It was early morning in January 1636.
More than half a year has passed since the Senate regained Guangzhou in March 1635. During these ten months, the city of Guangzhou seemed to have experienced a storm, from the "city-wide demolition" at the beginning to the "city-wide digging" later. The registration of household registration, the "New Life Movement", the subsequent outbreak of witchcraft cases, the rectification of customs and customs industries, the forced accommodation of homeless and beggars, and the plague outbreak that only subsided not long ago... one after another, they were all brought to the attention of the people and people all over the city. The senators left an indelible impression.
Fortunately, the end of 1635 ended with a happy event. The Senate's first open examination for civil servants ended successfully. This civil service examination, which is a replica of the old times, fully reflects the determination of the Senate to "start anew" and has a more symbolic significance.
Accompanied by the biting north wind of the Little Ice Age, an h800 transport ship belonging to the navy was towed by a tugboat and slowly docked at the VIP pier of Guangzhou World. This place is different from other docks that are already filled with supplies and equipment. It is clean and deserted, as if no one has ever used it.
This is the internal dock of the Great World, exclusively for the entry and exit of elders and naturalized civilian cadres. Following a brief bugle blast from the ship, a small group of guards moved out from the inside and positioned themselves along the dock. Everyone knows that another veteran has arrived in Guangzhou.
After Guangzhou was initially stabilized, many elders who had been "hibernating" in Lingao for many years "awakened" one after another, and like flies that had seen blood, they pounced on Guangzhou one after another. There will be a few of them on almost every ship that comes to Guangzhou. Most of them are either the director, director or director of the Guangdong/Guangzhou xx department, or they are "inspectors" or "special commissioners" , "Commissioner" and other titles - the latter is more cautious and is in no hurry to leave the comfort zone of Lingao. He first goes to Guangzhou to see the situation and "investigate" it.
However, the situation was different today, because there were actually elders on the dock to greet him.
When Guangzhou was just restored, Liu Xiang adhered to the principles of "don't be surprised if you treat others with courtesy" and "help him when he comes." As long as there are elders arriving, whether they are for taking office or for inspection, he will not come to greet him personally, at least he will be dispatched to the municipal government. Someone from the government leadership team came to the pier to inquire about the welfare.
As the work became more and more arduous, and more and more senior officials came, this kind of etiquette also came to an end. Now that the elders came to Guangzhou again, except for the personnel sent by the General Affairs Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Government to receive them, Mayor Liu, Director Lin and Xiao Zhang were no longer seen. Only the elders of the corresponding departments would sometimes greet them.
The veteran who came to the dock today to greet him is Ai Zhixin, the Finance and Taxation Commissioner of Guangdong Region and Director of the Guangzhou Finance and Taxation Bureau.
In fact, the elders who came with the ship were not from Caijinkou, and it could even be said that they had nothing to do with Caijinkou. But their next steps for the financial industry are crucial.
In the morning, the cold wind blowing from the river made it feel biting.
“Is this Guangdong after all?”
Ai Zhixin muttered and involuntarily wrapped his woolen coat tightly around him. If he didn't have to ask them for advice, he wouldn't be bothered to come to welcome guests so early in the morning.
"Obviously the municipal and police departments also have needs, so why am I the one responsible for welcoming them..." He complained secretly in his heart, looking at the sailors who were mooring the ropes and setting up the gangplank, "These people are moving too slowly!"
Seeing a group of people coming down from the deck with a few men with puffed-up chests and bellies, Ai Zhixin knew that the person in the middle was the elder walking with his hands behind his back without having to see his face clearly. Smile: "Welcome to Guangzhou! Comrades..."
Halfway through his words, Ai Zhixin suddenly realized that something was wrong: the elders coming towards him were from the education department!
In Lingao, it is not uncommon for the elders to not know each other. After all, there are more than 500 people, some of whom have been away for a long time, and some who basically do not participate in public activities. However, the awareness of the elders of the education department is quite high - Most departments have to deal with them.
I saw Yuan Ziguang at the head, followed by Dong Yizhi. Ai Zhixin remembered the appointment announcement in the latest issue of "Weekly News": Yuan Ziguang is "Chairman of the Guangzhou Education People's Committee."
Unexpectedly, he actually came with this boat, and he moved very fast!
Yuan Ziguang also noticed him, and the two immediately "shaked hands tightly", and Ai Zhixin couldn't help but exchange a few greetings.
"Director Ai, this time Dong Yi and I came to Guangzhou to run education. There are few people and little money. You, the God of Wealth in Guangzhou, need a lot of help." Yuan Ziguang was thinking about it on the boat. He would see Ai Zhixin "self-invested" Snare," he said quickly.
What bothers Ai Zhixin the most is that others call him the "God of Wealth." Over the past six months, just trying to straighten out the fiscal and taxation system has made him have dozens of gray hairs, not to mention the fiscal and taxation system is a mess.
"What kind of God of Wealth am I? I am the accountant of District Mayor Wen and Mayor Liu." Ai Zhixin said with a smile, and then immediately changed the subject, "What? Are you planning to go to Guangzhou to run a girls' middle school?"
Yuan Ziguang is the organizer of the Plaid Skirt Club and one of the founders of the idol group Four Seasons. It is well known in Lingao that he wants to set up a girls' middle school to satisfy the evil tastes of him and a group of senior members. Not long before the start of the Guangdong strategy, he was still active in the Senate and wanted to split up Fangcaodi.
Obviously, Hu Qingbai was not interested in splitting up Fangcaodi or establishing a girls' middle school. Hu Qingbai sent Yuan Ziguang far away to Guangzhou. Let him start anew and fiddle with it on his own, instead of spending all day in Lingao engaging in liaisons to shake people's hearts, out of sight and out of mind. Whatever the purpose is, you can do whatever you want, as long as you can convince the Planning Institute to approve the project.
"Ideals are plump, but reality is skinny." Yuan Ziguang sighed, "It may not be enough to open several primary schools with this little money..."
While Ai Zhixin and Yuan Ziguangxu were arguing, in the "VIP room" of the h800 transport ship, Feng Nuo and Xu Laowu were sweating profusely, looking for something in the cabin.
What they are looking for is something that was not worth mentioning in the old time and space. In terms of popularity and price, a multimeter is obviously not a valuable thing. But in this time and space, not to mention that a plastic bag in the 21st century also belongs to the planning institute for material control. For Feng Nuo and Xu Laowu alone, the multimeter and the soldering iron are their "artifacts". Without these two They can't even carry out the most basic tasks with this gadget.
Although there is a stock of multimeters in the warehouse of the Planning Institute, this Hioki multimeter was brought by Feng Nuo himself and has been used for many years. He was still using it to repair computers on the ship. When he was about to disembark, the multimeter was missing. Not there!
The two of them wereted a lot of time searching for it. When they took the multimeter out of the suitcase, Ai Zhixin was the only one left on the dock, still sighing and stamping his feet.
"If you don't come down, I'm going to freeze to death." Ai Zhixin felt like his nose was dripping.
"I couldn't find something important just now. It took me a while." Feng Nuo felt a little sorry, "Let's leave quickly."
"Slow, slow, where are the things you brought? Where is the computer?"
"That thing is still in the bottom cabin. There are dozens of boxes." Feng Nuo laughed when he heard it. "The three of us can't carry it. We need to install and debug it after unloading it. It will take less than ten days and half a month to play with it." "
"Alas, I thought I could just use it after taking it off." Ai Zhixin couldn't help but look disappointed, "What we urgently need now is data processing capabilities. Without data reports, I am completely blind here."
"Don't worry, although this equipment is incomparable to the equipment of the old time and space, it is still worthy of the word 'artifact' compared to the abacus and hand-cranked computer. However, this equipment also requires a lot of operators. Old Xu brought a few girls from the data center over, but there were definitely not enough - the locals had to train their own."
"There is no problem with people. The most indispensable thing here is people." Ai Zhixin led them into the inner world of the big world and sat down in the Senate lounge. "But the training will probably take more than a day or two."
"It doesn't matter, we have training experience," Xu Laowu said confidently, "The key is to be careful and patient. Just be literate and numerate."
The man named Xu Laowu, whose real name is Xu Yicheng, is the director of the Data Center of the Planning Institute. He is a middle-aged man. He once opened an IT company by himself in the past, and he was considered a moderate success in his career. I am also from the Mathematics Department of 985 University. Together, I am responsible for the "big data" work of the Senate.
Only then did he and Feng Nuo come to Guangzhou together. The actual purpose was to establish a computing center in Guangzhou to handle the increasingly expanding data.
Naturally, when the reserves of servers and components are only decreasing but not increasing, it is impossible for the Planning Institute to allocate new equipment and components from the precious reserves to do this work. Therefore, the "South China Data Center" and Lingao's Like the "National Data Center", it is a product of the combination of earth and ocean. However, this time the "local method" is not just manual calculation, but the use of the latest mechanical computer developed by IT port.
And Feng Nuo is one of the main developers of this "artifact". His visit to Guangzhou included three major aspects of work: assembly, debugging, and usage and maintenance training.
The "mechanical computer" currently lying in the cargo hold of the h800 can only be regarded as a "semi-finished product" in a strict sense. The functions of many early mechanical computers are limited by the Senate's gaps in the electromechanical field and cannot be copied yet. Therefore, it is destined to be a bulky and difficult-to-use thing.
But even though it is cumbersome and difficult to use, its processing efficiency is dozens or even hundreds of times faster than manual calculation. The most important thing is that its indexing and statistical functions make the large amount of data collected by the Senate useful. Not just lying on a stat sheet.
