Chapter 747 Saints and so On

Fan Heng stopped in the Kurdistan area and could not come back.

the reason is simple. It rained suddenly at night. Although it was not very heavy, a landslide occurred nearby, blocking a road leading outside. Although there were no reports of casualties, vehicles were unable to pass and the road was impassable.

This problem is very serious. Although the nearby garrison said that it can send helicopters to take Fan Heng and others back, and the congested road can be cleared within a day, but if something like this happens around the reservoir area under construction, it will It happened during Fan Heng's inspection, and the impact was more serious.

From a small point of view, it is an accident caused by a sudden heavy rain. From a big point of view, it is that there are great hidden dangers in the mountains in the reservoir area. Since landslides are possible, it proves that the mountains are prone to landslides under the action of external forces. Deformation and collapse, then what kind of changes will happen under the influence of a huge amount of 20 billion tons of stored water, which is far greater than the pressure of heavy rain?

Fan Heng realized that this issue had to be considered carefully, so he asked the staff to start looking for someone to understand the surrounding mountains. He personally took a garrison helicopter to inspect the mountainous conditions in the Kurdistan area. At the same time, he asked Song Qing to get in touch with the General Office and inform other members of the Standing Committee of what he saw.

"It is always necessary to take precautions before they happen." This is what Fan Heng told Song Qing.

The results of the investigation are still not optimistic.

The reservoir area has a special geographical environment and geological structure. Its slope is relatively steep and the ravines are deep, so soil erosion is bound to be large.

Another reason is that after the project was relocated, a large area of ​​slightly flat land was submerged. In the past few years, the policy of resettlement in the reservoir area was to settle on the spot. After the resettlement, the problem of basic farmland had to be solved, so we opened up wasteland and cultivated areas with a slope of more than 25 degrees. This is also an important reason for soil erosion. .

Another problem is human-induced soil erosion. In the reservoir area, there are so many immigrants and there is so much poverty. Many construction projects have been arranged over the years. These construction projects require groundbreaking. Once the ground is broken, it is easy to cause water and soil erosion.

The relocation and construction in the past few years has obviously had a great impact on the mountains on both sides, and the impact is basically negative.

After the notification, the Standing Committee members were not idle. They immediately held a meeting and invited experts to study the information returned by Fan Heng. After a serious discussion, everyone felt that soil and water conservation work was indeed very important. If you don't catch it properly, it can easily pose a serious threat to the project itself. In that case, you will be in big trouble.

Because of this incident, the Standing Committee members who originally planned to wait until Fan Heng came back to hold a small meeting to criticize him realized the seriousness of the problem and suddenly felt that Fan Heng had suddenly left for the reservoir area.

It may not be a clever move. If you go to inspect step by step, it will be difficult to find this kind of problem. From this point of view, he has made great achievements this time.

"Both father and son are typical of not following the rules, but the effects are obvious. As long as there are no problems with the general direction, I think they can still retain their individuality. Don't all foreigners like to advocate this? Now they are working with the international community It is also beneficial to have a leader who seems to be different from time to time.” Boss Zhu’s view on this is very straightforward.

Chief No. 1 looked at everyone, summed up their opinions, and then said. "Then everyone has no different opinions, so let's do it. I suggest that a water and soil condition assessment committee should be established to conduct assessments around key projects several times a year. This matter cannot be delayed."

Everyone nodded and raised their hands to vote, and the matter was settled.

Fan Wubing was extremely busy taking wedding photos. He did not expect that Shen Ying would be so generous as to call all the girls he was close to to join in the fun. The Shen family's way of thinking is indeed a bit different. , or was this part of the agreement they reached in Zhang Mei's ward that day?

Throughout the day, Fan Wubing was posing. In the same background, the male protagonist maintained the same look, while the female protagonist took turns. Although the photographer was invited by Shen Ying and the others, seeing this kind of The weird scene made me feel a little scared secretly, thinking that the hero was really bubbling with happiness.

Fan Wubing's family heirloom obviously played a role. Each of the five girls received a unique diamond pendant. This kind of jewelry worth nearly ten million, no matter from any point of view, it is worth it. is of great significance.

Although everyone enjoyed the same wedding photo treatment, out of respect for Shen Ying, Fan Wubing and Shen Ying still took one more standard panoramic portrait.

At the end of the day, Fan Wubing suddenly felt a little unfinished and said to the girls, "Oh, it would be nice to have another set of photos."

"What kind of photo?" everyone asked.

"It's the kind of posing without clothes, hugging each other, completely celestial. Completely natural, pure liberation of humanity -" Fan Wubing was held down and beaten by everyone before he could finish his sexual intercourse.

A certain girl said angrily, "Sisters, you must keep an eye on him. If you don't see him for a day, you are afraid that he will learn bad things."

Another woman said, "What are you afraid of? Who can be worse than him?"

Shen Ying needs to go home to deal with some matters in the factory, and plans to settle all these matters before the wedding. The girls each have their own arrangements. The one who returns to Shanghai will go back to Shanghai, and the one who goes to Hangzhou will go to Hangzhou. It’s easy.

After Fan Wubing returned home, he found that his father Fan Heng did not come back on time. He was curious, so he called him and learned that they encountered a landslide on the way and the trip was delayed.

"The matter in the reservoir area cannot be solved in a short time. I think you should come back as soon as possible if you are okay." Fan Wubing suggested to his father Fan Heng.

Now that the matter in the reservoir area has been almost solved, the problem has been found, and there are some other findings, this is already precious in a short-term inspection, and there is no need to make any excessive demands. Fan Wubing has this in mind, of course, he thinks it is better for Fan Heng to come back earlier. If he stays there all the time, he may be annoying. God knows who he will offend?

Fan Heng also realized this, so he agreed to Fan Wubing, saying that after the situation gets better, the group will start on the road and return to the capital, and he also asked Fan Wubing about the arrangements for his wedding with Shen Ying.

"It is initially scheduled for mid-September, and there are still two months. It should be enough to prepare." Fan Wubing said.

On the other end of the phone, Fan Heng pondered for a moment and said, "Well, it's a bit embarrassing to say that I can't help you guys with your wedding at all, and you have to take care of it yourself-"

"That's normal. It's hard to take care of family and state affairs. Besides, I have so many subordinates, and I'm familiar with arranging these things. There's no need to think too much. Just come over and take a look at my wedding." Fan Wubing smiled.

In fact, he had already realized this. This time, he was afraid that there would be more people coming to his wedding to join in the fun. One reason was that his influence was too great, and the other was that with Fan Heng's current power and status, there would definitely be countless people coming to support him. However, this also caused many problems, especially the problem of public opinion, which could not be ignored.

"I can't care so much. There are more outrageous things. Who would care about this?" Fan Heng shook his head and said to Fan Wubing.

After the two finished talking, Song Qing came over to give Fan Heng the latest soil and water conservation survey data.

After Fan Heng looked at it, he frowned and became depressed for a while.

"The situation seems serious?" Song Qing asked.

"It's not optimistic." Fan Heng sighed and said, "This reminds me of someone."

"Who?" Song Qing asked curiously. It was hard to imagine that Fan Heng could think of someone when he was looking up information. This was really rare.

"There is a hydraulic engineer named Huang, Huang Wanli." Fan Heng replied.

Huang Wanli is well-known in the hydraulic engineering industry. He is a professor of the Hydraulic Engineering Department of Tsinghua University and a famous hydraulic engineering expert. Since returning from studying abroad in 1937, he has devoted his life to the management of major rivers in China.

In 1957, the Ministry of Water Resources convened 70 scholars and engineers to hold a meeting at the Beijing Hotel to give opinions and discuss their views on the plan for the construction of the Sanmenxia Dam made by the former Soviet experts. Among all the experts and scholars who attended the meeting, only Huang Wanli was there. The plan of the former Soviet experts was fundamentally and comprehensively denied. The rest of the people unanimously agreed to the launch of the Sanmenxia Dam, believing that after the completion of the Sanmenxia Dam, the Yellow River would have clear water flowing for a long time.

Later, Huang Wanli told his classmates in the hydrology class about his views on the Sanmenxia Project. First, the reservoir will soon be silted up after it is built, and the result is that the possible flood in the downstream will be moved to the upstream, becoming an inevitable man-made disaster. Second, the so-called "the Yellow River will be clear when a saint appears" is groundless. Because the bed of the lower Yellow River is made of sand, even if the water released from the reservoir is clear, the sand in the riverbed will be carried down. In class, he was very disdainful of the saying "the Yellow River will be clear when a saint appears", which made people feel that this saying was actually political flattery and lacked the minimum scientific spirit.

At the end of 1958, the Sanmenxia Project began to intercept the Yellow River. In 1960, the high dam was built to 340 meters and began to block floods. In September of the same year, the gate was closed to store water and block sand. In that year, the Wei River above Tongguan was silted up, flooding 800,000 acres of fertile land, and a small town was forced to evacuate. The water level in the reservoir was rising, and batches of farmers in the reservoir area set out on the road of leaving their hometowns in tears. All this was foreseen by Huang Wanli.

In fact, Huang Wanli was just speaking the scientific truth about the Yellow River, sediment and Sanmenxia Dam issues based on his conscience as a scientist, but he was defeated by the unjust decision-making and became a rightist.

Although the facts proved that the truth was on Huang Wanli's side, it was sad that some people were angry at Huang Wanli for making correct opinions. The next year, Huang Wanli was sent to Miyun to work and lived in a dugout. During the Cultural Revolution, he was demoted to Sanmenxia to dig toilets as a punishment.

"When a saint appears, the Yellow River becomes clear. This is the humanistic thinking of the feudal era, which is tinged with superstition and cannot stand up to serious scientific argumentation. But some decision-makers at the time actually worshipped this decadent concept as if it were a god." Fan Heng said with a sigh when he mentioned this past event to Song Qing, "Soviet experts would not understand this story. It must be the Chinese who would use this wrong humanistic thinking as a weapon to pave the way for wrong technical thinking. There was no accountability system for the project at the time. Now if we want to hold the main decision-makers accountable, they are no longer here. The remaining few technical bureaucrats and scientific masters are evasive when it comes to responsibility, and their mouths are still wet."

Professor Huang believes that from a physical geographical point of view, the Yangtze River dam intercepts the flow of water and sand, hindering the annual land reclamation movement of 100,000 acres in the river mouth and northern Jiangsu; it silts up the river channel above Chongqing, blocks the waterway, and the congestion will spread to Luzhou and Hechuan, which will inevitably destroy Sichuan Dam field. At present, there is still a lack of reliable means to measure the bottom water transport rate. The moving bed test of the river engineering model does not have a reasonable basis in the long term. It can only be used qualitatively but not quantitatively, and is not enough to estimate the long-term accumulation volume of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River can never be repaired. If it is for electricity, large and medium-sized power stations can be built on non-waterways in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces. Their unit price is low, the construction period is short, and the economic benefits are more than four times greater than those of the Three Gorges Dam. As far as river basin economic planning is concerned, dams in mountainous areas on the edge of the Sichuan Basin, such as the Wujiang Power Station, should also be built first.

However, despite his strong opposition, despite the lessons learned from Sanmenxia and Aswan and the numerous domestic objections, the Three Gorges Project bill was passed by the Fifth Session of the Seventh National People's Congress with 1,767 votes, 177 votes against, and 664 abstentions. The number of votes in favor was unprecedented in the history of the National People's Congress.

"I have read the information. The geological environment of the reservoir area is complex, with frequent heavy rains and floods. Landslides have occurred since ancient times. The area near the dam site is made of hard granite, while upstream it is dominated by clastic rocks and carbonate rocks, including The siltstone of the Jurassic site is naturally insufficient in geological capacity and environmental capacity. There are more than 2,400 landslides identified by the Ministry of Land and Resources alone," Fan Heng said to Song Qing, "Although I don't necessarily think it was built. The dam is inappropriate, but judging from the current situation, there are still many crises and difficulties. "

"Does the president not approve of this project?" Song Qing asked.

"Now it is no longer a question of approval or disapproval -" Fan Heng replied, "Since the project has been completed halfway, it is impossible to give up halfway. We can only brainstorm and hope to use various resources to minimize the disadvantages and maximize the benefits. Increase it as much as possible, there is no other way.”

Then he added, "Everything has to be tested in practice. Now we are just guessing."