Chapter 258 A Plant (Update 67)
While Lin Wen was busy with the beauty, the refugee resettlement work in Changshan County officially entered the critical stage.
Huang Mingxiao and Yang Shaohu mobilized all the spare forces of the Refugee Management Committee, gathered about 800,000 people, and carried out a comprehensive cleanup of 29 mountain buildings.
Since the mountain itself blocked the building, they first blasted the outer mountain.
Among the refugees were experts in directional blasting, professional miners, and even mine owners who were on trial.
They were pulled out of Fang Yaobo's prison to make amends for their crimes.
Of course, they were very dissatisfied with this.
"Even if we committed a crime in Zezhou, why would it be your Changshan County's turn to intervene?"
But when the gun is in the hands of others, they can only complain and honestly make amends.
Under their command, the mountain was successfully blasted, and millions of tons of rubble fell outward without damaging the buildings on the inside of the mountain.
Then, dozens of bulldozers and trucks arrived to carry away the rubble.
More than 100,000 people entered the building to carry out the cleanup work.
The cleaning work of the mountain buildings mainly involves dealing with the rubble trapped in the buildings. The refugee engineers in the management committee estimated that there are about 500,000 to 900,000 tons of rubble in each building.
Because the passage is narrow, it cannot accommodate too many people working.
The cadres brainstormed and came up with a solution: each mountain building would have 25 floors, and each floor would have two windows, so people could climb in and throw the rubble out of the windows.
In this way, it is equivalent to 25 layers working at the same time, which is equivalent to increasing efficiency by 25 times.
To ensure safety, they went around the mountain, fixed a hanging basket at the top of the mountain, lowered people down, and then entered the building through the windows on each floor.
An isolation zone was set up below, and no one was allowed to pass through to prevent being injured by the thrown rocks.
Only by going up the mountain can you see the grandeur and incredibleness of this building complex.
It was like a great force of nature that came from nowhere, drawing a circle on the mountain range, and 30 connected high-rise buildings were completed.
Huang Mingxiao still finds it hard to believe what kind of engineering team could create such a miraculous project.
If they can dissolve rocks, how do they divide a mountain of rocks into small pieces so precisely, like marking lines in an engineering project?
The buildings' load-bearing structures are incredible, with millions of tons of stone remaining in some buildings, yet they have not collapsed or suffered structural damage.
Lian Mei, on the other hand, had a clearer idea of the situation. "As long as County Chief Lin has a solution, it's fine. Who knows what the technological development of the Empire has become?"
Yang Shaohu nodded in agreement.
"My grandparents' generation couldn't imagine things like television broadcasting and wireless communications. They thought it was a fantasy of mankind."
"People of my father's generation still can't understand what a computer is, let alone the Internet."
Huang Mingxiao laughed and said, "Don't even mention your father. I don't even know that in Changshan County, the people who have touched computers are probably the most in the Network Technology Department."
"I heard they even took out some old computers and opened an internet cafe."
Lian Mei chuckled. "No one goes there. Even one yuan an hour isn't enough. I remember internet cafes in the capital charging six yuan an hour. Only the old men from the Long-term Cooperation Department go there occasionally. They play some kind of game, and often end up arguing until their faces and ears are red."
Hearing this, Yang Shaohu said thoughtfully: "Chief Lin said that Changshan County also needs to be modernized. Perhaps in the near future, computers and the Internet will also be popular in Changshan County."
Everyone laughed, and many shook their heads, finding it hard to imagine.
However, that is a long-term development in the future; the current priority is to resettle the refugees.
The cleaning work of the building was much more difficult than expected. The further they went, the bigger the rocks in the mountain building became, as if the engineering team had less and less chemical solvents and had to save them.
When we reached the last mountain building, it was made entirely of solid blocks of stone, without any divisions at all.
In desperation, the cleaning work of the last building had to be put on hold and priority had to be given to cleaning the easier parts.
Even so, the difficulties are much greater than imagined.
In three days, they increased the number of workers to more than one million and optimized and reformed the cleaning work many times, greatly improving efficiency, but they only cleaned the two outermost buildings.
Those were the two buildings with the smallest gravel and the easiest work.
Eleven buildings have been half-cleared, and the remaining sixteen buildings are facing difficulties.
The stones there were so big that they often needed the work of several people to move one stone. Moreover, as the work progressed, the farther away from the stone-throwing window, the lower the efficiency.
Some stones need to be broken before they can be thrown out.
The thrown stones also need to be cleaned up.
For safety reasons, the two shifts take turns to rest. When they are clearing stones, those who are throwing stones take a rest, and when they are throwing stones, those who are clearing stones take a rest.
In this way, more than one million people are busy on this construction site with a total area of more than 4.5 million square meters.
Despite the numerous difficulties and hard work, they remained enthusiastic and worked hard. They stayed in the mountains for days without coming out. Apart from working, they slept. They ate and slept in the rubble, and food and water were brought down by hanging baskets.
There is also some encouraging news.
After careful survey by professionals, it is believed that the total usable area in each mountain building reaches 150,000 square meters.
The average floor area is about 6,000 square meters. If the maximum population living method is adopted, one building can accommodate 160,000 people, which is four times the original number.
Extremely high population density will inevitably lead to a harsh living environment.
However, it was different in the mountain building. Although it was crowded, the living facilities were complete. After the water supply arrived, Changshan County urgently purchased thousands of electric water heaters so that they could take hot showers.
There are also tens of thousands of boxes of sulfur soap, which allow them to better cleanse their bodies and kill bacteria and parasites.
For refugees, this is the fourth most important thing after food, clean water and medicine. In addition to hygiene, it is also the best way to relieve stress.
There is nothing more comfortable and relaxing than taking a hot bath after a long day.
More importantly, it also makes large-scale population gatherings tolerable and reduces the chances of disease transmission.
Moreover, as their lives progressed, the refugees were surprised to find that the seemingly primitive caves here were actually much better than they had imagined.
There is no water seepage, good ventilation, and many people live together. Although there is no privacy, there is a sense of security, and it is even a little warm at night.
Although the passage seems narrow, it is well connected, making it very convenient to go up and down stairs, or to the toilet, cafeteria or bathhouse.
More than 100,000 people living together actually form a feeling like a small society.
Moreover, this society is getting better at a visible pace.
They trimmed the uneven spots, added new public facilities, knocked the slide-like roads into the shape of stairs, added tables and chairs in the cafeteria, added toilets to alleviate the embarrassment of having to wait a long time to defecate, and so on.
Even simple market transactions have formed in the building. They usually set up stalls in the cafeteria after dinner and use barter to exchange for the items they need.
The three buildings are identical. Without any guidance from the county hall or external influence, they have all spontaneously formed the same social model.
This phenomenon caught Xiao Xiao's attention. After making a special trip to investigate, he believed that this primitive social economy should also be included in the management of the Planning Bureau.
In addition to collecting taxes, commodity prices must be set according to the regulations of the Planning Bureau, and urban management personnel must be stationed in the building to regulate the problem of random placement of items.
This ridiculous behavior was quickly stopped by Deputy Director Lei Tiantong, who holds three positions.
He convinced Xiao Xiao with just one sentence: "We should replace it with an external market economy, not manage it."
This was different from the composition in the Finance Department, where his main role was to supervise Lao Xie and prevent him from going astray.
But here, he wanted to suppress Xiao Xiao's overly lively imagination.
As long as he doesn't go off the rails, Xiao Xiao is indeed very talented. Under his management, the market order in Changshan County has basically returned to normal, and private transactions have become very active. The number of small vendors in Huai Town has jumped from less than a thousand three months ago to 200,000 now. Commercial streets and large shopping malls, which were previously only available in big cities, have gradually taken shape in Huai Town.
There are even some small companies and businesses from other places that have moved to Changshan County for development.
Because Xiao Xiao lowered corporate taxes and provided subsidies for foreign companies to settle down, and although Changshan County has inconvenient transportation, it has complete infrastructure, developed water transportation, and relatively stable prices, which is also a desirable feature.
Gradually, Huaizhen, a once unknown town, has gradually taken on the appearance of a second- or third-tier city, and Changshan County's fiscal revenue has reached as much as 150 million yuan per month.
This is also due to the planning and construction of Huaizhen.
At present, Huaizhen has officially merged with Donghe Town and become a small and medium-sized city with a population of nearly one million and an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers.
It has complete infrastructure and convenient internal transportation. The middle ring road system (East Middle Ring Road, West Middle Ring Road, North Middle Ring Road and South Middle Ring Road) and the second ring road system have been basically constructed, and buses can reach any location in Huaizhen.
More than one hundred parks and squares were newly built or expanded, all old streets and roads were significantly renovated, about five thousand old houses were demolished, and new roads, large residential areas, shopping malls, etc. were built on the original sites.
The speed of change in Huaizhen can only be described as a miracle. In addition to the hard work of more than 500,000 workers and the endless accumulation of money, there is also a more important leader to complete the overall plan.
Sleeping Dragon Zhao Minggong.
It took him just over three months to establish the foundation of all development systems and unfold the entire blueprint in front of everyone.
Not only Huaizhen, but all areas of Changshan County were changed because of him.
Even the western region, which is covered with mountains and hills, has made plans for future development.
Just waiting for someone to inherit it in the future.
All administrative affairs of Changshan County were in good order in his hands. When there was no one to manage it in the early days, most departments returned to normal because of him.
He promoted many truly capable and willing cadres from among countless insignificant staff members. They all withstood the test in the subsequent Ministry of Personnel and became outstanding pillars of the government.
Because of this, Mr. Zhao is respected by everyone in the county government office, and his transcendent status cannot be replaced by anyone.
But his life has come to an end.
This was his third time in the intensive care unit this month. The attending physician tried everything, but there was still no improvement.
The hospital director came out and announced the news to everyone. Although everyone was sad, they had expected it and could only prepare for his funeral.
Only the people in the Changxie Department were excited. They were planning a huge publicity campaign, hoping to use Mr. Zhao's death to make a big fuss in order to enhance their own status.
Lin Wen, on the other hand, was in a remote area of Zhongzhou, where he killed a large group of criminal gangs that were colluding with officials and bandits. They had already killed nearly a thousand refugees on this road.
After an entire afternoon of gunfight, the enraged Lin Wen killed them all by using techniques such as seeing through walls and locking heads.
Although he gained a lot of good karma, Lin Wen lost control during the fierce exchange of fire and killed several people who were not so evil.
Indiscriminate killing, bad karma +2.
Grass!
(End of this chapter)
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