Historically, most place names in North America have been derived from Indian languages, such as Massachusetts, which came from the name of an Indian tribe located here in the early colonial era, which originally meant "a large hillside."

The first European settlers to come to Massachusetts were in 1620 on the famous galleon Mayflower, and the Protestant Puritans established the first colony on the shores of Cape Cod Bay, just south of Massachusetts Bay.

The Puritans were Calvinists in England, and they also embodied the revolutionary and militant nature of Calvinism, which for a long time led them to exceptionally reject other Protestant denominations. Thus, in the colonial history of Massachusetts, this sectarian exclusion led to a large number of decentralized independent developments, which invisibly expanded and accelerated the colonization process in Massachusetts.

The revolutionary and militant teachings of the Puritans, who passed on to their offspring the genes of bravery and fierceness, gave the new North American nation a violent color in its gestation. The building of Christ's Kingdom and the recourse to violence were two of the excitements on the minds of the founders of the new kingdom, and they soon grew a few settlements along the Atlantic coast into thirteen states, and then from the thirteen states in the early days of the state, to vast states connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and established democratic republics in these areas that they believed were the embodiment of Christ.

Unlike most of the other Catholic colonial powers in Europe, which had a national power guideline, throughout the 17th century, the predominantly Protestant colonists of England and North America expressed more of a spontaneous and conscious expansion: "As long as you can feel better, you can take your family to choose a new land and nail down a stake, even if it requires a battle." "The strength and perseverance of colonial expansion was unusually strong, and in this respect the Netherlands, which was also a Protestant country, had a similar expression.

October 1, 1625. Wednesday. National day.

Today is the fifth founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Due to the urgent need for rest and recuperation of the officers and soldiers who had been withdrawn from Guadeloupe East, the customary National Day parade was regrettably cancelled. However, according to the regulations, flag-raising ceremonies and related celebrations should be carried out in cities and towns across the country, and the distribution of similar holiday vouchers has become the most anticipated festival welfare for every citizen.

As a key festival. In addition to the benefits issued by each enterprise itself, the state should also make up for some of them. For this reason, the new Minister of Civil Affairs, Wei Zhen, had to take out $30,000 from the tight Ministry of Civil Affairs funds to fill this national welfare "hole".

Wei Zhen, a former female university village official, is 28 years old since she crossed over. When he served as the deputy of the former Minister of Civil Affairs Tang Ke, he accumulated considerable work experience. What makes people "sad and indignant" is that no matter how pure the working relationship is, it is difficult to resist the long-term relationship between lonely men and widows, and finally Wei Zhen, who is mediocre, married Tang Ke, who is 12 years older than him, in September this year. After Tang Ke became the first typical sullen man to eat tender grass, he also resigned voluntarily to comply with the provisions of the "State Civil Servant Supervision Law" that the same family members are not allowed to serve in the same government department.

Tang Ke, an experienced former Minister of Civil Affairs, officially transferred to the position of Governor of Song State and Mayor of Manchu City after his resignation, and continued to use his best ability to handle civil affairs and miscellaneous affairs. Anyway, more than 80% of the country's population is in Songzhou, so his daily work is mostly similar to the previous work of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. And Zhou Yi, who was also the Minister of Construction, the Governor of Songzhou and the Governor of Manchurian, was moved this time. Finally, I can concentrate on my own work.

Then again, Finance Minister Liu Xin is said to have expressed a headache over this flood of national festival benefits. What was supposed to be a temporary measure to stimulate domestic consumption has now become a huge burden. On several important festivals this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs subsidized as much as $200,000 in national holiday benefits, accounting for half of the annual budget of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The state's annual revenues are bullish, and according to current estimates, the total state revenues in 1625 will exceed the $10 million mark, but the fiscal pressure has not eased much. The reason for this lies in the large-scale construction investment in several new towns.

In the past few years, the "national mobilization" model, which often involves millions of people, has made the construction of several colonization towns full of enthusiasm for the "power of the whole country" and "high and complete". Shuangwan City on Bermuda Island, Twin Ports City on Butterfly Island, and Porter City in Songzhou are such products, which are naturally the most recognized national centralized development model by those who are accustomed to "paternalistic" management.

However, the difficulty is that this model requires extremely high organizational coordination and high-intensity investment, and for a toddler China and the United States, it seems that in many respects it surpasses the personal organizational ability of the rulers and the immature manpower and material resources of the country, and the phenomenon of execution errors and waste of funds frequently appears.

Bermuda's Shuangwan City spent $700,000 on the original construction, and by the time of the city's anniversary, the state financial investment had been close to $1 million, and up to now, the city's population was more than 1,300 people; Songzhou Porter City, as the core layout of the north and the center of gravity of agriculture, lasted a year and a half of national financial investment reached 1.2 million US dollars, up to now, the city's total population is only more than 1,500 people, due to the impact of the "Atlantic Checkers Plan", the city's first phase of construction projects can only be finished in the summer of this year, "careful layout" is only on paper, and the actual development and construction process is the most unsuccessful; Butterfly Island Twin Harbor City, due to the special financial arrangement, does not worry about the continuation of funds, in addition to military expenses, because of the distance from the mainland, the cost is higher, the current state finance has smashed into 1.3 million US dollars, the urban construction is only at the end of the first stage, the population is just over 1,000 people.

Such a costly development of towns is obviously not a good phenomenon. On the other hand, the construction and development process of several typical towns, West Point, Silver Valley and Jersey Town, is much more "small and profitable".

Even after the bloody Pecot War and the Mohok War, the total investment of the national treasury in a year was only 200,000 US dollars, and now the population has reached more than 2,300 people, and it has become the largest town in the country in terms of local economic strength except for the capital Manchester. The annual contribution to the national treasury is a staggering $1 million!

Silvervalley Town is even less. Within a year of the town's founding, the state treasury spent less than $120,000. It can be called the most stingy national colonization and construction town, and now the population has reached more than 1,200 people, and it is also a characteristic town with a sound operation, and the annual financial revenue for the country can reach 300,000 US dollars.

Jersey Town is also different from the two places mentioned above. Almost the state has not seriously invested much in the construction of the town, this town is completely a spontaneous formation of the state-owned agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry group farms and former Indian trading posts as the center, the official settlement of more than 3,200 people, its "inexplicable" and "logical" growth history is very classic. Relying on the name of the "temporary first" agricultural town. So far, it has only been half a year since its official establishment, and it has contributed $350,000 to the state treasury.

Although the speed of population expansion and economic development is slightly lower than that of the country's key urban construction, it is less expensive, gradual and self-development, and the pace of self-development is good.

Of course, from the perspective of the country's core strategic interests in the future, Porter City, Bermuda's Twin Bay City and Butterfly Island Twin Ports City belong to the core strategic layout. But it's a terrible fact in the truest sense of the word.

As early as the end of June, when the National Assembly was deliberating the "Draft for the Construction of the Haizhou Administrative Region," some people raised the above question. If every local town had to be like Double Bay, Twin Ports or Porter. Not only will the development of the local colonization layout be very slow, but the national finances will not be able to withstand this kind of continuous behavior of "tall and complete" smashing at one time.

The original intention and purpose of the construction of Shuangwan City in Bermuda have their own particularities, and its construction experience may not be fully applicable to the colonization and construction of each surrounding area of the whole country. When it comes to local development, why can't we continue to replicate examples like West Point? Based on a small-scale foothold, the combination of early layout and gradual development allows the colonization towns to grow on their own at a benign and controllable pace, and then has a certain foundation of self-hematopoietic ability, supplemented by a number of key investments, so as to become a regional center town, and finally drive the operation of more surrounding new towns nearby.

On the other hand, whether it was the lack of energy to be distracted at the beginning, or the focus of everyone's attention in the capital city of Manchester, apart from the appointment of officials and core policies, the development of West Point was detached from most of the "parental discipline" model from the beginning. From the current point of view, whether it is the first to arrive Europeans or the last to arrive Chinese, the orderly development and free operation of West Point is extremely suitable for the active integration and active participation of new immigrants, rather than the "designated role" under the rigid planning of the state.

The inability to quickly and effectively promote the transformation from "immigrant society" to "local society" is the most hidden internal development problem in the future of the country. The town of West Point, under Guan Ruzhong's care, and the town of Yinggu under the helm of Sun Hongyi, are actually far ahead of the country in this respect, and in many ways, even a considerable number of residents in the capital city of Manchester are less like a "gorgeous person" than the residents of the two towns mentioned above.

The initiator of the opinion is a member of the House of Representatives, a former private dentist, and now the director of the Department of Stomatology at the National Hospital in Manchester, Jiang Xin, a shy young man who has just turned 30.

As soon as this opinion was put forward, the entire Congress was immediately awakened by a single word. It seems that over the past few years, some welcome changes have taken place in the House of Representatives, which was once known for its rhetoric, and growth and maturity have revealed some new and high-value ideas like warm water that is gradually boiling.

As soon as Jiang Xin's speech ended, Premier Qi Jianjun took the lead in clapping his hands, and there was a round of warm applause at the congress. In August, a draft of local town development and management was promulgated, which will provide guiding legal and policy support for the current construction of new local towns.

From January 1, 1626, the state-level local governments of the American Republic of China will no longer be mere appearances, but will truly perform the functions of local construction management. The executive power and decision-making power of local urban development will be delegated to the state government, and the national central government will only carry out macro policy guidance and decision-making on key national construction projects. The local state government will formulate its own development plan according to the actual situation, and the annual appropriation will be made after review by Congress and the cabinet. Then, in accordance with the local development outline, the state government will control the pace of local development and formulate business policies on its own under the premise of respecting national laws and regulations and implementing national macro policies.

Other than that. State governments are also allowed to use commercial banks to finance and borrow money in addition to state revenues. However, the amount of financing and borrowing each year shall not exceed a certain percentage of the state's fiscal revenue in that year. In order to prevent the occurrence of a local government debt crisis, this measure will inevitably promote the efficiency of capital utilization of domestic commercial banks.

In this process, the local government will contract the day-to-day construction of the new colonized towns to competing private companies through bidding, and directly use private enterprises to provide long-term support for the construction of the new towns. It's like a local government hiring one or more full-time nannies. The daily care of newborn children during infancy and early childhood is delegated, and the local government only needs to pay according to the actual content.

As soon as this draft came out, it set off a wave of craze in China, according to this statement. It is equivalent to strengthening the autonomy of local construction and operation, and many projects in the development of new towns and towns are directly open to private enterprises for free competition, instead of the previous way in which the central cabinet of the government directly apportions large contracts to domestic enterprises.

From now on, those who have the ability will even be able to eat all the construction and operation projects of the local government of the entire new colonization town, and those who are not able will not occupy and waste government funds. Enterprises not only have to compete with each other, but also can be replaced at any time if the contract performance is not qualified.

This can not only greatly reduce the pressure of the central and local governments in the process of urban colonization, but also improve the utilization rate of funds. Combined with the national-level selective key investment policies. It can grasp the development rhythm of various local cities and towns at a macro level.

The construction of new towns is not a simple order transportation of materials, but a more professional set of services. Private companies established in this professional business model will greatly compensate for the lack of energy and organization of the state in local construction, and will also provide more employment opportunities and tax revenue.

For example, there is now a faint dilemma of no one to recruit new immigrants after the arrival of new immigrants in China, and many large private enterprises have entered a stage of steady digestion and return after a round of large-scale expansion last year, and will not blindly expand their scale in order to provide jobs without restraint. In addition to being sent to a future agricultural center like Porter City or a strategic location like Butterfly Island, the remaining settlers are gradually moving to new towns around the mainland. Now that there is such a local new town colonization and operation of the supply and demand market, it can greatly increase domestic jobs without affecting the intensity of immigration.

By the end of August, three private companies specializing in urban logistics or business construction had been established. One of the largest is the "Moose Logistics Company" controlled by Yang Wenwen's Art of Living Group, with a registered capital of 200,000 US dollars. The second is the "North America Unicom International Company" co-founded by Guanyun and the little nurse Xia Qiuyu, which is controlled by the "Qiuyun Soybean Milk Food Chain Company" behind the scenes, with a registered capital of 150,000 US dollars. The two new companies, which focus on logistics and urban development, have attracted a lot of investment from the public and are ready to borrow from the North American Development Bank or Manchester City Commercial Bank.

The rest is a private company founded by ordinary citizens. It is said that a young Dutch businessman immigrant resigned from the state-owned import-export group immediately after reading the newspaper news, took out two years of savings, and used $200 to put a financing advertisement in a small corner of the Manchester City Weekly newspaper with less than 200 words.

In just one week, the 28-year-old Dutch man named Gilson raised $15,000 to set up the "Angel Urban Construction Company", and then with the help of bank loans, he obtained another $30,000 corporate loan. Angel Urban Construction Company will mainly engage in the local engineering construction business of non-core projects, and a group of European immigrants or Chinese who have just immigrated to China and almost have no work to do have become the main force of employees.

It is said that the biggest investor behind the Angel Urban Construction Company is Chang Kun's "brother-in-law" and Congressman Lu Shengqiang, who is the director of Chinese immigration affairs, and Chang Kun himself has also bought at least $1,500 in shares.

In any case, as long as this new model proves to be successful, the development experience of West Point will be replicated in a more efficient way, so that the country will no longer have to make difficult trade-offs and invest in countless directions.

More importantly, when state and municipal governments operate more actively and independently, a large number of talented immigrants who have completed several years of national education will be employed. It will take about 10 to 15 years to cultivate and excavate a group of qualified local civil servants who can truly share the energy of public management, and over time, complete the accelerated transformation of the entire country from an "immigrant society" to a "local society", and generate a real local political and economic culture. In this process, it is absolutely impossible to leave the vast number of immigrants to actively participate in local development affairs, and the size of the population is secondary. (To be continued.) )