After the announcement of the social security preparation plan of the Republic of China, it was immediately transmitted to Europe at the highest speed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As usual, the Times was the first to report the official adoption of the National Catch-up Plan of the Republic of China, and published the main contents of the plan together.

The insurance developed by German Prime Minister Bismarck has had a great impact in Europe, but it is mainly based on insurance. Although pensions are becoming more and more extensive, Bismarck's pension age is set after the age of 70. For the life expectancy of humans in 1890, most people had no hope of receiving a pension.

At present, China's plan clearly divides the three clear concepts of 'social security', 'social insurance' and 'social welfare'. The Times praised this, and lamented, 'We are too rough in the management of society in Britain, and we only know how to grasp the beard and eyebrows. ’

The reaction in France was similarly fierce, with newspapers scolding the most vicious Chinese in accordance with the habit of the past year or so, and then commenting, 'Using food stamps to operate the social security system, although there will be many problems, such as someone will inevitably sell food stamps.' But the use of food stamps minimizes the tragedy of Valjean. ’

The German newspapers were silent for the first two days, and after all countries made a lot of comments about China's security system, the German newspapers said sourly, 'China only knows how to copy Europe.' Whether it's culture or system, what we see is plagiarism. This time, the social security system in China is still copied from Germany's system. It's so hard to expect them to come up with something.'"

Of course, the diplomats of the Republic of China in various European countries will not make any comments on this, and arguing with these foreign devils about the merits of the policy will not arouse the interest of the diplomats at all, because the diplomats of the Republic of China believe that the policy of the Republic of China is absolutely superior to that of the Europeans. For example, now the Republic of China saw that it was going to monopolize North America to achieve the result of falling food prices, and the Europeans began to enjoy higher food prices every day because of the North American war. As a direct result of rising food prices, more and more large East African (ENAD) flagged cargo ships are arriving at European ports, carrying either alfalfa or beef.

Wei Kun, the secretary of the three counties of Sudan in the East African Administrative Region, clearly felt that business had been much better recently, and ships from Europe had come to Sudan to buy local alfalfa and corned beef. Port Sudan has a very dry climate, and when cattle are slaughtered and salted, they quickly make a good corned beef. Port Sudan is not short of salt.

Some Italians were sitting in the conference room, giving presentations to their new employers. It can be seen that these Italians are very unaccustomed to listening to many officials speak together, so they can't help but talk in a hurry. Wei Kun personally felt that these guys were very unaccustomed to being forced to confide in their technical know-how. Italy is also an ancient civilization, and like China, they also have an attitude of 'ancestral craftsmanship'.

"Look, sir." It can be seen that the Italians don't like to lead the cow to the conference room to explain, and the craftsman who explained frowned, "Here are the traces left by mosquito bites, and the wounds here are suppuated after being bitten by mosquitoes." Here are the marks of a cow accidentally scratched by the bark when it was scratching. And here, here, here....... Well, it's time to take the cow out! ”

When the cow was taken away, the craftsman breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to the two cowhides that had been processed, and said to Wei Kun and the others: "Master, look. The one on the left is a local cow from Sudan, and the one on the right is an Italian cowhide. You can tell the difference. ”

Wei Kun and a group of officials all came over, looked carefully, and sure enough, they saw the problem. Italian cowhide has a smooth surface and few signs of injury. The native cowhide of Sudan is as scarred as the cow, even after careful treatment by craftsmen, it is still very different. Wei Kun and they are well aware of the price gap between good and bad cowhides, and the leather goods made by Italian craftsmen are very famous in Europe and very profitable. And the Sultan's cowhide just can't be sold for a price.

"How to solve this problem?" Wei Kun asked bluntly.

"Sir, in our Italy, most of the cattle used for leather are raised on higher mountains. The temperature there is cooler and there are fewer mosquitoes. As long as there is no shortage of water, take care to bathe the cattle. Cowhide can be of high quality. The craftsman confided in what he knew.

Wei Kun and the others looked at each other, and seeing that everyone agreed with each other, Wei Kun said, "Okay." We're signing up with you. ”

The Italian craftsmen looked surprised, they didn't expect things to come to this point. At first, these people came to Africa to work because it was difficult to find a job in Italy, and they saw the job notice guaranteed by the Italian bank. In the eyes of the average Italian craftsman, Africa is still a wild place. Even the one who rules this wild land is Chinese, and it is said that Chinese is doing very well in growing alfalfa and raising cattle in the Sultan. Italians still think it's still a wild place.

Going to the wilderness to beg for food, the psychological pressure of these Italians was already very great, but they didn't expect that it was actually a group of Chinese officials who were in charge of auditing them. Italians can understand that the immigration officials are in charge, and the technical audit is actually in charge of the officials. In the Italian tradition, it can only be described as unreasonable. What's even more outrageous is that the questions asked by the officials are so sharp that they directly ask about the core technology mastered by these craftsmen. After a lot of psychological struggle, the craftsman told the crux of the problem.

At a time when the craftsmen wondered if the officials could understand these words, they were even more surprised by the results of the contract. In Italy, government-appointed officials are considered bastards, and they have proven to be able to do nothing but be arrogant and exceeding. In the Italian countryside and in the south, 'you are the police, your whole family is the police' is a very vicious swearing. Therefore, the craftsmen felt that there must be a big problem in this kind of contract. The craftsman who had just spoken glanced at the bank staff who had brought them here, and when he saw that the bank staff was not surprised, his heart calmed down a little. Then he said, "Sir, here is a mountain suitable for raising cattle?" ”

Wei Kun replied briskly: "Of course there is no here, but there is a plateau to the south to Ethiopia, and the climate on the plateau is cool, and there should be fewer mosquitoes." Originally, I just knew that there were a lot of people who raised cattle over there, but I only knew that there were a lot of people who raised cattle there for a reason. ”

Listening to Wei Kun's words, the expressions of the craftsmen became very surprised. The ruler of the Sultan must have been a prince in Italy, but he was more of a shrewd and amiable merchant than an official in his manners. Because when ordinary officials encounter something they don't understand or can't grasp, they will always show anger, instead of immediately solving the problem according to the craftsman's opinion. The old man's reaction was no longer an accident, but an anomaly.

"But ......," Wei Kun continued. Hearing the interpreter say these two obviously difficult words, the craftsmen felt a lot more settled in their hearts.

Wei Kun continued: "We can't send all the cattle to the mountains. A large part of the herd must also be raised in the alfalfa areas on both sides of the Nile. Without these cows, we wouldn't be able to fertilize the land with cow dung. And we have not yet built a railway to the Ethiopian highlands, and it is not convenient to transport alfalfa. Someone must stay here and see if the hides of the cattle in the plains will be less injured. Or find a way to improve the texture of the cowhide. ”

After hearing this, the craftsmen no longer knew what to say, and some of them even felt so ridiculous that they wanted to get angry. The dignified local princes, the lords appointed by the government, what kind of people pretend to work? Could it be that such an official will really go to work in person, or at least personally care about the lives of the working people and help them succeed? If you can't do it, what's the point of saying it is like really understanding labor? Let these craftsmen, including the bitter haha, sincerely work for the official master?

So after the contract was signed, Wei Kun asked the craftsmen to go with him to see the place where the cattle were raised, and the craftsmen were reluctant in their hearts. It's just that if you want to or not, you must obey the will of your employer, and now the East African administrative region is the official employer of these craftsmen. The boss in his heart was unhappy, and the craftsmen set off with Wei Kun and the others on the departure day.

After seeing the team, the craftsmen were stupid. I saw a kind of black little things all wearing the same school uniforms, led by the attendants and maids, and they got on the boat in an orderly manner. The craftsmen couldn't help whispering, traveling with their children as attendants, these Chinese masters' methods of arranging music are too unusual.

As a result, at the first site inspected, the dolls did not act as a clear party in front, but followed behind the adults under the guidance of attendants and maids. Not long after, the dolls were taken in a line to the fields and canals to see the rarity.

The craftsmen were stunned, and with what they saw, the dolls were not a pomp and circumstance at all, but were inspected like adults. Could it be that the little things are also where the masters can't be? The artisans were puzzled, but they soon decided that this was impossible, that blacks could only be slaves, a centuries-old habit for Europeans.

There are a lot of mosquitoes on this farm, Wei Kun drives away mosquitoes, and he feels that those craftsmen are at least a group of gangsters. If it was Wei Kun himself, he would not have thought of the problem of mosquitoes causing injuries to the skin of cows. Of course, for the solution to mosquitoes, Wei Kunden had an idea at that time. In China, there is a kind of insect cage, which looks like a funnel upside down on the column. Put some food that mosquitoes like as bait in the column, and the insects fly in along the loopholes, and when they fly out, many insects can't find a small mouth and can't fly out. By killing the insects in several cages every day, it is very effective in destroying the insects. If you don't relax for several years in a row, together with targeted insecticide in the places where mosquitoes breed, you can get a very effective control of the insect population.

I hope that these black brothers can understand a little bit of their relationship with the country by participating in this kind of pest eradication action. Weeser had some expectations for that.

The Italian craftsmen didn't know what Wei Kun was thinking, and after seeing so many mosquitoes, they naturally knew that what they said was right. They also have some suspicions that these Chinese officials in East Africa have really visited these villages, otherwise they would not have any concept of this. Of course, to the surprise of the craftsmen, there are many cattle in the mosquito-ridden African villages. What surprised the artisans even more was the way black Africans processed cow dung.

The smell in many greenhouses is unpleasant, and the two flat vermicocompost beds on the left and right sides of the greenhouse are like a strip of highland built out of the loose soil when planting vegetables, and there are two ridges of land in a greenhouse, which are covered with golden cow dung after fermentation. Chinese officials briefed on the situation. The earthworm eats cow dung and excretes black feces, and there are spots of "freckles" on the golden background of the worm bed, until it occupies the whole "face", which means that it has finished eating. Generally, a worm bed can be eaten for 40 days in summer and 30 days in winter, and the earthworm will migrate to another by itself after eating one worm bed, and the worm bed after eating only needs to be re-covered with "grain". This vermicompost is regularly sprinkled into the field like fertilizer. Every time the ground is turned over, a large amount of it is put into the soil.

The Italian artisans did not expect to see such agricultural treatment in Africa, and they were even more surprised that the huge earthworms that would not continue to give birth when they were old enough to be processed into feed for cattle. Looking at those cows with bad skin, but huge and strong bodies, Italian craftsmen did not dare to guarantee that these earthworms were really useless.

At this moment, the little things that were taken away by the attendants and maids visited the earthworm dung manufacturing factory. First, there was a sound of the little things chirping, and then the attendants and maids took out hand-drawn pictures of earthworms drawn by children and told them about them. Then the Italian craftsman heard the little thing shouting 'earthworm' and shouted it repeatedly. Only then did the craftsman understand that those who were wearing uniforms were not attendants and maids, but school teachers. These little black things are neither boys nor black young masters from nowhere, they are students in the school, wearing school uniforms and following the officials to the local area to learn something.

Looking at the mosquito-ridden villages, at the thatched huts, and at the stupid big cows, Italian artisans believe that this is Africa. But I saw that every black man was wearing clothes that fit well, and there were shoes on his feet. There are also groups of black elementary school students wearing school uniforms, following teachers, looking at pictures and learning to identify the world. Italian artisans also felt that the difference between this place and the Italian village was actually limited.

After visiting several villages, Italian artisans discovered that African villages were not only engaged in cattle farming, earthworm farming, but also large tracts of vegetables were grown on relatively fertile land. There are broadleaf vegetables, as well as tomatoes, which are very popular vegetables in Italy. There are also vegetables that Italians have never seen before. These dishes are available for lunch and evening meals, and they are not the European style of cooking, but the Chinese way of cooking, and they taste quite good.

By the time we returned to Khartoum, it was already night, and the street lights were on. The climate in Khartoum at the end of December is very pleasant, the wind on the white Nile is pleasant, and the road along the river is full of people, watching their steps, they are calm. These make the craftsmen feel like they are back in Italy. It's just that in the city, Khartoum is not bad.

In the end, four craftsmen decided to go to the region on both sides of the Nile to participate in research to improve the quality of the hides, and Wei Kun was pleased with the choice. What made him even more satisfied was his decision to hire Europeans, East Africa was too far away for China, so far away that people did not refuse to use products from East Africa, but they did not think of coming to East Africa at all. However, if we want to improve the strength of East Africa, we need a lot of human resources. It will take at least ten years for the boys and girls who are waiting for the black brothers of Africa to pay tribute to be able to educate them to be usable. During this window period, the only human resources he could use were Europeans.

Wei Kun felt that he was lucky, East Africa had just cleaned a large circle, and Wang Mingshan was very supportive of Wei Kun's views because of the festival in East Africa, so Wei Kun was able to calmly implement his plan. If before, Wei Kun wanted to use the labor force of Europe, then he didn't even think about it. Moreover, Wang Mingshan's girlfriend is in the banking industry, and she mobilized the power of the bank to recruit talents, and Wei Kun can save a lot of effort.

Before Wei Kun could be complacent, a communications officer sent a telegram. Holding back the burnout caused by exhaustion to take the telegram, Wei Kun read it, there were still people who sent the telegram in the middle of the night, and they would never learn trivial things.

Sure enough, the telegram was sent by Wang Mingshan, the envoy and party secretary of East Africa, who told Wei Kun that the war in southern Africa was now very fierce, and the East African administrative region had received a request from the Madagascar Military Region to send 30,000 black soldiers to participate in the war between the Zulus and the British. Wang Mingshan asked Wei Kun, can the Sultan send so many troops to participate in the war?

Wei Kun's first reaction was to refuse immediately, the three counties of Sudan had about 25,000 black troops at this time, and about 5,000 Japanese, a total of 30,000. But it was impossible for these men to drive to southern Africa to fight.

The local blacks had no concept of a state at all, and it was okay for them to fight near their hometowns. But to go to a distant place where they could not even think of fighting, there is no need to count on their combat effectiveness at all. The Japanese were not so much an army as a Chinese householder and tenant farmer. It was too difficult for them to expect the black brothers to master the complex planting techniques, so now the Chinese teach Japanese employees agricultural techniques, and Japanese employees are stationed in various villages to let the black brothers see more advanced production techniques in a model of passing on the gang, and so that the black brothers who want to increase the level of productivity can find objects to learn.

But Wei Kun's heart softened next, he knew that the black brothers who could fight now had reached the front line in southern Africa. If you want to collect black brothers who can fight, Wei Kun still has a little bit on hand. Wang Mingshan is probably under a lot of pressure right now.

But in the end, Wei Kun decided not to help. He asked the communications staff to write down his call, "The Sultan has only enough troops to protect himself, and there are no personnel who can be sent." ”

Wei Kun didn't expect that Wang Mingshan was not angry at all after receiving the telegram, let alone depressed. The East African envoy only ordered this telegram to be forwarded to the Madagascar Military Region, and then Wang Mingshan left the matter behind. If you can't do it, you can't do it, Wang Mingshan is very pursuing his own progress, so he doesn't force himself to do what he can't do.