Chapter 253 Hunting Country (8)
After a few days of inspection in the Jingqian Township with Jindalai, Wang Dazhuang rode his horse to a new settlement further south, called Fendou Township, which is located near the Florentian town on the west bank of the Parana River in later generations, a new town with only about 1,500 people.
Please forgive us for using the word "only" here, which is relative to the developed areas of the eastern coast. In fact, in the desolate Hexi region, Fendou Township, which has 1,500 people, is actually quite lively, even more lively than many Spanish towns that have been established for a long time.
Among these 1,500 pioneers, as usual, more than one-third are Far East immigrants, one-third are locally born young people, and nearly one-third are non-national labor workers who have become regular non-national labor workers. The proportion of these people is quite low, and some have already gotten married before coming here, but this is not common.
It can be expected that in the next few years, the first ones to get married were actually those young people born in the East Coast. Their values and living habits are more similar, and they also have a certain amount of capital. Although the little wealth they carried when they left home has been exhausted during the land reclamation process, some parents who miss and care about their children will still find ways to send some money and goods, which makes their group's living conditions much better than others.
There is no way, this is the reality! Now the people born in the local area have occupied the mainstream of the East Coast population structure (59.2%). From a bloodline, they are very close to the Chinese in the East, but they are a little different in culture. This is related to the social order, environment and many other factors they live in.
For example, the local people on the east coast like to talk about business and trade. Regardless of men, women, young and old, the participation of the whole society is very high. People are not ashamed of doing business, nor do they feel that there is anything wrong with pursuing interests. The whole society is talking about where there are new opportunities for wealth. The restlessness is spread all over the country, which is quite different from China, which is calmly worrying. The people here are also very warlike. Both the army and the navy have a very high prestige among the people, and the military leaders speak in the government.
The power is very large, and the biggest source of government fiscal expenditure is military expenditure. This is unimaginable and unrealized in traditional China during peacetime. People here like to enjoy Chinese-style food. This can be seen from the flood of goods from India, Persia, East Indies, Africa, America, Europe, China and other places that people on the east coast like to consume these foreign goods very much, which is different from traditional China. Of course, this may also involve the huge difference in the economic level between the two.
In short, after receiving more education (although primary education has never been popularized nationwide), living conditions since childhood (eating beef and wearing leather jackets), the entire society is more open, and the second and third generations of the East Coast citizens, who have received more education, have indeed had certain differences with the culture of mainland China. If you regard the culture of mainland China as the main culture, then the East Coast culture may be considered a sub-culture and subculture derived from it. Because of the diversity of Chinese civilization, some characteristics of the East Coast culture can be found in certain specific regions of mainland China or at a specific period in history. Therefore, it can also be said that the East Coast culture has magnified a certain part of Chinese culture and narrowed another part. This is a difference caused by the environment, geography, social and economic foundation, which is inevitable.
Of course, if the East Coast culture is the subculture of Chinese civilization, the East Coast people are definitely not happy. In fact, they are currently working to strive for the dominance of Chinese culture with their advanced systems, technology and strong economic output. They believe that mainland China has reached the point where it needs reflection and improvement due to political corruption, military failure and economic inability to make progress. Their culture is outdated and needs improvement and innovation, and is not worthy of guiding the entire Chinese ethnic group to continue to move forward. In short, one of the central meanings is that our Song Dynasty Miao descendants are the orthodox Chinese civilization, representing the development direction of the entire ethnic group. Moreover, this culture is full of self-innovation mechanisms, which can absorb the strengths of foreign cultures, be inclusive and embrace all rivers.
In order to support this theory, they even invented the theory of "no China after Yashan", trying every means to add points to themselves, soften Chinese public opinion, and compete for dominance and interpretation of the future development direction of Chinese culture. This undoubtedly means great benefits!
Well, let's get back to the point. In short, it is not easy for foreign immigrants to integrate into the current social life of the East Coast, especially in cities, where they only feel more loneliness, and it is difficult for them to integrate into the entire generation (the Chinese will be much better in this process). It may be better in rural areas, especially in newly opened areas. Everyone can greatly enhance friendship by digging rivers, building roads, building embankments, and cutting trees together. Integration is generally the fastest in this process, and this seems to be one of the main reasons why the East Coast government likes to arrange foreign immigrants to pioneer in border areas, just like the arrangements in Fendou Township.
Wang Dazhuang rushed to Fendou Township today, and the first thing he did was to convene a meeting of all the township cadres, because it was the first time he came to this place for inspection. He only knew the names of township cadres from documents, and was not clear about their abilities, temperaments and other characteristics, so it is very necessary to convene a meeting.
In fact, after so many years of development in the East Coast, the officialdom has also had certain regulations and procedures. Whenever a leader takes office for the first time, he always has to arrange a meeting where most cadres gather together, just like a handover ceremony for a project. Everyone speaks freely at the meeting and reports the general situation to Shangguan.
Wang Dazhuang held a meeting today in the township government compound (actually a half-person-high fence around a piece of mud land). At this time, everyone brought some tables, chairs and small stools. Wang Dazhuang sat high on the chairman and looked around the left and right, and the positions were basically vacant. He looked a little lonely. There were more than a thousand pioneers in the Fendou Township. As a result, even the leadership team of the township government was not fully assigned. How could this work be carried out?
On the contrary, there were already a lot of sitting opposite each other, probably dozens of them, basically all of whom were the staff of the township government. The largest of them was the deputy township chief who was a scholar from the Corps and Fort. In addition, representatives from some nearby villages were also summoned to come over, and they whispered and chatted and laughed, as if they were watching a very boring opera performance, so that they were so bored that they had to chat below.
Of course, not everyone is so casual. Several military-to-people cadres who retired from the army sat upright. Although they have taken off their military uniforms, the regulations on their words and deeds developed in the army have penetrated into their bones, so they immediately distinguished themselves from the noisy scenes around them.
However, if you think these people really support Wang Dazhuang's work, that would be wrong. In fact, they still look down on this young and over-the-top township leader who is a village head who is born in the meteorological field. And this person is still enterprising, striving, and prosperity (located near the town of Rastoscas in later generations), victory (located near the town of Ocampo in later generations), liberation (located near the city of Margalita Beren in later generations), and the leader of six townships in Hexi, which is simply crazy and envious. Although this situation will definitely not last long, these townships will have their own township leader one after another in the future, Wang Dazhuang will definitely continue to be promoted to the department-level cadre at that time. Why is this? You know, he is just a young man who is born in the meteorological field! If he continues to develop, can he still be transferred to the New World Friendship Mutual Aid Bank to lead foreign loans and investment?
After scanning the scene, Wang Dazhuang waved his hand, suppressed the noisy sound a little, and then talked about the work arrangements for the next stage of the local area. He didn't seem to be angry, and he underestimated the official articles, such as land reclamation and settlement is a very important task, the only way to compete for living space for future generations, the best way for the new generation of citizens to practice their own value in life, etc.
After talking about such "nonsense" for more than ten minutes, Wang Dazhuang glanced at the cadres who became noisy under him. At the same time, there were some villagers who came to watch outside the fence. He was not affected at all. He also commented on the previous work of Fendou Township, focusing on explaining their gains and losses in the construction of flood control embankments, the excavation of irrigation canals, and the cleaning of forest shrubs. He did not specifically criticize anyone, nor did he deliberately praise anyone, but only stated that the Ministry of Finance will issue new water conservancy lottery nationwide in the year, and a lot of funds will be allocated to be used for the construction of reservoirs, canals, dams and other infrastructure here.
At this time, he raised his voice a little, and his face gradually became serious, which attracted the attention of some people. Wang Dazhuang said that he would not allow some people to work inefficiently and perfunctory. He is a cadre jointly authorized by the State Administration for Development and the Ministry of Civil Affairs to lead the work here. As of now, the construction progress of Fendou Township is generally tolerant, but the work of some people needs to be improved. He will try to give them some patience. If there is still no significant improvement in the first half of next year, he will directly adjust the positions of these people.
No one can have an excuse, Wang Dazhuang said that even if he was attacked by the Indians, it cannot be used as an excuse. The completion nodes of all projects must be within the time limit allowed by the plan and must not be delayed. Of course, he also talked about the fact that the attacks of the Indians and the secret destruction of the Spanish are objective facts. For this, he would apply for some food, materials and money from his superiors, and then form a semi-professional garrison in the entire region to attack the Indians, but he still hopes that the pioneering work will be delayed.
Wang Dazhuang's words shocked the crowd. The chattering sounds in the venue were gone. Everyone listened carefully to his words and thought about how to implement them next. Those who could sit here had five or six people, all had a competition. The officials on the east coast were one, and they had the opportunity to be promoted to high-ranking officials of the Taiwan Pavilion. Therefore, they did not want to set obstacles to their lives from the beginning. In addition to those older people, the noise was mostly made by them before.
"The agricultural conditions west of the river are excellent, and the soil and climate are also excellent. At this point, Tianzun did not treat us unfairly. What we need to do now is to work hard, devote all our enthusiasm to the construction, and improve our beautiful new home. The people in the Hejian area are commendable. They have used their hard-working double harvests to carry out construction for decades, tame the fierce floods, and built huge agricultural irrigation facilities, turning more than 100,000 square kilometers of land into famous fish and rice far and wide
Chapter completed!