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#185 - The big business of river dredging

Watching the heads of various flood control departments around him almost come to blows over the scheduling of the Jingwei Engineering Ship, Chen Jue, as the person involved, couldn't help but smile with amusement.

There was no reason not to accept such a large order where people were practically begging to give him money.

Moreover, dredging and clearing the Yangtze and Yellow River systems was a great deed that benefited the country and its people, not only clearing the river channels but also preventing the possibility of future flooding disasters.

Even if it meant paying out of his own pocket to do it for free, Chen Jue would be more than willing, let alone with such a legitimate and open bidding process.

However, to Chen Jue's surprise, before Lu Shoucheng and the others could finish arguing, Secretary Lin, who had accompanied them, spoke up first: "Chen Jue, can the dredging equipment on the Jingwei Engineering Ship be miniaturized and used in urban river channels?"

Chen Jue immediately nodded upon hearing this: "Yes, it can! The design of the current Jingwei 01 is the result of our group's engineers scaling down a larger design, so making a hundred-ton river dredging ship is not difficult. Secretary Lin, do you mean… to help the brothers in the inspection team dredge the moat in their cities?"

Secretary Lin's eyes lit up at these words, and he said with some excitement: "Not the moat, but the Wenrui Tang River in our Wencity!"

Chen Jue's whole body shook upon hearing this.

The Wenrui Tang River might be relatively unknown to outsiders, but to the native Wencity people, it was like the 'Yellow River,' a mother river!

The Wenrui Tang River spans several districts and counties in Wencity, with a total basin area of 740 square kilometers, a total length of 1178.4 kilometers of river network, and an irrigation area of 482,000 mu.

Before the reform and opening up, the water in the Wenrui Tang River was crystal clear, with schools of fish and shrimp, and it was the drinking water source for the coastal people to survive.

It was a pity that after the reform and opening up, Wencity's economy took off, and private workshops introduced leather making and plastic manufacturing technologies, and a large amount of industrial sewage began to be discharged into the Wenrui Tang River without restriction.

This turned the domestic water, which could originally be used for washing clothes and cooking, directly into a seriously polluted water source.

In addition, with the advancement of urbanization, the Tang River, which originally presented a circulating living water, was cut into several sections by roads and urban development, turning several Tang River tributaries into dead water with severed ends.

This led to the Wenrui Tang River, which should have been crystal clear, becoming eutrophic and colorful in the 21st century, and even eventually turning black and stinky, with almost all the fish and shrimp dying, which seriously affected the lives of the local people.

Chen Jue vaguely remembered that when he went to school in the city when he was a child, the Tang River basin in Ruixian County invested heavily in treatment every year.

The treatment methods were nothing more than using sandbags and sandbags to block the upstream and downstream sides of the river channel, pumping out the water, and then driving excavators to dig out the heavily polluted silt accumulated in the river bed.

The black river mud had a pungent smell as soon as it came ashore, and no matter how much was dug out, the stench still lingered in the city of Wencity.

The environmental protection departments in Wen City and Ruixian County had also tried everything possible, investing hundreds of millions of funds every year and continuously introducing various treatment technologies and methods from home and abroad for more than 20 years.

But what was the result?

The polluted Wenrui Tang River was like a bottomless pit, and it was useless to invest more funds to treat it.

Secretary Lin's mention of this matter now was also because he saw the powerful dredging emotion technology of the Jingwei 01's set of engineering equipment.

Since it could be used to dredge the silted seabed at the Feiyun River estuary, could it be put into the shallower and narrower Wenrui Tang River for riverbed treatment?

"As long as it can be miniaturized, there is absolutely no problem in putting it into the river!"

"Moreover, Secretary Lin, don't forget that our set of equipment can not only be put on ships, but also transplanted to engineering vehicles for use." Chen Jue grinned, with a bit of confidence and brilliance on his face.

He had been busy using the MC system to make money and start big businesses everywhere, and he had indeed ignored many places closely related to life.

Secretary Lin's mention immediately made him realize that the river dredging industry was also a good business with 'fast money, high barriers to entry, and near monopoly'.

Looking at the heads of these inspection teams from several inland cities present, the engineering budget reported at the exit was hundreds of millions at every turn.

This was only for a few cities along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers that were seriously affected by floods.

If all the places in the country and even the world that were seriously polluted by urban river channels were counted, then this environmental protection business could be said to be like an infinite gold mine!

The kind that can't be dug out!

"We need both Jinshan Yinshan and green mountains and green waters. Chen Jue, our mother river in Wencity is counting on you! Hurry up and miniaturize this set of equipment. As long as the equipment is finalized and meets the procurement requirements of the Environmental Protection Bureau and the Water Conservancy Department, I will report to the mayor after I go back." Secretary Lin said earnestly.

In recent years, people have paid more and more attention to environmental protection, and river chief systems have been set up in rivers everywhere.

If the pollution of the Wenrui Tang River, which has plagued the people of Wencity for many years, can be treated well, such a great achievement will fall on the head, not to mention immediately promoting it by several levels, it will also be enough to be rated as excellent and promoted within the unit.

So, realizing this, Chen Jue's eyes immediately turned: "Understood! I will immediately ask the group's design department to come up with a plan as soon as possible."

… …

Seeing Chen Jue and Secretary Lin chatting enthusiastically, Lu Shoucheng and others in the inspection team also had their eyes shining.

"This set of dredging equipment can be miniaturized?"

"That's great! Can the historical pollution water bodies in our city also be treated?"

"President Chen, Secretary Lin, you two can't hide your good plans!"

Everyone was talking about it, and they felt that the engineering budget they had just casually reported was a bit too conservative.

After all, urban river dredging is under the jurisdiction of the municipal department, and the engineering budget here is allocated every year without any changes.

If it can be linked with the sudden dredging work of the Yangtze and Yellow River systems, it will definitely be a bright star project that can benefit one side.

Realizing the huge energy here, the members of the inspection team who were a little restless began to add more money.

The engineering budget of 100 million yuan just now was considered low. When it comes to urban river dredging, which provincial capital cities like Wuhan and Hefei don't invest more than a dozen billion yuan a year?

Seeing this, Chen Jue comforted: "Don't worry, leaders, the second and third Jingwei Engineering Ships are already in production. In the future, our Magic Cube Group will also open several new intelligent shipyards in the near future to ensure that all the cities present can be rotated within half a year."

"If the leaders are not at ease, I will let the group's legal department issue a few cooperation agreements later!"

Hearing this, the members of the inspection team felt relieved, and after chatting with Chen Jue for a few words, they turned their attention to the Jingwei 01, which was working in the distance.

I saw that the Jingwei 01, with its teeth and claws, after completing the suction and removal of the seabed waste along the beach, switched the matching working module on the mechanical arm again.

However, this time, it was no longer equipped with MC props such as [Lithium Battery Piston], but instead used the traditional hydraulic grab to grab the engineering materials that were piled up.

At first, what was grabbed out were prefabricated [iron block] cutting parts, as well as pile materials such as concrete cubes to lay the foundation for the deep-water port terminal.

After all, there had been a successful case of rapid closure of the breach during typhoon rescue and disaster relief before, and everyone knew that Magic Cube Group had this technical strength.

However, when a row of T-shaped pier base foundations more than 100 meters long was quickly laid on the beach outside the Magic Cube factory, a super-thick glass wall that was hoisted up from the cabin made the inspection team present stunned!

"This… this is glass?"

"So thick! It looks thicker than the acrylic glass in the aquarium!"

"What is this going to do?"

"Damn it! Is this planning to build a breakwater with glass?"

I've been feeling uncomfortable for two days, and I haven't fully recovered yet, but I can start coding now.

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