Chapter 2835

Shen Zhixiang's statement can actually represent the mentality of the vast majority of the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town. More than ten years after it was merged into Haihan, the special identity of Dongjiang Town has actually become quite blurry. To them, the people of the Ming Dynasty

The identity of the Han Dynasty is already a thing of the past. Nowadays, the Haihan Kingdom is more powerful than the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. 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 official road is more than a hundred miles long. If you choose to take a carriage, you will have to change horses halfway.

You have to travel all the way to get to Jinzhou in one day, so the comfort is naturally out of the question.

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 ride of a horse-drawn carriage that lasts all 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, seizing the strategic location of the Jinzhou Isthmus in one fell swoop, and then marched into the Han River to force North Korea to sign an alliance.

.Bikes came to Jinzhou at that time to chair the three-nation alliance talks between Haihan, Ming and 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 later, 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 made people sigh with 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 the shelves that have been put up, and many supporting facilities are still under construction. In the next few decades, it should be able to

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. And Jinzhou Bay is the largest natural harbor in the entire Liaodong Peninsula.

In the past twenty years, the state 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 in 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 to study for a period of time, and Bai Kesi also gave him lectures. According to Chen Yixin, Jin Ping is currently

He is already the chief civil affairs officer in the Jinzhou area, so he can be considered a leader.

There is also Liu Shang, a propaganda officer 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, would be the second official in the Jinzhou area?

How about the storyteller who was just hanging out in teahouses more than ten years ago?

As for Liu Shang's other secret identity, he has long since buried it completely, and no one will ever know the truth. At most, others know that he lived in Haihan from the Ming Dynasty, but they never thought that this man was an official sent by the Ming Dynasty.

An agent collecting 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. When they met again, Bai Kesi recognized Liu Shang at a glance.

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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.

Twenty years have passed, relying on the development of the seaport, a large emerging urban area has been built here. Han immigrants from Liaodong, North China, Shandong and other places have become the main population group here, and the population has basically returned to what it was after the Jin army occupied Jinzhou.

previous level.

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, which 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 plan on paper 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. Residential areas, commercial areas, agricultural areas, and Jinzhou University

A military area with a battalion as its core has clear functional distinctions between each area.

Take the main road where the convoy is traveling as an example. Its design standards are obviously far ahead of its time. The road surface has been hardened and is four feet wide. Five or six carriages can run parallel without being crowded. There are drainage ditches on the roadside, which can be used on rainy days.

The accumulated water will be directly introduced into Dalian Bay. 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 crew.”

"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 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, there is no shortage of money."
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