Chapter 116 [Breaking Legs While Repairing Bridges and Roads]
In addition to begging for money and policies from the mayor, there is another purpose, that is, the explosives for blasting rocks in the mountains are too difficult to get. This is to blast the mountains and build roads, not to blast the cement factory, and the amount of explosives required is too much.
Even if the mining does not produce military explosives, the explosives are explosives after all, which can kill people and are quite dangerous. I have a blasting team, so I don’t have to work hard to find them, but the amount of explosives used to blow up the mountain is too much, and I can’t get it myself.
After all, this is a kind of controlled resource, which is not something that a small businessman like me can coordinate, so I can only start the construction of infrastructure in Sinjar Town under the name of building bridges and roads. Communicate with the above and let the Rajasthan government consider the difficulties of mountain residents in traveling and allocate a batch of explosives.
The mayor agreed to all these things, and agreed very quickly, but the price paid by Bel Singh was also very high. There is no free lunch in the world, and pie will not fall from the sky. If you want the mayor to serve you without sufficient benefits, who will do it? Why do you come to be an official, isn’t it just for the money? Otherwise, what's the point of going to this barren town?
The price Belsinger paid was 10% of the net profit from the tolls for one year, plus 30% of the profit for the Shah family. He only had 60% of the profit left, which was a small reduction of half, but it saved him a lot of trouble, so this loss was acceptable.
But Belsinger was no longer the young man he used to be. He knew that eggs should not be put in one basket. He also knew that it was not safe to have only the mayor as a protective umbrella. After all, the officials in the town were not united, and each had their own factions.
In order to better protect the interests of the Singh family, after Belsinger talked with the mayor, he secretly visited some other leaders in the town government. He acted like a good fortune boy, handed over 10% of the profit, and made friends with a group of cadres of all sizes, and both sides reached the expectation of an alliance.
Within a week, Felsinger only had 50% of the profit from building bridges and roads, which was cut in half at once, but these losses were indispensable. After Bel Singh dealt with the piranhas in the town, he dragged his tired body back to the Lagar Valley, and was greeted with very good news.
The old housekeeper and his eldest brother took action and invited the surveying company and the bridge design company to the Lagar Valley within three days. After three days of surveying and design, they finally came up with the design plan for the bridge and road. The price was also beyond the budget, and it required 230 million rupees.
Bel Singh dealt with those officials in the town, gave money and shares everywhere, and finally got back 100 million rupees of special funds for infrastructure construction. Then integrate all the profits of the cement plant, asbestos tile plant, and building materials store to build 50 million rupees, which means that the Singh family can take out more than 150 million rupees for bridge and road construction. The remaining 80 million was not settled, and after waiting for two more days, the majestic figure of the father-in-law finally appeared in the Lagar Valley.
The father-in-law was really awesome. After returning home, he integrated the family's assets in more than ten days. Since he took out 50 million rupees of funds, it was already very rare. But the cash reserves of the entire Shah family were emptied to raise the money, but this was not enough, and there was still a shortfall of 30 million. The remaining 30 million could only be entrusted to Bel Singh.
Who told Singh that there were a few businesses that would lay golden eggs? Besides, the Singh family occupied most of the profits from bridge and road construction. It is understandable that they should take out the most money for bridge construction and pay the most. Bel Singh could only pinch his nose and accept it.
After raising 200 million rupees, everything was ready, except for the east wind, which was explosives. The amount of explosives used this time was too large. If some of them were lost due to poor management and obtained by the so-called anti-government organizations or criminal organizations, it would be a disastrous consequence.
In fact, the leaders of the entire Sinjar town, big and small, made guarantees, and the relevant departments of Rajasthan also sent a working group to supervise the use of these explosives on site. This working group seems to be a troublesome thing, but if you look at it from the opposite side, with these working groups supervising the use of explosives on site, you don’t have to worry about whether these explosives will be lost.
It's none of my business that it was lost under the noses of your working group. It saved the entire Singh family a lot of trouble. Ten days after the joint meeting of the five villages, all members of the two families in Lagar Village and Shah Village, including the workers hired to build the road at that time, came.
In addition to the people watching the excitement, the leaders of the town also came in person, and a total of more than 30,000 people came to watch the groundbreaking ceremony. At 10 o'clock in the morning, as Bel Singh, Niru Shah and Mayor Kata pressed the blasting detonator on behalf of all the leaders of the town, there was a loud bang.
The first small mountain in the world that blocked Lagar Village from Sinjar Town was blown up, and the Lagar Valley, which had been closed for thousands of years, finally ushered in a bridge to the outside world. If you want to get rich, you must build roads first. Without good roads, the food and livestock in the mountains cannot be transported to the outside of the mountains and cannot be sold at a high price. Without roads, if there is a disease in the village, the accident can only depend on God's will.
Can you survive? It is impossible to send you to the hospital. The road is the culprit that hinders the development of the Lajar Valley. Now this very closed situation is finally going to change. The whole Lajar village is boiling. Regardless of men, women, young and old, anyone who can move comes to the construction site with crowbars and shoulder poles to help do some work within their ability.
Except for the cement factory in the town, which is an asbestos tile factory, all the motor vehicles in the entire Sinjar town are hired. Even several excavators were hired from Udaipur at a high price, and the whole construction site was extremely lively. Because the funds for bridge construction are very sufficient, and the rainy season is just around the corner, the bridge and road construction sites are running 24 hours a day without stopping.
In addition, the road is only ten meters wide and paved with stone slabs, that is, large stones are piled on the foundation. Then a stone slab road is formed by compaction. The technical requirements for building a stone slab road are not so high, so the progress is very fast.
In addition, there was sufficient explosives to support more than a dozen shots a day, and the 65-degree slope was directly cut to 30 degrees. Even at this slope, large trucks can travel back and forth, not to mention convenient means of transportation such as bicycles and motorcycles. Therefore, the progress of road construction was very fast, at a speed of three kilometers per day, and it is expected that a bridge can be built in about 20 days.
The cement and steel bars for bridge construction have been prepared. The steel bars were bought from Udaipur, and the cement was produced by ourselves. For self-built bridges, cement is of course the best grade, and the vigorous bridge and road construction action has now officially begun.
No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!
This is a big project, so Bell is worried and takes his servants to direct it on the spot. Every day, he sets out from home before dawn and returns home after dark. He looks fat, and he loses weight.