked to the trench.

The trench was drilled on the slope of the hill, and about four or five meters into the mountain at an angle of about 30 degrees. Wang Luobin did not study geology, but it can be generally seen that most of the core of the hill is composed of phosphate rock. It also does not constitute the conditions for open-pit mining.This made him a little disappointed.

"At least one base can support two mining sites." He comforted himself like this.However, at a recent stage, it is more realistic to go to Dongsha or Xisha to collect struvite.

Most of the expedition team didn't think it was so complicated, and everyone excitedly dug another [-] kilograms of sample ore and prepared to bring it back to Lingao and hand it over to the chemical and metallurgical department.

When the expedition team returned to Yulingang, one-third of the infrastructure project had just been completed. Yulin is a place with mountains, water, land, wood and stones, and almost everything is missing. It is really a good place for a development base.This place is different from Changhua Fort. The purpose of Changhua Fort is just to obtain a trading base, and to pave the way for future stone mining.This is a large-scale distribution center for crossing the group to obtain resources, which is much larger than Changhuabao in terms of scale.

Zhang Xingpei from Lingao Construction Company who came with the boat is an expert in grazing wooden structures and one of the many "turtles" in the Transit Group, with experience in building houses throughout the process.

In particular, the consultant is Yu Eshui—this person participated in this round-the-world inspection purely for the purpose of going out for fun. Construction consultant for Yulin Castle - He is obsessed with building survivalist fortresses, and has a special interest in logistics and defense battles.

"It doesn't need to be used to deal with siege, but at least it must be ensured that a small number of people can defend a large amount of goods."

This is the key point that Yu Eshui extracted after listening to Wang Luobin's long-winded requests from the base.

Zhang Xingpei used to be a fat man. He has lost a lot of weight in the past few months, but he still looks like a fat man in the past. He coughed and said:

"How much is the cargo yard required? What kind of cargo should be stacked? Is it necessary to have shelter?"

"The goods should be ores, timber, coconuts, etc."

"That is to say, there must be a large storage yard." Zhang Xingpei looked at it for a long time, and sketched a simple floor plan on the legal pad.

The drawn design is just a simple large courtyard, square.There is a salient fort at each corner.One of them is the residential area, which is larger in size.It can accommodate about 20 people for long-term living and has a warehouse.Other salient forts also have complete living facilities and can accommodate up to one squad.The gate to the yard is next to the living area for easy guarding.The courtyard wall is a wooden wall erected in rows of timber. The bottom is piled with soil, 6 meters high, and the tops are all sharpened. Pedestrians are not allowed on the top.It's basically impossible to climb up without a ladder.

The four bulwarks, including the gate itself, are built of masonry.Roof tiling.A trench was dug outside the fort to introduce river water from nearby.There is a lot of rain here in summer and autumn, and water is not a problem.

In order to facilitate loading and unloading of goods, a trestle bridge of more than ten meters will be built in the bay in front of the fort for ships to berth.

"Isn't it a bit flimsy—" Chen Haiyang was very worried when he saw this blueprint that looked like a medieval fortress.

"The defensive power is a little lower, but it is enough. The villages of the local rich people are not at this level." Yu Crocodile said, "The fortification of Anyou City is just a wooden fence wall and a few towers. It can be seen that the largest here The threat is nothing more than dozens of pirate sailors coming up and wandering around, robbing a few unlucky ones who haven't had time to escape."

Even if the enemy did rush into the yard, the only things they could grab were ore and wood, which didn't seem to be of much value.If you really want to attack fiercely, Anyou City is obviously a more valuable target than Yulin Fort.

Everyone was discussing the details when Jiang Qiuyan, the doctor accompanying the team, suddenly asked, "Who is going to stay behind this Yulin Fort?"

"Eleven or twelve people are enough for now. Two or three traversers plus a squad of sailors. We will expand the scale according to the development situation in the future."

Jiang Qiuyan said: "Wang Gong, I don't think this is right. How many people does the Crossing Group have? Sprinkling pepper noodles everywhere like this, it will be a waste of talents if there are too many. Not to mention ourselves, the Marine Corps will Three classes are missing."

"That's right, we need to be stationed here, and we need to be stationed there. I always feel that there are not enough troops." Chen Haiyang has long been troubled by the lack of naval personnel.Whether it is sailors or sailors, the Ministry of Maritime Forces feels stretched.

"Also, have you ever thought about a problem? A few traversers were placed alone on this barren land, surrounded by themselves, not to mention the natives, not even a few living people. Limited by the conditions, the Executive Committee It is impossible to equip every stronghold with more comfortable living facilities, as the days go by, these people still have a nervous breakdown!" Jiang Qiuyan gestured excitedly, making people feel that he was about to have a nervous breakdown.

(End of this chapter)