Lu Ming

Chapter 263 Check in
A blank sheet of paper is good for drawing.

Chikan New District, which has developed from scratch, is now a large residential area with more than [-] people under its jurisdiction.

This number is nothing in later generations, but it was not a small number in the 17th century.Except for the first-tier cities like Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, there were only so many people in the other second-tier cities.You must know that in many small counties in this era, the usual resident population is only 2000 people.

On the coastal plain to the east of the Taijiang River, the land within a radius of 10 kilometers is being developed one after another.Burning, clearing, rebuilding rivers, hardening the ground, building roads, and building houses with building blocks. Everything has become a fixed procedure, just follow the steps.

All the residential areas were built into the most manageable squares as far as possible, and the builders did not hesitate to fill up those cobweb-like streams.

There is a reason for this approach: as can be seen from the recent typhoon disaster, shallow streams are actually useless when flash floods erupt, and the water storage capacity is too low, and many communities were flooded at that time.

After gaining a deep understanding of the typhoons and mountain torrents in the 17th century, recently, the vigorous river reconstruction project on the Chikan side has begun.The gas forklifts emitting black smoke were mobilized to the river near the populated area, and large-scale deepening operations began.

This kind of excavator with a big butt and looks very low is driven by gas, steel cables, gears, connecting rods and other components.Although the failure rate is high and the excavation efficiency is low, they do not require imported hydraulic parts and are the main excavators in the western industrial society in the 19th century.

These excavators will cooperate with a large number of infrastructure workers to excavate the river channel, transforming the original spider web into a main channel surrounding the new area, so as to resist future flash floods.This project is long-term, because the community on the Chikan side has been expanding, so the deep trench made by the excavator will continue to extend eastward.

The fishermen of Chengwei Village who traveled from Putian to Dayuan, their new home is next to the excavator site.The "free travel" newcomers who have passed the initial quarantine are generally assigned to a fringe community for a period of "house arrest", usually half a month.

The person who received Yu Chengde and his group was Ma Ming, the director of the street office who was in charge of several nearby communities.

Ma Ming is a thin 40-year-old man.Before he came to Dayuan, he had worked as a village chief in the countryside of Hangzhou, so he was very skilled in business.

After receiving Yu Chengde and the others from the medical station with a few subordinates, Director Ma first took a roll call, then introduced himself with a smile, and then everyone set off for the passenger terminal.

The location of the terminus is just behind the dock area, and it is currently the largest transportation hub across the country.Many pairs of buses are dispatched here every day, and the workers in the community will take them to go to work in the kiln area.

There are 2 types of buses.

The first is urban rail.Since the largest passenger flow is fixed between Kiln District and Chikan, every morning and evening, there will be many small trains driven by gas locomotives running on the rails.The small-diameter iron wheels used in the front of the car and the flat-bed carriage behind it are relatively slow.

The fronts of short-distance buses and urban rail are basically the same, but the wheels are different: short-distance buses with only two or three carriages use large-diameter rivet-type wooden wheels.

The short distance to the station has scared the fishermen quite a bit: the stream of people, all kinds of roaring steel machinery, weird buildings, and roaring iron oxen. Those who are used to the slow and quiet rhythm Immigrants in the Middle Ages were suddenly frightened.

Director Ma Ming, who has seen too many such situations, is very experienced. He and his subordinates coaxed and pushed the people who were squatting on the ground, and they kept standing up. On the roaring bus.

Slowly, stop and go and run eastward for more than half an hour, the No. 4 bus finally stopped at the terminal: Ding 9 District.The neighborhoods in Chikan are named according to the heavenly stem + number.Ding 9 district is currently the most newly built community in the east, and it is under the jurisdiction of the street office where Ma Ming is located.

If measured by the standards of future generations, the user experience of this bus must be cheating.

First of all, wooden wheels do not have shock absorbers and rubber layers.Secondly, apart from the cement-hardened pavement used on the Chikan Avenue and the wharf area, the roads in remote communities are still gravel roads, so the bus is very bumpy - even though this is the smoothest and most bearing capacity in the 17th century. Strong way too.

So when the newcomers got out of the car and stepped on the solid gravel road, everyone's feet were soft, some people felt dizzy, and some even retched.

Motion sickness is very common here.Most of the immigrants spent the first half of their lives walking barefoot, and they had never even sat in a carriage or a sedan chair, let alone a faster gas cart.

The sudden increase in displacement speed, bumps, start and stop, made the balance signal from the vestibular organ of the inner ear of these mud legs amplified rapidly, and the central nervous system that had never received such a strong signal began to respond, so the poor ghosts began to dizzy and retch It's - thankfully they haven't eaten yet, otherwise they would have vomited on the way.

This phenomenon also appeared on a large scale after the reform in later generations: farmers imprisoned on the land began to move across the country, and people's opportunities to contact vehicles increased overnight, so a wave of motion sickness and seasickness also broke out.

There are not many buildings in Ding 9 District, only a few dozen or thirty residential huts.Since it is a newly expanded community, in addition to the necessary buildings such as public toilets and water rooms, shops and bathhouses are not yet equipped, and the roads are still rammed earth roads, and there is no time to pave stones.

However, people like Yu Chengde came from the fishing village.What is there in the fishing village?Overgrown trails, low shacks and thatched huts, litter everywhere and an unchanging smell of fish. So they have no resistance to wooden houses painted with beautiful tung oil, clean and tidy, and horizontal and vertical communities.

Smiling, Director Ma took out a bunch of keys from his butt pocket and quickly opened several wooden houses that smelled of natural tung oil.

Today's wooden house has been developed to the third generation.The hut, which is all made of standard parts, has absorbed the experience of the previous version, and has greatly improved both in terms of structural strength and comfort.

In fact, apart from the lack of concrete basements and swimming pools, the quality of the huts in the Transit Kingdom is superior to that of later generations of American wooden huts—at least the thickness of the foundation piles and slabs here is stronger.

This is also impossible.After Meidi's hut is blown away by a tornado, the insurance company will come forward, but there is nothing on the Dayuan's side.After being bitten by a snake once and dried up by a typhoon once, the people who traveled through the house have improved the quality standards of the houses in an all-round way.

通常来说，这些小屋的建筑面积在30—50平米之间。这种设计是针对移民家庭的：30平米的屋子可以隔出来3—4个房间，完全可以提供一家4口人的居住空间。

You know, there are no toilets in the houses here, and most people don’t know how to cook at home: the food in the cafeteria is subsidized, so the price is cheap.

After canceling the toilet and kitchen, 30 square meters is actually very spacious.If a family has elderly people and more children, it is also possible to apply for a larger house.

In fact, this kind of situation is rare: children over the age of 6 will be forced to live in school, and they will only go home on Sunday. The 6-day work system is implemented here.

And teenagers over the age of 16 are usually not with their parents: they are either in school or in the dormitory of the factory.Therefore, parents only need to set aside the housing area to support the elderly, and young people don't need to worry about them. The resources invested by the old men in the flowers of the motherland far exceed the imagination of their own parents.

Under the immigration rules of crossing the country, the common extended family in the middle ages does not exist: sister-in-law will definitely not live under the same roof as brother-in-law, and all families that are not immediate relatives will be dismantled.

After Yu Chengde and the others put the straw woven bags in their new house, they were dragged to the cafeteria for dinner.The cafeteria is in the neighborhood next door, and while talking excitedly about the new home, everyone followed Director Ma to find the way.

Most of the poorest people come to Dawei and need to work for a month or two before they can turn around financially.After Ma Ming came to the cafeteria, he first filled in and signed the form according to the regulations, and then gave out everyone's one-month meal tickets by head.

All the meal tickets, houses, clothes, including some daily sundries, are actually loans. The wool comes from the sheep, and the leeks will eventually need to use their monthly salary to pay back in installments.

Although he still had some "banknotes" in exchange for silver, Yu Chengde was not in a hurry to take them out to buy meal tickets: since the meal tickets are borrowed for free and have no interest, you might as well spend them first.

After eating a big bowl of porridge with seafood, mixed vegetables and white rice, which is necessary for newcomers to "join the occupation", the villagers followed Director Ma to the sub-district office to collect sundries with their fingerprints.

Including daily necessities such as quilts, washbasins, slippers, toothbrushes, etc., the street office has them ready-made.After arranging for two young men to push back and forth with a trolley, Director Ma began to formally assign rooms to everyone.

Yu Chengde's house has nothing to say, the house of more than 30 square meters is enough for his family of four to settle down.And when Ma Ming saw Yu Sibao's form, he pointed to the line above and told them: Yu Sibao should be called by a certain department for training soon, because his specialty is "diving", which is very popular ability.

Arrangements are quickly made for most families.As for a lonely old man like Grandpa Ba who is ready to lose his braids at any time, the villagers who fled here together will naturally not leave him alone.So Director Ma arranged the old man at Houzi's house: Houzi lived with his mother and had a spare room.

As for the support of the old man, as a rule, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Traveling Country is responsible for paying for it, and it will not add any burden to the villagers.

That night, the villagers had a housewarming dinner with mixed feelings.Looking at the bright oil lamps on the table and the children playing and laughing on the floor, Yu Chengde couldn't help praying silently to God and thinking about the endless road.

(End of this chapter)