In the fourth year of Chen Han Chengtian, Chen Ming's Son of Heaven appeared in Baoji, Fengxiang Mansion, the westernmost part of the land of Guanzhong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now Baoji is far from the infinite scenery of Baoji City in the previous life, at this time it is just an ordinary county, not the third big cross hub on the Eurasian land bridge in China, Longhai Railway, Baocheng Railway, Baozhong Railway did not meet here. But even so, on the Guanzhong Plain, this originally ordinary county has become more and more important in the past two years.

Because of the construction of a series of infrastructure construction, as a focal point, the status is naturally elevated. This place is connected to Guanzhong in the east, Hanzhong in the south, and Tianshui and Pingliang in the northwest. Qinling Lingping, Weishui Stream, Guanlong West Blocking North Heng, Weibei Fertile Plain.

It is located in the center of Xi'an, Chengdu and Lanzhou.

It can be said that it is the existence of a transportation hub that connects the great northwest, northwest and southwest, and cannot be bypassed in the development of the entire western region.

Now the second railway has been laid for a while, and Baoji Station is a very important point in the meantime. From here, the railway goes north to Wangyang, along the Huangshui into Zhangjiachuan in Longyou, and then turns around and goes south to find Tianshui.

The Weishui narrow road from Baoji directly to Tianshui, the construction of the project has organized many surveys, and the final result is a sad urge. The geographical environment is too complex and changeable to carry out long-distance construction. Even though the two have passed through the passage of time, the people have long been scattered on both sides of the Weishui River, and have also 'walked' a road connecting Tianshui and Baoji, but this small road that can transport military rations and pass through the army is completely different concepts from the railway defined in the new era. Therefore, this line is the same as the positioning of Hanzhong to Baoji - the railway is not a road, ensuring land transportation.

Therefore, Baoji is not only related to the only railway in the country, but also a key point of the land transportation line - the national highway in Guanzhong. This is enough to show the importance of Baoji.

Chen Ming came here not only to inspect the progress of the railway project on this side of Guanzhong, but also to check the land transportation in Baoji.

If the entire Guanzhong line traffic is going well, Baoji will be able to truly become a land point in two more years, not only the railway opens, but the land transportation line will also become an important convenience that is not weaker than the railway.

It connects Xi'an in the east, Longyou Tianshui in the west, Hanzhong in the south, and Yinzhou in the north. A big traffic cross has been rolled out, will the status of this place still not be important?

Since the start of construction at the end of the third year of Chengtian.

With the continuous infusion of funds, material resources, and manpower from the government in the construction of railway projects and national highway lines, the transportation projects that started at the same time in multiple sections have swallowed up a full 350 million Chinese yuan.

In Baoji County alone, more than 10,000 local people are employed, not only male laborers, but also some strong female laborers, and the construction has been carried out day and night for a year.

The difficulty of the construction of this project is undoubtedly quite high in terms of the level of science and technology at that time.

Not to mention the construction of railways, but only the construction of national highways in the Weishui narrow road, I don't know how many mountains and mountains we have to cross, how many times we have to turn back along the direction of the river, build bridges, and communicate the two sides of the strait.

But this is what Chen Ming is determined to do, to tie Xinjiang to China's chariot forever, and to go one step further, to tie Central Asia firmly to China's chariot, then the first step should be to link Longyou and Guanzhong more closely.

If Xinjiang is the logistics base of Central Asia, then it is the logistics base of Xinjiang, and Shaanxi is the logistics base of Xinjiang.

Tianshui can represent Longyou, and Baoji represents Guanzhong, because of a Longshan, I don't know how many joys and sorrows have happened on both sides for thousands of years. Throughout the history of China, since the Middle Tang Dynasty, Susu was occupied by Tubo, waiting for the two Song dynasties, if there was no Xihe River to open the border and enter the Hehuang, Zhao Song was really a shame for China.

A Longshan, such as a ridge in the western part of the Guanzhong Plain, divides Susu and Shaanxi, and Chen Ming now has no way to pounce the railway directly from Baoji to Tianshui, but there is an extra national highway between the two sides, which has greatly strengthened the bilateral relationship. This is not a Longshan, but officially opened up two areas.

Don't look at the national highway from Baoji to Tianshui is only 170 miles long, only half the length of Baoji to Hanzhong, which deducts the easy construction section, the real test is only half, but the technical difficulty of the former is much higher than the latter. The terrain is extremely complex, not only there are many rivers, the mountains are steep, and the mountains are also high and low.

After the second railway is successfully opened to traffic, and then there will be the construction of national highways in the northwest and southwest, and China's modern and modern engineering will be able to establish the entire framework and structure.

Once the entire project is completed, the transportation between the southwest and the northwest and the Central Plains will become very convenient, and it will have great benefits in terms of economic development and military and political aspects.

This is also the fundamental reason why Chen Ming has insisted on road traffic construction all these years.

Don't think that the current cost is too much, wait for ten years, all the prisoners of war will either die or be released, and the Chinese government's finances may be much more generous than now, but I don't know how much more it will cost to build it than now.

In a word, for example, in the case of dead people in engineering construction, if all of them are contract workers, how much compensation will be paid for the dead person? And the vast majority of those who die now are prisoners of war who have no guarantee of safety, right?

It's a huge project overall.

Once completed, the transportation of the whole of China will be able to reach another level. If you want to get rich, the theory of building roads first still makes a lot of sense in this era. Of course, the country's road traffic construction from another aspect is also a great boost to the country's demand, the north and south of the river, the east and the west of the traffic construction, waterway dredging, harbor wharf, which requires how much cement, steel products and labor?

The industry with the fastest growth of steam engines in the past two years has not been textiles, but mines, docks and cement factories.

There are far more steam engines used for pumping, pulverizing and conveying than steam engines in the textile industry. Taking seaports and river ports as an example, how to distinguish the first-class wharves stipulated by the state? That is the number of steam engines at the docks.

Whether it is a steam engine crane or a steam conveyor, the speed of the operation of the port has been improved to a certain extent, and the more prosperous the wharf, the more needed. The main thing is that these big guys are very 'imposing'.

Chen Ming relied on road construction to drive the development of the whole society.

"How much do these migrant workers earn in a year?"

Chen Ming looked at the Weishui line under construction and asked the commander-in-chief of the engineering section beside him.

"There are many dangers on the front line of the Weishui narrow road, and many sections have to be filled with human lives, whether it is a labor camp or an ordinary migrant worker, the food treatment is the highest among several engineering sections. Migrant workers are one dollar for one worker, and two dollars for two jobs in the morning and afternoon of a day. The overall wage is two percent higher than that of the middle line and the silver line. "Lighting cannons and pathfinding are rarely done by migrant workers, and they are all coincidental. Nine out of ten of these dangerous things are done by people in the labor camps, and their efforts are exchanged for rest, monetary rewards, and material rewards for food. And the migrant workers can get two yuan a day, which is seven or eight hundred a year, and the commander-in-chief of the engineering section does not feel low at all. If you exchange it for silver dollars, it will be seventy or eighty silver dollars, and if you exchange it for silver, it will be forty or fifty taels.

As far as the ordinary migrant workers recruited here in Baoji are ordinary old farmers, what can they do besides farming? And if you farm the land, do you grow gold or silver, can you earn forty or fifty taels a year? In addition, there are medical expenses and lost work expenses for injuries, and the pension for disability or death is higher.

Of course, Chen Ming would not know what the commander-in-chief of the engineering section was muttering in his heart. He is more interested now that in two or three years, after the construction of the project here is completed, how many of these people will be willing to return to the countryside and continue to dig in the soil facing the loess with their backs to the sky?

What would they do if they didn't want to?

Is it a migrant worker?

If this can really be done, it can really be said to be beneficial to the country and the people.

Chen Mingke still remembers a report he had read about Linxian County in the Central Plains. 100,000 troops are out of Taihang, and 100,000 troops are rich in Taihang. Many people may not remember the name Linxian, but when it comes to the Hongqi Canal there, how many Chinese don't know?

The people of Linxian County fought hard for 10 years and built the world-famous "artificial Tianhe" Hongqi Canal on Taihang Mountain, which solved the irrigation and drinking water problems of nine droughts in Linxian County in ten years. Later, a large number of skilled craftsmen trained in the process of repairing the canal have gone out of their homes to engage in the construction industry, and the trend of "100,000 troops going out of Taihang" has been initially formed.

It has launched a well-known brand of Linzhou Construction.

Seriously, this kind of arrogance that dares to fight the heavens and the earth, Chen Ming is not the emperor now. The Hongqi Canal project was so huge that he remembered that no modern tools and facilities were used in the entire construction process. But in the face of the perennial drought in Linxian County, where there are 7.8 million mu of fields in the county, and less than 10,000 mu of irrigated land, Chen Ming's approach is to emigrate, rather than to build the artificial Tianhe himself.

So he now has high hopes for these places in Baoji. Maybe when fate comes to decide, these peasants, who are used to working on the construction site and getting used to wages, will really take a step out of the field.

Therefore, Chen Ming can't pay too much attention to this. They can be a seed, they can be a leader.

Throwing the peasants bankrupt in order to provide labor for the development of industry is really walking a tightrope on the precipice.

China is not a small British mainland, such a large population base, the peasants are really making a fuss, that is too destructive.

Accompanied by the commander-in-chief of the engineering section, Chen Ming climbed a mountain in Longshan and overlooked the whole picture of the national highway project that was still far from being formed.

He has just learned from the list of heroes of the engineering headquarters that 35 people have sacrificed their lives in the construction of this project this year, of which 27 are in the labor camp, three are soldiers, and five are migrant workers. The oldest of them was forty-three years old, and the youngest was seventeen years old.

The project is full of small carts, environmental restrictions, and relatively few cattle, horses, and livestock.

It is also a constraint of conditions, iron shovels, shovels, small carts, people carry people and pull people on their backs, and the whole project is using these primitive labor tools.

In the process of construction, the construction team encountered a lot of problems, Baoji to Tianshui landform is across the accumulation of river valley terraces and denudation mountains two landform types, the geological environment is very complex, landslides, collapses, debris flows, is not unfamiliar at all. The construction team used a stupid method, ants moved cement, steel and stones to the 'front line' little by little, and built a double arch bridge one after another, and it was impossible for China in this era to build a magnificent high-pier bridge, so it could only use the most stupid method to pave a smooth road in the complex river valley little by little. Not to mention the rocks of the mountains and rocks encountered, it took countless sweat to blast the rocks one by one, expand and hollow out the rock walls little by little.

Whether it is the residence of the migrant workers, the residence of the officers and men of the engineering troops, or the labor camps, the conditions are all the same and difficult.

Under the mountain cliff, in the stone crevices, some build stone hermitage, some dig caves, some open air shop, just support an oilcloth tent on the top, there are not so many beds, then sleep on the stone slab, and the thatch is used as a paving grass, which is really paved with the sky.

Especially with the deepening of the progress of the project, it is impossible to find a suitable place, and a few pieces of cloth are propped up, which is the command headquarters of thousands of troops.

When listening to the introduction of the commander-in-chief of the engineering section, Chen Ming was also secretly looking at the chief engineer in front of him, the national highway project of Baoji communication Tianshui, its construction difficulty is not only greater than that of the middle section of Baoji and the section of Baoyin, but also greater than the construction difficulty of the railway. There's no real test yet.

Chen Ming was very moved by the construction of the Weishui Narrow National Highway, but as an emperor, he was more willing to look forward to the wonderful scene after the completion of the project on schedule. As for the difficulties encountered by the construction team in this project, when they taste the joy of victory, they can be turned into dazzling medals of merit on their chests.

All the difficulties, hardships, efforts, sacrifices, risks, struggles, everything can be turned into a spirit.

Let the Juggernaut hold it in your hands and inspire the spirit of the whole society!

As the ruler of Chen Han, Chen Ming also longs for this. Instead of opening the door to them in the process of grinding and working hard in this construction team, what kind of help outside the system can be played.

This is the heart of a superior person.

The perspective of the higher authorities is really different from the perspective of the ruled class.

The efforts of the entire construction force are very touching, but in the eyes of the emperor, this is obviously just a flower and a bone. Not to mention that the fruit is ripe, this flower is still far from blooming to the most vivid moment.

Mencius said that the heavens will descend on people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their hearts, and act chaotically. This is also appropriate for the moment. ”

"Spread my message, the first-line construction site of Weishui Narrow Road, all those who belong to labor camps will have their sentences reduced by three months; 10 yuan for migrant workers; Officers and soldiers are paid twice as much as their monthly salaries. "This is the kind of help that is allowed within the system.

Chen Ming looked at the commander-in-chief of the engineering section and said, "Do a good job." After the successful completion of the project, I will personally award you with the honor. ”

"Your Majesty, the award is about to begin." Liu Wu said beside Chen Ming. This is for the designers who have performed well in the construction of the project and the pacesetters in the construction army, and there are no prisoners in the labor camp. (To be continued.) )