Chapter 486: The Way Out of Life (1)
Cyrus?? Engineer Smith was about forty years old, and like the prospecting engineers who were really fighting on the front line in this era, he had to carry a lot of equipment and luggage, and he had to work hard in the prospecting area, and his arms and body were very strong. The soldiers were educated www.biquge.info the priests, and the engineers believed in the existence of God, but did not believe in the priests' nonsense. As a major, Cyrus?? Taking advantage of his position, Smith sat in a chair outside the cabin and looked at the pamphlets of the Infantry Manual that everyone had handed out.
For those young soldiers, it means very, very little. For Cyrus?? Engineer Smith, this pamphlet opens up a world, the world of soldiers. Flip through the pages and correspond the contents of the booklet to military training, so that Cyrus?? Smith found it very interesting.
Rubbing the bridge of his nose, Cyrus?? Smith felt that his eyesight was not as good as when he was younger. But he was still very interested in the booklet. Turning to the first page of the inside page, the following printing date is December 1891, that is, half a year ago. Cyrus?? Smith's face became solemn, he originally wanted to explain in such a simple way why the manual on combat technology led to the defeat of the United States, and it can be determined from the date that the collection of this booklet is the experience of the defeat of the United States.
Thinking of the defeat not so long ago, Cyrus?? Smith didn't want to look any further. He stood up and walked to the side of the ship, looking out at the horizon ahead. The war did not burn into Massachusetts, as the people of Massachusetts, Cyrus?? Smith saw an endless stream of refugees fleeing. They tell about the horror of the Chinese army, about the horror of the Chinese army, about the killing of the Chinese army. But when Massachusetts defected to the British, the war came to an abrupt end, as if it had never been ignited.
Realizing that his homeland had once again become part of England, that he was only a Massachusetts and not a people of the United States of America. Cyrus?? Smith's patriotism exploded. He said goodbye to his family, and he and a group of like-minded fellow citizens set out on the road to the southern United States of America.
After arriving in Cuba, Cyrus?? Smith does not see a tragic America facing the end of the world, but a new America. At a time when the situation was beginning to enter an uncertain phase, former President Garfield and Secretary of War Lincoln Jr. sent some selected talents to Cuba. These people did not feel sorry for themselves, nor did they lose all hopes, and they began to work hard for the survival of the United States.
Although the United States is hating and scolding the Chinese, the US government in Cuba has abandoned the American tradition and almost completely copied China's policy. Federalism was abolished, and the states were merely named. The original federal government was elected by the states, but now the states are only administrative units, and the governors of the states are not elected, but appointed by the central government. The various administrative departments are either subordinate units of the central ministries or commissions. In short, the original America is gone, and a new America is born.
The United States seized Cuba with great ease, and a narrow strait could not stop the fleet from departing from the North American continent. In order for the United States to survive, the United States must have more room for depth. Cyrus?? Engineer Smith is one of those top performers. Thinking of the mission he and these soldiers shouldered, Cyrus?? Engineer Smith felt as heavy as a stone weighing down on his heart, and he felt as if there was a fire burning in his heart. As a technician, as a forty-year-old man, Cyrus?? Smith was not a front-line commander, and his major was an assessment of his technical abilities. There is no coal and iron on the island of Cuba, only sugar cane days. Eating more sugar can quench hunger pangs and prevent people from starving to death. But there is no way to survive in a place like Cuba. Their previous experience of prospecting in the Americas gave them a lot of preliminary information. This information was of great use at this time.
Thinking about the current situation made Cyrus?? Engineer Smith was in a bad mood, and he sat back on his stool and read the pamphlet in his hand, as he had done when he was a young student. Knowledge is power! Even if you get something on paper, you can give birth to a false feeling of power.
The flotilla disembarked on the coast near Maracaibo, Venezuela province, and as soon as they saw the coke ovens, iron-making furnaces, and steel-making furnaces spewing smoke of various different colors, Cyrus?? Smith immediately came to the spirit. This is the America he is familiar with. The United States is supposed to be a powerful country with developed industries, and sugar cane fields have never represented the American spirit.
The unit was received by the local metallurgical bureau of the province of Venezuela, which had previously been the responsibility of private enterprises, but now had to start from scratch during the war, and the new central government of the United States established a system of state-owned enterprises. The Metallurgical Division is responsible for the establishment and operation of metallurgical industries by hand.
The people of the department first took a group of technicians under the officer system to take a boat around the nearby sea area, and when they took the boat, they hurried to explain to the technicians, "We need to build a railway from the mining area to the sea, and strengthen the deep-water port in this area." You are all prospecting experts, so please use your abilities to determine the mineral deposits in this area. ”
Although the officials were polite, the commanding tone was disliked by many American technicians. No one objected, and it was really boring to bother with this ...... at such a time. The people who came here wanted to make the United States survive, not simply live on their own.
After looking at the location and topography of the port, he simply took this group of technicians to visit the iron and steel enterprise. Needless to say, the environment is harsh, because these equipment need to be self-made, so it is far less refined than the equipment in the previous industrial areas of the United States. Cyrus?? Although Smith did not like the attitude of the metallurgical officials, he thought that their faces as if everyone owed them twenty-five or eighty-eighty thousand were annoying. But these real factories and equipment were created by these officials, and the hard work alone is admirable.
The situation was presented. Officials from the metallurgical department sent people to escort the technicians to the mine. At this time, there was already a simple railway that began to be laid, Cyrus?? Engineer Smith: They took a small train first. Halfway through, he saw a black man working on the side of the road. If you look closely, you can see that the black men are all shackled, and the overseer next to them is carrying whips, and when he sees anyone who does not work hard, he goes up and whips them.
After passing through several places of labor, Cyrus?? Engineer Smith was upset when he saw the shackled blacks doing the heavy labor. He is in his forties, and he is not a little doll who doesn't understand anything. Behind such large-scale labor there must be a powerful organization, which is clearly consciously forcing black labor. Northerners supported abolition during the Civil War, arguing that slavery was a sin in itself. Cyrus?? Smith is one of them.
The railroad from the port to the mine has already begun, but it is far from the time to build it. Many cattle carts travel between the mine and the parts that have been repaired. When they arrived at the coal mine, officials from the local coal bureau greeted the group. Although the departments are different, the unhappiness of being forced out in a difficult environment is the same.
The official was not polite, and when he came up, he took out the current completion of the mine, and said to Cyrus with an unwelcome expression?? Engineer Smith and others gave a presentation. The next step is to assign tasks and then disband.
Cyrus?? Smith didn't want to blame the officials for not showing the attitude of a corporal courteous and being able to endure and make progress in such a difficult environment, which in itself was remarkable.
The technicians are going to familiarize themselves with the situation, wait for Cyrus?? Engineer Smith was stunned when he walked up to the mine's main pit. Heavily armed U.S. servicemen patrol the edge of the pit. Walking up the slope to the top of the slope offers a panoramic view of the open-pit coal mine excavation area.
Open-pit coal mines do not use a tunnel model, and after digging a piece of ground, miners dig up the coal in it and send it to a conveyor belt. In Cyrus?? Smith saw black men in shackles working in the mines. On the highest edge there is the Mine Guard, and a number of watchtowers have been built in the centre of the lower lying mines, on which there are also Mine Guards. In addition to these forces that carry out surveillance and repression in critical situations, there are also white men who patrol the miners with leather whips.
For every black miner who delivered a basket of coal, someone gave them a sign that was fastened to their tattered clothes, a Cyrus?? Engineer Smith's knowledge of the mining industry, a counting tool used to determine how much the gang was paid for their work. But the shackles were all used, and I probably didn't have to expect any normal treatment from these blacks.
Cyrus?? Engineer Smith didn't look at it for too long before he couldn't take it anymore, and he turned around and left. During a recent visit to the steel mill, Cyrus?? Smith remembers that there were steel mills that were mass-producing iron chains. The use of chains is very wide, Cyrus?? Smith didn't pay much attention either. In retrospect, the chains and the shackles of black slaves were the same standard. Slavery, which had been eradicated in the United States, not only did not come back to life, but it also entered a bloodier and more brutal height. Agricultural labor intensity is relatively low, and even for very harsh masters, slaves can live for years. Industrial production intensity is high, and there are many injuries and diseases. In the industrial chain, everything is just a screw. When characterized as a consumable, that consumption rate is even more staggering.
It took a long time for Cyrus?? Engineer Smith's emotions calmed down. Because of the considerable expertise, Cyrus?? Smith thinks he can understand why the U.S. government is doing this. Just getting things done to this point, Cyrus?? Engineer Smith felt that he really couldn't accept it.