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Tuesday, January 9, 1641.

The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China is still being carried out in different ways throughout the country, and the autumn breeze from the north cannot dilute this joy. On the far-flung northwest border of Songzhou, a contingent of the Chinese and American Sixth Army has finally arrived on the shores of Lake Ontario, and is about to erect a new landmark on the country's northwest frontier before winter.

Before the smoke and dust of the shells had cleared, the officers and men of the Chinese and American Civilian Guard Units, lined up in several long rows, held rifles and bayonets, and firmly advanced on the plain toward the northwest. On their other side, the Iroquois Indian Alliance's resistance had collapsed, and the battle had come to an end. The sparse Iroquois warriors were completely unable to stop the footsteps of the Chinese and American soldiers, and countless figures wrapped in tattered furs abandoned their weapons and fled in all directions with all kinds of despair.

It was a one-sided battle in terms of numbers and quality, and the sporadic resistance of the Iroquois Indians, already low morale, was reduced to corpses in the grass of the plains. Nearly 1,000 U.S. cavalry were divided into dozens of squads like hunting, galloping around the battlefield, cooperating with the main force of a National Guard to encircle the Iroquois soldiers who had already been defeated in the battle.

The battlefield in front was still in the stage of clearing, and the main follow-up force of the Huamei 6th Army in the rear appeared on the southern horizon again. To the beat of marching drums, two Wehrmacht light infantry brigades were marching north, and a group of cavalry carrying a national flag rushed past the side of the marching column, and immediately there were people shouting vague slogans, causing the marching infantry to raise their rifles and cheer.

Brigadier General Tang Wei, the cavalry director of the Huamei 6th Army and the commander-in-chief of this campaign, rushed to the front of this cavalry with a smug smile on his face. Ahead of him, at the northern end of the river, the blue waters of the lake had never been more palpable than it was today.

Finally, the war horse raised its front hooves on the shore of the lake. Tang Wei jumped off his horse, took the national flag from the flag soldier behind him, took a few steps, and planted the flagpole on the shore of the lake.

"Haha, Lao Tzu's cavalry unit was the first to reach Lake Ontario!" Tang Wei laughed. The cavalry gathered behind him cheered.

"General, I heard that a new town will be established here in the future, and perhaps we should choose a nice name in advance. You, as the first to arrive at the mouth of the river, have this qualification, and this is also the honor of our hussar brigade. Glancing at the wide estuary plain, an officer smiled and slapped his ass.

"Hmm...... Reasonable. How about calling it 'West Lake Town'? ”

Tang Wei touched his chin and thought about it for a while, and finally held back a name with a lack of imagination, and the young cavalry around him also coaxed, and then soon after, a wooden sign engraved with large characters landed on a small slope near the mouth of the river.

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After more than 10 years of hard work, the footsteps of the officers and men of Huamei 6 finally reached the mouth of the Oswego River on the south bank of Lake Ontario today. In order to launch this all-out general offensive, the headquarters of the 6th Army of China and the United States prepared for a whole year. A total of more than 55oo officers and soldiers of 1 light cavalry brigade, 2 light infantry brigades, and 1 national guard reserve wing were mobilized, and Brigadier General Tang Wei, cavalry director of the 6th Army, served as the commander-in-chief.

In the east behind the main force of the 6th Army, more than 100 kilometers away, in the later city of Yutika, a "Xufu Town" with a population of more than 3ooo is about to become the temporary government of the new "Yunzhou".

Xu Fuzhen was founded as early as 1638 to commemorate the legendary figures in Chinese history who traveled overseas. The U.S. 6th Army was able to fight on a large scale west of the White Horse Valley, far from the center of the country, and achieved today's victory. Xu Fuzhen's rear support contributed a lot.

However, the poor transportation of the Mohoek Valley in history also tortured the pace of strategic development in today's Huamei, and in order to continue to adhere to the strategic guiding ideology of inland waterway expansion into the interior of North America, the construction of a canal through the White Horse Valley was necessary.

What can be learned from the later generations of the Erie Canal project, in which the Erie Canal became one of the core arteries of the Midwest of the United States. The first phase of a canal connecting Baimayi and Xufu Town, connecting the western part of the Baima Valley with the Song River, is now under construction in sections and has been going on for almost two years, with another year to complete.

The first phase of the White Horse Canal is to build the White Horse Post to Xufu Town. In order to meet the navigation requirements of inland steam vessels, which are more demanding than those of the same period in history, the design indicators of the first phase of the White Horse Canal are higher than in history.

The total length of the first phase of the canal is 9o km. With a width of 2o meters and a depth of 3 meters, it can ensure that two large inland steamers can sail in opposite directions, and a drainage channel is built in key areas to divert the Baima River during the rising period. There is also an auxiliary road along the main trunk of the canal that allows for the passage of heavy carriages, which facilitates traffic on the 6th during the winter period when the canal is frozen.

The Road and Bridge Engineering Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned construction engineering group, has used the most advanced technical means in China. The first generation of faulty steam excavators also came to the forefront, leaving behind the joke that repairs took far longer than they worked. The excavation of the canal and the dredging of the waterways of the Whitehorse River far exceeded those of the same period in history, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of canal locks and a reduction in future operating and maintenance costs.

Once the first phase of the Baima River Canal is completed, the cost of transporting goods from Jiangkou Town or Porter City to Xufu Town will be reduced by at least 95%, and the agricultural irrigation along the canal will also be solved. But the total cost of the first phase also reached a staggering $340,000, with an average of nearly $40,000 per kilometer. Fortunately, the budget for such a major national project is allocated over three fiscal years, so it is still within the scope of the state's affordability.

In order to take care of the daily operation of more than a dozen canal locks, four small agricultural villages and towns have been set up from west to east between Xufu Town and Baimayi, namely "Junshui" (Yilin), "Flower Valley" (Littles Falls), "Huixi" (Kanayuhali) and "Huapu" (Fangda). The reinforced concrete canal locks are powered by a steam engine, and are all operated by the "State-owned Transportation Group Hakuba Canal Management Company" set up in Hakumayi. Once the canal is officially put into operation, the navigation fee can roll in, and it will not be difficult to recover the cost within ten years.

Most of the laborers involved in the White Horse Canal project were recent immigrants and some Iroquois prisoners of war. In order to encourage old immigrants to also move to Xufu Town and villages and towns along the canal, the Xufu town government has even introduced a rare cheap preferential policy of 5o cents per mu of land. Of course, this method of selling land to stimulate the relocation of the people also has a number of supporting restrictive policies to prevent the loophole that the people who buy the land on the front foot and the people on the back foot are not there.

The good news from the front was transmitted to the Xufu town government by telegram as soon as possible. It was also broadcast publicly in the town hall of Guò town hall, causing a sensation among the townspeople. This meant that life on the remote frontiers of the country, which had long been tense, had finally entered a period of peace and tranquility, and the Iroquois who had been reluctant to die were completely expelled farther west or north.

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The country's major breakthrough in the north has not yet had time to be compiled by the news media and published nationwide. At Duman, another big party has just come to an end.

Admiral Wang Tiehammer, the commander of the Navy, is holding a full moon celebration banquet for his grandson at his manor. Although the 57-year-old admiral still looks strong and energetic, his slightly white temples still reveal the iron law of nature.

The baby's father is Wang Tiezhu's eldest son Wang Xiaowen, who was born to Wang Xiaowen shortly after Xiang Wei's crossing of the catastrophe, and is the second generation of "locals" in the true sense of the local community. Although Wang Xiaowen is not Wang Tiezhu's own flesh and blood. But the boy, who knew nothing about his past life, grew up under the care of his parents and became a lieutenant in the navy.

Wang Xiaowen's wife is more interesting, Zhou Tiantian, who is three years older than Wang Xiaowen, the eldest daughter of Zhou Qifeng, the current cabinet finance minister, and Liu Fang, chairman of the board of directors of the UnionPay Fund, who is currently teaching at an Ivy League university.

Zhou Tiantian was born after the catastrophe. Su Zining protected the crying little girl "Tian Tian" in the chaotic crowd. For Su Zining's help back then, Zhou Qifeng and his wife are grateful to this day.

As a witness to Wang Xiaowen and Tian Tian's marriage last year, Su Zining is the most qualified person to be the first to pick up a full-moon baby. The baby boy was crying in Su Zining's arms, not knowing at all that he was the first true third generation of a certain group in this country. When Su Zining politely handed the child to Chen Changyuan and his wife, who were present to preside over the blessing, the audience applauded.

"Xiaowen, Tian Tian, this child is the hope of the country's future. You have to educate yourself. ”

The former presidents who have reached the age of 8o are already gray-headed, and they can't put it down when they hold their children. Looking at the liveliness of the child's teeth and claws, the old man Wang Suhong, who is two years younger than Chen Yuanyuan, has slightly red eyes, and her eyes reveal infinite tenderness.

The joy of life and the sadness of the passage of time constitute the main tone of the atmosphere of the full moon banquet of the royal family's grandson, looking at a room of elderly people, Su Zining, who retreated to the corner, couldn't help but sigh softly. Because this year, the Supreme Judge Zhong Jinshan has also been hospitalized several times in a row, and Su Zining himself is 47 years old.

At the same time. At Ren Changle's house, another block not far away, a national re-administration event that ended yesterday also ushered in a celebration.

"Mr. Chow, Mr. Chan, Mr. Chong, Mr. Adelaide, Mr. Adrian, Mr. John...... Congratulations on your entry into the Songzhou District Council! I heard that yesterday's election was very polling! ”

In the Ren family manor in Manchester City, the pot-bellied Ren Changle smiled and raised his glass to congratulate the upstarts of the first Songzhou local council who will take office in the spring of next year.

"Ah, yes. Everyone is doing their best to protect our interests, and those self-defeating guys almost caused us trouble...... Now I can't wait to contribute to the prosperity of Songzhou! Adelaide, who is the general manager of COSCO Mayflower Ocean Shipping Company, laughed and trembled at this time.

A group of state-level local council members attending Ren's banquet are all "insiders" elected by liberals this year. They are either small private entrepreneurs who are closely tied to the liberals, or they are top managers or high-level technicians in liberal enterprises. Almost everyone is a small rich man with a lot of status in this country.

Under the Citizenship Act of 164o, a national with an annual family tax of more than $5oo or a senior title who has been granted permanent residency for more than 15 years can be recommended by an "existing citizen" to obtain true American citizenship. From this calculation, the whole Huamei can theoretically give birth to more than 16oo citizen families.

Upstart citizens with citizenship rights will be eligible to run for state councils, which will also serve a four-year term. The right to vote in local council elections is also limited to citizens with citizenship rights.

Unlike the bicameral system of Congress, which separates power between the upper and lower powers, the state legislature has a unicameral system with a total of 17 members, of which 7 have the right to vote, and the remaining 12 have only the right to discuss and build. The only state and local administrative powers they can exercise are to deliberate on the items of expenditure and local legislation of state and local governments, but they do not have the right to consult the cabinet or Congress to directly direct the local administration and legislative work.

The power of this kind of local council is much weaker than that of the Netherlands or the Republic of Venice at the same time, and from the perspective of the identity of the local council, the essence is still that of the rich, but it is an important milestone for the "ordinary people" to participate in politics. Its real duty is to submit at least one local exhibition to the state government and Congress each year to prove the country's expectations of the state legislature, so it looks more like a local opinion tank.

In addition, according to the amendment to the Election Act of 1641, the local councils of each state, from 1646 onwards, will be eligible to elect representatives of state legislators to the House of Representatives, and the number of candidates will be temporarily limited to two per state. Regardless of whether he can become a member of the House of Representatives in the end, once this carrot and jujube is cashed in, it will be the most exciting.

The nouveau riche tyrants, who had finally officially stepped into the gorgeous high society, laughed heartily at this time, stood up one by one, and clinked glasses with the people who came to congratulate them one by one with an elegant and reserved demeanor. Especially Adelaide, the 57-year-old captain of the ship, was extremely excited to discuss "national affairs" with several Song Prefecture local councilors at this time, and kept saying some words of encouragement to his eldest son, Conrad.

Speaking of which, Adelaide's eldest son, Conrad, seems to have entered the Chinese political circle before his father himself. Last year, Wu Yuanyi was re-elected as prime minister, and Conrad, who obtained a master's degree in finance and accounting from an Ivy League university, was finally appointed by the cabinet as the mayor of Huatian Town, Binzhou, after years of seniority, becoming the first local dignitary in the second generation of immigrants.

In addition to the liberals represented by Ren Changle who are cultivating local supporters, neutrals, progressives and even conservatives have elected many old nationals who belong to their own connections or interests this year, and then these upstarts have a scuffle in the local council elections, especially the most fierce competition in the election of the Songzhou local council.

Although this qiē is still 108,000 miles away from the partisan government, it is undeniable that a great drama that divides the political structure of the local councils of the states and the future House of Representatives of the Congress has been blatantly rolled out.