Friday, June 1, 1629.

The streets of Manchester on Children's Day are particularly colorful today.

A special children's parade takes place on the streets of the capital, with boys and girls dressed in new summer scouts and sailor suits marching through the streets in the company of their teachers or parents. President Tan Yuen Yuan and the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament were present to observe the safety of the Children's Day parade, and all police stations in Manchester City were facing the enemy, and all traffic along the parade route was strictly controlled.

The green belt is decorated with a large number of childlike decorations, whether it is a commercial street or a residential community, and various blessings from the people to the children are hung on both sides of the street. In a country with a total population of just over 90,000 and a 27% minority, such a large group deserves great attention, both in terms of state responsibility and public opinion.

Even though behind the smiles of senior officials in the government and Congress is the deep concern about the overwhelming pressure on the country's underage education and social security, the face of the nearly 80-year-old Senate Speaker Liu Mingjun is still full of relief when he thinks that as long as he grits his teeth and persists for another 10 years, the first wave of "demographic dividend" in the history of the Chinese American Republic will be launched.

Almost all of the thousands of children who took part in the march were under the age of 12, and at least half of them were born in the country and were truly "descendants of first-generation immigrants." When children with European or Chinese faces laughed and rapped in Mandarin, all the government officials or MPs present were beaming.

"Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, after lunch, the two of you will also attend the opening ceremony of the new power station in the industrial park of the outer islands."

The excitement at the scene seemed to be endless, but the staff of the President's Office of Social Affairs had already rushed up to remind the two old men.

At the mention of the new power station in the Outer Island Industrial Park, which was completed last month, the faces of the two elderly people showed strange expressions at the same time, and they did not look unconditionally happy. A number of government ministers, who accompanied the two old men, looked at each other. Each of them looked a little embarrassed.

"In any case, it is a great event, and the strength of the country has reached a higher level. For so many years, it is not easy for everyone to come through step by step. President Chen Changchang changed his smile and said with a smile to Liu Lao, the speaker of the Senate next to him, "Brother Liu, there will be such and such problems in the governance of the country, if we can't see it in our hearts." How should the younger generations find out? ”

Seeing his old friend's attitude, Liu Mingjun was also relieved. Surrounded by government workers, the two elderly men left the viewing seat, and the cheers of children were heard behind them.

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The children's fun continues, but the adults can't stop thinking or arguing. At this time, the opening ceremony of the new power station of the state-owned energy and mining group power company in the outer islands of Manchester City is underway, and a regular meeting of the Congressional Commission of Science, Technology and Industry is being held in a side hall of the Parliament building opposite Manchester Bay.

To say that so many years have passed, among all the people who are a little older. The only person who can't see how many years have passed is probably Bao Zitu, chairman of the Science and Technology Commission. Of course, there are still some changes, that is, the baldness of the bun picture is becoming more and more strict. The thinning hair has completely turned into a thin fence around the outer edge of the football field.

"The application for the establishment of a state-owned heavy machinery company invested by the state-owned energy and mining group has been approved by the National Assembly's State-owned Assets Management Commission and the government's Ministry of Industry. Next, the Commission of Science and Technology will conduct a technical security audit of the enterprise to ensure the safe operation of the technical security of the establishment of the new state-owned enterprise. ”

Bao Zitu, chairman of the Science and Technology Industry Commission, lifted his glasses. looked intently at the text in his hand, and his tone was calm. But on the contrary, the ugly faces of the two vice-chairmen.

About Cao Zhe's withdrawal from NORINCO. A month ago, it took the entire country's top level by surprise, and it caused contradictions within the Commission of Science and Technology. The contradictory topic of public or private, which has been deliberately shifted and suppressed by many people for a long time, finally broke out.

The fact that a young mechanical engineer who was honest, conscientious, and even a little bit of technical dementia would give up his considerable share income in NORINCO and cash out to seek the support of the state-owned group to establish a new state-owned machinery manufacturing enterprise, causing an earthquake in the entire industrial circle.

The state-funded steam turbine research and development project dramatically took the lead by General Industries the year before last, and preemptively passed the patent verification of production and application technology, and on the day of the approval of the Science and Technology Commission, Cao Zhe, the original head of the steam turbine project of the North Industries Corporation, stood alone outside the parliament building for a whole night without saying a word. Regarding the greasy in this, it is probably guessed by people.

Although the final technology for the application of steam turbine power was realized last year thanks to the joint efforts of the two companies, which shared a multimillion-dollar contract with the state-owned power company, Cao Zhe, who was preoccupied with the project, was heartbroken. It was only in the spirit of "standing on the last shift" that Cao Zhe insisted on submitting his resignation letter after the power station was officially completed and successfully put into trial operation.

The master-apprentice relationship between Cao Zhe and Lin Youde has been cut off since then, which has also made Lin Youde a lot haggard in the past month. The matter is irreparable, even Cao Zhe publicly admitted that Jiang Zhaolong and the engineers of General Industries have also made many key guiding contributions to this project, but how can two boss-level industrial technology seniors play such tricks on a junior?

Jiang Zhaolong, the boss of General Industries, is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and everyone knows it, but Lin Youde, the boss of North Industries Company, actually "collaborated" with outsiders to "trap" his apprentices in this matter, which made many technical nerds launch verbal attacks in private.

In order to express their protest, a number of younger industrial and technical personnel who also served as members of the Commission announced their resignation from the Commission of Science and Technology. The attitude is obvious, these sympathetic Cao Zhe traversers, especially the several technicians who participated in the steam turbine project together, already feel that they can't maintain the original relationship with Jiang Zhaolong and Lin Youde.

Many people speculate that when the state-owned heavy machinery company is formally established, the state-owned energy and mining group, whose capital strength is equivalent to the sum of the capital of the two companies, will launch an unprecedented poaching behavior against these two private industrial enterprises.

"Lao Jiang, Lao Lin, related enterprise technical security Wen jiàn. You've both seen it, do you have any comments? Due to the refusal of some committee members to attend, the atmosphere at the scene was a little tense, but Bao Zitu still quietly sent the topic to the two industrial tycoons.

"No opinion, Xiaocao, they are quite well prepared, but they don't have any product technology reserve projects at present, and they still need to re-explore the products themselves." Lin Youde's expression gradually calmed down, and he could be regarded as saying a fair word for his "rebellious" apprentice from a fair standpoint.

"I'm okay with that." Jiang Zhaolong's face did not change, but there was also a hint of apology in his eyes when he secretly looked at Lin Youde.

The review was carried out with great efficiency, and soon the absent-minded committee members withdrew. Only the three chairmen and vice-chairmen were left silent in the hall.

"Okay, next week the Commission of Science and Technology will be able to make an approval." No one else was present, Bao Zitu took off his glasses, and finally smiled bitterly, "Lao Jiang, Lao Lin, in this matter, although I don't agree with Xiao Cao's impulsive behavior, but in the long run. I think it's also very necessary......"

Jiang Zhaolong and Lin Youde looked at each other, probably knowing the meaning of the bun picture.

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The parks on Long Island's West Side have become a children's playground, and almost all parents take time off from work on this day to spend the afternoon with their children. The fun of Children's Day finally came to an end before dusk. The unfinished children held their parents' hands and laughed tirelessly on the streets, while the parents, who had worked intensely for a week, were doted on by their children's side.

Until the lights come on. Su Ziningcai and his wife Yuan Xinyi took a child and pushed a stroller back home. However, as soon as I walked into the front yard of my villa, I saw a clerk of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs waiting in the living room with a bunch of papers. Her nanny was still waiting to bring tea and water.

"It's really uneasy, you obviously asked for leave today, and they all have to send things over." Yuan Xinyi glanced at her husband with a little dissatisfaction, handed over her eldest daughter and second son to the nanny and took her away, and carried her younger daughter into the bedroom.

"Your Excellency, a secret message from the consulate in Amsterdam has been sent, and a telegram has also been sent from the Far East." The staff was embarrassed to avoid the private chat between the foreign minister and his wife in the living room, and then respectfully sent the bag to Su Zining.

"Is there anything in particular that needs to be dealt with on the European side?" Su Zining roughly flipped through the diplomatic text, and it seemed that he had expected it for a long time.

"Indeed, what His Excellency Consul Elson means is that we have also made a statement on the diplomatic peace talks between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Holy Roman Empire?" As he spoke, he quickly took out his pen and paper and waited for the foreign minister to instruct, "The consulate in Amsterdam has also received information that the Dutch government has decided to delegate the management of the Dutch West Indies colony to the Dutch West India Company. ”

The second phase of the Thirty Years' War in Europe was finally coming to an end, and soon after, the Peace of Lubek between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Holy Roman Empire would be signed.

The Kingdom of Denmark, which was originally going to eat a cheap mouthful, almost lost the country, and the rights and interests of the German Lower Saxony region, which originally had a little right to speak, were also lost; France spent a lot of money to organize the anti-Habsburg coalition, but abandoned its position because of religious riots in the country; England was beaten by France and Spain for supporting the Protestant rebellion in France, and is now on the verge of bankruptcy.

With the exception of the unexpected support of the Protestant aristocracy in England and Oldenburg, Germany, and the former Elector of the Palatinate, Frederick V, occupied a pitiful few dozen square kilometers off the coast of Lower Saxony, the entire anti-Habsburg coalition suffered another heavy blow, even worse than the first stage. With the support of the Kingdom of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire was at the pinnacle of its history, especially with a series of military victories, and the grand blueprint for the unification of the entire German territory and access to the Baltic and Atlantic Seas was about to be realized.

"Peace talks are finally coming......" Returning to the sofa, Su Zining thought for a while, and then smiled, "Let Elson issue a statement: Our government very much welcomes any peace agreement that will be reached by the warring parties, is willing to carry out comprehensive cooperation for permanent peace and all parties on the European continent, and continues to express concern about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in some parts of Europe due to the war, and for this reason, our country will organize a batch of humanitarian relief materials to arrive in Germany in advance." ”

This is a "gift" that the Chinese and American governments have long prepared for the third phase of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, according to the statement, for the year ahead. More than 2,000 tons of aid in the name of grain, medicine and other necessities of life were transported to the port of Emden on the northwest coast of Oldenburg, Germany, and this batch naturally included "a small part" of weapons and equipment.

The port of Emden is now the territory that Frederick V has desperately grabbed in recent years, and whether Frederick V is generous enough to let other German city-states "share" this batch of "humanitarian relief materials" is not a matter for China and the United States to consider.

Of course, in order not to favor one over the other, the Kingdom of Spain, which had already suffered a famine for two consecutive years, could also import large quantities of grain from China and the United States to at least 20 percent lower than the European market through a special aid loan from the United States.

As for the Dutch West India Company, which is far less famous than the Dutch East India Company in history, Su Zining doesn't know much about it, and only knows that the Dutch colony in the New World today is only Dutch Guiana. The United States of China was born. The Dutch invasion of San Salvador, the capital of Brazil, which was supposed to take place in 1624, completely interrupted the colonization process of the Dutch West India Company in North America, and strangely disappeared from the sea, making the large-scale military aid of the Chinese and American Foreign Affairs to the Portuguese colonies in Brazil hit the air. Butterfly wings have disturbed the Atlantic, as if a new branch of history had emerged, after which it is impossible to grasp.

However, after thinking about it, Su Zining still felt as if he had missed something, but he didn't have a clue for a while.

Diplomacy with Europe has come to an end. And the encrypted article about the Asian side, because it is a 3A-level classified file, so the staff did not intend to get instructions on the spot, and they left very interestingly.

"Today's work is divided. I'll give Fang Wei and Fang Lin a bath, and you'll be in charge of Fang Qi. Yuan Xinyi walked into the living room again at this time, still holding a bath towel in her hand.

"Ma'am, dinner is over. I'll go wash the eldest lady and the younger master! The Chinese nanny hurriedly walked over, for fear of making the owner feel that he was an ornament.

"Let him go, so busy going to work all day. If you continue like this, you will be alienated from your child. Yuan Xinyi crossed her hands on her hips and decisively rejected the nanny's volunteer, "Su Zining, what are you still holding Wen Jiàn for?" ”

"Kiki is almost six years old, and she will be in elementary school next year, and she wants me to bathe her?" Su Zining had a rotten face, looking arrogant, "Qiqi is a big child, so she won't be alienated with me, right?" ”

"I want my dad to wash it for me!" A small head emerged from the corridor, and it was the eldest daughter Su Fangqi.

"......" Su Zining was speechless, and Yuan Xinyi squinted with a smile.

At this time, suddenly there was a hurried knock on the door and a rattle in the front yard at the same time, from the perspective of rhythm and strength, it was a unique habit that belonged to Ren Changle, if it wasn't a big deal, this nouveau riche who was now "rich and rivaled" would not be in such a hurry to come to the Su family.

"You go wash Kiki first!" Su Zining was pardoned, and hurriedly got up and walked towards the front yard, so angry that Yuan Xinyi threw the bath towel directly to the ground.

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"Have you heard, Bao Zitu has made it clear that he wants to participate in the election of the speaker of the Senate of the National Assembly." Ren Changle, who was a little fatter, grabbed the coffee and poured it violently, wiped his mouth and said quickly, "I also heard that Lin Youde and Jiang Zhaolong resigned from the position of vice chairman of the Science and Technology Commission at the same time, what kind of rhythm do you say this is?" ”

Su Zining was stunned for a moment, and felt "regretful" for this hardcore friend's appearance of such "hindsight".

"Everyone has the opportunity to carry out their political demands, and perhaps they have the consciousness to fulfill their political responsibilities." Su Zining groaned for a while, still with a vague attitude.

"Recently, Congress stopped the legislative hearings related to the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Ministry of Commerce also stopped the approval of foreign investment by several companies! Everyone is waiting to see where the wind is going, and the group of people who eat big pots of rice will make a comeback?! Ren Changle slapped on the desk and stood up angrily, "You know, I've been preparing with a few buddies for a long time, and I smashed millions of dollars, and 'COSCO Investment and Development Bank' completed the capital injection, and it came out like this!" ”

"That shows that everyone has a sense of policy risk, which is a good thing." Su Zining pulled Ren Changle down with a smile and pointed in a certain direction, "The concept of Bao Zitu may not conflict with everyone, in the early days of the country's establishment, any one-sided system and policy was not healthy. To be honest, although I personally lean towards free capital. But you can tell you about it, our current political and economic systems are close to the monopoly of state capital in many aspects, and even I think that this situation is precisely a kind of balance, and it will not change greatly because of Bao Zitu alone. ”

In Su Zining's eyes, compared with the old man Liu Mingjun, who is still mediocre in his bones, Bao Zitu is the hardcore "state-owned" faction in the Congress. Not to mention the hard work of Bao Zitu, he has also been calling on the state to concentrate on construction.

Although Bao Zitu is not a radical opponent of the state's private capital, he has publicly expressed concern on many occasions that the country's core development process has been in an atmosphere of "competition for money and profit".

Since the Great Tribulation. More than two-thirds of the former dock workers have become a major part of the management of the state-owned conglomerates at all levels, but the country's main industry and commerce are in the hands of the other one-third of the ex-tour groups.

Although the initial state financial capital system with mixed shares has diluted the differentiation of interests between the "state" and the "private", with the passage of time, the annual dividends of state-owned groups have only accounted for less than half of the personal income of the traversers, and the investment and financial management abilities and tendencies of different traversers have gradually become apparent. The "gap between the rich and the poor" is inevitably widening, such as entrepreneurs such as Ren Changle and You Qi. Its annual income has been several times that of ordinary traversals.

If we had to make a basic classification of all the capitalist tendencies that crossed the crowd, they could be roughly divided into three groups: the state-owned faction, the private faction, and the centrists. It has the largest number of Chinese immigrants, mainly the former dock workers, about 300 people. The number of centrists and private parties is basically the same, and the former tour group is the main group. In this classification, the household assets of some private and centrist people are already five times the average assets of state-owned households.

At a time when the Securities and Exchange Act is getting closer and closer to the final review process by Congress. Over the past few years, the negative feelings of unsatisfactory personal investment by the state-owned faction have gradually increased, and many people have privately slandered the frenzied expansion of private capital since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The transition period of the two consecutive political periods was originally due to "social inertia". Both houses of parliament and the government's cabinet are largely in the hands of former tour group members. Of the 52 members of the two houses of Congress, excluding the two speakers, 70 percent of the former tour group members are in the cross-border public, more than 80 percent hold key positions in the local governments of various states, and the selection of cabinet ministers is almost completely controlled.

Elder Liu, the speaker of the Senate, has expressed his intention to retire, Bao Zitu has become a popular candidate for the next Senate speaker, and a large number of former dock workers who have "watched the pig run" after several years have also begun to actively discuss the election of the two houses of Congress.

From this point of view, even if there is a proportional limit on the re-election of members of the two houses of Congress, Premier Qi Jianjun, who is not biased in his "position", is likely to continue to lead the government, but it is very likely that the status ratio of the new batch of members of the National Assembly will change very subtlely, which will also have a subtle impact on the formulation of national policies and laws in the future.

"You just comfort me......" Ren Changle muttered, his feelings still not very good, "I'm afraid that someone will target us." ”

Looking at his friend's worried look, Su Zining didn't know what to say. Thinking about the internal disputes caused by today's Far East layout strategy, isn't it a kind of "public and private" interest game at a higher level of the country?

"Look, are we going to get ready too? Yesterday, a few buddies gathered, and what Zhou Junting meant was that the results of this election would have a great impact on the composition of the next two congresses, and we couldn't deal with it at all, at least we had to 'keep' a few seats in the congressional elections......"

Ren Changle pinched the cup, his fingers rubbing the smooth wall of the cup restlessly, and finally said the true purpose of his visit.

Now that the basic framework of the country has been decided, everyone's core interests are still the same, and the most critical 'things' have also been ...... consensus."

Quietly looking at his friend's face that was slightly red because of "shyness", a strange feeling passed through his heart, and Su Zining finally realized it at this time.

Whether Su Zining's words were really comforting or wrong, Ren Changle couldn't tell for a while, which was also the origin of his feeling that Su Zining was getting farther and farther away from his "brothers".

Maybe Su Zining is becoming more and more like a politician as everyone says...... Ren Changle drank coffee, thoughtful. (To be continued......)