Chapter 542 Shilu goes into production
Li Dagui's cover identity during the six months on the island was that of a carpenter, and this identity gave him many opportunities to enter and leave the Dutch stronghold. Li Dagui has long had a clear understanding of the Dutch's local situation, especially their defense arrangements.
"In the report just handed over to Chief Lin, there is a port defense map drawn below. I wonder if your Excellency has ever seen it?" Li Dagui said eagerly: "I will explain it based on the map. Maybe I can explain it in more detail."< br>
Lin Nan immediately took out the report that Li Dagui handed over just now, and pulled out the map Li Dagui mentioned. The map was only one foot square and was traced in very thin handwriting on a piece of thin paper. Although the style of painting is very crude, Mu Xiabai can tell at a glance that the painter must have received professional training. The north direction and scale are marked on it, and the roads, buildings, woods, bridges, etc. on the map are all It is marked with the standard symbols of Haihan military maps. Although there are no detailed contour lines like military maps, all the main commanding heights are marked and can be used in wartime.
"The map is well drawn." Mu Xiabai nodded and praised. With Li Dagui performing his mission here alone, it is difficult to carry out a large amount of independent surveying and mapping work. The maps used by the military staff are all drawn based on satellite maps collected before crossing. The accuracy of this hand-made map can be achieved It has been extremely difficult.
"Thank you for the compliment, sir!" Li Dagui was flattered and responded quickly, and then began to explain the situation of the port to the two of them. He has recovered from the shock of seeing Mu Xiabai for the first time. Now that the big shot has stated that he wants to capture this island, how much of the credit he can get depends on how much he can earn at this time. .
It has to be said that Li Dagui's time spent on Natuna Island for more than half a year was not wasted. The intelligence information he collected was far more detailed than the written report delivered to the Ministry of Security. However, this was not because he intentionally concealed valuable information, but because his cultural level was limited and a lot of information could not be fully reflected in words in a report of limited length. But by comparing the map with the oral report like now, Li Dagui can pour out all the information he has.
Mu Xiabai and Lin Nan were not idle either. They listened to Li Dagui's narration while taking notes. From time to time, they would also ask questions about areas in Li Dagui's words that were not detailed enough.
Li Dagui's oral report lasted for nearly two hours. At the end, Lin Nan also gave him reassurance: "You go back and stay well. This credit will be recorded for you first. When the militia army conquers this island, we will do it as soon as possible." I will transfer you back to Sanya to report on your duties, and I will reward you when the time comes.”
Li Dagui responded quickly: "I despise my position and swear to serve the Executive Committee to the death!"
After sending Li Dagui away, Mu Xiabai said: "Commissioner Lin, your security department has done a good job. The intelligence collected is very targeted. This is a great help to our military!"
"Thank you for the compliment, Chief!" Although Lin Nan was a cadre in front of Li Dagui, he was a subordinate in front of Mu Xiabai. Although the two are not from the same system, under the rule of Haihan, the status of the time traveler is undoubtedly the aristocracy in this social system, while the status of the naturalized people is undoubtedly lower. Even if Lin Nan is in this Naturalized civilian cadres in special departments are no exception. No one raised any objections to this. The people of this time and space are already used to the existence of class differences, and isn't one of the original intentions of the time travelers coming to this time and space just to enjoy the treatment of being superior to others?
Mu Xiabai accepted Lin Nan's thanks calmly and continued to ask: "Before coming, you said there were two people from the security department and an intelligence agent on the island. When will we contact you?"
Lin Nan responded: "The other person's disguised identity is a doctor. Tomorrow morning we will bring him to the ship under the pretext of treating the crew."
The next day, as Lin Nan promised, another intelligence officer operating as a doctor also came to the ship and gave a face-to-face report to Mu Xiabai. Although this intelligence agent did not have a hand-drawn map, he continued to travel around the entire Natuna Island in the name of collecting medicinal herbs for more than half a year. He had a much clearer understanding of the distribution of residents on the entire island than Li Dajui, which could be regarded as a fill-in. Check out the gaps in the information collected so far.
During the two days that the two merchant ships stayed in the port, they did not arouse the suspicion of the Dutch. The representatives of the Ministry of Commerce on the ship even sold some daily necessities produced in Sanya to the Dutch on the island, doing business for more than 200 taels of silver. . This made the Dutch even more convinced that the two ships were indeed Ming merchant ships preparing to go to Batavia for trade.
After replenishing fresh water and food, the two lucky ships left Natuna Port on January 7. After a circle in the open sea to make sure that there were no other ships nearby, they turned northwest and continued to work with them for the past two days. The fleet cruising in the outer sea meets.
After listening to the reports from Mu Xiabai and Lin Nan, Wang Tom believed that the intelligence collection work had achieved its goal, and ordered the return voyage. As for exploring the waters south of the Natuna Islands, that was not the main mission of their trip.
Among the fleet going south this time, only two catamaran sailboats were equipped with radio stations. In order to seize the time, Wang Tom once again decided to divide the troops into two groups. He would personally drive the "Lightning" sailboat and return early with personnel from several major departments. Sanya, report the information collected this time to the Executive Committee. The remaining ships returned slowly at the same speed they came from.
On the way back, the "Lightning" only stopped at Cam Ranh Bay for a day to rest, and then rushed all the way back to Sanya. However, despite traveling day and night, it was already two weeks before they returned to Sanya. While the reconnaissance fleet was heading south, the track laying work on the Changshilu track was finally completed in time for the beginning of the new year. The steam locomotive departing from Changhua Port arrived at Shilu Station in an hour and a half at an average speed of 25 kilometers per hour. It was within one kilometer of the two mine excavation sites that had begun groundbreaking. This is currently the longest track on Hainan Island, marking that the development of Shilu Iron Mine has entered the formal implementation stage. The ore mined here will be continuously sent to the seaside via railway and turned into thousands in the smelting plant in Changhua. Thousands of tons of steel.
The director of the Shilu project in Changhua, Qiao Zhiya, the current military and political officer of the Changhua Development Zone, has moved his office from near Changhua County to the hillside of Shilu. The office site of Shilu Mining District was once the residential area of Shizidong. During the early site selection, because the foundation here was ready, Qiao Zhiya chose to develop and construct it as the office site and employee residential area of the mining area.
Most of the hundreds of original boat-shaped houses were demolished and replaced with Haihan standard two-story wooden structure simple board houses. The Ministry of Construction has designed special simple houses for the development of Shilu Mining Area more than a year ago. Because it is located in an inland mountainous area, it is not as susceptible to hurricanes from the sea as the seaside. Therefore, simple houses are mainly based on The structure is mainly made of bamboo and wood, and all components are standard parts made in advance. After being transported to the construction site, they can be quickly erected like building blocks under the guidance of the foreman.
Each of these simple houses can accommodate six to eight people, with shared toilets and bathrooms. Each two-story building can be built in any size according to local conditions, from one to a hundred rooms, as long as the construction area can accommodate it. That’s it. The Ministry of Construction has built 300 houses here before the entire line is opened to traffic, which can accommodate nearly 2,000 people, which can basically meet the initial needs of the mine development.
Among the thousands of laborers involved in road construction in the early stage, most of them will be left to settle in the Metallurgical Industrial Zone in Changhua. After simple training, they will enter the metallurgical industry and become steel-making workers. Some people will be assigned to settle along the railway line as maintenance and dispatch personnel for the track between Changhua and Shilu. A small number of people will stay in the Shilu mining area and serve as foremen and the like. The main labor force in Shilu Mining Area will be thousands of prisoners in hard labor camps. Considering the production tasks assigned by the Ministry of Industry to the mining area, a considerable number of them may never have the chance to leave this mountainous area alive.
In addition, the Ministry of Justice has also passed a new resolution. From now on, the service location of local prisoners in Hainan Island, except for some prisoners with relatively sensitive nature, will be changed to Shilu Iron Mine, and even Tian Du Some existing prisoners in the iron mine will also be moved there one after another to facilitate unified management by relevant departments.
All technical staff from the Ministry of Construction will be transferred. Some will go to the Qiongbei region to implement various infrastructure projects. Others will need to work overseas for a period of time and go to the southern coast of Annan to plan and direct the port development projects belonging to Haihan. .
What Qiao Zhiya now has to worry about is not only whether the operation level of the mining area can meet the output required by the Ministry of Industry, but also the track line from Shilu Iron Mine to Changhua Metallurgical Industrial Zone is also a very troublesome long-term matter.
Since the total length is more than 40 kilometers, the amount of work and cost are too large. In order to save construction time and resources, this track line adopted a single-line construction design during construction, which means that the trains running at both ends are actually Speeding on the same railroad. Of course, the problem of missing trains on the way is not difficult to solve. It only needs to build a section of double-track track on the way. It is not too difficult from the perspective of construction technology, and the Ministry of Construction has indeed completed this task very well. The same method has been used on the Tiandu to Sanya rail line, and its feasibility has been proven through actual operation.
However, this method is difficult to implement here, mainly because it is difficult to coordinate the scheduling of trains. The trains departing from the stations at both ends of the track line have a journey of one and a half hours on the way, and there are only three double-track tracks for staggering trains. How to make the trains arrive at the right place at a more accurate time for staggering trains, this is a Very troublesome thing. If not handled properly, it will not only be a matter of time delay, but also a serious traffic accident may occur. However, if the arrangement of trains traveling in opposite directions is abandoned, it will greatly affect the operating efficiency of this rail line, thereby indirectly affecting Changhua's steel production capacity, which is unacceptable to the Ministry of Industry.
The railway line from Tiandu to Sanya perfectly solves this technical problem. However, the method used there is currently difficult to replicate locally. In order to ensure the daily electricity consumption of Victory Fort, electric wires have been installed from Tiandu Industrial Zone to Sanya. By the way, wired telephones have also been implemented, and the train schedule between the two places can be easily dispatched through Contact by wired telephone. The staff responsible for implementing staggered train arrangements at dispatch points along the way accept instructions from the phone and then manually move the switches to allow incoming and outgoing trains to stagger.
The staff currently in charge of this track line are all trained naturalized citizens. Since the operation of the railway, there has never been a serious safety accident such as a train collision due to scheduling errors. The track line between Tiandu and Sanya has partially completed the double-track laying. Once the double-track is completed, there will be no need to worry about trains missing trains on the way.
This plan is also the technical solution prepared by the Ministry of Construction for the Changhua project. However, when the matter comes, there is no such condition between Changhua and Shilu. So far, no electric wires have been erected between the two places, and it is impossible to connect the railway Cable telephones were deployed along the route for command. The energy department has thought about building a hydropower station in the inland mountainous area east of the Shilu Iron Mine and using the water conservancy conditions at the source of the Changhua River to generate electricity. After all, in the time and space before the time travel, there was a large Shilu Reservoir in this area. But the Engineering Department rejected the proposal after conducting an on-site inspection here.
It’s not that the Ministry of Construction doesn’t have the engineering capacity to implement this proposal, but the amount of work is indeed a bit larger. It requires building a concrete dam with a length of more than 1,200 meters in the mountainous area and supporting hydropower facilities. The amount of work is approximately more than the original construction Ten times the size of Tianduhe Power Station, the construction period will also take at least eight to ten months, which is impossible to meet Shilu’s current conditions. Even if there are so many labor forces, the Ministry of Industry will definitely give them priority. Invest in the mining of Shilu Iron Mine.
Shilu does not have stable power generation capacity, so it is of course impossible to set up wires, and the method of dispatching trains through wired telephones cannot be realized. Once this link is out of touch, it directly leads to the inability to solve the problem of train dispatching. At present, the only solution Qiao Zhiya can take is to temporarily let the traverser be responsible for scheduling trains and arranging for wrong trains on the way, using high-power wireless walkie-talkies as a temporary means of communication. The efficiency of this is of course very low, and it is also a considerable waste of talent to arrange limited time travelers in such positions.
Qiao Zhiya also made a special report to the Executive Committee on this matter, requesting that a telephone line be set up between the two places as soon as possible. The Executive Committee has already approved it, but now it feels like water far away cannot quench thirst nearby, and this project is not It can be completed in an hour and a half.
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