Chapter 646: New Year's Plan (2)
Li Da glanced at everyone and said with a wry smile: "It has been four years since the construction of the main artery of the Liaodong Railway was planned. In order to meet the deadline, there are more than a dozen migrant employees in our railway department, who have paid their young lives for this project, and countless foreign laborers have also fallen on the construction site and never got up, and the skeletons of foreign laborers are buried under each section of the construction site. Suffice it to say, the railroad was laid out of flesh and blood. ”
Everyone listened to his words and sighed. In this era, the construction of more than 1,000 kilometers of railways is really a bit reluctant for the current Far East. At present, the industrial focus of the Far East Company is in the Vladivostok region, and during the freezing period of several months in Liaodong and the Outer Northeast, shipping and waterways are bound to stagnate every year, which has a great impact on the development of the Far East.
The Far Eastern Company wants to develop Liaodong and the Outer Northeast, and this railway artery is the top priority. Therefore, the Far Eastern Company has invested a lot of resources in the plan of this main artery of the Liaodong Railway.
At present, after years of construction, the fourth phase of the project is under intense construction, and most of the production capacity is poured into the main artery of the Liaodong Railway every year, and many enterprises in Vladivostok are sparing no effort to protect the railway project.
The board of directors of the company issued a death order to the railway, and at all costs, to ensure that the project was completed within five years. But the modern equipment that the company has brought in the modern society is a drop in the bucket in this huge project.
Fortunately, the Far East has no shortage of people, and the company has transferred two or three hundred thousand foreign laborers from Japan, Korea and Nanyang from all over the world to work day and night on various construction sites of this railway line, and they work for more than ten hours a day. Due to the lack of modern equipment, many jobs are carried out in the most primitive way, and the mortality rate of foreign workers is very high.
In order to improve work efficiency, the company reorganizes foreign workers in the form of squadrons, and assigns them to each squadron every day, and the squadrons that fail to complete the task will be punished by the whole team. And the level of food will also go down.
The company also transferred the early batch of Japanese laborers from various places to the railway department and served as squadron leaders of various foreign labor squadrons. These devils came to the Far East together with Fujita and Kitai, that is, the group of people who were captured from Sado Island when the Far East plundered Sado Gold Mountain, and they have been in the Far East for more than eight years, and now they are all active in various positions in the Far East, and they have all married wives and children, and they have long regarded themselves as Far Easterners.
These were the first Japanese foreign workers from the Far East to come to the Far East. They have long been the foreign employees of the Far East, they are the most loyal dogs of the Far East, and after receiving the order of the Far East, they immediately put down the work at hand and came to the various construction sites of the railway department.
When they came to the railway construction site, Li Da held a special mobilization meeting for them, and clearly put forward a request to them, that is, to do their best to ensure the progress of the project. Regardless of the method they use, they must complete the required amount of work each day.
The squadron leader of these devils listened to Li Da's mobilization. Immediately entered the working state, urging foreign workers to work hard every day as if crazy. The company equipped them with leather whips and wooden sticks, and gave them absolute management and disposal rights.
Due to the heavy workload assigned to the various foreign labor squadrons by the railway department in order to meet the deadline, many people could not bear the heavy workload. Many foreign laborers from North Korea and the South Seas clashed with these squadron leaders.
There were even riots at some construction sites, but there was a protest by foreign workers. Immediately suppressed, the Far Eastern Army, which was on guard along the railway line, quickly rushed to the construction site to quell the riots, and the soldiers used bayonets to kill the rioting foreign laborers, and then hung them near the railway line to show the public, with cold actions. It deterred all foreign workers.
In the years that followed, countless foreign laborers faced with whips and bayonets, working hard, sleeping only five or six hours a day, even in windy and rainy weather, they could not rest, and still braved the bad weather to be busy on the construction site.
According to the statistics of the company's labor department, at least a quarter of the nearly 300,000 foreign workers involved in the main artery of the Liaodong Railway have stayed there forever. Beneath almost every rail lies the remains of a migrant worker.
Along the main artery of the Liaodong Railway, there are dense cemeteries everywhere, and these cemeteries are buried with foreign laborers. This history has never been published, and as the years have eroded, these cemeteries have been difficult to find decades later.
Li Da took a deep breath, then calmed down his excitement, and said slowly: "Although there are many difficulties, we still overcome all kinds of difficulties in the end. I solemnly announce here that the main artery of the Liaodong Railway will be completed before the winter of this year! ”
After he finished speaking, he couldn't suppress his excitement, and people who were dozens of years old actually left tears in front of everyone.
Gao Jianguo, Li Ming, Wang He and others all stood up and began to applaud enthusiastically. The employees of the railway department have been working silently in the harsh black soil for several years, even in the extremely cold winter, they have not stopped, and still stick to the deserted white mountains and black waters.
After several years of hard work, the employees of the railway department have given a lot. In such an era, it is a miracle to be able to build a railway with a total length of more than 1,000 kilometers in five years.
After everyone's applause subsided, Li Da continued: "Of course, the main artery of the Liaodong Railway, compared with the railway in modern society, is just a simple single-track meter-gauge railway, but it has extremely important strategic significance for our Far East Company. It has also laid a very solid foundation for our Far East Company to thoroughly develop Liaodong and the Outer Northeast.
Based on this railway artery, our railway department will continue to improve the railway network in eastern Liaoning and the outer northeast. Next year, we will start construction of the Shenyang-Lushun and Shenyang-Guangning railways at the same time, and the Shenyang-Tongliao railway plan is also in the early exploration preparations. In addition, the five-year railway development plan for Liaodong has been formulated, and we will submit the plan to the board of directors for audit in the near future. ”
As soon as Li Da's words fell, all the standing committee members and members of the board committee present at the meeting once again stood up and gave warm applause. As we all know, even in modern society, railways are the main arteries of the national economy, the engine of economic growth, and an important part of the national strategic deployment. (To be continued......)
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