People in the Republic of China start by building a top power

Chapter 253

Even if it is started in multiple sections, the difficulty of road construction is left here, and it is almost a daydream to want to complete it in a few months.

For example, the road from Pukou to Lu’an can be completed within a few months, because the terrain is flat and the construction is not difficult.

Su Yun smiled when he heard the words. He naturally hoped that the sooner the better, but how difficult this road was, he could already see it when he inspected it just now. There are many places where workers need to dig a little by themselves.

While the two of them were chatting, more than 20 young people dressed in coarse clothes and carrying torches came back chatting and laughing.

Su Yun looked at the location of the fire with a little curiosity, and Chen Mingshu said at this time: “These should be the workers who build the road, and many workers are recruited locally. This road is rotated in three shifts. Construction can’t stop.”

Some projects can only be done in three shifts. Although he didn’t want to, but building a road on this cliff does not mean that it can be stopped.

What’s more, if you want to open to traffic as soon as possible, you can only choose three shifts and turn on the lights at night.

“I see!”

Su Yun nodded to express his understanding. It is normal to want to catch up with the construction period. After all, Chen Mingshu was originally scheduled to take several years, more than ten years. If this is to be repaired as soon as possible, this arrangement is also normal.

And it’s reasonable to have three shifts.

Old Li Tou’s son Li Shuanzhu was stunned when he saw Su Yun and Chen Mingshu in his home.

He was a little overwhelmed. This afternoon, he saw these two people watching them work from the boat on the river. At that time, he thought it might be some two big men who came to inspect.

After the result, someone told him the identities of Su Yun and Chen Mingshu, and he was stunned on the spot. Now, when he saw the two big men in his home, he was even more nervous and didn’t know what to do.

“That…I…”

Li Shuanzhu stammered as he watched them speak. He had never seen this scene before.

Su Yun looked at the young man in front of him and smiled lightly: “Relax, don’t be nervous, we are also human, and we won’t eat you. Also, don’t reveal our identities.”

He could see that Li Shuanzhu in front of him should know their identities, but in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, he reminded them.

Li Shuanzhu nodded when he heard the words.

At this time, Su Yun, Li Shuanzhu, and Chen Mingshu entered the house. At this time, the meal was not ready, and Su Yun sat down.

“Come and talk?”

Su Yun looked at Li Shuanzhu and said with a smile.

Seeing Su Yun’s easy-going appearance, Li Shuanzhu couldn’t help but relax a lot. He smiled naively: “Mr. Su, please wait a moment, I’ll change my clothes and come here!”

He just came back from work, and his body was very dirty. It was not good that he came to Su Yun like this. He hurriedly went over and changed into clean clothes before walking out and sitting at the table.

“Mr. Su, let you wait for a long time, just ask me to tie it up.”

Li Shuanzhu introduced himself. He was still a little excited to have a conversation with such a big man.

Su Yun nodded with a smile, and then asked, “How does it feel to build a road?”

“This road is too difficult to repair. Like me, if I work hard for four hours, I can dig down six or seven inches of rock. Especially, the more you go into the mountains, the harder the rock will be. This month or so, I have been digging. Three iron chisels were scrapped.”

Li Shuanzhu said helplessly, those rock formations were really too difficult to excavate. He worked eight hours a day, but he didn’t excavate very deep.

Su Yun nodded when he heard the words. If this road was so easy to build, the ancients would have built it long ago and would not wait for him to come.

And this is also the reason Li Shuanzhu said, the rock is too thick and hard, it is difficult for them to excavate, which seriously affects the progress.

Su Yun looked at Li Shuanzhu and asked, “Have all the young people in the village gone to build roads?”

He saw those people holding torches just now, and they seemed to be quite large in numbers.

Li Shuanzhu felt that Su Yun and Chen Mingshu were both easy to talk to, so he let go.

He looked at Su Yun and said, “Not to mention our Xiatang Village, most of the young people in Zengjiaping, Datang Village and other villages above come to build roads. After all, road construction pays a lot of money.”

Su Yun shrugged and was noncommittal about wages. He then asked, “”Everyone has built roads, what about the land?”

Young people are all going to build roads, and there are only some old people left in the village. It is impossible to give all the arable land to the old people in the village, right? He just saw that the old people in the village are quite old, and it may be difficult to do farm work.

Li Shuanzhu smiled bitterly when he heard the words.

At this time, Chen Mingshu said, “These are all mountainous areas with very little land. The people here mainly make a living by hunting and collecting herbs.”

There is still relatively little arable land here, and farming is naturally not good, but those in the deep mountains and forests can hunt, and there are a lot of medicinal materials on the mountains that they can pick.

“Pick medicine?”

Su Yun heard the words with some doubts. He didn’t expect this.

Li Shuanzhu said with a wry smile: “Actually, picking herbs can only be a means of subsistence. The herbal medicine merchants from outside always try to lower the price, so we don’t collect many herbs every year, and the more herbal medicine merchants will lower the price even harder.”

They can only support their families by collecting herbs, so instead of relying on herbs and hunting to make a living, they might as well come to build roads, which cost a lot of money. money.

Su Yun nodded when he heard the words. He knew this. After all, these businessmen in China are very skilled at lowering prices.

Squeeze the remaining interests from these ordinary people, and then earn fat and oil by themselves.

After a while, dinner will be ready, and Su Yun (Qian Li Zhao) will fall asleep shortly after dinner., It’s really been a day on the boat today, and I’m a little tired.

The next morning, Su Yun and Chen Mingshu set off again.

At noon, the boat finally came to Feixianguan, which has been a key point for entering Shu since ancient times.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was called Feixian Pavilion, and the title of the poem “Feixian Pavilion” stated: “Xu Zuoqing Huahe (Feixian) is here, hence the name.

There are hundreds of pavilions on the road, and the general name is Lianyunzhan.

There is even a book that says: Forty miles north of the county, there is Feixian Pavilion, immersed in a deep pool, like Feixian.

The literati of the past dynasties passed through the Shu Road, and there were many inscriptions, lamenting the difficulty of the Shu Road.

And it is rumored that the danger on both sides of the Feixian Pass, only the gods can fly.

After the boat entered Feixian Pass, it only felt that the two banks became narrower, the river became turbulent, and the boat swayed and moved forward under the impact of the current.

Su Yun looked around and saw that the left and right banks were mostly cliffs, which were endless. There were still mountains here, and it was clear that two gables trapped the Jialing River.

It is rumored that there is another danger in Feixianguan that there are often rockfalls and mudslides.

Su Yun looked at the two gables and found a lot of broken rocks, as if they would fall down at any time, plus the height of the mountain was a few hundred meters, which made people feel a little breathless.

Workers work on these nearly vertical mountain surfaces, using chisels to dig the mountain with difficulty.

Chapter 204: The Difficulties of the Zhao Family

The group came to the middle of Feixianguan, and the turbulent water flow hit the mountain in front of them.

The boat began to turn, and the field of vision became wider. The water flow has also become a little slower, and there is still a big bend in the distance ahead.

Su Yun knew that the middle of Feixianguan was surrounded by Jialing River, forming a jizi shape, and Su Yun looked to the right, which was the entrance of Jizijiangkou.

And the workers need to dig a tunnel in this lonely mountain to penetrate it. At this time, many workers have gathered here.

Although this tunnel is not long, it is the top priority.

The boat finally passed Feixian Pass, and after that, it was Shahe Town.

Shahe Town is a scouring plain. Although the area is not large, the terrain here is relatively gentle.

Su Yun and the others stayed in Shahe Town that night, and Shahe Town still found a temporary place to stay, so there was no need to bother to stay overnight.

After a night’s rest, he continued his journey north the next day. Along the way, Su Yun saw many workers digging.

In the afternoon, Su Yun and the others arrived at Mingyue Gorge.

Mingyue Gorge is one of the most important passages into Sichuan, and it is also one of the sources of the difficulties of Shu Road in Li Bai’s writings.

The terrain here is more dangerous than Feixianguan.

When you look at it, you can see the two banks of the Pentium Jialing River, with thousands of meters standing on the wall, the terrain is steep, and the mountains lie in front of you.

The difference between the Jialing River and the mountain peak is more than two kilometers.

The depth of the valley is a full two kilometers, one can imagine how dangerous it is.

The road cannot be built along the river, because it is too steep, and even the ancient plank road can only walk on the ridge.

For this stretch of several kilometers of road, the Ministry of Transport’s choice was to dig tunnels.

Starting from Chaotian Pass and ending at Chaotian Water Station, the entire tunnel is nearly four kilometers long.

In the evening, we arrived at Chaotian Water Station.

“After passing through Chaotian Shui Station, Highway 857 will part ways with Jialing River, and the next journey of about six or seven kilometers will be the most difficult.

After this period, it will temporarily enter a relatively gentle area, and further north, it is the chessboard pass.

The entire Chessboard Pass requires a tunnel to pass through, and the length of the entire tunnel is more than seven kilometers. ”

Chen Mingshu looked into the distance and said. When I think about the next section, it is the most difficult section of the road.

He couldn’t help but sweat for these people from the Ministry of Communications. But there is no way, the road still has to be built.

Su Yun nodded in response when he heard the words, but he knew about the chessboard.

As for the waterway to Qipanguan, he also knew.

The water flow along the way was faster than what they had encountered before, and there were many cliffs and cliffs around. The workers had to work in these places, and the amount of work was quite large.

Of course, the gentle areas that Chen Mingshu mentioned, the surrounding mountains and cliffs! These are the same.

The mountains stretched up and down all the way to the north, and once you got out of this stall, you would encounter the chessboard gate that Chen Mingshu said.

Qipanguan is located on the continuous Daba Mountains, above Qipanling.

This is the only road hub connecting North China, the Central Plains and the Northwest in Sichuan.

Together with Baishui Pass, Jiameng Pass, and Jianmen Pass, they are called the four famous passes in northern Sichuan.

The danger of the chessboard level is even more clear to him.

It is recorded in history that when the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway was built in 1936, even the highway designers in the United States could not do anything about it and could only plan to take a detour.

In the end, it took a lot of hard work to bypass this famous dangerous pass. From the side of the Qipanling mountainside, it took a new path, winding several times, and circling down.

One can imagine how strong the sense of oppression brought about by the danger (ajec) of the chessboard level.

And Qipanguan is only the lower area of ​​Daba Mountain.

The towering Daba Mountain and the surrounding gables are mostly cliffs. There is a saying in “The Road to Shu Difficulty” that the Daba Mountains are the ones that open up the mountain.

It is no wonder that the way of Shu is called difficult. Under such circumstances, it may not be so easy to get through.

Previous:

Han Yu: My sister is Mengzhi

Next:

Back to list