Chapter 248: 248 promotes the development of the times
Chapter 248 248 Promote the development of the times
There is no place in the world that has an intensive commune management system like Longdao. When Tang Mo came up with this system, he was even afraid that it would be too advanced.
However, after Roger’s trial run, it turned out that Tang Mo was overthinking. Those civilians who had no power at all before had no idea what dregs like free cooking were.
With just one order, the workers and their families on Long Island went to collect their pills without even saying a word.
They collectively killed insects and then used the most advanced tap water supply system in the world. Coupled with the availability of oil and natural gas, they quickly learned to boil water for sterilization.
Then, these people were vaccinated, received five years of compulsory education, received night school tutoring, accepted a 12-hour work system, and accepted one day off per week, things that they had never dared to think about before.
People here have simple values. They believe that since Datang Group has given them a day off, they believe that they should accept other arrangements from Datang Group.
During their rest time, they can spend one morning doing collective exercises and learning some simple military knowledge. The remaining afternoon can be spent wandering around the island, and then they can use the evening to create humans.
Creating humans is the most sacred and meaningful activity in the world, because the world needs population—population is labor force, and population is wealth.
People on Long Island live a very regular life. They watch opera performances organized by Datang Group and listen to children's choirs singing praises to their company.
They also have time to go shopping on the streets of Longcheng, where almost the best products in the world are gathered: the fashion circle of Longcheng is ahead of the entire era.
You can see the same sachets of fashion goddess Susan everywhere here, and you can also see happy children running on the road full of cars.
The roads here are all paved with asphalt, because there is an oil refinery here, which can produce the residues after refining petroleum and chemical production conversion on a large scale and use it to pave roads.
So the roads here are smoother than elsewhere, so the construction progress here is much faster than elsewhere.
A road has been extended to the central area of the island, where Datang Group built a railway station to store supplies and cut down the surrounding trees, turning it into a backup town site.
Dozens of ships are transporting rails produced by Bunas to Long Island, and soon the railway will be built.
Almost at the same time, on the other side of the island, the previous landing site of the Talon Kingdom has been built. The tents have been replaced by wooden houses, and a small dock has begun to take shape.
The rubber shipped from Rewind Port is processed here, turned into tires, sent to Bunas, and then installed on car wheels. The gold ore shipped from Port Osa was smelted here and then put into the warehouse to become the capital reserve of Datang Group.
Similarly, a large amount of copper ore and iron ore shipped from the pine and poplar kingdoms are also processed into parts here, and then sent to Bunas to be assembled into products and sold elsewhere.
Because the business is too large and the production speed is too exaggerated, the route between Long Island and Bunas has almost become the busiest route in the world.
Sailboats can even look at each other from a distance, and the ships on the sea are almost connected in a straight line! This is really not an exaggeration. There are even bards who have witnessed such a scene and compiled poems that have been sung far and wide.
The sky-covering sails are connected on the sea level, as if a high wall is built on the sea. Everyone knows that it is the ship to Bunas!
Then, with the constant exchanges of these merchant ships, a vaccine that could suppress smallpox also spread and became a valuable medicine.
In Bunas, such medicine is almost free. When it is shipped to King Leyte City, a vaccination will cost 40 silver coins.
When we get to Dornsusas, the same medicine will be sold at a high price of 1 gold coin, and this is not even the highest price.
If civilians in the Poplar Kingdom and Pinewood Kingdom want to receive such a vaccine, they need to pay 1 gold and 50 silver—don’t be too expensive, because there is no discount...
If it spreads further, regardless of whether the other party dares to use such a drug, first of all, the price will not be affordable by ordinary people.
After all, these five countries have a maritime trade agreement. They do not impose any tariffs on Datang Group's goods, but other countries still charge taxes and fees, so the prices are almost sky-high.
When the price of cowpox vaccine in King Leyte City was reduced from 40 silver coins to 25 silver coins, the construction of Dragon Island finally ushered in a round of climax of returns.
First of all, the Bunas 7 ironclad battleship built in the No. 1 Dockyard was delivered for use. This battleship was jointly received by the Kingdom of Wright and the Datang Group.
The Navy of the Kingdom of Leyte sent 70 naval officers to the ship to learn how to operate and use the warship, and also completed the reception of the warship together.
According to the agreement between the two parties, one year later, this battleship will be completely controlled by soldiers of the Kingdom of Wright and will be commanded by the king of the Kingdom of Wright. This will be the world's first ironclad warship serving in the formal army, and it will witness the official rise of the naval power of the Kingdom of Leyte.
Even if there is only such an armored battleship, no country will doubt that the Kingdom of Wright has become one of the world's naval powers, and it is even the second largest navy in the world!
This is an era! In an era where the strength of the navy is entirely determined by the total tonnage of the navy's ironclad warships - the total tonnage of the Wright Navy's ironclad warships has exceeded 2,000 tons, while other countries are still 0!
At the same time, the first steam engine transport ship built by Datang Group was also launched on Longdao. This huge ship with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons can transport a large amount of materials at a time.
Its launch also marks that maritime transportation has entered a new stage. High-speed and efficient ship transportation has begun to play an important role in material deployment, and the world has become more closely connected.
The ridiculous sight of cars being transported by sailboats will gradually become rarer, and memories of wooden boats will gradually fade away.
In short, this era is quietly changing, and the person leading all these changes is studying his traditional Bunas dishes at this time.
There is no other way. In this era, many places have different ways of eating beef, and you can also find methods of frying, stir-frying, and deep-frying.
As a result, Tang Mo, who suddenly wanted to eat steak, had to combine the barbecue in Beiling and the fried pork in Bunas to develop a dish that suited his taste.
He actually has no talent in cooking, but he likes to play with ingredients very much, pretending to be incomprehensible, and making the chefs who cooperate with him laugh or cry.
According to popular sayings, Tang Mo’s cooking skills can only be described in one sentence: “People are addicted to food”…
The chefs of Bunas, who had been tortured, finally couldn't bear the insult, and they bit the bullet and came up with a steak cooking method, which was said to be a combination of the best from all sides, which was translated as nondescript.
However, due to the circulation in various places, the types of spices have changed drastically, so the steak in Bunas is actually quite good in terms of taste.
Coupled with the tender and juicy beef from North Ridge and Soussas, the ingredients are absolutely excellent, so Bunas’ signature dish came into being.
A thick soup made from pork ribs, yam and dried cuttlefish, Bunas specialty steak, elven moonshine wine and the latest tight-fitting long dress have become the most enchanting dinner standard in Bunas recently.
Of course, whether a girl wearing a tight long dress will follow you somewhere else in the evening depends on whether you drive her to dinner in a T-car or walk to the meal...
In fact, in Bunas nowadays, rich people are also divided into three levels. The richest people have drivers who drive T-shaped luxury cars, the poorer ones have their own private carriages, then they drive their own cars, and finally they go out on foot...
There is no public transportation such as buses in Bunas because Tangmo has not yet completed the construction of its own large-scale automobile production factory.
Some factories are developing towards Longdao, so the progress has obviously slowed down. Moreover, Tang Mo himself had not accumulated enough technology, so he could not use the little power he had to push the entire world to the level of World War II.
Time passes day by day, and many people have even forgotten that Datang Group fought a naval battle about five months ago and destroyed a fleet.
Amidst the peaceful singing and dancing, Bernard, the commander-in-chief of the Maritime Forces of the Datang Group, presided over a secret launching ceremony in Bunas.
The world's first new type of ship specifically designed to hunt other countries' warships at sea at high speeds has emerged. It is the Wolf-class cruiser.
The culmination of Datang Group's most advanced technological achievements: it is equipped with tube-retractable cannons, a more reliable steam engine power system, an intra-ship communication telephone, and the use of unified artillery fire control.
Its appearance made it possible for the first time for warships to attack enemies at high speed on the sea. If an ironclad warship can hoist a sailing warship, then a wolf-class battleship can easily hoist an ironclad warship.
With the launch of this battleship, Datang Group’s war plan against the Kingdom of Talen was put on the agenda.
What a joke, everyone is still waiting to share the cake. This war is not to mention a war of revenge. Even if there is no reason, it must be fought!
As a result, I don’t know which day started, but the atmosphere in Bunas became a little tense.
After being busy for several months, 4 Bunas-class battleships came back at once, gathering in the port, loading ammunition, replenishing food, fresh water and coal fuel.
Workers were inspecting the equipment in these warships in the port, and the navy officers and soldiers had a rare two-day holiday...
(End of this chapter)