The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 92 The first bullet of municipal construction

Feng Guohui had made up his mind and strolled in the backyard garden. Then he felt unbearable hunger in his belly and smiled to himself as if he was aware of it.

I was too focused on these things and missed my meal.

He walked towards the back house, and after passing the gate of the back house, which was guarded by personal soldiers, Zheng Xiang'er, Wen Jun, Xue'er and other concubines who were already standing here anxiously waiting immediately surrounded him and walked to the restaurant in the backyard.

Two seven-headed silver candlesticks were lit in the restaurant, illuminating the dining table decorated with vases. The quiet aroma mixed with the wonderful taste of food immediately aroused the greed in Feng Guohui's belly.

He sat swaggeringly in the middle, with Zheng Xiang'er on the left and Wenjun on the right, all of them serving the master with ease.

He removed the shells of shrimps and crabs, removed the bones from chicken, removed the spines from fish, peeled the grapes and put them into his mouth, while a bunch of birds and swallows were waiting for him.

This is why there is no main wife in the Marshal's mansion now, so these concubines are so unruly, otherwise they would not even have a seat during the meal and would have to stand behind them to serve.

Since this time

Second uncle Feng Zhaoliang would bring up the topic of marrying the royal wife in front of Feng Guohui whenever he had the opportunity. Judging from the looks on other people's faces, everyone should feel the same way.

Invisibly, Feng Guohui felt a little more pressure to get married.

He was so busy during this period that everything he did seemed like he was racing against time. How could he have time to think about this?

It has been three months since April, and the grass on the graves of the men of the Qiao family is now more than a foot high.

He is used to going to the study to handle some official chores instead of going to bed early to make troubles.

After dinner and some desserts and fruits, Feng Guohui stood up and walked to the study in the back house.

Feng Guohui got off the carriage dressed in military uniform. Several senior officials had already come to greet him at the door and surrounded him as he walked in.

It seems that it is time to consider the issue of Ming Media's wife.

Early the next morning

It goes without saying that there is only a little bit of affection between son and daughter, but in the face of the overall situation of Nanyang Company's survival and development, as long as he doesn't show off his brain, he will know what to choose.

But if he had it to do over again, Feng Guohui would do it again.

All theft, robbery, fighting, bullying of good people and other evil deeds fall under the jurisdiction of the police station.

He then put the matter behind him, took out several documents on the desk, and began to review...

Before ruthlessly eradicating the power of the Qiao family in one fell swoop, the youngest daughter of the head of the Qiao family would always find opportunities to get close to her. It was obvious that she had a good impression of her, but it was a pity...

This was a sworn blood feud that wiped out the family. If Qiao Peiyun was still alive, she would have wanted to tear her alive.

Feng Guohui remembered that when he threw the men of the Feng family into the mine, the women and their families did not make any trouble. He should have left them in Tieshan Town and did not ask much about the specific disposal.

At this moment, Feng Guohui's heart suddenly flashed across the bright face of a girl with a charming smile. That was...Miss Qiao Peiyun.

A group of three carriages arrived at the small square in the center of Surabaya City and stopped one after another in front of the renovated former Municipal Council Building.

The original patrol room was renamed the police station, and Ma Ganqiang became the municipal councilor and police chief. The police force on hand also expanded to more than 140 people, which was much stronger than before.

before going to bed

Nowadays, the signboard of the Surabaya Municipal Management Committee is hung here, which is responsible for managing all affairs surrounding Surabaya city, and its functions are equivalent to the municipal government and major functional departments.

Find time to find out more.

Now that the Nanyang Army has been established, the second expansion of the army has been successfully completed, more than two dozen factories and enterprises have been put into production one after another, and internal political governance is on the right track.

these few months

The police station has successively sent 722 hard labor prisoners to the Landoshan Mine, many of whom are brave and fierce gang members. This has greatly frightened people in the world, and the city's security has been significantly improved.

Therefore, "Ma Ganqiang" gained another nickname of "Black-hearted Qiang", which made people in the world hate and fear him.

Shortly after Feng Guohui arrived at the Municipal Committee, a meeting of the entire Municipal Committee was held to discuss issues related to infrastructure construction, street sanitation and planning for the further expansion of Surabaya city.

He now serves as the chairman of the Municipal Council and is the highest administrator in the entire East Java region. He has a typical warlord style of controlling military and political matters, and related matters are reasonable.

During the more than 230 years of colonization, the Dutch have never invested in municipal infrastructure, repaired roads, docks and bridges, or engaged in farmland and water conservancy construction. Everything is in its original state hundreds of years ago.

There are just some more Western-style buildings in the city, that's all.

It’s really hard to describe the appearance of the city. It’s covered in gray on a sunny day and covered in mud on a rainy day. People defecate everywhere in the streets and alleys of the city. Children play barefoot on the streets covered with cow dung and horse urine. In short, it’s all pristine.

All this made Feng Guohui intolerable.

In accordance with his wishes, Tieshan Town planned sewers and wide streets, designated green belts, and divided commercial, residential and industrial areas.

Now that he has his hands free, Feng Guohui wants to improve the appearance of Surabaya City.

The first is to establish an urban sewer system, which requires digging up all the main streets, building complete sewer ditch facilities with masonry, and then filling them back in.

After the road is compacted, it is paved with fly ash, lime, and gravel, then compacted again, and then paved with stone chips or pavement bricks. In the future, kerosene street lamps will be erected.

Establish green belts, urban parks and public toilets where possible, and decorate the streets with flowers and green plants to make it a tropical and beautiful garden city. After such renovation, the city's appearance will inevitably take on a completely new look.

The fly ash, lime and gravel required for urban environmental improvement are piled up in the Landoshan Mine, where more than two dozen coal kilns and brick kilns are producing day and night. The waste is too much to be disposed of.

On the one hand, it will be used in the road leveling and expansion project from Mount Landa to Surabaya City, and on the other hand, it will be used in the road reconstruction project in Surabaya City.

From now on, 2,780 mules and horses will arrive in Surabaya City every day, fully loaded with fly ash, lime, gravel and road bricks. On the way back, they will pass through the Qiaojia Coal Mine, continuously transporting large amounts of coal. Enter the Landa Mountain Mine.

By repeating this process continuously, each mule-horse cart can carry two round trips per day.

The main funding to launch this important project will be spent by the Surabaya Municipal Council.

The municipal committee will launch vocational work for residents of Surabaya City, mainly digging ditches at the entrance of their own streets and backfilling with soil afterwards.

For this large-scale project throughout the city, Feng Guohui ordered 600 picks, 3200 shovels and 150 hammers, which will be collected by dedicated personnel from each street.

After the completion of the project, the relevant person will be responsible for returning it and compensating for damage.

He personally arranged it, and there were a total of thirteen municipal management committee members, each of whom was responsible for 1 or 2 streets. If there was a problem in any street, go to that committee member.

These municipal committee members are responsible for organizing their respective subdistricts, establishing engineering teams with dedicated personnel, and verifying that citizens participating in the project are provided with food subsidies.

Each able-bodied male laborer is subsidized with five pounds of rice and ten pounds of cassava a week. Male laborers under the age of 18 and adult female laborers are provided with food subsidies based on % of the standard.

All workers participating in the work shall establish a unified roster, sign and seal the tools after they are distributed, and be responsible for returning them after the project is completed. Those who are damaged or lost will be compensated at the price.

Feng Guohui came up with a detailed project plan and deployed it directly without any discussion.

None of the municipal committee members present dared to object, but instead made things smoother.

The meeting lasted for more than two hours. After it ended, all the municipal committee members left the venue one after another and immediately went out to assign tasks.

After several months of getting along

Everyone knew about the Marshal's vigorous and resolute style of doing things. If he did well, he would be rewarded. If he did poorly, he would either be scolded or given up his position.

When working under him, no one dares to shirk responsibility.

In this way, a lot of wrangling is eliminated, and the implementation of government affairs is simple and efficient.

As long as one task is assigned in the competition, various municipal departments will work closely around this task.

The police station is responsible for public security and maintaining project order, the material department is responsible for issuing tools and food subsidies, the municipal department organizes professional construction teams to build sewer ditches and culverts, and Tieshan Town cooperates in transporting materials. All parties went all out to complete the tasks assigned by the commander-in-chief.

The related task of building sewer ditches and culverts was undertaken by an indigenous labor construction team of more than 2300 people under the jurisdiction of the second uncle Feng Zhaoliang.

They have now completed the construction tasks of the port and the Seven-Star Fortress and have withdrawn one after another.

These construction teams will be divided into teams of dozens to hundreds of people, with a total of 31 teams. Each street can be divided into one or two teams.

According to the plan, all projects must be completed within two months.

Give an order

More than 1 residents of Surabaya City who signed up to participate in the project worked together, and in just a few days, long ravines were dug out of the streets and alleys of the entire city.

Dozens of technicians then arrived at the scene and, as required, instructed residents to continue digging or widening the gully, straightening it, cleaning up the floating soil at the bottom of the gully, and then compacting it.

In just one week, all the excavation and leveling work was completed, and construction materials such as masonry, fly ash, gravel, cement, etc. were transported to various construction sites.

These days, the entire city of Surabaya has turned into a large construction site.

There are long gullies dug everywhere, and piles of turned-up soil are everywhere, mixed with large piles of building materials. It is difficult to walk or visit the door.

This inevitably caused some people to complain, but these people only dared to complain quietly in private. No one dared to object openly, and no one dared to go to the municipal committee to complain.

The reputation of a warlord is not just for fun. It will not make any sense to you at all, it will just serve you with a whip.

If he did it badly, he would be thrown into the Langtuo Mountain Mine to do hard labor, and he didn't know if he would be able to come back alive.

If you are willing to do the hard work, then go ahead and do the hard work.

more than a month later

With the successive backfilling of roads, many streets have been paved with gravel or bricks, flower beds and green belts have been built, and evergreen trees and various flowers have been transplanted, presenting a completely different clean and refreshing environment.

The original doubts and complaints suddenly disappeared, followed by the singing of praises, which invisibly further condensed the confidence of the people of Surabaya City.

The eyes of the people at the bottom are sharp. The people will always give a fair answer to whether the Marshal's Office has done practical things and whether it is beneficial to the welfare of the people and the city.

Even for the residents on the streets who contributed their labors, the municipal committee did not give them in vain, and fully subsidized food for each labor force.

In just over 10 days, each labor force received food subsidies of 8 pounds of rice and 15 pounds of cassava. What is there to question?

(End of this chapter)