Although Zhao Xin came to Kinmen Town to preside over the negotiations, he also brought a lot of good things to Lu Qi. When the two of them finished their conversation on the balcony, they arrived at the door of a large warehouse in the fortress while no one was paying attention.
This warehouse is the largest one in the fortress, and it was also the most time-consuming to build. It took half a year to complete.
The entire warehouse has a construction area of 4,000 square meters, a net height of 9 meters, a total length of 40 meters, and a span of 10 meters; the main structure and purlins are all made of Q235 alloy steel, and the walls are made of 6 cm thick metal profiled plates. The ones are color steel plates. The most critical thing is that the entire foundation is poured with reinforced concrete, which is up to two meters deep.
No problem, the entire west coast of North America is in an earthquake zone, and there is a major earthquake every few decades on average.
The major California earthquake recorded in another time and space first began in 1812, with an intensity of 7.5 on the Richter scale. The adobe houses built by the Spaniards at that time simply could not withstand it and almost all collapsed. The earthquake in 1857 was even more fatal, with an estimated magnitude exceeding 7.9. Thanks to the sparse population of California at the time, the death toll was very small.
However, this is not possible in this time and space. For the gold in Coloma and the development of the Central Valley, Beihai Town will carry out large-scale immigration here. At least 20,000 to 30,000 people will be transported here within three years, and more than 200,000 will be transported in the next ten years. people. How to withstand earthquakes has become an insurmountable threshold before Zhao Xin and others.
At this point, some people may say that Japanese wooden house buildings are earthquake-resistant and can be introduced on a large scale. But in fact, the earthquake resistance of Japanese-style buildings is based on modern technology, and early wooden buildings are not good; for example, all the real old wooden houses in Tokyo were destroyed in the 1923 earthquake. The modern house looks like an old-fashioned wooden building on the surface, but new materials are used in both the foundation and the frame, and there are strict requirements in design.
Rucci asked his two guards to guard outside the warehouse door. No one was allowed to enter without his order. Then he opened the heavy U-shaped lock on the door with the key he carried with him, and walked in with Zhao Xin.
There were no lights in the warehouse, but both of them held large, powerful flashlights. When they were turned on, they were suddenly illuminated like daylight. Lu Qi led Zhao Xin to a reserved open space, pointed his flashlight at the white line drawn on the ground and said, "Here, the space has been reserved."
Zhao Xin nodded, and then asked Lu Qi to stand further back. In the eighteen years since Lu Qi came to the eighteenth century, this was the first time he had seen Zhao Xin "casting a spell"; before, he had either been taken away in a coma, or like others, he had sat in a cabin converted from a container, put on an oxygen mask, and watched. When the iron door is closed, when it is opened again, time and space have been transformed.
Suddenly, Zhao Xin did not perform any hand gestures or recite any spells. Lu Qi only saw him stretch his right hand forward, and then saw a ripple appear out of thin air directly in front of him. In the blink of an eye, two brand new cars appeared. The grass green truck appeared in front of me.
These are two flat-head diesel off-road trucks. The engine uses a water-cooled in-line six-cylinder four-stroke supercharged diesel engine with a power of 140, a displacement of 5.88, a cargo box length of 4 meters, and a maximum full load capacity of 10 tons in the field.
"That's awesome!" Lu Qi exclaimed. Then he asked curiously: "How did you do it?"
Zhao Xin knew what he was asking and thought for a while before explaining: "How should I put it? As long as I think about it with all my concentration, the space for storing things will appear in my mind, and then I will focus on the items to be taken out. That’s it.”
"It's that simple?"
"It can be said to be simple, and it can be said to be complex. In the beginning, as soon as I think about it, everything will come out. You don't know, it makes me so busy."
"Haha." Lu Qi paused for a moment and then asked: "Are there times when you can't put it in or take it out?"
Zhao Xin smiled slightly and shook his head: "It would be troublesome if there were."
Everyone has their own secret, Zhao Xin has it, and so does Lu Qi. At this moment, he felt that Zhao Xin could show his secret in front of him, and the relationship between the two was much closer, and the little discord in the conversation just now was nothing.
At this time, he heard Zhao Xin say again: "I brought five trucks here this time, two of them are here, and the other three will go to the Lushui Plain in a few days and stay there. In addition, the 'Thor' will come next time When the time comes, there will be a five-person auto repair team, and you can pick a few people to follow them as apprentices."
"Okay, okay! It will be much more convenient to transport supplies between various strongholds in the future." Lu Qi nodded hurriedly.
“Where to put the oil drums?”
"This way, this way."
"Where to put the cement?"
"There, there. Damn it! Why do you bring so much fruit?"
"I was afraid that you might be lacking vitamins, so I bought them specially."
"Thank you! I don't have a cold storage here. I have to let the logistics distribute it tomorrow. To be honest, I haven't eaten fruit for two months. Every day it's either radish or bean sprouts."
The two of them were busy in the warehouse for more than an hour, and they didn't come out until after ten o'clock in the evening. Lu Qi walked out of the warehouse door with a face full of excitement, just like a poor farmer who had just beaten a rich man to share his land. All the unpleasant emotions in his heart about being ordered to do this and that disappeared. At this time, Zhao Xin asked him to go to Mexico City, but he didn't say anything and immediately gathered the team.
"You're such a brat, you're still having fun with me." Zhao Xin couldn't help but snicker in his heart when he saw Lu Qi as happy as a 250-year-old.
He plans to free up time in two days and take Lu Qi back to San Francisco in another time and space to solve the problem of physiological needs. What I didn’t say is that as long as you work hard, you will be able to get all the benefits you deserve.
Back at his residence, Lu Qi came to Zhao Xin's side, diligently handed him a cigarette, and helped light the fire. Then he said with a smile: "Boss Zhao, I heard that the 105 howitzer at the arsenal has been officially put into production? Can you support the two brothers?"
Zhao Xin smiled and scolded: "Look in the mirror, your face is just like the national army in the movie."
The two chatted and laughed for a while, and then they were both tired, so they washed up and rested separately. Lu Qi arranged for Zhao Xin to sleep in his own bedroom, and got a new set of bedding and pillows. He himself carried the bedding to the guard room, where there was a single bed. As for the two guards on duty, they could only make beds on the floor in the living room.
At half past five the next morning, Zhao Xin was woken up by the wake-up call outside. He was stunned for a while, and then he realized that he was not in Beihai Town. Although the injury on his foot has not healed yet and he cannot run, he still decided to get up.
He has rarely slept in these years. He sleeps for as many as five or six hours a day and as little as three or four hours a day. As long as I have the conditions, I will definitely run two or three kilometers in the morning. Now he is nearly forty years old, and he has five women. He is not strong enough to cope with it.
The only inconvenience of being away from home is not being able to drink the ginseng soup cooked by A Miao herself.
After washing up, Zhao Xin hesitated and put the fake beard on his face again. Afterwards, I went downstairs to make myself a cup of ginseng tea, then took it to the balcony, stood in front of the fence and looked into the distance.
The air in Kinmen Town in the early morning is extremely good. Due to the height, the sea cannot be seen, but there is a layer of mist floating on the top of San Bruno Mountain in the south, and the solitary mountain one kilometer away is clearly visible. The sun has jumped out from the mountains in the east, and it feels very comfortable when the sunlight shines on me.
At this time, there was already a fiery scene in front of the three-story barracks building in the west. After more than a thousand officers and soldiers of the overseas corps completed their assembly, they immediately started running circles on the playground in company and platoon units.
In a temporary camp on the south side outside the fort, more than two hundred Indian tribal militiamen also started morning training under the urging of the officers' whistles. Different from running laps on the playground of regular troops, they have to run back and forth between the camp and San Bruno Mountain every morning.
Speaking of which, this physical exertion is nothing to the Indians who travel over mountains and ridges all day long; the problem is that these guys have no sense of discipline, so the officer in charge of training requires them to run in groups of ten. Who wants to If you dare to leave the team and run around, the entire ten-person team will be punished and you will not be able to eat breakfast.
The Indians who did push-ups were not afraid, but they couldn't bear not being allowed to eat breakfast. The fragrant rice porridge and snow-white steamed buns made it difficult for the militiamen to escape the temptation of delicious food.
According to the requirements of the latest version of the "Northern Navy Training Outline", the morning training subjects of all regular troops are a three-thousand-meter run, followed by equipment training, and breakfast can be eaten only after completion. This standard was changed three years ago. Previously it was 2,000 meters.
Don’t be too low. You must know that the physical fitness of people in the eighteenth century cannot be compared to that of people in another time and space, not even after they came out of their mother’s womb. Even the Sauron soldiers, the most capable group in the Manchu army, were full of vigor and vitality when they were young, but after fifty they suffered from various diseases.
Nowadays, in the entire North Navy, the training standards of the special operations battalions are completely the same as those of later generations, but their food standards are also the highest.
When there is no work at home, meat, eggs and vegetables are available for every meal. Even in the twelfth lunar month, fresh vegetables are available. In addition, multivitamin tablets, Shengmai Yin, royal jelly capsules and the like must be taken every day. And when they went on a mission, the rations they brought were all field rations from the Mao family that Zhao Xin purchased separately from another time and space, with calories as high as 5,000 calories; Zhao Xin couldn't eat this stuff, it was too greasy, but he had been eating it since he was a child. The Sauron soldiers living in Xing'anling liked it very much.
While Zhao Xin was leisurely drinking tea, looking at the scenery and thinking about things, He Xiyang, who was running in the team, accidentally noticed him. Although the two of them were more than 200 meters apart, Zhao Xin's big head was too conspicuous. Besides, He Xiyang was in the navy class of the military academy before. People with poor eyesight cannot be in the navy.
The boy's first reaction was the man he met in Gushan yesterday afternoon, but then he thought, how is it possible? How could the people from the engineering team go to Commander Lu?
After finishing the three-thousand-meter run, He Xiyang planned to get closer and take another look, when he saw the man on the balcony turned around and entered the house. In desperation, he had to give up the idea and started sit-ups again with the others. One hundred sit-ups and one hundred push-ups. If you can’t finish them and meet the standards, you can’t have breakfast.
The reason why Zhao Xin went back to the house was because Lu Qi also got up. This guy went to the second floor to wash up, changed into training clothes, told Zhao Xin that the guards would come back after breakfast, and then quickly went downstairs and went straight to the training ground.
Like other time traveling members who are in charge of one side, Lu Qi has been practicing every day since he came to Kinmen. Otherwise, your physical fitness is too poor and you won't be able to escape even if you encounter danger. In addition, Zhao Xin told him last night that he would take him to San Francisco in another time and space in a few days to have a good time. Lu Qi was so excited that he couldn't sleep well all night. When he thought of the Ocean Horse and this P and that P, endless strength surged in his heart. He had to practice hard!
Well, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. In this day and age, there is no such thing as wanting to hold great power and also want to be an uncle. Even the Manchu dignitaries who were waiting to die had to get up in the middle of the night to line up to go to court, or wait outside the Old Summer Palace, at the earliest I can't go home until noon.
After breakfast, Lu Qi took Zhao Xin to the fort in the north. It is located at the narrowest point of the entrance to the Golden Gate Strait, sitting on a 20-meter-high hillside, with a straight cliff below.
When the Spanish were there before, because there were neither tall trees nor stones in the area, the forts were all built with adobe and six 12-pound cannons were deployed. So when Lucci and the others arrived, the three 75mm cannons installed on the deck of the Thor fired, and the fort quickly went silent.
After occupying Kinmen, Rucci asked his men to dismantle all the adobe walls of the fort, and several 12-pound guns also sealed their gun doors and put them in the warehouse. Afterwards, the engineering team used more than 300 kilograms of ammonium nitrate explosives to blast the originally 27-meter-high hill, lowering the height by seven meters, and finally cleared a flat land the size of two basketball courts.
Due to insufficient steel and concrete, the new fort is also temporary in nature. It is surrounded by a 1.2-meter-high "foldable blast wall", four 75mm field guns are deployed, and the top is covered with a camouflage net. On a hill 200 meters south of the fort, there is a watchtower built with steel pipe scaffolding. It is more than five meters high and is manned 24 hours a day. In addition to observing the sea surface, it also prevents outsiders from approaching. If necessary, it will ring a bell as a warning. remind.
Zhao Xin turned the fort inside and out, and after reading it, he said to Lu Qi: "The place is still too cramped, and the ammunition depot is too close to the gun position. It is not a long-term solution for soldiers to always sleep in tents. Also, it needs to be built." A lighthouse.”
Don't underestimate a lighthouse. It not only guides the navigation of ships, but is also an important symbol of sovereignty.
Lu Qi explained: "We didn't have enough people and supplies before. With the things you sent us this time, everything will be easier to handle. In fact, according to my idea, I need to flatten the mountain under my feet and then build a granite seawall on the beach. In this way, at least more than 10,000 square meters of open space can be leveled, and there will be a fort, military camp, and gunpowder magazine."
"It's not enough to just pave the dam with stones. We have to drill holes and bury piles. Otherwise, if there is a big earthquake, all the work will be in vain." Zhao Xin thought for a while and then said: "This is a big project. There is no need to rush it. I will first take care of the surrounding environment when I have time." Take a video and go back to find someone to come up with a set of drawings. I won’t be able to make the next boat trip. Let’s celebrate the New Year. I’ll come back during the Chinese New Year and pick up some new year’s goods.”
Lu Qi said happily: "That's great!"
It is said that engineering design is the soul of construction. It is sheer nonsense to dare to carry out construction without design. The civil engineering design of Beihai Town in recent years is mainly divided into three situations.
The first is traditional Chinese architecture. Just use the craftsmen of this time and space. Generally, the people who can do this kind of work are carpenters. The design skills are passed down from family. The level of layout and decoration design of the building group is very mature. Small courtyards can be started directly, while large courtyards will have a set of hot stamping samples produced before the start of construction, focusing on the appearance of the building, the spatial structure, and the layout of the courtyard and small-scale groups; the details include the exterior eaves paintings, interior decorations, etc. Eaves decoration and interior furnishings.
The second is industrial plants. These are usually complete sets of drawings purchased from another time and place, many of which are from the 1980s and 1990s. You can then draw the same drawings when you bring them back; there are brick structures, steel structures, and concrete structures.
Finally, it is designed individually according to the terrain needs. Even if there are ready-made drawings for some large buildings, they still need to be redesigned to face different geological conditions. For example, most of the buildings at the thermal power plant and steel plant in Beihai Town are based on ready-made drawings, but before doing the basic construction, Zhao Xin had to take the drawings and find a few professionals in another time and space to help check them. After all, the entire outer Northeast is an alpine area with large temperature fluctuations in winter and summer, and many construction standards and specifications are different from those in temperate areas.
The same is true here in Kinmen Town. Because it is located in the Pacific Rim earthquake zone, if it is a masonry or reinforced concrete building, both the foundation and the building structure must be reinforced.
Before leaving the fort, Zhao Xin pointed to a small island in the northeast and asked Lu Qi: "What are your thoughts on that island?"
Lu Qi looked up and said with a smile: "You mean Alcatraz Island, right? I passed by by boat before and wanted to go up there to have a look, but that guy in vain refused to let us land on the island, saying that there were evil spirits on the island. They usually... I don’t dare to go. What? You also want to build a prison up there?”
Zhao Xin suddenly realized that the name "Alcatraz" came from Indians. He shook his head and said, "I don't have the leisure time of Americans."
"Dang~~! Dang~~!."
Before he could finish his words, a rapid bell suddenly rang on the watchtower. Zhao Xin and Lu Qi looked at each other, and then quickly came to the observation post of the fort.
They took the telescope from the guard behind them and looked towards the sea at the instruction of the artillery platoon leader. They saw two three-masted sailboats on the northwest sea heading slowly towards the entrance of the strait. On the flagpole at the bow of the ship, there is a huge red and yellow flag flying; in the middle left position of the flag, the crown representing the royal power, the castle and the lion representing the Kingdom of Castile and Leon are clearly visible .
The Spaniards have arrived!
Castilian is today's Spanish. Before the reforms of Philip V in the early 18th century, Castilian, Catalan and Valencian were the official languages of Spain.
