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Chapter 344 Southwest (six)

With a loud "clang", a 12.5-meter-long rail slipped off the track car accidentally. Two Italian workers standing beside them were knocked to death before they even had time to scream. ◎, Chen Hao stood up, sighed and called on people to go over and drag the bodies of the two unlucky Italian workers aside and died here. Although everyone was sad, they were numb and distracted. Moreover, the construction period could not be delayed, but the red line, otherwise no matter whether they live or die, they would have lost fruit.

This place is located about 30 kilometers east of Fenggezhuang Township. Later, a town called castillos, a town in the Soriano Province of Uruguay. This newly established settlement is called Datong Fort, which is located on the southwest railway trunk line, meaning that the railway directly runs from here to the Yi River basin in the inland area. Near Datong Fort, the East Coast Government has also established several new settlements, namely Sidaohao Township (the later Campana Town) about 25 kilometers south of Datong Fort. This place has built a small reservoir based on the crisscrossing river bank according to local conditions, and four parallel irrigation canals were dug, hence the name.

There were only about a thousand settlers in the past; Wujianfang Township, located about 25 kilometers northeast of Datong Fort, is located near the town of Jose Enrique Rodo in Soriano Province, and is named after the construction of five stone houses as the office of the branch of the General Administration of Development of the State Administration of Development; and Caijiazhai Township, located about 35 kilometers east of Datong Fort, is named after the family of former Shun Army general Cai Huaze moved to reclaim (he has many wives, concubines, children, family servants, and family members, with a large family of up to 81 people, carrying a large amount of money, which has almost become the key monitoring targets of the Mei agency. They are even considering whether to move some of the Cai surnames to other places to avoid difficult management in the future).

Among these four newly built settlements, Datongbao and Caijiazhai Township are both located on the southwest railway trunk line, while the other two are divided on both sides. In the early days, the four settlements basically used farming and animal husbandry as the main business. The only industry may be a very small stone processing factory, which is located in Wujianfang Township to make full use of the stone resources of the nearby areas with abundant reserves.

At present, there are more than 1,000 East Coast residents in both Datong and Caijia House each settled and reclaimed. In addition, there are labor workers who "caught" from some areas of Italy and Germany respectively. The number of people is about 1,500. The Genoa consortium is responsible for transporting them here. The hardships from the old continent are constantly leveling the roadbed and laying the rails under the supervision and exploitation of the supervisors, which contribute their energy and sometimes even their lives to the construction of the Southwest Railway!

"Xiao Chen, something happened again?" Tian Xing, who had just escorted a group of Hejian slaves to Datong Fort to dig a ditch, rushed over with a group of policemen. After seeing the tragic situation of two Italian workers on the roadside, he cursed unhappily: "What are these Genoeses doing? It is not like this to reduce costs by rushing the construction period. Now these people's treatment has dropped a lot, but they die every day. The remaining people are still interested in working and only know how to escape. Last time I heard that the supervisors in Caijiazhai Township put shackles on workers from the old mainland, which caused an uprising. More than 20 casualties were killed and injured and calmed down. It was simply nonsense!"

"These old mainland workers are not worry-free." Chen Hao, who is in charge of on-site supervision, took off his hat and frowned and said: "They have few elders left in their bodies all year round. Every time they get paid, they go to township markets to buy alcohol, and sometimes they go to Italy. Now they have their salary cuts. Naturally, they are dissatisfied."

Speaking of this, Chen Hao hesitated a little, and then he said resolutely: "Brother Tian, ​​I think these are all trivial matters. What makes these Italians even more dissatisfied with religious issues. I don't know about it elsewhere, but there have been several riots here recently. Foreign workers asked us to establish Catholic churches for their worship. This request was naturally rejected by the people of the General Administration of Development of the State, and then they clamored for trouble. Jingjiang County urgently mobilized militias to suppress them. But this undoubtedly sounded a wake-up call to us. Foreign immigrants, especially Catholics with strong religious consciousness, are complex in religious situations, which are likely to bring unstable factors to the country and must be resolved as soon as possible."

"How to solve it?" Tian Xing glanced at Chen Hao and said sarcastically: "I said I should not introduce white-skinned men. You still disagree. I also said that I was politically incorrect. Why are there a headache for religious problems now? In recent years, there are not a hundred or eighty cult organizations (missionary groups without the government's permission) that the Mei agency has cracked down on in recent years. There are countless cultists arrested, including killing, labor reform, and exile. After all, there are two thousand people. In this way, it has not been stopped from some people from continuing to believe in Catholicism. Not to mention those who provide convenience for foreign spies out of religious feelings. What else can I say about this? It's too late!"

"The number of white men is less than 15% of the national population, which is not a big problem." Chen Hao is also a second-generation dressmaker, and his parents are time travelers. He has a tendency to the Ming people in terms of blood, but he has no special disgust towards whites. Especially since he had studied with Viviani, a mathematician expert at the Institute of Natural Sciences and a hull design expert, for a while, he did not reject whites from the Old Continent. Therefore, he only heard him say: "More than half of the 15% come from the Livornia region with unsolicited beliefs. There are only more than 30,000 white men from the Catholic diocese, and some of these people have converted to the new Taoism. In this regard, we have actually digested it well, right? Well, of course, the underground lectures you mentioned are also true, but this is also impossible. We can't let Catholics from the Old Continent come to our east coast because of choking, right?"

"Then what are you calling now?" Tian Xing said dissatisfiedly, "Religious issues are just a pit. Maybe they will drag our Great East Coast into this quagmire. The signs may not be obvious now, but wait, how many old mainland workers have been transported by Genoese in recent years? Although some Mendes and Valentino have more years and fewer years, more than one thousand Italian or Scottish workers can still get them. In addition, there are Polish prisoners of war bought a few years ago. Many of them are about to reach their nationality and have no non-nationals. What should I do? Throw them to overseas colonies? Is it realistic? Humph, the officials of the Executive Committee are also obsessed with profit. Sooner or later, something will happen!"

After hearing what Tian Xing said, the nationalist, Chen Hao, a young boy, was suddenly panicked: "Brother Tian, ​​we are squatting in a team of police officers all year round, otherwise these Italians would not be able to control the foreman. It was okay on the Cai family's side, that guy named Cai Huaze actually put on a pair of armor at home. Last time the Italians made trouble, this guy put on his armor and quickly dispersed the balls with his family, which made everyone in the Mei agency look at him with admiration and rewarded him. But these are temporary. After a long time, these workers will start to make trouble again. It will be very scratching their heads when they resolve it. As you said, religious conflicts are so fierce, you can't expect everyone to be so rational..."

"Don't say that Cai Huaze in the future. Now he will be his own person in the future." Tian Xing said in a slightly admonishing tone, "Cai won the favor of Grandma Zhang a while ago, which was the one who cooked in the canteen of the State Administration of Information and had no children, and then he was lucky. Grandma Zhang has taken him to the honorary court level to register. Once she passed away, all property, rights and obligations, including the seat of the National People's Congress and the shares of the East Coast Company, will be inherited by Cai Huaze himself. I heard that this made some children in the family stare at this seat and were very upset. I tried to show him some ways to look good to him. Cough cough, it's off topic, and let's talk about the serious matter! In fact, last time our country and the Spanish discussed the mortgage loan issue in the South Metro area, right? Yes, it's the land roughly south of 42 degrees south latitude. The Executive Committee

The meeting could not wait, so it decided to develop it in advance. Of course, it was just a few reclaiming sites in the coastal areas. Cai Huaze, the Sun family in Daxing County, some of the Denglai families in Luoqia County, and the Qingzhou Shanggang family in Zhenhai County, which had signs of reunion, will be drawn to a large number of young people to go there for development. And with them, there are naturally many white men who believe in Catholicism. Haha, when we arrived in such a desolate place far away from a civilized world and birds do not shit, let's see how these people are still trying? Cai Huaze is not a good person. He heard that he was a good man in war during the Ming Dynasty, killing people without blinking. This time the Executive Committee plans to send some old subordinates back to him, and then let him take some of his tribes to drive the white skins to explore, just test his ability..."

"This is something happened!" Chen Hao was a little surprised, then looked at the Italian workers who were silently carrying the bodies and said, "Not including these people? It should be just the Polish prisoners of war who have arrived or received amnesty in those years?"
Chapter completed!
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