Section 12: Guests of Huang Shunlong’s house

Hong Kong's water sources are mainly concentrated in mountainous areas, while surface water sources are concentrated in Huangniyong Gorge. There are several mountain basins where ponds can be built to build dams and so-called "pools". In Hong Kong in the old time and space, in addition to building ponds in mountainous areas, Hong Kong Island water use is also built to set up protective parks in the mountainous areas and plant trees to increase the water culmination of the mountains.

"We have taken similar measures to merge small settlements to reduce the impact of human activities on the mountains, and to plant trees and afforestation when necessary. The base of the 30,000 population is still somewhat conservative." Merlin seemed very confident about this.

"Is industrial and agricultural enough to have only a guaranteed population of 30,000?"

"Of course, it was considered the needs of the industrial industry," said Merlin. "In 1634, another large pond was built on Lantau Island."

There is a stone wall pond on Lantau Island with a storage capacity of 24.55 million cubic meters, which is the largest reservoir among the ponds in the mountainous areas of Hong Kong. The main dam is 718 meters long, 354 meters wide and 54 meters high. The filling is 4,764 cubic meters. Even according to the standards of the Linggao Project, the project volume is not large.

"With this pond, it will be no problem to carry out large-scale purification camps in Lantau Island - farming is probably not enough, but the vegetables and breeding industries can still be done."

"The number of 30,000 people is actually conservative," said Hong Shuiyin. "The planning institute is calculated based on the average water consumption of modern people by 80 liters. People in this time and space cannot use so much water. In particular, most of our residents live intensively and cook uniformly. Use seawater to flush toilets or build fertilizer into septic tanks. The water consumption will not be as large as that of the old time and space."

Hong Shuiyin has water in his name, but he actually knows nothing about water affairs. This information was learned suddenly before setting off. He has a great enthusiasm for Hong Kong's commercial development and is very dissatisfied with the Executive Committee's enthusiasm for Guangzhou rather than Hong Kong. As a business representative in Hong Kong, the importance of Hong Kong is related to his own important information.

"If you want to protect the soil and water, what should I do with the building materials here?" Shi Dafu expressed his concern. The biggest difficulty in his infrastructure construction in Hong Kong is the lack of building materials. Hong Kong does not produce limestone locally, so the soil and cement projects cannot be launched, lack coal, and cannot make kilns and bricks. At present, it is mainly relied on quarries to blast granite from the mountains. Now I heard that to maintain soil and water, quarrying is a very environmentally damaging problem, and it is inevitable that it will stop.

"Gramite mining can continue. The exploration team will draw out part of the mountain to minimize overall damage. As for the wood and bricks, it depends on Guo Yi's - what can he buy when he returns to Guangzhou?"

"Cement, and the coal used for boilers."

"Cement continues to be transported from Linggao, and as for coal, Guangdong can also supply it. There is a large coal mine in Chaozhou - I heard that this time the Guangzhou station will stretch out its tentacles to suck the juice of the whole province of Guangdong..." Shi Jiantao said, "Our shipyard must make efforts as soon as possible."

Shi Jiantao was ambitious for the shipyard and was preparing to build the "free wheel" of the Lingao version, completely replacing all large ships near the coast of the Ming Dynasty with the Lingao Free Wheel. The ultimate fate of these ships is to serve the Great East Asia conquest of the Senate.

"The Liberty Wheel of Linggao will continue to be launched in Hong Kong like dumplings!" This was his bold statement when he was hosting the veterans of the shipyard before departure, and it was naturally coldly watched by Zhou Ke and others.

Shi Dafu was very excited: "We can finally go back to Guangzhou? Then we have to go back with great momentum under the escort of the naval fleet. The fleet fired 100 salutes in Baietan..."

Mei Lin laughed: "Master Guo is so powerful that he is so powerful that he is envious and jealous."

"The shipyard is building him a paddle yacht." Shi Jiantao drank Gwas, "and prepared to engage in a corrupt capitalist lifestyle. I don't know if the ship will be completed when I go back this time."

Guangzhou Commercial Station will resume business soon. According to the plan: Once the Guangzhou Station is restored, most of the building materials and living materials required for the construction of the Hong Kong base can be purchased from Guangzhou and transported. This not only saves time, but also does not need to occupy the fleeting group's own transportation capacity.

In the near future, not only Hong Kong itself, but also the materials needed by Linggao and other coastal island bases in the future will be purchased by local commercial stations and transported to Hong Kong to a unified transportation model. Hong Kong will become the largest logistics center of the Crossing Group on the coast of South China. In the subsequent military operations against Zheng and Liu families, strategies for Taiwan, strategies for the mainland, and other plans, such as the Australian and Song regimes, and strategies for military logistics.

The Planning Institute will set up a material procurement center in South China in Hong Kong, and rely on the Dron Hong Kong Branch to conduct liquidation and payment. Supporting customs, commodity inspections, classification companies and shipping insurance companies will also be gradually established.

The sun hangs in the sky like a dazzling light - but the sunlight does not bring much warmth to this place. During the Little Ice Age, the rich people on the streets even wore leather robes. The poor people wore bulky cotton jackets full of patches.

The sun shines on clusters of pointed roofs and fish scale tiles in Macau. The tiles on the roof are pink, but most of them have turned reddish brown or off-white after years of wind and rain and sun baking, emitting a slight glitter in the sun.

The windows are inlaid with dense wooden lattices, and some are cumbersome patterns. Even if you don’t hang curtains, you can’t see the scene in the room right in front of you. The walls that were smeared with lime have turned yellow due to the erosion of rain. The walls reflect gray light. The wooden windowsills are cracked and the paint on them has peeled off. In the depths of this pebble-paved alley, you can smell the odor of urine, feces and garbage from time to time.

In this alley full of exotic flavor, Lin Ming looked at Li Yongxun, who was walking in front of him with helpless eyes. She was very excited and looked around.

Such "exploration" has lasted for most of the day. Lin Ming felt extremely bored: Macau City itself is not big and there is no place to visit. The several fortress barracks of Franchisemen looked regular and unique, and Chinese were not allowed to enter. As for those Franchisemen's residences, although they looked small and unique, the closed windows also emitted lazy piano sounds and the low singing of women from time to time, which made people think a lot, but this was someone else's private residence after all.

If he is in Foshan or even Guangzhou, as long as he displays the Jinyiwei brand, as long as he is not a wealthy gentry family with an official background, he will go wherever he wants. If his garden is good, he will just send someone to say it, how can the owner dare to say it is unwelcome?

This place is Franchise man who controls everything. Although there are many Ming people on the street, they clearly follow a social norm with a strong foreign color. Lin Ming felt very uncomfortable with this - not only because he did not like Franchise man, but also because he realized that he could not act like a mighty person in this land like in other places. The Jinyiwei's place is not a terrifying term. Although the Xiangshan County Magistrate treated him very respectfully, he also sent a guide to him, but he obviously did not want him to be busy here.

"Where is this place?" Lin Ming, who was impatient, asked about the news around him.

"This is Franji's residence, Lane 5." Tongshi was a Ming merchant with a mustache who specialized in selling fruits and vegetables to the Portuguese in Haojingao. He often traveled between Xiangshan and Haojingao, and was familiar with both public and private parties. He could also speak fluent Portuguese. The Xiangshan County Magistrate would take him to handle the matter whenever he had any negotiations.

"What a boring place, doors and windows are closed everywhere!"

"Most of this place is the back door of the Franji merchant's mansion." said Tongshi.

Lin Ming was about to scold Tongshi for bringing them here, but when he thought that this was what his baby sister-in-law asked him to come in, he had to swallow it again.

"Master, don't be impatient," Tongshi knew his thoughts and said carefully, "It's the pier here, you can see the big plyboat of Franchisemen. There are also many sailors in various kinds of - you can even see the fan mother by chance!"

"Really? I've seen the big plywood ship a long time ago. It's said that the hull is as high as a floor, and the mast is even more terrifyingly high." The boy with a light step in front turned around and said, "How far is it?"

"Not far, not far away. Just leave this alley." Tongshi said. He knew that the boy walking in front was actually a girl: his too pretty face, his sharp voice, his slender skeleton and his twisted waist when walking clearly showed her true gender. However, he didn't want to know what the people from the Jinyiwei came to Macau to do.

At this moment, she tripped and fell, her ankle twisted by pebbles and shoes. She screamed and then sat down on the stone road. Lin Ming immediately ran towards her.

"How is it? Did it hurt when the fall?" He leaned over and frowned at her with concern. Li Yongxun grabbed one of his ankles and screamed in pain.

"It seems to be sprained." She said, unable to help but say ***.

Lin Ming looked around and saw that all the wooden doors here were locked and there were protective iron bars outside. There was no pedestrian in the alley.

"The little man is going to call the sedan chair now." Tongshi knew very well and said, "I think the master would take Ling Mei to the Huang family first, and then hire a doctor immediately after he settled down."

The residence arranged by the Xiangshan County Magistrate for him in Haojingao was at the home of a large merchant named Huang Shunlong. This shopkeeper Huang was very kind and very rich, and the mansion was built very luxuriously. Lin Ming used to know from his peers that Huang Shunlong was a "receiver of robbers" and colluded with all kinds of heroes on the sea. He not only bought robbers, but also sold all kinds of banned goods to the sea owners. He was a man with great eyes.
Chapter completed!