"The road in Sichuan is really difficult to build the road to Shu."
Wen Desi looked at the sand table in front of him and the survey data in his hand, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.
He is now in the headquarters office in Menkantan Industrial Zone, thinking about road construction.
In order not to expose the base of the office building, Wen Desi asked maintenance robots and biochemical people to add a layer of camouflage to the shell of the base.
They mainly made a porous shell with cement, then covered it with a layer of soil, and finally planted some vines.
Plants and moss.
Only a few portals were left, and the portals were of course properly camouflaged.
In addition, a ring of walls was built outside the base, and a cordon was set up, guarded 24 hours a day by 30 biochemical guards.
Because of this, Wen Desi 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, it's just a temporary headquarters.
In fact, not only is this headquarters office building temporary, but all current buildings in the entire industrial zone are temporary, including but not limited to employee dormitories and camps.
There is no way around this.
Wen Desi has only been here for two months.
To build a formal building in this era, this time is completely insufficient.
At this time, there were no modular rapid buildings of later generations, where a building could be built in a week.
Now the entire industrial area is full of wooden houses.
Of course, this kind of wooden house is not a traditional wooden building, but it can also be regarded as an epoch-making product.
This is a modular wooden house that Wen Desi asked his staff to redesign based on the mobile houses of later generations.
This new type of wooden house looks similar to later mobile houses.
It adopts modular design and standardized production, except that wooden boards are used instead of color steel sandwich panels.
In order to ensure standards, Mr.
Wen arranged for a group of biochemical humans to go to various carpentry workshops to supervise production, and also brought a group of standard measuring tools.
Because it is modular, this kind of wooden mobile house can be installed very quickly.
At the beginning, six workers could install a standard dormitory in one day.
Later, skilled workers could install a standard dormitory in half a day.
The building was as simple as building blocks, which amazed the workers.
A relatively complex building like the headquarters office building only took a dozen workers three days to complete.
Of course, this kind of wooden mobile house can only be said to be able to protect against wind and rain, but don't expect it to be gorgeous or comfortable.
Therefore, the construction speed of the industrial area was extremely fast.
It only took 6 days to complete all the buildings in the dormitory area, warehouse area and office area.
However, it took more than a month to prepare the wooden boards and wooden pillars, which was completed by working overtime at hundreds of carpentry workshops in more than a dozen nearby cities.
However, the place to live can be made of wooden houses, but the factory building cannot be used like this.
It is better to build formal houses.
Wen Desi has always believed that "if you want to be rich, build roads first" is a wise saying.
Especially when he saw the extremely miserable traffic situation now, he felt that this was a very wise saying.
So after Wen Desi bought the land, the first thing he planned was to build roads.
His plan is to first build roads from Menkantan to Neijiang County and the interior of the Menkantan base.
Then it extended to both sides, one side extending to Weiyuan County, where there are rich coal and iron resources, and later Weishan Iron and Steel was located here.
The other side extended to Longchang and Zizhong, which was still called Zizhou at this time.
These two places had resources such as coal mines, limestone, quartz sand, shale, phosphate rock, and pyrite.
Gu Xiaolu and others still did their duty.
When he was still in Shanghai, the roads here were already under construction.
However, the road construction workers at that time were hired temporarily and had not been quarantined.
Now that the quarantine has begun, all the people who were lured by the high salary and willing to work as regular workers have been rushed into the quarantine camp, and construction will begin after the quarantine is completed.
Therefore, the road project was temporarily stopped, but Wen Desi felt that it was worth it.
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There was no way.
China's health standards in this era were too poor.
Diseases were rampant.
There were several plagues almost every year.
The cold historical records on the computer made Wen Desi's scalp numb.
The hygiene habits of people in this era are also very poor.
Most people have little awareness and habits of maintaining personal and environmental hygiene.
This situation has intensified the epidemic of epidemics.
Not only the Chinese are like this, but of course people from other countries are not much better, or even worse.
Therefore, he puts health and epidemic prevention work in a very important position.
Otherwise, if a plague occurs in his industrial zone, it will be great fun.
Of course, shaving your head is not necessary for quarantine work.
Wen Desi did this for three reasons.
The first was for his appetite.
That "pig tail" hairstyle made it difficult to eat.
The second is that it is convenient and trouble-free during quarantine and lice eradication, and it is clear at a glance.
The third is to reduce the chance of accidental casualties.
This kind of hairstyle that comes from slave society is not suitable for the industrial age at all, because the braids get entangled in machines, and there are countless examples of people being killed, maimed, and injured.
"Mr.
Wen, Wei Sunan, the chief engineer of the Ministry of Construction, is here," the secretary said.
"Okay, tell him to come in."
Wen Desi still stared at the sand table.
After a while, a young man in a suit walked in.
"Boss, you call me."
He was shocked when he saw the sand table.
This guy rushed over at once and said excitedly: "Is this, is this the sand table in the entire industrial area?
It's so delicate.
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 one to you.
I didn't ask you to come here just to see this."
Wen Desi was speechless.
He could also understand that these days sandboxes were rarely used for planning.
Not to mention a sand table made with a 3D printer using 23rd century surveying and mapping technology.
Wei Sunan said happily: "Oh, I need it so much, thank you boss.
With this thing, planning will be much easier."
Wen Desi asked: "Well, how is your body recovering?"
Wei Sunan said gratefully: "Oh, I am very grateful to the company for treating me.
I have no problem at all now and can start working right away."
This Wei Sunan was the turtle who was found to have congenital heart disease, and he didn't even know it yet.
He is a second-generation overseas Chinese in the United States.
He has a master's degree in civil engineering from Cornell University.
After graduating in 1901, he worked in road and bridge engineering in the United States for several years.
After returning to China the year before last, he was assigned to work in the Ministry of Industry.
It was so bad that he was kicked out of the Ministry of Industry within half a year and asked to work as a river official in the Hedao Yamen.
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"I'm obviously studying civil engineering, so you asked me to regulate the Yellow River.
Isn't that nonsense?"
What's more, if the Yellow River regulators at that time were not strong enough, they were basically synonymous with "blame" and "scapegoat" .
Wei Sunan was also a proud and arrogant person, so he could not bear such arrogance.
Besides, he already disliked the Qing court, so he simply quit and resigned.
Later, he worked as a construction engineer in Shanghai Investment Promotion Bureau.
When Mr.
Wen was recruiting in Shanghai, he changed jobs.
On the one hand, the salary has tripled, on the other hand, the work in Sichuan is more challenging and suits his taste, and on the other hand, he believes that Xingke Company has just been established and lacks talents, so he can speak better here.
Also, the boss here is also a Chinese American.
He feels that people with the same origin should have a common language.
Sure enough, after the operation was completed, he was appointed as the chief engineer of the Ministry of Construction, fully responsible for the infrastructure construction of the entire industrial zone.
Although there are also talents in this field among the biochemical people, their theoretical level is even much higher than that of Wei Sunan.
After all, the knowledge they have been instilled is more than 300 years more advanced than it is now.
But please note that this is only a theoretical level.
Science and engineering are different from liberal arts.
It cannot be done by just relying on theory.
It also requires a lot of practice to turn theoretical knowledge into real talents.
The most lacking thing among the biochemical engineers under President Wen was practice, but Wei Sunan had practical experience, so Wen Desi decided to make him the chief engineer.
Besides, in those days, Chinese people who could become masters at Cornell University were definitely talented people.
Without some real ability, you wouldn’t be able to get a master’s degree.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was not a decoration.
"Then a good body is the capital of revolution.
You must pay attention to it."
Wen Desi said smoothly.
"The capital of revolution" was spoken unintentionally and listened intentionally.
Wei Sunan's eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "Excuse me, boss, are you a revolutionary party?"
Wen Desi smiled and said: "Revolutionary Party, no, I am not a revolutionary party.
Let's not talk about this now.
I came to you for the infrastructure construction of the industrial zone.
What suggestions do you have?"
Seeing Mr.
Wen change the subject, Wei Sunan was a little disappointed, so he took out a document from his briefcase and said: "Boss, after the on-site inspection a few days ago, I have made a preliminary planning plan.
You can take a look."
"Oh" Wen Desi took the document and read it.
Half an hour later, Wen Desi finished reading the planning document and asked: "General Engineer Wei, I have read your planning document.
But I have a question, why are the roads you planned all made of mud and stone?
The rain in Sichuan does not "No, won't there be any problems with this kind of road surface?"
"Oh, that's it."
When he mentioned his major, Wei Sunan became more energetic.
"Boss, you originally wanted to build the road into a cement road or an asphalt road."
"Yes, these two types of roads are not afraid of rain and are clean," Wen Desi said.
"Boss, your idea is correct.
These two types of roads are indeed not afraid of rain."
Wei Sunan smiled and showed an expression like you are an amateur.
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"But have you ever thought about the cost?
In the Chinese market, a barrel of cement costs 9 to 10 yuan, which is equivalent to about 5,157 yuan per ton.
At that time, a barrel of cement was 175 kilograms.
Asphalt was cheaper, about 2 yuan per barrel, which was equivalent to about 5,157 yuan per ton.
A barrel of asphalt costs about 13 yuan and weighs about 160 kilograms.”
"If you follow your idea, at least 650 tons of cement or 500 tons of asphalt will be used per kilometer.
According to my preliminary calculation, the total mileage of our first-phase highway is about 68 kilometers.
Even if your funds are not a problem, there is currently no cement in Sichuan There is no asphalt in the factory, and it has to be transported from Shanghai to Neijiang.
Such a large amount of transportation is not easy to handle. " "Another point is that with the current transportation situation, there is no need to build such a good road.
The traffic flow here is not that heavy.
I think that based on the company's current situation, mud and stone roads are the most suitable.
As for the rain you are worried about It’s not a problem at all, as long as drainage is done well, side ditches are set up, and qualified road crews are arranged for timely maintenance.
Please trust the professionals,” Wei Sunan said confidently.
At the same time, he secretly slandered Wen Desi as a prodigal son.
Damn, there are still all-cement roads.
At this time, the number of all-cement roads in the United States is less than 1,000 kilometers.
"Well, okay, then just follow your plan."
Wen Desi thought for a moment and believed in the experts.
After all, he was really an amateur in this area
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