From Propulsion City To Multiverse

The torrential rain poured down, and the rainforest was surrounded by mist.

As a last resort, the fleet continued to rest in 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, the 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 are no coal mines in the north, but there is another energy source, that is oil.

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

The oil and coal in Southeast Asia are concentrated in Borneo Island and Jinzhou Island, and both have extremely shallow geological characteristics.

Therefore, various places adapt measures to local conditions, such as North Borneo, developed the Xin'an Oilfield, and provided fuel for steam engines in various places by supplying oil refineries.

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

Steam power is used more and more everywhere.

As for electrical equipment, it is limited to a few cities. The main reason is that 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 a few small steam generators in various places, which are also used to supply electricity to radio stations 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, so they could go out for a stroll.

Ba Fenghan, who was suffering from the heat, used a bamboo rucksack and an iron bucket to carry a large block of ice in order to cool off.

The streets of Xin'an Port surround the port.

As for the hardened road to the inland, the People's Revolutionary Union, which has only controlled the area for more than four months, has not had time to build it.

There are only dirt roads left by Polu before. In fact, the difficulty of building roads in the tropical rainforest is no less than that of the tundra in Xianbelia.

The rainfall here is so high that it can easily wash the surface, and if it is not maintained regularly, the dirt road will be covered with weeds and vines within a few years.

Therefore, Shan Wanjing did not rush to build the road, but sprinkled quicklime to kill the weed seeds, added salt, and then used 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 Guangnan Prefecture are added, a high-standard concrete road can be built here.

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

The two of Kou Zhong walked to the farmer's market unknowingly. 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 one day. However, since setting up a stall is a commercial activity, once a transaction occurs, the city management will levy a 5% transaction tax on the goods.

As for how to determine the tax amount to be paid for the goods, the market reference price of the current month is usually used. As long as you buy something at the farmer’s market, you must complete the tax payment with the market manager when you leave, and get a tax-paid invoice for the goods.

If you trade secretly, the local market management office will soon notice.

Because the market management of the Human Revolutionary Union is very strict.

People in cities have no land property, and there are only three groups of urban population, namely workers, soldiers, and self-employed, and their wages and incomes are relatively fixed.

Therefore, how much material does the urban population need to consume each month,

In fact, it is a relatively stable number.

The bank will conduct statistics on each person's assets, and each crystal coin consumption will generate a consumption invoice, and the bank will jointly check with other departments.

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

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

For example, if a family purchases 50 catties of rice and 3 catties of meat every month, and suddenly does not purchase these items for a month, it is obviously abnormal.

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

If the market is allowed to trade in private, the government will not only lose a large amount of tax revenue, but also distort the macro data of commodities, resulting in a decline in the government's ability to regulate the market or inaccurate regulation.

Zheng Sen adopts a zero-tolerance attitude towards this situation of digging the foundation of the country.

Only when the government completely controls the market can the serious gap between the rich and the poor be avoided, and some unhealthy trends can be killed.

Therefore, when Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan walked into the farmer's market, it was not in chaos, but orderly.

It is divided into vegetable area, fruit area, flower area, aquatic product area, fresh meat area, handicraft area and sundries area.

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

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

Old Zhong... What is this? Can it really be eaten? Ba Fenghan whispered with some hesitation.

The guest... wants durians... so cheap... as long as... The woman stammered and pointed at a few durians in very unskilled Mandarin.

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

The woman hurriedly opened one and handed one of the petals to Kou Zhong: Delicious...Taste...

Although the taste is a bit indescribable, Kou Zhong, who had been a gangster, didn't have any psychological pressure. He picked up one of the soft golden flesh and put it in his mouth.

Um! He frowned.

Ba Fenghan on the side felt his scalp go numb: Old Zhong, how does it taste?

After swallowing it, Kou Zhong seemed to be reminiscing: It's very sweet, it doesn't have a stench, but it has a strange fragrance.

real……

What are you doing to lie to you? Kou Zhong put the durian in his hand on the iron plate of the steelyard, which was one of the reminders posted at the gate of the market.

If you put something on the scale, it means you want to buy it; if you put it back in its original place, it means you don’t want it; if you want to bargain, you pick up the small blackboard and chalk in the booth.

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

However, Xin'an Port, which is a large community, does not have these auxiliary tools, and it is really not easy to complete transactions and communication.

Even for 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 all parts of Nanyang where there are Han people, Bolu people, Dayak people, Austronesian people, and Yue people, and there are often jokes about chickens and ducks.

For example, a Fujian native from the south of Lingnan and the east of Guangdong opened a small restaurant with braised pork feet in Xin'an Port. When he met a few immigrants from the northern part of the Nancy Peninsula, he said Sawadika to the owner of the Fujian native, and In the ears of the Hokkien boss, this sentence is very similar to the three bowls of pig's feet in Hokkien.

Suddenly a misunderstanding occurred.

Sometimes auxiliary tools are indispensable, which is conducive to integration and reducing contradictions.

Kou Zhong had no intention of bargaining. After all, as a consultant of the Black Guards, he had a monthly allowance of 12,000 yuan, and he could also be reimbursed for travel expenses, accommodation and meals during business trips.

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A durian of about two kilograms is only more than 100 yuan.

With a smile on her face, the woman quickly weighed the durian, which weighed 2.3 kilograms, totaling 115 yuan.

He took out one 100 yuan, one 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 to tie up the durians so that Kou Zhong could carry them away.

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

In fact, the things that can enter the bazaar have been reviewed and evaluated many times, which is something that every bazaar will do.

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

Although the Human Revolutionary Union has an industry in which opium poppies are used to extract morphine, the cultivation and sale of opium poppies is absolutely not allowed among the people.

Even for the opium poppies grown by pharmaceutical companies, only two small islands in Southeast State and Liuqiu State are qualified to grow them.

For the control of opium poppies, the Human Revolutionary Union has adopted extremely harsh methods.

As for betel nuts, except for the botanical gardens of pharmaceutical companies and agricultural research institutes, other people are not allowed to plant, produce and sell them.

Projection products made of precious animals and plants are also strictly prohibited. If there is no sale, there will be no killing.

Rhino horn, ivory, crocodile skin, tiger skin and bone, rosewood, etc., are typical luxury items for the rich, but ordinary people simply cannot afford them.

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

Who is this product sold to?

And that brings up another core problem.

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

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

Zheng Sen does not allow wealth to exist, but wants everyone to be rich. The existence of the word rich itself means the existence of the opposite poor.

Since rhino horns and ivory are doomed to be impossible for everyone to own, then simply prohibit the sale of them.

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

For example, to protect certain endangered organisms, it is necessary to completely strip its market attributes, or integrate its market attributes into sustainability.

In this regard, there are Jiangnan mammoth, Northeast reindeer, and Jianghuai elk in the direction of artificial breeding, as well as South China tiger, Jiangnan rhinoceros, and rosewood that completely eliminate market attributes.

In fact, as the Human Revolutionary Federation gradually controlled the Central Plains, various infrastructures became more complete, and the protection and development of wild biological resources became more and more mature.

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

During this period, more than a dozen species have been discovered that have not been discovered in later generations. 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 the Qinling Mountains, Hao Jian found that although this species belongs to the same family as the Northeast ginseng, its traits have clearly differentiated.

In this world itself, there is a special qi system. Hao Jian pays more and more attention to wild creatures in various places, hoping to research some useful things from them.

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

In the evening, it began to rain again.

Kou Zhong was carrying big and small bags, while Ba Fenghan was carrying more than half of the sugarcane. When the two returned to the guest house, they were notified that they would take an airship tomorrow morning to go to the interior of West Borneo.

This airship is also a specially modified ultra-high-altitude airship, which can sacrifice part of the payload and fly to the bottom of the stratosphere, which is an altitude above 10,000 meters.

The reason why it needs to be transformed into a super high-altitude airship is to avoid the influence of the weather in the troposphere. There are no weather activities such as heavy rain, lightning, typhoon and cumulonimbus in the stratosphere.

The Nanyang Islands and Indochina Peninsula have a tropical rainforest climate, coupled with frequent typhoons, which really affects the flight of airships.

If you fly at a super high altitude, 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.

Moreover, a hydrogen absorption and release device must be added to realize rapid absorption and release of hydrogen gas in the airbag, so as 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 region.

The payload of 20 tons is actually enough.

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

Before the artificial satellite technology came out, in fact, the ultra-high-altitude airship could also act as a satellite, and even because of its powerful air-staying performance, it was more suitable for tracking local areas than artificial satellites.

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

This time Hao Jian mobilized the ultra-high-altitude airship to come to support, not because he was worried that he would not be able to defeat the python, but because he was worried that he would not be able to defeat the opponent.

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, all of which are tropical rainforests densely covered with rivers.

If he enters with an inland steamboat, it is estimated that he will transfer all the guards in black from the entire Nanyang region, and he is not sure that he will lock the python in a short time.

With the ultra-high-altitude airship, you can observe all parts of the rainforest condescendingly. Even if there are trees blocking it, the remnants of Daya who fled here will also reveal their positions.

At that time, Hao Jian can 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 slowly descended from the bottom of the stratosphere. Seeing this scene, many people around turned pale with fright, or 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 bumpkins around them for not seeing the world.

Even though it was not 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 obscures the sky and the sun is even more terrifying and obvious.

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

Their airships would go directly to the interior plains of West Borneo, rather than detour through the rainy lands of West Borneo.

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

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

As the airship rose slowly, when the altitude reached 11,000 meters, the airship stopped and changed to a horizontal flight 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.