The transportation discussion of the Jiangnan inspection team soon turned into the planning of road construction. [Read the latest chapter] But building roads is not realistic. Even if Jiangnan is immediately under their command, and all officials are under their command, according to the current strength of the Senate, it is still beyond its capabilities.
"Building roads in places like Jiangnan is a nightmare for us." Lu Zhongxing said, "The workload of earthwork is too much, and there are countless rivers and ponds that need to be bridged along the way."
"The labor force is okay, but the amount of construction materials is simply astronomical." Merlin sighed, "The gap between our productivity levels is also huge."
Although Lingao's industrial capabilities have begun to show its huge power, it is a myth in this time and space. But placed in an environment as large as China, Lingao's production capacity is simply insignificant. The Lingao industrial system that the elders talk about as "playing the prelude to industrialization" cannot compare with China in 1949 in terms of production scale, let alone the heyday of the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty.
Xu Xu said: “You don’t have to focus on inland rivers and land, you can also take the sea route from Shanghai to Hangzhou.
Don’t forget that Hangzhou is right on the Qiantang River. Sea-going ships go out to sea from Wusong and then enter the Qiantang River from Hangzhou Bay. As long as the hydrological conditions are clearly surveyed, it will not be a problem for hundreds of tons of ships to move in the Qiantang River.
After all, shipping is our strength. "
Zhou Dongtian said: "Sea transport is too eye-catching. If a sea ship goes directly to the provincial capital, I'm afraid it will cause a turmoil and even shake the whole province. It's not much more than a sea ship going to Zhapu. It's a seaport anyway."
Everyone had a lively discussion about traffic issues along the way, and time passed quickly when there were topics to talk about. A few days later, the delegation arrived in Hangzhou and disembarked at the Gongchen Bridge. This is the end point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, a very famous place. However, Gongchen Bridge was still under construction at this time.
Bie Wangcai had already received the cipher shipping order from the Shanghai sub-container, and calculated that the approximate shipping date should arrive on April 20, so starting from April 10, he sent people to check the shipping orders near Gongchenqiao Pier every day. The Lantern ship with the brand name Wei arrived at the dock and immediately reported into Zhao's house. Bie Wangcai immediately ordered Cai Shi to take the servant sedan to the riverside to greet him, and sent everyone and their luggage into Zhao Yingong's mansion.
The population of Zhao Zhai has expanded a lot these days. For the sake of caution, Bie Wang, the general manager of the Hangzhou Intelligence Station, tightened the security and separated the inner and outer houses. All new slaves who came in for service were not allowed to enter the inner house. Only those brought from Lingao and certified by the General Security Bureau were allowed to enter the inner house.
The increase in population made Zhao's house become cramped. Even if the area of abandoned gardens that have not yet been built with houses is included, it is not enough. By this time, Cai Shi had already bought a large enough piece of land in Phoenix Mountain. Zhao Yingong was eager to start building his own manor there. He had already adjusted his strategy based on the telegrams received from the Foreign Intelligence Service.
According to the notice from the Foreign Intelligence Service, Zhao Yiggong decided to temporarily dress himself up as a gentry who was keen on agriculture. Commercial landlords were already very common in the late Ming Dynasty. Many landlords no longer leased land to tenants to collect rent. Instead, they hired long-term and short-term laborers, took charge of specific agricultural tasks such as sowing, farming, and water conservancy, and directly managed the land and agricultural products.
In Xinde Plan 1, he decided to build a farm villa in Fenghuang Mountain and move Wang Siniang's family there to be responsible for sericulture. First, a large number of mulberry trees were planted in the manor, and small-scale sericulture and silk reeling were carried out. This will lay a solid foundation for personnel training for the future large-scale industrialization of silk reeling. To this end, he had already sent a telegram to Wu Nanhai, requesting that sericulture professionals from Tiandihui be sent to Nanjing to carry silkworm seeds to serve.
Phoenix Mountain Villa will be responsible for a series of tasks such as personnel purification and transfer in the future, and is the headquarters and core of Hangzhou Station. Zhao Yingong planned to transport most of the core personnel, materials, and equipment to Phoenix Mountain Villa after the construction was completed. The Zhaozhai in Qinghefang will serve as the "face" of Hangzhou Station.
The facade is the cultural bookstore opened in Plan 1. It is planned to use the abandoned garden land of Zhaozhai to build a comprehensive building integrating teahouse, bookstore, garden and printing office. In addition to selling tea and books, Zhao Yingong also plans to sell and promote some "cultural products" with Australian characteristics in this cultural bookstore.
The preliminary idea is to include Western and Chinese-style ship models, and various table games, including chess and cards. Zhao Yingong also wants to introduce billiards: he still remembers the "snooker craze" in the 1970s. The technology for manufacturing billiards equipment can be satisfied in this time and space." During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Pearl River Delta was famous for the production of ivory handicrafts, and many of the billiards used in Europe were manufactured in Guangzhou and other places. But he was not sure what the scholars would think about this. Considering that billiard equipment manufacturing does not happen overnight, we decided not to introduce it for the time being. We first reported the project to the Planning Institute and the Ministry of Light Industry for filing.
Since the 1st Institute of Planning has equipped him with printing equipment, it would be a waste not to publish newspapers or magazines. At present, except for the "Lingao Times" in Lingao, there is no real newspaper in the Ming Dynasty. He could expand in this area and create some newspapers and magazines. Anyway, there was no "Publishing Law" in the Ming Dynasty, and publication did not require serial numbers and ISBNs, and there was no copyright. The role of newspapers as a mouthpiece is very obvious. Zhao Yingong prepared for the traditional social space in the news media to seize the commanding heights of publicity. As for the magazine, he planned to use lithographic printing equipment to create a Ming Dynasty version of "Dianshizhai Pictorial".
Of course, these things must have a material basis. Zhao Yingong has been eagerly waiting for the inspection team to bring him materials and professional and technical personnel for a long time. Now that these people finally arrived, he was overjoyed and held a banquet in the mansion to "refresh the dust" for them.
At the reception banquet, everyone divided the work on the recent work in Jiangnan. Zhou Dongtian will be accompanied by Bie Wangcai and others to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the engraving book publishing industry in Hangzhou, Suzhou and Nanjing. Mei Lin and Zhao Yingong will be responsible for the construction of Fenghuang Villa and Bookstore. Xu Xu and Lu Zhongxing will be accompanied by Qiwei personnel. A comprehensive inspection was conducted on the road traffic conditions in the Jiangnan and Zhejiang regions. The topography of Jiangnan has changed greatly in the past hundred years of the old time and space, especially the rivers and ponds, which are much more numerous in this time and space than in the old time and space. In the future, if we need to march and fight in the Jiangnan area, we must make preparations in advance.
The next day, Zhao Yingong and the inspection team came to Phoenix Mountain. This is the "home" of the future Hangzhou Station and is likely to be one of the centers of the entire Jiangnan activities. Everyone wants to express some opinions on this.
Fenghuang Mountain is outside Fengshan Gate. This city gate was a quite remote place in the Ming Dynasty, because it is directly connected to Fenghuang Mountain and Qiantang River. There is no fertile land outside and it is not a transportation hub. Ordinary people rarely come here.
The terrain of Phoenix Mountain is gentle, and most of it has gentle slopes. People with a little knowledge of vegetation can tell that this is a typical secondary forest landform on the hillside. The original vegetation has long been destroyed. From time to time, low broken walls can be seen among the spicy trees. In some places, there are still stone piers and stone beam pillars used to support the pillars of the temple. If you look carefully, you can see traces of many Buddhist temples.
"Here are the ruins of the Five Temples and One Pagoda." Zhao Yingong was tired from walking, so he sat down on a huge stone pier and fanned himself in the wind. "It is said that the Five Temples originally used a lot of building components from the palaces of the Southern Song Dynasty. It's simply a palace from the Southern Song Dynasty. It's a pity that I don't know archeology, otherwise I could have done some digging and inspection here."
The five temples and one pagoda had already declined in the late Yuan Dynasty. When Zhang Shicheng built the city of Hangzhou, he demolished the remaining buildings and used their construction materials. Over the 270 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, people have been dismantling various building materials from here, except for the broken bricks and tiles on the ground and some large components that are difficult to move scattered among Jingla.
"How big is the land you bought?" Merlin climbed up a stone pier and looked at it, appraising the scale and area of the entire villa.
"Don't tell me anymore, the bigger the land, the better. Most of the Phoenix Mountain area is ownerless government land, not worth much money. There are graveyards of sī people in some places. It's troublesome to dispose of it. Buy it if you can. , we can’t buy it to avoid it temporarily.” Zhao Yingong pointed, “Starting from the riverside at the foot of the mountain, all the way to here, this land slope must be flattened. I want to build a dock.”
"There is a problem in building the villa here. The water supply is not easy to solve." Merlin observed the place he pointed out. "It is very convenient to get water from the river to solve the problem of lifting and drainage."
"There is a spring on the mountain."
"We need to build a water collection project." Mei Lin looked at the topography. "In fact, it's not difficult to lift water. Just build a Lanzhou water tanker. It will be a sight in the future."
Zhao Yingong nodded: "This is a good idea, because I am also planning to farm in Fenghuang Villa." He pointed to the country: "Plant fruit trees and tea on the hillside, plant mulberry trees on the land near the water, dig fish ponds, and engage in sericulture and fish farming. Let's do it again. A tea workshop and a fruit processing factory.
"You are preparing to play the food digging game in Hangzhou." Merlin said with a smile.
"You have to be self-sufficient. We are thousands of miles away from Lingao. We can't rely on the Planning Institute to deliver everything." Zhao Yiggong pondered for a moment. "Help me design it well. Don't make it look like a fortress. Just follow this guide." The level of the time and space rich man is good. This is a provincial capital after all, so we can’t make it attract anyone’s attention.”
Merlin said: "You must first clear out the clear boundaries of Zhuang Bei. Before you can leave,
Hurry up and ask him to survey and draw a topographic map. I am not good at this. Building a house is easy, but when it comes to layout and planning, you must have a detailed map. As for the manor building, I will first make a sketch according to your requirements. After you approve it, I will start the construction. "
"Okay." Zhao Yingong nodded, "I have another unkind request."
"Tell me, you are the customer here, and you should consider everything for the customer."
"Build me an ancestral hall in the villa." Zhao Yingong said, "It should be as grand as possible." a.
