The winter in rural areas should be the quietest and most leisurely time of the year, because the autumn harvest has ended and the spring plowing has not yet begun. Therefore, in addition to a few farmers who also plant winter crops, farmers who have been busy for three seasons can finally have a good rest. In addition, after the autumn harvest, farmers usually have some spare money on hand, prepare New Year's goods, and buy some household goods. Sometimes they will buy a few pieces of cloth, make new clothes for their children, or put a silver lock on silver ring to bless their children's health and longevity. Some peddlers will carry loads and push carts to the village to buy, and each time they will attract the whole village to choose and buy.

But this winter, the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village on the Bay of Jiaozhou did not look at any leisure. Every morning, the huge roar broke the silence of the winter morning. Countless birds were frightened and flew from their nests into the gray-blue sky, chirping and screaming.

But soon the birds found that they could not return home because the big trees they were lazy to live in were falling to the ground in a burst of sharp iron wood polishing sounds. Their small nests, as well as unhatched eggs or freshly born chicks, fell to the ground with the big trees, but the cheers of people blocked the desolate chirping of the birds.

Marseille's eyes fell from the birds in the sky to the ground, and saw that the villagers had already followed the divided teams to surround the falling big trees, and they were turning to the axes and hatches in their hands, cutting branches on the tree poles. Some people also picked up eggs and chicks to use them to improve their lives.

After a while, Marseille said to the militia captain Wang Qinjiu, who was beside him: "The trees on this ground have been almost cleaned up. Hurry up and get all the stumps ready. In the afternoon, I will arrange a bulldozer to shovel the ground."

Wang Qinjiu agreed and said, "Don't worry, horse chief, I guarantee that I can't make mistakes. The elders' machines are really powerful, even ten cows can't compare to them. If they weren't for the elders, they would have only been in just over ten days, so they could have come out in such a large area."

Marseille nodded and turned around. He saw that there was a wasteland overgrown with trees and weeds on the other side of the avenue more than ten days ago. At this time, it had become a vast field of nearly a thousand acres. Not only could there be no tree, but even the ground was turned over. In addition, nearly a hundred villagers were in the field, carrying shovels and hoes, smashing large pieces of shoveled soil, clearing out the stones and roots of the soil.

The Qingdao command returned to Tianjin to attend the year-end meeting. Wang Sheng took over the administrative work in Qingdao, while Ma Sai and Zhang Yunjiang took over the position of director of the village committee of Wangjiazhai Village. A few days later, a batch of mechanical equipment was transported from Tianjin, including four excavators, two bulldozers, six chainsaws transformed from cutting machines, as well as a thousand pieces of axes, machetes, hoes, sickles, shovels, etc. So Ma Sai immediately began the land reclamation work of Wangjiazhai.

It turned out that the village committee had formulated a plan to avoid building 3,000 acres of land before spring plowing. The villagers of Wangjiazhai Village did not believe it at all, because in this era, large-scale land reclamation was a huge project. Although building 3,000 acres of land in the old time and space was not a big project, in this era, it was not a project that could be completed by individuals or a village alone. It required a lot of manpower and material resources, unless the government came out to organize it. In ancient China, large-scale land reclamation was generally only achieved in the form of military garrisons, and only the army could easily mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources.

In this era, it would take at least two to three years to avoid 3,000 acres of land if the villagers of Wangjiazhai Village wanted to escape 3,000 acres of land, because deforestation is not just about removing all the trees, shrubs, weeds and other plants on the ground. Cutting trees alone is not an easy task. An adult labor force can only cut up at most 3-5 trees a day, and the roots, shrubs, and weeds of the trees must be rooted. Therefore, the entire ground needs to be turned over, otherwise the foundation buried underground will snatch the nutrients of fertilizer from crops. The ground must also be leveled, not only flattened the protruding parts, but also filled the depression areas. The level height difference is generally only 3%, otherwise uneven irrigation will occur.

If you only prepare the land, the workload is not large, but the land reclamation is not just about just preparing the fields. It also requires digging ditches and introducing irrigation water sources. The project volume of the canal is the largest in the land reclamation, and generally accounts for more than half of the total project volume. If it is in areas with faraway rivers, the proportion of the project volume of the canal is higher. Therefore, no one in the entire Wangjiazhai Village believes that time travelers can avoid 3,000 acres of land before spring plowing. But seeing the time travelers with full confidence, no one dares to come and ask for boredom. Of course, a few people are thinking of watching jokes.

Of course, Marseille, Zhang Yunjiang and others knew about these situations, but they had a clear understanding of them. After all, the power of modern mechanization is far beyond the reach of the human power in the small peasant economy era.

But after the start of construction, on the morning of the first day, nearly 300 trees were cut down with six renovated chainsaws, which shocked all the villagers. No one expected that these strange things that looked like ancient times were so powerful that they could easily cut down a big tree as thick as a bucket with just one person.

However, it is not possible to just cut down trees. It is necessary to remove all the stumps and roots. The manpower required to remove the roots is often greater than that of cutting trees. Sometimes it takes to dig a pit more than one meter deep.

In Marseille, Zhang Yunjiang divided the villagers into groups of 6-8 people and distributed them to axes, machetes, hoes, shovels and other work facilities. After the big tree was cut down, a group of people were responsible for cutting off the branches and leaves of the big tree, leaving only the studs and thick branches to be concentrated and used as wood in the future. Although these trees are not good materials and wood is not the main material for industrialization, in the future, the travel group will still need a large amount of wood to develop in the future. Therefore, it is not harmful to prepare more, while the small branches are left as firewood, and the leaves are concentrated as other materials for compost. Anyway, even a tree will not waste.

Another group of people are responsible for removing the stumps, but they don’t have to dig out all the stumps from the ground. They just need to dig the soil around the stumps, and then it’s the bulldozer’s turn to come out.

When the bulldozer was just started, the huge roaring sound scared many villagers. Some people thought that some monster was coming. However, when the bulldozer drove to the stump, he could easily shovel the half-loose stump with one shovel with a large iron bucket in front. Compared to purely using manpower, it can save at least half of the manpower. The roots and stumps of tree roots are also useful and can be used as wood or firewood. As for removing shrubs, it is easier to shovel down directly and then crush them. This caused the villagers to exclaim.

After removing the trees and shrubs on the ground, the next step is to clean up wild grass, wild flowers and other diameter plants. Although it is not difficult to clean up this type of plant, it is still quite a lot of work because of its wide coverage. According to the traditional method, it is to light the fire and burn it all, and the burned wood and grass ash can be mixed in the soil as fertilizer. However, this takes time to burn it. It will take at least two or three days to burn it. Secondly, it is dangerous, because it is dry and cold in winter, and it may easily cause a large area of ​​fire; thirdly, it is to pollute the environment. Although time travelers do not consider environmental protection issues now, the smell of burning after the fire will remain at least ten days, which is not easy to feel uncomfortable. Moreover, after burning, the land must be turned over again and the rhizomes and wild flowers have been completely cut off, which actually does not save much trouble.

Of course, the time traveler would not use such primitive technology, but instead dispatched four diggers, and weeds and other things to clean. The four diggers started together and shoveled them down, and they could dig out a large pit more than a half meters deep on the ground. All the weeds and wild flowers were dug up at the roots, and then they were mixed in the soil and rot naturally as fertilizer.

Only then did the villagers realize that the amazing things that overseas Chinese have on hand are not just two bulldozers, but these four excavators are also not inferior. I wonder how many amazing things this group of people still has.

After the digger turned the ground, engineers came over immediately, used a laser level to measure the flatness of the ground, and guided the bulldozer to level the parts and fill them. Then they organized villagers and German prisoners to go to the ground to use hoes and shovels to crush large pieces of soil, separate the stones buried in the soil, or larger rhizomes.

As a result, the ground sorted exceeded 200 acres in this day, and the mechanized strong production capacity made all the villagers stunned. If it was purely artificial, it would take at least two or three months to complete the work of Wangjiazhai Village. The villagers were once again respectful to the time travelers, only looking at the workload of this day. It was really not a big deal to build 3,000 acres before spring plowing.

On the second day, the traveler divided the four excavators into two batches, two continued to cooperate with bulldozing land, and the other two dug ditches on the edge of the land sorted yesterday, while the digging soil was used to level the ground or push the roads in the fields. In addition, engineering personnel measured the land and divided the land into a mu of long squares per mu according to the size of 3*222 meters. Each 10 acre of land was divided into a large grid, and a field road of about half a meter high and about 1.5 wide was pushed up around. A ditch with a width of half a meter and a depth of half a meter was dug out on the inside of the grid to connect with the canal outside, so that irrigation was convenient.

The villagers are also significantly more motivated than the first day, because everyone knows that the cultivated fields are also distributed to each household to cultivate. This means that when the spring plows next year, the fields they cultivate will be doubled. Overseas Chinese have reduced all miscellaneous taxes and donations, and the actual burden of villagers has been greatly reduced, so they can really live a few good days.
Chapter completed!