Qin Jian and others waited in this hall for about a cup of tea, and finally a Haihan official came.
This man looked like he was only in his early twenties, but Qin Jian recognized him at a glance. He was wearing the stand-up collar and short-breasted uniform issued by Haihan officials.
During this period of time, he could see Haihan officials coming and going from time to time at Yanziji Pier, and he also gained a lot of knowledge. He knew that officials who were qualified to wear such uniforms were usually not too low-level.
Qin Jian and several others quickly stood up and saluted to show respect. The young official seemed to be accustomed to their attitude and just made a gesture to indicate to them to sit down and talk.
"I am Liu Tianning, engineering director of the Rivers Department of the Ministry of Construction."
The young official introduced himself while scanning the crowd. When he saw a puzzled look on someone's face, he explained: "The Ministry of Construction of our country, Haihan, has functions similar to those of the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty. It is in charge of various civil engineering construction matters. Jiang He As the name suggests, it is related to rivers, lakes and seas, such as dredging rivers, building dams, building water conservancy, building roads and bridges, etc. ”
"The errands that you all need to take care of next are all managed by me, do you understand?"
Everyone nodded repeatedly, and they understood that from now on, Liu Tianning would be their immediate boss.
As for the Jianghe Department, its functions are almost the same as those of the Dushui Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty. According to this calculation, Master Liu's position should be similar to that of a fifth-grade doctor or a junior fifth-grade Yuanwailang.
For ordinary people, this is already a very high-level official.
However, these large-scale projects involving rivers, lakes and seas mentioned by Liu Tianning require a large amount of manpower, and the construction period is often calculated in years. Some people can't help but wonder, seeing as he is so young and doesn't even have much experience in participating in such large-scale projects, what ability does he have to serve as a supervisor?
Qin Jian saw this more clearly, because his former boss Yang Jin was also very young. And from what he saw, many of the officials who came in and out of Yanziji Pier were in their twenties and thirties.
The proportion of young officials in the Haihan government was obviously larger than that of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this may also be related to the time when Haihan was founded. After all, it was only twenty or thirty years ago. There were not many older officials in the bureaucracy, and the senior officials had already moved to the top, and it was rare to have them in normal times. When the opportunity arises, I can see these big figures showing up, mostly young officials handling various specific matters.
After Liu Tianning briefly introduced himself, he asked people to help him hang a huge map of Yingtian Mansion on the wall and began to introduce the next mission to everyone.
The people sitting here for the meeting were all people who were called in to serve as foremen and had some understanding of their tasks beforehand. However, they were still a little shocked by the large project Liu Tianning described at this time.
The Jianghe Department plans to build permanent river embankments that can withstand floods from the mouth of the Jinchuan River in the north of Nanjing to the mouth of the Qinhuai River in the west of the city. The length of the river bank between these two places is a full twenty miles.
Liu Tianning divided the project into three parts: the eastern section, the middle section, and the western section, with three construction supervisors in each section.
The entire river embankment project is expected to last half a year. However, due to the large number of refugees used, the number of workers may fluctuate greatly after the situation stabilizes, so the construction period will also be adjusted based on the actual situation. Qin Jian felt slightly relieved when he heard this, but then he felt a trace of inexplicable loss.
The appointment letter he received stated that he was "Construction Supervisor of the Eastern Section Construction Site". At that time, he thought that he alone had the final say, and he could not help but worry that he would be unable to manage thousands of civilian workers on the construction site alone.
But now he realizes that his worries were unnecessary. The position given by the government was indeed correct, but the appointment letter did not mention that there are actually three construction supervisors at an eastern section construction site. One person may be responsible for thousands of people. This is not good for him. Said, the difficulty is not too great.
As someone who has been a foreman all year round, Qin Jian certainly understands the government's intention for such an arrangement. With three people in the same position, they can work in shifts while avoiding a dominant family from embezzling public funds. And if any problem occurs to one of them, the other two serve as backup and can immediately take over the affairs at hand.
But these three people are both partners and competitors. Their boss will definitely compare their performance on the same construction site. Only the best among them may get the opportunity for further promotion.
Of course, if the boss is a loser, Qin Jian can still try other methods to gain opportunities. When it comes to human sophistication, he considers himself to have a pretty good business level.
However, the work content that Liu Tianning talked about next made Qin Jian quickly give up such thoughts.
When it comes to specific labor arrangements, Liu Tianning is obviously not as immature as he appears. He put forward very specific work requirements to the foremen present, such as the time for starting and finishing work, the labor intensity of civilian workers, project progress assessment, etc., obviously Come prepared.
After Qin Jian listened for a moment, he knew that this young Mr. Liu was no layman. Some of the details he talked about must be professional knowledge that only people who have been foremans for many years would know. This made him realize that this boss was not easy to fool, and he couldn't help but put away his previous little thoughts.
But for a while, he still couldn't figure out why Liu Tianning had such sophisticated experience at such a young age. I remember that when I was his age, I was still doing odd jobs behind my master, how could I have such ability.
Liu Tianning spent about two sticks of incense concisely and concisely explaining the tasks of the foremen, and then asked everyone if they had any other questions. If you want to ask, ask them quickly, because he has to hold a meeting for the next batch of foremen.
After all, these twenty miles of Yangtze River embankments are just one of the relief projects. The foremen temporarily recruited by the Nanjing Management Committee for this purpose are far more than the people here, and these foremen are all Liu Tianning's training targets.
At that moment, someone asked: "Mr. Liu, I am not from a civil engineering background. How can I control the standards of embankment construction?"
Liu Tianning had only talked about the assessment standards before, but seemed to have forgotten to ask whether they understood the professional skills of civil engineering. This question happened to be the situation Qin Jian was currently facing. He immediately looked at Liu Tianning to see how he would answer.
Liu Tianning responded: "That's okay. We will arrange for professional and knowledgeable technical personnel to be responsible for controlling the construction standards. You only need to instruct the civilian workers to follow them."
This arrangement really saved the foremen present a lot of trouble. Almost everyone, including Qin Jian, looked much more relaxed.