Xu Wenxuan boarded a shallow inland water transport ship that was carrying supplies to the Ping'an Coal Mine. With a carrying capacity of 60 tons, this ship is a shallow-water transport ship for inland rivers in the Republic of China on the east coast of China that was finalized and produced by the Dayuhe Naval Shipyard. The 18-ton inland river flat-bottomed vessel No. 331-336, which was originally used between Ping'an Coal Mine and Ping'an Fort, proved to be too small to be used for transportation, and has now been removed from the cargo task and replaced with passenger transportation.

It is not the first time that Xu Wenxuan has taken a transport ship to Ping'an Coal Mine. Previously, he had handled every matter assigned by Qian Hao in his position as an administrative assistant at Ping'an Fort, and his relationship with several colleagues was quite good, so Qian Hao sent him to the coal mining area several times to deal with some disputes between local miners and Guarani. Each time, he went to take a ship carrying supplies to attend to his business, and then returned on a ship carrying coal.

After an initial honeymoon period with the East Bank Republic, the Guaraní began to experience frequent frictions. Especially after the death of Elder Ayacho of the tribe, the contradictions between the two sides began to become more and more acute.

The Tatar miners accuse the Guaraní of stealing refined coal from the mines with increasing indiscretion, and the loss of many tools such as shovels has been shown to be related to the Guaraní, and they accuse the Guaraní of selling them grain, fruit, and meat in constant price and in smaller portions. The Guaraní, on the other hand, accused the people of the East Coast of digging coal on their land and not sharing the proceeds with them. In addition, the sewage from the coal washing plant is discharged into the coal river after simple treatment, causing a lot of pollution to the river water.

These situations were reported to the Ping'an Fort several times by the coal mine Changbai Shui and the director of the coal washing plant, and Qian Hao also sent people to deal with them several times, but each time they were treated with headaches and foot pains, and the Guaraní people were mainly appeased. Elder Ayacho was fine when he was alive, and both sides were restrained. However, since the death of the old Elder Ayacho, the contradictions between the two sides have gradually intensified, and the effect of pacification has become less and less satisfactory.

In this regard, Qian Hao also scratched his head. In the past, the upper echelons of the central government have not had a clear policy on indigenous people, which is mainly due to the differences in attitudes among the members of the Executive Committee. Qian Hao tried to let Baishui forcefully suppress the troublemakers and troublemakers several times, but he was always afraid of violating the "political correctness" of the indigenous policy, so he couldn't make up his mind for a long time, and he got into trouble every time.

However, the attack of the Charuya people in Xiayihe Fort a while ago, and the introduction of the "Land and Resources Law", which deprived the indigenous people of the legal right to occupy land, reminded by Xu Wenxuan, Qian Hao finally felt the change in the direction of the central policy. Since then, under his instructions, the attitude of the coal mine towards the Guaraní has become more and more tough, and the contradictions between the two sides have become fierce.

Finally, just yesterday, the contradictions between the two sides reached a climax. Anda XV, who succeeded Avani as deputy chief of the coal mine police station, caught several Guaraní people stealing tools during a night patrol. These Guarani often steal tools and cross the mountains north to sell them to the Mameluko people there, resulting in the loss of tools from the coal mine twice in three days, so the police station organized a night patrol to catch the thieves.

In the course of this arrest, a Guaraní resisted with a knife, resulting in the injury of a policeman, and in a fit of rage, Anda 15 cut off the Guaraní's head with a knife, beat the rest of them violently, and then imprisoned them, refusing to release them. The incident ignited a long-standing anger between the two sides, and hundreds of Guaraní besieged the mine and washing plant, bringing production to a complete halt.

Xu Wenxuan was urgently sent to the coal mine by Qian Hao to deal with the dispute this time. A new batch of Ming immigrants from the Portuguese had arrived at the port of Orient a few days earlier, and the Executive Committee and the Government Council planned to disperse the new immigrants to Ping'an Fort and the coal mine, as reserve employees for a series of factories to be built in the future, such as textile mills, iron and steel mills, machinery factories, arsenals, brick kiln factories, cement factories, lime factories, and honeycomb coal factories.

At this time, if the problem of the Guarani people is not completely solved, I am afraid that many unforeseen vicious incidents will occur after the new immigrants pass. According to Qian Hao's original words, "the death of a Ming Dynasty immigrant is equivalent to losing more than 400 taels of silver, which is enough for all 66 guns of the battleship '10 August' to fire a dozen rounds of salvos." Therefore, he must completely solve the hidden dangers of these long-delayed Guarani people before the vicious incident occurs.

The southeast wind of the fourth and fifth magnitudes blew the sails of the transport, causing the transporter to split the water and sail forward at a speed of four knots. The clear water of the river is blown by the southeast wind, and from time to time a fish jumps out of the water, and a large otter tilts its head on the bank of the river to watch the boats passing by quickly.

"What a wild but fertile land." Xu Wenxuan sighed slightly, this place is much stronger than the Chidi Qianli of the Ming Dynasty. In the right channel, an 18-ton transport ship that doubles as a passenger ship hears the sound of a child's voice.

Xu Wenxuan smiled, most of these children were the children of the Tatars in the coal mining area. The parents of these children, under the repeated orders of the Ministry of Education and Ping'anbao, finally sent their school-age children to Ping'anbao Primary School. These more than 30 Tatar children, together with more than 40 Ming Dynasty immigrant children from Ping'an Fort, constitute the main body of students from the first to the fifth grade of Ping'an Fort Complete Primary School.

In contrast, only a handful of seven or eight Guaraní children were sent to Ping'an Fort Primary School, and without exception, the families of these seven or eight Guarani children were severely discriminated against and isolated in their tribes. In desperation, these Guaraní families left the tribe with the help of the people from the east coast and dragged their families to Ping'an Fort to beg for a living. Xu Wenxuan hired such a family of Guarani in a newly opened oil mill in the city of Ping'anbao.

Ping'anbao Primary School is a boarding primary school, which implements compulsory education, and all students' accommodation, clothing, and textbook expenses are uniformly covered by the Ministry of Education. In addition, if each family has a child in school, the parents receive a certain amount of allowance from the Ministry of Education each year to compensate for the loss of a small labor force in their family.

The school holds five and a half days a week, and the first five days are cultural studies, including Chinese, mathematics, nature, art, physical education, ideology and politics. Saturday morning is the time for group activities, either collective work or group training, to cultivate the collective consciousness of these children. These more than 80 children eat together, stay together, play together, study together, work together, and train together every day. And this is exactly what the people who make the policy of the Ministry of Education want to see.

After Saturday afternoon, the children go home to reunite with their families and help them with the farm work they can. Today is Saturday, and of course the local children of Ping'an Fort are disbanded on the spot, and these Tatar children are sent by passenger boat from Ping'an Fort to take them back to their homes in the coal mining area upstream of the Coal River.

The 18-ton passenger ship numbered 335 also reached a speed of more than 4 knots due to light loading, which is comparable to the speed of the inland river transport ship that Xu Wenxuan was on. As a result, Xu Wenxuan was able to carefully observe their every move.

More than 30 children sat on the deck of the passenger ship, and two armed policemen leaned on the railing to act as bodyguards to escort them. The two policemen are both from the Ping'anbao Police Station, and they are also immigrants from the Ming Dynasty who came last year, so Xu Wenxuan knows both. Perhaps bored, one of the policemen pulled out some chocolate candies made of cocoa powder, cane sugar and nuts from his pocket and teased the children to sing.

This kind of chocolate candy is sold in Ping'an Fort, and there is an ancestral candy man among the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty, and the vivid chocolate villains and chocolate animals he made with these raw materials are all the rage among children, but he also earns a lot of money.

Sure enough, the Tatar kids couldn't resist the temptation of the delicious chocolate candy and began to sing under the teasing of the police. They sang the national anthem "Singing the Motherland", and their voices were a little messy at first, but the tone gradually began to be consistent as they sang. Under the prodding of the police, these Tatar children sang the song they had to sing once a day during the flag-raising ceremony, almost with all their might.

“…… Singing dear motherland, from now on to prosperity and strength......" Xu Wenxuan listened to their immature voices, looking at their serious and serious expressions, at this time he seemed to really feel a feeling that his soul was trembling.

After singing "Singing the Motherland," the children sang the two military songs of the army and navy, "Victory Belongs to the Army" and "The Eagle on the East Coast is Advancing." After the singing, two police officers handed out chocolate candies to each child to the cheers of a group of children.

Xu Wenxuan smiled slightly, as the political assistant of Ping'an Fort, he clearly knew that the chocolate candies in the hands of the two policemen were all purchased and distributed by the Ministry of Education, and the amount of candy in their hands must be exactly equal to the number of these children.

With these adorable children as companions, the journey of more than three hours was not difficult. After the transport ship docked at the Coal River Wharf, Xu Wenxuan tidied up his appearance a little, and then strode onto the wharf. On the wharf, An Dafifteen, deputy director of the coal mine police station, has been waiting for a long time.

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