Chapter 58, Arrival and Departure (Part 2)
Lingao County, located on a small highland surrounded by a moat, overlooking Bairen City in Dongmen City, the "high-end" apartment where the traverser elders live
"...Dudu——"
With the sharp whistle calling workers to go to work, Lingao County ushered in another busy morning.
The morning glow rises in the mountains in the distance, gradually turning the dark night into a bright road, and the clouds in the sky gradually change their colors. Looking from the window of the apartment building, the entire Dongmen City adjacent to Bairen New City, They are all wrapped in firelight and dust and mist, just like in the chaos where light and darkness are not divided - in the faint morning light and the loud whistle, the city that has slept all night begins to wake up.
(The relationship between Bairen City, where travelers live, and the prosperous Dongmen City is probably the relationship between ancient Japanese castles and castle towns.)
Although it is not yet bright, breakfast stalls have been set up on the streets in the distance, and there are people who get up early to go to work and farmers who go to the city to sell fruits and vegetables. Looking closer, the neighbors were also starting to turn on the coal stoves and cook breakfast, causing the corridors to be filled with smoke for a while.
——At this moment, the "Lingaojiao Palace" where "Australian *** once stayed" has been deserted. The soldiers and staff of the People's Liberation Army who were originally stationed have also left the city, like a group of people coming and going in a hurry. Passengers - After the opening of the Lingao-Sanya railway, the Chinese government in the modern world quickly ordered the sanatorium to be moved to Sanya where the climate conditions were more comfortable, the scenery was more beautiful and charming, and the environment was more suitable for rest.
However, the various changes they brought to the city will not disappear - although under the rule and construction of the Lingao Traveler Group, the original speed of development and change of this place has made people accustomed to it. The people of the Ming Dynasty, who lived an unchanging agricultural society, were greatly shocked.
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 vicious housekeeper waving a cane, and she had to pout. He raised a whip and beat two little donkeys to vent their anger. At the same time, the two animals were put on a mechanism, and then they spun in circles like a grinder, thus driving the animal-powered washing machine and starting to rinse the clothes...
——This animal-powered washing machine is a "technological" achievement developed here by a People's Liberation Army soldier in his spare time, and then tinkered with the help of several Ming Dynasty carpenters. The principle of this primitive washing machine is very simple. It is to install a crankshaft on a large corrugated iron bucket, cooperate with the connecting rod gear, and be driven by the livestock, so that the crankshaft that replaces the pulsator continuously rotates, driving the clothes up and down. , left and right kept flipping, It causes friction between clothes and between clothes and the wall of the barrel in the water, and decontamination and cleaning is achieved under the action of detergent. It even has the function of squeezing and dehydration. Compared with modern washing machines, it is more troublesome to fill the water. All functions are almost the same.
In addition to this animal-powered washing machine, there is also a small manual washing machine for household use, which uses a handle to drive the crankshaft. Just turn the handle like a stone mill to stir the water and clothes in the bucket. In addition, there is a larger steam-powered model - any normal modern person in the 21st century will instinctively consider how to use advanced machinery to replace backward human and animal power. However, that kind of steam washing machine basically only has military power. Fang Hui purchased it, and of course the performance is more advanced. For water supply and drainage, you only need to pull a peripheral handle on time.
In addition, some people have trial-produced wind-powered washing machines. Unfortunately, although the technical difficulty is not high, they have encountered insurmountable obstacles in practical application-any high ground where windmills are conveniently built is usually some distance from populated areas, so it requires a lot of effort. Carrying a large basket of dirty clothes for a long distance is quite a pain in the ass. And the supply of washing water is also a problem. In addition, the wind does not blow all the time, but dirty clothes need to be changed every day. Due to the hot and humid climate of Hainan Island, dirty clothes usually cannot be left for too long, otherwise they will become moldy and hairy...
In short, despite the explosive development of Lingao's power sector, the vast majority of time travellers' homes have achieved 24-hour power supply and used intelligent fully automatic washing machines from the original time and space. But for those families who are reluctant to spend money on electricity, as well as those rural rich farmers who live far away from the city and have no electricity supply, but want to pursue "foreign style", 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 ramen skills also began to make noodles using a noodle press. This type of machine, which is still used by many vendors until the 21st century, is a hand-cranked noodle machine. It is driven, small in size, and has a simple structure. The main structure is a rotating barrel with a stirring rod, and two pairs of automatically rotating rolling pins. One pair is a pair of flat sticks, and the other pair needs to be flat. The stick is still a rolling pin with grooves. When using this kind of machine, the noodle maker doesn't even have to knead the noodles. He just pours the noodles and water directly into the rotating bucket and lets the noodle machine press it with two pairs of flat sticks. What comes out is tattered stuff. A piece of rag that can barely be held together. After pressing out hundreds of kilograms of tattered fabric, take off the rotating bucket, put it with a dustpan, narrow the distance between the flat sticks, put the tattered fabric back in and let the machine press it, and then add water to wet it. The noodles came out... This time, what came out was a thick piece of cloth that was slightly damaged. After all the rags have been pressed into thick ones, then narrow the spacing between the flat sticks and replace them with a pair of concave sticks, and you can use the thick cloth to press out decent noodles.
Although the noodles produced by this thing do not seem to taste as good as handmade Lanzhou noodles, the efficiency is much higher. A machine can press out one or two tons of noodles in twenty-four hours. If you don't want to press the noodles, you can still use a flat stick when pressing for the third time, and you can press out a uniform thin cloth, which can be used to make pancakes and spring rolls... Due to their limited experience, previous Lingao travelers did not expect this kind of pasta artifact. When the People's Liberation Army and various scientific researchers who came back from time-to-time accidentally brought this thing along with the popcorn machine to test the waters, it was immediately well received and was competed by restaurants and canteens throughout Lingao and chefs from the visiting fleet. There is a rush to buy, and there are even Guangdong businessmen who want to wholesale this stuff and sell it in Guangzhou...
——Even some simple-looking manual machines can actually bring very obvious convenience to people's daily lives.
All in all, these "people from the central government" have brought countless changes to local society, involving almost every aspect of daily life.
But no matter what, as the "people from the central government" gradually left Lingao and moved to the new base in Sanya, the market in Lingao returned to its original rhythm of life, and the Ming Dynasty natives with buns and shaved heads The "naturalized citizens" with short hair have gradually returned to their former peace and composure.
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 visited this place all the way, but it did not stir up much ripples in the market. In addition to the hundreds of tons of Northeastern specialties shipped on the ship, which attracted a lot of attention in the market, Lingao residents who had had enough visual stimulation recently did not take these two landing ships seriously - compared with The airships of the "Australian Guards" that cover the sky and the sun, what do you big iron ships mean? Besides, it’s not like Lingao doesn’t have iron ships...
However, for some people, their destiny has changed forever...
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As time goes by, the sun rises higher and higher in the sky. When the alarm clock turned to seven o'clock and the aroma of various foods began to waft out of the corridor, the newly installed internal PA system in the apartment building also began to make a rustling sound.
The opening of the morning broadcast is, as usual, a majestic and passionate "March of the Athletes." Then today's morning news, except for a few local current affairs, mainly contains a "March of the Athletes" to inspire people and promote performance. Government Work Report":
"...With the care of the party and the country, and the efforts of all comrades, our company (after the intervention of the central government and the reorganization, each crossing group has theoretically become a colonial company, of course, it can still call itself a certain country to the outside world) The first five-year plan has been basically completed ahead of schedule. This is inseparable from the hard work and sweat of all comrades, as well as the support and funding from the central government...
In terms of agriculture, during the first five-year plan, the company's new agriculture of scientific cultivation and scientific planting has achieved considerable results in Lingao, Changhua, Leizhou, and Qiongzhou, and 11,563 farmers in the jurisdiction have participated and registered as members. , rice, soybeans, corn and other food crops New seeds have been widely promoted, and the potato experimental field in Kaohsiung, Taiwan has also achieved a bumper harvest. Although the area is not yet self-sufficient in food, with the completion and commissioning of the latest centrally aided fully automatic synthetic ammonia fertilizer production line, Hainan Island's food output has Will definitely go to the next level.
In addition, the industrial park for cotton, castor and other cash crops on the island is also beginning to take shape; the tea gardens purchased in Hangzhou have already produced the first batch of new tea; the first local edible fungi and biogas renewable recycling system in Lingao has begun. Establish; test the cultivation of coffee, cocoa, tobacco and other tropical The crops are also growing well, but due to the lack of sufficient chemical fertilizers, the growth rate is relatively slow. 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 is yet to be seen Further feedback.
In terms of breeding industry, Nanhai Farm in Lingao County currently has four poultry farms, some of which are captive and some of which are intensive breeding. They can produce an average of 20,000 chicken and duck eggs and 1,500 meat poultry every day. After the expansion of the breeding of high-quality laying poultry, the number of farmers in the jurisdiction has further increased, and there have been no cases of large-scale spread of poultry diseases. The first batch of livestock has basically been bred into a colony, and the meat, pork, beef and rabbit breeding farm has begun to take shape, and can provide 3,000 tons of fresh meat and meat products every day. It is planned to further promote intensive poultry breeding technology to the private sector in the future to enrich the supply of non-staple food for the general public.
In terms of fisheries, our company has not yet engaged in marine aquaculture, because the catch from the ocean alone is enough to meet basic needs. The food processing plant and fishery dock can produce 15,000 tons of chilled seafood every day. Because the fishing gear in this time and space is backward, the use of Rope nets made of fibers such as cotton and linen are difficult to further expand fish catch output. Only after the organic chemical industry is upgraded can the fish catch output be increased. Large quantities of fishing gear have been imported from the modern world for emergency response. In addition, the first whaling fleet has set sail, and it is expected that within a month, the people on the island will be able to eat locally produced canned whale meat...
In terms of mining and metallurgy, the current phase of the steel complex project has been successfully completed, and a special blast furnace has been established. Steel output and varieties have been comprehensively improved. Special steels such as silicon steel and manganese steel have been initially trial-produced and achieved excellent results. Spring steel , Stainless steel will be trial-produced after the non-ferrous metal raw materials are solved. At present, the exploration of non-ferrous metal deposits and Shilu iron ore in Changhua, Qionghai and other places has been completed, and the development project of Shilu iron ore is in progress. The Planning Institute is currently relocating the entire Sanya slave camp to Changhua Port to facilitate the mining of Shilu iron ore nearby.
In terms of electricity, the general policy is to break it into parts. Except for the extremely important industrial areas, Fangcaodi School, and Lingao Hospital, which are still powered by Bairentan Hydropower Station and thermal power station power grids, the rest of the factories and mines use independent power supplies. , the original power grid cable is used as a backup power supply loop. This is used to increase the insurance factor and prevent power outages from causing irreparable huge losses to industrial areas.
After entering this year, the island's electric power industry has made another breakthrough and made great progress. Not only has the installed capacity of Bairentan Hydropower Station tripled, but also Nanbao Hydropower Station, Maqiu Hydropower Station, Lingaojiao Tidal Power Station have been built. It is supplemented by powered hydroelectric stations and several experimental solar power stations. Even excluding the power generation of Sanya New City directly under the central government, the total power generation of the island has increased by more than ten times. The main roads in Dongmen City and Bobu Port, the commercial areas along the road, and the senior living areas have been fully electrified, and rely on With the help of the central government, we have initially realized the self-production of tungsten filament light bulbs, electric fans, simple electric stoves, and rice cookers, thus greatly improving the people's quality of life.
In terms of telecommunications and transportation, relying on the central government's strong funding, the Hainan Island Ring Railway and the attached ring-island highway have been successfully completed. However, due to the insufficient number of cars and the difficulty in fuel supply, horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts are still mainly used on the road. In order to solve this problem, the comrades proposed a number of countermeasures such as importing gasoline from the Sakhalin oil field of the Vladivostok Far East Company, trying to develop coal-to-oil technology, seizing and exploiting the Borneo oil field, and completely using electric vehicles. As for which plan to adopt, the Executive Committee is still discussing and considering it, and has requested the central government for guidance.
In addition, with the completion of the ring-island highway, the wired telegraph network covered all counties and cities in the entire Hainan jurisdiction. At present, Lingao and Sanya already have local telephone networks, and long-distance calls have been opened between the two cities. It is expected that more telephone networks will be laid in Qiongzhou, Changhua and other places in the future. Outside the island, relying on the newly built Longhushan base station in Hong Kong and Kaohsiung base station, cross-sea communication has been initially achieved. The base station construction project of Vietnam's Hongji was interrupted by the war not long ago and is currently being re-prepared. Some new ships of the Navy are already equipped with radio stations..."
Then, there was only a "pop" sound, and a delicate hand pulled hard on the switch cord on the wall, causing the broadcast to stop abruptly.
——Although this very detailed "Government Work Report" is related to the vital interests of every member of the Lingao Traveler Senate, and even every subordinate "naturalized citizen". But for the thirteen-year-old "Girl Veteran" Jin Lingxue, it has no practical significance at all. Because at this time, Jin Lingxue had already packed her luggage and was preparing to leave forever this world that did not leave her with many good memories...