Guangzhou Port, or New Guangzhou Port. It is expanded on the basis of the original Guangzhou Port (Huangpu Ancient Port) and is divided into a sea port and an inland port.
In order to lay out Southeast Asia, the Yi Dynasty set up a temporary administrative point in the Guangzhou area, so today's Guangzhou can be said to be the political center of the Yi Dynasty.
There is good sea trade today, and all the officials in the Yi Dynasty know about it. At this time, the Guangzhou Port was also a new port specially opened by the imperial court in consideration of the possibility of Guangzhou receiving sea trade ships in the next hundred years. Therefore, it was dozens of times larger than the original Huangpu Ancient Port.
Standing on a high place and looking around, one can see an endless stream of large and small merchant ships loading and unloading goods. It is dozens of miles away, and this is only an inland river port, not including the seaports that are still under construction.
Seeing the barbarians from all over the world coming to court, how could this scene not excite the hearts of the people of Yi Dynasty?
In early March of the third year of Tianze (the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign), the weather in Guangzhou began to get hotter after the soft rain brought away the last bit of coldness.
Guangzhou New City, where the new imperial palace of the Yi Dynasty was located.
Compared with the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Ming Palace in Nanjing, the newly built palace in Guangzhou appears much simpler.
The new palace of the Yi Dynasty abandoned the complex and luxurious building materials such as golden nanmu and special golden glazed tiles that were specially used by the royal family in the past. Instead, more reinforced concrete structures were used. The overall building was also mainly simple and elegant, with a grandeur. The style of the Song Dynasty Palace.
However, although the New City Palace is mainly simple, the layout of the entire city is extraordinary.
Take streets as an example. Most of the streets in old Guangzhou City are no more than one foot wide. The architectural planning is also quite messy and there are many dead ends. Coupled with the signboards hanging on the storefronts on the street, as long as there are more pedestrians on the street, the left and right will appear chaotically, and the entire street will appear to be particularly crowded and messy.
The new city has made an overall plan. The minimum street is more than three feet (about twelve meters), and the left and right vehicle paths and pedestrian paths are also officially divided. Fortunately, there are not many people living in Guangzhou now. If it were to be a metropolis with tens of millions of people in the future, it would be impossible for the Yi Dynasty to build a new imperial capital here.
At the same time, when planning and building the city, in order to prevent excessive population aggregation in the new city, housing prices were raised, leaving ordinary people with no place to stand. Zhang Rui also deliberately adopted the policy that was originally issued in Zhilian Mountain, allowing the court to reserve a large area of land for the construction of commercial housing, specifically for ordinary people to rent houses.
After all, letting people in the world have a house to live in was the promise made by Yi Dynasty when he conquered the world.
With the passage of time and the news of Yi Dynasty's victory in the Nanyang countries, no one now doubts the rise of this Han dynasty.
Even those northern scholars who originally had sour words about the new imperial examination in the Yi Dynasty, after facing the imperial examination that had been held for three consecutive years in the Yi Dynasty, they all tried their best to come south to take the imperial examination.
After all, he was able to conquer half of the country by relying on his strength. With his strength, he was able to defeat barbarians from all directions. In the eyes of the world, the Han Dynasty, the Yi Dynasty, was bound to rise. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was destined to decline.
The Hu people do not have a century-old national destiny, but they have existed since ancient times.
If the northern scholars who came from the south felt anything after arriving in Guangzhou, it was that they felt a sense of pride for the first time.
It turns out that this is the country I want, and this is what my country should be like.
Even though the Yi Dynasty has only ruled here for three years, it can be clearly felt that the people here are rich and confident, no longer as numb and lifeless as the people under the Manchu Qing rule in the north. During the exchanges, you can even hear them adding a few words.
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After more than half a year of sailing, Jerry's Good Luck merchant ship finally arrived at Guangzhou Port despite many obstacles.
At this time, the merchant ships staying in Guangzhou Port were dotted all over the place. The ships, large and small, were flying all kinds of flags, including Japanese, Korean, Annan, Champa, Siam, etc. At a glance, it looked endless. , Kennedy, who originally yearned for China, could not help but shout: Marco Polo did not lie to himself.
Under normal circumstances, the goods need to find a buyer first and then ship them. However, now the Yi Dynasty court is buying supplies on a large scale, so no ship will come empty. Those are against money. In addition, Jerry and others are here, and Jonathan is there, so there is no need to worry.
After the ship stops, Jerry and others need to go ashore to find Jonathan, and then use him to find relevant officials from the Yichao Ministry of Commerce to purchase goods.
After landing, Jerry and others followed the instructions and passed through the customs gate of a huge building. Only after all foreigners passed the inspection and verified their identities can they obtain relevant documents and get the opportunity to disembark.
The process was not complicated, and everything was done in a formal manner. Jerry, who was originally prepared to pay for bribes, couldn't help but be impressed by this place.
It's not that he has never been to China for trade, but when it was under the rule of the Qing government, Jerry had a lot of money to spend. But now, Jerry and others couldn't help but worship this ancient country again.
In fact, how did Jerry and others know about the changes? As soon as the Yi Dynasty changed the situation of low wages or no work for all subordinate staff except officials in previous dynasties, they were all paid by the state.
You know, Yi Dynasty has always pursued a policy of high salaries to support integrity, and is not stingy with the salaries of officials. If the Manchu Qing Dynasty paid one tael to officials, the Yi Dynasty paid officials three taels. This is why many officials who passed the imperial examination in the Yi Dynasty were sent to the countryside, and they didn't have much opinion.
Similarly, the salaries of officials are high, and the salaries of all subordinate staff are naturally not low, at least enough for a family to live a well-off life. At the same time, in order to prevent anyone from causing harm to the people, all non-staff personnel were banned, so the only people who can hold their posts are regular staff.
Yi Chao's salary is high, and its handling of corruption is no joke. In addition to the imperial court's own supervision department, there are also shadow guards and shadow guards established by the royal family to supervise at any time.
If the people of the Ming Dynasty were afraid of the Jin Yiwei, then the people of the Yi Dynasty supported the Shadow Guards and Shadow Guards. Because they all know that these two departments are used by the emperor to supervise the officials.
There are even many dramas about how the Shadow Guard and Shadow Guard personnel went undercover around corrupt officials, and finally obtained evidence of the crimes of those corrupt officials despite a narrow escape, and finally presented the evidence in front of the emperor to eradicate those corrupt officials. Corrupt officials.
What you are holding is a high salary, and there may be "rising crowds" around you at any time. Especially the customs checkpoint is Zhang Ruiqin's designated country's first face to the world, and it is the top priority of supervision, so the people working here do not dare to neglect.
