Chapter 1929
Chapter 1929
Chapter 1929
After the welcome banquet that night, the group took a car to settle down in Qiao Zhiya's private estate according to Qiao Zhiya's arrangement.Although it is difficult to see the surrounding environment at night, the tranquility here is easy to feel.A large number of trees are planted inside and outside the manor. The gate to enter the manor is a courtyard with a large area. The rockery, flowing water, pavilions, green plants, corridors, and stone paths can easily make people in it mistakenly think that they are In a garden somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, not near a small county town on an island in the South China Sea.
Li Luo is a person who prefers quietness in his bones, and this place is obviously more favorable to him than the relatively noisy environment in the county town, so he joked with Qiao Zhiya half-jokingly: "Since Mr. Qiao has such a good place, what about the place just now?" A meal should also be arranged to be eaten here!"
Qiao Zhiya said with a smile: "The environment here is better than the restaurants in the county town, but I haven't held a banquet here usually, and the kitchen utensils needed are not complete, so it is safer to hold the reception banquet in the county town."
Li Luo thought in his heart that you are the official of one of the parents, and if you want to temporarily requisition the people and kitchen utensils of the local restaurant, it is not a matter of one sentence, and there may be other secrets in it.But since Qiao Zhiya didn't say anything, of course he was very sensible and didn't ask further.
In fact, the secret behind this is also very simple. The restaurant where Qiao Zhiya hosted the banquet is a new business opened by his brother-in-law. The so-called fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields, and by the way, he also took this opportunity to raise the restaurant's grades—after all, it is Mr. Qiao. Designated restaurants for entertaining foreign dignitaries can still be boasted in a small place like Changhua.
Qiao Zhiya's private guards are usually organized in the name of the militia, but the training frequency and equipment level are far from what the militia can match.Today, an important person came to visit, so Qiao Zhiya dispatched this team to be in charge of the armed guard of his manor.In terms of familiarity with the inside and outside of the manor, his own private guard is naturally the best choice, and the road leading to the manor and the surrounding areas are all under the control of him.The men and horses brought by Gai Liangcai were assigned to be in charge of close defense around Li Luo's residence, and the task was relatively easy.
Since many furnaces in the Changhua smelting area operate around the clock, the workers work in two or three shifts. Even in the middle of the night, there will be groups of workers entering and leaving the county, so there is no such thing as a curfew in this place. , Walking outside in the middle of the night is actually not eye-catching.However, Captain Xue and the others were not aware of this situation, and did not dare to take any action on the night of their arrival. It was not until the next day that they inquired about the location of Daling Manor, planning to touch the place where the son of the Joseon Dynasty lived.
But they are walking slowly, Haihan's arrangement will not stop and wait for them. When they are still thinking about how to get to the vicinity of Qiaozhiya Manor without attracting attention, Li Lu and his party are already preparing to set off from the manor. The railway station located in the east of the county seat.
The reason why he went out so early in the morning was mainly because there were only two trains on this railway, one in the morning and one in the evening, and Qiao Zhiya did not intend to adjust the departure time for the convenience of North Koreans.However, Li Lu felt that there was nothing wrong with this arrangement. When he was in Sanya, he missed the train to Tiandu because he had arranged other tours in the morning. As a result, he could only take the short trip from Shengli Port to Sanya Port. The departure of the Haihan train is so early, so it is better to start earlier.
The only adjustment Qiao Zhiya made to the morning train for Li Lu and his party was to add a VIP carriage.This carriage is usually parked in a specially built garage at Changhua Station, and will only be used when important people come here for inspection.
However, this carriage was made several years ago, and its comfort is not as good as the VIP carriage that Li Min rode in when he was in Sanya.Fortunately, Li Lu actually didn't care too much about such details. After getting into the car, he focused more on the scenery outside the window.
Different from the desolate conditions along the way when the railway was first built a few years ago, now that the local government has carried out planned resettlement, people along the railway have also begun to live.This railway runs eastward almost parallel to the banks of the Changhua River, so the water conservancy conditions near the railway can fully meet the needs of agricultural development.However, since most of the local labor force was concentrated in the smelting industry in Changhua and the mines in Shilu, the agricultural reclamation along the railway line was only sporadic, unlike other places where there were large plantations and collective farms.
The scale of this kind of agricultural development is limited, but at least it can solve part of the local food demand, and after the people along the railway line are populated, part of the railway maintenance work has gradually been handed over to the people along the line.As long as short-term training is given, even people who know nothing about the principle of railway operation can perform the task of inspecting the track once a day and get corresponding rewards for it. This will greatly reduce the pressure on the transportation department and increase the number of people along the line. livelihood.
Although there are still many practical problems in this operation, for Changhua Shilu area where there is always a labor shortage, it is already a relatively effective method to solve the railway maintenance problem at this stage.Moreover, through these part-time maintenance personnel, the government can also publicize relevant knowledge of the railway to the people along the line and reduce the occurrence of railway accidents.
"I heard that this railway is four times longer than the railway in Sanya. You must have encountered many difficulties when it was built?" After the train started to leave the station, Li Lu couldn't wait to ask Qiao Zhiya.
Qiao Zhiya replied: "The biggest difficulty at that time was actually the lack of labor force. The prince can see that there is actually no population along the railway line, and the labor force in the entire Changhua County was even less than 80 at that time. We should spread this manpower to more than [-] people." On the construction site of Lichang, the effect can be imagined. Later, we thought of many ways to import labor here, and it took a year and a half to get through the traffic line from Changhua to Shilu.”
"As for the cost..." Qiao Zhiya shook his head and said, "It doesn't really matter. We know that as long as this road is built and Shilu Iron Mine is mined, the cost will definitely be recovered. The sooner the mine goes into production, the sooner we The sooner you can reap the benefits.”
Li Lu asked again: "The place where the Shilu Iron Mine is located has gone deep into the interior. How did your country find out about this mine? Can Master Qiao reveal a little bit?"
Of course, Qiao Zhiya couldn't tell him that Haihan's prospecting was all based on data from another time and space, so he bragged about it, saying that Haihan sent a lot of people to search for metal mines all over the island, and found Shilu. It’s because I heard that copper ore is produced here in folk rumors. The so-called “Shilu” is the name for copper ore, so the official sent people to search for it, and it turned out that a large ore vein was found, but the copper ore It is a supporting role, but the real protagonist is iron ore.
This is also the second and largest iron ore deposit discovered by Haihan officials on this island after the Sanya Tian Monolithic Mine.In addition to iron, this place also has mineral resources such as copper, gold, and sulfur, which can be described as a natural cornucopia.
Li Luo thought to himself that if this is true, then Haihan's success is indeed due to destiny, otherwise, without so much steel, how could Haihan easily form a strong army with all members equipped with firearms.He didn't know that before choosing Hainan Island as their base, these people had already considered where to get steel and iron. The development of Shilu Iron Mine was originally a step in Haihan's development plan, and it was not a mistake. luck.
The materials transported by this train to the Shilu mining area include two wagons of food, one wagon of production tools and various building materials, and one wagon containing two steam engines for mine gravel, and a steam engine that provides power. Two wagons of coal.Behind the six freight cars are two passenger cars and the VIP car where Qiao Zhiya and others are located.
The so-called passenger carriages are far from the conditions of the VIP carriages. There are no windows inlaid with plate glass, and they are almost like a tin can.There are only two rows of benches fixed on the walls of the carriage, and the rest of the people can only sit on the floor in the middle of the carriage.There are more than 200 and nearly [-] people in the two passenger carriages, most of whom are miners.
These miners who live in Changhua usually have to stay for ten days, half a month or even longer after going to the mine because of the long round trip to save travel time and travel expenses.Nowadays, many miners also choose to live in the mining area. Although the living conditions are not as good as those in Changhua, the work is much more convenient.Moreover, the local air pollution in Changhua is serious due to the development of the smelting industry, but there is no such problem in Shilu. The smoke and dust generated by the steam engines burning coal in the mine may not be comparable to a blast furnace in operation in Changhua. .
Listening to Qiao Zhiya's introduction of the Shilu Mine like a few treasures, Li Lu could feel that this high-ranking Haihan official was indeed very familiar with the industry under his rule, and he should have paid much attention to it in normal times.Haihan Guo appointed him as a magistrate here, and he was really particular about it.
Halfway through the journey, a siren sounded. After a while, the train Li Mo was on and the train coming from the opposite side crossed the tracks, and the sound was quite astonishing.
Qiao Zhiya was already used to such a scene, and continued to introduce the situation of the opposite train to Li Lu calmly.The trains leaving the mining area mainly carry the ore that has been preliminarily screened and crushed, and occasionally also carry felled logs and some local products in the mountains.Of course, there were also quite a few miners on board who, after several days of hard work, had received their wages and planned to go back to reunite with their families, or to go to Changhua for a few days of recreation.
At this time, Captain Xue and others had just left the county seat, and divided into several routes to approach Qiao Zhiya Manor near Daling.They pretended to go into the mountains to collect herbs, collect firewood, and hunt, and slowly approached this manor, which was probably the place where the Koreans settled.But at this time, half of Qiao Zhiya's private guards went to Shilu with the car, and the remaining personnel who stayed here have already received an order to lower the defense level. After all, the protection targets are not here, so there is no need to maintain high-intensity patrols. guard.
But even so, there are still checkpoints on the boulevard leading to the manor. Captain Xue and others can only take a detour to avoid the surveillance range of these armed guards.
After they approached cautiously, what they saw was that a basin of cold water was poured on everyone's head. The surrounding of this manor under the shade of green trees was a wall as high as [-] feet, and it was impossible to see it from the outside. As for the situation in the manor, unless they continued to climb the mountain and climbed to the height of the big ridge behind the manor, they might still be able to see a little bit of the scenery inside the manor.But after climbing to a sufficient height, the distance from the manor will be extended to several miles away, and even if you can see it, you will definitely not be able to see it clearly, and the effect of reconnaissance will not be achieved at all.
This is of course not a coincidence, but the owner of the manor had already considered the security needs during the site selection and design stage, calculated a relatively safe range, and used the terrain and buildings to reduce security risks.Captain Xue also realized this very quickly, and knew that this reconnaissance operation would hardly yield any real gains, unless they directly climbed over the high wall and went inside to see if there were any North Koreans there.
Captain Xue tends to be cautious rather than aggressive, so he naturally wouldn't make such an irrational decision. He spent a lot of time reassembling the team, and then chose a few hidden locations near the manor, and guarded the manor in groups. The situation of entering and exiting personnel.
That's right, when there is nothing he can do, the only strategy he can adopt is the most primitive strategy of waiting.Because the information he had was extremely limited, he couldn't even determine whether the North Koreans had moved into the manor, so he could only use this extremely inefficient method of reconnaissance to try to confirm the movements of the North Koreans.
Of course, Captain Xue was not stupid enough to throw all his hands here to wait for a rabbit that might not exist. After making the arrangements, he returned to the county with the rest of his hands, trying to find out more about News from North Korea.But to his disappointment, there was no official news about the visit of the North Koreans. It was not until noon that his subordinates finally found out that a certain restaurant in the city received a group of important guests last night. Qiao Zhiya, the local administrator.
Theoretically speaking, the high-ranking officials of Haihan would definitely receive the visiting son of Joseon in person, so there is a high probability that the important guests who had dinner with Qiao Zhiya were the group of people from Sanya.However, Captain Xue didn't understand why Qiao Zhiya didn't hold a banquet in his private manor, but chose the reception place in a county town that smelled of soot. Is there anything in this restaurant that you must try, and if you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life Special signature dishes.
With the idea of finding out, Captain Xue also went to this restaurant, ordered a table of dishes as a foreign businessman, and then chatted with the shopkeeper who took the initiative to say hello and establish a relationship, and he really made him say something Only then did I find out that the owner of the restaurant and Qiao Zhiya were related by marriage, so I couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded at the moment, no wonder the high-ranking official of Haihan made such an arrangement.
(End of this chapter)
After the welcome banquet that night, the group took a car to settle down in Qiao Zhiya's private estate according to Qiao Zhiya's arrangement.Although it is difficult to see the surrounding environment at night, the tranquility here is easy to feel.A large number of trees are planted inside and outside the manor. The gate to enter the manor is a courtyard with a large area. The rockery, flowing water, pavilions, green plants, corridors, and stone paths can easily make people in it mistakenly think that they are In a garden somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, not near a small county town on an island in the South China Sea.
Li Luo is a person who prefers quietness in his bones, and this place is obviously more favorable to him than the relatively noisy environment in the county town, so he joked with Qiao Zhiya half-jokingly: "Since Mr. Qiao has such a good place, what about the place just now?" A meal should also be arranged to be eaten here!"
Qiao Zhiya said with a smile: "The environment here is better than the restaurants in the county town, but I haven't held a banquet here usually, and the kitchen utensils needed are not complete, so it is safer to hold the reception banquet in the county town."
Li Luo thought in his heart that you are the official of one of the parents, and if you want to temporarily requisition the people and kitchen utensils of the local restaurant, it is not a matter of one sentence, and there may be other secrets in it.But since Qiao Zhiya didn't say anything, of course he was very sensible and didn't ask further.
In fact, the secret behind this is also very simple. The restaurant where Qiao Zhiya hosted the banquet is a new business opened by his brother-in-law. The so-called fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields, and by the way, he also took this opportunity to raise the restaurant's grades—after all, it is Mr. Qiao. Designated restaurants for entertaining foreign dignitaries can still be boasted in a small place like Changhua.
Qiao Zhiya's private guards are usually organized in the name of the militia, but the training frequency and equipment level are far from what the militia can match.Today, an important person came to visit, so Qiao Zhiya dispatched this team to be in charge of the armed guard of his manor.In terms of familiarity with the inside and outside of the manor, his own private guard is naturally the best choice, and the road leading to the manor and the surrounding areas are all under the control of him.The men and horses brought by Gai Liangcai were assigned to be in charge of close defense around Li Luo's residence, and the task was relatively easy.
Since many furnaces in the Changhua smelting area operate around the clock, the workers work in two or three shifts. Even in the middle of the night, there will be groups of workers entering and leaving the county, so there is no such thing as a curfew in this place. , Walking outside in the middle of the night is actually not eye-catching.However, Captain Xue and the others were not aware of this situation, and did not dare to take any action on the night of their arrival. It was not until the next day that they inquired about the location of Daling Manor, planning to touch the place where the son of the Joseon Dynasty lived.
But they are walking slowly, Haihan's arrangement will not stop and wait for them. When they are still thinking about how to get to the vicinity of Qiaozhiya Manor without attracting attention, Li Lu and his party are already preparing to set off from the manor. The railway station located in the east of the county seat.
The reason why he went out so early in the morning was mainly because there were only two trains on this railway, one in the morning and one in the evening, and Qiao Zhiya did not intend to adjust the departure time for the convenience of North Koreans.However, Li Lu felt that there was nothing wrong with this arrangement. When he was in Sanya, he missed the train to Tiandu because he had arranged other tours in the morning. As a result, he could only take the short trip from Shengli Port to Sanya Port. The departure of the Haihan train is so early, so it is better to start earlier.
The only adjustment Qiao Zhiya made to the morning train for Li Lu and his party was to add a VIP carriage.This carriage is usually parked in a specially built garage at Changhua Station, and will only be used when important people come here for inspection.
However, this carriage was made several years ago, and its comfort is not as good as the VIP carriage that Li Min rode in when he was in Sanya.Fortunately, Li Lu actually didn't care too much about such details. After getting into the car, he focused more on the scenery outside the window.
Different from the desolate conditions along the way when the railway was first built a few years ago, now that the local government has carried out planned resettlement, people along the railway have also begun to live.This railway runs eastward almost parallel to the banks of the Changhua River, so the water conservancy conditions near the railway can fully meet the needs of agricultural development.However, since most of the local labor force was concentrated in the smelting industry in Changhua and the mines in Shilu, the agricultural reclamation along the railway line was only sporadic, unlike other places where there were large plantations and collective farms.
The scale of this kind of agricultural development is limited, but at least it can solve part of the local food demand, and after the people along the railway line are populated, part of the railway maintenance work has gradually been handed over to the people along the line.As long as short-term training is given, even people who know nothing about the principle of railway operation can perform the task of inspecting the track once a day and get corresponding rewards for it. This will greatly reduce the pressure on the transportation department and increase the number of people along the line. livelihood.
Although there are still many practical problems in this operation, for Changhua Shilu area where there is always a labor shortage, it is already a relatively effective method to solve the railway maintenance problem at this stage.Moreover, through these part-time maintenance personnel, the government can also publicize relevant knowledge of the railway to the people along the line and reduce the occurrence of railway accidents.
"I heard that this railway is four times longer than the railway in Sanya. You must have encountered many difficulties when it was built?" After the train started to leave the station, Li Lu couldn't wait to ask Qiao Zhiya.
Qiao Zhiya replied: "The biggest difficulty at that time was actually the lack of labor force. The prince can see that there is actually no population along the railway line, and the labor force in the entire Changhua County was even less than 80 at that time. We should spread this manpower to more than [-] people." On the construction site of Lichang, the effect can be imagined. Later, we thought of many ways to import labor here, and it took a year and a half to get through the traffic line from Changhua to Shilu.”
"As for the cost..." Qiao Zhiya shook his head and said, "It doesn't really matter. We know that as long as this road is built and Shilu Iron Mine is mined, the cost will definitely be recovered. The sooner the mine goes into production, the sooner we The sooner you can reap the benefits.”
Li Lu asked again: "The place where the Shilu Iron Mine is located has gone deep into the interior. How did your country find out about this mine? Can Master Qiao reveal a little bit?"
Of course, Qiao Zhiya couldn't tell him that Haihan's prospecting was all based on data from another time and space, so he bragged about it, saying that Haihan sent a lot of people to search for metal mines all over the island, and found Shilu. It’s because I heard that copper ore is produced here in folk rumors. The so-called “Shilu” is the name for copper ore, so the official sent people to search for it, and it turned out that a large ore vein was found, but the copper ore It is a supporting role, but the real protagonist is iron ore.
This is also the second and largest iron ore deposit discovered by Haihan officials on this island after the Sanya Tian Monolithic Mine.In addition to iron, this place also has mineral resources such as copper, gold, and sulfur, which can be described as a natural cornucopia.
Li Luo thought to himself that if this is true, then Haihan's success is indeed due to destiny, otherwise, without so much steel, how could Haihan easily form a strong army with all members equipped with firearms.He didn't know that before choosing Hainan Island as their base, these people had already considered where to get steel and iron. The development of Shilu Iron Mine was originally a step in Haihan's development plan, and it was not a mistake. luck.
The materials transported by this train to the Shilu mining area include two wagons of food, one wagon of production tools and various building materials, and one wagon containing two steam engines for mine gravel, and a steam engine that provides power. Two wagons of coal.Behind the six freight cars are two passenger cars and the VIP car where Qiao Zhiya and others are located.
The so-called passenger carriages are far from the conditions of the VIP carriages. There are no windows inlaid with plate glass, and they are almost like a tin can.There are only two rows of benches fixed on the walls of the carriage, and the rest of the people can only sit on the floor in the middle of the carriage.There are more than 200 and nearly [-] people in the two passenger carriages, most of whom are miners.
These miners who live in Changhua usually have to stay for ten days, half a month or even longer after going to the mine because of the long round trip to save travel time and travel expenses.Nowadays, many miners also choose to live in the mining area. Although the living conditions are not as good as those in Changhua, the work is much more convenient.Moreover, the local air pollution in Changhua is serious due to the development of the smelting industry, but there is no such problem in Shilu. The smoke and dust generated by the steam engines burning coal in the mine may not be comparable to a blast furnace in operation in Changhua. .
Listening to Qiao Zhiya's introduction of the Shilu Mine like a few treasures, Li Lu could feel that this high-ranking Haihan official was indeed very familiar with the industry under his rule, and he should have paid much attention to it in normal times.Haihan Guo appointed him as a magistrate here, and he was really particular about it.
Halfway through the journey, a siren sounded. After a while, the train Li Mo was on and the train coming from the opposite side crossed the tracks, and the sound was quite astonishing.
Qiao Zhiya was already used to such a scene, and continued to introduce the situation of the opposite train to Li Lu calmly.The trains leaving the mining area mainly carry the ore that has been preliminarily screened and crushed, and occasionally also carry felled logs and some local products in the mountains.Of course, there were also quite a few miners on board who, after several days of hard work, had received their wages and planned to go back to reunite with their families, or to go to Changhua for a few days of recreation.
At this time, Captain Xue and others had just left the county seat, and divided into several routes to approach Qiao Zhiya Manor near Daling.They pretended to go into the mountains to collect herbs, collect firewood, and hunt, and slowly approached this manor, which was probably the place where the Koreans settled.But at this time, half of Qiao Zhiya's private guards went to Shilu with the car, and the remaining personnel who stayed here have already received an order to lower the defense level. After all, the protection targets are not here, so there is no need to maintain high-intensity patrols. guard.
But even so, there are still checkpoints on the boulevard leading to the manor. Captain Xue and others can only take a detour to avoid the surveillance range of these armed guards.
After they approached cautiously, what they saw was that a basin of cold water was poured on everyone's head. The surrounding of this manor under the shade of green trees was a wall as high as [-] feet, and it was impossible to see it from the outside. As for the situation in the manor, unless they continued to climb the mountain and climbed to the height of the big ridge behind the manor, they might still be able to see a little bit of the scenery inside the manor.But after climbing to a sufficient height, the distance from the manor will be extended to several miles away, and even if you can see it, you will definitely not be able to see it clearly, and the effect of reconnaissance will not be achieved at all.
This is of course not a coincidence, but the owner of the manor had already considered the security needs during the site selection and design stage, calculated a relatively safe range, and used the terrain and buildings to reduce security risks.Captain Xue also realized this very quickly, and knew that this reconnaissance operation would hardly yield any real gains, unless they directly climbed over the high wall and went inside to see if there were any North Koreans there.
Captain Xue tends to be cautious rather than aggressive, so he naturally wouldn't make such an irrational decision. He spent a lot of time reassembling the team, and then chose a few hidden locations near the manor, and guarded the manor in groups. The situation of entering and exiting personnel.
That's right, when there is nothing he can do, the only strategy he can adopt is the most primitive strategy of waiting.Because the information he had was extremely limited, he couldn't even determine whether the North Koreans had moved into the manor, so he could only use this extremely inefficient method of reconnaissance to try to confirm the movements of the North Koreans.
Of course, Captain Xue was not stupid enough to throw all his hands here to wait for a rabbit that might not exist. After making the arrangements, he returned to the county with the rest of his hands, trying to find out more about News from North Korea.But to his disappointment, there was no official news about the visit of the North Koreans. It was not until noon that his subordinates finally found out that a certain restaurant in the city received a group of important guests last night. Qiao Zhiya, the local administrator.
Theoretically speaking, the high-ranking officials of Haihan would definitely receive the visiting son of Joseon in person, so there is a high probability that the important guests who had dinner with Qiao Zhiya were the group of people from Sanya.However, Captain Xue didn't understand why Qiao Zhiya didn't hold a banquet in his private manor, but chose the reception place in a county town that smelled of soot. Is there anything in this restaurant that you must try, and if you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life Special signature dishes.
With the idea of finding out, Captain Xue also went to this restaurant, ordered a table of dishes as a foreign businessman, and then chatted with the shopkeeper who took the initiative to say hello and establish a relationship, and he really made him say something Only then did I find out that the owner of the restaurant and Qiao Zhiya were related by marriage, so I couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded at the moment, no wonder the high-ranking official of Haihan made such an arrangement.
(End of this chapter)