Chapter 12 chapter Ten

The demolition of Zhengzhou city began in the spring of the Year of the Dragon.Because the municipal party committee and the municipal government were so determined this time, the illegal builders in the so-called first, second and third-class areas could not resist, and they threw away their armor and helmets and fled.It’s just that the street has deep roots and lush leaves, and it’s hard to shake it for a while, so it’s slowly planned and demolished in a later stage.But encircling but not fighting, gave the shop owners who lived on the street for nothing time to go through the back door.

All the shop owners in Baichi Street are very skilled. After all these years of operation, who doesn't have a few backers?But this time things are a little bit bad. The leaders of the provinces and cities are unified, and no one is allowed to open a note through the back door, otherwise they will be punished as violating party discipline.As soon as this order came out, the mouths of these bosses were blocked.Probably considering that their fate was exhausted, the bosses thought of the way back, and they all thought of withdrawing their troops and seeking development elsewhere.But there are indeed people on the street who are unwilling to end up like this, and the owner of Hotel G is one of them.Seeing that the deadline for demolition was approaching, Boss G suddenly thought of the idea of ​​shooting across the mountain in desperation.The so-called Geshan Pao is a local dialect, which means that when shooting from the side of the mountain, the shells have to go over the mountain and hit the back of the mountain to hit the target.It means that since the decisions made by the provincial and municipal leaders, if you try hard, nine times out of ten you will hit a wall, but you can get past them and find someone from above who can control them.This person may be a leader of the Central Committee, or a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, or a well-known expert or scholar in the country. In short, he must be a person of weight. Boss G hurriedly led his department to Beijing, tried his best to open up the joints, clear the relationship, and took out the money he brought with him, and finally found a person who spoke for them.

The person who speaks for Boss G is a highly respected person, and he is also an extremely serious person. Why he plays such a role of interceding for others, he does not understand the twists and turns.The problem lies in the staff, secretary and others around him.They formed an information channel, and the terminal of this channel is the leader, but the information that enters this channel has to be processed. For example, the truth about Boss G’s intercession cannot be told to the leader. He can only provide one-sided reasons. , such as the restaurant is a red flag of the catering industry, it is an advanced unit for many years, it is the successor of the founder of a certain cuisine, and it is an outstanding representative of the city’s food culture. VIPs, how to be welcomed by the general public and so on.When this information reaches the leader's ears, he must feel that this is a big problem that cannot be ignored, and that it is of great importance rather than trivial matters.These subordinates who understand the psychology of leaders know what to say, so they can always make the leaders ask people to pick up their pens and follow their train of thought.

In this way, Boss G successfully obtained the Shangfang sword that made sure that the restaurant would not be demolished.It is said that this is a sword that was captured with a lot of money. The province soon received letters from intercessors. The province notified the city of this situation in time.Then forward this letter to the city in a very standard manner. From the provincial government to the city government, if it is mailed by letter, even if it is in the same city, the fast one can arrive on the same day, and the slow one can arrive in two days. There is a time difference here.The letter arrived two days later.

Just a few hours after receiving the letter, Hotel G disappeared.It was said to be a perfectly directional blast. Looking at the razed restaurant, Boss G slumped on the ground and began to cry.Zhengzhou's white food street just disappeared... Jinshui Avenue is spacious again... At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, ten buildings that fully embody the style of the Republic began to be constructed in Beijing.This is the beginning of a new era. Since then, people have been paying attention to the city, especially the brand-new title of People's City, in their spiritual life.

The author has interviewed the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission, the Beijing Municipal Construction Commission, the Beijing Municipal Corporation, and some of the builders of the past and today's builders.From their respective experiences, we can get a glimpse of the history of the development of Beijing City: At the beginning of liberation, Beijing, which the Republic took over from the Kuomintang government, was devastated. Within the 109-square-kilometer urban area of ​​Beijing, there is not a single traffic artery running through the entire city in the east-west direction and north-south direction.There are only 215 kilometers of paved roads in the whole city, but there are more than 3,000 unpaved narrow alleys with a total length of about 70 kilometers.In the first days, the new regime lived in peace with the old Beijing that had just been taken over.This is a warm and peaceful day. The Beijingers who have just turned over and become the masters of the country are still following the leisurely rhythm of their old life.If you go out to do things, or walk, or tricycle, or tram, or bus.At that time, 80% of Beijing's urban household registrations were concentrated in the old urban area, with a population density of 23,000 square kilometers.It should be said that there are not too many people, and the birth peak period for women in the Republic has not yet arrived. There are still cattle and horses, carts, tricycles, a small number of private sleeper cars and buses on the streets, but the roads are not crowded and clean. of.Especially the road from Xizhimen to Haidian, although it is made of loess sand and gravel, although it is curved, but just look at the weeping willows that are several feet high on the road, one by one, every summer or deep autumn, there are willows everywhere. Fluttering, full of cicadas and insects singing.It is true that the artistic conception that literati and poets deliberately pursued is all laid out on this sandy and gravel road.There is also a beautiful road in the capital, which is the road through the imperial city through the Beihai.In the past, the imperial city was not demolished, and the back city was bypassed from east to west.After getting through, you can ride your dreams in the late night, or hire a rickshaw, or ride a bicycle (were bicycles a luxury at that time?), and in the twilight of the twilight, you can pass by those golden jade buildings in the imperial city, and flash those Yulan Qiongge, looking up at the sky, you can really see a full moon hanging on the city wall dripping with ice and clear water. Looking down at the gurgling water under the bridge, you will have a distressing aesthetic feeling. About the road Aesthetics, so many beautiful feelings about a road, probably only Chinese roads are unique!

The name of the road began in the Qing Dynasty.The Qing people called the Royal Official Road Guanda Road.The people are not afraid, so they simply remove the official character and call it Malu.The passages between states and counties within each province are called major roads.The saying that the road is facing the sky, and each side walks half way is probably spread from the Qing Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty, Guanma Avenue, that is, a national-level official road, centered on Beijing, and set up Huanghua Station outside Donghua Gate in Beijing, which radiated to all provinces of the country as the general hub of national transportation.

There are many anecdotes about the road.What is little known is that Qin Shihuang once built Qin Zhidao, the earliest, widest and longest super highway in the world.Qin Zhidao was built by Qin Shihuang to quickly assemble and mobilize troops and transport food and salaries.It has a total length of 900 kilometers, starting from Baotou City, Inner Mongolia in the north, and ending in Chunhua, Shaanxi Province in the south, passing through 14 counties in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.The widest part of the road is 164 meters, which can accommodate 40 carts and 100 carriages side by side.Such a wide road is still the largest in the world until today.This super road was built by Qin Shihuang's general Meng Tian in the thirty-fifth year. It took four years and 200,000 migrant workers.

In the first year after the founding of New China, the investment in building roads and bridges was very small, and only 20,000 yuan was spent in the huge Beijing.Ten years later, in 1959, the East and West Chang'an Streets were built in order to match the top ten buildings.Yang Qi, the current chief engineer of Beijing Municipal Design and Research Institute, was only 23 years old at that time, and he personally participated in the glorious task of designing Chang'an Street.I remember that when he participated in the Congress of Activists for Building Socialism in Beijing, Premier Zhou invited them all to the Great Hall of the People to toast the laborers who participated in the top ten buildings. At that time, Zhang Baifa and Zhang Baifa were both present.During the second five-year plan period, the total investment in roads and bridges was 78.09 million yuan, accounting for 1.38% of the total investment in capital construction.The investment ratio in each subsequent period, except for the recovery period and the Sixth Five-Year Plan period, is below 2%, with an average of about 1.4%.

However, the proportion of urban transportation construction investment in foreign developed countries to the total investment in urban infrastructure is around 10% to 15%. At that time, the important purpose of Beijing's construction of the only Chang'an Avenue running from east to west was not for economic development, but for etiquette and politics. The popular saying at that time was: This is a glorious political task. In the 1950s and 1960s, when we had clear and refreshing streets and a wide star street like Chang'an Avenue, the metropolises in developed countries were extremely crowded, especially in the old urban areas, which made it difficult to walk.At the time, without understanding the causes of this phenomenon, we havetily ridiculed them with emerging-nation pomp, saying they were sick and staggering, that their traffic was congested and cars were not as fast as walks.This injected vigor and vitality into our pursuit of surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States at that time, and really excited our country and nation for many days.

In fact, the two are incomparable, just like fruit and food are incomparable.These are two eras.This incomparability has actually started since the end of the Qing Dynasty.Compared with the previous dynasties, the transportation in Qing Dynasty was the most perfect, and it had reached the peak of perfection in the transportation system of feudal society.But even so, it immediately pales in comparison to its contemporary West.Just imagine, the road on one side is prepared for horse-drawn carriages, and the content of the road is just the twitching of cars, horses rustling, and pedestrians with bows and arrows at their waists; while the other side has the earliest automobiles, railways, postal routes, and sea transportation. system.In modern times, the two seem even more incomparable.When our literati are riding a donkey with a bend of wind and moon on their backs, chewing green and green zithers, and relaxing my heart, they have already taken trams or buses to work as office workers.By the 1960s, the automobile industry in the West had reached its zenith, and private cars had become popular. Under the impact of the wave of automobiles, the old urban roads could not accommodate the situation of thousands of cars competing, so the above-mentioned dilemma appeared. It is by no means that cars are not as fast as walking.The times are moving forward like a speeding car, and there is no possibility of stagnation.Therefore, when the Republic entered the 1980s, the sarcastic remarks we made to ridicule others at the beginning have become the facts before our eyes. The congestion of urban roads has blocked the streets and alleys of Beijing and the hearts of Beijingers. Beijing in the 1980s was really struggling. Beijing rapidly expanded. In 1949, Beijing had only 20.5 million square meters of buildings of various types, including 13.5 million square meters of residential buildings.Today, the area of ​​urban land has expanded from 109 square kilometers in 1949 to 390 square kilometers, and the area of ​​various buildings in the urban area has reached 17,000 square meters, 11 times that of before liberation. Before 1979, there were only 13 designated tourist hotels in Beijing with 4,450 guest rooms; by the end of 1987, the number of designated tourist hotels had increased to 97 with 24,296 guest rooms, an increase of 7.5 times and 5.5 times respectively compared with 1979. After 1987, there were close to 150 designated tourist hotels in Beijing, and the number of tourists (foreign and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan tourists) received as many as 2 million. By 1988, the permanent population of Beijing had increased from 2.03 million at the beginning of liberation to 10.01 million.By 2000, Beijing will have grown to 11.05 million people, floating population will increase to more than 2 million, and the city's actual population will reach about 14 million. The extraordinary expansion of Beijing appeared almost overnight.Some people say that this change is due to the warm and pleasant economic environment in the Asia-Pacific region.But the Chinese all know that all this depends on the calm analysis of a philosopher: China needs at least 20 years of peace in order to concentrate on domestic construction.While saying these words, with the vision and strategy of an international statesman, he has steered China's huge fleet into a harbor that is most suitable for it to rest and rest.China, which is plagued by disasters, impoverished and filled with mixed feelings, finally has a new turning point. Beijing was the first to experience this beautiful spring.It is like a duck to water. In 1988, the total industrial output value of Beijing had reached 57.1 billion yuan, the total retail sales of social commodities had reached a new level of 23.4 billion yuan, and the cumulative investment in fixed assets had reached 93.8 billion yuan.Beijing has taken the lead in the upsurge of economic construction and is ahead of many cities. But then it got sick.This is urban disease. This is the urban disease that the big cities of western developed countries suffered from in the 1950s and 1960s. 30 years have passed.Until today, when we also get this disease, we know that it is the inevitable result of the urban economic development to a certain stage.This symbolizes that the city has grown up, and it has gone through the primary stage of a city and is entering maturity.Therefore, all the problems that come with maturity come one after another as it grows up.This is worrying, but not surprising. China is a country with a large number of people, and Beijing, as the capital of a country with a large population, has the most densely populated urban area in the world.Compared with the early days of liberation, today, 40 years later, Beijing has swelled to several places outside of Beijing, and the urban population density has not decreased, but has increased by 20%.The daily concentration of people in urban areas is becoming more and more serious. The rapid increase of population is the direct factor causing urban traffic congestion.In the 150 years from 1800 to 1950, the population of the earth doubled and a half, and the population of cities with more than 50,000 people increased by about 24 times.Especially in cities with a population of more than 100,000, the population growth rate is particularly rapid.From the decline of ancient Rome to the beginning of the 19th century, there was not a single city with a population of more than 1 million people in Europe; but by 1970, there were 30 cities with a population of more than 1 million in Europe, and more than 130 cities in the world.In the 1980s, the number of cities with a population of more than one million in the world jumped to 270.It is estimated that by 2000, there will be 400.At that time, 35% of the world's population, about 2.2 billion people, will live in cities with more than 100,000 people.According to relevant reports, in 1980 there were 29 cities with a population of more than 5 million in the world, and Beijing ranked seventh among these large cities.New York topped the list, followed by Tokyo and Mexico City in third.But Beijing's population density has reached the highest in the world. Beijing, especially the people living in the old city, are like a group of fish that lack water and oxygen.Surviving in such a high-density space allows people to be trained in order since childhood.However, the trend of industrialization in Beijing is becoming more and more obvious. People's daily life is not only dominated by nature, but also by the industrial chain.It is impossible for a person to stand still. He needs to go to work, needs to find something, so he has to travel.With the prosperity of the capital's economy, people's per capita travel volume has also increased accordingly.According to a pilot survey conducted in the jurisdiction of two sub-district offices in the urban area in 1983, the average number of trips per person per day was 2.22 times, of which the walking rate accounted for 29.85%, and the car riding rate (including bicycles and motorcycles) accounted for 70.15%. The average number of trips per day is 1.5. People will use the road area to travel.Whether you are walking, cycling, or driving, you must use the road area.The more the number of trips, the larger the occupied road area; the smaller the road space.From the traffic theory, the more non-socialized traffic factors, the more traffic chaos will be caused.However, we happen to be dominated by non-socialized forms of transportation.What makes Beijing citizens feel a headache is the difficulty of getting on the bus.Due to the large number of people, there was a situation of traffic jams on the road and crowds of people on the bus. Many stories of traffic jams and traffic jam culture came into being.For example, when someone describes a crowded car, they say: This is a garbage truck in the city, it is canned sardines, people are crowded into photos, and so on.However, those who squeezed people to death and trampled to death, and those who fell and fell to death when caught in the car door happened from time to time.People regard the bus as daunting, and the last time they ride is like breaking through a barrier.There are as many as 2 million floating people in Lishi City every day. Most of these outsiders travel by bus. Therefore, a considerable number of citizens have to choose bicycles for travel. According to the statistics of relevant departments, the proportion of citizens choosing bicycles and buses for travel in the three municipalities directly under the central government in my country is: Tianjin 8:2 (80% of cyclists take up bicycles); Shanghai: 6:4 (60% of people take buses); Beijing 5:5 : 5 (half each).Due to the flaws in our public transport policy, in recent years, the bus industry has shrunk severely, and the number of citizens choosing buses for travel has declined sharply.Tianjin has changed from 8:2 to 9.3:0.7 (the number of people taking the bus is less than 10%); Shanghai has changed from 6:4 to 4:6; Beijing is 6.3:3.7 (the number of people taking the bus has been reduced to 3.7) . A direct consequence of this ratio is the cycling of urban transport.According to statistics in 1988, there were 7.3 million bicycles in Beijing (vehicles with registered license plates? If these 7.3 million bicycles are dispatched together, calculated at an interval of two meters, it is 14,600 kilometers, which can be arranged from Beijing to Moscow. As a result of the development of socialized transportation, Beijing will be overcrowded. No matter how many roads are built, it will be difficult to satisfy the Beijing citizens who have 7.3 million bicycles. Because of Beijing's economic take-off, the development of the commodity economy, and the change of the economic system, Beijing ushered in a wave of automobiles prematurely.It is said that it is premature because it is unexpected, and because of its rapidity, the city has no time to give it the necessary road preparation, static traffic (parking lot? preparation. In this wave of cars, the first ones are the self-owned cars of government agencies and organizations.Now that the bus has lost its reputation, in order to ensure the work of the unit, it is justifiable to buy large cars and vans one after another; and the luxury sleeping cars purchased for leading comrades show the dazzling car family.These cars swarmed out from all corners, and all drove towards the old roads that were already petty, and the capital was immediately buzzing.Big names from all walks of life in the capital are like a cloud.Film and television stars, music stars, sports stars, political celebrities, business heroes, and individual masters, with a big pocket, they drive bluebirds, crowns, BMWs, Mercedes-Benz, and the top owners can even get a Cadillac to play with. Play.The elongated body, like half a ship, drove over from a distance, and it was the leader of the car family.Beijing has always been a stage for celebrities from all walks of life to compete for wealth. In the 1950s and 1960s, they competed with watches, in the 1970s with bicycles, and after the 1980s with cars.Except for the running water of famous brand cars, owners of miscellaneous brand cars such as Xia Li and Lada dare not hang out with their friends during the day, so they have to go for a drive at night on the lines outside the second and third ring roads. . The market economy has spawned endless clusters of companies, each of which takes economic benefits as the first goal, so many vehicles for pulling goods are born.Truck travel is even more troublesome. First, it uses a large area of ​​roads. Second, it always travels during rush hour, which makes the already busy urban traffic even worse. Among the many factors that affect traffic, there is another factor that is ignored, which is the problem of ineffective traffic.According to statistics, 6% of urban roads are occupied by hawkers or temporary booths; man-made traffic jams (bottlenecks? account for 70%; at intersections with traffic lights, compared with foreign countries, our traffic capacity is higher 21% lower. With the continuous increase of traffic volume in urban areas, congestion and congestion at various traffic intersections are becoming more and more serious.According to the survey of relevant units on September 9, 1986, among the 178 intersections, 41 intersections were severely blocked, of which 23 (56%?) were in urban areas. , but doubled. More than 50% of the intersections in the urban area are seriously blocked, and the driving speed has dropped to below 10 km/h. Beijing is like a patient who is already seriously ill, and its blood vessels are blocked. It has 7.3 million vehicles The Beijing of bicycles, Beijing with millions of cars, plus such a dense space, and an old frame that is hard to break and the traffic situation like intestinal obstruction, how difficult it will be to walk! Beijing is facing the severe challenge of modernization.Beijing took the case and rose up. Under the analysis of sufficient rational thinking, Beijing was put on the operating table by some experts.During this period, after a lot of practice and exploration, the experts worked day and night to check the road blockage like observing the ebb and flow of the tide.Crossing the river to ask fishermen, chopping firewood to ask woodcutters, how many frosty days and hot summers have they visited the masses and asked road workers to solve the urgent needs of urban traffic.After quite solid practice and exploration, the soft science research topic of Beijing urban traffic comprehensive system planning research was handed over to experts and scholars from 26 units in the city, and they were solemnly requested to scientifically analyze the crux of Beijing traffic with a modern perspective. And put forward practical ways to prescribe a dose of good medicine for Beijing's traffic. From then on, Beijing began to advance towards the goal of urban modernization.Despite the many difficulties and tortuous roads, the builders have not stopped for a day for more than ten years. As of May 2001, Beijing has made impressive achievements in urban infrastructure, especially road and bridge transportation facilities, and has become the most eye-catching highlight among many cities in the country. On January 11, 1999, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee specifically mentioned the remarkable achievements in infrastructure construction when summarizing the great achievements of Beijing in the past 20 years.He said: We have always insisted on putting the infrastructure on which cities depend for survival and development at the top of urban construction. Over the past 20 years, the city's investment in urban infrastructure has exceeded 100 billion yuan, and a large number of key key projects such as water, electricity, gas, heat, roads, and communications have been built one after another.The two urban fast ring roads of the second ring road and the third ring road have been expanded and connected successively; expressways such as Jingshi, Jingtong, Jingchang, and Capital Airport, and suburban roads such as Guangwai, Chongwen, Fuwai, Chaonei, Baiyi, and Beiyuan More than a hundred overpasses have been built successively, Beijing West Railway Station has been completed and opened to traffic, and road traffic facilities have been significantly increased and improved. When Beijing shines again, people should not forget those ordinary builders.Right now, it is impossible to do projects without investing money, but as an individual, it is impossible to do big jobs without spiritual civilization. From the following examples, we may feel that the rise of Beijing is not only caused by material power, but also by spiritual power. The author has interviewed Lu Zongxiang, a national model worker, twice. The first time was the construction of the Third Ring Road, and the second time was the construction of the Beijing Road.When I interviewed Lu Zongxiang for the first time, I was on the construction site. At that time, I went to the News Center of the Municipal Engineering Bureau to learn about the situation. Before leaving, the enthusiastic director of the News Center Li Desheng wrote a roadmap for me, and wrote a list of the six major companies in charge of publicity, that is, the contact person.At 1:00 noon, under the scorching sun, I came to the construction site. I first went to the construction site of Gongzhufen Municipal No. 2 Company, and met with Deputy Minister Jiao Yufeng. Go to the Bayi Lake construction site to find Lu Zongxiang. Lu Zongxiang is a national model worker, and their construction team is the trump card army of the Municipal Engineering Bureau. Director Zhang Liansheng's special forces, the White Tiger Regiment, and almost all the tough names have been taken up by him.Beforehand, many people warned me: If you want to interview him, you must make an appointment in advance, otherwise it will be difficult to find him.I am very experienced in interviewing busy people like him, making an appointment is absolutely impossible.There are a lot of things on the construction site, and they change all the time, how can we make an appointment?The most reliable way is to go directly to the construction site without saying hello.Construction is like a war, and the construction site is like a battlefield. As the commander of the sixth branch of a company, Lu Zongxiang is not on the construction site, where else? When I arrived at the construction site, someone stopped me at the entrance, saying that pedestrians were not allowed to pass.It was then that I remembered the path Li Desheng had given me and showed it to the gatekeeper.The gatekeeper said, you want to interview Lu Zongxiang?He was still hanging around the bridge just now.He covered his forehead with his hands and looked into the distance.No, it's at the head of the bridge you just passed by, the one wearing the white hat.After hearing what the gatekeeper said, I hurriedly turned back on my bicycle, and when I got to the left of the bridge, I saw a man in a white straw hat with his hands on his hips, talking loudly to the people under the bridge.I hurried over, took out the road slip again, and said, Master Lu, hello.Lu Zongxiang turned his head and looked at me blankly, how do you know me?I was relieved and said, who doesn't know you, everyone in Beijing knows you, and you are often on the news on TV.He smiled, and said while looking at the road: A road repairer, a coolie, I still don't know my weight?He returned the road to me, leaned over and yelled at the people at the bottom of the bridge: I tell you, that's not going to work, you have to clear the things under the bridge for me, or you don't do it!Do you understand?A person who looked like a monitor at the bottom of the bridge hurriedly said, okay, don't worry!Lu Zongxiang turned around and said: What are you talking about?I said, don't go back to the shed, let's talk on the side of the road!He said: That's fine, let's go, next to the 323 bus stop over there.In this way, against the dust flying from the construction site and the scorching sun, Lu Zongxiang told me: What do you say?Let me introduce you to the Bayi Lake Project first!Its difficulty is: the water cannot be cut off here!The industrial water and agricultural water in the east must pass through here and cannot be interrupted.I will build three bridges in this section: Yuyuan Bridge, Yunan Bridge and Bayi Lake Bridge.These three bridges were first demolished and then rebuilt.Don't talk about building, it is demolishing, which is quite difficult.The optical cable of CCTV is attached under the bridge. CCTV works every day, so it cannot be touched or dropped.In the past, the demolition of the old bridge was done with explosives, but this time it was not possible. The fiber optic cable had to be carefully removed from under the bridge, then protected with wooden boards, moved aside, and carefully guarded.In addition to this optical cable, there are many other pipelines, which must be taken care of carefully.The area of ​​the three bridges is 9,900 square meters, the Bayi Lake Bridge is the largest, with an area of ​​6,300 square meters, and the concrete cast-in-place area is 4,516 square meters... Listening to the conversation of this nationally famous figure, looking at the dust flying around, I can't help but respect You Sheng. Lu Zongxiang is a battle-tested municipal veteran. In 1989, his team was working at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. During the day, there were often foreign affairs activities, so he could not work, so he worked at night.If the accumulation of materials and sand in the State Guest House would be unsightly, he would clean up the materials after work.I saw the new road leader, but no road builders.Their civilized construction has been praised by the central leading comrades.Before the construction of the trestle for the expansion project of the Capital Airport terminal, he called Zhang Baifa: Please send me the most capable team, and send me the ace army to the airport.Zhang Baifa said, okay, send Lu Zongxiang there.Lu Zongxiang really lived up to expectations and completed the task neatly within five months. After accepting the Bayi Lake construction task this time, Lu Zongxiang once again withstood a severe test.He lived and ate at the construction site for several days in a row, and the continuous fighting made him very tired.The workers told me a story: One day, the barber from the worker's home went to the construction site to cut our hair, and while he was doing it, he fell asleep, and the barber couldn't wake up even after pushing it.How to wake him up?Some people say, this is easy to handle.After finishing speaking, he yelled: "It's time to hit the ashes (ie: pouring cement)!"He woke up instantly. Looking at Lu Zongxiang who was standing by the side of the road accepting my interview, I thought: How much fatigue can this person endure? Lu Zongxiang went on to say: Our work in this section is later than other work areas. Other work areas received tasks in December last year, and we only started construction in January this year.We have to finish the project before the flood season, and the planned date is June 15.Such a construction time of five and a half months, including dismantling and repairing, is really tight enough.Now after many days of hard work, all the concrete (i.e.: concrete? cast-in-place) of the Bayi Lake Bridge has been completed, the bent frames have been dismantled, and the formwork has also been dismantled. It is not far from the day when it will be opened to traffic on June 15. How many years have I been in this business you ask?From 1953 to now, almost a lifetime.I'm from Xianxian County, Hebei Province. I haven't moved my nest since I worked as a road worker.When I first started this business, there was no mechanization, it was all manpower, with picks and shovels, and it was still done by farmers.At that time, the roads were still manually pulled by carts, the kind of foreign chartered carts, all the way from Bawangfen to Sanjianfang.I just started working as a road worker, and the work is hard. It is true to say that road workers are born to suffer.I was only 16 at the time, but I worked hard.We dug earthworks, divided into six grades from 80 cents to a piece of land. I dug 17 cubic meters in the first month and earned one yuan and two. After that, I earned the highest grade.At that time, road repair was still used for tamping or grinding with stone rollers.At the end of the day, I couldn't go to the kang on my legs.In this way, it is much better now than in the past. I remember the Temple of Heaven we built in 1955.We built the walls around the Temple of Heaven and the east gate of the Temple of Heaven.At that time, bricks from the city wall were used.The bricks of the city wall were removed and built on the wall of the Temple of Heaven.As for civil construction, if you work for a long time, you will have a plenum, which is the whole work we are talking about now. There is nothing else about us, the main thing is that we love to work and can't stay idle, just like farmers.What do farmers do when they don't farm?We are in this business, what should we do if we don’t?Speaking of hard work, who doesn't work hard?Farmers don't work hard?Some farmers planted crops and harvested grain throughout the year, but lost money instead. Isn't it bitter?Let's always be better, contented and happy! I have been the captain of the Youth Commando since 1958, and I often met with Zhang Baifa at that time.At that time they built the Great Hall of the People, and we built East Chang'an Avenue. When the heroes meeting was held in the Great Hall of the People in 1959, we were all representatives, and the units we belonged to were all advanced collectives.We have meetings during the day and live in Xiyuan at night.At that time, Peng Zhen and Wan Li all received me.At that time, I was a carpenter, Zhang Baifa was a steel bar worker, and I was a road worker.To be honest, we did have a sense of pride in our hearts. At that time, no one called us a stinky municipal.To be a worker is to be the master of the country! We feel that the party and the government think highly of us, so we can't let go of this job.During the three-year natural disaster period, the third-level workers were not as good as a bunch of green onions. Those who came out to be workers with me all ran back home to farm.Although it was very difficult in the countryside at that time, it was better to grow à la carte vegetables on the edge of the fields, and add sweet potato pieces with steamed buns, than to suffer in the city.At that time, my life was very difficult. There were four members of my family, and I was the only one who went to work. My wife had not worked for a long time, so I relied on my salary of 50 yuan a month.The whole family's living expenses are more than one yuan a day, how do they live?Then I got over it.I think there must be road repairers in cities, especially Beijing, the capital, so what if no one repairs roads!At that time, I thought, if it is difficult to say it is difficult, why haven't I heard that Zhang Baifa left?They are also rural people, and their hometown is no better than mine. Since they won't leave, we will stick to building roads for Beijing... We stayed, and I think it was right to stay. Since the Sanyuan Bridge was built in 1984, the road project has been getting bigger and bigger, and the changes can be said to be earth-shaking.Over the years, our team has moved to the north and south, and all those from the east and west sides participated.When the Siyuan Bridge was being built, it was extremely difficult, but even the most difficult projects were taken down.There are only endless blessings in the world, and there is no unbearable sin.You journalists and writers, help us count those roads and bridges, which ones are not made by hard work?Director Liansheng said: The greater the suffering, the more joy.People who have suffered a lot will feel sweet when they taste other things. Do you think this is the reason? The Bayi Lake constructed by Lu Zongxiang is a very quiet and beautiful place.A few years ago, it was said that a monster appeared in that lake. Some said it looked like a dolphin, while others said it looked like a fish.So when approaching Bayi Lake, there is always a whimsy to see the lake water truck.And the ancients did create such a myth: At that time, the flood was raging, and a man named Gun stepped forward to control the flood.This Gun is a big fish, very similar to the dolphin-like fish in the Bayi Lake in modern legend.When he was rectifying the flood, he did not hesitate to risk violating the rules of heaven and risking being killed and punished by the emperor of heaven, and stole the emperor's breath soil to block the water.After Gun was killed by the Emperor of Heaven, his body did not rot for three years, and Yu was born from his stomach, the famous Dayu, who continued to complete his father's unfinished business.In the earliest myths created by human beings, whether it is the West or the East, whether it is Greece or India, there is a god who is selfless and dedicated like Gun, a god who is willing to sacrifice for the people.This is the ideal incarnation shared by all human beings, and is a god who has been praised and sung by human beings from generation to generation. When Lu Zongxiang repaired the bridge, he had to dry the waterwheel under the bridge.What he will do is just like what Gun and Yu did in mythology.This thousand-year project of water control and bridge repair is a great cause.A person engaged in a great cause must be the embodiment of a spirit.The difference is that Lu Zongxiang has the wisdom and equipment provided by his time.He adopted the method of cutting off the water alternately between the three bridges. From ancient times to the present, a laborer like Lu Zongxiang, who spent his life with his humble status and walked step by step towards the goal he identified, has the fullest heroic qualities in his life. It is the greatest secret of our nation's endless life! Lu Zongxiang is a hero. We should call him the road hero.This is a brilliant and resounding title. Soon after the interview with Lu Zongxiang, I heard the news that they completed the opening of the Bayi Lake Bridge before the flood season as scheduled... Today, when the evolution of the times has leapfrogged many past concepts, did the flag of the Youth Commando once flutter on the construction site. From the first generation, the youth commando team of the Beijing Municipal Corporation has passed down the rules of hard work and hard work. Therefore, hard work and hard work have become their first choice for being a commando.The bigger the job, the better, and the more tired you are, the harder you work.Roaring against the wind, going against the wind for thousands of miles is their inner spiritual totem, which is the spirit of fearlessness and heroism handed down from the older generation, which people call the original spirit. Thirteen 13-meter-high off-white columns, like giant arms, support the Tianning Temple Overpass.For these 13 bridge pillars, Jia Fushun, the captain of the 232 Youth Commando, seemed to have gone through a journey of purgatory. Whether these 13 bridge pillars can be completed before the river is open to water will be related to the construction period of the entire Tianning Temple Overpass, which cannot be delayed for a day.在这关键时刻，贾福顺挺着胸膛冲了上去。 13米高的钢筋模板，内径只有1米，里面还安着钢筋和混凝土导管，人在里面活动的空间仅仅30厘米。贾福顺腰系安全带，手拿振捣棒，登着钢筋笼，一步步下到钢模筒里，双脚斜插进钢筋缝里，在钢筋笼和导管的窄缝间，半弯着腰开始振捣。这桥柱里要灌筑混凝土，要浇筑得匀实充分，必须用振捣棒振捣。正是冬天，又值河底风口，刺骨的寒风吹透了钢板和钢筋，钢模筒里，更是周天寒彻，冷得人打战。因为空间有限，他只能穿单衣才能操作。这样的条件，不一会儿就冻透了他的五脏六腑。手握振捣棒，像握住了一根冰柱，冻得十指发疼。振捣开始了。钢模筒里黑咕隆咚，气温迅速上升，混凝土外掺剂的混合气味呛得他喘不上气，模筒里开始缺氧，他喉咙里像塞了一把盐，虚汗一下子冒出来，两腿开始站立不住，抖动。振捣机也在抖动，并且发出尖厉刺耳的啸叫，这是振捣棒碰到了钢模板，啸叫声像水浸泡着他。他的头顶上满是混凝土块，那是导管上部漏下的东西。他心里有什么东西翻滚起来，想吐，他想爬到外面休息一小会儿。但他不能，按操作规程，混凝土每30厘米需要振捣一次。这就是他的脚步，他的行程是在13米以内。还有长长的12个13米，这就是他的全部路程。走这段路程，如进炼狱。 他最后是热，热得大汗淋漓，热得想哭。他不敢停下来，停下来整个工程会因为他而延误。 每次他从模筒里出来的第一件事，就是爬到13米高的脚手架上躺着。他的身体像被弄零散了，一块一块地让朔风吹吹，把它们再冻到一块。 队员们争着想把他换下来。他却摆摆手说：这么大的罪，我一个人受就行了，大伙就别轮流受罪了。 13个13米像炼狱一样的行程，贾福顺走下来了。他一个人完成了13根桥柱的任务。 据说他从13米高的桥柱上下来的时候，是被人搀扶着下来的…… 大钟寺桥，长180米，直径700毫米的污水管线开槽，向下挖一米就见水，又遇到流沙层，5天换了两支包工队，因为止不住流沙，迟迟见不到槽底。312队青年突击队队长王俊军主动请战，带着突击队下槽清理。他先皱着眉头看了看现场，心里就盘算出该怎么干才不至于失败的计划。他改变先前两个包工队的施工方法，加快出锹频率。开出槽后，立即用草袋子、木桩撑住流沙，挖出排水沟，将水导人积水坑再把水抽到沟槽外边。只用一天就圆满完成了任务。 接着就是那段长180米污水管的勾管缝任务。这条污水管的直径是0.7米，每根管子长2米，全段掐头去尾共有89个管缝。这活儿又苦又累，即使只在管道里爬行，也会大汗淋漓，何况还要施工。人们都面有难色。王俊军又主动请战，承担了这项任务。 王俊军和工友们穿上胶片衩子，用塑料布裹着胳膊肘，腰里系上绳子，抄起弧形抹子和小水泥桶钻进管子里。他们用胳膊肘和膝盖爬行在管道里，就像战士在火力封锁下匍匐前进。虽说才180米，但这是真正意义上的征途。等爬到施工地方，仅勾两道缝，桶里的水泥便用完了。晃动一下绳子，让同伴再把自己拽出来，装满水泥再提着小桶爬进去。就这样，不要说多长时间，只是几个来回，王俊军他们两肘和双膝全磨出了血。长长的180米管道里，点点滴滴，斑斑驳驳，洒满了青年突击队员的鲜血！ 胳膊肘磨破了又愈合，愈合了又磨破；双膝磨烂了又长好，长好了又磨烂。就这样，他们咬牙奋战了13天，爬行了13天，终于将180米管道的89个管缝勾好，不透一丝光亮才鸣金收兵。 经过闭水试验，一次合格通过。 西北三环工程的钢梁制作在机械公司的厂区进行。三义庙立交桥6米连接钢梁的任务下达给崔少光青年突击队。但是，设计部门还没有拿出设计图纸。what to do?青年突击队已不是过去以大老粗为主的队伍了，现在他们有大学生、有实践经验很丰富的工人，为争取时间，他们决定自己动手设计。 他们向市政设计院要来钢梁起拱曲线的曲率半径和起拱方程，一米一个点，根据方程进行演算。4个昼夜，他们计算、核对了万余数据，演算纸摞起来有一尺多厚。依照各点的数据，他们按1：100的比例画到图纸上，最后经市政设计院的负责同志审核。他们拿惯了振捣器的手，如今要拿三角尺和图板，劳动形式的转换，是用付出的巨大代价完成的。 有了图纸，仅仅是开端，放大样才是他们真正的工作。放大样只能在户外进行，蹲在毛钢上画出20多米长的一片梁的样子。时值隆冬，为保证丈量精确，操作时不能戴手套，手指接触冰冷的钢板，西北风刀样地吹来，刺骨钻心，手上裂着血口子，但没人退缩。他们先用经纬仪画出基准线，然后一米一个点用三角板标出该点拱度。为保证钢梁上标出的曲拱各点与基准垂直，他们必须在基准线上选出一个点，利用勾股定理，验证该线是否与基准线成直角。放一片钢梁大样，一蹲就是半小时，人都冻僵了。但他们不能停歇，又继续放大下去。就这样，他们共标出5000多个点，画了92片钢板，连成了这条76米长的钢铁脊梁。 越来越多春节不回家的市政人，出现在西北三环工地上。 新春到了，蓟门桥工地的顶管坑也挖出来了。但由于是在路边，过往车辆多，容易坍塌。为保证施工顺利进行，虽是午夜，刘振民青年突击队却留了下来。 工地紧傍着著名的大钟寺，而惟有大钟寺的新年钟声最动人。能亲自聆听这祝福国泰民安的钟声，是很吉祥的事情。 时钟指向零点的时候，大钟寺的钟声悠然飘来。这是向建设者祝福的声音，是特意献给过年不回家的人们的一份厚礼。突击队员们情不自禁地放下手里的活儿，一齐和着钟声喊着。随着钟声的结束，小伙子们一起欢呼起来。他们兴奋地打着焊枪他们以焊花做礼花，迎接新的一年的到来。 大年初一，在鞭炮声中，郭振库青年突击队却在八一湖冰冷的河床上，加班做上水管道的防腐层。在呼呼的过河风中，他们点火开工他们在大锅里熬沥青，将沥青熔化后，一层层涂在水管表层。他们似乎比平常更认真，一层一层，把那些水管涂上很厚很厚的沥青。晚饭时，他们果然没有吃上饺子这一点，他们事先预料到了。他们就着雪花，吃了方便面，觉得很好吃他们太冷了，也太饿了。 丈夫在工地上太劳累了，已经几天几夜没有合眼了。这一天丈夫回家了，吃着饭就睡着了。妻子赶快把丈夫扶到床上，把门锁好，就到工地来了。她对工地领导说，丈夫病了，今天来不了啦。谁知丈夫醒来发现被妻子锁在房里，就从窗户跳出来到了工地。丈夫的突然出现，使妻子很尴尬很恼火，但更心疼。她大哭道：你还要命不要命？你这不是自杀吗？这是发生在工地上的真实故事。 一天，某公司召集队长一级干部会。开会地点不是在工地，不是在办公室，不是在会议室，而是在宾馆。 这可是从来没有过的事。 一会儿，经理走过来，对大家说，奉局长之命，每人一个床位，从现在开始睡觉。任何人不许外出，不许串门，不许走动。两个小时后我和副经理叫醒大家。 今天我们监督执行。经理又说。 因为工地上的人们什么也不缺，就是缺觉。尤其是干部。给他们两个小时睡觉是最大的奖赏。 大年初一，大北窑高架桥工程工地上，葛四清青年突击队要在通惠桥下围河造堰，准备打桩。葛四清二话不说，率先扛起200多斤重的草袋跳进冰冷的河里，其他队员鱼贯而上。从初一到十五，他们共装运3000多袋土，下河围堰1000多立方米。紧接着他们又承担了浇筑20座承台的任务。这座承台位于河中心，用草袋垒起的围堰就是他们的工作面。周围是水，头顶是低矮的旧桥，机械用不上，只能靠工人们一锹一锹地挖泥。河水不断渗过来，作业面又成一片泥淖。这里是人工造成的烂泥淖，来回穿梭的人流把臭泥、烂草、杂物很均匀地搅在一起，河底的气味十分呛人。葛四清他们一身泥巴，脸上、手上、身上似乎都被污泥糊了一遍。他们就在这样的环境中奋战了40多天，吊出18块重约两吨的石块，拔出大小木桩240多根，如期完成了任务。人们都称这支青年突击队是葛四清泥战队。 213青年突击队队长张凤书夜里干完活儿回家。轻车熟路，闭上眼睛就能回去。他真想就这样闭着眼睡着觉走路。不是说红军长征一天到晚急行军，累得战士们走路睡觉吗？他原来不可想象怎么能走路睡觉，现在他明白了。他现在还会骑自行车睡觉呢！ 太累了1900多平方米的排架任务让他们3天完成，人员只有20名。张凤书把人分成两班，12小时轮班干。他是队长，只有全天候运行，24小时全班坚守。 3天下来了，张凤书感觉自己像纸一样飘起来。他想，得赶快飘回去，落在自己家的床上，美美地睡一觉！ 他飘回去了，可是却找不着自己的家了。 一问邻居，邻居说，早搬走了，一星期前就搬走了！问搬哪了？邻居笑了：咱俩谁是掌柜的？你都不知道，我哪能晓得？ 这时张凤书突然想起，支排架的前几天，爱人让他回家收拾东西，说是单位要给她调房子。他在电话里说，我哪有时间呀？爱人说，没有半天，两小时行不行？He said no.爱人又说，半个小时行不？他还说不行。爱人再坚持说，那你就回来看一眼，就看一眼行不？他说实在连瞧一眼的工夫都腾不出来。爱人在电话里火了：你死吧！说完把电话一摔，再也不理他了。 对着茫茫黑夜，心像一叶飘羽的张凤书却找不到了归宿。他冲着黑夜骂着想着：家搬哪去了呢？ 元月的一天，蓟门桥工地第一项目部经理吴宝成，正在忙碌时，突然接到家里电话，说父亲病情加重，让他赶快回去。 父亲病重住院是在前几天，那时医院要求病人家属陪床。他很想在父亲床前尽孝，陪他哪怕一天两天，也算对得起父亲的养育之恩。但是，不要说是一天，就是一个小时也抽不出来。工地上跟打仗一个样，一个小时就会出现意想不到的事情，百年工程，不可有半点懈怠。于是他就让母亲在父亲身边陪护，自己仍坚守在工地。他白天在工地忙乎，晚上抽空再去医院看父亲。 可是刚放下电话，工地上却出现了问题，需要马上召开碰头会，研究解决的办法。不能让全工地停工停料，等着把家里的事处理好，再回头管国家的事。自古忠孝难两全，还是继续开会吧。他是在心里流着泪开碰头会的。 就在这天夜里，父亲去世了。 薛玉柱脚步沉重地走在故乡的小路上。 他接到家里的电报，就是这一纸电报把他从工地上催了回来。正是收麦季节。金黄的色调把人的眼睛晃得发酸。他的泪掉下来了。 他是队上的合同工，是农民，是北京市政工程局招来的。局里从河北冀县、定州，山东费县、涞水、泰安，广安，浙江平阳等地招来一批工人，他们将要为北京市建设增添光彩。正是麦收的时候工地上的活儿也到了嗓子眼，都卡到了一块儿。他无法回家收麦，就是队里让回，他也不好意思回。他会修理技术，这是他在部队当兵时学的。翻斗车坏了，坏的不是一台，而是好几台，就像病人等待救治，他不能丢下不管。 于是，他就没有回家。 他不回家，家里人就只能紧急动员起来，连自己11岁的儿子也下了地，帮助奶奶收麦。谁知，拖拉机拉麦子的时候，儿子从车上摔了下来…… 他想起了可怜的儿子，儿子太小，太小，才11岁，就下田收麦了。 儿子的身影在他眼前晃动起来。 可是，他再也没有儿子了。 他想着哭着回到了家。他跪倒在80多岁的老母亲面前，哭着让老母亲原谅他。他说他要是回来就不会有这样的事，她的小孙子就不会走…… 可是，母亲却笑起来，问：你是谁？ 母亲已经精神失常了。母亲已经认不出他了，母亲已经不会哭了。 薛玉柱苦在心里呀，他这样拼死拼活地干是为什么？为儿子？可是儿子已经没了，为的是什么？ 他抱着村头的大槐树结结实实地哭了一场，又赶回了北京，赶回了工地…… 这就是城市建设者的故事。无心者听来，似也平淡无奇。但只要你有一颗真实不虚的心，你不追逐那些自私的时尚，你就会在脚手架上、钢筋堆里、水泥板下，在灰里泥里汗里，甚至在血里火里，发现他们的牺牲，发现在都市彩虹的背面，竟生活着这样一支以吃苦为荣的部落。你就会由衷地尊敬他们，感激他们！ 不久前，笔者来到正在建设中的四环路工地，一个建设者这样对笔者说：工程中，最让人激动的是混凝土浇筑的时候，对我们城市建设者来说，这是一个庄严的仪式，我们在这个仪式里，不仅看到物我们为之流血流汗的工程，我们更看到了我们自己，感受到我们的力量和价值。 凌晨3时，正是城市熟睡的时候，天边已经传来鸡叫的声音。公司各部门的同志，不管是领导还是技术干部、办事员，都像虔诚的教徒去礼拜或是拜谒圣洁的神坛那样走向工地。大家都戴着红色的头盔有人说它是工程的支点，工人们只要见到这红色，心里就无端暖热起来，心里就有了底数。经理、副经理们自然是排在前头的，他们在这个时候往往和现场指挥的同志在一起，发现问题，及时处理。工地上灯火通明。城市却正如暗黑的背景。这时，一辆辆沉重的罐车隆隆地开过来，那上边装满了搅拌好的混凝土，各就各位，一切准备完毕，现场指挥短促的哨声就洪亮地响了。城市在黑夜中一动不动地注视着这狭长的圣坛，观看这迄今为止要比所有最时髦的重金属乐队还要有分量的演出，是怎样叩打人们心扉的。随着号令，罐车的引擎发动起来，机器开始轰鸣，就像教堂里的管风琴厚重的声浪在湍急地流动。这乐声是对在场的人们最深情的祝福，是最温馨的抚慰。浇筑开始了，载重混凝土的泵车高扬起钢铁的手臂，按照施工员的指令，伸进模板里开始浇筑。此时，人指挥着高大的泵车和沉重的混凝土，浇筑的场面，增添了人的威风。 每辆罐车大约能装混凝土五六立方米，但每次浇筑一打就是一两千立方米。这种大规模的施工作业只有现代化工业社会才会有，那场面雄浑无比。全公司有好几处混凝土搅拌站，它们出售商品混凝土，它们的存在，既能应付大的合同作战，又可兼顾小的作业。这就是说既能气吞万里如虎，又可春风化雨点滴人微。搅拌站的成立，完全是市政公司机构改革的尝试，是大工业意识的产物。每次现浇，几乎各搅拌机、站统一行动，纷纷支援前线，于是一辆辆罐车便长龙般鱼贯而来。罐车在途中可以边行进边搅拌，若路途遥远，还要使用缓凝剂等。这一切，绝对已达到国际先进水平，可以和任何发达国家相比。 按照施工员的指令，每辆罐车都要在规定区域推心置腹地倾诉一番，最后卸掉一身重负，轻装转向另一战场。如此一个浇筑的过程，机声隆隆，人却静默如铁。 在浇筑的同时，就要振捣。工人们手拿振捣棒，意气风发地去完成最后的仪式。这是工程中的关键时刻，而且是惟一用半自动机械人工振捣。要使浇筑的混凝土桥体没有蜂窝麻面，要充分振捣，不许疏漏，要振捣到出水分，即出现水泥浆状才行。因为里边往往还有波纹管，它是白洋铁皮做的，是用来穿钢绞线的。到模板拿掉，混凝土凝固之后，再进行拉张，预应力构件是现代桥梁道路工程的一个突破。经过拉张后的构件就可以大大提高负荷力。倘若振捣太烈，就会把波纹管挤扁或变形，这样钢绞线便穿不进去，就不能拉张。若出现这样的情况，就还要把浇筑好的水泥构件开天窗，把变形的波纹管修好。开天窗后的构件色泽不一致，和整体难以协调，这就不是上好的工程。因此这庞大壮观的工程，到这一步，却无论如何是精雕细琢了。要格外小心，格外认真。 伴随浇筑的振捣是一个长长的工程。需要用心一点一点触摸，精细而又耐心。振捣常常是连续作战，有时是连续72小时，有时是连续100小时，人是可以换的，但机器不能停。这绵长时问的劳动，消耗着无数工人的体力和耐力，但他们坚持不懈，因为他们都不愿意出现开天窗，不愿在工程中出现一点遗憾那遗憾会永远留在他们心上。 这是呕心沥血的祭礼，长长的如涅檠般的再生。不管是谁，不管是经理还是普通干部，面对这样的场景，无不肃然而立，立正姿势，行注目礼。他们面对的仿佛是自己心灵的祭坛，是自己生命的升华。那点点浇筑进去的，不是别的，而是他们自己的青春和生命……