On January 15, 1648, just as Pei Qin led more than 3,500 Far East reinforcements boarded the ship to Buenos Aires to change his clothes, Xiao Mingli, the former Central Executive Committee member who replaced Shao Shude as the Xiling Regional Commissioner. Minister of Civil Affairs, also took a boat to Qingdao Port, which was under construction in full swing.

Nowadays, there are more and more construction personnel in Qingdao Port, and the settled population is also more and more. Among them, there are more than 2,300 original residents of Qingdao Port, and the newly built Guiyi Fort and Xinxiang Fort have a total of about 5,100 residents (including soldiers on the front team). From the data, we can see how the Ministry of Civil Affairs "crazy" went to Qingdao Port to fill the population. There are already seven or eight thousand people in a newly developed port city. This is the first time in the history of the East Coast Republic of China.

"The Fourth Bureau of Transportation and Construction will also send about 1,000 black laborers here, striving to renovate more docks before the autumn commodity fair in May. Even the temporary docks are not important. In the future, we will gradually replace them with Yonggu wharfs with brick and stone cement structures." Xiao Mingli took a horse-drawn rail bus specially used to transport people. His secretary, entourage, guards and the newly appointed Qingdao Town Mayor Minghui also got on the bus together.

Minghui had just defeated many competitors at the beginning of this month and became the newly established mayor of Qingdao Town. He also managed the nearby three settlements of Guiyi Fort, Xinxiang Fort and Sifang Fort (La Paz City, still under planning). This Jun traveled through Chu and burned bricks and tiles with Shao Shude, and later served as the general manager of the Building Materials Company.

After sitting in this position for more than ten years, Minghui, who was still ambition, looked for people everywhere and defeated many competitors. He seized the hot position of Qingdao Town Mayor. You know, the so-called mayor not only cares about Qingdao Port, but also manages the three nearby new settlements (directly under the Second Fort Executive Committee of the Corps). According to the national practice, the mayor of Qingdao Town will sooner or later become the future county magistrate of Qingdao County.

Where is Qingdao County? It is a national trade center, shipping center and financial center built by the Executive Committee. The position of the county magistrate is much better than that of the boss of a building materials company, and you have to win whatever you say!

"Well, I understand." Minghui nodded slightly and said, "Next, I will organize residents of Guiyi Castle and Xinxiang Castle to prioritize the establishment of brick and tile wheel kilns, lime kilns and cement kilns. The construction location is set in Sifang Castle. How can construction materials be missing when doing construction? Now that domestic transportation capacity is so tight, it is not realistic and unscientific, because it will inevitably delay precious construction time. It's just that these kilns are easy to set up, and there is no technical content, but the number of workers required is not a small number. The three totals at least seven or eight hundred people. These people may also need Commissioner Xiao, you can help Xiangshou to coordinate."

"I am not Sun Wukong, so how can I create many things for you? Don't look at the New China and the ships returning from South Africa say that there are more immigrants this year than last year, but now there are people everywhere in the local area. Such a few people are really not enough." Xiao Mingli said with a smile, and he stopped Minghui who was about to speak. Then he continued: "Of course, the construction of Qingdao Port is of great importance and is the top priority. I will also ask my superiors to send some people, but it may not be too many, so don't have too much expectations."

According to the sailors on coal transport ships returning from South Africa and New China in November, the number of immigrants from the Far East Ming Kingdom gathered on New China Island this year is much higher than last year. According to the usual data comparison, about 13,000 Ming immigrants will arrive on the east coast this year. These immigrants have been ashore at Xinhua Port approximately before August last year. After resting for several months, they were transported to South Africa from early November, and finally arrived on a boat. Now the families of the forward team and the orphans of the Shun Army in Qingdao Port are the first to arrive in the local area.

"By the way, the No. 1 Machinery Factory in the Yazihu ​​area in the northern region has recently developed an automatic brick making (brick blank) production line. It has been trial operation at the brick kiln factory in Meihe Township, Ping'an County for almost half a year. The effect is quite good. At present, the first machine factory is making the final improvement based on the problems reflected in use, and then it will be finalized. At that time, well, including the brick and tile wheel kilns under construction in Sifangbao, all six wheel kilns in China will use this automatic brick making machine, which can save everyone a lot of manpower and time in making bricks, which is very cost-effective." Xiao Mingli said as if he suddenly remembered something.

"Automatic brick making machine? It sounds good." Minghui nodded. This was indeed what he wanted. If the effect was as good as Xiao Mingli said, then it would save him at least 200 labor, which was really helpful.

Horse-drawn track trucks are driving lightly on cast iron tracks. This kind of track vehicle has little friction and can be pulled by two horses, which is at least 5-6 times higher than road transportation. Whether it is freight or passenger transportation, it is the best choice for the East Coast at this time.

The carriage quickly arrived at the Sifang Fort that was being planned. Sifang Fort is located in the city of La Paz in the north of Montevideo, and is a famous agricultural production area. In this place, there is currently only a square wooden fortress standing alone in the grass. There is a flagpole in the fortress, and a flag of the East Coast Republic of China is hung on the flagpole. There are about a dozen people walking around in the fortress, and it seems that they are working.

"In the future, Sifang Fort will connect itself with Guiyi Fort and Xinxiang Fort on both sides through cast iron light rail, so that it will be more convenient for transporting personnel and materials." Xiao Mingli got off the carriage and pointed to the fortress in the distance and said: "There will be a railway station outside the city walle. This railway station can be used as a light rail station for horse-drawn rail passenger/truck, and a heavy rail station for steam trains leading to inland areas. In the future, the light rail network between the five settlements of Qingdao Port, the second fortress of the Corps, Xinxiang Fort, Sifang Fort and Guiyi Fort will form a ring network. Well, this ring network is called the first ring. If Qingdao Port develops greatly in the future, it will continue to expand outside the first ring, and the new settlements will also be connected by this light rail, which is called the second ring, the third ring, and the fourth ring..."

Hearing Xiao Mingli's plan full of evil fun, Minghui couldn't help but sweat on his forehead. Should he build a piece of land in advance?

"Sifangbao will be the only industrial town near Qingdao Port for a long time. Not only brick and tile kilns, lime kilns, cement kilns, vehicle repair shops, etc., the top also plans to set up two additional enterprises here. One of them is the flour processing factory, yes, the machine in the Dafeng Food Processing Factory in Xihu County, the north. In the future, various grain crops (mainly wheat) grown in nearby agricultural towns will be processed into refined white flour here. Even some wheat that cannot be processed in Xihu County in the north will be shipped here to be processed to the finished product and then exported to foreign countries." Xiao Mingli said, "The soil fertility here is also good, the climate and precipitation are also good, and there are many ready-made rivers. It should be promising to develop agriculture in the future. Besides, the south is indeed lacking a deep processing enterprise. All the grain that cannot be grown will be transported to the northern Yazihu ​​area for processing."

"In addition, people from the Institute of Mechanical Sciences of the Natural Science Institute have recently designed a silk reeling machine. Well, it is a machine used to pull out silk from the cocoon. According to the agreement we reached with the Genoese, this silk industry is necessary. The Genoese have shared some of the silk reeling, textile technology and technology they have mastered with. To be honest, the technology as a whole is not very good, but there are also remarkable points. Now they ask us to design a brand new one as soon as possible.

Silk reeling, textile machines, and then set up a brand new textile enterprise specializing in the production of various silk, silk-seed blended and silk-cotton blended products. Their sales channels are very wide. As long as there is no problem with quality, they will definitely be able to sell them. Just like what they did in the silk weaving center in Lyon, we only need to defeat Lyon, and perhaps Venice. Apart from that, no one in Europe can compete with us in the silk weaving industry." Xiao Mingli said.

"The design of silk reeling machinery is not difficult. With the level of the people from the Institute of Machinery of the Natural Science Institute, it will take a few months to come up with a preliminary design plan and hand it over to a machine factory for production. At that time, we can organize trial production. The problem should not be big." Minghui commented, but after saying this, he changed the subject and said: "But the problem is that we are in the silk weaving industry. Where can we solve the raw materials? Silk is not like cotton, and there are wool everywhere. This thing is rare at least in Central and Western Europe. How to solve the source of raw materials is actually a headache."

"You don't have to worry about the raw materials. Anyway, you just need to cooperate with the technicians who come here to install and debug the machine." Xiao Mingli waved his hand and said, "I can't figure out the situation either." "The supply of raw materials is indeed a bit troublesome, but it is not completely impossible to solve. Many Leah families can get us a batch from France or Italy, and maybe we can import a large number of cocoons from the Ottomans themselves - this is also Europeans
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