Chapter 293: One Night City (Ch 831789237)

Before I knew it, a week had passed.
On the northwest side of Hejiajing Town, about two kilometers away from the old town area, a leveled ground is already filled with various materials and containers.
At this moment, Fei Hao appeared not far from the construction site with several representatives from mining companies.
The wind happened to be a little weaker today, so there was a lot less dust and visibility was better.
Everyone had a telescope.
A vice president of Zijin Mining put down the binoculars, turned around and asked, “Mr. Fei, when will the test start?”
“Start right away. The airship is almost here.”
After hearing Fei Hao’s words, everyone suppressed their thoughts and waited quietly.
More than ten minutes passed.
Suddenly the sky darkened.
Looking up, I saw an airship slowly passing by.
With the cooperation of ground staff, the airship slowly lifted a huge steel structure casting with a very distinctive outline.
There is a plane on top, and then there are steel columns that are dozens of meters long. These steel columns are connected to the steel structure plane. There are about dozens of steel columns that are thicker than thighs. The other end of the steel column is a sharp steel cone after cutting and grinding, and the surface of the steel column is covered with spiral patterns.
The airship pulled the steel structure casting and flew to a height of more than 5,000 meters above the ground.
After adjusting the angle.
In an instant, the operator who was controlling the airship remotely pressed the limiter release switch.
The entire steel structure casting suddenly fell straight down from a height of about 5,000 meters above the ground.
boom!
At the moment the roar was heard, the ground also shook slightly.
The steel column part of the entire steel structure casting has now been completely submerged in the ground under the action of gravitational potential energy. If it were not for the integrated steel plate on top of the steel structure, these steel columns might have penetrated directly into the hard rock layer underground before they could barely come to a stop.
But this depth is enough.
In less than six hours, 30 identical steel structure castings had been hammered into the ground one after another.
Although there is an error of several meters in the positions of these steel structure castings due to the influence of wind, it does not matter, because the residential buildings in this community are designed to be spaced more than 20 meters apart, and an error of a few meters is not a big deal.
These steel castings are the special foundations.
Its characteristics are fast deployment speed, strong overall reliability and good bearing capacity. If it needs to be dismantled later, it can be directly pulled up using an engineering airship.
Of course, this foundation is not without its disadvantages.
There are two obvious disadvantages.
Firstly, this type of foundation has a limit to its bearing capacity, and secondly, reinforced concrete buildings can only be built to 12 to 15 floors at most.
Secondly, underground parking lots cannot be built in communities built on this type of foundation.
Obviously, these two shortcomings limit the application of this technology in some areas. For example, in places like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen where every inch of land is valuable, there are no underground parking lots, the building height cannot be too high, and the distance between buildings is dozens of meters. There will definitely not be many application scenarios.
But these shortcomings are not really a big problem for the Northwest, southern desert and Northeast.
Especially in Hejiajing Town, which is located in the desert, it is surrounded by the vast desert and a large area of ​​uninhabited wasteland. There is no need to build an underground parking lot, the distance between buildings does not need to be too close, and there is no demand for high-rise buildings.
Compared with the previous reinforced concrete foundation, the direct insertion steel structure casting foundation reduces a large part of the construction time.
After all, constructing the foundation of a building requires excavation, fencing, piling, steel bar tying, formwork, pouring, and maintenance, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and water-intensive.
In the afternoon, half past two.
After the airship completed the foundation insertion operation, it flew to a nearby place where 30 completed buildings were displayed.
The buildings were lifted up by the airship and then placed on top of the foundations that had been inserted in the morning.
“Arrived at the designated location…”
“Assisted positioning team, please take your positions…”
“receive.”
Various exchanges came over the intercom.
As the building slowly descended, it stopped when it was less than three meters from the ground. Several staff members, with the help of ladder equipment, immediately climbed into the first floor of the building.
As soon as they enter the first floor of the building, they will immediately come to the four positioning corners and buckle the fixed safety ropes into the specially reserved slots.
The positioning angle where they are located is actually the four corners of the building. There is a large hole through which you can see the foundation plane below. There are 16 one-meter-long steel columns on the foundation plane.
“Report to the command room, hole number one has deviated…”
“Report…”
In fact, this kind of observation by human eyes is only auxiliary. What really guarantees positioning is the position sensor temporarily installed near the hole.
However, considering that there might be problems with the sensor, a locator was sent to provide assistance.
The airship was still hanging on the building.
What really determines the movement of the building’s position is actually the cranes on the four sides of the building. These four cranes adjust the building’s suspended position little by little until the four positioning columns are aligned with the four positioning holes.
The command room then gave the order to slowly lower the building.
It took more than an hour in total.
The building was finally firmly placed on the foundation. The construction team responsible for fixing it tightened the 16 fixing locks, and the entire building will be difficult to shake.
In fact, even if a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred in Minqin at this time, there was no way to destroy these houses.
The reason is that these houses adopt an integrated design, and their overall strength is very high and their weight is very light. Earthquakes can only cause these houses to fall down but cannot destroy their main structure.
With the first building installed.
Fei Hao arrived at the scene in a pickup truck with several representatives from mining companies.
Several cranes are moving to another installation area.
Arrived in front of this new building.
This building is 11 stories high.
Qin Xing, the designer in charge of designing the building, pointed to the area on the first floor and introduced: “The first floor is one of the public areas, mainly the elevator room, fixed positions, charging stations, parking spaces, etc…”
The CEO of a mining company pushed up his glasses and said, “Designer Qin, these facilities will cost a lot of money, right?”
Qin Xing knew what the other party wanted to say, so he smiled and said, “This is a model building. If you are interested and want to order it, we also have a reduced-configuration version and a special-order version.”
“Oh? That’s good.”
The CEOs and executives of these mining companies obviously did not intend to have a very good hardcover edition. After all, this was all money.
You should know that the quotation from Minqin Group is not too low. A building like this will cost about 24 million yuan. Its total construction area is about 6,600 square meters, which is about 3,636 yuan per square meter. This is the price including transportation and installation costs.
A middle-aged man with a horse face asked with a smile: “Mr. Fei, I wonder how much the cheapest price can be lowered to?”
“The cheapest?” Fei Hao recalled for a moment: “The cheapest version is about 1,800 yuan per square meter, but that is a version without any functions. You have to do the wiring yourself. I don’t recommend you to buy it. After all, that version is completely unfinished.”
Then he continued his sales pitch: “If you want to use it in the mining area, I suggest you buy the basic version, which costs about 2,600 yuan per square meter. It will come with all the circuits, water pipes, optical fibers, doors and windows, beds, cabinets, tables and chairs, and elevators. You can just buy some home appliances and you can move in soon.”
“We’ll think about it.”
“Thank you, Mr. Fei, for clearing up my confusion.”
During speaking.
Everyone took the elevator to the second floor.
Coming out of the elevator, it was a very empty area.
“The second floor is a public activity area, and the north side is a sports area with a running track, ping-pong tables, badminton courts, and a rest area.” Qin Xing said, pointing to the installed facilities.
“Designer Qin, what is the south side used for? There is so much soil, could it be an area for growing vegetables?”
“Ha ha…”
Qin Xing explained with a smile: “The south side is actually the sky garden, which is mainly an area for planting flowers, plants and trees.”
When they walked over, they found that the platforms extending on the south, east and west sides were installed with transparent films.
“This is silicon carbide photovoltaic film, which can generate electricity and also achieve the effect of greenhouse film. You can plant some flowers, trees and vegetables in it. However, I don’t recommend it for public areas.”
After walking around the second floor, I went up to the third floor.
There are four apartments on the third floor, each of which is about 150 square meters.
Of course, in addition to this type of four units of 150 square meters on one floor, there is also a type of six units of 100 square meters on one floor, which is mainly to meet the needs of different families.
The mining area version has ten 50-square-meter apartments on each floor, which is a typical single-person apartment.
The horse-faced middle-aged man was full of surprise: “So big?”
“We plan to mine this iron mine for decades, so the workers will definitely bring their families with them. However, we also have 100-square-meter houses. A family of three or four will find it more comfortable to live in a 100-square-meter house. If it is a family of five or six, then it would be better to choose a 150-square-meter house.”
The vice president of Zijin Mining pushed up his glasses and said, “Is the area of ​​your house really the one you bid for? Otherwise it wouldn’t be so big.”
Fei Hao nodded: “Of course it is a real bid. There is no need for us to cheat on such things.”
“Mr. Li, if the mining area buys a few buildings like this, it will indeed be more comfortable to live in.”
“I know, but more than 3,000 per square meter, the price is a bit high.”
The vice president of Zijin Mining asked again: “By the way, Mr. Fei, didn’t you say you would provide leasing services? If you lease, how much will it cost?”
Fei Hao then explained: “We charge three parts for rental fees. One part is the relocation fee. For a building like this, the relocation fee is about 500,000 yuan. Then there is the monthly rent, which is 5 yuan per square meter. The monthly rent for 6,600 square meters is 33,000 yuan. The third part is the damage fee, which is the supporting facilities and basic decoration inside the building. If there is obvious damage, the lessee needs to pay according to the market price.”
“Is that so?”
Several CEOs also began to weigh the pros and cons in their minds.
If it is a long-term and stable mining area like the Hejiajing Iron Mine, then it is naturally more cost-effective to buy it directly.
But if it is a small mine with a mining cycle of less than 10 years, it is more cost-effective to rent it.
Fei Hao spoke again: “By the way, our company currently does not provide overseas services.”
Executives including Zijin Mining had already anticipated this.
As a company under the Hailufeng Group, they do not have a good relationship with various foreign forces, especially those in Europe and the United States. The two sides are almost as hostile as water and fire.
If Minqin Group, an enterprise managed by Hailufeng Company, casually conducts business abroad, the other party may secretly attack it, such as using drones or rockets to attack the airship while it is in flight.
Therefore, Minqin Group, like Hailufeng Company, has temporarily given up a large part of its overseas business, unless it is an area that can be determined to be relatively safe.
But there is obviously no such so-called safe zone abroad.
Even those little Karamis are very capable of making trouble.
The smaller the temple, the stronger the evil spirit; the shallower the pond, the more turtles there are.
Anyone who has read Khan’s series of weird small countries will know that China is already a paradise on earth. There are a lot of monsters and demons abroad. Many small countries are very unruly, and there is even no bottom line or logic to analyze.
Hailufeng Company does not have much interest in going abroad.
For example, in Egypt, even when the other party came to the door to ask for help, Hailufeng Company did not personally take action, but instead used the channels of state-owned enterprises to remotely control those projects.
Actually, it doesn’t matter.
As long as Hailufeng Company masters the core technology, if the other party dares to make trouble, all it needs to do is cut off the supply of key products and components.
There are only a few forces in this world that can calmly deal with supply cuts of key foreign technologies, products, and components, and once the supply is cut, they can, under such pressure, enable related technologies to advance by leaps and bounds.
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The facilities of these suites are very complete and the interiors have been simply decorated.
Taking into account the need for lightweighting, artificial wooden floors, sofas, tables and chairs, beds, doors and windows, household appliances, etc. were purchased from the Gannan branch, all of which are available.
After looking at it all, a group of executives from the mining company had to admit that this house was only sold for more than 3,000 yuan per square meter, which was a very reasonable price.
After all, if you let a decoration company take the project, a 150-square-meter house, even with simple decoration, would cost at least 200,000 yuan based on the current market price, which is about 1,333 yuan per square meter.
This does not include household appliances and some furniture.
Minqin Group can reduce prices to such a low level because of unified procurement and the application of various new materials and technologies.
Of course, although they think these buildings are good value for money, the executives of these mining companies have no intention of purchasing them. Instead, they plan to order a batch of basic buildings. The price they are pursuing is mainly to solve the problem of employee dormitories, not to provide a home for employees to settle down in the mining area.
Differentiation under different needs is inevitable.
Just as Fei Hao was entertaining visitors from all sides.
It took only three days to complete all the installation work for the 30 buildings in the community. All that was needed afterwards was to install some supporting facilities for water and power transmission, and it would be put into use in less than a month.
This is literally a one night town.