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The smoke in the conference room was so thick it hurt people's eyes.

Li Aiguo slammed his fist on the table, making the teacup lid rattle.

His face, like the sky outside the window, was so gloomy it looked like it could be wrung out of water.

"A sudden cold snap in spring! Damn it, a sudden cold snap in spring!"

"Mirror ice! Who's ever seen such bizarre ice! Cars that drive on it spin like tops, just tumbling straight into the ditch!"

Li Aiguo pointed at Zhou Baoguang, the head of the technical department, and almost spat on his face.

"Old Zhou! What are you guys in the technical department doing! Think of a solution! Think of a solution right now!"

Zhou Baoguang was covered in sweat, and he had almost crushed the notebook in his hand.

"Manager, snow chains... we can't buy that many in the county, these things are too scarce."

"I've tried sprinkling sand and furnace ash, but the wind on the mountain is like a knife. Once the snow covers it, it freezes back up in less than half an hour. It's completely useless."

The room full of section chiefs and technicians all had their heads down and dared not utter a sound.

The hundreds of cubic meters of red pine trees on the mountaintop represent the forest farm's first major order of the spring, and will be the source of wages and bonuses for hundreds of people across the farm this month.

If it rots on the mountain, no one can bear the consequences.

In the corner, Li Jianye pushed up his glasses, cleared his throat, and stood up.

He felt this was an opportunity.

"Manager, Section Chief Zhou, I think... how about we use the simplest method?"

"We must mobilize all able-bodied young men, armed with picks and shovels, and divide the work into sections to clear away the ice along dozens of miles of mountain roads!"

"Or, we could simply abandon the trucks and use horse-drawn sleds to haul the trucks down the mountain, one trip at a time. It would be slower, but it would be safer."

No sooner had he finished speaking than an old foreman who had worked in the forest farm for thirty years couldn't help but speak up.

"Section Chief Li, it's easy for you to say that when you're not in the situation."

"It's dozens of miles of mountain road. By the time we finish shoveling the ice, the snow will have melted, and the road will become muddy, causing vehicles and horses to get stuck!"

"Use a sled? How many logs can you haul in one trip? By the time we're done, it'll be too late!"

Li Jianye's face instantly turned a deep purplish-red. He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

The atmosphere in the meeting room plummeted to freezing point once again.

"Squeak—"

A slight creak of a wooden chair being moved sounded particularly jarring in the deathly silence.

Everyone's eyes instinctively turned to look in the direction of the sound.

It is Lu Qingshan.

The young man who was treated as a relative by everyone and spent three days in the storeroom.

He stood up and walked slowly to the huge map of the forest area hanging on the wall.

He raised his hand and gently traced his finger along a steep, almost vertical valley next to the newly constructed transport route on the map.

"The road is blocked."

His voice was calm, yet it was like a pebble thrown into a stagnant pool.

"We don't have to move the car."

Li Aiguo suddenly raised his head.

Lu Qingshan turned around and his gaze swept across the entire room.

"Put the wood down right here."

"Put it down?" Li Jianye laughed out loud as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.

"Deputy Section Chief Lu, have you gone mad from spending so much time in the storage room? That's a drop of over a hundred meters! Lowering the logs? They'd just become rolling logs and boulders!"

Lu Qingshan ignored him and continued:

"We can build a chute, an icewood chute."

"Using local materials, we built a slide along the valley using discarded, low-grade timber from the forest farm. At night, when the temperature is low, we poured water on the slide, and it froze solid overnight."

"Let the log slide down the mountain on its own."

Zhou Baoguang's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something, but then he frowned.

"But...but that speed is too fast, like a cannonball. What if the ground below can't catch it and it crashes? What if someone gets hurt?"

"So," Lu Qingshan tapped the map twice with his finger, "the slide can't be straight. We need to design several large S-shaped sections in the middle to slow down the timber."

"At the end of the slide, dig a large pit, fill it with sawdust and hay, and make it into a buffer pool."

"In this way, the issues of speed and safety are both resolved."

His words were clear, logical, and well-organized, outlining all the possible problems and solutions.

The meeting room fell silent instantly.

The veteran technicians and foremen were all quickly calculating the feasibility of this method in their minds.

The more I thought about it, the brighter my eyes became.

This method... is a bit old-fashioned, but it seems to actually work!

"Nonsense!"

Li Jianye slammed his hand on the table and jumped up, his face red and neck bulging.

"This is downright jeopardizing the nation's assets!"

"That's just theoretical! A log weighing hundreds or even thousands of pounds sliding down from that height—if anything goes wrong and it gets out of control, it'll be like a runaway horse! Damaging the log is a minor issue; what if it kills someone? Who will be responsible then?!"

"Are you going to take responsibility, Lu Qingshan?!"

He spoke sternly, pointing directly at Lu Qingshan's nose and questioning him.

Although Li Jianye's words were harsh, his reasoning was sound.

Safety is the top priority.

Lu Qingshan walked straight to Li Aiguo's desk, placed his hands on the edge of the desk, leaned forward slightly, and looked directly into the field manager's eyes.

"Factory Manager."

His voice was steady, each word clear and powerful.

"Give me five days and twenty workers."

"If the timber from the mountain is not safely transported down within five days; if a single log is damaged, or a worker is injured..."

He paused, then emphasized his words.

"I, Lu Qingshan, will resign and leave without a second thought!"

"I'll take responsibility for this!"

The entire room was filled with astonishment!

Establish a military order!

Is this young man who just arrived crazy?!

Li Jianye was stunned; he hadn't expected Lu Qingshan to be so daring.

He remembered what the old man had once told him: "This kid is a wolf at heart, capable of great things!"

"good!"

Li Aiguo slammed his hand on the table and stood up abruptly!

This sound was like a thunderclap from a clear sky.

"We'll do as you say!"

He surveyed the entire room, his voice carrying an undeniable authority.

"From this moment forward, Lu Qingshan will be fully in charge of this material transport operation! You are free to move any personnel or supplies from the Technical Section, Logistics Section, and Security Section!"

His last cold gaze fell on Li Jianye, whose face was deathly pale.

"Anyone who dares to plot against me behind my back, trip me up, or hold me back..."

"Get out of here right now!"

……

That night.

The sky above Hongshi Forest Farm was studded with cold stars, so bright they were frightening.

The temperature dropped to minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and the wind felt like knives cutting into your face.

Lu Qingshan, along with Li Erniu and twenty of the most capable workers he had selected, pulled carts full of timber, buckets, and tools toward the desolate valley covered in ice and snow.

In the darkness, only the beams of light from headlamps and the heavy breathing of men could be heard.

An unprecedented project began in this silent, frigid land.