On the other side, in the office of the Maybe.

"What's the situation? Are they trying to use this project to compare our Los Angeles-San Francisco project? ”

Houston looked at the live broadcast in front of him in amazement, and for a while he didn't know what kind of reaction he should take.

And opposite him, the assistant nodded slightly, and replied in a calm voice:

"It seems like this at the moment-—— but I can't figure out why they did it."

"As things stand, we have an advantage in every aspect, and such a comparison will only make their disadvantages even greater."

"It could even be said that this was a suicidal propaganda ploy."

"They're not going to get results, they're just going to do what we're supposed to do."

"To be honest, if it weren't for their program, we would have planned to report on the progress of their Beijing-Guangzhou railway construction in parallel."

Hearing his assistant's words, Houston fell silent with a furrowed brow.

What exactly are these Chinese people going to do?

As the assistant said, the Los Angeles-San Francisco high-speed rail project is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the United States in the past decade, and the investment in it is one of the few in the world.

The federal government has even delayed the renovation of the New York subway over the next 10 years in order to keep the project on schedule.

In this case, the allocation of resources in everything in the Los Angeles-San Francisco project can be said to be top-notch.

What do you mean by that?

If you put enough spices in your dish, it will taste great even if it's a leather shoe.

This is the case with the high-speed rail project.

With the protection of many resources, success is not surprising, but failure is incredible.

Therefore, in the face of this situation, their best choice should be to avoid its edge.

How could it be that instead of retreating, they rushed up in a daze?

Could it be that they have other killer features?

Thinking of this, Houston asked:

"Has the other party's project been investigated clearly? Did they receive any other assistance? ”

"I mean, did they get further support from Siemens, Kawasaki Heavy Industries or Alstom?"

"Nope."

The assistant shook his head and replied.

"According to the current information, Huaxia's cooperation with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Alstom and Bombardier is within the scope of the contract."

"These three companies will not directly send personnel to participate in the construction of the project, but only provide technical assistance."

"In this case, their engineering efficiency is basically predictable-—— just be predictable based on the progress of previous projects."

"Three months. True, if a general mobilization is taken into account, they should be able to complete the project, but it will certainly not be possible to do it better than ours. ”

"That's weird."

Houston couldn't help but scratch his head.

What kind of trouble is this?

After thinking for a moment, he sighed heavily.

If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it.

"Notify our publicity department and broadcast their show live."

"Weights. Try to do so with the weight of the Los Angeles high-speed rail project. ”

"Since they want to use it as a backdrop for us, then we have no reason to refuse, let's make their backdrop more prominent."

"Understood, I'll do it."

With that, the assistant left the office.

And Houston, who was still in the office, couldn't help but feel uneasy one after another

At the same time, the Los Angeles high-speed rail project site.

Evans is just an ordinary construction worker, and it is a pure coincidence that he participated in this high-speed rail project, but what he didn't expect was that he had just arrived at the construction site and became the focus of the whole project.

There is no other reason, just because, his image is really outstanding.

Under the neat overalls are well-developed muscles, the face is contoured, and the golden hair is slightly curled, as if the ancient Greek sculpture came to the world.

Especially when he swung his hammer and smashed it into the railroad tracks on the ground, the sense of power that erupted almost made the reporters present look at Venus.

——

This is true for both men and women.

Because, this is the individual characterization of the typical "American power".

Who can resist such an image?

Even if you are a reasonable person, after seeing him, you can't help but take a few more looks, right?

Therefore, after the live broadcast began, the on-site director immediately made adjustments to the original live broadcast plan, and shifted the focus of the original plan on the project to him.

Interviews and follow-up filming have already been arranged, and even the script has been written by someone.

Now, Evans' real job is to get up on time every day to go to the construction site, and then spend an hour memorizing the script of the day, and "acting" the live broadcast according to the director's requirements.

——

That's exactly what he's doing at the moment.

Evans swung his hammer and slammed it into the rails beneath him, and the camera slowly approached, first giving a panoramic view of the construction site and then locking onto the muscles of his arm.

Then, the camera pans down, giving a close-up of the Martian railroad tracks.

The picture can be said to be perfect.

After all the elements were filmed, the camera finally swept to his face.

And at this moment, the rising sun behind him happened to give his side face a golden light.

The reporter who had been waiting for a long time hurriedly handed over the microphone and asked:

"Evans, how is work today?"

Evans carried the hammer in one hand, raised his left hand to wipe the sweat, and then replied:

"Very good, Miss Ruth."

"You know, we've always had a good job."

"The technology is very advanced, there are some equipment and tools that I have never even seen-—— you know, I am an experienced worker, but everything here is still beyond my imagination."

"Can you elaborate on that?"

Reporter Ruth asked, following the script that had been prepared long ago.

"Of course."

"Look, behind me, it's a shield machine in transit."

"It's a big guy, and it's going to be sent to the hill a kilometer away and dig a tunnel in the mountain."

"In 10 days, in just 10 days, he was able to dig a 200-meter-long tunnel."

"It's unimaginable. You know, such a tunnel, in my father's generation, would have taken almost a lifetime of them. ”

"Remarkable! What about you? Do you feel lost because of this? ”

Ruth continued.

"Lost? Of course not. ”

Evans' face was full of surprise.

Of course, such surprise is just a fake.

"I don't need to be disappointed about it, in fact, I'm proud of it."

"You've also noticed that my work hasn't gone away because of it, on the contrary, it's made my work more valuable."

"I just need to focus on my own things, like smashing the rails."

"In the last two hours, my friends and I have finished laying 60 meters of rails, an average of 30 meters per hour, which is remarkable."

"It's unbelievable. How long else are you going to work here? ”

"Who knows?"

Evans shrugged his shoulders and continued to reply:

"I'll keep doing it as long as it's needed here."

"Or I'm going to keep doing it as long as America needs me."

"May God bless us!"

As Ruth's last line is finished, the camera immediately cuts away, and this successful live broadcast is over.

Everyone in the room high-fived each other in celebration, and Evans was finally able to put down the hammer and return to the cool room to rest

This live broadcast was quickly reposted on domestic websites, and the reaction of netizens can be said to be exactly the same as expected by the US side.

"The quality of American workers is indeed much stronger than ours, you look at the big muscle mass of others, do we have such muscle mass in the construction site?"

"No way, the income level is different, we all eat carbohydrates, they eat all kinds of meat and protein, can they develop the same?"

"Indeed. It's not just a matter of physique, but I feel like I'm also very cognitive. Although he does not have a high degree of education, he is very decent in both speech and performance. ”

"It can be seen that the other party is indeed much better than us in basic education."

"Who are our migrant workers? Forget it, let's not talk about this topic. ”

"What can't we talk about? Today, the official also released the live video of the first episode of the program, you can watch it for yourself, the gap is not a little bit. ”

"Really? Then I'll have to whip the corpse quickly. ”

As the comments continue to be refreshed, in Huaxia, the popularity of the first phase of the Beijing-Shi section of the high-speed railway has also begun to rise rapidly, and the moment you see the video, the comments on the Internet almost immediately began to slide towards an irreversible abyss.

The gap is just too big

Compared with the U.S., there is no such thing as a clean and tidy construction site.

Judging from the footage taken at the scene, the construction section is full of messy building materials and excavated mounds of earth, and the rustic blue partition board separates the construction site from the farmland not far away, because it has rained, the ground is still flowing with muddy water, and even the host's trouser legs are covered with mud.

The EPBMs, which were supposed to be the main event, were completely absent and replaced with simple and almost rudimentary tools of work.

Hammers, shovels, twine.

All this combined makes one wonder if these people are building not a high-speed railway, but a steam train route from the 20s of the last century.

And the filming methods of the official media are even more unpleasant.

They also chose a protagonist to follow, but the image of that protagonist was far less than that of Evans in the United States, but an ordinary worker with skinny skin and a dirty hard hat.

According to the video footage, the worker's name is Wang Tiezhu.

——

Even the name is earthy to the extreme.

In the picture, his day at the construction site can almost be said to be rushed to the extreme.

When the camera focused on him, he was laboriously lifting the unqualified prefabricated slabs to the edge of the roadbed with his co-workers.

The veins on his neck bulged, and his uncontoured arms looked even thinner against the thick prefabricated concrete slabs.

"Master, master, what are you doing here?"

The reporter asked.

"Lay the rails!"

Wang Tiezhu replied simply.

Then, with a trumpet, the prefabricated slab was thrown to the ground to the edge of the roadbed.

"We know it's railroad tracks, can you tell us more about that?"

Wang Tiezhu took the sweat-stained towel from his neck and wiped his face, then took a breath and said:

"According to the requirements of the construction standard, the laying accuracy of the ballastless track should reach the standard of plus or minus 1 mm, or 1,500 percent."

"This is just a simple laying, and then we will continue to dock and adjust."

"That, little girl, your guys stand back and block the work surface."

In the picture, the reporter took a step back in a bit of a panic, with a slightly embarrassed look on his face.

But she soon adjusted, and continued to ask:

"Master, what instruments do you use to measure accuracy? How do you ensure that the measurement is accurate? ”

"There are many high-precision spirit gauges, profile gauges, and slope gauges. But it's not us who test, the worker in the back test. ”

"Lao Liu! Come over and interview the reporter! ”

Wang Tiezhu's tone was a little stiff, and before the reporter could react, he hurriedly ran away again.

The live broadcast was quickly cut to another reporter, who was interviewing the chief engineer of the project.

However, at this moment, the audience who are watching the show does not seem to have much interest.

"The gap is too big, and the gap in the quality of workers is too big."

"And so we said we were going to finish it in three months? Do you still want to compare with Lao Mei? What a joke! ”

"There is no shield machine, at least there must be an excavator, right?"

"There are excavators, but the scene is not cut. To be reasonable, this construction site is too chaotic, it's like a war."

"Upstairs, there is a saying, the normal construction site is like this, although you look chaotic, but everything has a fixed position, this is what an efficient construction site looks like."

"Hehehe, are you still comforting yourself here? High efficiency? Can it still be efficient? ”

"Don't talk about it, is it so difficult to admit that others are strong?"

Posts and comments are constantly refreshed on the forum, although there is no live webcast at this time, let alone a barrage, but no one who follows this matter will miss these comments.

The doubts rose higher and higher, but at this moment, the live broadcast screen cut back to Wang Tiezhu.

Just over half an hour had passed, and he was already dirtier.

And at this time, the reporter finally asked the key question.

"Master, how much can you do today?"

"What? What how much? ”

Wang Tiezhu asked puzzledly:

"That's it, how many meters of railroad tracks can you lay in a day?"

"Oh, about 500 meters, and when more large machinery enters the site in the future, the gantry crane and track laying machine are ready, and it can be raised to one thousand meters."

"Of course, this is only a preliminary laying, and there will be more to come."

"You wait first."

The reporter interrupted Wang Tiezhu's words and asked in a surprised tone:

"How many meters did you just say?"

"1000 meters. An average of 125 meters per hour. ”

Wang Tiezhu straightened up slightly, his waist was a little rickety, and his posture was not majestic at all.

He just asked, confused:

"What's wrong? Is there a problem? ”

(End of chapter)