The third day of the sea voyage

On the blue sea, two large passenger ships, one in front and one behind, were moving forward through the waves. The passenger ship was much faster than the freighter. At this time, it had arrived in a certain waters south of Shangri-La Island, leaving the fleet of seven freighters missing.

On the second deck of front passenger ship

There are more than a dozen luxurious suites on the second floor of the passenger ship, which are just such a big place and the small restaurants are together, so there are many opportunities to meet every day, such as having a meal, walking, etc., and we will soon get familiar with each other.

After a few days of contact, Li Xiaozu and Duan Changjiang finally got into the small circle of Duke Wright and finally lived up to the family's painstaking arrangements.

Duke Wright was born by His Majesty's favorite concubine Fiona. He is tall and tall, with clear facial features, especially his big black eyes, deep and charming, and he is so handsome that he is the most handsome among the princes.

He is proficient in English, French and Mandarin, and is also good at German. He is not as arrogant as the eldest prince. After getting familiar with it, he found that he is a very good person with a gentle personality and a little talkative.

The other end of the passenger deck

Several noble children were gathering around the Duke of Palawan to try to please him, sitting under a white parasol and having afternoon tea, chatting very lively.

The two sides are clearly separated and each plays with their own small circles.

After His Majesty gave titles to all adult princes, many nobles in the empire had speculations;

Although Duke Wright is the fifth heir to the throne, he obviously lost hope of competition and did not even have a 1% chance, but he is obviously more favored than the other princes.

First, Duke Wright has a gentle temperament and no arrogance. Second, Nicole, the imperial concubine in charge of the West Palace, is his aunt, and his maternal favorite concubine Fiona, his Majesty loves the house and the U.S.

The evidence that influences this judgment is the duke's fiefdom, which is close to Cebu Island. The Spaniards have operated it for more than 200 years. There are many mature castles, churches, villages and towns on the island, as well as large fertile fertile fields, which are one of the islands with a high level of development.

The Duke of Wright's fief is located in the southern and central Luzon Islands. It has a pleasant climate and a long history of development, which is much stronger than the slender and strip-shaped island of Palawan.

If we put aside important geographical location, it seems to be much better than the Hawaiian Islands, which are more than 8,000 kilometers away.

Sitting under a white parasol

Duan Changjiang was in a state of great enthusiasm at this moment and said with a smile, "Your Highness, let's go through your Duke's fiefdom and get off the boat and tour together, which is just open to your eyes. It is said that there is blue sea and silver sand, and the scenery is pleasant, not inferior to Cebu Island."

"Forget it, what's the point of looking at the sea view? The Duke of Palawan and I were ordered to do this, so it's better to be more diligent and not to cause any trouble." Duke of Wright Li Sihan waved his hand and responded in a gentle tone.

He wasn't polite, but he really thought so.

The Ocean Empire has more than 27,000 islands, making it an absolute country of thousands of islands. It is almost everywhere with the invincible scenery of blue sea and silver sand.

Tasmania, Australia's local Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Darwin, Cebu Island, and Sanmalinda are from the Mozambique coast. These are all world-class famous coasts. The coconut wind blows, the blue sea and silver sand are as beautiful as a paradise on earth.

What's so strange about one more Wright Bay?

What is not rare is precious, and if it is too much, it will not be taken seriously.

"Your Highness said very much. I think the errands assigned by the current emperor are not without the intention of examining the school. The Somalian company's colonization in the Luzon Islands has a universal reference value for other parts of the island." Li Xiaozu could only help analyze and sort out the limited information in front of him, and continued thinking about it;

"We noble children who will inherit the title in the future shoulder the responsibility of the prosperity of the family. Which one is not put in the government department for training?

What is for?

It just can't be kept like the children of the Man Eight Banners. They can't be raising eagles and fighting dogs all day long, lingering in brothels, and vain the thousands of miles of land that their fathers have built.

From this, you must not ignore the errands on this trip!”

Duke Li Sihan of Wright nodded in praise and said, "What Xiaozu said is very consistent with my heart. With the current rising momentum of the empire, we cannot tolerate slackness."

"Your Highness is wise, and Changjiang is ashamed."

"Hahaha... You and I are of the same age, like ambitions, and don't have any taboos when chatting casually." Li Sihan, Duke of Wright, smiled gently, glanced at the eldest prince not far away, and turned around and continued, "Talking a thousand words and ten thousand words, I am also the position of a leisurely grand duke, and I will never inherit the throne. I am a plain person, without the great heroic spirit of my father who is as arrogant as a tiger. I only hope that in the years to come, if I have the honor of being helped by three or five friends, I will build the island of Ryte more prosperous and beautiful. This wish is enough."

His expression was sincere, and it could be seen from the heart.

Although Duke Kate is quite popular with His Majesty, he has mixed bloodlines after all, which is a flaw that he can never overcome. If the eldest prince still has a 1% chance to succeed the throne, he really has no hope.

Therefore, Duke Wright's marriage was led by the Imperial Concubine Nicole in the West Palace, and the Earl Conrad Adenner worked together to marry Princess Catherine, the daughter of Ludwig III of the Bavarian Principality. His Majesty gave the green light all the way and let it do it.

Find out the original meaning

I still want to compensate this gentle and favored prince through a satisfactory aristocratic marriage.

From another perspective, isn’t it a kind of sorrow?

Li Xiaozu's eyes touched Duan Changjiang and said respectfully, "If Your Highness does not abandon you, we are willing to work hard for everyone."

"Hahaha... I really want to do it, I dare not ask for it." Li Sihan laughed happily.

Manila

After three years, this big city in the Nanyang region has undergone tremendous changes. Large areas of low shacks have been pushed down and flat, and buildings have been set up one after another, mostly mainly 3 to 4 floors. There may be some high-rise buildings with more than 10 floors, and the exterior walls are still equipped with scaffolding and are under construction.

The area of ​​the renovated city is about 20%. The deep construction trenches are opened on the street, which is a permanent urban drainage facility.

As it was shortly after the rain, a small amount of water was poured into the construction trench and turned into a mud river, which looked very dirty.

The diesel engine at the intersection is roaring, pumping out large streams of mud and draining them into the river channel to clear the construction trenches and resume the construction of the sewer trenches as soon as possible.

Due to the limitations of the times, there are no qualified sewer cast iron pipes and super large diameter composite rubber pipes, which can greatly save construction difficulties.

Therefore, today's sewer facilities adopt the method of large-break construction, using bricks to build corridors, then cover them with reinforced concrete surface layer, and finally backfilling the slag, pressing them down layer by layer, adding gravel layers and fly ash layers to pour concrete asphalt...

A set of construction is time-consuming and labor-intensive, especially in large cities like Manila, with many streets and alleys. Therefore, it is necessary to combine the progress of urban transformation step by step, and take more than 10 years to improve the construction of sewer pipeline facilities in the entire city. The estimated total investment is 17 million Jinyang.

In the empire-ruled area, Manila is positioned as a first-tier central city, which means that it will be a metropolis with a population of more than one million in the future. The construction standards are all planned according to the first-tier central city. This huge investment cannot be saved.

Especially Manila is located in the subtropical region and has a typical marine subtropical climate. It has heavy rainfall in the rainy season and frequent concentrated rainfall. There is no high-standard smooth urban sewer facilities, which is a disaster in the rainy season.

During the Spanish rule, he turned a blind eye to the point of being able to live a life of life. No urban sewer network has been built for more than 200 years. The debt of this urban construction is now repaid by the empire.

To be specific

It is expensed by the Royal Interior Department, because it is directly under the royal family, the domestic cabinet of the Ocean Empire has not compiled a public construction expenditure plan.

Since it is the territory of the royal family, it is naturally the construction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the government is not easy to interfere.

Therefore, although the Royal Interior Department collects huge taxes and land transfer deeds every year, the expenses are also huge, and the surplus is extremely limited.

Urban construction is no joke, it requires years of continuous investment.

Pry apart your fingers and calculate

Since the moment Li Fushou set foot in Australia in 1876, he has been constantly in the cycle of construction, expansion, construction and expansion, and money-making and silver-sea flowers have been spent, which has brought about the huge prosperity scene today.

This is not...

The local construction in Australia is on track and has entered a long-term and generous period of profits. The development of the Qingshui River Basin in Shangri-La Island has basically ended, and the development of the Jinshui River Basin is approaching its end, and it has gradually gained the ability to be financially independent.

With local fiscal revenue, most urban development and construction needs can be basically met, with a little subsidy.

The Western War launched in 1898 also bought the Luzon Islands, which covers an area of ​​300,000 square kilometers, and a new round of construction began.

In the overall planning, although there is only one first-tier central city in the Luzon Archipelago and only one quasi-first-tier city in Quezon, there are 11 second-tier cities, including Davao, Carlo Okan, Zamboang and other important cities in the region.

These cities also need to be renovated and built. The annual investment is as high as tens of millions of gold. It has been going on for three years and will continue to invest in the future.

Don't say anything else

Just to talk about Quezon City, which is very close to Manila, is a prosperous city with a city that is no less than Manila's size, and its jurisdiction is four times that of Manila, and its economic status is very important.

If Manila is Peiping in the Luzon Islands, then Quezon is the Shanghai Sea on the Luzon Islands. Can such a city be built?

By imperial standards

First-tier central cities refer to first-tier cities with a population of more than 800,000 within 5 to 10 years and a long-term plan of more than 1.5 million. The construction standards are the highest. Red River Valley, Brisbane, Songjiang, Beilun, Melbourne, Qingdao, Tianshu, Moresby, Sanmalinda, and Seoul are all such first-tier cities.

Qual-first-tier cities refer to large cities with a population of more than 600,000 within 5 to 10 years and a long-term planned population of more than 1 million. Quezon belongs to this category of cities.

In high-standard construction, no amount of money is enough to spend.

Fortunately, the Luzon Islands have abundant free labor, which can save a lot of money for urban construction, which is the only good news.

Enter the city

You can see the hard laborers who have bare backbone and only wear a pair of shorts in the crotch to work under the scorching sun. They cleaned up the rubble of the flattened urban area, leveled the land, dug ditches, built roads, and did the hardest and most tiring work, changing the city's appearance like an ants moving.

All over the Luzon Islands, countless indigenous laborers are building roads, bridges, railways, irrigation ditches, forests are cut down, mountains are split into stones, and the flat and wide avenues are extended to all places.

After three years of construction

The construction of public facilities in the Luzon Islands has begun to take shape. The spacious avenues can reach the township level. Several railways are about to be completed and opened to traffic. The bridges and culverts along the way have been basically completed. More than 8,000 kilometers of irrigation canals and branch canals have been built, and construction has achieved remarkable achievements.

According to the new immigration policy implemented in 1899, immigrating to local Australian and Nanyang states, including Shangri-La, Borneo, Luzon Islands, Somalia and other places, no longer free land allocation for immigrants.

Immigration for land needs can go to the open market for land transfer to buy and sell transactions. The land price is based on the open market as a reference, and the government collects land purchase and sale deed tax at a certain proportion.

The above new policies do not include the Sulawesi Islands, the Pacific Islands, and the Hawaiian Islands, and do not include the Madagascar and Mozambique areas in Africa.

The reason for such a regulation is that more and more Chinese immigrants from the North, less and less undeveloped land in the government, gradually failing to make ends meet, and changing policies is imperative.

Changes in immigration policies have not reduced the enthusiasm of Chinese immigrants.

After the immigration population exceeded 1.8 million in 1899, the number of immigrants reached 211 from January to November 1900, and it is expected to exceed 2.35 million for the whole year, a surge of 30% compared with the previous year.

This was mainly due to the Northern War. The armies of the great powers of various countries entered Beiping City, causing a huge shock in China society and produced a significant spillover effect.

Through policy guidance, the government has sent more immigrants to the Pacific islands, the Sulawesi Islands and Africa to make up for the insufficient population of these backward and remote areas.

...

After a long journey, the Duke of Palawan and Duke Wright and their party arrived in Manila and saw a lively scene in construction.

The only drawback is that the streets are muddy and building materials are piled up everywhere. The natives in the scorching sun looked dull as they watched the convoy pass by, and then continued to work under the whip of the whip.

The entire city is in the pain of transformation and childbirth, and it will take some time to show a new and beautiful face.

The convoy moved forward shortly before entering the renovated urban area.

On both sides of the wide and flat asphalt road are tall subtropical street trees, flowers bloom in the bushes, and the street lights lined up to the distance, looking neat and clean, as if they were two worlds.

Some of the buildings on both sides of the road have been built, and the ground floor shops have opened. There are many customers coming and going. Most of them are Chinese in their clothes and dressing, and a small number of them are white.

Compared with the urban residents of the Red River Valley metropolis in Australia, most men wear exquisite wool suits or youth suits, while women wear expensive Western skirts and sway over the city with umbrellas, revealing a modern atmosphere of prosperity and prosperity.

There are not many people wearing suits here, mainly cloth clothes. Many people wear bamboo hats on their heads to block the hot sun. Women like to wear wide-leg pants that reach their ankles, which are cool and neat.

There are very few cars on the street, mainly ox carts and mule carts, and there are many large human rubber wheel trucks. Instead, there are many people, which is quite lively.

Overall, it looks simple and unpretentious, and compared with the local Australian cities, it is more than 20 years behind.
Chapter completed!