Although there is no electricity in Chang'an, Ma Jin lives in a mansion.

His residence, not far from the town hall, was the private residence of the Dutch governor, and was now rightfully owned by Makin.

The two-story European-style building, with a front yard and a backyard, a lawn and flowers in the yard, and a red carpet in the front yard, it seems that the former governor is quite good at enjoying life.

Downstairs is the kitchen, dining room and servant's quarters, and the second floor is the master's bedroom.

Makin turned the first floor into his guardhouse, with his guard officer and a squad of guards placed downstairs.

Ma Jin's wife Zhang Ziting also followed the ocean to cross the sea, Zhang Ziting is the daughter of Zhang Shaodeng, Zhang Shaodeng is a native of Nancheng, a person in the Chongzhen period, in Yingcheng as a magistrate, Gao Junshan surrendered to the rebels after breaking Yingcheng.

The night in Chang'an is not dark, and if you walk around the streets, you think you are in a small town in Europe. There are street lamps, which are fueled by oil, which means that they are lit with oil lamps.

This oil lamp uses animal oil, to be more precise, oil from American beavers.

In the Americas, beavers are ubiquitous animals, numbering more than 200 million at their peak. Long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, North American Indians used beavers as their food source. They roast whole beavers as a delicious meat. The Indians would also cut the beaver meat into strips and roast them over a low fire or place them on sun-burned stones until the strips were dry and crispy. The jerky and berries are then mashed together into a paste, combined with animal fat, to make a dry patty that lasts for months or even years. When the Indians went out into the wilderness, they could take this food with them as dry food.

In the Dutch warehouse, there was a large amount of this animal oil for lighting.

In order to prevent the Dutch from slipping through the net, Makin ordered the marines to conduct a dragnet search on the peninsula, and only after two days did they gradually let the ship's people into the city.

The first group of people to enter the city were the engineers, and there were more than 200 engineers who came this time, and they were all arranged to live in Chang'an City.

Ma Jin first set up the Chang'an City Urban Planning Management Office, he appointed himself mayor of Chang'an City, and sent a telegram to Gao Junshan for the record, Gao Junshan also replied in a timely manner, appointing Ma Jin as the acting mayor of Chang'an City, because Ma Jin's position is far higher than the mayor's position, and he can only be the acting mayor.

The urban planning and management office is all composed of engineers, and the director and deputy director of the management office are studying urban management, one is called Hu Xinghua, one is called Liu Changgeng, and the other is called Cai Sijie.

Hu Xinghua is the son of Hu Ying, and Ma Jin appointed him as the director of the city management office; Liu Changgeng is the son of Liu Hongru, and Ma Jin appointed him as the deputy director of the city management office; Cai Sijie is the son of Cai Zhishan and the deputy director of the city management office.

The management office is subdivided into ten departments, which are in charge of urban construction, wharves, transportation, electric power, public security, agriculture, fishery, industry, mining, and forestry.

Ma Jin also appointed the chief and deputy directors of these ten departments, and after the appointment letter was issued, Ma Jin summoned the first meeting of Chang'an City.

The meeting was held in the town hall, and a total of 26 people participated in the meeting, and later Chinese history called this meeting the "Conference of 26 Americas".

Lin Zhenggang also attended the meeting as an assistant to the mayor, along with Gongsun Hao, who was appointed by Ma Jin as director of the Chang'an City Hall.

Ma Jin first spoke at the meeting: "Colleagues, we of the American Legion have come to the Americas through many difficulties and dangers, and the Americas are a beautiful place, but it is also a virgin land that has not been developed. As you can see, although this place has been run by the Dutch for 20 years, the infrastructure of the city is very backward, not to mention the wharf, not to mention our 3,000-ton steamers, and if you look at the countryside, it is even more deserted. This requires us to operate and develop. Now that we're here, we've got to get it done. Before I came, the emperor instructed me to build Chang'an into an international metropolis, to have a large wharf, and to let Westerners see our Chinese capabilities! I am a layman in urban construction, and there are many experts and scholars here, and I hope that you will speak enthusiastically and put forward your suggestions on how to build a new America! ”

After Ma Jin finished speaking, Lin Zhenggang stood up and spoke: "As for the urban construction of Chang'an, our city attaches great importance to it, Mayor Ma has issued a letter of appointment to you, and I hope that you will use your professional knowledge to express your opinions on the development of Chang'an, and this meeting will formulate a path for future development based on your proposals." Please take the lead! ”

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The meeting lasted for three days, and finally formulated the construction plan of Chang'an City, which has a total of 29 articles and 373 articles, each of which is specific to the department. After the meeting, the construction of the city began.

The first project was the construction of the wharf, the existing wharf was left by the Dutch and did not meet the requirements of the Chinese ships at all, so it had to be renovated and expanded.

The steamers were stocked with the steel and concrete needed to build the wharf and the tools needed by the workers, and among the first settlers were the wharf construction workers, who numbered about 300 people, and Makin moved them and their families into the city, so that the wharf construction workers could work with peace of mind.

After arranging this group of dock construction workers, Ma Jin transferred 1,000 construction workers on the steamer ashore, and their task was to expand Chang'an City, which can only accommodate 2,000 people, and the top priority must be to solve the problem of resettlement of immigrants, so under the blueprint of urban planning, the first thing to carry out is to expand the city, so that the Chinese people have a place to live.

The families of these 1,000 construction workers can also get off the boat to live, because there are not so many people living in the city, they can only be wronged by their families to live in the workers' shacks temporarily, and after the first batch of houses are built, priority will be given to the construction workers to live.

The third project is to pave the road, paving the road from the wharf to Chang'an City, only when the transportation is convenient, the urban construction will develop by leaps and bounds.

Paving workers are voluntary, and the ten-day period is a period, and only 100 people are needed in the first phase. The workers who participated in the paving were still housed on the steamer, and because of the limited housing conditions, they had to take the ferry to and from the ship and the pier every day.

The power engineers brought two steam engine generators and two hydroelectric generators from China, the steam engine generators were to burn coal, and at present, coal was to be supplied to ships and warships, and until coal was found in the Americas, the two steam engine generators were absolutely unusable.

Now the only way to consider using water generators is to have a river, but fortunately there is a river on the edge of Chang'an City, which was later called the Hudson River, and in order not to confuse the name, it is also called the Hudson River.

The director of the electric power department is called Tai Shiliang, and it is his responsibility to provide electricity for Chang'an, and he first applied to the city management office for the transfer of two hydroelectric generators, and the city management office replied to him that they agreed to extract the two hydroelectric generators, but they themselves organized manpower to unload them from the ship.

Engaging in transportation is not Tai Shiliang's strength, he handed over this heavy physical work to the deputy director Ye Ding to complete it first, and he took a five-person exploration team to the Hudson River Basin to survey the water situation and prepare to build a dam on the river. ()

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