The planning of Dongmen City starts from the ditch outside the east gate of Bairen City, extends 300 meters to the west, and builds a main street - named Dongmen Street. ． A cross street is built every 100 meters on both sides of the street, forming a layout of one vertical and two horizontal. Lots of different sizes are designated on both sides of the street, which can be sold to shops to build their own houses. Travelers will also build some paved houses on both sides of Dongmen Street for merchants to rent and operate.
"Your plan is so big. Let's not talk about how much construction resources it will take up. Are there so many merchants in Lingao renting your shop? Isn't it possible that the hawkers selling vegetables will also come to rent?"
"The economic scale of Lingao is very small and it is basically a natural economy. Is this market a bit exaggerated?" Cheng Dong expressed concern.
Dongmen Chuiyu is confident: "This is a long-term plan. We plan to start the first phase of the project first."
The first phase of the project includes the construction of a 100-meter street and supporting sewers, and the construction of a mule and horse inn, which is a common type of hotel on official roads and large markets in the old days. The inn has a large yard for tying mules and horses and parking vehicles; there is a warehouse where merchants can temporarily store goods; there is a kitchen with convenient water and fire, but no food is prepared, so merchants have to make their own fires to cook. Accommodation is mainly bunkhouses, with some single rooms. It is a place where small and medium-sized merchants often settle down.
A restaurant - he added that the time traveler has more and more interactions with the locals and needs a place outside the city where they can meet, talk and eat, and where they can also serve wealthy merchants.
Opposite the management office building, a commercial building was built. The business hall borrowed some models from the British East India Company's business hall: a building surrounded by high walls, containing a business; a warehouse and an empty yard for storing and stacking goods; and guest rooms and restaurants for important merchants. and meeting rooms.
The original plan was to connect tap water to Dongmen City, but long-distance water supply was still difficult. Instead, several wells were dug, one of which was a public well, providing free drinking water to people and livestock. Finally, public toilets will be built - the problem of open defecation in Dongmen City these days has caused everyone a headache.
Even the issue of greening has been taken into consideration - you should know that there are no greening projects in Bairen City so far. Street trees will be planted on both sides of Dongmen Street, and the agricultural department will be asked to choose the tree species. Wu Nanhai immediately said he would study it.
As for safety, Dugu Suo believes that there is no need to worry. The main building of the market is a masonry structure, with doors and windows covered with iron sheets. A tower is planned to be built at each corner of the business wall. Even if someone comes to attack, they won't be able to rush in for a while, and the gun towers and sentry towers on the earthen fortress of Bairen City are even close at hand. As for security issues such as small-scale riots and robberies, he applied for the distribution of ten pairs of stab-proof vests, stab-proof gloves and batons, and used the existing staff to form a "Dongmen City Comprehensive Management Law Enforcement Team" - "Guaranteed not to allow No one is arrogant here," Dugu promised solemnly when he proposed.
"I can give you all of these." Wen Desi said, "But what methods are you going to use to attract investment?"
"I want to talk about the general idea. It's relatively big and complicated. How about it?"
After getting everyone's permission, Dongmen Chuiyu picked up the folder on the table. This business plan was mainly discussed between him, Yan Maoda and Zhang Xin. Yan Maoda is the manager of a jewelry company and is currently traveling to Guangzhou with Xiao Zishan. Zhang Xin is the sales section chief of a small shipyard. When it comes to doing business, As for ability, Dongmen Chuiyu can only accept defeat. However, neither of them had ambitions to engage in local business, so they were too lazy to argue with Dongmen, and the cooperation was more pleasant.
The current prosperity of Dongmen City is based on the large-scale procurement of construction traversers. The huge consumption of more than 500 high-consumption modern people has attracted many people to come here for business and trade. However, the market development supported only by such large-scale group purchasing is limited. How can we get people from the whole county and even neighboring counties to come to this place for business and consumption? The first plan they proposed was to build roads.
Bairencheng's location is ideal. It is the middle section of Bobu Bay, the gateway port of the county leading to the county. It is located in the center of both sides of the Wenlan River, which has the most developed economy and population in the county, and its geographical location extends in all directions. At present, the Bairencheng-Bopu highway has been built, and the road extending to Lingao County is also under construction. It won't be long before the county and Bobu Port will be fully connected. Not only can merchants from the mainland reach the county seat conveniently and quickly, but residents living on both sides of the Wenlan River can also reach the county seat quickly and easily through this highway.
However, the highway is located in the east of Hedong, and it is difficult for people in Hexi to enjoy the convenient transportation. Dongmen Chuiyu proposed to build a bridge upstream of the Bairen Hydropower Station to connect the north-south traffic. In this way, nearby people crossing the river do not need to detour in front of the south gate of the county seat. Wenshui Bridge
As long as there is a constant flow of people passing through Bairen City, Dongmen City, the only market on the highway, will form a distribution center for people and materials, and commerce will naturally prosper.
Wen Desi agreed with the proposal to build a bridge. Now that the industrial zone in Hexi has started construction, it is extremely inconvenient for people and materials to travel back and forth across the country. Building a bridge is indeed a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
Dongmen Chuiyu said that people basically dare not walk on the current highway because there are blockhouses and cars running around. Everyone is more afraid.
"This is no problem, it's easy to solve." Wen Desi frowned, "But the people in this time and space have no concept of traffic rules. Will our cars hit people when running on the road?"
"No, we only have a few vehicles. Unless there is a big event, we won't go out at all. The fastest ones on the road now are bicycles, and the biggest ones are four-wheel carriages. There is no big safety problem."
The second option is to attract foreign investors. The business department got a clear message from the intelligence and information team: Lingao is not a good market. Its economic structure is not only a natural economy, but also a particularly backward natural economy. Needless to say, the economic aggregate and purchasing power are not as high as those of the Jiangnan and Guangdong regions of the Ming Dynasty, nor even those of the general northern densely populated areas. If you want to rely on the traditional time-travel method to make money by selling a large amount of modern products with "Kidkat": such as mirrors, glasses, lighters, etc., it will not work here. You can only sell the things to the mainland. The best situation is for merchants to purchase instead of transporting and selling it yourself.
In addition to future industrial products, Lingao itself also exports many local products. After consulting historical data, we learned that the bulk local export materials in the Ming Dynasty were cattle, salt, red and white vines, and betel nuts. Most of the red and white vines and betel nut are imported from the Lidong area, processed and then exported to the mainland. They are the most profitable commodities.
However, for a long time, except for the salt that was shipped and exported from Bopu, Majiao and other places in the county, most of the exported commodities were shipped to Fucheng and exported from Shenying Port. If the exported goods can be exported in Bopu, Dongmen City, which has excellent transportation conditions, will become a distribution center for mainland merchants to purchase local products.
"Now we cannot control the betel nut trade, but we have controlled the production of salt. I suggest that the production and sales of salt be completely controlled, so that the salt shop in Dongmen City becomes the main batching store of Lingao salt. Completely control the batching of salt. If merchants want to buy salt, they must come to Bairen City." Dongmen Chuiyu said, his eyes shining - Monopoly, monopoly, how much money comes from you!
Other suggestions include exempting Bopu Port from "pumping" and berthing taxes to attract merchant ships for coastal trade to enter the port. Providing a good business environment, such as tax exemptions and warehousing and freight services, Dongmen Chuiyu even proposed using the Guangzhou base to carry out Hainan-Guangzhou commercial wireless telegraph services and report daily market conditions in Guangzhou and Macao.
With these benefits, merchants from the mainland will naturally move the acquisition and processing center of local products to Lingao. This will be followed by the inflow of many permanent residents and foreigners, and the stimulating effect on the economy is obvious. In the future, after the Travelers produce modern industrial products themselves, they can use their channels to sell goods and purchase materials to the continent, so as not to have to do everything by themselves.
The business plan was approved. The construction engineering team complained endlessly. They had a heavy task: the road leading to the county seat had just been completed; nearly 200 families who moved from Damei Village needed resettlement housing; there were still many projects in progress in Bairen City itself. Now there is another project opening in Dongmen City. Brick kilns and cement kilns are in operation day and night. There is a shortage of labor everywhere. Ma Qianzhu, who was in charge of the overall coordination of the center, was very worried.
At this moment, he called Wu Nanhai and said with a gloomy face: "Nanhai, your tasks have become heavier again. From now on, you will have to prepare meals for 800 more people every day - for the villagers who have moved from Damei Village. It is urgently needed for the project. This workforce.”
This notice scared Wu Nanhai to take a breath: he had only provided meals for 700 people per day at most. Now adding 800 people out of thin air would be a huge leap like a satellite. Not to mention, the kitchen equipment alone is not enough.
"The Planning Commission just brought back a batch of trophies from Damei Village. They are all kitchen and daily necessities of the Gou family. You go and choose." Ma Qianzhu sat behind a rosewood table and wrote something A piece of paper, stamped with a private seal and handed to him - there is no official seal yet, and various documents are subject to the signatures and private seals of the executive committee and professional group leader.
"If we don't farm, we won't even have time to cook!" Wu Nanhai exploded because he was always busy being a fire fighter recently and had no time to engage in his beloved agriculture.
"You can choose who you want. Some of the women who have migrated from Damei Village will help. The main thing is to be reliable, and we don't want anyone who has anything to do with the Gou family. By the way, our food cannot be handled by locals. It's best. The cooking area is separated, do you understand?"
"How do I know who is related to the Yougou family?"
"The security team is conducting political review on them one by one. Once the materials come out, you can select a group."
