At the end of another busy day's work, Lola dragged her somewhat tired body back home. Aunt Anne has not returned home yet, and the war in Europe has been raging recently, orders for all kinds of munitions have skyrocketed, and all factories are working overtime. For example, the leather goods factory that Aunt Anne went to, which was said to be run by several high-ranking army officers, had recently been working overtime for three weeks in a row, saying that it was to fulfill orders for a large number of ammunition bags and leather boots for the Spaniards.

Speaking of my aunt's job, it was arranged by Mr. Shinzaemon, the inspector of the Intelligence Bureau. Although this oriental man looks indifferent, he is actually a warm-hearted person, who has helped him send that pirate neighbor to the Falklands once before, and this time he helped his aunt solve the work again.

In fact, Lola hadn't seen Shinzaemon for a long time, and the intelligence agent who walked in the shadows seemed to be busy lately, tracking down several leaks at the Oyukawa Naval Shipyard. Lola vaguely heard that the National Intelligence Service had isolated and examined more than a dozen people in the factory, and finally arrested three of them and lowered the ranks and salaries of five technicians who illegally disclosed information.

Speaking of this leak, Lola, as a new generation of technicians at the Big Fish River Shipyard, has also vaguely heard about it. Probably after a technician (who is also a Dutch spy) was passing on various data of the domestic "Chaoyong" fast cruiser to the outside world, he was broken into the door by intelligence officers who had long been suspicious of him, and two Dutch spies who were connecting were captured on the spot. After interrogation, the Dutch spy, who was hiding at the Big Fish River Shipyard, admitted that he had been hired by the Dutch East India Company and had previously successfully passed on information about the design parameters of the Yangwu-class fast cruisers designed by the East Coasters in the early days.

This scandal broke out in the factory. Naturally, everyone is not having a good life. It's not. Even Lola, who has always kept a low profile, was questioned by an intelligence agency agent. And being temporarily transferred out of a sensitive job because of something that had happened before, which made her feel very relieved. Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, Lola decided to change the environment. I heard that the shipyard in the New China Colony has just been opened, and it is in urgent need of all kinds of shipbuilding technicians, and they have also given generous conditions in order to attract talents. That is, every local technician who settles down there will get a piece of land of no more than 20 acres for free, and you will be allowed to redeem an additional 30 acres of land, which can be described as extremely generous.

Although I heard that most of the land over there is some barren brick red soil. If you farm the land, you may not produce much, but you can choose to buy some more woodland. Not to mention the priceless trees that grow on the woodland, even if it is a useless shrubland, you can plant some fruit trees, tea trees or something after clearing it. With the country's rapidly developing economy and the increasing income level of the people, these investments will surely pay off handsomely in the future. After hearing that the oriental lychee trees were planted there, many local nobles began to spend money to buy land there, and then prepared to hire people to plant this tropical fruit tree.

For example, the captain of a pioneer team in Fort River, South Africa, who has been scarecrowed many times by Lolaza, joined forces with Torricelli and Viviani to buy a small island with a radius of several hundred meters in New Huaxia Bay. Started planting some flowering fruit trees and breeding bees. I heard that the watch factory they jointly established was quite prosperous in China. Therefore, it is not a bad money to buy such a small island with little development value. Not only that, but that guy also attracted Frank, the son of the French Baron de Toulouse, to invest in the corn deep processing (i.e., winemaking) industry in the new Chinese colony, which can be said to be very prosperous.

The deputy director who decided to recruit Lola into the factory at the beginning, after hearing about Lola's idea, simply boldly persuaded him to go to the Far East Heishui Port to develop when he failed to keep him. Because I heard that a ship repair station will be built in the early stage, and there is a ship repair, so it is a high probability event to upgrade to a shipyard in the future. Therefore, when you don't know where the boat repair station is, you will squeeze in one step ahead of others, and when the scale of the ship repair station is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more skilled people, your status will naturally rise. When the time comes, find a way to transfer back to the local government, which is much better than you and a large group of people cramming into three shipyards in China.

Lola agreed to the proposal after a little consideration, and in her thoughts, there was not much difference between New Huaxia and Blackwater Harbor, and they were both far away anyway. Hearing her answer, the deputy director was obviously relieved. The Ministry of Communications assigned technical personnel and craftsmen to the three shipyards under the jurisdiction of Lu, including the Dayuhe Factory, the Zhenhai Factory, and the Modern Factory, and required each unit to send several people to erect the shelves on the side of the Heishui Port. There are many reasons why the craftsmen and high-level craftsmen who live well in the country are willing to work in a place where birds don't. And Lola actually took the initiative to ask to serve in an overseas colony at this juncture, how could the deputy director of the deputy factory let go of such a good thing sent to the door, so after some flickering, Lola was fooled to the Far East Blackwater Harbor - a city that was still in the wilderness.

With a "squeak", the door was pushed open, and Lola, who had suddenly woken up from her reverie, turned her head to look out. I saw Aunt Anne walk in with a vegetable basket with a lot of fishy prawns in the basket. Lola knew that the shrimp tasted so strong, and her aunt probably went to buy cheap dead shrimp from the Dutch. Although she had been told many times that she was not bad for money, Aunt Anne was still in the habit of buying cheap vegetables, and once in a while she was distressed to death by buying expensive flour, and Lola was quite speechless about it.

"Dear Lola, guess who I met today?" As soon as the aunt entered the door, she began to shout, "I met Bogdan, by the way, that Albanian!" He is now a deputy sergeant, and I heard that he was promoted to deputy sergeant because he won the second place in the county's patrol system competition. Moreover, it is said that he will soon be sent to the Far East Heishui Port as the acting director of the police station, and he is in the same place as you, so I have asked him to take care of you more. ”

Listening to her aunt's repeated words, Lola let out an "oh" in high spirits, indicating that she knew what she had said. But after thinking about it, she reminded her aunt: "Aunt Anne, try not to speak French again when you are at home in the future, if the neighbors hear about it and report it, those discipline police will come to the door to find trouble." Oh, by the way, they are no longer called the Discipline Police, they have been assigned to the army and renamed the Gendarmerie. ”

The Bogdan in their mouths is naturally the former assistant police officer Bogdan of the Zhenyuan Township Police Station, this gentleman because of his outstanding performance in the perennial battle with the Gaoqiao horse bandits, has so far killed three people and seized several horses, so he was approved by the county police department last year to become a regular and became an official patrol officer. However, once people's luck comes, it is unstoppable, and in a competition of the county's patrol system this year, Bogdan performed well and won the runner-up. As a result, he was quickly promoted to deputy sergeant and assigned to the port of Blackwater in the Far East, where he presided over a police station as deputy sergeant. It can be said that if nothing goes wrong, it is only natural that Bogdan will remove the word "acting" from his head a few years later and be promoted to the official sheriff.

As for Bogdan's acquaintance with Lola and others, it dates back to a few years ago. At that time, this destitute Albanian man had just crossed the border and smuggled himself to the east coast, penniless, and made a living collecting cow and sheep dung for people outside the city. Lola, who was still in school at the time, once saw him pitiful and once gave him a few dimes. Later, Bogdan left the port of the East and went to Zhenyuan to earn a living, and Lola gradually forgot about it.

It's just that I didn't expect that at the end of last year, this Albanian wore a patrol uniform, and rushed to Dongfang Port from Zhenyuan Township, and returned one yuan to Lola with interest. At this point, everyone realized that Bogdan had come to work. The so-called heroes don't ask where they come from, this Albanian, who has fought with the Turks for many years, is like a cone in the east coast, which does not value blood and meritocracy, and soon stands out and gets ahead.

Today, I met Bogdan on the street by chance, and after hearing that he was also going to the Eastern Blackwater Port to take up a post, Anne, who was not worried about Lola going to work alone, asked Bogdan to help take care of her niece, and Bogdan naturally agreed. He has clear grievances, and others have helped him in his most difficult time, so what is it to help others within his ability now? It's just a trifle!

After the two finished talking, they talked about something else. For example, on the wharf of Dongfang Port, a group of Ming people came by ship from the New China area; For example, in recent months, the business of leather goods processing factories has become more and more prosperous, so that everyone's overtime wages have also increased greatly; For example, this year, the first batch of grain was produced in Xihu Fort and Dafeng Fort in the north, and the prices of rice and flour in China, which were originally high, fell in response; For example, a batch of high-end fabrics made of vicuña wool were brought back from Southern Baleen Whale Harbor and sold in state-run stores in the city.

The two of them talked as they prepared dinner: braised prawns, clam tofu soup, beef stew with potatoes, sorghum rice, and when the fragrant meal was placed on the Paraná pine table, Lola lit a high-end candle imported from Russia under her aunt's heart-wrenching gaze, and then the two of them sat down together and began to enjoy dinner. She will soon go to the Far East, and she doesn't know when she will be back, so Lola cherishes the time she spent with her aunt. (To be continued......)