Lu Ming

Director Ma Ming, who has seen too many such situations, is very experienced. He and his subordinates coaxed and pushed the people who were squatting on the ground, and they kept lifting the people who were squatting on the ground. Yu Chengde and his party, whose heads were shaved, still sat coweringly in the end. On the roaring bus.

Slowly, stop and go and run eastward for more than half an hour, the No. 4 bus finally stopped at the terminal: Ding 9 District.The neighborhoods in Chikan are named according to the heavenly stem + number.Ding 9 district is currently the most newly built community in the east, and it is under the jurisdiction of the street office where Ma Ming is located.

If measured by the standards of future generations, the user experience of this bus must be cheating.

First of all, wooden wheels do not have shock absorbers and rubber layers.Secondly, apart from the cement-hardened pavement used on the Chikan Avenue and the wharf area, the roads in remote communities are still gravel roads, so the bus is very bumpy - even though this is the smoothest and most bearing capacity in the 17th century. Strong way too.

So when the newcomers got out of the car and stepped on the solid gravel road, everyone's feet were soft, some people felt dizzy, and some even retched.

Motion sickness is very common here.Most of the immigrants spent the first half of their lives walking barefoot, and they had never even sat in a carriage or a sedan chair, let alone a faster gas cart.

The sudden increase in displacement speed, bumps, start and stop, made the balance signal from the vestibular organ of the inner ear of these mud legs amplified rapidly, and the central nervous system that had never received such a strong signal began to respond, so the poor ghosts began to dizzy and retch It's - thankfully they haven't eaten yet, otherwise they would have vomited on the way.

This phenomenon also appeared on a large scale after the reform in later generations: farmers imprisoned on the land began to move across the country, and people's opportunities to contact vehicles increased overnight, so a wave of motion sickness and seasickness also broke out.

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There are not many buildings in Ding 9 District, only a few dozen or thirty residential huts.Since it is a newly expanded community, in addition to the necessary buildings such as public toilets and water rooms, shops and bathhouses are not yet equipped, and the roads are still rammed earth roads, and there is no time to pave stones.

However, people like Yu Chengde came from the fishing village.What is there in the fishing village?Overgrown trails, low shacks and thatched huts, litter everywhere and the smell of fish from time immemorial... So they have no resistance to wooden houses painted with beautiful tung oil, clean and tidy, horizontal and vertical communities.

Smiling, Director Ma took out a bunch of keys from his butt pocket and quickly opened several wooden houses that smelled of natural tung oil.

Today's wooden house has been developed to the third generation.The hut, which is all made of standard parts, has absorbed the experience of the previous version, and has greatly improved both in terms of structural strength and comfort.

In fact, apart from the lack of concrete basements and swimming pools, the quality of the huts in the Transit Kingdom is superior to that of later generations of American wooden huts—at least the thickness of the foundation piles and slabs here is stronger.

This is also impossible.After Meidi's hut is blown away by a tornado, the insurance company will come forward, but there is nothing on the Dayuan's side.After being bitten by a snake once and dried up by a typhoon once, the people who traveled through the house have improved the quality standards of the houses in an all-round way.

通常来说，这些小屋的建筑面积在30—50平米之间。这种设计是针对移民家庭的：30平米的屋子可以隔出来3—4个房间，完全可以提供一家4口人的居住空间。

You know, there are no toilets in the houses here, and most people don’t know how to cook at home: the food in the cafeteria is subsidized, so the price is cheap.

After canceling the toilet and kitchen, 30 square meters is actually very spacious.If a family has elderly people and more children, it is also possible to apply for a larger house.

In fact, this kind of situation is rare: children over the age of 6 will be forced to live in school, and they will only go home on Sundays... The 6-day work system is implemented here.

And teenagers over the age of 16 are usually not with their parents: they are either in school or in the dormitory of the factory.Therefore, parents only need to set aside the housing area to support the elderly, and young people don't need to worry about them. The resources invested by the old men in the flowers of the motherland far exceed the imagination of their own parents.

Under the immigration rules of crossing the country, the common extended family in the middle ages does not exist: sister-in-law will definitely not live under the same roof as brother-in-law, and all families that are not immediate relatives will be dismantled.

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After Yu Chengde and the others put the straw woven bags in their new house, they were dragged to the cafeteria for dinner.The cafeteria is in the neighborhood next door, and while talking excitedly about the new home, everyone followed Director Ma to find the way.

Most of the poorest people come to Dawei and need to work for a month or two before they can turn around financially.After Ma Ming came to the cafeteria, he first filled in and signed the form according to the regulations, and then gave out everyone's one-month meal tickets by head.

All meal tickets, houses, clothes, including some daily sundries, are actually loans... The wool comes from the sheep, and the leeks will eventually need to use their monthly salary to pay back in installments.

Although he still had some "banknotes" in exchange for silver, Yu Chengde was not in a hurry to take them out to buy meal tickets: since the meal tickets are borrowed for free and have no interest, you might as well spend them first.

After eating a big bowl of porridge with seafood, mixed vegetables and white rice, which is necessary for newcomers to "join the occupation", the villagers followed Director Ma to the sub-district office to collect sundries with their fingerprints.

Including daily necessities such as quilts, washbasins, slippers, toothbrushes, etc., the street office has them ready-made.After arranging for two young men to push back and forth with a trolley, Director Ma began to formally assign rooms to everyone.

Yu Chengde's house has nothing to say, the house of more than 30 square meters is enough for his family of four to settle down.And when Ma Ming saw Yu Sibao's form, he pointed to the line above and told them: Yu Sibao should be called by a certain department for training soon, because his specialty is "diving", which is very popular ability.

Arrangements are quickly made for most families.As for a lonely old man like Grandpa Ba who is ready to lose his braids at any time, the villagers who fled here together will naturally not leave him alone.So Director Ma arranged the old man at Houzi's house: Houzi lived with his mother and had a spare room.

As for the support of the old man, as a rule, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Traveling Country is responsible for paying for it, and it will not add any burden to the villagers.

That night, the villagers had a housewarming dinner with mixed feelings.Looking at the bright oil lamps on the table and the children playing and laughing on the floor, Yu Chengde couldn't help praying silently to God and thinking about the endless road.

Chapter 264 Familiar with the environment

From the second day when Yu Chengde and the others came to their new home, all kinds of training followed closely.Director Ma and his staff will take turns to give lessons to these newcomers, teaching them to "know the rules".

Including queuing, including walking to the right, including urinating and defecating in public toilets, and other basic behavioral norms that everyone should learn.

Although the villagers are not used to it, they still know the reason why people leave their hometowns, so no one complains - the scene of being held up by soldiers with bayonets on the pier clearly told them that there are rules here.

The 30 or so fishermen in Chengwei Village occupy a total of seven or eight houses in the community.And just two days after they moved in, many immigrants came to the community one after another, and quickly filled up the remaining houses.

The newcomers were then shocked to see a play called "How the House Was Built".

Early in the morning, a long line of rumbling gas trucks drove into the community.The immigrants, who were so frightened by the monster that they didn't even dare to go out, hid behind the door and looked out secretly.

These grotesque iron beasts each have their own uses.

The first thing to do was the tamping machine.Breathing heavily, the creaking monster smashed the already leveled ground with a thick pile hammer.At the same time, the workers who got off the car began to unload various components from the cart.

The next step is to smash the foundation pile.The iron cart with a pair of long arms and iron claws smashed two rows of thigh-thick pointed wooden stakes into the ground.

After that, it's the work of the workers: all kinds of prefabricated parts are carried to the construction site one after another.Amidst the sharp whistles and slogans, the workers first cooperated to fix the frame to the foundation pile, and then it was the fixing procedure of installing the floor.

The traditional mortise and tenon technique enables the main structure of the house to be built quickly, and various specifications of iron nails, wood screws, and buckles give the whole house the necessary structural strength.

one day.In just one day, at the end of the row of huts in Yu Chengde, there was an extra room of the same type that was 70% completed.And when the roof and the interior walls were hoisted into place the next day, in the afternoon, the handover of the hut was already underway: Director Ma had brought all the tables, chairs and beds, and there was a whole family waiting behind him. Check in.

Naturally, Yu Chengde and the others hurried forward to help: they are all in distress, and they are neighbors, and they are idle when they are idle.

Director Ma Mingma fanned the wind with a small kraft paper fan, and stood in front of the door with a smile, watching the immigrants move tables and chairs, helping each other.

In a good mood, he led Yu Chengde and the others to the construction site soon after.The villagers finally took this opportunity to see the monsters spewing black smoke up close.

Standing on the edge of the construction site, Director Ma leaned on his waist in high spirits, pointed to the row of land where the foundation piles had been laid, and began to lash out at his leaders...

After receiving some patriotic education, the leaders are also full of confidence in the future.Director Ma didn't have any rhetoric, he just told a story about what was going on at the construction site.

Now Yu Chengde and the others know that the trenches dug by the iron claw truck are not used to guard against savages and pirates, but are used to bury a kind of thick iron pipe for running water - Director Ma said, about a year Then you can pass water.

The newcomers could not help but click their tongues as if they were listening to the heavenly scriptures: the iron pipes are buried in the ground... If you look at the surrounding neighborhoods, you can imagine how rich the old men here are.

Director Ma looked at the bumpkins, and the next moment he told them triumphantly: It won't be long before the bright glass windows in the dock area can be installed in everyone's house!

... The work of the director of the street office is very busy.Not only have to deal with all kinds of trivial matters in the weekdays, but also focus on the new immigrants.These people have just arrived, are unfamiliar with the place, and are facing a life of semi-house arrest. This is the time when they most need help and comfort.

Comrade Ma Ming is a very responsible street office director.

In the recent period, he not only came to the door many times to ask their relatives, talked about the future with the new immigrants, and talked about family affairs; he also often came forward to solve practical problems in their daily life, mediate disputes, and explain policies.

Within a few days, the amiable "Mali Chief" became the bosom brother of these new immigrants.

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In a blink of an eye, half a month passed.

Compared with that barren and dangerous small fishing village, the new community is nothing less than paradise.So in general, Yu Chengde and the others are quite satisfied with the new environment.

After measuring the body temperature of these people with an infrared thermometer for the 15th time, Ma Ming knew that it was time for him to issue a report.

Generally speaking, after the 15-day observation period, if the newcomer does not show signs of fever, then they can arrange work.Of course, the program of monitoring body temperature will not stop, and it will continue for a while.

What newcomers never know, however, is that there is another hurdle to pass before they are assigned a job: a report from the local street office director.This report is very important. To some extent, it can determine the life and death of many people.

In the report, Ma Ming will evaluate the new immigrants under him based on the situation he has found out these days.Among them, the most concerned is the clan and community status of the new immigrants.

Although the time-travelers have never openly declared their abhorrence of feudal etiquette, clan, and gentry, the time-traveling regime, which grew up in senior officials, undoubtedly treats the above-mentioned things as sworn enemies.

Don't talk about it, but do it.

Ever since a certain force wiped out the pirates, this reputation has been completely vindicated.At the same time, the story of a paradise on the other side of the sea gradually spread in the coastal areas of Daming.

The difference from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is that the Fujian people who have been migrating out of Fujian since ancient times because of the scarcity of arable land are now sleepy and met pillows: not only are there many scattered immigrants going to the big officials to find food and life, some small clans are sending people to investigate Later, the family also moved here.

Traveling through the crowd is naturally open to all comers.

At this time, the importance of the director of the street office is reflected: only the people-friendly officials on the front line can investigate the first-hand information from the parents' short stories and ask about their health without any trace, so as to be targeted.

After the 15-day observation period of these clans, ordinary clansmen are usually separated and resettled.Of course, this is far from enough: the second resettlement of the so-called patriarchs, elders, and hidden heirs is the real killer of the time-traveling forces.

So Comrade Yu Chengde is facing a very important hurdle today: Once Director Ma decides that he is a feudal patriarch and has a "trend" to maintain the clan, then he will definitely be relocated to live elsewhere—a popular place in the past six months It is a sulfur mining village in Taipei.

Chapter 265 Assignment of work

Ma Ming took a pencil and carefully wrote the conclusion in crooked simplified characters on the report: He did not think that the immigrants from Chengwei Village had clan attributes.

The prerequisite for a clan is the same surname, but Yu Chengde and his group have mixed surnames.In addition, during these days of contact, Ma Ming didn't find any traces of them being a gangster... They were just a group of ordinary fishermen who worshiped Mazu and Avalokitesvara.

After thinking about it for the last time, Ma Ming solemnly signed his name on the report.

He can't help being hasty.Some people helped cover up after meeting fellow countrymen before.However, clan activities cannot be concealed, all kinds of head pulling, memorial tablets, meetings, public land, sacrifices, fees...

It didn't take long, after the investigation by the "upper side", the local street office was uprooted, and those fellow villagers disappeared... It is said that they went to Huangshan in Taipei, so far there is no news.

Secondly, while Ma Ming was writing the report, he knew that other people were also writing the report, and the street office was not run by his family, so he had to ensure objectivity.

Finally, after signing the report, Director Ma's first phase of work is considered to have come to an end.And Yu Chengde, who didn't know about it, escaped a review in his sleep that might be sent to the frontier.

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Early the next morning, Director Ma started to do business, and there was not so much smile on his face: From now on, everyone has truly become "one of our own", and there is no need to dress up.

The first is to assign work.

The lame carpenter was sent to the collective dormitory of the carpentry factory in the kiln area... There was no need to go to the sea, and there was no need to travel back and forth every day, so it was very suitable for him.

Seeing the cripple with the bedroll on his back and a file bag in his hand, walking away alone, Yu Chengde and the others couldn't help but feel a little sour in their eyes.

Director Ma, who has long been accustomed to this situation, hurriedly cheered everyone up: the cripple is skilled, as long as he can fiddle with the carpentry mechanisms in the factory, the monthly fee will be 3 taels!There are also subsidies for food, which is called "middle class".

... People can buy a Japanese girl to marry within 2 years, and the skilled worker loan to buy a house is zero down payment, so don't worry about the lame, worry about yourself.

After finishing the ideological work, Lao Ma pulled Yu Sibao over and handed it over to a clerk of the Port Authority.

The news that the Zheng family's sunken ship was salvaged by a group of fishermen is now known to many people.In fact, since the destruction of Li Kuiqi's gang, the truth about the disappearance of Zheng's fleet has not been a super secret.After all, for a large-scale operation involving hundreds of people, high-pressure secrecy is okay in a short period of time, but it is impossible for a long time.

Therefore, the moment the family members told the location of the wreck, the people of the Port Authority knew that the fishermen had fished out the Zheng family's money.And Yu Chengde, who is ignorant, still thinks that what he salvaged is the boat of the old man. Who made the only treasure: the bronze Buddha and the bayonet be fished up by his son?

So Yu Sibao was targeted by the Port Authority.

After the Zheng family's ship sank, when the crossing people were cleaning the battlefield, they simply measured it: the sinking ship sank 11 meters into the water.

Generally speaking, after entering the water 10 meters, the diver has to bear the pressure of one atmosphere.Ordinary people cannot do this, and professionals are needed.And since Yu Sibao, a young fisherman, can catch fish and go to sea, it proves that he is indeed talented in this area.

The Port Authority is more concerned about the talents in this area, because the projects that require divers, including underwater exploration, underwater blasting, comprehensive port management, etc., were originally in charge of by the Port Authority.

So Yu Sibao was selected.The clerk of the Port Authority who came here to guide people told Yu Chengde: his precious son is now the "Wei Peisheng" of the Port Authority.

In the future, Yu Sibao will "part-time work and part-study". While taking supplementary cultural lessons in elementary school, he will work as an apprentice for divers at the Port Authority, with a monthly salary of 2 taels of silver - divers are high-tech and high-risk occupations, and the monthly salary is very high.

Yu Chengde couldn't understand those twists and turns, but he recognized the big cap of the Port Authority, so he had no resistance to his boy entering the "Gongmen".

After that, several strong laborers were assigned to other departments.In short, even after the review, the street office still scattered the villagers intentionally or unintentionally.

Women are much more relaxed in this regard: Yu Chengde's old wife can choose to work in the canteen or sanitation nearby. If she wants to earn more money, the textile factory in the kiln area and the silkworm planting room on the farm all need female workers, and they can do so at any time. go to work.

And the 15-year-old third sister is even more popular.Director Ma spared no effort to recommend the advantages of working in an arms factory: high salary, and after a month of probation, he will be transferred to a regular worker!

However, when Yu Chengde asked where the munitions factory was going, he still rejected this article-his family is now full of labor, and there is no shortage of monthly money, so there is no need for his daughter to take risks.

In the end, the third sister still signed up for the full-time primary school adult class.Director Ma told Lao Yu earnestly: There is no distinction between male and female officials here. If the third sister studies well, she will be able to take the position of street director after graduating from high school in the future!

So a certain person had a hot head, and enrolled his daughter in class...First study for a year to see the situation, if the girl is really suitable for studying, it's not too late to continue, anyway, the family doesn't lack her monthly money, right?

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After the second redistribution, the number of fishermen's families who still live in the community has been reduced to five.The only remaining strong laborers who can go to sea, including Yu Izushui, the eldest nephew of the Yu family, there are only 5 people left in total.

A person like Houzi who has no sailing skills at all eventually moved out of the community with his old mother. Relying on his familiarity with the trade routes in various parts of Fujian, Houzi quickly found a job in the commercial head office.Now as long as he finishes his cultural lessons, he can become a regular.

Now, Yu Chengde and the rest of the people who stayed behind are finally looking for benevolence: they are not too young, and they don't want to go to the factory to learn any new skills, they just want to rely on their own skills to catch fish.

Yu Chengde has not been idle these days, he has already inquired and made a plan: sell the smaller junk, and then go to the Taijiang Shipyard to repair the Herring, so that everyone can go to sea to make a living.

Although the 1000 taels of silver were exchanged by the government for treasure banknotes, which shattered his dream of buying a new ship, the treasure banknotes were still worth a few dollars anyway——Based on observations over the past few days, Yu Chengde found out that the government here is He was still much more honest than Daming, so he reckoned that the money in the so-called "passbook" should be enough for him to repair the Herring.

So, early the next morning, Yu Chengde and his party excitedly got on the bus and arrived at Chikan Wharf.

When I went to the hall of the Port Authority and asked, it turned out that the two ships from home had been pulled to Taijiang Shipyard.This feeling is so good...Yu Chengde didn't wait for the clerk who received him to finish speaking, he ran out of the Port Authority excitedly, greeted a group of men and went straight to Taijiang Shipyard.

The next moment, on the beach near the shipyard, Yu Chengde saw the herring that had been disemboweled and dismembered... Lao Yu collapsed at this moment.

Chapter 266 Shareholders

"Ah! How could this be!?"

With tears in his eyes and trembling legs, Yu Chengde stumbled and walked among the ruins of the Herring, picking up a broken ship plank and touching it a few times, muttering something incessantly.

Seeing that the Herring, which has always been the spiritual sustenance of the whole village, was dismantled into parts, the other people also looked sad and confused-they couldn't figure out who was going to provoke whom in a good ship. To be made like this.Could it be that the government here does not allow people to go fishing?

With anger and doubts, Yu Chengde and his party returned to the lobby of the Port Authority.