It was noon soon. Zhao Xin asked He Xianyang, who had come back to report, to go to the cafeteria to serve Balanov with a sumptuous lunch, and went straight back to Ruchi's container building. He just arrived at the door of the reception room on the first floor, and saw Li Shi waiting through the window.

Compared to He Xianyang, Li Shi saw a tall man with a beard walking in from outside the door. His face changed and he was about to ask, but he stared at Zhao Xin's face and looked at him twice, and suddenly rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and was stunned.

"Chief...Prince...When did you come?" Li Shixin said that when he came back, he had not seen any other ships on the dock except for two Spanish sailboats! Immediately afterwards, he remembered the rumor that Zhao Xin was "not a human".

"Da Shuan, how long has it been since we met?" Zhao Xin walked forward with a smile and patted Li Shi's shoulder affectionately.

"It's been more than two years." When Li Shi heard the other party call his nickname, his nose felt sore and tears flowed out.

The two people's acquaintance started nine years ago. That year was the 50th year of Qianlong's reign. A severe drought that affected five northern provinces almost made Li Shi's family go to a dead end. At that time, the family of four fled from Shangqiu to Kaifeng, so hungry that they could not survive, so they had to go to the market to sell themselves. I thought that the family might be separated from each other from now on, but Xu Dayong spent twelve hangs to buy it collectively, and then went to Xuzhuang, Sheyang Lake to be a servant.

At that time, he was still a 14-year-old boy. When Zhao Xin and his friends went to Zhuangzi for the first time, they thought the boy was well-behaved and sensible. Before leaving, they gave him a bag of milk candy. Li Shi never knew what the candy was, but he thought that the outer packaging was red and blue, and there was a big rabbit painted on it. He handed the candy to his mother, and the family shared a piece of it, and they all thought it was the best thing in the world.

His younger brother got a serious illness when he was fleeing. He was very weak in physique and fell ill at any time. So every time his mother coaxed her to drink the medicine, she would take out a candy and cut it off half of it for him to eat. Li Shi was not good at fighting with his younger brother, so every time he waited for a piece of candy to finish eating, he would put away the candy paper, and sometimes he would take it out and sniff it secretly and lick it.

A year later, when their family came to Beihai Town to settle down by boat and saw the portrait of Zhao Xin, Li Shi knew who the tall man touched his head was. His father Li Erkui also complained to his mother at that time, saying that he had known that the candy was given by Prince Zhao, and he would not have let the second brother eat it no matter what.

After a few years, Li Shi studied, entered the military academy, got married, and had children. He kept carefully the candy papers, and did not throw away a single one, except his wife, and no one told him. In his opinion, the candy papers represented the unique connection between himself and Zhao Xin.

In fact, there are many people with this mentality among the old immigrants in Beihai Town. Not to mention the earliest naturalized people in the island country, among the refugees who came from Henan earlier, children from more than fifty families were once included in the class managed by Shen Xuan. Later, when Shen Xuan married Zhao Xin, these families felt that they were the first grade higher than others because their children were taught by the future queen. Later, these families formed small circles and married each other. Li Shi's marriage was a product of this phenomenon, and her wife was also a student of Shen Xuan.

Zhao Xin originally wanted Li Shi to sit down and talk, but the latter said he didn't dare to sit no matter what, so the two of them sat down one by one. Zhao Xin threw a cigarette to Li Shi and took one by himself. When Li Shi used a lighter to help light it, he asked, "I heard from Chief Lu, you went to the tribe opposite the strait yesterday for everyone to go on a blind date?"

"Don't mention it." Li Shi showed a bitter look and explained: "I had told the tribe that I wanted to find someone over fifteen years old. When Beizhi arrived, I saw that there were more than twenty girls, but except for a few widows with children, none of the others looked like fifteen. There were a few girls who looked like they were in their early 10s, but their parents insisted that they were already fifteen. Beizhi didn't dare to agree, so they had to come back to report the situation to Chief Lu first. The problem is that we had all said something before, and the chief was afraid that we would regret it, so he came with Beizhi."

Zhao Xin's heart moved and asked, "Where is the person?"

Li Shi replied: "I've gone to the training ground of the tribal militia. I'll let Suke accompany him."

Zhao Xin pondered for a moment, with a smirk on his lips, waved his hand to signal Li Shi to come forward and said, "You are going to find the chief now, by the way, what is his name?"

"Dudu." Li Shi then explained that in Miwaukee's Indian language, "Dudu" means an osprey, or cormorant.

After hearing this, Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Okay, go find the Chief Dudu immediately and tell him...this is the case."

Li Shi couldn't help but nodded, occasionally covering his mouth and laughing. When Zhao Xin finished speaking, he repeated it again and then saluted and left.

After talking for a long time, Zhao Xin was a little hungry. At this time, the guard who had followed him from the cafeteria since the morning gave him a lunch. The Kinmen Fortress was adjacent to the sea, so seafood was indispensable for three meals a day, and rape, vegetables and tofu were also indispensable, but red meat was not often eaten. Although the American bison was as high as tens of millions of heads in this year, the habitat was in the south of the Central Valley in California, that is, to the east of Los Angeles, and it was 1,400 to 500 miles from Kinmen, which was too far away.

After lunch, Zhao Xin asked the guard to open Ruchi's office. He spent more than an hour in it, tinkered out two documents with the same content, and asked the guard to send it to Li Shi. After all this, he went to the conference room and continued to discuss the details of the "Huamei Trading Company" with Balanov.

On the issue of future company flags, Zhao Xin did not agree with the design plan submitted by Balanov, but asked him to hang the white five-star gear red flag of Beihai Town, and would never allow any banner with the Romanov dynasty logo. Balanov did not dare to persist. He knew that if he wanted to obtain military support and protection from Kinmen, there was nothing to argue about.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Next, Zhao Xin also mentioned the naturalization of Russians in the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Those who are willing to be naturalized must take an oath to apply for a certificate and enjoy national treatment in the future; those who are unwilling to be naturalized will apply for a work permit, which will be reviewed every two years. Balanov replied that he had no objection to this matter, and as for others, he had to ask one by one.

The matter of naturalization of the Siberian Russians took a long time. At first, Zhao Xin and the others thought it was very simple, expelling all the Russians. Later, after completing the demographic statistics, they found that there were tens of thousands of Russians. If they really wanted to expel them all back to Russia, the manpower and material resources were too large, so they were put on hold, which became a matter of black and white.

After the Battle of Usolier, Beihai Town had a firm foothold in Siberia, and was separated from Tsarist Russia with the "Cossack Emirates", so the status of the Russian population was put on the table again. The "29-person committee" held several meetings, and it was not until the Furdan City meeting that had a preliminary result.

The most troublesome problem among the time travelers is Christianity. Keep it, Tsarist Russia will definitely make trouble with it; expel it, naturalized Russians may have to turn against the sky. After all, this is a belief of hundreds of years and cannot be completely eliminated by a single decree.

The final solution we discussed was to set up a religious management office to be responsible for this matter. The Siberian Governor's Office will work with the management office to send management teams to major towns to "assist" local priests in the daily management of the church. Of course, monitoring them is the most important task.

The candidate for the head of the management office has not been determined yet, but Chen Qingsong recommended a guy he had known before. Zhao Xin planned to wait until the Spring Festival to see him before making a decision. Now the territory of Beihai Town has expanded to Shengjing, and time travelers no longer need to apply for visas every year. They can go back to Shengjing directly during the Spring Festival next year.

In addition, the Civil Affairs Bureau has sent letters to various Buddhist and Taoist temples in Liaodong region in the name of the Management Office, informing them that they will hold a conference in Shengjing in May next year and must attend. The purpose of this conference is to encourage the Buddhist and Taoist religions to go to Siberia to open a new temple. To put it bluntly, it is to compete with Christianity for believers and gradually weaken its influence.

In fact, the situation in North America is similar. In addition to military struggles, Beihai Town and Spain are also the top priority in terms of religious expansion. Although demolishing churches is a means, Buddhism and Taoism must also follow up in time.

The last issue the two discussed was communication. Since Kodiak Island is too far from Kinmen, the straight line distance is 3,100 kilometers, and the boating journey is even further along the coast. Even Vancouver Island in the north is 1,350 kilometers away from Kinmen.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xin finally decided to send a communication team and a platoon of troops to the settlements on Kodiak Island after the beginning of next spring.

Balanov naturally didn't know what telegram was. Although Beihai Town built a relay station and erected an iron tower in the Aleutian Islands, the Russians were confused and didn't know what to do. Now he heard from Zhao Xin that there was an instrument that could communicate with people thousands of miles away, and even contact Baiber City thousands of miles away. He was so surprised that his chin was smashed into the foot.

In the evening, the negotiations between Zhao Xin and Balanov finally ended. The latter will take a boat back to Kodiak Island tomorrow morning and make follow-up arrangements according to the details finalized today.

Zhao Xin ate dinner with Ruchi, and during this period, the latter talked to him about a lot of things that happened after the Spanish delegation landed. The most funny thing was that the Spanish proposed to buy some faucets from Kinmen.

"Facial?" Zhao Xin looked confused when he heard this.

"That's the case..." Ruqi pushed open the rice bowl, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and started talking slowly.

It turned out that according to the previous communication between Monk Diz and Ruchi, the camp of the New Spain Provincial Mission was arranged in a designated area 500 meters northeast of the fortress, and more than 100 meters south was the Indian trading market.

The reason for this arrangement is that there is a large reservoir in the market, which is convenient for the Spanish to fetch water there, so they can save it and just pick up a pipe.

If the Indians who came to Kinmen used water, they would go to the well in the fort to get water. Later, as more and more Indians were present in the market, considering the security and confidentiality of the base, the logistics team asked the engineering team to lay a PVC water supply pipeline to directly lead to a vacant land in the north of the market. There, a circular PVC tape reservoir containing three tons of water was built there, with a diameter of 1.8 meters and a height of 1.2 meters. Color steel plates were used to cover the surroundings and tops to prevent dust from falling and being broken.

The main reason for using this thing is to facilitate installation and disassembly. If you want to change the floor one day, put the water, remove the bracket, and roll the tarpaulin, you can carry it away by two or three people.

When the reservoir was first built, the Indians in the market were very happy. What surprised them the most was the faucet at the water outlet interface, and groups of people often gathered there to screw around, and they had a lot of fun.

The Indians were like this, and the Spanish were not good either. When a craftsman heard about it from the water picking mailman, he immediately came to the reservoir, looked at the faucet on it repeatedly, turned on the switch, and even took out a wooden ruler to measure it repeatedly.

The guy thought for a long time, and after he returned, he told the delegation that he had attracted a group of people to visit, and even Franciscans' California Missionary Committee, Fermin de Lasun, came.

So on the afternoon when he went to the prisoner-of-war camp, the monk Diz, who was the translator, talked about this with Ruchi. When he heard this, Ruchi smiled in a silence and explained that it was called a faucet.

Monk Diz said, we are willing to buy a few at a high price, I wonder if you can agree?

Ruchi's words of agreement slipped to his mouth, and immediately swallowed it back, and then changed the subject. Because he suddenly thought of the history of faucets that he had seen in a book.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Don’t underestimate an ordinary faucet. In another time and space history, it was not invented by the British Rotherham until 1845. Before that, no matter the East and the West, if people wanted to drink water, they either went to the river or looked for water wells. Cities with fountains could also find fountains, and the water quality could not be guaranteed.

That is, the powerful class has a choice, and can purchase door-to-door water delivery services, or send people to clean water sources to fetch water. For example, the well-known powerful people in Beijing only drink water from Yuquan Mountain. Every morning, when the Xizhimen opened, water trucks like a long dragon would enter one after another to deliver water to the Forbidden City and the houses in the city.

The key reason why faucets were not invented and popularized until the mid-19th century is that the rubber pad inside was realized only after the invention of the "rubber vulcanization method".

The problem is that in today's world, except for the hundreds of acres of rubber planted by Zhao Xin in Bacheng, all rubber production areas are in South America, which is a colony of Spain and Portugal. For Europeans, the biggest use of rubber is an eraser. Once the Spanish discover the accessories in the faucet, the purpose of rubber will be exposed.

Of course, if you can't master vulcanization technology, you can only stare at me even if you know it; but will the "rubber vulcanization method" be created in advance, thus further improving Europeans in industrial technology? You must know that rubber is known as "industrial adhesive".

Although a small stone is inconspicuous, the ripples thrown into the water can spread out a large area. As a time traveler, Ruqi knows the butterfly effect very well.

It’s so cool to have a generation, whoever you catch, whoever you want to abuse, whoever you want, especially a second-rate country like Spain.

Sure enough, Zhao Xin slapped the table after hearing this and said, "You can't sell it! The battle between us and Spain has not been finished yet, so what are you thinking about?"

Then, he told Ruqi what he arranged for Li Shi to do at noon. After hearing this, Ruqi said fuck me, and thought that it was only your boss Zhao who could do such a thing!
Chapter completed!