Chapter 2847
Chapter 2847
Chapter 2847
In terms of the intensity of wars in this era, hundreds of casualties in the process of attacking Gaizhou Acropolis are actually quite good performances.After all, in the Battle of Gaizhou, the total strength of the two sides on the battlefield was over [-], and the casualties caused by the Haihan Army to the opponent were more than ten times that of their own battle losses. This ratio is basically in line with the military strength gap between the two sides.
Fortunately, at that time, the generals of the Haihan Army boldly took the leapfrog offensive, bypassing the large areas controlled by the Manchus in the south, and directly attacking Gaizhou, a land traffic pass, otherwise they would have to push slowly and hard all the way from Jinzhou Come here, conquer all the enemy strongholds along the way, and the number of casualties of the Haihan army may have to be multiplied several times.
The Acropolis of Gaizhou is not lively, it can even be said to be somewhat depressed.There is no bustling commercial street here, and there are only a few shops dealing in daily necessities in the city, and there are not even a few decent restaurants, which shows that the spending power of the local people is very average.
However, perhaps because the local people immigrated from other places after the war, they have always accepted the arrangements of the Haihan government since the naturalization and resettlement. The management is relatively smooth, and the local public security situation is also excellent.The government even stationed an infantry company here as a guard force for a symbolic purpose, and there were very few civil disputes in normal times, and the local yamen could not hear a few lawsuits in a year.
On the night when he settled in Gaizhou, Chen Yixin asked Bai Kesi and others for advice on the next itinerary.
"There are currently two routes to choose from. One is to take the water route and go directly to Shenyang along the Liaohe River. The other is to take the land route and go to Shenyang via Haizhou and Liaoyang. It will be faster to take the water route, but there are no inspection sites on the way. Passing through several major mining sites in Liaodong, you can take a look at the development of the local mining industry, but it will take more time on the road.”
Chen Yixin showed the map and explained to Beks and others the difference between the two travel routes.
Beks obviously made up his mind a long time ago, and said without hesitation: "This is easy to handle. Next, we will go to Shenyang by land and inspect the mining projects along the way. When we return, we will take the water route. When the time comes, we will go down the river from Shenyang, and the itinerary will not change." It will be faster."
Bai Kesi paused, and added: "When the time comes back, I will stop by to see the situation in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River. The oil wells there should be about to start production!"
The focus of Bex's trip was to investigate the development of industrial projects in the Liaodong area. As for business, diplomacy, and military affairs, it was a secondary task for him.Therefore, he must personally visit all these mining locations along the way.
The Liaodong area is rich in mineral resources, especially the coal and iron needed for industrial development. The reserves are very huge, which fully meets the conditions for building a coal-iron composite industry center. This is also one of the key inspection projects that Beks came to Liaodong.The oil resources in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River have been a treasure that the Executive Committee has been eyeing for a long time. If they can be successfully exploited, there is a high probability that Liaodong will build a petrochemical industry base in the future.
Whether it is a coal-iron complex or a petrochemical base, it is of great significance to the long-term development of the Liaodong region.And the executive committee also needs to rely on Beks' investigation conclusions to decide whether to invest industrial resources in Liaodong and make it a new industrial center of the empire.
So Bai Kesi and his party only stayed in Gaizhou Acropolis for one day, and changed to a carriage the next day to continue northward.
Traveling a hundred miles northeast from Gaizhou, we arrived at Haicheng, the seat of Haizhou Wei's government.Haizhou Wei was established during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It has five thousand households under its jurisdiction and is affiliated to Liaodong Dusi. It is about 120 miles away from Liaoyang City, where the Dusi Yamen is located.
During the Ming Dynasty, when the North Korean envoys went to Beijing by land, this Haicheng was a must stop, and a special custom was formed - when the North Korean envoys passed through Haizhou, most of them would use the sea Zhou wrote a poem on the title.
During the Hongwu period, Li Qiang, a Korean envoy, said in a poem: The wind left behind in the Bohai Sea is all misty, and the lonely city looks at the setting sun while riding a horse.
During the Jianwen period, Li Zhan wrote in his poem: "Where is the Gaoli Pavilion now, it is still illuminated by the sunset in Shatou."
During the Wanli period, Huang Shiyou wrote a poem when he passed by here: "The sky in the northwest is all over the Liaoye, and the mountains in the southeast enter Haizhou."
The building scale of Haicheng is larger than that of Gaizhou Acropolis. The city wall is covered with adobe bricks, with a circumference of more than six miles and a height of three feet and four feet. There are Zhenwu, Guangwei, Linqing, and Laiyuan four cities in the southeast and northwest respectively. Door.
In the south of the city is the Haicheng River, which is nearly a hundred feet wide, and in the north of the city is a hill called Yuhuang Mountain.From a long distance, you can see the tower on Guangwei Gate.
A stone bridge is currently being built on the Haicheng River, but it has not been completed yet, and the group can only reach the north bank by ferry.Although it was quite inconvenient, everyone was quite excited to see such a big city along the way, and wanted to go into the city quickly to find out.
However, the city did not have the lively scene they expected. Although the city is not small, the local population seems to be not much different from Gaizhou Acropolis.There are many shops in the streets of the city, but most of them are closed and closed. Obviously, the local business is not too developed.
Liu Shang explained various reasons to everyone. Haicheng was still a very prosperous place during the Ming Dynasty, but after the Manchu Qing occupied this place, most of the Han people were moved away as slaves, which greatly affected the local people's livelihood.Later, when the Haihan army marched northward and seized this place, the Qing army also moved the local population away first, trying to eliminate the possibility of the Haihan army obtaining supplies here.So when the Haihan army took this place, what they got was almost an empty city.
Although some immigrants moved here after the war, the prosperity was difficult to restore in a short period of time, so it became what everyone sees now, and this is also the normal state of Liaodong.
"The development of Liaodong requires the introduction of a large number of people. The labor gap at this stage is estimated to be around 20 to [-] people. My biggest headache now is where to find so many immigrants." Chen Yixin expressed his feelings without any concealment. difficulty.
The most urgent need for the northern region to develop Liaodong is not capital, but labor.Industrial production facilities such as mines or factories require a lot of labor to start work, but the current population of Haihan's ruling area in Liaodong is less than [-], and a city like Haicheng will inevitably appear empty up.
The Manchus and Mongols in the north and west of Liaodong were not the first choice for immigrants. Of course, Chen Yixin still hoped to introduce Han immigrants from the south or the direction of the Ming Dynasty.But this is not easy to do. The south is more livable than Liaodong, and it is much more peaceful. Even if the northern region generously uses land as a settlement benefit, the scale of immigrants it can attract is still far below the expected value.
(End of this chapter)
In terms of the intensity of wars in this era, hundreds of casualties in the process of attacking Gaizhou Acropolis are actually quite good performances.After all, in the Battle of Gaizhou, the total strength of the two sides on the battlefield was over [-], and the casualties caused by the Haihan Army to the opponent were more than ten times that of their own battle losses. This ratio is basically in line with the military strength gap between the two sides.
Fortunately, at that time, the generals of the Haihan Army boldly took the leapfrog offensive, bypassing the large areas controlled by the Manchus in the south, and directly attacking Gaizhou, a land traffic pass, otherwise they would have to push slowly and hard all the way from Jinzhou Come here, conquer all the enemy strongholds along the way, and the number of casualties of the Haihan army may have to be multiplied several times.
The Acropolis of Gaizhou is not lively, it can even be said to be somewhat depressed.There is no bustling commercial street here, and there are only a few shops dealing in daily necessities in the city, and there are not even a few decent restaurants, which shows that the spending power of the local people is very average.
However, perhaps because the local people immigrated from other places after the war, they have always accepted the arrangements of the Haihan government since the naturalization and resettlement. The management is relatively smooth, and the local public security situation is also excellent.The government even stationed an infantry company here as a guard force for a symbolic purpose, and there were very few civil disputes in normal times, and the local yamen could not hear a few lawsuits in a year.
On the night when he settled in Gaizhou, Chen Yixin asked Bai Kesi and others for advice on the next itinerary.
"There are currently two routes to choose from. One is to take the water route and go directly to Shenyang along the Liaohe River. The other is to take the land route and go to Shenyang via Haizhou and Liaoyang. It will be faster to take the water route, but there are no inspection sites on the way. Passing through several major mining sites in Liaodong, you can take a look at the development of the local mining industry, but it will take more time on the road.”
Chen Yixin showed the map and explained to Beks and others the difference between the two travel routes.
Beks obviously made up his mind a long time ago, and said without hesitation: "This is easy to handle. Next, we will go to Shenyang by land and inspect the mining projects along the way. When we return, we will take the water route. When the time comes, we will go down the river from Shenyang, and the itinerary will not change." It will be faster."
Bai Kesi paused, and added: "When the time comes back, I will stop by to see the situation in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River. The oil wells there should be about to start production!"
The focus of Bex's trip was to investigate the development of industrial projects in the Liaodong area. As for business, diplomacy, and military affairs, it was a secondary task for him.Therefore, he must personally visit all these mining locations along the way.
The Liaodong area is rich in mineral resources, especially the coal and iron needed for industrial development. The reserves are very huge, which fully meets the conditions for building a coal-iron composite industry center. This is also one of the key inspection projects that Beks came to Liaodong.The oil resources in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River have been a treasure that the Executive Committee has been eyeing for a long time. If they can be successfully exploited, there is a high probability that Liaodong will build a petrochemical industry base in the future.
Whether it is a coal-iron complex or a petrochemical base, it is of great significance to the long-term development of the Liaodong region.And the executive committee also needs to rely on Beks' investigation conclusions to decide whether to invest industrial resources in Liaodong and make it a new industrial center of the empire.
So Bai Kesi and his party only stayed in Gaizhou Acropolis for one day, and changed to a carriage the next day to continue northward.
Traveling a hundred miles northeast from Gaizhou, we arrived at Haicheng, the seat of Haizhou Wei's government.Haizhou Wei was established during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It has five thousand households under its jurisdiction and is affiliated to Liaodong Dusi. It is about 120 miles away from Liaoyang City, where the Dusi Yamen is located.
During the Ming Dynasty, when the North Korean envoys went to Beijing by land, this Haicheng was a must stop, and a special custom was formed - when the North Korean envoys passed through Haizhou, most of them would use the sea Zhou wrote a poem on the title.
During the Hongwu period, Li Qiang, a Korean envoy, said in a poem: The wind left behind in the Bohai Sea is all misty, and the lonely city looks at the setting sun while riding a horse.
During the Jianwen period, Li Zhan wrote in his poem: "Where is the Gaoli Pavilion now, it is still illuminated by the sunset in Shatou."
During the Wanli period, Huang Shiyou wrote a poem when he passed by here: "The sky in the northwest is all over the Liaoye, and the mountains in the southeast enter Haizhou."
The building scale of Haicheng is larger than that of Gaizhou Acropolis. The city wall is covered with adobe bricks, with a circumference of more than six miles and a height of three feet and four feet. There are Zhenwu, Guangwei, Linqing, and Laiyuan four cities in the southeast and northwest respectively. Door.
In the south of the city is the Haicheng River, which is nearly a hundred feet wide, and in the north of the city is a hill called Yuhuang Mountain.From a long distance, you can see the tower on Guangwei Gate.
A stone bridge is currently being built on the Haicheng River, but it has not been completed yet, and the group can only reach the north bank by ferry.Although it was quite inconvenient, everyone was quite excited to see such a big city along the way, and wanted to go into the city quickly to find out.
However, the city did not have the lively scene they expected. Although the city is not small, the local population seems to be not much different from Gaizhou Acropolis.There are many shops in the streets of the city, but most of them are closed and closed. Obviously, the local business is not too developed.
Liu Shang explained various reasons to everyone. Haicheng was still a very prosperous place during the Ming Dynasty, but after the Manchu Qing occupied this place, most of the Han people were moved away as slaves, which greatly affected the local people's livelihood.Later, when the Haihan army marched northward and seized this place, the Qing army also moved the local population away first, trying to eliminate the possibility of the Haihan army obtaining supplies here.So when the Haihan army took this place, what they got was almost an empty city.
Although some immigrants moved here after the war, the prosperity was difficult to restore in a short period of time, so it became what everyone sees now, and this is also the normal state of Liaodong.
"The development of Liaodong requires the introduction of a large number of people. The labor gap at this stage is estimated to be around 20 to [-] people. My biggest headache now is where to find so many immigrants." Chen Yixin expressed his feelings without any concealment. difficulty.
The most urgent need for the northern region to develop Liaodong is not capital, but labor.Industrial production facilities such as mines or factories require a lot of labor to start work, but the current population of Haihan's ruling area in Liaodong is less than [-], and a city like Haicheng will inevitably appear empty up.
The Manchus and Mongols in the north and west of Liaodong were not the first choice for immigrants. Of course, Chen Yixin still hoped to introduce Han immigrants from the south or the direction of the Ming Dynasty.But this is not easy to do. The south is more livable than Liaodong, and it is much more peaceful. Even if the northern region generously uses land as a settlement benefit, the scale of immigrants it can attract is still far below the expected value.
(End of this chapter)