Xu Jichao first introduced that the American flood fighting team had arrived in Tianjin eight days ago, and there were a total of 73 people in their group, as well as two labor boats, both of which were engineering ships of more than 2,000 tons, and the flood fighting team arrived in Tianjin after a day's rest, and immediately conducted on-site surveys and began work, and after five days of work, the first to be salvaged out of the water was the British armored cruiser Alora. Now the flooding team is flooding the second warship, the French protective cruiser Pascal.

In addition, the Tianjin shipyard project has also begun, and the first batch of survey and design personnel from the United States, as well as a batch of engineering equipment, have also arrived in Tianjin with the salvage team, and negotiated with the engineering and technical personnel of the traverser on the location and layout of the shipyard, and also began on-site survey. However, some people in the executive committee believed that even if there was a shipyard built by the Germans in Qingdao, the Tianjin shipyard would be duplicated in function, and suggested that the Tianjin shipyard project should be cancelled.

Some people believe that Tianjin will also be an important commercial terminal in China in the future, so it is necessary to have a certain ship repair and construction capacity, so the functions of Tianjin Shipyard and Qingdao Shipyard are not duplicated, but there is still a certain gap between the industrial technology capabilities of the United States and Germany, and from the perspective of future maintenance and development, the two shipyards are better equipped with the technology of the same country, so it is advocated that the Tianjin Shipyard project will also be handed over to Germany for construction.

However, both proposals face the problem of breaking the contract, after all, the deposit has already been paid.

In terms of other projects, the Jingu Highway has been completed, and the construction team that built the highway is already building the road from Tianjin to Kaiping Coal Mine. However, there was originally a railway between Tianjin and Kaiping, so this highway is only a supplement, the standard is lower than the Jingu highway, the planning of the Ministry of Construction is to build only a two-lane highway at present, and the quality of the road surface as long as it reaches the standard of the four-level highway and low-level road surface in the old time and space.

At this time, the total population of Tianjin had reached 735873, of which 514362 were agricultural, and although it was still quite far from the normal level of Tianjin, it was not easy to recover to more than 70 percent of the population level in a short period of time after the sack of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Tianjin has also made significant progress in the construction of new rural areas, with 24 new rural areas completed and 3 new rural areas under construction, with a total of 2,852 residential buildings and 358 residential buildings under construction.

More than 20,000 farmers have moved into new homes, which is not high for the agricultural population in Tianjin, but it can play a considerable role as an example. After all, there are still a large number of old houses left in the rural areas of Tianjin, which can be moved in with a little repair, which is enough for the farmers who have returned to Tianjin to have houses to live in and be allocated considerable land. Of course, the traverser also took the opportunity to disrupt the previous layout of the countryside with blood clans as the link.

Li Songchen, who is in charge of rural work, suggested to the executive committee that the construction of the new countryside has achieved phased success, but the follow-up project can be slowed down, after all, the construction of the new countryside is a long-term project, not all of which can be completed within one or two years, and now the returned farmers have been resettled, and the crossing group has other projects, so there is no need to reinvest limited resources in the countryside.

The next step of rural work will focus on the construction of grass-roots administrative organizations in rural areas, and the 24 new rural villages that have been completed and 3 are under construction will be the key demonstration projects of Tianjin's agricultural transformation and construction. Efforts should be made to select village cadres from the villagers, train them, and form village committees, while the traversers will gradually get out of the grassroots level and move to a higher level of management.

The social order in the old city and new area of Tianjin has completely returned to normal, and at the same time, the traverser also controls a number of industries in Tianjin, among which the two larger industries are Kaiping Coal Mine and Lishunde Hotel, and there are also four real estate and shares of three foreign-funded enterprises, which are all transferred by De Xuanlin to the traverser. In Tianjin, the traverser also operates eight small-scale factories, including garment factories, cement factories, glass factories, brick and tile factories, wood processing and manufacturing plants, printing factories, machinery processing factories, and agricultural fertilizer factories, with more than 1,800 industrial workers.

The first batch of 100 machines ordered by the Traverser has arrived in Tianjin, including 40 looms, 25 spinning machines, 10 machine tools, 10 320 hp steam engines and 5 500 hp steam engines. The plan is to build a weaving mill and upgrade the machine processing plant, expand production at other factories, and increase the number of industrial workers to 3,000.

At the same time, the Tianjin Customs, as well as the tax system of the traverser, have been preliminarily completed, and the tax collected has exceeded 200,000 taels of silver. Moreover, the autumn harvest work has ended, because the traverser has canceled this year's agricultural tax, so this year's harvest in Tianjin's rural areas is generally acceptable, and the traverser has also harvested about 6,000 tons of various grains from the ownerless fields, which has initially solved the grain problem.

After listening to Xu Jichao's summary introduction, Qin Zheng, Xiao Jianjun, and Wang Yunpeng were also quite excited, after all, there were only more than four months, and it was quite good to be able to achieve such results.

Qin Zheng said with a smile: "It seems that Tianjin's development form is very good." ”

Xia Bohai didn't smile and said, "What I just said is all achievements, but there are many problems, so everyone should continue to listen." ”

Xu Jichao continued: "Due to the restoration of order in Tianjin, most of the factories, enterprises, and foreign banks have already started, and we have lifted the restrictions on Chinese in the original concession, and now it is the agricultural season, which has caused a large number of people from old cities and rural areas to pour into the new area to find work, which has caused a series of social problems. Relatively speaking, the residents in the new area, as well as the higher income of industrial workers, have formed a strong consumption capacity, attracting many rural and small traders to carry the stalls and set up stalls in the new area to do business, but this has brought great difficulties to our urban management, environment, public security, etc., and even caused fights and brawls due to the problems of price and catty. We have now designated a street for our stalls to facilitate centralized management. However, this is not a long-term solution, the Executive Committee has already made a decision that after the New Year, a farmers' market and a number of commercial streets will be built in the new area for professional management, and the rules for the management of the market are being formulated. ”

"The second problem is the accommodation of migrant workers in the new area, people who live in the old city can still go out and return at night, but it is difficult for people in the surrounding countryside to travel back and forth between the city and the countryside every day, and their accommodation is a major problem, although there are several hotels in the new area, but the price is too high, the migrant workers in the city can not afford to live at all, and the hotel can provide limited housing. Now the new district is in dire need of a large number of simple, cheap rental housing. In the new district, there were already people who were privately building rental houses, but we found out and stopped them at the very moment. The Ministry of Construction has built a large number of simple sheds in the new area to temporarily accommodate these migrant workers, but this is only a stopgap measure, the next step is to choose a place to build low-rent housing for migrant workers, and strengthen management, in addition to the factory belonging to our crossing group, will also build workers' dormitories, as a demonstration, and encourage other factories and enterprises to also build workers' dormitories. At the same time, the Ministry of Construction also plans to concentrate on the construction of a number of commercial houses in the new area, which will be sold to industrial workers with certain economic conditions, and even to the operators of factories and enterprises, and of course they can be paid in installments. ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "Isn't this just going to engage in real estate development?"

Xu Jichao nodded and said: "Real estate development is an inevitable trend of urban development and construction, Tianjin is one of the most urbanized cities in China in this era, and it is fully qualified to carry out certain real estate development." ”

Qin Zheng said: "I have no objection to real estate development, but have you thought about it, how to resettle our people, although our focus will be shifted to Qingdao, but there must also be a considerable number of people left in Tianjin, so can they buy these houses, are there preferential conditions, if they buy these houses, how to ensure safety?"

Xu Jichao said: "For the time being, we believe that crossers should be prohibited from buying commercial housing, and instead build residential areas to facilitate management. Housing can be allocated to the traverser for living free of charge, but the property rights belong to the traversal group, and when the conditions permit in the future, the traverser will be allowed to purchase commercial housing. Of course, real estate development is only a proposal of the Ministry of Construction, whether to implement it, how to implement it, still need to be discussed at the executive committee, and everyone can go back and think about it. ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Well, this matter should indeed be seriously discussed. Are there any other social issues?"

Xu Jichao said: "There is a more important issue, which is the issue of prostitutes. ”

Xiao Jianjun was stunned for a moment and said, "This is also a problem?"

Xia Bohai's face was serious, and he said: "Of course, this is a major social problem, with the development of the economy and the increase in the flow of people, the skin and meat business will naturally develop, and the basic men who go to the city to work are men, they also need to solve their physiological desires, there is a natural supply, there is no need to make a fuss, we must also face this problem with a normal mentality." ”

Xu Jichao said: "According to our understanding, there are many people engaged in prostitution work in Tianjin New Area and the old city, some are individual and some are industrialized, but the industrialized prostitutes are basically in the old city, there are many brothels in the old city of Tianjin, and the prostitutes in the Tianjin New Area are basically individuals, of course, there are prostitutes from the old city who come to solicit customers. Among the consumer groups, there are not only locals, but also traversers. ”

Xiao Jianjun interjected again: "There are still traversers?"

Xia Bohai said: "What's so strange about this, the traverser is also a human being, and he also has seven emotions and six desires, and most of them are young men, and the vast majority of them are single, of course they also need to solve their own physiological problems, so it is not an accident to find a prostitute to solve it." ”