Chapter 2533

When these young people came, they had already agreed to visit Shi Diwen together when they arrived in Hangzhou. Naturally, they had to find out the location first. The place where they were at this time was east of Hangzhou City, but Shi Diwen's manor was in

There are more than ten miles of land to the west of Hangzhou City. You have to cross Hangzhou City to get to that place. But you can go directly to the Yamen in the city, and the distance seems to be a little closer.

"Then why don't we go directly to the city tomorrow and pay a visit to Master Shi first, and then split up to do our own errands?" After Tao Hongfang asked about the situation, he asked the other three people for their opinions.

Ning Zijing naturally had no objections. His mission in Hangzhou was to contact Qiong Lianfa's resident agency. Now he only had to wait patiently in Hangzhou for Li Fa to come back. Before that, he had plenty of time to deal with personal matters.

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"If you go to the Yamen to ask for an audience, you can only go in the name of official business." Bai Letong reminded: "Then you have to wait in line slowly to be summoned."

In a place like the Yamen, where there are many people and mixed views, it is naturally inconvenient for them to directly express their special identities. Otherwise, rumors will spread as soon as they arrive in Hangzhou, which will not be conducive to them performing their respective tasks here in the future.

Ha Jianyi said: "It's okay. Let's go see Mr. Shi through the normal procedures. Our errand is not an urgent one anyway. We'll pay the concierge when the time comes. If we can't wait for an extra hour and a half, we'll just have to wait."

After weighing the pros and cons, several people still felt that it would be better to visit Shi Diwen at the Yamen in the city in a low-key manner. If this route was not feasible by then, then they would consider visiting his private estate.

After traveling for more than half a month, they finally arrived at their destination. They were not in the mood to go out for fun at this time, and they had to do business tomorrow, so after dinner, they went back to their rooms to wash up and rest.

After Ning Zijing returned to his room, he asked his entourage to quietly summon Yang Ji and told him not to talk about the identity of his group and the purpose of coming to Hangzhou, so as not to affect the things they had to do in Hangzhou. Yang Ji naturally

Don’t dare to be negligent and respond one by one.

Early the next morning, everyone had breakfast and took the carriage prepared by Yang Ji in advance to Hangzhou City.

It was already late when they arrived yesterday, and they could not see the situation clearly from the carriage. They went out early this morning and had the opportunity to check the surrounding environment. The land circled by Qiong Lianfa is located on the west bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. According to

The functions introduced by Yang Ji are divided into four blocks, and the streets are full of large and small commercial shops. It can be seen that Qiong Lianfa's overall planning has a very high utilization rate of land.

However, the vast majority of these pavements have not yet been fully completed, and various building materials can be seen piled on the roadside everywhere. After the completion of these pavements, not all of them will be hung with Qiong Lianfa's signboards, but will be divided by each shareholder of Qiong Lianfa.

Business.

The advantage of this development method is that the initial land enclosure and construction costs will be lower than if each company operates separately, and because the industries and scopes operated by each company are different, the industries that can be covered in this area will also be

It is more comprehensive and covers almost every link in the business industry chain. When customers enter this block, they no longer need to travel here and there. Whether it is purchasing or selling, they can find the right target here.

This kind of development model is also unique to Haihan. Business consortiums like Qiong Lianfa have broken the old business form and are far ahead of their contemporaries. In the face of business giants of this size, local

Even if a business has a certain foundation, it will be difficult to withstand the competition brought by these new business methods.

However, such a commercial district is not too new to a few young people from Sanya. Similar business development models are already common in port cities in the south, but there are few constructions on the scale of Hangzhou. And large-scale projects like Qionglianfa are rare.

There are still several commercial institutions in Haihan, and they will definitely not be left behind. A similar commercial district will definitely be built in Hangzhou. By then, the scale of local business will definitely increase rapidly due to the influx of foreign capital.

After leaving this block that is still under construction, what comes into view is a large field. It is still six or seven miles away from the city of Hangzhou, so the surrounding area is still mainly agricultural land, and almost everywhere as far as the eye can see.

It is a vast area of ​​mulberry forests and wheat ridges. Qiong Lianfa chose to enclose land here, firstly because it is close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Qiantang River, and secondly because there are not many residents and buildings here, and the cost of land is relatively lower than that near the city.

Some.

Of course, as soon as the news of the capital relocation came out, land prices in the entire surrounding areas of Hangzhou skyrocketed. Qiong Lianfa had official news channels. Just by enclosing the land before the decision to move the capital came out, it already saved a lot of money.

I spent a lot of money. Now if I want to buy land in the same area, the price will have to double compared to before.

Thanks to the existence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the land transportation conditions leading to Hangzhou City are not bad, and the carriages they took quickly entered the official road. According to Yang Ji's instructions, the nearest access to the city is on the east side of Hangzhou City

The Qingchun Gate can be reached by walking along this official road.

Qingchun Gate was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was originally called Dongqing Gate. It was destroyed during the Yuan army's attack on Hangzhou in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It was later rebuilt in the late Yuan Dynasty and renamed Taiping Gate. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that it was renamed Qingchun Gate. Ten places in Hangzhou City

Among the city gates, Qingchun Gate is the main passage in and out of the city. Qingchun Street inside the gate has been one of the bustling streets in Hangzhou throughout the ages.

However, the carriage Tao Hongfang and others were riding had to stop near Qingchun Gate. Before entering the city, they had to queue up to pass the Tiesha River, which is the moat outside Hangzhou. This river was dug in the Tang Dynasty.

It was also used to release the tide of the Qiantang River. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Hangzhou official Wang Dashou led a group of people to dig and dredge, so that this moat that had been silted up could function again.

There is a stone bridge outside Qingchun Gate across the Tisha River, which is about four feet wide. It serves as a daily passage for people to enter and exit the city. However, due to the limited width of the bridge deck, it is difficult to enter and exit during the peak period after the city gate opens in the morning.

Cars and horses in the city had to queue up to pass through, and Tao Hongfang and others could only wait patiently.

Tao Hongfang and Ha Jianyi were in the same car. After the two raised the curtains and watched for a while, Tao Hong conveniently said: "It seems that the city gate of Hangzhou is still closed at night, otherwise we wouldn't be at the city gate early in the morning."

Congestion.”

Ha Jianyi said: "After all, Hangzhou has just been captured not long ago. There must be public security considerations in closing the city gates."

Since they can remember, the few cities on Hainan Island have not closed their city gates. Danzhou even demolished the original city gates and widened the roads to facilitate the entry and exit of cars and horses. As for Hainan,

Cities developed and constructed by the Han Dynasty, such as Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Zhoushan, etc., did not build fortifications such as city walls and gates at all.
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