Spark

On the other side, in the office of the May Society.

"What's the situation? Are they trying to use this project to compare with our Los Angeles-San Francisco project?"

Houston looked at the live broadcast in front of him in astonishment, not knowing how to react for a while.

On the other side of him, the assistant nodded slightly, and replied in a calm voice:

"It looks like that at the moment - but I can't figure out why they would do it."

"Judging from the current situation, we have an advantage in every aspect, and such a comparison will only magnify their disadvantages."

"It can even be said that this is a suicidal publicity strategy."

"They're not going to get results, they're just going to do the work for us that should be done by us."

"To be honest, without their program, we would have planned to report on the progress of their Beijing-Guangzhou railway construction in parallel."

Hearing what the assistant said, Houston frowned and fell silent.

What are these Chinese people planning to do?

As the assistant said, the Los Angeles-San Francisco high-speed rail project is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the United States in the past decade, and the funds and technologies invested in it are few in the world.

The federal government even did not hesitate to overdraft its budget for the next 10 years and postponed the New York subway renovation project in order to ensure the progress of the project.

In this case, the allocation of all resources in the Los Angeles-San Francisco project can be said to be top-notch.

How do you say that?

If you put enough seasoning in your dish, even a leather shoe can be delicious.

Such is the case with this high-speed rail project.

With the escort of many resources, success is not surprising, but failure is inconceivable.

Therefore, when faced with this situation, their best choice should be to avoid the edge.

How could it be possible that instead of retreating, instead of rushing forward in a daze?

Could it be that they have other trump cards?

Thinking of this, Houston asked:

"Has the other party's project situation been investigated? Have they received other assistance?"

"I mean, did they get further support from Siemens, Kawasaki or Alstom?"

"No."

The assistant shook his head and replied.

"According to current intelligence, Huaxia's cooperation with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Alstom, and Bombardier is within the scope of the contract."

"These three companies will not directly send personnel to participate in the construction of the project, but only provide technical assistance."

"In this case, their engineering efficiency is basically predictable -- just based on previous project progress."

"Three months. That's right. If full mobilization is considered, they should be able to complete the project, but it is definitely impossible to complete it better than us."

"That would be strange."

Houston couldn't help scratching his head.

What the hell is going on?

After thinking for a moment, he sighed heavily.

If you don't understand, then don't think about it.

"Notify our propaganda department to broadcast their program live."

"Weighing. Try to match the weighting of the Los Angeles high-speed rail project."

"Since they want to serve as the background board for us, then we have no reason to refuse, let's make their background board more conspicuous."

"Understood, I'll do it now."

With that said, the assistant left the office.

But Houston, who was still in the office, couldn't help feeling uneasy one after another.

At the same time, at the construction site of the Los Angeles high-speed rail project.

Evans is just an ordinary construction worker, and his participation in this high-speed rail project is purely coincidental, but to his surprise, he has just arrived at the construction site, and he has become the focus of the entire project.

There is no other reason, just because his image is really extraordinary.

Under the neat work clothes are well-developed muscles, a tough face, and a head of slightly curly golden hair, as if an ancient Greek sculpture came to the world.

Especially when he swung his hammer and smashed the railroad tracks on the ground, the gushing sense of power almost made all the reporters present stare at him.

——

This is true for both men and women.

Because, this is a typical individual representation of "American power".

Who can resist such an image?

No matter how sensible a person is, after seeing him, he can't help but look at him a few more times, right?

Therefore, after the live broadcast started, the on-site director immediately adjusted the original live broadcast plan, and shifted the focus of the original plan to the engineering project to him.

Interviews and filming have already been arranged in place, and even the script has been written by a special person.

Now, Evans' real job is to get up on time every day and go to the construction site, and then spend an hour memorizing the script of the day, and "act out" the live broadcast plot according to the director's request.

——

That's exactly what he's doing right now.

Evans swung a hammer and slammed on the rails under him. The live camera slowly approached, first gave a panoramic view of the construction site, and then locked on the muscles of his arm.

Then, the camera pans down to give a close-up of the spark-splashing railway tracks.

The picture can be said to be perfect.

After all the elements were shot, the camera finally caught his face.

And at this moment, the rising sun behind him just cast a golden light on his side face.

The reporter who had been waiting at the side hastily handed over the microphone and asked:

"How was work today, Evans?"

Evans held the hammer in one hand, raised his left hand to wipe the sweat, and then replied:

"Very well, Miss Ruth."

"You know, our work has always been going well."

"The technology is very advanced. I have never even seen some equipment and tools—you know, I am an experienced worker, but everything here is still beyond my imagination."

"Can you be more specific?"

Reporter Ruth asked according to the script that had been prepared.

"certainly."

"Look, behind me, there is a shield machine in transit."

"It's a big guy. It will be sent to the hill one kilometer away, and a tunnel will be dug in the mountain."

"In 10 days, just 10 days, he can dig a 200-meter-long tunnel."

"It's unimaginable. You know, such a tunnel, in my father's generation, almost took them a lifetime."

"Brilliant! And what about you? Do you feel lost by this?"

Ruth continued.

"Lost? Of course not."

Evans looked surprised.

Of course, this kind of surprise is just pretending.

"I don't need to feel down about it, in fact, I'm proud of it."

"As you noticed, my job didn't disappear because of it, on the contrary, it made my job more valuable."

"I just need to focus on my own thing, like, smashing this rail."

"My friends and I have laid 60 meters of track in the last two hours, averaging 30 meters an hour, which is amazing."

"It's unbelievable. How long are you going to be working here?"

"Who knows?"

Evans shrugged and continued to answer:

"As long as I'm needed here, I'll keep going."

"Or, as long as the United States needs me, I will continue to work."

"God bless us!"

After Ruth's last line was finished, the camera cut away immediately, and this successful live broadcast also came to an end.

Everyone present gave each other high fives to celebrate, and Evans could finally put down the hammer and return to the cool room to rest

The footage of this live broadcast was quickly reposted on domestic websites, and the reaction of netizens can be said to be exactly the same as the US side expected.

"The quality of American workers is indeed much better than ours. Look at their big muscles. Do we have such muscles on construction sites?"

"No way, the income levels are different. We all eat carbohydrates, and they eat all kinds of meat protein. Can they develop the same?"

"It's true. It's not just a matter of physique, but I feel that his personal cognition is also very strong. Although he does not have a high degree of education, he is very decent in both conversation and performance."

"It can be seen that the other party is indeed much better than us in terms of basic education."

"Who are our migrant workers? Forget it, let's not talk about this topic."

"Is there anything we can't talk about? Today, the official release of the live video of the first episode of the show is also released. You can watch it yourself. The gap is not a little bit."

"Really? Then I have to whip the corpse."

As the comments continued to be refreshed, the popularity of the first video of the Beijing-Shijiazhuang section of the high-speed railway in Huaxia also began to rise rapidly, and the moment the video was seen, the reviews on the Internet almost immediately began to slide into an irreversible abyss.

The gap is too big

Compared with the US side, clean and tidy construction sites do not exist.

Judging from the shots taken at the scene, there are messy building materials and excavated mounds everywhere along the construction section. The rustic blue isolation board in the earth separates the construction site from the farmland not far away, because of the rain. , There is still muddy water flowing on the ground, and even the trouser legs of the host are covered with mud.

The shield machine, which was supposed to be the main event, did not appear at all, and was replaced by a labor tool that was so simple that it could almost be said to be crude.

Hammer, shovel, twine.

All this combined makes one suspect that what these people are building is not a high-speed railway, but a steam train route from the 1920s.

The filming methods of the official media are even more disturbing.

They also chose a protagonist to follow up, but the image of the protagonist is far inferior to the American Evans, but a thin, dark-skinned ordinary worker wearing a dirty hard hat.

According to the video, the worker was named Wang Tiezhu.

——

Even the name is to the extreme.

In the picture, his day at the construction site can almost be said to be rushing to the extreme.

When the camera was focused on him, he was struggling with his workers to lift the unqualified prefabricated panels to the edge of the roadbed.

The veins on his neck were bulging, and his shapeless arms looked even thinner against the thick prefabricated concrete slabs.

"Master, master, what are you doing?"

the reporter asked.

"Lay the rails!"

Wang Tiezhu simply replied.

Immediately afterwards, with a trumpet sounded, the prefabricated panels were thrown heavily to the edge of the roadbed.

"We know it's laying rails, can you tell us more about it?"

Wang Tiezhu took off the sweat-stained towel from his neck and wiped his face, then took a breath and said:

"According to the requirements of the construction standards, the laying accuracy of the ballastless track must reach the standard of plus or minus 1 millimeter, or one thousand and five hundredths."

"This is just a simple laying, and then we will continue to adjust the docking."

"Well, little girl, your people stand back and block the work surface."

In the picture, the reporter took a step back in a panic, with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face.

But soon she adjusted and continued to ask:

"Master, what instruments do you use to measure the accuracy? How do you ensure the accuracy of the measurement?"

"There are many high-precision spirit levels, profile measuring instruments, and rail bottom slope measuring instruments. But it's not us who measure it, but the worker behind."

"Old Liu! Come here, the reporter interviews!"

Wang Tiezhu's tone was a little blunt, and before the reporter could react, he hurried away again.

The live broadcast screen was quickly cut to another reporter. The person he was interviewing was the chief engineer of this project.

However, at this moment, the audience who are watching the show seem to have lost much interest.

"The gap is too big. The gap in the quality of workers is too big."

"Just like that, we still say we will finish the project within three months? Do you still want to compare with Lao Mei? Are you kidding me!"

"There is no shield machine, but at least there must be an excavator?"

"There are excavators, but the scenes are not cut. To be fair, the construction site is too chaotic, like a war."

"Upstairs, let's talk about it. A normal construction site is like this. Although you look chaotic, everything has a fixed position. This is what an efficient construction site looks like."

"Hehehe, are you still here to comfort yourself? High efficiency? Can you still be efficient like this?"

"Stop talking, is it that difficult to admit that others are strong?"

Posts and comments are constantly being refreshed on the forum. Although there is no webcast or barrage at this time, none of the people who are paying attention to this matter will miss these comments.

The voices of questioning became louder and louder, but at this moment, the live broadcast screen was cut back to Wang Tiezhu.

Only half an hour has passed, and his body is already dirtier.

At this time, the reporter finally asked the key question.

"Master, if you do this, how much can you do today?"

"What? How much?"

Wang Tiezhu asked puzzledly:

"That is, how many meters of rails can be laid in a day if you work like this?"

"Oh, about 500 meters. When more large-scale machinery enters the site later, the gantry crane and track-laying machine are ready, and it can be raised to 1,000 meters."

"Of course, this is just the initial laying, and there will be more in the future."

"You wait first."

The reporter interrupted Wang Tiezhu's words, and asked in a surprised tone:

"How much rice did you just say?"

"1000 meters. An average of 125 meters per hour."

Wang Tiezhu straightened up a little bit, his waist was a bit bent, and his posture was not at all majestic.

He just asked suspiciously:

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"