1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 133 Completion of Hydropower Station

The matter about the candidate for Xingang military chief officer was like dropping a pebble in a pond. Although it caused a little splash, without the follow-up reports from relevant departments, the situation quickly calmed down again.And Meng He, who had been clamoring to overthrow the military and police department to dig out the truth before, suddenly lost his temper, not only withdrew the press release on the top of the forum, but also rejected Luo Wudan's request to dig deeper into the matter, and let her Turn your attention to reporting on the preparations for overseas bases that are currently in full swing.

Although Luo Wudan also questioned Meng He, Meng He remained silent and did not want to mention Qian Tiandun's matter again.When Luo Wudan went to the carpentry workshop to look for Qian Tiandun again, he found that he had been transferred away from here. It was said that he had gone to recruit someone from the new barracks, so he had no choice but to give up.The new barracks is a military restricted area to the outside world, even those who pass through must obtain permission from the military and police department to enter, and it is obviously impossible for Luo Wudan to obtain such a qualification now.

Soon there was another really big event occupying the headlines of the forum. All gossip news had to give way to this event. Even Luo Wudan had to obey the arrangement and obediently bring a recorder and DV , go to the scene to do interviews.

On July 1627, 7, May 7, the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty, the Tiandu River Hydropower Project, which took a total of 82 days, was finally announced to be completed.

Although Liu Shanxia from the Ministry of Construction had promised to complete the project before the flood season, the flood season had already quietly arrived at the end of June.Fortunately, the main body of the dam had been completed at that time, and only the hoisting of the generator was left to be completed. The slightly rising river water did not cause too much trouble to the project builders.Because the entire project process was relatively smooth, and the final completion time was within the planned construction period, no one would pursue the military order issued by Liu Shanxia before the start of construction.

The designed installed capacity of the Tianduhe Hydropower Station is two 150KW slanting hydroelectric generators with a total maximum power of 300KW.The reason why two generators with smaller power are equipped instead of directly using a 320KW Francis turbine generator in the warehouse is also considering the convenience of maintenance and repair of the two generators.Otherwise, once the generator fails during operation, the entire power supply system will be completely paralyzed.

This installed capacity is naturally pitifully small from the perspective of future generations, but considering that this is the first hydropower station that has actually been put into use in this time and space, and it has advanced the appearance of hydropower stations in history by more than 200 years, the travelers can be proud It is easy to regard this small hydropower station as a cross-age Zenith star technology.With the power provided by this hydropower station, the technical level of metallurgy, machining, chemical engineering and other projects will be qualitatively improved in a short period of time, and this kind of improvement cannot be achieved by manpower. Later generations of historians believe that the time-traveling group really started It can be counted from this time to open the gap with the competitors of the same era.

The Tiandu River Hydropower Station does not end here in the energy planning of the Crossing Group. This is just the first test field for the development of hydropower by the Crossing Group.When the conditions are ripe, the Ministry of Construction will start the project of the second hydropower station on the hillside only a few hundred meters away from this hydropower station. The scale of this hydropower station built on the original site of Songhe Reservoir will be larger than that of Tianduhe Small Hydropower Station. , The designed installed capacity has reached more than 1200KW, which is enough to supply the power demand of the industrial zone in the upper reaches of Tiandu River in the future.In the long-term plan, the relevant departments have even included the two water systems of the Sanya River and the Linchun River in the original urban area of ​​Sanya, as well as the two large reservoirs, the Banling Reservoir and the Water Source Reservoir on the edge of the urban area, into the hydropower plan. among.

When the foundation of the hydropower station was laid and started, the executive committee did not hold any decent celebration ceremony. However, the completion of the hydropower station is of great significance to the future development of the crossing group. Following the socialist line, a small ribbon-cutting ceremony was held.For this reason, most of the construction sites and units have declared a one-day holiday, which also gave local workers the opportunity to see the leadership of the Time Travel Group.

The arrangement of this holiday was very effective. The crowd from nearby places came to watch more than a thousand people, so that the Military and Police Department had to transfer all the students of the first phase of the new barracks to the venue to maintain order.In order to avoid chaos, the executive committee had to temporarily cancel the plan to play firecracker recordings through tweeters—if there was a chaos, it would immediately be a major accident with mass casualties, and there was no need to take this risk for celebrations.

The onlookers naturally didn't understand why the big bosses of the Haihan people stood in a row and cut off a red cloth belt, but when they heard the news that all the meat will be provided for free for dinner today, the workers were also very excited. Shouting loudly, many people imitated the Haihan people's way of celebrating and applauded vigorously to express their joy.

But this is not the only good news waiting for them. Tao Donglai also announced at the ribbon-cutting ceremony that the third commune, the carpentry commune, and the fourth commune, the construction commune, will begin to register and recruit people from now on.The woodworking commune mainly recruits local laborers who previously worked in carpentry workshops, charcoal kilns, wood drying rooms, shipyards, and logging teams, while the construction commune mainly recruits local laborers who have been working on construction sites such as hydropower stations, factories, iron mines, and participating in The local laborers who built the simple road from Shengli Port to the No. [-] base will also recruit a small number of people with certain professional labor skills to supplement the two communes of the farm and the salt field, so as to supplement the shortage of young and strong personnel recruited from the commune in the second phase of the new barracks .

This good news caused the audience to applaud even more.Since the time-traveling group implemented the labor hierarchy policy, local laborers have been divided into inside and outside. The "inside" refers to those who have obtained the qualifications of commune members and moved their families into the collective living area of ​​the commune, while the "outside" refers to It is those local laborers who have not yet obtained the qualifications of commune members.

Internally, the Traveling Group has given its members high welfare treatment, not only free accommodation, three full meals a day, even medical and education expenses will be reduced according to the labor class of the members, and monthly A small number of negotiable notes were issued as wages.

Externally, ordinary local workers naturally cannot get these benefits. No matter which unit they work in, they will only provide food during working hours, and they can only eat themselves in the morning and evening.Medical care and education are no longer completely free as they were when the Haihan people first arrived.Moreover, the prices of ironware, salt, and grain sold by the Haihan people have all started to rise slightly recently, which is undoubtedly bad news for the already poor local people.But these changes have no effect on the commune members at all. According to the rumors of those who have relatives in the commune, the iron farm tools in the commune are distributed uniformly without spending money to buy, and the same is true for food. As for salt, it is said that each commune member has a monthly income They can all receive two taels of refined salt as a reward for full-time work, and this year has saved at least one tael of silver!
What annoyed the local workers the most was that no matter how many months they had worked under the hands of the Haihan people, their salaries remained unchanged.And as long as you join the commune and become a member, your salary will immediately increase, and you can also accumulate labor points to increase your level.It is said that some of the first fishermen who entered the commune have been promoted to the third-level laborers, and can work as foremen on the construction site. Their corresponding salary is three times that of ordinary laborers. This makes many people jealous of the precious membership qualifications. .

All kinds of differential treatment made the local workers look forward to joining the commune as soon as possible and becoming a glorious Haihan member. However, the Haihan people stopped recruiting members after recruiting twice, and only maintained two communes. preparation.In order to obtain better living conditions, many young and middle-aged people had to choose another path and signed up to join the militia organized by Haihan people.Although joining the militia is also a good way out, there is food, housing and pay, family members can join the commune, and I will directly obtain the qualifications of commune members after retiring, but for the people with families, many people still don’t want to take risks. He took the risk of serving as a soldier in exchange for this qualification.

Now that the Time Traveling Group has once again opened the door to the commune, local workers with normal thinking ability are unwilling to miss this opportunity to join the commune. If they fail to enter this time, who knows when the Haihan people will recruit members again next time.And people who are a little smarter will realize that there are as many as a thousand local laborers working on various construction sites who have not yet obtained the membership qualifications. According to the establishment of the Haihan people, it is certainly impossible for the two communes to recruit so many people. A considerable number of people will fail in this competition.The only way to increase your chances of success is to sign up as soon as possible, so as soon as the ribbon-cutting ceremony ended, the commune registration office on the other side was already overcrowded, and the military and police department even had to urgently call in a platoon security guards to maintain order at the registration point.

After completing the project of the Tianduhe Hydropower Station, the Group’s embarrassment in terms of manpower for several months has finally been alleviated. Next, a large amount of labor liberated from the hydropower station site will be invested in the construction of nearby factories.The large-scale mechanical processing equipment that had been stored on the "New World" also began to unload the ship one by one, and these large iron bumps were transported from Shengli Port to the inland industrial area with a specially reinforced flat bullock cart.In the next two to three months, the large-scale plant construction project in the industrial zone will be the main theme of the Crossing Group.

However, during this period, the labor force will be transferred to another place for large-scale collective labor, which is the farm in the Tiandu River Valley.According to the arrangement of the Ministry of Agriculture, the local food crops will be planted mainly with two crops of rice and supplemented by a small amount of miscellaneous grains.But now it's July, and the rice that has been rushing to plant after crossing has reached the harvest season. After that, the land will have to be plowed to sow the second-crop rice in the second half of the year.

(End of this chapter)