Chapter 62 Road Construction and Land Reclamation with Li Zheng
The road from Luo Yihang's house to the platform is not only bumpy, but there is also a large groove in the middle that is nearly half a meter wide and twenty centimeters deep.

A two-wheeled motorcycle can still squeeze through the roadbed at the edge, but a four-wheeled car will definitely scrape the chassis.

This includes the most commonly used small breads, small pickup trucks, and even medium-sized trucks used for transportation in the village. Even large trucks are dangerous.

So when they arrived at the site, Luo Yihang had already introduced the current situation and needs.

Li Zheng was still frowning.

"Boss Hang, it's easy to reclaim land here, but this road..." Li Zheng shook his head and grinned, feeling embarrassed. "For such a large area of ​​land, we must use a tractor to reclaim land, but tractors need to be transported by carts, and carts can't go up this road. If we clear the road, the cost will be expensive."

"Why don't you talk about it first, Brother Li?" Luo Yihang also said with a frown.

There is an old saying that goes, if you want to be rich, build roads first, have fewer children and raise more pigs.

The second half is now open to discussion, but the first half is definitely correct.

But the road must be repaired.

That broken road not only makes it impossible for land reclamation machinery to go up, but also makes it impossible to transport the crops grown.

Vegetables are planted on the platform. Unlike the original ginkgo trees, the leaves and fruits are not afraid of being pressed. They can be piled high on a motorcycle by putting them in a sack.

There are more than 30 acres of land for peppers and vegetables. You can't load them all into baskets and move them one by one on a motorcycle.

After hearing Luo Yihang's question, Li Zheng did not answer directly, but asked back: "Isn't that road owned by the municipal government?"

"No, the municipal village-to-village road reaches my doorstep. The cement section and the back are all the village." Luo Yihang learned about this from the village head's grandmother yesterday.

"That's easy. We can't build the municipal roads ourselves." Li Zheng squatted down, picked up a stone and gestured on the ground to explain to Luo Yihang.

"If we're paving a standard road, we only need a 10-centimeter-thick cement layer. This section of road is about 1800 meters long and 6 meters wide. 1800 times 6 times 0.1 is 1080 cubic meters. Concrete costs several hundred yuan per cubic meter. Add the cost of the mixer truck and the labor, and it will probably cost tens of millions."

"So expensive?" Luo Yihang took a breath and contributed to global warming.

"It's not expensive." Li Zheng stood up and patted the dirt off his hands, pointing to the numbers scratched on the ground and explaining, "This is because the foundation of that section of road is well laid and has basically not been damaged for decades. Otherwise, it would have to be doubled."

I thought building roads would be expensive, but I didn't expect it to be so expensive. It was also because the road construction standards of the Third Front were high back then, and a double lane was built on the mountain. Now it costs over one million yuan to just pave a layer of cement, which is less than two kilometers.

Luo Yihang had just been feeling proud of himself because of his bulging wallet, but now he was back to square one.

Feelings are still poor.

Luo Yihang was so worried that he kept sucking his teeth. He didn't expect the start to be so smooth and he encountered a roadblock at the first step.

Is there any other way?

Luo Yihang was pondering, and when he looked up, he saw Li Zheng standing beside him, looking calm and composed, as if he had some ideas.

He has worked on many projects and has seen all kinds of situations, including times when the road is in bad condition.

How were those solved?

Luo Yihang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Brother Li will definitely have a way."

Li Zheng smiled innocently, "I am just waiting for your opinion, Boss Hang. Do you want to repair it properly and solve the problem once and for all? Or..."

After a pause, Luo Yihang interrupted him with a smile, "Brother Li, don't joke. I can't afford a hundred thousand. Tell me if there is any way to save money."

"Then let's get a temporary one first." Li Zheng really had a plan and said it without thinking.

"I think the roadbed is OK. I'll send you two excavators. If the big one can't get up there, I'll use two small ones, plus a bulldozer. We'll level and repair the roadbed, and spread gravel on it. We'll make do with it so that cars can get on there first. We'll repair it properly if Boss Hang needs it later."

Finally, he excused himself by saying, "This is faster. The cement road was built too slowly, and the farming season was delayed by the time the road was completed."

It was normal for a businessman to have some small thoughts, so Luo Yihang didn't take it to heart and asked again, "Can I use it?"

“One or two years won’t be a big problem.”

One or two years would be enough for now. After one or two years, maybe we can directly pave asphalt roads. Then...

"Brother Li, can you give me an estimate? How much will it cost? How long will it take?"

"As for the section up the mountain, two excavators are needed to level the ground, and about 20 tons of crushed stone are needed. A -ton truck will make trips, and the total cost is about yuan. It can be done in one day. I'll calculate the specific details with you."

After saying that, Li Zheng took out a small notebook from his pocket and wrote down the entries one by one for Luo Yihang to see.

Crushed stone costs 55 yuan per ton, so we need about 300 tons, which is 16500 yuan.
The rental price of a small excavator is 280 yuan a day, and 1200 yuan a day with a driver, including fuel.

Small bulldozers are cheaper, 1000 a day, and also include a driver and fuel.

Luo Yihang can't drive an excavator or a bulldozer, so he must work with a driver, which is 3400.
Transportation by a 20-ton dump truck is cheaper. Brother Li said he has connections and can bargain. It’s 100 yuan per trip, and 15 trips is 1500 yuan.

All in all it’s a little over 21,000.

This is the price without having to re-tamp the foundation or re-paste the concrete.

Although it is still quite expensive, it is much cheaper than tens or hundreds of millions.

Fortunately, the ground has been hardened after the gravel layer was laid, and the drainage is good. If there are no large trucks, it will be fine to use it for one or two years.

Anyway, it has to be repaired, so Luo Yihang can only accept it.

The road construction has been decided, and then the land will be reclaimed.

"It's easy to open up wasteland." The road construction work was an unexpected gain, just like a snack before dinner. Li Zheng was very happy.

Land reclamation is the main purpose of today's visit.

"The day before, I hired a few workers to clear the rocks and trees from the ground. After the road is built, if there is time, I will send an excavator to clear the canal."

"I'll bring up a few dozen more bags of cement to patch up the broken and muddy areas in the canal."

"There is water in your field. Drain it first and let the tractor go down."

"First weed, then till the soil. I'm afraid you have to till it three times. First deep tillage, hang a deep tillage shovel to loosen the bottom, then deep tillage, then rotary tillage, and then see what you want to plant and whether you need to make ridges."

"But your environment..." Brother Li pointed around, "It's all wasteland, there must be a lot of bugs."

"Boss Hang, I don't want to make more money from you. Boss Luo and I have a long-standing friendship and I will definitely not cheat you." He put on his armor first.

"It's better to open up 20 meters on both sides, remove the grass, and then don't turn the land over. It's not necessary anyway."

"After weeding, we spread out weed-proof cloth to create two isolation zones to prevent insects from running over from other places."

"Finally, we need to set up a few mosquito-killing lamps."

"The solar-powered ones, with streetlight poles and energy-saving bulbs underneath, can be used as streetlights. They must be good ones, with high-voltage insecticides, lightning and rain protection, etc."

"The manufacturer of this lamp claims that one stick can control 20 acres of insects, but in reality it can't even cover 36 acres at most. You have 8 acres here, so you need 460 sticks. One stick costs ."

Luo Yihang and Li Zheng walked along the ridge of the field. Along the way, Li Zheng told Luo Yihang where to work and how to do it.

It mainly talks about drainage issues, insect control issues, post-maintenance disease prevention, ventilation and other issues.

There is no need to say much about weeding, land reclamation, and tilling the soil. Just go down to a large flat land and plough the land with a tractor and it's done.

But there are many other details.

Qiangwa is really nice and the person he introduced is reliable.

Li Zheng is really an old engineer. He can talk endlessly about things in the fields and can tell a lot about any small place.

Just one word - professional!
Although I always want to take on more work, as a businessman, it is understandable.

(End of this chapter)