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 as materials for the next step of construction.
Song Yingxing looked at the crowded wasteland and felt much better.
Bad news came that Xu Guangqi had resigned. Without Xu Guangqi's financial support, his artillery research career could no longer advance, and he would not even be able to pay the rent next month.
When Yang Fan heard the news, he almost died laughing.
He had a long talk with Song Yingxing last night and finally convinced Song Yingxing to be the president of Xinghe Industrial Research Institute.
What finally persuaded Dean Song was a sentence: Don't shoot the tiger in the mountains, go straight to the rich people. In fact, Mr. Song's main interest is still 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 Dean 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 with primitive tools. There was no mechanized equipment at that time. It should have been possible in the late Ming Dynasty.
Song Yingxing was stunned by Yang Fan's generosity.
Such a large-scale project has never been heard of in ancient times. The success is temporary, but the benefits will last forever.
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 my ears. "After the completion of this dam, there will be no floods in the Luanhe River Basin and Jiyun River. Water will be stored during flood seasons and released during dry periods. 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 them, he was amazed, this is really an unconstrained 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 sluice first. Then block the Zhou River. After opening the sluice, 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 designed inside the dam, with twenty water diversion pipes passing through the factory building at an angle from top to bottom.
Boss Yang said this was a reserved generator factory. He didn’t know what the generator was.
What impressed him most was the wasteland development plan.
After picking up the stones, wait for the dam to accumulate water, and then release the water to flush the saline-alkali land. It takes three months to repeatedly soak and flush the saline-alkali land, from near to far, one by one, to turn the saline-alkali land into fertile farmland. Four to five million acres of paddy fields 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 wilderness to collect stones. A small number of strong ones worked 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, 3,000 people went to build a new residence for Baihu Station. The remaining 2,000 people went to build new buildings, schools, factories, etc. for Xinghe Iron Works.
This year, the refugees who gathered in Zunhua were completely cleared out. There was not a single refugee outside the city. The Xinghe Iron Works recruitment point guided 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. Whatever was needed ahead was built.
Later, we plan to select 10,000 teenagers to be the apprentices of the craftsmen. These teenagers will work with the masters during the day and study literacy classes for an hour 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 had a difficult life. After all, the minimum requirement to open a private school was to have scholar qualifications. There was no problem with their ability to teach reading.
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. There is no mold within three years and they are all good food. There may be a very small number of those that are more than three years old that have mold."
“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 before we can purchase these aged grains. Those within three years need a feed factory qualification, and those over three years need an alcohol factory qualification.
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"In terms of specific prices, corn is the cheapest at 10 cents per catty, usually about 2 cents per catty. Rice is about 20 cents to 30 cents. Wheat is about 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 as he smoothed the hair behind his ears with his 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 very sufficient. Now there are hundreds of thousands of mouths, and fifty tons of grain are eaten a day. Xinghe Environmental Protection
The business progress cannot keep up, and the supply of kitchen waste is already insufficient.
Moreover, the soap factory is about to start construction. 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 a new source of food.
"You can apply for the licenses for these two factories. If you have ready-made ones, buy them directly. Then 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 supermarkets is sent by manufacturers and sold in supermarkets, with delayed checkout. Expired ones are generally thrown away, and the manufacturers will not spend money to transport them back. These expired ones are usually thrown away.
Bread can generally be kept good for about ten days. Like other foods, it can be kept longer after its expiration date. Generally, it is rich in preservatives."
Yang Fan was very satisfied. He had planned this for a long time, but he was too busy to take care of it. And he didn't have much money in the early stage.
Xinghe Technology Environmental Protection Co., Ltd.’s main business is to deal with kitchen waste, so it is natural to negotiate with large supermarkets to deal with these expired food.
These are basically cost-free. Yang Fan has always planned to open Xinghe Supermarket in Daming, and he plans 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, as long as it has not deteriorated, it can be sold. 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 plenty 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 old 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 we have to push them."
"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."