Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Chapter 861 Awa Maru

Since the epicenter was some distance away from the old city, there was basically no major damage except for some dilapidated houses.

That is to say, in the surrounding rural areas, some houses collapsed, which is all within an acceptable range.

The community hospital is one of the best hospitals in the entire city and even in the whole country.

These were all arranged by Aunt Feng before she stepped down.

Since the hospital is of high standard and well-equipped, it will naturally take on more patients.

After the earthquake, it is normal to have water and power outages. God is not helping us.

It started to rain sparsely at noon the next day.

At the same time, there are still aftershocks from time to time, making people frightened and afraid to return to their homes.

Fortunately, the automobile factory was well prepared, the factory also stopped production, and the workers returned.

It's impossible to experience such a big earthquake. All the equipment was moved more or less.

The equipment needs to find a horizontal position again before work can continue.

“Director, we don’t have any problems here. Sijiu City is also fine, even though there are many people in the community hospital.

But most of them were just skin injuries, thanks to the popular science programs broadcast on TV.

Even if your house collapses, at least you know where it is safest to hide.

But I heard that we couldn’t get in touch with Kailuan at all. I think it’s very likely that they are in danger.”

Li Chenglin stood aside and reported to Chen Changan.

He had been to Kailuan twice with Chen Changan, so he naturally knew what happened there.

Chen Changan also sighed, not knowing what the superiors had finally arranged.

Two days later, as the aftershocks decreased, Chen Changan felt that it was relatively safe, and the workers and their families began to return home one after another.

The power supply has been restored, and the maintenance department of the automobile factory has started to debug the equipment. The various workshops have also begun to resume production one after another.

Chen Changan held the newspaper in his hand, read the situation on it, and sighed helplessly.

"A strong earthquake occurred in Tangshan area. The people in the disaster area carried forward the revolutionary spirit of man conquering nature to fight against the earthquake and disaster relief"

Chen Changan knew that he most likely failed to change history, and he was very depressed for a while.

Unfortunately, these things have nothing to do with Chen Changan, and Chen Changan has done his best.

Not long after, Uncle Nie brought a group of leaders to the automobile factory for inspection.

We have to come. Every day the car factory stops production, we lose foreign exchange.

Accompanied by Chen Changan, Uncle Nie visited various workshops of the automobile factory, especially the color TV production workshop.

"Changan, is there any problem at the car factory?"

"We have no problems here. The factory has already resumed work. Is that the case in Tangshan?"

“Alas, Mr. Fu and Mr. Li had a disagreement while reporting to their superiors.

As a result, the superior leaders issued the order half a day late. By the time the order reached the grassroots level, it was already around five in the afternoon.

No one had ever experienced this before, so at this moment everyone wanted to go home first and think carefully about how to carry out this work in the evening.

Who knew the earthquake would come so suddenly? It happened that very night.

Mr. Fu felt very guilty, so he went to Tangshan in person and chose to live and die with the people during the earthquake.

Chen Changan felt a little regretful. Even if Mr. Fu made a wrong judgment, he was also an expert in earthquakes across the country.

Every loss of such talent is a loss to the country.

"The incident has already happened. The country has activated the emergency plan and comprehensive disaster relief work has begun. The country will learn lessons from this incident and has also decided to ask your TV station to shoot more popular science programs on how to deal with natural disasters.

The popular science program about earthquakes that you broadcast this time was very good.

Greatly reduced the casualties among the people in the city."

What could Chen Changan say? Of course he agreed.

It is said that water and fire are merciless. Fire is also very common in daily life. It is completely fine to shoot a science program about the common knowledge and coping methods of fire.

After visiting the workshop, Uncle Nie came to Chen Changan's office.

The secretary closed the office door casually.

"I just came to the car factory. In addition to seeing you and the situation of the car factory, I also want to ask for your opinion on another matter."

"Okay, you say."

As it turned out, Chen Changan's opinion was very important.

Take this earthquake for example. If Chen Changan had been able to get the news in the first place, the damage caused by this earthquake might have been avoided.

This also allowed the superiors to once again see Chen Changan's abilities.

“With the implementation of the 43 Plan, the foreign exchange reserves of our country have not been very good.

Of course, it has not reached the point of using up gold reserves. Everyone knows that food should be eaten bite by bite.

The prosperity of a country is not something that can be achieved overnight, but as the country develops and gradually integrates with the world, there are so many things that we need to update and replace.

A few years ago, when the US President visited us, he put forward a suggestion.

But we rejected it at the time, and now with the tight foreign exchange reserves, this issue has been brought up again.”

Uncle Nie paused for a moment, lit a cigarette, and also wanted to give Chen Changan time to think and understand.

“This story started in 1945. At that time, their life was on the verge of collapse, and they knew that failure was imminent.

Xiao Rizi planned to transport some of the supplies looted from Southeast Asia back to China.

So they arranged to send a 10,000-ton passenger and cargo ship named "Awa Maru" to return home with the looted supplies and some important personnel stationed in Southeast Asia.

When it was sailing into the waters of our country, it was sunk by the USS Queenfish submarine.

This matter was also mentioned by the US President when he came here a few years ago. He not only told us the specific coordinates of the shipwreck.

It also included a list of supplies on the Awa Maru at the time, and proposed that the two countries cooperate in salvaging the ship.

We rejected this request on the spot. The location of the shipwreck belongs to our territorial waters. According to international law, all shipwrecks should belong to our country.

Since there are quite a lot of things on the list of supplies, and the country is currently short of foreign exchange, for example, in this earthquake, if we had more equipment, Mr. Li and Mr. Fu would probably not have had any disagreements.

Therefore, the previously shelved plan is to be restarted, which is to salvage the Awa Maru.

Although it came from later generations, Chen Changan could not give any opinion on this matter, because Chen Changan himself had never heard of it.

However, since even Americans are excited about it, I think there must be a lot of good things wearing it.

So Chen Changan asked curiously.

"Can you tell me what's on this list of supplies?"