Vol 3 Chapter 218: Ordinary world

The Qinling Mountains traverses the central part of China, from the south of Gansu to the west, and from the south of Shaanxi to the west of Henan. The main body is located at the junction of southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan and runs east-west, about 1500 kilometers long. It is an important watershed between the river system and the Yangtze River system.
To the north is the fertile Guanzhong Plain, and to the south is the narrow Hanshui Valley. The main peak of the Qinling Mountain is Taibai Mountain at an altitude of 3767 meters. Most of the mountains are fold fault blocks.
It has always been said that Qinling is respected as the dragon vein of the Chinese civilization.
During the period of the Southwest United Government, railway construction was a major event related to economic and social development. After the Kunming-Fangcheng Railway of Fangchenggang, which is directly out of the sea, was built in the 1920s, the Kunming-Guizhou Railway was successively built. It is Chengdu-Kunming Railway, Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, Cheng-Yi Railway.
In 1931, the Guangzhou-Nanning Railway was opened to traffic. In 1932, the railway from Nanning to Hunan was repaired at the junction of Hubei and Guangzhou.
After national reunification, the construction of highways and railways has been put on the most important government work agenda. To build a new China and make the first five-year economic plan blowout, transportation must be one of the places that need the most efforts. Looking at the whole country, the transportation in the southwest is the best. In addition to the railway system that runs through the whole southwest, the construction of highway hubs is also very complete, especially in Sichuan and Yunnan, which are particularly developed. For example, in Sichuan, there are three light expressways, Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, Chengdu-Mianyang Expressway, and Chengdu-Yibin Expressway. After more than five years of construction, Kunming, Yibin's Kunyi Expressway, which was finally opened to traffic in 1932, was finally opened to traffic, going straight north, and the expressway was able to reach Mianyang all the way. This also means that the construction of basic roads in the entire southwest has reached the forefront of the country, and even a small part of the western region has a huge economic leverage-transportation.
After all, this is Zhang Shusheng's great achievement after nearly 20 years of construction in the southwest.
In addition to the best transportation in the southwest, the transportation in the southeast and the north is very good, the terrain is flat, the geological composition is not complicated, and it is suitable for rapid road repair. The original highway system is not backward. Most areas in the southeast and north can be connected to counties and counties. The new transportation construction will be the same as that in the southwest. That is, before 1939, it was guaranteed to be synchronized with the southwest. In the north, southeast, and coastal areas, all towns and villages had access to highways. In terms of railways, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway will be rebuilt, newly repaired and opened to traffic in five years. The old Beijing-Hanzhou Railway and the soon-to-be-completed Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway built from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China were difficult to meet the needs of the new China. While transforming the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway and the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, repairing the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge will be Key projects. On the whole, the construction is not difficult. The reconstruction project is mainly due to the fact that only a quarter of the construction volume of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway is left. Other work will focus on the reconstruction and the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge.
In addition to the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway to ensure full traffic, the Wuhan-Hanjing Railway, the Hanjing-Shanghai Railway, and the Longhai Railway built on the basis of the original Zhengtai Railway will be another construction + reconstruction aorta (Lanzhou, Gansu-Lianyungang, Jiangsu) ).
Finally, the Lanxin Line, the Lanzhou-Urumqi railway line will be the latest railway line to be opened to traffic. As the construction of the entire line is equally difficult and there is no railway foundation, it is expected to reach the end of the first five-year plan. The year can only be opened to traffic.
In this way, it seems that the number of newly-built traffic projects in New China is huge and the projects are numerous, but the actual situation is only: Baocheng Line, Lanxin Line, and Longhai Line require great efforts. The rest are either reconstruction or connection. Close a section between two cities.
The construction of key railways at the same time is a big effort, which reflects the government's determination to build. Compared with the later period of liberation, the project volume has doubled. However, in addition to the three railway lines, the Baocheng line is too dangerous to use a large number of local people to participate in the construction. Both the Lanxin line and the Longhai line can use a large number of local people to participate in foundation building and handling. You know, in the same period of Soviet Russia, almost the same method was used when roads were built. The road was dug in the front to build the foundation, and the rails and sleepers were transported to the rear to start laying. This speed is extremely amazing. Especially in the densely populated Longhai Line, the speed of railway construction will be very fast. Relatively speaking, the Lanxin line will be much slower.
These railway projects began quickly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1933, especially the Baocheng Line, which directly used the former southwest railway engineering army. Due to the Guangyuan-Chengdu railway foundation, the entire Baocheng line can be divided into Guangyuan and Baoji at the same time. In order to ensure the progress of the project, New China started many industrial layouts in the same period in Baoji, such as Baoji Iron and Steel Base, Baoji Cement Plant, Baoji Locomotive Plant, etc., but in the direction of Guangyuan, it is simpler. The railroad tracks, cement, and even ready-made culverts are concentrated to the north. Therefore, the progress in Guangyuan is the fastest. The method of simultaneous construction at multiple points is adopted. After half a year after the founding of the PRC, Yangping Pass was repaired from Guangyuan and arrived directly Lueyang, this speed is very scary, with a railway mileage of more than 140 kilometers, it took only half a year to build it. But the premise is that the huge industrial base, engineering machinery, and railway construction army of more than 60,000 people were used in the southwest. Although this is the highest record in the later generations, a construction group has started multi-line construction, and thousands of kilometers are repaired a year, but it is a record in China at this time. After all, the road from Guangyuan to Lueyang is also very difficult. The Baocheng Line, repaired in the next five years, also took 5 years to open to traffic. During the same period, the construction machinery, technology, and materials of the Baocheng Line were much more advanced, and the line survey did not take too long. The superiors issued the most detailed construction drawings that had been compared and compared on the spot.
That was the work that started in 1931. At that time, Zhang Shusheng issued a batch of detailed survey data for the Baocheng Line to the Ministry of Communications, only to say that it was a route map bought from a foreign road science team and organized by the Ministry of Communications. The personnel spent three months on the field retesting and comparison, which proved to be reliable and effective.
Lu Zheng is a reporter from Bashu Daily. Since receiving the mission of the newspaper to interview Baocheng Line, he has rushed to Guangyuan by himself and met his assistant. After the local guide Bei Yingming, he quickly set off to transport and build the road. The locomotive of the material goes to Yangyang via Yangping Pass.
"Lao Bei, I heard that the construction of this Baocheng line is the most difficult in China and even Asia?" Before he came, Lu Zheng badly filled up a lot of information about the Baocheng line, but he had very little information. He only knew this Baocheng line. It is a national first-level key project, and tens of thousands of road builders cannot rest even in winter, and the cold winter is fighting on the road front.
He also found from news reports that the Baocheng Line is a railway costing nearly 400 million yuan. It adopts the entire line electrification design. In order to consider the ecology, increase the speed, and reduce the mileage of the railway, a multi-hole + bridge approach has been adopted. . Among them, overseas Chinese donations reached nearly 50 million.
There is also data about the construction works in the direction of Guangyuan of the Baocheng Line. The construction machinery alone concentrates about 30 machines in the southwest, which is a very large number.
"Yes, it ’s very difficult to build a Qinling mountain. It ’s hard to put people in the sky, not to mention the entire Asia. Looking at the whole world, you ca n’t find many such first-class and one-different railways." Bei Yingming was originally prepared I opened a travel agency, but after receiving a newspaper reporter for a long time, I turned into a special media guide.
The two were talking. The noise of the locomotive moving at night came from outside. It was not too loud. This was the benefit of the electrified railway. Although electrified railways appeared in foreign countries in 1879, in China, the construction of electrified railways in complex places such as Qinling is a great test of the new Chinese railway technology. At present, at least Chengdu has gone all the way to Lueyang. Let the locomotive pass.
Soon after dawn, the locomotive pulling only a few sections of railroad passed the Yangping Pass, and one hour later arrived at Lueyang. The two got out of the car and set off towards the true depths of the Qinling Mountains. For the team's small rail vehicles, slightly further north, the railway is temporarily closed.
After another half-day's rush, the two finally entered the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, the altitude became higher and higher, and the mountain became more and more dangerous.
"Lao Lu, you can't go any further. The place in front of you is a hill ."
Lu Zheng and Bei Yingming got off the railcar and stood halfway up the mountain. They could see the hills one kilometer in front. The road construction team was punching eyes at the extremely difficult mid-mountainside. Occasionally, there was a rumbling sound of gunfire. Immediately See the boulder splash and fall into the abyss.
"Although the design of the Baocheng Line is based on the design of multiple tunnels and bridges, many places have to adopt the design of climbing up and down the mountain. Hours."
Bei Yingming raised his finger to the mountainside in front, and we can see that many road construction workers are busy on the mountain road. There are many cars, carriages, and rickshaws coming and going on the mountainside road.
Although there is no snow in Qinling Mountain today, it has fallen a lot a few days ago. The green mountains can be seen almost half of the snow, but even so, road construction has not stopped.
At the side of Lu Zheng, railroad tracks are being laid. Many workers of the Southwest Railway Bureau are lifting railways from rail vehicles or unloading them from cars, and then laying on the foundations that have been completed and compacted. On the roadbed. The land-based pebbles were all covered with a thick layer of snow. Bei Yingming said that these pebbles were pulled from the valley stream.
"So lively scene."
What Lu Zheng saw was the construction site of tens of thousands of people. The immensely steep Qinling Mountains did not stop these hardworking road builders. As soon as the snow stopped, the road construction work was quickly resumed.
"Let's go and look ahead."
The two immediately proceeded, walking along the sidewalk of the mountain, advancing hard among the mountains. After a while, it was a temporary rest place for workers, and also a place for workers to stay in the mountains.
A large woodland that has been emptied out contains about two hundred simple tents. The military green is much like the military tent that Lu Zheng has ever seen. There are no grown-ups in the tent, but many children can be seen running around, warming their hands while playing in the snow.
There was a sound of reading in the large camp.
"Tianmen interrupted the opening of the Chu River, and the clear water flowed back to the east. The green hills on both sides of the strait came out opposite each other, and the lone sail came to the sun ..."
"Little guy, reading in the cold, isn't it cold?"
Lu Zheng turned to a large tent, but saw an eight- or nine-year-old girl sitting in front of a charcoal basin, reading a book, with a focused look, and noticing that outsiders came.
"It's not too cold." The girl pointed to the charcoal basin, and was a little taciturn toward strangers. Lu Zheng walked to the tent and saw that there was a little guy wrapped in a small bed not far behind the charcoal basin, about two or three years old.
"What's your name? Would your uncle look at your textbook?"
"Well ... my name is Ye Xiaojing."
"Relax, your uncle won't get dirty, haha." Lu Zheng took off his gloves. The child apparently went to school elsewhere. He is familiar with such textbooks, and now they are used all over the country. Although education in New China is free, there are many places where it is necessary. In schools, simple education and frugal education have always been well grasped. The child originally read an ancient poem "Wang Tianmen Mountain", a textbook for the third grade of elementary school.
Perhaps because of the education they received at school, girls were not afraid of giving birth, and answered a few questions. It turned out that these children were the children of road construction workers. The workers were busy building roads and had no time to return to the nearby cities to visit the children. The government sent the children to the workers' gathering points during the winter vacation and returned to school after the New Year to continue their classes. The children of these railway workers, as long-term parents are not around, usually live in school and can study at ease and have nothing to worry about.
When Lu Zheng asked him about his father and where he is currently working, she stood up, walked to the camp, and pointed to the cliff opposite. It turned out that her father was a blaster and her mother was a blaster. The two were in a group, and they were responsible for drilling holes and firing on the cliff all day.
"Uncle, Dad said, when the railway is repaired, we can go to Xi'an to see the ancient city walls by train."
Lu Zheng nodded and was very moved. The child managed to take a winter vacation, but he could only gather with his parents at night.
"Xiao Jing, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I want to be a railway worker."
"why?"
"When my parents are old, I can continue to build roads so that they are old and can take the train to Lhasa to watch the sunrise. In the textbooks, the sunrise in Lhasa is beautiful."
Lu Zheng ’s eyes are slightly moist. According to Bei Yingming, due to the special period, there are many cases where parents like this are railway workers. Many people are destined to fight all their lives in the wilderness in order to let New China Traffic can be extended in all directions.
The railway workers couldn't tell too much about the road, so they had to tell the children that the railway would be repaired and they would be able to go to Xi'an to see the ancient city walls. The children thought that in the future, if they had repaired the railway, they could let their parents go to Lhasa to watch the sunrise. .
After bidding farewell to Ye Xiaojing, the two continued down the mountain and saw many soldiers with guns in the distance.
"That was the Japanese prisoners of war. In the direction of Guangyuan across the Baocheng Railway, in addition to more than 50,000 Chinese workers, there were more than 40,000 Japanese prisoners of war. They were doing the hardest and hardest work."
Looking from Lu Zheng's direction, below the direction of the bottom of the valley, you can see that Japanese people are working like ants, and they are using their labor to atone for the crimes in the war.
"Over the country, there are more than 400,000 Japanese soldiers and more than 300,000 arrested armed diasporas participating in labor reform ~ EbookFREE.me ~ On the railway side, from the Longhai Line to the Baocheng Line, there are Their figure. "
The following week, Lu Zheng and Bei Yingming stayed on Qin Ling, watching Qin Ling's bustling construction site, this kind of construction far away from the hustle and bustle, deeply moved Lu Zheng, this is not the first time he interviewed On a construction site, as a reporter of Bashu Daily, he visited dozens of large and small construction sites. These sites, which were listed as key projects during the first five-year plan, have once moved him, but only The road builders on the Baocheng Line deeply moved him.
"After this interview mission is completed, it is time to go to the construction site of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. I should write more press releases to reflect the bitterness and dedication of these road construction workers who are far away from people's sight and let the entire nation They all remember their contribution to the rise of New China. "
Lu Zheng decided that he would use his career in recent years to record ordinary workers.
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There are still a few chapters about World War II. Some key plots are written very hard, leading to a break yesterday. Today, because of his wife's birthday, having dinner with some of her colleagues, it is very late. Sorry, write the next chapter for overtime: Chapter 219 The Oriental Airborne Forces ()