Chapter 58: Arrival and Departure (Part II)

Lingao County, located on a small plateau surrounded by a moat, overlooking the Bairen City of Dongmen City, is a "high-end" apartment where the veteran of the traverser lives

“…… Toot Toot - "

With the sharp whistle of the workers to go to work, Lingao County ushered in another busy morning.

The morning glow rose in the distant mountains, gradually turning the night into a bright road, the clouds on the horizon gradually changed color, and from the window of the apartment building, the entire Dongmen City, adjacent to Bairen New Town, was wrapped in fire and dust mist, just like in the chaos where light and darkness were not divided - in the faint morning light and the loud whistle, the city that had slept all night began to gradually wake up.

(The relationship between Hyakren Castle, where travelers live, and the bustling city of Higashimon is probably the relationship between ancient Japanese castles and castle towns.) ）

Although it was not yet dawn, in the distance, morning stalls had been erected one after another, and there was a flow of people who got up early to work and farmers who went to the city to sell fruits and vegetables. Looking closer, the neighbors also began to make breakfast on the coal stove, which made the inside and outside of the corridor full of smoke for a while.

-- At this moment, the "Lingaojiao Palace," where the "Emperor of Australia" once stayed, has been emptied, and the PLA officers and soldiers and staff members who were originally stationed in the garrison have also left the city, like a group of passers-by who have come and gone in a hurry -- After the opening of the Lingao-Sanya railway, the Chinese government in the modern world soon ordered the sanatorium to be relocated to Sanya, where the climate conditions are more comfortable, the scenery is more beautiful and charming, and the environment is more suitable for recuperation.

However, the changes they brought to the city did not disappear with them - although under the rule and construction of the Lingao Traverser group, the original speed of development and change in this place had already shocked the Ming Dynasty, who were accustomed to the unchanging life of an agrarian society.

Looking down from the window of the apartment building, in the courtyard of the laundry room next door, the dark, thin, and lazy Vietnamese maid was once again driven out by the fierce housekeeper aunt wielding a rattan......

-- This animal-powered washing machine is a finished product developed by a PLA soldier in his spare time with the help of a few Ming Dynasty carpenters. The principle of this primitive washing machine is very simple, that is, a crankshaft is installed on a large iron bucket that is made into a corrugated shape, with a connecting rod gear, driven by the traction of livestock, so that the crankshaft of the replacement wave wheel continues to rotate, driving the clothes up, down, left and right to turn over constantly, so that between the clothes, between the clothes and the barrel wall, friction in the water, under the action of detergent to achieve decontamination and cleaning, and even have the function of pressing and dehydrating, compared with modern washing machines, in addition to the water is more troublesome, the various functions are almost the same.

In addition to this animal-powered version of the washing machine, there is also a small manual version of the washing machine for domestic use, which uses a handle to drive the crankshaft, and simply turns the handle like a stone mill to stir the water and clothes in the bucket. In addition, there is a more massive steam power model - any normal modern person in the 21st century will instinctively consider how to replace backward manpower and animal power with advanced machinery, but that kind of steam washing machine is basically only purchased by the military, of course, the performance is also more advanced, water and drainage only need to pull the handle of a peripheral on time.

In addition, there are people who have tried to make wind-powered washing machines, but although the technical difficulty is not high, they have encountered insurmountable obstacles in practical application - all the highlands where it is convenient to build windmills are usually some distance from populated areas, so it is necessary to carry large baskets of dirty clothes for a long journey, which is really a rather painful thing. And the supply of washing water is also problematic. In addition, the wind is not always available, but dirty clothes need to be changed every day. With the hot and humid climate of Hainan Island, it is usually not possible to leave dirty clothes on the ground for too long, otherwise they will become moldy and hairy......

In short, although with the explosive development of the Lingao power sector, the vast majority of the time-traveler elders have achieved 24-hour power supply in their homes and used the intelligent automatic washing machines of the original time and space. But for those families who are reluctant to spend money on electricity, as well as those rich peasants in the countryside who live far away from the city and have no electricity supply, but want to pursue "foreign gas", this kind of manual or animal-powered primitive washing machine still has a certain market.

In the cafeteria on the other side of the apartment building, several chefs who have not yet mastered the art of ramen have also begun to make noodles with noodle presses, which are still used by many vendors in the 21st century, which are hand-driven, small in size, and simple in structure, the main structure is a barrel with a stirring stick, and two pairs of rolling pins that rotate automatically, one pair of flat sticks together, and the other pair depends on whether to use a flat rod or a grooved rolling pin. When using this kind of machine, the noodle press master does not even need to make noodles, as long as he directly pours the noodles and water into the bucket, and lets the noodle press machine press with two pairs of flat sticks, and what comes out is a rag cloth that can barely be connected to the east and west. After pressing out hundreds of catties of the tattered doughcloth, take off the bucket, change it to a dustpan, narrow the spacing of the flat cane, and stuff the rag cloth back into it to let the machine pressure it, so I added water to wet the dough and add the dough...... This time, it was already a thick-faced cloth that was slightly torn together. After pressing the rags into a thick cloth, reduce the spacing of the flat canes and replace them with a pair of concave canes, and you can use the thick cloth to press out a very decent noodle.

Although the noodles made by this thing seem to be inferior to the handmade Lanzhou ramen in terms of taste, it is much more efficient, and a single machine can press out a ton or two of noodles in 24 hours. If you don't want to press the noodles, you can press them with a flat stick for the third time, and you can press a uniform thin dough cloth that can be used to make pancakes and spring rolls...... Due to the limited experience of the previous Lingao traverser, he didn't expect this kind of pasta artifact. When the People's Liberation Army and all kinds of scientific research investigators who crossed over accidentally brought this thing to test the water with the popcorn machine, it was immediately well received, and was rushed to buy by the chefs of various restaurants and canteens and visiting fleets throughout Lingao, and even Guangdong businessmen wanted to wholesale this thing to Guangzhou to peddle it......

-- Even if it is just a few seemingly simple hand motives, it can actually bring great convenience to people's daily life.

All in all, the "central arrivals" have brought countless changes to the local society, touching almost every aspect of daily life.

But in any case, as the "people from the central government" left Lingao one after another and moved to a new base in Sanya, the market in Lingao still returned to the original rhythm of life, and the natives of the Ming Dynasty who wore their hair in buns and the "naturalized people" who shaved their short hair gradually regained their former peace and calmness.

Even a few days ago, two Alligator-class landing ships of the Vladivostok Far East Company finally crossed the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea and came all the way to visit this place, which did not cause much stir up waves in the market. In addition to the hundreds of tons of Northeast specialties transported on the ship, which have attracted a lot of attention in the market, the residents of Lingao, who have long been fed up with visual stimulation recently, do not take these two landing ships seriously -- compared to the group of airships that cover the sky and the sun of the "Australian Royal Guards", what are your big iron ships? Besides, the iron ship is not without a ......

For some, however, their fortunes have changed forever......

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As time goes on, the sun rises higher and higher in the sky. When the clock clock turned to seven o'clock and the smell of food began to waft through the corridors, the newly installed internal public address system in the apartment building began to rattle.

The morning broadcast began with a majestic "Athletes' March" as usual, and then today's morning news, except for a few local current events, the main content is a "government work report" for excitement and publicity:

“…… Under the care of the party and the state, and with the efforts of all comrades, the first five-year plan of the company (after the reorganization of the central government, each crossing group has theoretically become a colonial company, of course, it can still call itself a certain country to the outside world) has basically been completed ahead of schedule, which is inseparable from the diligence and sweat of all comrades, and is inseparable from the support and funding of the central government......

In terms of agriculture, during the first five-year plan period, the company's implementation of scientific cultivation, scientific planting of new agriculture has achieved considerable results in Lingao, Changhua, Leizhou, Qiongzhou, the jurisdiction has l156 farmers to participate in the registration of members, rice, soybeans, corn and other food crops of new seeds have been widely promoted, Taiwan's Kaohsiung potato experimental field has also been harvested, although the food self-sufficiency in the jurisdiction can not be achieved, but with the latest central assistance of the automatic synthetic ammonia fertilizer production line completed and put into operation, Hainan Island's grain output is bound to rise to a new level.

In addition, the industrial park of cotton, castor and other cash crops on the island has also begun to take shape; The first batch of new tea has already been produced in the tea plantations purchased in Hangzhou; The first set of edible fungus and biogas renewable circulation system in Lingao was initially established; Tropical crops such as coffee, cocoa and tobacco are also growing well, but due to the lack of sufficient fertilizers, the growth rate is relatively slow, and it is planned to expand the planting area during the next five-year plan...... The high-tech crops recently obtained from the central government are still in the trial planting stage, and the specific situation needs to be further feedback.

In terms of aquaculture, there are four poultry farms in Nanhai Farm in Lingao County, some of which are raised in captivity and some are intensively farmed, with an average of 20,000 chickens and duck eggs and 156 meat and poultry per day. After the expansion of high-quality egg and poultry breeding, the number of farmers in the jurisdiction has also been further improved, and there are no cases of large-scale transmission of poultry diseases. The first batch of livestock has basically bred into a community, and the meat, pork, beef and rabbit farms have begun to take shape, providing 36 tons of fresh meat and meat products per day. In the future, it is planned to further promote the intensive poultry farming technology to the people, so as to enrich the supply of non-staple food for the general public.

In terms of fishery, the company has not yet carried out marine aquaculture, because the catch of marine fishing alone is enough to meet the basic needs, and the food processing plant and fishing wharf can produce 1,560 tons of chilled seafood per day. A large number of fishing gear has been imported from the modern world for emergency response. In addition, the first whaling fleet has set sail and is expected to be able to eat locally produced canned whale meat within a month......

In terms of mining and metallurgy, the iron and steel complex project has been successfully completed, and the establishment of a special blast furnace, steel production and varieties have been comprehensively improved, silicon steel, manganese steel and other special steel has begun the preliminary trial production and achieved excellent results, spring steel, stainless steel in the non-ferrous metal raw materials will be solved after the trial production, has been in Changhua, Qionghai and other places of non-ferrous metal deposits and Shilu iron ore exploration has been completed, Shilu iron ore development project is underway. The Planning Institute is currently relocating the entire Sanya slave camp to Changhua Port so that it can be used to mine the Shilu Iron Mine nearby.

In terms of electricity, the general policy is to split into zero, except for the special industrial area and Fangcaodi School, the power supply of Lingao Hospital is still mainly supplied by the Bairentan Hydropower Station and the thermal power station power grid, and the rest of the factories and mining enterprises are independent power supply, and the original power grid cable is used as a backup power supply circuit. In order to increase the insurance coefficient and prevent the power outage from causing irreparable huge losses to the industrial zone.

Since the beginning of this year, the island's power industry has made another breakthrough and made great progress, not only the installed capacity of the Bairentan Hydropower Station has been tripled, but also the Nanbao Hydropower Station, the Maqiu Hydropower Station, the Lingaojiao Tidal Power Hydropower Station and several practical solar power stations have been built as supplements. Even if we do not count the power generation of Sanya New Town, which is directly under the central government, the total power generation of the island has increased by more than 10 times, and the main roads of Dongmen City and Bopu Port, the commercial areas along the road and the residential areas of the elders have been fully electrified, and relying on the help of the central government, the tungsten light bulbs, electric fans, simple electric stoves, and rice cookers have been initially produced by themselves, thus greatly improving the quality of life of the people.

In terms of telecommunications and transportation, relying on the strong funding of the central government, the Hainan Island Ring Road and the attached ring road have been successfully completed, but due to the shortage of cars and the difficulty of fuel supply, horse-drawn carriages and ox carts are still the main driving on the highway. In order to solve this problem, the comrades put forward a number of countermeasures, such as importing gasoline from the Sakhalin oil field of the Far East Company in Vladivostok, trying to develop coal-to-oil technology, seizing and exploiting the Borneo oil field, and using electric vehicles completely. As for which plan to adopt, the Executive Committee is still discussing and considering it, and has submitted it to the Central Committee for guidance.

In addition, with the completion of the Ring Road, the cable and telegraph network has also covered all counties and cities in the entire jurisdiction of Hainan. At present, Lingao and Sanya already have local telephone networks, and long-distance telephones have been opened between the two cities. It is expected that more telephone networks will be rolled out in Qiongzhou, Changhua and other places in the future. Outside the island, relying on the newly built base stations in Hong Kong's Lung Hu Shan and Kaohsiung base stations, cross-sea communications have been initially realized, and the construction of the base station in Vietnam's Hung Kai was interrupted by the war not long ago, and is currently being re-prepared. Some of the Navy's new ships have been equipped with radio stations......"

Then, only to hear a "click", a slender jade hand pulled the switch pull rope on the wall, so that the sound of the broadcast stopped abruptly.

-- Although this detailed "government work report" is related to the vital interests of every member of the Senate of Lingao Travelers, and even every subordinate naturalized citizen. But for Jin Lingxue, a thirteen-year-old "girl veteran" this year, there is no meaning at all.

Because, at this time, Jin Lingxue had already packed her luggage and was ready to leave this world that did not leave her many good memories forever......