The naval officers and soldiers looked at the valuables scattered all over the ground in front of them in amazement, and then looked at the large group of red eyes behind Liu Ang looking at the Hezhong Fort militias of Persian female slaves on the deck behind them, and immediately knew what they should do.

"This is not in accordance with the rules..." Only Second Lieutenant Ji Wen muttered weakly, but he was quickly squeezed aside. Liu Ang took a piece of lion skin and put it on him, laughing and said, "What do you know, little hairy child? Take the part of your property, and don't worry about the others."

The more than 100 female slaves will be distributed by the town government based on the past achievements of all unmarried male residents. Of course, female slaves who are distributed will receive the status of tempting people, provided that their new husband pays a certain fee for them. The fee is very low, which is equivalent to half selling and half giving away, and you can also deduct the fees from food and other physical items.

In general, this is a very important thing to boost the morale of the people of Hezhongbao. Many people who are usually careless finally know that those who work all day long can marry their wives before them. They all regretted it all, and the atmosphere of the entire Hezhongbao suddenly changed.

Just when the dock was noisy, in the office of Hezhongbao Town Government, Mo Ming, Guo Zili and others who had just returned from the local area were sitting together having tea and chatting.

"The election of the new zhongyāng government has been completed." Mo Ming took a sip of tea, then squeezed his eyes at Xiao Baitu, who was sitting opposite him, and smiled and said, "Old Xiao, your miserable member Bai Siwenbai has indeed been elected this time. It is said that many people are dissatisfied with him, and no one in the new government is willing to arrange for him to come to his own department. In the end, Premier Ma couldn't stand it and arranged him to be the office director of the newly established Historical and Chronicles Office. It is an important task for us to write history and local chronicles, haha."

"Hey! I know the end of this old boy!" Xiao Baitu curled his lips and said disdainfully: "This time, our army and navy soldiers used their lives to earn a precious peace under such a huge gap in the strength of our enemies. Bai Siwen was jumping up and down during the negotiations, and ignored everything in order to end the war. Everyone saw it, so who would not go down this time? However, after so long, I actually figured it out. To be honest, if you really want to say that Bai Siwen is selling his country, it would be unfair to him. This person is the virtue, too good at calculation and analysis! When we saw the paper strength comparison between us and the British, we knelt on the spot, and felt that this battle was definitely lost, it was a matter of vision and fighting spirit."

Xiao Baitu came to South Africa with Mo Ming, and he was with him the former cavalry lieutenant Leonid, and the protagonist of the infantry corporal Salvador, who shot Wang De last time. Of course, they were all beaten to the end and became ordinary non-commissioned officers or soldiers in the reserve. However, this is a trivial matter. Under the care of Mo Ming and others, it should not be too easy to make some contributions and then restore them.

"Talk about what is Sun Liyu, who replaced Bai Siwen as a member of the Judicial Committee and President of the Supreme Court this time?" Liu Angjiu was not very clear about some senior personnel in the local area, so he asked.

"According to rumors, this woman seemed to have some kinship with Peng Zhicheng before traveling through time. She has always been the first presiding judge of the military court. She has a strong personality and speaks without mercy. There are many people who offend it. It's really strange to be elected this time." Xiao Baitu squinted her eyes and thought for a long time before saying, "We have to be careful. This woman has always been very unfamiliar with the small hillism we engage in in the army and the government. I guess we are all remembering it in her small notebook. Don't be caught by her, otherwise I'm going to have to worry about it."

"This woman is so fierce?" Mo Ming was also a little surprised.

"It's not that." Xiao Baitu seemed to suddenly remember something fun, and suddenly sat up straight and said with a smile: "Do you still remember Wang De, the president of Dongfang County Court? Haha, as Bai Siwen's direct descendant and his unconditional lifestyle, this guy has long been targeted by this fierce woman. As soon as she took office, she transferred Wang De to the position of the president of the Yihe First Circuit Court, and appointed him two assistants, a horse, and then went through mountains and valleys all day long. The original court elder Jia finally made a breakthrough this time and was transferred to the position of the president of the county people's court."

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they felt a little sad for a while. Just because they couldn't control their little sluts, they might be wearing small shoes. This woman is just as good as the education committee member Du Wen.

After talking about Bai Siwen and Wang De, everyone talked about some of the things in this election. The previous government's term of office was about to expire on December 31 this year. Therefore, in October, the local government held the most important people's congress in the near future to elect members of the new executive committee and heads of various departments of the zhongyāng government. The election results were basically unchanged except for Bai Siwen's fall. However, a decree was also passed at the meeting, announcing that the executive committee members should be re-elected at most once, that is, one person should serve as a member of the executive committee at most two terms.

The issuance of this law is also to prevent the long-term restructuring of the members of the Executive Committee, and it also reflects the desire of the time travelers to reshuffle the rights. Faced with such a situation, the Chairman of the Executive Committee Ma Qianzu took the lead in proposing that after becoming the chairman of the second executive committee, he abdicated and gave way to the virtuous. After Ma Qianzu made his statement, the other ten members also expressed their sincere or hypocritical statements that they would no longer seek re-election after the second executive committee.

The term of office of the second zhongyāng government is five years, starting from January 1, 1639 and ending on December 31, 1643. At this People's Congress, the new government also proposed the concept of "five-year construction plan". In this five-year plan, the development focus of the East Coast Republic of China will be on the current slow-moving fields of steel and chemical industry.

The State Council has long been a little fed up with the Ping'an Steel Plant, which has been delayed in production. They plan to gradually increase the iron ore output in the Changshanbao Iron Mine Area within two years, so that Ping'an Steel Plant can obtain enough raw materials and start formal production. After the Ping'an Steel Plant is officially put into production, it is expected that the annual output will be more than 10,000 tons, which is higher than the total steel output in Europe at present.

After the steel industry emerged, the coal chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, military manufacturing and other industries that rely on its development can be followed simultaneously. The only thing that is, there are currently not so many industrial workers in the East Coast Republic of China. However, this cannot be rushed, and can only be done step by step.

The chemical industry is in the same important position as the steel industry. Embarrassingly, to the current location, there is no decent chemical factory in the East Coast Republic of China (the coking plant is in a semi-stop production). Important materials such as soda ash that is urgently needed for leather processing and textiles have been able to be prepared in small-scale laboratories, and this can only provide a small part, most of which are used for natural alkali imported from Europe.

In addition, what is even more speechless is that the East Coast cannot produce gunpowder on its own. Yes, even black gunpowder cannot produce it on its own! The main reason for its own production is the lack of raw materials, mainly because saltpeter and sulfur are not produced at all in China, so they can only be imported. At present, sulfur is mainly imported from Chile and other places, while saltpeter mainly relies on European mainland. As for saltpeter in Chile, only a small part is used (low production).

As for other important materials, such as sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, caustic soda and other basic products, they only exist in the laboratory, and large-scale industrial production is nowhere to be achieved. In the new five-year plan, the State Council did not put too much pressure on the chemical department. After all, the national strength is limited at this stage, and the resources that can be tilted to them are limited.

The government's basic requirements for them are two points: First, coal chemical industry and its related products must be formally industrialized, namely coke, tar, asphalt, dye and other products must be produced on a large scale. Second, gunpowder must be able to be produced by itself. Sulfur in its raw materials needs to be imported, while saltpeter can be replaced by other methods. This year, a new batch of Ming Dynasty immigrants had craftsmen who had made nitric soil, and they mastered some techniques that could be artificially prepared on a large scale. After talking to them, people from the chemical department felt that they could conduct experimental production. If this technology is really useful, then the saltpeter problem that has plagued the East Coast for a long time will be solved.

In addition to the two major items of steel and chemical industry, the rest are textile, shipbuilding and leather processing, and textile is still the top priority. In the new five-year plan, two domestic textile factories will gradually replace old hydraulic machines and use more efficient steam-powered machines. The steam engines used for textiles have been used in Ping'an Machine Weaving Factory for more than half a year. Although the failure rate is not low, it is finally enduring. Moreover, the people from the Yimai Factory are also working hard to improve the steam engine. The steam engines used now are completely in the sky and underground than the first batch used.

After actual production verification, the steam engine has the advantages of stable output and is not affected by seasonal rainfall. It is more powerful than hydraulic textile machines, and can be used to horse-mounted textile machines with larger and higher efficiency, further improving production efficiency. Among the teams using steam-powered textile machines this year, their production capacity is generally more than one-third larger than that of hydraulic textile machines. It can be imagined that if the horse-mounted machine is launched, the gap between the two will be even greater.

In April this year, two textile mills began to resume production. One month before the People's Congress (at the end of September), a total of 140,000 white cotton cloth, 8,000 dyed flower cloth, and 6,000 woolen velvet were produced in a total of six months, which brought back about 300,000 yuan in profits for the zhongyāng finance. This was only half a year. If it was the whole year, you can imagine how rich the profit was.

Shipbuilding, leather processing and other industries other than textiles are labor-intensive industries that require a lot of manpower, and the East Coast Republic has not had much energy to operate for the time being, so it can only temporarily maintain a smaller scale.
Chapter completed!