The transportation discussion of the Jiangnan inspection team soon entered into the planning of road construction. However, road construction is not realistic-even if Jiangnan is immediately under their command, all officials will obey their orders. According to the current strength of the Senate, it is not possible to
Not caught.
"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 number of construction materials is simply astronomical." Merlin sighed, "The gap between our productivity levels is also huge."
Although Lingao's industrial capacity has begun to show its huge energy, 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 elders talk about the "music"
The Lingao industrial system of "Prelude to Industrialization" is not comparable to 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 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 is not a problem to carry ships of hundreds of tons 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, it may cause a turmoil - it may even shake the whole province. It's not much of a problem if a sea ship goes to Zhapu. After all, it is a seaport."
Everyone had a heated discussion on transportation issues along the way, and the time passed quickly when there were topics. 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,
At this time, Gongchen Bridge was still under construction.
Sun Wangcai had long received the coded rolling order from the Shanghai branch, and estimated that the ship should arrive on April 20, so starting from April 10, he sent people to visit near Gongchenqiao Pier every day. He saw
The boat with the lanterns bearing the prestige arrived at the dock and immediately reported into Zhao's residence. Sun 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 residence.
The population of Zhao's house has expanded a lot in recent days. For the sake of caution, Sun Wang, the general manager of the Hangzhou Intelligence Station, tightened the security and separated the inner house and the outer house. All new servants who came in were not allowed to enter the inner house. They could only be brought from Lingao.
Only personnel who have been authenticated by the General Security Bureau are allowed to enter the inner house.
The increase in population made Zhao's house begin to become cramped. Even adding the area of the abandoned garden where no houses had been built was not enough. At this time, Cai Shi had bought a large enough land in Fenghuang Mountain. Zhao Yingong was eager to start building his own house there.
manor. 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 Yingong decided to temporarily dress himself up as a gentry who was keen on agriculture. In the late Ming Dynasty, commercial landlords were already very common. Many landlords no longer leased land to tenants to collect rent, but hired long-term and short-term workers and took charge of it themselves.
Specific farming tasks such as sowing, farming, water conservancy, etc., and direct management of land and agricultural products.
In the new plan, he decided to build a farm villa in Fenghuang Mountain, and moved Wang Siniang's family there to be responsible for sericulture. First, he planted a large number of mulberry trees in the manor and engaged in small-scale sericulture and silk reeling to prepare for the future large-scale industrialization.
Lay a good foundation for personnel training. To this end, he has sent a telegram to Wu Nanhai, requesting that sericulture professionals from the Tiandihui be sent to Nanjing to carry silkworm seeds to serve.
In the future, Phoenix Mountain Villa will undertake a series of tasks such as personnel purification and transfer, and will be the headquarters and core of Hangzhou Station. Zhao Yingong plans to transport most of the core personnel, materials, and equipment to Phoenix Mountain Villa after the construction is completed. And
Zhao's House in Qinghefang will serve as the "face" of Hangzhou Station.
The facade is the planned cultural bookstore. It is planned to use the abandoned garden land of Zhao's house to build a comprehensive building integrating teahouse, bookstore, garden and printing office. In addition to selling tea and books in the bookstore, Zhao Yingong also plans to build a cultural bookstore in this
Sales and promotion of some "cultural products" with Australian characteristics. The initial idea is to include Western and Chinese ship models, various table games, including chess and cards. Zhao Yingong also wants to introduce billiards: he still remembers the "snooker craze" in the 1980s
". The technology for manufacturing billiards equipment is sufficient in this time and space. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Pearl River Delta was famous for the production of ivory handicrafts. Many billiard balls used in Europe were manufactured in Guangzhou and other places. However, he was not sure that the scholars would understand this.
If you have any opinions, and the manufacturing of billiards equipment does not happen overnight, we have decided not to introduce it for the time being. We will first report the project to the Planning Institute and the Ministry of Light Industry for filing.
Since the Planning Institute has equipped him with printing equipment, it would be a waste not to publish newspapers or magazines. Except for the "Lingao Times" in Lingao, Ming Dynasty currently has no real newspapers. He can do this
Carry out some expansion and create some newspapers and magazines - anyway, there was no "Publishing Law" in the Ming Dynasty, and publishing 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 traditional
The society used the free time 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. He immediately held a banquet in the mansion to "receive the wind" for a group of people.
Cleanse the dust”.
At the reception banquet, everyone divided the work on the recent work in Jiangnan. Zhou Dongtian will be accompanied by Sun 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 Phoenix Villa and Book Shop.
, Xu Xu and Lu Zhongxing, accompanied by Qiwei personnel, conducted a comprehensive inspection of the road traffic conditions in the southern and northern areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The topography of Jiangnan has changed greatly in the past hundred years, especially the rivers and ponds.
This time and space is much more diverse than 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 Fenghuang Mountain. This is the "home" of the future Hangzhou Station, and it 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 farmland 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 who have a little knowledge of vegetation can see that this is a typical secondary forest landform - after development on the hillside, the original ecological vegetation has long been destroyed. Among the thorn trees,
From time to time, you can still see the ruins of low broken walls. In some places, there are still stone piers and stone beams that were used to support the pillars of the temple. If you look carefully, you can see the traces of many Buddhist temples.
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"Here are the ruins of the Five Temples and One Pagoda." Zhao Yingong was tired from walking and sat down on a huge stone pier to fan himself in the wind. "It is said that the Five Temples originally used many architectural components from the palaces of the Southern Song Dynasty -
―Some are simply palaces from the Southern Song Dynasty. It’s a pity that I don’t understand archeology, otherwise I could have done a good excavation 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 building materials. For more than 270 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, people continued to dismantle various building materials from here, except for Manchurians.
The remaining bricks and tiles of the ground and some large components that were difficult to move were scattered among the thorns.
"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.
"I told Lao Sun that the bigger the land, the better. Most of the Phoenix Mountain area is ownerless government land, which is not worth much. There are private cemeteries in some places. It is troublesome to dispose of it. Buy it if you can.
We can't buy it and avoid it temporarily." Zhao Yingong pointed, "Starting from the riverside at the foot of the mountain and all the way to here, this piece of land must be bought - 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. "Getting water from the river has to solve the problem of raising it - drainage is very convenient."
"There is a spring on the mountain."
"We need to build a water collection project." Mei Lin looked at the topography and said, "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 out: "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. Then we will do it.
A tea workshop and a fruit processing factory.”
"You are preparing to play a game of digging for vegetables in Hangzhou." Merlin said with a smile.
"You have to be self-sufficient - this place is thousands of miles away from Lingao, so you can't rely on the Planning Institute to deliver everything." Zhao Yingong pondered for a moment, "Please help me design it well. Don't make it look like a fortress.
Just follow the standard of a village built by a rich man in this time and space. This is a provincial capital after all, so we can’t make it attract anyone’s attention.”
Merlin said: "You must first come up with the clear boundaries of the manor. Before you leave with the permission, quickly ask him to survey and draw a topographic map - I am not good at this. Building a house is easy, but the layout and planning must be detailed.
The map is not acceptable. As for the manor buildings, I will first make a sketch according to your requirements, and then I will start the construction after you approve it."
"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."