Xiao Baitu held a letter written by Peng Zhicheng in his hand, read it upside down twice, and then put it away and stuffed it into the box. Originally, he was going to report to South Africa soon, but at the moment, he was being blockaded by the British, and without the escort of warships, the risk of going to sea was still very great. Therefore, he and Leonid were stranded in the port of Vostok.

The letter in his hand was written by Peng Zhicheng to Mo Ming, and the gist of the letter was nothing more than to let Mo Ming use the power in his hands to properly settle the two guys who had caused a big disaster. In fact, he doesn't have to do this, Mo Ming and Xiao Baitu are both "comrades" of the National Power Alliance in private, Xiao Baitu made an accident and went to South Africa, how could Mo Ming not help him.

At present, the Hezhong Fort side of South Africa is not very peaceful, and when the time comes, Mo Ming will directly recruit the two of them into the army with a conscription order, and make a little contribution in the battle of bullying Hei Shu Huang, and then find Peng Zhicheng to find a way to dredge up the relationship, and the official will be properly reinstated in the blink of an eye.

After the Executive Committee meeting established a general policy of dealing with the British, Besven had no choice but to secretly return to San Vicente that day to participate in the lengthy and protracted negotiations with the British.

Fortunately, he walked quickly, according to the grapevine, Bai Siwen wandered outside the official residence in the city that night, and the people who spread the news said that these people were carrying snowy sabers around their waists, and they were not good at first glance, and some of them lingered until late at night before leaving. Moreover, the glass of his house was also broken for no reason that night, and by the time the guards went out to check, the perpetrator had already fled.

The military, police, and special personnel who usually spread around the official residence were even more collectively "derelict in their duties" that night, and when they came up to investigate, they did not know anything, and the matter could only be stopped at the very least.

After the policy is established. The whole country is running at a rapid pace with an efficient organizational system. The Executive Committee and the Government Council consider the worst-case scenario. It was decided to count the materials and accounts of the localities. Then it was planned by the central government to prepare for a long war with the British.

In order to complete the inventory of the accounts and materials of various localities, and at the same time to do a thorough investigation of the localities, the Administrative Affairs Yuan dispatched a large number of people from various central ministries and commissions to various localities to check the local treasury, and at the same time, by the way, did a good job of ideological mobilization for the local cadres and ordinary people.

As the second county-level administrative unit in the country and the largest industrial base in China, Ping'an County (which has jurisdiction over Ping'an Town and Coal River Township) in the Yazihu area, it is naturally the focus of the central government's inventory.

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"Brother due. I haven't seen you for more than a year, so don't come unharmed. Chen Tingmei stood on the dock, waving to her old friend, and said with a big smile.

"Brother Zizhen, seeing that you are radiant and bearing, you must have gained a lot from being an official in the center this year." Xu Wenxuan was wearing a popular tweed coat, and the structured fabric was not ordinary at first glance. In fact, it was not only him, but even the two Guarani retinue behind him were wearing a good cotton tunic. The products of his oil mill have now been sold in Ping'an Town and Coal River Township. The daily income is gold, and the cost of some clothing is not in his eyes.

"It's not as good as Brother Ying, you are comfortable here. The foolish brother is a sesame petty official in the ministry. There are too many mothers-in-law in charge of affairs, and their thoughts are not very clear. Knowing this, the foolish brother should have made a decision early when there was a vacancy in Zhenhai Township. Alas, don't mention it, it's all old. Chen Tingmei sighed again and again after seeing Xu Wenxuan, feeling quite regretful.

"Don't pretend in front of your little brother." Xu Wenxuan smiled and grabbed Chen Tingmei's arm, and said: "My brother's benefactor, Commissioner Xiao, is a famous tumbler in the dynasty, and everything follows Chairman Ma closely. My brother is with the right person, are you afraid that there will be no benefit in the future? Ha Lu Ha, Hugh has to be pretentious. ”

"You're still so temperamental." Chen Tingmei smiled bitterly twice, then waved her hand and said, "Brother Fool's trip is not here to play, it is really a heavy responsibility. This time, we were all sent out to inspect the local people's situation and the county and township government treasury, and to register them. Important materials are transported to the county-level government treasury for unified storage and storage, so that the central government can coordinate and dispatch. By the way, some of the money that has not yet been released in the local government must also be recovered. ”

"I see." Xu Wenxuan thought thoughtfully, "It seems that the battle with Yingyi will be difficult to end in the short term. The central government introduced a tax system a few days ago, and the tax was very urgent, I am afraid that it is because the treasury is not enough. This inventory of money, food and materials is also the proper meaning. Ping'an County has not been established for a long time, and the county treasury is a house, but each has its own account. A few years ago, the market was quite prosperous, and there is still a lot of money and grain left in the county treasury, which is not enough for the county. ”

"Clerk Chen, everyone is here, let's go." Pei Ning, who was wearing a black tunic uniform, walked over and said. Tall and sturdy, he was originally a student of biologist Meng Hu, and after returning from an expedition to the Yihe area, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture as an errand boy. Because this person is rooted and has three positive views (close to the values of the traversal), he was quickly promoted to a small head in charge. This time, the central government dispatched a large number of ministry and commission staff to various places to count materials and accounts, and he took the lead all the way to Ping'an Town.

He can be regarded as an indigenous cadre of this time and space who is strongly supported by the Travelers, and he himself agrees with the Travelers. The pronunciation of a mouthful of Chinese is not as weird as other people, but the words are correct and round, and it can be seen that it has worked hard. He even changed his name Pesonin to Pei Ning, which shows his ambition.

Chen Tingmei hurriedly said goodbye to Xu Wenxuan, and then walked out along the port road at the wharf with several colleagues, preparing to go to the rural areas outside the city.

The road surface of the wharf road is extremely smooth, and it is also covered with a strange black substance. Listening to the small talk of several colleagues next to her, Chen Tingmei realized that this is a substance called asphalt, which seems to be a by-product of the separation of coal tar from a local coking plant.

Chen Tingmei still knows something about the coking plant, which is a factory that produces coke. It's just that I don't know whether it's a design reason or something else, this factory has not been able to produce normally for more than half a year, and it always breaks down at two ends in three days. However, the central leaders are still extremely concerned about him and have repeatedly asked questions, so Chen Tingmei, a small staff member of the Ministry of Communications, felt like thunder when he heard the three words of the coking plant.

After crossing the highway of several hundred meters of Shugang, the group entered the agricultural concentrated reclamation area in the north of Ping'anbao. There are about 200 households and more than 5,000 acres of farmland in the reclamation area, which are divided into five production teams and scattered in an area of several kilometers.

The captains of the five production teams and the director of the militia had already received the notice and were already waiting outside the north gate of Ping'an Fort at this time. Pei Ning simply assigned, and then went their separate ways.

Chen Tingmei was assigned to a village known to the villagers as Orange Tree Village. The village's name in Ping'an County government documents is called "Chengbei Reclamation Area No. 5 Production Team", and it was named after a small Guarani village that first settled here and planted orange trees on a large scale under the guidance of Spanish missionaries. When the Ming settlers arrived, the Guarani village was destroyed, and most of its inhabitants were forcibly relocated to the hinterland of the southern country. The newcomers loved the fruit trees from their hometown, so the name of the village was retained, and orange picking is now a good source of income for the villagers.

The village chief and the militia chief were both immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, one from Taizhou and the other from Haimen, both of whom were given by Liu Xiang and came to the New World of South America thousands of miles away after crossing many waves. Chen Tingmei looked at the two of them carefully, perhaps because of their good nutrition in the past few years, both of them looked very good. In particular, the militia director was ruddy-faced, strong, and full of energy when he spoke.

The village chief next to him coughed embarrassedly a few times, but he still didn't react at all, and he still bragged to Chen Tingmei with spittle.

"I said Clerk Chen, I heard that you are from the central government, and you are relatively well-informed, you come to tell me, what is the matter with our court and those English?" The militia chief asked in a loud voice, "The armed forces minister of the county has sent people to mobilize several times, and two young men from our village have joined the army, and this time they also went to sea." We don't know anything here, and there are no people around us who understand, and the preaching team only comes once a month, and I don't know what happened to the front line of the road and when the children will come back. Some time ago, those Portuguese merchants on the north side of the mountain came to the village and said that our fleet had sunk Yingyi at the mouth of that river. Damn, Lao Tzu was angry and drove him away at that time. I think that Lao Tzu also followed the navy out of Lu to rob the ship of Yingyi transporting tobacco, and I didn't see them with three heads and six arms. It's just that...... It's just that a lot of people say that, and I'm always a little worried in my heart, Clerk Chen, can you tell me what's going on? Damn, I just don't believe our fleet is gone! ”

Can I say that I don't know the way either? Chen Tingmei said quietly in her heart.

Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him who gradually became excited, Chen Tingmei was suddenly a little moved, although this simple country man had retired, he still wore the military hat on his head when he was in the army, the military hat could be seen to be often clean, and the brass five-pointed star on the brim of the hat looked shining in the afternoon sun.

Perhaps, it is not only those high-ranking officials in the ministry who hold up the backbone of this country, but also thousands of ordinary cloth clothes who care about state affairs like the militia director in front of them. They are more simple and persistent than those who are deceitful officials, and they may have no less affection for this country than anyone else.

They are the foundation of this country. (To be continued......)