Dozens of farm vehicles line up in a long convoy on improvised dirt roads. The ground conditions are very poor, just a layer of mountain soil is paved on the road, not to mention the bumps, and it is muddy. Fortunately, the performance of the agricultural vehicle is good, although the road is bumpy, but there is no road section that cannot be passed.

After several years of hard work, the drivers of agricultural vehicles have all been regular workers of the company. Moreover, many engineering and technical vehicles with high technical requirements are operated by labor.

The road was full of Japanese, Korean, and Luzon laborers, and as far as the eye could see, it stretched densely to the west. This is the subgrade site of the railway from Yanhe Town to Mudanjiang Town. In order to ensure the speed of construction, the company also mobilized a lot of construction machinery to support the construction here.

The vehicle traveled until noon and arrived at the first unloading point at the railway subgrade site. The convoy stopped and rested here. Hu Wei also jumped out of the farm vehicle, rubbed his sore buttocks, and walked around.

"Old Hu, when did you arrive?"

As soon as Hu Wei turned around, he saw Li Da, the director of the railway department, coming over, and he said with a smile: "I just arrived today, I'm going to walk below, let's go to Mudanjiang Town first." I've heard that you've been on the construction site as soon as you came, and you need to pay attention to your body at your age. ”

Li Dahaha laughed and said: "I'm not a person who can sit still, let me sit in the office every day and die faster, haha...... I came here to be the deputy director of the management committee, just because I want to stay at the construction site every day, and it is difficult to stay in the company and come here. ”

Hu Wei pointed at him, and then said with a wry smile: "I still expect you to come here and help me, you stay in the construction site every day and don't come out." There is also that old Ren, who also runs on various construction sites. With such a large development zone, I am left to work alone. ”

His words made Li Da embarrassed, and he smiled: "Let's go to the management committee to get involved, aren't we afraid of causing you trouble." People like me and Lao Ren, let's do things in a down-to-earth manner. It's hard for us to sit in an office and coordinate the work of various departments. Lao Hu, you can take care of it more, hehe......"

Hu Wei shook his head and asked, "Lao Li, can you build this railway this year?" ”

Li Da thought for a while and said, "If you cultivate according to the standards of modern society, it will definitely not work." But our railway is no problem, first of all, our railway is mainly according to Maozi's Eastern Railway. There are also routes built after many transformations in China after 50 years, which belong to the drawings of others, and various factors have long been taken into account for us.

Another is that our railway uses 1000 mm narrow gauge, which has relatively low requirements for rails and roadbed. Originally, we wanted to opt for the 762 mm narrow gauge, which was the kind of train that used to be used in the forest farms. Later, everyone felt that it was too shabby, and the transportation capacity was too low, which did not conform to our Far Eastern's consistent thinking of local tyrants, so in the end, the current "meter gauge" was decided.

What we want for this railway now is that it only needs to be kept in operation. The supporting facilities along the entire railway line are not included in the construction period, except for several double-track parallel sections along the way, the rest of the road sections are single-track. And we still follow the route of the Maozi Eastern Railway, most of which are winding mountains. Minimize tunneling.

Even if there is a tunnel, the length of the tunnel is kept as short as possible. In order to cross the Daguanling section of the Laoyeling Mountains, the Binsui Railway built a three-story exhibition line. Although the railway distance has been increased invisibly. However, it can speed up the construction period. There are only two main rivers along the railway, and they are not wide, so we only need to build two simple iron bridges to ensure that the train can pass through Guò.

Anyway, as long as it is guaranteed to be completed and opened to traffic before December this year, the materials will be transported over next spring, and the rest will be like supporting projects along the way, railways and highway bridges along the two rivers, tunnels along the way and other projects. Let's talk about it next year.

Our railway department has accumulated a lot of experience in the construction of the railway from Vladivostok to Bac Ninh town. It has also trained thousands of qualified railway construction teams. There were also large numbers of Japanese, Korean, and Luzon laborers busy day and night on the railway line.

Do you know how many foreign workers there are on our railway line? That's 70,000 or 80,000 people. They work more than 12 hours a day, from Mudanjiang Town, Yanhe Town, Laoyeling, Taipingling four sections of construction at the same time. In addition, there will be more than 20,000 Japanese laborers, and more than 50,000 Luzon laborers have already begun to board ships from Satsuma and Manila, and will be shipped here one after another in the near future.

In order to transport these laborers, the company not only used all the warships of the Admiralty, but also used the coast guards of Luzon, the southeast coast, the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even several overseas territories. The company has put so much effort into ensuring that the railway can be completed on schedule. Hehe...... After the completion of this railway, there is no telling how many people will be buried under the roadbed of less than 100 kilometers. ”

Hu Wei listened to Li Da's words, and also said with emotion: "It is indeed difficult for your railway department to complete the construction before December, but if the construction period is delayed, it will be difficult to implement next year's plan." Can your narrow-gauge railway be connected to the quasi-gauge railway from Vladivostok to Bac Ninh? ”

"That's not a problem, we have planned before we came, and we have already made preparations during the construction, using the "set of rails" on the section from Vladivostok to Bac Ninh Town, that is, the quasi-gauge and the narrow gauge are put together, and the railway switches can be used to make trains on both tracks run on this line.

In fact, our railway department is still sure that the project will be completed on schedule, but we are afraid that all kinds of materials can not keep up, sleepers and gravel or something do not have to worry, the forestry department and the construction committee have established two timber processing points and several quarries along the railway line, and now all kinds of equipment have been in place, it is estimated that the construction will start immediately.

Although the weight of the narrow gauge is much lighter than that of the quasi-gauge, and the standard of production and processing is much lower, after all, our steel plant has only been built for more than a year, and the production capacity may not be guaranteed. ”

Hu Wei laughed when he heard this: "You don't have to worry about this, the Beining Town Iron and Steel Complex has launched a 100 cubic meter small blast furnace last winter, as well as a full set of equipment such as converters, electric furnaces, ferroalloy electric furnaces with a capacity of 15 tons, with an estimated annual output of 300,000 tons of carbon steel, and a rolling workshop equipped with horizontal profiles, wire rod rolling mills and other equipment with an annual output of 250,000 tons.

In order to produce the steel rails of this more than 100 kilometers of narrow-gauge railway, they have successfully commissioned the equipment last winter and produced it in large quantities. After a few months of production, I estimate that there is already a certain amount of rails in stock. ”

Hu Wei and Li Da chatted for a while, then got into the farm truck and drove towards Mudanjiang Town. All the way over the mountains and mountains, constantly bumpy. After driving for a whole day, when I arrived in Mudanjiang Town, it was completely dark.

Many of the convoy of agricultural vehicles unloaded and left the convoy one after another, and when they arrived here, only half of the vehicles remained. Hu Wei rubbed his swollen and aching buttocks, jumped out of the car with grinning teeth, and felt that his body was about to fall apart.

The other two deputy directors of the management committee of the Western Development Zone, both in Mudanjiang Town at this time, had already received a telegram from Liu Chuanxiang in Yanhe Town. As soon as the freight convoy arrived in Mudanjiang Town, they all came out to welcome Hu Wei's arrival.

Ren Chaoxin grabbed Hu Wei's hand and said with a smile: "Old Hu, you just arrived today, why did you come here with this thing." How nice it would be to come early tomorrow morning by truck, fast and comfortable. Sitting on this thing, people can be turned upside down. ”

Hu Wei grinned and said, "I didn't expect it, this road is too difficult to walk." Now this road condition directly affects the construction speed of Mudanjiang Town. The construction of the shipyard here should still be carried out quickly, and it will not affect next year's Pingliao plan. ”

Ren Chaoxin said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, the company produces all river deck barges, all of which are modular standard components, and the shipyard here is only responsible for assembly." Construction can continue even in the winter in the factory. As soon as the forest farm is established, large wooden components such as hull structures can be produced here. Other steel accessories, as well as components and weapons of steam power units, can be directly transported and assembled. ”

Hao Ping, the mayor of Mudanjiang Town, said with a smile: "Several directors, we have arranged dinner, let's talk while eating." ”

Hu Wei bumped all the way, only dealing with a few mouthfuls of compressed biscuits and water, and he was already hungry. He smiled, "Well, I haven't eaten anything all the way." But I'm hungry, and it's ...... to eat."

Gao Qiang said with a smile: "Today we exchanged some mountain goods in the nearby indigenous villages, the spoons that Lao Ren and I personally held, roe deer, wild boar, pheasant, monkey head, mountain fungus and some river fish that have just been frozen. I took a few bottles of the company's corn special, and I have long heard from Li Ming that Director Hu has a lot of them, and I must have a good drink with Director Hu today. ”

The next morning, Hu Wei, accompanied by Ren Chaoxin and Gao Qiang, walked around Mudanjiang Town. Because of the poor road conditions, the construction speed of Mudanjiang Town cannot be compared with that of Yanhe Town. The shipyard and port, as well as the infrastructure of Mudanjiang Town, are still in the early stages of construction, and the main reason is that the road conditions between Yanhe Town and Mudanjiang Town are too poor, and the transportation vehicles are also insufficient.

After conducting some investigation here, Hu Wei contacted the Vladivostok People's Committee on a military radio and reported to Wang He about the situation in Mudanjiang Town. Wang He immediately mobilized a large number of agricultural vehicles from Beining Town and Biquge www.biquge.info Town, and transported them to Mudanjiang Town one after another.

Hu Wei also got in touch with Gao Jianguo of the Military Commission and asked the Military Commission to support some vehicles. When Gao Jianguo heard that there was a problem with the transportation capacity of Mudanjiang Town, he didn't say a word, and also transferred all the trucks of the Military Commission, and even used the trucks sealed by the Logistics Department. (To be continued) R466