The first phase was completed, and they held the first phase of completion ceremony, and the court also sent people to attend the ceremony, and Yuan Shikai was among them.

The ceremony was actually similar to those in later generations. Everyone was very happy after a set of procedures.

Moreover, this construction period has been much earlier. The construction period was originally one and a half years ago, but now they have completed it half a year ahead of schedule. The investment they have attracted is not in vain. On the contrary, the railway can make profits in advance, and the subsequent financial pressure will be much smaller.

After completion, they took a total of three days of rest and then directly entered the next section of construction.

In the entire project, this section is the focus of the construction.

Starting from the south entrance, we will open up four tunnels, Juyongguan, Wuguitou, Shifo Temple, and Badaling. The longest Badaling Tunnel is 1,092 meters long. It depends only on the hands of workers, and the difficulty can be imagined.

But long ago, Zhan Tianyou had thought of the subsequent construction technology.

The number of people still needs to increase. Zhan Tianyou directly applied and rushed to transfer people from all over the country. In fact, it is not very difficult to transfer people. The construction site is responsible for food and accommodation, and the salary is also paid, but the work is a little harder.

But people in this era have lived a hard life, and this hardship is nothing to them.

Moreover, in the system formulated by Zhan Tianyou, the wages given to workers and technicians are also very considerable.

Moreover, for the sake of communication convenience, Zhan Tianyou asked the Engineering Bureau to move from Tianjin to the imperial capital.

At the same time, a Nankou Materials Factory was opened, which was closer to the construction section and more convenient to allocate materials. After learning this news, the manager of Fengtai Materials Factory was the most heartbroken.

It was obviously I came first. Whether it was established or cooperated with you, I came first!

But the most important thing is that with the new material factory share, he can make less money himself.

He knew the severity of the matter, but he could still make money without affecting the quality of the project. Now that he has competitors, his price will inevitably be suppressed even lower.

But this is also the general trend.

Let’s not worry about the matters of the materials factory for the time being. They decided to use the vertical shaft method to excavate the tunnel here, and dig two straight wells in the middle, which can be dug in the opposite direction, increase the working surface, and rely on manpower to build this first large tunnel in the history of Chinese road construction.

If the vertical shaft is excavated successfully, then you can excavate from the vertical shaft to both sides and then excavate on both sides of the mountain at the same time. In this way, there are four working faces in total. Although the labor cost is high, the savings are time costs. By comparison, the total cost will still be reduced.

Chen Chu is now mainly responsible for the excavation of the shaft, Zhao San is responsible for the working face of the forward direction, and Chen Chu is temporarily responsible for the other side. Before going to bed every day, Chen Chu will compare the data with Zhao San.

Otherwise, when the two sides are digging in the wrong position, one is digging into two, then no one will do it.

One tunnel and four working faces, you can make mistakes like this, that's a big deal!

The construction period of this period is 100 days, and the tunnels on both sides are waiting for the shaft to be dug here before starting construction. So when Zhan Tianyou met Chen Chu again, he directly raised hundreds of banners, which were full of social interactions at the construction site.

All the words on the banner are inspiring words.

"Work hard for a hundred days and resolutely achieve your goal!"

"If you don't drive, I won't drive. When will the railway be completed?"

"As soon as the shaft is dug, the railway will be successful!"

Some of them are written by Chen Chu. He echoed the slogans he saw from outside the construction site when Linhai City was building the subway, and the slogans hanging on each floor of the campus during the school’s college entrance examination.

If you inspire people, then just open your mouth?

Some of them were also crowdfunded together.

Zhan Tianyou would go to the mountain to check the construction progress every day. After all, if you want to build a shaft, the machinery cannot be opened, so you can only dig it manually and add some explosives.

The first thing to ensure is safety and support.

Explosives must be standardized during use, and the support on both sides must not be cut corners. Considering that it may rain and some sudden situations, Zhan Tianyou is very concerned about this.

However, during the measurement, the position of the support must be strictly controlled, so that it is inevitable that Russians will go to the thick steel pipe in the middle.

Every time, Chen Chu would hand over the Russian work he observed to an apprentice, and he would take his own things and run to the middle like a single-plank bridge to measure. He was more courageous than those skilled workers.

After all, when they went up to do some welding work, they rode on it and moved forward, just like Chen Chu, and they trotted over.

Time passed day by day, just two months later, the shaft had two floors to the end. It was very hard for the workers to turn three times a day, but compared with Chen Chu's three hours of sleep every day, it seemed nothing, so all their arrangements were around Chen Chu. Before Chen Chu rested, they would put all the positions, and then they would hold on for the construction during this period and wait for Chen Chu to get up before reviewing it.

On that day, Chen Chu was measuring at the bottom of the foundation pit in the morning. At this moment, a loud bang suddenly came from the sky.

"Boom!" Chen Chu was shocked, but he quickly looked up. Fortunately, there was no problem with the support, otherwise no matter how powerful he was, the support of the steel pipe weighing more than ten tons could smash him into meat paste.

It was not a support problem, the sky began to turn dark at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The dark clouds are swaying the city and want to destroy it, which is the best portrayal of the weather now.

"It's going to rain!" Chen Chu quickly began to clean up the instrument. The instrument could not enter water. Once the water was in, it would not be a problem of changing the compensator. Many optical components inside were going to be broken.

In less than a minute, Chen Chu put the theodolite into the box, then thought about it, and took off his drunken clothes and wrapped them in it.

Their summer pits were all hanging down one by one when construction started. Seeing that it was already pouring rain in the sky, there were also a mess of porridge on the top, and there were more than 30 workers below, Chen Chu hurriedly shouted at the top.

"Come on! Get us up, it's going to rain!"

The heavy rain spilled down like a lack of money. In just three minutes, many puddles had accumulated under Chen Chu's feet.

But the people above didn't notice the bottom yet, so they had to continue shouting. After about a minute, a familiar voice came from the above.

"You guys come up with the basket! Let's pull it on it!"

It was Lin Hai who spoke. After it rained, he followed everyone for a few minutes, and then suddenly remembered that Chen Chu should be below, so he hurried over and saw that there were so many people below, so he immediately called someone to come over and prepared to pull them up one by one.

There are a total of ten people on the top, and the baskets used are baskets that usually transport large stones and soil inside.

Basically, only one person can go in.

Put down the basket, Chen Chu told everyone not to hurry and come one by one.

"Nonsense, of course you are not in a hurry! You are the last one if you have the ability!" Faced with landslides that may occur at any time, their lives were threatened, and they didn't care about anything else and said directly to Chen Chu.

"Don't worry, I will be the last one. Now everyone will go first according to their age and the oldest one!" Chen Chu directed. If everyone wants to grab this first, then no one will get up in the end.

This is the reason why one monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink.

The more it rained, the water inside had spread to their feet. At this time, the first oldest worker sat in the basket and held the instrument given by Chen Chu in his arms. The instruments were also the first to go up, otherwise it would be possible to soak in water at any time below.

The few people above worked hard together, and the basket rose rapidly. The people inside grabbed the basket tightly, for fear of falling down.

The first person went up and was helped down by everyone, and then the second person and the third person.

Chen Chu kept his promise and did not say that he would go first, but asked everyone to queue up to go in sequence.

By the time the seventh person went up, the water had already reached the calf.

It's really like pouring water in.

Soon everyone tacitly put the baskets in order.

But just as the fifteenth person was at the fifteenth person, the earth wall that was originally blocked was suddenly washed out of several holes, and the four sides collapsed at the same time, and water began to pour it into it desperately.

The people below began to panic again.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! We don't have many people now! Come in order! The people above are already blocking!"

Chen Chu shouted, Fortunately, this was not the collapse of the foundation pit, otherwise they would have to be buried below.

Now Zhan Tianyou has also come to the side and takes over the entire rescue work.

The leak should be plugged, the rope should be pulled, the person should be helped, and the person should be helped, and the position should be seen.

Just when there were still ten people left, the water had reached the waist.

The backflow just now came unexpectedly, and the horizontal plane inside rose rapidly.

Everyone started to get nervous.

As people went up one by one, the water also rose full. From time to time, there were some collapsed places on it. When the water surged in, he quickly filled it up.

Sandbags, wood, stones, and everything you can use.

Until five people were left, the water had reached the stomach.

But after the fifth person went up, he pulled it for two or three meters, and after a long period of time, the rope suddenly broke halfway.

The person was going to pee after checking it, and the person above also noticed something was wrong, so he pulled up all over.

But after another meter, the rope was broken directly from the middle and fell directly into the water from a place more than four meters high!

"Pu!" A large splash of water splashed, Chen Chu hurried over to save the person, and another worker rushed over to catch up.

The worker who fell into the water struggled desperately, and Chen Chu helped the other party up, but the worker who fell into the water waved his hand and suddenly grabbed the braid of the worker who came to help.

Stop it desperately.

I really want to slap him twice in the face when I help him!

In the end, Chen Chu secretly used witchcraft to calm the other party down for the time being. When the water in his stomach is not high, just pull you up!

The rope broke, Zhan Tianyou quickly asked someone to change it to a new one. The basket fell down and he had to get another new one.

This song took ten minutes to make it. After they came back, the water rose by six centimeters.

Sitting on the rope basket again, they continued to save people.

Next, Chen Chu directly asked the fallen worker who had just saved the people, and went up first, until there were two people left, the water had already spread to his neck.

God knows why the rain is getting heavier and heavier. If it were a foundation pit dug on the mountain, it would probably have been a mountain torrent long ago.

"Mr. Chen, why don't you go first! I know how to swim and can hold on." Another coworker said.

"Leizi, it's okay, you go first. What if you cramp after being in the water for a long time? What if something happens again?" Chen Chu pushed the other party onto the basket without saying a word.
To be continued...