Chapter 843 Chen Ding in America [Please Subscribe, Please Support! ]

It has been a year since Chen Ding arrived in North America. A year of hard work and toil has changed his whole aura.

If he was a piece of exquisite jade before, now he is a piece of rock polished by wind and snow.

In terms of value, the rough rock is far less valuable than a piece of exquisite jade, but if the exquisite jade is used to collide with the rock, the jade will be shattered in the end.

In a year, Chen Ding has learned a lot and experienced a lot.

Although he would suffer from insomnia at night, he also grew up in unexpected problems and troubles.

When he first arrived in North America, Chen Ding faced two choices: first, stay in Tokyo or Hanjin, and be responsible for the overall dispatch of personnel and materials; or find a position in the affiliated towns of these two cabinet-controlled cities and work hard for a while; second, follow the vassal king to the country. At that time, whether it is following the king and witnessing the rise of immigrant towns, or going to the local area to personally take charge of the changes of an immigrant town from scratch, this is a kind of experience.

Chen Ding chose the second option. He came to the coast and witnessed the whole process of its growth from small to large in a year. At the same time, he was constantly fighting wits and courage with the Spanish disguised "European pirate ships".

The war in North America had long been settled.

The Spanish admitted defeat.

But the Madrid government of Spain could not control the pirates of "other countries"?

The Chinese fleet transporting personnel and materials to North America was attacked by pirate ships several times. The most tragic one was that a ship carrying more than 500 immigrants was sunk by a European pirate ship with rockets. More than 500 men, women and children, less than half of them were rescued.

After that, Chen Han's North American escort fleet and squadron captured European pirates and did not interrogate them. They were all shot to death. Even if they were captured, they were all hanged, and they did not even have the opportunity to do hard labor reform.

The "contradiction" between the two sides, which was lukewarm at the beginning, soon became hot with the heavy casualties of immigrants as a turning point.

European pirate ships began to attack not only the transport fleets between China and the United States, but also the port cities along the coastline. Although their "attacks" and "attacks" were more of harassment.

In the autumn of the 17th year of Chengtian, the city that Chen Ding was in charge of, which had just been officially named Qingchuan City, had more than 5,000 official residents, and more than 1,000 "foreign employees" lived here - obedient Indians.

Qingchuan City has entered a normal development track. Inlaid between the forest and the coast, the urban planning and construction style is no different from that of local new towns. For safety reasons, the government departments here are all reinforced concrete buildings, which can be used as fortresses when necessary. The buildings are mainly dark red and white, combined with green trees, making the whole city look particularly refreshing and pleasing to the eye.

The farms outside the city are wide, neat and well-proportioned.

Chen Ding followed the King of Cai, Chen Yi, whose jurisdiction was full of mountains and hills, and many lands were not suitable for large-scale human habitation. Today, he mainly operates the fertile plains at the northern end of the kingdom. But it is impossible to give up the entire southern end, Qingchuan City is located in the southern area of ​​the Xiajiazhou Peninsula.

So how can limited land and manpower be used to a greater and deeper effect?

How to make the biggest "scene" as much as possible with almost the same capital?

Chen Yi determined the agricultural and animal husbandry policy at the earliest time - taking the collective farm route and the collective economy route.

Chen Yi had carefully summarized the lessons learned by the three heroes of the remnant Qing Dynasty in Hanoi, so the collective farm route he prepared was much more restricted than the world of Datong that Hanoi had created.

The three heroes of the remnant Qing Dynasty may still be linked to the "utopian society" in the future. They failed, and the relics left by their era have largely become a joke that makes the Chinese laugh.

In today's China, "public ownership" is synonymous with lazy people, and tens of millions of Chinese people have already drawn an equal sign between these two words.

The social problems in the later period of Hanoi's regime are that there are lazy people in the countryside and cities, and officials in government offices are lazy and do not do their jobs. The public shopping malls have bad service attitudes and low efficiency, etc., which are very eye-catching.

Chen Ming looked at the evolution of Hanoi with sadness and lamentation. It was so familiar. The phenomena in it were very similar to those in China during the Taizu era, and they were more unscrupulous and more daring.

However, from Chen Ming's perspective in the 21st century, the so-called problems of raising lazy people and bad attitudes are not a big deal compared with the bad problems such as counterfeiting, fraud, corruption, layoffs, and environmental pollution.

To put it in a negative way: raising lazy people is better than raising corrupt officials and profiteers, right?

The bad service attitude of shopping malls is better than being insulted and harmed by tour guides, right?

If you raise lazy people, you have to smash the "pot", then what about the society that constantly produces corrupt officials, profiteers, and liars?

When the pot was smashed, these were the only charges that could be made against the big pot system. There was really no other reason. Of course, in Chinese society at that time, such a malpractice was not small, so the pot-smashing was justified. However, seeing the moral corruption in today's society, isn't it ridiculous to use these charges to deny the big pot system?

But the two attempts separated by hundreds of years failed without a doubt, which also shows that this policy lacks an important factor.

As a new thing, the public ownership economy will inevitably have an imperfect and immature stage in the process of its emergence and development, and the old forces will inevitably resist and destroy it with all their strength. Therefore, setbacks are inevitable.

It's just that after another revolution, taking advantage of the "reverse" storm that swept across China, the society overturned the old system in one fell swoop, and private ownership replaced public ownership.

The effect is obvious. After being suppressed for so many years, passion broke out in one day, and agricultural output really increased significantly. However, many people did not expect that while this new social production means ownership system was being implemented, it also greatly relaxed the bad ideas represented by "damaging the public and enriching the private", and the long-suppressed selfish desires broke out. Official corruption was prevalent. If you don't take advantage of the public, don't use your power to make some private gains, and don't do something to dig into the public's corner, you are embarrassed to say hello to others.

Of course, Chen Ming would not tell others about these ideas at all.

In Chen Yi's eyes, public ownership has failed, but it is not without its merits. As long as supervision can be strengthened, Chen Yi feels that there is a lot of room for improvement.

The reason why the three heroes failed is that their subordinates have too many personal connections and blood ties, and the orders are issued by multiple departments. When three people work together to do business, they have to consider each other's feelings, which will naturally restrict their hands and feet.

But he, Chen Yi, is different.

It concerns his century-old foundation. No matter what kind of personal connections or relatives, anyone who dares to give him eye drops or steal his corner in this regard will be severely punished. Moreover, he is the only one who makes decisions on the affairs of the State of Cai. Even if he wants to intervene in the country, he can only "give some advice" in individual places. The only ones who are important enough to talk to him are the bigwigs in the cabinet.

The emperor promised him "real" "autonomy".

The young King of Cai, who still has a sharp spirit in his heart, has made up his mind to play with the collective economy.

If you, Chen Jie and the other three, can't do it well, it's because you don't have the ability. I, Chen Yi, can do it well. The point system that Emperor Chen came up with is a very good thing. It can be embedded in the collective farm line, and distribution according to work will complement each other.

The coconut forest farm by the sea has ushered in a new harvest season. Countless new immigrants like ants are going up and down in the coconut forest, and coconuts are piled up like mountains.

This kind of plant grows in many places in the Lower Jiazhou Peninsula. For the newly arrived Chinese immigrants, the coconut forest is a valuable asset.

There is no need to say more about the role of coconut juice. Now it has become a favorite drink of many Chinese upper-class people.

In mainland China, because of the increasingly smooth sea and land transportation, coconuts are accompanied by ships and horses over mountains and ridges, and transported from distant Hainan and Nanyang to various provinces and prefectures in China.

Women and children like to drink this.

The flesh is white, can be eaten, and can also be pressed for oil, and is rich in nutrients. The peel fiber can be used to make a net, the trunk can be used as a building material, and even the bark has medicinal value.

However, few Chinese immigrants to North America are from Qiongzhou. Almost all of them have never seen a coconut tree, nor do they know the dangers of the coconut season. In the Lower Jiazhou Peninsula alone, five people have been killed by ripe coconuts, and more than a dozen people have been sent to the hospital by coconuts that fell naturally.

So much so that King Cai had to issue an edict: immigrants are prohibited from walking under coconut trees without permission during the coconut season.

In the industrial zone of Qingchuan City, a new day of work has already begun. Under several thick chimneys are factories of varying heights. Amid the rumbling sound of steam engine power transmission, the densely packed spinning machines in the textile factory are constantly extending the snow-white yarn with dazzling mechanical movements.

The textile center is not the city positioning of Qingchuan City. The establishment of this spinning mill is entirely taken care of because of the existence of Chen Ding. Chen Yi must give his eldest nephew enough "face", and it was previously to be built in the north of Cai State.

Part of the yarn produced is shipped to the north by sea, and another part is smuggled to Mexico. Although there are many Chinese goods in the market of Manzanillo, almost all of them are finished products. Some are cotton cloth, but there is no cotton yarn at all.

There is a beach salt field further south of the city. To be honest, the rainfall in the lower Jiazhou Peninsula is a bit less. If you want to develop agriculture on a large scale, you must build a steam pumping station and irrigation ditches.

For example, the farmland around Qingchuan City is like this. Each collective farm has a steam pumping station. On weekdays, residents do not need to use steam engines for drinking water, but once the farmland needs irrigation, water will be released from the main gate. The water will flow along the first-level irrigation canal to the fields, and then the steam engine will help to transfer the water from the first-level irrigation canal to the second-level irrigation canal, and then divert it to the third-level irrigation canal of each farmland.

The steam pumping station plays the role of a tipping car and a waterwheel.

But it is more efficient, more effective, and more time-saving, labor-saving and convenient.

The same is true for the beach salt field. Steam engines are also used to extract seawater and brine.

At this time, workers were moving around the vast salt fields and salt-making workshops, packing and sealing balls of fine salt. One hundred and twenty "balls" made up a basket, and the weight of the salt inside was about 500 kilograms.

The "container" balls here were coconut shells that had been drained of coconut juice and mined of coconut meat.

Because of the weather, the southern end of the Xiajiazhou Peninsula is a natural treasure trove for salt production.

The sea salt produced is quite competitive in the entire Chinese American territory.

At the same time, the "bottles" made of coconut shells are becoming more and more popular in the entire Chinese American territory.

A coconut can have about two kilograms of juice, so this thing quickly replaced gourds and bottles and was constantly used to store wine, vinegar, salt, and soy sauce.

The port area of ​​​​Qingchuan City is also very lively. Large and medium-sized steam cranes twist their thick booms and keep hanging goods back and forth; merchants in various costumes walk on the docks, and horse-drawn carriages continue to deliver boxes or barrels to nearby storage areas.

In this era, it is not very meaningful to play with container transportation.

The container shipping ships of later generations are beyond the reach of the navigation and shipbuilding technology of this era. But this change has been applied to sea transportation.

——It is impossible to have large containers, but there must be standard boxes and barrels smaller than N, right?

At the dock, two Western-style soft-sail merchant ships were busy loading and unloading goods. Because of the presence of European pirates, Chinese-style hard-sail sailing ships were sailing in groups, and generally invited fleets to escort them, or prepared enough armed sailing ships.

At noon, another thousand-ton ocean-going merchant ship entered Qingchuan Port. Chen Ding, who had received the news long ago, was already waiting at the port. Even among the welcoming crowd was the first mayor of Qingchuan City who was about to step down.

"Mr. Zhao, you have worked hard all the way. You have worked hard all the way."

The mayor of Qingchuan City following behind Chen Ding was called Song Qingsong. He was a Jinshi in the ninth year of Chengtian, and now he still looks like a pale-faced scholar.

He has been in office for just over a year, but he left his job two months ago. All the construction, strategies and decisions of Qingchuan City were handled by Chen Ding. Because Song Qingsong's body collapsed.

This acclimatization can really kill people.

After staying up late, he caught a cold and suddenly fell ill.

No one took it seriously at first, but who would have thought that Song Qingsong would become a completely different person after that. He was vomiting and having diarrhea. Several doctors diagnosed him and said that it was because of the inacclimatization.

What the hell is this "inacclimatization". Song Qingsong had worked hard in Qingchuan City for nearly a year.

But Song Qingsong's symptoms were really inacclimatization. His life was not taken away, but he was tormented by frequent diarrhea and vomiting and diarrhea, and he stayed in bed every day.

Chen Ding reported to Chen Yi, and then Chen Yi found a suitable candidate to replace Song Qingsong. Moreover, Chen Yi also found a way to find a sinecure for Song Qingsong after he returned to China.

If Song Qingsong's body can be adjusted after returning, then how to turn the sinecure into a regular job is the concern of the Song family.

"Zhao Chuan greets the prince." The visitor saluted Chen Ding neatly. From now on, he will obey orders from this prince, and he will be the number one general under this prince. Zhao Chuan really feels amazing.

He looked at the pale Song Qingsong, and a hint of pity flashed in his eyes.

What a rare opportunity.

The performance is under the nose of this prince, so all the advantages can be seen by people?

If this performance is good, when the prince really ascends the throne in the future, how much benefit can it bring to the person occupying the position of mayor.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the benefits visible to the naked eye were so attractive, why would Zhao Chuan go to such great lengths to plan for this position? Let Song Qingsong, the unlucky guy, be the sickbed mayor for two months in bed.