The former Albany area, now Porter City, has at least the basic scale of the town after half a year of intense construction.! The heavy snow in winter has temporarily suspended the construction of the second phase of urban construction, and now that the Spring Festival is approaching, most of the construction area has been suspended, and countless building materials and construction machinery have been sealed and waiting for the beginning of spring.

From the perspective of military safety and urban drainage, the first phase of the construction of the urban area is located on a slope about 700 meters away from the Song River and only a dozen meters above the surrounding plains, and a circular mixed wood wall encloses this urban area covering an area of about 1,200 acres, including the later Cherry Ridge Park. To the east of the city, a walled avenue leads directly to the Song River Inland Wharf area. About 300 meters away from the northwest corner of the city is the military fortified area of the Army garrison in Porter City, a large military base large enough to accommodate a battalion sits on a slope that overlooks the entire Great Plains on the west bank of the Song River.

The southern slopes of the city or the coastal plains are scattered with small private farms belonging to the citizens of Porter, with a total size of only a few hundred acres, including cereals, fruit and vegetable plantations, and a number of livestock farms. Only a small number of them have been actually cultivated, and many more have been surrounded by a small fence without any actual development. The northern plain of the urban area and the other side of the Song River are a large area of large-scale farm planning areas belonging to the state-owned agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry group.

The first phase of agricultural development of the state-owned agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry group was as large as 30,000 mu and divided into 10 farms. But at present, this large-scale enclosure behavior once again applies to the "no matter how beautiful the plan" is, if it only stays on the drawings, then the plan is equal to nothing".

Of the 10 farms, only two smaller ones have been developed, covering an area of only about 4,000 acres. The progress of land ploughing, which began in autumn, was slow due to the lack of hired manpower. After the Mohoks withdrew from the area, the population of other Indian tribes that could be gathered was much smaller than expected, and in terms of civilization, they were clearly more backward than the Drava tribes, who had now adapted to modern life for a few years, and it was basically difficult for them to do any complex work other than digging the earth on their own. In this way, the area of land that can be really sown in Porter City after the beginning of spring is less than 5,000 acres, which is obviously a big difference from the original plan. In fact, everyone can see the problem, that is, the lack of execution and manpower.

Although the establishment of Porter City took a long year of debate and preparation, only about 800 citizens have settled here, about half of whom are old nationals who moved from other towns, and the number of new immigrants to Porter City in the second half of 1624 was less than 400.

The high proportion of old nationals also has certain advantages, at least from the beginning, the order of life here does not seem too unusual, and many Chinese and American ways of life can be passed on to new immigrants very smoothly, but this does not solve the problem of Porter's 1625 development plan.

Lin Chaoen, who is 30 years old this year, was a very ordinary assistant in the wharf construction unit before the catastrophe, and after the catastrophe, he is also recognized as an honest person in the construction team, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he did a period of time in Zhou Yi's government construction department to do the relevant engineering planning work in the urban area of the Long Island New Area of Manchester City, because he has a full set of planning and construction experience in the Long Island New Area of Manchester City from scratch, so the first mayor of Porter City, Prime Minister Qi Jianjun chose Lin Chaoen, What I like is his calmness and calmness in dealing with difficult periods of development.

But now, Lin Chaoen has obviously changed a lot from the calm image that people saw before. The reason is that the work problems he is currently encountering are more difficult than the construction of the Long Island New Area in Manchester.

Unlike the original Long Island New Area in Manchester, which was able to mobilize almost "national" forces to carry out construction, Porter City has designed a big booth from the beginning, but the actual construction force that can be provided is very stingy. Not to mention that the two major domestic construction companies have invested heavyweight construction forces as soon as they came, but with the development of the Atlantic Checkers plan, the operation and construction efforts of core strategic interests such as Guadeloupe Island will not be lower than that of Porter City.

The lessons learned from the natural environment in the Northern Campaign put the construction of water supply and drainage projects related to the towns in the first place, which consumed a considerable amount of man-hours, while the important work of reinforcing the embankments along the Song River before the beginning of spring has not yet begun. Lin Chaoen can only mobilize the voluntary labor of the citizens to tidy up the most critical areas little by little, and at least ensure the safety of the embankment in the inland wharf area.

In this way, the citizens of Porter City have become a temporary construction team, and the citizens who do not have real construction skills are busy, and the quality of the work is uneven. It wasn't until the local army garrison couldn't see it anymore and came to help that the progress was slightly accelerated.

The problem of the embankment was barely coped with, but several problems came up about the first winter in Porter: there was no comfortable housing, but there was a lack of all kinds of supplies to survive the winter!

First of all, the problem of heating, the climate of Porter City in the 17th century, due to the special natural climate and geographical environment, was far colder than other towns in the middle and lower reaches of the Song River. There are abundant forest resources in the surrounding area, and there are open-pit coal mines more than ten kilometers away in the north, but due to manpower and transportation constraints, it is not yet possible to directly obtain enough fuel to survive the winter.

Then there is the problem of the supply of daily necessities, the poor and white Porter City has started from scratch, and the transportation of construction materials has been put in the first place, but with the gradual expansion of the scale of population migration, the transportation of food and other daily necessities is bound to increase, so that it is difficult to achieve a balance in the transportation of materials every trip. This not only guides the construction progress of the town from the side, but also guides the supply of daily necessities to be loose and tight.

Finally, there is the medical problem, although Porter City Hospital is the first batch of municipal projects to be completed, it is still a small medical team of only a few people, and the whole beautiful hospital is frighteningly empty. Ills caused by the unadaptation to the environment of the upper reaches of the Song River appeared every day, and with the medical units of the army garrison, the meagre medical force in Porter City could not take care of everyone, and often minor ailments had to be transferred to West Point for treatment, especially for some pregnant families who had moved here.

The current city of Porter has almost no self-hematopoietic function, and the attention of domestic enterprises has shifted to Guadeloupe, and the timber processing plant in the south of the city still has only an unfinished building separation wall, not to mention that the first cement factory has not even seen a shadow now, and as a result, everything needs the support of inland river transportation from the south. Under the government's special subsidy policy, Porter City is like a new and beautiful refugee camp, every bag of flour, every piece of soap, every nail, every piece of honeycomb coal has to be transported to Porter City through the guò inland river fleet, as long as there is a slight problem in the allocation of inland river transportation capacity materials, the nerves of Porter City citizens will be tense instantly.

With all kinds of "painful" troubles, Lin Chaoen was there, and on the 26th of the month, he returned to the capital city by boat, and then went straight to the government office early on Monday morning, begging Prime Minister Qi Jianjun to convene a cabinet ministerial meeting to solve the current problems for Porter City.

Although the Spring Festival is less than two weeks away, the cabinet ministers have not slackened due to the more important Guadeloupe annexation plan, and they are working in full swing every day, rationing capacity, organizing materials, and arranging the national relocation planWhen Qi Jianjun walked into the conference room with the mayor of Porter City, Lin Chaoen, to announce the topic, a group of ministers looked at each other, and seemed to have forgotten that there was such a thing as Porter City.

Looking at the expressions of the ministers who suddenly realized, Lin Chaoen wanted to cry without tears. Uncle, did you really forget about Potter City?

Look at a certain seat, Su Zining, the initiator of the "Atlantic Checkers" plan, is still in the Azores. The scourge of formulating the annexation plan for Guadeloupe and directly directing the construction progress of the local city of Porte was delayed or even forgotten by the strict zhòng, so that Lin Chaoen had no one to vent to.

Look at Zhou Yi again, the Minister of Construction, who had stayed up for a week on the night shift and enthusiastically issued the "Butterfly Island Twin Ports Construction Plan", looked innocent, as if he couldn't remember it after the construction plan of Porter City came out of his hands "a long, long time ago".

Finally, look at the Minister of Immigration, Li Xiang, this pseudo-literary young man seems to be catching a cold, and he sneezes vigorously, but he doesn't look at Lin Chaoen properly.

"Dute City is the support point of our local strategic layout in the north, which is of great significance. In fact, this time it is not the problems of Porter City that are exposed, but ourselves. Qi Jianjun looked at the young ministers present with deep meaning, and said a conclusion that made people a little confused, and the person concerned, Lin Chaoen, was even more inexplicable.

"I used to be a deputy director-level cadre of the U Municipal Labor Bureau and the director of the Office of the Labor Inspection Center, and in the eyes of many people, this is a position where I drink tea all day long and do not do my job, doing trivial things to take the welfare of the state. Hehe, who would have thought that I could become the prime minister of a country in this new world? Qi Jianjun smiled self-deprecatingly, and the ministers around him also showed embarrassed smiles, "But I now feel that whether it was before or now, our work is still a trivial 'little thing'."

"In fact, our biggest burden is to constantly formulate processing process specifications for these trivial things, capture the causes of these trivial things and prevent them in advance. Only in this way will we have more time to do bigger things, to do things that interest us. ”

"The ancients said that governing a big country is like cooking small fresh. It means that you are in power like a chef in charge, grasping the salty and sweet tastes, adjusting the ratio of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and mastering the heat of frying and cooking to achieve just the right effect. But we can't just make our favorite dish, just make one dish, just for our own appetite to get it just right, instead of thinking about whether everyone likes the dish and whether everyone can eat enough.

"I can say unceremoniously, everyone here, except for Lao Zheng and Lao Tang, everyone else can't cook this dish. Because people pay too much attention to their own preferences, or can only concentrate on the things they are most interested in recently, without thinking about the next things, or even whether the things are done and done. ”

Defense Minister Zheng Quan and Minister of Civil Affairs Tang Ke, who were "praised" by the premier, both showed wry smiles and hurriedly waved their hands one after another. The other young ministers were all a little displeased.

"Hehe, said Yan zhòng? Need me give you some examples? Qi Jianjun took out an old small notebook from his pocket, turned the first page, and saw dense handwriting, it seemed that he had been writing for a long time.

Zhou Yi, how is the construction of the pilot project of civil biogas to the household planned in 1622? What is the feedback from the pilot users, whether it has the value of large-scale promotion, what technical problems need to be solved by relevant enterprises, how to arrange the relevant financial budget, and how to carry out the management of biogas projects in the future? Qi Jianjun looked at the small book and directly read the name of Zhou Yi, the Minister of Construction.

When Zhou Yi heard this, he was stunned, because this fact had been in place for too long. The pilot project for civil biogas has been in use for more than two years in the community of Crossing in the southern district of Manchester, and was originally designed to make it easier for people to live at home. However, Zhou Yi did not think deeply, or did not realize whether this kind of technology application project still has the value of national promotion, and the relevant management model after national promotion.

"Prime Minister, there were more things to do at that time, so it was delayed...,...,' Zhou Yi explained with a red face, and the others suddenly became nervous about the purpose of Qi Jianjun's small notebook.

"Well, so this dish, you just put it in the pot, you didn't taste the taste or anything, you didn't care about the customer's opinions after eating it, and you even turned off the heat before the dish was cooked." , Qi Jianjun said lightly, didn't look at Zhou Yi's expression, turned the second page again, and then turned his head to the Minister of Immigration, Li Xiang, "Xiao Li" Nian Ming's fleet of the state-owned import and export group that went to the Azores to trade in Angra Heromas, and several old European sailors said goodbye without saying goodbye, is it over? ’’

"Oh, it's been investigated, and at that time, the state-owned import and export group gave a large amount of bonuses, and it is estimated that they have made enough money, and they think it is about the same, so they leave. I was communicating with the Department of Homeland Security at the time and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Li Xiang quickly stood up and argued.

"You just saw that they made enough money and walked away, and then they didn't cause trouble? Then I ask you, what long-term benefits do these old sailors have for us if they stay in the country? They have been in the country for more than a year, why would they give up their life at home? They are old, they must have families in their old homes in Europe, they have been adrift for most of their lives, and they want to go back to be with their families, so has the immigration department considered taking the initiative to organize the immigration of their families in order to settle these experienced old sailors? Well, I know, you did arrange a few batches at the beginning, like Captain Adelaide on the Mayflower, and it worked well, but then what? Is there a long-term plan for the implementation of this policy, and is there any specific sustainable management model and legislation that needs to be established? Your immigration department doesn't just set a number every year and then divide people like tools. ’，

"Yes...... Prime Minister. , Li Xiang sat down dejectedly.

"And Liu Xin, your Ministry of Finance ......,',

Qi Jianjun flipped through the small notebook, and read the "black records" of most of the young ministers present almost next to each other, and suddenly everyone in the venue bowed their heads.

"Right now, 'Atlantic Checkers, it's hot, everybody is excited, it's very engaged. But don't forget, you're cabinet ministers, and your eyes are on the whole country. You're not playing a computer game, you're just looking at where your mouse is clicking. At present, when administrative manpower is still very scarce, and the administrative implementation and feedback mechanism is still very rough, many details of the country have not yet reached the stage where they can let go of themselves and operate normally. Li thinks that you have done almost everything, and there may be a group of immigrants who regret and disappoint in their hardship: if Zhou Yi takes a nap, he may cause the residents of a town to not be able to drink hot water all winter...,...',

"Now that the population of the whole country is not 10,000, and the cities and towns that can be counted with a slap, what kind of management methods and thinking models should we use to take care of the overall situation? Congress can complain that the country is growing too slowly, that the population is too small, and that the territory is too small, but you need to be clear about how big a plate you can manage. When the country's population reaches hundreds of thousands, millions, will it not be possible to watch the entire country's functions collapse? ’，

"When you engage in national construction, you are not just handing out contracts, doing things according to contracts like those enterprises, and you can leave when you are done, and you can complete the contract first when you have the most valuable contract, and you don't care about the important process of this contract to the country." ，

"The problem in Porter City is that everyone only pays too much attention to what they are interested in, and they had a big idea in the north at the beginning, but Su Zining was able to make your blood boil with one mouth last year, and immediately diverted his attention and rushed to the top. Feeling that corn was not as delicious as roast meat, he threw aside half of the corn he had eaten. You have big mouths and dare to eat, but I hope you chew it before swallowing it, consider the consequences of swallowing, and consider whether you will have a meal or not in the future. ’，

"Our government administrative manpower is limited, talent training is slow, so it is all the more necessary to reasonably distribute their own work content, develop the habit of looking at the overall situation and looking at the details at the same time, and do everything well and perfectly, which is the key. Later, this habit can be passed on to someone who can help you share the details. ’，

As soon as the call made the entire conference room quiet, even Lin Chaoen listened attentively, and seemed to have forgotten the purpose of his visit.

Old 10,000 years, Moonblade Day, Thursday.

On this day, the Cabinet of Ministers adjusted the development plan for Guadeloupe. Since the military progress of the military has not yet reached the ideal state, Guadeloupe does not yet have a safe environment for large-scale construction, and even if the construction project of relevant enterprises and national relocation is completed, it will not produce immediate results.

The weakened and even half-forgotten construction project of Porter City has been re-emphasized and readjusted. At the same time, a fleet of river boats loaded with daily necessities set off from the city of Manchester to ensure that the citizens of Porter City can spend a stable winter and Spring Festival, and can have a minimum of self-hematopoietic function in the calcium year, so that the government can immediately withdraw energy. (To be continued)

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