Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 393 Building Hometown

  After finishing the daily morning meeting, the core staff of Qingdao Town Construction scattered away. Now everyone has so many things in their hands that they can’t wait to break the time.

"Brother Haiyang, wait a moment." The mayor Li Siyuan stopped Wang Haiyang who was about to leave, and then looked at Zhao Qishan and Mai Guangtian who were next to him, and asked with some doubts; "You two still have more What's the matter?"

"Oh, Deputy Commander Wang and I will go to the reservoir area to check the progress of the construction together. The mayor, you have to talk in advance." Zhao Qishan held the brim of his hat with his hand, made a cowboy salute, and then acted. Naturally, he walked out of the work shed and fed some black bean concentrate to the horse that was tied outside.

  Mai Guangtian stood where he was obviously not ready to move, but just muttered; "I have something to do with Deputy Commander Wang."

  Well, you all have business.

Li Siyuan turned around and said, "Brother Haiyang, the construction of the sewage culvert in our new town area has been completed, and the soil and rock backfilling has been over ten days. The fly ash and **** stone cushions on the road have been completed. Now we are waiting for the imported asphalt. Paving the road with materials, can you help us clear it up and arrange a ship of materials for us as soon as possible?"

"I'm afraid it won't work." Wang Haiyang shook his head and said with a frown; "Imported asphalt is very limited, Honghe Valley, Songjiang and other big cities need it. Imports only a few ships a year, almost every quarter. The ship, the natural asphalt lake production capacity is there, and we can only get this in a short time. From the perspective of priority arrangements, at least in the past few years, don’t expect imported asphalt materials. If you apply for the production of coking coal plants Coal tar pitch is still a bit of a play, really don’t count on importing pitch, I think it’s okay to just pave the road with stone slabs, and there are ready-made resources locally."

"The quality of coal tar pitch is too bad, it softens as soon as the sun is exposed to it, so I don’t want to use it. The slabs paving the "puff puff" high-lying unevenness, how can there be asphalt roads!" Li Siyuan is an authentic perfectionist, his The standard is to match Songjiang, how could one be willing to use coal-based pitch?

The largest natural asphalt lake in the world is located in Lake Peach in the Labea region of Trinidad in Central and North America. This is a natural asphalt lake. In the southwest of Trinidad, there is no drop of water in this lake. But it is natural high-quality asphalt, so people call it "asphalt lake".

  The world's largest natural asphalt lake covers an area of ​​about 47 hectares. The magic of the lake is that the asphalt in the lake is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. People have been mining continuously for 14 years since 1870. As many as one million tons of asphalt have been transported away, but the lake level has not dropped a bit.

  This kind of natural asphalt is the best paving construction material and building waterproof material. Queensland imports more than 20,000 tons every year. It is mainly used in roads and urban construction in major cities. It is a good thing that is in short supply.

  It's not that I don't want to import more, but output and transportation capacity limit production.

  The annual output of natural asphalt in Biqi Lake is more than 100,000 tons, all of which have to be digged little by little by hand, and then transported to the port through the mule-horse road. Today's output is already at the limit.

  More than half of the output is exported to the United States, and one third is exported to Europe. In addition, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, the top three in South America, need it, and Australia can get very little.

  In addition to the best quality natural asphalt, petroleum asphalt imported from the United States can also be used for road paving. The price is much cheaper. The worst quality is the coal asphalt produced locally in Queensland, which is mainly used to pave asphalt roads connecting cities.

  The production quality of coal tar pitch is not good enough. It will soften as soon as the weather and temperature are high. It does not matter if it is used in the south, but it will make people scratch the scalp in the north where the temperature is higher.

"Mayor Li, I really can’t do anything about it. I have to wait and talk. There will be a ship of petroleum pitch from California Bay on the west coast of the United States in more than two months. Or the town submits an application as soon as possible and sees it Can't you get some?"

"Brother Haiyang, I know that you are an old man from United Airlines. You can definitely get us some high-quality asphalt from Biqi Lake. We don’t need much from Qingdao Town. We just pave the existing roads in the town area. Anyway, It’s not too big. I guess it’s enough to have five or six hundred tons. I have to ask you to help figure out a solution!"

  "What can I do?" Wang Haiyang looked embarrassed.

With the deepening of economic development, hundreds of small and large towns in the Earl’s Territory are developing and expanding. From the Red River Valley to Songjiang, Beilun, from Moresby to Samarinda, only the talents of the 19th Century United Shipping Company Do you know how big your stall is?

  The scale of big cities is expanding, and small towns are also growing. Importing more than 20,000 tons of asphalt every year is really not enough.

  Last year, in order to give priority to the supply of nearly 200 kilometers of high-standard asphalt hardened pavement on Longjin Highway, 1/3 of the imported asphalt was planned to be used on this section of the road.

   caused the road hardening project in the Red River Valley and surrounding cities to be postponed until this year. Only this item will consume half of the import quota. In addition, the Red River Valley metropolis and the urban construction of Songjiang and Beilun are all projects with very high priority. Qingdao Town can only be ranked at the end of the crane.

  In the end

  The northern Queensland town is not the land of Lord Earl. The difference between this son and godson is obvious, and the priority and construction standards are much lower.

Seeing Wang Haiyang’s embarrassed look, Li Siyuan raised his brows, and his anger was uncontrollable; “I still don’t believe it, even 500 tons of asphalt for such an important project in Qingdao Town can’t be done. Qishan, Guangtian, you are not. Do you know a secretary close to Lord Earl, who is also one of the shareholders of our Qingdao Port? I will leave this to you. I will clean up my work and rush to the Red River Valley as soon as possible. The construction of our town is not waiting for anyone. No matter how great the difficulties are, the construction standards of Qingdao Town cannot be lowered."

"what……"

  Mai Guangtian didn't expect this difficult thing to fall on his head, opening his mouth can put a duck egg into it.

   "What are you calling... Isn't Qingdao your hometown? Isn't it right to contribute to your hometown?"

  Mai Guangtian looked at the mayor with big eyes and small eyes, but he was speechless.

  That's right

  Qingdao Town is the hometown of a few brothers. In order to build a beautiful hometown, it is reasonable to make a contribution. Li Siyuan is unwilling to lower the standard. Why are Zhao Qishan and Mai Guangtian willing?

  No way, the roads in towns are face-saving projects, and this must be done.

  A few people were discussing, and a horse-drawn convoy drove along the winding road from a distance. About a dozen horse-drawn carriages, all filled with tall vegetables and fruits, moved slowly towards the town.

  These are vegetables from nearby pastures, full of baskets of potatoes, cabbage, peas, tomatoes and carrots. There are hundreds of sheep behind the horse convoy who were driven all the way.

Lu Qiang, who was in charge of the reorganization of logistics and equipment, greeted him on horseback with his men. His job was to register the agricultural products, cattle and sheep produced by these respective ranches, and then allocate them to the dock builder and town builder as needed. Upon delivery, both parties register and pledge.

  Finally, relying on the account books approved by both parties, the accounts are settled once a week, and Lu Qiang is responsible for returning the money to the respective ranch, and so on.

The construction of the wharf is paid by the 19th Century United Shipping Company. The subordinates are divided into several engineering groups, in charge of the construction of the wharf trestle, the construction of the bank slope, the construction of the wharf road, and the construction of the reservoir area. Perform cost accounting.

  This is because the entire project is divided into many project groups, each with independent foremen contracting work, and the profits and losses are at their own risk. These payments advanced by the project party are eventually deducted from the project funds.

  The same is true for the urban construction party. The Red River Valley Industrial Corporation will make unified payments and settle accounts with each engineering team one by one.

The large-scale development of Qingdao Town has brought new development opportunities to farmers and ranchers. More than a dozen private ranchers in the surrounding area, headed by Mr. Mike, have really made a fortune. They have recruited a large number of people to open wasteland, grow vegetables and fruits, and raise dairy cows. , Broilers, live ducks, little days are getting more and more prosperous.

  Private ranchers who are farther away are not to be outdone, and have vigorously expanded the size of their flocks, striving to make enough money in this round of development, consolidate their families, and marry more wives.

  The horse convoy came to town. Lu Qiang was busy among a group of people, and he was dragged out by Mai Guangtian who came in a hurry.

   "What's the matter with Hirota, don't you see that I am busy?"

"What's the matter... the big thing, anyway, it's more important than your trivial things." Mai Guangtian took off the cowboy hat from his head, slapped the wind with the sweat on his forehead from his sleeves, and said solemnly; "Brother Lu Qiang, do you think Qingdao Town is our hometown?"

   "Nonsense, then I need to talk."

  "Do you want to make it more beautiful?"

"I'm not busy here, what's the matter with you?" Lu Qiang turned around impatiently and was about to leave, but Mai Guangtian grabbed his clothes; "Can you put away these messy things on your hands? One release? I have something important to tell you."

   "Are these messy things?"

When Lu Qiang heard this, he became angry. He rolled his account book into a cylinder and smashed it on Mai Guangtian’s head. Don’t send food or broken cows and sheep to me. Anyway, you don’t like those broken pounds. Don’t wear beautiful dresses for your women. You don’t need to buy Malay women and sheep, and you don’t need to buy them in town. Buying a big house offends me, are you tired of living crooked?"

Mai Guangtian was a little confused by him with a paper bucket. After listening to this spit, he quickly held Lu Qiang's arm with one hand to prevent the paper cone from raining down again, and said with an ambiguous smile on his face; Brother Lu Qiang, we are good enough to wear a trouser leg, we have to take care of it!"

   "I take care of you ass, you are a white-eyed wolf."

"Sao Rui, Sao Rui, if I said something wrong just now, what we Lu Qiang brothers do is the most important thing to make our ranch make more money, I remember your good, but I There are important things assigned by the mayor, which are related to the best future of Qingdao as a whole. Do you think it is very important?"

  When the big hat was buttoned, Lu Qiang didn't dare to neglect. He had already turned around and was going to leave. At this time, he hesitantly stopped and asked; "What's the matter?"

   "It's like this, don't you have a good relationship with Secretary Tang Shaoyi..." Mai Guangtian leaned forward and said so and so.

  Hundreds of tons of high-quality natural asphalt?

  Lu Qiang knows that the flat and wide asphalt roads in Red River Valley are great. Of course it is good to get them. But he is not sure if Secretary Tang Shaoyi has such a great ability, is it embarrassing, is willing to help?

   Renqing is an expensive consumable, but it can’t be used frequently.

  Thinking about it, Lu Qiang said hesitantly; "Or...Shall we send a telegram to ask?"

   "How can this be said clearly in the telegram, you must show sincerity when you ask someone to do something, and only if you ask in person."

   "But I can't go away!"

   "Don't worry, Lu Qiang can't collapse without you. Just leave it to others for the time being. Let's come and go soon."

"okay then."

  Lu Qiang can’t even think about it. Among the few people, he is the closest to Tang Shaoyi. At first, it was a friendship developed in a ward with bragging rights. I really wanted to ask Secretary Tang to do things, and I really had to go there by myself.

  He really loves this place in Qingdao, and he is really willing to make the town better. After all, it is his hometown!

  Everyone is contributing to the construction of their hometown, and he certainly is not far behind.

  (End of this chapter)