Experiencing the current situation of the new revolutionary area without hindrance is itself a plan of action that Zhang Zhidong had originally prepared.

Since he wants to hand over the two lakes peacefully, step down with dignity, and exchange for another way of Yang Hao in return, he can't just throw things away in a hurry. As a top bureaucrat, you must make every detail perfect, and you must not let people find flaws and criticize them later.

Therefore, he had to thoroughly understand the situation of the new revolutionary zone and see if it was as good as they had been propagated and whether it could meet the basic conditions in his mind.

This kind of micro-service private interview is honestly very taboo. Everyone is playing politics, and they all know that the propaganda of this thing must be praised as good as it is very colorful, and if you have to investigate it thoroughly, it will only make both sides look bad on their faces.

Zhang Zhidong also has no choice, in fact, he has already made a prediction in his heart, as long as the situation is almost passable, he can't afford to use the standard of "three generations of governance, peace and prosperity".

Since ancient times, no one has been able to do it, so thinking about it is purely to make yourself uneasy.

Yang Hao's instructions, Ding Weifen did the implementation, and completely let Lao Zhang go to see and listen to it. Such an open attitude aroused the Governor's competitive spirit. I don't believe that you have nothing wrong with you!

The old man blew his beard and glared, and pouted and led a large group of followers to pass the hula and officially enter the new area. Outside the gate of the quickly patchwork board building, a boring noise rushed to the face, and a warm atmosphere that was completely inconsistent with the chill of the sky was surging, and everyone was flickering in their hearts for a moment. It's like being in another world.

Huang Xing's eyes widened. Looking at the situation ahead in disbelief!

But I saw that it was only across a 10-meter-wide road. A row of barbed wire fences stretched out in both directions along the riverbank, spreading out in sight. On the side that is isolated, there is a construction site of unknown size. The ground was dug by steam machinery into large trenches, countless large pits, and hundreds of steam trucks slowly emitted billowing smoke, transporting buckets of several tons of dirt.

Inside and outside the construction site, thousands of workers are busy. In the cold, they only wore thin gowns. The whole body is steaming, like a steamed bun steamer. There is a leader holding a dry-cell amplifier and roaring hoarsely in half-baked Mandarin. Although he did not have a whip in his hand, he suddenly reminded people of the barbarian officials who had driven the people to serve in labor since ancient times!

Zhang Zhidong was angry first.

Although similar scenes have always been indispensable in the places under his rule, and even in most of the river construction projects, there are soldiers with knives and guns to maintain order. As soon as someone tries to get something like "one eye of the stone man", immediately kill the killer to prevent it from spreading. But that's the "old society" after all, isn't it? Since you claim to be a new dynasty and rule in a civilized manner, you still want to engage in this set of deeds that brutalize the people of Li. It's too much!

Zhang Zhidong snorted coldly, pointed to the construction site and scolded: "When it's cold. Before the first month of the new year, forcibly driving the people to serve this hard labor, how is it what a civilized and prosperous world should do? ”

The old man raised his feet and was about to go over to theorize, but Huang Xing on the side saw something different after a glance, and hurriedly stopped: "Slow down, adult, there may be unknown internal reasons for this matter." From the student's point of view, these laborers are uniformly dressed, work diligently and consciously, and do not hide from laziness and perfunctory, as if they were forcibly driven to work and rest. ”

Zhang Zhidong said: "That's not the overseer watching, they have to get from?!" ”

After saying that, he also vaguely felt that something was not quite right.

Since ancient times, when the government drove civilians to serve labor, they always brought their own clothes and even tools. Because there is not much benefit from work, but no one cares about it when they are tired and sick, so most of them can be delayed, and they can be lazy, and no one will make themselves half dead. Once the body is damaged, it will only make the family more miserable.

On the other hand, looking at the things in front of them, lest they be tired and desperate, don't look at the loud shouts of the overseers on the side, the workers don't seem to be affected much. The coordination of clusters and groups is smooth, and they shout neat slogans from time to time, and the movement is clearly the grand scene of the school's military training!

…… Can't figure it out!

Standing here and guessing blindly can't get the real situation after all, Zhang Zhidong is also a practical person, and he went straight to the edge of the barbed wire fence on the other side of the road.

The youngest Liu Kuo shouted loudly to the nearest laborer to come over, and asked, "Dare to ask this brother, why do you come here to work in the wind and cold without resting in the first month?" Could it be that the revolutionary junta forced you to do it? ”

During the New Year's month, everyone doesn't work. Especially in the cold in the north, it is even more in the cat winter, who will come out to find guilt?

Unexpectedly, the laborer in his early twenties glared at them fiercely, and shouted, "It's you foolish scholars again!" I don't understand the body of the matter and shout! We are all willing to come out to work, who said that the government is forcing us? Go away, go away, don't delay us to earn centimeters! Real, blind delay! ”

The laborer was very reluctant to be disturbed, but because of the helplessness and unhappiness of having to cooperate with passers-by to ask, he replied rudely, regardless of whether people understood it or not, turned his head and pedaled briskly to the construction site, and dug hard.

"How so?"

The crowd was dumbfounded, too unusual, right? We are a group of scholars, we are still famous talents, and there is one of the few governors in the world! One of your civilians doesn't ask, and he doesn't look at it, and he prevaricates, is there any rules, is there a royal law?!

No matter how enlightened people are in this era, the distinction between superior and inferior is engraved in the bone marrow. Almost without thinking, he was annoyed and angry at the rudeness of the laborer.

Zhang Zhidong pointed to the back of the man leaving and said angrily: "Look, look!" It has only been a year since this place fell into the hands of the revolutionary army, and it has become so popular that I don't know what to do! If China becomes such a rude and uncivilized place in the future, won't it make the world laugh? How could my dignified state of Chinese etiquette end up like that! ”

Everyone was afraid that the old man would be angry, so they hurriedly comforted him. The oldest, Tan Renfeng, is a senior member of the "Huaxing Club". I once went to Tianjin to participate in training. The most detailed knowledge of the entire course and policies of the revolutionary government.

He stepped forward to stop Zhang Zhidong. explained with a smile: "The pot is slow and angry, and it is difficult to say what the truth is based on the appearance of one person." Unexpectedly, this person is just tired and angry, and he is irritable and temperamental, and it is possible to be rude for a while. Why don't you ask more about what you're watching? ”

Zhang Zhidong is actually not really angry. His cultivation in the city government is already difficult for people and things to make him really emotional. That kind of expression is just a proper display of one's attitude. When he waved his sleeves, he kept a cold face and didn't say anything.

The group walked along the barbed wire fence, and not far away they found a gap in the portal. Someone in a thick cotton coat stood guard on the side.

This time, Huang Xing went over to ask, but saw that the young guard was bored and said: "I have to answer the same questions as you people all day long, and I will be criticized when I go back with a bad attitude - I knew that I would rather be transferred to the bandit combat unit." Okay, okay, I know what you think, so let me tell you, these laborers are organized by the engineering team and the engineering company, they have to rush to complete the work, as long as the progress can be completed, everyone can get double wages, and rewards! This is not forced by the government. It's regular building construction! Each of them has labor insurance and a basic salary. In line with the principle of more work and more rewards. As long as you are willing to contribute, you can make more money! You say, can he do it without playing hard? ”

Although the attitude is not respectful, it is detailed enough. Huang Xing was skeptical, but it matched what he had seen in newspapers and publications.

The new government implemented a top-down collective organization structure for labor, and everyone, whether they were migrant workers, farmers or builders, had their own national organization. There are trade unions to guarantee their rights and interests, and there are also relevant training institutions to conduct management assessments on them. When I go out to work, I also use the company or engineering team as the basic unit and work together.

In this way, it completely broke the previous tradition that the crowd was controlled by the clan and the family and the country were divided. All were emancipated from the family clan and brought together in a national ladder organization.

Children are inherently valuable assets of the state, and no family can lynch them at will. It must be registered and supervised by the health department throughout the growth process. Vaccinations are given at birth, nurseries and kindergartens are required when they are older, and nine years of compulsory education are required for young children and teenagers. Anyone who dares to abuse a child will be punished by law, and may even take the child away and place them in another place.

Under the persecution of the original difficult life, it doesn't matter if the child is born or dies, and it is the norm to sell the child in the disaster year, and it is not said that the pain is to die or live when it is abducted. It's all because life is difficult, adults can't survive, who can take care of children?

But now that every child has become a treasure and can receive universal education, it has become the hope of changing life and destiny in the future, and of course we must hold on to it.

However, there are conditions for this. If you want to get the benefits, you have to let go.

When adults participate in the workforce, they must first be subject to the jurisdiction of the education department, the labor department, the trade union, and the organization to which they belong, and their rights and obligations go hand in hand. The elders of the clan have no right to lynch them at will, let alone deprive them of their labor income and legal property at will.

The world, which turned out to be covered by the patriarch and patriarch, was completely shattered. Even if they weren't happy, their arms couldn't twist their thighs. Young people have a new organization to rely on, who wants to be controlled by the rules and regulations of the old guys? This is a revolution through and through!

In such a peaceful year, the promoters will definitely die without a place to be buried.

However, the revolutionary military government came by taking advantage of the general situation, first sweeping away a reactionary movement with military force, and then liquidating the local tyrants and inferior gentry with land reform. The remaining landlord clan forces had no way to resist at all, and had to cooperate under the bloody shock. They missed the best time to fight, but when they came back to their senses, the big picture was decided.

After the general public tasted the sweetness, the influence of the gentry sect elder seemed insignificant.

Huang Xing knew a lot, so he immediately believed it after listening to the answer.

But others don't see it that way. Ma Fuyi glared and stepped forward and asked, "According to what you said, they are all willing to do more and more, so why do they have overseers shouting on the side?" It's obvious that they're not allowed to be lazy, right? ”

The reason why he organized the Elders' Association was just because the majority of people at the bottom were exploited and oppressed, so they had to huddle together to keep warm. Otherwise, it won't be in just a few years. Tens of thousands of people gathered. In his experience. There's no such thing as a good thing that you get more money if you work more. It's usually you who do more. In the end, the benefits are all for the foreman to be greedy.

The guard scoffed, "You think that's the overseer?" The gang of bullhorns are staring at the laborers not to make reckless mistakes, greedy and greedy to disrupt the labor order, and to prevent them from being injured by mechanical accidents! You have to know that once the detachment under their jurisdiction messes up the order and affects the progress, or is bumped, they will be fined! It's not supervision, it's protection. Do you understand? ”

"Gah?! And this kind of good thing? ”

Ma Fuyi opened his mouth and stammered, with a collapsed expression of a completely subverted worldview.

Since ancient times, in all the organic labor of all dynasties, the image of the overseer is that of greedy and cruel villains, armed with whips, knives and guns, and brutally driving the people to work tirelessly.

Why did they all drop today? I can't figure it out!

However, Big Ma is not as easy to fool as ordinary simple-minded people, and he suddenly thought in a blink of an eye, maybe this kid was specially arranged here. It's a similar statement to every inquirer, to fool people around.

Zhang Zhidong was silent. Indifferently, he slowly looked at the situation of the construction site as far as his vision could see, and did not make any judgment on the questions and answers of several people. After a moment, he suddenly asked, "It seems that a railway station is being built here?" ”

The guard smiled and replied, "You're so accurate!" It's not just a train station, it's a dock. At most, by next year, the railway from Beijing to Pukou will be able to open to traffic. In a few years, there will be a railway bridge across the Yangtze River, connecting the north and the south. When the time comes, maybe there will be a 10,000-mile railway from Guangzhou to Northern Xinjiang, and even to North Korea! Hehe, that's called the Ten Thousand Miles Journey, how spectacular! ”

He had a proud and joyful expression, but everyone couldn't help but yearn for it.

A bridge flies north and south, and the moat becomes a thoroughfare. Since then, the rivers can no longer be an obstacle, and it is only two days and nights of work from south to north. That's not just a thousand miles a day, but an exaggerated speed of 5,000 miles a day! The whole country will be truly unified throughout the Qin and Han dynasties for more than 2,000 years, and the country will be truly unified!

As a top bureaucrat, Zhang Zhidong once received the new government's railway construction plan. In that vast blueprint, in the next 50 years, China's railways will be built hundreds of thousands of kilometers, not only connecting every province, but also running through every frontier in all directions! Even in the end, it will connect the entire Eurasian continent in one go, and the railway tour will be far and wide!

Such grandeur is unprecedented!

You want to say that Yang Hao is bragging, but people have really done it! When a new area is developed, a railway artery will be built. In just three years, it has reached North Korea in the north, the Yangtze River in the south, Jiaozhou in the east, and Tongguan in the west.

There is even a straight line, is from Shanghai to Jiangning in the north, a year later, you can start from the Huangpu River, across the south of the Yangtze River, the long dragon north across the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the water, straight to the outside of the Saiwai!

At that time, there will be an iron bridge not only between Jiangning and Pukou, but also between Zhenjiang and Guazhou! There is an iron bridge in Anqing, and there is an iron bridge between Wuhan!

The long iron and steel dragon spans the north and south, intercepting the river and breaking the flow of the general sky-high arrogance, using millions of tons of steel and cement and other idle things, who can compare with such a handicraft?

Thinking of the scene at that time, Zhang Zhidong couldn't help but be in a trance for a while. If this great cause can really be accomplished, even if Yang Hao suddenly dies, he will definitely become a peerless great man who will be praised for eternity! What a majestic strategy this is, to have such a great deal of time!

Regardless of whether the guard was sincerely arranged, Zhang Zhidong had no intention of continuing to entangle. He nodded, and led the group on their way.

When the guard saw them walking, he reminded in a loud voice: "Hey, gentlemen, you'd better take a car or hire a car, otherwise there is still a long way to Jiangpu, and it is all a construction site!" ”

It's okay if he doesn't shout, but when he says this, Zhang Zhidong comes to the spirit instead. It's possible for you to block a construction site at a port and show it to others. But from Pukou to Jiangpu is so far that it is more than ten miles, if it is a construction site, how many people do you have to use to put on a show? Even if you want to deceive people, you can't make such a big investment!

The old man straightened up and walked straight forward with his head held high. walked out of Sanlidi in one breath, but still did not get out of the station wharf construction area.

How did he know that as the www.biquge.info of Biqu Pavilion built as a bridge, and the end of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, there must be a large station, a large wharf, a large warehouse area, and even a complex of large industrial areas! The construction site, which covers an area of several square kilometers, is the minimum, and with the walking of his seventy-year-old man, how can he see the end in a moment and a half?

Zhang Zhidong usually carries a sedan chair when he goes in and out, and the soles of his feet are not even contaminated with much mud. Now I have to walk a long way, even if I have a physique that has been boiled up, it is a little difficult to resist.

Li Yuanhong and the other attendants couldn't watch the old man get tired, so they hurriedly ordered the guards to hurry back and hire a steam minibus, which could be driven by firewood and grass and drove over with the noise of billowing smoke releasers, picked up people, and continued to walk slowly along the smooth and wide road. Anyway, the person who hired the car gave double the money, and the owner did not worry about wasting time.

Just drove out for four or five kilometers, and finally got out of the big construction site, and not far in front of it was an isolated construction area. The difference is that there are soldiers and guards with loaded guns and ammunition, and those who are working are actually mixed with a lot of foreigners, all of them are yellow and thin, wearing tattered clothes, wielding shovels? Head slow work.

Zhang Zhidong was shocked and patted the car window and shouted, "Wow! What else does it say about human rights equality? And how is this explained?! (To be continued......)

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