Yang Fan only spent one hundred taels to buy this earth mountain and more than a thousand acres of stone beach. Now it seems that there is really a lot of money to be made, not to mention that these slags can be used.
This nearly one square kilometer of flat land alone is worth using to build a military camp.
Tens of thousands of soldiers from the three thousand regiments plus their families came to the rocky beach by the river on the west side of the Dongshan Mine.
"Everyone who has a craft, come out and stand on the left. No matter what kind of carpenter, stonemason, bricklayer, blacksmith, leatherworker, someone who can twist hemp rope, know how to dig a well, etc., come out, and your salary will be increased by fifty cents."
As soon as Yang Fan finished speaking, a large group of people cheering and running to the left with their whole family.
The other people who only know how to farm looked eagerly at the opportunity leaving them, and their eyes almost turned red.
Fifty dollars, that's six hundred dollars a year, enough to make new clothes for the whole family. If I buy the cheapest used clothes, I will still have enough money left to buy two sets of old bedding.
Zhang Gada is still very experienced. Every fifty people are temporarily divided into a team, and the strongest one is found to be the temporary captain first.
Divide the camp for living and build houses for the winter.
Along the surrounding edges of the land, each family was assigned a small plot on which to build a house. Three thousand households happened to surround the entire Zhitushan camp.
Later, trenches will be dug along the edge and earth walls will be built to seal the place.
These refugees are all farmers. As long as they have enough to eat, they can do all these things. All they need is a simple organization.
After all, this is the house they will live in in the future.
These 60 teams of people received shovels, picks, hammers, drills, hoes, and hacksaws in groups. Cut down the tree and make the wooden handle yourself.
Each family was given a set of tools, without which it was impossible to work.
These tools were lent to these people, and they would have to compensate for any damage or loss. It was not that Yang Fan was reluctant to part with them, but he just couldn't let them use public property without cherishing it or the tools.
Yang Fan tries to save expenses as much as possible. Every expenditure must be carefully calculated to save the most money.
But these tools can’t save money; they must be durable.
Three thousand sets of tools were distributed, but hundreds of thousands were lost.
Yang Fan sighed, money really can't be spent.
On the first day, cut down the tree, simply clean up the branches, then remove all the bark, and use a saw to cut into wooden posts as needed. Wooden posts are used to make the frame, and small wooden poles are used to make purlins for the roof.
There was no time to wait for the trees to dry in the shade, so in order to prevent mold and rot, they could only use fire to burn the surface of the wood black to prevent rot.
Then nail it directly with iron nails to make the frame of the house.
There are not enough carpenters to make mortise and tenon structures, and wet wood is pointless and unusable.
Yang Fan bought many large rolls of single-film colored striped cloth. Eighty cents per meter, very cheap and very practical.
This plastic sheet is used to make woven bags, which are very strong, waterproof and windproof.
The wooden frame is directly nailed with this colorful striped fabric. A house is simply built, and you don’t have to worry about rain or wind.
Let people move in quickly first.
Only having a house can make people feel at home, and having a home can calm people's hearts.
It is impossible to use bricks in the house. There is no place to buy so many bricks, and even if there is room to buy them, the cost is too high.
It is indeed cheaper to open your own kiln and bake bricks, but the bricks will not be produced until next year.
Not enough time.
This winter hundreds of people, including the elderly and children, froze to death.
Because the wood is not dried in the shade, time is saved. The frame of the house can be completed in a day or two, and can be directly covered with a single-film colored strip cloth, so people can live in it directly.
It's autumn now, and it will be more than a month before the weather gets cold.
During this time, quickly use clay and chopped hemp knives to mix mud, and use a wooden frame to make mud bricks.
This kind of adobe brick was commonly used in rural houses in the past.
As long as it is regularly repaired, there is no problem in living there for several generations.
From the carpenter group, each family receives a wooden brick frame. This kind of thing is very simple. It is composed of four wooden boards with a mortise and tenon structure. The four boards are combined into a closed four sides, and then they are made of chopped hemp. Fill it in with a knife and good clay mud. After compacting and then removing the four boards, a mud brick that is one foot long, half a foot wide and half a foot thick is ready on the ground.
Leave on the ground to dry in the sun.
Once dry, you can use it to build walls.
The molds were taken to the side to make new mud bricks.
Soon the floors of every house were covered with dried mud bricks.
This job can be done by the whole family, the elderly and children can do it, and it is very quick.
When there are enough mud bricks, the single-membrane colored strips are removed and the mud bricks are used to build the wall along the wooden frame.
The carpenter also finished the doors and windows at this time. Just install it directly. The roof is directly covered with thick thatch.
The exterior walls also need to be plastered thickly with clay mud.
There is a kang and a stove in the house. The last step is to wait for the house to dry slowly.
In this way, the house will be completed by winter.
After the house with wooden frame and single-membrane colored striped cloth was completed, the regiment training soldiers could no longer stay at home to work. The people who had to take off the bricks at home became the elderly, children, women, and other brothers and sisters of the regiment training soldiers.
The regiment training began immediately, and Zhang Gada began to appoint corps commanders based on the vicious eyes of veteran Youzi. Then assign them tasks.
Trenches were dug along the edge of the land, and the excavated soil and clay were used by each family to make bricks. The topsoil will be used to build the wall, and the trench is planned to be dug one foot wide and seven feet deep. The amount of this project is not small.
A total of 240,000 square meters of earth will be dug. It is estimated that these three thousand people will work for twenty days.
In addition to building the wall, it took a month and a half.
Yang Fan still has to train them and doesn't have so much time.
Simply dig a drainage ditch first to mark the ownership of the land.
Then, blackened wooden stakes were buried every one foot and nailed with single-film colored strips of cloth to prevent outsiders from seeing what was going on inside.
The side of this land is four kilometers long, and the width of a single-film colored strip is three meters, and one meter costs 80 cents. More than 3,000 soft girl coins were used to build the wall. Yang Fan thought it was a great deal.
On the inside of the trench and on the outside of the wall, short wooden stakes should be buried every one meter and barbed wire should be nailed on. This basically sealed the camp.
Zhao Shuigen's family of five received five molds from the carpenter group and started making adobe bricks as a family. Zhao Shuigan has already gone to the military camp. I can only go home one day a month. After the wooden frame of the family house was completed, it was up to these people to remove the bricks.
At the same time as the group training camp was being built, the second batch of 300 miners also arrived. They used shovels to dig out the waste soil of the slag mountain, and then lifted it to the mineral concentrator. These machines were equipped with many strong magnetic rods on wooden frames, layer by layer. The magnetic rod will absorb the iron powder and iron sand in the soil. When the suction rod is full, the magnetic rod will be pulled out if it is no longer adsorbed.
There were people nearby who came to scrape off the iron powder and iron sand on top.
The key to this job is to dig out the dirt, lift it to the top of the machine with a pole, and dump it down.
These dregs are very heavy and contain a lot of iron. Those that do not contain iron are also stones.
One person can only pick two kegs.
In this way, a group of people have to take a break every half hour.
After Huang San finished working for half an hour, he went to the side to rest. He slumped down on a stone exhausted and drank water from the bamboo tube issued by the mine. Boiled water was provided here. Workers are strictly prohibited from drinking raw water.
From the mountain, he looked enviously at the team training that was taking place on the school field down the mountain.
The ore dressing was only eighty cents a month, and the regiment had two cents. It was not so hard, and it was all because of my bad luck. I found out the news too late, and I was hungry for three days, so I couldn't lift the stone lock.
well! A sigh.
Huang San, who had had enough rest, reluctantly continued to pick soil.
