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Chapter 177 Conference Four
Representatives like Fu Fuji came to Dongmen City in a few days. Some of them were coming to the area controlled by the group for the first time, and some were regulars here. No matter what kind of people they were, they came to areas controlled by the group. The safety, cleanliness and convenience of life all left a deep impression on them. For many people, the county seat is the most prosperous place they have ever been, but the prosperity of Dongmen City is on another level entirely. Even those who have traveled far and visited Guangzhou, the first commercial port in South China. People can also see that the level of details in Dongmen City far exceeds that of Guangzhou.
The consumption of the delegates in Dongmen City greatly stimulated consumption. Although each delegate received a meal ticket, their entourage was not provided with food, and many delegates also wanted to try Kunren's food, especially in the business hall. The tomato scrambled eggs in the restaurant are sweet and sour, appetizing and go with the meal. There are also green tender pods - called snow peas according to the waiter, which are sweet and tender when fried. There are flower-like vegetables, some white and some green. The white ones are hard and crispy, and the green ones are rotten and soft. They all taste different.
The chefs in the merchant houses and restaurants were selected from several chefs who came to work for the Gou family. Although the cooking habits and techniques of the Ming Dynasty were not the same as those of modern times, professionals are professionals. After training from several "gourmets", they soon became much better than the guest chefs in the canteen. They were hired as soon as the shops and restaurants opened. The county meeting is a good opportunity to advertise the restaurant.
Some gentry who care about enjoyment simply give their meal tickets to their entourage to eat, leaving their money behind in the restaurant to pay for the meal. The sales of tomato scrambled eggs soared, so much so that the eggs in the canteens became nervous for a while - the tomato scrambled eggs in the canteen turned into tomato egg drop soup, and everyone was very unhappy with this.
The one who had no objection was Wu Nanhai. It was his idea to supply all kinds of new varieties of vegetables to the conference delegates. Compared with higher-yielding food crops, farmers in the past had little incentive to grow new varieties of vegetables—green vegetables and cabbages can be eaten anyway, so there is no need to serve more than one kind. Vegetables with a wide variety of colors are the needs of the leisure class, and farmers must grow them. , you must first impress the stomachs of the wealthy and leisure class. Let them generate demand.
The conference team intended to let this group of representatives eat, drink, have fun and enjoy the sightseeing in Dongmen City, so that they can fully experience the bluer sky, greener water and better food in the traverser-dominated area. Only then did the general meeting begin.
The county-wide team training and joint defense conference, or as it was later called in history books: the first Lingao Political Consultative Conference was finally officially held on February 2, the day when the dragon raised its head.
Early in the morning, a dedicated receptionist came to the hotel to welcome the delegates into the city. The meeting venue was an open-air cinema in Bairen City. This cinema has quite complete facilities, especially the sound amplification equipment has been installed, making the meeting very convenient. convenient.
The representatives all put on their best clothes. When they came out, they saw that the receptionists were all young men and women. The boys were wearing almost black navy blue short coats with two open pockets and a stand-up collar. , not the right lapel, but the center open lapel, with a row of straight black round wooden buttons, and the collar is buttoned tightly. With short hair, she looks neat and tidy. The girls wear a similar navy blue top with a pullover style, a handkerchief-like interlining on the back shoulder, and a blue pleated long skirt on the bottom. It is both simple and beautiful. It's just that their hair is trembling a little - it can be seen that their heads were shaved not long ago, and their hair is still just short stubble.
The receptionists are all students from Lingao National School. These children who were first bought from Guangzhou have received more than two months of education, learned culture, and been brainwashed repeatedly. They are relatively reliable personnel. Letting them come to receive you is tantamount to exercising your ability to deal with others - after all, they will be the main source of cadres who cross the regime in the future.
Originally Xiao Zishan considered the issue of male and female defense and wanted to send out only boys. Later, Du Wen made a fuss and said that this was discrimination against women. In addition, Yu Eshui also said that the so-called male and female defense was never discussed in the countryside. , especially in rural areas in the south. Women are the main force in agricultural production, so ordinary rural women never have their feet bound, and it is very common for them to appear in public. There were women among the receptionists, and the representatives at most thought that these were maids bribed by short-haired people.
"Please wear your representative ID card, thank you." Li Yuanyuan held an electric horn and held up a small pennant in his hand. He kept shouting like a tour guide, "Everyone, pay attention to order and don't jump in line at will. Followers are not allowed to enter the venue. , leave the entourage in the market, we have a dedicated person responsible for entertaining them."
Letting Li Yuanyuan play this role is to make the representatives aware of the status of women among the people and to be mentally prepared for some future measures to improve women's rights. Although there are no feminists on the executive committee except Du Wen, and they are not interested in protecting women's rights, in this time and space, liberating women means liberating productivity, and everyone still understands this.
The representatives gathered together according to each city and map. Each map sent a few students to lead the way. The leading student also held a small flag with the words "Lingaodu Map" written on it. In order to take care of the illiterate representatives, the students Different animal and plant patterns are also painted on the flag for them to identify.
Every time a team is lined up, students will lead the way into the city. Although Dongmen City is very lively every day, and there are many indigenous people walking back and forth on the highway, the interior of Bairen City has always been heavily guarded. Although the earthen fortress is not high, there are many watchtowers and forts above it, and there are many barbed wire fences. The trenches outside are as deep as A few meters away, even the police and New Army soldiers trained by the crossing regime themselves have little chance of entering this restricted area within the restricted area. There are many legends in the county about what it's like inside. Some say it's like a fairyland, while others say it's like Abi Hell. There are different opinions, so the representatives are very curious about the inside of Bairen City. Now that we have the opportunity to witness it, everyone can’t wait.
When I entered the city, I saw that it was indeed different from the outside. The streets were paved with bricks and stones just like Dongmen City. There were trees on both sides, and wooden poles painted black lined the roadside. , there is a white hat-like thing on it, and under the hat is a glass ball. I don’t know what it is used for. The houses here are different from those outside. The ones outside are either red bricks or blue bricks, but the houses inside are all blue and white, square and extremely regular. The representatives suddenly discovered that the walls and roofs of these houses were actually made of iron.
This discovery was a sensation. Although iron was not a valuable object, it was definitely a rarity in Lingao. The iron products here are completely imported from the mainland. There is only one blacksmith in the county who can repair farm tools and make iron tools for daily use. He cannot make larger things, such as farm tools. This group of overseas visitors not only traveled on large iron ships, but the fact that their houses were also made of iron was enough to awe people.
"It's glass," one representative suddenly shouted in surprise.
It's not white window paper, nor the mica sheets used by wealthy people, but large blocks of glass, shining brightly on the houses, reflecting the high sunshine in winter, and there is a low feeling among the representatives of the crowd. Yes, but a sigh of great surprise.
Huang Hankun followed the team and walked inside, and couldn't help but secretly admire it - no wonder the entire county's strength assembled by his father and Mr. Wu couldn't break this stronghold. The amount of iron in it alone was enough to scare people to death. Huang Xunkun did not participate in the attack on Bairen Dazhai at that time. After his father Huang Shoutong came back, he kept silent about the scene of the battle. However, he still knew from the mouths of the village heroes who returned from a narrow escape that the opponent's firearms were extremely sharp, and his side could not even meet him. Can't beat it. In the past, he felt that the village heroes were exaggerating, but now it seems that he still underestimated this group of "thieves."
Thinking that he and his eldest brother had originally advocated ignoring the meeting - forgetting that the third brother's revenge was not avenged, but still flattering them. Thinking of the third brother who was killed by the Kun thief, Huang Henkun still felt uncontrollably angry. , but his father insisted that he go. It seems that the person who knows the strength of "Kun Thief" best is his father.
Now we can only surrender to the virtual snake, take the opportunity to explore the true and false identity of the thieves, and wait for the day when the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court come to destroy them, and then take revenge.
With this thought in mind, he looked more carefully than others. Seeing that the houses in this city seem to be piled here and there, but if you look closely, you can see that the layout of the houses has a certain order. There are very few independent houses and they are all arranged in groups. The gaps between the houses are not To seal it with bricks and stones is to build additional walls and iron mesh walls unique to the thieves around the group. There are high and thick raised towers at the four corners for defense. Each group has only one entrance and exit. There is a small but strong guard tower at the entrance, which can be regarded as heavily guarded. There are roads connecting the groups, and various lookout towers and gun towers are scattered at different heights. Let alone firearms, even bows and arrows can be sealed tightly.
Although Huang Henkun was a scholar, he had a good understanding of military affairs due to his father's influence and his practical experience in guarding bandits. The Kun thieves were so tightly guarded that the official army might not be able to get in without five or six thousand men and Hongyi artillery. Huang Hankun's mood dropped a lot again.
Huang Shoutong's instructions to his son were very simple. Now the whole county does not have the strength to fight against them. Resistance will never bring good results.
"The thieves are playing a game of chess at Lingao." Huang Shoutong said during the interview before he set off. "My father can't see how big the chess game is now. But they are just like the layout of the national players, forcing them one by one." Come up. Our small Huangjiazhai cannot resist them. The only way is to drag them away.
"Everyone knows that Sima Zhao is obsessed with the thief Kun, but the gentry and wealthy families still have the idea of using thieves to control thieves," Huang Shoutong said. "Now that the thief Kun has entered the county, he will naturally not tolerate the intrusion of other thieves. Therefore, all efforts must be made to exterminate bandits and resist pirates. This county is suffering from banditry, and most of the gentry and wealthy families are short-sighted, so it is difficult not to be tempted."
"The general trend is that we cannot go against the trend. Fortunately, there are two to three hundred villages in this county, and at least three hundred people went to the meeting. Distributing food and missions involves many things, and even officials find it difficult, not to mention As long as these overseas thieves mention the big business in small and trivial ways, someone will naturally raise objections. Things become more and more discussed, and the more they discuss, the more complicated they become."
Huang Hankun thought that his father's word "drag" was definitely not bad, but how should he go about it? He pondered, and suddenly two more sedans came from behind, one was an official sedan, and the windows of the sedan were rolled up. Sitting inside was the county magistrate Wu Ya, who could not be seen clearly from the back, but he was probably Wang Zhaomin, Mr. Wu’s apprentice.
Even the two main figures from the county government are here. This thief is really quite proud. However, he felt more and more pressured. The county government sent someone to explain that Mr. Wu had reached some kind of agreement with the Kun thieves. He not only acquiesced, but might even support the Kun thieves' actions.
These officials are more likely to fail than succeed. Huang Hankun thought disappointedly. It was probably bought by the thief Kun with money. Anyway, they just served once and then left, which will only leave endless troubles for the local area.
Arriving at the shell-shaped staircase-shaped cinema, the delegates felt it was very strange, but they quickly took their seats according to the pictures and pictures under the guidance of the male and female students. There were some strange shiny things on the middle platform, and there were long black leather ropes hanging on them. A short-haired guy walked up and put his mouth on it. Suddenly, a huge, murky "Hey, hey" sound resounded throughout the venue, startling everyone.
This is how the first consultation meeting began. The Executive Committee has been preparing for this meeting for several weeks. Of course, the so-called consultative meeting itself is not about "consultation", but about informing. The local villages are required to initially accept the rule of the crossing regime.
Adhering to the guiding principle of boiling frogs in warm water, the goal of Chuanzhong's first step is simple: to send food and missions to each village. Travelers are not money-spreading boys. They can pour silver into this land endlessly - this will only cause inflation, and travelers now lack light industrial products that can withdraw money.
Light industrial products require a complete industrial system. This system cannot be completed by relying on the people themselves and the 2,000 indigenous people who depend on them. They must obtain more extensive labor support from the local area, so that they can integrate the most reliable members of the community. They were liberated from the simplest labor-intensive industries such as logging, quarrying, and brick-making, and trained to become the first generation of industrial workers in Lingao.
The currency that travels through the regime uses grain as collateral. In order to ensure the security of the currency and support the increasing number of out-of-work industrial people, more grain must be stored. Peaceful means such as acquisition alone cannot effectively guarantee this. food security. this is one.
Second, only through disguised taxation such as distributing grain can villages with a natural economy experience changes in rulers. At the same time, it also allowed them to see the superiority of the time-traveling regime over the traditional government in using taxes. ,.
