Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 122 Preparations before going to Northern Myanmar

On the morning of July 1982, 7, Wang Jiankun returned to the underground base in Wuyuan.

After arriving at the base, I went to bed without eating because I didn’t get much rest on the way back from Chongqing.

After drinking at noon that day, he left alone by boat and first went to Chaotianmen Wharf to check the terrain.

It was the time when the sun was at its highest, and there were still many people on the dock holding carrying poles and ropes waiting for work.

When I saw Wang Jiankun coming down from this boat I had never seen before, carrying a bag on his back, I didn't dare to come up and talk to him for a while.

Because I could tell he was unusual just by looking at his attire, and he didn't have much luggage, so I didn't think of taking on any work for him.

After getting off the boat, Wang Jiankun looked around, then found a young man in his 20s, gave him a cigarette, and started talking to him.

"Brother, come and have a cigarette. I want to ask you something."

The young man took the cigarette, looked at the filter and the nice blue paper, and couldn't bear to smoke it. He put it to his ear and replied, "Okay, tell me what you want to say, I'll tell you everything I know."

Seeing that he was reluctant to smoke, I thought that a dry chat might not be fun, so I asked him to walk to the tea stalls on the higher ground, and said as we walked: "Brother, this is my first time at this dock, and I want to find you to learn about the situation here. Let's drink herbal tea and chat, it's very hot today."

After ordering two bowls of herbal tea at the herbal tea stand and drinking a few sips to relieve the heat, Wang Jiankun asked, "Brother, do you know the water level information of this dock?"

"Of course. I grew up near this dock and I'm very familiar with this place. You've found the right person."

"Oh, then please tell me about the water level conditions at this dock throughout the year. Here, let me light this cigarette for you and tell you slowly." Wang Jiankun said as he took out a cigarette and lighter from his pocket, handed the cigarette to the man and lit it for him with the lighter.

The young man held the cigarette with his rough hands, took two puffs, and then slowly talked about the situation at the dock.

"The Chaotianmen Wharf has to be moved four or five times a year, and the pier has to be changed accordingly, because the water level of the Yangtze River varies greatly in different seasons."

"It's summer now, and the water level is the highest in the year, so the pier you see now is very close to the stone shore. In winter, you will find that the pier extends out 60 to 70 meters and is 7 to 8 meters lower than it is now."

"Then spring and winter are in the middle, and the amount of rain in spring and autumn is different every year, so the number of times the position needs to be changed is also different."

"There was less rain this spring, so it was only moved a little bit. Every time it was moved, the pier would be shut down for several days."

The young man talked about the water level at the dock while smoking.

"So does that mean the dock can't be used during the flood?"

"Of course. When there is a flood, no one dares to sail. The water flow is very fast. If you don't anchor in a place where the water flow is gentle, the boat will be washed away. Every year, several ships are washed away by floods because they didn't move the boat to a safe place before the flood came."

"Then is there no place to build a fixed dock on the Yangtze River in Chongqing?"

"It seems not. We are in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and there are many mountains, so the water level changes a lot. There are some places that have built stone docks on the riverside, but they can only be used for a few months a year. The rest of the time, the docks are either flooded or the water level is too shallow for ships to dock."

Wang Jiankun learned some hydrological information about the dock from the young man, and combined with his own observations, he found that the reason why there was no fixed dock here was still insufficient productivity.

If we can mobilize large-scale construction equipment, extend it into the Yangtze River to lay the foundation, and then build docks of different heights according to the hydrological conditions, and then build some cranes on them, there will be fixed docks available all year round.

At the same time, part of the mountain along the river can be blown up to build roads, and the goods on the dock can be transported by large vehicles instead of relying on the current semi-manual mode of transfer.

However, although Wang Jiankun can do this with his superpowers, he cannot expose himself and has to wait for the local government to solve the infrastructure construction problems.

The workaround he can think of at the moment is to install a long-arm crane on every ship that comes here to deliver goods, which is 200 meters longer than the one currently on the C-5. In this way, even in the dry season, Wang Jiankun's ship can easily transport the goods to the shore.

That afternoon, Wang Jiankun drove his boat around the Yangtze River to see which places would be suitable for building secret mobile base stations to facilitate communication between ships coming here and the rear.

In the end, he chose a peninsula deep into the Yangtze River. The mountains there were steep, there were few people living nearby, and many places were densely forested, so there should be very few people going there.

He got off the boat and came to the mountain in the dark. In the backpack on his back were several metal blocks used to manufacture mobile base station equipment and power generation and energy storage equipment.

These base stations have been upgraded again and can receive three types of waves: long, medium and short. The long wave is mainly used to receive information about 1000 kilometers away. However, because the wavelength is longer, the amount of information carried is greatly reduced and is only used to transmit some particularly important information.

Then the text messaging machines equipped for employees in the country were upgraded one after another, and the distance for receiving and sending messages was doubled, so in Chongqing, Wang Jiankun only planned to build this one base station.

Because this place mainly provides limited services to people in the transport team.

After the construction was completed, Wang Jiankun sailed to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River overnight, and then found a high mountain near the three cities of Enshi, Yichang and Jingzhou to build an upgraded mobile base station.

In this way, when the fleet arrives in Chongqing later in the month, we can use text machines to communicate all the way.

Although the return journey was with the current, we had to stop at several places and pass through the dangerous Three Gorges area, so it still took 2 days.

After arriving at the base, he rested for most of the day before getting up and going to the East Gate Bridge to eat.

The school was on holiday at this time and there were no mobile vendors at the campus gate. Wang Jiankun went to a restaurant that served Sichuan cuisine, ordered three dishes and ate them slowly.

The shop owner was obviously very impressed with him and later gave him a bowl of iced green bean soup.

According to him, since the beginning of the dog days, he would buy a large block of ice from the county ice factory every day to keep the food fresh. He would also make some mung bean paste, sour plum soup and other things to sell.

After eating the cold mung bean soup, Wang Jiankun talked with the shop owner about the situation and learned about the county's situation over the past half month.

Since the Wumei Luggage Factory started laying the foundation stone and building the factory building, it has recruited many young people to work there. As a result, the public security in the county has improved a lot recently, and the number of idle young people has been greatly reduced.

At the same time, the county also recruited some people as joint defense team members to patrol the main urban area. This two-pronged approach made the county town much safer at night. A night market was also opened near Dongmen Bridge. It was very lively every night and lasted until about 9 o'clock in the evening.

So he would also sell some midnight snacks in his shop to earn some hard-earned money from people who went out to the night market.

Wang Jiankun never thought that the construction of the Wumei luggage factory would bring about such great changes in his hometown. He wondered if there would be any good changes when the county started building the Xingyao Power Wuyuan branch in two months.

Now Wumart Luggage Factory has started trial production. Employees have begun to operate machines under the guidance of people sent by Chen Xingdong. They electroplate the purchased iron coils and then stamp them on stamping machines to make pull rod parts.

As the steel mills here don't have the technology to produce the small spring buckle parts, we have to get them supplied from Hong Kong. Fortunately, the parts are small in size, so it's not a problem to transport them from there.

As for the production of canvas shells, it is even simpler. After the canvas is simply dyed, it is coated with rubber by a coating machine, and then dried and aged. It is then cut by a cutting machine and finally sewn into shape by a skilled worker. At present, the entire production is still in the trial operation stage. Some of the factory's ancillary facilities are still being improved. For example, the canteen and dormitory have not been built yet. Employees go home to rest every day, and then bring lunch to heat up the food in a simple steamer at noon.

Wang Jiankun did not plan to visit the Wumei Luggage Factory. The performance of this factory depended on whether the county's management could keep up. If the management was good and the quality and efficiency could meet the design goals, then the factory would bring considerable profits to the county every year.

At present, Chen Xingdong has sent a letter to the county, preparing to cooperate with the county to build a factory to manufacture motorcycle engines. The designed production capacity is 5 units per month. If the subsequent development goes smoothly, a second phase project will be built to reach a monthly production capacity of 2 units.

The factory site is of course in the tea field next to the Wumei luggage factory. The terrain there is relatively flat, and it is also next to the provincial road, so the construction work required for the factory is small and transportation is convenient.

The county also gave a response, of course welcoming Chen Xingdong to invest again, but Chen Xingdong was still investigating the industrial development in Chongqing on the orders of Wang Jiankun, and it was expected to take about two days to fly to Nanchang.

For this negotiation, Wang Jiankun only needs to operate behind the scenes. Chen Xingdong is a very capable president and I believe he can do a good job in this investment project.

After returning to the base, Wang Jiankun took stock of the metal elements stored at the base and found that the iron, copper, manganese, lattice and other metals were enough for him to manufacture more than 3 motorcycle engines.

Because the valley had been rented out as a warehouse for building materials, a large iron gate had been built at the exit, and Wang Jiankun had installed concealed surveillance equipment, he could safely and boldly use his superpowers to synthesize the motorcycle engine.

Previously, wooden boxes were used to transport metal blocks, so Wang Jiankun placed the manufactured engines one by one in the newly made wooden boxes.

One engine is placed in each wooden box, and two layers are stacked on each pallet, so a total of 8 engines can be placed. In this way, 1500 mid-range and low-end engines are placed on 370 pallets, taking up a large space.

These motorcycle engines can be manufactured until early September, and Wang Jiankun will come back to manufacture another batch at the end of August.

After manufacturing the first batch of goods to be supplied to Jialing Factory, Wang Jiankun sent a message to Chen Xingdong, asking him to find someone to transport the engines in the building materials warehouse to the Sizhou Town Pier. At that time, a ship would transport them to Hukou Town and then transfer them to Chongqing.

He did not ask his father to send a truck for transportation this time, because the three trucks in the team were already running around the clock, and the transportation of lighters had occupied all the transportation capacity.

My father has been looking for someone to help him find out if there are any second-hand trucks for sale, because the subsequent transportation volume is bound to increase, and if we don’t prepare early, it will be difficult to use the truck when the time comes.

The team’s driving training has never stopped. Now each vehicle has two crews. A different crew will be assigned to carry out transportation every other day. At the same time, the third crew is also in training.

Wang Jiankun planned to manufacture a few semi-new trucks for his father in a few days. The trucks would be manufactured in Dexing and then placed in a rented warehouse there.

On the morning of July 7, Wang Jiankun rode his motorcycle to the warehouse in Dexing as the sun first rose above the ground.

Then he took inventory at the warehouse to see how much metal was stockpiled.

At present, we have about 10 lighters on hand, but my mother told me that the number is slowly decreasing because Hu Yuefei and Ge Tianwei in Yangzhou are gradually expanding their distribution capabilities and are starting to sell goods to smaller cities.

The amount of metals is huge. There are more than 120 tons of pig iron, more than 30 tons of copper, more than 40 tons of zinc, more than 8 tons of manganese, and several tons of other metals such as chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten.

When Wang Jiankun extracted rare earths from rare earth ores, he also made a lot of aluminum-magnesium alloys, about 200 tons, and the rare earth elements extracted from rare earth ores also ranged from more than ten tons to several dozen tons.

Because the mine owner still delivers about 100 tons of rare earth ore every month, and Wang Jiankun also comes to refine a batch every once in a while, so there are so many goods stockpiled in the warehouse in Dexing.

After Wang Jiankun finished the inventory, he found the warehouse supervisor, who was also sent by the Wang family production team, and asked him to bring people to help transport several trucks of metal to the dock in Sizhou Town using tricycles.

He planned to bring some metal on board and then go to Poyang County to build four new C-4 transport ships near the hidden cave entrance that had been dug earlier.

These ships have greatly reduced passenger space, leaving mainly 12 berths, 1 freezer compartment that can hold about 2 tons of frozen products, and the rest of the space is reserved for cargo holds.

Then the boom of this ship will be 5 meters longer than the previous model, which will facilitate unloading and loading at the Chongqing port.

In the future, these four ships will run a special line from Hukou Town to Chongqing, stopping only in Wuhan on the way to see if they can sell some motorcycles used as collateral for the payment of goods.

At present, there is a small shop selling seafood in Wuhan. We will put a few motorcycles there to see if they can be sold.

The warehouse staff rode tricycles back and forth three times, transporting a total of more than 3 tons of metal. Wang Jiankun finally brought some rare metals to Sizhou Town on a motorcycle.

It was the hottest time of the year. Wang Jiankun came to the dock under the scorching sun, lifted the metal blocks unloaded at the dock onto the ship, and then quickly started the boat and headed for the destination.

As the air conditioner was turned on, the cabin instantly felt cool. After driving for about an hour, they arrived at their destination. If he hadn't used his superpowers to look carefully, he would have missed the cave here, because he hadn't been here for several months and the weeds and vines had covered the entrance to the cave.

There are still some metals preserved in it. Wang Jiankun drove a boat around the bay and found that the distribution of elements on the riverbed had returned to normal.

Because a lot of iron elements had already been collected in advance for the manufacture of C-200, we were worried that it would take a lot of effort to collect them this time, but we didn't expect that they would recover after the flood.

So Wang Jiankun began to mobilize manganese, copper and other elements brought by the combination of iron and carbon elements at the bottom of the water to manufacture a new type of C-200.

Wang Jiankun painted the hull numbers CC-200-1~4 on these four ships. The C in front indicates that these are ships specially used for the Chongqing route, to distinguish them from the other ships because their appearance is still the same.

A CC-200 can transport about 1000 motorcycle engines. It takes about 2 days to travel from Hukou Town to Chongqing, and 1 and a half days to return.

If we want to supply 1 units per month in the future, we will have to make about 9 trips. So, taking into account the rest time of the ships, 4 CC-200s can meet the transportation needs of the Chongqing line, and more can be built if needed in the future.

After the manufacturing was completed, Wang Jiankun ran four times back and forth, drove the four ships to Hukou Town, and found Wang Yongjin who was waiting there.

"Yongjin, these four ships will be handed over to you from now on. Take the four crew members aboard to familiarize themselves with them, and then take them to Chongqing."

"Okay, Jiankun, after receiving your message, I have already deployed two new and two old crews. Today I will take them to familiarize themselves with this new batch of ships in the Yangtze River. The day after tomorrow, when the batch of goods you want to deliver arrives, I will take them to Chongqing."

"Well, this arrangement is fine. From now on, you should spend more energy on crew training, developing new routes and opening up sales points at the docks. Don't limit yourself to the position of captain."

"I understand. I will work hard and do a good job of managing the team."

"Okay, be careful when you go to Chongqing. Although there are electronic maps and riverbed hydrological data on the ship, the Three Gorges section is still very dangerous. You must pay attention."

"Well, I also heard the captain who was resting here talk about the Three Gorges waterway. I know that several ships sink there every year. I will be careful, and I will also ask the four crew members to be careful. Safety comes first."

"That's right. Safety comes first. When we go out, safety should be our top priority. Okay, go make the arrangements. I'm leaving first."

After Wang Jiankun handed the ship over to Wang Yongjin, who would be in charge of the future Yangtze River navigation, he sailed to Shanghai, where he would go out to sea and move to northern Myanmar.

(End of this chapter)