The Beacon of Laiyang Metal

Chapter 23 Infrastructure Construction Begins

next morning

Shi Gongxing came to Weiyuan's residence to visit.

Wei Yuan is practicing a set of Tai Chi under the guidance of Yue Weilu. This Tai Chi is the Chen style Tai Chi that Yue Weilu's grandfather accidentally learned.
  Long-term practice has great benefits for the body.

Shi Gongxing stood aside and did not bother him. Instead, he motioned to the guards nearby to keep quiet.

After another ten minutes, Wei Yuan fell down, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled. Today's practice was over.

He took the towel handed by the attendant and wiped his face before he saw Shi Gongxing waiting at the side.

While Wei Yuan apologized repeatedly, he asked him to sit down in the room and asked the attendant to serve tea.

After both parties drank tea, Wei Yuan asked:
  "Commissioner Shi, what is the background of the hemp chief yesterday? He seems to be quite prejudiced against me?"

Seeing that Wei Yuan was straight to the point and seemed to want to ask questions, Shi Gongxing smiled bitterly in his heart, but he had to answer. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Director Ma's brother-in-law is a division commander under the Northeast Army Marshal. The relationship was already settled. In addition to letting him be the police chief, he also serves as the head of the Anton Security Group. Now you Became the head of the security team."

Oh." Now Wei Yuan understood. He had let someone else's duck fly away and robbed someone else of their opportunity to make a fortune. No wonder Director Ma spoke so eccentrically. This was the original reason.

"Since ancient times, cutting off people's money is like killing their parents. The relationship between me and him is not easy."

At this moment, in the Andong County Police Station, Ma Xingkun was leaning on the kang, smoking tobacco with a big pipe, and planning with several of his confidants how to deal with Wei Yuan.

"In order to become the leader of the security team, in addition to my brother-in-law's help in interceding, I also spent a lot of money on it. I spent more than 3 yuan. Who would have thought that Cheng Yaojin would show up halfway and let him The duck he got was gone. Not to mention making money from the position of militia leader, he got more than 3 yuan, how could he swallow this breath."

I saw a wretched and thin little man standing and waiting on the side and said:
  "Why don't we take advantage of the darkness at night and secretly shoot him? Anyway, Wei has just come to Anton and is unfamiliar with the place. Kill him and find a scapegoat to take the blame. Let's say that this person broke into a house and saw that everything was exposed. , shot and killed in panic."

Ma Xingkun glared irritably at the subordinate who was coming up with an idea, and said impatiently: "You know nothing, that guy named Wei has some background. I heard that he can talk to the young marshal, and he also has something in his hand." There are more than 60 people with guns, and there is a car just outside the door. It is not easy to shoot him. Don't let him turn around and accuse us in front of the young marshal. All of us in the police department will have to follow suit."

"Then let this matter go?" Another subordinate asked unwillingly.

"Forget it, how can I forget it? I have been living in black and white in Anton all these years. I will make my own arrangements in a few days." Ma Xingkun looked like he had everything under control.

Donggang City is located in the eastern part of the Liaodong Peninsula. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south. It is distributed in a ladder shape, with low mountains and hills in the north, low hills and hills in the middle, retreating plains in the south, and coastal intertidal tidal flats. The low mountains and hills in the north overlap, covering an area of ​​670 square kilometers. The mountains run east-west. It has a typical continental monsoon climate in the temperate humid area. It is known as the "Pearl of the South of the North, the Pearl of the River and the Sea", and is especially suitable for planting and breeding agriculture.

It was April, the season when the ice and snow melted and the grass grew and the orioles were flying. At this time, Wei Yuan and Shi Gongxing were taking his Ford Model T car to inspect suitable locations for building a factory.

In Weiyuan's plan, it is not just one or two factories that need to be built, but an area covering metal smelting, steel rolling mills, machinery processing plants, vehicle manufacturing plants, aircraft manufacturing plants, shipbuilding, food production, textile industry, Large-scale industrial parks integrating light and heavy industries such as garment processing and so on require a large amount of land for construction.

The vehicle drove all the way and successively arrived at Beijingzi Town, Longwangmiao Town, Xiaodianzi Town, etc. Everywhere Weiyuan arrived, he would get out of the car and check it out in person, carefully studying the local terrain, personnel distribution, local traffic and other conditions.

Shi Gongxing, who was accompanying him, was very familiar with the history of Andong County. He also had his own unique insights into the sufferings of the people's livelihood and the local economic development. It seems that the officials of the National Congress Party are not all ordinary people, or are they? There are some officials who are willing to do some practical things for the people.

It's just that right now it's like a quagmire. No matter how clean a person is, if they fall into it, they will either be assimilated or be ostracized everywhere.

Along the way, Wei Yuan had some idea of ​​Anton's situation. It has a population of more than 20, including 24 ethnic minorities including Manchu, Xibe, Korean, Mongolian, Hui, Zhuang, Russian, and Oroqen.

Distributed in 12 towns and villages under its jurisdiction, it mainly focuses on planting and fishing. Its industrial base is basically zero, and its per capita annual income is less than 1 legal currency.

Wei Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. In China, which has such a weak industrial base, in just over a year, the Japanese army will launch the September 18th invasion war and then occupy the entire three eastern provinces. With his own strength, he can Can we stop the invasion of the Kwantung Army?

"Mr. Wei, Mr. Wei!"

Shi Gongxing's voice interrupted Wei Yuan's contemplation. Wei Yuan came back to his senses and Shi Gongxing smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, I got distracted."

Finally, it was discussed by Wei Yuan and Shi Gongxing, the two highest military and political officials in Andong County.

The entire project construction is centered on Andong County, and an 8-meter-wide two-lane cement hardened road is built that runs through 12 towns in the county.

At the same time, a large industrial park covering an area of ​​10 square kilometers is divided in the direction of the dock in the northern part of the county. Two 16-meter-wide two-way four-lane cement roads extend from the industrial park. One is connected to the ring-county highway, and the other is directly connected to the county. Go to Dandong Port Terminal.

A "Zhenhua Construction Company First Bureau" was established in Andong County, recruiting a large number of local construction workers from Andong County, and adding them to the construction front line after simple training.

Those who perform well will be given priority and promoted to the position of foreman to prepare for the later establishment of a professional construction company.

Wei Yuan also sent a telegram to Wei Youtian, Li Baoguo and others who were staying in the capital city, "asking them to rely on the "Human Resources Center of the Magic City Zhenhua Company" to help him recruit people by posting recruitment advertisements, publishing advertisements in newspapers, etc. Bring in a batch of technical talents.

Especially those who know how to work in machinery, vehicle maintenance, and engineering construction. As long as you meet the right person, don't be afraid of spending money, even if you throw money at it, you will come over. "

Since the first batch of materials produced in later generations were piled at the Modu pier, in addition to the two freighters under Wei Yuan that rushed to transport materials day and night, Wei Youtian rented a batch of freighters in Modu according to Wei Yuan's instructions. , and strive to deliver the first batch of materials to Anton Port in the shortest possible time. The two platoons brought by Wei Yuan, totaling more than 2 security personnel, are not idle at this moment. Except for one platoon left to guard and ensure the safety of supplies and their own bosses, the rest are all temporarily acting as vehicle driving instructors. .

Yue Weilu's training before setting off from the magic capital, although the driving skills of this group of people are not very proficient, at least there is no problem with safe driving. At this moment, they all have a group of smart young people recruited from the area. Cleverly, a group of car drivers were trained unexpectedly.

You must know that cars in this period are rare things. Many people have never seen them before even driving them. Weiyuan does not have high requirements for them. They can drive smoothly on the road in the early stage. Driving skills always require more practice.

If you look at it from a God's perspective, the entire Andong territory is chaotic and spectacular, like a large construction site, with the roar of excavators and bulldozers resounding through the sky, and there are transport vehicles everywhere making bang bang bangs... running back and forth.

The cranes on the dock are constantly taking off and landing goods from the ship. At the same time, a temporary cargo yard with a simple roof has been urgently opened near the dock. According to the signs of different colors, the storage of vehicles, machinery and equipment, production materials, etc. is indicated.

Weiyuan also specially obtained a batch of loudspeakers and advertising banners from later generations. Every day, "We Workers Have Power" and other well-known songs from later generations are played in the loudspeakers in both directions:

We workers have the power

Hey we workers have power
  Busy at work every day

Hey, I’m busy at work every day
  built high-rise buildings

Railway and coal mines were built

The world has been transformed. It has changed. Hehe.
  Started the machine…..
  The banners are also printed with slogans such as: "Do more, save more, strive to be upstream for one day is equal to 20 years, and industrial society is in sight."

The hired workers are issued vests and helmets of different colors according to their positions, with corresponding numbers stamped on them;

Yellow: Essential workforce personnel.

Red: Professional and technical personnel.

White: Command and administrative staff.

In order to facilitate management, a group of ten people is composed of corresponding group members according to the coded consecutive numbers and a group leader is selected.

Ten groups form a squad, a squad leader is selected, and five squads form a squadron.

One of the squad leaders with good performance is appointed as the squadron leader, and four squadrons form a brigade. The brigade captain reports to Weiyuan for approval and then appoints them uniformly.

Each team leader and above is issued a work manual. Every time a new job is accepted, the staff will make relevant records in the manual. At the same time, they will register the tools and equipment issued for the work and be responsible for them. The attendance, rewards and punishments of management personnel are recorded one by one.

In response to the problem that most workers are illiterate, Weiyuan gave full play to the fine traditions of our army, opened night school literacy classes, promoted simplified Chinese characters, and stipulated that all management appointments must be literate at least 500 characters as a mandatory condition.

Following the example of the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a 24-level salary scale was set up according to different job levels, namely "fixed position, fixed grade, fixed title, and fixed salary."

From the perspective of strategic location development, it is not ideal to place industrial bases in coastal port areas in the absence of an internal and external security environment.

The biggest shortcoming is the lack of strategic depth. Once the enemy raids from the sea, it will be a disaster. The large industrial bases of the Rabbit family in later generations will all choose to be in the hinterland, fearing that in the first wave Knocked out during the attack.

The reason why Weiyuan chose the Andong region was that Dandong Port was an excellent port. It could transport large quantities of production materials and mineral resources by sea. The industrial products produced in Anton could be transported continuously by sea. Going global will ultimately enable industrial production to feed back the development of the Andong region.

After all, one's own abilities are limited. If one only relies on blood transfusions, it may be difficult to maintain the long-term development of the Andong region.

As for Anton's safety, there is only one way, which is to change passive defense to active attack and eliminate all potential dangers. This requires Weiyuan to have a strong navy and air force in his hands.

After these few days of running in, Wei Yuan found that Shi Gongxing was still a very capable person, at least much better than himself in terms of governance methods and administrative management. Whether it was local personnel recruitment or construction management, everything was arranged Well organized, busy and orderly.

Wei Yuan simply acted as a hands-off shopkeeper and delegated all engineering construction matters to him, praising him as: "Those who are capable work hard."

He even left a message for Shi Gongxing: "If you need money, give money, if you need people, if you need food, give food. If you need anything, you will make up for it yourself. In short, the road around the county must be opened to traffic within 3 months. and the establishment of an industrial park framework.”

Faced with Wei Yuan's rogue behavior, Shi Gongxing was a little bit dumbfounded. He was tired and happy these days. The reason why he said this was, "I am happy that my ambition for many years has been realized."

Serving as an official should be a blessing to all parties, but in the mud pit of the National Congress Party, I am a small administrative commissioner with no power and can only live in such a muddle. Now such a good opportunity is in front of me, If you do well, it is your real political achievement, and no one can deny it. "

"The tiring part is that Wei Yuan said that when he is the boss, he is the boss and everything is left to him. He only seals the food and money, and also gives himself a deadline for the task.

I haven't been able to eat well or sleep well these past few days. My dreams are all about supervising work at the construction site. I'm so anxious that I have bubbles at the corners of my mouth. I'm so tired that my whole body hurts when I'm lying in bed, but I'm still willing to do it."

There is another secret buried deep in his heart when he carried out his official duties. His father Shi Xiaozu was originally a commander of the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty. During the disastrous Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, his father Shi Xiaozu was also seriously injured in that war. He was finally sent back to his hometown and died of wound infection three months later. After hearing the signing of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", his father's last words before his death were, "Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and he never forgot to tell Nai Weng during family sacrifices."

(End of this chapter)