Chapter 2424
Considering that the Miaoli area is still in the dry season and the water level of Houlong River is much lower than that in the rainy season, the erection height of the bridge must also take into account the shipping needs in the rainy season. Liu Shanxia only had the hydrological data of Houlong River in recent years, so he used the highest water level plus two meters as the bridge deck height, which is higher than the wooden bridge on the original site. In this way, even if the water level reaches the highest level again in the rainy season, the height of the hull will remain unchanged. The steam traffic boat with a chimney standing upright can still pass under the bridge smoothly.
Of course, it is safer to build the bridge higher, but in order to ensure the straightness of the bridge deck, the approach parts on both sides of the bridge will have to be lengthened, and the entire project volume will also increase a lot. In Liu Shanxia's opinion, it is not Not necessary. If the water level in the rainy season exceeds the record high and steam traffic boats cannot pass under this bridge, then at least there is a land route that can connect the upper and lower reaches of Houlong River, and the bearing capacity of this new bridge is far better than that of the old bridge, so there is no need to worry about traffic. Capabilities are limited.
The design and construction plan of this bridge are not too complicated. Liu Shanxia estimates that it can be completed in about a week. What really worries him is the issue of building materials. Local products are limited, and both steel bars and cement must be transported from other places by sea. The increase in cost is not a big deal, but the entire construction period may be delayed due to this. Liu Shanxia decided to contact neighboring Penghu, Jilong, Kaohsiung and other places via telegraph as soon as possible after returning to the station today to see if there are any steel bars and cement in stock in these places, and to transport them first to ensure that the bridge project can be started as planned. Then slowly replenish it from Hainan Island.
While conducting survey work, Liu Shanxia was also constantly communicating with his subordinates. Participating in this kind of bridge project is an extremely rare practical opportunity for these future construction engineers. Liu Shanxia also hopes that they can learn more skills in this process, so that if there are similar projects in the future, he will not have to go to the site to preside over the work in person. . Liu Shanxia will also pay attention to observation during this process to see who are talents worthy of reuse in the future.
Liu Shanxia's field work continued until dinner time. Seeing dusk approaching, he ordered the team to return to camp. Their transportation here mainly relies on two large carriages. The men put away various survey tools and loaded them into the vehicles, and then took the vehicle together back to the station in the upper reaches of Houlong River. If we wait until dark before walking back, the road will be dark and the road conditions are not good. Even if Gao Cong brings several soldiers to escort him all the way, it will still not be safe after all.
When Liu Shanxia returned to the station, he learned that Wang Hui had gone to the beach to pick up two distinguished guests today. The reception banquet has been arranged in the backyard and is waiting for his arrival. Liu Shanxia hurried back to the house to clean up, and then went to the backyard to meet Wang Hui and others.
"Old Liu, come on, come on, I'm here to send you!" When Tao Donglai saw Liu Shanxia, he stood up and greeted him: "I heard that you are busy outside today, thank you for your hard work!"
"Boss, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming to Miaoli? If I had known, I would have set off a few days later and came on your boat!" Liu Shanxia was Tao Donglai's subordinate before the time travel, and the two had a very good personal relationship, so he spoke There is no restraint either.
Tao Donglai smiled and said: "When you left, I hadn't decided on the itinerary yet, so I didn't mean to hide it from you on purpose."
The official ship Tao Donglai travels on is his own exclusive ship. The living conditions on the ship are much better than those on official ships owned by the Ministry of Shipping. If Liu Shanxia knew Tao Donglai's itinerary in advance, it would really be possible. I will postpone my departure time and take Tao Donglai's boat to Miaoli instead.
After Liu Shanxia sat down, Wang Hui saw that everyone had arrived, so he ordered his servants to start serving food and wine.
Haihan now owns more than a dozen territories outside of Hainan Island, but there are often only one or two travelers stationed in these areas. It is very rare to have four travelers gather together overseas like this, let alone Still in the relatively remote inland mountainous area of Miaoli.
Tao Donglai took the lead in raising a toast: "It is not easy for us to meet here today. This glass of wine wishes that the subsequent development and construction of Miaoli will go smoothly. Your hard work today will be recorded in history in the future." , admired by future generations! ”
The three of them immediately raised their glasses in response and finished the wine in their glasses. However, Wang Hui still feels a little disappointed in his heart. He is an outgoing official. It will be at least several years before it is his turn to serve as a local official here next time. He will probably not be included in the credit for Miaoli's development. . But then I thought about it again. If we want to carry out large-scale development here, it means that the work will become very heavy. It is impossible to be as relaxed and happy as during my tenure. In this way, it is actually not bad to go back to Sanya to enjoy the world. It's hard to have the best of both worlds, just choose the path that suits you.
After drinking for three rounds, Tao Donglai immediately asked Liu Shanxia about the local infrastructure planning. He was also most concerned about the two key projects-resettlement and water and land transportation. Among the four people present, only Tao Donglai is a member of the executive committee, so he is the one who knows best about Miaoli’s future plans. As long as these two projects can advance steadily, subsequent work in areas such as agriculture, commerce, transportation, etc. will have the conditions to follow up smoothly.
"The most important problem at present is building materials." Liu Shanxia put down his wine glass and said frankly: "The current temporary settlement sites are shacks built with cut trees. This kind of temporary construction can only be used for short-term emergencies and cannot be used for a long time." Well, the rainy season is coming soon, and there is also the typhoon season from June to September every year. When strong winds and heavy rains come, the stilts will not be able to withstand it, so we need a lot of bricks and treated wood to build a real building. Although there are currently deployments in this area, the production capacity is far from meeting the demand. In addition, considering the future development needs of the oil production area, a new bridge with stronger traffic capacity must be built on Houlong River, which requires a large amount of traffic. Reinforced steel and cement, these materials can only be transported from other places.”
Regarding the problems existing in the resettlement sites, Tao Donglai also saw it during today's on-site visit, and immediately started a discussion with Liu Shanxia on how to organize relevant production activities locally quickly and efficiently. Lu Zhanpeng and Wang Hui only listened for a moment and felt that they could not get in the conversation, so they began to discuss the topic of the petrochemical industry on their own. They still had a lot of work to hand over, so there were also many professional issues to deal with at the moment. The two discussed the solution together.
Regarding the future development prospects of Miaoli, what Lu Zhanpeng and Wang Hui value is the technological upgrading of the petrochemical industry, while Tao Donglai focuses on more things, or in other words, he looks at a higher angle than others, and must take into account For the future development direction of this place, a lot of preparation work must be started from now on.
The development and construction of Miaoli should not have been so hasty, but at the time of great chaos in Shandong during the Ming Dynasty, Haihan had tens of thousands of people at his fingertips, and all the ruling areas north of Hainan Island could be divided effortlessly. To get a piece of the pie, the executive committee wants to take this opportunity to move immigrants to the Miaoli area to complete the comprehensive development of this area. It just so happened that during this period, some major progress was made in the development of fuel engines, and it was imperative to upgrade the petrochemical industry. The emergence of these two opportunities at the same period contributed to the Executive Committee's determination to rapidly promote the development of Miaoli. Although Miaoli has been planned for a long time, many related preparations have not been implemented in advance. For example, the infrastructure projects Liu Shanxia is currently presiding over basically start preparations after the executive committee makes a decision. It is inevitable that many links will expose many problems due to being too hasty. This resulted in Liu Shanxia having to spend more time reorganizing the work that should have been completed before his arrival.
Of course, with the human, material and financial resources that Haihan can currently mobilize, there will be no fundamental difficulties in improving these links. It will just take more time. Therefore, Tao Donglai believes that solving these problems still requires more patience. After all, the conditions now are much better than when we first crossed over. At that time, thousands of refugees transported back from Annan could be accommodated. The current situation will never be the same. It’s more difficult than it was ten years ago.
Although the conditions in Miaoli are slightly worse, there are three relatively mature areas nearby: Jilong, Penghu, and Kaohsiung, all of which can provide certain help to Miaoli. Tao Donglai also promised Liu Shanxia that he would personally come forward to coordinate the various materials needed for the Miaoli area and arrange transportation to Miaoli as soon as possible, so as to ensure that the infrastructure project here can be completed as soon as possible.
The upgrading of technology and production capacity in the local petrochemical industry is relatively complicated. Although it has been several years since the Chusangkeng oil well was mined, for various reasons, it has maintained a relatively small scale of production, which has been ongoing for ten years. Compared with the resettlement operations of the past few years, it is not an exaggeration to say that the petrochemical industry is still in the exploratory stage. Although Lu Zhanpeng, who is in charge of related work, has arrived in Miaoli, most of the numerous equipment required to implement the upgrade are still in the production stage, and some are even still on drawings.
Just transporting these equipment from Sanya to Miaoli in the future will be a big project. The subsequent installation and debugging may also take a longer time. If calculated based on Lu Zhanpeng's next one-year term, it is basically impossible to complete the relevant upgrade work before he leaves office. The focus of their current discussion is how to optimize the upgrade process under Miaoli's current conditions.
This involves a lot of knowledge in professional fields. When Tao Donglai and Liu Shanxia stopped to listen to the discussion between the two people, they soon found that they could not integrate into these topics because Wang Hui and Liu Zhanpeng used a lot of professional knowledge in their conversation. The terminology is beyond their ability to understand.
"Let's continue talking about building the bridge!" Tao Donglai smiled helplessly, and returned to the previous topic with Liu Shanxia.
The two people who just arrived today naturally live in Wang Hui's official residence. After all, this is the only mansion in the oil production area. Fortunately, the house is big enough to accommodate them all. After Tao Donglai heard about the origin of this house, he couldn't help but praise Tian Yeyou for his far-sightedness and actually building such a good place for future local officials to use as their official residences.
The next day, Liu Shanxia still went out early in the morning with his men to confirm the preparations for road construction. Tao Donglai and Lu Zhanpeng, who had just arrived yesterday, accompanied Wang Hui to visit the local petrochemical industry.
Compared with Liu Shanxia's almost superficial tour when he came here, Wang Hui's tour guide this time was much more detailed. This was not only because Tao Donglai was present, but the main reason was that there were work handover procedures between him and Lu Zhanpeng, so he took this opportunity to explain it on the spot, so that if Lu Zhanpeng found any problems, they could be solved on the spot.
Tao Donglai doesn't understand too technical terminology, but he also has some important points that he is concerned about, such as what level the approximate production scale of various petrochemical products can reach after the production capacity upgrade, and whether it can provide qualified fuel for internal combustion engines. , and what conditions need to be provided by the state for this purpose. Of course, these issues have been discussed in the previous planning report of the Ministry of Industry, but Tao Donglai still prefers to listen to the introduction of the officials in charge on site.
Tao Donglai has been involved in national governance for more than ten years. Of course, he also understands that sometimes things in written reports may not be completely credible. It is also common for various departments to use exaggerated descriptions in development plans in order to compete for financial budgets. thing. The upgrading and transformation of Miaoli's petrochemical industry is considered to be a relatively important industrial project for the country in the next few years. Otherwise, Tao Donglai would not have specially arranged a trip to Miaoli for such a tour. Now that he was here, he had to get as much real information as possible on some issues that needed to be clarified.
Tao Donglai knew that Wang Hui was an honest man. He came when he was sent and did not shirk his duties. When it was time to leave, he also followed the arrangements and had no intention of claiming credit in front of him, so he thought that people like Wang Hui A person like Hui should be able to tell himself everything he knows and explain the current situation of the petrochemical industry to himself.
In fact, this was exactly the case. Wang Hui understood that Tao Donglai came to Miaoli on behalf of the Executive Committee to inspect the work. He believed that the local petrochemical industry had no information that needed to be concealed from the Executive Committee. As for bragging, it was even less so. This was his strong point, so he basically answered the questions raised by Tao Donglai truthfully.
While listening to Wang Hui's explanation, Tao Donglai compared what he said with the information provided by the Ministry of Industry, and not surprisingly found some minor discrepancies.
Some data mentioned in the Ministry of Industry report are obviously higher than Wang Hui's view. For example, the Ministry of Industry believes that most upgrades can be completed within ten to fifteen months, while Wang Hui believes that the most optimistic estimate is It will also take more than a year and a half, and the risk of temporary shutdown of the oil field due to some technical problems cannot be ruled out.
(End of chapter)