Chapter 435 The Beginning of Everything
The site selection work for the nuclear power plant began soon.
This matter is entirely under the responsibility of the KGB. This department brings together various talents and experts, and is the most technologically advanced and professional place in Changshan County.
Although Lin Wen is not a nuclear expert, he understands some of the principles, but he is not particularly clear about the engineering details and process standards.
But it doesn’t matter, you can just ask [Ask Yu Tian] directly when the time comes.
With this magical spell, as long as the soul is strong enough, it is not too far-fetched for Changshan County to rush into the interstellar era of the Communist Silkworm Society.
However, this is not something that can be done overnight, and there are many more important things to deal with.
If Changshan County wants to take off, the first major problem is housing for over eight million refugees. They cannot continue to live in tents and overcrowded mountain buildings.
Lin Wen’s solution was to either build a high-rise building or build a mountain-shaped building.
The effect of the former is uncertain, and the latter consumes too much of the soul. There are too many places that require the soul now, and it is really unbearable.
Moreover, mountain buildings are not suitable as long-term residences.
It was designed to accommodate more people. It has a single function and the interior is closed, narrow and dark. If you live in it for years, it will have a negative impact on your spirit.
However, when Lin Wen was discussing with Wolong and others, Zhao Minggong proposed a better solution.
He believes it can be done in three steps.
The first step is to purchase a simple cabin.
The simple compartment is just a large piece of folded steel plate. After being transported to the designated location, the folded surface is propped up with a pillar, and then the front and back doors are buckled together, and it instantly becomes an independent room of about 20 square meters.
The environment provided by the simple cabins is clean, bright and tidy, which is undoubtedly much better than tents and mountain buildings.
The key is convenience. It costs 8,000 yuan per room, including transportation, and you can move in right away.
The laborers used to live in a collective version of this type of room, and there are still many such container-like simple houses left in Qingze Township.
Zhao Minggong believed that one million rooms could be purchased first as transitional housing for refugees.
The total cost is 8 billion, and Changshan County can afford it with its current wealth.
The second step is the tube building, which is what Lin Wen calls an improved version of the corn building.
Zhao Minggong believed that such buildings could be built on a large scale in the new town.
The new town is located in the center of the eastern part of Changshan County. It has broad development prospects and a large amount of available land.
The large-scale construction of tube-shaped buildings can be part of the development of the new town.
However, with Changshan County's capabilities, it is difficult to complete such a large-scale project. Five hundred thousand workers are comprehensively rebuilding Changshan County's infrastructure.
The labor is not enough and I cannot spare any effort.
It is best to look for developers and contractors on a large scale, and it is estimated that you will need to find at least one hundred or more.
Then, Zhao Minggonghui allocated 160,000 hectares of land in the east and south of the new town to build tube-shaped buildings.
All the tube buildings are six-story buildings with four rooms on the first floor. Each room is 70 square meters and the floor area ratio is 1.
Together with surrounding supporting facilities, such as shopping malls, hospitals, storefronts, parks, etc., a total of 100,000 buildings are expected to be built, with an estimated construction period of half a year.
The third step is a standard residential community, just like the one built in Huaizhen.
Rooms are over 100 square meters, with independent kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms, good lighting, and a floor area ratio of 0.8. They are being built in the southern part of the new town, and it is expected that 10,000 units will be built.
The total budget is 110 billion.
When this grand and awe-inspiring plan came out, Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao were stunned.
Zhao Minggong casually came up with a plan worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and it was so complete and feasible.
They looked at each other and felt that they still had a lot of room for improvement.
Lin Wen thought for a moment and asked, "Half a year is too long. Is it possible to complete it in three months?"
Three months?
Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao simply thought their ears were fake.
Are these two people humans having a conversation?
They looked at each other and felt that not only did they have a lot of room to move up, but they also had no room to move down.
But Zhao Minggong didn't find it surprising. After thinking for a moment, he said, "That would require three hundred contractors. They must cooperate sincerely and have a clear division of labor. The budget must also be increased to 190 billion."
"No." Lin Wenfei said, "Is there any way to do it without increasing the budget?"
In the dazed eyes of Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao, Zhao Minggong said, "Chief Lin, then there can be no preconditions. I will use imagination to tell you the premise."
Lin Wen nodded.
"First of all, there must be no geology problems."
"Secondly, all excavation work must be done in advance, including foundations, drainage, and pipelines."
“Third, the ground must be as flat as sea level, without any additional processing.”
"Fourth, we need five hundred contractors, each responsible for a portion of the work, which I will manage personally."
Lin Wen nodded: "Okay, I'll take care of the first three items, and the last one is up to you."
Zhao Minggong laughed and said, "Chief Lin, are you planning to send out the Java engineering team again?"
"Um."
"That's great. I'll give you a detailed blueprint of the project in the next few days, and then I'll take charge of the investment promotion plan."
Zhao Minggong said with a smile: "Shaohu, then I'll have to trouble you to take care of the administration for me... Shaohu?"
Yang Shaohu woke up from his petrified state and said hurriedly, "I understand."
Huang Mingxiao also said: "During this period of time, I will also be responsible for the management of the refugee camp."
Lin Wen was very happy. With such a group of reliable people, Changshan County would surely take off. He smiled and said, "Then I'll leave everything to you."
"Don't worry, County Magistrate Lin." Only Zhao Minggong's voice was heard, and the other two did not dare to speak.
After leaving the government affairs office, Lin Wen went to the finance department to find Lao Xie.
"Order me one hundred silicone dolls."
The entire finance department fell silent, and you could hear a pin drop in the busy and noisy office.
Everyone looked at County Chief Lin in disbelief.
Old Xie was completely bewildered. He quickly pulled Lin Wen to a corner and whispered, "Chief Lin, how can you say something like this in public?"
Lin Wen didn't have time to waste time talking to him: "Just do as I say. The silicone doll must be lifelike in proportion, with the best skin. It must look very much like a real person."
Although Old Xie has always adhered to the principle that the leader is God, County Chief Lin's request this time really exceeded the limits of his imagination.
"Head of County Lin," he said with a complicated expression, "Well... a lot of the girls in our Finance Department are interested in you..."
"Oh." Lin Wen slapped his head and continued, "All I want are men."
Old Xie was shocked. He subconsciously covered his butt and jumped back a step.
"Lin, County Chief Lin, what do you want these for?"
Lin Wen said casually: "Become the Java Engineering Team... uh, give it to the Java Engineering Team. This is a benefit for them."
Old Xie's expression finally returned to normal. He felt that this Java engineering team was too weird. They actually liked to use dolls.
It’s bad enough that they use dolls, but they actually use male dolls.
But then I thought, it’s not surprising that foreigners have some shameful quirks, so I accepted this setting.
"Don't worry." Old Xie patted his chest, "I will definitely complete the task."
Lin Wen nodded and asked, "How is the auction going?"
The valuables looted from Shizhou are worth tens of billions, and they haven't been sold yet. This is a huge sum of money.
Old Xie smiled and said, "It will be held next week. Our advertisements have already been sold overseas. Now that the civil war is over, everyone can finally relax."
"Very good, do it well, and you've accomplished a great feat."
Old Xie laughed so hard that he lost his sight. This was another great victory for him over Old Lei, who had been strongly against it at first.
Humph, when I succeed, I will definitely whip you well.
Old Xie went back to work with a beautiful vision of the future, and he didn't even notice that his saliva was flowing.
Soon, the empire's largest manufacturer of life-like silicone dolls received such a strange order.
"One hundred silicone dolls?"
The manufacturer's boss couldn't believe his eyes.
"Male doll? Highest level of lifelikeness, custom-made, with standard skeleton, humanoid joints, and complete simulated skin?"
The manufacturer's boss had never seen such a strange order in his life.
One silicone doll like this costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a hundred of them would cost tens of millions.
He immediately called the person who placed the order.
The manufacturer's boss broke out in a cold sweat.
The call was connected quickly.
"Hello, is this your order?"
"That's right." A greasy voice of a middle-aged man came from the phone.
"I'd like to ask you to confirm." The boss repeated the details of the entire order and got confirmation from the other side.
"Well..." the boss suppressed his joy, "thank you for your trust in the American manufacturer. If you have any special needs, please let us know and we will do our best to meet them."
The person on the other end of the phone thought for a moment and said, "We need to make them look like foreigners, to suit their aesthetic tastes. They need to be different, with their own style and characteristics."
The boss readily agreed: "Okay, I understand. We will perfectly showcase the customs of all countries in the world."
After hanging up the phone, the boss was delighted.
They can make a lot of money from this deal. They have been losing money for a year and finally saw a turnaround.
I didn’t expect that there would be so many customers with unique tastes in Changshan County.
Haha, I will definitely satisfy your different tastes.
——
In the past few days, after Lin Wen finished his basic work, he began to fully promote his major reform and development plans.
It was supposed to be executed long ago, but was interrupted by the food crisis and the Battle of Shizhou.
However, despite the long delay, Changshan County has accumulated sufficient capital, with cash flow alone reaching hundreds of billions, and subsequent revenue of nearly hundreds of billions.
It can be said that after this battle, Changshan County became extremely rich and had no shortage of anything.
Changshan County now has everything that the Council of Advocates and the Qin Group had blocked off in the past.
We have food, coal, steel, a food industry chain has been established, 600,000 hectares of fertile land have been cultivated, and high-tech products are also available.
There is also an industry that supports nearly 10 million people.
Changshan County now collects nearly 100 million yuan in tax revenue per month, and the income of Changshan County-affiliated companies is as high as 9 billion yuan.
Among them, the new artillery factory replaced the Changshan Iron and Steel Plant and became the largest profitable industry in Changshan County.
The Empire is now actively preparing for war, preparing for its second confrontation with the Papal States.
The nightmare of lack of artillery shells in the first round of battle had a huge impact on the highest military headquarters of the empire.
After Changshan County handed over 30 million artillery shells, they continued to purchase unlimited quantities from Changshan County and used the influence of the highest military to force suppliers to supply Changshan County.
Changshan County's astonishing large-scale production and meticulous management enabled it to produce artillery shells with extremely high quality and low prices.
The Imperial Logistics General Armament Department was very satisfied and eliminated all opposition and interference, listing Changshan County as a key supplier.
The new factory had a monthly production capacity of 40 million shells. With such a large scale and high-quality and low-cost products, it defeated all other shell suppliers in the empire.
Therefore, news about Changshan County's use of slaves and forced labor spread everywhere.
In their opinion, otherwise it would be impossible to make money at this price.
When Lin Wen discovered that the reason for his zero freedom was actually because he restricted the movements of a large number of reporters who flocked to Changshan County for interviews, he immediately ordered the lifting of all restrictions in Changshan County.
“No region is freer than Changshan County.”
This was what Lin Wen said when Qin Luoshuang went to protest to him.
Qin Luoshuang was extremely depressed about this, but she could only increase her efforts in entry and exit security checks and quickly improve joint defense measures.
However, negative effects still emerged.
It is true that most of the reporters who entered Changshan County were neutral, but a few of them had ulterior motives.
After entering Changshan County, they used a gray filter to film the flow of people in the new factory area and photoshopped guns into the hands of the managers of the Refugee Committee to create the illusion of coercion.
If someone falls, they will give a close-up of the person who fell, showing his painful face, and deliberately ignore the people nearby who stop for him and the hands that come up to help.
Then publish the news with a sensational headline.
Shocking: The Ancient Empire Hidden in the Modern Empire
Am I in Modern Society?
Since the end of the food war, the Changxie Department has turned its attention to the work of whitewashing Changshan County's image to the outside world.
They responded quickly, pointing out the untruthfulness of the report.
The second battle of the public opinion war also broke out in full swing.
However, none of this could stop Changshan County from making a lot of money.
After deducting all expenses, the net profit of one shell is 120 yuan. With 40 million shells a month, the net income is as high as 4.8 billion yuan.
The new factory became Changshan County’s first cash cow and its largest industry.
It housed five million refugees, 700,000 of whom worked in the factories and another 4.3 million assembled shells by hand in the open air.
Under such simple conditions, the quality of their products is still good. Workers work twelve hours a day and still find time to organize and learn how to better manufacture artillery shells.
Each of them has a monthly salary of 800 yuan, and also enjoys a large number of benefits and subsidies. Changshan County spends 1,300 yuan per month on each of them.
The cost of hiring workers alone is as high as 6.5 billion.
But even so, the new factory can still generate such high profits.
This is the power of large-scale production and refined management, but what is even more powerful than it is——
They make this their career.
They are working for themselves, not for Changshan County.
Each of them is trying their best to do things well and to save every penny.
It took the concerted efforts of five million people to create this huge profit.
Even the profits of the ultra-high-tech flying sword workshop have been suppressed.
The second most profitable industry is Changshan County Steel Plant, with a net profit of 2.8 billion, of which the Flying Sword Workshop accounted for 2.6 billion.
The third most profitable industry is the Changshan County Food Base, which employs 450,000 people and has hundreds of food processing factories of all sizes, the largest of which is a fish canning factory.
Although its profits are not very high, it plays an important role in providing food in Changshan County.
The fourth most profitable industry is Tianjiang Fishery Company, which catches 2,000 tons of fish a day without fail, which is both environmentally friendly and filling.
In addition, there are many non-profit functional industries such as coal mines, newspapers, and radio stations, and the actual profits they generate are also astonishing.
Changshan County, which used to be dry and thin, has now become a big piece of fat meat.
Moreover, it has demonstrated its ability to defend itself, and even many powerful groups such as the Council have not been able to gain any benefits from it.
Therefore, more and more people became interested in it.
Since they can't use a hard approach, they can use a soft approach.
Making money is not shameful.
When Zhao Minggong, as the deputy county chief of Changshan County, announced the super construction blueprint of Changshan County, announced an investment of 110 billion to build a new town, and invited bids from 500 contractors, most of the empire was in an uproar.
Countless developers, contractors, and engineering teams rushed in. No matter how much discrediting information there was from the outside world about Changshan County, it could not stop them.
This extremely grand project and the huge budget invested in such a barren land are unprecedented in the empire.
Countless people were shocked by Lin Wen's huge investment. He dared to invest 100 billion at a time. With this ambition, he can be called the largest in the empire.
However, for Lin Wen, this was just the beginning of everything.
His grand development plan has just taken the first step.
(End of this chapter)
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