Chapter 1028 Second Phase Strategy

The construction method of the glass greenhouse, as soon as Luo Chong said it, they understood it. Even if they had never seen it, it was easy to understand. In fact, it was to cut half of the ordinary bungalow along the ridge, then enlarge and stretch it, and then replace the ordinary brick wall with a glass curtain wall. There was nothing special about the other things.

"If that's the case, it should be easy to do, but winter is not a good time to build a house. In such a cold day, bricks can't be laid well. I think it's better to use rammed earth walls directly." Lu Guangzhu thought about it and immediately suggested.

Luo Chong thought about it and nodded in agreement. Brick walls are indeed strong, but what the Han tribe needs now is time. The rice transplanter must be finalized before the spring, so they can only give up the brick structure.

"Then use rammed earth. The two of you, build a greenhouse in each county first. If the effect is good, then after the spring, expand a few more with brick structures, so that they can be used for other experiments in the future."

"Yes."

"Please rest assured, leader."

The two immediately responded after hearing this.

After visiting the scientific research results of Xingang County, Luo Chong took the three of them away.

You Fu wanted to take people to explore the route of the southern railway again to prepare for the actual construction in the future, but Luo Chong did not let him go. It was already the beginning of December, and there were only two months before the Chinese New Year. It would take more than ten days to go there by boat, and they would not be able to go far if they went to reconnaissance.

Moreover, the exploration team had worked hard for a year, so it was no problem to let them rest for two months. In addition, the southern railway was not in a hurry now. Even if the route was planned, no workers would start construction.

"You, just take a two-month break at home. It's just right for you to spend the New Year's Day at home and spend time with your wife and children. If you really have nothing to do, write about your experiences of exploring outside these years. You should know that the tribe has an essay contest now. There are many good things sent from all over the place. I'll get you a few books in a while."

"Write an exploration log, that's fine, then take a two-month break." You Fu thought about it for a while and agreed. It happened that he had written a navigation log before, when he first took a boat to Xin Tribe a few years ago, but now Xin Tribe is gone and has become Qiongzhou Island of Han Tribe.

After arranging You Fu to go home for vacation, Luo Chong took She Xin and Lu Guangzhu to build a glass greenhouse.

Winter is indeed not suitable for building houses, but there are many advantages to building in winter, that is, there is no shortage of manpower. Now is the slack season for farming and the people are hiding at home with nothing to do. Therefore, as soon as the two counties posted a notice to recruit construction workers, many people came to sign up, but they don't need so many now, after all, each county only builds one.

With these hired people to level the land, tamp the foundation, and build adobe walls, the foundation of the two greenhouses was laid. Luo Chong asked his personal guards to find the craftsmen who built his house in the past to be responsible for the glass curtain wall part of the greenhouse, because the three-story villa where Luo Chong now lives has a not-so-large glass sun room, as well as floor-to-ceiling windows and glass curtain walls on the entire wall. Those craftsmen are all experienced.

Then Luo Chong asked She Xin to find some carpenters who are good at making doors and windows from the shipyard and let them be responsible for the beams and columns of the glass greenhouse, as well as the doors and windows of the greenhouse.

Although the greenhouse is mainly for insulation, it also needs to have movable windows because it needs ventilation, so some windows that can be opened need to be installed on the side walls and on the roof.

Finally, Luo Chong found some skilled craftsmen from the comprehensive research institute on the lake island to help. They were the craftsmen who were responsible for building the lighthouse. The searchlight room on the top of the lighthouse of the Han tribe was a glass curtain wall with glass all around. The whole house was transparent except for the roof. These craftsmen also had experience in building glass curtain walls.

After selecting the land and recruiting various craftsmen, the next thing was the problem of building materials. The soil problem was easy to solve. The steel was directly pulled from Xingang County by train. There was plenty of wood in the shipyard, and there was too much to use. There were all kinds of specifications, and if there was none, they could be processed immediately. As for glass, it was even more inexhaustible.

The glass factory in the Han tribe now mainly produces five kinds of glass products. The first kind is the glass lampshade of the calcium carbide lamp, the second is glass tableware, the third is flat glass, which is used to make windows on the one hand and glass mirrors on the other hand, the fourth is glass wine bottles, and the amount of this is gradually increasing. The fifth kind is special-shaped glass, which mainly serves special-shaped glass. This is produced only when someone places a special order.

Among them, flat glass and glass bottles have the largest production and reserve. Flat glass is a building material. Who knows when someone will want to change the windows? After all, this is not only used when building a new house, but also can be replaced with glass windows in old houses. Now people with some money want to replace glass windows, which is face-saving and the key is that they feel comfortable looking at them.

In addition, this thing has no shelf life at all, and there is no fear of spoilage, so a lot of it is produced and stored. After a batch is sold, a batch is shipped away, so the inventory is huge. Now that it is heard that the leader wants to use it, the glass factory directly uses a schooner to transfer a ship of inventory, all of which are the largest area, six square meters per piece, two meters by three meters.

According to Luo Chong's requirements, the thickness is mainly obtained in two types, one is very thick, one centimeter thick, used as the facade curtain wall; the other is five millimeters thick, used as the roof. The roof uses a slightly thinner one, mainly to reduce the weight of the roof and reduce the pressure on the beams and columns.

However, such a roof also has a weakness, that is, it is not strong enough. It is okay at ordinary times. If there is hail weather, it may smash all the glass on the roof. But there is no way now. There is no lighter material, so we can only take precautions in advance. If there is hail weather, a thick straw curtain can be covered on the roof in advance, which may be prevented.

With sufficient manpower and sufficient materials, the rice field greenhouse in Weishan County was declared completed in just five days, and the dry land greenhouse in Liuyang County was also declared completed three days later.

Luo Chong immediately mobilized several researchers from Sinong Temple. These guys are all big guys, at least big guys in farming. If nothing else, at least they have a very good control of solar terms and temperature. They can put their hands into the soil to feel it, and they can know the temperature of the soil, whether it is suitable for sowing, and whether they can start planting. It can be called a human thermometer.

In this era without temperature and humidity measuring instruments, we can only rely on the rich experience of these old farmers.

Before the people from Sinong Temple came, Luo Chong asked She Xin and Lu Guangzhu to recruit two old men from the local area, two in each glass greenhouse, to guard the greenhouse and chop wood for the stove.

Each person was on duty for one day and one night, and then rested for one day and one night. The two took turns to guard a greenhouse. During the duty, they ate and slept in the side room of the greenhouse. It was also warm there, so they didn't have to worry about freezing. They just had to get up at night to check the stove. However, the elderly didn't sleep much, so it was not difficult for them to get up at night.

Moreover, the treatment for this job was very good. They worked one day and rested one day. They were just responsible for burning the stove, and there was no heavy physical work to do. Five meals were provided every day and night, three meals during the day and two meals at night. In addition, there was ten yuan per month. The average salary of the Han tribe was only thirty yuan, and generally no food was provided, and some only provided one meal.

In the greenhouse, not only did they get ten yuan, but they also provided five meals. The work was easy and the rest time was long. It could be said that it was a very satisfactory treatment.

Because the salary was good and the work location was close, just around the city, and they could walk home after work, so there were countless applicants. She Xin and Lu Guangzhu asked the petty officials to select, mostly local police officers who were very familiar with the local people. They each selected two honest and hardworking old men. Before the people from Sinong Temple arrived, they had already burned the greenhouse for several days.

Now the entire glass greenhouse is like a mosaic, opaque inside and outside. The original transparent glass is now like frosted glass. Because the temperature in the greenhouse is relatively high, and it is a test field, the land is moist, and the warm moisture cannot get out, so it condenses into fog on the glass curtain wall.

After the people from Sinong Temple arrived, these people also worked intensively, turning the soil, applying fertilizer, sowing and raising seedlings.

The paddy fields in Weishan County need to make a seedling bed first, plant the seedlings, and then carry out the rice transplanting experiment in the field.

Although the experimental field in Liuyang County was not made of the best sandy soil, it was located on a higher ground with relatively dry soil. It was not suitable for growing rice, but it was fine for growing potatoes. However, the people in Sinong Temple had never seen potatoes and did not know how to grow them.

Luo Chong had no idea about this problem, but fortunately he knew the general idea, so he told the people to divide the potatoes into three piles. One pile was placed directly on the ground in the greenhouse to maintain the temperature and humid environment to see if it would sprout on its own. Another pile was buried in sand and covered with straw soaked in water, which was also kept moist to see if it would sprout. The last pile was stored separately. In case the two piles were ruined, there were still some to start over.

As long as the potatoes could be forced to sprout, it would be easy. Luo Chong asked them to turn the soil and fertilize the fields, dig ditches and build ridges. Once the potatoes sprouted, they would cut the sprouts and potatoes into rolling pieces, and then plant them on the ridges in a hole-sowing manner. Then they would water and weed, and just watch them grow.

Of course, the people in Sinong Temple had to record every step, observe carefully, and summarize a practical farming method, so that they could promote potato planting technology among the people in the future.

They were busy until late November, when things on both sides were on track. The potatoes in Liuyang County had sprouted and now filled the entire greenhouse; the rice seedlings in Wenshan County had also grown. Now they only had to wait until the rice seedlings grew to seven or eight leaves before they could transplant the seedlings.

According to this schedule, the experiment of the rice transplanter would be completed before the end of the month. Even if there were any problems, they could be improved immediately. Throughout December, even if they still wanted to experiment, the greenhouse would be able to produce rice seedlings twice more, giving them two more opportunities to experiment.

In short, it would be no problem to start promoting it before the beginning of spring. If the progress was faster, they might be able to rush out a batch before the New Year's Day and sell it on the market.

On the other side, at the Xingang County Research Institute, Lin Fei personally drafted the charter because of Luo Chong's instructions. They originally wanted to focus on producing parts first and assemble tractors together in the end, but Luo Chong asked to assemble a batch for driving training first. Lin Fei had no choice, so he made adjustments and promised to deliver five vehicles before November 30, and another five vehicles in December, and the remaining ten vehicles and matching agricultural tools in one go in Thirteenth.

The affairs of the headquarters were arranged in an orderly manner, the coal mines and transportation in the south were also in sight, and he was lucky to have obtained a molybdenum mine, which made Luo Chong feel comfortable recently. All things were developing steadily, and Luo Chong had nothing to worry about. So he stayed at home again to read books. It happened that he was not at home for a while, and there were a lot of essays from all over the country in the study room, which needed him to take a good look.

At the same time, Qubing in the north was also leading 5,000 troops to carry out his second phase of strategy, blocking the cannibals who were planning to go south. Another new goal was to turn the Salt Lake area into a battlefield for a tug-of-war with the enemy, or a meat grinder to consume the enemy's manpower.

After the last battle in the hunting ground area, Qubing personally led a large force to escort tens of thousands of prisoners back to the prisoner concentration camp in the river valley camp, and then led the second and third battalions of the Shen Ce Guards, as well as the main force of the guard company, a total of about 2,000 people, plus 3,000 militia recruited from the Salt Lake area and the river valley area, and gathered 5,000 troops and headed straight for the river bend position.

That was the main passage for the cannibals to go south. As long as they were blocked here, the enemy would never be able to go south, and no matter how many people came, they would all be eaten by them.

On the other side, in the salt pond area, a battalion of the Shen Ce Guards and a thousand militiamen recruited from the hunting ground area fought together. They first dismantled the tents and positions around the salt ponds with great fanfare, showing their intention to abandon the three salt ponds. Even if there were cannibal scouts coming to scout, they pretended not to know. The purpose of doing so was to attract the cannibals.

After they withdrew with great fanfare, only a few scouts were left hiding in the surroundings, watching from afar with binoculars.

On the second day, there was still no movement in the salt pond, as if the enemy did not know that the Han tribe had withdrawn. On the third day of the Han army's retreat, the cannibals finally sent people, but not many people came, only 20 to 30 people. It seemed that they were still here for scouting. The enemy was not completely relieved, mainly because they could not figure out why the Han tribe suddenly gave up such an important salt pond.

(End of this chapter)