After discussing with Mu Longcheng, Master Ding Liqiu Ding drank another glass of wine and left. He is now the head of the Special Economic Zone, known as the imperial capital in ancient times, and he is also temporarily acting as the planning work of the province's "Development and Reform Commission".

After leaving Huangpu Port, take a boat and walk west along the wide Pearl River, passing by Cheung Chau Island...... At this time, Cheung Chau Island was just a few small sand dunes, and Sun Yat-sen University Town was not yet visible.

After 50 miles to the west, a noisy construction site on the south bank of the Pearl River is the planned special zone.

The land of the Special Economic Zone is actually separated from the city of Guangzhou in the north by a later Haizhu District. The Haizhu area of later generations is a sandbar that has been silted out, which is not in this era, and there is now a vast river surface between the two sides, with a width of more than 20 miles alone, which can be regarded as looking at each other across the sea.

On the shore is a neat row of temporary wooden pile trestles, and almost every trestle is now lined with boats of all kinds.

Of course, even if it is a temporary trestle, it was built by the traverser engineers with a pile smasher, and the strength must be more than the one built by the Ming people, and there is no problem with loading and unloading goods by manpower.

At the same time as Ding Liqiu got off the boat, the small carts on the trestle bridges had already lined up, loading and unloading building materials such as stones, cement and bricks.

Passing through the busy wharf, and constantly sending away all the merchants and housekeepers who came forward to ask for peace, it took District Mayor Ding half an hour to cross the wharf and walk onto No. 1 Avenue.

No. 1 Avenue is the main road of the Special Administrative Region, and it has not yet been named, but it is likely to be called Royal Street. In the future, when the special zone is built and the bigwigs settle in, the ribbon will be cut and named.

As the most important positioning and landmark of the new district, Avenue 1 was built to a high standard. In consideration of the needs of parades, military parades, and various celebrations in the future, the average width of Avenue No. 1 alone is more than 50 meters, and the sidewalks on both sides are more than 60 meters.

Speaking of which, in fact, experienced people have already seen that yes, No. 1 Avenue is based on the mold of Chang'an Avenue. There are differences, though. Due to the small size of the Special Economic Zone, the whole avenue is divided into two sections, and in half of it is a large square, which is the boundary between the administrative and commercial districts.

After passing the square, there are future government offices on the left and right. The Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc., each has an area for building office buildings. After the area of the ordinary government offices, there are large buildings: on the left is the Prime Minister's Office, on the right is the National Assembly Hall, and at the end of the road, behind a small square is the Imperial Palace.

After Ding Liqiu, who took the servant, got off the boat, he did not get into his special car directly, but let the carriage follow behind him, and he himself walked all the way along the avenue under construction, constantly patrolling along the way.

After half a year of hard work by 1,500 people, the avenue was built with the standard road repair procedures of later generations, and now the processes of laying the foundation, tamping, laying the base and cushion have been completed.

The 3-kilometre-long Avenue No. 1 runs east-west and is ready for use, although it has not yet been laid with cement.

What Ding Liqiu is stepping on now is the cinder layer on the surface.

There is no way to temporarily replace the cement layer with a cinder layer. Several old-fashioned craft cement kilns in Taiwan were originally overwhelmed by the supply to the whole country and Europeans, and now they have added the Guangdong Special Economic Zone, a large cement eater, and they can't produce it at all.

Fortunately, Ding Liqiu also has a plan here: a set of the most advanced (later county-level) rotary kiln cement production line has begun to be in the kiln area public relations technical difficulties, once the first set of equipment is successfully shipped, the follow-up will continue to produce multiple sets of shipments to Guangdong.

Cement is the difficulty, and so is steel. In the past, a few small electric furnaces could be maintained when the plate was not large, but in the next stage, when a large number of regular factories were launched according to the standards of later generations, it would definitely not be enough.

Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to build a blast furnace in Guangdong and repair a regular steel mill.

Thinking of these troublesome work, and then thinking of the current messy situation of bandits everywhere, Ding Liqiu couldn't help but secretly shake his head and sigh: "There is a long way to go!" ”

On both sides of the No. 1 Avenue business district, some squares drawn with white lime lines have already risen from the ground with many buildings built by the Ming people themselves.

Of course, it is said that the indigenous people built it themselves, but including drawings, construction plans, building materials, and project supervision, are all provided by the SAR government, and the fees are not high.

To put it bluntly, the Ming owner was only responsible for digging out the money and hiring construction workers, and the rest of the work was crowdsourced. In this way, a large number of imitation Chinese-style buildings with the same style were erected, taking the pedestrian street route of later generations.

These buildings are mainly red brick, with whitewashed facades, usually on the second or third floor, and are equipped with glass windows and Chinese-style hanging cornices. On one side of the street is a shop, and behind is a courtyard, which is in line with the habits of the Ming people.

Most of the shops are industrial goods and traditional luxury goods, to put it bluntly, the Champs-Élysées in the 17th century.

Those who can own a shop in such an expensive area are undoubtedly big businessmen or wealthy people. These people have all contributed to General Cao's entry into Guangdong before, and now they have been rewarded.

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Ding Liqiu inspected like this for about a kilometer, and then got into the carriage and rushed to the direction of the palace at the end of the avenue.

During this time, he passed by the large flat square, and the various departments and offices under construction, and finally he came to the three buildings in the core of the empire, which stood in the shape of a zigzag.

The avenue is blocked, and the only thing facing the long street is naturally the palace.

The palace here is very simple, and it looks a little imposing to the Ming people, but in the eyes of the people, it is nothing more than a three-story shopping mall, and it is estimated that the drawings are copied from Taiwan.

In addition, the palace is currently only partially completed, and the rest is still under construction.

The reason for this is simple.

First, the elusive Emperor Cao's coming to this plane now is basically equivalent to tourism, so his old man never cared what the hotel looked like.

Second, Guangdong is only a temporary capital at present, and it will definitely be relocated in the future, so there is no need to build any majestic large-scale buildings.

Third: There is a shortage of building materials, and the emperor also has to cut down on food and clothing to support construction, right, don't you see that the sleeves of Chongzhen's dragon robe are worn out? People are the model workers.

In short, for all these reasons, the palace has become a three-story mall again...... It's one level higher than the one in Taiwan, which is not bad.

On the right hand side of the palace is a pure white prime minister's official residence with a bit of Western style, and it seems to have a round or oval office. The traversers from later generations can probably see at a glance that this thing has a three-point flavor of the White House.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was the first to be completed, and all the reinforced concrete was used here, and even the garden behind it has been planted with ornamental plants.

There's no way, Lord Zhongtang's house must not be sloppy, after all, this is the right person, and if the sycophants are not good, small shoes will fly.

The Prime Minister is on the right hand, so the left hand side is naturally the Parliament Chamber.

The Congress Hall is the most eye-catching building in the entire D.C., and the only one to be completed, as the huge circular Colosseum is the most eye-catching building in the entire D.C.

When Ding Liqiu's carriage arrived at the prime minister's residence, it was already nightfall. Then when he came to the round office, he found that several people who crossed the entrance of the building were here: Chen Dong, Feng Guanjie, Zheng Yangyang.

These three, together with a group of Ming apprentices who usually surround them, are the technical core of designing and guiding the construction of the Special Economic Zone.

In fact, while Xia Xianze was still in Taiwan, the people who are currently staying in the SAR have already requisitioned the prime minister's official residence.

After Ding Liqiu came back, he first sat on the prime minister's seat and ate a bowl of fish ball claypot rice, then opened a bottle of sparkling water and drank a few sips, and then chatted with several architects.

Chatting and chatting, District Chief Ding suddenly felt that something was wrong, and then he patted his head and remembered: "I said, where did Li Dazui go?" Didn't it still exist before? Why did he go in this dark day? ”

"It's going to be demolished."

Feng Guanjie, who was discussing a pair of architectural drawings on the coffee table, said without raising his head. Immediately afterward, he added with a mysterious smile: "Forced demolition." ”