1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 150 Post-disaster reconstruction
The heavy rain lasted for three full days before it stopped slowly. Although the camp was muddy, the management committee immediately began to organize the immigrants to help themselves.The torrential rain made it impossible for one-third of the simple shacks in the resettlement camp to continue to live. The engineering team organized laborers to tear down the simple shacks that had been crumbling in the wind and rain, and rebuild stronger and more reliable wooden shacks. Structure houseboat.

Several wooden houses in the management committee survived the torrential rain without any suspense.Because the wood reserves here are very rich, when the management committee built the wooden houses for these reserves, they all used thick logs with thighs, and one end was buried in the soil as a wall, which was even stronger than the cement ring beams. Prefabricated houses on the ground.

The relatively low-lying places in the camp formed several ponds of different sizes due to accumulated water, and the deepest part was more than one meter deep.The engineering team directed the laborers to dig a drainage ditch leading directly to the river outside the camp, slowly draining the accumulated rainwater in the camp.These puddles must be drained and filled as soon as possible, otherwise a large number of mosquitoes and flies will quickly breed, which may cause an epidemic in the camp.

In order to avoid the emergence of post-disaster epidemics, the medical team gathered some immigrant wounded and sick people together for treatment.But the amount of medicine brought by the medical team is very limited. First of all, the safety of the traversers must be ensured, while most immigrant patients have to resign themselves to their fate.

The military and police department also strengthened the patrolling in the camp. Qian Tiandun specially called the people from the military and police department to hold a small meeting, and clearly stipulated that all traversers must lead the patrol in person. If anyone tries to make trouble after the disaster , must be severely punished, and serious cases can be dealt with on the spot.However, Gao Qiaonan, who has always been active, failed to participate in this operation. He was still lying on the hospital bed and humming because of the sequelae of seafood.After Qian Tiandun went to see him once, he found that he was severely dehydrated due to diarrhea, and even his mind was a little confused. He doubted whether this guy could survive this test.The only thing Qian Tiandun could do was to take the glucose granule assigned to him with water to help him relieve the pain of dehydration. As for the rest, it could only be left to God to decide.

At the regular meeting that night, the chief officials of various departments in Heitu Port began to summarize the various situations after the disaster one by one.

The first is the report from Zhou Hengxing, the head of civil affairs. On the second night of the continuous torrential rain, a shack collapsed in the storm, resulting in the death of two migrants. Unfortunately, only a few immigrants were slightly injured.The warehouse used by the management committee to store important materials was built at a high place from the beginning, and waterproof measures were taken more comprehensively, so there was no loss.

Zhou Hengxing also suggested to organize immigrants to mine an inland lime mine immediately after the disaster, because the camp needs to be disinfected on a large area, and the management committee does not have any disinfectants on hand. Quicklime disinfection is currently the easiest and feasible way.In addition, although the important materials did not enter the water this time, judging from the weather conditions here, the air humidity is very high throughout the year, and moisture-proof treatment with lime is also a must.

Next, Gu Kai reported on the logistics supply situation.In order to allow people to get rid of the cold in time, ginger, pepper, chili, curry and other seasonings have been used in large quantities in the meals these days, so the heavy rain quickly drained all kinds of spicy seasonings in the local stock.However, the price of doing so is worth it. From the current point of view, at least the emergence of large-scale influenza has been effectively avoided.The only trouble is that the types of condiments available in the kitchen will become very limited in the next few days, which is not good news for the cross-travelers who have already eaten their mouths.

However, Gu Kai immediately added a piece of good news, because the management committee kept in touch with the base camp during the rainstorm. Seasonings and medicines went to Black Earth Port for support.If everything goes well on the road, the "Lightning" will arrive at Black Earth Port in three to four days.

The content of the report from the Military and Police Department was relatively simple, and Qian Tiandun ended his speech by saying "everything is normal".Perhaps it was the public hangings a few days ago that left the immigrants with lingering fears, or perhaps the intensive patrols of the military and police department played a role. Saved a lot of heart.

Finally, Liu Shanxia gave a report on the current construction progress. He has been fighting on the front line for the past few days. He can sleep for two or three hours at most every day. His mental state is not very good, and his eyes are full of red bloodshot.

Liu Shanxia held a cigarette in one hand and a pre-organized outline in the other, and said in a hoarse voice: "Everyone has seen the situation in the camp. We have to spend two to three days to restore the facilities in the camp before we can start to follow up again. Mining-related infrastructure projects. In addition, the two small wooden bridges we built on the river have been washed away by this flash flood, and it will take at least one day to rebuild. Fortunately, our progress in the previous few days was ahead of us, so the whole There will not be too much delay in the construction period of the project, as long as we can follow our own plan step by step, the possibility of completing the project on time is still very high.”

Gu Kai was a little worried and said: "Old Liu, don't work too hard. It's not a big problem for the completion of the project to be completed a few days sooner or later. If you get tired here, who will direct the rest of the project?"

Liu Shan Xia Qiang smiled and said: "It's okay, after these two days of work are over, let me take a day off and let me catch up on sleepiness."

Zhou Hengxing said: "How about this, I will arrange Lao Liu's food and rest, and make sure that Lao Liu eats and sleeps well during his stay in Heitu Port!"

Due to various reasons, the original immigration transfer plan was delayed for several days. After the weather cleared up, the fleet that had been moored at the port for a week loaded up with supplies and immediately set sail from the Black Earth Port.The Management Committee hopes to take advantage of the limited time before the coal mine goes into operation to transport as many immigrants from the east coast of Vietnam as possible, because whether it is coal mining or subsequent supporting industry construction, the required population is not a small number.According to the results of everyone's discussions these days, in order to build a coal industry base for large-scale production in the future, Heitu Port will need at least 7000 to [-] working people, and the resident population must reach at least [-] to [-] people.Although it is impossible to do it in one step, taking advantage of the current domestic situation in Vietnam, it is always a good thing to rush to transport more people who do not need money.Once the coal mines here are put into operation, it will be difficult to use the limited sea transportation capacity to quickly import people as it is now.

The "Flying Speed" and the two sea training ships also set off together. Based on the principle of not running out of space, they will also go to Thanh Hoa area to load some immigrants, and then pull them back to Victory Port.At this time, the "Lightning" had already departed from Shengli Port, and there were basically no ships available there, and the early warning at sea was handed over to Luo Shengdong's naval warships.The executive committee obviously cannot be relieved of this situation, and has already requested several ships here to return to the voyage as soon as possible by telegram.

Two days later, the fleet arrived at the coast near Tsinghua again. Qian Tiandun and Xie Chun brought six large ships to dock here for two days, and slowly collected immigrants before loading them to Heitu Port.After each of the two sea training ships loaded about [-] immigrants, they pulled anchor and set sail, sailing eastward with the "Fast Speed" and returning to Hainan Island.

Half a month after departure, this small fleet finally returned to the familiar harbor.The crew saw two Ming army warships cruising on the sea in the outer waters of Yulinjiao. Needless to say, these must be mercenaries brought here by Luo Shengdong as a temporary maritime defense force.

Curious Vietnamese immigrants have flocked to decks to see what their benefactors call Xanadu.Compared with those immigrants who will be transferred to Black Earth Port to work as miners, these people are undoubtedly much luckier. In addition to enjoying better medical care, education and other social security, the immigrants who come to the mainland can also enjoy better working conditions. It is much better than Heitu Port, which is still in its infancy.

In the early days of crossing, due to the shortage of labor force, the executive committee intentionally relaxed restrictions on immigration and epidemic prevention. But now, as the crossing group has embarked on a steady development track, various basic population import regulations are gradually being improved.The prevention and control of foreign epidemic diseases is now a very important part of immigration work.To prevent and control the epidemic of new immigrants under the existing conditions, the simplest and most effective way is to take a bath and change clothes.Immigrants who had just disembarked were escorted into the collective bathhouse by a group of militiamen in green clothes, and some of the old clothes they took off would be sent to be burned.

The naked immigrants were asked by the militiamen to brush every inch of each other's skin with a brush. Many of them probably have not been washed thoroughly like this since birth.If anyone among them wanted to muddle along and pass the test, they would immediately get the sticks wielded by the militiamen. From time to time, some people in the bathhouse would scream in pain after being beaten.This also reminded the others to completely give up their chances and rub their companions' backs vigorously with a brush and coarse cloth. When everyone came out of the bathhouse, their complexion was red, like steamed prawns.

These immigrants didn't quite understand why the new owner asked them to wash their bodies so clean. Some people even secretly suspected whether these Haihan people had the habit of cannibalism. It was said that some troops would kill people for food when they were short of food.They probably never imagined that one day they would be so trembling even in the shower.

(End of this chapter)