Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2670 The road is blocked and the construction site is chaotic

  When the people from Jiangdong Youwen Division began to carry out a series of activities, construction sites in southern Sichuan and Sichuan were also busy.

  All kinds of materials are stacked high in the workshop, and a large number of simple sheds are crowded with workers who are used to build roads and bridges.

   Without the assistance of large equipment, many places can only rely on manpower.

  If it weren't for the addition of relatively mature gunpowder production and use conditions, Fei Qian would not dare to say that he would open road infrastructure in the southwest mountains.

Fei Qian, who is used to the construction speed of later generations of infrastructure madmen, feels that the current construction of the big man is somewhat too low-level, but the construction queue with sufficient gunpowder and skilled craftsmen scares the jaws of the current generation of the big man. .

  Many village leaders who have been to the construction site, as well as country gentry from all over the world, were surprised or even frightened by the well-organized construction site.

  Scheduling and coordinating is not a simple problem.

  It’s like cooking. Some people are in a hurry when they cook. Some people do it well but it takes a long time. Only a small number of people can cook quickly and well.

  How many of these local aborigines in Sichuan and Shu can have the concept of overall planning?

  They didn't even understand why sanitary sheds, simple sick beds and medical rooms were added to the construction site. At the same time, in order to avoid the unique parasite problem in southern Xinjiang, all domestic water is passed through the sedimentation tank, then led to the lime tank, and then boiled for drinking after secondary sedimentation.

  If you want to open a road, you will inevitably invade the natural, wild, and uninhabited areas. In such areas, it is not tigers, leopards, and bears that are scary, but insects and bacteria.

  For tigers, leopards, and bears, if there are too many people, they are a dish, but for insects and bacteria, if there are too many people, people are a dish.

In the entire plan for the main artery infrastructure construction of Jiaozhi in South Sichuan and Shunan, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Xu Huang and others did not want to eat fat directly in one go, but prepared to develop step by step, centering on villages in various places, Select the node before opening up the next section.

  A large amount of labor passed through Chang'an and gradually moved to Sichuan and Sichuan. These labors include slaves, prisoners, and people who have to sell themselves to become slaves because of certain things.

This type of labor was originally a consumable in history. As long as the work can be completed, it doesn't matter how many people die. Not just consumables, but also producers and consumers.

  In addition to the fixed amount of daily labor, these labor services also allow excess labor in exchange for remuneration. For example, if a labor service stipulates that 50 carts of earthwork must be carried back and forth, then more than 50 carts of earthwork will become the salary that this person gets that day.

  This kind of measure that is almost too simple for later generations has made the current labor of the big man burst into an unprecedented willingness to take the initiative, and the speed of development and construction has also been accelerated.

At the same time, because the labor can be paid, they will naturally want to spend it, and the money spent will make the surrounding villages spontaneously organize various goods to trade, and these goods are not available at all. There is no need to work hard to organize transportation and transshipment, because these things are all arranged by the people in the surrounding villages.

  Grilled bugs, smoked mountain rats, hares and pheasants, rice wine and fruit wine, etc., appear in specific markets every day, tempting paid laborers to purchase. Originally, if the official order was used, it would not only take time and effort to send people to recruit, but also cause public resentment, but now, they are delivered to the door with a smile, and they go back happily with less money than the original recruitment fee.

  Then the aborigines in these villages will take their money and go to further Han towns to buy things. Buy the things needed in the village, and also buy some raw materials needed to process various food, clothes and other items for the markets in these labor camps...

  Of course, things have a smooth side, and naturally there is another side that is not smooth.

   To open up a road, the amount of gunpowder required is very large.

  Although Xu Huang is the commander-in-chief, it is impossible for him to say that he keeps an eye on the front line every day, and the blasters on the front line are basically the leading soldiers. Among these big soldiers, after the expansion of the engineering volume, the original experienced grenadiers are obviously not enough, and they are indeed in different directions, one is military and the other is engineering.

  So when we got to the back, we began to recruit some specialized blasting personnel, who were taught by the original experienced grenadiers. One person took the appearance of a dozen people to conduct surprise training on gunpowder.

Of course, the quality of these assault training personnel cannot be compared with the original grenadiers. For the sake of safety, Xu Huang also deliberately mixed these personnel responsible for gunpowder blasting, with a small number of grenadiers and gendarmes forming the backbone. The blasters who have received these trainings are responsible for blasting key points, especially mountain rocks.

  Then these blasted rocks can be used as paving materials...

   But if you go up the mountain a lot, you will eventually meet a tiger.

Just a while ago, an explosion happened inexplicably in the convoy transporting gunpowder. Almost all of the forty or fifty people in the convoy were wiped out, with no bones left. The few who survived almost became fools. I can't ask anything.

   No one knows exactly what happened during the transportation.

   It may have been accidentally ignited, or the black powder may have spontaneously ignited...

   There are many possibilities, but the specific reasons are probably only known to those transport convoys that have turned into bone-crushing wrecks.

This is very helpless, and there are not too many good solutions. The only way is to reduce the amount of each transportation and transport it in small quantities and multiple times, so that even if something happens, it may only destroy a car instead of destroying it. The whole fleet.

  In addition to the problems in the transportation process, there are also squibs.

  Squibs are the most common problem encountered during blasting, but if one is not handled properly, people will die.

  Sometimes it is because the gunpowder is damp and fails to explode.

   If it really can’t explode, it’s okay to say how much. I’m most afraid of the one that burns slower than normal because the fuse is damp. The blaster didn’t explode for a long time, and then passed away...

  Problems like this appear almost every few days. Of course, it's not just about blasting, because the quality of the personnel themselves is very poor, coupled with their own neglect of safety, even if there are relevant safety regulations, safety accidents happen from time to time.

   Or various accidents, anyway, there are basically some injuries every day.

Small wounds are basically left unattended, and big wounds depend on whether God will give another chance, but as the temperature gradually rises, the number of bacteria and fungi in the jungle is obviously much more, and the humidity A warm environment is a paradise for these bacteria and fungi, and it is also a **** for those injured.

  Even a small wound may be infected and inflamed later, and once it enters the stage of sepsis, it is basically finished, and it is difficult for gods to save it.

   Especially when opening up places that were previously uninhabited, casualties will suddenly increase.

  Sichuan and Shunan Zhongjiaozhi line, the terrain is relatively complex, and the natural environment is even worse. Sometimes things are done well, and then suddenly there are falling rocks, fallen trees, landslides, etc., causing many casualties.

  At the same time, the leeches in the woods are crazy as the temperature rises. Labor itself cannot be equipped with the same equipment as mountain soldiers, and with the addition of heavy physical labor, even if it is repeatedly declared that it is necessary to pay attention to leeches, but when working, the whole body is full of blood, and a group of people will attract a large area of ​​leeches. come over.

   In front of flesh and blood, even if you apply simple herbal medicine, it won’t last long. Many laborers are bitten by leeches. Those who know a little will use smoke and salt, but once the laborers who don’t understand can just use their hands to pull...

Later, when I started work every day, I would light a bunch of bonfires to smoke insects to disperse mosquitoes and leeches. It had some effect, but in places where the smoke was not covered or where it was relatively thin, there were still many laborers. The trick is not only blood loss, but also easy to be infected with germs and get sick.

   There are no specific anti-inflammatory drugs, only herbs.

  General herbal medicines are often useless to deal with inflammation, especially acute inflammation.

   Unavoidable casualties also occurred.

  A death like this is more demoralizing than an explosion accident.

Because the wailing of the injured patients all day long also made those laborers who were not injured feel timid. For these laborers who could not read a few big characters, they did not understand that these injuries were caused by bacterial and fungal infections. See Seeing that these patients had hallucinations and hallucinations due to fever, most of the workers could easily think that they were infected with some strange incident, or that they were lowered by something, or got on their bodies by some Gu insect. …

As for the military marquis Sima in the construction site, even if they know the real situation, it is very troublesome to decipher these inexplicable remarks. Give a mouthpiece while working, or send a piece of cloth to seal the laborer's mouth?

  So these situations were reported to Xu Huang.

  Xu Huang also had some headaches.

  Later Xu Shu knew about it, so he sent a letter with just a few words on it, "Gods of the five directions can rest their souls".

   Later, Taoist priests from the Wufang Catholicism came.

  First of all, I searched for the cemetery, looked at Feng Shui, checked the tomb, determined the location, and held a big puja during the burial. Not to mention, once the Fa conference is over, everything will stop, and there will be no rumors going around, and those wounded who are still wounded and may not survive will stop talking nonsense all day long, and they can confess when they are sober. What about the aftermath...

The cemetery faces the road. It is not sealed or hilly. It only covers stone tablets on the ground, and writes the name of the deceased. If there is no name, just write the title in the weekdays. The incense burner made of stone, with some trees transplanted on all sides, combined with the green mountains and green daisies in the distance, not to mention the living people watching, the dead people are very satisfied when they lie down.

The Taoist priests of Wufang Catholicism said that this is their "profession". Although this land is not the best, it may not be able to make future generations rich and rich, but at least it will make the deceased There is nothing wrong with resting in peace, peaceful requiem.

In fact, this is not a completely unreasonable superstition. If the cemetery is chosen in a cold and humid place, it may not be able to raise any zombies, but it is possible to raise a bunch of fungi, bacteria, poisonous snakes and insects, and then wait for future generations to clean the grave every year. The mild ones were bitten by insects, and the severe ones were infected with some unknown germs...

  So the Taoist priest taught by Wufang God is not completely inferior, but because he doesn't know much about officialdom, he was pushed out to a remote place.

Although it gave consolation after the death of the laborer, it could not completely prevent the casualties of the laborer during the construction of roads and bridges. Later, Xu Huang even began to send soldiers in the laborer queue, and special personnel were responsible for keeping an eye on safety issues. Every morning and at night when work is over, special lectures are given on what happened, which more or less keeps the casualty rate from continuing to rise.

  The road is extended and expanded a little bit.

  However, this does not mean that these forests that may have been uninhabited for hundreds of years or thousands of years will easily succumb to human beings. Soon after the arrival of summer, the number of mosquitoes will rise sharply, and then the epidemic will appear.

For future generations, there is a whole set of plans to deal with malaria caused by mosquitoes, but the problem is that in the big man, except for Fei Qian himself who may have a little impression of malaria, most ordinary people don't know what causes malaria. , and what kind of treatment is needed.

According to the customs of the feudal dynasty, the construction period is the first, and the human life is a consumable. The dead are even better than the sick, because the sick need more or less care, and the dead just ask for supplementary quantity. up.

   But here at Xu Huang, he understands the value of these labors, not just for paving the cornerstone of the road, some of these labors are skilled brickworkers and carpenters. From being at a loss without knowing anything, to being proficient, you can be regarded as half a craftsman, how big is the gap in the period?

At the beginning, Xu Huang thought it was a common disease, so he ordered to suspend the construction and clean it up comprehensively. According to the previous epidemic prevention methods, he dug ditches, sprinkled lime, burned wormwood, took medicinal baths, and drank soup and medicine. Ordinary bacteria and fungi do have some effect, but for malaria whose main source of transmission is mosquitoes, the effect is not very great.

   A few days later, malaria in a certain camp began to enter a large-scale outbreak period.

At first, there were a few people every day, and later it became more than a dozen or dozens of people every day. The small sanitary shed on the construction site was immediately filled, and the transmission characteristics of mosquitoes in summer made other healthy people even if they were not with patients. Direct contact can also be infected.

The number of people suffering from the disease is increasing day by day. Many people have poor resistance due to poor physical fitness and fatigue from road construction. The death rate has risen again. From the beginning, one or two people died, and then three or four people died every day. It is seven or eight people, more than a dozen people.

  People who died due to the epidemic could not be buried directly according to the requirements, but had to be burned. Most of the time, even the wood used for burning had no time to dry, so it was poured with kerosene and burned hard.

  There are new patients every day, and there are also patients who continue to die, causing great panic to break out again in this labor site, and rumors that entering the mountain violated the mountain **** are inevitable. In fact, to a certain extent, this is not a "rumor". After all, it is true that those who were initially infected were the laborers who went into the mountains to open forests and build roads.

   Morale on the construction site keeps dropping, as if there is fear everywhere.

Sima, the Marquis in charge of the construction site, knew a little bit. He followed Xu Huang's instructions to appease the laborers, adjusted the work to continue, and promoted the control of the epidemic. Some of the frizzy, even after receiving Xu Huang's instructions, felt that their own ideas That's right, after all, the one who dies from hard labor is hard labor, and it's his own to be able to complete the progress of the project.

   The conflicts that had been slightly eased began to intensify. After Xu Huang received the information, he realized that some places were already serious.

There was a dispute between the laborers and the soldiers on the construction site, thinking that the soldiers were going to send them to death, which led to even greater riots. Under the double fear of the epidemic and despair, many laborers finally lost their minds and used hammers, wooden shovels, etc. Hand-to-hand combat was fought with soldiers, and many died as a result...

  When Xu Huang rushed to the construction site where the riot occurred with his soldiers, everything was over.

  The dead soldiers may not understand at all why they were so crazy when they were subdued labor yesterday, and those crazy laborers also don't know why things have developed to the current situation.

  Some laborers fled into the mountains, but obviously, most of these laborers who fled into the mountains would die in the primitive forests, or even have no bones left. Even the elite mountain soldiers around Xu Huang didn't dare to go into the mountains alone without any equipment and preparations, let alone these laborers who didn't know much about the mountains and forests?

Other laborers were stupid when faced with the bad situation after the incident happened. When Xu Huang and others came, they didn’t even have the desire to resist. It was like the courage and anger of laborers. After venting, There is only an empty shell left, and even the mind is lost.

  Xu Huang frowned, looked at these laborers, then waved his hand, ordering to kill them all and bury them on the spot.

  Whether innocent or intentional, the facts of these labor riots are in front of us.

  The rule of the feudal class is not used to reason.

But such a construction site, from the disappearance of soldiers to labor, whether it is on the books or physically, has had a moderate impact on other construction sites, and even the aborigines in the surrounding villages have begun to be concerned about the construction. Sando had some discussions.

   They say it’s from the mountain god, they say it’s from the Gu worms, they say it’s from the miasma poison, they say it all.

Under such circumstances, Xu Shu and Xu Huang agreed that they could only temporarily stop going south, at least avoiding the summer period first, and then continue in autumn and winter, and at the same time send people to deal with the newly emerging In the event of an epidemic, special physicians are dispatched to conduct research.

  At the same time, Xu Shu and Xu Huang also need to make sure that there is no interference from others...

  (end of this chapter)