My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 521 is all about cutting in line.
The main problem is that the experience of using these transport boats and law enforcement boats is also not good.

Sitting in the low-slung cabin of the boat, the blue waves rippled and splashed as we sped along.

Naturally, it was very bumpy.

Even though the baby was wearing a life jacket, Wei Dong still felt the risk was a bit too high while holding the child tightly, and repeatedly asked the Hong Kong businessman to remind the driver to slow down and not rush.

There was a pregnant woman, a baby, a dog, and a monkey; even if the boat capsized, it would be difficult to rescue them.

So after hearing Qin Yuye's words, he secretly made up his mind to build an airship.

Fortunately, the small motorboat didn't speed past.

Just as the captain in the cockpit turned around and said that the county town and the Kuimen scenic area were ahead, Rang Weidong, who had never visited before, suddenly noticed the ancient city of Kuizhou on the riverbank.

So majestic!
It stretches long along the riverbank.

He had only passed by here on a cargo ship delivering titanium ingots and had never paid attention to the scenery on the shore.

Or perhaps all I was thinking about back then was making money, so I had no energy to observe the flowers and plants by the roadside.

It's still in a dilapidated state, just like Shangzhou.

Even so, it couldn't hide the row of dilapidated city walls of varying heights along the river, and two or three city gate towers facing the riverbank.

Didn't the zoo set up a simulated city gate for cars to enter and exit?

This is genuine.

But even without activating his memory, Wei Dong could tell just by looking at the scene that the entire city wall and the gate tower would definitely be submerged after the dam was built.

It's too close to the river.

I even remembered that this county town was eventually abandoned, and the entire scale was rebuilt on a nearby plot of land!
This is unique among all the Three Gorges migrants.

Most of these, like Shangzhou and Guicheng, involved simply relocating people from riverside areas to higher ground.

Perhaps this place is too close to the Three Gorges, causing the water level to rise too much, and because the mountains behind the city offer no further retreat, they had to find another location.

If others knew about this "Sky Eye information," they would probably think about how to plan ahead, and how much of a project it would take to handle the construction scale of a county.

The amount of work done by "Belt Guy" is probably insignificant compared to this.

What Wei Dong was thinking about was how to preserve this area full of historical sites as much as possible and develop it into a large-scale tourism resource that could generate revenue.

After all, it was located near a famous internet-famous metropolis in the future. Every May Day and National Day Golden Week, people would hear stories about how Jiangzhou had the largest number of tourists in the country, but didn't make much money.

The tax authorities are well aware that the problem lies in the lack of a sustained, large-scale approach to attracting tourist spending.

Tourists from all over the country come like special forces to check in at popular spots, stay one night, eat hot pot or noodles, snap a few photos, and then leave.

Therefore, it is difficult to develop the kind of in-depth travel consumption habits seen in Guilin, Lijiang, Dali, and Qionghai.

Since this place lacks the convenient transportation of Jiangzhou, it needs to offer more in-depth travel experiences.

Following this line of thought, the speedboat had already docked at the small pier in the Kuimen scenic area.

Speaking of which, "self-driving boats" are really convenient.

Kuizhou County is located one or two kilometers upstream from the Kuimen Scenic Area.

Even after arriving by passenger ship, there are still many transfers required.

Historically, it was because the Qutang Gorge was so precipitous that this county town was used as a military garrison and gradually developed.

It is said that during the Southern Song Dynasty, half of the government's silver revenue had to pass through this gorge where tributaries converge.

Unlike the confluence of the two rivers in Jiangzhou, which follows a "Y" shape, the confluence here is reversed.

Thus, the Kuimen Gate on the ten-yuan note, like a door panel of the Yangtze River, was reversed and fiercely blocked the throat of the passage into and out of Sichuan.

Whether it was the southward invasion of the Mongol cavalry or the War of Resistance against Japan, this place played a very important military role.

Therefore, the ancient county towns were built to be steep and dangerous, so that they could both attack boats crossing the river and defend against robbery.

When the water level rises, relocation will be inevitable.

The scenic area is like a drop of sand in an hourglass, a peninsula at the confluence of tributaries, with the Baidi Temple on it, the legendary place where the orphan was entrusted.

To reach the pass that locks the Qutang Gorge, you must cross the tributary to the other side. Climb ten kilometers along the ridge behind the pass to reach the highest point of the entire Three Gorges.

Now we can bypass the paid peninsula scenic area and go directly to the fortress. The girls had long forgotten about the rocking of the boat and were all exclaiming, "Wow!"

Even though the scenery isn't even worth the 10-yuan coupon, on the right is a vertical square "door panel," and on the left is a steep, towering pyramid-like structure cut vertically.

Here, the Yangtze River is obediently squeezed into a winding channel.

No wonder it has been a strategic location fought over by military strategists throughout history.

When Wei Dong mentioned building a walking path to the mountaintop, not only the girls, but even the sailors and captains of the boats looked on with disbelief.

Will anyone go?
There aren't many tourists coming to Shangzhou anymore. Why do we have to go all the way to this county under its jurisdiction, and then to the Qutang Gorge? Isn't it enough to just look at it from the boat? Why do we have to climb up there?

Did you eat too much and feel stuffed?

Wei Dong knew, of course, that there wouldn't be too many people who were overfed in thirty or forty years.

The key point is: "You have to believe this. If we advertise on the brick platform and showcase this magnificent scenery, a billion people will know about this place. Don't you think we can filter out even more people?" This is similar to the influencer economy of later generations.

If a place is famous enough, it can be promoted as a deeply rooted super tourist attraction 30 or 40 years in advance.

Just like the famous West Lake, Guilin, and Huashan, which are now the most well-known in China, the labels "After seeing it, you don't need to see Huangshan" and "The porters of Taishan" have all been deeply ingrained in people's minds since the 1970s and 1980s.

Wei Dong wanted to include the Three Gorges Dam in this category as well.

The difficulty, of course, is that there's not much to see yet.

Climbing up to this side of the fortress, which is also part of the scenic area, there is a city wall several tens of meters wide and the remains of the iron chain that locks the river.

There's nothing else.

The girls looked around, their excitement turning to indifference, their faces all saying "That's it?"
Zhuoma curiously compared her little head to the rusty pillar with the iron chain.

The dog couldn't wait to rush into the dense mountains behind it.

Wei Dong exchanged a few pleasantries with the two local employees waiting at the small dock and the scenic area manager they had contacted, and showed them the tourism company contract he had signed in Shangzhou, as well as the authority to develop tourism projects: "I'm not trying to steal your business, I'm helping you increase your business."

Standing on that iron pillar city wall, gesturing to the distant mountain peak, he said, "Let's build a walking path so that people can climb up there with difficulty. It's free, but to climb this path, you'll definitely have to buy a ticket from the scenic area."

This is indeed adding tourist attractions to the scenic area out of thin air, so of course everyone is all smiles and saying yes.

Rang Weidong also explained: "But there are definitely many people who are unwilling to go through so much trouble to climb the mountain, so we also need to invest in building a mountain cable car. People can pay a little money to ride it. We will collect this fee from our investment. You can just collect the entrance fee. The more people the cable car can attract, the more tickets will be sold."

The principle is simple, so there's no problem with that.

The agreement was signed just like that.

Dong Xueqing immediately took out the printed contract and agreement, and completed the revisions and adjustments.

It was only when Wei Dong stood at this gorge entrance and saw the herb gatherers his employees had brought that he realized they had never come from this side before.

Nonsense, the mountains stretch along the riverbank, towering into the clouds; no matter where the starting point is, it wouldn't be here.

But now we have to be here.

Wei Dong had originally intended to improve the income of the surrounding farmers through this construction project.

It can also attract scattered farmers in the area to move closer to the pedestrian path, gradually creating opportunities for trade.

But we also have to consider the possibility of becoming highway robbers, otherwise this would turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

So Wei Dong asked this herb gatherer to act as a "path explorer," following the steep cliffs and ridges as much as possible to reach the highest peak in the distance.

The ground is paved with solid stones, and in dangerous areas, steel cable railings and other protective measures are added.

If you haven't been there, it's really hard to imagine what the point of "blindly" investing in building this road would be.

But knowing full well what was going on, Wei Dong arranged the exchange.

I also chatted with two local employees, a man and a woman. If they were interested, they could stay and work on the project. The salary would be comparable to their factory income, but if they performed well, they would have the opportunity to be promoted to supervisor or even manager of the tourism project.

The young people who can work in sanitary napkin factories nowadays are basically like Rang Weidong and Li Erfeng, with at least a junior high school education.

They haven't been affected too much by returning to rural life yet.

He understood immediately, though he wasn't as knowledgeable as a college student. Yet, he made Wei Dong bow down and repeatedly say "good."

The girl, in particular, was so eager to follow the herb gatherer to scout out the route.

Wei Dong then started teaching them to first build a good relationship with the scenic area and get a small office here.

Then the company will need to rent an office in the county town, not only to coordinate the progress of various projects and the handover of payments, but also to run around to various departments and units in the county.

Wei Dong laughed at this point: "Actually, three years ago, I had just graduated from high school and didn't know anything. I was working as a porter at Shangzhou Wharf. So, if you do your job seriously and don't try to cheat or engage in any crooked practices like embezzlement or laziness, you will have a bright future."

The young man repeatedly said he knew, he knew. The whole factory knew that Rang had risen from being a porter at the dock, and everyone wanted to follow in his footsteps and make a name for themselves.

In fact, the personnel composition of Shangzhou Sanitary Napkin Factory is very different from that of Jiangzhou General Factory.

The local people in Jiangzhou there are mostly middle-aged people in their thirties and forties with low levels of education, supplemented by laborers recruited from several townships around Beifeng Mountain and production backbone personnel transferred from Xishan Factory.

The overall age is around thirty years old; the younger ones have been selected for sales jobs.

They recruited from several counties surrounding Shangzhou, and almost all of them were young people.

Previously, Wei Dong mainly led university students, but now he is starting to specialize in tourism work in the districts and counties under Shangzhou.

Therefore, compared to the hunched-over herb gatherers who only squatted to the side smoking, Wei Dong felt that he needed to motivate these young people.

After clearly outlining the work details and implementation direction, they decided to take a boat back to the county town, which was two or three kilometers away, for a meal.

Step into this old county town that was destined to be completely submerged.

This made Wei Dong even more determined to find a way to preserve this place.

Of course, at this point, no one knew that there was an old Taoist priest involved in this matter.

Anyway, Xiaodie, sitting on her father's chest, didn't say a word.

(End of this chapter)