Regarding the handling of the funds for the payment of the first batch of Ming Dynasty immigrants in 1622, Foreign Minister Su Zining, in accordance with the content of the "Law on the Administration of State Civil Servants", took the initiative to request to be investigated on the grounds of ultra vires and dereliction of duty.

As a result of the vote in both houses, abstentions again appeared on a large scale, but there was not a single vote against it, because even if they were angry, no one was willing to publicly express their "unsatisfactoryness" to the immigration affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

Two days later, on April 4, 1622, after a fierce dispute, the Immigrant Mutual Tax Act was passed by the House of Representatives, and the Senate was extremely cautious in approving it, narrowly passing by a one-vote majority, and then Premier Qi Jianjun signed it into law.

The bill stipulates that all businesses must pay an additional 3% corporate immigration tax from that month; All residents of the United States of America who have temporary residency or higher and whose monthly income exceeds $15 are also subject to an additional 50 cents per month in the Individual Immigration Mutual Aid Tax.

This bill will allow the state to receive more than $200,000 a year in special funds outside the immigration budget, which is still not enough to cover the huge expenditure on immigration affairs, but it will still help, and it is a special financial project and is not included in the annual budget.

There are more than 400,000 funds left in the annual resettlement budget, and another 500,000 yuan is added to the temporary allocation, so that the reserve funds of the state treasury will be bottomed out, and the remaining 300,000 yuan of funds will be raised through the issuance of treasury bonds.

Everyone knows that the country's import and export trade to Europe is now bright, and the country's lack of money is only a temporary small problem. This batch of national bonds is simply a red envelope for everyone. The $500,000 three-year Treasury bond is very sought-after, and almost the vast majority of nouveau riche do not hesitate to sell, and the central bank counter is overcrowded.

The immigrants of the Ming Dynasty, who have the same roots and origins, are coming, and the clamor of nationalist complexes is suddenly flying all over the sky, and the people who have only recently experienced a hearing of abuse, suspicion and blood against corruption have a new direction of sentiment.

At present, it can only be regarded as a small state machine, and the state-owned construction group and the private Dongfang Construction Company have received a large number of urban construction contracts at the same time. Manchu City South, Long Island New Area, Outer Islands and West Point Town will all undergo infrastructure expansion projects.

Orders for steel, cement, timber and other raw materials flew into various enterprises like snowflakes, and the flying scissor merchant fleet under the state-owned import and export group, which had just returned to China, sailed to Europe again, and once again increased the order for two flying scissors merchant ships to the Beiyang Shipping Company. Moreover, it is a short-term contract to tighten the contract, and COSCO International Trading Company, which has obtained a loan from the central bank, also gritted its teeth and signed a contract for a flying scissor merchant ship. This qiē made Shi Yige and You Qi laugh from ear to ear, and the plan to build another slipway was also on the schedule.

In this way, by the end of this year, the state-owned import and export group plus the private COSCO International Trading Company will have a total of seven flying clipping merchant ships, which can theoretically import at least 4,000 tons of imported materials to the mainland every month, which is almost equivalent to the import volume of last year. Of course, transatlantic voyages must take into account the maintenance cycle of the vessel, and the safe operation cycle of each clipper merchant ship can only guarantee an average of 20 days a month at most.

Even so, the biggest bottleneck in material imports is no longer in our own capacity. If the European merchants were not diligent, they would not be able to fill the ships that arrived in the Azores Esgra Sansée-Marísmo every month.

The old sail Galen merchant ships will be phased out over the next two years and will be sold at a discount to the whaling fleet of the state-owned Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Group. The Mayflower, whose hull strength has become completely incapable of carrying out Atlantic voyages, will be converted into an inland steam-powered carrier to run West Point's freight. Because of Lin Youde's North Industries Company. In March, the manufacturing process of the 60 hp marine steam unit has been successfully solved. …,

Aside from the nearly 3,000 Native American employees, for a time, more than 2,000 European-American residents suddenly found themselves entering an unusually busy period, spurred by the promise of overtime bonuses, whether it was Long Island New District or West Point, or Silver Valley on the other side of the newly established West Point. In a short period of time, Yan zhòng fell in love with the European residents who are now living a stable and well-off life, and they are working very hard.

Tuesday, April 5, 1622.

Qingming Festival is the first batch of national legal holidays after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Perhaps the ancestral tablets of another historical time and space no longer have descendants to clean up the dust, but in this historical time and space, the people of this land are more like the ancestors and pioneers of a new race.

Still, people are looking for something to feel like on this traditional day.

A few kilometres north of the southern district of Manchester, deep in a forest near the banks of the Song River, the National Cemetery, which was renovated earlier this year, welcomed several young people.

Dozens of compatriots who died during the catastrophe are buried here, and now the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the forest breeze is blowing, and the snow-white tombstones are neatly standing in a green field.

Su Zining and Yuan Xinyi slowly walked through the path in front of the tombstone, and every time they passed a tombstone, Yuan Xinyi would take out a bouquet of flowers in his hand and gently put it in front of the tombstone, and then the two of them stood silently with their heads bowed for dozens of seconds, and then walked to the next tombstone.

Almost at the end, in front of the tombstone in front of him, someone has already "taken the lead", a young woman dressed in a plain skirt is kneeling in front of the tombstone, staring blankly at the handwriting on the monument, with a dull expression.

Not far from the woman, two men stood. One officer wearing the rank of Navy Lieutenant, Zhang Chunrui, director of artillery training at the Navy Command, and the other Dong Jiunan.

"It's Tong Yue......"

Yuan Xinyi recognized the woman kneeling in front of the tombstone at a glance. Now he has succeeded Li Lin as the head of the Children's Welfare Institute, former dance teacher Tong Yue.

"Su Zining, ...... you" Dong Jiunan saw that the couple also came to sweep the tomb today, and hurriedly greeted him, while gesturing a silent gesture on his lips, "Xiaoyue has been like this since last year, and she comes over almost every week. ”

"Well, I've heard of it. Zhang Chunrui, your fellow countryman is also concerned, why, didn't you go to sea for training? Su Zining and Dong Jiunan are already very familiar, and there are not many polite words, but they chatted with Zhang Chunrui for the first time.

The two did not have much to do with each other, but they were both the kind of people who admired each other, especially Zhang Chunrui was the only officer with professional experience in the use of artillery, and the current naval artillery training subjects were all materials written by him alone.

"Hehe, specific leave, today is the Qingming Festival, accompany Xiaoyue to take a walk." Zhang Chunrui took off his military hat embarrassedly, looked back at the young woman who was still sitting in front of the tombstone, and sighed deeply, "It's been almost a year, if she continues like this, people will step over." ”

Su Zi watched quietly for a while, slowly walked to Tong Yue's side, lowered his body, and put all the remaining flowers in his hand in front of the tombstone.

Two words are written on the tombstone: Tong Yang. A young man who had died in the Battle of Pecot in West Point a year earlier had traveled to West Point as a construction mechanic.

It has been a year since Qiao Daqiang's incident, and the three traversers who died in the war, except for one soldier, were all involved in the rape of the Indian girl at that time. The true story of the war was largely known only to the members of the community council at the time.

It is said that this Tong Yang was buried in the rubble on the day of the catastrophe, and it was Dong Jiunan who worked hard to save him, and even almost died of hemorrhage.

"Tong Yang, my sister shouldn't let you be a construction mechanic, you have been timid since you were a child, and you don't even dare to kill chickens, how can you go to war with the Indians......"...,

Tong Yue muttered a string of words, and by the end, it was already inaudible. As if seeing the flowers handed by others, Tong Yue turned her head and smiled politely, her pale face showing the sluggish mental outlook of the owner of the body.

"Tong Yue, Tong Yang is a great guy, without him, this country would not have today's stable life." Su Zining glanced at Dong Jiunan beside him and whispered softly.

"But he's only 18 years old! Why did you let him go at that time?! Do we lack a big man, and we have to let a child go to war? ”

Tong Yue stood up and quietly looked at the two "big men" in front of her, one was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the other was a member of the House of Representatives and the president of a state-owned construction engineering company.

"Xiaoyue, you're tired, go home and rest!"

Zhang Chunrui, who was on the side, saw that the situation was a little wrong, and hurriedly walked over and protected the woman who seemed to be able to be blown down by a gust of wind.

"Sister Xiaoyue, I'll accompany you home!" Yuan Xinyi also hurriedly walked over and grabbed Tong Yue's arm.

The three of them gradually moved away, and Su Zining and Dong Jiunan looked at each other.

"Brother Su, you were wronged in the last congressional hearing! Roaring about European trade and Ming Dynasty immigration, one is more exciting than the other, let them run, all fucking turtles! "Dong Jiunan is one of the people who fully support Su Zining, and Dong Jiunan almost beat a few people who were messing around in the parliament a few days ago.

"Everyone will be wronged, maybe they really didn't wronged me, I'm a little too self-righteous." Su Zining smiled awkwardly. sighed deeply, squatted in front of Tong Yang's tombstone again, gently touched the handwriting on the stone tablet, and the smile on his face slowly solidified.

"They have only the time of death, but not the date of birth, and then our descendants will ask us, how shall we answer? The fear and cowardice in our hearts are not only our own identity, but also our own birthday. Now, we only know how to die in the future, but we don't know how to live in the future. What will be lost in the future will be more than a life......"

After saying it inexplicably, Su Zining stood up and left, leaving Dong Jiunan alone looking at the tombstone, not understanding the meaning of the other party's words. (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )