Chapter 542 Shilu goes into production

Li Dagui's cover identity during the six months on the island was that of a carpenter, and this identity allowed him to have many opportunities to enter and leave the Dutch stronghold. Li Dagui had long been aware of the Dutch's local situation, especially the defense arrangements.

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"In the report just handed over to Chief Lin, there is a port defense map drawn below. I wonder if your Excellency has ever seen it?" Li Dagui said eagerly: "I will explain it based on the map. Maybe I can explain it in more detail."

Lin Nan immediately took out the report that Li Dagui had just handed over, and pulled out the map that Li Dagui mentioned. The map was only one foot square and was traced on a piece of thin paper with very fine handwriting. Although the painting style was very crude, Mu Mu

Xia Bai could tell at a glance that the painter must have received professional training. The due north direction and scale were marked on it, and the roads, buildings, woods, bridges, etc. on the map were all marked with the standard symbols for Haihan military maps.

Although there are no detailed contour lines drawn out like military maps, the main commanding heights are all marked and can be used in wartime.

"The map is well drawn." Mu Xiabai nodded and praised. With Li Dagui performing the mission here alone, it is difficult to conduct a large amount of independent surveying and mapping work. The maps used by the military staff are all based on the maps collected before crossing.

It is extremely difficult to draw satellite maps with the accuracy that this hand-made map can achieve.

"Thank you for the compliment!" Li Dagui was flattered and responded quickly, and then began to explain the situation of the port to the two of them. He had already recovered from the shock of seeing Mu Xiabai at the beginning. Since the big shot had already stated that he wanted to seize the

On this island, how much of this credit can be shared with me probably depends on how much I can earn at this time.

It has to be said that Li Dagui's time spent on Natuna Island for more than half a year was not wasted. The intelligence information he collected was far more detailed than the written report delivered to the Ministry of Security. However, this was not because he intentionally concealed valuable information.

information, but the cultural level is limited, and a lot of information cannot be fully reflected in words in a report of limited length. But when reporting orally by comparing the map with the map, Li Dagui can pour out all the information he has.

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Mu Xiabai and Lin Nan were not idle either. They listened to Li Dagui's narration while taking notes. From time to time, they also asked questions about areas in Li Dagui's words that were not detailed enough.

Li Dagui's oral report lasted for nearly two hours. At the end, Lin Nan also gave him reassurance: "You go back and stay well. This credit will be recorded for you first. When the militia army conquers this island, we will do it as soon as possible."

I will transfer you back to Sanya to report on your work, and I will reward you when the time comes."

Li Dagui hurriedly responded: "I despise my position and swear to serve the Executive Committee to the death!"

After sending Li Dagui away, Mu Xiabai said: "Commissioner Lin, your security department has done a good job. The intelligence collected is very targeted. This is a great help to our military!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Chief!" Although Lin Nan is a cadre in front of Li Dagui, he is a subordinate in front of Mu Xiabai. Although the two are not in the same system, under Haihan's rule, the status of the time traveler is undoubtedly this

Nobles in the social system, while naturalized citizens are undoubtedly inferior, even naturalized cadres in special departments like Lin Nan are no exception. No one has any objection to this, in this time and space

The people of the world are accustomed to the existence of class differences, and isn't one of the original intentions of the time travelers coming to this time and space to enjoy the treatment of being superior to others?

Mu Xiabai accepted Lin Nan's thanks calmly and continued to ask: "Before coming, you said that there are two people from the security department on the island and an intelligence agent. When will we contact you?"

Lin Nan responded: "The other person's disguised identity is a doctor. Tomorrow morning we will bring him to the ship under the pretense of treating the crew."

The next day, as Lin Nan promised, another intelligence officer operating as a doctor also came to the ship and reported face-to-face to Mu Xiabai. Although this intelligence officer did not have a hand-drawn map, he was here

For more than half a year, I continued to travel around the entire Natuna Island in the name of collecting herbs. I had a much better understanding of the distribution of residents on the entire island than Li Dagui did, which could be considered as filling in the gaps in the information collected so far.

During the two days that the two merchant ships stayed in the port, they did not arouse the suspicion of the Dutch. The representatives of the Ministry of Commerce on the ship even sold some daily necessities produced in Sanya to the Dutch on the island, doing business for more than 200 taels of silver.

.This made the Dutch even more convinced that the two ships were indeed Ming merchant ships preparing to go to Batavia for trade.

After replenishing fresh water and food, the two lucky ships left Natuna Port on January 7, and after a circle in the open sea to make sure that there were no other ships nearby, they turned northwest and stayed with them for the past two days.

The fleet cruising in the outer sea meets.

After listening to the reports from Mu Xiabai and Lin Nan, Wang Tom believed that the intelligence collection work had achieved the goal, and ordered the return voyage. As for exploring the waters south of the Natuna Islands, that was not the main mission of their trip.

In the fleet going south this time, only two catamaran sailboats were equipped with radio stations. In order to seize the time, Wang Tom once again decided to divide the troops into two groups. He would personally drive the "Lightning" sailboat and return early with personnel from several major departments.

Sanya, report the information collected this time to the Executive Committee. The remaining ships will slowly return at the speed they came from.

On the way back, the "Lightning" only stopped at Cam Ranh Bay for a day to rest, and then rushed all the way back to Sanya. However, despite traveling day and night, it was already two full weeks before they returned to Sanya.

While the reconnaissance fleet was heading south, the track laying work of Changhua Shilu was finally completed at the beginning of the new year. The steam locomotive departing from Changhua Port arrived at Shilu in one and a half hours at an average speed of 25 kilometers per hour.

The station is within one kilometer of the two mine excavation sites that have begun groundbreaking. This is currently the longest track on Hainan Island, marking that the development of Shilu Iron Mine has entered the formal implementation stage. The ore mined here will pass through

The railways continuously transport it to the seaside, where it is turned into tens of thousands of tons of steel in Changhua's smelting factories.

The director of the Shilu Project in Changhua, Qiao Zhiya, the current military and political officer of the Changhua Development Zone, has moved his office from near Changhua County to the hillside of Shilu. The office location of the Shilu Mining Area was once the residential area of ​​Shizidong.

In the early stage of site selection, because the foundation here was ready, Qiao Zhiya chose to develop and construct it as the mining area's office space and employee residential area.

Most of the hundreds of original boat-shaped houses were demolished and replaced with Haihan standard two-story wooden structure simple board houses. The Ministry of Construction had designed special simple houses for the development of Shilu Mining Area more than a year ago.

, because this place is located in an inland mountainous area and is not as susceptible to hurricanes from the sea as the seaside, so the simple houses are mainly made of bamboo and wood structures. All components are standard parts made in advance and transported to the construction site.

As long as the foreman directs it, it can be quickly built like building blocks.

Each of these simple houses can accommodate six to eight people, with shared toilets and bathrooms. Each two-story building can be built in any size according to local conditions, from one to a hundred rooms, as long as the construction area can accommodate it.

Just fine. The Ministry of Construction has already built 300 houses here before the entire line is opened to traffic, which can accommodate nearly 2,000 people, which can basically meet the initial needs of the mine development.

Among the thousands of laborers involved in road construction in the early stage, most of them will be left to settle in the Metallurgical Industrial Zone in Changhua. After simple training, they will enter the metallurgical industry and become steel-making workers. Some people will be assigned to settle along the railway line as Changhua workers.

Maintenance and dispatching personnel for the track between the chemical industry and Shilu. A small number of personnel will stay in the Shilu mining area, serving as foremen and other positions. The main labor force in the Shilu mining area will be thousands of prisoners in the hard labor camp.

, taking into account the production tasks assigned by the Ministry of Industry to the mining area, a considerable number of them may never have the chance to leave this mountainous area alive.

In addition, the Ministry of Justice has also passed a new resolution. From now on, the service location of local prisoners in Hainan Island, except for some prisoners with relatively sensitive nature, will be changed to Shilu Iron Mine, and even Tian Du

Some existing prisoners in the iron mine will also be moved there one after another to facilitate unified management by relevant departments.

All technical staff from the Ministry of Construction will be transferred. Some will go to the Qiongbei area to implement various infrastructure projects. Others will need to work overseas for a period of time and go to the southern coast of Annan to plan and direct the port development projects belonging to Haihan.

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What Qiao Zhiya now has to worry about is not only whether the operation level of the mining area can meet the output required by the Ministry of Industry, but also the track line from Shilu Iron Mine to Changhua Metallurgical Industrial Zone is also a very troublesome long-term matter.

Since the total length is more than 40 kilometers, the engineering volume and cost investment are too large. In order to save construction time and resources, this track line adopted a single-line construction design during construction, which means that the trains running at both ends are actually

Speeding on the same railway. Of course, the problem of missing trains on the way is not difficult to solve. It only needs to build a section of double-track track on the way. It is not too difficult from the perspective of construction technology, and the Ministry of Construction is indeed very good.

This task was completed effectively. The same method has been adopted on the Tiandu to Sanya track line, and its feasibility has been proved through actual operation.

However, it is difficult to implement this method here. The main reason is that it is difficult to coordinate the schedule of trains. Trains departing from the stations at both ends of the rail line have a journey of one and a half hours on the way, and using

There are only three double-track tracks for miscarriage. How to make the train go to the right place at a relatively precise time to miscarry is a very troublesome matter. If not handled properly, it is not only a matter of delaying time, but also a very troublesome matter.

Serious traffic accidents may occur. However, if the arrangement of trains traveling in the opposite direction is abandoned, it will greatly affect the operating efficiency of this rail line, thereby indirectly affecting Changhua's steel production capacity, which is unacceptable to the Ministry of Industry.

accepted.

The rail line from Tiandu to Sanya perfectly solves this technical problem. However, the method used there is currently difficult to replicate locally. In order to ensure the daily power consumption of Victory Fort, the railway line from Tiandu’s industrial zone to Sanya

Wires have been installed across the entire line, and wired telephones have also been implemented. The train schedule between the two places can be easily contacted through wired telephones. The staff responsible for implementing the staggered train arrangement at the dispatching point along the way

Accept the command by phone, and then manually pull the switches to allow the trains to travel in a staggered manner.

The staff currently in charge of this track line are all trained naturalized citizens. Since the operation of the railway, there has never been a serious safety accident such as a train collision due to scheduling errors. And Tian Duhe

The track line between Sanya has partially completed the double-track laying. Once the double-track is completed, there will be no need to worry about trains missing trains on the way.

This plan is also the technical solution prepared by the Ministry of Construction for the Changhua project. However, when the matter comes, there is no such condition between Changhua and Shilu. So far, no wires have been installed between the two places, and it is impossible to connect the railway

Wired telephones have been deployed along the line for command. The energy department has thought about building a hydropower station in the inland mountainous area east of the Shilu Iron Mine and using the water conservancy conditions at the source of the Changhua River to generate electricity. After all, in the time and space before the time travel, this

There is a large Shilu Reservoir in the area. However, the Engineering Department rejected the proposal after conducting an on-site inspection here.

It’s not that the Ministry of Construction does not have the engineering capacity to implement this proposal, but the amount of the project is indeed a bit larger. It requires building a concrete dam with a length of more than 1,200 meters in the mountainous area and supporting hydropower facilities. The amount of the project is approximately more than what was originally built.

Ten times the size of the Tianduhe Power Station, the construction period will take at least eight to ten months, which is impossible to meet the current conditions of Shilu - even if there are so many labor forces, the Ministry of Industry will definitely give them priority.

Invest in the mining of Shilu Iron Mine.

Shilu does not have stable power generation capacity, so of course it is impossible to set up wires, and the method of train dispatching through wired telephones cannot be realized. Once this link is disconnected, it directly leads to the problem of train dispatching that cannot be solved. At present, Qiao Zhiya can

The method adopted is to temporarily let the traversers be responsible for scheduling trains and arranging bus delays during the journey, using high-power wireless walkie-talkies as a temporary means of communication. Of course, the efficiency of this is very low, and it is also quite difficult to arrange limited traversers in such positions.

Big waste of talent.

Qiao Zhiya also made a special report to the Executive Committee on this matter, requesting that a telephone line be set up between the two places as soon as possible. The Executive Committee has already approved it, but now it feels like water far away cannot quench thirst nearby, and this project is not

It can be completed in an hour and a half.
Chapter completed!