CH 260

While Lin Wen was busy with the beauty, the resettlement work of the refugees in Changshan County officially entered the crucial stage.

Huang Mingxiao and Yang Shaohu mobilized all the spare forces of the refugee committee, gathered about 800,000 people, and conducted a comprehensive cleaning of the 29 mountain buildings.

Due to the mountain itself blocking the buildings, they first carried out blasting work on the outer mountain.

Among the refugees, there were experts in directional blasting, professional miners, and even convicted mine owners.

They were brought from Fang Yaobo's prison to make amends for their crimes.

Of course, they were very dissatisfied with this.

"Even if we committed a crime in Zezhou, who gave Changshan County the right to manage us?"

But when the gun was in someone else's hands, they could only complain and honestly make amends for their crimes.

Under their command, the mountain blasting was successful, and millions of tons of rubble fell outward without damaging the inner mountain buildings.

Subsequently, dozens of excavators and trucks came to remove the rubble.

Tens of thousands of people entered the buildings to carry out the cleaning work.

The main task of cleaning the mountain buildings was to deal with the rubble that remained inside the buildings. The refugee engineers in the committee estimated that each building had about 500,000 to 900,000 tons of rubble.

Due to the narrow passages, they couldn't accommodate too many people working.

The cadres came up with a solution: each mountain building had 25 floors, and each floor had two windows, allowing people to climb in and throw the rubble out of the windows.

This meant that 25 floors were working simultaneously, effectively increasing the efficiency by 25 times.

To ensure safety, they bypassed the mountain, fixed a basket at the top of the mountain, lowered people down, and then entered the building through the windows on each floor.

They also set up a quarantine area below to prevent anyone from passing through and getting hit by the thrown stones.

Only by going up the mountain could one witness the magnificence and incredibility of this architectural complex.

It was like a great force of nature from an unknown source, drawing a circle in this mountain range, and 30 connected high-rise buildings were completed.

Huang Mingxiao still couldn't believe it. What kind of construction team could create such a miraculous project?

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If they could dissolve the stones, then how did they precisely cut the stones of a mountain into small pieces like drawing lines on a construction site?

Moreover, the load-bearing structure of the buildings was also incredibly unbelievable. Some buildings still contained millions of tons of stones, yet the buildings did not collapse or suffer structural damage.

Lian Mei thought it through: "As long as Sheriff Lin has a way, it's fine. Who knows what the development of imperial technology has become."

Yang Shaohu nodded in agreement.

"In my grandfather's generation, they couldn't even imagine things like television, broadcasting, and wireless communication. They thought it was human fantasy."

"My father's generation still can't understand what a computer is, let alone the internet."

Huang Mingxiao laughed, "Let alone your father, I don't even know. In Changshan County, the most people who have come into contact with a computer are probably in the network technology department."

"I heard they even took out some old computers and opened an internet cafe."

Lian Mei chuckled, "No one went there at all. It's not even possible to charge 1 yuan per hour. I remember the internet cafes in the imperial capital charged 6 yuan per hour. Only the old men in the propaganda department occasionally go, and they play some game and often end up arguing with red faces."

Upon hearing this, Yang Shaohu said thoughtfully, "Sheriff Lin said that Changshan County also needs to modernize. Perhaps in the near future, computers and the internet will also become popular in Changshan County."

Everyone laughed, shaking their heads, finding it hard to imagine.

However, that was a long-term development. The primary task at the moment was still to resettle the refugees.

The cleaning work of the buildings was much more difficult than imagined. The further they went, the larger the stones inside the mountain buildings became, as if the construction team's chemical solvent was becoming scarcer and had to be saved.

By the time they reached the last mountain building, the cleaning work inside was completely whole stones, without any division.

Helplessly, the cleaning work of the last building had to be postponed, and they could only prioritize cleaning the easier parts.

Even so, the difficulties were much greater than imagined.

In three days, they increased the number of workers to over a million, optimized and reformed the cleaning work multiple times, greatly improving efficiency, but only managed to clean the outermost two buildings.

These were the two buildings with the smallest rubble and the simplest work.

Eleven buildings were only half cleaned, and the remaining sixteen buildings were extremely difficult.

The stones inside were too large, and they often needed multiple people to move a single stone. As the work progressed, the farther the distance to throw the stones, the lower the efficiency.

Some stones had to be broken apart before they could be thrown.

For safety, the two shifts alternated between rest and work. When one group was throwing stones, the other rested, and vice versa.

In this way, over a million people were busy on this construction site with a total area of over 4.5 million square meters.

Despite the great difficulties and hard work, they remained enthusiastic and worked hard. Once inside the mountain, they stayed there for several days, doing nothing but working and sleeping, eating and drinking in the rubble. Food and water were sent down by the basket.

There were also some uplifting news.

After a careful survey by professionals, it was believed that the total usable area inside each mountain building reached 150,000 square meters.

On average, each floor had about 6,000 square meters. If the maximum population living method was used, one building could accommodate 160,000 people, four times the original capacity.

The extremely high population density would inevitably bring about harsh living conditions.However, it was different in the mountain building. Although it was crowded, the living facilities were complete. After the water supply came, Changshan County urgently purchased thousands of electric water heaters so that they could take hot baths.

There were also tens of thousands of boxes of sulfur soap, allowing them to better clean their bodies, kill bacteria, and parasites.

For the refugees, this was the fourth most important thing after food, clean water, and medicine. In addition to hygiene, it was the best way to relieve stress.

Nothing was more comfortable and relaxing than taking a hot bath after a long period of labor.

More importantly, it also made large-scale population gatherings tolerable and reduced the chances of disease transmission.

As life went on, the refugees were surprised to find that this seemingly primitive cave was actually much better than they had imagined.

There was no seepage, good ventilation, and living together with many people, although there were no **, there was a sense of security, and it was even warm at night.

Although the passages seemed narrow, they were well connected, making it very convenient to go upstairs, downstairs, to the toilet, canteen, or bathhouse.

Living together with over a hundred thousand people had actually formed a feeling of a small society.

And this society was visibly improving at a rapid pace.

They trimmed the uneven surfaces, added new public facilities, turned the slide-like roads into stairs, added tables and chairs in the canteen, increased the number of pits in the toilets to relieve the embarrassment of waiting a long time to defecate, and so on.

A simple market trade even formed in the building. They usually set up stalls in the canteen after dinner, mostly using barter to exchange for the items they needed.

The three buildings were all the same, without government guidance, without external influence, and all spontaneously formed the same social model.

This phenomenon caught the attention of Xiao Xiao. After a careful investigation, he believed that this primitive social economy should also be managed by the Development and Reform Commission.

In addition to collecting taxes, they should also specify commodity prices according to the standards of the Development and Reform Commission, and set up urban management in the building to regulate the problem of disorderly placement.

This ridiculous behavior was quickly stopped by Lei Tiantong, who held three positions.

He convinced Xiao Xiao with just one sentence: "We should replace it with an external market economy instead of managing it."

Different from the combination with the Finance Department, where his main role was to supervise Old Xie to prevent him from going the wrong way.

Here, he had to suppress Xiao Xiao's overly active imagination.

As long as he didn't go off track, Xiao Xiao did have talent. Under his management, the market order in Changshan County basically returned to normal, and private transactions became very active. The number of small businesses and vendors in Huaizhen jumped from less than a thousand three months ago to two hundred thousand now. Things like commercial streets and large shopping malls that used to only exist in big cities gradually took shape in Huaizhen.

Even some small companies and enterprises from other places moved to Changshan County for development.

Because Xiao Xiao reduced corporate taxes and provided subsidies for foreign companies to settle, and although Changshan County was inconvenient in transportation, it had complete infrastructure, developed water transportation, and relatively stable prices, which was also acceptable.

Gradually, the once unknown Huaizhen began to take on the appearance of a second or third-tier city, and the tax revenue of Changshan County reached as much as 150 million per month.

This was also thanks to the planning and construction of Huaizhen.

Currently, Huaizhen had officially merged with Donghe Town, becoming a medium-sized city with a population of nearly a million and an area of over two thousand square kilometers.

Its infrastructure was complete, and internal transportation was convenient. The central ring road system (East Central Ring, West Central Ring, North Central Ring, and South Central Ring) and the secondary ring road system were basically completed, and buses could reach any point in Huaizhen.

Over a hundred new or expanded parks and squares were built, and all old streets and roads were extensively renovated. About five thousand old houses were demolished, and new roads, large residential areas, and shopping malls were built on the original sites.

The speed of change in Huaizhen could only be described as a miracle. In addition to the hard work of over five hundred thousand laborers and endless accumulation of money, there was an even more important leader to complete the overall planning.

Zhao Minggong, the sleeping dragon.

In just over three months, he established the foundation of the entire development system and unfolded all the blueprints in front of everyone.

It wasn't just Huaizhen; all areas of Changshan County changed because of him.

Even the western region, which was covered with towering mountains, had a future development plan.

It was just waiting for someone to inherit it in the future.

All administrative affairs of Changshan County were in good order under his leadership. In the early days when no one was in charge, most departments were restored to normal because of him.

He promoted many truly capable and willing cadres from countless inconspicuous staff. They all withstood the test in the subsequent organization and became outstanding talents.

Because of this, Zhao Lao was respected by everyone in the county government hall, and his transcendent status was not replaceable by anyone.

However, his life had come to an end.

This was his third time in the intensive care unit this month, and the attending physician had tried everything, but there was still no improvement.

The hospital director came out to announce this news to everyone. Although everyone was sad, they had long expected it and could only prepare for his funeral.

Only the people from the propaganda department were excited. They were preparing a huge propaganda campaign and wanted to take advantage of Zhao Lao's death to promote themselves and elevate their status.

Meanwhile, Lin Wen was in a remote area in Zhongzhou, killing a large group of corrupt officials and bandits who had killed nearly a thousand refugees on this road.

After an afternoon of gun battles, the angry Lin Wen used means such as seeing through walls and locking onto targets to kill them all.Although he had gained quite a few good karmic ties, in the midst of the fierce battle, Lin Wen lost control and killed a few not-so-evil individuals.

Indiscriminate killing, bad karma +2.

Damn!