Chapter 50 Determination
(PS: Today, people are in a very poor state, the plot has been organized long ago, but they can't help themselves. They have been working hard for several hours before they finish a chapter, but they really can't write it)
After the convoy passed the boundary river, Du Haibo and Guan Fei had obviously less conversations, and they focused more on observing various changes in the defense zone of the 291st Brigade. They only occasionally asked questions about Guan Fei and Zhang Shengguo, whom they didn't understand.
Guan Fei was also happy to let him investigate himself. No matter how much he said, it would be better to see him with his own eyes.
"The road is very wide, the quality of the road is also very good and very stable!" Du Haibo looked carefully for a while and said leisurely.
"The valley here is indeed relatively wide, with an average of about 70 or 80 meters, and in some places it can reach hundreds of meters. We mainly cleaned the gravel on both sides, then put clay, sand, gravel, and cinder to build a three-dimensional road. Now it is flat because there are fewer cars, which are not much damage to the road surface, and it is easier to maintain. If there are too many cars in the future, the three-dimensional road may not be suitable, and it will still be changed to a cement road surface, but the investment will be very large." Zhang Shengguo was the main leader of the road construction, and he was very clear about the situation and explained it.
"Take it slow, you won't be a big fat man in one bite. You are developing, and the country is developing. When the economy comes, cement roads will not be a problem." Du Haibo comforted.
He observed that the road was not only wide and flat, but also very straight.
Originally, road construction in the mountains was always winding due to the mountain. Just like when he came from the county town, he kept turning around the bends along the way, sometimes left and right, making people dizzy.
But this road is basically straight, and the traces of rocks at many of the rocks at the foot of the mountain can be clearly seen, so as to straighten the road. There are only two places where the mountains are crossed in the middle of the road, and it is impossible to break the mountain and open the road, so the road goes around from the side.
Due to the few curves, the convoy drove much faster and soon arrived at a three-way intersection.
At the mountain wall about ten meters above the intersection, a horizontal railing extends out, and a wooden sign hangs, marking the place name here and the fork in front of it.
Conca.
This is Kangka Town, and it seems that it only took five or six minutes to walk for more than ten kilometers. The road is repaired and the car is really fast to drive.
According to the signs, there are two roads in front, with the left and right leading to Xincheng, and the right is Kangka Town, which directly leads to Longkang, where the brigade department is located.
"Xiao He, stop the car."
Du Haibo asked the driver to slow down the car, then stopped, and asked Guan Fei: "Why would you let the convoy go to Longkang first, let's go around the construction site in the new city?"
"This is something you can't ask for. You have seen the world in the capital. You just happened to help us see what the shortcomings of the construction of the new city are. I'm afraid you won't have time. Since that's the case, let's go here!" Guan Fei accepted happily.
"Okay, we will act alone when we inform others."
When the car stopped, the convoy behind slowed down. The car leading the road ahead also noticed the situation here and then returned.
The jeep following behind him got off his entourage, walked over quickly, got his instructions, and returned soon, leading the convoy to continue moving forward.
"let's go."
The jeep started again, left the convoy, and turned onto the road on the left.
The road just now was generally north-south, while the road leading to Xincheng was in a north-south-east direction. The valley was quiet and sparsely populated, so I heard the roar of the car engine echoing among the valleys.
This valley is not as wide as the front, and the extended road is only about 40 meters. It is not narrow, but the mountains on both sides are majestic, and the absolute height of the valley bottom is above 6 or 700 meters. Looking from the car, you can only see clouds and mist at the height, and you can hardly see the top. The mountain wall is steep, like a knife cut, and it seems that you are about to come over, giving people great psychological pressure.
"A place like this is really a place where one man is at the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it!" Du Haibo was affected by this and his enthusiasm was reduced a little, and he sighed.
Guan Fei and Zhang Shengguo looked at each other and laughed.
Where such a man is in the pass, there are many defense areas in the 291st Brigade. The entire defense area is among the mountains and mountains around Kangka, and it happens to be the highest point of this mountain. The nameless mountain beside him is the highest peak in the defense area, with an altitude of about 1,600 meters. The mountain is tall and covers the clouds and the sun. Walking at the bottom of the valley, there is only a line of sky above your head. Although it is sunny, it also gives people a sense of darkness.
After walking for more than ten kilometers, the sound of water flowing came from ahead, which was particularly clear in this quiet valley.
The waves seemed to wash away the depression in my heart. Although I had not yet left the valley, my emotions suddenly became excited.
"Is this going to leave the valley?" Looking at the brighter and brighter vision ahead, Du Haibo breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yes, after a while, we'll reach the Salwin River."
If you walk in a narrow place for a long time, people will feel uncomfortable. The driver seemed to be eager to rush out of this dark valley as soon as possible. When he stepped on the accelerator, the car accelerated again and ran through the valley. There was a wide field of vision in front of him.
The mountains on both sides are like gates, stretching toward both sides, and the mountain situation is rapidly lowered, and the originally covered sky suddenly becomes bright. The river surface is dozens of meters lower than the shore, and there is no river water here, but you can see bursts of water vapor and mist rising.
The river wind blows, blowing the water vapor away, revealing a majestic mountain behind the river.
The river section here is about a hundred meters wide, and the mountains disappear hundreds of meters away from the river bank, and the mountains opposite are also far from the shore. You can see that they are far away from the shore at a glance, and the depressed mood suddenly reaches this point.
The river is surging and turbulent.
"What a great place!" This place is not that good, but it was given out from the valley and its vision was wide. In a strong contrast, Du Haibo felt that this place was so beautiful and blurted out his mouth and exclaimed.
He slowed down the driver and looked away with interest for a while before he found that behind the disappearance of the mountain was a land that was obviously flat.
The new city has arrived?
"From here to a few kilometers, the river water is S-shaped, the flow rate suddenly decreases and becomes gentle. The land on the shore of this curve is relatively flat and the place is very wide. The place we are now only more than 400 meters wide, but the more we go, the wider the place, the wider the area, the river bank is three kilometers away from the foot of the mountain. We assigned all the area of 4.5 kilometers long and a total area of about 7.6 square kilometers to the university town." Guan Fei saw his doubts and explained.
"So big, all of them are colleges?" Du Haibo said astonished. This place is too big.
"It's not too big.... It's mainly because we have many pre-set universities, including the School of Computer Engineering, the School of Architectural Design Engineering, the School of Labor Technology, the School of Metallurgy, the School of Metallurgy, the School of Metallurgy, the School of Bioengineering, the School of Medicine, the School of Chemical Engineering, the University of Electronic Technology, the University of Science and Technology, and the School of Economics and Management. There are eleven colleges and universities in total. After removing public facilities such as roads, each university covers an area of about 1,200 acres on average." Guan Fei said modestly.
"This is not small!"
Du Haibo had known Guan Fei for a long time, but he didn't expect that he was so bold. He was stunned for a moment and suddenly remembered: "It seems that most universities tend to be science and engineering, and there are very few liberal arts!"
"Yes, we are currently focusing on cultivating practical talents, and we are more focused on science and engineering. As for the liberal arts, there is only one college of economics and management. After all, there will be thousands of factories in the future, and the most students in science and engineering are needed. Generally, liberal arts students do not plan to train themselves, and just hire or recruit them from China." Guan Fei said frankly.
At first, he didn't even plan to build a School of Economics and Management, but later he considered that a large number of urban management talents were needed, so he set up this school. Even so, he used the students trained by this school as a panacea. Anyway, students in economics and management are highly applicable and can be promoted anywhere. He did not consider other talent education in literature and history.
The car continued along the newly built road by the river. Guan Fei pointed to the flat and divided plots of land everywhere and explained the location of the school to him one by one.
"This place is far from the main urban area, so it will definitely be inconvenient for students to enter the city in the future. I am afraid that those students will scold me in the future, saying that I will bring them to this remote place to suffer!" Guan Fei laughed and teased himself.
"Students should focus on their studies. I just heard your explanation. The school also set up convenience stores, shopping malls, and restaurants to meet the needs of normal life. If you are too distracted, it will not be good for their learning and growth." Du Haibo recognized Guan Fei's arrangements very much. What should students do with those messy things? It is better to study hard.
"How many students are you going to recruit in so many universities?" He was the most curious about this.
In addition to the troops, the 291st Brigade Defense Zone has a total of 100,000 people, and the Northeast Military Region next door has only a total of 100,000 people, so there is no enough student source to study.
"There are not many teachers now, so how dare I recruit too many people!" Guan Fei frowned when talking about this question, "It's troublesome to build a university. In addition to teaching buildings and dormitories, each university also needs its own sports venues, swimming pools and other ancillary facilities. The investment is too large, so it is definitely impossible to build it immediately. So now I can only focus on building the University of Science and Technology, and temporarily include the required subjects. When I have money in the future, I will gradually invest and split it into more universities. In terms of faculty, we can definitely not do it by ourselves."
"In terms of teaching, I brought 500 teachers this time..." He poured cold water on Guan Fei and Zhang Shengguo before they were overjoyed, "But it is mainly junior high school teachers. Are you the ones you lack the most now? When the students enter higher-level schools, we will determine the situation and see if it will help you some of your high school and university lecturers."
"That's great! If there are no good teachers, no matter how beautiful the school is, it will be in vain! With domestic support, we will have confidence!" Guan Fei said happily.
Zhang Shengguo also nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face.
The group talked and said that the car had gone around the back of the mountain, and a curved river appeared in front of it. On the right side of the river, there was an open land bent along the river channel. Two kilometers away were not too high mountains, and the terrain was very wide.
The sight crosses Jiangwan, opposite the gentle slope where the new city is located.
The area near the river bank is quite flat and has almost no slope. After that, the terrain slowly rises upwards, and the overall slope is not very high, about ten or twenty degrees. There is no barrier between high mountains at all. At first glance, there are gentle slopes over ten kilometers, with a very wide view. There are only black belts that are looming in a long distance, which is the silhouette of the mountains in the distance.
From here, the gentle slope has been manually repaired. Not only are there flat plots, but long and straight pits were dug in the middle of the road. The digging soil was piled next to the pit, and there were also items such as pipes placed next to it. It was obvious that the urban pipeline network was built.
Turning to the right, the corner area connecting the main urban area was gathered, as many as tens of thousands of people gathered, waving hoes, shovels, and carts back and forth, either transporting supplies or sending away the excavated soil. An excavator was digging a pit, and not far away, a road roller crushed back and forth on the ground that had just been leveled.
A crane supports the ground with four claws and raised its boom high to lift the buildings on the Jiefang Truck next to it.
What a lively work scene!
"Where is it?" he asked Guan Fei, pointing to the busy place.
"There is a residential area that turns around Jiangwan, close to the slope top, and in the future it will be a commercial area that is strip-shaped. The place where construction is under intense construction is the intersection of university towns, residential areas, and commercial areas. The first phase of the city is to first build the University of Science and Technology, which is temporarily used as a comprehensive university, adjacent residential areas, and commercial streets. In this way, living, learning, and commerce are very concentrated, and one piece can be put into use if it is built." Guan Fei explained.
Du Haibo looked into the distance, looking at the familiar scene in front of him, and felt a lot of emotion.
At the beginning, news came that Guan Fei was going to build a new city in the 291st Brigade Defense Zone. Everyone didn't believe it at first, and then they laughed loudly.
In such a backward place, there is nothing to do, how can he build a new city?
Everyone was laughing at Guan Fei for being whimsical, thinking that it was an era when people were so bold and prolific. However, the country didn’t care whether he could build the city. Compared to the People’s Party, which still adhered to class struggle, Guan Fei was much more obedient. Whether he was doing urban construction, he would succeed or fail in the end, at least for a long time, he would not cause trouble to the country.
If he brought out good things that were no less than cement production lines, tunnel kilns, and CNC lathes during the construction process, then the country would benefit a lot.
Since he is determined to build a city, let him go!
Just before coming, Du Haibo thought that the construction of a new city was nonsense and there was no possibility of realization. Even if Guan Fei was determined, the investment required to build a city was huge and required a massive amount of materials to support it.
A factory does not need to build a few factories, but it also needs various supporting equipment and production lines. With these, there are also enough trained workers and managers. Even if there are all the above, what will your factory start production and sell?
Build a row of residential buildings, build a bunch of factories, and build a few universities to make the city?
childish!
The only reason why cities can exist is that people can survive in such a highly concentrated environment and survive well!
In a mere city with hundreds of thousands of people, internal circulation is definitely not possible, so there must be an external economic circulation to support the continuous operation of the city.
In a city, you can’t just sell a few game consoles and modify it to a CNC lathe!
Is Guan Fei sure he is ready for all these difficulties?
Du Haibo came here this time to give things and inspect the actual situation. On the one hand, he planned to come and persuade Guan Fei in person, so that he could think carefully and not make unrealistic decisions under impulse.
But looking at the scene in front of him, Guan Fei held his head up, regardless of consequences, and turned his blueprint into reality step by step!
Just before him, the prototype of a new city is gradually emerging.
Although he was just laying the foundation and laying the urban pipeline network for the time being, looking at the busy work scene in the distance, Guan Fei and Zhang Shengguo were looking at the construction site with satisfaction, and he could feel their unwavering determination.
There will inevitably be countless difficulties in future construction, which need to be solved by Guan Fei and other 291 Brigade cadres. But they did not seem to retreat because of it. Instead, they were full of fighting spirit and their faces were filled with happiness with endless longing for the future.
Chapter completed!