African Nationhood

Chapter 167 Internal Affairs Meeting-Immigration (Part )

The large conference room of the Mapu Port City Town Hall is still brightly lit at night.

Because Boss Shi went to Europe in March last year and only came back at the end of January this year. He was away from Southwest Africa for most of the year. After returning to Southwest Africa, he continued to inspect everywhere non-stop, and accumulated too much internal affairs.

The environment here at Mapu Port is very good, and Shi Jintang decided to hold the annual expanded internal affairs meeting of Southwest Africa here.

Boss Shi wanted to hold a meeting here. There were too few civil servants in Mapugang City, so Cai Jinzhang, the landlord, had to act as the organizer of the meeting.

After the notice was issued, officials from all over the country rushed to Mapu Port.

As of around two o'clock this afternoon, officials from all over the country have almost arrived, so Shi Jintang decided to hold a meeting in the city hall at 8 o'clock tonight.

Cai Jinzhang, who is only 23 years old this year, is so busy that his forehead is sweating, and his stiff-collared shirt is a little soaked with sweat.

The smell of ink on his body was very strong, and there were still ink stains on his hands and face, which he couldn't care about anymore.

He was distributing conference materials, most of which were printed on a "mimeograph machine."

Although Europe had realized mechanized typesetting at this time and ushered in the great development of the newspaper industry, Chinese characters were unable to catch up with this trend due to the particularity of fonts.

In order to speed up the work pace, Shi Jintang "invented" the mimeograph machine after arriving at Walvis Bay Port, which was more than ten years earlier than the original time and space.

Therefore, most of the early textbooks in Southwest Africa were printed and bound into books using a mimeograph machine. Students also loved the smell of the ink in such textbooks.

Due to the early appearance of the mimeograph machine, most of the teachers in the early stage of Anhai Town Zidi Primary School were tortured by the mimeograph machine, especially the "wax engraving board" which was very torturous and could be broken easily.

Printing is also a bit laborious, and only skilled personnel who have been printing for a long time can master the strength when applying ink.

Later, Shi Jintang sent people to Europe to customize lead alloy typefaces and established a "lead movable type typesetting and printing factory", so that Southwest Africa could use printed textbooks.

It was Cai Jinzhang's first time doing this job today, so it was normal for him to be very busy.

……

At eight o'clock, the door of the city hall conference room opened and began to welcome dignitaries from all walks of life.

Cai Jinzhang stood at the door of the conference hall, hands on hips, breathing heavily.

After catching his breath, he wiped the sweat from his head. The female secretary next to him immediately handed him a handkerchief, "Wipe it quickly, there's ink on my forehead."

Cai Jinzhang chuckled and said, "Please wipe it for me. I can't see clearly."

The little secretary rolled her eyes at him, and then used a white handkerchief to help Cai Jinzhang wipe the ink on his forehead.

Maybe it was because the ink was too difficult to wipe off, or maybe it was too close, but Cai Jinzhang felt that the secretary's breathing was particularly obvious today.

"Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in"

Breathing came to his heart, and he couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva. The little secretary might also have felt the change in his boss.

Her pretty face turned red, "Just wipe it yourself, it won't come off!"

After saying that, he turned around and left. Looking at the graceful back of the little secretary, Cai Jinzhang giggled to himself.

"You look so fascinated, you probably haven't won it yet!"

Cai Jinzhang curled his lips and said, "It sounds like you have won it."

It was Cai Shaoji who made the sarcastic remarks. When Cai Jinzhang first arrived, it was Cai Shaoji who received him. The relationship between the two was particularly close because they had the same surname.

After Cai Jinzhang was appointed, Cai Shaoji accompanied him to choose a female secretary.

When choosing, Cai Shaoji specifically gave advice to his old classmates to choose one that he liked, so that he could add it to his house in the future.

Cai Jinzhang was frightened by Cai Shaoji's bold remarks and felt a little embarrassed.

Cai Shaoji told him that other classmates did this, and Cai Jinzhang agreed, choosing the current little secretary from left to right.

Cai Shaoji's current female secretary was chosen by himself after he joined the company. She was previously a civil servant in Binhai District, named Li Wei.

This woman has quite a personality and is enthusiastic about her work, so Cai Shaoji seldom talks about love affairs with her.

Now that he is older, his family members who have migrated are also urging him.

Cai Shaoji also wanted to start a family, so Cai Shaoji planned to find an opportunity to show off his cards with Li Wei.

If you want to, let's be together. I don't want him to look for anyone else. Many of their classmates are looking for partners in Southwest Africa, but there are also special ones. For example, Shi Jinyong and Xue Youfu still have a relationship in the United States.

They may or may not have an established relationship.

But Ouyang Geng is a bit evil. The secretary found a man. I don't know what he was thinking.

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As the people attending the meeting gradually arrived, Cai Shaoji and others also took their seats one after another.

When Shi Jintang, Fu Tong and others came in, everyone in the conference room stood up and called Shi Jintang: "Mr. Shi!"

Shi Jintang waved his hand, "Everyone, sit down, today's meeting can be held normally.

Thanks to Mr. Cai for his hard work, everyone gives Mr. Cai a round of applause to express our gratitude! "

After speaking, Shi Jintang took the lead in applauding, and everyone followed suit. Cai Jinzhang made a bow to everyone with a smile on his face, and then sat down.

"Okay, thank you now. Let's get down to business. The first topic today is immigration.

So, let Director Fu first talk about the current immigration situation in Southwest Africa. "

When Shi Jintang came back from Europe, he promoted Futong from the position of district chief, made him responsible for immigration affairs full-time, and became the director of the Immigration Bureau.

After nearly a month of adapting, he has almost sorted out the things he is responsible for.

Futong nodded to Shi Jintang, then stood up, took out a large report form from his suitcase and posted it on the stand in front of the conference table.

The report is a specially designed "column table" and "curve chart".

These new types of official pictures were naturally Shi Jintang's "innovations". He was the first to use them, and then led others to continue to use them.

"Everyone, please take a look at my report. This is a bar chart of the overall immigration of the Nanhua Company as of 1885.

At present, the total number of immigrants in the company is 263457, including 174375 Han immigrants, the largest ethnic group, and 51034 British immigrants, the second largest ethnic group.

朝鲜裔21904人、马来裔8204人、德国裔5125人、布尔裔2001人、京族613人、明乡人201人。

Everyone should be able to see clearly on this histogram. It can also be seen from here that the origin of our immigrants is very complicated, but the overall thinking has never changed, and it has always been Han people.

In addition, we can also see from the figure that there has always been a gap in the number of female immigrants among our immigrants.

One of the key points of our immigration in the next stage is to take into account the gender ratio of immigrants, so that immigrants cannot find wives after they arrive.

In this way, our immigration plan will be affected, and it is also unhealthy.

Futong's words aroused discussion among the representatives at the meeting. Everyone knew about immigration, but not enough. With these charts, there are more images and it is clearer.

Futong pressed his hand down and continued:

“The graph below shows the changes in the immigration curve over the years since the company was founded in 1879. It can also be seen from this that our immigration work has gradually increased.

However, the current immigration efficiency is not enough and is still far from our ultimate goal.

Therefore, at the request of Mr. Shi, our Immigration Bureau formulated a work plan and strives to increase the total number of existing immigrant populations to 5 million within 8-100 years.

To achieve leapfrog development, the first practical problem that must be overcome is the problem of transportation capacity.

Let me tell you some good news. During his trip to Europe, Mr. Shi acquired an old shipping company - Peninsula and Oriental Steam Shipping Company.

Now that the operations of this company have been put under the control of our Immigration Bureau, I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Shi Jinyong from the Commercial Port. "

Shi Jinyong, who was named, smiled and waved his hand, then continued to lower his head and listen.

Futong took off the columnar chart from the stand and replaced it with a new chart. This was a shipping chart.

There are several port names marked here, the most obvious of which are Hong Kong, Pontianak, Chagos Islands and Mapu Port.

"Thanks to Mr. Shi's wise leadership, we can currently rely on existing transportation capacity to create an immigration route planning table."

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