During the time he was cleaning the house, Wan Feng also took the time to return to the 42nd Company and meet some of his former fellow villagers.

In a blink of an eye, Wan Feng had been in Sijitun for a week.

When the living room was almost cleaned up, Wan Feng decided to go back to Heihe. He wanted to go back to Heihe to see how Shamilov was doing in Legaha. After all, he was not particularly confident in the Russian's work.

Another thing is to solve the vehicle problem.

Wang Tang and the other man are still staying here. The warehouse needs to be tidied up according to their requirements, which will take at least a month. They want to see that the warehouse is repaired to meet their requirements.

Wan Feng left Han Guangjia, Zheng Song and Zhang Xian here, and just went back to Heihe with Li Mingdou.

Everything is in order on Heihe's side, and the military will be responsible for transporting any goods it needs.

Wan Feng only takes his own goods.

This time, because the military needed more materials, Wan Feng's demand for supplies suddenly increased, and Jiang Ming's team and Guo Wu's team became busy purchasing supplies.

Supplies arrive at the base almost every day.

These supplies were previously all transported by vehicles, but now Guo Wu’s team has begun transporting them by cargo ships.

These goods mainly come from the urban cluster around Jiamusi.

In that area, there are cities such as Jiamusi, Shuangyashan, Hegang, Jixi, Qitaihe, and Yichun. Guo Wu's team, which has formed a purchasing network here, transports the collected goods to the bank of the Longjiang River and then loads them onto ships upstream. Although the speed is not as fast as trains or trucks, the carrying capacity of a ship is equal to that of dozens of trucks, and the freight is cheap.

After using it once, Guo Wu found that shipping by ship not only saved a lot of freight, but also reduced the amount of transactions involved.

He just needs to notify each manufacturer by phone at the port, and these manufacturers will ship the goods to the port. He is only responsible for hiring a ship to load the goods and then shipping them.

This guy decided to transport all the goods by water, and he didn't even need to use his newly bought truck.

When Wan Feng came back, Guo Wu's cargo ship was parked by the river below the base, and Zhang Zhiyuan was directing the loading and unloading team to unload the cargo into the base.

Guo Wu proudly showed off his new discovery to Wan Feng.

Shipping by ship certainly saves time and money, but it is two or three days slower than road transportation.

"If you delay my use of the goods, I will show you how I will deal with you."

Guo Wu patted his chest and said, "I guarantee there will be no delay. Next time I will send two ships of goods, and your warehouse will have no room to store them."

It seems that these guys have made a lot of money from me, and now they dare to send two ships.

On the third day after returning to Heihe, Wan Feng met with Shamilov. After asking about the situation on Shamilov's side, he assigned Shamilov the task of getting a few cars.

Two ten-ton flatbed trucks, a crane, and two five-ton forklifts.

The ten-ton forklift made in the Soviet Union was too big and could not fit into the warehouse, so Wan Feng did not want it.

It was very easy to purchase these things from the Soviet Union. Just two days later, Shamilov delivered the vehicles that Wan Feng wanted.

After these cars passed customs, plus customs duties, the total cost was more than 8,000 yuan per car, so these vehicles cost Wan Feng more than 40,000 yuan.

Wan Feng hired a barge, loaded all the vehicles onto the barge, and then a tugboat took the vehicle to Sijitun in one day.

After the vehicles landed, Wan Feng handed them over to Li Guangyin and asked him to quickly find drivers to familiarize themselves with the vehicles.

This area has the advantage that there are a lot of people who can tinker with machinery. Almost every production team and every company has a maintenance company or a maintenance team.

These people may not be good at repairs, but there is no problem driving the car.

Li Guangyin quickly found a driver. These guys had a lot of fun this time, driving these vehicles in a field to practice.

The main force here is the forklift. These two forklifts will play a huge role in the future. Therefore, Wan Feng instructed Li Guangyin that the two forklift drivers must practice their skills well.

Time flies so fast. Half a month later, Comrade Wang told Wan Feng that the soldiers who were to protect this place were coming.

Since people are about to arrive, Wan Feng makes final preparations.

Rice, flour, firewood, oil, salt and other daily necessities were all bought, and coal and firewood for the winter were also prepared in advance.

A color TV is also a must.

Two days later, a squad of soldiers finally arrived at Sijitun and moved into the tidied house.

Wan Feng went back to Heihe and met with Shamilov again, and confirmed that these materials would be officially transferred to the port on July 18th.

On July 16, Heihe accepted the last batch of military supplies and stopped the task of receiving military goods. Comrade Jiang also came to Sijitun.

The goods from the Soviet Union were unloaded from the train at Legah.

This turned out to be the first batch of materials declared at the Legah Port.

Shamilov organized manpower to load and unload the steel, and then transported it to the dock and loaded it onto the ship after customs clearance.

At nine o'clock in the morning on the 18th, a barge departed from Legaha Wharf and docked about twenty minutes later.

Wanfeng also organized a welcoming ceremony and set off more than a dozen firecrackers.

After the customs officers boarded the ship for inspection, they began to unload the goods.

There was a row of seven-ton military trucks parked at the dock. Their mission was to transport these materials to Long Town, three hundred miles away, to be loaded onto the train.

Wan Feng counted the number of trucks, forty!

That's not enough! The quantity on the manifest is 350 tons, and these trucks can only carry 280 tons at most, which still leaves 70 tons of steel to be stored in the warehouse.

It takes more than nine hours for these heavily loaded trucks to reach Long Town. After unloading the trucks and taking a nap, it takes two days to make a round trip.

If a ship comes every two days and each ship has a backlog of 70 tons, the backlog will be more than 2,000 tons in a month.

This warehouse ran out of space in two months.

Wan Feng reported this situation to Comrades Wang, Jiang and Tang.

Comrade Jiang told Wan Feng that these were the only cars they had for now, and that another company of cars would be transferred over in a few days, and the transport capacity would be almost enough by then.

The two tower cranes played a huge role in unloading the ship, loading two vehicles at the same time, one in front and one behind the barge.

The people of Li Guangyin's loading and unloading team tied the materials to be lifted with steel cables and hung them on the crane arm. The tower crane lifted the tied materials and placed them on the truck parked at the dock.

Seven tons of steel were thrown into the truck and there was hardly any trace of it.

It takes an average of 25 minutes for a tower crane to load a truck, so it still took five or six hours to load all the trucks.

After all the trucks left, Li Guangyin's loading and unloading team came on the scene.

Because it was the first time for loading and unloading, Wan Feng was very worried about any accidents, so he stood by the river and watched them loading and unloading.

The tower crane loaded the remaining steel onto two trucks and then transported them into the warehouse. Forklifts then forked the steel from the trucks in bundles and placed them on the wooden planks laid on the floor of the warehouse.

It took more than two hours to unload the remaining 70 tons of steel into the warehouse.

The first batch of goods arriving at Sijitun Wharf was finally handled.