Shao Yuanyi walked carefully on the hilly path after the rain. The road was narrow, rugged and slippery. The master and apprentice led a mule and rushed forward with difficulty. △￠

On the right side of the road is a dense forest, and on the left is a winding river - the Kamakuang River. The road is in a bad condition, or the road has never been repaired, it is just a mountain road that many people step on; the river is also very annoying, with the nearby river sections winding and the water is gentle, and the massive amount of mud and sand carried by the river from the upstream gradually accumulate here, so its depth is very problematic. During the dry season in winter and spring, large shallows will be exposed in the center of the river, which brings great difficulties to navigation. Therefore, if it is not dredged, the steam steamer downstream may have to go up the river in summer and autumn, which is obviously very unfavorable for the development of the upstream area.

The mountain road ahead gradually became widening - but it was only relatively - as if it was almost inhabited. It can be seen that many open spaces on the roadside were originally forests, but now there are only tree pits or piles left, perhaps by pioneering immigrants here.

Sure enough, less than ten minutes after walking, Shao Yuanyi saw a wooden sign erected by the roadside from a distance, with the words "Rahan Realm" written on it - this is the destination of their trip. A newly established settlement, Luohan Township, is located at the junction of the Pedras River and the Kamakuang River in Rio Grande, south of Brazil. It is named after the dense Arhat pine forests.

Luohan Township has more than 1,200 residents, of which about 700 are from Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, Daming, 300 are from Ukraine (female slaves), and more than 200 second sons and daughters from families in coastal counties in the eastern coast. These new generations on the east coast cannot be divided into land in their hometowns and are unwilling to work in factories. Therefore, they signed up to move to the new settlement to open up the land so that they could share the 30 acres of arable land on which they depended for their own lives. What's more, in hilly and mountainous areas, each person could also get an additional twenty acres of grassland, slopes or forest land, which was quite attractive.

A few dog barking came from the giant reeds on the river bank, and then Shao Yuanyi saw four fully armed militia walking out with guns. After seeing the "civilized people" dressed in Shao Yuanyi and others, these young men who looked very young lowered their guns. Then they carefully checked the IDs and letters of introduction of Shao Yuanyi and others. After seeing that they were medical staff, the faces of several people showed obvious joy. While sending people back to inform the village, they happily went forward to help Shao Yuanyi and others lead the horses and the luggage, and were extremely attentive.

The settlement arrived soon. From the pass where Shao Yuanyi looked, he saw a large area of ​​houses, rivers, fields and woods built along the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, and looked like many villages. The most grand three-story building in the house group was probably the office space of government departments in the township, and it was also used as a material warehouse, arsenal, prison and other facilities.

The entire building complex was cut in a mess by the irregular hills and rivers. There were two wooden houses by the river. The machine sounded loudly inside, and there was a large pool of black coal at the door. It seemed that it was a steam water lifting station; behind the water lifting station was a green grass, with a tall sentry tower on the grass, and two gun-carried militias stood guard at the top of the sentry tower, two horses were tied to a small tree under the sentry tower, and more than twenty were raising them to eat grass quietly.

After the group arrived at the township government, a deputy township chief left behind warmly greeted everyone and sat down, then took out the tea pot, poured some tea foam for everyone, and then brought it over. Shao Yuanyi was speechless, and the village was so poor that it was so poor! But thinking about it, is it not easy to find some tea foam for you? What else do you want? You must know that this tea is not very cheap in the east coast. The famous Baiyan Mountain Tea is priced at 2 yuan/jin. If it is re-exported to a foreign country, it will have to add a 100% tariff, that is, it will be sold for 4 yuan/jin. But even so, Portuguese merchants often come to the Gerard Mountains to collect tea from the east coast to resell it to Europe to make a profit (there are not many places in Europe that drink tea, mainly concentrated in the Netherlands and surrounding areas), which shows its value.

Therefore, the deputy township chief poured scattered tea leaves for everyone at this time. It was definitely not cheap. It was just that Shao Yuanyi, a "rich man", was used to drinking the Song Dynasty tribute "Xuedu Quhao" (produced from Fenghua County), and was a little uncomfortable for a while. Look, didn't his two apprentices drink this tea with a little surprised expression?

"This settlement was less than half a year since it was established. I was transferred here to take office after retiring from the army. Hehe, a sesame-like little official, at the time of our Ming Dynasty, I was not even a transit official, and I was just an official." The deputy township chief, who was about 35 or 36 years old, was very talkative, and only heard him say: "Oh, last time I went to the rural officials training class opened by the Regional Administration. Many of the brothers in the same class came from the army. Everyone kept sighing. Now the villages in the village are really hard. Places with conditions are better, with more or less income, and the financial resources of the local township government are guaranteed, and some work can be carried out. But poor places like our Luohan Township are still newly established, which is really difficult."

As soon as the deputy township chief opened the box, he didn't put it away again. He just heard him say: "The little money allocated by the State Development Administration is to carry out construction and maintain the operation of various departments in the township. It is really not enough. The problem is that this is not enough. Many times, I still have to spend money to hire people to carry out construction. The central primary school in the township has more than a dozen teachers, plus school management funds, which will deduct more than 3,000 yuan per year. The primary schools in each village are currently unable to build (the new settlements are actually unnecessary to build village primary schools), but the funds for one or two part-time teachers have to be paid. In other words, the biggest expenditure in the township now is education funds, followed by construction funds, medical funds, and finally personnel funds. It is common for the financial funds to be insufficient, but we cannot collect public grain from farmers here, so it is difficult..."

Speaking of the current tax system in the East Coast Republic of China, the tax system is becoming more and more perfect. Some miscellaneous taxes promoted in the past few years have been abolished by the People's Congress due to the audit and the collection cost is too high. They have been repealed by the People's Congress and then changed to personal income tax on urban residents (state-owned enterprises are subject to actual wages paid as the basis, and private enterprises are levied at a fixed amount, which is 5 cents per person per month); at the same time, the People's Congress also passed a proposal to collect public grain for rural residents - in fact, it was levied from the beginning, but this time the tax rates of counties and townships were fine-tuned according to regional differences. However, according to the Executive Committee's regulations, the new settlements were tax-free in the first three years. The State Development Administration gave grain subsidies and financial subsidies to each newly built settlement. However, these money and grain must not be enough in the tide of construction, and this is why the deputy township chief complained.

Shao Yuanyi and others were not officials and did not care about these things at all. However, due to their affection, they could only drink tea while accepting the language bombing of the deputy township chief. Fortunately, they did not wait long, and the township chief who went out to inspect the land reclamation work in several remote villages came back on horseback. Those who came back with him were also a deputy township chief who was a student from the Corps and a deputy section chief of the State Development Administration.

"Doctor Shao, you are a well-known medical expert. This time the county sent you to explain the disease prevention knowledge to everyone. I, Mr. Liu, am so grateful. I won't say anything extra. If Dr. Shao has any problems in Luohan Township in the future, as long as I, Mr. Liu, will come to me on this day." This forty-year-old village chief was born in Jiaodong Mountain Bandits and was one of the first people to follow Marshal Mo. After retiring from the army due to injury, he immigrated to the east coast. He served as the village militia director, the township armed minister, and the deputy township chief. Now he has finally climbed to the throne of the township chief, which can be regarded as a rapid promotion.

Although Shao Yuanyi is one of the most wealthy people in Mucaoling Township and even Xihu County, he still has to go to the hospital as a doctor, bring his apprentice and carry out disease control publicity. To be honest, he is quite busy. Although his property is enough to support him to sit at home all day without working, in the East Coast Republic where talents are extremely scarce, it is actually impossible and not allowed to waste talents. Especially Shao Yuanyi usually has loan business and often has to deal with government departments. It is difficult for some people to accept that a good doctor goes to the vegetarian class, so he still spends more time on his medical work.

For example, this time, he was entrusted by the Xihu County Health Bureau and brought his two apprentices to the most remote Luohan Township in order to carry out some medical popularization work for the new immigrants here so that they can have a superficial understanding of the disease, which can more or less reduce the incidence of the disease.

Luohan Township is a newly established township for only half a year. At present, there are many talents in various types. Many people hold multiple positions (in fact, the bigger reason is that the local "food finance" cannot afford to support too many full-time personnel). Therefore, most of the people who were arranged to come to listen to Shao Yuanyi's lectures were new generations of immigrants from the eastern coastal provinces. Most of them have completed primary education at least, which is considered to be the intellectual class in the east coast. Therefore, they will learn this kind of knowledge. After the matter is finished, the village will give them some funds to send them back to their villages to promote. This matter is almost done.
Chapter completed!