New Ming Empire mixed in America

While Li Mingqi was busy in the warehouse, the Xinming Empire's National Defense Force had fully taken over the defense of the entire Yingtian Mansion.

Today, Yingtianfu is divided into four parts. Changtan is the dock area, which is mainly an area where businessmen come and go.

It is dominated by a large square, and the surrounding buildings are arranged radially outward. The best location is the commercial street represented by Yuelai Tavern.

In addition to pubs, there are also night business places such as ladies' service agencies due to the large number of white migrant workers.

Of course, there are also casinos and gangs.

Most of them are shacks built privately by workers' families. These simple houses are usually located near the factory area.

There is an earth wall blocking it from the commercial area. This is a wall built by businessmen themselves with their own money in order to prevent these poor people who look like an eyesore from seeing them every day.

The second part is the factory area. The current factory area is divided into two parts, the largest one is the arsenal area.

Now that the arsenal has been basically completed, construction workers who want to seek a stable income have joined the factory and become glorious labor workers under Dongfang Li.

What makes these people regretful is that Li Mingqi only agreed to sign a two-year contract. After the contract expires, he will pay an extra month's salary as severance pay and ask these people to leave.

The construction sites more than two kilometers away from the arsenal are steel plants and other small factories.

However, the area with the best location was allocated to the refinery, which puzzled the Ians, who continued to build other plant areas.

Although these are Li Mingqi's properties, Ian and his son still expressed their own questions:

"The supply of kerosene in California is now saturated, unless it is shipped to the east. But with freight added, the cost will be incredibly high."

Li Mingqi didn't say much about this, but just replied that he had his own considerations.

Of course, some consideration has been given. Although diesel gasoline cannot be refined now, kerosene can also supply Yingtianfu's daily needs.

Before hydropower generation reached a large scale, the main lighting in Yingtianfu had to rely on kerosene lamps.

But after the roads are planned, solar street lights will be installed.

Only in the future, when the empire's citizens have grown to a large scale, will Li Mingqi consider connecting every household to electric lights.

As for the majority of white workers now...I'm sorry, the empire's power resources cannot be wasted in unimportant places.

There is another reason for building the refinery, that is, Li Mingqi needs asphalt to build roads.

If the road is built with cement, the cost will be so high that it makes Li Mingqi feel distressed.

Then there is the cement road laid by workers in this era. Li Mingqi dare not guarantee the quality.

But paving asphalt roads is different. France began paving asphalt roads in 1851, and would cover the entire Paris by 1871.

There is no technical problem, not to mention that you can also study the refining technology of diesel and gasoline. Why not?

The third part of Yingtian Mansion is the characteristic "Qingren Street" of the Xinming Empire.

For these Chinese who still wore pigtails and claimed to be pseudo-Qing people, Li Mingqi originally designated a separate area for them and allowed them to build their own houses.

Now it has been built into a small town that is beginning to take shape. Just looking at the Chinese living there, you may have the illusion that you are in the territory of the Puppet Qing Dynasty.

In addition to workers working in factories, a large number of people in Qingren Street have chosen to rent land to open up wasteland.

For these people, Li Mingqi provided great convenience.

Not only do they rent tools to these people at low prices, they even sell some pesticides, such as herbicides, at low prices.

Because these people are likely to become subjects of the Xinming Empire in the future.

For the Chinese, as long as they cultivate land, they will have thoughts in their hearts. Building an ancestral hall is equivalent to having roots.

The most important thing is that these people could not survive in the Puppet Qing Dynasty. In the Xinming Empire, they could not starve to death, and their lives were even hundreds of times better than before.

No matter who it is, at least they have a balance in their hearts. Since the Xinming Empire also belongs to the same origin as China, there is no barrier.

Therefore, these Chinese who opened up wasteland and cultivated land and the people of the Xinming Empire still got along very harmoniously.

These farmers who rented land spontaneously formed several villages around the "Qingren Street". The land that has been prepared is waiting for the solar term to start farming.

Although the winter here in Los Angeles is not too cold, for the Chinese who have been farming according to the solar terms all their lives, they always feel that it is necessary to be cautious.

However, under Li Mingqi's call, various vegetables and other crops were planted on a small scale in these reclaimed lands.

These seeds were provided by Li Mingqi because he wanted to follow these people's hands to experiment with the growth of crops.

For Li Mingqi, who has always believed that true knowledge comes from practice, even if the theory is improving, he will not rest assured if he does not conduct experiments.

For example, those penicillins for veterinary use, if it had not been tested on white people, Li Mingqi would never have used them on Chinese people.

Unfortunately, you can only buy penicillin for veterinary use on Taobao. You can buy commonly used household medicines, but you can’t buy prescription medicines even if you have money.

So experiments still have to be done!

Didn't a group of imperial subjects who performed well in night school some time ago take the Barefoot Doctor (crossed out) compiled by His Majesty Li Mingqi and the imperial medical manual and start practicing medicine without a license?

Since these new doctors became famous with penicillin, white migrant workers have been coming to see them in an endless stream.

Doctors from Xinming also came to visit them. On the one hand, they wanted to make money to support their families, and on the other hand, they also made great contributions to the empire's medical cause.

Especially during this period, after those workers in the dock area who had accidents while rushing to work were also sent here, Dr. Xinming's reputation was completely established.

Because at Dr. Xinming's place, the success rate of surgeries such as amputation and organ removal has improved from the previous reliance on the face to about half and half now.

Especially last time, I successfully performed an intestinal suturing operation for a worker who had a laceration on his stomach at a construction site.

This worker who was destined to die survived and became a lucky person with high paraplegia.

Of course, the development of any business is bound to have some accidents. The people of the New Ming Empire will always remember those workers who unfortunately died because of improper dosage of drugs.

Just like after they slaughtered the Indians, they used Thanksgiving to commemorate the Indians' life-saving grace.

However, the coffin shop opened next to the hospital also benefited from a wave of dividends due to the development of the empire's medical industry.

After passing 'Qingren Street' and continuing along the Xinming River, you will soon see Xinming Town. Of course, it has now been renamed Yingtianfu City.

The imperial people in the city have become lively again from the deserted state when the National Defense Forces expanded some time ago.

Nearly 10,000 newly naturalized people were directly regarded as residents by Li Mingqi.

These people can choose to contract some small projects to make money, such as building their own brick factory for the empire, digging sewers and other projects.

You can also go out of the city to reclaim land, because Li Mingqi generously gave all residents, regardless of age, men and women, 50 acres of land for each person to rent.

That’s right, it’s renting seeds.

Moreover, except for the 20% agricultural tax collected by the Xinming Empire, the rest of these lands belong to the farmers themselves.

The 20% of agricultural tax is deliberately retained for the purpose of large-scale agricultural tax exemption in the future.

Li Mingqi's idea is to replace agricultural taxes with commercial taxes. Every time a bag of fertilizer or pesticide is sold to a farmer, it is equivalent to a tax on the farmer.

Therefore, taxation does not need to be as direct and crude as agricultural taxes. The best way is to moisturize things quietly and quietly.

Of course, for the capitalists who may appear in the future, Li Mingqi will learn from a certain country in later generations where the tax bureau is the pinnacle of domestic combat effectiveness.

At that time, Director Yu from the Taxation Bureau will stand up and say: "What your Security Bureau dare not take care of, our Taxation Bureau will take care of. Those who your Security Bureau does not dare to kill, our Taxation Bureau will kill."

"In a word, we can control what the Security Bureau can control, and we can control what the Security Bureau can't control. Cut it first and report it later. It's a royal charter! This is the tax bureau. Is it clear enough?"