After a period of trial operation, although there were some problems, the overall operation was quite stable. The industrial team also made improvements to the three-section ropeway, eliminating some hidden dangers, and reinforcing the wooden base that supports the ropeway to ensure safety during operation.

Of course, this ropeway into the mountain also has a lot of shortcomings, the speed of the cargo platform for transporting goods is relatively slow, because of the complex geographical environment, the cableway in order to adapt to the terrain, can only be built in three sections, and the transportation of goods must go through three transfers to finally deliver the goods to the base. In addition, in case of bad weather such as rain, wind, and snow, the ropeway cannot be operated.

Even so, with this ropeway, the speed of transporting materials into the base area has been greatly accelerated. This ropeway can transport not only goods, but also people, and can carry up to 20 people up the mountain at a time. In the event of an emergency in the base area, personnel can be sent to the mountain as quickly as possible.

The fuel coal needed for the steam units that drive the ropeway was brought from a nearby coal mine. There is no shortage of coal in Shanxi, and there are rich coal seams on both sides of Luliang Mountain. Employees of the base industry team easily found an open-pit coal mine with shallow coal seams nearby.

Although the reserves of this open-pit coal mine are not very abundant, the demand for coal in the base area is only for heating in winter. There are not many steam engines in the base area, and there are no large enterprises, so this small open-pit coal is enough to meet the needs of the base area in recent years.

This small open-pit coal mine is near the Luliang base area, where a small ropeway has also been built, where thousands of displaced people are busy day and night, constantly transporting coal to the base area to meet the coal demand of the base area this winter.

After several months of construction, the Lvliang base area has now begun to take shape. During this period. Li Ming, Zhou Lin, Lu Yongren and others have done a lot of work. Fortunately, there is no shortage of laborers in the base areas, and the militia and the displaced people are the best laborers, and their enthusiasm for work is very high in order to have enough food every day.

These displaced people have experienced famine and extreme hunger, which still haunts them. In this year of great calamity. It's really not easy to find a place where you can take care of food, and everyone is afraid that they will be kicked out of the base because they are lazy.

Although the base area provides two meals a day for the homeless, there are also many rules and regulations in the base area, and there are dozens of rules and regulations. As long as they violated, they will be punished, and if they are serious, they will be driven out of the base area, and once they leave here at this time, the end can only be starvation. Therefore, the management work in the base areas is very good, the mood of the displaced people is also very stable, and there is basically no laziness or sabotage.

It's almost winter. All the work for the more than 20,000 officers and soldiers and displaced people in the base areas to spend the winter this year must be completed before the onset of winter. The first is the construction of wintering houses in the base area, fortunately, in Shanxi, there is a large area of loess layer, and the wintering houses in the base area can use caves as the wintering houses in the base area.

The cave is a product of the Loess Plateau, a symbol of the working people of the Han nationality, and an ancient architectural form in the history of Chinese dwellings, known as "a unique place in the East". It is located in Shanxi Province in the eastern part of the Loess Plateau. The Yellow River flows through most of the provinces, and the Loess Plateau along the coast is full of thousands of ravines and ridges.

The loess layer with a depth of one or two hundred meters is extremely difficult to seep into the water and has strong uprightness. It provides very good conditions for the construction of caves. Since ancient times, the people who inhabited this land have built many unique caves according to the local situation.

The earthen kiln was once the oldest, most rudimentary and most common dwelling on the Loess Plateau. In the severe winter season, the lowest temperature in the cave is about 10 °C, and the construction is simple and the cost is low. There is a thick layer of soil under the ground and around the cave, which has the effect of preventing fire and wind. People who live in caves for a long time are often in a state of calm. The incidence of common diseases is very low, so the locals have summed up a sentence: the earth nourishes people.

Li Ming led everyone to organize the displaced people in the base area and dug a large number of caves in the base area. The cave is generally built on the south-facing slope of the mountain, facing the sun and backing the mountain. Facing the open area, there are few trees to shade, making it very suitable for living. The caves in the base area are mostly cliff-type caves, and when the height of the hillside allows, several layers of terraced caves are arranged, similar to buildings.

The stove is set on the outside of the cave, and there is a pot and a stove on one side of the cave, and the stove is connected to one end of the kang, because the flue of the stove fire passes through the bottom of the kang, it is very warm on the kang in winter. The company brought in a large number of cotton curtains, which could shelter the inside of the cave gates, enough to protect against the wind and snow in the coldest winters.

Each cave is a three-layer wooden frame type of paving, and each cave can accommodate forty or fifty people, and the conditions are relatively difficult. But in order to resettle more displaced people, there is not so much to care about.

The infrastructure construction department of the company's construction committee temporarily sent a group of experienced migrant employees, and they selected a group of displaced people who had experience in building houses among the displaced people, and after a period of intensive training, they took them to carry out intense construction and accumulate experience while learning in their work.

The wood required in the cave is taken locally, the Luliang Mountains of this era, the forestry resources are very rich, all kinds of trees, catalpa trees, shrubs and a variety of sexual, asexual, perennial roots, woody grasses, ferns propagation of the best living environment and soil selection area, including almost all the plant varieties in North China.

In the mountains and forests near the base, trees that are more than 100 years old or even hundreds of years old abound. A forest farm has been set up in the base, and the forest farm's cutting team and carpentry team cut trees in the nearby mountains and forests every day, and the logs are processed at the wood processing plant of the forest farm.

In order to meet the timber needs of the base area, the company has supported a number of woodworking machinery, and installed a set of steam power units and a set of steam generator sets in the wood processing plant to provide the necessary power and power resources for the forest farm.

Zhou Lin led the displaced people to clear out some of the land in the nearby mountains, where corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes could be planted the following year. Zhou Lin specially dispatched a group of experienced migrant employees from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to teach the displaced people how to grow these three high-yield crops.

He also brought a large amount of grain and vegetable seeds from the company, striving to develop agricultural resources in the base areas next spring and to achieve self-sufficiency in grain in the base areas in the near future. In addition, in the future, he will carry out an ecological agriculture program in the base area, and establish a fungus cultivation center, a chicken farm, a pig farm, and a livestock farm. (To be continued......)

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