From Propulsion City To Multiverse

The rainstorm poured, and the rain forest was misty.

As a last resort, the fleet continued to rest at Xin'an Port.

Borneo is one of the few regions in Southeast Asia that has large coal fields, and 99% of the coal mines here are open-pit.

However, coal mines in Borneo are mainly concentrated in the south and east, and there are no obvious coal mines in the north of Xin'an Port.

But there is no coal mine in the north, but there is another energy source, that is, oil.

In the strata near Xin'an Port, about 160 to 600 meters below, there are huge reserves of oil.

The oil and coal in the South China Sea are concentrated in Borneo Island and Jinzhou Island, and they all have extremely shallow burial geological features.

Therefore, local conditions have been adapted to local conditions. For example, in North Borneo, Xin'an Oilfield has been developed, and by supplying oil refineries, it provides fuel for steam engines in various places.

The fuel-fired steam engine only needs to add a mechanical fuel injector. The calorific value of fuel oil is higher than that of coal, so there is no need for boiler workers to keep shoveling coal.

Steam power is being used more and more everywhere.

As for electrical equipment, it is limited to a few cities, mainly because electrical equipment requires power stations, distribution stations and huge transmission lines. Compared with steam power, the infrastructure required is obviously too much.

There are only some small steam generators in various places, and their purpose is to supply electricity to radio and radio stations.

For Xin'an Port, which has a strong exotic atmosphere, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan finally waited for a sunny day on the third day to go out for a stroll.

In order to cool down, he used a bamboo rucksack and an iron bucket, and carried a large block of ice on his back.

The streets of Xin'an Port surround the port.

As for the hardened road to the inland, the People's Revolutionary Federation, which had been in control of this place for more than four months, did not have time to build it.

Only the dirt roads left by the Polu Kingdom before, in fact, the difficulty of building roads in tropical rain forests is no less than the tundra in Xianbeilia.

The rainfall here is so high that it can easily wash the surface, and without regular maintenance, dirt roads can be covered with weeds and vines within a few years.

Therefore, Shan Wanjing did not rush to build the road, but used quicklime to kill weed seeds, add salt to landfill, and then use a road roller to compact the dirt road.

The four dirt roads around Xin'an Port used more than 500 tons of coarse salt and more than 200 tons of quicklime.

However, the effect is obvious. After these soil road foundations are salinized, weeds and vines will basically not grow.

When the cement plant in East Borneo is completed and the steel bars delivered from Guangzhou are added, a high-standard concrete road can be built here.

In Xin'an Port after the rain, many people are busy on the streets and alleys on the rare sunny day.

The two of Kou Zhong unknowingly walked to the farmers' market. This is a convenient place for villagers in various villages to conduct trade, and it is also the only place where they can legally set up stalls.

Each stall only needs to pay 1 yuan, and you can set up a stall for a day. However, since stall setting is a commercial activity, once a transaction occurs, the city administration will levy a 5% transaction tax on the goods.

As for how to determine the amount of tax to be paid on commodities, the market reference price of the month is usually used. As long as you buy something at the farmers' market, you must complete the tax payment at the market manager when you leave, and obtain a commodity tax-paid invoice.

If it is secretly traded in private, the local market management office will soon notice.

Because the market management of the People's Revolutionary Federation is very strict.

Urban people do not own land, and there are only three groups of urban population, namely workers, soldiers, and self-employed, whose wages and income are relatively fixed.

Therefore, how much materials the urban population needs to consume each month is actually a relatively stable number.

The bank will count the assets of each individual, and each consumption of crystal coins will generate a consumption invoice, which will be checked by the bank and other departments.

Once a family has abnormal consumption, it is easy to find out.

If you want to trade secretly in private, you can get away with a small amount, but once you trade in a large amount, abnormal data will soon be generated.

For example, a family that buys 50 jins of rice and 3 jins of meat every month, suddenly does not buy these things for a month, it is obviously abnormal.

The reason why it is so strict is on the one hand to avoid market chaos, and on the other hand to prevent corrosion and ensure a positive economic cycle.

If the market is allowed to trade in private, the government will not only lose a lot of tax revenue, but also the macro data of commodities will be distorted, resulting in a decline in the official's ability to control the market's macro-control, or inaccurate control.

Zheng Sen takes a zero-tolerance attitude when it comes to digging the foundations of the country.

Only when the government completely controls the market can it avoid a serious gap between the rich and the poor, and it can also stifle some bad ethos.

Therefore, when Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan walked into the farmers' market, the place was not in a mess, but in an orderly manner.

It is divided into "vegetable area", "fruit area", "flower and grass area", "aquaculture area", "fresh meat area", "handicraft area" and "garbage area".

The Nanyang region is rich in fruit varieties, such as durian, mangosteen, banana, coconut, jackfruit and so on.

Kou Zhong looked at a short woman. There were six or seven golden "thorn melons" on the stall, and there was an indescribable smell.

"Old Zhong... What is this? Is it really edible?" Ba Fenghan said in a hesitant voice.

"Guests... want durians... so cheap... as long as..." The woman stammered at a few durians in very unskilled Mandarin.

Kou Zhong glanced at the price tag, which said 50 yuan/kg. He picked up one of them and weighed it.

The woman hurriedly broke one open and handed one of the petals to Kou Zhong: "It's delicious...taste it..."

Although the taste is a bit indescribable, Kou Zhong, who has been a gangster, has no psychological pressure. He picked up one of the soft golden pulp and put it in his mouth.

Ok! He frowned.

Ba Fenghan, who was beside him, saw his scalp tingling: "Old Zhong, how does it taste?"

After swallowing it, Kou Zhong seemed to recall: "It's very sweet, it doesn't smell bad, but it has a peculiar smell."

"real…"

"What are you doing?" Kou Zhong put the durian in his hand on the steel plate on the steel scale. This was one of the reminders posted by the market at the gate.

If you put something into the weighing pan, it means you want to buy it; if you put it back in the original position, it means no; if you want to bargain, pick up the small blackboard and chalk in the booth.

Of course, if they are from the same tribe, they naturally don't need these auxiliary tools.

But Xin'an Port, which is a large complex, is really not easy to complete transactions and communication without these auxiliary tools.

Even among the Han people who also came from the Central Plains, in fact, there are various dialects and accents in the language between different places.

Not to mention the Han people, Polu people, Dayak people, Austronesian people, and Vietnamese people all over Nanyang. There are often jokes about chickens and ducks.

For example, a Hokkien who came from Lingnan and eastern Guangdong opened a small restaurant with braised pig’s feet in Xin’an Port. When he met several immigrants from the northern part of the Nancy Peninsula, he said “Sawadika” to the Hokkien boss. In the ears of Hokkien bosses, this sentence is very similar to "three bowls of pig's feet" in Hokkien.

Suddenly a misunderstanding occurred.

Sometimes auxiliary tools are necessary, which is conducive to integration and reduce contradictions.

Kou Zhong has no idea of ​​bargaining. After all, as a black-clothed guard consultant, he has a monthly allowance of 12,000 yuan, and he can also reimburse travel expenses, accommodation and meals when he travels on business.

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A durian weighing about two kilograms is only over one hundred yuan.

With a smile, the woman hurriedly weighed the durian, which weighed 2.3 kilograms in total, totaling 115 yuan.

He took out a 100 yuan, a 10 yuan, and five 1 yuan crystal coins from his pocket and handed them to the woman.

The other party took out another straw rope and tied the durian so that Kou Zhong could carry it away.

After buying a durian, the two of them continued to wander around the market. Although these local products were strange, they did not exceed their expectations.

In fact, everything that can enter the market has been reviewed and evaluated many times. This is something that every market will do.

For example, poppies from Tianzhu, betel nut native to Southeast Asia, various tiger skins, rhino horns, and crocodile skins are strictly prohibited from being sold in the market.

Although the People's Revolutionary Federation has an industry that uses opium poppies to extract morphine, the cultivation and sale of opium poppies is absolutely not allowed in the private sector.

Even if it is the opium poppy planted by pharmaceutical companies, only two small islands in Southeast and Liuqiu are qualified for cultivation.

For the control of poppy, the People's Revolutionary Federation has adopted an extremely harsh method.

As for betel nut, in addition to the botanical gardens of pharmaceutical companies and agricultural research institutes, other people are not allowed to grow and sell it.

The products of projection treasured animals and plants are also strictly prohibited to be used, and there is no killing if there is no sale.

Rhino horn, ivory, crocodile skin, tiger skin and tiger bone, red sandalwood, etc., are typical luxury goods for the rich, and ordinary people simply cannot afford them.

If sales are allowed, there is no way to mass-produce them, and they can only be turned into luxury goods.

Who will this product be sold to?

And this brings up another core problem.

That is to allow the sale of luxury goods, which means that the People's Revolutionary Alliance recognizes the status of the rich in disguise, and it also means that there are rich people inside.

This is in contradiction with the core concept of the Great Harmony of the World.

Zheng Sen does not allow wealth to exist, but wants everyone to be wealthy. The existence of the word rich means that there are poor people who oppose it.

Since rhino horn and ivory are destined to be unavailable, let's simply prohibit the sale of them.

Farmers' markets in various places are centered on practicality and popularity. Through the regulation of this market, some regulations can be implemented.

For example, to protect a certain endangered organism, its market attributes must be completely stripped, or its market attributes should be integrated into sustainability.

In this regard, there are Jiangnan mammoths, northeastern reindeer, and Jianghuai elk that are artificially farmed, and South China tigers, Jiangnan rhinos, and red sandalwood that completely eliminate market attributes.

In fact, with the gradual control of the Central Plains by the People's Revolutionary Federation, various infrastructures have become more and more perfect, and the protection and development of wildlife resources has become more and more mature.

Some of the people who changed jobs from Hao Jian's black-clothed guards are engaged in the protection and investigation of wildlife resources.

During this period, more than a dozen species that have not been discovered in later generations were discovered. According to the original timeline, these species will all become extinct at some point in the future.

For example, Qinling ginseng, which only grows in Qinling Mountains, was discovered by Hao Jian. Although it belongs to the same family as ginseng in Northeast China, its characters are obviously differentiated.

There is a special infuriating system in this world. Hao Jian pays more and more attention to wild creatures in various places, hoping to study some useful things from it.

This time, he came to Borneo in person to see if there is any speciality in the giant python that can grow to several tens of meters in length.

In the evening, it started to rain again.

Kou Zhong was carrying a large bag and a small bag, while Ba Fenghan was carrying more than half of the sugar cane. When the two returned to the guest house, they received a notice that they would take an airship tomorrow morning and head to the interior of West Borneo.

This airship is also a specially modified super-altitude airship, which can sacrifice part of its payload and fly to the bottom of the stratosphere, that is, an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.

The reason for transforming it into a super-altitude airship is to avoid the weather effects of the troposphere, which has no weather activities such as heavy rainstorms, lightning, typhoons and cumulonimbus clouds.

The Nanyang Islands and the Indo-China Peninsula have a tropical rainforest climate, and the frequent occurrence of typhoons really affects the flight of the airship.

If you use ultra-high altitude flight, you can effectively avoid the bad weather in the troposphere.

However, after the ultra-high altitude transformation, the payload of the Kunpeng-class airship has dropped from 80 tons to 20 tons.

And a hydrogen absorption and release device must be added to achieve rapid absorption and release of hydrogen in the airbag to achieve the purpose of rapid lifting.

At present, the airship factory has only produced two high-altitude models, one of which is sent to the Nanyang Islands, and the other is sent to the Liaodong area.

A payload of 20 tons is actually enough.

After all, the severe weather in the troposphere can be ignored, and even if there is a typhoon, you can safely pass over the typhoon.

Before the artificial satellite technology came out, in fact, ultra-high-altitude airships can also act as "satellites", and even because of their strong airborne performance, they are more suitable for tracking local areas than artificial satellites.

In terms of special operations, ultra-high-altitude airships also play a huge role.

This time Hao Jian mobilized the ultra-high-altitude airship to support him, not because he was worried about not being able to defeat the giant python, but because he was worried about not being able to defeat the other party.

The habitat of pythons is in the inland plains of West Borneo. The area of ​​that area is about 50,000 to 70,000 square kilometers, and all are tropical rain forests with dense rivers.

If he entered by inland river steamboat, it is estimated that he would transfer all the black-clothed guards in the entire Nanyang region, and he would not be sure to lock the python in a short time. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

With the ultra-high-altitude airship, you can observe all parts of the rainforest from a commanding height. Even if there are trees blocking it, the remnants of the Dayak who escaped into this place will be exposed.

At that time, Hao Jian will be able to follow the clues and further narrow the scope of the search.

The next day, it was just dawn.

Over a paddy field on the south side of the port, an airship descended slowly from the bottom of the stratosphere. When many people around saw this scene, their faces turned pale with fright, or they knelt down to worship.

There were only a few immigrants from the Central Plains, because they had already seen the airship, they seemed relatively calm, and even felt a sense of superiority in their hearts, secretly despising the surrounding bumpkins for not seeing the world.

Even if it wasn't the first time they had seen an airship, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan were still shocked.

too big!

Standing under the airship at close range, the oppressive feeling that hides the sky and the sun is even more terrifying and obvious.

"Let's go!" Hao Jian led the crowd onto the airship.

Their airships will go directly to the inland plains of West Borneo, rather than detouring to the rainy land of the city of West Borneo.

When a group of people boarded the passenger compartment of the airship, the door was quickly closed, and then the interior was sealed.

The sealed cabin is a reference to later generations of high-altitude aircraft. If the cabin is not sealed, even martial arts masters will be very difficult.

As the airship slowly rose, when the altitude reached 11,000 meters, the airship stopped and flew horizontally to the southwest.

Many people who took the airship for the first time looked at the vast land under their feet in shock through the special observation window at the bottom.