Xia Xue stayed in Yu Qingyang's dormitory until eleven o'clock before returning to the RV.

......

The five-star red flag fluttered in the wind

How loud the victory song is

Sing about our dear motherland

From now on, we will be prosperous and strong......

The next morning, loud singing echoed through the camp.

After singing, continue to run with everyone.

At the end of the five laps, free and easy.

After breakfast, two pallet trucks left the camp dragging two excavators.

Yesterday, the technical department and the construction department put out the line on the No. 1 road, and today these two excavators are going to dig the side ditch and prepare soil for the roadbed.

Africa is a tropical region, and although Africa is dry, it rains a lot during the rainy season.

And the rainfall will be more concentrated.

Therefore, in Africa, especially in countries in tropical and subtropical regions, side ditches need to be dug on both sides of the road.

Digging side ditches on both sides and raising the roadbed is the easiest way to protect the roadbed from being damaged by rainwater soaking and saving money.

On the African side, Yu Qingyang bought a total of 10 excavators and 50 dump trucks.

There are also ten forklifts, five rollers, three graders, two ABG pavers.

Once you take on this kind of task, it's like opening a Pandora's box, and you can't stop.

The state will continue to assign you construction aid tasks, and you will also take the initiative to fight for construction aid projects.

Although it is hard to do projects in Africa, the profits are high!

The cost of the project is in accordance with the price of international bidding.

In fact, all kinds of expenses, including the transfer of personnel from the country, can be reflected in the budget.

The price of building materials is high, and the wages of skilled workers in the country are high, it doesn't matter!

Adjusting the budgeted material price and labor price will do the trick.

The labor cost in the budget is reasonable, but the wages of skilled workers in China are high, and the wages of workers in Africa are low!

Outrageously low.

Twenty years later, the salary of a laborer in Africa is about 20 yuan, and that of a skilled worker is about 50.

Right now?

A family of more than 10 people can transport a stone after a busy day.

One stone can be exchanged for six four cents for grain and water.

But look outside the camp.

There are already long queues.

Therefore, Yu Qingyang will buy all new construction machinery in Africa.

Sourcing construction machinery directly in Africa.

The price is much cheaper than buying it in the country.

As long as he doesn't consign the construction machinery back to China, there will be no problem.

Trading points, long queues.

There are those who didn't leave yesterday, and there are those who rushed over early in the morning!

Today it is no longer a mouth-to-mouth stone.

Everyone learns and makes use of it.

Ten forklifts were also driven to the scene.

The bucket of the forklift is large, and it can be filled with more than two sides, so it directly puts 20 bowls of white noodles and 20 bottles of mineral water.

The 500-liter mineral water bottle was not enough, so the purchasing department directly found a five-liter bucket of pure water.

A shovel of stones for two buckets of water and twenty bowls of flour.

Don't get me wrong, it's not pure water and mineral water that is given, it's water from a waterwheel.

Buckets and mineral water bottles are just units of measurement.

When the measure is finished, it is to be poured into the container brought by the Berbers.

In order to reassure the Berbers, the purchaser also made a special demonstration.

Ten bottles of mineral water are poured into the bucket, which is exactly one bucket full.

The trading window has been increased, so there are more people coming today, but faster than yesterday.

Chen Xiang no longer went to buy the stones in person, but just moved a chair under the sun umbrella to press his subordinates.

Just when Chen Xiang was squinting in the sun and seemed to be asleep, a buyer under him shouted loudly: "Boss, come here!"

"Hour, what's wrong?" Chen Xiang walked over.

"Boss, look, are these two holding wood, or are they ......" Xiao pointed to a pair of young girls in front of the table.

These two seem to be brother and sister, about eleven or twelve years old.

Africans are not very easy to estimate age.

Maybe because of the lack of nutrition, fifteen or sixteen years old looks like eleven years old, which is normal.

This pair of brothers and sisters is very thin, very thin!

The head is large and the neck is thin, like a match against a ping-pong ball.

The two of them struggled to hold a piece of wood that looked a little rotten, blinking their dark eyes, and looking at Xiao and Chen Xiang with pleading.

Chen Xiang understood what he was asking himself to do.

They will definitely not accept such rotten wood.

But in the case of this brother and sister, no one can say anything if they refuse.

"Accept, is it okay with these things?" Chen Xiang did not hesitate, and pushed the five bottles of water and the five bowls of noodles forward.

The two siblings nodded vigorously.

Laughing happily.

The jet-black eyes are as pure as the starry sky.

Chen Xiang, who was watching, was worried for a while, afraid that they would nod too much and break their necks.

The two siblings carried the rotting wood to the clearing, then took the flour and water and left happily.

The happy look on the faces of the two brothers and sisters will melt when the iron man sees it.

Everyone's happiness is different, and in the eyes of the two siblings, being able to have something to eat and not being hungry is the happiest thing.

"Director Chen, those two siblings are orphans.

has been dependent on each other for six or seven years, and many people think that they will not survive, but they have been tenaciously alive. The interpreter who worked with the hour whispered.

"How do you know?"

"Listen to what they say, African brothers also like to gossip!" the interpreter said, referring to the Berbers waiting outside for food.

Of course, this brother and sister is just a small episode, and the small one can't be smaller.

There are many orphans like this in Africa, and there are many who are even worse than them.

Chen Xiang continued to squint under the umbrella...... Sit in formation.

Yu Qingyang left the camp early in the morning with Sun Jian and others in a Humvee.

First, I went to No. 1 Road and took a turn.

I looked at it, didn't say anything, and left directly.

Then I went to the location of the future town, and stood on the hillside and looked at the scenery below.

The whole town is located at the foot of the mountain, and Yu Qingyang can't understand why Ajigeria built a town here.

It can accommodate 10,000 households and is a small town with complete facilities.

I can't see anything else here except leaning against the mountains?

Want to settle herders, now by the sea, close to the big city is not better?

The location here is in the middle of the Geographical Glass and the Bu Titan, a little closer to the Bu Titan.

If it is placed in China, it belongs to the boundary of three regardless.

Ajigeria spent so much money to build small towns.

Although they don't have to pay for it, Yu Qingyang understands it in his heart.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Things that don't want money are more expensive.

The cost of small towns is 1.8 billion US dollars, and with the addition of No. 1 Road, it is more than 200 million yuan.

There is also supporting water and electricity.

High-voltage lines are erected from hundreds of kilometers away.

From the underground man-made river, the water is diverted into tributaries.

But the total cost of this piece is more than 300 million US dollars.

The price paid by Ajigeria is definitely several times higher than this.

Yu Qingyang can only attribute it to his short-sightedness and can't understand the intentions of politicians.

Looking at the dividing line where green and russet intersected in the distance, Yu Qingyang had an urge to ride his horse and whip.

Get a few horses, and when it's okay, gallop on the grassland, it should be good.

After looking at the hillside for a while, he couldn't understand it, and Yu Qingyang was no longer entangled.

It's not something you should think about.

Standing on a hillside in the 40-odds weather is really not a wise move.

Return to camp by car.

There is still a growing trend of black brothers coming to deliver stones outside the camp.

In the distance, there was a steady stream of people coming from the road.

On the side of the production base, a tall drill pipe has been erected.

It was a well-drilling company introduced by Zhang Qiang, which was digging deep-water wells.

Very professional drilling company.

They have in their hands a map of the distribution of the entire Butitan underground water vein.

As for the distribution map of underground water veins, it is also due to the underground artificial river in Agygeria, which is known as the eighth wonder of the world.

Since it is necessary to build an underground artificial river to divert water from the desert in the south to the north, it is natural to explore the underground water veins around the line.

According to the other party, there is a lot of water in this position.

That's enough for 10,000 people for ten years.

Whether it's true or not, Yu Qingyang is too lazy to take it seriously.

As long as he can get water, it will be enough for him to produce and live for three years.

Three years later, the construction of the small town was completed, regardless of whether he had water or not!

At the production base, four excavators are following the gray line sprinkled by the technician, finishing the side ditch.

The production base assigned to them is a little lower than the place next to it where the town is to be built.

It's nothing now, but in the rainy season, it's troublesome.

All the rain from the mountains flowed down the terrain to the base.

Therefore, when discussing the production base, it was decided to dig a deep trench around the base to divert possible future floodwaters to more low-lying areas.

Deep ditches also have the advantage of being able to act as a protector.

It's like a moat in ancient times.

After inspecting the production base, there is actually nothing to inspect, that is, the excavator digs a trench and uses the excavated soil to raise the production base.

There is nothing technical about it.

Leaving the production base, Yu Qingyang came to the trading site by the way.

It's very hot.

But most people used the stone in exchange for food and water.

There is very little wood, no sand.

After all, the stones, they all picked up from the mountains, at the foot of the mountains.

Don't put in the effort, just look for a little time.

There was a battle here a long time ago.

Or fought a battle on the mountain.

Stones from cannonballs crumbling, rolling stones and falling rocks from the forces of nature.

Scattered around the mountains.

On the contrary, although there are a lot of timber in the mountains, it takes a lot of effort to cut down.

The Berbers naturally chose stones, which were exchanged for items that did not require much effort.

It is estimated that when the scattered stones are gone, they will find a way to cut down trees in the mountains, and transport sand in semi-desert areas or deserts to trade.

When he came to the trading point, Yu Qingyang saw at a glance the piece of wood that looked like it was rotting and no one cared about it.

Yu Qingyang could see at a glance that this was a tree fossil.

Tree fossils are also called woody jade.

A specialty of Aggicilia, in Ajigeria's near the desert, there is a lot of tree jade.

Not only in the desert, but also in other parts of Aggia, but not as many as in the desert.

The rough stone of the fossilized tree, because of the bark on the surface, looks like a rotten piece of wood.

However, when you hit it, it makes a crisp sound of stones.

It is a relatively good carving material.

After processing, grinding and polishing, it is delicate and smooth, with a strong sense of jade, and its appearance resembles agate, but it resembles agate rather than agate.

Therefore, woody jade is also called agate-like wood fossils.

Wooden jade can be processed into ornaments, pendants, bracelets, bracelets, etc., and has relatively high economic value and collection value.

This piece of wooden-made jade, transported back to China, does not need to be processed, and the price of a single raw material is worth tens of thousands.

Moreover, woody jade, like jadeite and jade, is a non-renewable resource.

There is a lot of room for appreciation in the future.

Before Yu Qingyang crossed back, a fine wood-shaped jade was auctioned at a sky-high price of more than 12 million yuan at the Poly Spring Auction.

The reason why Yu Qingyang knew about Muhuayu was because he had a friend in his previous life, who was from Shaozhou, Guangdong Province.

Shaozhou is rich in wood-made jade.

Where many ordinary people made a fortune by picking up wood and jade in the river.

Yu Qingyang used to envy that friend, when he was the most popular, he could pick up hundreds of thousands, or even millions, in the river casually.

Therefore, Yu Qingyang paid special attention to the wood-shaped jade, and also went to the geological museum to see the original stone of the wood-shaped jade.

Yu Qingyang bent down to observe the piece of woody jade in front of him, stretched out his hand and tapped it gently, making a crisp sound like jade.

"Mr. Yu, are you here?" Seeing Yu Qingyang bending down to look at the rotten wood, he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

"Well, where did that come from?"

"I took this! I saw that a brother and sister were pitiful, so I took it!

I was given five pounds of flour and five bottles of water, and I was deducted from my salary when I went back!" explained the hour.

"Mr. Yu, this piece of wood is my master!

If you want to deduct money, you should deduct me!" At this time, Chen Xiang also rushed over.

Naturally, he will not let his subordinates carry the black pot.

A piece of rotten wood, five catties of flour and five bottles of water is only how much.

Let his subordinates take the blame, he Chen Xiang can't afford to lose that person.

"Hehe, the two of you are still fighting! Since this is the case, then deduct half of you!"

"Mr. Yu, you have the final say! Double, ten times is no problem!" Chen Xiang no longer argued.

The subsidy for them to come to Africa for a day alone is 500 yuan, five catties of flour, and five bottles of water.

"Collect this piece of wood! Congratulations, you have made a small fortune!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.

Although Muhuayu is valuable, Yu Qingyang can't pull his face and ignore his subordinates.

Being able to get this piece of wood-shaped jade is also a blessing for their good deeds.

Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, it's not that the time has not yet come!

Their good fortune came quickly.

"Mr. Yu, what do you mean?" Chen Xiang and Xiao were stunned.

"Hehe, it's a shame that you're still a person who grew up in the Imperial City! Take a closer look at what's different about this rotten wood!" Yu Qingyang pointed with a smile.

"A different place?" Chen Xiang looked down at the rotting wood.

The rotten wood that I collected just now was purely kind, and after I put it there, he and Xiao didn't look at it at all, and didn't even look at it.

Chen Xiang bent down, learned Yu Qingyang to reach out and knock, then looked up at Yu Qingyang, and asked in surprise, "This is petrified wood?"

"Hmm!" Yu Qingyang nodded with a smile.

Wood jade, there are many names, petrified wood is the scientific name.

It can also be called tree jade, wood fossil, wood jade, and petrified wood.

"Mr. Yu, this ......"

Chen Xiang felt that his brain was a little bad, this was too dramatic, right?

"Put it away! If you want to sell it when you go back, you can keep it for the master to process it into ornaments!

Whatever you want!

This can be regarded as God's reward for your good deeds!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.

"But ......"

"It's nothing! You violated the regulations and purchased things that the project department can't use, and you have been punished just now, and the losses caused will be deducted from your salary!

Then this rotten wood is your own private property!"

"Thank you, Mr. Yu, thank you, Mr. Yu!" Chen Xiang realized that Yu Qingyang didn't really punish them just now.

Of course, if the two of them shirk each other's responsibilities, then the fake punishment may become a real punishment.

This piece of woody jade will not be given to them either.

Xiao still stood there dumbfounded, feeling everything in front of him, as if he was in a dream.