Bai Xia'er took a deep breath, and her not plump chest rose and fell, sweeping away the feeling of being in the cabin for half a month.

Instead, standing on the busy Xinjin Port, I was dazed and at a loss.

This is the instinctive stress that occurs when human beings, as social animals, are subjected to sudden and drastic changes in their environment.

For Bai Xia'er, everything as far as the eye could see made her feel three points cordial and seven points unfamiliar.

Whether it is a modern building with vague Chinese elements, or a dock worker with a similar face but completely different clothing, hairstyle, and temperament, she feels like she is in a chaotic vortex of time and space.

At this time, the sound of whistles sounded one after another on the sea, telling her that there were other ships arriving at the same time.

With a foul smell, a fat sea lion carcass was hoisted off the whaling ship by dock workers using a gear set driven by a camel machine.

When she accidentally heard from the sailors that these cute sea lions were the source of meat on the ship these days, Bai Xia'er couldn't help but turn pale.

A gentleman cooks far away, and so does a woman.

At least at this moment, Bai Xia'er felt that she might be more suitable for eating the fast food of Jingci Temple.

Well, it had to be her father's kind of cooking.

Another neck bell rang in my ears.

A mule and horse-drawn cart that was no longer allowed to be licensed in Xinfeng rushed to pack the preliminarily dismembered sea lions.

They will send the sea lions' meat segments, fat and fur to a meat factory, an oil refinery and a leather processing center in Xinjin.

When Bai Xia'er first arrived in Daming, what she saw was such a scene full of market atmosphere.

Although it is not beautiful, and even reveals a trace of the blood of the Ocean Empire, it makes people feel vibrant.

……

In addition to the still large number of mules and horse-drawn carts on the docks, there are also many civilian cars.

With the emergence of the Rising Sun Group, the car, which was only an exclusive means of transportation for the troops, is entering the lives of ordinary people.

In fact, it is not entirely correct to say that it is ordinary people.

At present, only labor pacesetters, senior civil servants, or senior non-commissioned officers can afford to buy their own cars.

Of course, a small loan is still unavoidable.

The price of more than 300 yuan is equivalent to the salary of most people in the past three years.

Cars, mules, horses, bicycles, human-powered tricycles, and all kinds of vehicles on the wharf come and go, forming a picture of a mixture of industrial and agricultural civilizations.

If Zhu Fugui is allowed to evaluate, he may unconsciously think of a world power again.

However, in Bai Xia'er's eyes, the scene in front of her was full of a strong impact like steampunk.

Xinfeng Wharf is just as lively and noisy as the previous wharf in Shanghai, but it gives people a completely different feeling.

It has nothing to do with the tranquil Buddhist temples.

At this moment, Bai Xia'er seemed to feel that the experience of the past sixteen years in her life had suddenly become useless.

At this time, the blue convoy with the four big characters "Royal Road Naturalization" printed on it came and stopped neatly on the shore.

This is a transport fleet belonging to the Naturalization Department of the Ministry of Households, using not a large agricultural vehicle purchased by Zhu Fugui from later generations, but a Sunrise Type B car.

The B Glorious Sun uses an ox-type 18 horsepower single-cylinder diesel engine.

This is already the strongest engine in the Rising Sun Group, with an output of just over 13 kilowatts, which can carry about one ton of cargo.

Such a car is not reliable for the main combat forces, but it is most suitable for civilian or yamen use.

Historically, Ford has become the most successful car company with 40 million Model T sales.

But behind this staggering spending power was the thriving middle-class population of the United States between 1890 and 1910, which was so large that it made other countries desperate.

The Ming Dynasty obviously does not have such a large population base today.

Therefore, it really supports Rising Sun Automobile, and has successively launched a small self-driving Type A car, and a large cargo-based Type B car, relying on the orders of the Ming Dynasty and the foreign trade orders of Maoli and Charlie.

The Naturalization Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty is a major source of orders for Glorious Sun Automobile.

Nearly half of the naturalization staff of the Naturalization Division who got out of the car were women.

Women symbolize affinity, and it is more convenient for female naturalizers to do certain things.

They quickly completed the handover with the sailors, and everything was well and methodical.

……

Bai Xia'er took the car for the first time, still with Aunt Lu.

Aunt Lu hugged her son with one hand and pulled the railing with the other, her face pale.

After all, squatting on the dump bucket of the transport truck, without even a canopy, looking directly at the scenery on both sides and retreating at a high speed of 50 yards, it was too terrifying for this woman who had never been far away in her life.

Bai Xia'er has a lot of experience in horseback riding, but she is not too afraid.

She even felt that this kind of thing called a car was much more comfortable than a bumpy carriage.

This is due to the fact that Zhu Fugui, as the largest shareholder, continues to provide high-quality tires to Glorious Sun Group.

In 1839, Goodyear had already developed the "rubber vulcanization technology", and Western horse-drawn carriages and steam engine cars began to use rubber tires.

Today's tires, however, are made of solid rubber, and pneumatic tires were not invented until the 1880s.

It will not be until the next century that the technology will truly mature.

Daming's chemical industry is relatively weak, and the rubber output is almost "0", and it does not have the ability to produce tires, especially carbon black reinforced rubber tires.

If you don't use quality tires, it's not just a matter of ride comfort.

Intense and frequent bumps can also significantly increase the failure of auto parts.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui had to spend an average of about 5w per month to purchase tires to meet the needs of the army and the Rising Sun Group.

……

In the past, when accepting Chinese workers, the Naturalization Division all pulled people back to Fengdu in one go.

However, after being reminded of the plague in the Choshu Domain, the motorcade of the Naturalization Division did not enter the city directly, but drove directly from the dock to the temporary shelter for prospective citizens 80 kilometers south of Fengdu.

Here, the Chinese workers will be divided into men's and women's camps.

They were subjected to a comprehensive physical examination, and their clothes, body surface, and hair were comprehensively sanitized, and after a week of quarantine, they were allowed to enter Fengdu.

There was a little hiccup along the way.

On the man's side, letting a woman undress and bathe in an unfamiliar place will cause some worry.

And when she learned that her son was going to be separated from her for a short time and taken by the male naturalization officer to the men's camp to take a bath, Aunt Lu was even more resistant.

Naturalizers are already experienced in this situation.

Female naturalizers are prepared for this moment.

It is one thing to make it easier for female workers to accept it with women's affinity, but more importantly, it is easier to use women to beat women.

Long-term practical work has proved that at such a special node, blind humanized management and smiling service are useless.

Sometimes the little Japanese spirit infusion stick is indeed a better choice.

Reasoning with these old ladies and doing ideological work may eventually achieve the goal, but the efficiency is far less than that of a stick.

After all, 20,000 people need to be registered and processed before dark, and the female commanders of the Naturalization Division still have to choose to inject energy into them.

Of course, not everyone is so skilled at wielding an infusion stick.

As Yin Li, who had just graduated from a secondary school and was successfully admitted to the Naturalization Department of the Ministry of Rites, she never thought that her main task on the first day of work was to beat people with a stick.

She's not afraid of beating people up like this.

As the younger sister of Yin Weasel and Yin Fox, Yin Lixi has had rich combat experience since she was a child.

Four years ago, the father of the Yin family siblings, who was still alive at that time, once said that Yin Lixi could become a hunter as good as Yin Weasel.

However, times have changed.

Yin Li did not choose to join the army like his brother, nor did he engage in theatrical performance like his sister, but chose to become a naturalized worker.

She hopes to bring more brothers and sisters to the big family of Daming as soon as possible, so that the land will not be robbed by those white robbers again.

In her mind, the naturalizer is known as the ferryman of the Ming Dynasty, shouldn't he be well-dressed and generous?

The truth gave her a head start.

After dozens of attempts to use words to influence stubborn and resolutely unwilling to take off their clothes failed miserably, Yin Li finally picked up the spiritual injection stick.

Aunt Lu, who refused to be separated from her son temporarily, was injected with a lot of energy.

This is still the result of Bai Xia'er's help.

As for Bai Xia'er herself, not an inch of her clothes were touched.

Of course, she also has no intention of resisting law enforcement by force.

In fact, Bai Xiaer very much agreed with the naturalizers' explanations on personal hygiene.

To tell the truth, in the past half a month, she has been fed up with the life of not taking a bath, and the smell of the surrounding smell.

Soon, under the all-round supervision of the spiritual infusion of the female naturalizers, the female workers entered the women's bathroom for showers.

The female naturalizer explained the use of various antiseptic soaps and shampoos in turn, and was very patient.

These things are like a godsend for Jiangnan women who naturally like to take a bath but are just forced to become sloppy because of life.

But people can't generalize.

There will always be a few people who don't like to take a bath and want to fool the past, and the sturdy female naturalizer will never care about the other party's naked state, and will still come with a stick.

In fact, many of them came here like this a year ago, believing that after a few days, or at most a week, they would understand and thank them.

Many naturalizers firmly believe that the spiritual infusion rod does have a special energy, which can make the newly arrived lost lambs adapt to the life of the Ming Dynasty better and faster.

"The one over there, I said you, the one with the best body, don't think about being lazy!"

"Put your hair down, wash it well, and wash it well with a rich shampoo!"

Under strict supervision, Bai Xia'er had no choice but to wash off the yellow mud on her face, revealing her beautiful face.