In the wasteland, one hundred thousand refugees were organized and lined up to pick up stones from the ground.
These large and small pebbles will be piled up and stored. Materials for further construction.
Song Yingxing looked at the crowded wasteland and felt much better.
A piece of bad news came. Xu Guangqi resigned. Without Xu Guangqi's financial support, his artillery research career could not advance, and he could not even pay the rent next month.
When Yang Fan got the news, he almost died laughing.
He and Song Yingxing had a long talk last night. Song Yingxing was finally persuaded to serve as the president of Xinghe Industrial Research Institute.
What finally convinced Dean Song was one sentence: Don't shoot at tigers in the mountains, go straight to the rich people. In fact, Mr. Song's main interest is in the civilian field.
This institute is mainly responsible for the research and development of various technologies and equipment used in industrial and agricultural production.
The first task of President Song after taking office was to build the Zhouhe Dam and the Xinghe Castle in Zunhua City.
Yang Fan found a middle-aged engineer from the water conservancy department on the Internet, who provided a complete set of drawings of the Zhouhe Dam.
This dam was built in the 1950s by mobilizing a large number of migrant workers and using primitive tools. There was no mechanized equipment at that time. The time and space of the late Ming Dynasty should also be possible.
Song Yingxing was stunned by Yang Fan's generosity.
Such a large project has never been heard of before. The merit is in the moment, but the benefit is in the future.
When I think that my name will be forever recorded on the dam with a stone tablet in the future, I am so excited that I can't sleep at night.
Yang Fan's words still ring in his ears. "After the completion of this dam, there will be no floods in the Luanhe River Basin and Jiyun River. Water will be stored in the flood season and released in the dry season. Tens of millions of acres of land downstream as far as Beitangkou will benefit."
"As the water depth increases, shipping will further improve, and large ships will be able to go directly from Zunhua to Haikou."
"In the future, Zunhua's railways can be transported directly to coastal areas, even North Korea and Japan, by sea. The market is not limited to the north."
Song Yingxing stayed up all night last night, looking at the drawings obsessively. While looking at it, I was amazed, this is really a fantastic design.
First, two 30-meter-long arc-shaped drainage holes were dug on the stone walls on both sides of the gorge mouth. Open diversion channels and sluice gates were built on the side of the drainage holes facing the reservoir inside the dam.
Install the water gate first. Then the Zhou River is blocked, and after the sluice gate is opened, the water will continue to flow away from the two drainage holes.
After the river ran out of water, they began to build what Yang Dongzhu called a dam made of cement.
There is also a factory building inside the dam, with 20 water diversion pipes passing through the factory building at an angle from top to bottom.
Boss Yang said this was a reserved generator workshop. I don’t know what this generator is.
What impressed him most was the wasteland development plan.
After picking up the stones, wait for the dam to fill up with water, and then release the water to flush the saline-alkali land. It takes three months to repeatedly soak and wash the saline-alkali land piece by piece from near to far, and turn it into fertile farmland. Four to five million acres of paddy field can be obtained.
Yang Fan assigned a thousand regiments to him, and each regiment was responsible for managing more than a hundred refugees. Song Yingxing classified them according to their strength.
Most of the women, old people and children were assigned to the wasteland to collect stones. A small number of strong people work as workers in the engineering department.
Ten thousand of them went to dig diversion channels and dig tunnels.
Five thousand people went to mineral processing, and three thousand people went to build a new residence for Baihusuo. Two thousand people were left to build new buildings, schools, factories, etc. for Xinghe Iron Works.
This year, the refugees who gathered in Zunhua were completely cleared out. There is not a single refugee outside the city. The recruitment point of Xinghe Iron Works guides new refugees to various construction sites at any time.
The craftsmen among these refugees were carefully screened out, and a separate craftsman camp of more than 3,000 people was formed. Build whatever is needed up front.
Later, we plan to select 10,000 young people to be the apprentices of the master craftsmen. These teenagers worked with their masters during the day and took an hour-long literacy class after dinner. The school has recruited hundreds of old children to serve as literacy class teachers.
These losers in the imperial examination were not even scholars, and most of them lived in difficulty. After all, the minimum requirement to open a private school was to be a scholar. There is no problem in teaching literacy at their level.
Yang Fan and Yao Guang sat side by side in front of their laptops and chatted with monkeys about penguins.
"Fanzi, I found cheap grain. I recently contacted a businessman. She has aged grain rotated from various warehouses. The longer it is, the cheaper it gets."
"Is the quantity large? How is the quality? Will it go bad?"
"The quantity is very huge, you can buy as much as you want. The ones that are less than three years old are not moldy and are all good food. The ones that are more than three years old may have mold in a very small number."
“Is the procedure legal?”
"I saw that the procedures she sold to us were complete. However, we need to build a feed processing plant and an alcohol production plant to purchase these aged grains. Those within three years need a feed factory qualification, and those over three years need an alcohol factory qualification. .”
"In terms of specific prices, corn is the cheapest at 10 cents per catty, which is generally around 2 cents. Rice is about 20 cents to 30 cents. Wheat is around 30 cents."
Yang Fan looked at Yao Guang.
"This is waste and won't consume too much energy. You can let go of the teleportation, no problem." Yaoguang said, combing the hair behind her ears with her hands.
"Buy 10,000 tons of corn, rice, and wheat each and send them to the warehouse." Yang Fan was very excited. Although this old grain has a cost, the quantity is sufficient. Now, with more than 100,000 mouths, fifty tons of food are eaten a day. Xinghe Environmental Protection's business cannot keep up, and the supply of food waste is already insufficient.
Moreover, the soap factory will start construction soon. In the future, the oil will be separated from the monkeys and transported separately as raw materials for soap. Yang Fan urgently needs to find new sources of food.
"You can apply for the licenses for these two factories. If you have ready-made ones, buy them directly. Let's build another rice mill. The grains will be shelled and stored in the warehouse. The grains that are not very good will be made into feed and alcohol and stored in the warehouse. I will send people Transport away.”
"Okay, I'll let you know when it's done." Monkey's side went offline.
Yang Fan continued to contact the scammer again, and the scammer was responsible for the purchase.
"Fanzi, I have an idea of the large supermarket you want me to contact." The scammer was in a hotel in Pujiang.
"Currently, large shopping malls and supermarkets in China have a large amount of expired food, which is disposed of as garbage according to regulations."
"The largest volume of these commodities is bread. The bread in the supermarket is sent by the manufacturer and sold in the supermarket, and the checkout is delayed. Expired items are generally thrown away, and the manufacturer will not spend money to transport them back. These expired items are usually thrown away. Bread generally has a shelf life of about ten days. Like other foods, it lasts longer after its expiration date. Generally, it is rich in the aspect of preservatives."
Yang Fan was very satisfied. He had already planned this, but he was too busy to take care of it. And he didn’t have much money in the early stage.
The main business of Xinghe Technology Environmental Protection Company is the disposal of food waste, so it is reasonable to negotiate with large supermarkets to dispose of these expired food.
These are basically cost-free. Yang Fan has always planned to open Xinghe Supermarket in Daming, and he planned to use this as a source of goods.
Food is in short supply in this era, and as long as the price is right, food can be sold quickly.
There is no shelf life here. You can sell it as long as it has not deteriorated. If it seems too long, it will be sold out immediately at a discount.
"Okay, let's negotiate this as soon as possible. How is the situation at the scrap collection station? What is the price of domestic scrap steel?"
"Fanzi, we didn't understand this before and thought that scrap steel can be used to make steel. In fact, this is not the case. Domestic steel plants do not want scrap steel at all. The composition of scrap steel is complex, it is difficult to control the quality, and the smelting cost is higher than that of iron ore. There are a lot of them. Iron ore is cheap and the process is simple.”
Yang Fan frowned. It turns out that there are still these problems, but it is also possible to use scrap steel directly to make tools or something. This can still be done.
"By the way, how are you doing with the scrap railway sleepers and minecarts I asked you to contact before?"
"This has been done. Three kilometers of railway sleepers were collected from a closed small mine, and there are more than 300 small mine cars. But there is no power, so people can only push it."
"It doesn't matter. This is sold to Africa. There are a lot of people there. It's too complicated and Uncle Black doesn't want it."
At this time Xiang Yi walked in, "Master, Master Wei has arrived with the shopkeepers of the three largest pawn shops in the city."
"Okay, I'll go see them right away"
