Chapter 1016 - Railway Plan (1)
After the acceptance of a series of vehicles and machinery developed by the Vladivostok Power Research Institute and the automobile factory, the employees of the company's railway department were very excited. The heads of various departments and many experts and technicians also held meetings for several days.
If, a few years later, the company popularized steam and internal combustion engine power machinery on a large scale, the original railway plan they formulated would have been a bit conservative. After all, with the addition of many vehicles and construction machinery, the production efficiency of the railway department will increase exponentially.
The original construction method of relying on a large number of foreign laborers and using shoulder-to-shoulder horses will inevitably be replaced by a large number of steam trucks, tractors and large steam construction machinery, and the work efficiency is bound to be doubled.
At that time, the construction speed of the railway department will be greatly accelerated, and things that were previously unimaginable can now be actively prepared. At least a number of railway lines, such as the Shenyang-Hetao base area and the Shenyang-Baikal Lake area, can be put on the agenda.
In addition, the construction period of the originally planned Northeast railway network will also be greatly shortened. This gave the experts and technicians of the company's railway department more ideas in their minds, and they worked out an ambitious plan for this.
This plan is no longer limited to the Northeast and Outer Northeast regions, including the railway arteries connecting the Northeast and Northwest in the future, as well as the northern railway network, and even the railway network north of the Yangtze River in the Central Plains.
The amount of resources required for such an ambitious plan can be imagined. Even if there is a large number of vehicles and construction machinery in the future, more foreign labor and materials are still needed to support it.
Far Eastern companies have always had a very high demand for foreign workers because of their low costs and extremely high cost-effectiveness ratios. It's just that the current development speed of the Far East is too fast, and all departments are desperately rushing to meet the deadline.
The migrant workers work in areas where conditions are extremely harsh. There is a huge amount of work to be completed every day, and the number of foreign workers at railway sites alone accounts for more than 40%.
Although they have three full meals a day, their food is only full, and the coarse food, in addition to the quantity, the management departments at all levels are desperately trying to reduce the cost. There is no way to talk about nutrition at all.
They work at least twelve hours a day, even in the wind and rain. During the long winter, most of the construction sites in the Far East are in a state of shutdown, but they still cannot rest, and they have to engage in various tiring tasks such as logging and moving.
In the extremely harsh environment for a long time, engaged in such intensive work, in the state of nutrition, medical care, and labor insurance can not be guaranteed, the consumption of foreign workers in the Far East is still very large, and the environment is the harshest and most dangerous mines, forestry farms and railway construction sites. It can even reach a loss of 30%.
The laborers collected by the company in Japan and Korea were all trained in Japan and North Korea, and then dispersed in the training camp for reorganization, and then took a sailboat from the Far East to Yingkou Port in Liaodong.
Far Eastern Company can immediately put into various construction sites to work, which not only reduces the work pressure in various regions of Liaodong, but also saves a lot of time and costs, and can basically be used when it comes.
At present, the development of Far Eastern companies is very fast, and there are various construction sites such as mining enterprises, railways, highways, infrastructure and so on all over the country. Because there are not enough machinery and vehicles. It can only be compensated for with a large number of human resources.
As a result, although the number of workers in the Far East Company is huge, it is always in a state of overstretching. Among them, the company is building hundreds of kilometers of railways. Thousands of kilometers of roads are under construction, and there are also a large number of mines, forestry farms, ports and docks, farms and pastures, infrastructure, water conservancy projects and other construction sites.
At present, the foreign workers in Liaodong are mainly Japanese, supplemented by Koreans, and there are also some indigenous laborers from Nanyang and India. However, as the company has increased its investment in Luzon, Indochina, Taiwan, the islands of the South Seas and India, foreign workers in the South Seas, Indochina Peninsula and India have basically been settled in these areas.
Therefore, in the past two years, the garrison force formed by the company's indigenous people in the Outer Northeast region of Japan and the armed police force formed by the Japanese have requisitioned a large number of Japanese in Japan.
The method of requisition was very barbaric, and it was basically a garrison to maintain law and order. The armed police force is responsible for "mobilizing" the villages, and often all the young and strong men over the age of 15 and under the age of 45 in a village are swept away, without any consideration of the wishes of the other party.
As for whether or not there will be resistance, to be honest, this kind of problem really did not exist in Japan at this time, or it was very rare.
They had just been freed from the serfs of the lords and daimyo in various places, and the productivity was extremely low at that time, but the Japanese peasants had to endure the cruel exploitation of various feudal lords, and after the Far East came, at least their living standards were not generally high, so the rule of the Far East in Japan was still in a very stable state.
Moreover, the Japanese armed police force of the Far East Army and the garrison of the indigenous people of the Outer Northeast dealt with the Japanese civilians who dared to resist with great intensity. All of them are brutal joint sitting systems. In the early days of the Far East's rule in Japan, entire villages often disappeared in various parts of Japan, leaving the Japanese people at the bottom with little desire to resist.
A large number of mobilized Japanese young men will enter a nearby training camp for two months, and the instructors are all from the grassroots backbone of the death army, so the whole process is extremely cruel.
After two months of intensive training, ordinary Japanese low-level civilians have been able to basically master ordinary communication in Chinese, become familiar with the various rules and regulations formulated by the Far East for foreign workers, learn organizational discipline, and become a glorious Japanese foreign worker of the Far East Company.
These Japanese foreign workers would then leave their homes and take ships to various construction sites in the Liaodong region. The whole process was carried out under extremely strict management processes, which seemed cruel and dark, so that the Japanese foreign workers in it were always in a state of tension and confusion, and they were overwhelmed.
The same situation is repeated in places such as North Korea, the South Seas, and the Indochina Peninsula. In order to increase efficiency and reduce costs, every sailboat transporting foreign workers is stuffed to the brim, like a sardine can.
For Far Eastern companies, countless foreign workers come to Liaodong, which is a group of cold data, and then are assigned to mines and forest farms, railways and highways, ports and wharves in the Northeast and other parts of the Northeast. (To be continued.) )