In this era, it is very painful for people to travel.
It takes five days and five nights to get from Springfield to San Francisco by train, and nearly 20 days to get from San Francisco to Ryukyu by steam.
This is still based on the continuous development of science and technology, the emergence of more powerful internal combustion engines, and the replacement of paddle wheels by propellers.
Li Mu remembers that when they first went from Shanghai to San Francisco, they drifted for 25 days at sea alone.
With Li Mu's care, the means of transportation will definitely be no problem, and they will take a special train from Springfield to San Francisco, and then take a cruise ship from Pacific Shipping Company to Ryukyu.
Pacific Shipping Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Landmark Group, is mainly responsible for shipping business between the United States and the Qing Empire, and currently has 11 cruise ships of more than 3,000 tons and 6 cargo ships of more than 5,000 tons.
The main task of the Pacific Shipping Company was to emigrate from the Qing Empire to the United States, and when it returned, it would load various agricultural products and industrial supplies produced in the United States, and so far, the Pacific Shipping Company is still in a loss-making state, with an annual paper loss of about 1.8 million US dollars.
At present, on average, every month, Pacific Shipping Company can bring nearly 10,000 Chinese to the United States, which also makes the total population of Chinese in the United States exceed 400,000, greatly exceeding the total population in another time and space.
The key is that most of the 400,000 people are teenagers, and the oldest of the new immigrants is not more than 30 years old, and the first two years of immigration were mainly young women, and the proportion of the population has tended to be balanced this year, and the number of men and women in the new immigrants is basically the same, in addition to a large number of teenagers and children, almost every month, hundreds of teenagers and children have crossed the ocean to the United States.
The children, who are now nominally orphans, were sold by their parents to Pacific Shipping Company, and for each child sold, the parents were able to receive about twice the child's weight in grain.
This sounds a bit cold-blooded, but in many places, this is the only way they can survive, and it is better to exchange children for food than to eat for children.
The rapid growth of the population has led to the expansion of the school, which started with less than 500 students and has now swelled to more than 8,000 and is increasing every month.
In order to ensure the supply of materials for the Junma Affiliated School, Li Mu has set up a service company to provide all the things that can be used as long as they need such as clothing, food, daily necessities, school supplies, etc. for the Junma Affiliated School and its students.
In addition to providing supplies, the service company also had to find enough teachers for the Junma affiliated school and was also responsible for the expansion of the school.
Two kilometres west of the current town of Junma, a new 500-acre school is under construction and will be ready for use by September next year.
The new school is designed to have a capacity of 20,000 people, including the primary school and the middle school, all the buildings are permanent buildings of reinforced concrete structure, and the school has a library, laboratory, printing house, clinic, security office and other affiliated institutions, and after completion, the school will become the most advanced educational institution in the United States.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the current Junma Affiliated School is already the most advanced primary and secondary school teaching institutions in the United States, perhaps in big cities such as Boston and New York, some aristocratic schools may have more hardware facilities than the Junma Affiliated School, but when it comes to software, then no school can be comparable to the Junma Affiliated School.
At least in terms of the concept of running a school, it is 108,000 miles behind.
It's rare to come to Springfield, and Li Mu will definitely go to the Junma Affiliated School to have a look.
"It's winter, the temperature drops very much, the construction is very difficult, and many times the cement has been frozen before it is mixed, so we don't build a house now, but instead concentrate on making all kinds of living utensils, so that we can save some money, and we can also get a large number of skilled carpenters."
Zhang Leye accompanied Li Mu to inspect together, and he was proud when he mentioned this matter.
Tens of thousands of people want to live in a new school, at least tens of thousands of beds, tens of thousands of sets of tables and chairs, and if all these things are purchased, it is not a small number, and the most hundreds of thousands are always needed.
Not far west from Horse Town is Greylock Mountain, where there is as much timber as you want, and there are no environmental groups these days, so you just need to say hello to the state government and cut as much as you want.
As for carpenters, this has never been a problem for the Chinese, almost all of them are little experts in life, except for not being able to have children, basically doing anything, as long as someone is willing to teach, learning things very quickly.
What's more, the requirements of American furniture are not high, and the people of this year are not so delicate, the style of American furniture is similar to the Soviet Union in another time and space, it doesn't matter if the style is good-looking or not, as long as it is sturdy and durable.
This is certain, Li Mu spared no expense in order to build the Junma Affiliated School, the house furniture and everything are sufficient, and there is no plywood in this year, all the furniture is solid wood, and there is no problem at all in the last ten or eight years.
As Zhang Leye said, as soon as he walked into the gate of the Junma Affiliated School, he smelled a strong smell of paint.
The furniture is basically solid wood, and the paint will not be saved, of course, it is certainly not as time-consuming and labor-intensive as making lacquerware, but there must be three or five paints, and you must know that in the future, the children of these workers will also go to school in the school affiliated to the horse, so now cut corners, and the future will be their own children.
"All kinds of furniture should be made more, beds, desks, chairs, for the time being, according to 20,000 sets, as well as cabinets to be used in the dormitory, as well as furniture used in the dormitory of faculty and staff, all aspects must be considered, if you have no money, you will find Chu Xue to ask, I don't care how much you spend, but if something goes wrong in the end, I will definitely ask you."
Li Mu doesn't ask about the process, only about the result.
At this stage, the money is worth it, and in a few years, Junma Group will begin to reap the results.
At present, the Horse Affiliated School, a variety of vocational schools have been put into operation, next year there will be some students to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Springfield Institute of Technology for higher education, in a few years, this part of the students will enter the Horse Group, become the new force of the Horse Group, they represent the future of the Horse Group, but also represent the future of the Chinese in the United States.
"Okay, I originally asked them to do more part, and it's easy to add more, after all, the styles are fixed, and we have a lot of people, so it's not troublesome to do," Zhang Leye said as he took the mask from the staff.
Painting this thing still has a certain amount of harm to the body, so all painters must wear masks when working, and now Zhang Leye and Li Mu want to enter the construction site, and they must also do basic protection.
The painting operation room is in the classroom, and the classroom specifications of the Junma Affiliated School are all 15x10, with an area of about 150 square meters, and after it is put into use, there will be about 90 students in a class.
The doors and windows of the classroom have been installed, although there is glass on the windows, but for ventilation, all of them are open, radiators have been installed in the classroom, and the temperature in the room is not low.
"Where are the heating pipes?"
Li Mu didn't see the heating pipes just now.
"It's all in underground drains."
Zhang Leye answered fluently, obviously familiar with all kinds of situations.
Since the construction of Guantanamo, Li Mu has tried to introduce the concept of a modern city, and this "modern" refers to the 21st century, not the current 19th century.
So far, Junma Construction Company has been familiar with the construction of the city, from the underground pipe network to the ground building, just pull out a small squad leader can give you a good idea.
Building a complete underground facility will certainly add a lot of costs and increase the construction period, but it will all be worth it compared to the benefits of a complete underground facility.
You must know that in the future, the students in the school affiliated to Junma will all be children, their self-care ability is already very low, and they have almost no ability to resist in the face of various natural disasters, so there is nothing troublesome now, as long as they can provide more protection for the children, Li Mu is not too troublesome.
"When we make furniture, we also introduce the concept of assembly line, only make bed legs, make desktop only make desktop, and then send it here for painting after completing the installation, fortunately we have enough wood in the summer, otherwise the wood supply really can't keep up."
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Zhang Leye's preparations were very thorough, no wonder he was not afraid of Li Mu's threat just now.
After the tree is cut down, it is not immediately usable, and it has to go through a period of drying to prevent the furniture from deforming in the later stage.
There are many ways to dry it, natural drying is of course the most trouble-free, but it takes a long time, in addition to this, you can also use room drying, that is, manual dehumidification for drying treatment, but this way will increase the cost.
Since Li Mu is not bad for money, it doesn't matter about the cost, as long as the timber supply can keep up, fortunately, this is the lower reaches of the Connecticut River, cut down the tree from Greylock Mountain and throw it directly into the river, and it can float to Horse Town smoothly, which saves transportation costs.
"The painters have always been in the same batch, pay attention to the rotation, don't let them stay in such an environment for a long time, the smell here still has an effect on the body."
Li Mu pays more attention to the health of employees.
In this small classroom, there are more than a dozen painters who are busy, because the work intensity is not high, all of them are women, although they can't see their faces clearly while wearing masks, but they should not be very old, if they stay in this working environment for a long time, they will bring damage to their bodies, which Li Mu never wants to see.
In these years, the level of medical care is not developed enough, and colds and fevers can kill people, so the best way to prevent it is not to get sick.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, most of the new immigrants now are bought by Li Mu with money, and they can be regarded as Li Mu's private property, if their health problems are caused by human factors, then Li Mu will never forgive himself.
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."
Zhang Leye probably didn't think about this problem, but he didn't resist Li Mu's orders.
To put it mildly, from the dire Qing Empire to the United States, at least these people can be well fed and clothed, compared with the previous life of lack of clothes and clothing, the life of Horse Town is simply heaven, so if Li Mu does not mention this issue, then probably no one will ever care.
Even if it causes their health to suffer.
These women workers have not been in the United States for a long time, and it can be seen that they are still relatively thin.
"We must pay attention to increasing the nutrition of the workers."
Li Mu emphasized again.
Strictly speaking, these workers have passed the stage of education, so the future plasticity is not large, if there is no accident, they can only take the road of industrial workers in the future, so that the requirements for physical fitness are very high, want to have higher work efficiency, at least have a strong body.
"In this regard, you can rest assured, we now have our own farm, our own pasture, as well as orchards, chicken farms, pig farms, we will definitely not lose money, almost every day there is a meal of meat dishes, just take care of it for a while."
Zhang Leye is also full of red face now, which fully shows that the standard of living is not bad.
This is thanks to the ecological farming system proposed by Li Mu, which is still limited to pigs, fish and chickens.
The so-called ecological breeding system, simply put, is chicken manure to feed pigs, pig manure fermentation and fish farming, and then with other information, is the primary ecological breeding system.
There is no more advanced ecological breeding system, but unfortunately Li Mu will not be able to, so this can only be done at this stage at this stage.
It's enough, for the current agriculture, ecology or something is simply a fantasy, no one has ever proposed it before Li Mu, and Li Mu can be regarded as contributing to the progress of agriculture around the world.
There is nothing in the United States, there is a lot of land, Massachusetts is strictly speaking a densely populated area, but there are also large areas of uncultivated wasteland in the territory, if there is more wasteland in the Midwest, so it is really not too simple to engage in agriculture, the land here has never been cultivated, as long as the seeds are reclaimed and planted, even fertilizer is not used, there will naturally be a good harvest in the fall, for the Chinese who are born with planting skills, this is simply a paradise.
Li Mu is also a large landowner in Massachusetts, with more than 1.5 million acres of land in his hands, so the school attached to the horse basically does not need to purchase food from outside, although the 1.5 million acres are not all used, it is not a problem to provide food and drink for thousands of children
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