Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1701 Large Infrastructure ([-])

In fact, although the executive committee has set the tone of an expansionary fiscal policy and a large-scale infrastructure construction in the country, their funds are not unlimited, so the number of projects—at least for a period of time—is actually is also limited.On the other hand, even if the executive committee has decided to make large-scale investment in an area (such as the upper reaches of the Paraná River), it is a very particular matter which area and which county gets the investment, which often determines the investment in each county. There will be a life gap of at least 30 years for millions of people in the future.

Therefore, you can now understand what kind of resentment the cadres in the Beining area have for the project being snatched away by the people in the Hejian area.Especially those counties that haven't got any decent projects to land so far, their eyes are spitting fire, and they are extremely jealous.

Well, now let’s take a look at what kind of project was snatched by the Hejian area: In fact, it is very simple. It is a branch factory invested and built by the state-owned Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, named Iguazu Agricultural Machinery Factory, located in the Foz do Iguazu County, located on the main road, specializes in the production of agricultural tools, knives, scissors, shoe spikes, horseshoes, pots, iron bars, steel bars, plowshares, etc.However, it is said that the production of agricultural machinery such as horse-drawn harvesters and seed drills will also be transferred here in the future. The factory headquarters in Dafeng Township will focus on steam plows, steam tractors and other relatively high-end machinery and equipment.

The prospect of the Iguazu Agricultural Machinery Factory naturally aroused the attention of many people in Hejian and Beining.As a result, at the end of the competition, Iguazu County, which had relatively good conditions, had the last laugh and successfully snatched the factory.It is said that in the process of competition, the opinions of some technicians from Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory who planned to be transferred to work played a key role. Compared with other poor and white counties, the climate and environment are quite good, and the catering and entertainment industries are relatively developed. Iguazu County is more favored by their families, so this matter is settled.

If it is said that the loss of the Iguazu Agricultural Machinery Factory in the river made all the cadres in Beining sigh, then the rumor that an inland shipyard will be built in the Iguazu Port will make some people even more crazy .This factory is said to be a joint venture between the Iguazu County Government, Hyundai Special Shipyard and private Xinxing Shipyard. Its main business is to build various types of inland water transport ships and fishing boats, and to provide maintenance services for various types of ships. The scale and investment The amount is also quite small.

After the establishment of these two factories, it can basically be said that they have no worries about business, and there are a lot of nearby markets waiting for them to occupy.And they will also be surrounded by a circle of small workshops and small enterprises to help them and provide support. The attractiveness of this to the population and the promotion of the economy are obvious. The project is really eye-catching.

"Hehe, it's a pity that some industrial projects have been snatched away by others, but as for being so downcast?" Xu Yu saw the cadres in Gaoguo County looking like they were mourning, and suddenly said a little bit dumbfounded: "Actually, I really want to talk about it." , the Hejian area was developed earlier than ours, the population is larger than ours, and the traffic conditions are better than ours. Iguazu County has received a large amount of investment from the central government because of its geographical location. The market is extremely prosperous and the scenery is also beautiful. Xiuli, it’s understandable that some projects are chosen there, why can’t you figure it out? Compared with Iguazu County, Gaoguo County or Bowang County, do you have any special advantages?”

Xu Yu took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and lit it with a match, and then continued: "Speaking of which, this pot still has to be carried on the poor traffic conditions. Do the math. In the core area of ​​the local area, how many difficulties and obstacles have to be overcome halfway to transport a ship of machinery and equipment or other materials to the port of Gaoguo? How much will the cost increase compared to the area south of Puerto Iguazu? It is already very good to invest in such projects in the Beining area! The ship lifts and locks on the Paraná River channel have not been built, and the riverbed has not been opened up and dredged. It is already the executive committee members who have given us a great deal. Is it difficult to turn this corner now that I have loved and cared for you?"

After speaking, Xu Yu smiled, turned around and ran to the construction site on the bank of the Tiete River, and watched the construction scene.This is the lower reaches of the Tiete River, where it flows into the Paraná River. Because of the sediment carried by the upstream river and other factors, the river bed is a little shallow and the river channel is a bit silted up.If we don't take care of it, not only will we not be able to sail, but the river will flood both sides of the river every year during the high water season, which will affect the farming in this area. It’s another matter if it’s full of fresh and juicy pastures—therefore, the Beining District Administrative Office plans to mobilize the people of Gaoguo and Bowang counties nearby, and spend a certain amount of time every year (during the dry season in winter) to study the river. Dredging is carried out to enhance the river's flood capacity and, of course, its navigability.

To be honest, the Tiet River is still very important to the Beining area, not only in terms of agricultural irrigation and domestic water use, but also in transportation.But the Tiete River is also tragic. This long river has many shoals, rapids, and waterfalls. It is impossible for a boat to sail from the beginning to the end, unless you build a lot of locks and ship lifts. But The cost is too high, and the Beining area cannot afford it, and there is no such plan in the local area.

However, although the Tiete River cannot pass through the entire line, it does not mean that it has no navigability at all. After all, we can still sail in sections, such as the lower reaches of the Tiete River.From the place where it joins the Paraná River to the nearest waterfall upstream, there are dozens of kilometers that are navigable. If it is not used, it will be unreasonable.Therefore, this is the most direct reason why the Beining District Administration mobilized thousands of people in Gaoguo and Bowang counties to dig the river in winter and spring. They wanted to canalize this section of the river for use.

Due to the lack of care for this part of the river for many years-well, it has never been cared for in history, "pure natural"-so the workload of restoration is still very large, and the first thing to face is the river. Some large and small sandbars in the center.The existence of these sandbars not only makes it easy for sediment to settle down, but also makes the channel narrower and more scattered. Therefore, the first task of cleaning up the river is how to make these sandbars (including submerged shoals) no longer affect ships. sailing.

According to the usual strategy of people on the east bank to clean up the river, to deal with the shoals under the water, they mainly use the steam dredgers of the Qingtang Army series, a special ship that has been used for many years and is well received by users. People have dug away little by little with picks and shovels, and there is no other way.

However, mobilizing people to dig sandbars is not a simple job in the not very densely populated Beining area, because the workload involved cannot be said to be small.You know, those large and small sandbars are hundreds of meters wide and tens of meters narrow, and the length is even more exaggerated. There are many kilometers of sandbars, so the workload is quite large—the Paraná River is also Faced with this problem, there are also a lot of sandbars there.

So, faced with such a situation, what should we do?It is a good way to straighten the old river channel and dig a new channel to avoid the sandbar, but this also requires a lot of manpower to do it, which is not very realistic for the Beining area, so what should we do?This problem once troubled the people of Beining for a long time, until the people of the Engineering Technology Research Institute recently proposed a brand new channel dredging method——

Engineers from the Engineering Technology Research Institute have visited Gaoguo County a while ago, and their people said that it is necessary to dig a parallel trench as narrow as possible along the Tiete River channel, and set up rectangular ponds at intervals on both sides , the dimensions of trenches and ponds are roughly regulated, which are estimated and measured by the technicians of the Engineering Academy based on the flow velocity of the river (mainly the flow velocity during flood outbreaks in summer and autumn).

When the floods pour down from the upstream in summer and autumn, the connection between the upstream of the narrow ditch and the river channel is completely opened, and the rushing river water rotates and discharges, scouring a new wide channel, perfectly avoiding the sandbar in the center of the channel, which sounds like A very creative and relatively low-cost method, which is very suitable for implementation in the Bac Ninh area.

Of course, people from the Engineering Technology Research Institute also warned that this method also has disadvantages: first, the flood can easily get out of control and wash out a channel that deviates from the planned direction; on the other hand, a large amount of topsoil and bottom silt are washed down , sometimes forming new silt bodies downstream, when the current is no longer strong enough to move them again as the channel widens.

People in the Beining area listened carefully to the opinions of professionals from the Academy of Engineering, and finally decided to follow their method to widen the river.They have no choice. There are only a few people in Gaoguo and Bowang counties. It is already very hard to open up wasteland on weekdays. It is really not easy to go to the river during the dry season in winter.So now there is a way to widen the river that saves labor and cost, and they naturally adopted it without hesitation. Even if it has some side effects and shortcomings, it doesn't matter, let's talk about it later.

The people of the Engineering Technology Research Institute are also very happy about this, because they have proposed this method (or idea) for two or three years, but they have never used it on any canal in the east bank.Therefore, they are also eager to know whether this method works well, what deficiencies they did not expect in practical applications, and how to make up for them.Now that the Beining area is willing to adopt their new technology to widen the river, it is naturally better.

At this time, there were many people digging such a trench on the north bank of the Tiet River. Xu Yu walked around a few times with his hands behind his back, feeling a little emotional.At least, in later generations, he had never heard that this method could be used to widen the river!His family lived in the Yangtze River Delta area, and his impression was that when he was a child, every winter, the adults in the family would go to the river with tools to dig ditches.At that time, it was organized by the county government, and only one lunch was provided, and even the other labor tools had to be brought by oneself. In the absence of large machinery, all the work could only be done manually, which was really not easy.

Sometimes there was snow in the sky, and everyone had to go down to the bottom of the river bed covered with planks and reed mats (the little river water had been diverted away by the diversion channel), and dig the mud with shovels one by one.Therefore, in his original imagination, there was no other way to dig the river.But who would have thought that in this time and space of the 17th century, the research institutes and engineers of the Engineering Technology Research Institute came up with such a method, which really surprised him.

In fact, this situation has been uncommon in these years.The Academy of Natural Sciences, the Academy of Engineering Technology, and other research institutes of large state-owned factories often come up with some whimsical ideas or technological improvement plans that surprise the people who travel through time, some of which are rejected, and some are rejected. Responsible for the acceptance of the scientific research portal.Xu Yu once chatted with one of them, and the deceased time traveler told him bluntly at that time that the students of the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Science are priceless treasures, because they are not like the scientific and technological workers who traveled over from later generations. Their thinking is restricted by rules and regulations, and their thinking is unconstrained. They can design and research some "unexpected" things based on the existing technology, materials and processing level, and they are often very practical.

Xu Yu didn't feel much about these before, but when he thinks about it now, he feels a lot of emotion: It seems that the most precious thing about the development of national science is not how many black technologies the crossovers have produced, but that they have established a kind of value. The social atmosphere of science and technology, and then strictly protect the patents of inventions and creations in the system, and do not hesitate to reward them. Finally—and of course the most important—they have established a large-scale education system, including schools opened by the government. And scientific research institutions, as well as vocational schools and training schools of major state-owned enterprises, these are the most critical factors for the country's science and technology to continue to develop and throw off the old continent countries.As for how many advanced things the traversing people have left behind, those are all details. It is more important to the country in the short term, but in the long run, the system currently established is more critical. After that, the core driving force for the East Coast Republic of China to continue to lead the trend.

After watching the construction site along the Tiete River, Xu Yu did not delay any longer, but returned to Beining County on horseback with a group of entourage.After all, there is currently the core of the Beining area, and there are many jobs waiting for him to deal with.For young people like Liu Houfei, he still needs to take another lead to stand on the last post.

(End of this chapter)