Wu An'an is from the north and is forty-eight years old this year. After graduating from a southern electric power vocational college in the late 1980s, he has been working in a southern thermal power plant. He started as an operator and worked his way up to deputy factory director in charge of operations. A few years ago, the country shut down small coal-fired thermal power plants, and Wu Ping An was diverted.
These days, those who are connected to the power plant's diversion staff will go to the electricity sales company. Those who are not connected can only follow the arrangements, and the group is random. Wu An'an belonged to the former, but unfortunately, he was in the wrong team; the vice president of the group with whom he had the best relationship was double-regulated. Wu An'an suddenly fell into the clouds and was assigned from the most popular department to the administrative department as a handyman. Semi-retired status.
The problem is that Wu An'an is only forty-eight. Even if he wants to go home and live a life of playing with cats, walking dogs, and having grandchildren, he must first have a grandson, right?
The key is that he doesn't even have a wife now. In his early years, because of a debauched experience, Mrs. Wu took her children and said goodbye to him. The most amazing thing is that Mrs. Wu is a vengeful person, so that for so many years, Wu An'an's son only said three words every time he saw his father.
"You came."
"I have no pocket money."
"Oh well."
Wu Ping'an felt that he could not count on his son and grandson. So when he saw on the recruitment website that XX Company was recruiting thermal power plant directors to work overseas, he thought he could give it a try. To be able to rise from operator to deputy factory director, Wu Ping An believes that he still has two skills.
On the third day after submitting his resume, Wu Anping received a call from Zhao Xin. After some polite greetings, Wu Ping'an introduced his experience in the industry; Zhao Xin continued to use the same rhetoric as before.
As a layman, Zhao Xin is most concerned about the cost of power plants.
"Mr. Wu, if it is two power plants with an installed capacity of 60 megawatts, how much total investment is required?"
"This now depends on labor. The price of equipment is actually very easy to calculate. Let me think about it... it should be between 500 million and 550 million." Wu Ping'an laid an ambush and said tens of millions more.
"Then please provide me with the cost and personnel requirements for a 60-megawatt thermal power plant as requested by me." Zhao Xin actually has this requirement for every candidate he selects. He has to know how many people he has to fool before he can go there. OK.
"How many days?"
"Can two days be okay?"
"Hmm... no problem." Wu Ping'an pretended to ponder for a moment, but he was almost happy in his heart. He kept a lot of information about previous power plants on hand.
Two days later, Zhao Xin received the quotations and personnel lists submitted by the seven candidates. He found that the most detailed one was that of Wu An'an; in addition to the previously requested content, this person also wrote a brief project design plan.
Okay, it’s you! Zhao Xin asked someone to immediately contact Wu Anping to come to the capital for an interview and take care of all air tickets and accommodation.
Just like the nine people in the education department, when Wu Ping An heard this, he thought to himself that this was really rich, it was a big company! Maybe if I finish this job, I will have a pension for the rest of my life.
After arriving in the capital, Zhao Xin met with Wu Anping, negotiated the salary, and asked him to sign a contract. As the person in charge of the power project, Wu Anping currently has to complete three things: recruiting personnel, ordering equipment, project planning and engineering construction plans.
In terms of personnel, Zhao Xin requested that only the backbone of necessary positions be recruited, and pure labor will not be used. All personnel are required to be in place within three months, and then go through separate procedures and rush overseas.
Wu Anping said that recruiting people is easy. Not to mention other places, in the area where he was previously, there were three or four small thermal power plants that had been shut down. Many people were not satisfied with the work arrangements after the diversion. Moreover, power plant equipment is now highly automated, and it is enough for a small thermal power plant to support a hundred people.
Wu Ping An was responsible for the affairs at the power plant. Zhao Xin waited for another two days until all the things he bought this time arrived, and then he set off on his way home. After he returned to Beihai Town, he called Zhao Liang to his home that night.
As soon as Zhao Liang entered the door, he saw the pedal sewing machine in the room and was surprised: "I'll go, this thing is still for sale!" He looked at the trademark again and found that it was from the Feiren brand.
"More than two hundred each, extremely cheap."
"Oh, I had to use a ticket to buy the one I had at home. It's so nostalgic!" Zhao Liang stroked the shiny black fuselage and stepped on the pedal underneath, as if he had returned to his childhood.
Zhao Xin smiled and said: "I thought that every woman in Beihai Town is now helping to sew military uniforms. The first thing I did after returning home was to buy fifty units. How about it? Can I imitate it?"
Zhao Liang opened the cover, lifted up the fuselage, looked back and forth and said, "It's not a big problem. The outer casing and frame wheels are all cast iron parts, just sanding them; the small parts of the machine head can be made directly with a lathe."
He then looked up at Zhao Xin and asked, "Where are you going to sell it in the future?"
Zhao Xindao: "Island countries, Daiqing, and foreigners can sell it to anyone. But first we have to satisfy ourselves. You first make a copy and see how much the cost can be, and then you can set the price."
Zhao Liang asked: "Are there sewing machines in Europe now?"
Zhao Xindao: "It will take another three years before there will be a hand-cranked one."
Zhao Liang sat down, lit a cigarette and asked, "Are you done with the power plant?"
"Well, we just hired a factory director, and let him take care of the rest first. I estimate that it will be good to have it completed and put into production in two years."
"Where do you plan to build the thermal power plant?" Zhao Liang is in charge of the entire industrial sector, and he cares more about the location of the power plant than anyone else. The shorter the transmission line, the less power is lost along the way.
“What I want is to locate it in the valley southeast of the factory area, so that the coal transported from Ezo can be directly sent to the power plant, and secondly, pollution can be reduced. But in this case, road construction is imperative. "
Zhao Xin thought about it again and again, and decided to put the survey and design of the military port later, and let Pereira lead people to complete the road design of the industrial zone first.
After talking about the business, the two chatted for a while and then dispersed. Zhao Xin also had to go to bed early. Tomorrow he would go to Fuldan City to check the conditions of spring plowing and new settlements, and also take a look at the exercise site.
Since it was a leap July last year, this year it has just passed the first month. The ice and snow in the wilderness have begun to melt away, and the road to Fuldan City has become easier to walk. At this time, Zhao Xin no longer had any worries, and drove a large truck and set off with Sheng Haizhou and others and a guard squad the next morning. As for Lin Ziping's surveying and mapping team, they had already gone to Fuldan City a week ago.
Starting from early February this year, preparations for farming began in Beihai Town. As in previous years, tractors and manpower were first used to clear the snow to speed up the ground temperature rise.
Last year, the road from Beihai Town to Fuldan City was connected, making transportation convenient. So more than 20,000 people joined the battle, and 30,000 acres of wasteland were newly reclaimed north of Fuldan City.
The agricultural machinery crew has not been busy with anything else this winter. Apart from training new employees, they have been doing maintenance on machinery every day. Wan Zao, Mosuke and other agricultural machinery drivers love these tractors like eyeballs. If they feel there is a slight problem, they have to repair it. Therefore, after the spring plowing begins, there is no equipment lying around.
Since the tractor ordered by Zhao Xin had not yet been delivered, the previous machinery was not enough, so farmers tied logs more than ten meters long to ropes and used people to pull them with horses to break up the snow in the fields.
Spring plowing, like harvesting, has to be done at the right time. If sowing is late, the crops will be completely destroyed when the rainy season arrives. There are no taboos among the farmers, and all men and women join the battle.
Women are particularly hard-working. They have to get up before dawn to make breakfast, and then go to work with dry food and the men at home. After a busy day, they have to cook and do handicrafts before going to bed in order to earn more money for the family.
After the black soil in the fields melts away, land preparation for sowing begins. If the tractor can't take care of it, people will use the method of pulling horses. Even if farmland irrigation has been overhauled, the black soil after melting is like gum and extremely sticky. After a person drags the plow on it, two pounds of mud will be on the soles of his shoes, making it difficult to walk. Sometimes horses will sink their legs into vole holes, and if they are not careful, their legs will be broken and injured.
These originally very poor farmers were worried about the shoes on their feet, so many of them stepped barefoot into the knee-deep black soil, dragging the iron plows made in the workshop from south to north, spilling sweat all over the ground.
Last autumn, Zhu Dagui's family moved from Beihai Town to a settlement village in the north of Fuldan City. His son's education was also interrupted. However, this year Fuldan City will open another school, and the school will start after the spring plowing.
Zhu Dagui had been working as a handyman before, building roads, digging trenches, harvesting wheat in autumn, and also served as a group leader in a residential community. After arriving in the new settlement, he was promoted to the position of village chief, and now he is coordinating and arranging spring plowing affairs within the group in conjunction with civil affairs.
After spring plowing began, the civil affairs department notified all villages to go outside Fuldan City to pull fertilizer. Zhu Dagui, who was confused, led his people to drive the cart to the place, only to realize that there were many details involved in making fertilizers, which opened his eyes.
Different from previous years, this year Beihai Town and Fuldan City have each set up a fertilizer production team to be responsible for the production of refined organic fertilizer. Zhao Xin bought the equipment last year. It is not expensive and has a simple structure. Although there are many types of equipment, the workshop still made a copy of it after the winter began. The original product is currently used in Fuldan City, and the imitation product is used in Beihai Town. The daily production capacity of the entire equipment can reach up to 20 tons.
The fertilizer production team is currently working in three shifts, working 24 hours a day. Workers first put the organic fertilizer that has been fermented for a winter into a pulverizer for crushing, then mixed it with dry soil in proportion and put it into a mixer for mixing. As the auger blades rotated at high speed, the steaming granular fertilizer passed through The outlet screen is extruded and formed; finally, it is made into granules through a granulator, dried and packaged.
After bags of fertilizer are transported to the field, the tractor drives the fertilizer seeder to spread the prepared organic manure into the plowed soil, and then sow wheat seeds. According to the civil affairs' spring plowing plan, all sowing work must be completed by the end of March.
According to Zhu Dagui, farming here is really fun! Although I am a little tired, when I think about the yield of more than 600 kilograms per mu during the wheat harvest last year, I really feel more and more motivated.
According to Beihai Town's land allocation policy, Zhu Dagui's family has been in Beihai Town for one year and can allocate their fields. He calculated based on a harvest of 600 jins per acre, that 30,000 jins of wheat could be harvested from 50 acres. After deducting the cost of water conservancy, fertilizer and agricultural machinery, there are still more than 26,000 kilograms of wheat left, which makes me happy to wake up from my dreams.
For these farmers who have faced the loess all their lives and turned their backs to the sky, and finally had to leave their hometowns, what could be more exciting than getting a piece of good land?
After dinner, night fell. In the residential community outside Fuldan, the smoke from every house cleared away, and a thin crescent moon hung on the treetops.
"Dad, what are you doing for fun? I woke up Xiao Shun later." Mrs. Zhu Chen rubbed the needle in the sole of her shoe into her hair a few times and rolled her eyes at Zhu Dagui.
The woman is making mille-layer cloth shoes, which will be purchased by the Civil Affairs Bureau after they are finished. The scrap fabrics and tools for making shoes are provided by the civil administration, and the sizes of cloth shoes are also standard.
The production of mille-layer cloth shoes generally requires seven processes. Beating the paste, making the shell, making the shoe pattern, attaching the sole, attaching the upper, and finally hemming. After these processes, a pair of durable, beautiful and elegant thousand-layer cloth shoes is completed.
If it weren't for the busy spring plowing, Zhu Dagui's wife could have made a pair in two or three days. The OEM fee for each pair of thousand-layer cloth shoes is 2 cents, and the clothes are 50 cents. In a month, you can earn two silver dollars.
Zhu Dagui lay on the bed, smoking a dry cigarette, put away the silly smile on his face, and tucked in the quilt for his sleeping son. Then he gently turned over and held his head with one hand, while continuing to hold the dry pipe in the other hand, and said to his wife: "I think, after harvesting and selling grain this autumn, our family will also build a new house. This place outside the customs is huge. A few days ago, I heard from Chun that in the future, every family will be allocated land to build a house. It will be called a homestead, or a homestead, yes, that’s what it’s called.”
"Can you tell me how much land can be given to build a house?"
Zhu Dagui held out four fingers and said: "In Chunlai, each house has an area of 400 square meters."
Mrs. Zhu Chen thought for a while and said with surprise: "Four hundred? Not even one acre of land?"
Thanks to the persistence of literacy classes and legal education activities, most of the refugees in Beihai Town who have been here for more than a year now know how big one square meter is.
Zhu Dagui knocked his cigarette pouch gently on the edge of the bed, turned around and said, "What do you know? Four hundred square meters can build a two-story wooden building with a small courtyard!"
Zhu Chen asked in confusion: "Building? What building?"
Zhu Dagui gestured with his pipe and said: "There are three main rooms on the first floor and three main rooms on the second floor. Two more side rooms are no worse than a big courtyard."
The woman finished the last few stitches, put away the needlework and the finished clothes, and then took off her clothes and went to bed. After she turned off the lantern and got into the quilt, she suddenly asked Zhu Dagui: "His father, I heard that before spring came, where was her husband (eunuch)?"
Zhu Dagui said: "What happened to my husband? That boy is also a poor man. Alas~~ he can't even get a wife. I heard that the water was too hot when serving tea to the emperor. When the emperor got angry, he gave it to him."
The woman said: "Why is the emperor so petty?"
Zhu Dagui said dissatisfied: "What are you talking about? The emperor is something we can discuss? Go to bed, we are still busy tomorrow."
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