1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 295
Since the expansion of preparations for war years ago, the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Military and Police have stepped up the construction of the Victory Port fortifications.The main project of the fortification group is the fort group on both sides of the harbor entrance. In the first phase of the project that ended last year, the construction of eight forts and 24 emplacements in the fort group next to the military barracks on the east bank has been completed-of course, the artillery and artillery have not yet been built. Not quite in place.The second phase of the project is mainly based on the fort on the Yulin Peninsula. After completion, a fire coverage area with no dead ends will be established for the channel entering Shengli Port from east and west directions.

However, compared to the first phase of the project on the east coast of the harbor, the highlands of the Yulin Peninsula extending into the South China Sea are not conducive to the construction of large-scale projects. Before that, only an early warning observation post was built at the highest point.However, during the expedition of the Haihan Militia this time, Tao Donglai was in the base camp to focus on this project. From the beginning of the new year to the end of February, the Ministry of Construction continued to invest in labor to build the second phase of the fort. So far, the estimated project has been completed. 70% of the quantity will definitely be completed within the next month.

Due to the relatively steep terrain of the second stage of the fort, there are not as many artillery positions as the first stage, only six forts and eighteen artillery positions.But even so, the scale of the Shengli Port artillery fortifications after completion must be second to none in the Far East. A shore defense fort.

Of course, the artillery required for a large number of emplacements once again put great pressure on the Military and Police Department.To give full play to the power of these forts, the military and police department needs at least a coastal defense artillery unit of about 300 people.The number of soldiers has always been the biggest bottleneck restricting the development of the military. In addition to the continuous training of new artillery, there are also two different opinions in the Military and Police Department on how to arrange the limited artillery.

One is that defense should be the first priority. Anyway, there is no foreign battle in the near future, so the existing army artillery should be dispatched to serve in coastal defense artillery fortifications in order to give full play to their role.Another opinion is that since the recruitment of naval personnel has already begun, the artillery should give priority to boarding the ship, otherwise the warships that the shipyard is desperately rushing to manufacture are not very meaningful-a warship without artillery, then How different can it be from a civilian ship?

While the military and police departments were arguing, the navy's recruiting plan was in full swing.Perhaps the results of this expedition played a role. The navy's recruitment work went very smoothly, and the number of young people who signed up far exceeded the prior estimates of the Military and Police Department.The Military and Police Department expected to recruit [-] reserve sailors in the first phase, but the actual number of applicants exceeded [-] within three days, not including those who voluntarily changed from civilian sailors to warship sailors.

The Ministry of Shipping fully cooperated with the work of the Military and Police Department in this naval preparation work, and also promoted the policy to the sailors and crew members under it. Anyone who voluntarily transfers to serve on a warship can enjoy the same benefits as the soldiers of the Haihan Militia in the future. Treatment, whether it is income, casualty benefits, labor points, etc., is a step up from the existing treatment.Faced with such a temptation, many brave people naturally chose to switch careers to the naval system. Anyway, they are sailing at sea, and the risks are the same, but the navy's death pension is several times higher than that of civilian sailors!

On February 25, the first batch of immigrants transported by Annan after the war arrived in Victory Port, where eight large ships were loaded.According to the data provided by North Vietnam, there are more than [-] people in total, including more than [-] young and strong men.Not surprisingly, [-]% of these immigrants were southern prisoners of war in the Civil War. Every ten people were tied into long strings with ropes. The scene when they disembarked was spectacular.

In this North-South War, North Vietnam finally captured more than 2000 South Vietnamese combatants, and Thang Long Mansion would definitely not waste food to feed these people in vain. It just happened that there was a cooperation agreement with Haihan to provide [-] people per month, so these people Most of the final flow of people will go to the control area of ​​the crossing group.In addition to Victory Port, Black Earth Port will also accept a small number of prisoners of war and assign them to more dangerous jobs, such as workshops that are extremely toxic to humans and produce coal tar.

Fortunately, the executive committee has long received the report from the troops stationed in Vietnam, expanded the labor camp in advance, and built a branch of the labor camp between Shengli Port and Tiandu Industrial Zone. The prisoners of war who arrived in Shengli Port this time, Most of them will be assigned to the new labor camp for hard labor. Their job is to participate in the construction of the first rail transit line between the two places.

The first phase of the Shengli Port-Tiandu rail transit line has a total length of about [-] kilometers. The track is laid on a single track. In order to reduce the difficulty of construction, the entire line is located on the west bank of the Tiandu River, avoiding the trouble of building bridges.In order to facilitate the wrong train, two two-way double-track passages will be built at a distance of three kilometers and six kilometers in the middle.The second phase of the project will complete the double-track construction and extend the track to the western end of the Yulin Peninsula, covering the entire Shengli Port area.The estimated construction period of the entire project plan was originally eight months. However, after reaching an immigration transportation agreement with North Vietnam, the Ministry of Construction has begun to adopt the multi-point simultaneous construction method, which is expected to shorten the construction period to five to five months. between six months.

As of the end of February, about 60% of the construction progress of the rail transit line has been completed. The Ministry of Construction is also trying to speed up the construction of the project, and strives to hold a project completion ceremony as a gift on the anniversary of the crossing on April [-].

In the first few months of the crossing, the Ministry of Construction made great efforts to repair the road. Although it is just an ordinary dirt road, it also reduces the workload of the current track construction project. The main thing is to pile up gravel Roadbed, laying of sleepers and tracks.After the track laying is completed, the road repair workers have to further widen the existing road surface, because the next step of the Ministry of Construction’s plan is to solidify the ordinary road surface between the two places in order to strengthen the traffic capacity of the road. Avoid the need to deploy a large amount of manpower to maintain roads during the annual rainy season.

After the introduction of a large number of prisoners of war and overseas laborers, the labor cost of the construction projects of the Transit Group also dropped rapidly.Originally, almost all the naturalized people participated in these infrastructure projects, and the cost of non-naturalized people was less than one-fifth of that of the naturalized people. In this way, the cost of the entire project was greatly reduced.The construction workers who had already practiced some basic skills before were assigned to new construction sites to engage in higher-skilled work.

The housing problem has been a common topic in the Executive Committee, but it has not been properly resolved before this, and the reason is very simple, that is, the lack of labor force.The continuous flow of people from North Vietnam can just alleviate this problem, and the Ministry of Construction is finally able to start the construction of the long-awaited personal dormitory under the condition of multiple projects being constructed at the same time.

Since a considerable number of traversing people have been dispersed and assigned to areas other than Victory Port, the tight accommodation conditions in the early days of traversing do not exist. For example, there are even seven or eight prefabricated houses vacated in the No. [-] base as It is used as a temporary guest house for entertaining foreign merchants.When regular guests like Li Nai and Luo Shengdong came to Shengli Port, they usually stayed directly in the guest house in the base.And ordinary time travelers have now changed from the six or even eight people in a room in the early days of time travel to the situation of two or even one person in a room.

But for those time travelers who have enjoyed urban life in later generations, prefabricated houses are not a long-term solution after all. Everyone has worked hard to build here, and they are also looking forward to enjoying the life of a master as soon as possible. The accommodation conditions are the most basic one of the measurement standards.Although the current conditions are limited, it is impossible to build a deep house for everyone with a hundred servants, but at least everyone should have a decent house.Now the Ministry of Construction has proposed a plan to build personal dormitories, and the executive committee has not hesitated in the proposal, and approved the implementation unanimously on the spot - the evaluation of priority use rights for personnel, building materials, etc., and even ranked Shengli Port Business Before the area, it is second only to Yulin Fort and the rail transit line.

Regarding the housing structure of the personal dormitory, the Ministry of Construction had already prepared several sets of plans, and finally, after voting by various departments, the tube building structure with relatively low construction difficulty was selected.However, compared to the barracks-style tube building in another time and space, the Ministry of Construction's plan is more similar to the structural design of an express hotel. Each room is small in size, but it is equipped with a separate bathroom.In order to reduce the workload, the internal furniture, decoration, etc. also adopt a unified standard.

Of course, if you are willing to make trouble yourself, you can also go to the Ministry of Construction to register first, and then the Ministry of Construction will also reserve the corresponding rough houses for the homeowners to take care of themselves.However, judging from the current workload of time-traveling people, I am afraid that no one has the extra energy to decorate the house by themselves.

Considering the difficulty of construction and safety, the dormitories in Tongzilou have only two floors, and the houses on each floor are relatively distributed on both sides of the corridor. There are a total of [-] households in each building. Whether you are single or a couple, you can be allocated a suite. Those with children You can apply for two suites as appropriate.As for the kitchen issue, the Ministry of Construction didn't give special consideration to it. After all, everyone eats from the same big pot now. By then, a special dining hall will be built next to the dormitory area for the crossing public.This not only facilitates everyone's life, but also avoids fire safety problems that are prone to occur in collective dormitories.

Although this kind of dormitory still hasn't got rid of the nature of collective dormitory, for the time travelers who have lived in the prefabricated houses for nearly a year, it is tantamount to a radical change.The Ministry of Construction will start construction of new dormitories at Shengli Port No. [-] base and Tiandu No. [-] base at the same time from early March, and start to organize a public lottery to allocate housing.

Due to the limited construction speed, the delivery of houses can only be done in batches, and it is impossible for everyone to be allocated new houses at the same time.For the sake of fairness, lottery can only be used to solve the contradiction between insufficient supply and demand.Almost all the time-travelers in the Shengli Port area participated in the lottery from March [-]st to [-]rd, and even a few people from the Cliff Office specially returned to Victory Port in two days in rotation to do the lottery.As for the personnel stationed in North Vietnam and Guangzhou, it is indeed too far away, and there is no way to arrange to participate in the first lottery lottery welfare.

The first batch of welfare houses consisted of [-] sets, [-] sets in Shengli Port and [-] sets in Tiandu each. According to the location of the units, the members participated in the lottery of the two places respectively.Proportionally speaking, those who participate in the lottery basically have a [-]/[-] chance of getting welfare housing, and the winning rate is still relatively high.

The members of the executive committee who came to the scene as leaders first shook their numbers, and this was their only "preferential treatment".However, the members of the executive committee probably didn't wash their hands before the lottery, and the whole army was almost wiped out. Ning Qi was the only one who got a suite among the nine people who went up to the lottery.But he was not ashamed to enjoy this honor to himself, and instead transferred it to Yuan Ruoxiu and Zhu Ping on the spot. This move also won applause from the audience.

However, due to the nature of the units in the Tiandu area, most of the cross-travelers stationed in the Tiandu area belong to the establishment of the Ministry of Industry. The [-] suites are almost taken over by the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry has therefore become the branch of the lottery. The biggest winner of the housing event.The worst loser was the shipping department. No one won the lottery from the beginning to the end, but the people in the shipping department didn't care too much, and left after shaking.After all, there will be a next time if he fails this time. It is nothing more than waiting two more months. Sooner or later, he will be allocated a welfare house.

The member dormitory built this time is not a long-term standard housing. In fact, there are still a large number of design drawings of single-family residences with one floor and one floor in the drawing library of the Ministry of Construction.However, in view of the large amount of construction, it cannot be promoted as a standard equipment for members at present.Moreover, according to the executive committee's long-term plan, Tiandu and Shengli Harbor are not the main commercial and residential areas in the future. Now that there is a lot of construction, they will still face the problem of collective demolition in a few years, so there is no need to spend so much effort.On the contrary, the tube buildings built now can be gradually increased in the future to be used as staff dormitories for naturalized residents.

In addition to the two dormitory construction sites, the military barracks on the east side of the harbor has also begun to break ground.Since the military expansion plan for this year has already begun, the Military and Police Department expects that the number of combat personnel within this year will at least double or triple from the current scale of less than [-] people. At that time, the existing camps will not be able to accommodate too many personnel.Now that there is a relatively stable supply of building materials and labor, the military and police department will naturally not lag behind others. They plan to build a masonry structure military dormitory by themselves. The standard is the same as the current Tongzilou dormitory, but the living density is higher. several times.

The technical transformation and expansion project of the Saltworks Commune has also come to an end recently. According to the data provided by Anxi, the general manager of the Saltworks, the current monthly output of the Shengli Port Saltworks has reached about 350 tons, and the annual output is expected to remain above 4000 tons.If measured by the production capacity of the same period, this figure is simply astronomical, and it is more than enough to satisfy the civilian salt of the entire Hainan Island.The salt markets in the mainland and North Vietnam, which were difficult to balance a few months ago, are now basically able to let go and gradually increase the supply.

However, in comparison, the development of Iron Furnace Port, which was only started in October last year, is obviously progressing much slower. So far, although it has become two communes and moved in thousands of immigrants, the progress of the saltworks construction is not very fast. , the current output has not yet reached the level of the Shengli Port Salt Field before the expansion.The reason is mainly because Iron Furnace Port is far away from Victory Port, and many production tools and materials have to be transported from Victory Port to Iron Furnace Port by ship, and it takes a lot of time to come and go.In addition, during the month before and after the dispatch of troops to crusade against South Vietnam, due to the shortage of sea transportation capacity, there were also some problems in the supply of materials in Iron Furnace Port, which caused the stagnation of the saltworks construction project.

In order to solve this problem, the two communes in Iron Furnace Port are building saltworks and production facilities, while they are also building westward valley passages.As long as this land passage about seven kilometers long can be built as soon as possible, Tielu Port will be able to go directly to Tiandu, and the time required for material transportation in the future can be reduced by at least half compared to now.

In addition to the immigrants from Iron Furnace Port, there is another group of people who also participated in the construction of this valley passage. They are the Fushandong mountain people who were relocated from the inland mountains.According to the agreement with the executive committee, hundreds of households of Li people in Fushandong were resettled in the valley between Tiandu and Tielugang. The Ministry of Agriculture guides them to reclaim mountain forests and plant various mountain cash crops.At the same time, the executive committee also encouraged them to participate in the construction of the road leading to Iron Furnace Port, with daily necessities such as salt as their labor compensation.In terms of labor costs alone, these relocated Li people are not much different from prisoners in labor camps.

In addition to this valley passage, the Li people are also opening up another land passage leading to the Yalong Bay Agricultural Development Zone.This passage also starts from Tiandu and ends at the Yalong Bay coastal plain between Shengli Port and Tielu Port.In terms of length, this passage is nearly half shorter than the route from Tian Du to Iron Furnace Port, but the terrain is a little more complicated.At present, the Yalong Bay Agricultural Development Zone has relied on nearly a thousand immigrants who moved in earlier to reclaim and plant more than 2000 mu of crops, mainly sugarcane, which is particularly valued by the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to the development plan of the Ministry of Agriculture, at least two to three communes will be maintained in the Yalong Bay Development Zone in the future, and this coastal plain will be gradually built into the largest sugar production area near Sanya.

Through participating in the Vietnam Civil War, a large number of labor force was introduced from Vietnam. In the current series of engineering construction, agricultural development and other projects, the Transit Group is gradually getting rid of the bottleneck of human resources and speeding up the pace of construction.Although the Shengli Port area is not yet monolithic, the special social environment created by the existence of the Crossing Group has gradually become prominent with the progress of various construction projects.

(End of this chapter)