The year 1628 was not destined to be a quiet year, and the sound of artillery explosions resounded around the Lord, reminding people that war could come at any time.

Ignoring the noise outside the window, the large office was now full, and the first enlarged meeting of the 1628 year was being held.

The meeting was chaired by Xia Xianze.

The first topic of the meeting was to review the drawings of the Imperial City, which will be built in the center of Dayuan Island. The drawings were provided by designer Feng Guanjie, and there were several rounds of first drafts on the forum in advance, and today is the final draft date.

Looking at the final renderings posted by Feng Guanjie on the display board, most of the people in the room still had the disgusted expressions on their faces when they saw the dumplings.

"Isn't this still a two-and-a-half-story residential building?" Some people were immediately upset.

"Don't you just want Neuschwanstein Castle? Hold the grass, what about the material? What about manpower? In the past few days, Feng Guanjie, who has already been on fire, poked his fingers at the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and reflexively slammed back: "With this little resource, let alone ascending the throne, when the capital is moved, your beloved Neuschwanstein Castle has not yet been built; When the time comes, the uncles will all go to build a new landmark on the other side, and this is an unfinished building! ”

...... Shut up now.

Appearing on the renderings, it is a rectangular two-storey residential building that crosses the most familiar to everyone, and the roof is an all-access supermarket hall with two small circles......

"The soil quality is not good, so there is only one floor in the basement." Feng Guanjie was a little smoother, holding a bamboo whip in his hand, and began to point back and forth on the drawings: "The basement is three meters high, and in the future, Mr. Cao's imported boxes, including all important imported materials, will be sorted out and stored in the basement." ”

"The first and second floors on the surface are brick and concrete office buildings, public offices, and public toilets. The windows are double-layered, with an outer layer of wood panels and an inner layer of flat glass, waiting for our own glass kiln. Speaking of this, Feng Guanjie glanced at Xia Xianze, and then continued to introduce: "The third floor is a pillarless all-access business hall, where the plenary meeting will be held in the future and the enthronement ceremony." ”

When many people heard this, they subconsciously looked at Chairman Cao, who was sitting next to Xia Xianze and listening to the lecture with a smile.

Even if the question of the future course of the forum is still in the debate stage, until then, the constitutional monarchy is the consensus reached by all factions; Therefore, the government affairs building in the original planning has been renamed the imperial city...... "This is going to be the emperor!" "These middle-aged men in the house who were born under the red flag, whenever they see the chairman recently, they always have mixed feelings in their hearts.

"The high-tech content of the hall is relatively high." Feng Guanjie didn't have time to pay attention to the expressions of these blind buildings, and said to himself: "Reinforced concrete all-through hall, with glass curtain wall. Since there is no need for columns and partition walls, the round steel bars stored in the library should be used to pour the roof with soil cement. In addition, the floor-to-ceiling tempered glass wall and some aluminum accessories are not in stock, and a box quota is required, which ......"

Speaking of this, Feng Guanjie stopped and looked at Xia Xianze and Cao Chuan.

"Is one box enough? Don't do it halfway through and add to your budget! "Mr. Xia seems to have been hurt by these construction pits when he was doing real estate, and he has palpitations at the moment.

"Absolutely!" Feng Guanjie habitually showed a low tone to increase the sense of honesty: "2 cm thick tempered glass, 50 pieces stacked together, and the height is only 1 meter, even the future loss is counted." The size of the glass is customized according to the specifications of the transmission space, the square with a side length of 2.8 meters, the remaining space is placed with spare parts, and there is also a little space to get some spotlights. ”

Xia Xianze turned his head and whispered a few words to Cao Chuan, probably Cao has realized that he will ascend the throne in the future, it seems that this supermarket is his own ceremony hall in Buckingham Palace, so he nodded slightly, Xia Xianze swept his eyes here, and saw that no one objected, so he also nodded, and the quota of a box was set out.

......

The drawings of the "Imperial City" were finalized, and the next project was the Taijiang Shipyard.

There was no opposition from the shipyard itself, mainly because there was a lot of controversy about the supporting facilities: there was no shortage of wood, and the industrial system that could pass through the crowd now encountered the first difficulty: iron.

Resources are limited, whether to invest the resources at hand, into the excavation of iron placer mines in Taipei, or into the purchase of pig iron in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, both of these plans now have supporters, just like the later generations on the "make is better than buy" debate, this matter is also under discussion.

In the 17th century, Taipei had natural iron placer mines, although the total amount was not much, but it was enough to pass through the early days. However, for now, there is a huge military risk to running to Taipei to open a branch base, and the transportation lines that cross the public face huge military risks: including the Spaniards entrenched in Taipei, including the Fujian immigrants entrenched in the Bengang area of central Taiwan, these people are Zheng Zhilong's subjects.

If you want to develop Taipei's iron ore and sulfur safely, you must first drive out the Spaniards and occupy Bengang - all the energy of the people is tilted towards basic industry, and there are no extra resources to fight with Lao Zheng and the big pie faces.

Therefore, for the time being, the purchase of Ming pig iron from Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces has become the second topic decided at today's conference. This plan also led to two other decisions: to import small electric furnaces in the kiln area, and to dig a cable trench between the kiln area and the Chihkan New Area.

Needless to say, a small electric stove is a must. But the import of nearly 3 kilometers of cables and electrical accessories, just for the people of Chihkan to use electric lights and shipyards to use electric saws, this non-essential project was strongly blocked at the conference today: think about the African people still eating grass, you have to go upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones? - In the end, this plan was castrated: dig a trench first, and when the copper of the book is enough, we can produce our own wires......

After the quarrel between the two issues, the meal had already passed, and the old man hastily finished the working meal and began to worry about the natives again.

said that he was worried about the natives, but in fact, he wanted to do the natives.

As with any problem, whenever people want to do something, they always find that there are many preconditions that need to be met first......

Saltworks.

The Jianan Plain is one of the most salt-drying areas in China: the terrain is flat, the sun is abundant, the rainfall is concentrated in summer throughout the year, and the sea is highly salty.

Historically, salt has been dried here for more than 300 years, and the annual output of these gold medal salt farms is more than 100,000 tons.

Crossing the nature is also to dry salt, how do you say that? Crossing does not dry salt, chrysanthemums should be sprinkled with salt.

Salt is an important commodity, especially in certain salt-deficient provinces in the Ming Dynasty, such as Fujian across the sea; Salt is also an important chemical raw material, and the next step in the kiln base is to launch equipment for salt.

There is no need to go to the Qigu area more than 10 kilometers away to the north to dry salt, and the entire Tainan coast can be used. However, considering that Xingang Creek, which has become a sewage discharge canal for the industrial base, it is better to move a little north to the future salt farm, crossing Xingang Creek, and choosing a site between Zengwen Creek and Xingang Creek.

However, in this way, the salt works face a real threat: north of Xingang Creek is the territory of the Madou Society and the Xiao Yuan Society, and the alliance of these two indigenous villages has so far not surrendered to the crossing forces.