Chapter 43: Premier Hu's Treasures
Early the next morning, Hu Xiaoyan left the base under the watchful eye of the special forces. Alone returned to the town of Lieshan. The local population of Lieshan Town is okay and keeps some of their land, but they also lose their homes. The houses were torn down and rebuilt by the new workers. It was also thanks to God's strength that there was no heavy rain. There was no epidemic disease. The tens of thousands of taels of silver prepared by Hu Xiaoyan became a stockpile.
All the houses of all the people in the new town are two-storey commercial buildings, and all families are distributed on a per-household basis. If the population is large, there will be more rooms, and if the population is small, there will be fewer rooms. More than 50,000 residents of the new town even broke out into a small riot because of the issue of dividing the houses.
Fortunately, Hu Xiaoyan had the foresight to turn the security team into a police officer. Of course, these sloppy policemen will not treat the mob kindly. They were all former soldiers of the Security Corps. Although the riot did not cause major casualties, it killed almost a dozen people and injured hundreds.
And many of the 2,000 security police officers were also affected. At present, there are 2,500 security police, of which 500 are stationed in Suzhou County. Two thousand were placed in the town of Lieshan.
The paddy fields near Lishan Mountain are all the property of the Tu Rich Alliance. The alliance hired idle laborers and women to farm, and most of the idle population was hired by the big estates of the three bigwigs. Because of Hu Xiaoyan's persistence. Out of 50,000 people, more than 40,000 people finally chose Lieshan Town as their new home. This also made Hu Xiaoyan's finances even tighter. Because coal mines only produce but do not sell.
The work problem of 40,000 people gave Hu Xiaoyan a headache. Li Jingmai had no choice but to urgently purchase a batch of cotton from other places and set up a weaving factory. Another humble garment factory was set up. There are also some flour mills and other inefficient local mills. There are also mines, where some of the land is sorted out and hired to the townspeople. The food and drink in the mines also need manpower. Roads, docks, and so on. Finally, all 40,000 idle people were used. However, these people are generally paid low wages, except for the miners and the security corps police who serve as reserve soldiers.
Hu Xiaoyan knows that there is no problem with doing this in the short term, if it continues like this in the long term. These landless and passive residents of the town population will still riot, and there is only one person who will be left to shout.
So Hu Xiaoyan's requirements for the new town are simply outrageous. There is a communal toilet every two kilometres or so. Every 500 meters, there is a garbage can made of bamboo baskets. Every 100 meters, an old man and an old lady act as a hygienist and traffic commander.
The sewers in the town are also amazingly large, and they are made of ash produced by a foreign ash factory that Li Jingmai obtained through his connections. The ground of the town looks beautiful, but it's all made of stone and a thin layer of ash. The efficiency of the ash plant is too low. The ash produced is simply not enough.
It has only been built for a long time, and the gray pavement has already collapsed a little, giving the illusion of a garbage project hundreds of years later.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of firewood in Huaibei. These wooden houses, in fact, can only be regarded as excessive. Hu Xiaoyan looked at these wooden houses, and even some of the wood was used to build houses without completely drying them. No way, this is the fastest way to get residents to live in a new house.
I'm going to work harder. Although such conditions seem shabby to Hu Xiaoyan. But almost everyone who passed by in the town had a smile on their face. They are all looking forward to the future.
This is Hu Xiaoyan's propaganda strategy at work. He can now only sleep for a maximum of three hours every night, and when the time comes, either Sun Lutang or Chen Xin will wake him up. Countless plans need to be planned and calculated by him. Countless documents and expenditures required him to review and sign in detail. Although the talents recommended by the bigwigs of the DPRK and China are now working in peace, Hu Xiaoyan will definitely not relax his vigilance. You must know that these people are all veritable five poisons. They will become incorruptible, so it is better to hope that the sow will go up the tree.
There's more to the trouble than that. Lord Ronglu arranged that those officers were the most troublesome, those people were either drinking and making trouble in the barracks or gathering crowds to gamble, as for smoking big cigarettes and playing with women in the corner, it was okay. At least they're quiet. Hu Xiaoyan had no choice but to lock them up in the corner of the barracks. There is no camp gate at all. All the food and drink were sent in, and even the prostitutes were handled by the security team. There is only one rule, that is, these scumbags are not allowed to go out of the camp gate. These scumbags have also made trouble, but Hu Xiaoyan will not have a good face.
Now that he is backed by Li Hongzhang and Anhui Governor Enming, he can't move him with these scumbags. Although Li Hongzhang in the middle hall fell out of favor and was about to go out to the province, his hidden connections were really huge; Behind the same Enming is the powerful of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty, as the governor of Anhui, he is the highest-ranking official in the Yamen of the Anhui Mining General Division, even with Li Hongzhang's strength, it will take a lot of effort to get him.
Hu Xiaoyan's foundation is too shallow, if it weren't for Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Binglin and others constantly advocating in Shanghai, where would he have so many talents available? Since the arrival of the first batch of students, two more batches have come, most of them are college students recruited from Peiyang University Hall, and most of these people are studying mining. There were almost a hundred of them. Most of them are engaged in administrative and educational work, and there are a few good grades running around the large and small hills of the Huaibei region trying to find more minerals. Two days ago, Hu Xiaoyan also received a report that they had discovered an iron ore nearby. Hopefully it will be mined. Hu Xiaoyan only smiled bitterly at this.
There are indeed a lot of coal mines and iron mines in Huaibei, but Hu Xiaoyan can't handle it alone. The amount of money needed is astronomical. Moreover, the iron ore mining in Huaibei is far less easy to mine than the iron ore in Ma'anshan. There are even some open-pit iron mines on the Ma'anshan side.
In the final analysis, it is a matter of money, if there is enough money, it doesn't matter if you can allocate a mining farm to Huaibei Iron Mine. Money, money. He's a angel. With money, everything is solved. Whether it's a university or a mine.
Hu Xiaoyan was helpless, I should go to Europe. With this in mind, he entered the yamen in the center of the town. It is not called a yamen. Instead, it is called "Anhui Mining General Division Office".
Hu Xiaoyan found Li Jingmai inside. Li Gongzi is reading the documents under the kneading of the two beautiful eyebrows. A cutie stands aside. Both shoulders are gently kneaded by the crushes. The back of his head rests right on the bump of the two cuties. From time to time, Gongzi Li would shake his head and grind back and forth on the bumps. The two little beauties were still blushing while kneading, glaring at each other from time to time.
When Hu Xiaoyan pushed the door open. The two cuties gave him big white eyes at the same time. Hu Xiaoyan shrugged innocently. "Good you rock! I'm only here now, you don't know that my head is dizzy from being busy all day long. Li Jingmai righteously accused.
Hu Xiaoyan took a deep breath to suppress the urge to vomit blood.
He pointed to the two beauties: "Brother Li, you are talking nonsense with your eyes open." ”
The two little cuties giggled and walked away, and after a while, one of them came in with a tea cup.
After Hu Xiaoyan and Li Jingmai sat down, they began to chat. Mainly for the situation in the town. Li Jingmai is very satisfied with those college students. These people know how to read and are diligent. The most important thing is that they are very honest and never accept any form of bribe.
Each of them is in their prime, and they are in high spirits. After being "fooled" by Cai Yuanpei, everyone gave full play to the spirit of the protagonist and completed the tasks assigned by Li Jingmai and Hu Xiaoyan very satisfactorily.
For example, in the large square in the center of the town, these college students will mobilize everyone to go to the center of the town to eat and listen to stories every day. The college students stood in the middle of the crowd and told the story in unison. After dinner, they would open a small stove for those who wanted to be literate.
Li Jingmai couldn't be more satisfied with this group of college students. In order to protect these little gentlemen. He even assigned a police officer to every college student. Just in case, this is not without precedent, once a little girl went to a resident's house to ask someone to come out to listen to a story, but the man suddenly moved.
If it weren't for Li Jingmai's arrangement for the police to maintain order, this little girl would have been ruined. This incident also gave Li Jingmai and Hu Xiaoyan a rather bad warning. There are not only good people among the villagers, but also bad people. Especially you can't put the bad guys yet! According to the law, this guy is called an attempt, and he is sentenced to a few days in a cell at most. The laws of the Qing Dynasty had nothing to do with him.
This guy is from the same village, and everyone came to make trouble and demanded that he be released. Although these simple villagers admit the mistakes of their companions, they just can't accept the consequences of being locked in a cell, because this guy has no wife at home, only a couple of children who are only a few years old.
This matter only reached Hu Xiaoyan the next day. He was so angry. What kind of law do you care you meow! Hu Xiaoyan personally ran to the town and personally shot the man in front of the troublemakers.
Then send the guy's sons and daughters to the school to live in the school. This incident completely shocked the villagers of the entire Lieshan Town. Since then, no one dares to be disrespectful to the college students, and even the officials of Suzhou County are respectful and respectful when they see the college students who come to do business, so they almost treat them as uncles.
Whether it is Suzhou County or Lieshan Town, the people call these college students Premier Hu's treasures. Everyone chatting will only say: Ah, Premier Hu's treasures are here.
As a result, the security level of the whole town has improved by countless percentage points. There used to be a few thugs who were making trouble on the streets, and no one has seen them since. Your sister's, ** attempt will be shot, so you can't split the body of five horses to grab a rock sugar gourd?
What Hu Xiaoyan wants is such an effect! In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was a "Peiyang University Hall" with great propriety, and only about 100 students graduated every year. And Cai Yuanpei fooled almost the entire graduating class to his Hu Xiaoyan's territory at one time! The density of college students on Hu Xiaoyan's territory cannot be found in the whole of China.
Every one of these people is not made of flesh and blood! Every single one of them is gold. Death is unacceptable to Hu Xiaoyan! Because the dead are worthless, the living college students can create value that is much heavier than their weight.
Hu Xiaoyan told everyone through this incident that if someone dares to touch this group of students, he will fight with whom!