Chapter 36: A New Home
In the barracks, it was this group of "cattle-dragging machines" that gave Elta's officers and men perfect livelihood - hot bread and soup to soothe the stomach of the abused dry food; There is hot water for washing and soaking the soles of the limbs and feet that have been blistered during the day and slightly bruised; Of course, the lights that illuminate the camp and the radio tower that rises high inside the camp are no problem. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the flat camp square, the soldiers and officers of the Sujiao Army and the Erta Marine Corps sat in a circle on the ground, and in the middle happened to be Eufe Mondridge playing the harmonica, and the melodious music of the harmonica was transmitted to every corner of the camp along with the radio tower, giving spiritual comfort to the officers and soldiers who had been tired all day.
As a "commander-in-chief," since he does not play the harmonica badly, showing a pro-people side in literary and artistic activities is conducive to the unity within the army. It is precisely for this reason that today's observation group, the director's department, and even the Chinese instructors all went down to the soldiers who set up camp on the beach and ate and slept with them.
In the car leaving the barracks, Wolfe's thoughts had not yet left the barracks—the big-headed officers ate and slept with the soldiers, something that she knew was absolutely impossible. And it was precisely this impossibility that finally bought the hearts of the people of the Sujiao Army, making them willing, and even rushing to the islands to liberate their relatives and compatriots who were still suffering.
"The reason why the Sujiao army is allowed to use spear shields is purely because of training problems, and if there is a condition and demand, it is not a big problem to let them use gunpowder weapons. The way we get the Elta to come into compliance is not by force, and these Lancas are exactly the same to us, so it makes no difference. ”
This was the answer she received when she asked the Chinese officers in the Sujiao Army if they had questions about the weapons of the Sujiao Army. When she spoke, the young officer, whom she had never known, was wearing nothing more than an inconspicuous automatic pistol, which seemed to her to be nothing more than a decoration if the Lancas of the Cult Army suddenly rose up and attacked him and tried to kill him.
"Sit tight, it's better to wear a seat belt." The caravan who picked her up turned his head and said, "The dirt road ahead has just been washed off the surface by the rising river, and it may be a little bumpy. ”
Where in the past did the Elta Empire have such a wide enough road for four carriages to run parallel at the same time? Wolf couldn't help but smile lightly as he recalled the bumpy ride in the Klough carriage in the past. Nowadays, the damage of this road surface is really not worth mentioning in the face of the cushioning of the leaf spring suspension.
Turning the front of the car from the broken corner, the front windshield reflects the beautiful scenery of the city that never sleeps in the port of Hirzi and the city of Hilqi - the spotlights and searchlights illuminated on various construction sites make the building and the tower crane bright at this time, and the pillars of light shoot into the night sky in unison or obliquely, creating a beautiful stepped chromatic difference on the clouds.
Since she was not suitable for living, eating, and sleeping with officers and soldiers (both the Elta Army and the Sujiao Army did not recruit any form of female soldiers for the time being), she had to return to the Seaview Hotel in the city of Hirzi to continue her temporary stay. Of course, this is also the result she wants—anyone who has seen the prosperity of Hilqi will most likely inevitably become addicted to it and leave without taking a step......
All the Ertas and Lancas, including Wolff, will understand more or less after seeing and experiencing the spectacle in front of them that only the Chinese can create a prosperous city like the New Hilzi (as opposed to the old Hilzi on the other side of the river) and give them a new and comfortable life—and moreover, their basic dignity as human beings begins anew here.
Within this framework, even the original "enemy people" have no motivation to resist at all. These people from another world did not come to exploit them and eliminate them in the first place - the bilunar planetary industrialization plan is fundamentally a mutually beneficial and win-win situation, and the refugees who came to Lancas Island on the continent of Elta can quickly understand this truth from being able to eat refugee porridge to eating workers' meals, so what reason do they have to engage in unnecessary, motive, and unsuccessful political and metallurgical struggles, economic struggles and armed struggles with the Chinese and the Elta people who have already embarked on the right path?
Before the Chinese "subverted" here, the vast majority of them were pigs under the two major systems of "empire" and "church". If it is necessary for them to resist, then the reason is simple - the arrival of the Chinese has made them live a life worse than pigs.
After recalling the "land compensation workers" and former nobles who caused explosions and shootings in the newspapers a few days ago, and even tried to rebel and support the emperor to overthrow the current Elta imperial government or overthrow the emperor and the current government to establish a "serf-owning autocratic regime", Wolf finally understood why the Chinese would be so relieved that the soldiers of the Elta Army would pick up guns, and even the soldiers of the Sujiao Army should pick up guns - because what they defend is exactly what these soldiers want to defend. What reason do comrades who are advancing side by side for the same goal raise their guns against each other? Not at all! Only those who have stolen the rights and interests of the vast number of people and made them "pigs", but they themselves live a life of human beings, will be afraid of the day when everyone will become human again, because they will only be cut in this way!
It is precisely because of the parallel progress and the same goal that the Elta people are able to live and work side by side with the refugees who have been displaced and settled here across the ocean on the island of Lancas, and the new Hilzi is not only known as the gateway to the ocean because of the geographical location of the coastal estuary, but also the name of the new Lancas in later generations, on the one hand, because the visitors from the sea feel that the prosperous scenery of Hilzi is similar but more than the main island of Lancas, and on the other hand, it is also because the city has a very strong exotic atmosphere from the beginning of its construction.
For these refugees sent by the bimonthly church ship, the Chinese set up a quarantine area at the port as usual, and used fifteen days of porridge with bran grains (bran supplements the vitamin group, and the antibiotics and vitamins added to the porridge are medicines, which can reduce food consumption) and quarantine screening to reorganize these refugees into order and productivity, and then they will be arranged to their most suitable posts according to their own strengths and abilities, and exchange their own hands for a mouthful of food and clothing. It's just like the refugees who came to Mendong two years ago.
It doesn't take much culture or cost, and anyone can contribute to industrialization with their own labor after a complete pre-job training (old and new).
Wolff's green jeep soon pulled off the main road into the city of Hirzi - on the construction site next to the street, where she could see the Lancas refugee laborers working with Elta's welders to tie the rebar - bundling the rebar, carrying building materials horizontally, plastering the walls on cement bricks, these jobs did not require a level of education at all, but they were indeed the cornerstone of industrializing the whole world and multiplying its productivity.
Even at eight o'clock in the evening, they still worked in three shifts, and the mixture of sweat, dust and sea breeze had a Tyndall effect under the searchlight, which looked particularly beautiful.
Of course, this is the scene of some new towns outside the port city. As the car drove a little further in, the shipyard's tall gantry cranes and suspension bridges appeared on both sides of the road - even the road on which the car itself traveled was a concrete viaduct built over the rail transport yard between the shipyard and the steel mill, and Wolf was pleasant to watch while staring at the red anti-collision lights on the gantry ceiling while blowing the evening breeze from the skylight.
Today, Hilzi is a port and trading city on the one hand, and the largest industrial complex in the eastern part of Elta. The precise distribution of the Magic Powder Boiler Thermal Power Plants makes up the supply mix of the city's civil power grid, but the critical power supply is still mined from the interior of Elta and imported cheap coal from the other side of the portal - undoubtedly, the force that drives the endless fleet of machines beneath Wolff's feet: industrial electricity.
From the power plant and the shipyard to the stations, substations, machine factories and workpiece factories, there was no difference in the eyes of the well-read Wolfe - except for the feeling that there was a sense of indescribability, the same tracks, chimneys, condensers, power towers, and factories seemed to her to be exactly the same creation, and indeed only insiders could tell what was what.
Even the liberators of different sizes lying on the dock and open waterways along the shoreline, she couldn't see why. But it is precisely in these shipyards and various industrial lands that traces of Lancas (refugees) can still be found, which is probably impossible for her to imagine.
The trained former Lancas blacksmith is already holding pneumatic tools to process bolts and connect steel plates with the assistance of a torsion meter - his work will be patrolled by veteran workers of the quality inspection team and random supervision and random inspection, which is related to his salary and job, and he naturally does not dare to slack off; His wife, who had run a bakery, was now making bread for the night shift workers under strict induction protocols and sterilization, her hair wrapped in a hood, her nails trimmed to the shortest possible length, and covered with a layer of rubber gloves......
Their young children are working on the day's homework with their classmates under the supervision of Elta's female teacher. I saw her diligently holding the pen assembled in Mendong City, and copying the text taught today in the workbook:
"Make the best use of your talents and make the best use of your resources."