Chapter 12 Highway Planning
"This road in Sichuan is really difficult to repair! Shu Road is difficult......" Wen Desi looked at the sand table in front of him and the survey data in his hand, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
He is now in the headquarters office of the Menkantan Industrial Zone, and is thinking about building a road.
In order not to expose the base of the office building, Wen Desi asked the maintenance machine and the biochemical people to add a layer of camouflage to the base shell, mainly making a porous shell out of cement, then covering it with a layer of soil, and finally planting some vines and mosses. Only a few portals remained, and of course the portals were properly camouflaged, and a fence was built outside the base, a cordon was set up, guarded 24 hours a day by 3o cyborgs.
Because of this, Wen Deji also set up a daily work location outside the base, a two-story wooden office building, which is also the nominal temporary headquarters of Xingke Company.
That's right, just temporary headquarters. In fact, not only is this headquarters building temporary, but all buildings in the entire industrial zone are currently temporary, including but not limited to staff quarters and camps.
This is also no way, Wen Deji has only been here for 2 months, and it is completely insufficient to build a formal building in this era. At this time, there are no modular fast buildings that later generations have, and a building can be built in a week.
Now the entire industrial area is full of wooden houses, of course, this kind of wooden houses are not traditional wooden buildings, but also epoch-making products. This is a modular wood-paneled house that Wen Deji redesigned for his subordinates based on the mobile houses of later generations. The appearance of this new style of wood-paneled house is similar to that of later generations of mobile houses, with modular design and standardized production, but the color steel sandwich board is replaced by wooden planks.
In order to ensure the standard, Mr. Wen arranged a group of biochemical people to go to various carpenter workshops to supervise the production, and also brought a batch of standard measuring tools.
Because it is modular, this kind of wooden prefabricated mobile house is very fast to install, at the beginning, 6 workers can install a standard dormitory room in one day, and later, the skilled workers can install a building in half a day, which is as simple as building blocks, so that those workers are amazed. A complex building like the headquarters office building was completed in just three days by a dozen workers.
Of course, this kind of wood-plank mobile house can only be said to be able to block the wind and rain, and don't expect it to be gorgeous and comfortable.
Therefore, the construction of the industrial zone was extremely fast, and it only took 6 days to complete all the houses in the dormitory area, warehouse area and office area. However, it took more than a month to prepare those planks and wooden pillars, which was completed after hundreds of carpenter workshops in more than a dozen nearby cities worked overtime.
However, the place to live can be made with a wooden house, but the factory can't be played like this, and it is still a formal house.
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Wen Desi has always felt that "if you want to get rich, build roads first" is a wise saying.
Especially when he saw the current extremely difficult traffic situation, he felt that this sentence was really a wise saying.
Therefore, after Wen Desi bought the site, the first thing he planned was to build roads. His plan was to build a road from Menkantan to Neijiang County and the interior of the Menkantan base. And then extend to both sides, one side to Weiyuan County, where there are rich coal and iron resources, and the later generations of Weigang are here. On the other side, it extends to Longchang and Zizhong (then called Zizhou), which has resources such as coal, limestone, quartz sand, shale, phosphate and pyrite.
Gu Xiaolu and the others were still dutiful, and when he was still in Shanghai, the road here had already begun to be built. However, the road construction workers at that time were all found temporarily and did not go through quarantine. Now that quarantine has begun, all the people who have been lured by high salaries and are willing to work as regular workers will be driven into the quarantine camp, and the construction will continue after the quarantine is completed.
So the road work was halted for the time being, but he felt that it was worth it.
There is no way, the level of hygiene in China in this era is too poor, epidemics are rampant, and there are plagues several times a year, and the cold historical records on the computer can make Wen Desi's scalp numb. In this era, people's hygiene habits are also very poor, and most people have little awareness of personal and environmental hygiene, and they do not have that habit, which further exacerbates the epidemic of epidemics. This is true not only of the Chinese, but of course people from other countries are no better, or even worse.
Therefore, he put the health and epidemic prevention work in a very important position, otherwise there would be a plague in his industrial area, and the fun would be great.
Of course, quarantine work does not have to be shaved head. Wen Desi did this for three reasons, the first is for the sake of his appetite, the kind of "pig tail" type can't eat when he looks at it. The second is that it is convenient and trouble-free to carry out quarantine and kill lice, and it is clear at a glance. The third is to reduce the probability of accidental casualties, this kind of ** type from the slave society, is not suitable for the industrial age at all, because the braid is entangled in the machine, and there are countless examples of death, mutilation and injury.
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"Mr. Wen, Wei Sunan, chief engineer of the Ministry of Construction, is here......" the secretary said.
"Okay, tell him to come in......" Wen Desi's eyes were still staring at the sand table.
After a while, a young man in a suit walked in.
"Boss, you call me ......" As soon as he saw the sand table, he was shocked.
The guy pounced at once and said excitedly, "...... It's, is this the sand table of the whole industrial area? It's so fine, it's incredible, I've never seen such a fine sand table in the United States......"
"Well, if you need it, I'll ask someone to send you one, and I'll call you here, but it's not to see this......" Wen Deji was a little speechless. He can also understand that the sand table is rarely used for planning in these years. Not to mention the sand table with the 23rd century mapping technology and the 3D printing mechanism.
Wei Sunan said happily: "Oh, I need it so much, thank you boss." With this thing, it's much easier to plan......"
Wen Deji asked, "Well, how is your body recovering?"
Wei Sunan said gratefully: "Oh, thank you very much to the company for giving me treatment, I have no problem at all now, and I can start working immediately......"
This Wei Sunan is the turtle who was found to have congenital heart disease, and he doesn't know it yet. He is a second-generation overseas Chinese in the United States, a master's degree in civil engineering from Cornell University, after graduating in 19o1, he worked in the United States for several years in road and bridge engineering, and was arranged to work in the Ministry of Engineering after returning to China the year before last, but because he did not agree with his boss, the phase was too poor, and he was kicked out of the Ministry of Engineering in less than half a year, and let him go to the river Yamen as a river official.
"Lao Tzu obviously studied civil engineering, isn't it nonsense that you asked Lao Tzu to govern the Yellow River?" What's more, the Yellow River governor at that time, if the background was not strong enough, was basically synonymous with "black pot" and "scapegoat". Wei Sunan is also arrogant, he can stand this kind of bird spirit, not to mention that he didn't like the Qing court in the first place, so he simply quit and resigned.
Later, he worked as a construction engineer at Shanghai Merchants Bureau, and when Mr. Wen was recruiting in Shanghai, he changed jobs. On the one hand, the salary is twice as much, the second is that the work in Sichuan is more challenging, which suits his appetite, and the third is that he thinks that Xingke Company has just been established and there is a lack of talents, so he can speak better here. In addition, the boss here is also a Chinese American, and he feels that the same background should have more common language.
Sure enough, after the operation was completed, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Construction, with full responsibility for the infrastructure of the entire industrial zone.
Although there are also talents in this area among the cyborgs, they are even much higher than Wei Sunan in terms of theoretical level, after all, the knowledge they have been instilled with is more than 3oo more advanced than now. However, it should be noted that this is only a theoretical level, science and engineering are different from liberal arts, and they cannot be solved by theory alone, and a lot of practice is required to turn theoretical knowledge into real talent.
And what the biochemical engineers under Mr. Wen lacked most was practice, but Wei Sunan had practical experience, so Wen Desi decided to make him the chief engineer. Besides, the Chinese who could become a master's degree at Cornell University in that era were definitely bulls, and they couldn't get a master's degree without some real skills, and the "Chinese Exclusion Act" was not an ornament.
"That's good! The body is the capital of the revolution, so you must pay attention to it. Wen Deji said casually.
"The capital of the revolution?" Wei Sunan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "May I ask the boss, are you a revolutionary party?"
Wen Desi smiled and said, "Revolutionary Party? No, I am not a revolutionary party...... Okay, let's not talk about this now, I came to you for the infrastructure of the industrial zone, what do you have to build......"
Seeing that Mr. Wen changed the topic, Wei Sunan was a little disappointed, so he took out a copy of Wen Jiàn from his briefcase and said: "Boss, after a field trip a few days ago, I have made a preliminary planning plan, you can take a look at ......"
"Oh......" Wen Deji took Wen Jiàn and looked at it.
Half an hour later, Wen Desi finished reading the plan and asked, "Chief Engineer Wei, I have finished reading your plan." But I have a question, why are the roads you plan all mud and gravel? There is a lot of rain in Sichuan, so there is no problem with this kind of road surface?"
"Oh, it's such a ......" As soon as the profession was mentioned, Wei Sunan came to the spirit. "Boss, you originally wanted to build the road into a concrete or asphalt road......"
"Yes, both roads are not afraid of rain and are clean ......," Mr. Moon-hee said.
"Boss, you're right, these two roads are indeed not afraid of rain......" Wei Sunan smiled, revealing an expression that you are a layman. Now in the Chinese market, a barrel of cement is 9 to 1o yuan, which is equivalent to about 51-57 yuan per ton (at that time, a barrel of cement was 175 kilograms), and asphalt is cheaper, about 2 yuan per barrel, which is equivalent to about 13 yuan per ton (a barrel of asphalt is about 16o kilograms). ”
"If you think about it, you need at least 65o tons of cement per kilometer, or 5oo tons of asphalt. According to my preliminary estimates, the total length of our first phase of the road is about 68 kilometers...... Even if your funds are not a problem, but at present, there is no cement plant in Sichuan, let alone asphalt, and it has to be transported from Shanghai to Neijiang, so it is not easy to solve such a large amount of transportation. ”
"Another point is that with the current state of transportation, there is no need to build such a good road, and the traffic here is not so large. In my opinion, with the company's current situation, the mud and stone pavement is the most suitable. As for the rainwater you're worried about, just drain it well. Set up side ditches and arrange qualified Taoist classes for timely maintenance. It's not a problem at all, please trust the professionals......" Wei Sunan said confidently.
At the same time, he also slandered Wen Deji in his heart as a loser. Nima, also all-cement pavement, the United States at this time all-cement pavement is less than 1ooo kilometers.
"Well, okay, then let's go according to your plan......" Wen Deji thought about it, and still believed the experts, after all, he was really a layman in this area.
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