Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 506 Capacity Bottleneck

Under the management of Tang Menglong, Jiazi Coal Mine quickly entered normal production.Jiang Wenli deserves to be a student of the administrative training class.

Immediately apply what she has learned, and quickly manage the entire coal mine - she is responsible for the daily administrative affairs of the entire coal mine.

Work sheets, files, and ledgers for various mines have also been established one after another.The rules and regulations are complete.Of course, sometimes dogmatism is unavoidable, and he sticks to the "Coal Mine Administration Manual" written by Ye Yuming. Although Tang Menglong is engaged in geological surveys, he has many friends in coal mines, and he has also seen the management methods of state-owned and private coal mines. Not much, and immediately made some guiding revisions to make it more realistic.

Ms. Jiang originally wanted to be the life secretary of the soup mine manager because she wanted to "obey the organization's arrangements". Anyway, the chiefs always asked women to take care of daily life-washing and cooking during the day, and sleeping with them at night.This kind of life is quite good for a country girl who used to have no clothes and no food to eat.The girl is infinitely grateful to the chiefs who saved her from starvation, clothed her, taught her to read and write, and gave her a name. She is willing to do anything for her.As for any feelings for this stout, dark-skinned, thick-handed chief, of course, it is out of the question.

However, during the half a year in national school, she has developed a worship of knowledge. "Knowledge is power", the chiefs personally interpreted this concept, it is knowledge that enables them to float iron ships on the water, build cannons that officials, soldiers and sea owners dare not provoke, and earn infinite wealth ——All these completely overturned the shallow worldview of this rural girl in the past.She became a fanatical "knowledge-only" believer.

Tang Menglong's simple guidance made the management system compiled by her with all her knowledge and wisdom more concise and reasonable, and it was also particularly operable. This made Jiang Wenli once again feel that the wisdom of the chief executive is "as vast as the sea." In addition, there was a little spontaneous love in my heart.

Of course, Tang Menglong didn't care whether she admired him or not, anyway, if she gave it to him, it was his.Although the appearance is not pleasant enough, physiological hormones trump cultural aesthetics.After her work became more stable, she was "rectified". She did it three or four times in a row that night, making Tang Menglong, who was over [-], almost unable to get up the next day.

"Excessive indulgence, excessive indulgence." Tang Menglong reluctantly got out of bed and dressed under Xiao Jiang's service, with back pain.The steam whistle outside has already sounded twice, it should be 7 o'clock.The whistle starts to sound on time at 5:7 in the morning, and then sounds every hour, and the third sound at 6:50 is the start of work.He took out his watch and looked at it. It was [-]:[-], and he had to go to the office quickly, otherwise the miners would laugh at him.

The guard soldiers standing guard at the door raised their guns to salute him. Tang Menglong waved his hands weakly, wondering if his "excitement" last night had been heard by the guards.Speaking of which, what's the use of adding a post to the front of one's residence other than to show off?He looked suspiciously at the high walls and towers of the camp.

The whole mining area is surrounded by a double wall of cement-bonded brick and stone, guarded by bulwarks and towers, and surrounded by moats, which are a little stronger than most of the local country forts.Once the gate is closed, thousands of people cannot enter without siege machines.Such vigilance is not unreasonable. During the construction stage, it was discovered that someone was peeping from a distance.The local people may not know what the various things in the mine are, but they instinctively know that these things are valuable.

Tang Menglong had breakfast in the office. The breakfast was special dry rice noodles from the Grassland series, sprinkled with dried minced meat, dried seaweed and dried shrimp skin.It does look quite colorful.

"It would be nice to have some fresh vegetables." Tang Menglong said to himself.

His wish was soon realized.Jiang Wenli is also in charge of logistics management and food supply.The grass rations in stock in the mining area can only be supported for a short time.Lin Baiguang's "Wanfeng Rice Shop" is responsible for the long-term supply of vegetables and food.Like any traditional Chinese farmer in any time and space, she would always think of growing vegetables and raising chickens when she went to a place.Tuolin Baiguang bought a lot of vegetable seeds from Tiandihui, borrowed more than a dozen chickens and ducks, and then set up a large-scale vegetable garden in the mining area.Tang Menglong highly appreciated this, and the fresh vegetables just picked from the field are better than the vegetables with wilted leaves brought by the traffic boat.

Prostitutes were also organized. In addition to doing skin and meat business, they also washed and mended clothes for the miners-of course, the miners were paid.Originally, Tang Menglong was worried that the prostitutes would not do the job, but he did not expect them to be very enthusiastic about it, and often did not even take money from the miners.Tang Menglong later discovered that this was also a way for them to attract regular customers.

Under the strict modern management system and perfect logistics support, the miners have exerted great productivity.After all, the coal miners under the Crossing Group adopt the piecework system, and their income is directly linked to the amount of coal they mine.Tang Menglong’s minimum quota for each team is 18 tons—in fact, there are quite a few teams that can complete 20 tons, or even 25 tons—this is quite good for mining teams that only use picks and shovels and carts.

Tang Menglong even wanted to launch a Stakhanov labor emulation, but he thought that if he did this, there would be more inventory in the mining area.

As a coal mine manager, of course, the more coal the better, but Tang Menglong is troubled by the problem of transport capacity.

At the beginning of the construction, it was because of the limited capacity that mining machines were not used.It now appears that the speed of human production alone is greater than the speed of transportation.

12 transport boats are used to transport coal, each with a transport capacity of 5 tons, but the sailing distance from Nandujiang Wharf to Haijia Wharf is more than 40 kilometers back and forth.Although it is launched when it is fully loaded, the speed is only five or six kilometers per hour. The return journey is empty, but the speed is slower when going upstream.A round trip plus unloading time will take 8 hours.Now the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. After dark, it is inconvenient for boats to cross the river. Each boat can only go back and forth once a day, and the transportation volume of 12 boats is only 60 tons a day.At least 400 tons of coal are mined every day.As a result, a large amount of coal was stranded in the storage yard of the mining area.

Every day the backlog of production is accumulating more and more on the mining yard, which is a serious problem for Jiazi Coal Mine, which has no modern loading and unloading equipment and relies entirely on manual loading and unloading.Tang Menglong had no choice but to order the reduction of mining shifts for military training.So as not to accumulate too much coal.

Hills of coal are piled up in the yard, and they will not be able to be transported out for a while.Even the boiler can't burn much.It is not possible to engage in coal and electricity delivery here.Tang Menglong had no choice but to communicate with Lin Baiguang, asking him to ask Lingao for instructions to send more transport boats.

"The transport boat is not the main problem." Lin Baiguang believes that the key is not too few transport boats, but too few trips.

"The hydrological conditions of the Nandu River are good. When I came with the traffic boat, I felt that the water surface was very wide and the depth was not small. Why can't we use the boat at night?"

"Boss, it's really easy for you to say. There is no navigation mark on the water of Nandu River, and the waterway has not been repaired. The boat sailed in ignorance without waiting for it to run aground."

Lin Baiguang had no choice but to call the executive committee to ask for a solution.

"I think it's useless to increase the traffic boats." Jiang Ye said at the working meeting of the Workers' Energy Commission, "We must increase the tonnage of ships."

"I agree that this kind of transportation boat was originally designed for a river like Wenlan River with a small depth and obvious dry seasons. The barges used to transport yellow sand, cement and coal in the canal can load 1000 to 1500 tons at a time."

"You're talking about a steel-hulled iron-hulled ship. How can the wooden boats we built compare?"

"How deep is the water?" Wang Luobin asked.

"The Nandu River is the largest river in Hainan Island, and the Haikou section is also an estuary. The navigability should be good." Jiang Ye said, "Get a few flat-bottomed sand boats and drive them back to Lingao directly after loading coal from Jiazi Wharf. It can save the trouble of sailing to Haikou to change ships. Qionghai coal. It can also be used for other tasks.”

"That's not necessarily true," Wang Luobin said. "You've been to Haikou and you'll know that one of the most profitable ways there is to mine sand on the Nandu River. The siltation of the river is quite serious. There are so many sand bars on the river. Looking at the river wide, but not necessarily deep."

Luo Duo said: "The average water depth of the lower reaches of the Nandu River is about 2 meters, which is not small - but this is the water depth after the construction of the Songtao Reservoir in modern times. The Nandu River and the Wenlan River have the same characteristics: the water volume varies greatly in the dry season and the rainy season. However, there should be an average water depth of about 1 meter all the year round, and a ship of [-] to [-] tons probably has no problem."

"Since we are short of steel now, and the Nandu River has not undergone waterway improvement, according to the standards of water transport ships in the Ming Dynasty, it should be possible to build a wooden flat-bottomed boat with a displacement of 31 tons and a cargo ship of 15 tons, right? The draft seems to be only 0.75 meters." Zhou Billi said .

"Such a ship must have a mast," Wang Luobin said, "otherwise the load will be too heavy, the power will be insufficient, the crew will not be able to maneuver it, and it will be very dangerous to drive."

"I didn't say no mast..."

Yan Quezhi shook his head and smiled: "You are all taking it for granted." He picked up the notebook in hand, "It is my suggestion to send small traffic boats to Jiazi Coal Mine to transport coal. Let me show you the design of the Ministry of Water Resources in 1957." The Exploration Bureau's survey report on Nandujiang is ready."

The navigable channel of the Nandu River, from Chengmai to Haikou, is about 100 kilometers long, and can pass small ships with a maximum load of no more than 10 tons.In the dry season, there are 0.3 shoals with a water level of only 9 meters and 0.3 shoals with a water level of 0.5-6 meters.Wooden boats with a load capacity of 4 to 9 tons must rely on boatmen to disembark, scrape sand and push the boat to the shoal.

Digression beyond [-] words:

The current water depth in the lower reaches of the Nandu River is quite impressive, with an average depth of 5 meters and the deepest point reaching 12 meters.This is all the result of sand mining.On the Nandu River, there was no large-scale shipping industry as late as 2000.

(End of this chapter)