It has been a year since Chen Ding arrived in North America. A year of hard work and hard work made his whole person's breath change in a trance.

If before he was a fine piece of jade, now he is a rock that has been polished by the wind and snow.

In terms of value, the rough rock is far less valuable than the exquisite jade of one side, but if the exquisite jade of that side collides with the rock, it will only be the jade that will be smashed in the end.

Chen Ding has learned a lot in one year, and he has experienced a lot.

Although he would lose sleep from night to night, he also grew up with unexpected problems and troubles.

When he first arrived in North America, Chen Ding was faced with two choices: first, stay in Tokyo or Hanjin, and coordinate the material deployment of personnel; Or find a place in the subordinate town clusters of these two cities directly under the Cabinet, and work steadily for a while; Second, it is to follow the vassal king to the country, whether it is to follow the king's side, verify the rise of immigrant towns one by one, or go to the local area to personally take charge of the changes of an immigrant town from scratch, this is a kind of experience.

Chen Ding chose the second option, he came to the coast, and in a year's time, witnessed the whole process of its transformation from small to large. At the same time, he no longer fights with the 'pirate ships of Europe' disguised by the Spaniards.

The war in North America has long since subsided.

The Spaniards threw in the towel.

But the Madrid government of Spain can't control the pirates of 'other countries'?

Chinese convoys transporting people and materials to North America have been attacked by pirate ships several times, the most tragic of which was when a migrant ship full of more than 500 people was sunk by a European pirate ship with rockets, and less than half of the more than 500 men, women and children were rescued.

After that, after Chen Han's North American escort fleet and detachment caught the European pirates, they were not interrogated, and they were all killed. Even if they are captured, they will all be hanged, and they will not even have the opportunity to do coolie labor reform.

The tepid 'contradictions' between the two sides at the beginning took the heavy casualties of migrants as a turning point, and soon became a hot state.

European pirate ships began to attack not only the transport fleets between China and the United States, but also the port cities along the coastline. Although their 'offense' and 'assault' are more than harassment.

In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Chengtian, the city that Chen Ding was in charge of, which had just been officially named Qingchuan City, had more than 5,000 official residents, in addition to more than 1,000 "foreign employees" living here—obedient Indians.

Harukawa City, which is on the track of normal development. Nestled between the forest and the coast, the urban area is structured in the same style as a new town. For safety reasons, the government departments here are built of iron and concrete, which can also be used as fortresses if necessary. The architecture is dominated by deep red and white, combined with green trees, which makes the whole city look particularly refreshing and pleasant.

The farms outside the city are wide and neat, and they are scattered.

Chen Ding's follow, Cai Wang Chen Jie, has many mountains and hills in the territory, and many lands are not suitable for human habitation in a large area, and now the main business is the plain and fertile fields at the northern end of the kingdom. However, it is impossible to give up all of the southern ends, and the city of Harukawa is located in the southern part of the Shimogashu Peninsula.

So how can the limited land and manpower play a bigger and deeper role?

How to make the biggest 'scene' possible with almost the same capital?

At the earliest time, Chen Kai determined the policy of agriculture and animal husbandry -- to take the route of collective farms and the route of collective economy.

Chen Zhe had seriously summed up the lessons and lessons of the three heroes of the Qing Dynasty in Hanoi, so the collective farm route he prepared was much more restrictive than when Hanoi made the world a big harmony.

The remnants of the Qing Dynasty could not be linked to 'utopian society' in later generations, but they failed, and the relics left behind by their era have largely become a meme that makes China laugh.

In today's China, 'public ownership' is synonymous with lazy people, and millions of Chinese people have drawn an equal sign between these two words.

In the later period of the Hanoi regime, one of the bad social phenomena was that the countryside and cities were full of lazy people; The second is that the officials and grinders of the yamen do not do anything; The service attitude of public shopping malls is not good, the efficiency is not high, and so on, and so on, which are very eye-catching.

Chen Ming looked at the evolution of Hanoi with sadness and lamentation, it was really familiar, the phenomena in it were very similar to China in the Taizu era, and they were more unscrupulous and daring;

However, from Chen Ming's 21st century perspective, the so-called problems such as raising lazy people and having a bad attitude are really not a big deal compared with such bad problems as counterfeiting and shoddy, cheating, abduction, corruption, laid-off unemployment, and environmental pollution.

To put it in a negative way: It's better to raise a lazy man than to raise a corrupt official and a profiteer, right?

It's better to have a bad service attitude in the mall than to be abused by the tour guide, right?

If you raise a lazy man, you have to smash the 'pot', so what about the society that constantly produces corrupt officials, profiteers, and liars?

When the pot was smashed back then, these were the only crimes that could be pressed on the big pot of rice, and there was really no other reason. Of course, in the Chinese society at that time, such drawbacks were not small, and smashing the pot would be famous and justified. However, seeing the scenes of moral decay in today's society, doesn't it seem very funny and ridiculous to use these charges to deny the big pot of rice?

But the fact that two attempts, hundreds of years apart, have failed unquestionedly illustrates the lack of an important element in such a policy.

As a new thing, the public-owned economy will inevitably have a stage in which it is not perfect and immature in the process of its emergence and development, and the old forces will inevitably go all out to resist and resist destruction. Therefore, setbacks are inevitable.

It's just that after another revolution ended, taking advantage of the 'anyway' storm set off in the whole of China, society overturned the old system in one fell swoop, and private ownership replaced public ownership.

The effect is obvious, after being suppressed for so many years, once the passion explodes, the agricultural output has indeed increased significantly. However, many people do not expect that while this new social system of ownership of the means of production is being implemented, it has also greatly released water on the bad ideology represented by 'harming the public and enriching the private sector,' and the long-suppressed selfish desires have exploded in a big way, and official downfall is prevalent, and they are embarrassed to greet others if they do not take advantage of the public, do not use the power in their hands to make some private gains, and do not do something to dig into the corners of the public house.

Of course, Chen Ming would not tell anyone else these thoughts at all.

In Chen Jie's eyes, public ownership is a failure, but it is really not without the slightest merit, as long as supervision can be strengthened. Chen Ye felt that there was a lot to be done.

The reason why Sanjie failed was because their subordinates had too many favors and bloodlines, and they had to go out of many ways, and the three of them did business together, and each had to take into account each other's feelings, which would naturally be tied.

But he Chen Zhe is different.

It is related to his century-old foundation, no matter what kind of favor or relatives he is, anyone who dares to give him eye medicine or pry the corner of the wall in this regard will be severely punished. Moreover, Cai Guo's affairs are dictatorial to him, and even if he wants to intervene in the country, he will at most 'mention' one or two points in a few places, and only the bigwigs of the cabinet can have enough weight to talk to him.

The emperor had granted him 'real' 'autonomy'.

Cai Wang, who is not very old and still has a sharp spirit in his heart, made up his mind to play a collective economy.

If you Chen Jieyan can't do it well, it's because you don't have the ability to do it yourself, and I, Chen Jie, can do it well. The point system that Emperor Chen made up is a very good thing, which is embedded in the collective farm line, distributed according to work, and complements each other.

The coconut grove farm by the sea ushered in a new harvest period, and countless new immigrants like ants went up and down in the coconut grove, and the coconuts were stacked like mountains.

These plants grow in many parts of the Xiajiazhou Peninsula and are a valuable asset to the new Chinese immigrants.

The role of coconut water needs no more to say. Nowadays, it has become a favorite drink of many Chinese elites.

In Chinese mainland, because of the smoother sea and land transportation, coconuts are transported to China's provinces and provinces along with ships and horses over mountains and mountains, from distant Hainan and Nanyang.

Women and children love to drink this.

The flesh is white, edible and can also be pressed for oil, and it is rich in nutrients. The fibers of the peel can be netted, the trunk can be used as a building material, and even the bark has medicinal value.

But few Chinese immigrants to North America are from Qiongzhou, and almost all of them have never seen coconut trees or know the dangers of the ripening season. On the Xiajiazhou Peninsula alone, five people have been stoned to death by ripe coconuts, and more than a dozen coconuts that have fallen naturally have been sent to the hospital.

So much so that King Cai had to issue an edict: prohibiting immigrants from walking under the coconut trees without permission when the coconut is ripe.

In the industrial zone of Harukawa City, a new day's work has already begun. Under a few thick chimneys are patches of factories of different heights, and in the roaring sound of steam engine power transmission, the dense spinning machines in the textile factory continue to extend the snow-white yarn with dazzling mechanical movements.

The textile center is not the city of Qingchuan, the establishment of this spinning mill is entirely because of the presence of Chen Ding, who had to give his eldest nephew enough 'face', and it was previously built in the northern part of Cai Guo.

Some of the yarn produced was shipped north and some was smuggled into Mexico. In the market of Manzanillo, although there are many Chinese goods, almost all of them are finished products, some are cotton cloth, but there is no cotton yarn at all.

Further south of the city is a beach salt farm, and the Xiajiazhou Peninsula receives a bit of rainfall, so if you want to develop agriculture on a large scale, you have to build steam stations and irrigation ditches.

For example, the farmland around Harukawa City is like this. Each collective farm had a steam pumping station, and on weekdays the inhabitants did not need to work with a steam engine for drinking water, but when the time came for irrigation of the farmland, water was released from the main gate. The water flows down the primary irrigation canal to the field, and with the help of a steam engine, the water flows from the primary irrigation canal to the secondary irrigation canal, and then diverts into the tertiary irrigation canal of each piece of farmland.

The steam water station played the role of a rollover and a water wheel.

But it is more efficient, more effective, and more time-saving and convenient.

The same goes for the beach salt works, where the pumping of seawater and brine is also aided by steam engines.

At this time, the vast salt pans and salt making workshops are also workers walking around like flowing water, and the fine salt balls are packed and packaged, and one hundred and twenty 'balls' are a basket, and the weight of the salt in them is about 500 catties.

And the 'utensils' here are the coconut husks that have been drunk with coconut water and scooped up coconut flesh.

Because of the weather, the southern tip of the Shimogashu Peninsula is a natural treasure trove of salt.

The sea salt produced is quite competitive throughout the territory of Chinese America.

At the same time, 'bottles' made of coconut shells became increasingly popular throughout the territory of Chinese America.

A coconut can have about two catties of juice, so this thing quickly replaced gourds and bottles, and was constantly used to fill wine, vinegar, salt, and soy sauce.

The port area of Harukawa City is also very lively, with large and medium-sized steam cranes twisting their thick booms and constantly carrying goods back and forth; Merchants dressed in various costumes walked around the docks, and horse-drawn carriages constantly carried boxes or barrels into the nearby storage area.

In this day and age, there is little point in playing container transportation.

The kind of container ship that later generations could not do with the navigation and shipbuilding technology of this era. But this change has already been applied to sea freight.

- It is impossible to have large containers, but there can always be standard boxes and barrels smaller than N, right?

On the docks, two Western-style soft-sail merchant ships are nervously loading and unloading their cargo, because of the presence of European pirates, Chinese-style hard-sailing ships are sailing in groups, and generally invite fleets to escort them, or prepare enough armed sailing ships.

At noon, another thousand-ton ocean-going merchant ship sailed into the port of Qingchuan, and Chen Ding, who had already received the news, was already waiting at the port, and even in the crowd of greetings, there was the first mayor of Qingchuan City, who was about to step down.

"Lord Zhao, it's been hard all the way, it's been hard all the way."

The mayor of Qingchuan City who followed Chen Ding was called Song Qingsong, a jinshi who had been in the sky for nine years, and he still looked like a white-faced scholar.

He has only been in office for more than a year, but he left his job two months ago, and all the construction, strategies and decisions after Qingchuan City were all handled by Chen Ding. Because Song Qingsong's body collapsed.

This unsuitability can really kill people.

After staying up all night, he got a little cold and suddenly fell ill.

At first, no one paid attention to it, but who expected that after that, Song Qingsong's whole person was like a different person, he was vomiting and diarrhea, and several doctors diagnosed and treated, all saying that they were not adaptable.

This damn 'unsuitable'. Song Qingsong did his best in Qingchuan City for a year before.

But Song Qingsong's symptoms are really unadaptable, and his life has not been taken away, but he has also been tossed away by frequent diarrhea and vomiting and diarrhea, and he is bedridden every day.

Chen Ding reported to Chen Jie, and then Chen Xie found a suitable candidate to take over Song Qingsong's position, and Chen Kai also went out and also found an idle position for Song Qingsong after returning to China.

If Song Qingsong's body bones can be adjusted well after he goes back, then how to turn his idle job into a full-time job is something that the Song family is worried about.

"Zhao Chuan has seen the prince." The person who came saluted Chen Ding neatly, and in the future, he would listen to orders under this master's account, and he was also the number one general under this master. Zhao Chuan's really feeling is quite magical.

He looked at Song Qingsong, who was pale, and a faint pity flashed in his eyes.

What a rare opportunity.

The performance is under the nose of this master, so any advantages can be seen by people?

This has to be done, and when His Royal Highness really ascends to the throne in the future, how much benefit this can bring to the person who occupies the position of mayor.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that this visible benefit was too attractive, why did he, Zhao Chuan, go to all the trouble to plan for this position? Let Song Qingsong, the unlucky ghost, be the mayor of the hospital bed in the bed room for two months.