Chapter 2835

Chapter 2835

Chapter 2835
Shen Zhixiang's statement can actually represent the mentality of the vast majority of 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 blurred. For them, the identity of the people of Ming Dynasty is a thing of the past. In order to be strong, the treatment given to the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town is also excellent, and there is no need to be nostalgic for the old master.

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 official road is more than 100 miles away. If you choose to take a horse-drawn carriage, you have to change the horses halfway. Naturally, there is no way to mention it.

The voyage to Jinzhou by boat is almost the same as the land passage, but it only takes seven or eight hours by sea, and the comfort is far better than the bumpy carriage all day, so the sea has become the first choice for commuting between the two places.

Bex was last in the Golden State at exactly this time about 20 years ago.At that time, the Haihan army launched an offensive in Jinzhou, captured the strategic point of the Jinzhou Isthmus in one fell swoop, and then marched into the Han River, forcing North Korea to sign the covenant.When Beks came to Jinzhou at that time, he represented the executive committee to preside over the alliance talks between Haihan, Ming, and North Korea to jointly deal with the Manchus.

"When I came here last time, there was nothing on the coast except for a few temporary trestles... It's been 20 years, and this place has changed a lot!" Beks put his hands on the side of the boat, looking not far away. The Jinzhou Port, where it is located, can't help expressing emotion.

Chen Yixin responded proudly: "The planned construction scale of Jinzhou Port is much larger than that of Zhifu Port. At present, it is only a shelf, and many supporting facilities are still under construction. In the next few decades, it should be able to Seeing the place continue to change."

If the main function of Lushun Port is a naval base, then the function of Jinzhou Port is a trade hub port on the Liaodong Peninsula.

The area of ​​Dalian Bay where Jinzhou Port is located is equivalent to that of Jiaozhou Bay where the newly developed Qingdao Port is located in the Shandong Peninsula, dozens of times that of Lushun Port, and it is also the largest natural harbor with the best natural conditions in the entire Liaodong Peninsula.In the past 20 years, Jinzhou has always been the core of the area controlled by Haihan in Liaodong. Almost all immigration and trade activities have been centered here, and it has continued to this day.

Bai Kesi and his party only saw a small number of civilian ships and merchant ships in Lushun Port, but in Jinzhou Port, the number of these ships was more than ten times more. Large and small sailboats kept coming in and out. The prosperity of the port can be said to be no less than that of the Strait Opposite Zhifu Port.

The civil and military officials in the Jinzhou area were already waiting on the pier at this time. Although Beks hadn't been here for 20 years, he still saw a few familiar faces among the officials.

Jin Ping, the eldest son of Jin Riguan, the second-in-command in Dongjiang Town, joined Haihan and was appointed civil affairs officer in the Dongjiang immigration area of ​​Jinzhou.According to Chen Yixin, Jinping is currently the Chief Civil Affairs Officer in the Jinzhou area, and he can be regarded as a superstar.

There is also Liu Shang, a propaganda official who was transferred from Sanya to Liaodong, and is now the chief administrative officer of the Jinzhou area. According to the Haihan official system, he is the top leader of the Jinzhou area.Who would have thought that Mr. Liu, who is now an official of a parent, was just a storyteller in a teahouse more than 20 years ago?

As for Liu Shang's other layer of secret identity, it has been completely buried by himself long ago, and no one will ever know the truth.At best, others would know that he was exiled from Daming to Haihan, but they never would have guessed that this was a spy sent by the Ming government to collect intelligence on Hainan Island.

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, and when they met again this time, Bai Kesi also 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 high-ranking officials who visited Jinzhou.

After a simple welcome ceremony, everyone took a carriage and headed for Jinzhou City.

When Beks came last time, Jinzhou was almost in ruins, and the local people were all taken away by the Houjin Army, leaving only the core institution of the Haihan Army Jinzhou Camp.

In the past 20 years, relying on the development of the seaport, a new urban area with a large area has been built here.Han immigrants from Liaodong, North China, Shandong and other places have become the main population here, and the population has basically returned to the level before the post-Gold Army occupied Jinzhou.

However, different from the traditional Ming cities, the urban planning and architecture of the new Jinzhou are closer to the Haihan style, which can almost be said to be a copy of Sanya in Liaodong.

Since Haihan occupied Jinzhou with almost ten rooms and nine empty rooms, this actually avoided many disputes that might arise due to land ownership during the urban construction project, and it was more convenient to implement the plan on paper.

Jinzhou did not build city walls and other fortifications. The entire city centered on the port area along the coast of Dalian Bay and radiated to the surrounding areas through several straight main roads.The residential area, the commercial area, the agricultural area, and the military area with the Jinzhou camp as the core, each area has a clear functional distinction.

Taking the main road that the convoy was traveling on as an example, its design standards were clearly far ahead. The road surface had been hardened and it was four feet wide, and there was no crowding between five and six carriages running side by side.Drainage ditches are built on the side of the road, and the accumulated water will be directly introduced into Dalian Bay on rainy days.It is said that if it is not for the consideration of construction costs, Chen Yixin even wants to bury pipelines on the entire main road and use biogas as street lighting.

"It must cost a lot to build such a wide arterial road, right?" Bai Letong looked at the scene outside the car window and couldn't help but marvel at the magnificent performance of the northern region in terms of infrastructure.

Bai Kesi, who was sitting next to him, said with a smile: "It's not a question of whether to spend money or not. In addition to improving the hardware level of the city, infrastructure can also stimulate the economy and provide a large number of employment opportunities. In addition, it can also drive the local building materials industry related to it, exercise Construction workers."

"But it will cost a lot of money after all, won't it? 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 own opinion.

Bai Kesi said: "Of course, this is related to the local economic level and objective environment, and not every place can implement such infrastructure projects. The manpower is cheap here in Liaodong, so the cost of the entire infrastructure project will be relatively low. The region has made a lot of money in mining development, so it has enough funds to undertake projects of this scale. To put it bluntly, it is not short of money."

(End of this chapter)