Representatives like Fu Fuji 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 visitors here, no matter what kind of people they were, they were deeply impressed by the safety, cleanliness and convenience of life in the area under the control of the group. For many people, the county seat is the most prosperous place they have ever been, but the prosperity of Dongmen City is completely on another level, even those who have been far away, to Guangzhou, the first commercial port in South China, can also see that the level of Dongmen City in the details far surpasses that of Guangzhou.

Although each delegate received a meal ticket, their entourage was not provided with food, and many delegates also wanted to taste the food of the people, especially the scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the Shangguan restaurant, which tasted sweet and sour, appetizing and delicious. There are also green tender pods - called snow peas, according to the guys, which are sweet and tender when fried. Vegetables like flowers, some white and some green, white hard and crispy, green and soft, each has its own flavor and taste.

The chefs of the merchant hall and restaurant were selected from several chefs who had worked for the Gou family. Although the cooking habits and techniques of the Ming Dynasty were not quite the same as those of modern times, professionals were professionals, and after the training of several "gourmets", they soon became much better than the guest chefs in the canteen. As soon as the merchant restaurant opened, they were hired. The county-wide convention is a good opportunity to advertise restaurants.

Some gentry who talked about enjoyment simply gave all the meal tickets to their entourage to eat, and they threw away the silver in the restaurant. The sales of scrambled eggs with tomatoes have skyrocketed, so much so that the eggs in the canteen have become nervous for a while, and the scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the canteen have turned into tomato egg drop soup, and everyone has a lot of opinions about this.

Wu Nanhai had no opinion, and it was his idea to supply all kinds of new varieties of vegetables to the conference delegates. Compared with the higher-yielding grain crops, the peasants in the past had little incentive to grow new varieties of vegetables -- anyway, they could eat greens and cabbage, and they could not afford to serve one more kind of vegetables, and the vegetables with a wide variety of colors were in demand for the idle class, and in order to let the peasants grow, they had to first impress the stomachs of the rich and idle classes. Let them generate demand.

The conference team intends to let this group of delegates. Eat, drink, and play in Dongmen City, so that they can fully experience the bluer sky, greener water, and better food in the traverser-ruled area. This is the beginning of the plenary session.

The county-wide regimental training joint defense conference, or as later. The first Lingao Political Consultative Industry Association meeting was finally held on February 2, the day when the dragon raised its head.

Early in the morning, there is a special reception staff. When I came to the hotel, I was responsible for welcoming the delegates into the city -- the venue of the meeting was the Lou Tian Cinema in Bairen City, which was quite well equipped, especially the PA equipment had been installed, and it was very convenient to hold meetings.

The delegates all changed into their most haode clothes and came out to take a look and take charge. The reception staff were all boys and girls, the boys were dressed in almost black navy blue short coats, with two open pockets, a standing collar, and the clothes were neither left nor right, but a middle placket, a row of straight black round wooden buttons, and the neckline was tightly buttoned. With short hair, it looks neat and neat. The girls wore a similar navy blue blouse, with a pullover style, a handkerchief-like lining on the back shoulder, and a long blue pleated skirt underneath. It's simple and beautiful. It was only that their hair was a little shivering—it was evident that they had not been shaved for a long time, and that their hair was only a short stubble.

The reception staff are all students of Lingao National School, and these are the earliest from . The children bought in Guangzhou have received more than two months of education, learned culture, and have been brainwashed repeatedly. Letting them come to the reception is tantamount to exercising their ability to deal with people and things -- after all, they will be the main source of cadres who will cross the regime in the future.

Originally, Xiao Zishan considered the problem of male and female defense, and wanted to send only men. was born, and was later troubled by Du Wen, saying that this was discrimination against women, and Yu Eshui also said that the so-called male and female defense has never been talked about in the countryside, especially in the rural areas of the south. Women are the main force of agricultural production, so it is not uncommon for ordinary country women to never bind their feet, and it is common for them to throw their heads and face down. There were women in the receptionist, and the most they thought was that they were maids bought by the shorthairers.

"Please wear you well. Representative's card, xiexie. Li Yuanyuan held an electric horn, held a small pennant in his hand, and kept shouting, like a tour guide, "Everyone pay attention to order, don't cha team at will." Attendants are not allowed to enter the venue, so leave them in the market, and we have someone in charge of hospitality. ”

The purpose of letting Li Yuanyuan play this role is to make the delegates aware of the status of women among the people and to be mentally prepared for some future measures to improve women's rights and interests. Although there are no feminists in the executive committee except for Du Wen, and they are not interested in protecting women's rights and interests, in this time and space, the liberation of women is the liberation of productive forces, and everyone still understands this truth.

The delegates gathered together according to each city and map, each map sent several students to lead the way, and a student at the beginning also held a small flag, which was written with the words of Lingao X Du X map, in order to take care of the illiterate representatives, the small flag was also painted with different animal and plant patterns for them to identify.

After each line, the students led the way into the city. Although Dongmen City is very lively every day, and there are many natives who come and go back and forth on the road, the interior of Bairen City has always been heavily guarded, although the earthen fortress is not high, but there are many guard towers and forts above, and there are many barbed wire fences, and the outer trenches are several meters deep, even the police and soldiers of the New Army who have crossed the regime's own training rarely have the opportunity to enter the forbidden area of this forbidden area. There are many legends in the prefecture about what it looks like inside, some say that it is the same as the fairyland, and some say that it is the same as the hell of Abi, so the delegates have a strong curiosity about the interior of Bairen Castle. Now that we have the opportunity to witness it, we all have a sense of impatience.

When I entered the city, I saw that it was different from the outside, and the streets were paved with bricks and stones like the East Gate Market, with trees planted on both sides, and there were wooden poles painted black one by one on the side of the road, and there was a white hat-like thing on it, and under the hat was a glass ball, I don't know what it was for. The houses here are different from the outside, the outside is either red bricks or blue bricks, but the inside is all blue and white houses, boxy and very regular. The delegates suddenly discovered that the walls and roofs of these houses were made of iron!

This discovery was a sensation, although iron is not a valuable object, it is definitely a rarity in Lingao. The ironwork here is completely imported from the Kao mainland, and only a blacksmith in the county town can repair farm tools and make some daily ironware, and slightly larger things, such as farm tools, can't 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 in awe.

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

It was not white window paper, nor mica sheets for the wealthy, but large chunks of glass, shiningly arranged on the houses, reflecting the rising winter sun, and the crowd of representatives let out a low, but extremely surprised sigh.

Huang Yukun followed the team inside, and couldn't help but be secretly convinced - no wonder the whole county gathered by his father and Mrs. Wu couldn't break through this village, and the amount of iron in it alone was enough to scare people to death. Huang Yukun did not participate in the attack on Bairen Dazhai at that time, and his father Huang Shoutong was silent about the scene of the war after he returned, but he still knew from the mouths of the villagers who came back from nine deaths that the other party's firearms were extremely sharp, and they couldn't even beat them in the face. In the past, he still felt that the villagers were exaggerating, but now it seems that he still underestimated this group of "thieves".

Thinking that he and his eldest brother originally advocated ignoring the matter of the meeting-the third brother's revenge is not revenge, and he still wants to flatter them? Thinking of the third brother who was killed by the thief, Huang Yukun's heart was still resentful, but his father insisted that he go, it seems that it is his father who knows the strength of the "thief" best.

Now there is only a virtual snake to entrust it, take the opportunity to inquire about the truth of the thieves, and wait for the imperial court soldiers to come to exterminate it one day, and then take revenge.

With this in mind, he looked more attentively than anyone else. Seeing that the houses in this city seem to be a pile in the east and west, but if you look carefully, the layout of the houses has a certain order, and there are few independent houses, all of which are arranged in groups, and the gaps between the houses are either closed with bricks and stones, or a fence and iron mesh wall unique to thieves are built on the periphery of the group. The four corners are guarded by tall bosses, and there is only one entrance and exit for each group, and there is a small but strong guard tower at the door, which can be regarded as heavily guarded. There are roads connecting the groups with each other, and all kinds of lookouts and turrets are scattered in height, not to mention the use of firearms, even bows and arrows can be blocked very tightly.

Although Huang Yukun is a talent, he has his father's actual combat experience in influencing the bandits on weekdays, and he has a good understanding of military affairs. With such a tight guard by the thieves, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers will not be able to penetrate without five or six thousand people and Hongyi artillery. Huang Yukun's mood was a lot lower.

Huang Shoutong's instructions to this son are very simple, now the whole county has no strength to fight against them, and hard resistance will definitely not lead to good results.

"The thieves are playing a game of chess." Huang Shoutong said at the right time when he was teaching before he left, "I can't see how big the chess game is. But they were like a national hand layout, and they forced up one by one. Our little Huangjiazhai can't resist them, and the only way is to 'drag'!

"The thief is now Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it, but the gentry still have the idea of 'using thieves to control thieves' in their hearts," Huang Shoutong said, "The thieves have entered the county, and naturally they cannot allow other thieves to intrude, so they will inevitably go all out to exterminate the bandits and resist the pirates. ”

"The general trend is the same, and we can't go against the trend, but fortunately, there are two or three hundred villages in this county, and there are at least three hundred people who go to the meeting. Sending food and sending errands involves a lot of melons and vines, even those who are officials find it tricky, not to mention a few of their overseas thieves? As long as you mention the big family in the small and small places, some people will naturally come forward to disagree. The more things are discussed, the more complicated they are. ”

Huang Yukun thought that his father's word "drag" was naturally not bad, but if he really wanted to do it, how should he start it? He groaned, and suddenly came from behind the second sedan chair, one was an official sedan chair, the sedan window was raised, and Wu Ya, the county seated inside, couldn't see who it was, but he estimated that it should be Mrs. Wu's master Wang Zhaomin.

Even the main figures in these two county yali are here, and the face of this thief is really not small. However, he felt more and more pressured, and the county government sent someone to show that Mrs. Wu had reached some kind of agreement with the thieves, not only acquiescing, but even possibly supporting the thieves' actions.

This group of officials and masters has more than enough success and more failure. Huang Yukun thought disappointedly. It was probably bought off for the thief with silver. Anyway, they will leave after serving a term, and they will only leave endless troubles for the local government.

When they came to the shell-shaped stepped movie theater, the delegates thought it was a novelty, but they quickly sat down according to the direction of the male and female students. On the table was some strange shiny thing, and a long black leather rope was dragging on it. One of the shorthairs walked up and put his mouth on it, and suddenly, a loud and cacophony of "hey" resounded throughout the room, startling everyone.

This was the beginning of the first consultation of the Association of Industries. The Executive Committee had been preparing for several weeks in preparation for this meeting. Of course, the so-called consultation industry association meeting itself is not about "consultation", but about informing. The local villages were to initially accept the rule of the regime.

Adhering to the guiding idea of boiling frogs in warm water, the goal of the first step of crossing the crowd is very simple: that is, to send food to each village. The Traveler is not a fortune boy who can pour silver into the land endlessly, which only creates inflation, and the Traveler now lacks the light industrial products that can return money.

The products of light industry require a complete industrial system, which cannot be completed by kao through themselves and the 2,000 natives who are dependent on them, and they must obtain a wider range of labor support from the local area, so that the most desirable members of the population can be liberated from the simplest labor-intensive industries such as logging, quarrying, and brick burning, and trained to become the first generation of industrial workers in Lingao.

In order to ensure the security of the currency and support the growing industrial population, it is necessary to reserve more food, and peaceful means such as KAO purchase alone cannot effectively guarantee food security. This is one.

Second, it is only through disguised taxation such as the distribution of grain that the villages of the natural economy can experience the change of rulers. At the same time, they also saw the superiority of the traversal regime over the traditional government in the use of taxes.