Chapter Eighty-Nine: Returning Home
In the following days, Chen Xuan had already handed over the work at hand to Chen Jiageng and Sun Zhiheng and others, and Jiang Fangzhen's selection of senior officers was also vigorously launched, and the development plan of Nanyang has now been established, and there will be no major problems in the future.
Chen Xuan brought Xu Ruohan and invited the large domestic and foreign businessmen who remained in Phoenix City to visit and inspect Zhenhua's sphere of influence in Nanyang, Zhang Jianyu, Qiaqing, Huang Zhonghan, Zhang Jingjiang and others were all within the scope of the invitation.
The group started from Fenghuang County, first visited the expanded wharf port, Chen Xuan's design of the wharf electric gantry has been unanimously approved by everyone, the loading and unloading efficiency has been greatly improved, and the continuous entry and exit of merchant ships are also showing the vitality and huge development potential of this new new city, and then observed the commercial center and financial center of Phoenix.
Today's financial center has five banks, in addition to Kai Zhenhua's Nanyang Bank (Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank spun off), as well as Yu Qiaqing's Siming Bank and three other Nanyang local banks, more than a dozen eight-storey sturdy and sturdy buildings all show the strength of this place, and there are still several banks in the process of renovation, and even France's Daosheng Bank and the United States' Citibank are already considering moving into Phoenix.
Phoenix is a commercial and financial center built by Zhenhua in Nanyang, needless to say, it is no problem for foreigners to come here to do business, but they must abide by the laws and regulations of Phoenix, and it is impossible to enjoy various preferential policies in the Qing Dynasty, and even the business liaison offices that countries want to set up are decided after difficult negotiations.
Since it is an economic powerhouse, there is no need to say much about defense, Zhenhua spent a lot of money to introduce hundreds of advanced coastal defense guns from France, the caliber is more than 150mm, the largest is 250mm, just to buy the gun money spent millions, the construction of the position, a total of more than 1.5 million oceans, but these money is not in vain, according to the assessment of the French designer, there are no dozens of huge warships, it is basically impossible to enter Phoenix.
The establishment of the coastal defense artillery this time is also part of Zhenhua's military plan, which not only increases the defensive strength of Phoenix, but also allows the escort team to have a place of experience and training in the design and construction of positions, and if it is necessary to deploy defenses in other places in the future, there can be ready-made examples to follow.
Out of Phoenix, a group of people along the road to watch Zhenhua's Tuntian plan, now in Shanghai machinery factory can already produce agricultural tractors, but many spare parts still need to rely on the foreign firms, to achieve complete localization or a long way to go, but they can finally produce it, it is enough to prove that Zhenhua has been improving.
There are a total of eight tractors sent to Nanyang, which is also all the tractors produced by Zhenhua trial, using a crawler structure, which is now being tried in the Phoenix area, and many technicians of the power company have also gone to Nanyang from Shanghai to record various experimental data in order to improve production in the future.
The bigwigs from all walks of life who came with Chen Xuan saw that the tractor could plow out a large area of wasteland in a few rounds, and according to the introduction of the technicians, they could also carry out sowing and harvesting work, and they couldn't help but be interested, but after hearing about the cost of the tractor and the cost of future maintenance and fuel use, they had no desire to understand.
However, Chen Xuan does not care about this, as the boss of Zhenhua with dozens of factories, of course he knows how much the cost of the product is before large-scale mass production, and Zhenhua does not have its own energy factory now, and the required gasoline and diesel fuel need to be imported, and the cost has naturally increased greatly, but now Zhenhua has asked Gu Weijun, who is far away in the United States, to purchase oil refining equipment, and the geological engineers who are looking for oil in Nanyang and China have long been sent out, I believe that under the guidance of Chen Xuan's golden finger, it is not impossible to find the oil field.
Blue Lake Town is Zhenhua's industrial base in Nanyang, which is generally not open to outsiders, but this time with Chen Xuan's leadership, the ban naturally can't restrain everyone, but Chen Xuan still selectively led everyone to visit more than a dozen heavy industry factories such as Blue Lake Iron and Steel Plant, Machinery Factory, Rubber Factory, Household Power Plant and Hydroelectric Power Plant, etc., and the reasonable layout planning also opened the eyes of these bigwigs, and they had a deeper understanding of Zhenhua's strength.
If they knew that Zhenhua still had an arsenal and an army academy hidden in the mountains here, it would be even more terrible.
Nowadays, Zhenhua has been able to produce more mainstream firearms and ammunition in the world, and has reached a technology transfer agreement with French arms companies for the production of artillery below 150mm when purchasing coastal defense guns with France, so that Zhenhua's arsenal has been able to produce all kinds of 75mm guns and shells.
Stayed in the Blue Lake Town for two days, the people reluctantly followed Chen Xuan to Xueyuan Town, now Xueyuan Town is also a big change, Nanyang University and Nanyang University of Technology two schools have opened, thousands of students wearing uniform student clothes into a major scenery of Xueyuan Town, Xueyuan Town is the main focus of Zhenhua in Nanyang cultural and technological center, huge libraries, museums, science and technology museums and research centers are all highlighting the heritage of Nanyang Chinese.
The architectural style of Xueyuan Town is very distinctive, and the design of various Chinese and Western buildings is designed by the teachers and students of the Department of Architecture of Nanyang University, and the learning process of Nanyang University is not to lock students in the school by rote, but to allow students to set up countless projects while learning theoretical knowledge, so that students can apply what they have learned to practice, and put forward new ideas and innovations in practice.
Nanyang Polytechnic's project is more practical, and now the railway project has begun to start, trying to build a railway to connect Phoenix, Blue Lake Town, Xueyuan Town and Xiaochang'an, in addition to various industrial projects are also developing majestically, several major knowledge buildings (libraries, etc.) in the town provide a strong reserve of knowledge tools, and there are constantly scholars and students to add or query all kinds of books.
The museum of Xueyuan Town is mainly based on Chinese culture, Zhenhua has seized a large number of cultural relics in the past two years, such as bronzes, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, etc., which have been well protected here, and many people who have come to visit have made a large number of donations, so that the museum of Xueyuan Town has been expanded again and again, and the three major buildings of Tang, Song and Ming Dynasty, which occupy the largest area, have been basically formed, and the Qin and Han museums need to be filled in later.
Zhang Jian, Zhang Jingjiang and other bigwigs were very satisfied with the safety protection measures of the museum, and promised to donate to the museum, and with the idea of building a library and museum in China, they needed Zhenhua's help, Chen Xuan naturally agreed, but in his memory, the Xinhai Revolution was only about a year to break out, and Great China would fall into turmoil, so he could only do his best to protect these national treasures.
The construction of Xiao Chang'an is in full swing, and after some discussion, Zhenhua decided to keep some of the original buildings of the Nima family, and the other dilapidated houses will be demolished and planned for reconstruction.
Because of the understanding of Zhenhua's plan and determination to build a small Chang'an, many Nanyang merchants have opened ash factories, brick and tile factories in Xiaochang'an, etc., Zhenhua has also planned to sell commercial land to various businesses.
In the planning of Xiaochang'an, the plot is sold to you, not that you can build at will, everything must be in accordance with the architectural style provided by Zhenhua, according to the size of the area and geographical location, Zhenhua gives design drawings, and the merchants build according to Zhenhua's requirements, and the illegal buildings are all demolished, I believe that after the completion of these buildings, a new standardized city will appear in Xiaochang'an.
Everyone stayed in Xiaochang'an for a few more days, and after signing some cooperation agreements, they said goodbye and left, and with Xu Ruohan's body continuing to recover, Chen Xuan's plan to return to China must also be put on the agenda.
Originally, Chen Xuan was just going to stay in Nanyang for a month or two, but he didn't think that it would take more than half a year just to help Chen Xuan in the construction of Nanyang, and then there was an assassination incident, so that he lived in Nanyang for more than a year, and Zhao Xuechu in China had sent countless telegrams urging Chen Xuan to return to China, and Cai Yuanpei was also very dissatisfied with Chen Xuan regardless of whether he asked about reviving D.
Chen Xuan took two more days to accompany Xu Ruohan and Xia Yunru to have a good time in Nanyang, and then embarked on the return journey with Jiang Fangzhen and the officer corps he selected, Yu Youren and his Fuxing D leadership group, and Chen Xuan and his Zhenhua team.
"Yiyang, I really didn't expect us to achieve such great achievements in the rest of the year, for the prospect of our revival D, I am more and more convinced, if the country is like us in Nanyang, why worry that the country is not prosperous and the nation is not rich, how dare those foreign devils run rampant on our land!"
Facing the newborn red sun on the sea, Jiang Fangzhen, who was standing on the deck, said to Chen Xuan.
"Brother Fang Zhen, Nanyang is not as good as China."
Yu Youren said with a smile:
"Nanyang is like a blank sheet of paper, the Dutch don't have the strength to manage such a remote place, and the local local government doesn't dare to mess with us, and the local tribe is also frightened by our defeat of the Nima family, so in Nanyang, we can do whatever we want, the efficiency of construction is not disturbed in any way, and our people are very good and very hard, we can achieve today's achievements, but the domestic 。。。。。。"
Yu Youren shook his head a little gloomily.
"Senior brother don't have to be frustrated, at least we have succeeded in Nanyang, and we will at least have traces to follow in the future domestic construction, although our power is still very small, but it is also constantly increasing, as long as we choose the right path, as long as we persevere and go on, we will always reach the day of the destination, I firmly believe in this!"
Chen Xuan said sonorously.