Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 144: Terrifying Consumption of Manpower

Ren Zhong made a rough calculation. If he took over all the land here, it would be about 500 to 600 acres. Plus the more than 50 cave dwellings they lived in, the total cost, calculated in dollars, would be more than 2000 but less than 3000 dollars. He had no pressure about the money.

Liang Xiaofeng, who took over the imitation of the main world's silver dollar, has completed the mold making and equipment debugging of the entire mechanism silver dollar. The first batch of 5 trial-produced dollars have been produced and delivered to Ren Zhong.

After crossing the Qinling Mountains, Ren Zhong did nothing else on the rest of the way except carrying oceans every day. In more than ten days, he had brought more than 2 pieces from the main world to the Bright Sword world!
Ren Zhong was now a major officer. Who would dare to search him at the checkpoints? This made Ren Zhong have two long pieces of silver along the way.

After Ren Zhong tried using it, the world had no objection to his refined oceans. Even the big merchants who went to Chang'an recognized the quality of the oceans used by Ren Zhong.

Although Hu Zi was puzzled by the disappearance of large and small yellow croakers and the magical appearance of Dayang, he knew that there was a mysterious organization supporting Ren Zhong, so he did not delve into these things.

In this way, when Ren Zhong and his party entered the border area, each of them carried two long bags of silver dollars, totaling more than 2 yuan.

As the team leader, Hu Zi kept silent, and the other team members naturally didn't say much either, so Jiang Chongjing didn't know Ren Zhong and the others' bottom line.

"Then it's settled, Minister Jiang. We'll set up camp there today. Didn't we say that a battalion of our troops will arrive tomorrow? We'll wait here for the troops to arrive, and then start the construction of the institute. For the rest of today, we'll look around, and I'll mark the places that are suitable for construction."

Ren Zhong spoke quickly.

There is no need for any planning and designing now. The earthen blast furnace and open-hearth furnace are all ready-made designs and must be built. Sulfuric acid and nitric acid production lines are also essential for chemical industry, so naturally they must be rebuilt here.

Ren Zhong drove his horse forward, first continuing upstream along the Yan River to observe the options for building a dam. He found that the place they had seen before was the narrowest. Further upstream, there appeared a river valley area one kilometer long and two to three hundred meters wide, which was about five or six meters high from the Yan River. In this way, a dam of about twenty meters high was built downstream. After storing water, this area could just form a small reservoir area with a capacity of one million cubic meters.

In this way, it will not be a big problem for Ren Zhong to utilize the abundant water in the Yanhe River to build a 2MW hydropower station.

Then we returned to the fork in the road and walked two or three kilometers along the direction of Nangou River. There was a narrow ravine here and there was little chance of building a reservoir. But it seemed that the water volume of Nangou River was okay. Ren Zhong estimated that the flow rate was at least one or two cubic meters per second. The water in this river was clear and it should be a good choice as a water source after blocking it. With this amount of water, as long as the water head of a few meters was blocked, it would be no problem to drive Ren Zhong's mature 50KW hydroelectric generator.

Therefore, priority will be given to building hydroelectric power here, and then the entire base will be temporarily driven.

This type of dam does not have too much technical difficulty. The Nangou River is only about ten meters wide, and it is easier to build than the dam on the Yangcun side.

The more Ren Zhong looked at this place, the more he liked it. The water, land, and resources made it an ideal place for the research institute with a staff of about a thousand people that he had planned to build.

The only troublesome thing is that it is a little far from here to the border area. There is no highway now, only a dirt road for carts. There is no problem running a horse, but it is troublesome to drive a horse carriage or ox cart to the border area. It will take at least a day!
This means that once the researchers' families arrive in the border areas, even if they live in the core areas of the border areas, it will be difficult for them to communicate with the researchers here.

Ren Zhong frowned and thought for a while.

It seems that the idea of ​​placing the family members in the core area of ​​the border area is not feasible. Here, I have to consider building a family area. In this way, the supply and work of these family members in the future may become a problem. According to Ren Zhong's plan, there will be thousands of research staff here. If more than half of them start a family, which is almost certain, then there will be more than 500 families to settle here, which means at least more than 2000 people. Now there is no restriction on births. There are very few families of three, and a family of five is the standard.

This means that it is important to prepare at least three kilns for each family!
Including the bachelors, at least 2000 kilns will have to be dug in this area for residential use in the future.

Then come the factories and laboratories.

This is the rhythm of digging out the underground of the nearby mountains! Assuming that each cave is 10 meters deep, 3 meters wide and 5 meters high, the digging of the cave alone requires more than 4 cubic meters of earth and stone. This huge amount of work would make even a hard worker like Li Yunlong shake his head!

Ren Zhong walked around an area of ​​four or five kilometers and roughly planned out the various functional areas in his mind.

His research institute is no less important than rebuilding a county town in this era. Since researchers and their families live together, the residential area must be planned in the same way as a community.

The place where the two rivers meet is very suitable for residential development. 2000 houses can be built by taking out a part of several hundred acres of land, but Ren Zhong cannot do so.

Such a large residential area is a temptation to the Japanese!
The current mission is difficult, but there is no strong air defense means to ensure the air safety here.

Therefore, it is not advisable to build residential areas on flat land.

The only option was to go upstream along the Nangou River and the Yan River, dig caves in the hills, and form a large cave dwelling complex.

Ren Zhong believes that after the successful construction of this cave dwelling community, it will definitely leave a new record of a cave dwelling gathering area in this space and time.

"How about it, Boss Ren, besides requisitioning the land, is there anything else you need us to do?" Jiang Chongjing followed Ren Zhong and looked at him thoughtfully, then asked.

"We don't have any other needs next. We just need a large number of workers to start construction here. I wonder how much labor you can provide in this regard?" Ren Zhong came to his senses and said to Jiang Chongjing.

"Boss Ren, the Third Battalion of the First Regiment of our Border Guard will arrive here tomorrow. On the one hand, they will be responsible for your safety and protection, and on the other hand, they will also undertake a large number of construction tasks. If there are not enough people, please contact me at any time, and I will find a way to solve the manpower problem." Jiang Chongjing said.

This is a main force battalion with over 400 people. In Jiang Chongjing's opinion, this is enough.

"Not enough. One battalion is far from enough," Ren Zhong heard this and shook his head.

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