Chapter 2835
Shen Zhixiang's statement can actually represent the mentality of the vast majority of the soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town. More than ten years after being merged into Haihan, the special identity of Dongjiang Town has actually become quite blurry. For them, the identity of the people of the Ming Dynasty is already a thing of the past. Nowadays, Haihan Kingdom is more important than the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In order to be strong, the treatment given to the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town is also very good. There is no need to be attached to the old master at all.
The next day, Bai Kesi and his party left Lushun Port and took a boat to Jinzhou. Although the official road from Lushun to Jinzhou has been built long ago, the distance of the official road is more than 100 miles. If you choose to take a carriage, you have to change horses halfway, and you have to travel all the way to Jinzhou in one day, which is comfortable and comfortable. Of course, sex cannot be mentioned.
The voyage to Jinzhou by boat is almost the same as the land route, but the sea route only takes seven or eight hours and is far more comfortable than the bumpy journey of a horse-drawn carriage for a whole day. Therefore, the sea route has become the first choice for commuting between the two places.
The last time Bai Kesi came to Jinzhou was exactly at this time about twenty years ago. At that time, the Haihan Army launched an offensive in Jinzhou and captured the strategic location of the Jinzhou Isthmus in one fell swoop. Then they marched into the Han River and forced North Korea to sign the alliance. Bai Kesi came to Jinzhou at that time to chair the trilateral alliance talks between Haihan, Ming and North Korea on behalf of the Executive Committee to jointly deal with the Manchus.
"When I came here last time, there was nothing on the coast except a few temporary trestles... Twenty years have passed, and this place has changed so much!" Bai Kesi put his hands on the side of the ship and looked away. The Jinzhou Port in the distance could not help but sigh.
Chen Yixin responded proudly: "The planned construction scale of Jinzhou Port is much larger than that of Zhifu Port. At present, only the shelves have been put up, and many supporting facilities are still under construction. In the next few decades, it should be possible See that this place will continue to change.”
If the main function of Lushun Port is a naval base, then the function assumed by Jinzhou Port is the trade hub port of the Liaodong Peninsula.
The bay area of Dalian Bay, where Jinzhou Port is located, is equivalent to that of Jiaozhou Bay, where the newly developed Qingdao Port is located on the Shandong Peninsula. It is dozens of times larger than Lushun Port. It is also the largest natural harbor with the best natural conditions in the entire Liaodong Peninsula. In the past twenty years, Jinzhou has always been the core of the area controlled by Haihan in Liaodong. Almost all immigration and trade activities were centered here and continue to this day.
Bai Kesi and his party only saw a few civilian ships and merchant ships in Lushun Port, but in Jinzhou Port, the number of these ships was more than ten times greater, and sailing ships of all sizes were constantly coming in and out. It can be said that the prosperity of the port is not inferior to that of the Strait. Opposite Zhifu Port.
Civil and military officials from the Jinzhou area were already waiting on the dock. Although Bai Kesi had not been here for twenty years, he still saw a few familiar faces among the officials.
Jin Ping, the eldest son of Jin Riguan, the second-in-command of Dongjiang Town at that time, joined Haihan and was appointed as the civil affairs officer of Dongjiang Immigration Area in Jinzhou. He later went to Sanya for further study, and Bai Kesi also gave him lectures. According to Chen Yixin, Jin Ping is currently the chief civil affairs officer in the Jinzhou area, and he can be considered a leader.
There is also Liu Shang, a propaganda official who was transferred from Sanya to Liaodong. He is now the chief administrative officer of the Jinzhou area. According to the Haihan official system, he is the top leader in the Jinzhou area. Who would have thought that Mr. Liu, who is now an official of one parent, was just a storyteller in a teahouse more than 20 years ago?
As for Liu Shang's other secret identity, it has been completely buried by himself long ago, and no one will ever know the truth. At most, others knew that he was living in Hainan from the Ming Dynasty, but they never imagined that this man was an official sent by the Ming Dynasty to Hainan Island to collect intelligence.
When Bai Kesi came to Liaodong last time, Chen Yixin introduced him to Liu Shang, a "capable man". Bai Kesi also had a good impression of this eloquent propaganda official. When they met again, Bai Kesi recognized Liu Shang at a glance.
Liu Shang did not take the initiative to reminisce about the past, but still followed the etiquette and met with a group of senior officials who visited Jinzhou. After a simple welcoming ceremony, everyone took carriages and headed to Jinzhou City.
When Bai Kesi came here last time, Jinzhou was almost in ruins. All the local people were kidnapped by the post-Jin army, and there was only one core organization, the Jinzhou camp of the Haihan Army.
Over the past twenty years, a large emerging urban area has been built here relying on the development of the seaport. Han immigrants from Liaodong, North China, Shandong and other places have become the main population group here, and the population has basically returned to the level before the Jin army occupied Jinzhou.
However, what is different from the traditional Ming Dynasty cities is that the urban planning and architecture of New Jinzhou are closer to the Haihan style. It can almost be said to be a replica of Sanya in Liaodong.
Since when Haihan occupied Jinzhou, almost ten rooms and nine rooms were empty. This helped to avoid many possible disputes over land ownership during the urban construction project, and the paper plan was also more convenient to implement.
Jinzhou has no more urban defenses such as city walls. The entire city is centered on the port area along the Dalian Bay and radiates to surrounding areas through several straight main roads. There are clear functional distinctions between residential areas, commercial areas, agricultural areas, and the military area with Jinzhou Camp as its core.
Taking the main road where the convoy was traveling as an example, its design standards were obviously far ahead of its time. The road surface was hardened and it was four feet wide. Five or six carriages could run parallel without being crowded. There are drainage ditches built on the roadside, which will directly lead the accumulated water into Dalian Bay on rainy days. It is said that if construction funds were not considered, Chen Yixin would even want to bury pipelines on the entire main road and use biogas as street lighting.
"It must be very expensive to build a road with such a wide surface, right?" Bai Letong looked at the scene outside the car window and couldn't help but sigh at the magnificent performance of the Northern Region in terms of infrastructure.
Baikes, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said: "This is not a matter of spending money. In addition to improving the hardware level of the city, infrastructure can also stimulate the economy and provide a large number of job opportunities. In addition, it can also stimulate the local related building materials industry and train people." Construction workers.”
"But it will cost a lot of money after all, right? And the payback period of the investment will be very long." Bai Letong did not refute his father's statement, but still insisted on his opinion.
Bai Kesi said: "This is of course related to the local economic level and objective environment. Not every place can implement such infrastructure projects. Manpower is cheap here in Liaodong, so the cost of the entire infrastructure project will be relatively low. In addition, in the north The region has made a lot of money in mining development, so it has enough funds to undertake a project of this scale. To put it bluntly, it is not short of money.”
(End of chapter)