My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 949 Pretending to be cool turns into being an idiot

Besides reporting, the main purpose of bringing Wei Dong to Shanghai was to inspect the increasingly important construction projects in the area.

The construction of the new factory buildings in the automobile industrial park has been completed. The steel structure part has been left to stand alone as a factory to undertake factory work in the community. This new type of factory construction is even being promoted in Shenzhen and Beijing.

Jiangzhou is another story; the massive sixth-tier city is already built, and Dong Xueqing often worries about what to do with it.

In addition to continuing to expedite the construction of residential communities, the infrastructure teams have shifted their focus to the Lujiazui area to begin construction on the "Tilan" stadium and commercial center building project.

Even the 40-story X Tower has begun its final acceleration of construction, shifting project resources to the stadium.

Wei Dong was kept on the move almost 24/7, eating wherever it was mealtime and sleeping wherever it was sleep time.

They're either holding on-site meetings or playing basketball.

Besides making everyone admire their leader for taking the lead, he also emphasized never leaving any private time and never looking at when that figure would disappear.

After all, this isn't like a few years ago, when you could just turn around and go back to Jiangzhou.

We need to invest billions here, and have thousands or tens of thousands of people under our command.

It wasn't until he heard that Wu Shengyun had found a secondhand price of HK$7.8 million for each high-speed airship, and that his wife had already signed a contract to arrange for their transport to Shanghai for customs clearance, but that the US$10 million North American allocation would be settled when she flew to North America, that he started to panic!
Oh dear, this isn't about Detroit and Los Angeles meeting up.

I'm reflecting on this a bit. How come I don't have any savings of my own? In the past, when I secretly sent everyone abroad, I always needed Sister Su to help me with the payments. Why am I still doing this now?
And considering that Xiaodie's mom still has a year or two until graduation, she'll have to face it all again?
Why can't things at home be simpler?

It's definitely bachelor life. Except for the discomfort in the crotch, everything is better than being with someone... uh, how many people am I with now!

Therefore, Wei Dong felt that even the busiest jobs required a lot of attention to detail.

I might as well wait for the high-speed airship in Shanghai. I wonder how that little boat will perform on the Yangtze River.

During this period, they also visited the wharf at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Wu Shengyun had already learned that the container terminal that Shanghai had been promoting two years ago was nearing completion.

Naturally, Wei Dong would take the people from the deep-water port construction office on a tour.

Because when we were investigating the geographical environment before, this silted-up area at the mouth of the Yangtze River was not even within the scope of the deep-water port feasibility study.

You'll definitely find yourself chuckling when you actually see it.

Even though they knew there was a lot of silt buildup at the mouth of the river, they couldn't bear to give up the convenience because it was not far from the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Huangpu River and close to the city.

In keeping with the shrewdness of Shanghainese, a "breakwater" was built along the direction of the water flow outside the port to prevent silt from flowing back into the "water pit" of the port.

Even if we still need to keep dredging, we only need to manage the small section of the dike that allows cargo ships to enter.

Even so, this is only a "shallow" harbor with a water depth of ten meters; vessels with a capacity of more than 30,000 tons cannot enter.

Over time, this has become merely a stopgap measure.

Therefore, staying away from the Yangtze River is the only option for eloquence.

Even future container terminals will need to be located away from urban areas to facilitate large-scale development and construction.

This already represents a huge shift in mindset.

Large-scale ports are now considered labor-intensive industries, and the living arrangements for a large number of employees need to be taken into account.

Of course, as the city's current top entrepreneur, Wei Dong has already delivered over 100,000 tons of containers to the Pujiang Fourth Wharf for unloading and transshipment in just the past six months.

Therefore, when many port authorities leaders and wharf experts from the deep-water port construction team arrived at the wharf, which was still under construction, they were given a grand welcome.

Wu Shengyun must have anticipated this situation, so he deliberately invited Long Zhenwei and Lao Wang to join him, and even took photos with a bunch of propaganda officers and such.

The general manager of the investment bank was fine; he was used to this kind of situation.

The third generation of triads are living a life they've never seen before. The way they greeted the leaders with gongs, drums, and colorful flags was almost like welcoming the Governor of Hong Kong.

Where have community leaders ever received such respect?

Actually, people noticed that he was quite young, yet he had four bodyguards and guards with him, especially the two with guns, who were clearly not ordinary people.

I also think, damn, what level are you at?!

So everyone else was at least in their forties or fifties, yet they still managed to surround Wei Dong and treat him like a star.

This makes him seem like such an extraordinary figure in mainland China!

Wei Dong actually missed Shen Laosan a little at this moment. This wasn't just flattery; it was a form of sarcastic praise.

It's really tough to make a living at the docks in Shanghai.

So when he saw a younger leader, he unusually shook hands and chatted with him for a few more minutes.

The man was very attentive in introducing himself as the newly appointed manager of the container terminal, which made Wei Dong burst out laughing when he heard his name.

Oh, it's you.

So they've already made a name for themselves by now?

Luckily, I'm the president of the Hong Kong Basketball Association, so I won't be playing on the same court as you.

This also gives me a glimpse into just how powerful I, as the chairman of the deep-water port group, will become in the future.

Moreover, in Shanghai alone, there are car groups whose scale is no less than that of the port, the Lujiazui Basketball Arena skyscraper office building, oh, and the Bund's No. 5 building and luxury hotels.

"We can't expand any further!" Wei Dong felt as if a little voice in his head was constantly shouting.

The voyage back to Jiangzhou gave him time to think about the problem.

Of course, at the dock site, amidst the surprised gazes of those around him, he simply patted the other person's arm to encourage them to lead the container terminal well and work together with the deep-water port terminal to create brilliance.

He can now speak official jargon fluently and eloquently.

Then, in a serious tone, he emphasized to everyone in the preparatory office that this comrade had reminded him to properly handle the transshipment procedures at the deep-water port terminal.

Because there is a distance of twenty to thirty kilometers from the shore of the currently surveyed deep-water area to the inland Huangpu River.

Although the neighboring chemical plant has a dedicated railway line, a dedicated high-grade highway still needs to be built to ensure that the container yard can be directly connected to the Pujiang River for transshipment.

Heading east, you enter the Yangtze River basin; heading west, you reach the Grand Canal, which radiates throughout Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In reality, Wei Dong knew that the key to solving the problem of container transportation in and out of the entire Yangtze River Delta region in the future would inevitably be the national expressway network built by China's infrastructure powerhouse.

But in the 1980s, when the whole country was still skeptical of highways, it was better to embrace inland waterway shipping first.

This section of the highway can also serve as a demonstration route for all parties to see.

This includes the advanced technologies he is currently advocating, such as dedicated container trucks and intelligent transportation, which can all be utilized.

Then everyone realized and said yes.

Next, Wei Dong focused all his attention on the verification and approval of the transshipment terminal and the high-grade dedicated highway at the deep-water port.

They went all out to finalize the land plots occupied by the highway along the way and recruited migrant workers who were requisitioned to become the first batch of dock construction workers.

In fact, just three days later, Dong Xueqing, having received the news, happily brought her folding laptop to find her child's father.

Let Wei Dong and his family settle down in one of the old towns that can be found in this area.

Because of the crisscrossing waterways, the old houses, stone arch bridges, and bluestone paths from that era are all preserved in their original state.

Even the bustling atmosphere of market days lacks a modern feel.

These were all novel experiences.

The guards and the Taoist priests were able to relax for once.

During the day, Wei Dong was busy leading people back and forth along this 20-30 kilometer route to confirm the best highway route, and also to buy various braised pork hocks, zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), mutton, sesame cakes, and qingtuan (green rice dumplings) along the way.

He finished work early in the afternoon and took the food home. His son and daughter were overjoyed and cheered, completely melting away any lingering resentment Wei Dong might have had before.

Fengchu even snatched food from her son, then kicked Zhuoma, saying, "Say it yourself!"

The girls from the plateau are very busy taking care of their children, making soup, and grilling seafood every day.

But without being coy, he asked, "When will Xiao Mao and Shi Tou be back?"

They didn't even ask about Third Sister.

Wei Dong had to suppress his expression: "Originally, I was going to come back with you, and maybe stay on the mainland, but Third Sister found something to do, so she has to stay for a while. Either wait a while and come to Hong Kong with me, or go by yourself now. Flying there shouldn't be a big problem, but you two older sisters aren't in a hurry, are you? Mao'er is only thirteen this year!"

The family doesn't intend for them to be paired up, but neither of the boys are normal, and the girls are very concerned about it; they're sixteen or seventeen, which is considered old!

Wei Dong had no choice but to pretend to be stupid.

Zhuoma still decided to go visit her relatives.

Dong Xueqing laughed so hard she rolled around on the hay bed, while Lamu secretly chuckled beside her; she was more well-behaved than her sister.

Let's wait until the airship arrives.

It was all thanks to Wei Dong's connections with Zhenhua Shore Aircraft and Shanghai Shipyard, and his special familiarity with customs, that the cargo ship was able to be driven to the shipyard to unload these two high-speed hydrofoils, each over 20 meters long. The weight of just one of these boats, over 200 tons, is something that many places in China can no longer handle.

Shanghai Shipyard also eagerly offered to take on part of the tax reduction and exemption quota for research and development and manufacturing, and helped with the ship certificate procedures.

The purpose was to leave one of them here for a few months so that they could gain a deeper understanding and study of the details of this type of advanced ship.

Even if this is a product from ten years ago.

It amazed them.

The whole family first entrusted the courageous Zhuoma, who was holding her head high, to the care of the staff after the delivery and sent her on the flight.

He glanced at the address key that Wu Shengyun had given to Rang Weidong earlier; it was another old Western-style building. Oh well, everyone's attention was now drawn to those two boats.

It didn't seem big at sea, but it was quite a sight when it was transported to the river, and the orange-red and black hull was very eye-catching.

Zhong Zhenhua and his group had already begun to communicate with the ship's technicians and were immediately dumbfounded, because this kind of three-bladed hydrofoil boat, which unfolds in a "品" shape under its hull, is powered by high-speed jets of water.

It consumes 1700 liters of fuel per hour!!!
That's roughly equivalent to 2150 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers!
Even Wei Dong wanted to break the contract and send him back to Hong Kong after hearing that!
In contrast, the six Hong Kong technicians, including two British nationals, each received a monthly salary of HK$30,000 for this trip!
That's all small change.

They only teach for a maximum of two months, so the shipyard found a bunch of technicians and divided them into two groups to learn from them.

This contains a Rolls-Royce engine!

Zhong Zhenhua couldn't help but ask him, "Two ships cost more than two million US dollars. Didn't you ask about the quota before you bought them?"

What could Wei Dong say? At the time, he just wanted to show off in front of the gambling king.

(End of this chapter)