Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 342, Overwhelmed

In May 1974, a large amount of oil was transported away from the Middle East by large tankers.

The Nolinasun Group paid huge sums of US dollars, arms, etc. to the Northwest General in the Middle East. The other party was very satisfied and expressed that they could continue such transactions.

However, the Northwest General said that he hopes to bring some food, vegetables and other supplies during the next transaction.

In the Middle East, there is actually a shortage of everything.

For example, water resources are more expensive than oil.

But the Northwest Generals are not stupid. They certainly don’t need supplies like water. They can find a way on their own.

However, there was really no way to get supplies such as food and ammunition, and they could only ask the Nolinasun Group's transportation team to help transport them.

Zhao Mancang, who was far away in Beijiang City, nodded with relief after receiving the news.

It’s a good thing that this Northwestern general did not continue to cause trouble.

In the entire Middle East, due to years of war, there is no such thing as trust.

Although oil is cheaper than water, it is much more expensive than water outside the Middle East.

The mercenaries led by Sam, the base soldiers, etc., are very coveting the oil in the Middle East.

But now the situation seems to be a little out of control.

The oil crisis that started at the end of last year has caused shocks from time to time, which is really a headache.

Zhao Mancang didn't care about all this. What he needed was to purchase a large amount of oil and bring it back.

Especially now, Beijiang City needs to be built, and the demand for various materials has naturally soared a lot.

Airport runways need asphalt, highways need asphalt, and the construction of the new city's main roads in Beijiang City also needs asphalt.

Asphalt is just one of the building materials. Many other materials are needed in the construction of Beijiang City.

For example, with the construction of the airport, the aviation fuel depot also needs to be planned.

In the conference room of Beijiang City, this is the nth meeting.

"Comrades, we have now surveyed all available data. Based on the current situation, Wangbu Airport has been ruled out. The most suitable location for an airport is Meiziba."

At this time, the staff responsible for the airport survey pointed to the location on the map and talked freely.

Since Beijiang City needs to develop, and Zhao Mancang's plans and ambitions for this city are naturally extraordinary, the previous idea of ​​building an airport in Wangbu is completely unacceptable.

Along the Beijiang River, a large number of alluvial plains have formed in these places on both sides of the river.

Most of the alluvial plains are continuous, but some are blocked by mountains tens or hundreds of meters high.

But it doesn’t matter. The future city center of Beijiang City will inevitably be built along the two sides of the Beijiang River.

The current Beijiang County is three kilometers from east to west and about five kilometers from south to north. It is a small county in the shape of a tic-tac-toe.

Moreover, there are very few buildings with more than two floors.

So of course Zhao Mancang looked down upon this so-called county town.

But his plan for Beijiang City is to make it a new first-tier city in the future. If it cannot be achieved, wouldn’t that be a disappointment to his expectations?
Zhao Mancang has already prepared a large amount of money, so it is impossible for Beijiang County to fail to meet the requirements.

When it comes to planning, we must do our best.

The current county seat is located in the lower reaches of the Beijiang alluvial plain. Going up along the Beijiang River, including Wangbu, Longtou and other places, these are all very good plain areas and are also the key planning areas for future urban development.

So he doesn't allow anyone to sabotage or occupy land in advance.

The airport is planned to be located in the nearby Meiziba area, which will serve as the sub-urban area of ​​Beijiang City.

During the past period of time, there were meetings every day, and Zhao Mancang also explained his plans and ideas for Beijiang City one by one.

Because whether it is an airport or a hydropower station, it cannot be built just like that. It must be surveyed to see if it is suitable.

With the arrival of May, various survey results came out one after another.

After verifying the situation again and again, the team from the Construction Bureau arrived soon.

"Good leadership!"

Wang Anbang appeared in front of Zhao Mancang and saluted excitedly.

"It's Xiao Wang. Long time no see. Where are your Captain Deng and Lao Wan?"

Zhao Mancang was also quite surprised when he saw the other party.

Because Wang Anbang was someone he had met during the construction of the airport in the small fishing village of Futian, and he had even met during the construction of the airport in the Shaya laboratory area.

Zhao Mancang felt relieved and at ease when he handed over the task of building the airport to this group of trustworthy people.

"Leader, Captain Deng has already been promoted, as has Captain Wan. I am now in charge of this team."

Seeing Wang Anbang respond with a silly smile, Zhao Mancang also laughed.

After some reminiscing, Wang Anbang also led the team to start working.

The construction of Meiziba Airport has officially begun, and the construction of Beijiang Hydropower Station has also started simultaneously, while the expressway from Qujiang to Baiyun City is still under survey.

However, the two film and television bases have already been planned and construction has already begun.

For a time, the Beijing-Guangzhou line became the busiest place.

Today’s train stations still stop between towns, but because today’s train lines need to transport large amounts of materials and personnel, many trains are often delayed.

Of course, these are temporary. Once the airport, hydroelectric power station and roads are built, everything will be fine.

Ordinary people living in the city of Beijiang have not yet deeply felt the changes of the times.

But this change will happen slowly over time.

Soon, summer vacation arrived, Zhao Mancang returned to Beijing, and then took his two children to Hong Kong Island.

Lin Wan heard that he was busy in Beijiang City, so she wanted to come and see him.

However, the transportation here was inconvenient, so Zhao Mancang declined his offer.

However, Xiao Baozi and the other children insisted on coming with them, and Zhao Mancang had no choice but to bring them to Beijiang.

As a result, they stayed for less than a week and ran away one by one.

Because it was too boring. And they had to be dragged to help local farmers harvest rice and do various farm work, so they were unwilling to stay any longer.

Zhao Mancang was quite happy and took a lot of photos of them. These would become their black material and memories from now on.

Construction continued in June and July. During this period, Zhao Mancang returned to Beijing to report the progress to his superiors.

In August, something big happened to Sam.

Well, as expected, Richard Milhouse was still swept up in the public's arms and forced to resign.

Gerald Rudolph, who was promoted from deputy monitor to full monitor, suddenly became proud.

However, the squad leader stopped laughing before he could be happy, because he had to work under pressure.

The first thing is to evacuate all of Sam's soldiers from Monkey Peninsula.

Well, the entire evacuation process will be very long, which also means the end of a big business.

The consortium in California was so angry that they cursed loudly, but there was nothing they could do.

Who made Richard Milhouse do such a thing, causing two reporters from The Washington Post to repeatedly dig into the truth about the Watergate Building?
Ugh!
Gerald Rudolph soon became overwhelmed because inflation in their country reached a peak again, the economic depression continued to be serious, and the contradiction of energy shortage became increasingly acute.

Confrontations are increasing, and conflicts occur from time to time.

It’s better to be a deputy squad leader. If you become a squad leader, your life span will be shortened.

For example, today he signed a tax cut bill to lower income taxes to stimulate economic development, but because there are more members in the opposing camp in Congress, these laws cannot be passed at all.

Fake!

What happened to Sam was not beyond Zhao Mancang's expectations, but this incident still had some impact after all.

Due to problems such as energy shortages within Sam, and the fact that the newly appointed Gerald Rudolph was restrained by their internal forces, many cards could not be played at all, and he almost died of depression.

The Middle East naturally took the opportunity to continue to make trouble, oil prices continued to rise, and oil exports decreased.

In the original history, the Middle East earned more than 30 billion US dollars from exporting oil last year, but by 1974, it had earned 110 billion US dollars.

It can be seen how much money the oil crisis made in the Middle East.

However, in this time and space, this oil crisis will only make the Middle East make more money.

Because the logistics team under the Norinasun Group continuously drives ocean-going tankers to the waters near the Persian Gulf and other waters, continuously transporting large amounts of oil from here.

After passing through Hong Kong Island and other places, these oils gradually "disappeared".

In fact, on Sam's side, the Nolinasun Group also transported a lot of oil there, but here, capital is not a good thing, they are all chasing profits.

During the oil crisis last year, Zhao Mancang sold all the oil stored in ports such as San Francisco and New York.

The results of it?
It was originally purchased at a high price, and those local oil refining companies will definitely not give up and will sell it at a loss.

So they hoarded and reduced the supply, which is why Sam has energy shortages even though there is plenty of oil in the country.

The capitalists will not help. They will just watch and watch, and then sell the products after the price goes up.

Zhao Mancang didn't know about this and didn't try to find out, because he was still in Beijiang City at that time.

He has been here since April, and now it is almost October, so he has been here for half a year.

He has traveled all over the city of Beijiang. Almost every once in a while, he would take a helicopter to check out the city from above Beijiang.

The expressway from Baiyun City to Beijiang is being built at a very rapid pace.

There were tens of thousands of construction teams drawn from many places, and they all joined the team to build the highway.

The highway involves many aspects of advanced technology, and Zhao Mancang directly provided them all for free, allowing them to study and research on their own.

Zhao Mancang even invited many experts from Beijing to come here to provide guidance.

How to say it, Zhao Mancang’s requirements are quite high. He is building a four-lane expressway, and this is just the first line in the plan.

Because no one knows better than him what the population of our country will be in the future.

Zhao Mancang wanted to plan the transportation in advance before the reform and opening up, so as not to have to replan it in the future.

His ambition for Beijiang City had been planned from the very beginning.

"We'll build two rose cultivation bases here, and recruit experts from Baiyun City, Spring City, Summer City, and other places. I believe there must be many plant experts in these places."

Near Yuwan Town, just two kilometers away from the film and television base, Zhao Mancang came here and pointed to the hundreds of acres of farmland not far away and said so.

"Roses can be cultivated and come in many different colors, such as champagne rose, crushed ice blue, roselle rose, and cappuccino."

"There are also tulips, orchids, and so on. These flowers are all very beautiful and can be cultivated. They can come in many different colors. After they are cultivated in the future, they can be placed in parks, streets and other places. You can imagine how attractive they will be to tourists and ordinary citizens."

When mentioning these, Zhao Mancang couldn't help but think of some scenes when he visited different cities such as Baiyun City and Hangzhou in the original time and space.

For example, in Hangzhou, many beautiful tulips are transplanted by the West Lake every Spring Festival.

Not to mention Baiyun City, where all the streets are filled with various flowers. You can see many different flowers on overpasses, next to public toilets, in parks, etc. all year round.

If such benefits were brought forward forty or fifty years, the city of Beijiang would definitely be more attractive to tourists.

Hong Xuanji, Lu Shengwen and others were dumbfounded. They were shocked by Zhao Mancang's plans and ideas more than once.

Even for them, just imagining it makes them very excited. After all, they also want to realize such a garden city and want to see it.

"Don't think about it, just do it quickly. Make sure you plan it well and don't mess around."

Zhao Mancang warned again:
"Also, Xiao Hong, Xiao Lu, as the first leaders of Beijiang City, you must set a good example for future leaders. You must not be arrogant, and you must not reach out without permission."

“This is not only my hard work, but also yours.”

It is necessary to warn them because only Zhao Mancang is suitable to say these words, no one else is suitable.

You should know that Zhao Mancang is not a leader, nor does he get involved in these things, but he is in the army, and his position level is very special, so it is very appropriate for him to say this.

Hong Xuanji and the others nodded seriously.

Well, at this time, it is still pretty good. Everyone is willing to work hard, gather their strength together, and work towards the same goal.

In the future, Zhao Mancang will definitely promote the development of new technologies as much as possible and try to leave those termites nowhere to hide.

With the arrival of October, Zhao Mancang finally left the city of Beijiang.

(End of this chapter)