Although it is just a factory building, it is located in the wilderness after all. In addition to workshops used for production and construction and houses for accommodation, certain defensive facilities must be built first. Rather than guarding against petty thieves who climb over the wall to steal things, Leo needs to guard against attacks from bandits and aliens. So he planned to build the same camp wall in the oak forest according to the regulations of the three camps in the river bend. First build camp walls, trenches, and watchtowers, then build houses. The area inside the wall is both a construction site and a resettlement area for refugees. Hewan has already built three military-style villages and has become very familiar with them. Now it is not too difficult to build a smaller one. Most of the refugees have participated in infrastructure construction and have been trained. They know what they should do with simple commands and are all qualified laborers. Several refugee leaders selected by Uliyan also worked very hard and tried hard to show themselves in front of Leo. Leo's pups all followed, and with the help of the River Bend Infantry, they pulled several trucks of cement.
This new building material, as soon as it proved its convenience and reliability, was immediately accepted by Ulyanovich. However, Hewan’s production capacity is limited, and most of the infrastructure has been completed, so cement is not needed for the time being. On the Solovy Knight's side, work was temporarily suspended due to the influx of refugees and could not be used. These trucks of cement represent all the stock accumulated during this period. Before leaving, Rio asked someone to notify Fraser to increase the mining of cement raw materials and prepare to deliver them directly to the construction site for on-site firing. A group of puppy-headed people participated in his cement research throughout the process and have mastered the current best cement formula. They finally have value in survival and are recognized, so they become very active. A group of humans learned to burn cement and use cement under the supervision of these little dog-headed people. Without Olivia's supervision, these puppies quickly returned to their wild nature, rolling in sand and mud all day long, and the golden retriever became a stray dog. Some puppies were covered with cement and had scabs formed on their bodies, but they were not aware of it. Leo could only temporarily take on the responsibility of being a parent, throwing them into the river every night, letting them wash themselves before going back to sleep. For a militarized camp wall, the foundation is the most labor-intensive part. In addition to ramming the earth in the middle, the outside must be covered with a thick layer of stone. This is actually an early stone city wall, but due to insufficient labor and technology, they took shortcuts and only built half of it, and it was severely shrunk. Ramming earth, mining and processing stones, and building walls with stones are far more troublesome than felling trees to build walls, and also require certain stonemason skills. Without hundreds of young and strong laborers freed from the constraints of farmland, there is no need to even think about building stone walls. The western watchtower may not look big, but it took nearly a thousand strong laborers and a year to build the main structure. The rest of the ancillary buildings were added gradually year by year, and most of them are wooden structures. But with the advent of cement, the difficulty is reduced by more than half. The rammed earth layer can be directly filled and reinforced with pebble concrete without spending a lot of manpower and time on compaction. The stones for the outer stone wall no longer need to be processed too finely by craftsmen, they can just be simply stacked with cement.
For areas that are really difficult to handle, just use wooden boards to cast the molds and fill and repair them with cement. This quickly built camp wall was definitely not very strong, but Leo's requirements were lower; as long as it didn't collapse in a short period of time, it would be fine. The height of the newly built camp wall was rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the slope was steeper than that of the three camps in the river bend. Because the skills of the migrant craftsmen were limited and they were not yet familiar with the use of cement, the surface of the stone wall appeared extremely rough and uneven, even more crude than the cement river embankments he had seen in the countryside as a child in his previous life. The quality of this batch of cement was not high, it just barely met the standards for construction. Leo didn't even dare to use it to make cement bricks to build walls, for fear that they would be crushed by their own weight. And Leo estimated that within three to five years, they would become brittle and fall off, and would have to be repaired again. But for now, it is still a real stone wall, an insurmountable barrier for refugees and ordinary robbers. It provides not only defensive capabilities, but also a great sense of security, and the resulting morale and sense of belonging. As the camp wall was built, recruited refugees also entered the camp in batches, among whom naturally there were many spies with evil intentions. They looked at the stone wall in front of them and were all shocked. How could we, a mere group of refugees, deserve you to build a stone wall to defend against us? In the face of powerful strength, any small thoughts were eliminated. Leo did not allow the newly joined refugees to directly participate in the construction of the construction site, but first asked the original refugee leader to teach them the rules of the river bend. Life in a refugee camp is not much different from life in a sweatshop. There are fixed times for working, eating, sleeping, and even bathing. Rules such as queuing for meals, not urinating or defecating anywhere, not fighting, not stealing or robbing are also very important. These are exactly what the refugees don't have. Many strong refugees have developed the habit of speaking with their fists. The first job of the refugee leader is to help them correct this bad habit. If something really can't be changed, then we can only drive it away. Building a camp is very strenuous physical work, and it would be difficult to do it without some strength. Leo didn't expect these new refugees who had just fled from the farmlands or pastures in the north and had been hungry for several months to have the energy to do heavy work. Even when Wuliyang recruited refugees, he knew to fatten them up first and feed them some concentrated feed. So apart from following the leader of the refugees to familiarize themselves with collective life and rules, they only needed to do some auxiliary light work for the time being. Their main physical work was to carry various containers and water the foundation of the newly built camp wall to prevent it from drying out and cracking. Only a few young and strong refugees who were in good physical condition and smart were able to quickly join the construction team, but they only participated in preparatory work such as collecting and transporting deer antler cassava. The construction of the cassava processing plant was very fast. Except for the camp walls which required a lot of manpower, the construction of the houses did not take too long. The lumberyard at the river bend even processed a large number of semi-finished materials directly and floated them down the river. The laborers salvaged the debris and assembled it into the main frame of the house like playing with building blocks. Soon, the crude cassava flour production workshop was officially put into operation, and production began before even finding all the reeds for covering the roof.
Exposure to the sun, peeling, crushing, soaking, grinding, and sifting, six steps, three workshops, without any machinery, completely natural and handmade, green and environmentally friendly. They just poured the poisonous water directly into the river, killing a large number of small fish and shrimps. But the environmental damage caused by such a small workshop is ten times less than that caused by small rural enterprises in the 1990s. The poisonous water after soaking treatment is not highly toxic and can only kill smaller fish and shrimp. After rushing into the stream, it was diluted before it flowed ten meters. By the time it flows into the Anzeno River, it has completely lost its toxicity, which is equivalent to peeing in the upper reaches of a large river. The factory is not large, about the size of a square with a side length of 300 meters, which is equivalent to the campus of a primary or secondary school. Moreover, only three sides of the camp wall were built, and the side facing the stream only had a simple wooden wall for the time being, which would facilitate further expansion across the river as development progressed in the future. The cassava processing plant requires a lot of water, and this small river just meets the requirement. Such a factory can accommodate about 2,000 people for living and production. If there are more, it will be overcrowded and affect production. Rio will have to resettle the excess population.