Chapter 127: Before the Ceremony
Chinese From the icy and snowy Europe, to South China, it is still as hot as summer.
When you come out of the airport, you can see that the national flag of Nanhua is hung everywhere on both sides of the road.
Entering the city, the atmosphere here is even more enthusiastic, with countless Chinese holding welcome signs, as well as photos of Zhou Nan, and of course, some photos of the Queen of the Netherlands in the middle.
Even if Nanhua is not happy now, he can't lose the cover of the Netherlands now. Without the Netherlands, South China will face a more difficult choice.
This time, Zhou Nan did not stay at the Riverside Command, where he once lived, because it had now been requisitioned by the Dutch. It was relatively safe, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Dutch royal family, representatives of the Parliament, would stay there.
Originally, the Dutch also invited Zhou Nan to stay, but Zhou Nan himself had a big help, and there were many family members on both sides.
Especially living with them, it is a little inconvenient to meet outsiders, so I chose to stay in the barracks on Hexin Island.
There are two groups of troops of nearly 10,000 troops stationed here, and although most of the soldiers are on security missions in the city, it is also the safest place in Pontianak.
Living here, rather than choosing a certain councilor's home, is also Zhou Nan's attempt to show his impartiality.
Moreover, living here, the place is vast, and it is very convenient for Zhou Nan to meet whoever he meets.
From the ice and snow to the warm Pontianak, everyone was very happy, especially a few children, who took off their thick winter coats and didn't want to play in the swimming pool of the military camp.
The only thing that worries Zhou Nan is that Caroline's mother accidentally caught a fever because of the temperature difference too much, and she became ill when she came here.
However, Pontianak has arranged a lot of old Chinese medicine and Western medicine here, and after drinking two doses of medicine, she is much better.
Zhou Nam is busy, everyone is busy, and the city of Pontianak is busy.
This city, which was originally unknown in the world, has now become the center of attention of Chinese people all over the world, and countless Chinese have poured into this city just to witness the birth of this Chinese country.
The whole city is already somewhat overwhelmed by so many people, almost every home is crowded with people, and still can't meet the needs of more and more people.
On some flat land in the city, the government has set up more than a dozen tent sites, and more than 10,000 tents and temporary shelters have been erected to meet the needs of people from all over the world.
The indigenous people here have been organized, and everyone has been divided into more than a dozen groups to provide services for these outsiders in terms of food, clothing, shelter and transportation.
Because Nanhua was originally a country of merchants, the supply of materials in all aspects was orderly. Moreover, the Chinese who can come to watch the ceremony are also people with little family resources, so it has revitalized the economy here.
When Zhou Nan arrived in Pontianak a few months ago, it was still a backward situation, with only a few generators in the entire city and no electricity in most areas.
But this time, radio has spread all over the city, and there are special generators to power this radio line. In addition, at least 100 generators have been added to the city, and at night, you can see that most areas can be connected to electric lights, and the lights are bright.
In Zhounan's plan for Nanhua, Pontianak was just a capital. Except for some light industries, this capital will not have much industrial layout.
Therefore, it has not become a settlement for most foreign Chinese. On the contrary, in Yamaguchiyang, Mazen, Balikpapan and Bangka Island, there are more foreigners who have settled there.
Yamaguchiyo is planned to be the commercial center of the future, and the industrial zone there also absorbs about half of the foreigners, and in the past year, more than 1,000 new small factories have been built in the new industrial zone, which can be spread across the eastern coast of Borneo Island.
Because of its iron ore and Southeast Asia's largest high-quality coal mine, Machen is also the largest city in Nanhua at present, and can build a deep-sea seaport, so it will become the future heavy industry base of Nanhua.
Although Borneo Island is an island, it does not have many high-quality ports, because all sides of the island are shallow seas, with an average sea depth of less than 50 meters, and many coastal areas are less than 5 meters deep, and large sea vessels cannot be docked at all.
Especially along the western coast, most of the coast is only a few meters deep, and there is not even a high-quality seaport.
Even the commercial center of Yamaguchiyo, the harbor, is built on a few small islands two kilometers from the coast, and Dutch water and engineering experts are already planning to build a bridge across the sea to connect the islands to the mainland.
Although it is a sea-crossing bridge, it is not difficult to build at all. First of all, the seabed here is shallow and flat. It is located at the equator, and there are no strong winds or waves, so the construction cost will not be high.
In the eastern part of Borneo, which is rich in resources and sparsely populated, it will be dominated by large tropical crops in the future. Balikpapan will also become a commercial hub for trade with the Philippines and Sulawesi.
The Natuna Islands, an outlying island, are not very rich in resources and cannot be extracted from the oil on the seabed, so they are currently only mainly engaged in fishing and agriculture, and they are also an ideal naval station.
As for Bangka and Belitung, which account for nearly a third of the world's tin mines, they will certainly become resource centers in the future, although for now they are mainly planted.
The plantations there were developed early, the economy was relatively mature, and 80 percent of the island's residents are now Chinese, and a small half of the Malays serve the Chinese.
It is worth mentioning that Palembang, located on the island of Sumatra, the second largest city in the East Indies, originally had 30% Chinese.
Although it was not originally included in the territory of the Chinese, due to the war with the Javanese, the Dutch now also handed over more than 13,000 square kilometers of fertile land near Palembang and the surrounding Musi River Delta to the Chinese.
Pan Zhicheng and Cai Lao were very excited, because the city of Palembang has relatively complete functions, and if the Chinese take this territory as their own, there will be a large city in the territory.
As for management, they never worried, because the Javanese did not have a demographic advantage here. In addition to 30 percent of the Chinese, there are nearly 40 percent of the Malays and other ethnic groups, and the Javanese are only 30 percent here.
Therefore, there are currently the largest number of Chinese troops stationed here, and no matter how fertile the land on Java is, it is not its own, and it is necessary to give up when it is time to give up.
Now that there is such a good opportunity to increase more than 10,000 square kilometers of fertile land, it would be foolish for the Chinese not to know how to cherish it.
In addition to this accident, which exceeded Zhou Nan's imagination, there was another decision here in Nanhua that Zhou Nan did not expect.
In the place where Zhou Nan originally planned to build the University of South China, it is located in the northwest corner of Borneo and the center of Southeast Asia.
The National Assembly has made a decision to enclose all the 1,600 square kilometers north of Sanfa, except for a small amount of agricultural development and forestry development, which will rely on the University of South China to build into a city of scientific and technological innovation in South China.
The concept of scientific and technological innovation was proposed by Zhou Nan, but he only listed a plan. However, in the eyes of these businessmen-based politicians, scientific and technological innovation will be a promising development direction, so it is directly set as a high-tech zone.
A high-tech zone covering an area of 1,600 square kilometers is a bit scary, in fact, it is still an empty shelf, there is nothing.
Until the university is founded, and before the number of experts and scholars reaches a critical point, the development here will lag far behind expectations.
However, the first person to eat crabs is not without it, because investing in land here will be free, and the government also provides some supporting services, in fact, there are many factories that want to take advantage of this preferential conditions to invest.
For example, Hughes, who came to Nanhua two days earlier than Zhou Nan, intends to open an aircraft factory here. The H1B fighter, which he developed during World War II, was also the prototype of the Japanese Zero and has been called the most beautiful propeller aircraft.
The aircraft was not purchased by the U.S. military, and Hughes Aircraft's aircraft operations have all but come to a standstill, focusing instead on research and development in radar and missile navigation.
So he wanted to build an aircraft factory here to produce the improved H1 aircraft.
However, Zhou Nan has not yet made up his mind to accept it, because he is afraid that it will startle the snake and arouse the vigilance of the Americans.
The investment and development power here in the high-tech zone has been directly delegated to the future University of South China and the cross-management of the government, so before the construction of the University of South China, the high-tech zone is still empty talk.
And this position of president of the University of South China has also attracted the attention of countless Chinese. Because everyone knows that with such a lot of power, the president of Nanhua University has more power than a councilor.
In fact, Zhou Nan is the best candidate, but Zhou Nan himself is unwilling to participate in the procedural work, and after taking this position, I am afraid that he will not have any free time in the future.
Although he wants to hold this power, he also needs to find an agent who is both academic and commercial.
However, such a person is difficult to find, and if Zhou Nan is not ready, he will hire two principals, one in charge of academics and the other in charge of business development.
In Pontianak, Zhou Nan also met with representatives of both sides from China, expounded the position of being the same ethnic group of Chinese, and called for an end to the civil war as soon as possible.
Of course, he himself knew that such an appeal was powerless, and now neither side would listen to him.
This is the darkness before the dawn, and it cannot be diverted by the will of one person.
Still, his neutrality and willingness to work with both sides at all levels earned him a degree of goodwill, and some of the misunderstandings caused by the lack of communication were eliminated.
He only hoped that the connection would continue undisturbed.
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