"Elegant, Masaya. The reason for the king's government is also abolished. - Han "Preface to Mao's Poems".

"Yacheng", the city of nobility, orthodoxy and order, is the name of the third state-level administrative unit prepared by the American Republic of China and the capital of Binzhou.

The original intention of the establishment of Yacheng City can be traced back to the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although New York was a good place in history, its geographical and natural environment was highly fragmented, several of which were facing the sea, and its military defense capability was poor. When it comes to the country's political pivot, Manchester City is indeed not very suitable as a capital, while Philadelphia, on the west bank of the Delaware estuary in the south, is a very suitable capital.

It's just that the country didn't have any extra manpower and material resources to build a new capital from scratch, and the important overseas layout was carried out one after another, so the construction plan of Yacheng was delayed again and again.

Last year's Ming Dynasty immigration was interrupted, and in order to prevent the immigration policy from being cut off, the government has greatly increased the share of European immigrants since last year. After the end of the second phase of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, there was an influx of Danish, Norwegian, French and German immigrants who had been refugees due to the war, more than 5,000 this year alone. Historically, 40% of the Norwegians were part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and they were dominated by a large number of miners' families.

The capital is under the greatest pressure to resettle the population, and although the construction of various urban areas has not been interrupted, the infrastructure reconstruction and comprehensive groundwater extraction and supply projects have been progressing slowly, and the capital's population is now stuck at the bottom of the 40,000 population. At the same time, several early towns, such as West Point, Silver Valley and Jersey Town, have also entered a bottleneck adjustment period for urban expansion, and are also facing pressure to transform municipal infrastructure. The cities of Porter, Qingcheng and Elm also need a buffer time to absorb the rapid increase in population over the past two or three years.

Because of this, the call for the construction of a number of new colonized towns, including Yacheng, finally appeared under the impetus of the Congress, and Yacheng will be the center in the future. More new colonies radiate out to the surrounding areas, and if the conditions are ripe, it is only natural that the national capital will be moved to Yacheng.

The self-reliance model developed by Haizhou has already yielded initial results. Haizhou, which has an annual financial allocation of less than 700,000 US dollars, now has the capital Qingcheng City, Beiyuan Town, Haixiang Township in the east of Vineyard Island, and Dongfu Town, which was established only this year.

In the past few years, Haizhou has a small but comprehensive economic industry including agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, metallurgy, chemical industry, building materials, shipbuilding and ocean-going trade, and the population of the whole state exceeded 10,000 in the autumn of 1629. It can be called another local construction record since West Point Town, a few years later. And even more.

Encouraged by this report card, the development of Binzhou in the south has become the expectation of Congress. Pennsylvania will include the entire eastern half of New Jersey and Pennsylvania for later generations. The capital city of Yacheng is located in the location of the future Philadelphia, sandwiched between the Delaware River and the Skukil River, the southern outlet of the sea is the Delaware Bay, with world-class excellent estuarine port conditions, and the straight line is only more than 160 kilometers away from the capital Manchester, the geographical location is extremely superior.

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The superior geographical conditions of Yacheng City. Coupled with the long-term positioning of the future national capital, the town planning is very "oriental". According to the plan of the National Assembly, the future Yacheng will be a city with a regular layout. Relying on the wide and neat landform facing the water on three sides, an extremely neat quadrangular main urban area is built in the "dumbbell waist" between the two rivers. It is a rectangular city that runs roughly north-south, with a length of 3.5 kilometers from north to south and a width of 3 kilometers from east to west. On the "peninsula" in the south, about 20,000 acres of woodland and grassland wetlands will be developed into local agricultural farmland. To the north of the main urban area, there is an industrial area.

On November 28, 1629, a large fleet entered the Chesapeake Bay. Found in the Delaware Estuary.

From Manchester Bay, the sea voyage to reach here is only more than 200 nautical miles, and the convenience of sea transportation is far greater than that of the Qingcheng route. The size of the fleet is as high as more than 30 ships, but most of them are offshore inland steamships carrying more than one or two hundred tons, and they come from various miscellaneous inland river shipping companies.

Except for a group of Army officers and soldiers who had been waiting here for many days, Tang Xian was the first construction worker to jump onto the west bank of the Delaware estuary. Looking at the gentle plains, meadows and lush primeval forests in the distance, the young man over 30 years old couldn't help but take a deep breath of relief.

The cold air penetrated deep into his lungs, but it was unusually fresh and fragrant, and Tang Xian couldn't help but feel refreshed.

In the distance, a group of Delaware Indian hunters were waving out of the forest to these friendly Chinese Americans, not far from the riverbank, where the construction of a simple pier had been completed as early as the previous week. Not far from the wharf, in a fenced field with simple wooden huts, a few small traders in Jerseytown who have started the occasional Indian trade here have begun to take up their positions, and a dozen Indian lenape men and women are braving the bitter cold and carrying a large amount of local produce from the stalls, and they can't get enough of the beautiful and thick winter clothes.

The Qiē in front of him was so calm and natural, looking back at the fleet of boats hugging on the river, Tang Xian raised his arm and waved vigorously towards his father Tang En.

Tang Xian, the son of Tang En, as the engineering captain of the state-owned construction engineering group, is responsible for leading a small engineering team of more than 130 people to build a relatively regular semi-protective small port community for Yacheng before the arrival of the New Year's Day.

"This kid is still so undetermined."

Towne, who was sitting on the boat, looked at his son's excited touch, and a kind smile gradually appeared on his wrinkled face. After a few clicks on the cigarette holder, Tang En knocked off the cigarette butt and nodded back to Zhou Yi, the country's most authoritative minister of construction and transportation.

"Tang Gong, this time it's going to be hard for your old man to sit here for a few days! But be sure to take care of your body, if you feel unwell, come back quickly! Zhou Yi looked at the old man beside him with a smile, and his words were full of heartfelt respect.

"Oh, Lord Zhou...... Oh, look at my old fool, I can't change my mouth. Minister Zhou, you can rest assured. I'm Towne, this old bone, I was born to do this! Tang En hurriedly bowed his hand, his old face was ruddy, and he was full of extraordinary confidence and radiance.

Getting the statement of this national treasure-like "construction master", Zhou Yi was both relieved and worried about the other party's body.

As one of the first batch of Ming immigrants sent to North America by the Portuguese, seven years have passed, and the Towne family has become well-known among Chinese nationals. Although Towne has been in the position of a senior technician in the Oriental Construction Company, the largest private construction company in China, he has received the "higher grassroots education" of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century because of his deep love for "construction science" and his shock at the gorgeous construction technology. After his 50th birthday the year before last, he resolutely entered the construction engineering major of the Long Island Institute of Engineering and Technology for further study.

"Maybe we don't know what else to teach him other than more advanced math courses and other majors!" - Two years passed in a flash, and Towne easily graduated.

As the descendant of the apprentice of Cai Xin, the head craftsman of the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, Tang En, who is unknown in history, actually has an amazing artificiality, creative power and one-point understanding in architecture, civil mechanics and mathematics, which makes the young and young dicks who have passed through several civil engineering departments ashamed of themselves, and for the first time they sincerely call Tang En "Tang Gong".

In this way, Tang became the first "indigenous engineer" since the founding of the United States and China, and enjoyed the senior talent allowance of the State Commission of Science and Technology. He is also a distinguished lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Manchester City. Most of the construction plans for Yacheng were completed by Tang En, and Zhou Yi, the former chief designer of the two knives, became a helper.

But the nostalgia for the land still made Towne make a decision that he had been thinking about for many years. Now the family has moved to Porter, where it is said that after years of savings, plus bank loans, they finally have a 300-acre "small farm". The farm employed several Indian hired men. Tang Xian's daughter-in-law is usually responsible for taking care of it, and during the sowing or harvesting season, she rents the animal power and agricultural machinery of the state-owned agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry group.

Tang En and his son Tang Xian are still working in two major construction companies in China. However, with the country's strong focus on education, Towne rarely visits construction sites these days, and discussing construction with old craftsmen and lecturing at schools has become his main job. Tang En's ability to continue to hang in the Oriental Construction Company is not a kind of corporate image for the boss Zhou Kai.

"Boy, measure the ground level and draw the line according to the drawings. The Tang family has been deeply favored by the country over the years, and now they are building a Yacheng, but you have to be a hundred times more attentive to the major event of glorifying the ancestors! ”

Walking ashore with a large group of apprentices, Tang En was the first to call his son to reprimand, and all the interns from middle and higher vocational schools behind him laughed.

"Dad, don't worry, the school you said is all taught. You'd better go home early, it's too cold and wet here, and it's not good for your health. Tang Xian nodded in embarrassment, and his voice was very low, for fear of being laughed at by the ordinary workers in the engineering team.

"Well, I'll go back when the foundation work is complete." Seeing his son's confident appearance, Tang finally smiled and nodded, and then led the person in another direction.

"Brother Zhou, this old man Tang is really a bit of a senior engineer in our later generations!"

On a certain ship, Lu Fangfei, who had been appointed as the future acting governor of Binzhou and mayor of Yacheng, couldn't help but smile.

Lu Fangfei, 31 years old this year, was just a supervisor of the construction team at the wharf in Y City before the catastrophe. At the beginning, he worked as a helper in Di Zugong's quality inspection and safety department, and later transferred to Zhou Yi's construction department for exercise, and now 7 years have passed, and the once young people have grown up, and they have been given important responsibilities by the government cabinet, and they have accumulated local management experience in Yacheng, a place that has just been incubated.

"It is estimated that no one would have thought that they would be able to make a national treasure out of these beggar-like refugees of the Ming Dynasty. Lu Fangfei, it's up to you here, if you have any difficulties, just mention it to the cabinet, although it is unlikely that it will be as large as the Atlantic Checkers program to control expenditures now, but it is also the capital of the future. Don't ask you to be a blockbuster, learn to learn like a middle, work steadily, and accumulate steadily. As Lu Fangfei's former old boss, Zhou Yi was very familiar with the personality of this hot-blooded young man, so he specially warned the other party.

"Understand, you can rest assured, no matter what, which of the people from our Ministry of Construction is not attentive? You and the Prime Minister will just look at it. Lu Fangfei smiled, his face was full of confidence, but in his heart, he was quite unconvinced by Guan Ruzhong, Sun Hongyi, Mao Jian and others, but he just thought that he had no chance to show his ability in the place before.

A whistle sounded, and another inland river steam cargo ship, under the guidance of the personnel on the shore, slowly approached the simple dock to unload, and the slow and rhythmic construction scene in front of him made Lu Fangfei's heart gradually boil. (To be continued......)