Gao pragmatically has not personally visited Qinzhou Port for on-site inspection, 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, he believes that Qinzhou Port is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the water area in the harbor is wide, and the wind and waves are relatively high.
It is small, has little sand content, and has balanced erosion and siltation, making it an excellent deep-water harbor.
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 big ports in the south.
Although China's infrastructure construction in later generations is unparalleled in the world, it must not 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 does it have superior natural conditions, but it also has great location advantages. This 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 Yong'an Prefecture (later Fangcheng Port) to the southwest. It is a typical port.
"Backed by the Southwest and facing Southeast Asia", it is the central gateway of the "Golden Triangle" along the Guangxi coast 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, when I inquired about it, 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, preoccupation is a method of acquisition in the law of nations. Whether it is movable or immovable property, as long as it is unowned, it can be acquired through preoccupation. This system of preoccupation is the liberalization of preoccupation. Subsequent Germanic law also provided for preoccupation.
system, known as preemptionism.
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, prey, etc. within the scope of the law. The "Tian Law" of the Qin Bamboo Slips clearly stipulated the rights to reclaim wasteland, cut down trees, and fish and prey within the time and space permitted by the government.
ownership.
During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the imperial court recognized "the sealing off of mountains and lakes, and the seizure of official lands", 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 regulations of the Tang Dynasty and regarded pre-occupation as a method of original acquisition. As long as the person who occupied the unowned land first paid taxes and rents according to the "Yuan Ye", it was not considered "illegal farming" and his ownership was 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, pre-occupation was not only land ownership, but also an important way to obtain chattel ownership.
Due to the implementation of the farmland policy in the early Ming Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that "cultivated fields will always be your own property." State-owned wasteland and mountains were also tacitly allowed to be obtained based on the principle of first possession. As for movable property, the clear law stipulates: "If the mountains and wild firewood, wood, rocks, etc., have been used by others,
Anyone who uses his power to cut down and accumulate it without authorization is considered to be theft." That is to say, 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. And paying taxes... Gao Pragmatic doesn't actually need to
When it comes to paying taxes, there is no need to mention his family background. He himself is a first-class Jinshi and is the top scholar, so he is naturally exempt from taxes.
However, according to Gao Gong's subsequent 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 thinking at the time was to promote this tax as a pilot, and he did not intend to kill the goose that lays the goose to lay the eggs.
First, let people get used to the basic concept of "paying taxes when opening a port", and then we can raise the tax rate at the appropriate time. If we set a high tax rate from the beginning, no one will probably be willing to do this.
If that's the case, why are you so polite? Hurry up and start building the land. 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 the past few years, and in Beijing, there are talented people with work to do.
There are allowances and rewards, but if you don't work, you only get "dead wages".
The construction of Qinzhou Port is in full swing, and the first batch of personnel for the sugar refinery have also been recruited from Guangzhou Port. It needs to be said that China's sugar industry has always been strong in the south and weak in the north. The reason is
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 was no sugar beet processing technology at this time. It seems that the Europeans only came up with it in the 19th century, so at this time most of the sugar in the north was
It was sold from the south. Guangdong is obviously a big sugar production province, so this is the reason why sugar production talents are recruited from Guangdong.
Of course Gao Pragmatic himself didn't have time to go over and personally train these people and teach them better sugar-making techniques. Fortunately, these techniques were 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 we might as well let the people at the sugar refinery do their own experiments and 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 Antai thinks this thing is too simple. You can think of it yourself.
Just think of a way, but I have to say, what do you want to eat?
It can be seen that the greater the reputation, 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 worried about 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 to both the north and 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. This is a river mouth port. You can build sea ships and river ships at the same time without delay. Although these two areas will be separated sooner or later, we can start doing this now.
To make use of existing resources, lay the foundation first.
The main problem is that the problem of raw materials must be solved quickly. There is certainly enough wood in Guangxi, and there is no indiscriminate logging now. Large tracts of good forests are waiting for Gao Xiang. But the processes of logging, transportation, drying, and storage must be arranged well.
In particular, logging and upper-level transportation were tasks that Gao Pangshi had already planned to hand over to the chieftains, and now they had to be done quickly.
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