December in central Yunnan is not cold, and when it enters the dry season, it shows a pleasant scene of high autumn air, but it is the golden season for outdoor civil construction. The thatched river, which used to be full of thatched people, has been transformed into a busy civil construction site.

Qi Zhengming, dressed in overalls and holding construction drawings in his hand, was accompanying several major cadres of the village committee with his eldest brother-in-law Wang Wenxin to check the construction progress of the dam at the top of the mountain valley ditch in the thatched river.

At the old mother-in-law's birthday banquet, Wang Wenxin hesitated after hearing Qi Jingtao talk about the Malone Highway Project. There is no wind and no waves, he wants to know if the news that Qi Jingtao's army cannot do business is true? Qi Jingtao didn't say anything, and he didn't want to continue to interrogate.

He simply stayed in central Yunnan for a while, trying to find acquaintances and friends to find out if there were any rumors from other channels. During this period, he also took over several small tasks of building roads and dams in rural areas, which was delayed for a while.

After inquiring on the side in his familiar circle of friends to no avail, when he couldn't resist the urging and temptation of Ma Long's friend, and went to run the N-hand highway project again, the project had already been contracted by others.

I don't know if it's regret or loss, Wang Wenxin stayed with Ma Long for a few months. He also organized two excavators and bulldozers from his own construction company to help other bosses carry out earthwork excavation projects in the Malone Highway section for several months.

After Qi Zhengming got the contract for the granary river orchard, Qi Jingtao handed over the planning and design drawings, renderings, and civil infrastructure construction drawings of the granary river orchard that Lao Qi had already prepared to his father. The special bank account for the Granary River Orchard Project was stationed with her full-time personal assistant Xu Manli to live in the construction project department.

As the commander-in-chief of the Granary River Orchard Project, Qi Zhengming, who is in line with the principle of his own funds and his own masters, when considering the construction party, the first thing that comes to mind is the construction company of his eldest brother-in-law Wang Wenxin.

A phone call recruited his eldest brother-in-law from the Malone construction site back to his hometown, and easily handed over a first-hand project to his eldest brother-in-law to take care of it. Wang Wenxin assumed the commander-in-chief of the granary river project, and he became the chief inspector of the project himself.

Wang Wenxin was stunned and surprised by his uncle's generosity. Immediately mobilize the core backbone of their own construction company to form a project headquarters, organize construction forces to be stationed at the granary river construction site, and organize surprise construction in accordance with the established construction plan.

Qi Zhengming is very familiar with the agricultural water conservancy construction project, he led the young people of the brigade and the production team to engage in small reservoir projects when he was young, and now he is familiar with the project chief inspector and is familiar with the road, and Wang Wenxin cooperates with the perfect combination.

After Assistant Xu Manli Xu was stationed in the project headquarters, in addition to reviewing and appropriating project funds, she still did her old job. Construction project negotiation, project contract management and project funding review.

Assistant Xu is only responsible for Qi Jingtao, and in the project headquarters, everything is done, and the girl is sent by the minister. Xu Manli holds the power of fund allocation, and has become a way of doing things for project supervision, placing herself in the ranks of the highest trio of the project, forming a pattern of Qi Zhengming's management quality, she manages money, and Wang Wenxin manages construction. Wang Wenxin, who often asked her for project allocation, couldn't cry or laugh, and secretly admired his eldest nephew for employing people.

Several cadres of the village committee and Wang Wenxin who came over today couldn't figure out how this set of planning drawings handed over by Qi Jingtao was planned and designed, and they had to plan and build such a big dam at the end of the granary river, a big mountain and ditch.

According to the planning drawings, if the dam is completed, it will move 500 meters down the top of the small and intermittent ditch of the Granary River, and form a small reservoir with an area of more than 50 acres and a maximum depth of more than 9 meters at the intersection of the three mountains.

The 33-metre-long dam was easy to build with machinery and reinforced concrete, and was built quickly as long as the money kept up. However, can the so-called 'small river' formed by a number of small streams of water seeping out of the cracks in the rocks of the mountain accumulate into such a large reservoir? Rely on the stagnant water formed by natural rainfall every year to store stagnant water to form a reservoir?

The temperature of this large mountain depression is much higher than that of the five dams outside the mountain valley, and the water vapor evaporation is also much higher than that of the five dams outside.

It's really so easy, the granary river has long since become a real granary river. The site of the dam was built a kilometre downstream, and it took thousands of people in the village months to pick out the dam on their shoulders. But now that the dam has been built, what about the water? There is no water available in this deforested depression, let alone a reservoir.

Zhang Jiayuan looked at the base of the dam under construction with dissatisfaction, and complained to Qi Zhengming: "Lao Qi, which design is this planning plan? Have you ever come to check on the spot? Back then, who in our village had never come here to pick up the dam, and after so much effort, the rain accumulated in the rainy season every year was not enough for the old cows to roll." It's a fool to build a reservoir here!"

"Yes, I also invited water conservancy experts from the Water Conservancy Bureau to survey back then, and I planned to dig a culvert from the Zhangjia Mountain in front of me and bring water from the Guanqing Reservoir ten kilometers away, but it wasn't because the mountain was too big to be completed?" said Ding Jiancheng, a clerk.

"The mountain is too big, and it is one thing to be difficult to construct according to the construction conditions of the year, but the main reason why it was not done is that the amount of water stored in the Guanqing Reservoir is too small, and it is difficult to maintain the water supply of the mountain over there, so how to divert water to this side?"

Qi Jinghong said. At that time, it was his father who presided over this work, and in the end, it was not that he did not do his best, but the objective conditions did not allow it, and he did not allow others to casually arrange his old father who had retired.

"Then why do you plan a reservoir here? A young cadre from the town who came down to inspect spoke very politely.

The entire dam in the five districts is only more than 120 square kilometers, and this project is already a big project, and the relevant leaders of the town still attach great importance to it, and send several cadres to inspect and track the progress of the project.

"Hehe, actually, judging from the overall topography of this mountain valley, the idea of building a reservoir here is very good. You see, the terrain here is a natural water storage hyacinth, surrounded by mountains on three sides, wide inside and narrow outside, closed exit, and the amount of work of the dam is the smallest. After the completion of this reservoir, there is a drop of more than 40 meters from here to the downstream Jingou. If you really hold back the water here and make a small reservoir, it will be filled with water. As long as the aqueducts are built along the mountains on both sides, there is water on the slopes of the mountains for almost three kilometers downstream. If the amount of water is sufficient, when the time comes, not to mention planting cherries and fruit trees, it will be no problem to plant rice. ”

Another cadre from the town appraised the scientific nature of the reservoir design and the planning and layout of the related water conservancy facilities.

"Hehe, the key is that there is no water source, if there is a water source, the granary river has long lived up to its name, why bother to become a thatched river. You see, the mountains are full of thatch. After burning the wasteland once, how much labor does it take to clean it up?" Qi Jinghong said regretfully.

"This is the planning and design that we asked the senior engineer in the province to do, and there must be a reason for this design. Let's not discuss it, won't we know the outcome when it's completed?"

Xu Manli seemed to make sense when she heard what they said, but she really didn't understand these things. She also asked Qi Jingtao when she went back, and Qi Jingtao said that if she planned like that, the reservoir would definitely be able to fill with water. Xu Manli didn't know where the water came from and how to fill it, but as Qi Jingtao's personal assistant, she had to stand on the same front with Qi Jingtao, so she had to open her mouth to defend the design plan that her boss insisted on.

Zhang Jiayuan was angry about leading the villagers to toss blindly and did not toss a good result, listening to the words of this assistant Xu, he pouted: "Hehe, the senior engineer invited by the province, the topographic map and contour line are clearly visible, and the aqueduct is also designed in a proper manner." It's a pity that I didn't see him come to the construction site to see the situation on the ground, and there were times when he cried. ”

"Big brother, Xiao Tao really has a problem with this plan, can he still divert water from the belly of the mountain, or dig out the mountain spring water from the ground? The entire dam will cost more than 1.5 million yuan to complete, and it will all be wasted if there is no water at that time. ”

Wang Wenxin, as the construction party, only managed to construct according to the construction drawings, and there was no need to care whether the water could be filled in the end. But this project is his brother-in-law's project, and he can't ignore it. If the dam is built, if there is really no water available, this joke will be big, and he is very faceless as a construction party.