Rise of the 1630s South America

"Fall!" Xiao Mingli yelled, and chopped down the last ax with all his strength.

With the sound of "嗤啦啦", an oak tree more than ten meters high crashed to the ground, splashing smoke and dust all over the ground.

"Which tree is it?" Liu Dafa handed over a cigarette.Xiao Mingli was not polite, he clicked on it directly, took a deep breath, and sighed contentedly: "The third tree."

Liu Dafa worked as a salesman in a certain company before crossing over, and he was very unsatisfactory with his average communication skills.For a while, he and Xiao Mingli lived together, and the two people with similar personalities came and went and established some relationships.

"You said..." Liu Dafa hesitated, hesitated for a long time and said, "Are you saying that we have really crossed? I still can't believe it, but the wave of Indians I met yesterday didn't look like a fake. "

"Can it be fake?! You saw the corpse too. Are there still Indians dressed like this these days?" Xiao Mingli looked up at the sky, "We were still sailing on the Yangtze River when the accident happened, but in the blink of an eye, we arrived Here it is. Where is this? The sea! The southern hemisphere!"

Xiao Mingli was very speechless, this person is so unlucky, drinking cold water can get stuck between his teeth.I finally took a leave of absence and took a steamer to go back to my hometown to visit relatives.Originally, I thought this journey was a rare enjoyment, but who knew that God arranged for you to perform such a performance.

Liu Dafa was also a little speechless. He looked at the sun hanging in the northern sky, and thought about the situation of the Indians shooting wooden arrows towards them yesterday, and couldn't help shivering.

"Don't think too much!" Xiao Mingli is a person who goes with the situation, things are already like this, so it's better to settle down with peace of mind.He patted Liu Dafa on the shoulder and comforted him: "There is a lot of food on board, which is enough for 568 of us for a long time. Let's do the work first, and don't think about what we have."

"Dingling!" A "Northern Army" in a blue military uniform with dragon patterns embroidered on the cuffs and sunglasses passed by slowly on a bicycle. He carried a high-precision hunting crossbow on his back. There are also crossbow arrows and steel balls.This is the department that was officially established last night - the security team.

After Peng Zhicheng's hard work, the security team was finally set at 62 people.Peng Zhicheng served as the captain, and Wang Qinian temporarily served as the deputy captain.The team is divided into 4 squads, with 15 people in each squad, and all of them are equipped with high-precision hunting crossbows.One of the squads is a fast-moving unit equipped with mountain bikes that patrols the perimeter.Two of the remaining three "infantry squads" are arranged around the logging team, one on the left and one on the right, closely guarding the safety of the logging team, and the other squad is deployed on the construction site on the north bank of the river.Each class is assigned two binoculars, which are kept by the principal and deputy class leaders.

Only a few saws and a dozen axes were found in the cabin, and the logging team worked in groups of two, using these outdated tools to log.In addition, most of them are novices, and they are afraid of injury or damage to equipment, so the progress is not very fast.In the morning, only sixty or seventy trees were piled up in the storage yard by the river bank.After the branches and bark of these trees are removed in the stockyard, they are transported across the river to the opposite bank for stacking. There are several groups of people on the other side of the river who specialize in processing these fresh timber into boards.

According to the principle, fresh wood must be dried in the shade or dried before it can be used, otherwise the wood will be deformed and bent in the future, but at present, it is only for building a simple wooden house for temporary living, and it is not a big problem.In the committee's plan, everyone's housing in the future will be a brick house.Burning bricks is not a high-tech job. It is very convenient to set up an earthen kiln, find some clay, make bricks, dry them in the shade and burn them directly.

In Uruguay, according to "expert" Gaomo, there are many rocks with calcium carbonate as the main component, such as limestone and marble.Just on the south bank of the river is a hill made of limestone. Shao Shude was very excited when he found it in the morning.With limestone, cement can be fired by local method.This so-called "artificial pozzolan cement" is more resistant to corrosion than ordinary Portland cement. After being mixed with slaked lime, it can harden in air and water, which is especially suitable for wet or underground environments.

Maybe it was because of his character explosion, at noon he found another piece of clay land, and now it was all there.Excited, Shao Shude decided to immediately go to the other committee members to discuss the deployment of manpower and strive to erect the brick kiln and lime kiln first.

north bank of the river.Old Zheng, the cook on the freighter, and a group of older uncles and aunts are cooking for everyone.In the morning, Lao Zhang, the owner of the tugboat, took a group of relatives to catch some fish in the river. The quantity was not very large, so they boiled a few large pots of soup together, and each shared a small bowl.The staple food is white rice, and the side dish is canned luncheon meat.White rice is enough, and canned food is one for each person.

After finishing the meal, Shao Shude found the rest of the committee members, and while he was cooking the meal, he said, "You have to allocate manpower to me, and Xiaoqian will be in charge of the simple housing. Anyway, he is also studying architectural design. I am going to erect the brick kiln first. Right now, construction is going on everywhere, and bricks are needed everywhere. Lime kilns and cement kilns must be built as soon as possible. With these things, a lot of construction can be done quickly.”

"What materials are needed for the shaft kiln?" asked the vest.

"Mainly bricks. The kiln walls, chimneys, and fire pits are all used. Well, there are also refractory powders. If you are more particular, it is best to have some refractory insulation materials."

"Bricks are a little bit, many of them are refractory bricks. But I can't give you all of them. In the future, iron and steel will need refractory bricks. Do you understand the importance of steelmaking? This is the basis of our survival! Everything else depends on it. One side." Vest is a technical geek, and what he has always been obsessed with is his steel industry.

"It doesn't need much. I will build a small earthen kiln now and use it in the future. After all, this kind of small earthen kiln is backward and consumes a lot of energy. In the future, we still have to consider the upper round kiln or even the tunnel kiln." Shao Shude automatically filtered If the second half of the vest is removed, he knows that this person is a technical geek, and his professional quality is quite good, but he is not good at dealing with people.

"Where can we deploy manpower now?" Ma Ganzu sighed "heavily", but glanced at Liu Weimin quietly from the corner of his eyes.

How can Liu Weimin not understand Ma Ganzu's careful thinking, but now is the time when everyone needs to work together, and he doesn't bother to care about it. If he wants to be the villain himself, he can do it, at least for everyone. "Our young and middle-aged male labor force has a total of 352 people. After removing 62 people from the security team and 10 people left on the freighter, the remaining 280 people can be transferred. Currently, 50 people are assigned to the logging team, 12 people are processing wood; 60 people are in the construction team, mainly laying foundations. 10 people for sanitation and anti-epidemic disinfection; 10 people for the fishing team; 20 people for building simple wooden houses, this is mainly due to insufficient supply of boards; the rest are burned by the agricultural team, leveled the land, and dug ditches.” Liu Weimin made an inventory, and felt that the agricultural team had too many people, "Why don't we transfer people from the agricultural team?"

"The burning of wasteland can be handed over to women, and the non-urgent work can also be put aside first." Ma Ganzu achieved his goal and immediately followed up, "80 people from the agricultural team will come out, old Shao, set up such a small kiln for you Ten people are enough, how about I take the rest to mine limestone?" Ma Ganzu had long felt a sense of crisis about his work of doing everything and nothing, and now that he had the opportunity, he naturally wanted to do more to Strengthen your voice.

This proposal hit Shao Shude's heart. The importance of limestone is incomparable, and the work can be carried out after it is mined one day earlier.

Wang Qinian and Xiao Bailang had nothing to do, Liu Weimin was a little worried about the reaction of the captain of the agricultural team, Jin Kela.Considering that these materials will be needed for the blast furnace in the future, Vest naturally agrees.Peng Zhicheng agreed with both hands, because houses and walls with cement and masonry structures can greatly improve defense capabilities.

The resolution was passed immediately.After dinner, Shao Shude and Ma Ganzu went to the agricultural team to ask for someone. Although Jin Kela was extremely reluctant, he knew the seriousness and had to let him go.

Shao Shude selected three people who had experience as masons, plus seven small workers, and went to select a site for the kiln.The location of the kiln is located on the south bank of the river because it is convenient to take soil.Ma Ganzu's mining team moved all the bricks, refractory powder, and cement needed to build the kiln, and then left a group of people to help Shao Shude level the bottom of the kiln, and the rest continued to mine in the southwest.This mining team will operate in two shifts, one for mining and the other for rest and vigilance with a hunting crossbow.

With the help of the mining team, the bottom of the kiln was quickly leveled.Next, Shao Shude directed the small workers to prepare the refractory mortar, and then he personally worked with several masons to lay the kiln bottom and build the kiln wall.The work was not very heavy. In the evening, the bottom of the kiln and the firepit had been laid, and the wall of the kiln was half completed.The next projects include kiln doors, kiln door tunnels, chimneys, flues, slope feeding openings, suspended ceilings, etc. In addition, clay adobes and adobe shade sheds will be made, which cannot be completed in a day or two. take your time.

The progress of the simple wooden houses was very slow, and only five or six of them were built in half a day.Qian Hao was in a hurry, but there was nothing he could do. The supply of planks couldn't keep up.At present, the logging team only has more than [-] saws and axes in total. In addition to the large number of beginners, the logging speed has always started, and correspondingly, the processing speed of the boards has also been restricted.

The cut branches, bark and leftover wood are collected by the women and stored as fuel.After all, a large amount of fuel will be used to burn bricks in the future. If coal is used, everyone will feel distressed and will not agree.At present, there are only a few thousand tons of coal, and there will be many places where coal will be used in the future. Before there is no new source of coal, it is a little bit of savings.In addition, women also organized collection teams, mowing teams, etc., to do some work within their capabilities such as collecting food and firewood.

When the last rays of sunlight were about to disappear on the horizon on October 10, hundreds of people scattered on both sides of the river began to pack their things in an orderly manner.Due to the slow construction progress of simple wooden houses, most people can only live on boats at present.The lumberyard and limestone mine on the south bank of the river will not be guarded, and the labor tools will be stored in the brick kiln, and they will be picked up when construction starts tomorrow.Two sheds were built with wooden planks beside the brick kiln, and a squad of guards stayed here to prevent anyone from destroying the brick yard.Lao Zhang's son, Xiao Zhang, led a wolf and green dog named "Little Tiger" to strengthen the guard here.As for the north bank of the river, a squad of guards was also stationed, and the residences were a few simple wooden houses built during the day. Lao Zhang led the wolf green dog "Hua Hua" to sit in the town himself.

"The logging team damaged two tug-saws during the day." At the work summary meeting in the evening, Vest introduced to everyone with a heartache. "Not only that, but two people in the logging team had strained arms. I'm afraid it will take a while to recuperate. Many people have blisters on their hands, and the progress of logging will probably be slower tomorrow." He is used to heavy work in the factory, so this kind of work is really nothing to him. Unfortunately, he has a bunch of novices under his command, many of whom are office nerds. When he first started doing these physical jobs, his performance was naturally not much better.

Next, several committee members talked about the work they were in charge of, and coordinated and exchanged opinions with each other.Peng Zhicheng and Wang Qinian were in charge of security work, so naturally they didn't have much to say.

Xiao Bailang worked as a fisherman for a day today, but unfortunately his catch was limited. He planned to go fishing further upstream of the river tomorrow, but the rest of the committee members were worried about safety and had to give up.

Ma Ganzu talked about the mining of limestone today. His subordinates are also a group of novices with serious lack of experience, so they can only mine while groping.When it came to the end, Shao Shude asked to borrow another group of people.

Because starting tomorrow, Shao Shude will prepare bricks for firing bricks.After the bricks are made, they need to be dried in the shade. According to the current weather in Uruguay, Shao Shude estimates that it will take half a month to dry in the shade before they can be put into the kiln for firing. This requires preparation in advance.

Liu Weimin is in charge of logistics and agricultural work. Agriculture is currently mainly in charge of the agricultural team captain Jin Kela, so he doesn't need to worry about it.His main job in the near future is to lead a group of women soldiers to collect firewood.According to Shao Shude’s calculations, the small brick kiln under construction currently needs tens of thousands of catties of firewood to burn bricks once at 900-1000°C for 3-4 days.This is a terrible number. At present, the total number of weeds, branches, bark and so on collected every day is less than one thousand catties.The small brick kiln is about to be completed in a few days, and the first batch of bricks can be fired in about ten days after completion. The time is still quite tight.

Everyone chatted for a while, and then they all dispersed. After all, they were very tired after working all day, and they still had a lot of things to do tomorrow.