Chapter 149 A basin of cold water
Stimulated by the bright prospects, everyone's enthusiasm for work was fully aroused, and the chief officers of each department came to the front line to give command. This also greatly increased the construction speed of the entire port area. The immigrants now have three meals guaranteed and a stable place to live, and they don't show much resistance to the request to work overtime.
Chuanchuanzhong has already accumulated a lot of successful experience in Shengli Port. At this time, it is also using the same old tricks, such as creating competition among workers through grouping. The groups that can complete the scheduled tasks with high quality and quantity can receive rewards, such as A piece of fish or a piece of venison for dinner. This kind of reward may not seem generous, but when you see other people's bowls with meat and you can only eat vegetables, the psychological imbalance is enough to stimulate the workers to work harder.
Encouraged by Qian Tiandun, Gao Qiaonan took strict measures to supervise the logging team. In just forty-eight hours, the logging team opened a three-meter-wide passage in the valley. The subsequent engineering team only needs to further trim and fill this channel before they can start laying sleepers and tracks in the valley.
Liu Shanxia, the commander of the engineering team, made an optimistic estimate at the regular meeting of the Management Committee that as long as the current construction speed can be maintained, the entire coal rail laying project can be completed five to seven days earlier than expected.
In view of the outstanding performance of the logging team, the Management Committee specially approved hundreds of kilograms of seafood to supplement the meat nutrition of the logging team, and gave verbal praise to the supervisor of the logging team, naturalized citizen Corporal Gao Qiaonan, at a regular meeting. However, the management committee's good intentions turned out to be the wrong thing. More than a dozen people, including Gao Qiaonan, suffered from severe diarrhea due to eating seafood, and many people also developed symptoms of seafood allergies, which made the management committee confused. They had to quickly stop their seafood supply plan and instead increase the staffing of the hunting team to ensure that there would be enough meat for these heavy manual workers.
The logging team transported all the trees cut down on the road ahead to the camp, and began to erect a two-meter-high log wall around the camp. The construction of public facilities such as reservoirs, canteens, bathhouses, and public toilets in the camp has been completed one by one. At the same time, the management committee has also begun to conduct more standardized management of the immigrant camp. Bad habits such as open urination and defecation are strictly prohibited in the camp, and those caught will be punished with a day's fast at the least. Sleeping, dining, and gatherings must also be carried out in accordance with the rules set by the management committee. This standardized management was first adopted by the executive committee in the commune. Facts have proved that such a system is very effective. When implemented into the standardized management of people's daily lives, these ordinary people with little education can establish the awareness of obeying rules and disciplines in a short time. This is for only 3% of the local population. The left and right crossing is a very important means of management and rule for many people.
The construction level of the crossing camps is obviously higher. In addition to erecting strong walls around the camps, trenches one meter deep and two meters wide were dug outside the walls, and fortifications were built near the entrance passage. Watchtowers were erected facing the immigration camp and the port, and militiamen were on duty 24 hours a day. Without permission, no local immigrants or even immigrants from Victory Port are allowed to enter the Chuanzhong camp.
This is not only to prevent the Management Committee from these local immigrants, but more importantly, to consider that if a foreign enemy invades, the Management Committee must at least have a stronger stronghold to protect itself. Of course, relying solely on the militia's matchlocks cannot give the Management Committee a sufficient sense of security. The two 6-pound army cannons hidden in the camp are the Management Committee's ultimate killer weapon - this is the first weapon to arrive at Black Earth Port. That night, Qian Tiandun and a few militiamen quietly unloaded it from the ship while it was dark. Under the current shortage of artillery, gunpowder and gunners, this can be regarded as one of the special cares given by the Executive Committee and the Military and Police Department to the colonial stronghold of Black Earth Port.
The construction speed of the port terminal is also quite astonishing. With sufficient manpower and raw material support, the trestle on the terminal stretched almost at a speed visible to the naked eye in a few days. If the local cement supply had not been able to solve the problem for the time being, Liu Shanxia would have even wanted to start building the Yonggu Wharf directly.
Just when everyone was enthusiastically hoping to complete the infrastructure as soon as possible and put the coal mine into operation as soon as possible, a basin of cold water falling from the sky poured cold water on the management committee - in the meeting to determine the future development route of Black Earth Port Just three days after the meeting, a heavy rain fell.
Although it was the rainy season and everyone was mentally prepared for the heavy rain, when it actually arrived, everyone in the management committee was so angry that they collectively cursed.
The rainstorm was so severe that more than 20 millimeters of rain fell in the first three hours. Although the rain decreased slightly afterwards, the amount of precipitation within 24 hours still exceeded 100 millimeters, and the management committee had no choice but to upgrade the rain level from a heavy rain to a heavy rain.
The harm caused by this heavy rain is very direct. The simple shacks built in the early stages of the immigration camp all began to leak, and some low-lying areas have already experienced water accumulation and backflow. The management committee had to organize the transfer of some people who could no longer live in the shacks and lived in military tents originally used to store supplies.
Starting from the second day of rain, the entire camp and port area became muddy, and many areas that had not had time to dig drainage ditches directly turned into swamps. Although the management committee anticipated the arrival of the rainy season, it was not fully prepared for it. Relevant departments did not have enough rain gear to allow the immigrants to continue working in the rain, and almost all construction sites had to temporarily stop work to wait for the rain to stop. The management committee did not dare to take the risk and let the immigrants continue to work in such heavy rain. It was a trivial matter if people were tired and sick, but if influenza appeared in Black Earth Port, it would be a disaster for the medical level of this period. Although the colonization team is also equipped with medical staff, it is obviously impossible to deal with a large-scale outbreak of influenza. This risk is much greater than the delay in the construction period. Even Gu Kai, who wants to achieve some outstanding achievements here, has to consider this possibility. It will threaten the future public health and safety of Black Earth Port.
But God obviously did not intend to let the management committee and its immigrants pass this test easily. Soon the militiamen on duty near the valley sent a warning, saying that the river water level in the valley began to rise rapidly. Liu Shanxia and Qiao Zhiya went to check the situation in the rain, and when they came back, both of them had dark faces.
"A good news or a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Qiao Zhiya asked.
"Let's tell you the bad news first." Gu Kai immediately made a decision: "This way at least we won't despair after hearing the last news."
"The river is about to overflow the river bed. If we don't take measures, I think at least half of our immigrant camp will be submerged tonight at the latest." Qiao Zhiya said in a heavy tone.
There was silence in the tent, and it was clear that the news was a shock to everyone. Gu Kaiqiang asked with a smile: "It seems that we are only half a day away from the end of the world, so what is the good news? You should have found Noah's Ark upstream, right?"
"The good news is that the amount of water in this river is not large. Even if it floods the camp, it will not wash away everything we have. There is even a small possibility of drowning people." Liu Shanxia wiped the wetness with a towel hair, muttered in reply.
"What kind of good news is this..." Xie Chun was very dissatisfied that they still had the intention to joke at this moment.
"Okay, the real good news." Liu Shanxia put down his towel, sat down and lit a cigarette: "If we organize people now to raise the river bank near the camp, we should be able to avoid this flood. Of course, The premise is that the rain should stop as soon as possible, otherwise if it rains for another three or four days... I think it will be safer for us to get on the boat directly at that time."
"In this case, everyone should stop sitting in the tent." Gu Kai stood up and began to issue orders: "Zhou Hengxing immediately organized the immigration, and all the young and strong laborers were mobilized to follow Lao Liu's command to raise the height. On the river bank. Qian Tiandun went to check on our important supplies. Just in case, it would be best to direct the militia to build a waterproof embankment around the warehouse. Everything else should come second. If our food is washed away by the water, then This is a big deal. Others who don’t have specific tasks should follow Lao Liu’s instructions first! Please remember that what we are doing now is not only for these immigrants, but more importantly for ourselves!”
So a vigorous flood fighting and rescue campaign began in the small coastal port of Beibu Gulf in the 17th century. Although these time-travelling people may have been playing the role of unknown little people or even losers in the previous time and space, at this critical moment, no one was afraid of the difficulty and retreated. Everyone responded to Gu Kai's call and rushed into the pouring rain. middle.
Led by the Chuanchuang people who took the lead, hundreds of immigrants also worked in the rain, and finally raised the river bank by a large amount before the river overflowed, thus avoiding the risk of the newly built camp being washed away by flash floods. Everyone who comes down from the front line of the rescue will get a bowl of steaming ginger soup. This is made in the canteen using freshwater fish caught from the river two days ago, which can expel some of the toxins from the body of these wet people. chill. At the same time, the logistics department also prepared hot water and dry clothes so that these exhausted people could recover as soon as possible. But despite a lot of preparation work, many people still developed cold symptoms of varying degrees that night, keeping medical staff busy all night.
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