Chapter 295 Comprehensive Advancement

Since the war preparations and expansion a year ago, the Ministry of Construction and the Military and Police Ministry have stepped up the construction of the Victory Port defense fortification complex. The main project of the fortification complex is the fort group on both sides of the harbor entrance, which was completed in the first phase of the project that ended last year

A total of eight forts and twenty-four gun positions were constructed in the fort group next to the military camp on the east bank - of course the artillery and artillery were not fully in place yet. The second phase of the project was mainly based on the forts on the Yulin Peninsula. After completion, it will

Establish a fire coverage area with no blind spots on the waterway entering Victory Port from both east and west directions.

However, compared with the first phase of the project located on the east coast of the harbor, the highland where the Yulin Peninsula extends into the South China Sea is not conducive to the construction of large projects. Before that, only an early warning observation post was built at the highest point. But this time

During the Haihan militia's expedition, Tao Donglai was at the base camp and took charge of this project. From the beginning of the new year to late February, the Ministry of Construction continued to invest in workers to build the second phase of the fort. So far, 70% of the expected project volume has been completed.

, it will definitely be completed within the next month.

Since the second phase of the fort is located on a steeper terrain, there are not as many gun positions as there were in the first phase, with only six forts and eighteen gun positions. But even so, the scale of the Victory Port coastal defense artillery fortification group after completion must be considered the largest in the Far East.

For the first time, the firepower output of the city of Geranje, which the Dutch were building on Taiwan Island at this time, was far inferior to that of the coastal defense forts in Port Victory.

Of course, the artillery required for setting up a large number of artillery positions has once again put great pressure on the Military and Police Department. If you want to give full play to the power of these forts, the Military and Police Department will need at least a coastal defense force of about 300 people.

The artillery unit is the only one. The number of soldiers has always been the biggest bottleneck restricting the development of the military. In addition to constantly training new artillery units, there are also two different opinions in the Military and Police Department on how to arrange the current limited artillery units.

One is that it should be based on defense first. Since there is no external battle in the near future, the existing army artillery should be dispatched to serve in coastal defense artillery fortifications first to give full play to its role. The other opinion is that since there is no external battle in the near future,

Recruitment of naval personnel has begun, so artillery should be given priority on boarding ships. Otherwise, the warships that shipyards are rushing to produce will not make much sense - how different can a warship without artillery be from a civilian ship?

While the military and police departments were quarreling, the navy's recruitment plan was in full swing. Perhaps the results of this expedition had an effect. The navy's recruitment work was very smooth, and the number of young people who signed up far exceeded the number of young people who signed up beforehand.

Estimates. The Military and Police Department expected to recruit 300 reserve sailors in the first phase, but the actual number of applicants exceeded 1,000 within three days. This does not include those who voluntarily transferred from civilian ship sailors to warship sailors.

The Ministry of Maritime Transport fully cooperated with the work of the Military and Police Department in this naval preparatory work, and also promoted the policy to its subordinate sailors and crew members. Anyone who voluntarily transferred to serve on a warship will enjoy the same status as a soldier of the Haihan Militia in the future.

The benefits, whether it is income, casualty pensions, labor points, etc., must be a step above the existing benefits. Faced with such temptation, many brave people naturally choose to change careers and enter the navy system - anyway, they are all in the navy

Sailing on the sea involves the same risks, but the navy's death pension is several times higher than that of civilian sailors!

On February 25, the first batch of immigrants transported by Annan after the war arrived at Victory Port and were loaded onto eight large ships. According to the data provided by North Vietnam, there were more than 1,400 people in total, including more than 1,000 young and strong men.

People. Unsurprisingly, 80% of this group of immigrants were Southern prisoners of war during the Civil War. Every ten people were tied into long strings with ropes. The scene when they disembarked from the ship was spectacular.

In this Civil War, North Vietnam finally captured more than 10,000 South Vietnamese combatants, and Thang Long Province would definitely not waste food to feed these people in vain. It happened to have a cooperation agreement with Hai Han side to provide 2,000 people per month, so

Most of the final flow of these people will go to the areas controlled by the Crossing Group. In addition to Victory Port, Black Earth Port will also accept a small number of prisoners of war and assign them to more dangerous jobs, such as those that are extremely toxic to human nature, manufacturing

Coal tar workshop.

Fortunately, the Executive Committee had already received a report from the troops stationed in Vietnam, expanded the labor camp in advance, and built a special labor camp branch between Victory Port and Tiandu Industrial Zone. The prisoners of war who arrived in Victory Port this time were

Most of them will be assigned to hard labor in the new labor camps, and their job is to participate in the construction of the first rail transit line between the two places.

The first phase of the rail transit line between Shengli Port and Tiandu is about nine kilometers long. The track is laid on a single line. In order to reduce the difficulty of construction, the entire line is located on the west bank of the Tiandu River, avoiding the trouble of building bridges. In order to facilitate travel

Two sections of two-way double-track passages will be built at a distance of three kilometers and six kilometers in the middle. The second phase of the project will complete the double-track construction and extend the track to the western end of the Yulin Peninsula, covering the entire Shengli Port area. The entire project plan

The estimated construction period was originally eight months. However, after reaching an immigration transportation agreement with North Vietnam and a steady supply of labor, the Ministry of Construction has begun to adopt a multi-site construction method at the same time. It is expected that the construction period can be shortened to five to six months.

between.

As of the end of February, about 60% of the project progress of the rail transit line has been completed. The Ministry of Construction is also trying every means to speed up the construction of the project and strive to hold a completion ceremony as a gift on April 1, the anniversary of the crossing.

In the first few months of the crossing, the Ministry of Construction made great efforts to build the road. Although it was just an ordinary dirt road, it also reduced a lot of workload for the current track construction project, mainly piling gravel.

Roadbed, laying sleepers and tracks. After completing track laying, road construction workers will have to further widen the existing road surface, because the next step of the Ministry of Construction's plan is to solidify the ordinary road surface between the two places as a whole.

Strengthen the traffic capacity of the road and avoid the need to deploy a large amount of manpower to maintain the road during the annual rainy season.

After a large number of prisoners of war and overseas workers were introduced, the labor costs of the Crossing Group's construction projects also dropped rapidly. Originally, almost all the people involved in these infrastructure projects were naturalized citizens, while the cost for non-naturalized citizens was only one-fifth of that of naturalized citizens.

No, in this way, the cost of the entire project will be greatly reduced. And the construction workers who have already practiced some basic skills before will be assigned to the new construction site to engage in work with higher technical content.

The housing problem has been a common topic in the Executive Committee, but it has never been properly solved before. The reason is also very simple, it is simply a lack of labor force. The continuous flow of people from North Vietnam can alleviate this problem.

, the Ministry of Construction finally has the ability to start construction of the long-awaited personal dormitories with multiple projects under construction at the same time.

Since a considerable number of the time-travelers have been dispersed and assigned to areas outside of Victory Port, in fact, there is no such tight accommodation situation as in the early days of time-travel. For example, there are even seven or eight prefabricated houses vacated in the No. 1 Base.

It is used as a temporary guest house to entertain foreign merchants. When regular customers like Li Nai and Luo Shengdong come to Victory Port, they usually stay directly in the guest house in the base. And the ordinary time-travelers have now grown from six or even eight people in the early days of time-travel.

One person sharing a room gradually turned into two people or even one person sharing a room.

But for those who have enjoyed the urban life of later generations, prefabricated houses are not a long-term solution after all. Everyone has worked hard to come here to build, and they also hope to enjoy the life of a superior person as soon as possible. The accommodation conditions are the most basic.

One of the measurement criteria. Although current conditions are limited, it is impossible to build a deep house with hundreds of servants for everyone, but at least everyone should have a decent house. Now the Ministry of Construction has taken the initiative to build

The executive committee did not hesitate at all to implement the plan for individual dormitories, and unanimously approved the proposal on the spot. The priority for use of personnel, building materials, etc. was even ranked ahead of Shengli Port Business District and second only to Yulin.

Just forts and rail lines.

Regarding the housing structure of individual dormitories, the Ministry of Construction has prepared several plans for a long time. Finally, after voting organized by various departments, the tube building structure with relatively low construction difficulty was selected. However, compared with the barracks-style tube building in another time and space,

The Ministry of Construction's plan is more similar to the structural design of an express hotel. Each room is small in area but equipped with a separate bathroom. In order to reduce the workload, the internal furniture, decoration, etc. are also subject to unified standards.

Of course, if you are willing to go through the trouble yourself, you can first go to the Ministry of Construction to register. At that time, the Ministry of Construction will also set aside corresponding rough houses for the homeowners to take care of themselves. However, considering the current workload undertaken by Chuanghuan Public Security Bureau, I am afraid that it will not be possible.

People have this extra energy to decorate their homes themselves.

Considering the difficulty and safety of construction, the Tongzilou dormitories only have two floors. The housing on each floor is relatively distributed on both sides of the corridor. There are 40 households living in each building. Both singles and couples can be allocated a suite. Those with children

You can apply for two apartments as appropriate. As for the kitchen issue, the Ministry of Construction has not made any special considerations. After all, everyone now eats from a big pot. By then, a special canteen for the dormitory area will be built next to the dormitory area. This will not only facilitate everyone's life, but also

It can also avoid fire safety problems that easily occur in dormitories.

Although such dormitories still have the nature of collective dormitories, for those who have lived in prefabricated houses for almost a year, it is tantamount to a radical change. The Ministry of Construction will start from the beginning of March to build a dormitory in Shengli Port.

Base No. 2 and Base No. 2 in Tian Du started building new dormitories at the same time, and began organizing a public lottery to allocate rooms.

Due to the limited construction speed, house handover can only be carried out in batches, and it is impossible for everyone to be assigned a new house at the same time. For the sake of fairness, the only way to solve the contradiction between supply and demand is through lottery. Almost all crossings in the Victory Port area

Everyone participated in the lottery from March 1st to 3rd. Even a few people from the Cliff Office specially took turns to come back to Victory Port in two days to draw numbers. As for the personnel stationed in North Vietnam and Guangzhou, they were indeed too far away.

Unfortunately, there is no way to arrange to participate in the first batch of lottery house allocation benefits.

The first batch of welfare houses totaled 80 units, 40 units each in Shengli Port and Tiandu. According to the different locations of the units, members participated in the lottery in the two places. Proportionally speaking, basically a quarter of the people participated in the lottery.

The chance of getting welfare housing and winning rate is relatively high.

The members of the Executive Committee who came to the scene as leaders were the first to draw numbers, and this was the only "preferential treatment" they had. However, the people in the Executive Committee probably didn't wash their hands before drawing numbers, and they were almost wiped out.

Ning Qi was the only one who got an apartment. But he was too shy to enjoy this honor to himself, so he took the initiative to transfer it to Yuan Ruoxiu and Zhu Ping on the spot. This move also received applause from the crowd present.

In the Tiandu area, due to the nature of the units, most of the Chuanhuang units stationed in Tiandu are affiliated to the Ministry of Industry. The forty suites are almost occupied by the Ministry of Industry. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry became the winner of this lottery.

The biggest winner of the real estate activity. The worst loser was the Shipping Department. No one won the lottery from the beginning to the end. However, the people in the Shipping Department didn't care very much. They left happily after shaking. After all, they didn't win this time.

And next time, it’s just a matter of waiting two more months. Sooner or later, you will be allocated a welfare house.

The member dormitories built this time are not long-term standard housing. In fact, there are a large number of design drawings of single-family residences with one floor and one floor in the drawing library of the Ministry of Construction. However, due to the large amount of construction, it cannot be used as standard housing for members at present.

To carry out promotion. Moreover, according to the long-term planning plan of the Executive Committee, Tiandu and Shengli Port are not the main commercial and residential areas in the future. If they are undergoing heavy construction now, they will still face the problem of collective demolition in a few years. There is no need to spend so much effort.

However, the number of tube buildings being built now can be gradually increased in the future and used as staff dormitories for naturalized residents.

In addition to the two dormitory building sites, groundbreaking construction has also begun in the military barracks area east of the harbor. As the military expansion plan this year has begun to be implemented, the Military and Police Department expects that the number of combat personnel within the year will expand from the current scale of less than a thousand to at least

Once or twice that time, the existing camps will not be able to station too many personnel. Now that there is a relatively stable supply of building materials and labor, the Military and Police Department will naturally not lag behind others and plan to build masonry structures on its own.

The standards of the military camp dormitories are similar to the current Tongzilou dormitories, except that the living density is several times greater.

The technical transformation and expansion project of the Saltworks Commune has recently come to an end. According to data provided by Anxi, the general manager of the saltworks, the current monthly output of the Shengli Port Saltworks has reached about 350 tons, and the annual output is expected to remain above 4,000 tons. If compared with the same period,

Measured by the production capacity, this is an astronomical figure. It is more than enough to meet the needs of the entire Hainan Island. The salt markets of the mainland and North Vietnam, which were difficult to take care of a few months ago, are now basically able to relax and gradually increase the supply.

Already.

However, in comparison, the development of Tielugang, which only started in October last year, is obviously much slower. Although it has become two communes and has moved in thousands of immigrants, the progress of salt farm construction is not very fast.

, the current output has not reached the level before the expansion of the Shengli Port Salt Farm. The reason is mainly because Tieliang Port is far away from Victory Port, and many production tools and materials have to be transported from Victory Port to Tieliang Port by ship.

It takes a lot of time to come and go. In addition, during the almost one month before and after the troops were sent to conquer South Vietnam, due to the tight maritime transport capacity, there were also some problems with the supply of materials in Tieliang Port, which caused the construction of the salt field.

Project stagnation.

In order to solve this problem, the two communes in Tielugang are building salt production facilities while also building a westward valley passage. As long as this approximately seven-kilometer land passage can be built as soon as possible, Tielugang can

Directly connected to Tiandu, the time required for material transportation in the future can be reduced by at least half compared to now.

In addition to the immigrants from Tielugang, there is also a group of people who also participated in the construction of this valley passage. These are the Fushandong mountain residents who relocated from the inland mountainous areas. According to the agreement with the Executive Committee, Fushandong

Hundreds of Li people were resettled in the valley between Tiandu and Tielugang. The civilian government was responsible for providing them with the necessary items and food for their lives. The Ministry of Agriculture guided them to reclaim mountains and forests and plant various crops.

They grow cash crops in the mountains. The executive committee also encourages them to participate in the construction of roads leading to Tieliang Port, and use salt and other daily necessities as remuneration for their labor. In terms of labor cost alone, these relocated Li people are almost the same as those in labor camps.

The prisoners are not much different.

In addition to this valley passage, the Li people are also opening up another land passage to the Yalong Bay Agricultural Development Zone. This passage also starts from Tiandu and ends at Yalong Bay between Shengli Port and Tieliang Port.

Linhai Plain. In terms of length, this passage is nearly half shorter than the route from Tiandu to Tielugang, but the terrain is slightly more complicated. At present, the Yalong Bay Agricultural Development Zone has relied on nearly a thousand immigrants who moved in earlier.

More than 2,000 acres of crops were reclaimed and planted, mainly sugar cane, which is particularly valued by the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to the development plan of the Ministry of Agriculture, the staffing of at least two to three communes will be maintained in the Yalong Bay Development Zone in the future, and this coastal plain will gradually be built into the largest sugar production area near Sanya.

By participating in the Vietnamese Civil War, a large number of labor forces were introduced from Vietnam. In a series of engineering construction, agricultural development and other projects currently being carried out, Chuanchuan Group is gradually getting rid of the human resource bottleneck and accelerating the pace of construction. Although it is not yet possible to say that the Victory Port area is

It is monolithic, but the special social environment created by the existence of the Crossing Group has begun to gradually emerge with the progress of various construction projects.
Chapter completed!