Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 161 Land Reclamation New City

  As the first generation of builders who experienced the rise of the Red River Valley from scratch, Wu Xuewen once participated in the construction of the Red River Valley Reservoir. He clearly knows how the Queensland Lord drew a wonderful construction chapter on the vast land of poverty and whiteness.

  Now that a beautiful immigrant city that shines in Australia, when it first started construction, it was not as good as Port Mores than it is today. It was a majestic city built on a wasteland.

  Received the generous pledge of support from Lord Earl, Wu Xuewen is confident to replicate the success of Red River Valley. The only thing that worries him is that Shangri-La lacks a pillar industry to support the development of the entire city.

  Master Earl once made a wise judgment; there is no agriculture without stability, no work without wealth.

  Wu Xuewen believes that he is ready to practice in Shangri-La’s hot land. The problem now is that there is no industry that can support Shangri-La’s industrial backbone for the time being.

  The rise of the Red River Valley includes wool, gold mines, iron ore and coking coal, but Shangri-La does not possess these resource advantages.

Shangri-La Island is located on the equator. It has a typical tropical rainforest climate and a subtropical ocean climate. Although it is a vast area, there are many mountains and rivers. The inland snow-capped mountains and mountains traverse the equator. There are 4 ice peaks near the equator. The highest peak.

  Moreover, there are many volcanoes, frequent earthquakes, and natural conditions are not suitable for the development of large-scale animal husbandry. Pigs and cattle can be raised, but sheep and goats are not suitable. The climate is too hot and humid.

  There are large areas of lowlands, swamps and plains in the northern part of the island, suitable for the development of agriculture. Because there is no systematic survey resources, it is impossible to know whether there are rich mineral resources.

   Therefore, Wu Xuewen can only focus on the existing conditions, temporarily focusing on the development of farms and fishing industry, and operating port transit trade. Firstly, he has a firm foothold and lays a solid foundation.

   "Commander in chief, the grazing team just sent an emergency report. Today, another 6 cattle and 41 sheep died. Now everyone doesn't know what to do, they jumped in a hurry."

  The young man who came to report was Wu Xuewen’s secretary, Liu Bao, a young man who graduated from Red River Valley University and was the first graduate of Red River Valley University.

  According to the settings of the Secretariat;

  There were only 9 people who were able to contact Lord Earl and reported face-to-face. They were called "Hongmen Nine Wolves" by the outside world. The internal name was the first-level secretary, commonly known as "The Great Secret".

  There are a lot of affairs in various departments throughout the Red River Valley. The secretariat is the central nerve that gathers a lot of information. It handles many affairs every day and selects the most important of them to report to the Lord Earl.

  Therefore, every major secretary has a secretarial team to handle affairs, ranging from more than ten to five or six.

  According to different qualifications, they are second-class secretary, third-class secretary and trainee secretary.

  After every major secretary assumes an important role, he will habitually take away several secretaries in order to get familiar with and enter the working state as soon as possible.

  Generally speaking

  The second secretary with rich work experience cannot be taken away, because after the big secretary is gone, the second secretary will have the opportunity to fill the vacancy and become an important person in the secretariat to manage a certain aspect of specific work.

  So, all the secretaries took away were third-class secretaries and trainee secretaries, confidantes he had cultivated.

  Liu Bao is Wu Xuewen’s former trainee secretary. He came to Shangri-La Island to take up a post. Wu Xuewen brought Liu Bao with him and used it as a personal secretary, which shows that he is highly valued.

   listened to the report

Wu Xuewen walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back. This is very similar to the actions of the Lord Earl when he thought about it. In the livestock barn, let the livestock group move all the cattle over and relocate them separately. Farming the cattle is a big deal and can no longer travel to the pond."

  "Commander, what about the flock?"

  “The sheep seems to be unable to do anything. Every day, we select the badly slaughtered and provide them to the construction army for food. We must also seize the time to slaughter and divide the sick cattle. These beef can't be wasted."

   "Commander, can sick cows eat? What if something goes wrong with eating?" Liu Bao seemed a little worried.

"Liu Bao, are you stupid? The beef is slaughtered and cooked into small pieces. It has already been sterilized by high temperature. Didn't those white people keep calling us to abuse them? Get some food for them first. , Can't it be wasted, right?"

   "White man, then... can that work?" Liu Bao was taken aback.

"Why not?" Wu Xuewen looked like he took it for granted, and gave Liu Bao a bit of a blow; "In actual work, you must think more and earnestly enhance your work ability, otherwise you will be placed outside to preside over the work. This will not work. , That doesn't work, what should I do in the end?

  You are also a big man. You have learned a lot of ink, but you must solve problems flexibly in actual work, rather than stick to the rules.

  Master Earl once said;

  The rapid development of the Red River Valley, I hope that everyone around you can keep up with the pace of progress, no one can stop the laggards, the construction of the Red River Valley cannot wait.

  Now I give this sentence to you, and encourage each other!

  You must firmly remember to me that we shoulder the trust of Lord Earl and build an overseas paradise for Chinese immigrants. Natives and whites are not in our consideration.

   Put away your pitiful sympathy, they are worthless to me.

   By the way, go and slaughter the sick sheep, don’t waste it.

  Send it to those white people who are clamoring all day to taste it. Remember to pay attention to it. A long time will be enough. Go ahead and execute it. "

   After a severe reprimand, he almost cried Liu Baoxun, nodding his head and replied with a whimpering voice; "I must keep in mind the teachings of the commander-in-chief. I dare not forget it for a day. Liu Bao went out to do something."

   "Well, go ahead."

"Yes."

  Liu Bao shrank his neck and left the command post as if fleeing. Next to him were two young men with documents in their hands, and they stood aside with a dare not to move forward.

  "What's the matter with you?" Wu Xuewen's expression was severe.

"Master Commander, we are in the wharf construction team. Now we need to divide into many teams to drive long wooden piles into the beach as an extension of the wooden trestle bridge to prepare for the subsequent steam hammer construction. The team leader said that there is not enough manpower, and at least 500 strong labors are needed."

"Oh, there are some manpower." Wu Xuewen looked at the young man, and said with earnestness; "Let the leader of your terminal construction team think of a way instead of running to me to ask for someone. Forget it, I'll give you one. Let's recruit, let your team leader bring guns, bring people, and go to the tribe in the jungle, where there are indigenous strong laborers, let alone 500, no problem with a thousand."

   "Ah..." The young man opened his mouth in surprise.

  Wu Xuewen waved his hand impatiently, and said, "Ah what, tell your team leader, this is my decision, hurry up and implement it!"

   "Yes." The young man was obviously startled, and he immediately bowed his legs together and slipped away like a rabbit.

  Wu Xuewen looked at the last young man with a stern look, and the young man said immediately; “Report to the commander-in-chief, our logging team is okay.”

   "Well, let's do something." Wu Xuewen nodded in satisfaction.

  The logging team must have come to dignitaries. The bad idea that I just came up with is also useful to the logging team. This is a very clever young man.

  Dockside

The frigate   The Seagull slowly approached the pier, and the sailors threw out the rope to moor the ship firmly to the pier.

  Li Fushou walked out of the patrol captain’s room with a few entourages. He went out to sea today and made a round of inspections around some deserted islands nearby. This was not just a return.

  'S conclusion is the same as previously expected. They are all uninhabited desert islands with high mountains and dense vegetation. Some beasts and birds can be observed through the telescope, and there are no signs of humans.

  After seeing a few islands, Li Fushou has no interest in continuing to inspect.

  The range of Shangri-La Island is too big, with a coastline of 8,400 kilometers and more than 1,300 islands. It takes no more than half a month to go around.

  Li Fushou is so troubled, how can there be so much idle time?

  Walking on the permanent wharf paved with reinforced concrete, Li Fushou stamped his feet vigorously, very satisfied with the firmness.

  Geng Zhenbao walking behind, Lei Xiao, Fu Peng and others are directly speechless. The reinforced concrete is poured into a small half-person-high wharf. What do you mean by stomping with your feet?

  On the pier trestle

  Workers are building in full swing. First, a solid wooden trestle bridge is laid, and then a solid reinforced concrete layer is poured on the wooden trestle bridge.

  After the construction is completed, the large steam hammer placed on the rails can enter the construction site, showing the violent aesthetics of machinery.

  The large steam hammer drove the steel cofferdam into the sea water at once, making a huge roar, showing the infinite power of the steam industry.

These two-meter-square steel cofferdams with a length of 12 meters, built by Hongshan Shipyard, can be sheathed one by one. After being driven into the seawater, the seawater is drained, and the silt is dug out and placed in a steel cage, and finally used The concrete is poured into shape and gradually extends into the sea.

  This permanent concrete wharf was built on the original wooden trestle bridge, and the trestle bridge was widened and extended.

  The final pier is 240 meters long and 12 meters wide.

The width of the wide cement trestle is more than 4 times larger than the original one. Wharf hoisting equipment will be installed on the left and right sides, which can receive and unload two 10,000-ton ocean freighters and two 5,000-ton freighters at the same time, without the need for small sampans. Wharf and berth transportation, and has the capacity of loading and unloading large cargo.

  Li Fushou stood on the trestle bridge, looking around the beautiful fjord with satisfaction.

  In the distance, large tracts of forest were felled down. After processing, the trees were piled into timber hills. On the large tracts of vacant land, wooden houses were under construction. There was a lot of people and a lively scene.

  The wooden houses in tropical areas are similar to stilted buildings. The bottom is hardened with cement slabs. The weight of the whole wooden house is supported by cement pillars more than half a person high. The bottom is made of a huge log structure covered with wooden boards.

  This kind of house is mosquito-proof, cool and breathable, and has high living comfort.

  (End of this chapter)