Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1342 Municipal Administration ([-]) ([-]th update today)

Vladimir, Ivan's uncle and nephew walked into Dingjun Town while chatting.

It has been eight years since the city was established. It is neither young nor old in the East Coast Republic of China. However, due to its strategic location, prosperous commerce, and years of wars, it has greatly stimulated the city's new handicraft industry. In this way, Dingjunbao, a hub city, developed rapidly.Now its total population has reached [-], of which [-] urban residents live in the narrow and crowded Dingjun Town, breathing dirty air, eating greasy and unhealthy food, drinking the strongest liquor, and sweating profusely. Work, and then transform the fruits of their labor into a sword for the country's foreign conquest.

Due to the inherent deficiencies in the early days of the city's construction, Dingjun Town, a hub city that connects the Brazilian Plateau and the North Yazihu ​​Industrial Zone, is now feeling more and more crowded.No way, a large number of new handicraft craftsmen and their families need to settle down, coupled with the imperfect management of the township government, the city now presents a messy feeling, just like some industrial areas in other parts of the country. For example, the marine industry supporting industrial zone of Luocha County, which is full of garbage and stinking to the sky-of course, the urban transformation of this marine industry industrial zone in Luocha County is almost completed, and the local sanitation situation has been greatly improved. At the same time, the production efficiency It is also surprising that there has been a certain degree of improvement.Is it possible that a comfortable, beautiful and hygienic environment is really beneficial to the handicraftsmen to maintain a good mood, and then continue to produce more and higher quality products in excellent condition?

However, if Dingjun Town wants to reform now, it may not get permission from the higher-level government.What?There are so many old cities with a history of 30 to [-] years on the prairie on the east coast that need to be remodeled. Your city, which has been established for only eight years, also wants to be remodeled. Are you kidding me?Mobilize your own residents to change it!

"Dingjun Town is too cramped now. I have built railways and roads near here for several years. Almost every month, I can see many people relocate to the city to find opportunities. Some people succeed and stay in the city to start a family and start a business. others failed, then packed their bags in desperation, boarded the nearest train, and went to clear the wilderness in the Brazilian plateau, which was the last way to support themselves, and they had nothing else to do. Choose." Vladimir took Ivan into a familiar restaurant, ordered some casual meals, and continued: "The people who have successfully settled occupy the last bit of space in the city, there is no doubt about it. Because The land used in the city is limited, so almost as long as there is an empty corner, people will rush to the town government to buy it, and then recruit workers to build their own houses; Blocking. Our laborers sometimes take on such small jobs. Although they don’t earn much, they are also a small supplement during the intermission period of the project..."

While listening to Vladimir, Ivan looked up at the buildings in the city.I saw that the nearest place happened to be a residential house, which was divided into three rows. The bottom row was adjacent to a small stream that had dried up (now it is also used as a discharge channel for domestic sewage), and the houses in the back two rows were built. On a slightly higher plateau, with such an architectural pattern, how can road construction be needed to take care of all aspects?

"Actually, it's fine now, and the weather is relatively cold. But in summer, when the weather is dry, from the dirty river opposite you, the stench and water bubbles will often come up, polluting the environment and air, and greatly affecting the environment. People's mood. Have you seen that wooden bridge? Yes, it is the wooden bridge across the sewage river. I was lucky enough to walk across that bridge in the hot summer. It made me upset every time, and I was in a bad mood." Seeing Ivan cast his eyes on the river that has been criticized by the two thousand residents of Dingjun Town for a long time, Vladimir introduced it like this, and listening to his tone, This man who has lived in Dingjun Town for several years also has a very bad impression of this river.

"Then why not fill it in? Or transform it into an underground drain to hide the stench?" young Ivan asked.

"Of course it's a lack of sufficient funds. The current tax system on the east coast is that the central government takes most of the tax quota. Except for a few counties, the local governments are almost poor and empty. How can they have the financial resources to carry out such a huge project?" Flaki Mill said of course, "This small river is a naturally occurring river. It is estimated that it was used as a source of drinking water for the first batch of residents in the early days of Dingjun Town's construction, but now who should drink the water in this river? Moreover, with the increasing number of urban residents, many people threw domestic sewage and garbage into the river for convenience. Later, some handicraft workshops also dumped a large amount of waste water into the river. Never mind, just let it go, let this small river become the natural sewage pipe of Dingjun Town. But the idea is good, but in reality, hehe, who the hell can endure such a smelly river for a long time, Even the officials of the health system strongly urged the government of Dingjun Township to carry out large-scale reconstruction of the sewage river after seeing it, so as to prevent the outbreak of large-scale epidemics that should not have occurred in the city and cause serious consequences.”

"And it can't be changed now." Vladimir continued, "You see, there are many places in this river that are silted up, almost every short distance is blocked by barrages. Beside the barrages, there is a foul smell. The silt and garbage accumulated in a thick layer and kept rotting away. If this continues, sooner or later the river will be filled with garbage and filth, and then everyone will suffer. Therefore The government of Dingjun Town has started to transform the river into an underground culvert to prevent residents from throwing rubbish into it. They have already won part of the funds, and the remaining shortfall will be solved by mobilizing nearby residents to do hard labor. It's a pity that this The underdrain renovation project with a bid of 5000 yuan was snatched by those bastards from Valentino Company, hmph, their people seem to be only qualified to deal with sewage and stinky sludge."

It is said that the East Coast Republic of China has comprehensively revised the relevant content of the "National Labor Service Law" since the year before last. Fifteen days a year, the government pays money for overdue service, which is regarded as employment; as for military service, except for those who formally join the army, everyone else must receive militia training of varying lengths during the three months in winter. No one dares to violate the old tradition that has been handed down, so it has been implemented all these years.

However, the government later discovered that conducting training for all staff in winter not only affects production, but also costs a lot of money.Especially today as the population on the east coast is increasing, militia training once became an important financial burden for the government, so it had to be reformed later, that is, a county only retains a militia organized by a security regiment for winter training.The size of the security corps is determined by each county itself, with a minimum of 2000 members and a maximum of [-] members, so this system of reserve service and mobilization of the whole people has been maintained at last.

However, the establishment of the county security regiment saved many people from the pain of running around for training in winter, but it also easily dissatisfied the people who were selected as militiamen, because they paid more than others for no reason.Therefore, in order to balance their dissatisfaction, this time the new "National Labor Law" stated that while the militiamen conduct military training for 45-60 days in winter (the time is controlled by each region), these people who were not selected into the county security regiment You will also have to perform hard labor for more than 30 days, and start infrastructure work in the county, such as dredging and widening rivers, such as digging ditches and reservoirs, such as building roads and warehouses, etc. In short, you will not be idle of.

Of course, if you don’t want to do hard labor, there are actually ways to solve it. You can pay someone to do it for you. Anyway, what the government wants is someone to do the work. It’s the same if you hire someone else.Therefore, paid service is more popular among urban residents. Many Russian or Italian laborers have the experience of acting as a substitute. The money is not a lot, but it is still an income, so it is considered a part-time job.

This time, the Dingjun Town government’s plan to rebuild the underground culvert is to use part of the funds to recruit construction teams and laborers to work, and then exercise the government’s right to collect corvee to mobilize a large number of people to dig ditches in the river, so as to greatly reduce the overall The cost of the project, after all, the funds they applied for are limited, and the budget is tight, so they can only use this method.And this has undoubtedly created a boom in the entire labor market, which has further widened the demand gap for foreign labor in the East Coast. , One after another, they sent competent people to return to the Old Continent on the nearest ship, and then used their personal connections to fool and recruit guys with a worrying economic situation to work on the east coast.Sometimes these men even openly kidnapped beggars from the street, and sent them to be locked up in the hold of the ship, waiting to be shipped to the east coast, and the local officials would even turn a blind eye.

However, it is not a problem for people who always harm their own country.I heard that this guy Mendes has increasingly shifted his business focus to Ireland, where there are a lot of cheap labor that cannot survive; and Valentino has begun to extend his claws to Naples, Sicily and other places, where the same The population is seriously overpopulated; as for Goshkin, this fellow began to make efforts in Astrakhan and other provinces in the southern part of the Russian Empire, intending to lure more Russian cattle to work on the east bank.All in all, these people are like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, showing their own special abilities. Of course, this is what the East Coast authorities are happy to see, because in this way, the team of migrant workers on the East Coast will become larger and larger, and many domestic construction projects It can be launched in advance, which is definitely a great thing.

"And after the renovation is completed, the town will also promulgate new and stricter hygiene regulations, such as garbage must be thrown in designated places, and sewage should not be dumped at will (the existing streets in Dingjun Town are neither paved nor drained. ), for example, pigs are not allowed in residents’ yards (pork is sold at a very high price on the east bank) and so on.” Vladimir grabbed a roasted lamb leg bone, tore it and ate it and said: “Look at the one in front The place where the garbage is piled up is full of sundries, rotten fish, rotten meat, and waste products. It smells so bad that it has almost become the biggest source of pollution in the entire city. There is also the famous dung pile on the southeast corner of the city. His boss has a deep background and many contacts, so he has a backlog of at least fifty cubic meters of feces, um, well, let’s call it the inventory of a great excrement merchant. These feces are mainly sold to farmers in the suburbs. For sale, and in order to cater to the preferences of his employers, he always kept a core, because the older the excrement, the higher the price. All this has contributed to the smog of the urban environment. Fortunately, this is finally coming to an end now, and the government wants Renovating urban sewage facilities requires formulating new sanitation management regulations, taking back the work of garbage contractors and managing them themselves. These are all progress. Although the grassroots government is not rich, some money still cannot be saved, otherwise the garbage in the house, The soap scum in the soap workshop, the excrement in the toilet, the waste water in the leather workshop, etc. cannot be treated, and the interests of everyone will be damaged in the end. You must know that the stinking and rotting garbage dumps and the stagnant ponds are constantly The soaring stench that emanates is often the most likely to cause a large-scale plague to spread. This is not a joke. There are already many such lessons in the Old Continent. Besides, there has been a collective outbreak of cholera in Dingjun Town before. But many people died."

After hearing this, Ivan was speechless. At the same time, he also thought that if he was admitted by Qingdao Luqiao School (secondary specialized school), he must design a clean, beautiful, modern and great city after graduation. Dingjun Town is so messy that people criticize it.

After the two finished their meal, they planned to take the train to Shengyun Township in the north, where they still had a railway project completion award to collect.At two o'clock in the afternoon, a La Plata Star train coming from the direction of Ping'an County roared into the Dingjun Town Railway Station, and then, in addition to the usual unloading of supplies, a large number of immigrants got off the train and onto the platform rest.

Vladimir stepped forward to inquire, and it turned out that these people were all going to settle in the north. The State Development Bureau added two new settlements along the northern railway line, namely: Jishan Township (located near the later town of Guapore) ) and Longxi Township (located near the small town of Soledade in later generations), the first batch of resettlement is about 2000 people each, basically based on families.It seems that with the continuous extension of the Northern Railway, the State Development Bureau is also able to give full play to the effectiveness of this railway and begin to resettle immigrants within the radiating range along the line. Of course, this is the right way.

Seventh watch, [-] words, where is the monthly pass, where is the reward?

(End of this chapter)