Yunlong Lake in Xuzhou, formerly known as Shigou Lake, is surrounded by mountains in the east, west and south, and borders the urban area in the north. During the rainy season, floodwaters pour over the 60 square kilometres of upstream catchment area, posing a serious threat to the urban area. It's not just a threat of flooding, it's a swamp that is overflowing with rain during heavy rains, heavy rain, light rain, little waterlogging, dirty, smelly, and disgusting. Bacteria thrive in swamps and are a serious health hazard.

The base area is preparing to build a heavy industry center in Xuzhou, and if it is built on such a basis, it will inevitably be too miserable. At the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a lack of overall urban design and planning in China, so "adapting measures to local conditions" left many problems for the later urban transformation. Chen Ke certainly doesn't like forced demolition, and he also doesn't like nail households. In these years, the price of land is cheap, and if you can be more planned when planning, you can save countless demolition fees and countless troubles for the future government.

The dozen wagons of the temporary circular track were divided into four groups, each of which was equipped with a steam locomotive, barely a small train. Unfortunately, even with steam power, the thing didn't fully run on its own, and a bunch of people still had to help push the "train" when it came time to start. It is only by auxiliary power that the "train" can be effectively started.

In Chen Ke's view, the current situation is simply "miserable," but it has aroused great enthusiasm among the officers and soldiers and the masses who participated in the labor. Whenever it was time to start the "train", there was no need to greet it, and a group of people immediately went up to help push the train, and according to Chen Ke's observation, some laborers even waited there to rush to participate in this "activity".

The comrades who came to inspect Chen Ke were all veterans who had been working for many years, and the lively mentality of these guys pushing the train made the comrades' faces a little unbearable. Everyone knows that Chen Ke is not the kind of leader who is on top, and you can know what is going on at a glance in this situation. Everyone's eyes fell on Gu Lu, the engineering liaison staff officer who followed Chen Ke. Gu Lu said casually: "Chairman Chen, we don't want to take care of this matter now, everyone has never seen a train, and we want to join in the fun." I've pushed it myself several times. ”

"Haha." Chen Ke smiled, "Comrade Gu Lu, you have a very correct understanding. Do you get paid for pushing the train? ”

"I can't give it in this case. The troops are given allowances, and the earth is transported according to the amount of work. The comrades of our army will definitely not give money, as long as there is no accident, and they will make up for the fun. Gu Lu still replied calmly.

"As a liaison staff officer, what do you think of this project?" Chen Ke obviously didn't plan to let Gu Lu go easily.

"This project is different from the previous ones." Gu Lu didn't have any intention of dodging, he walked side by side with Chen Ke, and replied very seriously, "It is clearly written in the engineering design book that machinery and equipment are used to maximize transportation capacity. Now the key is that the machinery responsible for the transport can operate normally, and at the same time ensure the speed of digging, unloading, and damming. ”

This is the content of the assembly line in the junior high school politics textbook, and in the case of stable transmission, strengthening the management of input and output can effectively provide efficiency. Observing the entire Yunlong Lake construction site, you can clearly see these. Barely circular rails, small "trains" running back and forth. From digging pits, to drying soil, to damming, a cycle is formed. All the labor revolves around this set of transport lines.

"Minimizing the distance between each worker and traveling to and from is the most effective way to improve efficiency." Gu Lu, the engineering liaison staff officer, replied seriously.

Chen Ke liked Gu Lu's attitude very much, but this was not the reason why Gu Lu was promoted. Long before Gu Lu went to the construction site to become this liaison staff officer, his road to "soaring" already had a general trend.

Chen Ke carefully read Gu Lu's information, he was born in a mountain village in Henan, with 10 brothers and sisters, except for one who died young, they were all healthy and lively to adulthood, and they were three. As one of the few tenant farmers in the local area who owns a small plot of self-cultivated land, his family is not too bad. Therefore, he still has money to study in a private school for two years, and in addition to knowing hundreds of Chinese characters, he also learned a little abacus, which played a decisive role in his future life path.

As the old man's mother became seriously ill, the family began to decline. The money borrowed from the landlord slowly rolled into a huge number. The self-cultivated land was slowly transferred to the landlords. The family quickly fell to the bottom of society. I can't read books, and I have to work long hours for the landlord to pay off my debts. Soon, Gu Lu's second brother was beaten and bruised because he secretly brought the landlord's horse food home for his younger brothers and sisters to eat, and there was another sick number in the family.

Born hard, but educated, this is certainly one of the reasons why Gu Lu is highly valued. However, the change of people's destiny must depend on the changes of society. When Chen Ke opened up the Dabie Mountain base area, of course the local tyrants and gentry refused to sit idly by. As an existence in the downstream of history, Chen Ke also has his own opinions. That is, the party was too merciful in physically eliminating the local tyrants and inferior gentry back then, especially for those old literati, even if Chen Ke did his best to comply with the chairman, "The human head is not a leek, and it can't grow out if it is cut." ". But from the bottom of his heart, he thought it would be a pity to kill them all.

In this place, long before the intervention of the People's Party, there was a spontaneous land struggle movement. After the floods in Anhui in 1906, the People's Party had already sent people to the local area to make contact. After the large army entered the Dabie Mountain, the local land reform immediately showed the trend of dry firewood. Now that it has a mass base, the People's Party is extremely ruthless in dealing with the local tyrants and inferior gentry who dare to take arms against the people's revolution.

The landlords who ate people and did not spit out bones were shot by the people's government, and the land that had been robbed was returned. didn't say anything, in order to defend his land and his homeland, Gu Lu joined the Red Guards. It seems to be quite majestic to resist a shuttle standard, singing that the osmanthus flowers are blooming everywhere in August and fighting a few battles with the militia, and then he joined the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and was incorporated into Anqing's troops. There were 18 fellow villagers who joined the army with him. Among them are Gu Lu's three brothers, as well as five cousins.

At that time, there were many cases of the same clan serving as soldiers in the army, and these 18 people were divided into two, and the army sent a squad leader, and Gu Lu soon became the deputy squad leader. When the Liberation Society attacked Nanjing, Gu Lu's unit, as the escort of the medical team, fought fiercely with Wang Youhong with nearly 10,000 horses in the mountains of Nanjing. Although the troops eventually retreated, the battle was not treated as a defeat.

"Where's the engineering commander?" Chen Ke asked.

"At Command."

"Take me to see it."

The general headquarters of the project was set up on Yunlong Mountain, and Chai Qingguo, the general director of the project, was not surprised when he saw Chen Ke coming. He pulled out a drawing and asked, "Chairman Chen, are you really going to make a dozen city parks of such a size?" ”

Organizationally, it has been explained to Chai Qingguo that in the next few years, if there is no war, the main task of the troops will be to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in the entire Huaihai Province. In response to this change, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army even prepared to form two new arms, the engineering army and the railway army, to form a military structure of the field army, the engineering army, the railway army, the reserve force, and the militia.

Chai Qingguo naturally has no opinion on expanding the size of the army. It's just that the main task of the army is not to fight, which makes Chai Qingguo feel very uncomfortable. Chai Qingguo thinks it is understandable to build factories, mines, and houses in Xuzhou, but the large-scale construction of urban parks in Xuzhou makes Chai Qingguo a little confused.

When Chen Ke arrived at Yunlong Lake in the 21st century, it was already a very beautiful park. In the 21st century, people complained a lot about poor urban design, and cities began to build municipal governments one after another. The whole of China has become a big construction site, and because there is no overall plan, the city is demolished, built and demolished, not to mention the delay, and it also provides a bunch of opportunities for "performance projects".

Now that he has seen this situation, Chen Ke naturally refuses to repeat the mistakes of the past. He attaches great importance to the urban planning of the base area. Lao Tzu said in the Tao Te Ching, "Thirty spokes are a hub, when it has no use for a car." 埏埴 as a tool, when it has no use for the instrument. The chisel is a room, when it has no room. Therefore, some are used for profit, and nothing is used. As an urban construction, it is advisable to leave more "none" vacant land for future development.

Obviously, Chai Qingguo does not agree with Chen Ke's proposition, what he cares about is the "existence" that can exist now. This can't be said that Chai Qingguo is wrong, Lao Tzu also said "No, the beginning of the world; Yes, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is always nothing, and I want to see its wonders; Often, I want to see it. These two are the same and have different names, the same name is the mystery, the mystery is mysterious, and the door of all wonders. ”

The "nothingness" advocated by Chen Ke really has to be supplemented by comrades like Chai Qingguo who pursue "existence" in order to show its comprehensiveness. However, some comrades did not understand what was going on, and according to the very organized term, they were "not putting themselves in the right position", for example, Director Zhang of the Engineering Planning Division began to "support Chairman Chen Ke's viewpoint" and believed that it was right to leave a vacant space for use. He didn't know what was right, in the final analysis, only Chairman Chen Ke was right.

Both Chen Ke and Chai Qingguo changed their faces slightly. However, neither of them had a seizure, Chen Ke glanced at Gu Lu, but saw that Gu Lu didn't look interested in these at all, just waiting for Chen Ke and Chai Qingguo's orders very intently.

"Lao Chai, how about letting Comrade Gu Lu take me around?" Chen Ke said.

"You can't let him go, he's in charge of engineering liaison, and if the news doesn't work, you have to talk about him first." Chai Qingguo said a little angrily.

The liaison staff officer is equivalent to the director of the office in civil affairs, and his position does not seem to be high, and his real power does not seem to be large, but it is a very delicate position. First of all, the work is cumbersome, and a myriad of problems are summed up on the liaison staff officers, and if one is not careful, he can misreport the situation of the evening newspaper, which is immediately a matter of responsibility. It's impossible to think of a mistake in this position.

However, this position allows the cadres to fully understand the structure of the entire organization. Chai Qingguo seems to be angry, but he actually takes care of Gu Lu and takes it seriously. The reason why Gu Lu went to greet Chen Ke was because Gu Lu was a liaison staff officer. Now Gu Lu is not allowed to take Chen Ke around to inspect, also because Gu Lu is a liaison staff officer.

"Then you'll have to send someone to me." Chen Ke asked.

"Why don't you let Director Zhang take you around?" Chai Qingguo gave Chen Ke what he thought was dispensable.