Chapter 179: Victoria Harbour
The boat landed in Victoria Harbour on the main island of Hong Kong, Victoria Harbour is just north of the island, the location is quite suitable, not to mention the sea breeze, whether it is the spaciousness of the pier, or the safety of sheltering from the sea breeze, it is top-notch.
As a world-renowned port, Victoria Harbour is naturally a good place for the elders to aspire to, but at this time there is no need to engage in any external passage, so its commercial importance is really insufficient, but as a military port, it has advantages that are difficult to match in the world.
As a military port, there is no problem with stuffing three or four aircraft carrier formations here, of course, it is impossible for the elders to build so many aircraft carriers, and the warships are used to attack and patrol all kinds of unsatisfactory territory.
Just like the American Commander-in-Chief of later generations, when there is any problem, it is always a sentence, where is our aircraft carrier?
With an aircraft carrier, you have the strength to open the film at any time, that is to say, if you suffer a loss today, you don't have to shout at don't leave after school, I smashed the broken behavior of your glass, just get it back.
There are high technical requirements here.
In later generations, the Americans had a huge fleet in all seas, specializing in transporting weapons, and once there was an area that needed to be opened, they would immediately use planes to transport the military and men to come empty-handed, and after arriving, they could get standardized weapons at any time, and they could directly open the films, and the situation could be stabilized within 48 hours.
In the Ming Dynasty, the efficiency of leading troops was calculated in months, and it was difficult to grasp this right in the first place to mobilize soldiers.
From ancient times to the present, all countries have fallen into a trouble, just like the Roman triumvirate, because there must be a person who can call the shots on the front line to coordinate the overall situation, which is the relationship between decentralization and centralization.
Centralization of power is not totalitarianism, the concentration of power is what any country with a future must do, if there is a war with foreign countries, power cannot be concentrated, one side advocates a strong wall and clear the field, stride back, exchange space for fighters, and after lengthening the enemy's supply line, find the right opportunity to strike a fatal blow.
On the other hand, they said that they would attack against attack and send a task force to attack the enemy's rear......
It's like this in a fight, even if it's the smallest thing, cooking, you say stew, I say braised food, don't eat this meal.
Therefore, there must be someone who can call the shots in the supreme power.
But you also have the right to score.
If a criminal department secretary hears a young man from the police station at the bottom of his rule one day, he suddenly runs over in a panic and screams miserably, there is a person on the street who is beating a child who is in elementary school, should I persuade her not to beat her, or kneel on the ground and beg her to say goodbye.
For example, in the later generations of China in a different time and space, such a new thing happened.
When a primary school girl saw someone cutting in line, she pointed out in righteous words and asked her to retreat, but she was beaten by the whole family of the person who cut the line, and the arrest was coming, but she could only stand there and record it, facing the child's parents, and she could only say, you mediate yourself.
It can be imagined how the family of the queue cutter is spoofing and making jokes, and how they are at a loss to catch fast.
The reason is very simple, just as wild dogs are everywhere, and the security guards who are responsible for beating dogs are cursed by people who write poems, and when the wild dogs go crazy and bite people, the cursed people disappear......
Netizens, will they still swipe the Internet every day with a high IQ, so they will naturally believe it, even if they refute the rumors and tell him the truth, no one will believe it.
This creates the problem that the truth is the most troublesome, and that those who can deal with this kind of thing need a sufficiently large degree of decentralization.
That's the problem.
In ancient times, the frontier foreign military was often well contained, and they did not dare to start a war at will, for fear that the generals of the frontier would deliberately lead the war for their own merits, so that they could be promoted and make a fortune.
So, this goes to the other side, and going to war without permission is considered a provocation and must be dealt a hard blow.
This is the problem of the ancient separation of powers.
In later generations, the system was much tighter, and the commander of the Pacific Fleet had a hard top with the president for personal gain, and the president just made a phone call, and he had to obediently go back to report on his work.
Transportation, communication, and education are all systems that allow a group to smoothly decentralize power, and how an empire should grasp the decentralization is the greatest test of wisdom.
At least for now, the decentralization can only be centered on the elders.
As a northerner, Li Xiao volunteered to be the owner of Hong Kong Island for a reason.
As a young man, after he saw Bruce Lee's kung fu movies when he was very young, he was directly addicted to it, and since then, he has often stuffed a martial arts book in his schoolbag, and the young Li Xiao has a martial arts heart.
After trying all kinds of martial arts classes, as well as all kinds of fake videos on the Internet, and being cheated spent all his pocket money and being beaten up, Li Xiao understood what the so-called martial arts should keep pace with the times, and it is very scientific to be in human body mechanics, nutrition, and fitness.
Li Xiao, who has passed the age of age, found out that Bruce Lee himself was born in a family of Guangdong Taijiquan, and the foundation for laying a good foundation is there, so naturally he will get twice the result with half the effort, and when Li Xiao understands this truth, he has already passed the age of laying the foundation, and he has already been delayed.
Li Xiao was not discouraged, on the one hand, he continued to appear as a kung fu movie lover, and on the other hand, he put his mind on the second generation.
But as an engineering student, his physical fitness is not good, not as good as Bruce Lee of several generations of practitioners, but Li Xiao thought of the wonderful plan of "saving the country by curves", let's marry a girl with physical fitness and give birth to a doll, isn't it the size of the training?
Therefore, Li Xiao's youth is a tragic and glorious journey of pursuing sports schools, martial arts schools and athlete girls.
Although because he is too weak, his love history is a real history of blood and tears, and even before the crossing, he was still single, but this ambition has not changed, in fact, after returning to Earth on the trip to the Ping'an, he is ready to meet with a dinner who practices long-distance running, this spirit is still worthy of admiration.
After the crossing, Li Xiao, who was originally very annoyed, found that it was basically difficult for the girls of this era to say that they had any healthy physique, and the ladies in the upper echelons had almost no physical activity, and there were extreme ladies, and they were even locked up on the show floor since they could remember, and the ladder was taken away, and they couldn't see men other than their father and brother before they got married.
In this case, it is difficult to catch a bird, not to mention that there is no power to tie the chicken.
Even women in the lower classes need to participate in labor, most of them purely consume physical strength, and at the same time tanned their skin.
Li Xiao originally wanted to find the so-called heroine, what kind of female disciple of the sect is his wife, who knows that there is no beginning or tail at all, how can there be such a thing.
He knows that in this era, there is really a group of Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain, but the Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain are proper national cadres, and the mention of Yuxu Palace, where will they really work hard to learn what martial arts.
These guys, alchemy, and research are of a very high standard.
Li Xiao can't learn from those guys, what kind of "reserve secretarial training plan", that is, the trick that the adoption Lori thought would be in the future, but, on the other hand, he still has a lot of feelings for the land of Hong Kong.
So, he volunteered to come here, but also to see if the legend of countless families in Guangdong exists, of course, as a person with feelings, it is not impossible to take the opportunity to lay a foundation in the south, the so-called influence, not only obviously how much property, but you say a word, someone will listen.
In order to maintain the long-term peace and stability of themselves and others, the people of the imperial capital can be said to have exhausted their wisdom, and all they think about is nothing more than one thing, desire.
Lust will bring a gap between the rich and the poor to the elders of the imperial capital, and it will also cause some elders to occupy wealth that does not belong to them, and eventually bring hatred.
The big pot of rice is a good thing, although it seems to make people lack fighting spirit, but for the elders, the things in terms of personal interests and money are really not as great as the sense of mission that comes with creating a country.
Life in Hong Kong was not smooth at first, the spring was very hot, and the lack of modern facilities made no one comfortable, Li Xiao reluctantly built a small fort in Victoria Harbour, repaired the pier, and barely used as a place for ships to dock.
The daily material life is also rich, several patrol boats under his command, the people on board have gone through several months of repeated sea trials, most of them are either from the northern seaside mixed food, or from the Cao Gang's laid-off re-employment personnel, of course, there are a few young people who go in to mix sand.
In order to maintain this new fleet, the elders would rather reduce the number of ships, improve the quality, and at the same time improve the treatment, strengthen education, and strive to let the Chinese army out of the shackles of illiteracy and become a civilized army as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the newly formed team is so many horses as other armies, or it seems that the fleets of European countries are basically a group of pirates.
Of course, if you just want to recruit soldiers, in fact, in this era, Hong Kong is full of fishermen who have a bad life, and if the opportunity is right, it is not impossible to become a pirate at once.
However, Li Xiao's conscription was basically only workers, and he built a small fortress in Victoria Harbour, which was enough to meet the living conditions of hundreds of people, and even provided hot water for bathing at night at regular intervals.
Of course, with the advancement of time, he still brought a lot of changes to his surroundings, first of all, he diffusion some technology, he paid for the cost of building a house, and finally exchanged it with a sewing machine or other bits and pieces, of course, he can guarantee that it is worth the money, a sewing machine, plus a hard-working woman, can almost top a few acres of income.
In fact, the elders were pleasantly surprised to discover one thing, in the north, all families who discovered the value of sewing machines automatically let their daughters let go of their feet, and there was no need to say anything at all.
Foot binding is itself a product of the economy.
Why Foot Wrap? Because in that era, after binding the feet, it was possible to bind a woman to work at home, and she didn't need to pay something by herself.
In the traditional farming and weaving economy, women's labor is either ploughing or weaving, and due to the limited foot binding of women's feet, their labor ability is mainly reflected in non-field activities.
Obviously, if families prefer to allocate female labor to farming, then the prevalence of foot binding will be limited, and vice versa.
The extinction of foot binding in modern times, the essence of which lies in the loss of the market value of foot binding women, the external commercial impact has made China's traditional home textile industry suffer a catastrophe, and also caused a devastating blow to the economic value of foot binding women, changing the evaluation of ordinary farmers on foot binding women, that is, in the past, foot binding can be benefited.
But all this changed under the Elders, who soon discovered that in order to use the sewing machine well, it had to have flexible and intact feet, that is, no longer bound feet.
The sewing machines sold are basically regarded as treasures by those fishermen's families, and some things have been passed down for two or three generations, of course, after two generations, clothes have long been not rare, just as in later generations, the technology of steaming steamed buns has been forgotten by juniors, and they have become pure microwave rice cookers, and fish stew is not a good skill.
At the same time, other activities on the island are also very good, there are always so many elders on the island every month, especially in recent months, after the garrison of 3,000 troops, food, clothing, shelter and transportation are arranged, and after the intense adaptation training begins, many elders have also calmed down.
Although the setting of Xin'an County is less than 100 years, the population is still large enough, but it is difficult in terms of education.
There are about a few thousand inhabitants on the island, but there are more of them scattered in the corners of the fishing villages.
Li Xiao suddenly had the idea of opening a school.
Originally, it was not an institution like the imperial capital that specialized in cultivating talents in various disciplines, but purely a short-term training class, with material civilization in the left hand and nationalist brainwashing in the right hand, and naturally became a backbone brother after washing, of course, his budget is not high, and naturally he can't do the high standards of the imperial capital.
But what he didn't expect was that in an instant he got a large number of dolls.
As soon as this opening was opened, a large number of children under the age of 10 were sent to the recruitment center by their families, and the boy was fine, but then someone simply stuffed the girl as a boy.
In this case, Li Xiao can only sigh, it is all the squeeze of various problems in the Ming Dynasty, the scars brought to the society, the Northwest Uprising, the continuous looting of the Eight Banners, and repeated tug-of-war, which is a huge damage to the social order, many people died for no reason, plus the external trade sources weakened instantly, and it is normal to not be able to feed the children.
The child has no one to support, the unlucky can only wander, and the lucky one has relatives to raise on his behalf, but some relatives have limited ability, and there is a lot of pressure to raise other people's children.
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