Happy Tycoon

Yang Jing didn't know how much he drank during the lunch meal. Anyway, when he woke up, it was already the dawn of the next day.

Fortunately, although all the drinks were broken, my head didn't hurt after waking up. These highland barley wines are all serious grain wines. Although the taste is not as good as Maowulu, it tastes different The taste, plus a kind of forthright Tibetan man kept toasting, and after drinking and drinking, Yang Jing drank himself too much.

Hearing the sound of Yang Jing getting up, the oil lamp in the outer room was lit up, and after a while, Tashi Tsering came in with the oil lamp in one hand and a steaming bowl of pastry tea in the other. In this era, in such a remote mountainous area, there is no electricity yet.

Drink some pastry tea, let's drink some pastry tea. You didn't know how to drink at noon yesterday, and you couldn't wake you up if you asked for dinner. Now that you are sober, you must be hungry. Let's drink some pastry tea first.

Yang Jing shook his dizzy head, got out of bed quickly, took the steaming bowl of pastry tea with both hands, and said, Thank you very much for your hospitality, but at the same time, I'm sorry that I drank too much to be rude. .”

Hearing this, the old man smiled slightly, It's okay, in fact, we won't be happy if you don't drink much. As the men of our collector, if we can't accompany the distinguished guests well, then it's us sorry.

Yang Jing smiled wryly and said: These are good, you have completed the task, but I feel bad. After speaking, Yang Jing took a sip of the pastry tea, and the fragrance in his mouth immediately lifted Yang Jing's spirits, It's delicious! Really delicious!

Perhaps because he was really hungry, Yang Jing didn't care about scalding his tongue, and drank the big bowl of pastry tea in threes and fives. Some dizziness also disappeared.

Would you like another bowl? The old man looked at Yang Jing happily.

Yang Jing shook his head and said, Thank you, this bowl is very good.

Yang Jing raised his hand and looked at his watch, and found that it was almost eight o'clock in the morning, but there was a time difference between here and Yanjing, so the sky was only dim at this time.

Yang Jing found that Austin had been standing outside the door, so he waved to him. After Austin came in, Yang Jing asked, Are all of us awake?

Austin replied: Yesterday, the old man arranged very well. We all lived in these private houses, and now they are awake.

The two communicated in English, the old man couldn't understand, but Yang Jing quickly said: Old man, thank you very much for your hospitality yesterday, now that we are all awake, it is time for us to go into the mountains to complete our mission.

The old man said: Then have breakfast before leaving, and the old man said, taking out a large stack of Franklin and handing it to Yang Jing, I can't accept the money. You are our guests when you come here. Where is there such a thing as a host taking money from a guest?

Yang Jing waved his hand with a smile, pushed the money back and said, Old man, you take this money first, don't think it's too little. To tell you the truth, we went into the mountain this time to survey a jade not far from here. Mine, if the survey is good, this jade mine will start mining this summer at the latest. And your place is the closest residence to the jade mine, so take the money and see if you can open a restaurant here or something Yes, our workers will also be able to have a hot meal with you at that time. This money is for you to use for this.

These days, even opening a small restaurant in a big city costs only a few thousand dollars. Two thousand U.S. dollars, even at the official exchange rate, can be exchanged for more than seven thousand dollars. And if it is exchanged from an unofficial place, I dare not say 20,000, but 15,000 is definitely a certainty.

Tashi Tsering obviously understood what was going on, This is not okay, even if it is to open a restaurant, the money is too much.

If you let me hold it, you can hold it. At worst, when I come back next time, won't it be enough if you treat me well?

The old man no longer insisted on paying back the money, but he still asked: Is there really going to be a jade mine here?

Well, eight or nine is not far from ten, and the location of the jade mine is not very far from your place.

Well, if the jade mine is really opened, can the men here go in and work as workers?

Haha, don't worry about this. As long as they don't dislike hard work and are willing to do this job, I guarantee that they can go to the mountains to work as workers, and their wages will not be low.

Hearing this, the old man rubbed his hands happily, and then he said as if he remembered something: Why don't you go into the mountain today and let my son Tenzin Tsering go with you. There are horses and yaks at home. The luggage can be carried by these animals. And Tenzin is more familiar with the situation in the mountains, with him as a guide, you will save a lot of trouble.

Yang Jing also met the Tenzin Tsering that the old man was talking about yesterday when he was drinking, and knew that it was a very honest Tibetan man in his forties, so he thought about it and nodded in agreement.

It is true that a local Tibetan should be recruited as a guide when going into the mountain this time. Although the area he selected is only seven or eight kilometers away from here in a straight line, it is in a mountainous area, and it is still in the Kunlun Mountains. To really walk the straight-line distance of 8 kilometers, at least 15 kilometers or even 20 kilometers must be walked. It is obviously a good thing to have a Tibetan who is familiar with the local mountain conditions to lead the way.

Of course, the happy old man didn't let Yang Jing and the others leave just like that. Yang Jing and the others spent more than half an hour eating a breakfast of tsampa and pastry tea before bidding farewell to this wise old man and others. Then, under the leadership of the old man's son Tenzin Tsering, he started his journey into the mountains on foot.

With the addition of Tenzin Tsering, the team expanded to nine people plus two yaks. The addition of these two yaks completely liberated their group, otherwise each person would have to carry something weighing nearly 20 kilograms into the mountain.

Now that there are two hard-working yaks, all the things they carry can be carried by these two yaks. The total load was less than three hundred catties, and the two yaks carried it with ease.

The direction of the Aqike River Valley is northwest-southeast. After leaving Tashi Tsering’s house and walking along the valley for about two kilometers, all the farmland in the valley disappeared, and the width of the valley quickly decreased to 50. About meters, the hillsides on both sides also became steeper.

Gong Liu, can roads be built in such a narrow valley? I mean, can two-way, two-lane roads be built? Yang Jing asked Liu Changchuan while walking, looking at the surrounding landscape. He is an engineer from the Highway Bureau. Can't build roads, he said it.

Since the jade mine is going to be opened here, the traffic problem in and out is a problem that must be solved first. Without a good traffic, the jade mine will not be opened.

Liu Changchuan obviously understood what he was going to do, he took out his notebook from time to time to write and draw on it along the way, now when he heard Yang Jing ask, he nodded and said: The geographical conditions of this river valley are very good. , if you build a third-class road, there is no problem. At least so far, it is no problem to build a third-class road.”

After a pause, Wang Changyou explained as he walked: In our country, a third-class road refers to a two-way two-lane road. The roadbed width of this kind of road is generally 7.5 meters, and the width of each lane is 3 meters. There are 75cm shoulders on each side, which together form a 7.5m wide embankment.”

However, judging from the current situation in the valley, if we continue to move forward, the third-class road may not be easy to repair. Even if it is forcibly repaired, future maintenance will be a big problem. Mr. Smith, if possible, would you You can consider the fourth-class road.

Fourth grade road? Is that the kind of one-lane road?

Well, to be precise, it should be a two-way single-lane. The roadbed of this kind of road is narrower than that of the third-class road. The standard fourth-class road has a roadbed width of six meters and a clear lane width of 3.5 meters. However, in special areas, this standard It can be appropriately relaxed. For example, we can reduce the width of the shoulders and the width of the lanes, but in this way, meeting cars will become a problem, and a meeting point needs to be built at a certain distance to ensure safe meeting cars.

Yang Jing nodded slightly and said: Don't draw conclusions for now, let's move on and see. What I mean is to build a standard third-class road as much as possible. If it is really impossible, let's consider reducing the roadbed A question of width.

Liu Changchuan nodded and did not speak again.

The westernmost edge of the area that Yang Jing chose when he was flying that day was only a few hundred meters away from the straight line of the Aqike River Valley. However, within a distance of several hundred meters, there is a mountain with an altitude of more than 2,500 meters.

Therefore, if you want to enter the target area from the Aqike River Valley, you must go around the two sides of this mountain.

And at this time, the two big mountains that appeared in front of them caused the originally straight river to bend, and the degree of curvature was not small. However, after walking through this curved river channel about 1.5 kilometers long, although the river valley ahead became narrower, it became straight again.

Liu Changchuan stayed near this curved river for a long time, wrote and drew in his notebook for a long time, and then found Yang Jing and said: Mr. Smith, if the road is to pass through this section of the river valley, a winding road must be built. Well, unless we dig a tunnel out of the mountain, the only way to get over this ridge is by winding roads.

Yang Jing asked, Is it too difficult?

It's not that difficult. The slopes of this mountain are relatively gentle. It's not a problem to build a winding road, but it increases the mileage of the road.

Well, as long as the road can be repaired, it doesn't matter if you increase the mileage.

In this way, Yang Jing and Liu Changchuan walked and discussed all the way, and they cooked their own lunch in the ravine. Fortunately, these people are well-trained people, and this difficult mountaineering can't help them.

When the sun was setting in the afternoon, the group of them had reached a position about ten kilometers away from the mouth of the Aqike River Valley. At this time, Yang Jing pointed to the mountain on the left and said, We need to climb over or Only by bypassing this mountain can we reach the target area. Shall we continue walking today, or rest here tonight and continue tomorrow?