Section 13 Xintian Alone Town
Ji Runzhi, director of the Planning and Architecture Office of the Sanya Special Economic Zone, placed a folding table in the work shed next to the foundation stone, which is also the construction site headquarters, and spread the architectural planning drawings on it. [No pop-up novel website] A gas lamp illuminated the dark workshop brightly.
Ji Yuan and Ji Shu were busy cleaning up the work shed, making it clean and tidy, which made Ji Runzhi feel very comfortable. It’s good to have apprentices. Except for the fact that these two apprentices could not be used to meet his physical needs, he served him meticulously, to the point where he would immediately take the spit paper as soon as he coughed.
Ji Runzhi is not the kind of person who likes to hide things. If his apprentice pleases him so much, he will be quite attentive in teaching him - even though he is not interested in education. .
Under his education, the two apprentices have now mastered simple topographic surveying and simple drawing. Ji Runzhi plans to concentrate on teaching them more professional content once the project in Sanya has settled down. In the future, simple tasks will be left to them directly, without having to do it yourself.
"Okay, you go out first." Ji Runzhi heard someone shouting to stand at attention and salute in the distance outside, and knew that the main military and political leaders in the Sanya area were here. They are going to review Tian Du’s building plans here.
He walked out of the work shed, and sure enough, the Meteor 2 was parked on the platform, puffing out white steam from the station, and the workers climbed onto the train to unload the goods on it. A group of senators were coming down from the platform, and the sentries on the platform were saluting with their guns raised.
"Isn't your place nice?" Xi Yazhou was the first to get into his work shed and sat down on the bench. "It's much better organized than my headquarters."
"It's all Jiyuan Jishu's fault. The two children are doing a good job." Ji Runzhi greeted the two apprentices waiting outside, "Go and make a pot of tea."
"What kind of tea do you want to make?" Wang Luobin shook the steel travel cup in his hand. "You have to prepare it yourself. Just ask them to get some boiling water."
Ji Shu brought two hot water bottles from the boiling water station - these were high-end luxuries that only seniors could enjoy. He poured water for everyone, turned up the gas light switch, and then left.
The work shed was surrounded by a constant flow of workers and vehicles, making it very noisy. However, it does not affect the meeting in the work shed. None of the main military and political officials in the Sanya area cared about this. They all gathered around Ji Runzhi, carefully looking at the Tiandu planning family diagram he had just made, and listening to his explanation of the planning ideas.
This originally humid tropical valley will now accommodate tens of thousands of miners and their families in the future Tiandu Iron Mine. Ji Runzhi not only has to make a layout plan for this emerging town, but also considers future development.
The quality of Tiandu's iron ore is very good, but the absolute reserves are limited. Judging from the huge demand for steel in the crossing industry, the exploitation of Tiandu will not last more than one generation, so it is necessary to plan from the beginning how to develop when the nearby mineral resources are exhausted.
From the perspective of urban development, the coast of Sanya Bay is a more suitable place to develop into a large-scale coastal city. Not only does it have sufficient coastline as tourism resources, but the sea salt production potential here is also sufficient to support the development of a city. Moreover, the water of Sanya River provides sufficient water source for urban development.
In contrast, the development potential of Tiandu is limited. First, the area here is limited, and secondly, once the mineral products are exhausted, it will cause the decline of the town. Mining towns are generally seriously polluted. It is not easy to transform the industry, and a lot of environmental restoration work may be required. Therefore, Tiandu is not very sustainable. As a necessary resource for a city, the reserve of water is also not very large. It is quite difficult to transform into other industrial towns.
Therefore, in the development planning of Sanya, Ji Runzhi only planned Tiandu as a highly functional mining town without setting up an industrial zone or commercial zone. The town consists of only three parts: the mining company administrative area, the miners' living area and the mining industrial area. The latter is just a machinery workshop that repairs machinery for mines, and also provides simple repair services for machinery and equipment in the entire Sanya area.
The water source for cities and mining areas will come from the small reservoir of Tiandu River. According to the exploration by Bai Guoshi and others and the hydrological data of old time and space, the water volume of Tiandu River is the same as that of all rivers in Hainan. There is a huge difference between the dry and rainy seasons. Although now Since the railway has been built, there is no need to count on the river transportation of Tiandu River, but the total amount of domestic water and mining and industrial water in the town itself is very large, and the crossing is also planning to carry out some basic agricultural production near Tiandu. Taken together, there is no reservoir. Adjusting the water volume is not enough. The use of electricity is the second most important thing. Small hydropower is unbalanced and the electricity is not enough. It can only be used to enrich the lives of the elders.
Tiandu's main energy source comes from coal. Transport ships carry iron ore from Sanya and return with coal. One part is used directly to drive steam engines, and the other part produces gas for lighting, cooking and supplying fuel to local small industries.
"There are too few supporting facilities." Wang Luobin looked at his planning map, "The scale of the commercial district is also too small." He continued to comment, "The miners will have wives and children in the future. Where will these people be placed? There must also be excess labor. The arrangement... according to your plan, this town will be a typical bachelor's town."
"That's it." Ji Runzhi explained his considerations, "...it is meaningless to spend too much effort on this town. Its development potential is limited, and Tiandu's ore reserves are not too large. .So it’s enough for Tian Du to last for twenty or thirty years.”
"If this happens, there will be no women and children in Tiandu Town in the future."
Ji Runzhi nodded: "In my opinion, it is best to have a labor camp type here, similar to Jiazi Coal Mine. Miners, administrative staff and technical staff all adopt a contract rotation system, and they work alone. They work here for three or four years and then go home. Food The solution is to use canteens, no individual kitchens, socialized logistics management, food, accommodation and travel are all handled by the Mining Bureau, and the supporting living service facilities are reduced to a minimum. At most, a few small restaurants, small hotels and other facilities can be opened to adjust and adjust. A stadium and a hospital allow the miners to vent their energy when they have nothing to do."
He continued, "There is also Sanya City here. Miners can also go to Sanya City for recreation when they have a rest. This can also stimulate the local tertiary industry. Anyway, with the train, it will be very convenient to travel between the two places."
As for Tian Du's future role, Ji Runzhi believes that after the ore is mined, it can be used as a military garrison and a six-level fortress surrounding Yulingang.
"Isn't it inhumane to force miners to be bachelors for a few years?" Zhuo Tianmin was worried about this.
"I think this is too militarized management." Although Qian Shuixie aimed to speak as little as possible, he was instinctively disgusted with the social nature of this kind of militarized management.
"This can maximize the intensive management and reduce social costs." Ji Runzhi explained, "If we let them bring their families, we have to arrange employment for their families. If they are not employed, it will be a waste of labor. With their families, they You must start your own meal. There is no basic commercial circulation and supply of agricultural and sideline products here compared to Lingao. There is nothing here."
The biggest advantage of military management is the convenience and uniformity: food, clothing, tools... and finally, even women are uniformly rationed. The process is greatly simplified for material supply.
"No, I don't think this is good. First, if miners don't have families, they won't have a sense of belonging here. People come and go, and they can't stay. This is always just a labor camp - we have to invest a lot of money to open a town. Manpower and material resources cannot be as luxurious as Americans and Russians. When resources are gone, cities will be abandoned and relocated. Second, women themselves are also a labor resource, and arranging their employment is not a burden for us. For example, Sanya is planning to open up Wood processing plants, copra processing plants and food factories... these all require a lot of manpower. There is no reason to force miners to use prostitutes to solve their physiological problems while at the same time bringing in labor from outside." Wang Luobin said, "The last point: we What is most needed is the population, especially children. Such forced singlehood wastes a large number of people of childbearing age. It is not good for expanding the population, especially the new generation of population."
Children born in the areas controlled by the Crossing Group in recent years can be educated according to the wishes of the crossing group. Twenty years later, they will grow into the backbone of the indigenous people in the crossing country.
"Well, I also think that our top priority is to expand the population of Sanya. Only in this way can we form a stable foundation for rule." He Fanghui agreed, "To put it bluntly, there are no women and children of our own here, and the miners have to work hard to fight and defend it. I’m afraid it’s even difficult in the mines.”
In the end, it was decided to appropriately expand the miners' living area. The miners' residences were no longer just collective dormitories: a part of the tube building to accommodate family units was built outside the collective dormitory building. The supporting facilities in the living area have also increased accordingly, and a primary school and a kindergarten have been added. In addition to the commercial buildings of the cooperative, some commercial buildings have also been reserved for new merchants to open shops in the future.
As for the strict defense system originally planned and designed by Ji Runzhi, Xi Yazhou felt it was unnecessary.
The defense system designed by Ji Runzhi is basically the same as Sanya's defense system, with trenches and earthen fortresses. However, Xi Yazhou believes that Tiandu's defensive pressure is much less than that of Yulingang. Further inland from Tiandu is the Li District. The level of force of the Li people is very average - a nation that needs to outsource all its iron weapons. It is very difficult to fight. Moreover, judging from Hu Xun's confession, the Li people occasionally harassed them, but rarely carried out large-scale violent violations.
"If you want to fight, our thousands of miner militiamen equipped with standard spears and hard hats and with military training will be enough to advance to the foot of Wuzhi Mountain."
"This is already the most simplified version of the defense facility. How else can it be simplified?" Ji Runzhi said unhappily when he saw that his plans were rejected one after another.
"Adopt the village model adopted by the German colonists when they marched eastward," Wang Luobin said. "Use the houses themselves as fortifications."
The specific method is to form a group of independent houses into a square or circular group. The doors and windows of each house are opened to the central space, and no windows are opened on the walls facing the outside. The houses are connected by walls built of logs or masonry. Only one fortified solid gate remains available for entry and exit.
"This is too crude." Ji Runzhi found it unbelievable. He had seen this approach before - when building a gated community, the apartment buildings in the outermost ring of the community were directly closed with brick walls.
This method is enough to protect against petty thieves, but how to protect against armed enemies? Ji Runzhi felt it was completely unreliable.
"The German immigrants used this method to resist the Slavs and expanded the German land from Swabia to the Oder River and deep into East Prussia. You have to know that their houses and walls were still made of wood. What we have to face The Li people were not even as armed as the Slavs - the Slavs at least had iron weapons at that time."
"In addition to the Li people, we should also consider the Ming army or pirates."
"If they have the ability to cross the mountains and cross the Li District, then they are not Ming troops or pirates." Xi Yazhou is confident, "Even if they have the ability and perseverance, it will take at most thirty minutes to dispatch reinforcements from Yulin Fort by train. Can a few thousand armed miners resist for twenty minutes?"
"Actually, it depends on your planning and architectural design," He Fanghui interjected. "Most of the houses are brick structures with more than two floors. The second floor is five or six meters high, right? The high-level city wall is nothing more than that. Except for one In addition to not opening windows to the outside of the building, windows above the second floor can still be opened, and at most, iron shutters can be added.”
In the end, it was decided to group all the houses into groups and add several gun towers at strategic locations as the core of defense. Each artillery tower is stationed with several basic militiamen. The office buildings of the administrative district are fortified in the form of offices in Sanya City. Finally, a trench was dug around the entire Tiandu Town as a basic defense.
Xi Yazhou proposed the concept of using armored patrol vehicles on security issues at the meeting. It is recommended to specifically apply to Lingao to build several flat-bed rail cars equipped with nested steam engines or better single-cylinder diesel engines. Simple protection is installed on all sides of the car body. The car is equipped with a typewriter. The rail car runs from Yulinbao to Tiandu Conduct regular patrols on the railway tracks. When encountering an enemy attack, you can rush to any point along the line as quickly as possible and attack the enemy with intensive firepower.
"As far as the technical level and fighting will of the enemies in this time and space are concerned, I don't think there are any enemies in South China who can persist in attacking under the fire of typewriters." Xi Yazhou was very confident.
In addition to serving as mobile reinforcements at any time, the armored patrol cars mainly perform regular security along the railway. Xi Yazhou was not afraid that the enemy would try to do this, but he was worried that so many rail tracks would arouse the covetousness of the locals and lead to a large-scale trend of rail theft. e! ~!
