Rise of the 1630s South America

Time flies, and it is already late January 1631.After more than three months of hard work, both sides of the Dayu River have changed drastically.The first is the industrial area on the South Bank, full of chimneys.Brick kilns, cement kilns, lime kilns, and wood drying kilns continuously provided various materials for the people who traveled through. The lumber mills and lime quarries also built beautiful and sturdy brick buildings.

The construction of simple wooden houses in the North Shore area has stopped, and the about [-] houses that have been built have all been allocated to the crossing people, temporarily sharing one room for two.Since building materials can be produced stably, the time travelers no longer look down on this kind of wooden house with simple structure, air leakage and water leakage.The executive committee complied with public opinion and began to find a new site and focus on building brick houses.The original residential area will be demolished after the new houses are built, and the land will be used for commercial construction.

The original creek wetland is the only source of irrigation and domestic water for the people passing through. The executive committee has decided to transform it into a small reservoir.In addition, there are the construction of the highway to dredge the port, the dredging of the Dayu River, the construction of a new bridge across the river, etc. In short, everything seems to be so prosperous.

The Shugang Highway has been completed ahead of schedule, and most of the 160-person construction army has been idled, except for a small number of people left to carry out finishing work.In view of the fact that these strong laborers who were used as livestock had been working continuously for a long time, the executive committee fully took care of their emotions, and all of them took a few days off, and counted 120 points for each person.

Points is a concept proposed by Finance Committee Tang Yuan to the Executive Committee.According to Tangyuan, the 568 modern people who have traveled here include men and women, old and young, with different personalities and abilities.If we said that a while ago, everyone was in the production and self-help stage, working together, maybe there was no time to think about other things.

But now the time-travelers have initially gained a firm foothold, and their lives have gradually settled down.Due to the implementation of the rationing system, everyone has similar food and clothing expenses.Then the problem comes, some people will think why he does some easy work all day long, and I am either mining, building roads or moving bricks, which is not beneficial at all.There will definitely be people who think this way, and maybe he won't say it directly for the time being, but the reaction at work is that this person starts to consciously slow down at work, which will be contagious to others, and the impact will be very bad.

For this reason, Tangyuan proposes to implement a points system.Double points will be given to those who do heavy manual work, technical work, and high-risk work to improve their enthusiasm for work.After all, they can't send money to them. At this stage, those gold and silver coins are extremely important "foreign exchange" resources for the crossing people, and they are expected to be used to buy urgently needed materials for production and life from the outside world.Moreover, even if the money is sent, it will not be used.At present, the time-travelers practice a big pot meal and a rationing system. There is no commodity market at all, and there is no place to spend money if they have money.

As for how to use the points, it really made the executive committee useless.After all, this is regarded as the internal credit currency of Transit, and it must have a discount function. Simply put, it must be able to exchange things.

Initially there was an offer to exchange items.However, at this stage, the materials produced by the cross-travel crowd are pitifully small, and most of them are building materials and the like.This thing can't be eaten or worn, and it's useless to ask for it. I guess no one will exchange points for these things.

Then someone asked if it could be exchanged for land.This involves the issue of land ownership. At present, everyone's thinking on this aspect has not yet been unified, so we have to put it aside for the time being.

Finally, it is Tangyuan’s suggestion: for the next batch of brick and tile houses to be allocated, those with high points can be given priority; for some positions, under the same conditions, those with high points will be given priority.In addition, the points can also be exchanged for paid food: currently some dried fish and alcohol.When the commodities become more abundant in the future, we will gradually expand the scope of exchange.

Everyone thought about it, and this is the only way to go at present, so the point system was established.

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On January 1, the construction army that rested for five days was sent out again.

After Xiao Bailang and Wang Tiehammer's activities, the Executive Committee finally agreed to try to solve the problem of several ships including the Yunsheng No. [-] that had been delayed for several months.

The plan initially approved by the Executive Committee is mainly divided into several steps: 1. Build dams upstream and downstream where several ships run aground; 2. Excavate tributary streams to divert the water blocked by upstream dams; 3. Organize human dredging and dredging river course.The draft of Yunsheng No. 4 is about 4.2-3.5 meters, and the river where it ran aground is a shoal with a water depth of less than 0.5 meters, so it is about 0.7-[-] meters aground.Fortunately, the amount of work is not particularly huge.

The number of people mobilized by the Executive Committee reached a record 200 people.The first day's work is to dig the drainage canal, and the excavated earth can be bagged and thrown into the river to build a dam.It took more than a week to complete the 150-meter-long drainage canal. At the same time, the two dykes at the upstream and downstream, which are more than [-] meters apart, have taken shape.

"The embankment still needs to be compacted." Shao Shude, as a former construction contractor, was duty-bound to assume the command of the construction at this time. "Let's not mention the downstream dam, the upstream must be done well. This time we are not building a one-time dam. The executive committee has decided that the upstream dam will be built with a concrete dam in the future. You know, the water of the Dayu River The flow is slow and difficult to use. Comrades in the industrial sector have already proposed whether to build a permanent dam so that we can use the water resources here to build water mills, hydraulic forging hammers and so on."

"Commissioner Shao, the dam is easy to make. The key is how to build the water channel?" Liu Dafa glanced at Shao Shude and asked in a low voice.This kid is now considered a small captain in the construction team, but he still has that cautious temper.

"I've thought about the access to the waterway, and I plan to build several large brick culverts inside the dam." Shao Shude replied, "This will also facilitate the construction of new sluices in the future."

After watching the dam, Shao Shude went down to the river himself.The water in the river has already been drained, and the people who traveled through the river caught a lot of fish and shrimps during the drainage process, which was a pleasant surprise.After these few days of sun exposure, the riverbed has dried up a lot.The construction team placed a large number of planks or mats made of reeds on the river bed, so that people would not easily sink if they stepped on it.

The construction team of nearly 200 people was divided into several sections, and dredging began at the same time.According to Shao Shude's careful observation and estimation, a person can only dig 2-3 cubic meters of silt a day, and the speed is not very fast.According to the plan of the executive committee, the water depth of the river must be dredged to 5 meters, that is to say, it must continue to dig about 1.5 meters deep from the existing foundation.According to a rough calculation, the total earthwork of the project is about 5000 cubic meters, and it will take more than ten days of hard work across the crowd.

Sighed slightly.Shao Shude didn't speak anymore, he simply took a shovel to dig up the mud.The excavated silt is transported to the brick kiln by special personnel, and then made into adobe and fired bricks.

On February 2, the dredging work was officially completed.Following Shao Shude's order, the wooden temporary water-stop gates piled up between the embankment and culverts were pulled up.The four culverts gushed out surging water waves at the same time. As the water level gradually increased, the tugboats and barges floated up first; when the water level climbed to more than 18 meters, Yunsheng No. 4 also slowly floated up.

At this time, everyone at the downstream dam worked together and began to dig the waterway reserved in the middle of the dam enough for several ships to pass through.

Wang Tiehammer had already started the main engine of the freighter, and when the water level stopped rising, it began to move forward slowly.At this time, Lao Zhang’s tugboat had already towed several barges through the reserved waterway in the middle. The waterway was fairly wide, and the tugboat barges were not large in size. After some careful driving, Lao Zhang’s tugboat team passed smoothly. Head to the mouth of the river.

When it was the turn of Yunsheng No. 2000 to pass through the waterway, everyone was very worried. The 12.5-ton Yunsheng No. [-] has a width of [-] meters, and the waterway reserved in the middle is only [-] or [-] meters wide. If one accidentally hits the embankment, everyone will probably want to die.Fortunately, Wang Tiechui's level is not bad, and Yunsheng No. [-] sailed out of the waterway smoothly, sailed all the way to the sea off the mouth of the river, and then berthed on the pier built by the crossing crowd.

When Wang Tiehammer lowered the anchor chain and turned off the main engine, there was a loud cheer on the pier!