Lu Ming

Chapter 619 Assembly ([-])

In the cold night, the wind blows, and the snow only rustles when stepped on.The cold moon is loose, and the land of the southern country is white and clean.

In the early morning, the silence of the snowy night was broken by the voices of early risers.The worker pushed open the door, took a breath of cold air unaccustomed to it, then rubbed his face, tightened his thick and warm yellow cotton coat, and went to work in the cold.

Stepping out of the dormitory area on finely crushed snowflakes, the workers met fellow workers who were going out at the same time.While talking about the snowfall last night, everyone merged into the trend of Shang Gong.

Except for the Central Avenue and the other two main roads that support the facade, all the secondary roads in the new area are paved with red bricks or cinders.As a result, the commuters gathered on the red brick road every morning have also evolved into a unique industrial flow in the [-]th century, just like the army of bicycles in later generations.

Today however is different.

When the workers gathered from various tributaries to the Central Street to get a ride, they found that all the intersections were full of "tolerances" in uniform.

The indigenous workers who can have the right of abode in the new area are all "old people" who have been working for Dashuai Cao for a long time, and they know the type of tolerance very well.

The ones in blue coats and cotton caps are "policemen".This is the marshal's private yamen servant, who belongs to the two classes of "Zao and Kuai".I deal with a lot of indigenous people on weekdays, which is a kind of tolerance that everyone is familiar with.

Secondly, there are "strong squads" wearing gray uniforms and holding all kinds of hot and cold weapons. There is a security guard in the new district.This tolerance is usually responsible for apprehending robbers and patrolling the streets at night, and all of them are tall and big men.

Policemen in gray clothes also belong to the kind of people that the workers are familiar with, because everyone can often see the live broadcast of their generation arresting heroes from all walks of life on the street.

Finally, among the many errands on duty at Jiekou, there are "Lijia and Baozheng" that the workers are most familiar with. The new district is called the director of the Street Office and his staff.

Since almost everything in life has to be handled by the sub-district office, in the eyes of many aboriginal workers, the director of the sub-district office is probably a luxurious figure second only to Marshal Cao.

However, today the master director changed his usual easy-going appearance.I saw him with a cold face, an iron whistle in his mouth, and a red armband on his arm.As soon as he saw the workers coming out from the corner of the street, he immediately blew the iron whistle in his mouth and waved the small flag in his hand at the same time.

The biggest difference between workers and peasants is that the working class has strong organizational discipline and knows how to work as a team.

Workmates in the seventeenth century also had this gene.Seeing the whistle and the small flag, they involuntarily started to line up, just like they usually line up at the construction site.

Soon, the workers who lined up marched in the direction of the baton.

At the same time, the sub-district office announced loudly with an iron horn: Martial law will be enforced in the area south of Zhongxin Street from now on, some bus routes will be suspended, and all residents must travel to designated places.

Things like martial law and traffic control were not unfamiliar to the ancients.The so-called "close the nine gates and arrest the whole city" is equivalent to the martial law of later generations.

Although this kind of thing doesn't happen often in the new district, in order to improve the ability to respond to emergencies, the district government has also held several drills.After hearing the horn, the disciplined and obedient workers lined up and walked obediently to the designated street intersection to board a bus.

However, being disciplined does not mean being able to control one's own mouth.There was a lot of chatter in the queue along the way, and everyone speculated about what happened. Could it be related to the heavy snowfall that has never happened in a century?

Speculation peaked after the soldiers appeared.

With the sound of neat footsteps, the soldiers of the brigade ran over from far to near.These soldiers are stationed in the new area, and the workers who are close to each other wake up in the wake-up call of the battalion on weekdays, so everyone is no stranger to it.

People know that this battalion is Cao's servant.All of them are young and strong, wearing leather boots and green woolen coats, with rifles on their backs, and a blue and gold badge on their shoulders that is not available in other arms.

Next, the big man "Baihu" with a thick northern accent gave an order, and the soldiers stopped in an orderly manner, and then began to line up, deploying defenses along the main street of the administrative district.

"Something will happen!"

The natives, who were not sure about the situation, were a little panicked by the scenes.Many people didn’t say anything but their faces changed. Those who usually like to go to teahouses to talk about the past and the present have already prayed to God and worshiped Buddha in their hearts: “It’s like facing a big enemy like this. I’m afraid there’s a quarrel with the court? Hey, Bodhisattva bless you, it’s hard to live a happy life for two days, don’t you dare to raise troops?!”

If you compare them horizontally, the living conditions enjoyed by the working class under the influence of time travel are actually better than those of the big brother workers back then.Industrialization in the seventeenth century lacked competition, and the profits generated by factories were sufficient to pay for environmental protection and well-paid workers.

In this way, it is understandable for the workers to secretly pray for peace in the world. After all, individuals have the right to pursue a happy life.

But what the workers didn't know was that what happened today had nothing to do with what they were worried about.

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At the same time when the administrative area was blocked, in the traveler's community located at the southernmost end of the area, some traveler went out after breakfast one after another.After everyone went out, they entered the parliament hall in the least noticeable way along the specially planned closed passage.

All along, except for a brief period of pioneering in Tainan, the exact number of cross-travelers has been top secret.Afterwards, the higher-ups who realized this problem intentionally or unintentionally dispersed the traversers in various regions, and never organized large gatherings again.

until this time.

This is why some areas are under martial law.

At the same time, some carriages carrying traversers also marched towards the administrative area from the periphery.Most of these people are traversers working in the surrounding areas, and they were arranged in separate rooms and hotels in various places in the new area in advance.After their cars arrived at the second post, they all got out of the cars and changed to walking.

Just like that, at around 8:210 in the morning, the transversal people who came to participate in this conference gathered in the parliament hall, the number was [-] people.

Of course, the total number of traversers is more than 210.It's just that some people are currently working in other places, and it's too late to come back to attend the conference.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the conference officially started.

Today's plenary meeting has been four full years since the "Emperor's Enthronement and Travelers' National Founding Conference" held in Tainan at the end of 1628.

In 4 years, the sea has changed.A certain force that has experienced rapid industrialization and rapid social change needs to pause and plan for the future.

Today is the second day of the conference.At this time yesterday, Xia Xianze himself delivered a "government work report" to all participants.

The report is very comprehensive, giving an overview of the overall development of the time-traveling forces over the past few years, as well as the development data of various aspects of society.Summarize the past, mention the present, and look forward to the future.

Afterwards, many people came to the stage and made speeches around Lao Xia's report.In the afternoon, the conference also organized group discussions. The atmosphere of the meeting was very strong, and the enthusiasm of the participants was also very high.

Today is a special report.

The first to make a report was undoubtedly Zou Guoqing, the cabinet minister in charge of industry.It was this gentleman who proposed to start a business in Tainan at the beginning.

The proposals of Zou Guoqing and others from the Industrial Party now appear to be undoubtedly correct.The time-traveling forces passed the weak incubation period in Tainan without interference, established an early industrial system, and developed the petrochemical industry.

Today, the output of the Miaosu oil belt has exceeded 500 tons per day.The petrochemical products such as lubricating oil, fuel oil and asphalt provided by it are essential industrial blood.

However, the content of Zou Guoqing's report today sounds less exciting: "As early as the beginning of this year, there appeared "full accessories" imported material containers.Since then, full accessory boxes have appeared more and more frequently.This situation indicates that imported materials can no longer support our current industrial system. "

"Due to the lack of accessories, three of our high-end industrial equipment, such as the original four sets of electric furnaces, have been shut down, and the only one still operating is also in low-speed working mode."

"The industrial system that developed chaotically before must now be restructured."

"It is our main task in the next stage to vigorously reduce the dependence of the new industrial system on imported materials, abandon illusions, and build a new industrial system based on conventional steam power as the skeleton and supplemented by a small amount of electric equipment."

Following Zou Guoqing's resolute words, the audience in the audience knew that this time it was going to be serious.But having said that, the matter of adjusting the industrial structure has actually been discussed for a long time, and everyone has recognized today's ending.

There is no way, when the consumables and accessories of equipment occupy all the import quotas, the industrial system that developed indiscriminately in the early days will come to an end.

Before that, most people actually had a good vision: before the imported materials are completely overwhelmed by accessories, it would be perfect to overtake cars on curves and make continuous vertical jumps to evolve into an electric society in one step.

However, the reality is cruel.Looking at it now, let alone the popularization of electricity, it is not known how many years it will take to popularize the steam engine.

People are always like this, only after being slapped in the face will they understand the truth: no matter how small an industrial system is, it also needs a basic tonnage.Just relying on the amount of imported materials, it is impossible to blow up an industrial system in a short period of time.

Zou Guoqing's report on rebuilding the industrial system was passed by all the representatives without any disturbance.

Yao Jianshe did not express any opinions during the two-day meeting.The reason is that these two days have been discussing major issues, and he, the so-called frontier representative of the northern trio, is too far away from the central core and the country's major events.

However, in the group discussion in the afternoon, Yao Jianshe encountered a "strange thing": he was bragging and lying in the intelligence team, but was invited to the boss's room by the cabinet steward with whispers.

In this room, there are three or four members of the cabinet alone, needless to say that Xia Shoufu is also there.The most important thing is Mr. Cao who is sitting at the top and wearing a light yellow plaid suit.

The next moment, Xia Shoufu, who usually didn't take someone seriously, stretched out his hand and warmly greeted the former: "Come, come, Lao Yao, come and sit with Mr. Cao."

Yao Jianshe glanced at the smiling Emperor Cao, and couldn't help but hear that the chrysanthemum tightened, and his forehead sweated slightly: "What is this for? Am I so important?"

(End of this chapter)