Yang Fan originally spent only one hundred taels to buy this earth mountain and more than a thousand acres of stone beach. Now it seems that he has made a lot of money, not to mention that the slag can be used.
Just this nearly one square kilometer of flat land is worth it to build a military camp.
Three thousand regiment training soldiers plus their families, tens of thousands of people, arrived in a chaotic manner on the rocky beach by the river on the west side of Dongshan Mine.
"All those with skills, come out and stand on the left. No matter what kind of carpenter, stonemason, bricklayer, blacksmith, cobbler you are, someone who can twist hemp rope, can dig a well, etc., come out and your salary will be increased by fifty cents."
As soon as Yang Fan finished speaking, a large group of cheering people and their whole family ran to the left.
The other people who only know how to farm looked eagerly at the opportunity leaving them, and their eyes almost turned red.
Fifty dollars, which is six hundred dollars a year, is enough to buy new clothes for the whole family. If I buy the cheapest used clothes, the remaining money will be enough to buy two sets of old bedding.
Zhang Gada is still very experienced. Every fifty people are temporarily divided into a team, and the strongest one is found to be the temporary captain first.
Divide the camp for living and build houses for the winter.
Along the edges of this land, each family is allocated a small plot of land to build a house. Three thousand households just surround the entire Zhitu Mountain Camp.
Later, trenches will be dug along the edge and earth walls will be built to seal the place.
These refugees are all farmers. As long as they have enough to eat, they can do all these things. All they need is a simple organization.
After all, this is the house they will live in in the future.
These 60 teams of people received shovel heads, pickaxe heads, hammer heads, steel drills, hoe heads, and hacksaws according to their teams. They cut down the trees and made the wooden handles themselves.
Each family was assigned a set of tools, and it was impossible to work without them.
These tools were lent to these people for use, and they would have to pay compensation for any damage or loss. It was not that Yang Fan was reluctant to part with them, but he could not let them take the public property and not cherish the tools.
Yang Fan tries to save expenses as much as possible. Every expenditure must be carefully calculated to save the most money.
But these tools cannot save money, they must be strong and durable.
Three thousand sets of tools were distributed, but hundreds of thousands were lost.
Yang Fan sighed, money really can't be spent.
On the first day, cut down the tree, simply clean up the branches, then remove all the bark, and use a saw to cut wooden pillars as needed. The wooden pillars are used to make the frame, and the small wooden poles are used to make purlins for the roof.
There was no time to wait for the trees to dry in the shade, so in order to prevent mold and rot, the only option was to use fire to burn the surface of the wood black to prevent rot.
Then nail it directly with iron nails to make the frame of the house.
There are not enough carpenters to make mortise and tenon structures, and wet wood is meaningless and unusable.
Yang Fan bought a lot of large rolls of single-membrane colored striped cloth. It costs eighty cents per meter, which is very cheap and very practical.
This plastic sheet is used to make woven bags, which are very strong, waterproof and windproof.
The wooden frame is directly nailed with this kind of colored striped cloth. A house is simply completed, and you don't have to worry about rain or wind.
Let people move in quickly first.
Only having a house can make people feel like they have a home, and having a home can calm people's hearts.
It is impossible to use bricks in the house. There is no place to buy so many bricks, and even if there is room to buy them, the cost is too high.
It is indeed cheaper to open your own kiln and bake bricks, but the bricks will not be produced until next year.
Not enough time.
This winter hundreds of people, including elderly and children, froze to death.
Because the wood is not dried in the shade, time is saved. The frame of the house can be completed in one or two days, and can be directly covered with single-film colored strips of fabric, and people can live in it directly.
It's autumn now, and it will take more than a month for the weather to get cold.
During this time, quickly use clay and chopped hemp knives to mix mud, and use a wooden frame to make mud bricks.
This kind of adobe brick was commonly used to build houses in rural areas in the past.
As long as it is regularly repaired, there will be no problem in living there for several generations.
From the carpenter group, each family goes to receive a wooden brick frame. This kind of thing is very simple. It is composed of four wooden boards with a mortise and tenon structure. The four boards are combined into a closed four sides, and then they are made of chopped hemp.
Fill it in with the clay and mud mixed with the knife. Compact it and then remove the four boards. A mud brick is ready on the ground, one foot long, half a foot wide, and half a foot thick.
Leave it on the ground to dry in the sun.
Once dry, you can use it to build walls.
The molds were taken to the side to make new mud bricks.
Soon the floors of every house were covered with dried mud bricks.
This job can be done by the whole family, the elderly and children can do it, and it is very quick.
When there are enough mud bricks, remove the single-membrane colored strips and use mud bricks to build the wall along the wooden frame.
The carpenters have also finished the doors and windows at this time. They can be installed directly. The roof is directly covered with thick thatch.
The exterior walls also need to be plastered thickly with clay mud.
A kang and a stove were installed in the house. The last step was to wait for the house to slowly dry out.
In this way, the house will be completed by winter.
After the house with wooden frame and single-membrane colored striped cloth was completed, the regiment training soldiers could no longer stay at home to work. The people who had to take off the bricks at home became the elderly, children, women, and other brothers and sisters of the regiment training soldiers.
The regiment training immediately began to organize the troops, and Zhang Gada began to appoint team leaders based on the vicious eyes of veteran Youzi. Then he assigned tasks to them.
A trench was dug along the edge of the land, and the excavated soil and clay were used by each household to make bricks. The topsoil was used to build the wall. The trench was planned to be dug one foot wide and seven feet deep. This project is not small.
A total of 240,000 square meters of earth will be dug. It is estimated that it will take 3,000 people to work for 20 days.
In addition to building the wall, it took a month and a half.
Yang Fan still has to train them and doesn't have so much time.
Simply dig a drainage ditch first and mark the ownership of the land.
Then, blackened wooden stakes were buried every one foot and nailed with single-film colored strips of cloth to prevent outsiders from seeing what was going on inside.
The side of this land is four kilometers long, and the width of a single-membrane colorful strip is three meters wide. One meter costs 80 cents. More than 3,000 soft sister coins were used to build the fence. Yang Fan thought it was a very good deal.
On the inside of the trench and on the outside of the wall, short wooden stakes must be buried every one meter and barbed wire must be nailed. This basically seals the camp.
Zhao Shuigen's family of five received five molds from the carpenter group and started making adobe bricks as a family. Zhao Shuigen had already gone to the military camp and could only go home one day a month. After the wooden frame of the family house was completed, it all depended on these people.
Come and take off the bricks.
While the regiment training camp was being built, the second batch of 300 miners also arrived. They used shovels to dig out the waste soil of the slag mountain, and then lifted it to the concentrator. These machines were equipped with many strong magnetic rods on wooden frames, layer by layer.
The magnetic rod will absorb the iron powder and iron sand in the soil. When the suction rod is full, the magnetic rod will be pulled out if it is no longer adsorbed.
There are people nearby who specially come to scrape off the iron powder and iron sand on top.
The key to this job is to dig out the dirt, lift it to the top of the machine with a pole, and dump it down.
These dregs are very heavy and contain a lot of iron. Those that do not contain iron are also stones.
One person can only pick two kegs.
In this way, a group of people have to take a break every half hour.
After Huang San finished working for half an hour, he went to the side to rest. He slumped down on a stone exhausted and drank water from the bamboo tube issued by the mine. Boiled water is provided here. Workers are strictly prohibited from drinking raw water.
From the mountain, he looked enviously at the school field below where team training was taking place.
The mineral processing was only eighty cents a month, and the regiment had two cents. It was not so hard, and it was all because of my bad luck. I found out the news too late, and I was hungry for three days, so I couldn't lift the stone lock.
Alas! A sigh.
Huang San, who had had enough rest, reluctantly continued to pick soil.
