The sound of the iron anchor falling into the water sounded, and another 12oo-ton large flying shear cargo ship docked at the wharf of Qingdao Port. This article was written by...... Dozens of dock workers on the dock, dressed in sky-blue denim overalls, immediately poured out from under the resting shed as if they heard the sound of a gunshot, and then connected the ropes to the cables, the booms to pull the booms, and the trucks to drive the wagons (horse-drawn rail wagons), in short, in order to seem.

The dozens of dockers were clearly divided into two factions, the smaller of which was the Curly, Black-eyed, Latin-faced Spaniards. They were the old inhabitants of the former Montevideo outpost in Spain, and when the East Bank occupied it, they forcibly bought back their land, and each of them was allowed to keep only thirty acres of basic farmland, and they were also exchanged for the outskirts far away from the port area. Not only that, but these Spanish settlers were forcibly "naturalized" by the Immigration Division of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on the East Bank, and inexplicably became members of the East Coast Republic of China - they were certainly not very reluctant.

However, the shape is stronger than the people, who made Spain lose consecutive battles in La Plata and other places, and these Catalans, Basques, are mainly residents of the Spanish Kingdom.

Unlike these Spaniards who came to work on the docks during their spare time, the other group of dock workers on the docks, numbering as many as forty or fifty people, although they were all in a short manner, looked vaguely Ming people between their eyebrows. And if you listen to their conversations with each other, you can be absolutely sure that they are Mingren. These people are basically from Yancheng, Taizhou, Rugao and other places in the Jiangbei region, with similar languages and customs, and they are quite grouped with each other. Usually with those Spaniards faintly deal with.

"Be nimble with your hands and feet!" A bearded man in the red sailor suit of the South China Sea Transport Company stands on the port deck of the ship. After pouring a sip of liquor into his mouth. He wiped the corners of his mouth with his dirty sleeves, and shouted angrily: "All the catches allocated to you this month are here, move them quickly, grandma's, put it in the cabin and die of fish." ”

Hearing that a fish had come down from above, the dock workers, who were already busy with their work, couldn't help but speed up their movements. As they worked, barrels filled with salted fish were carefully hoisted onto the dock floor, and then loaded onto carriages.

The coachman was already waiting impatiently. I saw him staring closely at the wooden barrels full of salted fish, looking at the words "cod", "slippery fish", "gun squid" and other words written on those wooden barrels, and couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva. It has been almost a year since everyone came to settle in this port, and the first crop of grain planted in the field has not yet been harvested, and they are about to vomit all day after eating the government's relief grain (most of the grain allocated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs for the new settlements that have not yet been self-sufficient, mostly corn, sorghum and other miscellaneous grains). Now the boss is actually gracious and has sent so many buckets of salted fish to everyone to fight for tooth sacrifices, which is really a great joy.

You know, now even the metropolitan area is called rich. The availability of several major seafood products such as cod, squid and red shrimp has also been drastically reduced and prices are still prohibitively expensive. If you want to ask why this is so. Hehe, please go to the battlefield of La Plata to inquire about how many canned spinach and cod those soldiers eat a day, and how many canned spicy shrimp they consume every day. All the good things are eaten by the big soldiers, so naturally there are no ordinary people's share.

What the? You said there are also canned eels, groupers, and hairtail fish imported from New China? I'm sorry, the high price is definitely something that only high-ranking officials can afford, and I can't afford it. Now it's good to be able to leak some salted fish from the fingers of the nobles and Qiu Ba to eat, so be content. You must know that all the qiē in this country are given priority to the nobles and the Qiuba, if you want to live the kind of fairy-like life with milk in the morning, delicious food at noon, and some beer in the evening, then you can only go as a soldier or technician, and there is no other way to go!

"If it weren't for the two spear squid fishing floods on Falklands this year, and the production of several fishing boats increased significantly, otherwise it would not have been your turn to kill people who have just arrived for less than a year to eat this kind of high-quality goods." The boatswain on the deck had obviously drunk too much, and he poured the last few drops of wine from the cowhide bladder on his waist into his mouth, and then slammed his mouth and said: "What's more, in the past two days, another group of immigrants from Yizhou, Rizhao, Ganyu and other places are coming to you, and at the same time, there are also senior officials from above who are coming to inspect. Grandma's, it's so cheap for you! ”

When the people who were busy on the dock heard the boatswain say this, they suddenly realized. It is no wonder that officials from the region and the town have come here to check the progress of the project in the past two days, I have never seen these people run so diligently before. If you come up to inspect once and add a meal, then everyone would rather come to inspect every day.

Two groups of Turkmenistan-drawn wagons quickly left the dock and headed quickly towards the rear of the port area. At the back of the port area, there is a large construction site, where two-thirds of the more than 23oo residents of the entire Qingdao port are gathered, or clearing and leveling the land, or digging trenches and pipes, or building walls and repairing houses, in short, they are busy.

In fact, not only them, but also about 500 employees from the Fourth Bureau of Communications and Construction and more than 1,000 black laborers from the South African labor team, these people are also working hard to build this large complex with the local residents of Qingdao Port. These complexes are very large, stretching all the way to the sea, with single-storey brick houses and small buildings with two or three floors, and the largest of them is the large building known as the Qingdao Exhibition Hall.

The building is shaped like a large football field. In the middle of the "football field" is a large area of paved grass, which is the centerpiece of the exhibition hall - it is clearly an open-air exhibition hall; Around the exhibition area, there is a large circle of brick buildings that firmly enclose the exhibition area. Most of these buildings are single-storey brick and stone houses, but there are also many small buildings with two or three floors, totaling about 200 large and small houses.

At this time, some of the completed houses have been hung in front of the wooden signs, which read: "Qingdao Commercial Clearing Bank", "La Plata Bank", "Foreign Exchange Exchange", "Customs", "Taxation Bureau", "Transaction Registration Center", etc., which can literally understand the usefulness of these houses.

In a few months, the opening date of the first Qingdao Autumn Commodity Fair jointly organized by the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Finance will be the opening date, and as of the middle of this month (January 1648), 32 merchants have clearly registered to participate in this international commodity fair, which can be called the largest international commodity fair in the new big 6, and all of them have opened special accounts in the Qingdao Commercial Bank or the Bank of La Plata, and deposited a certain amount of cash (silver dollars or foreign currencies). It looks like he's going to make a big show at this conference.

According to the East Coast Trade Department, if you add some businessmen from all over the world who have been sent to the news temporarily, this commodity fair should attract more than 5o businessmen from all over the world to negotiate and trade, and the commodity turnover during the entire trade fair is likely to exceed one million yuan. And with the reputation of the Qingdao Autumn Commodity Fair being spread by these businessmen, it is believed that when the second fair opens in May next year, more businessmen will come to trade.

Due to the strategic deployment of the country, the construction of the venues for this fair has been carried out from the beginning under the repeated orders of local and regional officials, and most of the venue construction has entered the final stage, and the completed part has also entered the interior decoration stage. I believe that in two or three months, by April, the construction and decoration of the venue should be completely completed, and when the time comes, as long as someone is sent to clean these houses, all offices can be stationed in it, and at the same time, the hotels, restaurants, and taverns for visiting businessmen to stay can also start trial opening in advance.

Two parallel railroad tracks lead directly to the warehouse entrance of the exhibition hall, and when the transaction is completed, the merchants can go to the warehouse to pick up the goods with their own bill of lading after paying the payment. The goods are loaded onto a wagon at the entrance of the warehouse and then dragged to the docks by the horses, where they are transported to the ships moored at the berths via guò pulley booms, where they are sold all over the world, mainly in Europe.

Since the merchants who came to trade had opened a current account in the Banco de la Plata or the Commercial Bank of Tsingtao in advance, the East Coasters were able to recover their payments very quickly compared to the trade in Europe, which was very beneficial for the factories to carry out the next step of production.

At this time, several freight rail carriages pulling salted fish from the wharf had begun to decrease when the driver stepped on the brake brake shoes, and finally slowly stopped at the edge of the warehouse drying yard. A group of women who were cooking by the makeshift earthen stove immediately became overjoyed when they heard the men's shouts, and they went to the drying field to pick up salted fish in turn, and then put them in the pot and began to burn them.

Some of the half-grown children who helped on the construction site wandered around the earthen stove drooling, and although they could eat eggs and milk subsidized by the Ministry of Education every day, the dolls obviously had no resistance to meat. From time to time, they rushed to the iron pot and lifted the lid to look inside, as if the fish inside would cook more quickly. And every time they do this, it will definitely be a scolding from the adults.

"There's a new guest coming! Cook some more! The start of the meal was also delayed by two hours! "Just when there was a commotion on the construction site, a cadre from the Corps Fort suddenly appeared on the construction site on horseback and began to notify the various work teams one by one. (To be continued......)

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