At six o'clock in the morning, on the rocky beach, a group of cavalrymen, one man and three horses, stopped.
Zhang Geda got down from his horse tiredly.
This is the dam construction site.
At this time, the rocky beach was densely covered with small villages that were uniformly planned and built. These villages were connected together by gravel roads like beads threaded through threads.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees were transported here to clear the land, collect rocks, and build dams.
Zhang Geda hasn't been here for a while, and there are big changes every time he comes.
Riding on the horse along the way, I saw that the villages passing by had their outer earth walls and fences repaired, and they were now small closed villages.
There are simple fences built into the rammed earth walls of the camp to separate residential areas.
There are militiamen standing guard at the entrance of the village and the entrance of the community.
Along the road, at the entrance of every village, there are two militiamen armed with long guns and wearing uniforms to interrogate strangers who enter the village. A wooden board is hung on the simple gate, with a certain product number stamped on it with a red-hot iron rod.
The words "Brigade".
Zhang Geda never quite understood what a production brigade was, so he simply thought of it as a village. In fact, it was a name that Yang Fan came up with on a whim due to his bad taste.
Yang Fan considered that after the dam was repaired, hundreds of thousands of acres of paddy fields would be developed. So he divided the natural villages according to the plots in advance, with every 500 people per village, and allocated a certain amount of land around them.
Now hundreds of thousands of refugees are scattered across this plain. Every day, a steady stream of refugees are transported from outside Zunhua City, and new villages are constantly being built.
There are currently more than 380 villages on this land with a population of nearly 200,000.
Many thatched and adobe houses have been built inside the walls and fences of the village. A small square is reserved in the middle of the village, which serves as a place for village gatherings and the issuance of notices and orders. It is also a place for weddings, funerals, and cultural entertainment.
At the north end of the square, there is a simple four-cornered pavilion with a rammed earth platform about one foot high. This is the place where orders are issued and speeches are given. If a theater troupe comes to perform in the future, it will also be used as a stage.
Surrounding the square are various reserved functional buildings, such as the future village office, police station, granary, small inn, cattle stable, mill, medicine shop, canteen, school, various shops, front
The location of the factory's workshop behind the store.
In the residential area, there are pressurized water wells, public toilets and public bathrooms.
Although they are all adobe and thatched houses, they are very simple, but they do not affect their functionality.
Yang Fan attaches great importance to hygiene and forces everyone to take a bath and clothes must be boiled in a large pot once a month. If so many people gather here and a plague is caused, it is no joke.
Boiled water for drinking is provided in the kitchen of the public cafeteria.
Yang Fan is strictly prohibited from drinking raw water. Everyone can also get one liter of hot tea every day.
Yang Fan ordered the lowest quality tea from Fujian and shipped it to Beitang for delivery. When the tea arrived, it had basically fermented into black tea in the cabin. Black tea contains a lot of vitamins.
Even though the most inferior large pots are used to boil tea leaves, sometimes even red dates are boiled in water, and fried barley is boiled in water, there are still some costs associated with bulk purchases from this era. These are unplanned additional expenses.
But Yang Fan has no choice. There are not many vegetables to eat in the autumn and winter of this era. Yang Fan can now transfer a large amount of old grains rotated from the grain depot, which is enough to feed the hundreds of thousands of refugees. However, if he does not eat vegetables for a long time, he will still suffer from vitamin deficiency.
questionable.
Although the refugees have been wandering around after losing their land, and now they can no longer imagine a life of three meals a day, there are still big problems with their nutritional structure.
The refugees are all content and obedient. From adults to children, the elderly work hard. The few scoundrels inside have long been driven out by the veterans who manage them.
They cherish their current life very much. Even when they have their own land or can rent land for farming, they can never eat pure grain rice every day. They basically have limited rice grains, porridge cooked with vegetables and wild vegetables.
It's late autumn now, and Yang Fan has already bought up all the vegetables available around him, which has even affected the vegetable supply in several surrounding cities.
Yang Fan used all these vegetables to make pickles. It could barely last until next spring.
The vegetables of this era were very poor. Chinese cabbage, for example, grew sparsely and weighed less than a pound or two. The reason was that this era did not know how to tie up the cabbage so that it would grow long and dense. In later generations, a cabbage weighed five to five pounds.
Six or even ten pounds is common.
In the early morning, the refugees all get up to eat at dawn. Each village has a group of 500 people. It is managed by a veteran of the regiment training. Every morning, families line up to go to the village square to get food.
The current management model of the village is indeed exactly the same as that of the production team. There is no salary, and workers are rewarded and exchanged for materials by accumulating work points at the end of the year.
Everyone eats in the canteen together, distributes horses, firewood for heating and other benefits.
In the village canteen, there are several large pots lined up under the stage. In the pots, crushed high-concentration corn crumbs and kidney bean porridge are cooked. The reason why they are given corn crumbs porridge is mainly because corn is the cheapest among old grains. In addition,
Kidney beans are rich in trace elements and calcium that the human body can directly absorb. These are ways to cope with the lack of vegetables.
Baked cornmeal pancakes at noon.
Dinner is multigrain rice.
There are basically no vegetables, and only pickles are given out with each meal. Boiled wild vegetables are only given as side dishes every few days.
In this season, there will be no room to dig wild vegetables, and non-staple food will soon be cut off.
The strong labor force of these refugees has been transferred to the construction of the reservoir, mainly digging diversion channels and diversion tunnels in the mountain.
The remaining people in the village are women, old people, and children. After eating every day, they take corn cakes and bamboo kettles (with tea in them), carry bamboo baskets on their backs, and carry five-tooth rakes, hoes, and shovels to tidy up the land.
We can go back to the village for dinner before dark.
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Under the leadership of the team leader, they lined up in the field and turned over the soil with a rake, picking up all the stones within one foot of the field. This way, when plowing the fields in the future, the stones in the field would not be damaged by the plowshare.
These are heavy physical labors, and it is impossible to keep up with nutrition.
Yang Fan finally purchased a large number of fishing nets from Hyundai, sent people to the surrounding rivers to trawl the nets in small boats, caught fish quickly while it was not frozen, and then marinated it into salted fish for storage.
As for experts saying that salted fish is a first-level carcinogen, they don’t care.
Trawl fishing can basically ensure that no fish slips through the net.
Yang Fan deliberately enlarged the mesh to prevent the fish resources from being wiped out by the net.
In this era, there were still a lot of fish in the river, and the people could not afford to eat fish, mainly because of the lack of efficient fishing methods.
When the shipyard in Beitang is renovated, fishing in the sea will be possible to improve the supply of meat. Seafood is richer in nutrients and is more beneficial to people's health.
Zhang Geda and others led their horses into a village next to the dam construction site. The dam's general headquarters is located in this village, and there is a communication station with hundreds of fast horses. The commander-in-chief Song Yingxing also lives here.
The five hundred people in this village all have families and families, and there are basically no single men or women. Among them, there are about a hundred strong laborers.
This morning the veteran captain was organizing a meal for the refugees. Each village is a brigade and is managed separately. The veterans selected thirty people as the backbone militia to maintain local security. The camps are all built in family units.
Thatched adobe house for living.
When the militiamen standing guard in front of the village office saw that Zhang Geda was coming, they quickly saluted and stood at attention.
"Is Commander-in-Chief Song here?"
"Reporting to the regimental envoy, Commander-in-Chief Song is having breakfast in the main hall."
This chapter has been completed!