Among the major coastal cities controlled by the Chinese Empire, the ports of Su Province have not yet been restored, and the ports of Hebei Province and Liao Province are more like military ports, while only Qi Province, especially the ports in the south of Qi Province facing the south of the Yangtze River, can be regarded as commercial ports mainly for economic development.

This naturally includes Rizhao, the first port controlled by the Xu family, and Jiaozhou Bay Island Port, which was developed during the Qi period.

Since the latter is a key construction of the empire and a commercial port open to the outside world, the port infrastructure construction is more complete, so the island city port has gradually had the scale of the empire, and even the world's largest commercial port.

The Wenjia fleet from the south of the Yangtze River actually entered the island city port, rather than the Rizhao port, which was relatively closer to home.

After all, it is a biological father and daughter, and the fleet of Wen Ji and his wife has not yet entered the port, and Zhang Zong, who is following the fleet, found that there are flags waving on the dock of the island city, and people are full of voices.

It turned out that the emperor of the republic came to the island city and personally came to greet his daughter.

"It seems that the princess is still very favored."

Zhang Zong smiled and said to his companion and captain:

"The officials in the north have all personally greeted them, this is from Quancheng to Island City, how many miles is it to welcome?"

"The princess is the queen's daughter, and her status is naturally different."

There are two queens in Huaxia, one of which is Xu Shiyang's biological mother, who was posthumously named queen; The second is the mother of Xu Shiliu and Xu Shimei, the current imperial queen.

In addition to Xu Shiyang, Xu Shiliu, and Xu Shimei, Xu Muhe currently has six sons and three daughters, but they were all born after the rise of the Xu family, their mother used to be Xu Muhe's concubine, and now she is a concubine, of course, no matter what their status, their children are not comparable to Yang Liumei's three brothers and sisters.

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On the dock, the emperor, empress, concubines and most of the imperial heirs of the Chinese Empire all went out to greet Xu Shimei.

However, Zhang Zong did not see Xu Shiyang, who he wanted to see the most, and after landing, he asked someone, and he learned that Xu Shiyang was currently in Yanjing, Ji Province, and was no longer in Qi Province, so this time the princess went home to save his relatives, and he just gave a generous gift - ten Jurchen slaves and ten Jurchen female slaves, and he was still presiding over the work in Ji Province.

At this time, when the Chinese Empire was just being established, the empire actually had two administrative centers.

One of them is Quancheng, because this is the starting place of the empire, almost all the old industries are in Qi Province, and Qi Province has a north-south transportation, which can be regarded as a strategic location, so the first emperor of the Republic still resided in Quancheng in those years.

Another administrative center was Yanjing, where the first crown prince of the empire, Xu Shiyang, was stationed for a long time with the main officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.

The reason is simple, this is the front line in the direction of the Mengwu, and it is closer to Shanxi.

On the military side, Xu Shiyang needed to personally arrange the defensive and offensive deployment in the north and northwest directions, and on the industrial side, he had to make use of the massive coal resources of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Liao, and other provinces to carry out industrial layout on the spot.

The first step of Xu Shiyang's ambitious industrialization layout is to build the first and largest coal and iron industrial complex in the history of Yongping Mansion in Hebei Province.

Because there are abundant iron ore resources here (as we all know, China's coal resources are abundant, but the iron ore taste is very low, and the eastern Hebei region may be the only area in China where coal and iron resources are very rich), combined with the coal mine resources of Hebei Province, Jin Province and Liao Province, the minimum conditions for a coal and iron industrial complex have been fully met.

For a country in the midst of the first industrial revolution and the eras that preceded it, coal and iron were everything.

Matching with the Yongping Iron and Steel Base, the small and medium-sized industrial belts around Yongping in Liao Province, Jin Province and other places will be established one after another.

Among them, Liao Province took Anshan, a small place between Liaoyang and Haizhou, as the core, and established Anshan Iron and Steel Group.

Jin Province established Taiyuan Iron and Steel with Taiyuan as the core.

In addition to the existing Laiwu coal and iron base in Quancheng Prefecture in Qi Province, as well as the industries in other parts of Hebei Province and Shaanxi Province, all large, medium and small industrial bases must establish a complete coal and iron industrial chain, from mining, beneficiation and washing to coking and ironmaking.

Xu Shiyang hoped that five years later, in 1796, after the completion of the first five-year plan of the new empire, the industrial output of the Chinese empire would reach the level of at least 1 million tons of coal, 400,000 tons of pig iron, and 200,000 tons of steel (the output of Tsarist Russia in 1870).

If all goes well, then the empire should have completed the general unification of China, and then draw up a second five-year plan with a higher goal.

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Ji Province, Yanjing, the crown prince of the Chinese Empire is here.

"Won't Your Highness go to Island City to greet the princess?" Li Feihu asked curiously.

"I'm too busy to go." Xu Shiyang sat behind the desk and said without raising his head: "The brother-sister relationship between me and my sister doesn't have to be shown at this time, she can understand." ”

Xu Shimei's status in Jiangnan and the Wen family actually depends on the rise and fall of the Xu family's power in Jiangbei, the stronger the Chinese Empire, the more courtesy she, the princess of the empire, can get.

What's more, Xu Shiyang really didn't have time to run back to Qi Province from Ji Province to catch up with his sister and brother-in-law, and wait until they have time to come to Yanjing.

It won't take long, three years later, five or six years at most, as long as the unification is completed, the princess of the empire can go wherever she wants.

"I didn't call you here to talk about it." Xu Shiyang continued: "How is the exploration of the Sansha Islands going? ”

Before the Li family officially accepted the recruitment of the Chinese Empire, Xu Shiyang urged Li Feihu to survey the Sansha Islands, and he had always been very keen on the resources.

"Xisha and Dongsha are rich in fishery resources."

Li Feihu replied:

"My boat caught a lot of good goods such as sea bream and lobster, and transported them to the island city to receive the princess and her party. There are also a lot of tiger fish, hawksbill turtles, and corals, all of which are good things that can be sold for a good price......"

"Luxury goods don't matter, but what about the property I asked you to investigate?" Xu Shiyang interrupted Li Feihu, he didn't pay much attention to things like shark fin turtle shells.

"There are a lot of struvite in Dongsha, and there are abundant marine grass resources in Xisha, Dongsha and Taidao." Li Feihu finally said what Xu Shiyang cared about: "But these things are really so important?" ”

"Of course, very, very important." Xu Shiyang replied without hesitation: "It's much more important than hawksbill corals!" ”

Struvite is a natural high-quality nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, which can play an important role in restoring the empire's troubled agriculture.

Before modern anthelmintic drugs, Hairen grass is the most effective and less side effect of roundworm medicine, which is of great help to enhance the national physique.

"If it's really that important, we're going to have to organize people."

李飞虎 says:

"But I don't have enough manpower, not to mention that there is an island between us and Sansha."