In fact, although the Executive Committee has set the tone of expanding fiscal policy and conducting infrastructure in China, their funds are actually not infinite, so the number of projects is actually limited for at least a period of time. Another point is that even if the Executive Committee has determined to make large-scale investments in a region (such as the upper reaches of the Parana River), which region and county are invested is a very particular thing, which often determines the living gap between tens of thousands of people in each county for at least 30 years in the future.

So, you can understand now what kind of resentment does the cadres in Beining have when the project is snatched away by people in Hejian. Especially those counties that have not yet obtained any decent project to be implemented, their eyes are even more jealous and extremely jealous.

Well, let's see what the project was stolen by the Hejian area: it is actually very simple. It is a branch invested and built by the state-owned Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, called Iguasu Agricultural Machinery Factory. It is located in the Iguasu County on the main road. It specializes in the production of agricultural tools, blade tools, scissors, shoe nails, horseshoes, pots, iron bars, steel bars, plowshares, etc. However, it is said that in the future, the production of agricultural machinery such as horse pullers and seeds will also be transferred here. The factory headquarters in Dafeng Township will focus on steam plows, steam tractors and other relatively high-end mechanical equipment.

This prospect of the Iguasu Agricultural Machinery Factory naturally attracted Hejian. Many people in the Beining area were attracted by it and regarded it as a hot commodity. They must try to grab it into their own bowls and then quickly. As a result, in the end of the competition, the Iguasu County, which had relatively good conditions, finally laughed and successfully grabbed the factory. It is said that in the process of competition, the opinions of some technicians from the Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory who were intended to be dispatched to work played a key role. Compared with other poor counties, the climate and environment are quite good, and the catering and entertainment industries are also relatively developed, it can be more favored by their families, so the matter was settled.

If the fall of Iguasu Agricultural Machinery Factory in Hejian made the cadres in Beining sigh, then the legendary news that an inland river shipyard will be built in the port of Iguasu has made some people even more crazy. This factory is said to be jointly opened by the Iguasu County Government, Modern Special Ship Factory and Private New Star Shipyard. Its main business is to build various inland river transport ships and fishing boats, and at the same time provide maintenance services for all types of ships coming and going, with a considerable scale and investment amount.

After the establishment of these two factories, it can be said that they will not have to worry about business, and there are a large number of nearby markets waiting for them to occupy. At that time, they will also be surrounded by a circle of small workshops and small businesses to help them and provide supporting facilities. This will have a very obvious effect on the attractiveness of the population and the economic promotion. It is worthy of being a project that several counties are about to grab the brains of their dogs, which is indeed enviable.

"Haha, it's a pity that some industrial projects were taken away by others, but is it as for being so depressed?" Xu Yu saw that the cadres of Gaoguo County looked like they were betrayed, and they immediately said with some amusement: "Actually, to be honest, the development of the Hejian area was earlier than ours, the population was more than ours, and the transportation conditions were better than ours. Iguazu County even received a large investment from the central government because of its geographical location. The market was extremely prosperous and the scenery was beautiful. It is understandable that some projects were chosen there. Why can't you understand? Compared with Iguazu County, Gaoguo County or Bowang County, do you have any special advantages?"

Xu Yu took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a match, and then continued: "Speaking of the matter, this pot still has to be carried to poor traffic conditions. You can calculate how many difficulties and obstacles have to be overcome from the core area along the La Plata River to the Gaoguo Port Pier? How much is the cost to increase sharply than the area south of the Port of Iguazu? Speaking of which, it is already very good to be willing to invest in such projects in our Beining area! The boat lifting machine on the Parana River channel has not been built, the riverbed has not been pioneered, and the dredging is now the executive committee has great care and concern for us. Is it difficult to turn this bend?"

After saying that, Xu Yu smiled, turned around and ran to the construction site on the banks of the Tiete River to watch the construction scene. This is the lower reaches of the Tiete River, which flows into the Parana River. Because of the mud and other factors carried by the river water in the upper reaches, the riverbed is a little shallow and the river channel is also silted a little severely. If you do not take the control promptly, not only will you not be able to sail, but the river water will also flood on both sides of the river during the flood season every year, which affects the agricultural farming of this area. Of course, some people say that after the flooded river water recedes, the soil in the floodplain on both sides is extremely fertile and covered with tender and juicy forage grass. That is another matter. Therefore, the Beining Regional Administration plans to mobilize the people of Gaoguo and Bowang nearby to take a certain amount of time every year (dry winter) to clear the river channel to strengthen the river's flooding capacity and of course it also has navigation capabilities.

To be honest, the Tiete River is still very important to the Beining region. It is not only reflected in agricultural irrigation and domestic water, but also in transportation. But the Tiete River is also tragic. This long river has many shallows, rapids, and waterfalls. It is impossible to let a boat open from beginning to end, unless you build many locks and lifts, but the cost is too high. The Beining region is unable to bear it and there is no such plan in the local area.

However, although the Title River cannot be fully connected, this does not mean that it has no navigation capacity at all. After all, we can still sail in sections, such as the lower reaches of the Title River. From the place where it flows into the Parana River to the nearest waterfall upstream, there are dozens of kilometers that can be navigated, which is unreasonable if it is not used. Therefore, the Beining Regional Administrative Office mobilized Gao Guo and thousands of people in Bowang and the two counties to dig rivers in winter and spring. They wanted to transform this section of the river to make use of it.

Because this part of the river section has been lacking in care for many years, it is actually never available in history. The "pure nature" is still very labor-intensive to repair. The first thing you have to face is some large and small sand crusts in the center of the river. The existence of these sand crusts not only makes the silt and sand accumulate, but also makes the channel narrower and more scattered. Therefore, the primary task of cleaning the river is how to make these sand crusts (also including the shoals submerged underwater) no longer affect the navigation of ships.

According to the consistent strategy of people on the east coast to clear rivers, the Qingtang Army series of steam dredgers were mainly used to deal with the shallows under the water. It is a special ship that has been used for many years and is well received by users. As for those sandbars exposed to the water, they can only be dug out bit by bit with picks and shovels. There is no other way.

However, in the Beining area where the population is not very dense, mobilizing manpower to dig sandbars is not a simple task, because the workload cannot be said to be very small. You should know that the sandbars of all sizes are hundreds of meters wide and tens of meters narrow, which is even more exaggerated in length, and there are many kilometers apart. Therefore, the Parana River, which has a considerable workload, also faces this problem, and there are also many sandbars there.

So, what should we do in the face of such a situation? It is a good way to cut bends and straighten the old rivers and dig new rivers to avoid sandbanks, but this also requires a lot of people to do it. It is not very realistic for the Beining area. So what should we do? This problem once plagued the people of Beining for a long time, until the people from the Engineering and Technology Institute proposed a brand new method of channel dredging.

Engineers from the Engineering and Technology Research Institute had already come to Gaoguo County a while ago. Their people said that they needed to dig a parallel trench as narrow as possible along the Tiet River channel, and set up rectangular ponds, trenches and pond sizes at intervals on both sides. They were estimated and measured by the technicians of the Engineering Institute based on the flow rate of the river (mainly the flow rate when the flood broke out in summer and autumn).

When the flood pours down from the upper reaches in summer and autumn, the connection between the narrow groove and the river channel is completely opened, and the rushing river water rotates and drains down, eroding a brand new and wide waterway, perfectly avoiding the sandbar in the center of the river channel. It sounds like a very creative and relatively low-cost method, which is very suitable for implementation in the Beining area.

Of course, people from the Engineering and Technology Research Institute also warned that this method also has disadvantages: First, floods are easily lost control and then erode a channel that is biased from the planned direction; on the other hand, a large amount of topsoil and bottom silt wash down, and sometimes new silt bodies will form downstream, and at this time, as the river channel widens, the water flow is no longer enough to move them again.

People in Beining listened carefully to the opinions of professionals from the Engineering Academy and finally decided to broaden the river channel according to their methods. They had no choice. There were only people in Gaoguo and Bowang counties. It was already very hard to pioneer in the daily life. It was really not easy to go up the river during the dry winter. Therefore, there is a way to broaden the river channel that saves labor and costs, so they naturally adopted it without hesitation. Even though there are some side effects and shortcomings, it doesn’t matter. Let’s talk about it later.

People from the Engineering and Technology Research Institute are also very happy about this because they have proposed this method (or imagined) for two or three years, but have never been used on any canal in the east coast. Therefore, they are now eager to know whether this method is good or not, what are the shortcomings they did not expect in actual applications, and how to make up for it. Now that Beining is willing to use their new technology to broaden the river channel, it is naturally better.

At this time, many people were digging such a trench on the north bank of the Tiete River. Xu Yu walked around with his hands behind his back and felt a little moved. At least, in later generations, he had never heard of this method to broaden the river! His family lived in the Yangtze River Delta. I remember that every winter when he was a child, the adults would bring tools to the river to dig trench. At that time, it was organized by the county government, which only provided a lunch, and even brought other labor tools by themselves. In the absence of large-scale machinery, all work could only be done by manual work, which was really not easy.

Sometimes there was snow in the sky, and everyone had to go down to the bottom of the riverbed covered with wooden boards and reed mats (not much river water had been taken away by the drainage canal), and dig the mud with shovels one by one. Therefore, in his original imagination, he could only dig the river like this, and there was no other way. But who would have thought that in this time and space of the 17th century, the engineers of the Institute of Engineering and Technology had come up with such a solution, which really surprised him.

In fact, this situation has become uncommon in recent years. The Institute of Natural Sciences, Institute of Engineering and Technology and other research institutions of large state-owned factories always launch some wonderful ideas or technological improvement plans that surprise time travelers, some of which were rejected, and some were adopted by time travelers responsible for scientific research. Xu Yu once talked to one of them, and the time travelers who have passed away now bluntly told him that the students of the Institute of Engineering and Academy of Sciences are priceless because they are not like the scientific and technological workers who have traveled through time in later generations, their thoughts are bound by rules and regulations. Their thinking is imaginative, and they can better design and study some more "unexpected" things based on existing technology, materials and processing levels, and are often very practical.

Xu Yu didn't feel anything about these before, but when he thought about it, he sighed a lot: It seems that the most precious thing about the development of national science to this day is not how many black technologies the time travelers have created, but that they have established a social atmosphere that attaches importance to science and technology, and then strictly protects inventions and creation patents in the system, and does not hesitate to pay more attention. Finally, of course, they have established a large-scale education system, including schools and research institutions opened by the government, as well as vocational schools and training schools of major state-owned enterprises. These are the most critical factors for the country to continue to develop forward and to get rid of the old continental countries. As for how many advanced things the time travelers have left, it is all in detail. It is more important to the country in the short term, but in the long run, the system currently established is more critical. It is the core driving force for the older generation to continue to lead the trend after the time travelers pass by.
Chapter completed!