The officers and men of the navy looked at the valuables scattered all over the place as garbage in front of them, and then looked at the large group of militiamen in the river fort behind Liu Ang who were looking at the Persian slave girls on the deck behind them with red eyes, and suddenly knew what they should do.

"This is not in order......" Only Second Lieutenant Givan muttered weakly, but he was quickly pushed aside. Liu Ang took a lion skin and threw it on him, and said with a smile: "What do you know about a little hairy child, take the part of the property that belongs to you, and you can leave the rest alone." ”

The more than 100 female slaves will be distributed by the town government on the basis of merit and performance of all current unmarried male residents. Of course, slave girls who were sent off would receive freedman status, provided that their new husbands paid a fee for them. The cost is very low, which is equivalent to half selling and half giving, and you can also use food and other physical goods to deduct the cost.

Overall, this is a very morale-boosting event for the people of Fort River. Many people who are usually hanging on their children, at this moment, finally realized that those who worked all day long could actually marry their daughters-in-law before them, and they suddenly regretted not being at the beginning, and the atmosphere of the entire river fort suddenly changed at this moment.

Just when there was a commotion on the wharf, in the government office of Hezhongbao Town at this moment, Mo Ming, Guo Zili and others, who had just returned from the mainland, were sitting together drinking tea and chatting.

"The election of the new central government has been completed." Mo Ming took a sip of tea, then squeezed his eyes at Xiao Baitu, who was sitting opposite him, and said with a smile: "Old Xiao, your bitter master Bai Siwenbai was really elected this time." It is said that many people are dissatisfied with him, and no one in the new government is willing to arrange for him to be in their own department. In the end, Premier Ma couldn't look at it and arranged for him to be the director of the newly established Shi Zhi Office. Write a history and a local history for us. It's 'important work.'" Ha Lu Ha. ”

"Hey! I know what happened to this old boy! Xiao Baitu pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "This time, the officers and men of our army and navy used their lives to earn a precious peace under the condition that there was such a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us. And Bai Siwen jumped up and down during the negotiation at that time, and he didn't care about anything in order to end the war, and everyone saw it, so who would go down if he didn't go down this time? However, after all this time, I have actually figured it out, in good conscience. If you really want to say that Bai Siwen is a traitor, then he is really wronged. This person is that virtue, too good at calculation, too good at analysis! As soon as I saw the comparison of our strength on paper with the British, I knelt on the spot, thinking that this battle was lost, grass! To put it bluntly, it's still a matter of vision and fighting spirit. ”

Xiao Baitu came to South Africa with Mo Ming this time, and he was accompanied by Leonid, a former second lieutenant in the cavalry, and Infantry Corporal Salvador, the protagonist of the previous shooting of Wang De. Of course, several of them have now been swept to the end and become ordinary non-commissioned officers or soldiers in the reserves. But this is all a trivial matter, under the care of Mo Ming and others. It is not too easy to make some meritorious contributions and then reinstate the official.

"Speaking of which, what is the origin of Sun Liyu, who replaced Bai Siwen as a judicial councilor and president of the Supreme Court this time?" Liu Angjiu is on the South African side, and he is not very clear about some high-level personnel on the local side. So he asked.

According to the gossip that circulated, this woman seems to have been related to Peng Zhicheng before the crossing, and she has also served as the first chief judge of the military court before. The personality is relatively strong, and he speaks mercilessly, and there are not a few people who offend, and it is really strange that he can be selected this time. Xiao Baitu squinted his eyes and thought for a long time before saying, "We have to be careful." This woman has always been very uninterested in our petty mountaineering in the army and the government, and I guess we have written it down in her little notebook. Don't let her hold on to it, or I guess it's a big problem. ”

"This woman is so fierce?" Mo Ming was also a little surprised.

"Not really." Xiao Baitu seemed to suddenly remember something funny, sat up straight suddenly, and said with a smile: "Do you remember Wang De, the president of the Dongfang County Court?" Ha Luha, this guy, as Bai Siwen's descendant, coupled with his inappropriate life style, has long been targeted by this fierce woman. As soon as she took office this time, she transferred Wang De to the post of president of the Yihe First Circuit Court, assigned him two assistants and a horse, and then went to the ravine all day long. And the original court president, Lao Jia, finally got out of the way this time and was transferred to the president of the county people's court. ”

Everyone looks at me, I look at you, and they are all a little embarrassed for a while. Just because she can't control her little cock, she may be put in small shoes, this woman is simply a fight with Du Wen, a member of the education committee.

After chatting about Bai Siwen and Wang De, everyone talked about some of the things in this election. The term of office of the previous government will expire on December 31 this year, so in October, the most important meeting of the local people's congress was held to elect the members of the new executive committee and the heads of various departments of the central government. However, a decree was also passed at the meeting, declaring that members of the Executive Committee could be re-elected for a maximum of one term, i.e. a person could serve a maximum of two terms on the Executive Committee.

This decree was also issued to prevent the perpetuation of the members of the Executive Committee, and at the same time to reflect a desire for a reshuffle of power within the Circle. Faced with such a situation, Ma Qianzu, chairman of the executive committee, took the lead in expressing his position, and after he became chairman of the second executive committee, he would abdicate and make way for the virtuous. After Ma Ganzu expressed his position, the remaining 10 members also expressed their sincere or hypocritical stance that they would not seek re-election after the second term.

The term of office of the second central government was five years, beginning on 1 January 1639 and ending on 31 December 1643. At the current NPC session, the new government also put forward for the first time the concept of "five-year construction design." In this five-year plan, the development of the East Coast Republic of China will focus on the steel and chemical sectors, which are currently making slow progress.

The Government Council has long been a little tired of the Ping An Iron and Steel Plant, which has been unable to put into operation for a long time, and they plan to gradually increase the iron ore output in the Changshanbao Iron Ore Mine within two years, so that the Ping An Iron and Steel Plant can obtain enough raw materials to start formal production. After the official operation of the Ping An Iron and Steel Plant, it is expected that the annual output is likely to exceed 10,000 tons, which is higher than the current steel production of all Europe combined.

After the iron and steel industry rises, relying on its development of coal chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, military manufacturing and other industries can follow up synchronously. The only thing to worry about is that there are not so many industrial workers in the East Coast Republic of China at present. But this can't be rushed, you can only take it step by step.

Equally important to the steel industry is the chemical industry. Embarrassingly, as of now, there is not a single decent chemical plant in the East Coast Republic of China (the coking plant is in a semi-shutdown state). Important materials such as soda ash, which are urgently needed for leather processing and textiles, have been prepared only on a small scale in laboratories, and this can only provide a small part, most of which is still imported from Europe.

In addition, what is even more speechless is that the East Coast is currently unable to produce its own gunpowder, yes, it is black powder, which cannot be produced by itself! The main reason for the inability to produce itself is the lack of raw materials, mainly saltpeter and sulfur, which have no domestic output at all, and can only be imported. At present, sulfur is mainly imported from Chile and other places, while saltpeter is mainly dependent on Europe, and as for Chile, only a small part of it is used (low production).

As for some other important materials such as sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, caustic soda and other basic products, they only exist in the laboratory, and large-scale industrial production is far away. In the new five-year plan, the Government Council did not put too much pressure on the chemical sector, after all, the national strength is limited at this stage, and the resources that can be tilted towards them are also limited.

The basic requirements of the Government Council for them are two points: First, the coal chemical industry and its related products should be formally industrialized, that is, coke, tar, asphalt, and dyes should be able to be produced on a large scale. Second, gunpowder should be able to be produced by itself. Sulfur needs to be imported as a raw material, while saltpeter can be replaced by other methods. This year, among the new batch of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were craftsmen who had made nitrate, and they had mastered some techniques that could artificially prepare nitrate on a large scale. After talking to them, the people in the chemical department felt that they could carry out experimental production. If this technique is really useful, then the saltpeter problem that has plagued the East Coast for a long time is equivalent to being solved.

In addition to the two major heads of iron and steel and chemical industry, the rest are textiles, shipbuilding and leather processing, of which textiles are still the top priority. In the new five-year plan, the two textile mills in China will gradually replace the old hydraulic machines with more efficient steam-powered machines. At present, the steam engine for textile has been used in the Ping An Machine Weaving Factory for more than half a year, and although the failure rate is not low, it is finally bearable. Moreover, the people of the first engine factory are also working hard to improve the steam engine, and the quality of the steam engine used now is completely the same as that of the earliest batch used at the beginning.

After actual production verification, the steam engine has the advantages of stable output, not affected by seasonal rainfall, etc., and is more powerful than the hydraulic textile machine, which can be launched with larger and higher efficiency textile machines to further improve production efficiency. In this year's steam-powered textile machine crews, their production capacity is generally more than one-third larger than that of hydrotextile units. It is conceivable that if a larger machine is launched, the gap between the two will be even greater.

In April this year, the two textile factories began to resume production, and in a total of six months, one month before the National People's Congress (the end of September), a total of 140,000 pieces of white cotton cloth, 8,000 pieces of dyed cloth, and 6,000 pieces of woolen woolen cloth were produced, bringing back about 300,000 yuan of profits for the central government. This is only half a year, and if it is a whole year, you can imagine how profitable it is.

Industries other than textiles, such as shipbuilding and leather processing, were labor-intensive industries that required a lot of manpower, and the East Coast Republic did not have much energy to operate them for the time being, so it could only maintain a small scale for the time being.

After the five-year plan is formulated, it will be left to be implemented. The next five years will be crucial for the Eastern River Republic, as the people of the East Coast will be able to shrink into the distant New World, absorb population, develop industry, and gradually make up for the gap between themselves and the old European countries through the strength of industry. (To be continued......)