"Too small?" Rong Desheng was confused.

Wang Zhenyu saw that everyone's appetite was aroused, so he pointed to the picture seriously and said: "When you do business, you can't just think about yourself, you have to think about the society when you are empty." You see, across the street from the mill is the steel mill, and if I'm not mistaken, the steel mill is all men, and the mill is all women. If the two factories had their own dormitories, there would be no possibility for these male and female workers to meet each other, and they would not be able to meet each other, so how could they communicate? If you don't communicate, how can you get married and have a baby? Ah! ”

Zuihou's oops was the result of Ye Ziwen's fierce pinch, and everyone laughed.

Wang Zhenyu gave a suggestion: "So put their dormitory in the living area, and the yarn factory should get off work in a few minutes after the steel factory, so that the workers can just touch a piece after work, alas, Mr. Rong, you have to have the consciousness of being old in the month." ”

Haha, everyone laughed louder.

When he came out, Wang Zhenyu looked at the factory building that was already laying the foundation and explained to Rong Desheng: "The factory should be beautiful and tidy, this is the face of an enterprise, and this management may as well learn from foreigners, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and our products will be competitive......"

After that, there were power companies, soap factories, match factories, machine tool factories, garment factories and cotton factories, and one by one they went down, and the common problem encountered was the lack of professional jishu personnel and core jishu.

Wang Zhenyu thought for a while and called Chen Shao and Liu Guojun over: "You can set up an industrial team for me to be responsible for these companies and factories, and then go to Shanghai to find a way." Introduce a part of the excellent jishu personnel, pay a high salary, promise a month of paid vacation every year, and when Anjiang is good in the future, people will naturally move their homes over. There is also the need to set up an industrial school for me, and the land will be divided from the administrative district, okay, don't be afraid to spend money, I want to be effective. ”

The two hurriedly said yes, but they couldn't help sighing in their hearts, there were more things to be busy with, and they had to add more people.

The visit to the living quarters and administrative districts was quite exciting, because the Germans gave priority to a large number of Jishu talents and building materials brought from Hankow, and many houses had already finished their foundations and started building. And looking at the design drawings, I felt that the style was very good, Wang Zhenyu patted Hans and German designer Schrocker on the shoulder: "You have worked hard." ”

Schrocker replied very honestly: "Your Excellency, I have really worked hard with so many design proposals. ”

Looking at Wang Zhenyu's embarrassed look, Ye Ziwen laughed.

Wang Zhenyu also paid special attention to the construction of sewers, and in later generations, it was much more convenient to drive a boat in the city than to drive a car on a rainy day. Therefore, another idea for the construction of Anjiang Model City is to make a breakthrough in this regard, especially since Anjiang is next to the Yuan River, which is prone to waterlogging once it encounters the rainy season.

Responsible for the sewer design is the German Becker, he very carefully explained their work to Wang Zhenyu and others, basically referring to the experience of the Germans in Qingdao, the rainwater and sewage were separated, the sewer is very spacious, the height can ensure that Yao Ming walks in it, and the width is really able to drive into a car. More importantly, according to Becker's introduction, in order to avoid sludge accumulation, at the exit of the sewer, the Germans have measured the height of the high tide of the Yuan River, and then accurately designed the drainage outlet, once the tide rises, the Yuan River water will pour in and wash the sewer. Schrocker said that the waterproof embankment was designed when the river road was designed, and the river road built on the embankment is higher than the urban area, and in the event of flooding, it can also ensure that the urban area is unharmed. And once the sewer is built, even the problem of pipe gushing is solved.

Wang Zhenyu was stunned for a while, and he didn't quite understand, but he felt that the Germans were really attentive to what they were doing.

Zuihou Station is an administrative district that has been initially formed, and the focus of Wang Zhenyu's inspection here is different from other places, it is actually his own home, and he does this completely to please his wife.

Ye Ziwen saw the preliminarily formed town guard mansion, which was built according to the design of the German designer Racharuwitz. This time, Lihe Foreign Bank was able to establish a long-term business relationship with Wang Zhenyu, and spent a lot of effort in the construction of Xin'anjiang, which also opened Chen Shao and Chen Quzhen's eyes and saved a lot of trouble.

The town guard was divided into two parts, the office part and the private residence.

The first is the office part, a small three-storey western-style building in red European style, covering an area of 800 square meters, with a reinforced concrete structure. The length and width are standard 40x20. The total construction area is 2,100 square meters, and it is divided into 49 rooms, including 1,600 square meters on the first and second floors, and 40 office rooms, each of which is 25 square meters. The third floor is 500 square meters, with 9 rooms, including one of the town guard's office, a reception room, and three conference rooms; In addition, there is a communication room, a confidential room, a secretary's room, a waiter's room, the first and second floors are three ladders up and down, and the third floor is only one ladder, but there is a secret escape slide. Additional green space, bamboo forest, fountain, sentry post, the total cost is 110,000 silver dollars.

The second is the residential part, behind the town guard embassy is a villa area covering an area of 12 acres, according to Wang Zhenyu's meaning, here can only be owned by people above the level of generals, and the Germans have designed a total of 24 villas of different styles. But Wang Zhenyu didn't plan to live here. In the town guard's mansion, two residences were also designed, all of which are in the style of European-style white towers, one on the left and one on the right, which just sets off the office building, and the overall effect is expected to be very good.

As soon as Ye Ziwen arrived here, she became lively, looked left and right, and then took the drawings and said to the Germans: "The roof of this living room should be high, and the house should be on the second floor, in short, it should be the same as my home in Hankou, do you understand?" ”

The poor German looked at Miss Ye in confusion, what is your old home in Hankow like? Wang Zhenyu and Ye Zuwen looked at the innocent Ye Ziwen, and they didn't break it, and laughed.

Wang Zhenyu shook hands with Chen Shao, Chen Quzhen and others: "It's hard work, but the progress of the project still has to be grasped, quality is very important, and I hope that the administrative district can be completed in November." Recently, the formation of the town guard embassy will also begin, and I hope you can do a good job. ”

It goes without saying that Chen Shao and Chen Quzhen immediately understood what Wang Zhenyu meant, and said one after another, please rest assured.

Ming Jincai is an old farmer in Gantang, Jingzhou, and like many Ming family members, he has lived by renting the land of the Huang family for generations. Married to a wife surnamed Huang, the child gave birth to a litter, but because the sanitary conditions are too poor, Zuihou has two sons and a daughter, the eldest son is called Dahu, this year is seventeen, and the second son is called Xiaohu, this year is fourteen. are all half-grown boys, at the age of eating poor parents, Ke Ming is an expert in growing vegetables, and the landlord Huang is also very polite to him, often subsidizing some things, and he can barely live his life without going up the mountain and falling to the grass.

At the beginning of the year, when the bandits were in trouble, Ming Jincai's younger brother Ming Jinbao and his daughter-in-law let the bandits suffer together, leaving only four small men to raise, the eldest was only thirteen, and the younger one was only six years old. Ming Jincai is such a younger brother, so he had to raise these four fine men. With four more mouths at once, life at home became sad. Daughter-in-law Ming Huang inevitably complained a few words, Ming Jincai had no way to solve it, so he could only suppress it roughly, go down with a few big mouths, and continue to live.

Originally, after the autumn harvest, I went to beg Master Huang, who was good to him on weekdays, to see if he could reward himself with an extra ten acres of land, and then gritted his teeth and planted it. Before he thought about summer planting, Master Huang took the initiative to come to him and told himself that he didn't need to sow seeds.

"Master Huang, since beating my father-in-law, our family has been renting your land for a living, and more than 100 years of life have passed like this, if you take back the land today, my family of eight or nine people will not starve to death?"

"Brother Jincai, I can't help it, our Gantang Town has been zoned as a commercial town, my land has been expropriated, the money of the Chamber of Commerce has been supplemented, and I have been allocated three shops to collect rent, what else do you think I can do?" Master Huang even said pleadingly.

Ming Jincai reluctantly accepted the arrangement of fate, he looked at his wife and children, and it seemed that he could only find a landlord elsewhere to see if he could find some land to rent. However, the speed of commercial townization was very fast, and with the support of policies and sufficient funds, a large number of peasants lost the land they could rent and cultivate. The process is very similar to that of sheep eating people before the Industrial Revolution in Britain, when large numbers of farmers lost their land, which was turned into town land and handicraft workshops and cash crop farms.

Fortunately, this change was promoted by Wang Zhenyu step by step, and before Ming Jincai committed suicide with his family eating puffer fish, the task force of the town guard embassy and the working group of the county government were sent down......

"Anjiang recruits workers, three yuan a month, and food and accommodation, this condition is good." Ming Jincai listened to the verbal propaganda of the staff in charge of recruiting labor in the town, and immediately accepted this new way out. Just kidding, three silver dollars, that's a full forty catties of rice, if you work with your eldest son, it will be eighty catties of rice. Not counting himself and his eldest son, the rest of the mixed grains such as sweet potatoes can barely feed his wife and the other six babies.

Just do it, Ming Jincai took out the courage of the people of Xiangxi, and took a family of ten to embark on the road to Anjiang......

In the early days, the living environment was very poor, and in order to avoid the outbreak of the plague, all people were required to undergo physical examinations and hygiene and disinfection. Mosquitoes and rodents were regularly exterminated in the shacks, which were bandits not long ago, and the peasants were now required to solve the problem of defecation and defecation in fixed huts, and as the number of family members increased, the men's and women's huts were also classified. The sewage is also designated to be poured into the drain, of course, you can also do not follow the requirements, the military in charge of the supervision will unceremoniously wave the rattan and pump it indiscriminately, it will not kill and the intimidation effect is just right. It is said that this is a new life movement personally explained by Wang Dashuai, and everything starts from stressing hygiene.

After doing it for more than a month, eighty catties of rice has become one hundred and sixty catties of sweet potatoes, but just like that, the children still can't eat enough, and when they grow up, how can they be full of sweet potatoes all at once.

Ming Jincai planned to ask the manager, can he get some wages, but was ruthlessly rejected by the manager, just kidding, every penny was calculated by the people of the financial group of the general headquarters, and an extra hundred oceans need to be signed by the deputy commander-in-chief Chen Quzhen or the commander-in-chief Chen Shao, otherwise everything is not negotiable.

At this time, compulsory education was still being designed, and in many counties, even schools had not yet been built. So don't talk about food supplements, children don't even have a place to read books.

This is really a half-old boy, worried about his parents, Ming Jincai went home and looked at a large group of babies who grabbed sweet potatoes to eat, and kicked the chairs over angrily, and the older children looked at their fathers (uncles) and didn't dare to make a sound, and the younger ones were directly scared and cried.

Ming Dahu, who walked into the door two steps in the evening, kept this scene firmly in his heart......