Chapter 1459 Dongjiang Immigration Village
Haihan's familiarity with resettlement work is no less than their military literacy. In the past nine years, they have established no fewer than ten colonies outside Hainan Island, and accumulated rich practical experience during this period. Although the plain in the northwest of Lushun has only been demarcated, it does not prevent Haihan from formulating an infrastructure plan tailored for the people of Dongjiang Town.
Haihan planned ten immigrant villages and two central towns for the settlement of Dongjiang Town. Except for two of the towns, which were rebuilt on the basis of old towns that had been abandoned during the Hou Jin occupation, the other immigrant villages needed to be rebuilt from scratch. To build it, this amount of work cannot be completed in three to five days. The first batch of more than 2,000 laborers sent by Dongjiang Town can build one or two villages within half a month, which is considered very efficient.
Due to time pressure, there is no need to consider the time-consuming and labor-intensive brick house. Even quarrying and logging are tight, and there is currently not enough manpower to build a brick kiln. Therefore, the only way to build a residence is to build a house with simple bricks and tiles. Mainly shed structure. Taking into account that the weather is getting warmer and the insulation performance requirements of the houses are not so high, the design plan prepared by the Ministry of Construction is based on the boat-shaped house, which is the most common in the southern colonies, and uses local forest trees as the main building materials. After settling down, the walls will be treated to meet the thermal insulation needs in winter.
Liu Shanxia from the Ministry of Construction also hurried back from the Jinzhou Isthmus on the day the immigrants arrived in Lushun. He had been watching the construction progress at the bastion construction site in the north a few days ago, but the resettlement work at the rear was equally important. We can only rush back first, spend two or three days to guide the infrastructure work in the resettlement area, and then go back to the north to focus on the defense line reconstruction project.
However, Pidao also sent many professional civil craftsmen over this time, so Liu Shanxia only needed to let them understand the drawings drawn by Haihan, and then instruct them to follow the plan. According to past operating experience, half a day to explain and one day to practice is almost enough. Of course, before you start building a house, you must first prepare the required building materials.
Therefore, after the immigrants arrived at their destination, they only got a very short rest period, and then they were organized to cut trees in the nearby mountains and forests. Fortunately, these people know that what they are doing is building their own homes, so they are very motivated to work and do not show much resistance. At this time, even those who had doubts about Haihan's arrangements temporarily chose to obey and joined the labor force with enthusiasm.
There are more than a hundred temporary houses to be built in each village, and the required building materials are not even a little bit. Fortunately, the forest resources are very rich nearby. Even if these two thousand people work day and night to cut down, it will take a year and a half to cut down. Not only the mature trees around. More than a dozen makeshift logging teams used axes and saws to work in the forest, while the remaining people began to clear the ground, dig foundations, and build roads and drainage facilities in the designated areas.
Hundreds of tents were set up densely in the wilderness outside the planned area of the village. Until temporary housing is built to a certain scale, most of these immigrants have to live in tents. Like the food aid they received, these tents were also temporarily loaned by Haihan and were all military canvas tents.
On the outside of the tent community, you can see a row of earthen stoves built by the immigrants with adobe bricks. Since the food rationing system is currently implemented, the immigrants' daily source of food is the collective canteen set up here. In their daily rations, the relatively high-cost white rice is provided once every two days. At other times, they mainly eat potatoes, corn, beans and other coarse grains. The meat is basically salted fish. The immigrants occasionally hunt in the forest. Game meat such as rabbits, deer, and pheasants are also brought back to the canteen as a snack.
Two days after the infrastructure project of the resettlement village officially started, Sha Xi and Chen Yixin also came here to observe the progress of the construction. Of course, Chen Yixin is not that enthusiastic about the progress of the construction of the resettlement village. He is more concerned about whether these newcomers have followed the instructions of the Haihan foremen and whether they will cause some trouble for the managers uneasily. If he discovers any security risks, he must deal with them in their infancy before they occur.
However, Chen Yixin's worries seemed to be a little unnecessary. Although Dongjiang Town has been in decline for a long time, it is still a military establishment with a serious background. Almost all of the people who were moved to Liaodong are military relatives. Even if they have not been in the military, they have family members who have served or are currently serving in the military. The understanding of military orders is still deeper than ordinary people. Before they set off, the General Military Office had repeatedly warned them to follow Haihan's arrangements when they arrived in Liaodong. In addition, after arriving in Lushun, several thorny heads were whipped by Chen Yixin. This treatment of killing chickens to scare monkeys also played a certain role. deterrent effect. After arriving at the station, everyone was assigned extremely heavy labor tasks. When they were busy, they had no time to think about causing trouble.
Sha Xi's focus is on the internal civil affairs system of Dongjiang Town. He is more concerned about whether the military management system of Dongjiang Town has penetrated into the civilian population. This is related to whether the military-civilian separation and resettlement plan formulated by Haihan can achieve the expected results. effect. Although there won't be any big trouble, Shaxi doesn't want an uncontrolled paramilitary force to exist in his jurisdiction in the future. He has even considered the corresponding countermeasures, which is to try to remove the leaders at all levels in charge of civil affairs in Dongjiang Town, or simply transfer them away from the place, and let Haihan arrange personnel to take over the civil affairs affairs. Although this may cause dissatisfaction or even resistance among the people of Dongjiang Town, Sha Xi believes that this is a minor trouble, at least much better than not being able to fully control the situation.
But Sha Xi soon discovered that he was just as worried as Chen Yixin. The people sent by Dongjiang Town obviously did not have professional military qualities, and might even fall far short of the militia standards. They were only against the military. The rules are just relatively familiar. After observing for a while, he simply called a few people out from the labor team at random and had a short conversation one by one to understand each other's situation. Although the number of samples in this kind of sampling survey was not large, Sha Xi quickly learned some information with reference value.
In the early years, Dongjiang Town's military sources mainly came from Liaodong. Because it faced great external military pressure, it became normal for military families to receive military training. However, since the Jin Army went south to occupy the entire Liaodong continent and drove Dongjiang Town to the sea, Dongjiang Town, which was in a state of material shortage, had to reduce the regular army establishment as much as possible and reduce the number of daily trainings to save the consumption of combat materials. Later, the food supply became increasingly tight, and food shortages began to occur on the island from time to time. Even the daily training of the regular army was basically interrupted, not to mention the civilian armed organizations.
Later, the Haihan people appeared and provided a large amount of supplies to Pi Dao, finally allowing Dongjiang Town to breathe a sigh of relief. However, in the process of Haihan recruiting immigrants from Pidao, in addition to a large number of refugees from Liaodong who had nowhere to go, many people in Dongjiang Town also chose to leave the bitter cold place of Pidao by seeking refuge with the new master. land. Especially those veterans with military experience are Haihan's favorite targets.
As long as these people have no physical disabilities, after recalling Haihan and training, they can transform into Haihan and fight in just a few months. And the rewards they could get for working for Haihan far exceeded the benefits of serving in Dongjiang Town. This routine spread among the people, and Haihan soon recruited a large number of retired veterans.
As a result, the people who have stayed on Pi Island and have not left have relatively limited military talents, and their desire to participate in the war is also relatively low. Otherwise, they would have joined the troops of Dongjiang Town or enlisted in Haihan. Recruited. Due to the limited resources at hand, it was difficult for Shen's uncle and nephew to expand the scale of Dongjiang Town's armed forces. Instead, under Haihan's suggestion, he embarked on the route of elite soldiers. The General Military Mansion selected a small number of elites from the army to reorganize them according to the Haihan military system, and distributed weapons provided by Haihan. The new army was trained by Haihan military advisers.
At present, Dongjiang Town theoretically still maintains a troop establishment of about 4,000 people, but in fact, the only one that can actually be mobilized to fight is the new army that Haihan helped Dongjiang Town train. The other troops can basically only serve as auxiliary troops, responsible for tasks such as logistics and transportation. As for the more than 10,000 people, I am afraid that they cannot even form a militia group of 300 people at the moment. Although Sha Xi was not completely sure that the information he had visited was objective fact, the information at least made him feel a little more relaxed. Moreover, when he was looking for random interview subjects, he did not concentrate on one place, and the stories of several people were basically the same, so their credibility was relatively high.
The official in charge of civil affairs in Dongjiang Town knew that the two senior Haihan officials who came to inspect the work had extraordinary status, and their attitude was very humble. They followed behind them with nods and bows, for fear that something would go wrong. On the contrary, ordinary people did not know what the special status of these two Haihan officials was, and they were a little less in awe than the Dongjiang Town officials.
Liu Shanxia, who rushed over from another construction site after hearing the news, finally arrived. He personally took the two of them to watch the construction status of the first resettlement village and explained the current construction arrangements to them.
"You have also seen that even if there is a labor force here, the progress of the project is not very fast, so Sha Xi, don't expect too much to draw people from here. Even if you can draw people, the military will first draw them to the frontline construction site. It's much tighter there than here." Liu Shanxia explained Sha Xi's little plan as soon as he came up. However, Sha Xi didn't take it seriously after being pointed out, and just smiled in response.
When Haihan builds immigrant villages in colonies, he usually starts planning months in advance and prepares corresponding building materials and prefabricated parts. Once construction begins, standard simple shacks will be built very quickly. The immigrant village allocated to Dongjiang Town did not have much time to prepare, let alone make various prefabricated parts needed to build houses in advance. Even if Haihan had this ability, he would definitely use it at Fort Lushun first. Most of the immigrants who recently moved to Lushun from Shandong are still living in tents. Shaxi will definitely not use good things. Leave it to Dongjiang Town’s resettlement work.
So after two days of construction here, only the foundation construction work of a small part of the houses has been completed. The wood harvested from the nearby mountains and forests must undergo certain processing before it can be used for building houses. Even if the dozens of carpenters working here are working at full capacity, it is still difficult to meet the demand for building materials on the construction site.
"One step is slow, each step is slow, and the felling and processing of wood has become a bottleneck, causing all subsequent construction progress to be slowed down." Liu Shanxia said helplessly: "At the current speed, the construction period may be longer than expected. The time is more than doubled.”
Chen Yixin asked: "Can we adjust the number of people involved in carpentry and send more people to cut trees?"
Liu Shanxia said: "Of course I have thought of such a simple method a long time ago, but the problem is that there are not enough tools available at the moment. On average, only twenty people have one big saw. Even if double the number of people are sent to cut down trees, the efficiency is still not high. Where to go.”
Chen Yixin muttered: "If there are not enough here, then we can only transfer as much as possible from the Shandong base. I remember that there are still a lot of messy tools in the warehouse on Zhifu Island."
Liu Shanxia nodded and said: "I have sent a telegram back and asked the next ship to Liaodong to bring it over. As long as it is related to civil engineering, I will ask for any tools!"
Sha Xi was thinking about other things at the side, and then he said calmly: "Since the construction progress here has slowed down due to lack of tools, there is a lot of idle labor, I think it is better to transfer some first When people go to Lushun Fort, they can help with the project there first. When enough tools come here, it won't be too late to come back and start work here. Anyway, it's only thirty miles away from Lushun, so it won't take half a day. The time has come.”
Liu Shanxia immediately shook his head and objected: "Thirty miles is true, but the round trip is sixty miles. This trip will take most of the day away, so why not just stay here and work. Even if you don't chop wood, you can at least do something." Simple tasks like building roads and leveling the ground. I say Sha Xi, don’t keep thinking about it. The military hasn’t even taken people from here yet, so don’t worry about it!”
Liu Shanxia had mentioned it once before, and now he said it again. It was very straightforward. Sha Xi knew that this elder brother had a straight temper, so it was not easy to talk about the transfer of manpower from here in front of him.
However, Sha Xi still has something to say about the current construction status of the Dongjiang Resettlement Village: "At the current rate, it may take a month or two to build one resettlement village. Then ten resettlement villages will be built to cover more than 10,000 residents." Wouldn’t it take a whole year to get everyone settled? I think it’s more practical to order a batch of tents first, maybe some people will have to live in tents until next year.”
(End of chapter)