Chapter 268 Goodness is rewarded (for the leader Ye Heng
Xia Xue stayed in Yu Qingyang's dormitory until eleven o'clock before returning to the RV.
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Five-star red flag fluttering in the wind
How loud the victory song is
Sing our dear motherland
From now on, we will become prosperous and powerful...
The next morning, loud singing echoed in the camp.
After singing the song, we continued to run with everyone.
After five laps, free time.
After breakfast, two pallet trucks dragging two excavators left the camp.
Yesterday, the Technical Department and Construction Department laid out the lines on Road No. 1. Today, the two excavators are going to dig side trenches and prepare soil for the roadbed.
Africa is a tropical region. Although Africa is dry, during the rainy season, the rainfall is not small.
And the rainfall will be more concentrated.
Therefore, in Africa, especially in countries in tropical and subtropical regions, ditches need to be dug on both sides of the road.
Digging ditches on both sides and raising the roadbed is the simplest way to save money and protect the roadbed from being damaged by rainwater.
In Africa, Yu Qingyang purchased a total of ten excavators and fifty dump trucks.
There are also ten forklifts, five road rollers, three graders, and two abg pavers.
Once you take on a task like construction assistance, it's like opening Pandora's box and you can't stop.
The state will continue to assign construction assistance tasks to you, and you will also take the initiative to fight for construction assistance projects.
Although engineering projects in Africa are difficult, the profits are high!
The project cost is based on international bidding prices.
In fact, various expenses including the deployment of personnel from home can be reflected in the budget.
The price of building materials is high and the wages of domestic skilled workers are high, it doesn’t matter!
Just adjust the budgeted material prices and labor prices.
The labor costs in the budget are generally calculated, but the wages of skilled workers in China are high, while the wages of workers in Africa are low!
Shockingly low.
Twenty years later, the salary of a manual worker in Africa will only be around 20 yuan, and that of a skilled worker will be around 50 yuan.
Now?
A family of more than ten people can only transport one stone if they work for a day.
One stone can be exchanged for six yuan and four cents of food and water.
But look outside the camp.
There's already a long queue.
That's why Yu Qingyang purchased all new construction machinery in Africa.
Purchase construction machinery directly in Africa.
The price is much cheaper than buying it domestically.
As long as he doesn't consign the construction machinery back to China, there will be no problem.
Trading points, long queues.
Some of them didn’t leave yesterday, and some of them came here early in the morning!
Today, we are no longer just talking about collecting stones.
Let’s learn and apply it.
Ten forklifts were also driven to the scene.
The bucket of the forklift is large and can hold more than two square meters when full, so I put 20 bowls of white noodles and 20 bottles of mineral water directly on it.
The 500-liter mineral water bottles were not enough, so the purchasing department directly found five-liter pure water buckets.
One forklift of stones is exchanged for two buckets of water and twenty bowls of flour.
Don’t get me wrong, the water we give you is not pure water or mineral water, but water from the water tanker.
Buckets and mineral water bottles are just units of measurement.
After measuring it, pour it into the container brought by the Berbers.
In order to reassure the Berber people, the buyer also gave a special demonstration.
Pour ten bottles of mineral water into the bucket to fill exactly one bucket.
The trading window has been increased, so although there are more people coming today, the speed is faster than yesterday.
Chen Xiang no longer went to buy stones in person, but just moved a chair under the umbrella to hold down the formation for his men.
Just when Chen Xiang was squinting due to the sun and seemed to be sleeping, one of his buyers shouted loudly: "Boss, come here!"
"Boss, look, are these two holding wood, or..." Xiao Xiao pointed to the pair of boys and girls in front of the table in embarrassment.
These two seemed to be brother and sister, about eleven or twelve years old.
Africans are not easy to estimate their age.
Perhaps due to lack of nutrition, a fifteen or sixteen year old looks like an eleven year old. This is normal.
This brother and sister are very, very thin!
The head is big and the neck is as thin as a match holding a ping pong ball.
The two of them struggled to hold a rotten-looking piece of wood, blinking their dark eyes and looking at Xiao Xiao and Chen Xiang with pleading eyes.
Chen Xiang understood what he was asked to do when he was young.
They will definitely not accept such rotten wood.
But in the case of this brother and sister, no one can say anything if they refuse.
"Can you collect these things?" Chen Xiang pushed the five bottles of water and five bowls of noodles forward without hesitation.
The two siblings nodded vigorously.
Smiling happily.
The black eyes are as pure as the starry sky.
Chen Xiang was worried for a while as he watched, fearing that they would break their necks if they nodded too much.
The two brothers and sister carried the rotten wood to the open space, took flour and water, and left happily.
The happy looks on the faces of the two brothers and sisters would melt an iron man just looking at them.
Everyone's happiness is different. In the eyes of the two brothers and sisters, having something to eat and not being hungry is the happiest thing.
"Director Chen, those two brothers and sisters are orphans.
They have been dependent on each other for six or seven years. Many people thought they would not survive, but they have been living tenaciously." The translator who worked with them when they were young said in a low voice.
"How did you know?"
"Listen to what they said, African brothers also like gossip!" The translator pointed to the Berbers waiting outside to exchange food.
Of course, this pair of siblings is just a small episode, no matter how small it is.
There are many orphans like this in Africa, and there are also many who are worse off than them.
Chen Xiang continued to go back to the sun umbrella and take a nap... and sit in formation.
Yu Qingyang left the camp with Sun Jian and others in a Hummer early in the morning.
First, we went to No. 1 Road for a walk.
He looked at it, didn't say anything, and left directly.
Then we went to the location of the future town and stood on the hillside looking at the scenery below.
The entire town is located at the foot of the mountain. Yu Qingyang can't understand why Ajigeria built a town here.
A small town that can accommodate 10,000 residents and has complete facilities.
Apart from the mountains, there is nothing else to see here, right?
If you want to resettle herdsmen, wouldn't it be better to live near the seaside or close to big cities?
The location here is between Geographic Glass and Bu Titan, slightly closer to Bu Titan.
Domestically, it falls under the realm of “three-nothing”.
Ajigeria actually spent so much money to build small towns.
Although they didn't have to pay, Yu Qingyang understood.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Free things are more expensive.
The construction cost of the small town is US$180 million, and including Road No. 1, it exceeds US$200 million.
There is also supporting water and electricity.
High-voltage lines are erected from hundreds of kilometers away.
The water is diverted from the underground artificial river into tributaries.
But the total cost of this piece exceeds US$300 million.
The price paid by Ajigeria is definitely several times this.
Yu Qingyang can only attribute it to his short-sightedness and inability to understand the intentions of politicians.
Looking at the dividing line between green and auburn in the distance, Yu Qingyang felt the urge to gallop his horse and whip his whip.
It would be nice to get a few horses and gallop on the grassland when nothing happens.
After looking at it on the hillside for a while, he couldn't understand it, so Yu Qingyang stopped worrying.
This is not something you should consider.
Standing on a hillside in over 40 degree weather is really not a wise move.
Return to camp by car.
There are still not a few black brothers coming to deliver stones outside the camp, but there is a trend of more and more.
There was a steady stream of people arriving on the road in the distance.
At the production base, tall drill pipes have been erected.
That was the well drilling company introduced by Zhang Qiang, which was drilling deep water wells.
A very professional well drilling company.
I have a map of the entire Butitanic underground water veins in my hands.
As for why there is a distribution map of underground water veins, this is also due to the underground artificial river in Ajigeria, which is known as the eighth wonder of the world.
Since we want to build an underground artificial river to divert water from the southern desert to the north, we naturally need to clearly explore the underground water veins along the route.
According to the other party, there is a large water vein at this location.
Enough to last 10,000 people for ten years.
Yu Qingyang didn't bother to test whether it was true or not.
As long as he can pump out water, it will be enough for his three years of production and living.
Three years later, the construction of the small town was completed, no matter whether it had water or not!
At the production base, four excavators are digging the side ditches along the gray lines spread out by technicians.
The production base allocated to them is lower than the area next to where they plan to build a town.
It's okay now, but it will be troublesome in the rainy season.
All the rainwater on the mountain flows along the terrain into the base.
Therefore, when discussing the production base, everyone decided to dig a deep ditch around the base to divert possible future floods to lower-lying areas.
Another benefit of deep trenches is that they can play a protective role.
Just like an ancient moat.
After inspecting the production base, there is actually nothing to inspect. The excavator digs trenches and uses the excavated soil to raise the production base.
Nothing technical.
After leaving the production base, Yu Qingyang stopped by the transaction site.
Very hot.
But most people exchange stones for food and water.
There is little wood and no sand.
After all, they picked up the stones from the mountains and at the foot of the mountains.
It doesn’t take any effort, it just takes time to look for it.
A long time ago, there was a battle here.
Or maybe there was a battle fought in the mountains.
The rocks that were blown away by cannonballs, as well as the rolling rocks and falling rocks caused by the force of nature.
Scattered around the mountains.
It only takes a little time to find a lot of them. On the contrary, although there is a lot of wood in the mountains, it takes effort to cut it down.
The Berbers naturally chose stones, which require no effort, in exchange.
It is estimated that they will have to wait until there are no more scattered stones before they will find ways to cut down trees in the mountains and transport sand to semi-desert areas or deserts for trade.
Arriving at the trading point, Yu Qingyang saw at a glance what looked like a piece of rotten wood that had been thrown aside and ignored.
Yu Qingyang could tell at a glance that this was a tree fossil.
Fossilized trees are also called wood jade.
A specialty of Ajigeria. In the area near the desert of Ajigeria, there are many trees that turn into jade.
They are not only found in the desert, but also in other parts of Ajigeria, but not as many as in the desert.
The original stone of the tree fossil looks like a piece of rotten wood because of the bark on the surface.
But when knocked, it will make a crisp sound like a stone.
It is a relatively good carving material.
After processing, grinding and polishing, it is delicate and smooth, with a strong jade feel. It looks like agate, but the shape is like agate rather than agate.
Therefore, petrified wood jade is also called agate-like petrified wood.
Wooden jade can be processed into ornaments, pendants, bracelets, bracelets, etc., and has relatively high economic value and collection value.
This piece of petrified jade requires no processing when shipped back to China, and the raw material price alone is worth thousands or even tens of thousands.
Moreover, wood-based jade, like jade and jade, is a non-renewable resource.
There is a lot of room for appreciation in the future.
Before Yu Qingyang traveled back in time, a fine piece of petrified wood jade sold for a sky-high price of more than 12 million yuan at the Poly Spring Auction.
The reason why Yu Qingyang knew about Muhuayu was that he had a friend in his previous life who was from Shaozhou, Guangdong Province.
Shaozhou is rich in wood-based jade.
Many people there made a fortune by picking wood and turning it into jade in the river.
Yu Qingyang once envied that friend who could pick up hundreds of thousands or even millions a year just by casually walking in the river at the height of popularity.
Therefore, Yu Qingyang paid special attention to petrified wood jade, and even went to the Geological Museum to view the original stone of petrified wood jade.
Yu Qingyang bent down to observe the piece of wood-turned-jade in front of him, stretched out his hand and tapped it lightly, making a clear jade-like sound.
"Mr. Yu, are you here?" When he saw Yu Qingyang bending down to look at the piece of rotten wood, he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.
"Well, where did this come from?"
"I accepted this one! I thought a brother and sister were pitiful, so I took the decision and accepted it!
I gave them five kilograms of flour and five bottles of water, and they will be deducted from my salary later!" Shima explained.
"Mr. Yu, I am responsible for collecting this piece of wood!
If you want to deduct money, you should deduct it from me!" At this time, Chen Xiang also rushed over.
Naturally, he would not let his subordinates take the blame.
How much does a piece of rotten wood, five pounds of flour and five bottles of water cost?
Chen Xiang couldn't afford to let his subordinate take the blame.
"Haha, you two are still fighting! In this case, I will deduct half of each of you!"
"Mr. Yu, you have the final say! Double or ten times is no problem!" Chen Xiang stopped arguing.
When they come to Africa, the subsidy is only 500 yuan, five pounds of flour, and five bottles of water.
"Put away this piece of wood! Congratulations, you have made a small fortune!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
Although the wood jade was valuable, Yu Qingyang still couldn't help but shame his subordinate for such a small amount of money.
Being able to get this piece of wood-turned-jade is also a blessing for their good deeds.
Good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds, and evil deeds will be rewarded with evil deeds. It’s not that the time has not come for you not to be repaid!
Their good news came quickly.
"Mr. Yu, what do you mean?" Chen Xiang and Xiao Xiao were stunned.
"Haha, it's a good thing that you grew up in Huangcheng! Take a closer look at what's different about this rotten piece of wood!" Yu Qingyang pointed with a smile.
"What's different?" Chen Xiang lowered his head to look at the rotten wood.
The piece of rotten wood that was collected just now was purely out of kindness. After putting it there, he and Xiao Xiao never looked at it, not even a glance.
Chen Xiang bent down, imitated Yu Qingyang and reached out to knock, then looked up at Yu Qingyang and asked in surprise: "Is this petrified wood?"
"Yeah!" Yu Qingyang smiled and nodded.
Petrified jade has many names, petrified wood is the scientific name.
It can also be called tree jade, petrified wood, wood jade, and petrified wood.
"Mr. Yu, this..."
Chen Xiang felt that his brain was not working properly. Isn't this too dramatic?
"Put it away! You can sell it if you want to go back, or you can keep it and ask the master to process it into ornaments!
It’s up to you to deal with it!
This can be regarded as God’s reward for your good deeds!” Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
"But……"
"It's nothing! You violated the regulations and purchased things that the project department does not need. You have been punished just now, and the losses caused will be deducted from your wages!
Then this piece of rotten wood is your own private property!"
"Thank you, Mr. Yu! Thank you, Mr. Yu!" Only then did Chen Xiang understand that Yu Qingyang didn't really punish them just now.
Of course, if the two of them shirk responsibility from each other, then the false punishment may become a real punishment.
I won’t give them this piece of petrified wood jade either.
When I was a child, I stood there blankly, feeling that everything in front of me was like a dream.