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Yu Xiaotian then wrote down the matter, and arranged for someone to notify the people in the council hall, ordering them to start purchasing large quantities of coal from land in the near future, freeing up several large ships to be used specifically as coal carriers, and heading towards Tamsui in large quantities.

As for transporting coal, we don't care whether it is needed or not for the time being. We will bring it back first. One day, the provincial government on land turned against him again and banned the land export of various raw materials to Sea Wolf.

At this point, it is better to be prepared for a rainy day. In addition to coal, Sea Wolf's biggest reliance on land is still iron materials and iron ore.

At present, through more than two years of hard work, he has established a supply chain for purchasing iron materials on land. He continuously absorbs iron materials from the land and transports them to Tamsui and Nanyue Island for storage. The current reserve has already

It's quite big, enough for them to use for at least a year.

Currently, they don't have much demand for iron ore. Seawolf casts and makes guns temporarily using raw and wrought iron purchased directly from land, which can be used directly. However, taking the opportunity, Seawolf still imported some iron ore, temporarily.

It was also stored and piled in a material yard near Tamsui Pier. In short, this stuff will definitely not be wasted in the future. It is better to save raw materials than to save money.

Although silver is a good thing, it is of little use to Xiaotian. It can only be used as a fund reserve. No matter how much he saves, it will not be of much use.

Therefore, he has always insisted on immediately purchasing various raw materials with the money he got. Even if they are not used, they must reserve them first, especially some raw materials that they cannot be self-sufficient at present, and they are also related to people's livelihood and war preparations.

, is the focus of procurement.

Among them, copper, iron, saltpeter, and sulfur are naturally the big ones, but things like sugar, cotton, cloth, and grain are also the focus of sea wolves' purchases. As long as the price is right, they will buy in large quantities and store them first.

Now in Tamsui City, there is a large area where many large warehouses have been built, specifically used to store these production and daily raw materials.

The largest warehouse in Tamsui City is probably the grain depot. The grain stored in it, even if it is Tamsui and Chicken Coop, is enough for them to survive without a grain of grain for a year.

However, this also made Sea Wolf work for so many years. In fact, there was not much silver stored in the bank. The remaining silver was only used as a reserve, which was enough to give the Sea Wolf tribe a few months.

The large amount of money earned for salary purposes was replaced with various raw materials and stored up.

At this point, Yu Xiaotian thinks that he has done a good job. At least he knows better than anyone else that he should reserve useful things in advance, not money, because once it is time to use it, there are many times when the money is gone.

I couldn't buy anything, but I saved a lot of money, which turned out to be useless.

The matter of building roads and canals was also put on the agenda at the same time that Yu Xiaotian ordered a major sanitation overhaul. Yu Xiaotian personally selected some people who knew about this aspect and dispersed them to various immigrant villages.

Planning ditches and road traffic, and using this canal and road construction, a detailed map of fresh water was also drawn, and the original map was revised and supplemented.

Maps are a rare thing in this era. Drawing a map requires a lot of manpower and material resources to complete. Even so, before there were modern cartography and modern surveying tools, even the maps drawn by experts were very rough and rough.

Inaccurate.

But this kind of thing is not easy to solve for Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian only learned a little bit about modern cartography from textbooks, but after a long time, what he learned from the teacher also became more and more difficult.

Basically, he gave it back to the teacher.

Therefore, he could only try his best to let his subordinates use the current methods to draw the map, but he just asked for more details and accuracy.

Yu Xiaotian had previously sent an advance team to draw maps in the Tamsui area and had obtained a relatively detailed local topographic map. However, after the completion of Tamsui City, as the area of ​​the immigration area gradually expanded, the land was continuously reclaimed.

After the leveling was completed, the terrain here has changed somewhat.

In addition, immigrant villages are constantly being established like mushrooms after a spring rain, which requires the original maps to be updated, supplemented and modified to meet their needs.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to take advantage of this massive water conservancy and road construction project to update the map and send more investigation teams to inspect and search outside the immigration area to map out a larger area.

Map to meet their needs for future expansion here.

Although this is easy to say, it is difficult to do. Nowadays, Tamsui City’s immigration area is quite large, and the terrain is relatively complex. This is not a plain area, but mostly hilly terrain, and the terrain in this area is

There are many streams and relatively rich water resources.

But even so, if the ditch roads are not planned in advance, once construction begins and the irrigation and drainage ditches are not properly constructed, not only will they not be effective, but they may have negative impacts.

Therefore, the trend of the ditch and the location of water diversion and drainage must be carefully selected. In addition, you must at least have an understanding of the height difference of the terrain. Before construction, plan as much as possible to avoid too many mistakes. When the time comes, the ditch

It was excavated, but the water could not be directed into the ditch, so the work would have been in vain.

Therefore, although Yu Xiaotian was anxious, he did not dare to start the construction rashly. Instead, he sent people to do this first and planned the trench road first. After completing this matter, he could start organizing the construction.

As for the construction manpower, Yu Xiaotian decided to dig trenches and use the labor of each resettlement village to carry out the work on site. The specific organization is the responsibility of each township and village. Hailang is only responsible for providing certain tools to meet their needs. As for food,

The problem is borne by the immigrants themselves, and of course there is no talk of wages.

The reason for doing this is because Yu Xiaotian feels that when it is time to treat immigrants well, they must be good, but they cannot be spoiled because the water conservancy project is a project that directly benefits them. Once it is repaired, they are the first beneficiaries.

, with the creation of water conservancy ditches, their farmland can be irrigated with water during the dry season and excess rainwater can be drained during the rainy season, allowing them to obtain direct benefits.

Therefore, it would be too much if Hailang should bear all the costs for this kind of thing. Therefore, the immigrants from each village need to work and contribute their own efforts to complete this water conservancy project. If necessary, Hailang can organize manpower

Provide material help.

Of course, for the immigrants who have just come here, they have not yet established themselves, have no harvests, and have not yet solved their food problem. The food supply will naturally have to be borne by the Sea Wolf Group. Otherwise, if the ditches are not dug, these new immigrants will probably starve to death.

Yeah, no one would do this.

But regarding the road construction, Yu Xiaotian decided that the Sea Wolf Group should be responsible for it, because if the immigrants were allowed to dig ditches and also undertake road construction, the amount of work the immigrants would have to bear would be too much.

, and now is the spring plowing period. The immigrants have to cultivate while building water conservancy projects. If they build roads, it may affect this year's harvest and seriously affect the spring plowing work.

Road construction cannot be postponed until the off-season, because when digging ditches, they will inevitably intersect with roads, and digging ditches will take out a lot of earth, which can be used for repairs.

On the road, if you miss it, you will have to use manpower and material resources again in the future, which will cause waste and loss of both human and financial resources.

In addition, since ancient times, road building has basically relied on the organization and investment of local governments to complete it. Only the people themselves can at most build some country roads or farmland working roads. Such connections

It is obviously inappropriate to rely on immigrants to build all the roads in the entire immigration area.

This is also an expense that Sea Wolf must pay, and this kind of investment will also recover the cost for Sea Wolf. In the future, Sea Wolf will charge 30% of the food produced in the farmland developed by the resettlement village as a food tax.

To meet the needs of the Sea Wolves themselves, although roads benefit the immigrants and make their travel much easier, they also help the Sea Wolves strengthen their ability to control their own territory. Roads are a powerful tool for them to effectively control these immigrant villages in the future.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to let Hailang be responsible for building the road. As for labor, he mainly used purchased slaves and hard laborers from the original hard labor camp here.

For this kind of project that requires a large input of labor, the road construction itself is very labor-intensive and labor-intensive. In addition, there are no modern construction machinery available, so it all has to be completed by human and animal power, and even animal power is very serious.

Not enough, spring plowing will take up a lot of space

A large amount of cattle and animal power are needed, so it basically has to be completed by manpower. In this way, there will inevitably be some casualties. Immigration is the foundation that Yu Xiaotian will rely on in the future. It cannot be used casually, but for these hard labor

As for slaves, they are worthless.

So during the period of sanitation and rectification, Yu Xiaotian also arranged for canal and road construction, and asked the heads of the townships and villages to start the preliminary mobilization work, and began to allocate tools and make various repairs.

Road stone rollers and vehicles.

Stone rollers are easy to make. The most important thing in Taiwan is stone. Marble reserves in particular are extremely abundant. Moreover, Tamsui City now has its own quarry and many masons. It does not take much effort to carve dozens of these large stone rollers.

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