The three mineral deposits in Chengkang Commandery and Qian Commandery were the cornerstones of southern industry. Their importance went without saying, so they had brought along a relatively large number of mining technicians this time.
Besides them, there was also a group of people brought over from Xingang Commandery's Steel Mill and Steel Rolling Mill. Their positions formed a complete support system: technical backbones, newly regularized trainee workers, and veteran workers. As long as the factories were built and the raw materials delivered, they could be sent inside and start work immediately.
There were also technical personnel transferred from the Coking Plant. They were another complete team, the sort who could start work as soon as they were brought over.
However, they had only just arrived as well, so the most urgent task now was to settle them in first.
In Qian Commandery, many red-brick houses had already been built in the urban area. They had all been constructed by the workers from the White House Tribe. The houses had been finished, but no one had ever lived in them. Now, at last, people had arrived.
The Han Tribe had already gained plenty of experience building houses, and this latest batch of houses constructed in Qian Commandery was quite different from the original ones.
Every household had its own enclosed courtyard: a square yard five zhang long and five zhang wide. Converted into meters, that was 16.6 meters by 16.6 meters. Under normal circumstances, if the buildings were extended all the way to the end, they could make a row of five connected main rooms. However, the Han Tribe had uniformly built only four main rooms for each household, one simple dry latrine, and a kitchen on one side of the entrance. They had also installed a hand pump well