The mosquitoes, savages and mountain roads in the Miaosu Mountains soon drove Feng Guanjie to the point of death. There was nothing but virgin forest here, and the feeling of being far away from civilized society made him want to escape here all the time.

God bless me, one day I finally heard that the Shanghai Free Trade Zone was under construction. So Feng Guanjie went back without saying a word, said hello, and rushed to the front line to fight with anyone who dared to mention the word Miaosu again. It has been more than half a year.

It's time to change shifts.

After taking several apprentices to Hangzhou first, Feng Guanjie took a river boat and rushed to Xiong Dao.

When he learned that the man surnamed Feng was coming, Xiong Dao did not dare to neglect him. This person had already specified his position in the telegram: Chief Designer of the Free Trade Zone, responsible for the overall design and planning of the port area, industrial area along the river, and living area.

That's why Xiong Dao brought Feng Guanjie to Zhangsutan for inspection today.

It is now May when the weather starts to get hotter. In previous years, Zhangsutan has been covered with waist-deep thatch during this season, becoming the best cover for thieves to commit crimes.

Today's Zhangsutan has changed a lot. Located in the area where the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River meet the sea, Zhangsutan has an advantageous geographical location and difficulty in demolition. It was the first free trade core area identified as a dock area.

So the first group of construction workers came to Zhangsutan and started construction. The main force of this group of people were the landless tenants who were separated from Zuojia Village. Later, a large number of surrounding refugees were added to the construction team.

beggars, causing the number to increase to more than 2,000.

Carrying out large-scale projects in the Jiangnan region has an advantage that is not available in other places: food.

Projects in the 17th century were difficult to carry out. If thousands of strong laborers were gathered in many places at once, the transportation of grain would become a problem that future generations would have no idea about.

This is equivalent to gathering an army with a huge appetite near the county seat. In poorer areas, the inventory will soon be out of supply, and grain and grass need to be transported from nearby areas. The cost of this transportation is very high.

In the northern region, it would be good to transport ten cars to five cars.

The Cross Country experienced this kind of hardship when it was working on projects in Fujian. It was difficult to transport food in mountainous areas, and Fujian itself was a food-deficient province, so the project headquarters, which lacked experience at the beginning, suffered several setbacks in this regard.

There is no such problem in the Jiangnan area. First of all, the four connected inland rivers ensure timely and low-cost transportation of supplies.

Secondly, although the grain fields have been replaced by a large number of cotton fields, because Hangzhou is the main water transportation station, there is no shortage of food in the Jiangnan region, and the water grain from the southern provinces will be concentrated here.

In the Ming Dynasty, in order to maintain the 4 million tons of grain, the cost of the entire water transportation system became higher and higher.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called quota of 400,000 dan was no longer enough. The central government, local governments, gentry, petty officials, and officials of all sizes who relied on water transportation, all these forces worked together to insert tubes into the country's main artery to suck blood.

So the current situation is: on the surface, the grain quota is still 400,000 dan, but after the actual collected grain has been speculated by various national taxes, bad regulations and increased consumption, the quota has been pushed up to the level of 10 million dan.

So for the Chuanchuan people, this situation is actually a good thing: because food can be purchased centrally.

After the officials and gentry collected extra amounts of grain, they would definitely not use it to steam rice from their families. The grain would eventually be sold to merchants for cash, completing the cycle of wealth accumulation.

So now if a certain force offers silver and various rare commodities in exchange for food, it will really be detrimental. At the beginning in Hangzhou, it was still a sneaky kind of thing. After General Cao recruited people, Taiwan started to

He was so unscrupulous that he shipped boatloads of industrial products to Hangzhou.

After the industrial products were converted into silver on the spot, shiploads of food and people were brought back to Taiwan. The Ming Dynasty had countless "money" that could be used to compensate for the trade deficit: population.

The consequences of a wave of powerful consumers appearing out of thin air were: starting from the second half of 162, grain prices in the Jiangnan region slowly began to rise. By the time of the lean season in early 1629, the price of brown rice had been pushed up to one tael of silver per load.

This change, which has never occurred in history, has resulted in more refugees being produced in areas with rising prices. But the good thing is that after overcoming the initial difficulties, these extra refugees

and bankrupts are being shipped away in a steady stream.

In the future, as Tainan's 4,000 square kilometers of large granaries are continuously reclaimed, in a few years, the food produced through industrial means can be used to support the Ming Dynasty's population collection operations.

The story returns to Zhangsutan: Due to the abundant food supply, the infrastructure construction operation here quickly gathered a construction scale of 2,000 people.

This scale is thanks to the tireless efforts of the Chuanchuan people to carry out infrastructure construction. Now a large number of experienced construction workers have been trained. Simple tasks such as organizing civilian workers, establishing construction sites, and leveling the land in the early stage of construction are no longer required.

Chuanzhong came to host it.

This is how the transition from export to domestic sales came about. After these foremen and technicians went to Taiwan to learn their skills, they were sent back to the Ming Dynasty to take on important responsibilities. The difference from back then is that they no longer have seniority. In order to avoid being shocking,

They had no choice but to shave their heads and pretend to be monks.

The original Zhangsutan Pier had been burned down. Now after preliminary renovation, the river channel has been filled in and connected with the island in the middle of the river.

At the original address of the island in the center of the river, a traditional wooden pile trestle is extending out to the river. A large number of workers are like ants, busy around the unfinished trestle.

Accompanied by Xiong Dao, Feng Guanjie walked around the dock area, which was still quite simple at present. With a general idea, he started work the next day.

The first thing Lao Feng did was to take his apprentices to survey and map the surrounding area. This kind of work basically no longer requires his intervention. The young people are already proficient in using instruments such as total stations, resisting

I ran around with a tripod.

After obtaining detailed data on the surrounding land, Feng Guanjie moved into the landlord's house in Zuojia Village and began to draw design drawings one by one.

At present, since all the projects are concentrated around Zhangsutan, his design tasks are relatively easy: leveling the banks along the river, hardening the road surface in the dock area, and building a few trestles, a few warehouses, and a few square houses.

Of course, there is the most important road.

As for the industrial zone, that has to wait. At the moment, both Xiong Dao himself and the cabinet of senior officials are concerned about opening factories that emit billowing black smoke in the Jiangnan area. It seems that the time is not yet ripe.

But Feng Guanjie still planned the industrial zone. Large tracts of regular factories were unrealistic, but a small amount of steam machinery used to power the docks was still fine.

In addition, if a large factory cannot be built, "smoke-free industries" such as the handmade papermaking workshop promised to Yu Bende, the planned match workshop, and the mahjong workshop can also be opened in advance.

"Let's do it bit by bit." Feng Guanjie and his apprentices spent almost half a month drawing out all the drawings of the first phase of the project he planned.

The entire first phase of the project covers a quite large area, almost three square kilometers, and is located in the Gaoqiao Port area that will later become known as Gaoqiao Port.

After lying on a large table and reading Feng Guanjie's design master plan, Xiong Dao did not express any opinions: he knew nothing about architectural design and could not tell anything.

However, the next moment, Xiong Dao pointed to a place in the upper left corner of the design: "You are not in a hurry to build this land, are you?"

Feng Guanjie leaned on his arm, glanced at the map, touched his stubble, and thought for a while before saying: "This is the planned cement gravity dock area. In the future, warships and heavy equipment will be unloaded. It needs to be built.

For this, we need to build the cofferdam first, and there is no construction machinery here, so the construction period will be very long."

When Feng Guanjie said this, he showed a "you know" look: "Even if we start work tomorrow, we won't be able to repair it in half a year, let alone we can't start it tomorrow."

When Xiong Dao heard this, he felt like his head was pounding: "This land hasn't been bought yet."

"Then buy it quickly. This is the land that extends to the west. You will have to buy it sooner or later."

Xiong Dao understood what Feng Guanjie meant.

The Huangpu River enters the Wusongkou area of ​​the Yangtze River. It is a waterway from south to north. The river surface here at Wusongkou shows an "S" shape. In the plan of crossing the country, the upper part of the "S" shape,

That is, the area of ​​nearly thirty square kilometers east of Wusongkou and west of Gaoqiao Town is the future "

China's territory.

In other words, this peninsula-shaped land will be emptied of all natives in the future and become an administrative area similar to a "concession". Then when the Ming Dynasty falls, a large number of troops will be mobilized quickly.

From this source of war, we conquered various places south of the Yangtze River.

The "land extending to the west" that Feng Guanjie just mentioned refers to the land west of the Gaoqiao River. In the above-mentioned long-term plan, these are the core areas that must be obtained, so Xiong Dao should not be here.

There is hesitation.

"The problem is that this piece of land has a big background!" Xiong Dao shook his head helplessly at this time: "I have done a lot of things recently, and it has become very eye-catching. This piece of land is the manor of the Dashan family, and I really don't want to do it now.

Just go and cause trouble.”

"How you deal with the natives is your business, I have no control over it."

Feng Guanjie laughed happily: "The only thing I can give you now is professional advice: It is best to get this land as soon as possible. As soon as the trestle is repaired, some construction machinery will arrive, and construction will start there."

"If it doesn't work, I will change the drawing, but I would like to remind you as a friendly reminder: It's a knife to extend your head, and it's a knife to shrink your head. Sooner or later, you'll have to take it down."

Taoist Xiong sighed: "Well, I understand what you mean. But the situation is very tense now. I need to think about it. Let's wait until I finish communicating with my hometown."
Chapter completed!