"Congratulations, from now on, you are the official nationals of the East Coast Republic of China." Outside Linxi Fort, the township chief who was a veteran, awarded his identity certificate one by one to more than 100 Italian indentured slave workers standing in front of him. Their labor contract had expired before, and they had worked on the East Coast for 5-7 years and quickly applied for nationality. This time, Linxi Fort simply held a collective naturalization ceremony for them and officially announced that they have been residents of Linxi Township, Tieling County, Northwest Reclamation Bureau of the East Coast Republic of China.

Speaking of Tieling County, this is also a newly approved establishment by the State Council. It has a jurisdiction under Tieling Town (local location of the county government), Majiawan Township, Jinshui Township, Daoye Township and Linxi Township. One town and four townships have a total population of more than 18,000. This is not a small county in the East Coast Republic of China. What's more, there are Tieling Special Steel Factory, Western Forging Factory, First Heavy Machinery Factory, Tieling Mining Bureau (manganese mine, iron mine, coal mine, gold mine), and other backbone enterprises. It can be called the second industrial center on the East Coast. It is not an exaggeration to increase its importance in any way.

In order to support the development of Tieling County, the State Council had ordered that more than a thousand foreign workers who had expired their contracts (originally built various infrastructures in Tieling Town) would be settled in Tieling. Later, a batch of Betsimsaraka women (about 500 or 600 people) transported from New China Island were allocated to these Italians. This was also the ban on New China Malay women after many years. It is hard to say when the next time will be.

This batch of more than a hundred Italian labor workers have also worked on the East Coast for many years. Now their language and clothing are no different from those of locals. Perhaps there are some differences in living habits and cultural cognition. But this is not a big problem. The Executive Committee did not originally think of assimilating them. They are only trying for the second generation.

However, they lived in the East Coast Republic of China, where the proportion of Ming people was as high as 44%, and the proportion of mixed-race descendants was as high as 18.2%. In this emerging country, elements from the East always dominated the mainstream - because most men were Ming people - so they inevitably changed their living habits and gradually lost their cultural characteristics. Just like those immigrant Germans in the Cape Town colony of South Africa, the number of bitter Germans is actually not much less than those of the Dutch who speak Low German. However, after intermarriage with the Dutch, their living habits and cultural characteristics of their descendants were consistently moving towards the Dutch until most of them became Dutch in the end.

Nowadays, foreign immigrants on the east coast also have this trend. Their living habits are gradually moving closer to the Ming people, such as eating "Eastern Buns" (mantle buns) - it is quite difficult to find a bakery on the east coast. Perhaps there are only one or two in the three places of Dongfang County, Ping'an County, and Qingdao County - noodles, rice and other oriental foods, as well as some later foods advocated by time travelers; the clothes they wear are mainly time travelers and Ming people's clothing, and sometimes there are some strange mixed-style clothing; the language is the standard East Coast language (Mandarin) marked by Roman phonetic symbols learned in night schools, and so on.

The omnipresent social atmosphere is quietly stripping away their own cultural characteristics, forcing them to develop new living habits, subtly embodying their way of thinking and life philosophy. This is the essence of assimilation. Of course, any assimilation is mutual, and the fierce collision of Eastern and Western cultures (although it has always been dominated by Eastern culture) has also changed some of the concepts of many Eastern immigrants, such as the perspective of looking at problems and the way of thinking about problems.

Even some time travelers are infected by these cultures and have made new corrections to their three views - this can be seen from the wind direction in some mainstream magazines such as "East Coast Review", "People's Livelihood", and "Modern East Coast". In these magazines with time travelers as the main contributors, almost every issue has debates about new culture, new thinking, new understanding, and new views. The sparks of these ideas are gradually taking shape in the constant collision. In time, the values ​​and cultural views unique to the East Coast will inevitably be formed - this is one of the core elements of a new nation.

After years of life in the East Coast, the original free and casual habits have been greatly improved. They have gradually become accustomed to strict labor discipline and iron-like management systems on railway construction sites, under dark and humid mines, in muddy rivers, and in fast-paced brick kiln factories. To put it simply, these 5-7 years of labor career have given them a deep memory. Moreover, the so-called high-pressure society they live in will continue to teach them how to be qualified East Coast people. These will become conspicuous cultural imprints on them and their descendants in the future. Once they go out, others will know that this is an East Coast people!

"I hope you will remember your oath under the national flag in the future, always forget your obligations, always safeguard the interests of the motherland, and always..." Speaking of this, the old and rough township chief (from a veteran) who had just taken office for a few days suddenly realized that he had forgotten his words, so he could only end the long speech he was ready to unfold, and turned to the topic, and talked with them about their future work issues.

"In view of the complete completion of the fourth phase of the Northwest Railway, this time, according to the old rules, only half of the 119 new national lieutenant generals who were naturalized in Linxixiang were converted to agricultural household registration, and the remaining half of them were transferred to the State Administration of Railways and became official employees of the unit, and continued to fight on the construction front of the Northwest Railway. Well, you already knew these things a few months ago. I told you at that time that people with high scores have priority choices during work. Now we are starting to name the name from high to low, and those who click to name quickly make choices, and don't waste everyone's time..."

To be honest, for these newly naturalized labor workers, there is actually nothing to hesitate. They are basically farmers, and occasionally there are a few bankrupt businessmen (skilled handicraftsmen have long been selected to be granted official national status). Therefore, most of the top 50 people chose to settle in Linxi Township on the spot and become a farmer. There are only a few people, and I don’t know what I think, but I am still willing to work as construction workers in the State Railway Administration. Their own formal construction workers are still very light and their income is quite generous. This is probably the main reason for attracting these people.

Half of the first people have been picked up, so naturally there is no need to take the rest. They can only put away their luggage honestly and become railway workers - they are currently construction workers. After the railway construction is completed, they may also receive various training and transfer to railway operations employees. To be honest, the salary income of railway workers is much higher than that of farmers, and the tax burden is also lighter. It is a relatively ideal profession. But who made everyone from the country and the country, and feel that they are uneasy to have no place to make a living? Therefore, the status of a farmer who can legally own 30 acres of land naturally attracts them. In this regard, all kinds of people are really no exception.

At present, the fourth phase of the Northwest Railway (from Tieling Town to the large port section, with a total length of more than 220 kilometers and a flat grassland) has been under construction for more than a year. This railway, which was only built under the strong support of the vest, has now been built through Linxixiang Station and continues to stubbornly extend westward for more than 40 kilometers. Unfortunately, most of the construction workers on the East Coast are working on other projects, and the railway construction personnel have been greatly reduced, not to mention that a considerable number of railway construction workers have taken a boat to the south to support the construction of the Nanci Liangyang Railway, which further slowed down the construction progress of the fourth phase of the Northwest Railway. It is really short of people!

Ma Vest even wrote Tang Yuan, a specialist in Wujiang District, and asked him to organize people there. After initially improving the Daxing Port Wharf, he immediately transported a large number of construction machinery, labor tools and building materials, and then started to level the foundation and lay railway tracks, and built the railway from the other end of Daxing Port to Tieling Town, so that the Northwest Railway can obtain an outlet as soon as possible (Daxing Port on the banks of Wujiang River can directly access sea boats) and enhance the overall value of the railway.

Tangyuan was so entangled by him, and he wanted to develop Daxing Port in his jurisdiction, so he followed suit and agreed to Majia's request. Then he invited Majia to the central government to ask for funds, materials and personnel. This made the central leaders very troubled. They were almost avoiding these two "old cadres". They were really embarrassed.

From this we can also see that the builders of the East Coast Republic of China are really eager to achieve success. No regime in ancient and modern history has ever asked to complete such a large and high-standard infrastructure construction in just a few years, not to mention that there are many projects that are quite cutting-edge in this era - such as urban sewage treatment, railways, urban water supply facilities, high-level highways, modern docks, etc. If you want to complete these infrastructure projects spread throughout the settlements across the country as soon as possible, and not to squeeze every point of the country's potential, then how can you complete it like this?

Of course, if you want to build slowly and leisurely, that's another matter. Look at the Spanish, it took decades to make the important town of Potosi City, which is still like a bird-like and dilapidated; look at the British colonies in New England, where the cities are extremely simple, and farmers are like garbage picking up garbage; look at the Dutch colonies in the East Indies, the dirty city streets, I don't know how many bacteria have been breeding and how many lives have been taken...
Chapter completed!