Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#144 - Horrible human consumption

Ren Zhong roughly calculated that taking all the land here would amount to about 500 to 600 acres. Adding the 50-plus cave dwellings they lived in, the total cost, calculated in silver dollars, would be just over 2,000 but less than 3,000. He had no financial pressure to acquire this.

Liang Xiaofeng, who had undertaken the task of replicating silver dollars from the main world, had already completed the mold-making and equipment debugging for the mechanized silver dollar production. The first batch of 50,000 trial-produced silver dollars had been produced and delivered to Ren Zhong.

After crossing the Qinling Mountains, Ren Zhong did nothing else on the road. He just carried silver dollars every day. In more than ten days, he had brought more than 20,000 silver dollars from the main world to the "Bright Sword" world!

Ren Zhong is now a major-ranked officer. Who would dare to search him at the checkpoints along the way? This allowed Ren Zhong to accumulate two long strips of silver dollars along the way.

After Ren Zhong tried using them, this world showed no resistance to Ren Zhong's refined silver dollars. Even the big merchants in Chang'an highly recognized the quality of the silver dollars used by Ren Zhong.

Although these magical events made Hu Zi a little puzzled about the disappearance of the large and small gold bars, and the magical appearance of more silver dollars, Hu Zi knew that Ren Zhong was supported by a mysterious organization behind him, so he didn't delve into these matters.

In this way, by the time Ren Zhong and his party entered the border region, each person was carrying two long bags of silver dollars, totaling more than 2,000.

As the captain, Hu Zi didn't say anything, and the other team members naturally wouldn't say much either, so Jiang Chongjing didn't know Ren Zhong's bottom line.

"Then it's settled. Minister Jiang, we will set up camp there today. Didn't you say that a battalion from our troops will be coming tomorrow? We will wait here for the arrival of the troops, and then start the construction work of the research institute. For the rest of the time today, we will look around, and I will mark the places suitable for construction."

Ren Zhong said quickly.

Now there is no need for any planning and design. Ren Zhong has ready-made designs for the earthen blast furnaces and open-hearth furnaces. These must be built. The sulfuric acid and nitric acid production lines are also essential for chemical industry, so they must also be rebuilt here.

Ren Zhong spurred his horse forward, first continuing along the Yan River, observing the choice for building a dam. He found that the place they had seen before was the narrowest. Further up, there was a river valley area one kilometer long and two to three hundred meters wide, about five or six meters above the Yan River. In this way, building a dam about twenty meters high downstream would create a small reservoir with a capacity of one million cubic meters after water storage.

Thus, Ren Zhong could use the abundant water of the Yan River to build a 2MW hydropower station without much difficulty.

Then, returning to the three-way intersection, he walked two or three kilometers along the Nangou River. This was a narrow mountain gully with little opportunity to build a reservoir. However, it now seemed that the water volume of the Nangou River was acceptable. Ren Zhong estimated that the flow rate was at least one or two cubic meters per second. This river water was clear, and blocking it as a water source should be a good choice. And this water volume, as long as a head of a few meters high is blocked, there is no problem in driving Ren Zhong's mature 50KW hydropower generator.

Therefore, hydropower generation will be prioritized here, and then the entire base will be temporarily driven.

This kind of dam does not have too much technical difficulty. The Nangou River is only more than ten meters wide, making it easier to build than the dam in Yangcun.

The more Ren Zhong looked at this place, the more he liked it. Water source, land, and resources, it was too ideal for the research institute with about a thousand people he envisioned.

The only relatively troublesome thing was that it was a bit far from the border area, not to mention that there was no highway now, only a dirt road for large vehicles. There was no problem riding a horse, but it would be troublesome to take a horse-drawn cart and an ox cart to the border area. It would take at least a day!

This meant that even if the family members of those researchers arrived in the border area and lived in the core area of the border area, communication and exchange between them and the researchers here would be somewhat difficult.

Ren Zhong frowned and thought for a while.

It seemed that the idea of settling family members in the core area of the border area was not feasible. On this side, he had to consider building a family area. In this way, the future supply and work of these family members would probably become a problem.

According to Ren Zhong's plan, there would be thousands of research staff here. If more than half of them were married, which was almost certain, then there would be more than 500 families settling here, which meant at least 2,000 people. Now there were no birth restrictions, and very few families had three members; a family of five was the standard.

This meant that Ren Zhong had to prepare at least three cave dwellings for each family!

Adding bachelors, at least 2,000 cave dwellings would have to be dug out here for residence in the future.

Then there were factories and laboratories.

This was going to hollow out the surrounding mountains! According to each cave dwelling being 10 meters deep, 3.5 meters wide, and 4 meters high, digging caves alone would involve 300,000 cubic meters of earthwork. Even Li Yunlong, a workaholic, would shake his head at this huge amount of work!

Ren Zhong walked around for four or five kilometers, and roughly planned the various functional areas in his mind.

For this era, his research institute was no less than rebuilding a county town. Since the researchers and their families lived together, the planning of the residential area had to be carried out in the manner of a residential area.

Although the place where the two rivers met was very suitable for opening up residences, and a part of the hundreds of acres of land could be used to build 2,000 houses, Ren Zhong could not do this.

Such a large residential area would be a temptation for the little devils!

The current Ren Zhong did not have any strong air defense means to protect the aerial safety here.

Therefore, building a residential area on the flat ground was not advisable.

Then he could only dig cave dwellings along the Nangou River and the Yan River towards the upstream direction, forming a huge cave dwelling residential group.

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Ren Zhong believed that after the successful construction of this cave dwelling group community, it would definitely leave a new record of cave dwelling gathering area in this time and space.

"How is it, Boss Ren? Besides requisitioning land, what else do you need us to do?" Jiang Chongjing followed Ren Zhong and watched him thinking, and asked.

This was a main battalion, with more than 400 people. In Jiang Chongjing's view, this was enough.

"Not enough, a battalion is far from enough," Ren Zhong shook his head after hearing this.

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