Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Great Construction

Xia Jun wrote a very positive letter in the past, and Li Shijing's whole heart suddenly became full after receiving the letter, and there was no longer any hesitation before.

Soon Xia Jun and Li Shijing called for a love token, which was a strand of hair. and agreed that when Li Shilin came back, Xia Jun would immediately go to propose.

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Just when Xia Jun was building a factory in northern Fujian and overhauling roads, the banking group of Britain, France, Germany and the United States forced Qing Zhengaxe to sign a contract for borrowing money to repair roads.

If the great powers wanted to gain more benefits in China, they also needed roads, and railways were a key link in this.

With the railroads, the Great Powers could transport China's raw materials to China for processing, and then dump the products over a wider area, further plundering China's wealth.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty was building the railway, the gentry and peasants in Sichuan generally bought the railway stocks, and then the Manchu Qing nationalized the railway and refused to return the road construction money, thus triggering the Road Protection Movement.

The Baolu Movement can be said to be the prelude to the Xinhai Revolution!

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In the northwest Fujian region of Jianning Mansion and Shaowu Mansion, construction was everywhere at this time.

After Xia Jun's points skyrocketed, he exchanged more than 500 engineering vehicles, and the exchange price of each engineering vehicle was more than 500, spending Xia Jun 300,000 points.

These excavators, road rollers, bulldozers, scrapers, graders, truck-mounted cranes and other engineering vehicles can greatly increase construction efficiency and save labor input.

Other mixers and other construction machinery that do not require any technical content are very cheap, a mixer that can mix 100 kilograms of concrete only needs 10 points, Xia Jun exchanged more than 1,000 units.

With the arrival of a large number of these construction machinery and construction vehicles, the technical school in Xixiang has also become very busy.

Construction is also going on everywhere, and due to the expansion of the production capacity of paper mills and the manufacture of acetate, reeds alone are no longer sufficient.

Therefore, it is necessary to go up the mountain to cut wood, and it is necessary to open a road up the mountain.

This kind of road to the mountain as long as the tractor can pass on the line, although the amount of work is small, but to open a lot of roads, the amount of work will be more.

At the same time, the roads below the mountain should also be repaired, and the roads below the mountains are between the villages, and some of these roads have already begun to be paved with concrete roads.

The cement road was centered on Xixiang and paved in the direction of Dongfeng, Dongyou, Jianyang, etc., without stopping for a moment, and those captured bandits were the main workers.

These bandits were not mistreated, they worked hard, they were able to eat some meat every once in a while, and they had no problem feeding every ton. Therefore, many of those bandits can work in peace of mind, and they can be free after two years of labor reform.

Since Xia Jun transferred five companies back to northwest Fujian, the number of local garrisons has increased recently, and the capital and agriculture have become more frequent.

In addition, the security regiment often sends doctors to the township to treat the people for free, and those medicines are redeemed by Xia Jun directly from the system.

The exchange price of medicine is also the same as that of agriculture, it is a very cheap type, Xia Jun's points skyrocketed, and he immediately released the exchange.

After all, there is a return on investment.

Hydropower stations are also being built intensively, and another 10 small hydropower stations in Xixiang are under construction, and these small hydropower stations are being built very quickly.

Xia Jun, who had points in his hand, went to Jianxi to inspect it, and then found Xu Wenbo and Wu Bingkong, planning to build a hydropower station with a power generation capacity of 1 million kilowatt hours in Jianxi.

The hydropower resources in the Minjiang River basin are very abundant, and the water flow of the tributary Jianxi is even more turbulent, and the entire Minjiang River has a very huge potential for power generation. In later generations, the conventional hydropower stations in the Minjiang River basin were the largest in East China, and the power generation was also the largest.

Factories are coming up one after another, and electricity is a problem.

In particular, it is necessary to build an arsenal in the future, which is extremely power-consuming, and the construction of the hydropower station requires a certain period of time, so it must be built early.

Most of the equipment is semi-automated, and it doesn't need much technology, but even if it's semi-automated, it's a leading level.

Liu Jinshan's funds were not returned at this time, and he sent a telegram saying that he could not eat this month's paper, so Xia Jun began to sell paper to the outside world.

Cotton cloth has also been produced, but it has not yet been sold to the outside world.

The cotton cloth produced by the textile factory is of very high quality, and the production cost is low, but there is no dyeing factory, and it is a semi-finished product.

The equipment Xia Jun directly exchanged it for him, and exchanged a batch of dyes from the system, and the dyeing factory was quickly set up.

The textile mill can be said to be a one-stop down, directly into finished cotton cloth, the cost of finished cotton cloth is at least 50% lower than the market.

However, if it is sold in China, it will be taxed, and the Manchu tax checkpoints are everywhere, most of which are done by local officials, and the cost of being taxed by them can be 10% lower than the cost of foreign cloth.

If the cigarette factory is external, then the textile factory is internal.

The cigarette factories were in a monopoly position, and the textile factories were in a state of competition, with the aim of regaining the market, defeating foreign goods, and curbing the dumping of foreign goods.

The first batch of cotton cloth in the dyeing factory poured directly into the markets of the counties and towns in northwest Fujian, and immediately defeated the foreign cloth, and the government in the northwest of Fujian has no administrative power, and the card collection of taxes outside the city is not to be considered, these cotton cloth is in a tax-free state to enter the market, and the freight is very low, with such a huge cost advantage, and the advantage of better quality, the foreign cloth has no competitiveness at all.

Paper and cotton cloth are the main products of Xixiang at present, due to the huge reserves of building materials in Fujian, the output of cement factories is increasing, and it will not be long before they can be used for export.

In June, Xia Jun exchanged a large number of engineering vehicles, built a large hydropower station in Jianxi, improved roads everywhere, and exchanged tens of thousands of tractors to various towns and villages.

Only 400,000 points of more than 1 million points are used, and the money is even more watery, and a large number of laborers are simply not enough for those bandits.

Construction, running schools, and military salaries have spent nearly 200,000 silver dollars a month, and the amount of construction continues to increase.

This is a poor and white China, and at the same time, it is also a Fujian province with inconvenient transportation, and these investments are necessary to develop industry in this place.

Fortunately, Xia Jun has an exchange platform in his hand, and under his kind of large-scale construction, the traffic situation of Jianning Mansion and Shaowu Mansion is changing rapidly.

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On Monday, it's time to hit the charts!

Tickets! 100,000 urgent!