"The Northwest Railway Duplexing Project has been in progress for a while. Now the people of China Railway Company have reduced the import ratio of wood from New China, Brazil and other places, and have turned to purchase large quantities of Acacia wood from Hejian area in order to save money. For this reason, Ma Wanpeng and Blanco have complained to me once." Peng Zhicheng, a retired army veteran, former member of the Executive Committee, and now the National Railway Supervisor, stood on the land on the other side of the Wujiang River (i.e., the Hejian area), and said truthfully.

"Not only the railway, the upper group plans to use the hydraulic resources of Xia Daxing Waterfall (i.e. Grand Waterfall) to build some hydraulic-driven machines nearby. Anyway, the water flow here is abundant and it will not dry up. After repairing the hydraulic machine, it can start construction all year round, and the cost is still not high. You have seen the impact turbines on the Shipu Reservoir. They are running very well. There are now as many as 98 hydraulic machines that work stably. The total power of the machine that is effectively utilized has exceeded 800 horsepower (the theoretically generated horsepower is as high as 4,000, but unfortunately it cannot be used all of them). Although the cost of that reservoir slightly exceeds the budget and reaches 600,000 yuan, it seems very cost-effective in the long run." said Tang Yuan, a specialist at the Wujiang Regional Administration, who has been very effective in sports and slimming recently.

The total investment of Shipu Reservoir and its affiliated turbines, hydraulic winches, etc. has exceeded 600,000 yuan. It has been built for several years and has created considerable economic benefits. At present, there are many companies in the area that use turbines to drive machines, such as Shipu Arsenal (partially moved to the Dayuhe Arsenal has been moved here, specializing in processing cold weapons such as armor), Shipu Mint (all of the First Mint has been moved here), Wujiang Food Factory (milling noodles, oil pressing, etc. to digest massive local agricultural products), Tieling Special Steel Factory Branch, etc.

In addition, the local area has been mobilizing the right to collect labor labor (each person is 15 days a year, and wages are paid over the deadline), and the Wujiang Regional Administration has also recruited residents from neighboring Fuguo and Yong'an counties to come to the local area to perform labor labor. After several years of construction, they have built a large number of irrigation canals between Shipu Township and Suihua Township in neighboring counties. One of the irrigation main canals (using the original river channel to broaden, dredge, and also act as a canal) has reached more than 40 kilometers in length. It has now communicated more than 50 kilometers of existing river channels from Suihua Township to Sanhekou Township (can be navigated small boats, and has been widened and dredged). The Wujiang area then added this section of river channel to more than 50 kilometers of irrigation canals upstream, and the 45 kilometers of river sections of Sanbao-Shipu Township of the Corps together are collectively called the Wujiang irrigation main canal.

This irrigation main canal (also as a canal, water-elevating with turbines, and some river sections use steam to extract water) is 150 kilometers long, and has various functions such as flood storage, flood discharge, irrigation, and shipping (shipping only leads to Shipu Township). Large areas of farmland opened up on both sides of the Taiwan Strait suddenly became a top-notch irrigated land. Under the organization of regional administrations and county and township governments, local residents began to plant grains with high economic value such as rice to obtain benefits. In addition, they also transplanted a large number of local wild acacia trees, which were used to protect the berth, and on the other hand, they were used to refine fragrances, just like many people did on the acacia trees on the other side of the Wujiang River.

"Shangtou saw the sweetness in the construction of Shipu Reservoir. So he wanted to build a flood storage reservoir in the Daxing Waterfall area. Otherwise, the counties below would always yell that the flood threat was too great. When many land along the river was encountered with a lot of precipitation, the fish pond would be submerged. I have no choice..." Tangyuan looked at the white water surface in front of him with some depression and said.

After the Uruguay River winds from the birthplace of the northern mountain range, the river channel suddenly becomes wide and forms a large section of wide water surface here. The residents of Daxing County, who live nearby, call it "Baishuidian". The water demand of Baishuidian is extremely huge. Most of the time it is a resource that can be used, but in some years with more rainfall, there will inevitably be a big rise in water levels, which will lead to flooding downstream. Therefore, in order to completely cure the downstream flood, the rectification of Baishuidian is an unavoidable hurdle, and it is impossible to complete without huge investment.

"Build a flood storage reservoir near Daxing Waterfall?" Peng Zhicheng shook his head as soon as he heard this, and then said: "Although the narrowest section of this waterfall is only about one kilometer, the drop is not small, and the local geological conditions are not clear. To be honest, the manpower and material resources required to mobilize this reservoir is extremely large. I think the construction of Shipu Reservoir would have to be mobilized in nearly three counties. If Daxing Reservoir was to be built, wouldn't it be necessary to mobilize nationwide? How could this be possible? Our current national strength cannot afford such large-scale projects, and the engineering equipment, construction materials and funds are insufficient, so we can't do it. Let's be more realistic. Now it is still important to develop more forests on the west bank of the Wujiang River. The project of duplexing the Northwest Railway is at a critical moment. The demand for wood is extremely huge. If there is cheap Hejian wood, there is no need to use new Huaxia wood transported from afar."

While talking, the two walked along the river bank, and there were some winding terrain of Zhuangshan, which were mixed with a large number of water or swamps. Peng Zhicheng estimated that the locations they were now standing on the maps of later generations were probably all water towns and swamps. The construction of Grand Waterfall Dam led to an increase in the amount of water storage in Baishuitani, which flooded many swamps, Zhuangshan, sand dams and so on in this fashion. The terrain of these swamps or Zhuangshan was winding, and the water and water were all in harmony. During the mixed reeds and forests, there were many species of wild ducks and water birds, and occasionally capybara were seen. The land was a land of fish and rice, which looked like a rich place.

"Look at these twisty terrain of Zhuangang, agriculture is a problem." Peng Zhicheng pointed and said, "Not to mention anything else, these floods surrounded by Zhuangang will stay in the sinking depressions inside sandbanks or islands for several weeks before evaporation. This is also a planting of fur farmland! Even if we can organize people to dig ditches through Zhuangang to discharge accumulated water, and then expand the planting area of ​​many varieties of crops, the question is, is it necessary for us? There are a lot of wastelands in our country now, and they are still virgin lands that have not been developed for tens of thousands of years. Why should we go to Baishuidian to wading muddy water?"

"Old Peng, please don't tell me too much. Who said that you want to build an agricultural base here?" Tang Yuan was a little blushed when she heard this, and only heard him say: "What I thought was to set up a few more formal settlements in the Hejian area on the west bank of Baishuidian to develop rich local forest resources. There are many pine trees, willow trees, acacia trees, etc. There are many paper mills in Jingjiang County lower reaches of Wujiang. Now you see that there are more and more lumberjacks here. The grain cannot be transported all by outbound transportation, right? You still have to develop local agriculture to save resources as much as possible. But it's strange. Wujiang and Hejian areas are only separated by a river, but the west bank is densely packed with forests, and the east bank is only sparse and unsized small forests, most of which are grasslands. It's really strange, and I don't know what's going on..."

"But by the way, Lao Peng, don't underestimate Baishuidian." Tangyuan continued, "The year before yesterday, the entire basin of the lower reaches of Wujiang River was drought. The farmers in Daxing County drove livestock to Baishuidian in groups to the Baishuidian area for herd. At that time, the water in the depression surrounded by Zhuanggang could save a large number of livestock's lives. Besides, according to the experience summarized by the Ministry of Agriculture, if we build a dam-encircled sea protection project like the United Provinces, then these sandbanks or islands can also be used as a hinterland of these sandbanks or islands.

For standard agricultural land, well, the projects that need to be built include facilities to reinforce the bristle and prevent flooding. The grape plantations we have made on Jiangxinzhou or Jiangxin Island in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River have strong guiding significance. Baishuidian can fully explore these tasks. There are not many requirements. As long as we can provide a large amount of local loggers' daily consumption of grain, vegetables and meat, and plant some fast-growing trees according to local conditions to supply downstream wood processing plants, wooden craft workshops and paper mills for production needs."

Speaking of which, in recent years, Jingjiang County, the lower reaches of Wujiang, has developed a series of industries mainly based on wood processing. Among them, Jingjiang Paper Mill is a large wood consumer, and a large number of private wooden crafts/furniture workshops, wood processing factories and other enterprises have consumed quite a lot of pine trees, willow trees, acacia trees, and acacia trees. Naturally, we can only find a way to go to Hejian area. Because the trees on the east bank of Wujiang are very sparse and there is no time to protect them, how can we go to the random logging process?

As a result, some people who are active in China began to contact the famous labor brokers Mendes, Valentino and others to recruit workers in the Old Continent, and then cut down forests in the Hejian area. This activity has lasted for seven or eight years. To date, the number of loggers active in the Hejian area (mainly concentrated in the area near the Wujiang area) has reached 10,000 or 20,000 (including many Crandy workers), providing a large amount of wood for Jingjiang County downstream, the Northwest Railway duplex project under construction and the Southwest Railway, which is of great significance.

As there are many people, they naturally need many full-time farmers to farm for them to provide food. The Xiangsi Township on the other side of Daxing Port is a place. Songliu Township on the west side of Baishuidian (located in the Federicion area of ​​Argentina in later generations, which is a spontaneous settlement) is also a place. The land is mainly based on the cutting and rough processing of the pine trees, willows, and acacia trees that are not in the Acacia Township. The ground that has been cut down is now cleaned up like the south. Many old Italian and Scottish laborers could not cut down the trees, so they settled and planted the land on the spot to provide food for the surrounding logging camps of all sizes.

These elderly and weak lumberjacks are basically proletarians who cannot survive in Europe. They are single or come to Hejian area with their families across the sea, and they cherish the land they can obtain (in fact, no one cares about it at all, you can develop it to be your land). Many people have built many embankments on the Zhuanggang terrain near Baishuidian, surrounding their own land or ponds to avoid floods (can also cope with the impact of drought). Tangyuan and others saw this

The efforts of some people have moved the idea of ​​the state to build larger-scale and higher-level dams on the basis of the existing dams they built, and to completely turn Baishuidian into a reservoir that benefits the people of the East Coast. This may take ten or even decades, and the investment is extremely large. However, if you don’t do some things, it will never be completed. The lower reaches of Wujiang will also be affected by irregular floods. What should I do? The Executive Committee will have to make the decision. (~^~)
Chapter completed!