"Hou Ye, it's not that the lower officials don't help, but no one is willing to deliver the goods, now the smooth road project has started, just Danyang to Wuzhong this section of the river has six large and small ports, plus there is a huge seaport on the seaside, these projects require a lot of cement and steel, these engineering contractors in order to speed up the completion of the second phase of the project bidding, a lot of money to buy a variety of building materials, in addition to steel and cement, even sand, stone, bamboo and wood are not refused, I once asked people to bring letters to Danyang, Danyang County can not help......" Jiang Heng smiled bitterly and explained this matter.

Listening to Jiang Heng's wry smile and looking at Zhang Xun's expectant expression, Chen Xu felt that this matter was a little difficult to handle.

He wanted to solve the matter very simply, a warrant was sent to the Danyang Iron and Steel Plant and the nearby cement factory, and the two scarce building materials would be delivered non-stop immediately.

In the next ten years, as long as the Tantu plan is not completed, under the low industrial production capacity and scale of Daqin, cement and steel are still the bottleneck of the engineering and construction industry, which will greatly drag down the development of various engineering and civil construction industries.

There is no point in enlivening a project.

But now that someone has raised this imminent question, when the investment of several families is ruined, and the businessman puts almost all his hopes on Chen Xu, he will definitely not be able to refuse.

At this time, it is the time to truly show his feelings for the country and the people.

If Chen Xu can't solve this matter in time, his prestige and reputation among the people will be immediately discounted, and it will also cast a shadow in the hearts of all the participants who are still enthusiastically discussing various reforms and developments.

"Master Hou, we also know that this matter is difficult to handle, but if you embarrass Master Hou, you should ...... Just like the grass people...... I didn't say it......" Zhang Xun looked at Chen Xu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, and said with extremely nervous hands.

"This matter is not difficult to do, Ben Hou can solve it with a letter to the steel plant and cement plant...... Chen Xu looked up at Zhang Xun, and then turned his head to look at many participants with anticipation on their faces, and said after gently tapping the table with his fingers and muttering for a long time, "But this is not the best way to solve the problem, now all places are developing rapidly, and the demand for cement and steel is grand, coupled with the consumption of the smooth road plan, the lack of supply and demand for steel and cement is a normal phenomenon, and the transportation distance is long and the cost is high, It is reasonable that businessmen from all over the country are reluctant to come to Wuzhong, as long as this supply and demand situation does not change, the situation you are facing will always exist, Ben Hou can speculate, in addition to you, Wuzhong and even some other projects in nearby counties have also begun to stop? ”

"Hou Ye is right, this is not the case of Gusu Commercial Building, many projects are currently facing suspension due to the lack of cement, steel, and building materials......

Several business representatives sitting next to Chen Xu nodded.

"In fact, the south is different from the Central Plains, where the humid and hot vegetation is flourishing, and the streams and lakes are intertwined, and Ben Hou believes that the buildings here should have the characteristics of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not necessary to imitate the high-rise ......buildings built in the northwest," Chen Xu thought about it.

"Don't build tall buildings?" The people on the left and right all looked at Chen Xu in surprise.

"Yes, although the high-rise building is magnificent, but in fact the pressure on the ground is very large, the construction of the high-rise building must lay a solid foundation, and the rain in the south of the Yangtze River is abundant, digging the foundation pit is easy to become a big pit of water, bringing great difficulty to the construction, I don't know if Ben Hou is wrong?"

"No, no, what Hou Ye said is not bad at all, generally digging down a zhang or two zhang will inevitably have a large amount of water, it is indeed difficult to drain the construction, the foundation of the Gusu commercial building was completed in a hurry last winter, otherwise at the turn of spring and summer, the rainy season, I am afraid that I can only raise fish ......" Zhang Xun nodded with a wry smile.

"In that case, why bother, let's go to the construction site later to see the situation, Ben Hou has a general idea to solve this matter, and in the end it may only need a very small amount of cement, and the steel bars don't even need to be ......"

"It's the best, it's the best, it's so much easier if you don't need steel......"

"Exactly!"

A group of people were pleasantly surprised, and Zhang Xun also sat down with a thousand thanks, and began to speculate and discuss excitedly with several companions on the left and right.

Since Qinghehou said that there is a way to solve it, it is naturally not far from ten, which makes many businessmen who originally felt that they were going bankrupt feel that some of the blood in their bodies was about to spurt out from the top of their heads.

It took nearly two hours for a unique democratic discussion to come to an end.

After a simple lunch at the hotel, Chen Xu went to watch the construction site of the Gusu commercial building surrounded by Jiang Heng and other county officials and hundreds of deputies.

Sure enough, after entering the fence of the fence, a footing was built inside, the whole project is not small, covering an area of more than 100 acres, but after a few months of stoppage, the entire construction site has been barren, a large number of weeds and thorns have covered most of the ground, all kinds of carts, baskets, bamboo and wood building materials and even tools, etc., all messed up everywhere, almost no one can see the scene, only some children and a few dogs in the hide-and-seek, see these big people come in, In an instant, they scattered, climbed over fences, or drilled through some holes, and disappeared without a trace.

A very high scaffolding has been erected on one side of the construction site, and there are long-arm cranes in the middle, and there are several concrete pillars that have been poured but the formwork has not been taken off, but they are still left untouched after the work is stopped, and it looks a little desolate.

"Let's go, let's go and see the design drawings and sand table first, and by the way, call the designers and engineering commanders of the commercial building, Ben Hou has something to ask!"

"Yes, the designer and the engineering supervisor are in the county town, and someone has been arranged to look for it, and there is the planning map and sand table in the shed over there, Master Hou, please!" Zhang Xun led the way in front, and a group of people surrounded Chen Xu to go to the shed.

Open the copper lock, push open the wooden door that has been wrapped in weeds and vines, on the wall is a project progress map, in the middle of a huge sand table, because it has not been destroyed, the sand table looks very complete, the whole looks like the structure of Keju commercial square, a square square circular building, a total of five floors, there is an open space covering an area of about 20 acres in the middle, there are ponds and flowers and green trees marked, it seems to be ready to build a garden.

The overall design is decent, and I can't see too much fault, but I can't see the characteristics, because this kind of building is very different from the garden structure of the Jiangnan water town in the later generations, and it is completely different from the Jiangnan architectural style imagined by Chen Xu.

Jiangnan is Jiangnan, what if there is cement and steel, Wuzhong is not as dry and ventilated as Xianyang, there is water everywhere, ponds and streams are dense, both inside and outside the city, plus this era is already small and wide, there is no need to build thankless high-rise buildings in this kind of place.

The construction of the Keju commercial building in Xianyang was just to raise money for the Keju field, and the success of the Keju commercial building was actually driven by the Keju field, which is a comprehensive commercial body, and this also drove a large number of businesses to the south bank of the Wei River, in fact, Chen Xu's plan to develop the capital to the south.

At present, several businessmen in Wuzhong have invested heavily in building the same large commercial city in Wuzhong, except that there is no gymnasium, and it seems that they plan to completely copy the model of Keju commercial buildings.

According to the current population size and future development prospects of Wuzhong, the prospects of such a comprehensive large-scale shopping mall are very good, according to Chen Xu's speculation, there is no big problem for the population of Wuzhong to exceed one million within ten years, and with the development of the Great Voyage, Wuzhong as the earliest development of the southeast counties and the best geographical location of the city, there is no reason not to prosper, here can be regarded as the origin of Shanghai in the future.

Although Shenzhen and Guangzhou in the south seem to have developed faster and better in later generations, it is with the help of Hong Kong's advantages, and now Panyu is still a wilderness, and in the territory of the Yue people, the population is too small and does not accept the king, even after 20 or Chinese New Year's Eve years, it cannot be compared with Wuyue, a prosperous area that has developed for hundreds of years.

This is the limitation of the times, and it cannot be changed by human beings in a short period of time.

"Master Hou, the designer and the steward of the engineering team are here!"

Just as Chen Xu was looking at the sand table and drawings, two men squeezed in outside the door, one was in his thirties, wearing a servant's uniform, with a nameplate of the Royal Academy of Sciences Architectural Engineering on his chest, and the other was in his forties, with a dark complexion and short hair, typical of Wuyue's local characteristics.

"Subordinate Li Dong has seen Master Hou!" Seeing Chen Xu, the designer was very excited and hurriedly bowed.

"Lu Chuan, the contractor of Gusu Commercial Building, visited Hou Ye!" The other man was also very nervous and excited, he didn't expect that one day he would be personally received by the Marquis of Qinghe, which was really a blessing for Sansheng.

"Excuse me, you two come here!" Chen Xu waved his hand, and after the two of them walked to the edge of the sand table, he pointed to the architectural model on the sand table and said: "Because this project lacks cement, steel and other building materials, it has been suspended, so Ben Hou came to see if there was a way to solve it, but at present, if such a large five-story building is built according to the planning drawings, there must be enough reinforced concrete, but at present, the reinforced cement cannot be supplied in time, and this project Ben Hou thinks that he can give up and revise the plan......

"Change the scheme?"

Not only Jiang Heng and Zhang Xun and other onlookers were surprised, but even designer Li Dong and construction contractor Lu Chuan opened their mouths wide for a long time.

"Yes, the best way is to change the plan, completely abandon this structure that uses a lot of reinforced concrete, and tear down all the projects in front of you, otherwise, Ben Hou can help you revitalize this project, will Wuzhong not develop in the next ten or eight years? Don't build the house? Therefore, the root of this matter lies in the design and construction according to local conditions, and you can't completely copy the architectural styles of Xianyang and Luoyang, which are the Central Plains regions......"

"Master Hou...... That...... Then how to repair this Gusu commercial building, you can give your subordinates a hint......" Li Dong looked at Chen Xu nervously and expectantly.

"Hmm...... This kind of half-cut unfinished project is the most difficult to ......," Chen Xu pinched his chin and began to think carefully.