After the light rain shower in the early morning, the clouds opened and the sun rose.
The ancient city of Nanxi, which has a history of more than 1,400 years, is full of vitality under the bright morning sun. The whole city is draped in red and colorful, as lively and festive as a festival. As many as 70,000 people from eight villages and towns ten miles outside the city are supporting the elderly and the young.
People came out in full force and flocked to the Yingpan slope in the north of the city with colorful flags fluttering. Many simple mountain people in the remote mountains also came in droves. Many of them heard the good news in advance and came over the mountains and ridges with torches last night. Everyone was
For one reason - to see with your own eyes what the train looks like.
The newly completed Nanxi Railway Station is not large in scale, but it has complete functions and a reasonable layout. The station covers an area of 1,200 square meters. It is a rectangular building with 49 large square supporting columns and beams inside and outside.
It is a reinforced concrete structure, which not only ensures the stability of the building, but also provides a wide span. The blue bricks and gray tiles with strong ethnic characteristics and antique-style cornices on the four corners allow this building to integrate the waiting room, ticket hall, private rooms, and offices.
The integrated building looks simple, lively, solemn and majestic.
The 36-meter-wide and 120-meter-long flat platform is now full of colorful flags and people wearing festive costumes. The drum band, composed of 240 students from Nanxi Middle School, is playing cheerful songs.
Although the children's playing skills are still at the entry level, each of them is serious and devoted to the music, which adds a bit of festive atmosphere to the entire celebration.
On the two platforms between the three parallel tracks, more than 1,200 railway builders were laughing and full of pride. These railway workers from all over the country were all employees of the Southern Sichuan Railway Company. This is the company
How can the first railway built within a year of its establishment not make the people involved in its construction proud and excited?
A large temporary colorful gate ten meters high was erected across the first track in the middle of the platform. The colorful gate was decorated with colorful flowers and party flags. Seventy-two fully armed officers and soldiers of the Nanxi County Guard Regiment stood neatly.
Under the colorful gate, under the eager eyes of the girls, each one is more majestic than the other.
On the track to the west of the platform, there was a group of figures wearing casual clothes and red safety helmets. Among them, three tall foreigners were the contractors of this railway, General Manager Hawkes of the German Asia-Europe Railway Engineering Construction Group.
Huffman, chief engineer Duff Muller and engineering director Achim Loew.
The group of people standing next to the three Germans and talking with smiles were military and political officials in southern Sichuan Yang Bin, Mr. Qi, Jiang Yunshan, Dong Fuchuan, the head of Nanxi County and the manager of the railway company. Everyone expressed their opinions on the first phase of the Syria-Luzhou Railway (Xufu to Luzhou) project.
I am very happy that the project was completed ahead of schedule. After 45 days of trial operation and strict testing, the 50-kilometer section from Xufu to Nanxi has been accepted and put into use. This makes the southern Sichuan government full of admiration for the Germans who are rigorous and scientific and strive for excellence.
The remaining section of the railway from Nanxi to Luzhou has been basically completed. It only needs the completion of six large and small railway bridges along the way to fully connect it. It is expected to be put into operation on the eve of the Southwest Sports Games and Commodity Expo.
Twenty days ago, the Ministry of Railways in Nanjing organized a visiting group including British and French railway engineers and officials stationed in China to come to southern Sichuan. The visiting group took the opportunity of the visit to carry out maintenance work on the road in a special maintenance lane vehicle.
After an in-depth and detailed inspection, we could not find any faults. Instead, we were greatly surprised by the latest technology used in the four large and small railway bridges designed and supervised by the Germans.
The Germans already knew the purpose of the British and French counterparts' trip, and were also aware of the intrigue between the British and French railway contractors and the Nanjing government officials. However, the Germans were not afraid and politely accompanied the visiting group throughout the entire journey.
, and finally said unceremoniously:
The German Eurasian Group is determined to win the next phase of the 850-kilometer railway bidding project of the southern Sichuan government, and will also show Germany's most advanced research results and most sophisticated construction technology to the world. It will impress Britain and France on the spot.
The engineer was embarrassed and secretly worried.
More than 20 meters in front of where the Germans and government officials were standing, three men in training uniforms with descending age groups squatted between two railway tracks, looking at the railway extending to the west and talking in low voices.
The three people with special status are Chairman Chiang's special envoys He Yaozu, Huang Shaohong and An Yi, the highest military and political officer in southern Sichuan.
He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong arrived at Xu Mansion the day before Li Jishen and others left. In order to avoid suspicion and not to make too much noise, they took the initiative to avoid meeting Li Jishen and others, and moved into the Military Academy as soon as they arrived.
Huang Shaohong also took the opportunity to visit this prestigious military academy and visited more than a hundred of his disciples in his hometown. Accompanied by Ding Zhicheng and Li Fuqiang, he conducted research.
An Yi didn't end his secret negotiations with Liu Wenhui until late yesterday night, reached a series of agreements, and returned to Xufu from Muchuan County. However, he would not be stupid enough to tell the two of his whereabouts. He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong knew that An Yi was a busy man.
In addition, the crisis between the central government and the Anyi Group had been resolved at this time, and the two of them became relaxed, so they ignored An Yi's whereabouts in the past few days, and were happy to visit various places in Xufu and Luzhou to learn from their experiences and sum up their experiences.
, enjoy fine wine and delicious food with every meal.
After An Yi came back, he accompanied two elders with whom he had a close friendship and walked around the Xu Mansion for another day. Early this morning, he invited the two of them to Nanxi to attend the opening ceremony together.
The three of them chatted for a while about this high-quality railway, and listened to An Yi explain the next construction plan. After hearing this, He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong looked at each other, full of doubts.
Huang Shaohong had been the Minister of Railways for more than half a year, and He Yaozu was also a member of the National Defense Commission. They all knew that the Ministry of Railways had already had a plan to build a railway from Chongqing to Chengdu, but they did not expect that An Yi's Xufu would take the lead. But An Yi, who has a lot of money, actually
It is unexpected that there is no construction plan to connect Chongqing and Chengdu.
Huang Shaohong couldn't bear it anymore and asked An Yi: "Xiaoyi, you plan to build Kunming and Shuicheng in western Guizhou to the south, and only to Luzhou in the north, but no longer extend north to Chongqing and Chengdu, the two most important cities in Bashu.
Place, why is this? Could it be that Liu Chengfu (Liu Xiang) is unwilling?"
"Liu Chengfu? He is never in a hurry. I guess what he wants to do most now is not to build roads, but to drive his uncle to the Sichuan-Tibet border. He has also shouted a few times about building roads. This
He hasn't heard anything in two years. He has nothing to do with the road construction in southern Sichuan.
"Tell the truth, Uncle He, big brother, I have no money in my hand! I gritted my teeth and slapped my face on the swollen face to pretend to be a fat man, and stole all my wife's private money, so I reluctantly built the Xu-Lu Railway and the Xu-Zhao Railway (Xu-Zhao Railway)
From Fuzhou to Zhaotong), these two roads have bankrupted my family and made me miserable. How dare I dream of building it to Chengdu and Chongqing?
"Our Nanjing government is in charge of the taxation of the whole of China. Today it said it would be repaired here, and tomorrow it said it would be repaired there. But after several years of fanfare, there was no movement. After asking around, I found out all kinds of mysteries. It turned out to be purely
Those guys in the court who are full and have nothing to do are painting cakes to satisfy their hunger. They just want to increase their reputation by talking about their addiction. No matter how big the family fortune is, they are still powerless. What's more, how much tax can the little brother get from this three-acre land in a year? If not
This time of major disarmament, hundreds of thousands of soldiers may not even have a change of underwear!"
An Yi kept complaining about being poor, sighing, and looking extremely miserable on his face, which made He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong, who knew An Yi's details well, burst out laughing and scolding him.
He Yaozu finished scolding and returned to the topic: "To be honest, after today's announcement of the opening of traffic, it will definitely attract national attention. All walks of life across the country will definitely compare your boy's achievements with the central government. The central government will be very embarrassed and passive.
Maybe you will offend someone again."
An Yi shook his head and said helplessly: "What can I do? We can't worry about offending those people who eat corpses and just don't care about the life and death of the folks in southern Sichuan, right? Besides, the younger generation is now Wang Xiaoer celebrating the New Year, and one year is not as good as one year.
Years later, if we don’t build a better place for ourselves to live in, I’m afraid we won’t even have a place to stay.”
He Yaozu couldn't help but smile again and said that your temper has improved. The three of them stood up after seeing that the time was almost up and walked back to the platform full of celebrating people.
When Huang Shaohong saw the vibrant and hopeful crowd, he couldn't help but think of his hometown of Guangxi. He took a few steps and asked An Yi in a low voice:
"Brother Yixing, what deal did he make with you this time?"
"Four aircraft and three complete sets of cement production equipment. Apart from these, everything else is still on paper. Without the nods of General De Gong and Jiansheng, nothing can be done." An Yi replied.
Huang Shaohong was a little surprised: "Cement production equipment? Imported or produced by yourself?"
An Yi saw He Yaozu approaching with interest, and raised his voice very proudly: "Our Luzhou Mining Machinery Equipment Factory has been put into operation at the beginning of the year. We purchased a 300-ton rotary kiln, a large crusher, a ball mill and a dryer with a daily output of 300 tons produced by German technology.
The machine has been sold to Kunming and Guiyang. I can tell you very proudly that every county in southern Sichuan has its own cement factory, and they are all large factories with an annual output of more than 300,000 tons.
Except for the four cement plants in Luzhou, Xufu, Naxi, and Jiang'an that have been put into operation in the first batch of construction, the rest all use equipment produced by ourselves. Especially after the Luzhou Bearing Factory and Xufu Machine Tool Factory came into operation, we produced a lot of
There is no need to import key spare parts from Europe and the United States for machinery and equipment. By the spring of next year, all the rails used in the railways we build will be produced by Luzhou Iron and Steel Plant and Xuyong Iron and Steel Plant. I will no longer have to spend a lot of money on this.
Money."
Huang Shaohong and He Yaozu sighed in unison when they saw An Yi's confident look. Without saying a few words of praise, they saw Yang Bin striding over. Thousands of people were waiting for the three of them on the platform. They looked around.
Seeing the crowds of people all around, even the big trees outside the railway were filled with people watching the excitement.
Under the colorful door in the middle of the platform, a brand new locomotive clad in red and green was emitting streams of steam, as if it was impatient to wait.
Half an hour later, the grand ceremony ended. Officials at all levels in southern Sichuan, 300 railway builders, 50 ordinary teachers from Nanxi County and 300 outstanding students from primary and secondary schools excitedly boarded each carriage to become the history of southern Sichuan.
The first batch of people to board the train, in the spacious carriage, enjoy the glory of cheers and the attention of thousands of people.
"Woo——"
The sound of the departure whistle resounded throughout the earth and went straight into the sky. The train slowly started amidst the deafening sound of drums and firecrackers, heading towards Xufu. An Yi's majestic cause and the great construction in southern Sichuan involving the future of tens of millions of fellow villagers also came to an end.
Like a slowly moving train, moving forward steadily and accelerating...