Gao pragmatic has not yet personally conducted an on-site inspection at Qinzhou Port, but Gao Mengnan's report has been handed over. According to the inspection and discussion of the staff team brought by Gao Mengnan from Tianjin Port, it is believed that Qinzhou Port is surrounded by mountains on three sides, has wide waters in the harbor, small wind and waves, low sand content, and balanced erosion and siltation, making it an excellent deep-water port.
This statement is in line with the knowledge brought by Gao Pragmatic in his previous life - well, in fact, he was not very familiar with Qinzhou Port in his previous life. The so-called knowledge is actually that he knows that Qinzhou Port is one of the major ports in the south.
Although China's infrastructure in later generations is unparalleled in the world, it certainly won't be like digging out a big port out of nothing, right? It can be seen that the natural foundation of this place must be good.
Not only the natural conditions are superior, but the location advantage is also very good. Qinzhou Port is located in the Qinzhou Bay at the top of the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea. It borders Nanning to the north, Lianzhou Prefecture to the east, and Yongan Prefecture to the southwest. It is a typical "backed by the Southwest and facing Southeast Asia" and is the "Golden Triangle" of Guangxi's coastal areas. The central gateway and the most convenient access to the sea in the Southwest.
If I can't build this place, what else will I do as a port?
Without further ado, let’s buy the land first…
The matter of buying land is frighteningly convenient, because Gao Mengnan's report has already said that the local population of Qinzhou is now very small, especially because of the Japanese pirate problem that has lasted for hundreds of years, and the coastal area is almost completely deserted for dozens of miles. Their expedition team is near Qinzhou Port After wandering around for a long time, there were not many living people at all.
Later, after asking around, I found out that the locals had moved to Qinzhou City, thirty miles away from the port, and the port was almost an ownerless wasteland.
What else is there to say? According to the "method of first occupation", just enclose the land and that's it!
What is the "preemption" method?
In Roman law, pre-occupation was a method of acquisition under the law of nations. Whether it was movable or immovable property, as long as it was unowned, it could be acquired through pre-occupation. This system of pre-occupation is pre-occupation liberalism. Subsequent Germanic law also provided for a system of preemption, known as the doctrine of preemption.
Of course, this is from the so-called "international level" in later generations. Ancient Chinese did not believe in European law, and only China's own laws would count. So how does Chinese law treat "preemption"?
As early as the pre-Qin period, the imperial court recognized the Qin people's pre-occupied ownership of timber, game, etc. within the scope of the law. The "Tian Law" of the Qin Dynasty clearly stipulates the ownership of reclaiming wasteland, cutting down trees, and fishing and hunting within the time and space allowed by the government.
During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the imperial court recognized the "sealing of mountains and lakes and the seizure of official land", which meant that it recognized the right of bureaucratic landlords to seal mountains and occupy land, and recognized the preemptive occupation system.
The Tang Dynasty's "Tang Lv·Za Lv" also contains provisions on preemptive acquisition of inactive property.
The Song Dynasty inherited the provisions of the Tang Dynasty and regarded preemption as a method of original acquisition. As long as the person who first occupies the unowned land pays taxes and rent according to the "Yuanye", it is not considered "illegal farming" and his ownership is established.
In the Yuan Dynasty, preemption as a way of acquiring property included preemption of unowned properties and certain unmanaged public properties.
By the Ming Dynasty, preemption was not only land ownership, but also an important way to obtain chattel ownership.
Since the policy of farming was implemented in the early Ming Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that "cultivated land will be your own business forever", and state-owned wasteland and forests were also tacitly allowed to be acquired according to the principle of first occupation. Regarding movable property, the clear law stipulates: "If someone else has used work force to cut down and accumulate firewood, wood, rocks, etc. in the mountains and wild fields, and takes it without authorization, it will be considered theft." This means that the ownership of the things that have been processed and occupied first is recognized.
Now that the entire Qinzhou Port has become an ownerless land, Gao Pragmatic plans to develop there, which is completely in line with the "first possession" principle - as long as he pays taxes and is not afraid of Japanese pirates. As for paying taxes... Gao Pragmatic actually doesn't have to pay taxes. Not to mention his family background, he himself is a first-class Jinshi and the top scholar, so he is naturally exempt from tax.
However, according to Gao Gong's later reforms, if he farmed near Qinzhou Port, he would be exempted from tax, but if he opened a private port, he would have to pay taxes. Moreover, this rule was suggested to Gao Gong himself.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty was accustomed to low tax rates from top to bottom, so the tax rate in this private port was not high. After all, Gao Pragmatic's idea at the time was to promote this tax as a pilot. He did not intend to kill the goose that lays the goose to lay the eggs at the beginning. First, let people get used to the basic idea that "you have to pay taxes when opening a port", and then you can raise the tax rate at the appropriate time. If we had set a high tax rate from the beginning, no one would be willing to do it.
In this case, why are you so polite? Hurry up and start work on the land enclosure. This is cheaper and more cost-effective than any of his previous private ports!
Once this Qinzhou private port is built, it will really be a "private port", and every inch of land will be the legal private property of someone higher than him!
From now on, Qinzhou Port will probably be called Gaojiagang in private...
For the construction of Qinzhou Port this time, not only Guangzhou Port mobilized a large number of manpower, but also the northern ports, especially Tianjin Port, mobilized capable personnel to support. After all, they have been idle in recent years, and in Beijing, there are talents with work. There are allowances and rewards, but if you don't have any work, you only get "dead wages".
The construction of Qinzhou Port was in full swing, and the first batch of personnel for the sugar refinery were recruited from Guangzhou Port. I have to say something about this. China's sugar industry has always been stronger in the south and weaker in the north. The reason is that the south is more suitable for growing sugar cane, while the north is actually more suitable for growing sugar beets due to weather conditions. However, there is no sugar beet processing technology at this time, so It seems that Europeans only came up with this stuff in the 19th century, so most of the sugar in the north was sold from the south at this time. Guangdong is obviously a major sugar-producing province, and this is the reason why sugar-producing talents are recruited from Guangdong.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic himself didn't have time to go over and train these people in person and teach them better sugar-making techniques. Fortunately, these techniques were actually not that difficult. Gao Pragmatic drew some pictures, wrote down the manufacturing process, and sent someone to deliver it. In the past, let them follow their own example.
In fact, if you really want to talk about it, there are one or two places where the "heat" needs to be tested, but Gao Pragmatic just listened to a brief introduction by the technical staff of the sugar factory in his county, and he didn't know how to master the heat. So just let the people at the sugar refinery do their own experiments, and then come up with a set of feasible methods.
Anyway, the people below dare not suspect that he is pretending to understand.
Just kidding, he has been the real leader for two hundred years. How could the six top picks not understand this little trick? The reason why I didn't say it is because Gao Zuotai thinks this thing is too simple. You can just think of a solution on your own. I have to say, what do I want you to do for food?
It can be seen that the greater the fame, the easier it is to show off.
The problem of the sugar factory has been dealt with for the most part. The remaining details such as the specific location for building the factory do not need to be taken care of by Gao Shiji personally. He, Jinghua, has been a large group for ten years. If he wants to do this, his boss will have to do everything personally. , it would be too out of the way.
So there is only one shipyard-related issue left that needs to be resolved urgently.
The personnel are easy to handle, and highly pragmatic transfer orders have been issued from the north to the south. Most of the people are either on their way here or have already arrived at Guangzhou Port to wait for the next order.
The general direction of site selection was also set, and it was decided to be in Qinzhou, which is a river mouth port. It can build sea ships and river ships at the same time without delaying both. Although these two areas will be separated sooner or later, we can start this way now to make use of existing resources and lay a good foundation first.
The main problem is that the problem of raw materials must be solved quickly. Guangxi certainly has enough wood, and there is no such thing as indiscriminate logging. There are large tracts of good forests waiting for Gao Qiang. However, a series of processes such as logging, transportation, drying, and storage must be arranged, especially logging and upper-level transportation. This is the work that Gao Pragmatic has planned to give to the chieftains in his heart, and now it must be done quickly.
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