After changing the road construction plan, the entire progress was much faster. [Full text reading] Wang Luobin also kept his word. The executive committee used the personnel database to mobilize all people with experience in driving tractors, construction machinery and heavy vehicles. Bai Yu was going to convert tractors into tanks and agricultural vehicles into Infantry fighting vehicle, the former tank soldier who became the father of the armored force of the Crossing Army was once again brutally arrested indiscriminately and was enriched into the engineering team.
Mei Wan personally went to work, inspecting the construction site, and teaching the new road construction workers how to use tools and soil work. It's pitiful that most urban otakus couldn't even hold a shovel in their hands, so they were asked to shovel dirt. , no one can dig a ditch or rake the ground decently.
He taught for a while and then looked at the construction status of the machinery. Although the people who drive construction machinery are not very skilled, they can still do it - fortunately, the executive committee arranged for someone to learn it before traveling.
Fortunately, there were construction machinery, Mei Wan was secretly grateful, otherwise it would be hard to imagine what these so-called construction team members would do with their work. After a round of inspection, I suddenly saw a man who was working in a decent manner. He had been a project manager on the construction site for many years. He could tell whether he was a novice or an expert at a glance. The young man looks strong and strong, but he is a bit lazy and slow at work. Mei Wan walked over and said:
"You're doing well. Have you ever been to a construction site?"
"I've been there. I've done a lot of work." The young man paused and asked, "Are you Manager Mei?" Mei Wan used to be the project manager of the engineering team, so everyone followed suit.
"Yes, it's me. Do you recognize me?" Mei Wan was a little surprised. He didn't know this person.
"Is it the basic ability for us workers to recognize our leaders as quickly as possible?" the young man laughed. "When we see our leaders coming, we have to work hard..."
Mei Wan laughed, "What's your name?"
"Tan Ming. Everyone calls me Fei Ming." Tan Ming said and started working again. "Not only have I worked at construction sites, I have also worked as a security guard, an oil worker, an online game player, and a printer..."
"How did you get here to be a printer?"
"I haven't been able to make a name for myself despite my age. Now the economic situation is not good and I'm unemployed. I don't think I can make a name for myself anyway, so I might as well give it a try somewhere else."
Mei Wan walked around and returned to the tent. He was quite satisfied with the overall progress. Bingfeng, the construction team leader, came into the tent and reported to him that the food team had just delivered a 1-ton pot of drinking water and salt. .
"Don't you have the helmet yet?" Mei Wan asked.
"Commissioner Wang just said that he had sent people to cut willow branches in the morning, and they are now in trial production."
"Okay, it's not a big problem if I don't wear it now. There's not much lifting work." He thought for a moment, "By the way, there is a man named Tan Ming in the team. He has worked on construction sites in the past and is very familiar with the work. You first Arrange him to be a team leader and see how capable he is. If successful, we will train him to be a construction worker later."
"Okay, I'll make the arrangements right now." Bingfeng was about to go out when Mei Wan stopped him, "In the future, you have to pay more attention to this kind of things yourself, and train the right people if you have them. You are a structural engineer, and you are Deputy team leader, how can you always be a foreman on the construction site? Isn’t it wasteful?”
Bingfeng was a little confused. He didn't understand what this meant, so he responded with a few random words and went out.
Mei Wan lit up a cigarette, feeling a little confused. Logically speaking, his thoughts should be on this highway, but the scene from yesterday's meeting kept replaying in his mind. Unexpectedly, Zhuo Tianmin, a person who always kept a low profile, would actually do this to him on the spot. This is showing off. Mei Wan thought a little bitterly: Zhuo Tianmin's qualification certificates for architects and consultants may have aroused great interest in the executive committee...
For a moment, he felt a sense of crisis lurking around him. Originally, he was very satisfied with the team of the construction engineering team. Bingfeng, the deputy team leader, was a structural engineer with a relatively partial expertise; Looks like he's not interested in anything.
But it's different now. Although he considers himself to have extensive experience in the management and coordination of civil engineering projects, when it comes to professionalism, he is obviously no match for this man.
While I was thinking wildly, the radio reported that the 3-kilometer roadbed work in the No. 1 bid section had been completed, and now the road paving team was about to move in. However, the road surface material has not yet been determined. Mei Wan put on a notebook and picked up a small shovel. She walked out of the tent and shoveled shovelfuls of soil along the ditch, looking at it with her eyes and squeezing it with her hands. Then I wrote something down in the notebook. Just walked one meter after another. He was puzzled by Yanquezhi, who was measuring the hydrological data of the Wenlan River.
"Manager Mei, what are you touching?"
"Look at the soil quality." Mei Wan casually crushed the soil in her hands, "Look for soil suitable for paving the road."
"So much soil can't be dug out? Isn't this how the roadbed can be filled?"
"The soil requirements for roadbed are simpler than those for pavement." Mei Wan explained that soil can be divided into clay, sand and silt soil according to particle size. Soil in nature is generally a mixture of the three. Depending on its content, it can be fine. It is divided into nine types, each with different characteristics used to build roads. Some are suitable, some cannot be used at all, and some need modification.
"Simple roads are soil pavements, which have many disadvantages compared to common hardened pavements, such as large amounts of dust, low road surface bearing capacity, and the pavement will soften when it rains, forming puddles and muddy..." He said, "So the selection and processing The use of soil on the road surface is a very important link. If it is used properly, such problems will be smaller and fewer."
"Take this kind of sandy soil, for example. There is a lot of sandy soil along the river here." He shoveled a shovelful of soil. "The characteristic of this soil is that it is almost all sand grains, has low viscosity, is loose and shapeless when dry, and is moist. It cannot be kneaded and molded. When driving on a pavement paved with this soil, it is easy to form deep ruts when driving on a sunny and dry day. It also has a weak stickiness on rainy days. The advantage is that the pavement dries easily and can only be used after being modified with a certain amount of clay. Come pave the road.”
"What about this kind?" Yanquezhi was very interested in this question. Seeing that the soil over there was different, he quickly pinched a little and said, "According to this statement, this kind of soil mixed with clay and sand is the most suitable for paving roads. .”
"That's true in theory, but in practice it's not that simple. All kinds of soil have different characteristics, more or less." Mei Wan said as she took the soil in her hand, looked at it, and rubbed it again. It turned into thin and short strips of soil. "The soil you brought is fine sandy soil. It contains both clay and relatively large amounts of fine sand, so it is somewhat sticky. This kind of soil is more suitable for road construction." .”
"Then this is the soil used?"
"The sandy soil I'm looking for," Mei Wan clapped her hands, "is similar to this, but the sand grains are coarser. If you use this soil to pave the road, it will maintain a dense density after compaction and will not loosen easily. There is less dust when driving, it does not stick to the wheels in rainy days, it dries quickly after rain, and it is easy to maintain and keep the road surface smooth.”
"Then how can you tell, whether the sand is fine or coarse, can you tell with your eyes?" Yan Quezhi studied the soil in his hand for a long time.
"You can tell if you look carefully." Mei Wan continued to guide him, "The simple way to identify it is to rub it with your hands. Like the fine sandy soil you gave me, you can rub it into short strips of soil, but the sand If you don't rub it out, you won't be able to remove it."
"That's right." Yanque Zhi was completely in awe of him at this moment, "Quite professional!"
"Haha," Mei Wan smiled proudly, "Where is that?" She thought to herself that the old textbook was indeed very powerful.
It didn't take long for Mei Wan and Yan Quezhi to find a sandy ridge land acquisition site. Of course, if such ideal materials cannot be found, Mei Wan can also modify them according to the soil conditions, but this will require one more process and the labor intensity will be much higher.
The paving work of the road was personally directed by Mei Wan. Because the traffic volume of simple roads is not large, there is no need to build a very thick road surface. A thickness of 15 cm and compaction by a roller 2-3 times is basically completed. The middle of the road surface is slightly raised to facilitate drainage.
In order to improve the strength of the road surface, the engineering team mixed some cobblestones into the road soil. Because suitable stones are limited, the effect cannot be compared to real gravel roads. In other words, it is best not to drive the car on rainy days.
"As soon as possible, as soon as possible, come up with something like this as soon as possible." Mei Wan looked at the completed road section, threw the cigarette butt to the ground, and stepped on it hard.
Just after the first watch, the courtyard of the county government seemed very quiet. There were only two servants on duty carrying small white paper lanterns, walking around the courtyard every once in a while, using wooden sticks to mark the watch.
There were more than a dozen local warriors sitting or lying in the courtyard. Normally, this important place of government would not tolerate such reckless barbarians. However, the city defense is tight now, and these more than ten local warriors had just fought with pirates yesterday. Yes, the government officials just turned a blind eye and stopped disturbing her.
The person who brought Xiangyong here was Huang Shoutong from Namei Village. He was around fifty years old, tall and energetic, with a short beard that was somewhat gray, broad eyebrows and forehead, and eyes that were open and closed like lightning. He is a large grain farmer in this county. His ancestors joined the army in the early days of the country and settled in Lingao. Several of his ancestors were selected as scholars and changed their nationality, and this is how the clan grew. Being generous and righteous is very prestigious among the clans in the village.
Lingao has always been harassed by pirates, and the local situation is not peaceful. Since the Jiajing period in order to defend against Japanese pirates, his family's ancestors have built earthen fortresses in Namei Village to practice local bravery. It is a famous "hard court" in Lingao. In his generation, Namei Village was used as the base, and the six nearby villages and townships made a joint guarantee, and five or six hundred township warriors could be dispatched at any time. In recent years, the local area has been unstable. Every time troops were sent to suppress bandits or defend the county seat, Huang Shoutong led his fellow villagers to participate. They contributed a lot and were highly praised by Wu Mingjin.
Huang Shoutong was a white man, but he had a son who was a scholar and studied in the county school. When he invited the gentry to come to the meeting, he arranged defenses in each village and only asked the sons from the county school to attend, and sent more than ten more Xiang Yong brought a cart of grain, rice and vegetables into the city to assist in the defense. Now that the old man suddenly brought someone to visit, Wu Mingjin felt surprised and happy at the same time. After the guests and hosts sat down in the flower hall and exchanged greetings, Wu Mingjin saw that the old man's net scarf had been replaced by white, and his eyes were red. He was very surprised. He knew that Huang Dahu's parents had passed away. Could it be that his old wife also died of a new illness?
Seeing the surprised look on the magistrate's face, Huang Shoutong told him: One of his sons was killed yesterday when he attacked pirates.
