Chapter 27 Li people (2)

When many people signed up to join the special working group, they had a little bit of lust in their hearts, but now their dreams have been completely extinguished by Zhou Hengxing's words. They knew that they were being tricked by the executive committee, at least.

In the short term, ideas such as developing the maid project in Lidong do not seem to be feasible, but after lamenting, everyone can only face the cruel reality. For safety reasons, the executive committee moved to Tian Du’s temporary camp and this

There are no female members in the special task force dispatched this time, so everyone will have to live like monks for the time being.

About two hours later, a small fork appeared on the river ahead. The boat leading the team sent a signal backwards, indicating that the temporary camp of Base 2 was on the river bank not far ahead. After continuing for about two minutes, the boat in front

The river channel has become slightly wider. You can see that the river water from the upstream is divided into two water channels here. It turns out that from here to the bifurcation point of the river channel just seen, the river channel is divided into left and right channels.

A large piece of land in the middle of the river.

This is the site of the first hydropower station on the upper reaches of the Tiandu River planned by the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Construction. Taking advantage of the natural river channel that is divided into two, the builders only need to guide the river water into one side, and then it can be easily used on the other side.

Dam construction has been carried out on the drained river, and the topography of the natural twin rivers can also greatly reduce the drainage pressure of the hydropower station during the rainy season.

There are several reinforced concrete pipe parts with a diameter of two feet stacked on the small trestle pier. These are pressure water pipes used in building hydropower stations. According to the plan of the Ministry of Energy, they have been built long before the time travel. After all, the production of this time and space

Due to limited capacity, special parts like this cannot be manufactured in a short time. It took several days to transport these heavy objects one by one from the downstream in small boats.

When the fleet arrived at the pier at the pier, they happened to see a group of people sitting on the ground and hammering stones with hammers. Their ash-headed looks were no different from those of migrant workers in quarries in later generations. But seeing this scene

None of the newcomers could laugh, because most of them would have to knock stones here in the coming days. This is one of the gravel mortar concrete materials that must be used for the bottom base of the No. 1 Hydropower Station.

On days when the labor force was severely lacking, everyone had to obey the work arrangements of the executive committee - including pounding stones.

The temporary camp currently only has a sparse wooden fence on the river bank, which is about one person high. There is an isolation zone with bellows wire fence on the outside, and then there are several marching tents and a large shed for stacking supplies. Thirty people are now stationed here.

There are many people, and the temporary person in charge is Liu Shanxia, ​​the second-in-command of the Ministry of Construction. For this hydropower project in the upper reaches of the Tiandu River, he visited many small hydropower stations in Yunnan and Guangxi in the six months before the crossing. Although he has not actually operated it yet,

But the theoretical knowledge for building small hydropower stations should be said to be enough. The camp was set up the day before, and he was transferred the next day. Several projects that had just been started had to be handed over to other people from the Ministry of Construction.

, which shows the importance the Executive Committee attaches to the hydropower station project.

Liu Shanxia walked onto the trestle and held Ning Qi's hand: "Finally, I've been waiting for you to come!"

Ning Qi asked in surprise: "Did you have a conflict with the Li people?"

"Not yet, but there are more and more Li people nearby. We don't understand the language and we don't know what they want to do. Now our people no longer dare to leave the camp." Liu Shanxia took the time to introduce the current situation to Ning Qi: "

These Li people have hook knives in their waists, if you want to negotiate with them, be careful!"

Ning Qi nodded and said: "Don't worry, we have professionals here to take part in the negotiation. By the way, Lao Xiang from the Ministry of Energy is here. You are old friends, so I won't say anything more. Regarding the hydropower station project, you guys

Let’s make a careful total and see if there are any omissions in the construction plan. When the last batch of materials and construction personnel arrive in the next two days, you can start work as soon as possible.”

Xiang Chinan is from Yunnan, and he should be the last group of members to join the time travel. Xiang Chinan previously served in the hydropower unit of the Armed Police, and worked in the local power bureau after changing his career. He met Liu Shanxia when he inspected the construction of small hydropower stations before he traveled.

He was a friend who also helped the Preparatory Committee design the hydropower station construction plan with many ideas. Later, the two got to know each other, and Liu Shanxia simply roped him into the team. On the first day when the Preparatory Committee withdrew from Guangzhou, he

Accompanied by Liu Shanxia, ​​he reported to Guangzhou.

Of course, dual-purpose military and civilian talents like Xiang Chinan inevitably became hot spots that the Military Police Department and the Ministry of Energy competed for. Later, the Executive Committee followed Wu Zhuo's old practice and gave Xiang Chinnan a dual establishment—

- It belongs to the Ministry of Energy in peacetime and to the Military and Police Ministry in wartime. For this hydropower station project, the Executive Committee gave it to the pair of Xiang Chinan and Liu Shanxia.

Half an hour later, Zhou Hengxing and Ning Qi walked out of the camp under the escort of several heavily armed military and police members. Standing at the entrance of the camp, you could see a lot of people moving around in the forest about a hundred meters away. Zhou Hengxing

Although he looks calm on the surface, his heartbeat is uncontrollably accelerating. Although his household registration book is marked as Li ethnic group, he was actually born and raised in the city, and he is an out-and-out city dweller.

I really don’t have much confidence in dealing with these Li ancestors living in the mountains and forests with some purely theoretical knowledge.

Zhou Hengxing took a few deep breaths to calm down, then raised the tin trumpet in his hand and began to loudly preach in several ancient Li languages ​​he knew. The general idea was to explain that his group came here and

I have no ill intentions, I hope to coexist peacefully with the residents of Li Dong, and I am also happy to trade with the Li people for the salt, pig iron, etc. they need.

After a while, several Li people came out of the forest opposite, and they stopped only about ten meters away from the camp gate. The leader was a middle-aged man, pointing at Zhou Hengxing and chirping for a while. Zhou Hengxing thought about himself

After understanding about 70% of the meaning, he gradually calmed down. He turned to Ning Qi and said, "He hopes to see what we are going to trade."

"Okay." Ning Qi nodded and motioned for someone to show the sample to him first.

In fact, there were only a few things in the sample, a small clay pot of salt, and a few iron farm tools such as shovels and sickles. The middle-aged man came up and knelt down, picked up the farm tools and looked at them carefully, then opened the clay pot and stretched out his fingers.

I went in, dipped some salt in it and put it in my mouth. The action reminded all the time travelers here of the scene in the Hong Kong movie about drug dealers inspecting goods.

After the middle-aged man stood up, there was another burst of chattering. Zhou Hengxing translated and said that this man expressed that he was very satisfied with these things, but they did not have any materials for trading with them at the moment. He asked if he could return to the village with them for trading. In addition,

I just want to ask if we can provide more trading products like this.

"Of course, tell them that we have sufficient supplies and we are happy to visit their home." Ning Qi responded calmly. The executive committee sent such a large-scale special working group not just to communicate with Li

People trade a few kilograms of salt and a few sickles, go deep into Lidong to understand the people's sentiments, and then maintain the relationship with the Li people and develop Lidong's human resources in a targeted manner. This is the main task of the special working group. Of course, in

During this process, people from other departments will also complete inspection subjects such as topography, flora and fauna, agricultural status, and mineral development in the areas controlled by the Li people.

After the preliminary negotiations were completed, the Li people who got the news came out of the woods one after another. There were about thirty people, old and young. Most of these people were wearing cloth shirts made of Jibei cloth, and everyone had them tied around their waists.

A hook knife that Liu Shanxia had mentioned before, but his expressions were calm and he had no intention of making trouble. Ning Qi looked at these ragged Li mountain people, and suddenly a thought flashed through his mind. It turned out that he was not the only one who was afraid.

Here, in fact, these Li people are also worried about threats from the outside.

An hour later, the special working group that had prepared supplies set off from the camp together with the Li people who led the way. Except for a few people who wanted to stay in the camp to assist in the construction of the hydropower station, there were still as many as thirty-five members who set out again.

Half of them were armed members of the military police department, including two blond foreigners, Johnson and Morgan. In addition to the necessary three-day rations and a small amount of drinking water, they carried

There are tents, military radios, various medicines, lighting equipment, ropes, etc., and even a miniature hand-cranked generator in case of accidents.

The materials that I will bring to Li Dong for trading this time include two hundred kilograms of salt, one hundred iron farm tools, various seasonings, and some small items as gifts for the leader of Li Dong. Of course, these materials are not needed

The travelers shouldered the burden themselves, and the Li people took on this task consciously. Perhaps in their eyes, these things already belonged to them, so naturally they should be responsible for transporting them home.

After walking north along the path in the mountains and forests for about an hour, the members could already see areas with traces of farming on the hillside. Li expert Zhou Hengxing introduced to the members: "This is the traditional farming method of the Li people.

Before liberation, the Li people had been growing food by cutting down mountain fences in a similar slash-and-burn method."

The method of planting mountain fences is to go up the mountain in the first month of each year and cut down the trees in the selected area. After three or four months, when the branches on the ground dry up, they are set on fire, and then the grain seeds are sown when the rainy season comes.

There is no farming process involved in cutting down mountain fences. When sowing seeds, one person holds a sharp stick and pokes holes in the front, while the other person puts grain seeds in the back and then flattens the soil. The weeds can only be cleared a few times in the middle, and then we wait for the seeds to be planted.

A mature harvest in half a year. Those who are more thoughtful will shovel the soil after burning the mountain before sowing to remove the grass roots in the soil. By the way, they can also hoe the topsoil finely to facilitate the germination of the grain seeds. But no matter what, this kind of

The farming methods are extremely primitive, and the output is therefore extremely limited. Moreover, this farming method relies on the natural fertility of the land, and the land must be abandoned every three or four years, and the interval may be as long as ten years or more. The utilization of the land

The efficiency is extremely low.

In addition to the relatively closed environment, the lack of iron tools is also one of the important reasons why Li people adopt this primitive farming method in residential areas. In this era, many farmers in Li Dong still used stone axes, stone shovels, and stone hoes for farming.

Wait, most of the only iron tools the Li people have are hook knives on their waists, so the Li people are particularly interested in the iron farm tools provided by the Chuangzong.
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