Chapter 133 Completion of Hydropower Station
The matter regarding the selection of Xingang's military chief was like dropping a pebble in a pond. Although it stirred up a little splash, there were no follow-up reports from relevant departments, and the situation quickly calmed down again. And Meng He, who had been clamoring to overthrow the Military and Police Department and dig out the truth, suddenly lost his temper. Not only did he withdraw the press release that was pinned to the top of the forum, but he also rejected Luo Wudan's request to dig into the inside story of the matter and let her Turn your attention to reporting on the overseas base preparations that are currently in full swing.
Although Luo Wudan also questioned Meng He, Meng He remained silent and did not want to mention Qian Tiandun's matter again. When Luo Wudan went to the carpentry to look for Qian Tiandun again, he found that he had been transferred out of here. It was said that he had gone to the recruit camp to recruit people, so he reluctantly gave up. The new barracks is a military restricted area to the outside world. Even those who travel through time need permission from the Military and Police Department to enter, and it is obviously impossible for Luo Wudan to obtain such qualifications now.
Soon there was another real big event that occupied the front page of the forum. All the gossip news had to give way in front of this incident. Even Luo Wudan had to obey the arrangement and bring his recorder and DV. , go to the scene for interviews.
On July 7, 1627, May 25, the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, the Tiandu River Hydropower Station project, which took a total of 82 days, was finally announced to be completed.
Although Liu Shanxia from the Ministry of Construction promised to complete the project before the flood season, in fact the flood season had quietly arrived at the end of June. Fortunately, the main body of the dam had been completed by that time, and only the hoisting work of the generator had not yet been completed. The slightly rising river water did not cause too much trouble to the project builders. Because the entire project process went smoothly, and the final completion time was within the planned construction period, no one would pursue the military order Liu Shanxia had issued before the start of construction.
The designed installed capacity of Tianduhe Hydropower Station is two 150KW tilt-type hydroelectric generators, with a total maximum power of 300KW. The reason why two smaller power generators are equipped instead of directly using a 320KW Francis turbine generator in the warehouse is also to consider the convenience of maintenance and repair of the two generators. Otherwise, once there is a problem with the generator during operation, the entire power supply system will fall into complete paralysis.
This installed capacity is naturally pitifully small from the perspective of future generations, but considering that this is the first hydropower station that is actually put into use in this time and space, and it has advanced the appearance of hydropower stations by more than two hundred years in history, the time travelers are completely We can proudly regard this small hydropower station as Zentraedi technology that spans the ages. With the electricity provided by this hydropower station, the technical level of metallurgy, machining, chemical engineering and other projects will be qualitatively improved in a short period of time, and this improvement cannot be achieved by relying on manpower. Later historians believe that the Chuanchuan Group really started You can start counting from now on by widening the gap with your contemporary competitors.
The Tianduhe Hydropower Station does not end here in the energy planning of the Chuanchuan Group. This is just the first experimental field for hydropower development by the Chuanchuan Group. When conditions are ripe, the Ministry of Construction will start the construction of a second hydropower station on a hillside just a few hundred meters away from this hydropower station. This hydropower station, built on the original site of the later Songhe Reservoir, will be larger than the Tianduhe Small Hydropower Station. , the designed installed capacity has reached more than 1200KW, which is enough to supply the future power demand of the Tiandu River upstream industrial zone. In the long-term plan, relevant departments have even included the two water systems of Sanya River and Linchun River in urban Sanya, as well as the two large reservoirs Banling Reservoir and Shuyuandi Reservoir on the edge of the urban area, into hydropower planning. among.
When the foundation stone of the hydropower station was laid and construction started, the executive committee did not hold any decent celebration ceremony. However, the completion of the hydropower station is of great significance to the future development of Chuanchuan Group. In order to boost morale and cheer up, the executive committee temporarily went through a formality this time. We held a small ribbon-cutting ceremony to adhere to the communist line. For this reason, most construction sites and units have declared a day off, which also gives local workers the opportunity to see the leadership of Chuangchuang Group.
The arrangements for this holiday were very effective. More than a thousand people came from nearby places to watch, so much so that the Military and Police Department had to transfer all the first batch of trainees from the recruit camp to the venue to maintain order. In order to avoid chaos, the executive committee had to temporarily cancel the plan to play firecracker recordings through loudspeakers - if chaos broke out, it would immediately be a major accident that killed many people and injured many people. There was no need to take this risk for the celebration.
The local workers who were watching naturally didn’t understand why the leaders of the Haihan people stood in a row and cut a red cloth belt. However, when they heard the news that everyone would be provided with free meat for dinner tonight, the workers also shouted excitedly. When they roared, many people imitated the Haihan people's way of celebrating and clapped vigorously to show their joy. And this is not the only good news waiting for them. Tao Donglai also announced at the ribbon-cutting ceremony that the Third Commune Carpentry Commune and the Fourth Commune Construction Commune will start recruiting people from now on. The carpentry commune mainly recruits local workers who have previously worked in wood workshops, charcoal kilns, wood drying rooms, shipyards, and logging teams, while the construction commune mainly recruits people who have been working on construction sites such as hydropower stations, factories, iron mines, etc., as well as those who participated in The local laborers who built the simple road from Victory Port to Base No. 2 will also be recruited to recruit a small number of people with certain professional labor skills to supplement the two communes on the farm and salt farm to make up for the shortage of young people recruited from the communes in the second phase of the new military camp. .
This good news caused a round of applause from the audience. Since the Chuanhuan Group implemented the policy of labor hierarchy, local workers have begun to be divided into internal and external. The "inside" refers to those who have obtained commune membership qualifications and moved their families into the commune collective living area, while the "outside" refers to They are local workers who have not yet obtained commune membership qualifications.
Internally, Cross Travel Group provides its members with high welfare benefits. Not only are they provided with free accommodation and three meals a day, but medical and education expenses will also be reduced or exempted based on the member’s labor grade, and there will also be monthly remuneration. A small amount of circulating coupons were issued as wages.
Externally, ordinary local workers naturally cannot receive these benefits. No matter which unit they work in, they will only provide food during working hours, and they can only eat themselves morning and night. Medical care and education are no longer completely free as they were when the Haihan people first arrived. Moreover, the prices of ironware, salt, and grain sold by Haihan people have recently begun to rise slightly, which is undoubtedly bad news for the already poor locals. But these changes have no impact on the commune members at all. According to rumors from those who have relatives who have joined the commune, iron farm tools in the commune are distributed uniformly without spending money to buy them. The same is true for grain. As for salt, it is said that each member of the commune can buy it every month. You can all receive two taels of refined salt as a reward for working hard, and you will save at least one tael of silver this year!
What makes local workers most angry is that no matter how many months they work under Haihan people, their wages remain unchanged. As long as you join a commune and become a member, your salary will immediately increase, and you can also accumulate labor points to upgrade your level. It is said that some of the first fishermen to enter the commune have been promoted to third-level workers and can serve as foremen on construction sites. Their corresponding salary packages are already three times that of ordinary workers. This has made many people jealous of the precious membership qualifications. .
Due to various differential treatments, local workers have been looking forward to joining the commune as soon as possible and becoming a glorious Haihan member. However, the Haihan people stopped recruiting members after recruiting them twice, and they have only maintained two communes. preparation. In order to obtain better living conditions, many young people had to choose another path and sign up to join the militia organized by the Haihan people. Although joining the militia is a good way out. You will be provided with food, housing and salary, your family members can join the commune, and you will be directly qualified as a commune member after retiring. However, for people with families and houses, many people are still unwilling to take the risk. He took the risk of serving as a soldier in exchange for this qualification.
Now that Chuanchuan Group has opened the door to the commune again, local workers with normal thinking skills are not willing to miss this opportunity to join the commune. If they fail to get in this time, who knows when the Haihan people will recruit members again next time. Moreover, smarter people will realize that there are currently as many as a thousand local workers working on various construction sites who have not yet obtained commune membership qualifications. According to the establishment of Haihan people, it is definitely impossible for the two communes to recruit so many people. A considerable number of people will fail in this competition. The only way to increase the possibility of success is to register as early as possible, so as soon as the ribbon-cutting ceremony ended, the registration office of the commune on the other side was already overcrowded, and the Military and Police Department even had to urgently mobilize a platoon. Security guards are deployed to maintain order at the registration point.
After completing the Tiandu River Hydropower Station project, Chuanchuan Group's labor shortage that lasted for several months has finally been alleviated. Next, a large number of laborers liberated from the hydropower station construction site will be put into the construction of nearby factories. The large-scale mechanical processing equipment that had been stored on the "New World" also began to be unloaded piece by piece, and these large iron lumps were transported from Victory Port to the inland industrial area on specially reinforced flat-bed ox carts. In the next two to three months, large-scale factory building construction projects in industrial areas will be the main theme of Chuanchuan Group.
However, during this period, the labor force will first be transferred to another place for large-scale collective work, that is, the farm in the Tiandu River Valley. According to the arrangements of the Ministry of Agriculture, local food crop cultivation will adopt a structure of mainly two-crop rice, supplemented by a small amount of miscellaneous grains. Now it is already July, and the rice that was rushed to be planted after crossing has reached the harvest season. After that, the land must be plowed and sown for the second season of rice in the second half of the year.
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