Chapter 2424

Considering that the Miaoli area is still in the dry season, the water level of Houlong River is much lower than that in the rainy season, so the erection height of the bridge must also take into account the shipping needs in the rainy season. Liu Shanxia only has the hydrological data of Houlong River in recent years, so he can

The height of the bridge deck is based on the highest water level plus two meters, which is higher than the wooden bridge on the original site. In this way, even if the water level reaches the highest level again in the rainy season, the steam traffic boat with a chimney on the hull can still pass through the bridge.

Passed successfully.

Of course, it is safer to build the bridge higher, but in order to ensure the straightness of the bridge deck, the approach parts on both sides of the bridge will have to be lengthened, and the entire project volume will also increase a lot. In Liu Shanxia's opinion, it is not

No need. If the water level in the rainy season exceeds the historical record and steam traffic boats cannot pass under this bridge, then at least there is a land route that can connect the upper and lower reaches of Houlong River, and the bearing capacity of this new bridge is far better than that of the old bridge.

No need to worry about limited traffic capacity.

The design and construction plan of this bridge are not too complicated, and Liu Shanxia estimates that it can be completed in about a week. What really worries him is the issue of building materials. Local products are limited, and both steel bars and cement must be transported from other places by sea.

It is trivial to increase the cost, but the entire construction period may be delayed due to this. Liu Shanxia decided that after returning to the station today, he would contact nearby Penghu, Chicken Coop, Kaohsiung and other places through telegraph as soon as possible to see if these places were still in good condition.

The steel bars and cement in stock will be transported first to ensure that the bridge project can be started as planned, and will be slowly replenished from Hainan Island later.

While conducting survey work, Liu Shanxia was also constantly communicating with his subordinates. Participating in this kind of bridge project is an extremely rare practical opportunity for these future construction engineers, and Liu Shanxia also hopes that they can learn more skills in the process.

, so that if there are similar projects in the future, he will not have to go to the site to preside over the work in person. Liu Shanxia will also pay attention to the observation during this process to see who are the talents worthy of reuse in the future.

Liu Shanxia's field work continued until dinner time. Seeing dusk approaching, he ordered the team to return to camp. Their transportation here mainly relied on two large carriages. His men put away various survey tools and loaded them into the vehicles, and then

Let's take a car together to return to the base at the upper reaches of Houlong River. If we wait until dark before walking back, the road will be dark and the road conditions are not good. Even if Gao Cong brings several soldiers to escort him all the way, it will still be unsafe after all.

When Liu Shanxia returned to the station, he learned that Wang Hui had gone to the beach to pick up two distinguished guests today. The reception banquet had been arranged in the backyard and was waiting for him to arrive. Liu Shanxia hurried back to the house to tidy up, and then went to the backyard to meet with Wang Hui and others

meet.

"Old Liu, come on, come on, I've sent you!" When Tao Donglai saw Liu Shanxia, ​​he stood up and greeted him: "I heard that you are busy outside today, thank you for your hard work!"

"Boss, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming to Miaoli? If I had known, I would have set off a few days later and come on your boat!" Liu Shanxia was Tao Donglai's subordinate before the time travel, and the two had a very good personal relationship, so he spoke

There is no restraint either.

Tao Donglai smiled and said, "When you left, I hadn't decided on the itinerary yet, so I didn't mean to hide it from you on purpose."

The official ship Tao Donglai travels on is his own exclusive ship. The living conditions on the ship are much better than those on official ships owned by the Ministry of Shipping. If Liu Shanxia knew Tao Donglai's itinerary in advance, it would really be possible.

I will postpone my departure time and take Tao Donglai's boat to Miaoli instead.

After Liu Shanxia sat down, Wang Hui saw that everyone had arrived, so he ordered his servants to start serving food and wine.

Haihan now owns more than a dozen territories outside of Hainan Island, but there are often only one or two travelers stationed in these areas. It is very rare to have four travelers gather together overseas like this, let alone

Still in the relatively remote inland mountainous area of ​​Miaoli.

Tao Donglai took the lead in raising a toast: "It is not easy for us to meet here today. This glass of wine wishes that the subsequent development and construction of Miaoli will go smoothly. Your hard work today will be recorded in history in the future."

, respected by future generations! Cheers!"

The three of them immediately raised their glasses and drank the wine in their glasses. However, Wang Hui still felt a little disappointed. He was an outgoing official, and it would be at least several years before it was his turn to be the local magistrate here again.

Most of the credit for Miaoli's large-scale development will not be included in his account. But on second thought, large-scale development here means that the work will become very heavy. It is not easy to be as relaxed and happy as during his tenure.

It's possible. In this way, it's actually not bad to go back to Sanya and enjoy the blessings. It's hard to have the best of both worlds in this world. You just need to choose the path that suits you.

After drinking for three rounds, Tao Donglai immediately asked Liu Shanxia about the local infrastructure plan. He was also most concerned about the two key projects-resettlement and water and land transportation. Among the four people present, only Tao Donglai was a member of the executive committee.

Therefore, he knows best about Miaoli's future plans. As long as these two projects can be steadily advanced, subsequent work in areas such as agriculture, commerce, transportation, etc. will have the conditions to follow up smoothly.

"The most important problem at the moment is building materials." Liu Shanxia put down his wine glass and said frankly: "The current temporary resettlement sites are all shacks built with cut trees. This kind of temporary construction can only be used for short-term emergencies and cannot be used for a long time.

Well, the rainy season is coming in a blink of an eye, and there is also the typhoon season from June to September every year. When strong winds and heavy rains come, the stilts will not be able to withstand it. So we need a lot of bricks and treated wood to build a real

Although there are currently deployments in this area, the production capacity is far from meeting the demand. In addition, considering the future development needs of the oil production area, a new bridge with stronger traffic capacity must be built on Houlong River, which requires a large amount of

Reinforced steel and cement, these materials can only be transported from other places.”

Regarding the problems existing in the resettlement sites, Tao Donglai also saw it during today's on-site visit, and immediately started a discussion with Liu Shanxia on how to organize related production activities quickly and efficiently locally. Lu Zhanpeng and Wang Hui only listened.

For a moment, I felt that I couldn't get in the conversation, so I started to discuss the topic of the petrochemical industry by myself. They still had a lot of work to hand over, so there were many issues in the professional field that the two of them needed to discuss and solve together.

Regarding the future development prospects of Miaoli, what Lu Zhanpeng and Wang Hui value is the technological upgrading of the petrochemical industry, while Tao Donglai focuses on more things, or in other words, he looks at a higher angle than others, and must take into account

For the future development direction of this place, a lot of preparation work must be started from now on.

The development and construction of Miaoli should not have been so hasty, but at the time of great chaos in Shandong during the Ming Dynasty, Haihan had tens of thousands of people at his fingertips, and the various ruling areas north of Hainan Island could be easily divided from them.

To get a piece of the pie, the Executive Committee wanted to take this opportunity to immigrate to the Miaoli area and complete the comprehensive development of this area. During this period, some major progress was also made in the development of fuel engines, which had a great impact on the petrochemical industry.

Industrial upgrading is imperative. The emergence of these two opportunities at the same time contributed to the Executive Committee's determination to rapidly promote the development of Miaoli.

Although the planning for Miaoli has been planned for a long time, many related preparations have not been implemented in advance. For example, the infrastructure projects that Liu Shanxia is currently presiding over basically start preparations after the executive committee makes a decision.

Many links were exposed due to being too hasty. This resulted in Liu Shanxia having to spend more time reorganizing the work that should have been completed before his arrival after arriving in Miaoli.

Of course, with the human, material and financial resources that Haihan can currently mobilize, there will be no fundamental difficulties in improving these links. It will just take more time. Therefore, Tao Donglai believes that solving these problems still requires more patience.

, after all, the conditions now are much better than when we first crossed over. At that time, we could accommodate thousands of refugees brought back from Annan. The situation now will not be more difficult than ten years ago.

Although the conditions in Miaoli are slightly worse, there are three relatively mature areas nearby: Chicken Coop, Penghu, and Kaohsiung, all of which can provide certain help to Miaoli. Tao Donglai also promised Liu Shanxia that he would personally come forward to assist the Miaoli Regional Coordination Office.

We will arrange transportation capacity to send all kinds of materials needed to Miaoli as soon as possible, and strive to complete the infrastructure project here as soon as possible.

The upgrading of technology and production capacity in the local petrochemical industry is relatively complicated. Although it has been several years since the Chushankeng oil well was mined, for various reasons, it has maintained a relatively small scale of production, which has been ongoing for ten years.

Compared with years of resettlement operations, it is not an exaggeration to say that the petrochemical industry is still in the exploratory stage. Although Lu Zhanpeng, who is in charge of related work, has arrived in Miaoli, most of the numerous equipment required for the upgrade are still in the production stage.

Some are even still on the drawing board.

Just transporting these equipment from Sanya to Miaoli in the future is a big project. And the subsequent installation and debugging may also take a long time. If calculated based on Lu Zhanpeng's next one-year term, it is basically not very big.

The relevant upgrade work may be completed before he leaves office. The focus of their current discussion is how to optimize the upgrade process under Miaoli's current conditions.

This involves a lot of professional knowledge. When Tao Donglai and Liu Shanxia stopped to listen to the discussion between the two people, they quickly found that they could not integrate into these topics because Wang Hui and Liu Zhanpeng used a lot of professional knowledge in their conversation.

The terminology is beyond their ability to understand.

"Let's continue talking about building the bridge!" Tao Donglai smiled helplessly, and returned to the previous topic with Liu Shanxia.

The two people who just arrived today naturally live in Wang Hui's official residence. After all, this is the only mansion in the oil mining area. Fortunately, the house is big enough to accommodate them. Tao Donglai heard about the origin of this house.

, I couldn’t help praising Tian Yeyou for his foresight back then and actually building such a good place for future local officials to use as their official residences.

The next day, Liu Shanxia still went out early in the morning with his men to confirm the preparations for road construction. Tao Donglai and Lu Zhanpeng, who had just arrived yesterday, went with Wang Hui to visit the local petrochemical industry.

Compared with Liu Shanxia's almost superficial tour when he came here, Wang Hui's tour guide work this time was much more detailed. This was not only because Tao Donglai was present, but the main reason was that there was a work handover between him and Lu Zhanpeng

procedures, so I took this opportunity to explain them on the spot, so that if Lu Zhanpeng found any problems, they could be solved on the spot.

Tao Donglai doesn't understand too technical terminology, but he also has some key points that he is concerned about, such as what level the approximate production scale of various petrochemical products can reach after the production capacity upgrade, and whether it can provide qualified fuel for internal combustion engines.

, what kind of conditions need to be provided by the state for this. Of course, these issues have been elaborated in the previous planning report of the Ministry of Industry, but Tao Donglai still prefers to listen to the introduction of the officials in charge on the spot.

Tao Donglai has been involved in national governance for more than ten years. Of course, he also understands that sometimes things in written reports may not be completely credible. It is also common for various departments to use exaggerated descriptions in development plans in order to compete for financial budgets.

The upgrading and transformation of Miaoli's petrochemical industry is considered to be a relatively important industrial project for the country in the next few years. Otherwise, Tao Donglai would not have specially arranged a trip to Miaoli for such a tour. Now that he is here, he needs to clarify some issues.

You have to get as much real information as possible.

Tao Donglai knew that Wang Hui was an honest man. He came when he was sent and did not shirk his duties. When it was time to leave, he also followed the arrangements and had no intention of claiming credit in front of him. Therefore, he thought that Wang Hui was like

A person like Hui should be able to tell himself everything he knows and explain the current situation of the petrochemical industry to himself.

In fact, this was exactly the case. Wang Hui understood that Tao Donglai came to Miaoli on behalf of the Executive Committee to inspect the work. He believed that the local petrochemical industry had no information that needed to be concealed from the Executive Committee. As for bragging, it was even less so.

This was his strong point, so he basically answered the questions raised by Tao Donglai truthfully.

While listening to Wang Hui's explanation, Tao Donglai compared what he said with the information provided by the Ministry of Industry, and not surprisingly found some minor discrepancies.

Some data mentioned in the Ministry of Industry report are obviously higher than Wang Hui's view. For example, the Ministry of Industry believes that most of the upgrades can be completed within ten to fifteen months, while Wang Hui believes that the most optimistic estimate is

It will also take more than a year and a half, and the risk of temporary shutdown of the oil field due to certain technical problems cannot be ruled out.
Chapter completed!