Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2019: A 60,000-mu (approximately 4,000 hectares) peripheral city! The busy Minister Ding

After the vehicle was parked in the open space.

Ding Jiu got out of the car and chatted with several militia captains for a few minutes. The three militia captains then separated and found suitable positions to defend.

This time, three militia brigades followed the construction team: Miao Tianji, Wang Xin, and Yue Ziqing.

Because it is close to the headquarters of the Big Camphor Tree, there are relatively few zombies in the surrounding area.

Therefore, there are relatively few guards.

After the members of the militia brigade left, Ding Jiu said to Xie Weishan beside him:

"Help Master Qingxiao set out the incense burner."

"Yes, Minister Ding."

Before a large-scale project begins, the person in charge of the construction will consult their fortune telling to set up an altar and place offerings at the planned entrance of the project, based on the planning or design drawings.

They offered incense and prayers to the gods for the project to proceed smoothly.

This was a habit Ding Jiu had when he was a foreman before the apocalypse.

Even after the apocalypse, he still had this habit.

Li Yu didn't bother to get involved, and besides, this custom had been around for a long time.

After the people from Sanqing Palace entered the camphor tree base, Qingxiao and his fellow disciples were often called by Ding Jiu to help with the worship and presiding over the ceremony.

When choosing the location for the plantation outside the city, Dao Xuanzi also came to take a look.

They themselves were knowledgeable in feng shui and geomancy, and after looking at the place, they felt it was quite suitable for growing crops.

Incense burner, fruit corn cakes, and pig's head meat offerings were placed on the table.

Qingxiao, dressed in a yellow Taoist robe, held a peach wood sword and chanted prayers to the gods for several minutes.

Then he shouted to Ding Jiu and the others behind him:
"Bow three times in reverence to the gods!"

Immediately, Ding Jiu led everyone around him in bowing three times towards the incense burner.

"Withdraw!" Qingxiao said to Ding Jiu as if he had achieved his KPI.

Ding Jiu waved his hand, and several of his men stepped forward and quickly moved the incense burner and other items off the table.

Ding Jiu stood at the very front, shouting spiritedly to the crowd behind him:

"start!"

To this day, the Infrastructure Department has several hundred permanent employees, who are different from the recruited workers; they are all Level 3 personnel.

They are similar to the members of those militia brigades; they are all officially employed and can receive fixed points and benefits.

These people are experienced builders, having followed Ding Jiu for many years.

"Excavator crew, move in! Have them dig along the white lines we marked earlier!"

"Ah Meng, have those workers go and clear away all these big trees and weeds here."

"And these houses here are all too old, they should be demolished!"

The entire construction team, organized by the infrastructure department staff, entered the site and began work in an orderly manner.

Today is the first day back at work, it's not too busy.

The main tasks are to first excavate the foundation, and then clear away the houses, big trees, and other debris from the open space.

Another matter is transporting building materials.

the other side.

Ding Jiu's deputy, Tao Yifeng, led an excavation team to start digging ditches from the headquarters base to Qiaotou Township.

Their plan was to connect the plantation outside the city to the headquarters underground.

This is necessary to transport electricity and water over there.

The headquarters base has no shortage of electricity, with enough power to be transmitted outside the city.

At the same time, they considered that it was not safe to set up the zombie generator outside the city.

Therefore, the only way to deliver electricity is through the headquarters base.

In addition, once this underground ditch is dug, the people stationed at the plantation outside the city can also return to the headquarters base through the underground ditch.

Especially when natural disasters strike, if there are any emergencies in the plantations outside the city and the people in the headquarters base are unable to leave, it would be much more convenient if there were underground passages available so that they could go to provide support.

This underground passage was of paramount importance in the construction of the plantation outside the city.

It must be very airtight, with the entire passage sealed, and a fresh air exchange system must be installed; otherwise, people walking inside over a distance of more than ten kilometers would suffer from oxygen deprivation and suffocation.

In addition, it must be sturdy enough.

Whether it's a plantation outside the city or the construction of an underground passage, the core task on the first day of work is excavation.

For the foreseeable future, the focus will likely remain on excavation.

Meanwhile, at the camphor tree base, outside the buffer city.

There is also a construction team working there.

The number of workers building the structures was more than that on the plantations outside the city, reaching a staggering ten thousand.

The current Dazhangshu area is roughly divided into an inner city, an outer city, and a buffer city.

The buffer city includes planting areas, industrial areas, residential areas, and commercial areas.

As the Great Camphor Tree was widely publicized, more and more survivors flocked to it.

Although there are still quite a few empty rooms in the buffer city, at the current rate of population growth, it is expected that there will not be enough rooms to accommodate everyone in a short time.

Therefore, a core point was determined at the last high-level meeting.

Outside the buffer cities of each sub-base, a peripheral city is designated to receive the incoming survivors.

The area covered a massive 60,000 mu (approximately 4,000 hectares).

Furthermore, given the significant infrastructure challenges, the proposed solution involves constructing a concrete wall approximately eight meters high, installing a layer of intelligent mobile switchboards, and covering the entire wall with intelligent ultraviolet lamps.

In normal times, new residents can live here, but in the event of a natural disaster, they will be temporarily moved to a buffer city to avoid the disaster.

Currently, the total population of the Dazhangshu area is 600,000, but according to their three-year plan, it will surge to 6 million.

That would require building enough houses and walls to accommodate 600 million people.

The current base space in the four locations under the influence of the Great Camphor Tree is insufficient to accommodate 600 million people.

It's even getting a bit crowded now.

The development of Dazhangshu in recent years has been too rapid. The factories and workshops that were originally planned to be built have been moved again and again.

Originally, the factory buildings in the outer city of the Dazhangshu headquarters base were relocated to the buffer city due to overcrowding. Only a small number of high-tech factories remained in the outer city, while the other heavily polluting factories had to be moved.

However, with the promotion of the camphor tree base this year, the population has been increasing day by day.

The vacant land originally reserved in the buffer city is becoming increasingly scarce.

But factories can grow; for example, this car manufacturing plant alone occupies 100 acres of land.

It is planned to house 6 workshops and 10 laboratories.

Following the conclusion of the high-level meeting at the Big Camphor Tree Base.

The headquarters base has entered a frenzied infrastructure construction mode, with construction underway everywhere.

1. Several factories still under construction in the buffer city, as well as the car factory that was recently built in an emergency.

2. The construction of the edge city is the largest project among all the projects currently underway.

3. Construction of plantations outside the city.

4. An underground passage connecting the plantation outside the city to the camphor tree base.

In addition to the repair work in the inner city, outer city, and buffer city of the Big Camphor Tree Base, Ding Jiu has been extremely busy these days.

Construction on Edge City began four days earlier, and he attended the groundbreaking ceremony and started building on the same day.

Today marks the start of construction on another plantation outside the city.

He only stayed in Qiaotou Township for half an hour before handing over the business to Xie Weishan and hurriedly getting into a combat vehicle.

"Let's go back to headquarters." He said to the driver as soon as he got into the car.

This car was recently assigned to him for temporary use. He has been traveling to many places lately, managing four major projects simultaneously, and also overseeing the engineering construction guidance for three other branch sites.

Even when other branch bases encountered construction difficulties, he would take a helicopter to the branch base to personally provide guidance.

Too busy to be in two places at once.

The driver didn't turn off the engine at all; it's an electric vehicle, after all, equipped with solid-state batteries, so the power was sufficient.

In addition, it is close to the headquarters, so it doesn't use much electricity at all.

In such hot weather, it would be too hot to turn off the car, so he kept the air conditioning on.

After Ding Jiu got into the car, he immediately started the vehicle and drove towards the headquarters base of Dazhangshu.

On the way back to headquarters, we saw electric trucks going out from time to time.

These electric trucks are fully loaded with various building materials, as well as refined ores, limestone, coal, and so on.

Within a 50-kilometer radius of the camphor tree base, they constructed mines, salt wells, sand and gravel plants, coal plants, and copper mines.
These locations continuously supply various raw materials to the Dazhangshu headquarters base, serving as a catalyst for the base's development.

Thumb, thump, thump—

The vehicle shook.

Ding Jiu frowned slightly, thinking to himself:
If this main road is this bumpy, what are the road maintenance teams doing? I'll have to talk about them another day.

Although natural disasters are frequent, they often cause great damage to roads.

However, the main roads around the camphor tree base must still be kept smooth, since a large number of vehicles pass by every day, and poor road conditions can cause great damage to vehicles.

The leveling method is also very simple: just fill the ground with sand and then compact it with a road roller.

Efficient and convenient.

Although it is not as smooth as an asphalt road, it is simple and efficient, and you won't feel bad if it is destroyed by a natural disaster.

Ding Jiu, still in the car, was communicating with Xie Wen, the person in charge of building the edge city, through a walkie-talkie.

"Alright, alright, I got it, I'll be there soon!"

"I already discussed this with you all at the last meeting. Regarding the positioning of the Edge City, the walls don't need to be too high. Later, we only need to lay a layer of mobile switchboards. Eight meters, just eight meters."

After finishing his conversation with Xie Wen, Ding Jiu noticed that they hadn't reached the construction site of the Edge City yet, so he immediately contacted Tao Yifeng, who was in charge of the underground passage.

"Old Tao, how's the underpass going? Is construction progressing smoothly?"

A few minutes later, the combat vehicle arrived at the construction site in Edge City.

The construction site was overcrowded, and he was very familiar with the captain of the militia brigade that protected the workers.

When Bai Wenyang saw Ding Jiu coming over, he quickly reached out to greet him.

"Old Ding!"

Ding Jiu walked over with a smile and exchanged a few pleasantries with him.

"Old Ding, how many places are you running around to, hahaha? You're working on projects everywhere, so you have to keep running around."

Ding Jiu shook his head with a wry smile and said:
“I can’t help it. I have to go to the oil city in a couple of days. They’re going to build an outlying plantation there. They’ve already chosen a few sites. I’ll take my team there to take a look.”

Bai Wenyang gave a thumbs up and said, "Awesome!"

Ding Jiu saw Xie Wen, the construction site manager, running towards them from a distance, and said to Bai Wenyang:
"Captain Bai, I'll talk to you later. I have something to discuss with Lao Xie. Keep an eye on things at the construction site. Although there are relatively few zombies around the base now, they can still appear."

Bai Wenyang nodded and said:

"Don't worry, we'll keep a close eye on it!"

In fact, outside the base, several patrol teams are arranged to patrol the area every day because convoys go out daily. If the personnel transporting goods encounter zombies, these patrol teams will immediately rush to provide support.

Ding Jiu looked at Xie Wen, who was panting heavily and covered in sweat, and frowned, asking:

"What's wrong now?"

Xie Wenping took a deep breath and said:

"We can't lay a foundation in the Zhushan Village area!"

"What's the reason?" Ding Jiu asked.

Xie Wen replied, "We don't know either."

“I also went to see it, and that place wasn’t some kind of underground boulder, hard soil layer or rock layer, it was just ordinary yellow clay.”

"Is it because the construction method is improper or the pile driving sequence is wrong?" Ding Jiu asked.

"No, we tried several different methods."

"It might be that the piling equipment is underpowered. Should we replace it with a different one?"

“We’ve tried it, even using the most powerful piling equipment!”

"Could this be a problem with the interlocks? Excessive resistance or poor sealing between the interlocks of the sheet piles can increase the difficulty of pile driving. Please check the flatness and lubrication of the interlocks."

“Minister, I have ruled out all of the ones you mentioned, none of them are the cause of these problems, it’s really inexplicable.”

"This," Ding Jiu stroked his goatee, pondered for a moment, and then said:

"We must have encountered an underground obstacle. Since we can't break through it, let's try blasting it. If blasting doesn't work, we'll adjust the construction route and go around it."

As they talked, he also became interested in the place.

"Take him over there and take a look. I want to see why we can't drive the piles!"

"it is good."

Ding Jiu followed Xie Wen to Zhushan Village.

Under the scorching sun, workers with bare chests were sweating profusely everywhere on the construction site.

The excavator digs the ground and removes the soil.

The noise level is extremely high.

There were several pile drivers nearby, continuously driving piles into the ground.

Zhushan Village is a natural rocky mountain.

It stands alone, looking somewhat out of place.

The surrounding area is all flat clay soil.

There is a legend about Zhushan Village that a fairy flew by and dropped a stone, which landed on the ground and formed this stone mountain.

The reason they didn't build the outer wall of the city near Zhushan Village was to avoid hitting rocks during excavation, which would make it difficult to drive piles.

They encompassed the entire Zhushan Village within the outer city, and the walls were built on yellow clay dozens of meters away from Zhushan Village.

Ding Jiu looked at the bustling construction site and the scene of the construction teams working enthusiastically.

I had a general idea in mind, and I stepped on the soil on the ground; it was hard as a rock.

It hasn't rained for the past two months, and it's summer.

The ground was scorched.

The yellow clay became extremely hard.

The question was asked, "How long has the construction been going on?"

Xie Wen quickly replied, "Four days. We started building the wall first, since it's simpler. We don't have to wait for all the blueprints for the outer city to be completed before starting. These days, we've basically been working from morning till evening."

As he spoke, he suddenly realized something.

"Minister Ding, do you mean it's caused by the bedrock expanding and contracting due to excessive construction frequency?"

“It’s possible. You can take turns, fight in a different place first, and leave this one here for tomorrow,” Ding Jiu said.

"Okay! I understand!" Xie Wen thought about it and became more and more convinced that this was possible, so he quickly replied.

Just then, the walkie-talkie slung across Ding Jiu's waist crackled to life, carrying the voice of Wu Xingchen, the head of the communications department:

"Minister Ding, Xie Changshan from the oil city wants to contact you. Where are you now? Is it convenient for you to return to the outer city?"

Got it!
More trouble is brewing!

Ding Jiu looked up at the sky and sighed, continuing his walk towards the combat vehicle in the distance.

(End of this chapter)