Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 255 Great Construction III

While waiting for the foundation concrete of the Mandalay Thermal Power Station to solidify, Wang Jiankun also took the time to learn about the "Mi-Yang" high-speed railway which has already started construction.

"Chief Engineer Zhan, what is the progress of the 'Miyang' high-speed railway project?"

At the high-speed railway construction headquarters in Mandalay, Wang Jiankun found Zhan You, the chief engineer in charge of the national railway projects, and first asked him about the current construction progress.

"Captain Wang, hello! Currently, the railway construction is proceeding according to plan, and the construction of auxiliary roads and some stockpiling yards is underway. There are 20 sections along the entire line, and 16 of them are about 5% over the expected construction period, 3 sections are just meeting the standard, and one section is about 10% under the expected construction period..."

Relying on the storage capacity of the brain-computer chip in his mind, Chief Engineer Zhan You quickly summarized the progress of each construction section to Wang Jiankun.

Through his report, Wang Jiankun roughly understood the progress of each section along the line.

In the construction command room, there is a large screen on which images are updated from time to time.

Those are some pictures taken by an aerial plane flying over the construction site.

The Y-1 transport aircraft previously built by Wang Jiankun were responsible for the aerial photography.

It has a long range, long hovering time and relatively low fuel consumption, so with a little modification it can become an extremely useful aerial photography aircraft.

The camera system above was designed by Zhizi and is a simplified version of the camera system on reconnaissance satellites.

The screen now shows a construction site 30 kilometers south of Myitkyina.

More than 2 Burmese laborers in orange-red work clothes, under the command of Quanjiezhen engineers in blue work clothes and red safety helmets, used simple tools in their hands to dig out the earth from each work surface, and then pushed it away to the corresponding places on two-wheeled carts.

Wang Jiankun looked carefully and found that their division of labor was quite reasonable.

A 6-meter-wide auxiliary road has taken shape among the mountains and forests. 80% of the workers are busy on this auxiliary road, making it as flat as possible and digging out the loose soil on the foundation and filling it into a valley in the distance.

This section of road is about 5 kilometers away from the nearest provincial road. In the future, the large amount of cement, sand, gravel, water, etc. needed for the construction of the railway will need to be transported from the provincial road to the nearby area, and then transported to the railway line through this auxiliary road for construction.

The remaining 10% of the workers were digging a low hill. Chief Engineer Zhan You explained that there was a medium-sized stockpile yard and box girder manufacturing base for this section of road about 10 kilometers long.

In the future, all the box girders used on this 10-kilometer railway line will be manufactured in this stockpile yard.

Because this is a high-speed railway, the roadbed is significantly different from that of traditional low-speed railways.

On this railway line, 90% of the sections are bridges, and although the remaining 10% is on the ground and in tunnels, the foundations must be built with cement.

The traditional railway foundation is laid with stones of varying sizes underneath, followed by sleepers, and then rails.

However, there cannot be any gravel under the tracks of the high-speed railway, there must be a flat hardened foundation.

Because the maximum travel speed of high-speed railways can reach 400 kilometers per hour, trains running at this speed will generate very strong adsorption airflow.

If the bottom roadbed is gravel, then it is very likely that some lighter gravel will be attracted and lifted off the ground.

If these gravels hit a high-speed train, they will punch holes in the train like bullets.

What's more, there will be a situation where two high-speed trains meet during operation, and the power of the adsorbed stones will be even greater.

Therefore, it is an inevitable choice to use hardened roadbed for this high-speed railway.

In addition, in order to prevent people and animals from entering the closed area of ​​the railway line, building the railway higher than the ground is also a very good way.

Pedestrians and animals can pass under the railway bridge, which is safe for high-speed trains running on the railway.

Therefore, when building this high-speed railway, in addition to building auxiliary roads for transporting materials, it is also necessary to build some medium-sized stockpiling yards at certain intervals.

Box girders of different specifications are then pre-manufactured in these stockyards.

After all the bridge piers are built, the box girder transport vehicle will transport the box girder to certain locations, the crane will lift the box girder up, and then the bridge erection machine will erect the box girder one by one.

As time goes by, railway construction becomes more like playing with building blocks.

All it takes is a few engineers leading a handful of ordinary workers to drive and control large-scale construction machinery, lift and place cement and steel prefabricated parts into place, and then reinforce them.

And the speed is very fast. According to the simulation data provided by Zhizi, it is estimated that more than 3 meters of box girders can be laid every day.

By then, 20 construction sections will be carried out simultaneously, and the box girder laying of the entire road section can be completed in just over 200 days.

However, the preliminary preparation work is very time-consuming.

For example, the construction of auxiliary roads requires purchasing some transport trucks, excavators and bulldozers from all over the world, but we still have to carve out roads through the mountains and forests bit by bit.

In addition, among the ordinary workers in Myanmar, very few can drive these construction machinery, so it takes a lot of time to train these people.

Therefore, the use of traditional methods in the early stage, in addition to providing these ordinary Burmese workers with a job and alleviating the pressure on material supply in towns, also had other reasons.

After watching the auxiliary road construction for a while, Wang Jiankun turned his attention to another place.

A few hundred meters away, a colored steel tile shed covering an area of ​​more than 2 square meters stands in the green forest.

At this time, white smoke was coming out of a tin chimney there. It must be that the chef at the construction site was preparing lunch for the workers on this section of the road.

"Master Zhan, how is the food for these workers? Can it guarantee their daily nutritional needs?" Wang Jiankun asked.

"Captain Wang, I'll retrieve the cafeteria surveillance footage from the camp and show you the food. The food is definitely enough to keep the workers nutritious. Many young men are even stronger than before when they arrived at the construction site."

Zhan You used a brain-computer chip to control a computer, switching one of the display screens to the surveillance view of the interior of the camp cafeteria that he had just seen.

Wang Jiankun saw the cafeteria kitchen busy preparing lunch from the slowly moving picture.

Because there are nearly 2 workers to feed, the pots in the canteen kitchen are particularly large.

The main staple food of people in Myanmar is rice, so lunch and dinner in each camp are almost all rice.

At this time, huge steamers were steaming the rice germs that had been boiled in water until half cooked.

The rice-making area is already shrouded in white mist, so it shouldn't be long before the fire is stopped.

And the dish preparation area.

Ten large iron pots are being operated by 10 chefs.

Two people are responsible for one pot. They stand on both sides of the pot, each holding a large iron shovel, and stir the ingredients poured into the pot to ensure even heating.

Wang Jiankun looked carefully and found that two of the pots were for stir-frying vegetables, three of the pots were for stir-frying meat, four of the pots were for stewing fish, and one pot was for making soup.

It seems that the Chinese meal consists of three dishes and one soup, with meat, fish and vegetables, and judging by the portions, it should be enough for more than 2 people. "It looks OK! How much is the food cost?" Wang Jiankun asked after looking at it for a while.

"Um, Chief Wang, the three meals on the construction site have been deducted from the workers' wages. When recruiting workers, we said that the construction site would provide meals, and the salary is after deducting the meals. This can avoid satisfying everyone. No matter how much each person eats per meal, as long as there is no waste, they can eat as much as they want." Zhan You said.

"Oh, will this increase the pressure on food supply?"

"In the first half of the month, I was really shocked by the appetites of these workers. They were like starving ghosts. Many of them could eat 1 kilograms of rice in one meal, and almost the same amount of vegetables.

At that time, those in charge of logistics at each construction site kept urging the rear to send food and vegetables to the construction sites, fearing that food shortages would cause dissatisfaction among the workers and affect work progress.

But as time went on, the appetites of the workers gradually decreased, from 1 kilograms of rice per meal to 1 kilogram, and some even reduced to 8 ounces. The amount of vegetables they ate also decreased.

Later, the nutrition expert explained to us that most of these people had been in a semi-starved state before, and when they got the opportunity to eat to their heart's content, they ate as much as they could.

After a period of nutrient absorption, their bodies no longer need to replenish so much every day, so later on, their appetites naturally become smaller, and they won’t be so greedy even when they encounter meat. "Zhan You explained with a smile.

Wang Jiankun understood Zhan You's explanation.

He himself actually understands this deeply.

Before his adventure, his living conditions were relatively poor. Although he was not starving, he had a lack of oil and water.

During the time when he had the adventure and made money, he would often buy big meat buns to eat. Although he was not hungry, he was very greedy for oily food.

But after eating them for a while, he no longer liked eating big meat buns, especially those with more fat. Gradually, he began to like eating lean meat and ribs.

"That's good, Chief Engineer Zhan. I'll be leaving now. I'll go take a look along the route with the drone later."

"Chief Wang, let's have lunch here and rest for a while. I'll arrange the plane. After you've rested, we can go and see it together."

"Okay, then you go ahead and do your work. I'll go to the side and take a rest."

At noon, Wang Jiankun had a working lunch at the railway construction headquarters, and then at 2 pm, he and Zhan You boarded a Y-1 modified cruise aircraft.

I still have some impression of the pilot Wang Jiankun. He was one of the people who went to the South China Sea to receive the plane.

The take-off point was a military airport on the outskirts of Mandalay.

此时已经有16架F14改进版战斗机，24架F15改进版战斗机，36架F16改进版战斗机进驻这里。

Fighter jets take off and land in the sky from time to time. Some of them are doing flight training, and some are doing air patrols.

All of Myanmar’s old fighter jets and transport planes have now been sold to other countries.

After taking off, the YI transport plane began to fly north along the railway line under construction.

At present, the actual railway line has not yet started construction, but there are construction sites of varying sizes on both sides of the selected railway line.

The plane was flying very slowly and low. From the window Wang Jiankun could see a number of khaki or gray construction sites appearing among the green jungle or grassland.

On the construction site, there are wriggling orange-red figures, who are constantly encroaching on the forest and grassland, constantly expanding their activity space into nature.

Then every 7, 8 or 10 kilometers, there will be a relatively large accommodation camp, all built with colored steel tiles.

These accommodation camps are chosen as close to rivers or places where water can be drawn.

The workers below did not find it strange to see the low-flying transport plane, because there had been planes flying in the sky from time to time since the first day they arrived at the construction site.

Apart from being a little surprised at the beginning, I would stop and look around for a while.

After seeing it several times every day, I was no longer so curious.

I started to focus on the work at hand and didn't dare to waste time.

In order to avoid the situation where workers do not work hard, the management of Quanjiezhen assigned tasks to the recruited workers every day.

If you complete the work on time and in full, you will receive the agreed salary in a timely manner.

If the completion is delayed or the quality of completion does not meet the standards, a certain amount will be deducted.

Those who are responsible for setting the workload are all grassroots personnel of the Quanjie Array, and they all have brain-computer chips implanted in their minds.

With the help of brain-computer chip.

These managers can manage hundreds of workers alone and assign different tasks reasonably.

During the inspection, the work progress of each managed worker can be accurately judged with the help of the storage and analysis capabilities of the brain-computer chip.

At the beginning, some people tried to fish in troubled waters, thinking that one manager could not handle it all and could not calculate the workload of each of them.

But for several days in a row, those who took advantage of the situation and were lazy had to accept the punishment of having their wages and meals deducted after the managers clearly explained their work situation.

After seeing those role models, others gave up the idea.

Therefore, on the current railway construction sites and construction sites all over Myanmar, there is a rumor that those who have mastered the Quanjie formation have eagle eyes and can see everyone's performance.

Wang Jiankun was on the plane, first flew to Myitkyina, then flew back, and didn't land until Naypyidaw.

While observing on the plane, he presented the images to Tomoko and asked her to help calculate the current progress of the construction site.

According to Zhizi's calculations, the construction progress of the railway line north of Naypyidaw is about 4% faster than the expected construction period, and this speed will become faster and faster.

As the basic roads are built longer and smoother.

The overall construction difficulty is rapidly decreasing.

The workers on the construction site are becoming more and more skilled in their skills.

In addition, after the auxiliary road is almost built, some transport trucks, small excavators and bulldozers can enter the site one after another.

Those young Burmese people who are currently receiving training at driving training bases can now go to the construction site for further study.

As a result, the railway construction progress will be about 10% faster than expected.

After receiving feedback from Zhizi, Wang Jiankun had to speed up the construction of the power plant.

(End of this chapter)