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508、The era of honeycomb coal(1/2)

"The moon still shines brightly in my hometown! Only a few days after I came here, I actually started to miss Fesoport."

In the courtyard of the embassy of the Kingdom of Kyrgyzstan, several people were sitting around a table. There was a power grid on the high wall around them. The trees in the courtyard were some years old. The environment was very quiet and private. Through the gaps between the treetops, you could see the sky. A crescent moon.

After the day's talks, Charles, Hua Zhenxing, Wang Fengshou, Li Jingzhi, and Shen Sishu gathered together in the middle of the night to have a glass of wine to relieve their fatigue. Xia Yading and others also led their team to collect materials overnight.

The table in front of them can be regarded as a cultural relic. It has served as a banquet in Wuling Mountain, appeared in Baihua Mountain, and entertained heroes from all over the world and even gods from all walks of life.

When Charles spoke, he was shaking a goblet in his hand. The wine in the glass was rotating evenly against the glass wall, but what he was shaking was not red wine, but amber Dongguo rice wine. Because Mr. Kefu liked to drink this, Charles I also like to play.

More than one person had reminded him that drinking like this was wrong. Charles rolled his eyes strangely and asked, "Did you stipulate this?"

Therefore, holding a goblet to transfer rice wine has become a special feature of Mr. It’s time to market!”

Charles: "Yes, isn't that even more of a hometown?"

Wang Feng harvested: "Don't be arrogant, nor is I not let you go out and stroll around. This is security requirements! As your current identity, you have to run out in the middle of the night, not appropriate!"

Hua Zhenxing also laughed: "Just grab a glass of wine and drink it first."

Charles: "I don't mean anything else, I just read a poem. In my memory, the moon in Charles City is much brighter than here, and it's even bigger!"

Wang Fengshou raised his head and looked at the moon: "Actually, the air in Pingjing is much better now, especially these two days. I remember when I was in elementary school, there were often sandstorms. When I went to college, the sandstorms disappeared, but there were often smog... "

Li Jing jumped in: "Objectively speaking, the air quality in Mowang City is still not as good as that in Pingjing, especially in the dry season. In the rainy season, it is not easy to see the moon."

The air quality in Mowang City, the capital of the Kingdom of Kyri, is not as good as that in Pingjing? This is true, especially when cooking. Because many residents of Mowang City are still using biofuels, and the so-called biofuels are firewood.

There is always firewood to burn, and the conditions are actually much better than before.

Although Mowang City cannot be compared with Pingjing City in size, it is still a mess with a population of over one million. Residents in many neighborhoods cannot go to the wild to find firewood. On weekdays, they even use all kinds of garbage as firewood.

Later, supply and marketing cooperatives spread across the country, and with the development of large-scale agriculture and planting, various blocks in Mowang City also had a guaranteed supply of firewood. With the development of light industry in the past two years, some families have used briquettes.

After talking about the moon and air quality, and the issue of fuel for residents’ lives, Charles took a sip of wine and said: “The technology introduction project I mentioned personally actually shocked them! The coal stove factory in Dongguo seems to have been there is none left."

When it comes to this, it’s all a story. When Hua Zhenxing was a child, he thought that the stove in his kitchen was the most advanced. This can’t be wrong. It was a nine-mouth magical alchemy stove. Most of the indigenous people in the neighborhood used earthen stoves for cooking.

The earthen stoves in Jili Kingdom are not the big ones that people in the East are familiar with, but they are extremely earthy. To put it nicely, they can be called marching stoves.

It is a circle with a gap built with earth, and a pot is stacked on top. Sometimes it is not even a pot, but it may be a tin bucket, a large plate, a large iron piece or a flat stone.

Hua Zhenxing saw the liquefied gas tanks and matching stoves for the first time after visiting the living quarters of Dongguo construction workers.

In the Kingdom of Kyrgyzstan, the most high-end stove fuel is canned liquefied gas, and very few people use it. Because the supply is limited, replacing a can of gas is very troublesome and extremely expensive.

Even the Dongguo Construction Aid Project Department later set up a large stove in the canteen of the living area and began to cook large pots of food with firewood, because it was really inconvenient to produce liquefied gas.

Social changes are not just a few lines in history books, but involve all aspects of daily life, and some details may be unimaginable.

The New Alliance carried out patriotic sanitation campaigns in various neighborhoods, built garbage stations, sewers and public toilets, prohibited open defecation and messing in toilets, and also promoted new brick and earth stoves. Where conditions allowed, they tried to promote coal stoves.

The new brick and earth stove promoted by the New Alliance has a structure similar to the traditional large stove of the Eastern Kingdom. It has a chimney that does not choke people, and the efficiency of firewood utilization is higher, and the fire hazard is smaller.

As for the coal stove, it has surpassed the stage of burning briquettes and directly entered the era of honeycomb briquettes. Wage Mining has a coal mine, a pit-head power plant, and two small generating units to supply electricity to the entire mining area.

Later, the mining group expanded its mining scale and began to produce briquettes. In fact, there is no shortage of coal mines in Kilili Kingdom, and there are mining plans for many years to come, but it still requires assistance and cooperation from the East.

Although today’s Dongguo residents basically no longer use briquettes, briquettes are not that old. Before people lived in unit buildings, there were still many people using them in the 1980s and 1990s.

Li Jingzhi and others used briquettes at home when they were young. According to their memories, they restored the process through trial production, built a batch of coal stove samples, trained workers, and collected materials to build a small coal stove factory.

Burning briquettes is also very particular. At least it is difficult for the local indigenous people. They have to be taught step by step. The most technical part is to seal the furnace. If the furnace is not sealed well, the fire will be extinguished.

This thing can't be used in the living room yet, it needs a relatively open space, but it can be considered an improvement anyway.

When Charles came this time, he asked for assistance in building several coal furnace factories and supporting supply chains, which shocked the representatives of the Dongguo Business Negotiation Group.

Dongguo officials have experienced many foreign trade business negotiations of this type, and this is the first time they heard such a simple and unpretentious request.

Fortunately, the technical content of coal stoves is very low. Many coal stove factory workers at that time are still there today, and they have not even reached retirement age, but they can provide related assistance projects.

Kilili Kingdom has been able to produce coal stoves, but it still uses a semi-manual method, with insufficient raw materials and very limited production capacity. This matter is related to the livelihood of the people across the country, so it needs to place an order to import it from the Eastern Kingdom.

Now that Dongguo technicians are developing briquette stoves, they can completely optimize the design and use better insulation materials to close the fire structure, making it more environmentally friendly and more efficient.

In Dongguo in the 1980s, township-level enterprises could actually produce such things, and there was no need for large factories.

But making it into a large-scale industrial product is not something that the current few countries can do. Coal stoves and fire tongs require some iron sheets, cast iron, steel bars and other materials. At least a steel plant is needed upstream, right?

The state-owned iron ore in Kilili is of high quality and can be exported to the East, but the local area also needs supporting steel plants.

The briquette stove is just an important item that Charles is concerned about. At this stage, the core industries that Giles really wants to introduce are mainly steel, chemical fertilizers, and agricultural machinery.

This can be regarded as the transfer of Dongguo's excess production capacity. It depends on how much Jiliguo can absorb and digest.

The cooperation between Kiriguo and Dongguo mainly focuses on the introduction of production capabilities. It is not completely open. It is more cautious in some areas. For example, the retail industry is not fully open.

This does not mean that goods from the East are not imported, but that the goods that need to be imported are decided by the retail companies in the country that have foreign trade import rights. The largest of them is the General Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the smallest is probably Old Yang’s Grocery Store.

This is not a policy directed at the Eastern Kingdom, but a national policy of the Kiri Kingdom itself, which is the same for all countries.

The reason for not opening up the commodity retail industry for the time being is also very simple. The country's fragile light industry has just recovered, and its competitiveness is still quite limited. It cannot withstand the impact of a large number of foreign goods, especially Dongguo goods, in a short period of time.

For example, the simplest honeycomb briquette stove, if the finished product is directly imported, with the complete industrial chain of Dongguo, even if this product no longer exists, it can be produced quickly, which can wipe out all the existing coal stove factories in Jiliguo.

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Another area that requires cooperation but cannot be completely open is the education system.

Some social educational institutions have industrial characteristics, but the education system itself is not suitable and cannot be developed as an industry.

Education is national sovereignty. Only with national sovereignty as the premise can education become a civil right.

If education is operated as an open industry, the consequences will be serious, and may even lead to the deconstruction and alienation of national consciousness and cultural traditions.

Is there any country in the world that treats sovereignty as a business? Of course, there are. For example, some small countries specialize in selling passports. In fact, they turn the country's diplomatic sovereignty into a passport industry. Kilili Country obviously does not want to be such a country anymore.

The national consciousness of the Kilili Kingdom has just been knitted together through the new social transformation. It was originally just a patchwork of local separatist forces and tribal cultural heritage. Many indigenous residents did not even know that they were from the Kilili Nation.

As for cultural traditions, they are actually two different concepts. There is no traditional culture in Kilili Country. If there is, it is gangster culture and tribal shaman culture that cannot be put on the table.

The cultural tradition here is in the process of being re-established, and the education system is its core, so it must be independent. But on the other hand, it is the most susceptible to penetration and influence.

Education determines who to train talents and what kind of talents to train. Scientific and cultural exchanges and reference are essential, but many so-called academic issues in the humanities field are actually the distinction between economic and political stances.

Sometimes the defense lines established by national security agencies may be riddled with holes in the education system overnight.

Although Hua Zhenxing had some experience of this when he founded Chunhua University, it was not obvious yet. But Manman always had doubts at Pingjing University - who is being cultivated here and what kind of talents are being cultivated?

The country's first five-year plan calls for the establishment of three universities and seven vocational and technical colleges in the field of higher education. At the same time, according to the school system of five years for primary school and five years for middle school, a comprehensive primary and secondary school citizenship education system will be launched. .

Fangguan Development Group has set up an education research department, and Huazhenxing has also set its sights on Niu Yiping, trying to recruit him to become the president of the university. However, Jiliguo has independent control over the content and form of education.

Ke Fuzi controls the general direction, and Shen Sishu is responsible for the specific details. The construction mainly relies on self-raised funds. This is also the area where Huazhen Bank, including the government of several countries, is most willing to spend money.

Different from negotiations in other fields, in the field of education, the person in charge of Dongguo and his team showed unusual enthusiasm, so enthusiastic that even Shen Sishu was surprised.

The person in charge of negotiations in the field of educational cooperation in Dongguo is named Zhang Buying, who is also an important leader of Dongguo’s education department.

Vice Minister Zhang, the leader of the Education Cooperation Negotiation Group, enthusiastically expressed his willingness to strive to assist the construction of three universities for the Kingdom of Gila, not only for the construction of school buildings, but also for the construction of disciplines.

Regarding the seven vocational and technical colleges, Leader Zhang did not mention it, maybe because he was not familiar with the situation. However, for primary and secondary school civic education, it is impossible for the Kingdom of Gilly to rely entirely on the assistance of the East Country, but Leader Zhang still showed great of enthusiasm.

He proposed that one experimental primary school and one experimental middle school could be set up in each of the seven key cities in Kilili Kingdom. These 14 schools would be built with assistance from Dongguan, and Dongguo would provide a full set of teaching materials and educational guidance.

This complete set of teaching materials can also be promoted to all primary and secondary schools in Kilili Kingdom. It is provided by Dongguo and can be regarded as part of the education assistance project.

Shen Sishu can also understand Zhang Buying's enthusiasm.

Because educational cooperation is a cultural export project, Dongguo does not expect it to make money directly. From the perspective of leader Zhang, of course, it is hoped that the scale of assistance will be larger and the more fields, the better.

The money spent is the country's money, but it means that the person handling it can control more resources. Who doesn't like to be responsible for projects where money is spent? But this is exactly what the country does not need.

Under the guidance of Mr. Ke, there was no problem for Shen Sishu to organize a team to compile teaching materials. The teaching materials for primary school to middle school, grades one to ten in Jili Elementary School, including extracurricular supplementary readings, had already been compiled.

What the country's education system is really in urgent need of are paper mills and printing plants, as well as sufficient quantity and quality of school buildings and teachers.

Shen Sishu had just broken through the fifth realm before coming to Dongguo this time. He used the shortest time to quickly review the full set of teaching materials and teaching aids provided by Team Leader Zhang, and then wrote an internal report.

Everyone frowned secretly after reading the report, which mainly pointed out five issues.

The first point is the issue of Chinese education. In basic education, Chinese education is very important, more important than most people think, and this is true in every country.

It not only learns language and characters, but more importantly cultivates social ethics and cultural traditions. It is the most important process of cultivating socialized personality. In the most popular terms, it means learning the principles of life and doing things.

There are many issues involving the outlook on life, and boring preaching is often difficult for children to achieve. Life-oriented stories and works that subtly guide ideological resonance are the most important ways to cultivate children.

The complete set of teaching materials pushed over by leader Zhang, let’s call them Zhang’s teaching materials, has many problems.

Take primary school textbooks as an example. Although they are all short stories written in Eastern Mandarin, the characters and themes in many of the stories feel very weird, and even many of the illustrations are weird or even obscene.

The Dongguo culture, which has been passed down for thousands of years, has too many excellent story themes that can be used for children's education.

However, in this set of textbooks, characters such as Tom and Mary appear in too high a proportion, and they are usually positive moral images. Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong are often the ones who have made mistakes and are educated, and are full of tendentious hints.

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There are a large number of foreign translated texts in the textbook, mixed with many fabricated stories of foreign celebrities, such as Hua Dundu cutting down a cherry tree and Ai Shengsheng making a shadowless lamp to promote some of his excellent qualities.

But to educate and publicize these excellent qualities, Dongguo has had better allusions since ancient times. Even from the perspective of basic language education, such texts should not be used at this stage.

Looking at the recommended extracurricular supplementary readings, the problem is even more serious. They are filled with a bunch of foreign literary works and stories that have been dug out from nowhere.

Not only is its literary and ideological qualities hard to compliment, it even secretly promotes class consciousness and religious ideas.
To be continued...
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