Great time travel

Chapter 43. Let's sit down and have a meeting!

On the night of the first day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Chongzhen, several special commissioners of the Beijing Central Government with many years of experience in receiving petitioners, as well as deputy leaders of some relevant departments, held a battle with the board members of the Far East Company in this time and space in Vladivostok. "Cozy and friendly" conversation.

Generally speaking, this meeting is beneficial. The two sides exchanged views frankly and fully on a series of issues such as the development of time and space in the late Ming Dynasty and the subsequent impact of time-traveling events, which enhanced the mutual understanding of the two sides.In response to some important disputes and differences, government negotiators held a reserved attitude, while acknowledging the official need to respect the views of the Far East Company.However, he still expressed great indignation at some unpleasant situations that occurred during the negotiation process, claiming that this is absolutely intolerable, and reserves the right to make further reactions.

Next, the representatives of the central government expressed serious concern about the status of the Vladivostok Far East Company’s crossing group, and believed that it should not be ignored, and the civil forces should be allowed to act indiscriminately, which would eventually lead to various tragedies.If the Far East Company has been evading and procrastinating, or even taking some unfriendly actions, the government will reconsider its position on this issue... Finally, after an unprecedentedly fierce quarrel, the government issued an ultimatum, Far East Company is required to reply within six hours, otherwise Far East Company will be fully responsible for all consequences arising therefrom...

At the same time, the rocket artillery unit of the Marine Corps that came through the "wormhole" also launched a salvo to the waters of the Vladivostok port area according to the set coordinates, allowing the ignorant indigenous residents to appreciate the bright and gorgeous scenery again. Romantic fireworks.

Then, before the deadline expired, the Far East Company finally pulled back from the brink and accepted the government's ultimatum in the early hours of the next day.

As a result, an armed conflict that was ready to go out was immediately eliminated, and a happy ending was ushered in. It is really gratifying, gratifying to congratulate—only a few frustrated radicals from the Vladivostok Far East Company were present. He raised his middle finger and cursed: "Congratulations!"

Of course, the far barking of the above-mentioned defeated dogs does not hinder the overall situation at all.Far East Company can only welcome the nationalization transformation with a smile on its face...

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"...What is this? State advances and private retreat? Public-private partnership? Socialist nationalization transformation?"

Taking advantage of the rising sun, standing next to the space-time gate that has moved to the commercial square in Vladivostok City, looking at the copy of the negotiation minutes between the government representative and the Far East Company, Wang Qiu couldn't help but yawned and frowned and said, "...You guys Does this confiscate the Far East Company?"

——After the urgent consultation last night, the government decided to set up a temporary department called the "Special Area Development Committee", referred to as the Special Committee, which is actually the Department of Colonization of Different Worlds.Director Ma of the Supernatural Phenomena Processing Office also serves as the chairman of the committee, and he "leads" this post in the modern world.Professor Guo was promoted by the front line because of his profound qualifications, and served as the executive vice chairman, responsible for the front-line command of time and space in the late Ming Dynasty.

Then, according to the results of the negotiations last night, on the one hand, the Far East Company will bear a series of huge economic losses caused in modern time and space, and on the other hand, it needs to be nationalized. A considerable part of the compensation and fines that the Far East Company should pay in modern time and space), and the cadres (public representatives) sent by the state to guide the operation and management of the enterprise—although the scale and business of this "new mixed ownership enterprise" are a bit scary, it is A super-large enterprise with an army, an arsenal, and a subsidiary city, whose main business is to launch a war of conquest... However, referring to the successful precedents of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company, it seems that there is no reason why it cannot be played.

After the agreement on the nationalization and reorganization of the Far East Company was finally reached, in order to show goodwill, the government immediately sent two truckloads of tropical fruits that they could never get in the late Ming Dynasty to the Far East Company in Vladivostok, plus boxes of Zhonghua cigarettes, chocolates, Moutai and other materials that are scarce in this time and space are used to celebrate - of course, as for how these things taste in the other party's mouth, I'm afraid only God knows.

"...How can it be called confiscation? It should be called compensation! The government not only has to wipe their ass in the modern world, but also find a place to reimburse the cost of this operation-of course, from the perspective of the country, This amount of money is nothing at all, as long as you start the money printing machine casually, there will be more money. But the process of the whole incident must not get out of control, this is the most important..."

Commissar Guo took a puff of cigarette, and replied to Wang Qiu, "...Besides, for the group of Far East Company, this deal is definitely not a loss. In the past, they were single-handed households. All of them have to rely on their own pockets to raise funds and bloody hard work. Although compared with other time-traveling groups in this time and space, they seem to be quite well prepared. The number of people alone is close to the sum of the rest of the time-travelers. , is still far from enough. Now that they have the state as their backer, there is no shortage of industrial machinery, vaccines, antibiotics, and ammunition. When making decisions, it is better to have a national think tank to give them advice than they do behind closed doors. Be stronger.

In fact, if I have obtained this ability to travel through time and space, and it is bound to myself, it is impossible to be disassembled.Well, if I'm content with making small troubles and only plan to experience a few trips to other worlds and earn some pocket money, then that's fine.But if I really make up my mind and want to do something great in another world... I'm afraid I will also find a way to find a country to cooperate with.This kind of decision has nothing to do with party spirit and consciousness. The key is the resources controlled by individuals or companies. There is no way to compare them with the resources controlled by the state, and they are not on the same order of magnitude.

For example, according to our general thinking, for things such as time-space merchants and plane trade, those single-handed households who accidentally obtained the time-space gate, because of lack of capital and experience, basically can only start by dumping modern Small hardware, small department stores and other things began to start, and the supply of goods was organized in wholesale markets and even supermarkets.Moreover, cross-time and space trade is not so easy to do. The ancient world was full of dangers, and there were many bandits and bandits. Many seemingly simple mountain villages are actually bandit dens that eat people and don't spit out their bones.But ordinary Chinese can at most get a set of body armor and a few daggers for self-defense, and it is even more difficult to get a black gun—after all, we are not the United States where guns and ammunition are sold in supermarkets.

Then, even if the deal can be successfully concluded without losing his life at the beginning, what valuable things can ordinary traversers get from ancient times?Just dump gold and silver?In ancient China, there was always a lack of precious metals, and the price of silver in ancient times was much more expensive than in modern times, which is very uneconomical in terms of conversion.Get some porcelain, calligraphy and paintings and bring them back as antiques?Regardless of the fact that many famous paintings and antiques in the auction house can be sold at shockingly high prices. In fact, the market capacity of such cultural products is very small, and it is limited to some small circles. If there are only one or two pieces, then maybe it’s okay. Once there are too many, the value of this kind of antiques will jump down like diving—for example, the five baht coins of the Han Dynasty and the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty. The selling price of money is at most only enough to buy a bicycle.

Generally speaking, it is very unreliable to make a fortune by picking up leaks on Taobao and gambling on stones. Luxuries such as various antique calligraphy and paintings, jadeite jewelry, etc. are usually of little actual value. The reason for the high price is that They are all playing with a sense of psychological superiority. They are basically speculated like stocks, and they are not accurate. Compared with antiques, there is another more classic hype case is the Tibetan Mastiff. The value of this kind of dog is completely hyped. , once there is no hype value, the Tibetan mastiff bought for millions of dollars was sold at a low price of 5 yuan and slaughtered for hot pot...

For the same reason, just imagine, if thousands or even tens of thousands of pieces of Song Dynasty official kiln or Yuan blue and white porcelain suddenly appeared in the domestic antique market, what kind of impact would the market price have on the street?What's more terrible is, how many big bosses who have lost their interests and have good hands and eyes will investigate and deal with you, a scammer who maliciously hit the market?With the body of an ordinary person, how can he hold it?
What's more, unless you have Doraemon's [Time Furoshiki] to make it old, the so-called famous porcelain you got from the Song and Ming dynasties that just came out of the kiln and didn't even get out of the smoke, because there is no accumulation of time It will only be regarded as a modern high imitation product, and it will not be sold at all.

However, at that time, the owner of the Kongmen Gate had a high enough level of awareness. After choosing to cooperate with the country, it was a completely different matter.First of all, if you cooperate with the country, you can participate in some higher-level cooperation.What is the most profitable in modern international trade?It is not petty things like arms, drugs, and diamonds, nor is it small things such as antique jade whose market prices fluctuate greatly, but large-scale engineering aid construction between countries, large-scale industrial equipment transactions, and the project cost of a modern port. Can reach an aircraft carrier!From basic steel products to textile fabrics, from automobiles and trains to large ships, from industrial machine tools to oil refining equipment, China's production capacity can provide them.Even in the arms business, it will not just stop at small tubes with a caliber of less than 20 mm, but can sell tanks, fighter planes and even warships!If it is a different world, the country can even transfer a complete industrial system to that side, and fill in all the obsolete production capacity, even if it can be sold for the price of scrap iron-because these mechanical equipment have long been used in the 21st century. Obsolete, originally should be returned to the furnace, worthless waste.

Especially in our current situation, as long as the traversers here have enough consciousness and cooperate wholeheartedly with the tasks entrusted by the party and the state, the state can even provide them with a large number of high-tech human resources—and it is still the kind of permanent Sexual skilled immigrants..."

High-tech human resources?This awkward concept made Wang Qiu confused, "...Sorry, how can the country organize a large number of immigrants to another world under the condition of secrecy? If you use deception or other means, the consequences will be very serious. But voluntary If we recruit, not only will there be too much movement, but there will not be too many people who are willing to go. Do you want to learn from the experience of the British in reclaiming Australia and exile death row prisoners in this time and space?"

"...Death row prisoners are of course also a source, but considering their violent tendencies, they are not suitable candidates for immigration, and the number is too small-although the social security situation in our country is not as good as that in Japan, the number of prisoners executed every year It's only one or two thousand, what use can such a few people be worth?"

Professor Guo raised his eyebrows and said, "...In fact, we have a better method of recruiting immigrants - there are more than a few million patients who die of various terminal illnesses in China every year, and there are many people who don't know how many Thousands of people suffer from cancer and AIDS, and there is no cure. They can only lie on the hospital bed and wait for the will to be signed before dying to see Marx. If at this time the government handed over a non-disclosure agreement, saying that there may be a way to cure him illness, but needing to give up their identities, say goodbye to family forever, and start anew in an isolated place...do you think anyone would say yes?"

"...Although I can't say that everyone will agree, there must be some people who will grasp this life-saving straw. Even if they are cheated, so what? Anyway, we can only wait to die anyway, so how bad can it be? But the question is what to do next?"

Wang Qiu replied casually, "...What's the use of tricking a group of terminally ill patients like this? My God! Could it be..." His face suddenly changed.

"...That's right, it's just as you imagined!" At this point, Guo Jing showed a playful smile, "...Comrade Xiao Wang, the [automatic medical treatment] you bought from Doraemon. box], although it can’t work in our world, it’s functioning normally here. AIDS, cancer, and organ failure are all a piece of cake. How many terminally ill patients can be sent in, and how many healthy laborers can be cured… ...and this group of people is legally 'dead' in our world, and will not cause any social riots and media attention at all..."

Hearing such a seamless immigration plan, Wang Qiu couldn't help but gasp. As we all know, in any general hospital, many terminally ill patients who have no money and are basically hopeless can be found.Trying to persuade such a patient to voluntarily sell himself to the state is simply a simple matter: when it is time to see Marx, even a devil stretches out his long claws and takes out a card written in mysterious flames. The agreement on the parchment tempts patients to exchange their souls for a chance to live. Presumably many patients will also sign it...

If the country really uses this method to search hard, I am afraid that it will not be a problem to organize 100 million safe, reliable and safe immigrants every year!
Moreover, he also thought of another thing... "... [Automatic Medical Box] The use of this magical item is probably more than that. There must be many senior leaders or retired leaders suffering from terminal illness in Beijing. Use it to heal yourself, right?" Wang Qiu asked suddenly.

"...You guessed right, *********** really has such a plan." Professor Guo nodded and admitted, "...Currently, the central government has specially approved a secret fund of 20 billion yen , your mother purchased a large number of black-tech medical equipment in the 22nd century, mainly [Automatic Medical Box], through the channel of Doraemon. Originally, I planned to choose a location to set up a medical base as soon as I crossed over. But The problem is that the winter in Vladivostok is too cold, the heating conditions are relatively simple, and the climate and living environment are not good for the health of the elderly. Therefore, the relevant departments decided to build the medical base on Hainan Island, and the next step is to investigate and select Address... anyway, it's only a few days, and the leading comrades can afford to wait."

As for whether the Traveling Group in Hainan Island will obediently obey the government's orders, free up land and provide services for the former and current central leaders... This issue is not considered at all. Even the Vladivostok Far East Company, which has the military strength of the Cold War, this The hardest thorns have been subdued. How can the Hainan Island Travel Group, which is still playing steampunk, have the courage to die?

——Wang Qiu couldn't help imagining that amidst the picturesque coconut groves, blue sea and sandy beaches in Hainan Island, a heavily guarded fortified building suddenly stood up, with the sign of "Central Veteran Cadre Medical Base in the Late Ming Dynasty" on it , a row of heavily armed Zhongnanhai guards stood at the door.

Then, you used to see the former national leaders on news broadcasts, newspapers, and even textbooks, and even top officials such as the former prime minister and the former president of the country. At the same time, inscriptions were written to commend and commemorate the achievements of the time-travelers in the time and space of the late Ming Dynasty; while "kindly" receiving representatives of the trekkers who were frightened and sweating coldly, as well as the ancients of the Ming Dynasty 400 years ago, some important instructions were given. Encourage them to continue to work hard and strive for the early realization of the industrialization of Hainan Island and the great cause of conquering the world...

Well, this picture is too beautiful to look at...

At the same time, Professor Guo's nagging continued, and the topic changed:
"...In short, don't underestimate the country's magnanimity. The country didn't come to Vladivostok to pick fruits from the very beginning, and it wasn't even to directly seek economic benefits from Vladivostok in this time and space. Instead, it really wanted to provide some help to these traversers. And guidance - in fact, such a small 'fruit', from the perspective of the government, it is not worth seeing at all. What really matters is to eliminate the unstable factors and bring everything under control: our core task is to figure out this The ins and outs of the cross-travel incident, and what other incredible things the Far East Company has done in the modern world, in case something really goes wrong, it is good to have time to make up for it, lest when things come to an end, all of a sudden Caught off guard..."

"...So, at least in Vladivostok, the investigation of the incident itself is the focus of the work, and the colonization of other worlds is just a side task?"

Wang Qiu rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "...But this is too conservative! With the resources and markets of Northeast Asia in front of us, wouldn't the country feel tempted? Just rely on the far east company to hand over this Profits and taxes, I'm afraid they won't be able to get back the cost of mobilizing teachers and mobilizing people!"

"...The heartbeat is of course the heartbeat. The problem is that the origin and market of this new resource are really unreliable! May I ask how long the connection between the two worlds can last? How much appetite can be satisfied by the small amount of transportation in the pocket of the robot cat? ?Can we still build a railroad in his pocket?"

Professor Guo smiled wryly and pointed to the time-space gate propped out of Doraemon pockets. One after another, large trucks were coming in and out, sending some machinery and medical equipment that could not be produced by time-space to the Far East Company. Take away the fur, ginseng, high-grade wood, etc. they hoarded here, as the first profit and tax paid after the nationalization reform, "... make large-scale investments here, build various mines, and then exchange modern industrial products for Natural resources in time and space at the end of Ming Dynasty? This idea is certainly good, but the question is how to transport things back?

There are only two ways to enter this world. One is your "Book of Time Traveling". At most 20 people can enter in a group at a time, and you can't bring much goods.There is another way, as it is now, through Doraemon's pocket-even if an oil field is developed in Sakhalin Island here, it is impossible for us to insert an oil pipeline into Doraemon's pocket and let him Standing here for years and years, let's make a guest appearance as a fixed transfer station! "

——In terms of national standards, large-scale cross-plane trade is as unrealistic as space colonization when the traffic bottleneck cannot be resolved.

Therefore, the state's investment in time travelers in the late Ming Dynasty can really be said to be funding, or even charity, to a large extent.

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"... Well, what you said is very reasonable... If the transportation bottleneck cannot be solved, we can only take a small amount of high-value small things from this time and space (according to national standards, hundreds of trucks are also a small amount ). And this resource is of no significance to the country at all..."

Wang Qiu nodded and sighed, "...So the state-owned holding of the Far East Company is just a formality, and it is good enough to earn back the operation funds. The main goal is to explore and investigate, and to perform government functions, so that those accidents will be lost to other countries. The people of the world rescued them back, right?"

"...That's about it. Maybe there will be some help for those who are willing to stay here, and maybe some historians and archaeologists will come to investigate... Does it make people feel a little regretful?" Professor Guo laughed. , "...But no matter what, it finally solved a big problem...Eh? What is Ma Tong doing over there? Where did those messy things come from?" He suddenly exclaimed.

Looking back, Wang Qiu found that Ma Tong was standing in front of the relief pattern decorated with the twelve signs of the zodiac, which was easily reminiscent of the "Monument to the People's Heroes of the Far East" in the comics of "Saint Seiya". The workers erected sculptures and embossed panels, and at the same time taught an engineer of a Far East company, "...Your monument is well done, but the square below is too spacious! Even if it is "Saint Seiya" "The theme square, should also erect statues of Athena and Zilong! What is a lone Saint Seiya?"

"...Isn't there not enough time! The ordered Saint Seiya statue has only arrived, and Boss Li's time and space gate has run out of energy and is finished."

The engineer wearing thick glasses explained, "...If you want to carve by yourself, you really don't have the energy..."

"...So, this time, I specially collected a lot of good things from Shanghai for you, which can be used as city street decorations and surprise the indigenous people in this world." Ma Tong proudly stood up her unwavering face The flat **** said, commanding many strong men in military coats at the same time, unloading a delicate, luxurious and lifelike white stone sculpture, "... Sigh, the manga "Saint Seiya" is really too old, that kind of The animated version of Athena, or the statue of Ms. Saori Kido, is really impossible to get, so I had to get you an authentic marble statue of Athena in the ancient Greek style, wearing an ancient Greek helmet and holding a spear , the one with an owl on the shoulder, do you think it’s okay?”

"...It's very suitable, it's very suitable." The animation geek engineer's eyes lit up with excitement, and he nodded repeatedly, "...Is there anything else?"

"...Of course there are many more! I brought all the statues I could find, and you guys can figure out a way to pour cement into a base to fit them on!"

——To the engineer's great relief, there are many decorative statues brought by Ma Tong, including Poseidon, the sea god holding a trident, Medusa, a banshee with snake hair, and Zeus throwing lightning, etc. Stone statues of ancient Greek gods, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Doraemon and Nobi Nobita, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Detective Conan and Inuyasha, Suzumiya Haruhi and Nagato Yuki, Hakurei Reimu and Yakumo Zi, etc. , and even a yellow-orange Pikachu and a white and fat "Uncle KFC"... and those relief boards are impressively engraved with fairy tales such as "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "The Three Little Pigs". Story... Where did you get all this mess?
Noticing Professor Guo's probing eyes, Wang Qiu, who was originally full of embarrassment, coughed dryly and explained to him in embarrassment.

"...Uh, I remember that there seems to be a township in Pudong that is undergoing demolition. There is a European-style garden residential complex that has not been completed yet, and a theme park that is dilapidated... Ma Tong's stuff Son, probably picked up the trash from there..."