Tianyang Airport is in the northwest of the city, and Tianyang Yeyuan is in the southeast.
Switch and others needed to cross the entire city to reach their destination. But the car was stuck halfway through the road, and a large convoy was slowly passing through the road.
"Dad, what are these cars loaded with?" Schweic's child asked, holding the car window open. Tianyang is a city after all, making children who grew up in the valley full of curiosity.
The trailers on the road carried giant tanks that looked like large equipment used in the chemical industry.
The driver replied, "It is said that it is a drum screening machine. 'Shengguang Machinery' is going to build an industrial park in the south of the city."
Build an industrial park in this damn place in Tianyang? What kind of industries can it do?
This is not a source of bulk minerals, nor is it a coastal port.
According to Schweich's knowledge, this place can only have some mining and metal processing industries. After all, Tianyang's rare earth mines are quite famous.
Besides, the drum screening machine is not used in the chemical industry, right?
Schweich's mind was filled with questions.
"'Holy Light' is engaged in smuggling and can get anything. Don't worry." The black and thin driver waved his hand nonchalantly, "Mr. Zhou is very capable. There is nothing he can't do."
Schweic heard the thin black driver mention "Holy Light" several times, but he just thought it was a local company and didn't take it seriously.
But when I heard that 'Mr. Zhou' was actually related to 'Holy Light', I couldn't help but ask, "Who are you talking about, Mr. Zhou?"
The black and thin driver glanced at the rearview mirror, "Isn't it President Zhou Qingfeng who seconded you from Guizhou?"
"The one who seconded us is Tianyang Metallurgical College." Shiwei argued, "Shouldn't Mr. Zhou be the leader of the metallurgical college?"
Isn’t ‘Mr. Zhou’ an abbreviation like ‘Chief Engineer Zhou’ or ‘Chief Designer Zhou’? Shouldn’t he be a gray-haired scholar-type leader?
What the hell is a president? How does this sound like the head of a company?
Still very evil.
The dark-skinned driver laughed loudly, "Mr. Zhou is not a leader of the metallurgical institute, he just has hands and eyes.
He has gone crazy recently and spent a lot of money to recruit people from all over the country to Tianyang. You are the ones he hired.
It is said that he has recently spent tens of millions of foreign exchange to purchase equipment and materials. Not to mention the screening machines in front of him, there are a lot of cement, sand and gravel alone.
There is a Tangjiang River in Tianyang that passes through the city. Now the river is full of barges carrying goods.
Mr. Zhou hired seven or eight urban construction teams from other cities to build docks, warehouses, factories and dormitories along the Taiping Bridge.
Just this week, construction sites and construction machinery have popped up along two kilometers of the river, and at least several thousand people are preparing for construction.
Equipment from the construction unit was transported along the Tangjiang River, and building materials were piled up in emergency warehouses along the river.
Just to feed these people, Mr. Zhou ordered 5,000 tons of grain and non-staple food from the north. Otherwise, the price of grain in the city would have to rise."
When he heard about tens of millions of foreign exchange, Shiwei clicked his tongue.
There are more than 20 fleets carrying large drum screening machines, all of which are heavy-duty flatbed trailers. Just renting such a fleet costs a lot of money.
There are many kinds of industrial equipment, but the scale is still very small.
But the equipment that can be distinguished includes air separators, drum screening machines, magnetic separators, combustion furnaces, and transmission towers.
There are signs of different factories on it. It should be shipped by ship and carried by car for the last part of the way. Only experienced people know that this is a garbage disposal.
The black and thin driver continued: "I heard that in order to meet the construction deadline, Mr. Zhou paid all suppliers in foreign exchange and paid 30% in advance for large equipment.
He promised that after the project was completed and the quality was no problem, 80% payment would be made within three months.”
Generally, full payment will not be made at the end of the project, but a process will be followed to ensure that there is no problem with the quality.
The bigger the project, the longer the process. If it can be completed in two or three years, it is luck. People who work on projects are most afraid of not receiving payment. If it is not completed, it will really kill people.
Zhou Qingfeng's willingness to pay in foreign exchange was equivalent to preserving value for the engineering team and suppliers, and accelerating payment would force a bunch of people to rush over to grab work.
Less than half a month after the news was released, construction units from all over the province flocked to Tianyang, and elite soldiers and generals gathered in Tianyang. Construction units outside the province were anxious and extremely envious.
As soon as they arrived in Tianyang, Shiwei and other secondees had a taste of Mr. Zhou's wealth. After staying in the guest house specially arranged by the Yeyuan, they understood even more what luxury and class meant.
"I once went to Japan with a group and saw this thing when I was shopping in a shopping mall."
A seconded engineer visited the public kitchen of the guest house and sighed while pointing to the microwave oven in the kitchen.
"I didn't know what it was at the time, and the salesperson in the mall rolled her eyes at me."
The original guest house in Yeyuan only had about forty rooms. With the sudden increase in foreigners, all the rooms were full.
In order to provide a place for technical and engineering personnel who came from all over the country to live, Yeyuan had to vacate a five-story teaching building.
Each classroom in the teaching building is simply separated into men and women. It is filled with temporarily arranged bunk beds. There are only 20 people crammed into one classroom.
But the people who stayed there didn't complain at all, because this temporary hotel was so luxurious.
There are eight classrooms on each floor, and public kitchens and laundry rooms are arranged at both ends of the corridor.
A normal kitchen consists of a stove, pots and pans, and the only electrical appliance is a light bulb connected to a spider web on the ceiling.
But in order to entertain technicians such as Shi Wei, Zhou Qingfeng placed two refrigerators and five washing machines on each floor. He used electric kettles to boil water and microwave ovens to heat meals and dishes.
I opened the refrigerator and found cold drinks and fruits inside, so I could eat and drink as much as I wanted. After I finished eating, I called the dormitory manager and someone immediately drove a motorized tricycle to deliver it to me.
There is no fire in the public kitchen, but the canteen of the Yeyuan provides meals continuously from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
As soon as Shiwei moved in and put down his luggage, he went to the cafeteria to have a delicious feast. After eating a lot of meat and fish, he felt very comfortable.
In order to provide good hospitality to Zhou Qingfeng's "heart treasures", the logistics department of "Shengguang Machinery" expanded its manpower three times and provided five times more funding.
Lin Wanguang worked hard to organize the people involved.
Facing the hastily arranged but beyond-imagined public kitchen, some people lamented about their experiences in Japan.
Schweic followed behind and asked strangely: "Isn't it said that Japanese people are very polite?"
The engineer rolled his eyes and said, "The person who received me was a Japanese soldier who was sent by the government to study abroad but stayed in Japan. He was even more hateful than a real Japanese soldier.
Seeing how poor we were at that time, the guy's nostrils were turned up in the air and he was indifferent. He could speak Chinese, but he deliberately spoke Japanese, as if he wanted to set a boundary with us.
On the contrary, real Japanese would be more polite."
Speaking of this, the engineer laughed again, "The manager Zhou who seconded us must have a good background. Maybe we can build microwave ovens ourselves that day and sell them to Japan.
Let those gang of devils make money for us."
Hahaha......
Imagination always makes people happy, and people who have just arrived are full of expectations for their future lives. Although they don't even have their own place to live, this does not prevent them from being happy.
There are public bathrooms in the guest house converted from the teaching building.
Schweic went to take a shower, change clothes, and planned to walk around the courtyard and have a look. However, before he could call his lover, the assigned mobile phone suddenly rang.
"Hey, are you the Shiwei historian?" a young voice asked.
"It's me. Who are you?" Switch replied.
"I'm Zhou Qingfeng, I'm in the mechanical and electrical building of the Yeyuan Institute of Technology. I heard that you majored in computing applications. Can you handle the intranet?" asked a young voice.