Lu Yuan smiled and looked at the crowd of people unloading the truck. He felt a little excited. He then wandered around the valley and found that the soil was quite good. Although it was still raining, there was no water accumulation because of the high altitude.
Moreover, the ground was relatively flat, with many trees interspersed among it. Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but shout in his heart, "Damn it! I want to farm! I want to be a landlord!"
The equipment was quickly unloaded, and everyone began to set up the rainproof panels. After all, it's thousands of kilometers from Qingshui City to here, and production here is impossible without electricity. So they had to produce the rainproof panels in advance and bring them over for installation, since the rainproof panels are made of very light materials and don't take up much space.
The first day's work was completed quickly. Lu Yuan worked with everyone for a whole day and finally finished laying tens of thousands of square meters of rainproof panels.
Looking at the large gray-blue rainproof panel above their heads, everyone felt a surge of excitement. They would no longer have to work in the rain, and those damned bloodthirsty black beetles would no longer affect them.
Meanwhile, Professor Zhu and his team were still digging drainage ditches. Although there wasn't much standing water, there was always the possibility of a third round of heavy rainfall, so preventative measures were necessary. Moreover, once the drainage ditches were completed, they would be useful for everyone's future lives.
Meanwhile, Lu's father went along to work on the foundation of the house. After all, if the site was to accommodate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, the location of the house had to be reliable, so the surveying work had to be rigorous. Fortunately, although Lu's father was very good at decoration, he was also a second-in-command in surveying. Lu Yuan had managed to recruit several geological exploration experts for the team, and with their help, the surveying work went very smoothly.
An elderly man, around sixty years old, with a cigarette in his mouth and a laser rangefinder in his hand, measured the terrain in the valley, his brows slowly relaxing.
“Great! This place is perfect for building houses. The terrain is quite open, and the altitude is also quite high. There are exits at both ends of the valley, so even if there is a flood, the water can be diverted directly. I just checked the soil above, and it's all hard rock, so there won't be any collapses or mudslides!”
Lu Yuan nodded and said, "Okay! That's good! By the way! Have you chosen a location for the house? Our future plans will start here! The location must be good! Is this area prone to earthquakes?"
The old man pondered for a moment, then checked the local geological and mineral distribution on the computer. After a pause, he said, "No, the terrain here is very open, so earthquakes are unlikely. The main earthquake locations are concentrated here and here, which are hundreds of kilometers away from us. Even if they affect us, we will be fine. The terrain here is open, and even if a large area of rift valleys appears, it will be absorbed by the mountains on both sides."
Lu Yuan also began to try hard to recall the things he remembered in his dream. The cause of the earthquake was that the Earth's rotation stopped. Because the magma in the Earth's core stopped flowing, it caused the inertial pull on the surface, and the continent was divided into many plates. However, the place where he was standing did not experience a serious earthquake. But no place could escape this global earthquake. Several volcanoes and large rift valleys appeared near Jin Province.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel relieved. Qingshui City was also severely affected by the earthquake, which tore the entire city into three parts. The reservoir in Qingshui City became the dividing line of the Great Rift Valley.
After the site selection was completed, the plan was finalized with the cooperation of several experts. The building height could not exceed ten stories, mainly due to the reasons of materials and labor. After all, in this post-apocalyptic world, materials are a major problem. Without raw material processing plants, all kinds of bricks and stones had to be obtained by themselves. Lu Yuan could not possibly set up a brick kiln or lime and cement plant just to build a high-rise building.
He didn't have the time to deal with that, after all, the cost was too high, and the people he had were mostly mid-level senior technicians. The top technical talents had all been snapped up by the various survivor bases. Without these top technical talents, it would be extremely difficult to acquire such things.
Secondly, in order to ensure long-term, stable, and sustainable development, Lu Yuan delineated the base's area to a specific region. He also created a ranch in the remaining area specifically for raising various poultry and livestock, and used the rest of the land as farmland. However, the farmland was divided into paddy fields and dry land. Lu Yuan specifically built a sewage treatment plant, since there were now a large number of bloodthirsty black beetles in the water.
Lu Yuan had also conducted an experiment. He brought some bloodthirsty black beetles into his own fishpond to see what would happen. Unexpectedly, the fish raised in the dimensional space were not picky eaters at all, and the bloodthirsty black beetles ate them without hesitation.
Lu Yuan was particularly pleased with this, so he specially built a pond in the new base. Downstream of the pond, he built a sewage treatment plant. The sewage here is not mixed with domestic sewage. Domestic sewage is directly discharged downstream. After all, Lu Yuan's base does not have any highly polluting industries, only some domestic sewage, which will not have a great impact on the environment.
However, given the current environment in this post-apocalyptic world, is there anything worse than this? But considering the future after the apocalypse ends, Lu Yuan still believes it is necessary to leave an area with sewage treatment facilities.
However, Lu Yuan's suggestion left the experts somewhat bewildered. They didn't know what Lu Yuan intended to do with all that land and pasture. After all, being able to eat their fill was already a blessing, so was he really planning to graze and raise poultry and livestock on this pasture? However, they didn't say anything. After all, Lu Yuan was the client, and they were at most the miserable service providers. They only needed to listen to the client's requirements and try their best to fulfill them. As for suggestions, as long as they weren't too outrageous, they were fine with it.
Thus, the first step of foundation construction began quickly. Fortunately, before arriving, Lu Yuan had Chen Ke and Zhou Tong conduct a thorough investigation. There were several cement plants and gravel pits nearby. Although they had stopped operating, they still had a large stockpile of gravel and sand. The cement in the cement plants had been damaged by prolonged rain. However, Lu Yuan had brought some experts to take a look, and they concluded that the cement still needed to be salvaged. Since it hadn't been mixed with other materials, it only needed to be re-fired.
Fortunately, Shanxi Province is a major coal-producing province. Although many coal mines have been emptied after decades of mining, there are still many places with a considerable number of coal mines.
Because the country was pursuing sustainable development and reducing pollution, it shut down many small coal mines. These were shallow coal mines, and it didn't take much effort to dig them out.
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