Lu Ming

Chapter 126 New Year's Meeting
The year 1628, which traveled through the plane, was destined not to be a peaceful year. The sound of artillery explosions resounding around the officials reminded people that war would come at any time.

Ignoring the noise outside the window, the big office is full of seats at the moment, and the first enlarged meeting of the time-traveling forces is being held in 1628.

The meeting was chaired by Xia Xianze.

The first topic of the meeting was to review the blueprints of the imperial city that will be constructed in the center of Dayuan Island.The drawings were provided by the designer Feng Guanjie. There were several rounds of drafts on the forum beforehand, and today is the day for the final draft.

Looking at the final rendering Feng Guanjie posted on the display board, most of the people in the room showed the disgusted expressions of seeing bumpkins.

"Isn't this still a two-and-a-half-story residential building?" Someone was immediately upset.

"Don't you just want Neuschwanstein Castle? Hold the grass, where are the materials? Where are the hands?" Feng Guanjie, who was already angry after being sprayed by people for the past few days, poked his finger on the glasses on the bridge of his nose in a fierce conditioned reflex He slammed back: "With this little resources, don't talk about enthronement, until the day when the capital is moved, your beloved Neuschwanstein Castle has not yet been built; when the time comes, the old men will all go to the other side to build a new landmark, this is the unfinished building One!"

Shut up now.

Appearing on the renderings is a rectangular two-story residential building that is most familiar to everyone across the world. The roof is an all-through supermarket hall with two small circles. No personality.
"The soil quality is not good, so there is only one floor in the basement." Feng Guanjie calmed down a bit, holding a bamboo whip in his hand, and began to click on the blueprint: "The height of the basement is [-] meters. In the future, Mr. Cao's imported boxes , including all important imported materials, are sorted and stored in the basement."

"The first and second floors of the ground are brick-concrete office buildings, public offices, and public toilets. The windows are double-layered, with wooden boards on the outside and flat glass on the inside. We have to wait for our own glass kiln to be launched." Speaking of this, Feng Guanjie read Xia Xianze glanced at it, and then continued to introduce: "The third floor is the all-access business hall without pillars. In the future, the general meeting and enthronement ceremony will be held here."

Many people heard this and subconsciously looked at Chairman Cao who was sitting next to Xia Xianze and listening to the lecture with a smile.

Even though the issue of the future route on the forum is still in the debate stage, but before that, the constitutional monarchy is the consensus reached by all factions; so the government affairs building that was planned at the beginning has been renamed the imperial city "This is going to be the emperor Ah!" The middle-aged men in the room who were born under the red flag have mixed feelings when they see the chairman recently.

"The technological content of the hall is relatively high." Feng Guanjie didn't have the time to pay attention to the expressions of the building blind, and continued to say: "The reinforced concrete hall has a glass curtain wall outside. Since there are no columns and partition walls, then Curry The round steel bars in reserve need to be used with soil cement to pour the roof. In addition, the floor-standing tempered glass walls and some aluminum accessories are not in stock, and a box of quota is needed. This”

Having said that, Feng Guanjie stopped talking and looked at Xia Xianze and Cao Chuan.

"Is one box enough? Don't increase the budget after half of the work!" Mr. Xia seems to have been entrapped by these gangs of construction when he was in the real estate business, and now he has lingering fears.

"Absolutely enough!" Feng Guanjie habitually showed a low tone to increase his sense of honesty: "Toughened glass with a thickness of 2 cm, 50 pieces are piled up, and the height is less than 1 meter. This includes the future loss. The size of the glass is It is customized according to the specifications of the transmission space, a square block with a side length of 2.8 meters, the remaining space is for spare parts, and there is still a little space to get some spotlights, and when the lights are turned on at night, the effect will be just right!"

Xia Xianze turned his head and whispered something to Cao Chuan. Probably someone Cao had realized that he would ascend the throne there in the future. It seemed that this supermarket was his Ceremony Hall in Buckingham Palace, so he nodded slightly. Xia Xianze glanced over and saw No one objected, so he nodded, and the quota for a box was set out like this.

The "Imperial City" drawing is finalized, and the next project is Taijiang Shipyard.

There were no voices of opposition in the shipyard itself, mainly because there were a lot of arguments about supporting facilities: there was no shortage of wood, and the industrial system that could pass through the crowd had now encountered the first difficulty: iron.

Resources are limited. Whether to invest the resources at hand in the mining of iron sand mines in Taipei, or in the acquisition of pig iron in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong. At present, there are supporters for both of these plans, just like the later generations who say that "it is better to buy than to build." ’, this matter is also under discussion.

In Taipei in the 17th century, there were natural iron sand mines. Although the total amount was not large, it was enough for the crossing forces to survive the initial stage.However, going to the Kaifen base in Taipei right now, the transportation lines through the public will face huge military risks: including the Spaniards entrenched in Taipei, including the Fujian immigrants entrenched in the Bengang area in central Taiwan, these people are Zheng Zhilong's subjects.

If we want to develop the iron ore and sulfur in Taipei safely, we must first drive away the Spaniards and occupy the stupid port—all the efforts of the crossing people are now focused on basic industries, and there are no extra resources at all. Pie faces fight.

Therefore, for the time being, the purchase of Ming people's pig iron from the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong has become the second topic decided at today's meeting.This plan also derived two other decisions: importing small electric furnaces in the kiln area, and digging cable trenches between the kiln area and Chikan New District.

Needless to say, a small electric stove is a must.However, it is necessary to import nearly 3 kilometers of cables and power accessories, just for the people of Chikan to use electric lights and shipyards to use chainsaws. This non-essential project was strongly blocked at the conference today: Think about how African people still eat grass, Are you going to go upstairs and downstairs with lights and telephones? ——In the end, this plan was castrated: dig the trench first, and when the copper in the book is enough, we can produce our own wires.
After the two topics quarreled, it was already past meal time, and the gentlemen hadtily finished their work meal, and began to worry about the natives again.

He said he was worrying about the natives, but he actually wanted to do the natives a favor.

Like any other problem encountered, whenever one wants to do something, one always finds that there are many preconditions that must be met first.
saltworks.

The Jianan Plain is one of the most suitable regions for drying salt in China: the terrain is flat and sunny, the annual rainfall is concentrated in summer, and the seawater is highly salty.

Historically, salt has been sun-dried here for more than 300 years, and gold medal salt farms such as Budai and Qigu have an annual output of more than 10 tons.

Traveling through the crowd naturally also has to dry the salt, how do you say that?There is no salt in time travel, but salt is sprinkled on chrysanthemums.

Salt is an important commodity, especially in some salt-deficient provinces in Daming, such as Fujian across the sea; salt is also an important chemical raw material, and the kiln base will install equipment for salt in the next step.

Travelers don’t need to go to the Chigu area more than 10 kilometers away to the north to dry salt, the entire coastal area of ​​Tainan can be used.However, considering Xingang Creek, which has become the sewage discharge channel of the industrial base, it is better for the future saltworks to go a little north, cross the Xingang Creek, and choose a site between Zengwen Creek and Xingang Creek.

However, in this way, the salt field is facing a real threat: the north of Xingang River is the territory of Madou Society and Xiaolong Society, and the alliance of these two indigenous villages has not surrendered to the crossing forces so far.

(End of this chapter)