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The white stone-paved streets are immaculately kept.

Every morning, the newly recruited workers of the Department of Health and Welfare, dressed in orange uniforms, would go to all corners of Port Slime and sweep the streets with brooms in hand.

At first, the people in Hong Kong were very puzzled, thinking that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was about to come in person, so it also caused a small commotion in the market, and a few families who flattered the elders also set up incense cases on the side of the street.

After all, it's not that the Ming government won't do this kind of thing, but it's a scene that only happens when a new official takes office. As for the nobles of the South Seas, there are also flowers to preach from time to time. However, the local people soon found out that things were different from what they imagined, and the workers with the word "sanitation" printed on the back actually came out to sprinkle and sweep every day, and never delayed a day.

After a long time, I didn't feel that it was new, but the chiefs acted extravagantly, just for the sake of the cleanliness of the port, and I heard that a new sanitation bureau was set up under the Department of Health and Welfare, and the patriarch himself served as the director, which can be seen from the attention. But the benefits are obvious: there is no open excrement and no muddy roads, and the clean and tidy port quickly attracts traders from far and wide.

Diaoyutai is located in the best location of Hong Kong and China Commercial City, it has only been built for more than half a month, and it has become a good place for local businessmen to trade and talk about things.

Although there are many maritime merchants and many ports in the countries of the South Seas, most of the merchants who come and go rest on their own ships, and the slightly larger proprietors have other businesses in several major ports, and they usually live in their own trading stations in the ports. There are no restaurants and restaurants in the local area, at most there are merchant ships arriving in Hong Kong, and the locals will carry various specialties to sell, and there will also be private families who will give up their houses, but after all, it is still inconvenient.

The place that was repaired by the Strategy, known as the 'hotel', is located in the best part of the market, with a three-story building made of bricks and stones, and the food provided is clean and delicious.

The waiters are well-behaved and neatly dressed, which makes the nobles who come here to enjoy it very comfortable.

As long as you are willing to spend money, there are everything from fruit shaved ice to all kinds of fried and fried dishes, many of which have never been seen or heard locally, I really don't know how the Song people did it, but gradually everyone is used to using the Song people's 'banknotes'.

First, the goods in this port, as long as they are operated by the Song people themselves, they only accept banknotes, and if they bring silver money, they must first exchange it at the customs of the port.

In one of the halls there was a row of tall cabinets, and I heard that there was a chief in it who was in charge of his duties, whether it was gold, silver or copper, it could be converted at the time, and the price was fair. The commercial taxes in Hong Kong can only be paid with paper money, and there are still people worried at first, but the chiefs link the price of grain to the denomination of paper money, and the local brown rice is all silver dollars worth half a stone, and if it is exchanged for paper money, it is when a big red ticket of Yimo is five, which has never been short, just one, grain can be bought openly, but it is not allowed to be transported, if it is found that smuggling grain out of the port, it is a great sin. Of course, any merchant here will transport grain, even if the warehouse of the same size is filled with folding fans and oil-paper umbrellas, it will be several times more than the income from transporting grain, and the local grain price is already extremely cheap, and I don't know how the chiefs will think of this section.

After a month of trial statistics on paper money, the Department of Economic Strategy found that as long as there are suitable reserves and the government's taxes as a guarantee, this money is really not worried that others will not be able to accept it, not to mention that there are so many exciting commercial goods.

Facts have also proved that the promotion of paper money is much better than expected, as long as this colorful piece of paper can still buy goods in demand in Sili Port, there is no need to worry about gold and silver in other places, and the circulation of goods can be guaranteed, the advantage of paper money in market transactions will eliminate that risk intangible, after all, even if even the Ming treasure banknote is not to say that no one is willing to accept it at all, not to mention that there are more guarantees and can not be counterfeited Song Dynasty 'flying money'?

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Looking back at the backyard of this hotel, it is a well-built courtyard, with pavilions and water pavilions and delicate plants and trees cascading on each other to create a deep and shallow scenery that makes people feel calm. Around the yard is also a three-storey building, made of blue bricks, each floor is connected by a horse building, it is said that the rooms inside are clean and tidy, and there is a white porcelain toilet that can be flushed with a rope, a few naval cadets who are still eating in front of them just now do not feel unusual, they have seen it in their own dormitory, they can fully imagine the layout of the room, the snow-white bed is changed every day, I heard that the best rooms on the third floor are two suites inside and outside, and they must be the guests of the chiefs to move in, and it is not enough to have money, I heard that the floor of the room was covered with blankets from Persia.

If there is anything that can really make these people in this world understand the power of the times, sanitary ware can undoubtedly be counted as one.

To say that a set of ceramic toilets can be fired, whether it is gypsum and resin for the inverted mold, or clay and quartz sand for grouting molding, there is no shortage of local areas, and the glaze is not much used, but it is still in the experimental stage, and it will take at least several months to form a production capacity. Nowadays, the toilets in the hotel dormitories are all from the original inventory, but judging from the effect of use, the reputation of advertising has already begun, and several boat owners are already inquiring about the price.

It is no wonder that the businessmen who come and go here nowadays are willing to live here, not only to live comfortably, but also to hear that the owner in front of them is living in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse operated by the Economic Strategy Division, they will definitely take a look at it, not to mention that the service here is far more than that.

Bulk goods transactions, do not need to go to the business, HSBC's economy can come to the door to make a deed, according to the album to select the goods, directly in the hotel to do the handover, when leaving only in the dock to inspect the goods, directly loaded on the ship, this business is really very provincial, and the Song people under the running of all kinds of public people are more respectful to the businessman, ordinary other ports should have no common practice, not to mention exploitation, the means of the Song people really make the shipowners admire the five bodies to the ground.

It's just past noon today, and the proprietors who had slept lazily the day before and were about to get up for dinner were attracted by the noise on the street.

It is true that the Song people have big iron boats, and how many fishermen in Bajia Bay have seen them from afar, but the boat has been parked in the harbor of Labuan Island for many days, which is a forbidden place in Bajia Bay, and outsiders cannot easily approach. And since the Song people arrived here, they have never seen it go to sea again, so as soon as someone said today that the iron ship sailed to Sili Harbor, it attracted a group of onlookers.

One is because for the first time in the world, I was able to see the legendary giant ship like a city at such a close distance.

The second is also amazed, 'This boat can really move'.

Zheng Da and the two proprietors who came with him were also crowded in the crowd, just coming out of the main gate of Diaoyutai one moment, and being dragged to the dock the next moment.

The concrete-poured trestle was neatly arranged on the pier, and Zheng Dongzhu turned a blind eye to it.

The tall lighthouse in the harbor did not arouse the amazement of him and his companions.

In the past few days, there are also a lot of goods collected in the port, most of which are all kinds of special products exclusively operated by the Song people, loaded with ten large ships, two of which are newly rented from the local area, and it is not surprising that there are many exchanges.

Standing on the side of the trestle, paying attention to the money bags in their sleeves, all three of them stretched their necks as far as they could, looking towards the harbor.

"Is this ship really iron?"

"You all saw the clipper that led the water that day, isn't it iron that people can jump on it and knock it crisply?"

"But this ship is a little too big, is Brunei City so big?"

It is not an exaggeration to say that the entire team preparing to go south to Kuching includes 108 veterans and 200 marines, and in addition to a 20th century general cargo ship of more than 6,000 tons, there are also four 8154 fishing boats and a flatbed landing ship. Since the crossing, such a configuration can be called luxurious.

The three proprietors were sighing with the crowd when they heard a short, sharp whistle behind them.

I have heard this whistle a lot these days, and I can tell it clearly, it is the Brunei Provincial Police who are maintaining order.

Whether it is in Fucheng or Sili Harbor, the black-clad and black-hatted Song Gongren has become the most authoritative symbol, and on any street in the port, you can always see three or two men wearing black shirts and black hats, with the word 'police' printed on their backs. After seeing more, Zheng Da knew that this was the tolerance of the Economic Strategy Division, and there didn't seem to be a few real short-haired chiefs, most of them were locally recruited civilians.

The streets and roads are spotlessly clean, half thanks to the Environmental Sanitation Bureau, and the other half is due to the new Chief Superintendent of the Ministry of Households, spitting on the streets, defecating on the streets, and even littering are all major sins to be dragged into labor camps.

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The dock was crowded with people, and even a few groups of hawkers came to solicit business.

It was only the police whistle that broke the noisy atmosphere, and finally separated the crowd and cleared the pier where the 'big iron ship' docked and the pier outside.

Several naval cadets also scrambled in the crowd, and what the natives had not seen was also heard from the mouth of the school instructor, and they were about to get closer to see the real thing, but they were suddenly interrupted.

"Zhang San—"

"Why are you here, let me find it."

A slap on Zhang Fan's shoulder, scared the young man, and when he finally stood up and looked back, it was Zhang Zhao.

If he is sued by Zhang Zhao in front of his own Lao Tzu, he will take out the allowance and eat and drink indiscriminately without subsidizing the family, and most of them will have to eat rattan when he goes back.

"I was talking about calling my eldest brother out in the morning, but I didn't want you to be left behind by the chief." Yao Zhe on the side saw the opportunity to quickly help his companion out of the siege, and even called Zhang Zhao's ranking set up intimacy.

Zhang Fan lied in front of this nephew without blinking, listening to Yao Zhe helping beside him, and looking at Zhang Zhao's expression differently, Zhang Fan said as if he had hit a savior: "But what's the matter with the school?" ”

At this moment, Du Ping, who was originally crowded not far behind, also surrounded him, and when he saw Zhang Zhao, he first said hello, the Naval Academy is more polite than the army, but compared to the red tape at this time, it is still a lot more easy-going, and Du Ping has never been afraid of Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao saw that the three people he was looking for were all together, and he said that he was lucky, and his face was a lot more easy-going.

"Come back with me at once—"

"Tell me on the way to explain to your family—"

Seeing that the three of them were still looking at themselves in a daze, Zhang Zhao looked around angrily, and finally targeted his own uncle.

With a foot on his body, before he could scream in pain, he had already heard Zhang Zhao shouting excitedly.

"Why don't you go back to the dorm and clean up?"

"You don't want to get on the big iron ship anymore?"

Everyone was stunned again when they heard this, and after a while, they suddenly said 'ah' in unison.