At this time, the Qingdao section of Jiaoji Railway had been built to the Gaomi to Anqiu section, and the Jinan section had also started construction.

The East China government specially arranged a car to take Zhan Tianyou to the construction site. This time, the person who accompanied Zhan Tianyou to visit was Yao Shanxue, the director of Sifang Factory. He was originally the deputy project general of the engineering staff. He originally worked in the Ministry of Construction. After the time travelers occupied Qingdao, he became the director of Sifang Factory. Since Sifang Factory is now a national-level enterprise of the East China government, Yao Shanxue's administrative level is actually equivalent to the deputy ministerial level.

Crossovers are roads, and railways are built together. Highways are basically built according to the direction of Jiaoji Railway. As a supplement to railway transportation needs, they will connect to the branch townships along the railway in the future, and it is also convenient for material transportation when building railways. Moreover, crossovers now have sufficient experience in building highways and have a large number of prisoners. The standards for highways are not high. However, ordinary gravel hardened roads only use a small amount of concrete, the cost is not high, and there are a certain number of modern construction machinery. Therefore, the construction of the highway is very fast. At this time, the construction of the Gaomi to Anqiu section has been completed, and the geological survey of the Anqiu to Huaifang Station is underway.

Although Zhan Tianyou is just a railway engineer, he also knows that a country's transportation system cannot rely solely on railways. Highways can be used as an effective supplement to railways and further improve the transportation system.

In fact, the ancient Chinese transportation system was not bad. After the founding of the country, all dynasties would build official roads connecting big cities. However, whenever the dynasty was not expected, most of the official roads would become dilapidated due to disrepair. After 20 years of returning to China, Zhan Tianyou also saw many damaged and damaged official roads. Now the Qing court's finances are in short supply, so it is rare to be able to build a few roads. There is still energy to build a food official road, so Zhan Tianyou didn't want to be too troublesome, but he didn't expect that overseas Chinese would stay in Shandong for a few days, not only continued to build the Jiaoji Railway, but also built the roads together. It also made Zhan Tianyou realize again that overseas Chinese have indeed far surpassed the Qing court in terms of execution ability and work efficiency.

After driving for about 2 hours, he arrived at a construction site from the Gaomi to Anqiu section where hundreds of people were working. Zhan Tianyou was quite surprised to find that there were a large number of foreigners working, and they were all doing heavy physical work. Yao Shanxue told Zhan Tianyou that these foreigners were Russian soldiers captured on the battlefield, and now they are mainly distributed to work on various construction sections of the railway.

It turned out that Russia refused to withdraw troops from Northeast China, and the East China government also formally refused to redeem the second batch of Russian prisoners. For Russia, there was no big concern, because the noble officers redeemed the first batch of prisoners, and the remaining more than 15,000 people are just "gray animals", so they would not care about their lives or death. It would be better if the overseas Chinese were unwilling to let go and rebel, and they also saved a redemption fee.

But this news had a great impact on Russian prisoners. Although they were captured in the past, most Russian soldiers were not panicked because they knew that after the war, the governments of both sides would discuss the problem of the prisoners and the country would definitely bring them back. The time travelers reached an agreement on redemption of prisoners and completed the first batch of prisoners, which also confirmed this idea. Therefore, the prisoners were also more honest and worked hard. After all, everyone wanted to return to China safely.

After learning that the agreement to withdraw troops and redeem prisoners was rejected by both sides, the return of the country became far away. Many prisoners also felt that they had lost their goal of persistence. Some prisoners with violent personalities simply gave up and caused trouble. As a result, three small-scale riots occurred in a row. Fortunately, the time travelers were prepared for this and suppressed the riots in time, and executed the Russian soldiers who led the accident in public to serve as police.

However, this also sounded a wake-up call for the East China government. After all, blindly suppressing cannot solve the problem. Although some prisoners do not cause trouble, they do not wait for work. This is not a solution. Therefore, the East China government has promptly introduced the prisoner's work points system that has been used before. The prisoners' daily work will be exchanged for corresponding work points. If the work cannot be completed or there are violations of the rules, the relevant work points will be deducted. In addition, the work points can be exchanged for additional food, tobacco, alcohol, clothes and other materials to improve their lives. When the work points are earned, they can be released. The East China government also guarantees to send them back to China for free.

In order to compensate the prisoners for their work some time ago, they were given varying points based on their performance. According to calculations, the fastest person can earn the required points within 5 years and be released. However, it only takes 7 or 8 years for ordinary people. In this way, it is just to be considered as a prison for several years, and there is always hope. In addition, the East China government also told the prisoners that although the two governments have fallen out now, there is still a possibility of re-reaching the agreement again. Therefore, if the two governments agree in the future, they still have the possibility of returning home early. In this way, both kindness and power, coaxing and deception, finally stabilized the captives' emotions and ensured that the construction could continue.

Of course, Zhan Tianyou didn't know so many stories about it, but seeing so many Russians doing hard work, I felt relieved. After all, for so many years, China has been bullied and insulted, but now it has finally made this sigh and started bullying others.

However, this is just a small episode. Zhan Tianyou's attention is still on the railway project. Although there is no special construction technology on this section of the route, Zhan Tianyou still carefully observes the construction situation. He saw that although there are many construction personnel on this route, they are orderly. Some people carry materials and accessories, some people lay out lines to position them, measure distances, some people pile up gravel, lay sleepers, some people install rails, and fix them. Some people use rulers to check the size and location, and the quality of laying and installation. Each construction team performs their own responsibilities, orderly, and busy without being messy. Zhan Tianyou also admires him, even if he leads the team to construct, it is not the case.

In addition, Zhan Tianyou also noticed that every worker, including Russian prisoners, wore uniform clothes, wore rattan round hats, tight canvas work clothes, thickened on knees, elbows and other easy-to-become areas, with the words "Sifang Factory" printed behind them, leather boots and gloves on their feet; and at high places, there were also seat belts. A small number of people also added a vest in addition to the work clothes, and wore hats of unknown material, red, yellow, white, blue, and green, with different colors. There were many slogans hanging in the conspicuous place, saying:

"A century-old plan, quality first"

"The responsibility for production safety is higher than Mount Tai"

"Everyone has the responsibility for production safety"

"Quality first, safety production is in mind"

Yao Shanxue explained to Zhan Tianyou that these measures were all for strengthening construction personnel to ensure the safety of the construction site. There were more than a dozen safety rules, which must be enforced. So far, there were no major safety accidents in the construction of Jiaoji Railway, no one died, and no more than 10 injured.

This also shocked Zhan Tianyou, because both at home and abroad, the importance of safety is far less than that of overseas Chinese. It is better to go abroad, and there are some safety measures and safety rules. The domestic safety measures are basically zero, and safety rules are equal to none. The safety of the construction site depends entirely on the consciousness of the on-site personnel. Therefore, railway construction accidents are also constant, and the completion of a railway often requires more than a dozen lives. And it is unique to attach importance to safety issues like overseas Chinese.

In fact, strengthening construction safety is a good habit brought by time travelers from the old time and space, and it is also the biggest difficulty encountered in construction now. Even in the old time and space, construction safety is also a big problem. On the one hand, the workers' quality is not high and they ignore safety measures. On the other hand, it is also human laziness. They think that safety measures are too troublesome, and it is also good to be lazy. The workers in this era lack the concept of safety production and feel that safety measures are very troublesome. For example, safety helmets and gloves were originally intended to protect workers, but it is indeed inconvenient to carry out safety helmets and gloves. It often takes a lot of time to tie safety belts. Some workers also think that this is time travelers who are intentionally slandering people, and some even say that their life and death have nothing to do with the East China government.

However, the East China government still insists that the standards of safety responsibility must not be lowered. It must be strictly managed and formulated severe economic penalties. Workers who regularly violate safety regulations will be fired. Finally, the principle of safety production will be firmly practiced, and the consequence is that the rate of safety production accidents is extremely low.

After walking around the construction site, Yao Shanxue accompanied Zhan Tianyou to the command office area, warehouse equipment area, and workers' living area. What impressed Zhan Tianyou was the environment of the workers' living area. The travelers built neat houses and beds for the workers, so the entire workers' living area looked very neat and clean, which was more comfortable than some rural families. In addition, there were special canteens and dining restaurants, bathrooms, and medical rooms in the living area. Workers' clothes, bedding and other items were washed and dried. They could receive clean work clothes, gloves, leather shoes and safety helmets every day.

With Zhan Tianyou's knowledge, whether at home or abroad, the living areas of workers in this kind of construction project construction project are almost unbearable, with dirty, messy and bad taste, which is not much better than slums. Moreover, workers take care of their own food and clothing, which further creates chaos in the living areas. On the one hand, the investors are unwilling to invest more and manage more in the workers' living facilities. After all, that costs money; on the other hand, the quality of workers themselves is not high. If they can, they can do it and if they can endure it.
Chapter completed!