Text] Chapter 122 Yuan Ziguang
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To allow the refugees to spend the winter on Jeju Island and to allow the ambush troops to move freely in the Shandong Peninsula, the joint logistics headquarters must provide winter clothing. [No pop-up novel website]
The cheapest and most convenient solution is of course to make cotton jackets and coats. Low cost and good thermal insulation effect. Under the conditions of sufficient material conditions, it is the first solution.
The Planning Institute had enough cotton cloth, but not much wadding for filling. The cotton cultivation industry in Hainan Island is mainly supported by the people. They grow cotton extensively, but their output is limited, and they have no habit of making cotton clothes and quilts. So there is no cotton wool available locally.
If you insist on making cotton-padded clothes, you can only use kapok filling. Kapok is not suitable for textiles, but the fiber is hollow and has little buoyancy. The veterans used it to make life jackets. It can be used as cotton wool for cotton-padded jackets, which should be enough in terms of warmth. The reserves of kapok are also sufficient and can be used to make some cotton-padded jackets.
The Planning Institute also has a reserve of down. It selects good quality feathers from slaughtered ducks and geese, cleans them, and then reserves them to prepare down jackets in the future. However, Zheng Shangjie and several other female veteran fashion groups' attempts to make down jackets have failed. Down jackets appear to be cotton-padded jackets filled with down, but the actual technical content is quite high. Especially the fabric of the down jacket must ensure that the down does not "máo". In the old days, special chemical fiber fabrics were used to achieve this. Yes, pure natural textiles were used in Lingao: whether it was cotton, linen, gebu, woolen or rare banana cloth, none of them met the requirements. Zheng Shangjie, Ai Beibei and others tried all the materials they could find, and even I considered applying a layer of oil paper on the inside, but in the end all failed. Replica of a down jacket has been a no-brainer in recent years.
Finally, there is woolen cloth. In the past, the Planning Institute purchased some of this sheepskin fabric in Macao, and also seized some of it from the spoils of Gujiazhuang. After the trade agreement with the Dutch East India Company was signed, the Dutch shipped some woolen goods to Lingao. The total number is about five to six thousand, and the woolen fabrics are mainly green, black and red. The purpose of the purchase at that time was to make autumn and winter clothing for the Fubo army and expatriate personnel going to the northern region.
After removing the high-grade fine wool that is too thin inside, the remaining denim is a good material for making military coats and blankets. Hong Huangnan knew that compared to cotton-padded jackets, which were susceptible to moisture, woolen coats were quite waterproof. For activities in areas with high humidity like coastal areas, woolen clothing is much more suitable than cotton-padded jackets.
The navy has always worn woolen pea coats, not just for "foreign style" considerations.
Hong Huangnan organized the joint logistics team to write a memorandum to the Planning Institute, requesting that sufficient materials be allocated to make winter clothing required for engine operations.
Use woolen fabrics to make military coats and winter uniforms for the Fubo Army, Navy and Army. At least 4,500 sets of woolen winter clothes must be prepared before the winter of 1631. In addition, military boots with a warm function should be prepared for the ambush troops - preferably with a certain waterproof function.
In order to reduce costs and save materials, navy and army woolen coats are made according to the style of short coats. Woolen or cotton military caps are provided as matching accessories, and warm gloves and socks are also provided.
According to the standards of the old time and space, soldiers' thermal insulation methods and socks were generally made of sheep wool, whichever was lighter, warmer and waterproof. But there is no sheep máo in Lingao, and of course there is no máo line. Hong Huangnan settled for the next best thing: using Lingao's labor protection cotton gauze gloves, which are currently widely used in factories. As for thermal socks, a similar approach is followed: Thread socks are knitted from coarse cotton yarn.
Such equipment is not a problem in Jeju Island. Hong Huangnan doesn't know how cold Shandong was during the Little Ice Age. These measures to keep hands and feet warm are just fine when the temperature is above zero, but when the temperature drops as low as minus five or six degrees, it becomes a bit unbearable.
The cotton-padded jackets were supplied to refugees. Hong Huangnan wrote in the memo: The size might as well be larger - not only can they be worn, but they can also be used as quilts. The cotton-padded jacket should be as strong as possible, especially the fabric. In this way, after the refugees are sent south, the replaced cotton-padded jackets can be disassembled and washed and used by the next group of people. Lianqin previously estimated that 10,000 sets of cotton-padded jackets would be prepared by the end of 2011. The warm shoes needed by the refugees were difficult to find, so Hong Huangnan had no choice but to ignore them. Poor farmers generally couldn't wear shoes in winter anyway. As long as they could get to Jeju Island, their feet would not be frozen.
Because the clothing is too simple and there will definitely be a shortage of numbers, there must be enough shelter buildings in Jeju Island and Shandong to protect them from wind, rain and cold, while providing a minimum safety guarantee. . The camp area must also have transportation facilities for transferring personnel and materials.
There is no construction of port facilities in this time and space. There is no pier that can allow large ships of the Fubo Army and Navy to berth directly on the shore. It was previously planned to build one 1,000-ton simple terminal each at the transshipment locations in Dengzhou and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and one 3,000-ton terminal each in Jeju Island and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Shandong needs to establish temporary camps with a population of 20,000 to 30,000 people, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang need to establish temporary camps with a population of 10,000 to 20,000 people. According to the recommendations of the Ministry of Colonial Trade: Jeju and Kaohsiung areas also need to build a building that can accommodate 5
Reception and quarantine camps with a scale of 10,000 people. Some of the building materials used to build these camps were brought locally and some were shipped from Hong Kong. Approximately 3,000 tons of construction materials and equipment need to be transported.
In addition, the Ministry of Health estimates that the refugees need about 10 tons of medical supplies and water purifiers every month.
At the same time, a water purification plant with a daily treatment capacity of 20,000 liters of drinking water will be established in Shandong, and a water purification plant with a daily treatment capacity of 50,000 liters of drinking water will be established in Kaohsiung and Jeju Island.
In order to ensure the steam power equipment needs and civil fuel needs in Jeju Island and Kaohsiung, 1,000 tons of coal are required per month in both places.
Set up a ship supply station in Kaohsiung and Jeju Island, and conduct simple repairs to the ships at the same time. At present, the shipbuilding industry does not have the ability to set up a wide range of locations, nor does it have enough workers and large machinery. Hong Huangnan plans to build only a few simple facilities locally, such as beach slipways, simple winches and booms. Then store some marine materials. Three additional repair ships were refitted. Equipped with professional workers, equipment and tools, they take turns to be on duty in the ports of Kaohsiung and Jeju Island to maintain and repair ships.
Hong Huangnan was slightly surprised after reading the draft of the supply plan he had just compiled. The scale of Operation Engine is really not small. Although the types of materials transported are reduced compared to Operation Titan, they far exceed Operation Titan in terms of quantity and transportation mileage. The complexity of the organization is no less than that of the old time and space.
"We have to take it one step at a time." Hong Huangnan thought, "If we take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation first, then the matter will be half successful."
The early morning light shines on the land of Lingao.
The melodious bells tinkled loudly. At the site where all metals returned to the Senate for industrial service, the metal bell was a very rare object.
As the bell rang, a large number of red brick and wooden houses along the Wenlan River rang out many commands: "Stand up!"
"salute!"
"sit down!"
This is Yerba Buena National School. The Senate education system is the centerpiece of the empire's future elites and the cradle of its backbone.
Following the instructions from the monitor of each class, the students began the first class of the day.
As soon as the door to the simple white wood classroom opened, a young man in his twenties, wearing a blue homespun "cadre uniform" hurried in. He has all the characteristics of an otaku: glasses, obesity, and messy hair. He is probably the look of Kota Hirano in "School Apocalypse" and Haru Hashida in "Steins Stone: Men". But he was indeed one of the few qualified teachers among the elders.
"stand up!"
In the more than two years since Fanggedi National School was established, the daily classroom etiquette has been fixed according to custom. The time traveler named Yuan Ziguang has long been accustomed to such a life. He stood up and bowed at 60 degrees to the second-year students in the upper primary school of the National School, who bowed at 45 degrees in return.
Then he scanned the entire classroom with his eyes.
The class of thirty people is silent... Fangcaoyao National School implements a mixed class system for boys and girls. Although in the old time and space, the education countercurrent of boys and girls being divided into classes or even branch schools has gradually become a small form of education.
Capitalism and the fashion of wealthy people. But in this time and space, breaking the social gap between men and women and promoting modern male-daughter relationships is an important task for the elders to "change customs". Except for a few professional classes that are single-sex classes, they are all equally divided between men and women.
The classrooms at Fanggedi National School are very similar to rural primary schools in underdeveloped areas where Yuan Ziguang once went to "traffic". Simple white lime walls, wooden windows, and unpainted white desks and chairs. Even the simple black-lacquered wooden board at the back of the classroom, which is specially used to publish blackboard reports, is so similar.
He paid attention to the latest propaganda bulletin on the blackboard... "Paying close attention to students' ideological trends and theoretical indoctrination is one of the top tasks of veteran teachers." This sentence was printed on a document that was recently sent to the People's Committee for Education and Fangcaodi. It made it difficult for the full-time veteran teachers headed by Hu Qingbai to adapt, because the document mentioned several "one of the top priorities". There was disagreement over what exactly constituted the “top priority.”
According to the latest issue of the "Public Opinion Orientation" document of the Publicity Department, the topic selected by Hu Qingbai on the blackboard newspaper was "Natural Disasters in the Ming Dynasty"
Each class will also be evaluated. The content inside is obtained by students from library materials according to the guidance of the instructor, and also includes the students' own personal experiences. Dense white chalk writing almost filled the blackboard, and the masthead was poorly drawn: Yuan Ziguang could barely make out that it was a broken basket and a skeleton. ! .
