Rise of the 1630s South America

Monday, May 5.Negative.

Pastor Francis led a few immigrants walking quickly on the road paved with broken bricks and cinders. In front of him were a few girls from the Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau.These little girls were all practitioners in the medical industry, nurses in hospitals, or students in medical schools.The Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau is a secondary unit directly under the jurisdiction of the Civil Affairs Committee. It has a formal establishment of 10 people. Its main tasks include sanitation and disinfection of public places, prevention and control of infectious diseases, and physical examination of immigrants.

In addition to the Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau, the Travelers also established a central hospital.This hospital is also a second-level unit under the jurisdiction of the civil affairs committee, and has many official physicians and surgeons, including the ship doctor Wang Liao.Due to the lack of medical equipment and the fact that some of the modern medicines carried by the time-traversing people have been exhausted, these doctors are currently unable to survive without rice, and they can only diagnose some diseases, and their usefulness is limited.

Mo Xiaoxi was a postgraduate student majoring in public health at XX Medical University before time travelling, and now she naturally took on the heavy responsibility of the Health and Epidemic Prevention Bureau.

"The toilets should be disinfected with lime regularly." Walking into the wooden house area where the immigrants live, Mo Xiaoxi said: "The windows must be opened before and after the daytime to keep ventilation."

Pastor Francis guessed and understood what Mo Xiaoxi meant, and quickly directed the immigrants under him to start working.

After inspecting the residential area and leaving a group of immigrants to work, Mo Xiaoxi and a few girls chattered to the engineering team that was digging the sewer facilities.Most of the current engineering team is building the wheel kiln, and there are only a dozen or so people assigned to excavate the sewer, so the progress will naturally not be fast.

Liu Dafa and a group of construction team workers were lazily digging the earthwork. When they saw a group of young girls, they immediately perked up.

"Why are you the only ones?" Mo Xiaoxi frowned and said, "Didn't I transfer a group of immigrants to you? Where did everyone go?"

"Hi!" Liu Dafa was also depressed, "When did the executive committee pay attention to our construction team? Before this person came, he was intercepted by the bastards from the Agricultural Bureau!"

"What?! How could they do this!" Mo Xiaoxi went into a rage. "Everything that was agreed can be changed. I'll go back and ask Xiao Mingli to see what he has to explain!" After speaking, she turned around and left with a group of girls who were filled with righteous indignation. .

"Hey! Girls, don't leave. Let's chat!" Liu Dafa stomped his feet anxiously, scolding the eight generations of ancestors of the people in the Agricultural Bureau in his heart.

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Jin Kela shook a soybean plant in his hand, making a rattling sound.Most of the bean leaves have fallen off, and the bean stalks have turned yellow.When the pods are opened, the nutrient-providing film between the pods and the bean grains has disappeared, which is a sign of the maturity of the pods.

"Hurry up and send down the sickle." Jin Kela looked at the sky, worried that it would rain in the next few days.This is why he went to the executive committee in the morning and solemnly asked the executive committee to suspend other work and make harvesting soybeans the focus of work these days.

These sickles are stamped and formed with a hydraulic forging hammer, then hand-cut and fitted with handles.The production process is a bit rough, but the quality is nothing to say.In order to successfully complete the harvest of soybeans this time, the executive committee temporarily mobilized nearly 400 people, men, women and children, to harvest [-] mu of soybeans in a centralized manner.

Ma Ganzu brandished a sickle and went into the harvesting work. Due to the shortage of manpower and in order to avoid unnecessary criticism, members of the Executive Committee and heads of various departments who were not working also participated in the labor.

The growth of soybeans can only be said to be average. In the absence of chemical fertilizers and few farmers, the yield of one mu of land is only about fifty or sixty catties.The crossing people harvest the part above the root system of soybeans, and then thresh them uniformly on the drying field.Due to the action of rhizobia, the root system of soybean can fix the nitrogen in the air into ammonia and supply it to the soybean, which has an immeasurable effect on the fertilization of the field, so this harvest is limited to harvesting only the parts above the soybean root system.

The harvesting work continued until the evening when the sun went down, and came to an end temporarily. Jin Kela looked around and found that almost one-third of the area had been harvested.Seeing Ma Ganzu and other executive committee members sitting on the ridge drinking water and resting, Jin Kela walked over.

"The food problem cannot be ignored now." This is Shao Shude's voice, "Nearly half of the flour and rice we brought over at the beginning have been consumed. If the immigration continues, the speed of food consumption will be greatly increased. And the next The production of various grains that we can harvest in one year is limited due to the scale. So we must find a way to get grain as soon as possible, the more the better.”

"What are the possible sources of food now?" Ma Ganzu asked. This issue should indeed be taken seriously.

"First: Fishing. The fishery resources of the Big Fish Lake in the upper reaches of the Big Fish River are extremely rich. We can set up a base there for fishing, and even process it on the spot. With these fish, we can get a lot of protein In addition, it can also reduce the consumption of food." Shao Shude said, "Second: trade. This is more difficult, because we don't have too many trading partners now. Couette's next arrival will be in October, and his ship There is no way to load too much food, and the most important point is that Europe is also short of food, very short! It is difficult for us to buy food on a large scale in Europe."

"Buying grain is not feasible, so we can only rely on ourselves." Ma Ganzu said: "This time, soybeans can harvest more than 5 catties. Other crops such as wheat are not counted on. Potatoes can harvest a few stubbles, but the output is not very much. That’s it. If you want to rely on these to maintain the scale of immigration, I don’t think it is realistic in a short time. Big Fish Lake still has to be taken! Since there are so many resources there, we have no reason to turn a blind eye. Let’s add up together, try to come up with a charter, and vote at the meeting at that time. By the way, Lao Jin, you came just in time. Tomorrow, you will organize a group of people to thresh, dry, and store the bean stalks you harvested today. Hurry up. "

"That's no problem." Jin Kela sat down and drank a sip of water, and said, "The warehouse is also ready, and it will be put into the warehouse as soon as it is finished drying."

"By the way, Lao Jin, how are you going to thresh? Manually?" Shao Shude asked suddenly.

"What? Can you make a thresher for me?" Jin Kela's eyes lit up.

"I don't have the skills." Shao Shude smiled, "You can go to the vest and ask him to arrange for someone to make a hydraulic thresher. This thing is not complicated, and a blacksmith can make it by knocking and punching."

"Okay, I'll go find him in a while." Jin Kela grinned.

The harvesting of soybeans lasted for 3 days, and by the evening of May 5, all 15 mu of soybeans had been harvested.God has been kind to me these past few days. Except for the cloudy day on the first day, the next two days were sunny, which made Jin Kela, who had been worried about the rain, secretly heave a sigh of relief.

After the soybeans were harvested, the Executive Committee gave everyone a few days off, and then continued to start the construction of various projects. At the same time, they also started discussions and preliminary preparations for the proposal to establish a permanent base by the Dayu Lake.

On May 5, the rotary kiln was finally completed after the construction team worked overtime and took turns to construct.Theoretically, the annual output of this wheel kiln is 26 million bricks and tiles. In fact, due to human factors, the output cannot be so high. The annual output of bricks and tiles is about 1500 million pieces.However, this also greatly alleviated the shortage of materials in the buildings across the country, and many long-delayed construction projects can be launched.

The completion of the wheel kiln also liberated a large number of manpower, and the development of Dayu Lake, which has been initially formed in the discussion of the Executive Committee, can enter the implementation stage.

In accordance with the resolutions discussed by the executive committee, it was decided to establish a stronghold near the confluence of the southeast bank of Dayu Lake and the Dayu River.The stronghold is a small fortress structure with walls on the outside and a collective dormitory that can accommodate 200 people inside.In addition, there are two wells: the well water is groundwater, brackish, which can be used as domestic water, and can also be used as drinking water at critical moments; there is a rainwater collection tank, a sedimentation tank, and a filter tank.In addition, there are public toilets, canteens, bathhouses, material warehouses (including armory), watchtowers, etc.A fishing pier will be built by the lake, and the road from the pier to the fort will also need to be repaired.

Of course, the most important facility in the stronghold is the fish processing factory.Due to capacity and transportation issues, except some fresh fish and shrimps will be transported downstream to be eaten by people across the country, most of the rest of the catch will be processed into salted fish, fish floss, fish sauce, fish bone meal and other products in this processing plant.

This is the first true dispatch base of the traversing people. The executive committee solicited the name of the stronghold from the traversing people, and finally officially named this stronghold Dingyuan Fort according to the ranking.Around the construction and fishery work of Dingyuan Fort, the executive committee formed the Dingyuan Fort development team.The establishment of the pioneering team is tentatively determined as follows: 100 construction teams (temporary establishment, withdrawn after the completion of the construction period.); 20 members of the newly established fishing team of the Fisheries Bureau, 60 workers of the fish processing factory directly under the Executive Committee; Dingyuan There are 25 guards in the fort; 3 cooks, 1 doctor, 1 shipwright, 1 trainee blacksmith, 1 fishing net repairer, and 5 handymen; a total of 217 people.

For this Dingyuan Fort development team, the people who traveled through showed great interest.Many people went to the executive committee to recommend themselves, hoping to take up positions in the pioneering team, which caused Xiao Mingli, who was in charge of personnel selection, to have a headache all day long.

On June 1631, 6, after a month of noisy preparations, the fleet full of personnel and supplies finally set off.

The pioneering team includes more than 100 construction teams and escort teams. After the construction of the fortress is completed, the rest will rush to join them.In addition to building materials, food and drinking water, 2 four-pounders, 2 eight-pounders, 50 hunting crossbows and 30 matchlock guns were transported with the ship.