Lu Ming

Chapter 225 Funerals and Reflections

The name of the dead traveler was Chen Youguang, 37 years old, and one of the chief engineers of the shipyard.

Chen Youguang is in charge of the most important project of the shipyard right now: the construction of a 400-ton motor-sail gunboat.And because of the importance of the project, Chen Youguang, who was originally staying in the brick-concrete building at night, was a little worried about the situation of the dock, so he went out and stood in the aisle to look in the direction of the dock.

Then things became tragic: a small tree next to the building was suddenly blown off by the strong wind, and the branch just fell on his head, causing his death on the spot
After the storm passed through the next day, a large number of time travelers rushed to the hospital on Dayuan Island to mourn the first old man who gave his life for the great cause of time travel.

And when Cao Chuan returned two days later, he was equally surprised when he heard the bad news.You must know that the protection work of the crossing people has always been in place: apprentices, workers, or slaves have done the slightly dangerous jobs; even the army that is recognized as the most risky has been injured so far. None of them.

Also, the in-house hospital located on Dayuan Island is not vegetarian.The seemingly small hospital is well-equipped, and the freezers store all kinds of high-end drugs that are not included in the medical insurance list, such as Gleevec (not made in India).

Let's put it this way, if Cao Chuan is able to get a thoracic surgeon to come today, then the hospital will be able to open a heart bypass operation tomorrow - the equipment is ready-made.

However, Chen Youguang died on the spot. What kind of hospital is useless.

After three days in the hospital's cold storage, the deceased was ready for burial.

As for the discussion of the accident, unexpectedly, there were no quarrels, verbal abuse or dumping on the forum this time.You know, on weekdays, when you encounter something big, someone will diss in a wave.

This accident will leave a shadow in everyone's mind for a long time.

The cemetery was temporarily opened, just behind the almost completed imperial city.According to Cao Chuan, since Dayuan Island is the starting point of everyone's struggle, everyone should be buried here in the future.

On the day of the funeral, there was a lot of people.The total number has increased to 210, and all of them attended the memorial ceremony except those who were in other places that day.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, a pair of heavy nanmu coffins began to be buried in the first tomb of the Huangcheng Cemetery.At the same time, all the subordinates, including slaves, stayed silent for 3 minutes at their posts.

Regarding Lao Chen's death, apart from naming the 400-ton motor sailing ship that was about to be outfitted as "Youguang", the big office actually couldn't come up with any more compensation methods—because Lao Chen had no descendants.

Chen Youguang had a girlfriend before his death.However, this native girl who was bought from Hangzhou and only stayed with Chen Youguang for two months and was not pregnant, the big office naturally couldn't allow her to inherit Lao Chen's political legacy.

In fact, including everything that Lao Chen brought from later generations, girls have no right to intervene.

The final solution of the big office is to send the girl a sum of money, then arrange her to do some light work in the agency, and finally give her a free detached house in the Chikan New District.

This kind of hut is usually allocated to immigrants with complete families, and the number is relatively small, and this family of immigrants needs to use their future wages to repay the mortgage, the interest is not too high, and there is property tax.

The above is all. The girl needs to move out of the high-end community where the people live.

This incident not only had a strong stimulus to others, but also had a far-reaching impact.

You know, if the girl is pregnant now, then there is no doubt that she will enjoy all the daily treatment that the time-travelers can enjoy.In addition, when the child grows up 18 years later, he/she will definitely inherit Lao Chen's seat in the House of Nobles immediately, and have a basic wealth share that all "first-round" descendants should have.

None of that exists now.

Due to the limited selection conditions at the beginning, most of the traversers who came to the new plane were single people.And with the continuous feeling, discussion and running-in among the people who have traveled through for more than a year, now on most of the ideological issues, everyone has actually reached a consensus.

This includes the right of inheritance: the future noble house will not leave a place for adopted children.

The first generation of time-traversing people is an extremely special generation, and it cannot be copied, because it is a small group with an absolute monopoly.This monopoly position is not only external, but also internal.

That is to say, the internal relationship of mutual monopoly has resulted in the inseparable attribute of the first generation of time travelers: no one can do without another.

For example: If someone is going to leave the group, invent some soap mirrors and earn a fortune for himself.Then he will face a price of 1 million for an anti-inflammatory drug in the future.No money?Just die if you don't have money - doctors don't have the time to fool the ancients, but doctors' skills and medicines are also monopolized.

This principle also applies to the army: if a person working alone needs the protection of the army, then 1 bullet is 1 million.

Breaking away from this group that provides mutual protection, the omnipotent traveler will suddenly find that he can't survive three days in this barbaric era.

So, the heir is the key.

There is nothing inseparable in this generation of people across the world, whether it is wealth or political status, this is a special form of "big pot rice" that cannot be copied.

To some extent, all the time-traversing people are not normal people, and everything they do now falls within the scope of abnormality.

Therefore, in order to distribute the future dividends of the country, only the "normal" heirs generated by everyone in the original plane can use a normal national system to take over.By that time, all the unique political structures and secrets that belong to the time-traversing people will gradually disappear over the years, leaving no traces.

Therefore, after all, there is still a need for an heir group.

Chen Youguang is a painful lesson
Ever since, after this funeral, there was an inconvenient change within the Transmigration Congregation: Many people accelerated the pace of their daily "man-making" because of this.Some workaholics who take the factory as their home also silently increased the frequency of going home.

There's no way, just look at Lao Chen's ending and you'll know that he should have an heir earlier to be at ease.Besides, most of the time-traveling people are between 20 and 35 years old, which is the time when they are in the prime of life and convenient to create human beings, so this matter cannot be delayed any longer!

While Chen Youguang's funeral was held, other funerals were also being held.

The disaster not only caused the death of one traveler, but the entire Tainan society suffered huge losses during the storm that lasted all day and night.The result of the post-event statistics is that more than 80 people died in various accidents, doubled the number of injured, and a large number of houses and equipment were damaged by storms and flash floods.

The first step in disaster relief is dealing with the dead.Under the current conditions, if the corpses are not disposed of in time, disease will soon occur.

Although Chikan Wharf has a gas cold storage to preserve fish catches, there is no mortuary in the Chikan General Hospital, which is common in later generations.Here all the dead are quickly cremated and there is no need for a morgue—a rule that has always been enforced.

The dead workers will naturally not be buried on Dayuan Island: there is a special cemetery in the hilly area upstream of Xingang Creek, which is used to place urns.If the death was a slave, the body would be dumped out to sea without an urn.

As for the voice of opposition?At first there was none.The early immigrants of Dayuan were all beggars from Hangzhou. Even if these people were in Daming, they still couldn’t escape the Huarenchang after their death, so no one made irresponsible remarks.

However, with the passage of time, more and more refugees of "various elements" gathered from all over the world, and some gossip emerged. The place is so big, why not let people go to the ground to rest in peace?
So all those who spoke, those who listened, and those who echoed were all transferred to the lumberyard, and all gossip disappeared overnight.

The ultimate goal of traveling to this plane is to use these more than 200 people to assimilate all the natives, not to be assimilated by the natives.

The so-called "sense of identity", there is a key issue of primary and secondary, who agrees with whom?If the time-travelers, who have mastered Zentraedi technology and historical lessons, accommodate the natives for the sake of their so-called sense of identity, that would be the greatest joke in the world.

Traveling through the people does not need the legitimacy of the so-called bullshit rule, nor does it need the approval of the landlord class and the poor - all the rules must be re-customized here, and they have the power of fertilizer and cap guns. What they need in the Middle Ages is someone else's. Identity is to format the world, not to be assimilated by indigenous people.

As for those who don't cooperate?The Manchu approach was to kill from the north to the south.More cities have been massacred, so the braided hairstyles are naturally left out. You see, the natives still know how to agree, and those who don’t understand are dead.

Although the practice of traveling through the crowd is not as barbaric as that of the Manchus, it is essentially the same.In this wild world, if more than 200 people want to pass on their ideas, it is impossible not to do something heavy.

Therefore, the people of Tainan are currently under the rule of the time traveler. It can be said that the social atmosphere is quite harmonious: petty theft?to log.Fights?to log.Don't want to be cremated yourself?to log.

In short, all the bad habits of the immigrants, including cremation, including setting off firecrackers, including those who want to restore the power of the clan, are all scum in front of logging.

This is the secret to the stability of the society under the rule of the time-traveling people, and the way to not pick up lost things: go logging.

Of course, the practice of passing through the crowd is actually the same as Comrade Zhu Baba's cutting the heads of civil and military officials like melons: the first generation of people who fought the country with their own hands can naturally do whatever they want.

But future generations cannot.Emperor Jianwen couldn't cut down whichever one he wanted, so he cut down whichever one he wanted. In a word, it has no merit for the country.

Then change to Zhu Di and dare.The so-called Polon is not difficult to get, but Xiang Yu can get it, which is probably the case.

As for the time-traveling people, they have no doubt that after everyone has turned their heads in the future, the society managed by future generations will definitely evolve to the step of "I want to see my personal lawyer".But the society at that time had nothing to do with them. After I died, it didn't care about the flood.

(End of this chapter)