At a time when Britain and the Netherlands were in a mess and Mo San was shuttling around Europe, the eastern republics in the New World seized the favorable opportunity of the old continent to be united and carried out industrial and agricultural construction in an orderly manner.

At the construction site of the Shipu Reservoir, the last group of more than 1,000 Polish prisoners of war were sent over, shaved their hair, dressed in thick cloth, and worked hard to dig a ditch with shovels. From time to time, some black artefacts dangled beside them, strictly monitoring whether anyone was lazy, after all, the progress of their respective groups would eventually affect their own interests (land and cattle and sheep after returning to South Africa after five years of service).

Shipubao is really prosperous now, Tian Xing, who often goes to the Hejian area to buy slaves, constantly sends the slaves bought from the Clandi Hejian to the construction site, and the Ministry of Trade also continues to send Polish prisoners of war purchased from Europe to this place, coupled with the regular immigrants sent by the Ministry of Immigration, the population in the jurisdiction of the small Shipubao has surged and has reached more than 10,000 people - almost equivalent to 70% of the population of Yongan County, which was just established in the south a few days ago, and the county has one town and three townships (Yong'an Township, Sanhekou Township, Suiyuan Township, Suihua Township) is only 15,000 people.

Except for a few free people who carried out agricultural production under the organization of veterans to reduce some of their dependence on the outside world for food, most of the people in this settlement still lived at the intersection of the Shipu River and the Heihe River, where there were many harbors, water pools and stars, and there was a certain drop in the river, which was an excellent place for the construction of water reservoirs.

In the construction of the Shipu Reservoir, in addition to the allocation of a large number of personnel, a large number of machinery and equipment were also applied. These equipment are the latest products of Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory in the North Duck Lake area. This factory specializes in the production of agricultural machinery and even construction machinery. Now it has more than 40 technicians, more than 200 ordinary workers and more than 400 apprentices. The scale is extremely large, and it can produce more than 20 sets of various machinery and equipment every month.

These machinery and equipment by the Ministry of Communications under the jurisdiction of the six construction bureaus (traffic construction five bureaus, six bureaus just established three months ago) a large number of in, and then applied to the construction sites throughout the country, Shipu Reservoir as a regional administration and the government affairs of the double focus of the project, the number of construction machinery is naturally too much to burst.

In addition to the quantity, Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory also shipped some newly developed equipment here to test its performance in order to provide a reference for final finalized production. Like what. The second generation of steam ploughs, newly designed and produced by the plant, has made heavy improvements on the original basis. The ploughshare of this steam plough is made of hardened cast iron ploughshare technology -- this technology was successfully developed by a number of technicians of the factory after many repeated trials, and the Dafeng factory awarded them a huge bonus of 3,000 yuan for this purpose -- in actual work, the back side of the ploughshare cools faster than the upper surface, so that the hardness of one side is greater than that of the other, and this ploughshare has self-sharpening.

The self-sharpening ploughshare is naturally not comparable to the original ordinary ploughshare, the original iron ploughshare, no matter how much attention to quality in production and processing, after a period of use in the field or construction site, the surface of the ploughshare will be blunt. It had to be filed in the field - or simply pulled to the blacksmith to be re-forged to make it sharp. And after the hardened cold cast iron ploughshare was born. This new product, which can maintain its sharpness for a long time, immediately compares the old product to a thorough one, and the price of the original ordinary iron ploughshare has fallen across the board, and many merchants who have stocked up a lot of goods want to cry without tears, so they can only find ways to sell these things to the Latvians in South Africa, New China, and even New Courland, so as to more or less recoup some capital.

In addition to this extremely advanced ploughshare, there are many new equipment produced by Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, among which the crusher is undoubtedly used in the engineering field. This small horse-driven machine uses heavy cast-iron wheels with serrated surfaces, each wheel is mounted on an axle and can rotate independently, so it can easily crush and crush large pieces of hard soil, which has a great effect on land reclamation and engineering construction.

Especially in the field of land reclamation, this kind of soil crusher can lightly crush the slightly dry and hard soil of the Western Great Wilderness, which saves a lot of manpower, energy and material resources for the investors of the pioneer farm. They no longer need to gather a large number of people as before, and then use simple tools to break up those hard clods of soil, grind fine, now they only need to buy a set of equipment, raise a few horses, when needed, put on the horses, and directly roll all the way, the effect is excellent, can be called an extremely important invention in the history of the East Coast Reclamation.

Since the advent of this product, it and its close relatives - the soil roller (grinding the hard clods of soil to be finer, suitable for farming) has been very popular with the domestic pioneer farms and construction teams, sales are quite good, has gradually become another big fist product of the state-owned Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, sales are second only to various types of crop harvesters, steam plows, seed drills, ranked fourth.

By the way, when it comes to the seed drill, I have to say that this is another extremely successful patent acquisition of Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory. The plant was originally designed to produce a seed drill designed only for sowing wheat seeds, which is divided into several models, pulled by one or several horses, and the number of rows sown varies, but there are at least three rows. This kind of seed drill is driven by gears, chains, and belts, which is theoretically much more advanced than the seed drill invented by Tahr in 1701 (after all, the industrial base is there, and the industry on the east coast is far from comparable to that of England in 1701).

The invention of the seed drill was of great significance to the cultivation of food crops on the east coast. Especially in the large-scale farms pioneered by private investment, this kind of seed drill can effectively reduce field labor, reduce the need for manpower on the farm, and reduce the cost of investors - and this is what the East Coast, which has always suffered from a shortage of people, is pursuing, and what can be done with the machine is as little troublesome as possible - so it has gained popularity from the first time, and has even been exported to many plantations on New Huaxia Island (the seed drill can be adjusted to sow other seeds).

After the invention of the seed drill in Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, a young farmer in Zhenhai County had a big brain and felt that this kind of mechanical equipment could be modified, that is, a device that could be splashed with manure could be installed on it, and at the same time, it could also be modified to make it have the function of adjusting the sowing speed. This young farmer did what he said, and continued to learn from others and inquire about various mechanical knowledge, which finally alarmed Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory.

After understanding the farmer's thinking, the technician of the factory immediately reported to his superiors, and then the leaders of the Dafeng factory reacted quickly, immediately bought the farmer's idea at a price of 1,000 yuan, and invited him to participate in the follow-up research and development. After nearly ten months of research and development, Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory finally launched the second generation of seed drills, and has achieved an excellent response in the market, some agricultural machinery leasing companies, large pioneer farms (whether state-owned or private) have been purchased, for Dafeng Factory to earn a lot of profits.

It can also be seen that in today's east coast, due to the lack of manpower, various enterprises or individuals have to rely on machinery to reduce costs. The Executive Committee also has an encouraging attitude towards this, that is, to encourage non-governmental or government agencies to increase their efforts to invent and create, and strive to introduce more machines that can save manpower - after all, traversing the crowd is not omnipotent, and they cannot know everything, so it is inevitable to brainstorm and gather the wisdom of all people to invent and create.

In order to encourage invention and innovation, the Government Council has also formulated strict patent protection measures, and the Patent Law, which was promulgated and implemented a few years ago, has also been strictly enforced. For example, the invention of hardened cold-cast ploughshares, although the technical staff of Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory used the resources of the factory to develop the results, but the factory still gave several technicians a total of 3,000 yuan in rewards; And the farmer in Zhenhai County, who invented the manure spraying and speed regulating device of the seed seeder, even if he only had an idea and made a start, Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Factory still bought out his idea at a price of 1,000 yuan to encourage this kind of invention and create a zào atmosphere.

The Executive Committee and the Government Council have reason to believe that after this kind of atmosphere continues to guide for many years, the scientific and technological atmosphere in the East Coast Republic of China will become stronger and stronger. After careful comparison, the common people will find that if they want to get rich quickly and gain honor and status, in addition to joining the army, they are probably only engaged in invention and innovation, and this is undoubtedly the purpose of the officials of the Executive Committee.

"The Anglo-Dutch War, the French Civil War, Spain is also at war with France, and although the Thirty Years' War is over, our period of strategic opportunity is still there!" Liao Xiaoyao, commander of the Wujiang Regional Garrison Command, who rode a horse to Daxing Port to inspect the port, said to Tian Xing, who had sent slaves over: "Moreover, it is conservatively estimated that our strategic opportunity period is at least more than ten years, which is extremely precious to us. In the past 10 years, we can quietly and mindfully develop industry and agriculture, integrate and unite people's hearts, lay a solid foundation, and further expand the scale of the army and navy. When the mad dogs in Europe turn their eyes to us with a mouthful of messy hair, we can twist their heads back with great strength and let them continue to tear them apart. ”

"Strengthening one's own strength is king, there is no doubt about it." Tian Xing also agreed, "I really hope that the Europeans will give us another 30 or 50 years, so that we will be stronger and have a stronger foundation, and the East Coast, La Plata, and Chile will always be in our hands, and the Europeans will never want to get involved in it again." ”

"Correct." Liao Xiaoyao said, "As the so-called stability overwhelms one qiē, our country cannot afford to toss, and the period of precious strategic opportunities may be gone." Therefore, while we are defending against strong enemies on the outside, we must also maintain stability on the inside, which is the most important thing. I didn't think it before, but now when I compare it with Europe, I find that it is really a golden and good word to be stable and overwhelming! (To be continued......) R1292