Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 215 General Assembly ([-])

Representatives like Fu Buer came to Dongmen City one after another within a few days. Some of them came to cross the group-controlled area for the first time, and there were also regular customers here. 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 to, but the prosperity of Dongmen City is on another level, even those who have traveled far and been to Guangzhou, the number one commercial port in southern China People can also see that the level of detail in Dongmen City far exceeds that of Guangzhou.

The consumption of the representatives in Dongmen City greatly stimulated consumption. Although each representative received a meal ticket, their entourage did not have food supply, and many representatives also wanted to taste the food of the Kun people, especially the business hall. The scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the restaurant are sweet and sour, appetizing and delicious.There are also green tender bean pods-according to the guys, they are called snow peas, which are sweet and tender when fried.Blossoming vegetables like flowers, some are white, some are green, white ones are hard and crisp, green ones are rotten and soft, each tastes different.

The chef of the Shangguan restaurant is selected from the few cooks who have joined the Gou family.Although the cooking habits and techniques of the Ming Dynasty are not quite the same as those of modern times, professionals are professionals. After training by several "gourmets", they will soon be much better than the guest chefs in the cafeteria.They were hired as soon as the commercial hall and restaurant opened.The county-wide conference happened to be a good opportunity to advertise the restaurant.

Some gentry who talked about enjoyment simply gave the meal tickets to their attendants to eat, and left their money in restaurants to make friends.The sales of tomato scrambled eggs soared, so that the eggs in the cafeterias became tense for a while-the tomato scrambled eggs in the cafeteria turned into tomato egg drop soup, and everyone had a lot of opinions on this.

It was Wu Nanhai who had no objection. It was his idea to supply all kinds of new 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 cabbage can be eaten anyway, so there is no need to serve one more variety. Vegetables with a variety of colors are the needs of the leisure class, so farmers should grow them. , you have to impress the stomachs of the wealthy and leisure class first.Let them generate demand.

The conference affairs group intends to let this group of representatives have a good time eating, drinking and having fun in Dongmen City, so that they can fully experience the bluer sky, greener water and better food in the area ruled by the traversers.This begins the plenary session.

The county-wide regiment training joint defense meeting, or as later history books called it: the first Lingao Political Consultative Conference was finally officially held on February [-], the day when the dragon raised its head.

Early in the morning, a special receptionist came to the hotel to welcome the delegates into the city—the venue for the meeting was an open-air cinema in Bairen City. Convenience.

The delegates all put on their best clothes. When they came out, they saw that the reception staff were male and female teenagers. The boys wore almost black navy blue jackets with two open pockets and a stand-up collar. , not the right front, but the middle opening, a row of straight black round wooden buttons, and the neckline is tightly fastened.With short hair, it looks neat and tidy.Girls wear similar navy blue tops with a pullover style, a handkerchief-like interlining on the back shoulders, and a long blue pleated skirt on the lower body.That is simple and beautiful.It's just that the hair is shivering a little - it can be seen that they have been shaved not long ago, and the hair is only short stubble.

The reception staff are all students of Lingao National School. These children who were first bought from Guangzhou have received more than two months of education, learned culture, and have been repeatedly brainwashed. They are relatively reliable personnel.Asking them to receive them is tantamount to exercising their ability to deal with people - after all, they will be the main source of cadres who travel through the regime in the future.

Originally, Xiao Zishan wanted to send only boys in consideration of the issue of male and female defense. Later, Du Wen made a fuss, saying that it was discrimination against women. In addition, Yu Eshui also said that the so-called male and female defense was never mentioned in the countryside. , especially in rural areas in the south.Women are the main force in agricultural production, so the average country girl never binds her feet, and it is common to show her face in public.There are women in the receptionist, and the representative at most thinks that these are maidservants bought by short-haired people.

"Please wear your representative card, thank you." Li Yuanyuan held an electric horn and held a small pennant in his hand, and kept shouting, like a tour guide, "Everyone pay attention to order, don't jump in line at will. Followers are not allowed to enter the venue , leave the entourage in the market, we have a special person in charge of entertaining."

Letting Li Yuanyuan play this role is to make the representatives aware of the status of women among the cross-country crowd, and to be psychologically prepared for some future measures to improve women's rights.Although there are no feminists in the executive committee except Du Wen, and they are not interested in protecting women's rights, but in this time and space, emancipating women is liberating productivity, and everyone understands this truth.

The delegates gathered together according to the respective cities and maps, and each map sent a few students to lead the way, and the first student also held a small flag with the words Lingao X Capital X Map written on it, in order to take care of the illiterate representatives , Different animal and plant patterns were painted on the small flags for their identification.

Every time a team is lined up, the students will lead the way into the city.Although Dongmen City is very lively every day, and there are many aborigines going back and forth on the road, the interior of Bairen City has always been heavily guarded. Although the earth barriers are not high, there are many watchtowers and forts on the top, and there are many barbed wire arrangements. A few meters away, even the police and soldiers of the new army, who have been trained by the crossing regime, rarely have the opportunity to enter this restricted area.There are many legends in the county about what it looks like inside, some say it is the same as a fairyland, and some say it is like Abi Hell. There are different opinions, so the representatives are all very curious about the interior of Bairen City.Now that I have the opportunity to witness it, everyone feels a little eager.

When I entered the city, I found that it was different from the outside. The streets were also paved with bricks and stones like Dongmen City, with trees planted on both sides, and wooden poles painted black one by one lined up along the roadside. , there is something like a white hat on it, and a glass ball under the hat, I don't know what it is for.The houses here are different from the ones outside. The ones on the outside are either red bricks or blue bricks, but the houses inside are all blue and white houses, square and very regular.The representatives suddenly discovered that the walls and roofs of these houses were actually made of iron!

This discovery is simply a sensation. Although iron is not a valuable item, it is definitely a rare item in Lingao.The iron products here are completely imported from the mainland. There is only one blacksmith in the county town who can repair farm tools and make some iron tools for daily life. Slightly larger things, such as farm tools, cannot be beaten.This group of overseas visitors not only took a big iron boat, but even the house was made of iron!That alone is enough to be awe-inspiring.

"It's glass!" A representative suddenly shouted in surprise.

It is not white window paper, nor is it the mica sheets used by rich people, but large pieces of glass, shiny and arranged on the houses, reflecting the high winter sun, and there is a low voice among the representative crowd. Yes, but a sigh of incomparable surprise.

Huang Tinkun walked in with the team, and he couldn't help but be secretly convinced - no wonder the whole county's strength assembled by his father and Mr. Wu couldn't break through the village, the amount of iron inside alone is enough to scare people to death.Huang Tikun 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, but he still knew from the mouths of the village warriors who came back from the near death that the opponent's firearms were extremely sharp. Can't beat it.In the past, he still felt that the village braves were exaggerating, but now it seems that they still underestimated these "kun thieves".

Thinking of myself and my elder brother's original idea of ​​ignoring the meeting - it's fine if the third brother doesn't take revenge, but he still wants to flatter them?Thinking of the third brother who was killed by the Kun thief, Huang Tikun still felt resentful, but his father insisted on asking him to go. It seems that the one who knows the strength of the "Kun thief" best is his father.

Now I can only entrust myself to Xu Snake, take the opportunity to inquire about the truth of the thieves, and wait for the imperial court's heavenly soldiers to wipe them out one day before revenge.

With this in mind, he looked more carefully than others.Seeing the houses in this city, they seem to be piled up here and there, but if you look closely, the layout of the houses has certain rules. 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 an additional wall and the iron mesh wall unique to the bandits outside the group.There are tall and thick boss defenses at the four corners, and each group has only one entrance and exit. There is a small but strong watchtower guarded at the entrance, which can be regarded as heavily guarded.There are roads between the groups, and various watchtowers and gun towers are scattered at different heights. Not to mention the use of firearms, even bows and arrows can be blocked very tightly.

Although Huang Tinkun is a scholar, he has a good understanding of military affairs due to his father's influence and his actual combat experience in fighting bandits.With such tight guards by the thieves, the official army may not be able to break in without five or six thousand people and Hongyi cannons.Huang Tikun's mood dropped a lot.

Huang Shoutong's instructions to this son were very simple. Now the whole county has no strength to fight against them, and there will be no good results in a hard resistance.

"The thieves are playing a game of chess at Lingao." Huang Shoutong said when he was giving an opportunity before he set off, "I can't tell how big the chess game is now as a father. But they are like the national players. Come up. Our little Huangjiazhai can't resist them, the only way is to 'drag'!

"The Kun thief is Sima Zhaozhi's heart and everyone knows it, but the big gentry still have the idea of ​​'using thieves to control thieves'," Huang Shoutong said. Therefore, we must do our best to eradicate bandits and resist pirates. The county suffers from banditry, and most of the big gentry are short-sighted, so it is hard not to be lured by it."

"The trend is the general trend, and we can't go against the trend. Fortunately, there are two to three hundred villages in this county, and there are at least 300 people who went to the meeting. Distributing food and sending missions involves a lot of melons and vines. Even the officials find it difficult, let alone them. How many overseas thieves? As long as you mention the group of big households in small details, some people will naturally disagree. The more things are discussed, the more complicated the discussion."

Huang Tinkun thought, his father's word "drag" is definitely not bad, but how to do it if we really want to do it?He pondered, and suddenly came two more sedan chairs from behind, the first one was an official sedan chair, the window was raised, and the county magistrate Wu Ya was sitting inside, who could not be seen clearly from the back, but he guessed it should belong to Mrs. Wu Master Wang Zhaomin.

Even the main figures of the two county yamen have come, the face of this gangster is really not small.However, he felt more and more pressured, and the county government sent someone to explain that Mr. Wu had reached some kind of agreement with the Kun thieves, not only acquiesced, but might even support the actions of the Kun thieves.

This group of officials and lords did more than fail.Huang Tingkun thought disappointedly.It was probably bought by the Kun thief with silver.Anyway, they left after serving one term, which would only leave endless troubles for the local people.

When they came to the shell-shaped stepped movie theater, the representatives felt that it was very novel, but they quickly sat down according to the pictures and pictures under the guidance of the male and female students.On the table in the middle was some strange shiny thing, with a long black leather cord trailing it.A short-haired man walked up and put his mouth on it. Suddenly, a loud "Hey Hey" resounded throughout the venue, making everyone jump.

Thus began the first consultation meeting.In preparation for this meeting, the Executive Committee prepared for several weeks.Of course, the so-called consultation meeting itself is not about "negotiation", but about notification.The local villages are required to initially accept the rule of the crossing regime.

Adhering to the guiding idea of ​​boiling frogs in warm water, the goal of the first step of the journey is very simple: to send food to each village.The traveler is not a boy who spreads money, he can pour silver into this land endlessly-this will only cause inflation, and the traveler now lacks light industrial products that can return money.

Light industrial products require a complete industrial system. This system cannot be completed by going through the people themselves and the [-] natives attached to them. They must obtain more extensive labor support from the local area, so that the most reliable members of the community can Liberate from the simplest labor-intensive industries such as logging, quarrying, and brick firing, and cultivate the first generation of industrial workers in Lingao.

The currency of the crossing regime uses grain as collateral. In order to ensure the security of the currency and support the growing industrial population that is out of production, it is necessary to reserve more grain. Peaceful means such as purchases alone cannot effectively guarantee food security.this is one.

Second, only through disguised taxation such as food distribution, can villages with a natural economy experience the change of rulers.At the same time, it also allowed them to see the superiority of the traversing regime in the use of taxation over the traditional government.

(End of this chapter)