Chapter 31 Hydropower Station Construction Starts

In fact, the executive committee has never truly unified opinions on whether to implement the large, time-consuming and labor-intensive project of hydropower station construction in the early stages of the crossing. This topic will become the focus of controversy in almost every meeting before the crossing. Those who oppose it

The main reason for the opinion is that this project will occupy a huge amount of human resources. During the construction period, almost all other projects have to be stopped in order to take care of its priority. In the eyes of future generations, this is at most a small hydropower project in rural areas.

It is a small project, but to people who have traveled through this time and space, it is a bottomless pit that can exhaust all manpower. Some people believe that instead of using technical personnel from various departments as low-level labor on the construction site, it is better to complete other infrastructure projects first.

, wait until there is sufficient manpower before proceeding with the construction of hydropower stations. Moreover, if there is a slight failure in the construction and the rainy season flood season is not over, then it will be a big problem.

Opinions advocating the construction of hydropower stations as soon as possible mainly come from the industrial, chemical and energy sectors. The industrial parties sneered at the short-sightedness of liberal arts students - Sanya has no coal resources, and even steam engines cannot be used on a large scale at the beginning.

If hydropower is not developed in the early stage, where will the power output required for industrial construction come from? Sharpening the knife should not waste time chopping firewood. Concentrate efforts on building the most critical facilities first, so as to drive the subsequent construction of the modern industrial system. Otherwise, one step

Slowly, step by step, we have to rely entirely on the manpower of the people to build infrastructure. Maybe in a year or two, everyone will still be working as migrant workers in the valley, farming and moving bricks. In that case, what's the point of spending so much effort to cross over?

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As for the construction period that the other party questioned, it was Liu Shanxia from the Ministry of Construction who came forward to guarantee the project, claiming that as long as the personnel and materials were in place, the main project of the hydropower station could definitely be completed before the flood season.

In the end, the well-founded Industrial Party gained the upper hand, allowing the deployment of personnel and materials in the entire initial construction plan to be unconditionally tilted towards the hydropower station project. When the special working group returned to Base No. 2 from Lidong, except for a part responsible for the peripheral

In addition to members of the military and police patrols and the elderly, women, and children, large troops from across the border were recruited as labor force. Even the headquarters of the Executive Committee was moved from Base No. 1.

Sixty or seventy fishermen recruited from nearby have now become full-time workers on the construction site. In addition to carrying various materials, the few among them who have bamboo weaving skills are also responsible for weaving a large number of bamboo cages day and night.

During subsequent construction, the flow will be intercepted and a cofferdam constructed.

The Ministry of Agriculture directed the labor camp to open two hundred acres of wasteland on the east bank of the Tiandu River and plant various vegetables. After that, these dozens of Ming army prisoners were also escorted to the construction site of the hydropower station. Although they did not understand what the short-haired men were going to do.

What, but seeing the mountains of various materials piled up here, and the hundreds of shorthairs coming in and out, the prisoners also knew that these shorthairs were probably going to start a big fight here.

And the first thought that flashed subconsciously in Luo Shengdong's mind was that these Shorthairs were going to build a city here? But after thinking about it, it seemed impossible. The stockade built by Shorthairs on the seaside was obviously not finished yet, so why?

I hurriedly ran upstream to build a city, and the terrain here seemed not ideal for building a city. But seeing the continuous flow of logs, sand and gravel, bamboo cages and other utensils, it was clear that there was a big project to be done.

Luo Shengdong was also deeply confused by this.

The people in the labor camp were quickly assigned to work in a nearby quarry. It was said to be a quarry, but it was actually the location of the Tiandu Iron Mine. People from the Ministry of Industry were very prudent, quarrying and making Tiandu Iron Mine at the same time.

Preparations for excavation. Perhaps the iron ore here has already entered the mining stage before the hydropower station is completed. This place is only three to four hundred meters away from the hydropower station construction site. In the early stage, the logging team has already carved a road through the forest, which can pass side by side.

Two wooden carts. The old carpenter Cai Hongzhan and his people worked overtime and built thirty carts in five days. Although the craftsmanship was a bit rough, fortunately the road was flat and the distance was short, so it was not a problem.

Don't worry about it falling apart in a few moments.

Almost all the Li people who came here with Fu Li stayed. But Fu Li saw with his own eyes that the fishermen received white rice and salt from the short-haired Han people after work every day. Isn't this a betrayal?

Labor? How can we miss such a good thing so easily? We in Lidong have a lot of labor that can be exchanged for grain and salt! So with the encouragement of Ning Qi and others, Fu Li also sent people to rush back to Fushandong.

Notify Dongli to send more young and strong laborers.

Three or four days after arriving, hundreds of Li people came from the nearby mountains after receiving the news. With so many Li people coming to the construction site, conflicts can easily arise if communication is not smooth. Zhou Hengxing had to finish work at night

A temporary bilingual teaching class was set up to teach some vocabulary that could facilitate simple communication between the two parties. And Ningqi also launched the first "Li District Hope Primary School", and will enroll the eight or nine Li children who came to the construction site with their parents first.

Schools, and the key to cultivating object power are of course included in this list. Of course, it is impossible to teach any knowledge at present, even literacy is too difficult for these Li children who have not received basic education, Ning Qi

The main teaching task now is still the same as Zhou Hengxing's, first trying to teach them some simple Chinese conversations to ensure smooth communication.

In view of the large number of local workers who came to participate in the construction, the executive committee had to allocate part of its manpower to build several bamboo sheds near the construction site for temporary housing of these workers. The tasks of the cooking team also increased rapidly, and they had to work every day.

Cook more meals for more than a hundred people. Fortunately, in order to make trade, the nearby Li people continuously bring a variety of fruits and vegetables, mountain delicacies and fresh game, so the cooking team does not have to worry too much about the lack of sufficient ingredients.

In order to complete the battle as soon as possible, the Executive Committee also tried its best to transport all kinds of materials to the second base. Except for the "New World", almost all the diesel generators on the other ships were removed.

They were transported together with several high-power water pumps. Sailors from the Maritime Transport Department even risked capsizing and used large wooden rafts to transport two JCB multi-function excavators and two Bobcat multi-function vehicles to the construction site by water.

With the help of several engineering vehicles, the transportation of materials on the construction site has been greatly accelerated. This has also become the focus of the local indigenous people in the next few days - they have never seen this kind of oxen without horses.

It was a strange car that could drag things on its own, and the rumor that "the short-haired man knows how to do it" was rampant for a while.

On April 17, 1627, the second day of March in the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty, the Tianduhe Hydropower Station, the first real major project after the crossing, finally broke ground.

The gimmick of later generations of leaders cutting ribbons with scissors is definitely out of date in this time and space. The members of the executive committee stood in the river on the bank and worked together to erect a sharpened log. Yan Chujie stood tall

On the shelf, a large hammer was used to drive the logs into the river, thus kicking off the construction process.

Since there are natural river branches at the dam site, this greatly simplifies the construction steps and eliminates the trouble of building diversion channels. It is only necessary to intercept the water at the river branch and build a cofferdam to divert all the river water to the other side.

After draining the water in the river where the dam is located, you can start building the dam. And in this river with an average water depth of only four to five meters, it is not very difficult to intercept the river.

Following the instructions of the technicians, the migrant workers erected wooden piles more than two feet long at certain intervals, and then drove them into the river bottom with sledgehammers. Construction started from both ends together, and soon the construction was completed on the seven or eight meter wide river.

Build a sparse fence. Then use a boat to transport a large bamboo cage filled with stones from upstream and drop it near the fence, so that the wooden fence can block the bamboo cage and quickly form an underwater dam.

After nearly a hundred large bamboo cages filled with stones entered the water, they have been connected to form a simple cofferdam rising out of the water. At this time, it is obvious that the amount of water flowing through the river here has decreased a lot, and the water level downstream has dropped by at least two or three meters.

At this time, the migrant workers began to pile up the fence wall to fill the leakage, and used more wooden piles to fill the gaps bit by bit. The water intake heads of several high-power water pumps had penetrated deep into the river bottom, and began to accumulate water in the river behind the cofferdam rapidly.

After draining, the extracted river water flowed into another river through the pipe, which made the onlookers migrant workers grin from ear to ear in surprise.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, eighty-nine percent of the water in the river near the dam site had been drained, but the mud at the bottom of the river was still one or two feet thick. It would take at least a hundred people to dig for a whole day. However, the project

The commanders were not that patient and waited patiently to clear the mud. Commander-in-Chief Liu Shanxia ordered people to lay bamboo and wooden springboards from the bank to the middle of the river, and then asked the migrant workers to step on the wooden springboards and start laying large blocks behind the wooden pile fence.

Tarpaulin, and then used sacks of earth to build the main body of the cofferdam to block the small leaks that were already sparse. In order to build this earth-encircled weir, the preparatory committee also added a special item of two items in the material procurement.

Thousands of linen sacks and hundreds of square meters of special tarpaulin are now put to use.

In view of the current relatively sufficient labor force, the engineering headquarters decided to start work day and night, implementing three shifts. After dark, diesel generators were used to continue to provide lighting, allowing migrant workers to go down to the river to clean up the river mud. Several LEDs were installed on both sides of the river and on the cofferdam.

The headlights illuminated the entire construction site brightly, and this lighting device without an open flame amazed the new migrant workers who had just arrived today. They were originally a little skeptical of the first comer's remarks that "the short-haired man knows how to do it."

Suddenly I became convinced.

The progress of the project was unusually smooth, and the river bottom dredging that started the next day did not encounter any major problems. After the silt was removed, the complete rock base was exposed at the site of the dam. Liu Shanxia proudly said to Xiang Chi

Nan said: "Look, this is the benefit of doing the preparation work well! It doesn't require too much survey, just apply the water conservancy project distribution map of later generations."

Xiang Chinan said seriously: "Don't be too happy too early. The cofferdam water blocking is only the first step. The real project has just begun now. Your boy has issued a military order in the executive committee to complete the project before the flood season this year.

It’s finished. Let’s go down and take a look.”
Chapter completed!