The air was filled with acrid smoke and dust after explosive explosions, and the choking smoke shrouded the mine and refused to dissipate for a long time. [No pop-up novel website] A group of mine trucks, pulled by the whirring and steaming small locomotive, drove towards the mining surface on Huangni Ridge - this was a commuter truck that transported mid-shift workers to work. car. A simple bench is installed on the flatbed truck. Workers sit or stand. They are all fully armed: wearing rattan safety helmets, 24-layer gauze labor protection masks, glass and coconut shell labor protection glasses, thick miners' overalls, and towels tied around their necks... These are all naturalized migrant workers. The basic team of the Mining Bureau is also the mass base of the Australian and Song regime in Sanya. Providing adequate labor protection reflects this consideration - the most difficult period of Sanya's opening is over, and it is very uneconomical for the Senate to continue to consume purified and trained labor in the life-filling opening. of.
The sun shines on the bare valley. The valley full of greenery and tropical style has turned into Zhuotong Mountain. Red soil exposed. The dense vegetation in the valley was removed, and mine car tracks for transporting ore and telegraph poles formed a network on the valley floor and on the slopes. Steam engines installed everywhere emitted black smoke and steam from time to time, and the roar of machines came from Tian Du's repair shop.
All that is left of the Tiandu River is a filthy stream in the center of the riverbed - industrial wastewater discharged from the mines and Tiandu's small machinery factory - flowing inside. Domestic sewage is used to irrigate a small number of nearby fields.
The reason for the decrease in river water is that the reservoir built upstream of Tiandu Town has been completed, which intercepts the water from the upstream and is used to supply domestic water in Tiandu Town and industrial water in the mines. The flow of Tiandu River is not large, so it is not built. Reservoirs cannot guarantee water supply.
Now is the dry season in winter. The water inflow from the upper reaches has been greatly reduced. The reservoir no longer releases water. The natural water flow in the entire lower reaches of Tiandu River has been completely cut off.
A group of half-naked slaves were unloading carts of iron ore that had just been transported from the mining surface to the mine in the valley. Their half-naked bodies were covered with ore powder, and straw hats and cloth strips around their faces were the only labor protection measures. "Leaders" selected from the most reliable naturalized people monitored the slaves' labor. Every 50 people are equipped with a "leader". Instead of carrying whips or sticks, they carried cloth bags filled with bamboo pieces.
Every time a basket of ore is loaded and unloaded, the slaves take a bamboo token from the foreman. If you want to have enough to eat, you have to complete the work quota and collect the specified number of bamboo cards. The result of slacking off at work is that they don't have enough to eat, they don't have the energy to work the next day, and they eventually starve to death under heavy physical labor. Slaves who refused to work were executed directly, and their bodies were hung on the gallows in the slave camp to dry until new victims were hung.
The foremen monitor the entire labor process. They do not carry weapons. No matter what weapons they carry, one person has no chance of winning against fifty people. Carrying weapons will only make the weapons fall into the hands of the rioters if they encounter resistance.
As a back-up, at least one squad of soldiers will be deployed near any place where slaves work together.
Vigilance mission. Armed riot control can be deployed at any time. Sentinels built on towers on hillsides and mountain tops used telescopes to monitor every corner of the mines and valleys at all times. According to the order, these sentries had the right to shoot at any "suspicious" slaves at any time.
The slaves' work efficiency was not high at first, but after a few days, the slaves thoroughly understood the "Kun Thief"'s labor policy, and production efficiency immediately improved. In fact, the efficiency of slave labor in Sanya's mines and roadbed projects was much higher than estimated by many elders who doubted slave labor. Regarding this point, the former HRs in the Planning Institute do not believe that it is the result of high-pressure policies. The key lies in effective labor management.
"Sweatshops with basic human rights can be settled, but slaves who don't even have the right to live can't be settled?" said a senior HR veteran who once worked in a sweatshop. "The labor efficiency of slaves is really so bad. Southern slave owners After you have eaten enough and spent a lot of money to buy slaves from Africa, what are you going to do to fight a war over it?”
The arrival of the first batch of Southeast Asian slaves gave the Sanya region finally a substitute for consumption. Of course, there are still very few slaves, not enough for large-scale consumption, but at least they can free naturalized migrant workers from some of the most dangerous and arduous tasks. During the meeting between Kua Keqiong and Wang Luobin, he stated that by the end of March 1631, he could guarantee the importation of 1,500 slaves every month. If more investors can be found, Batavia's supply of goods is guaranteed, and 2,000 people per month will not be a problem.
Wang Luobin made a rough calculation: 1,500 people are shipped every month. 15,000 people can be shipped in the 10 months from March to December. Excluding certain permanent losses by the end of the year, the number of slaves in Sanya should be 1,000. Not only is it sufficient to ensure the mining tasks of Tiandu, it can also be used to mine Damao's manganese ore and phosphate ore. At the same time, a considerable part of the labor force can be used in ports, roads and other infrastructure construction.
Compared with the Planning Institute, which can only allocate manpower bit by bit and worry about the accident rate and death rate per 10,000 tons, it is really refreshing to use slave labor. As long as the Planning Institute can allocate enough sugar and rum to Sanya in exchange for slaves, labor will no longer be a constraint.
It has been almost two months since the mine started mining at the end of October. Despite problems such as insufficient labor and intermittent supply of explosives, by mid-January 1631, the iron ore mined from the Huangniling open-pit mine still formed several towers more than ten meters high in the yard. Small hill. According to this progress, the conditions for officially opening a regular iron ore freight route between Lingao and Sanya have been met - although the first batch of iron ore will be shipped one month later than Wang Luobin expected.
For the purpose of transporting iron ore, the railway extending from the mine to Anyou Wharf has been built, but the loading and unloading equipment at the wharf is not yet in place. Without rubber, there would be no most convenient and effective belt conveyor. The manufacturing director department could only trial-produce a chain dumper first. This kind of equipment was supposed to be installed and debugged before the end of December 2016. Due to the quality problems of the chain
, there was no sign of the equipment until the end of the New Year.
Ji Runzhi inspects the ongoing infrastructure construction site in Jinling Industrial Zone. This place is still a barren hillside. Ji Yuan is using instruments for surveying and mapping, and Ji Shu is holding the benchmark. This is the Jinjiling area on the west side of Tiandu Town. Although it is called "Ling", it is actually a small gentle slope with a large area of flat land. There is also an abundant water supply from the Sanya River nearby, which is more convenient for the development of manufacturing industry.
Sanya's planned industrial enterprises: coconut processing factories, soap factories, food factories... These industrial enterprises will all start construction in 1631 and be completed and put into production that year. In particular, the coconut oil production in the coconut joint processing plant is an urgently needed project for the Lingao industrial system where supplies are in short supply and bottlenecks are everywhere.
"I wonder how these guys are celebrating the New Year." Ji Runzhi angrily recorded a few key points in his notebook - if Sanya Kai's plan hadn't been further refined, he wouldn't have had to He stayed in Sanya. However, he considered that when he went back to celebrate the New Year, he would have to attend to a large set of public and private affairs activities such as debriefing, writing reports and socializing. He did not have much time to prepare a master plan for Sanya.
If the plan cannot be adjusted in time, it will bring a lot of trouble to the following construction-especially the material distribution and large-scale equipment dispatch of the Planning Institute. In the end, Ji Runzhi decided not to return to Lingao in the New Year, but to stay in Sanya to continue to prepare and revise the plan. .
Sanya's past planning was quite crude, and there were many unreasonable things in it, especially in the layout of Sanya City. After Ji Runzhi arrived in Sanya, he re-prepared Sanya's overall plan.
First, he modified the purpose of Anyou. The old plan was to build Anyuyue into a port and trade city as a model across the country. However, after on-the-spot investigation and research, Ji Runzhirun believed that the area of this flat land was too small. It was slightly more than 1 kilometer long from north to south and more than 600 meters wide from east to west. As a town, it was just so-so, and as a model city showing the image of the traveling country. , it’s really unbearable. In the new plan, Anyou's status has been greatly reduced, and it will only be used as a special port for exporting iron ore.
Regarding the location of Sanya City, Ji Runzhi believed that it should be based on the layout of the old time and space, choosing the mouth of the Sanya River. Although the Sanya River Estuary cannot be used as a large port, there is a large area of flat open space around it, which is suitable for building a city. As the life and business center of the entire Sanya Special Economic Zone. The mouth of the Sanya River is used as a small fishing port. .
The military and port functions are centered on Yulin Fort, located east of Gouling Mountain and along the west side of Yulin Port. The coastline here is 5 kilometers long. In the old time and space, it was the location of the Yulin Military Port. In this time and space, it is also used to build 6 naval bases and large commercial ports. At the same time, large-scale cargo warehousing and logistics centers are arranged.
To the southwest of Yulinbao, the slopes in the Dadonghai-Luhuitou area, surrounded by mountains and sea, are designated as future resorts and recuperation areas. Although the Senate has no intention of carrying out construction in this area at this stage, it can start to protect the local vegetation and ecology and avoid being polluted by industry and shipping.
Although there are mountains in the Dadonghai area,
The mountain is very low. In fact, it is the transportation channel connecting the Yulin base and Sanya City. It is not difficult to build roads or even railways to connect the two places.
The role of Tiandu remains unchanged: in addition to being the seat of the Mining Bureau, it will also form the industrial center of Sanya with the Jinling Industrial Zone to the west. . ..
