For Zhang Chi, everything about Xinxiang shocked him, and the "Admiral Huaqing" was just the beginning, and when the ship approached the dock, he began to make a fuss again.

"These stones...... Is that the cement that Nanhai Bo said? ”

"Exactly, like lime, fired out, and then mixed with sand and stone to smooth it, solid as rock, I just started to build this pier before the end of last year, and now it has been built...... Ha ha! ”

Even Yu Guozhen himself was shocked by the changes on the dock.

It was originally a barren beach, but now it has become a prosperous wharf, and Xinxiang's industrial products are continuously transported from here to various places for sale. Among them, the largest is Hoi An, one is Hoi An's entrepot trade, which can be sold from here to the Wa Kingdom, Southeast Asia and Europe, and the other is that Hoi An's local consumption power is also extremely strong.

Today's Hoi An is no longer the poor place of the original pitiful place, two consecutive years of bumper harvest, not only made Hoi An the granary of Xinxiang, making Xinxiang from a grain importer to an exporter, but more importantly, in Hoi An cultivated a consumer group second only to Xinxiang.

Zhang Chi originally wanted to continue asking, but when he saw Fang Ziyi in the cabin walking out with the help of the servant, he immediately closed his mouth and stepped aside with a smile.

Fang Ziyi's face was a little unsightly, this was the result of a long boat ride, and when she first landed on land, she was even a little dizzy. Yu Guozhen stretched out his hand and held her up, and the servant woman over there immediately let go.

"This ...... Is it Xinxiang? Fang Ziyi asked with some surprise.

Although Yu Guozhen had told her many times that Xinxiang was by no means a wild place, Fang Ziyi thought in her heart that this was just a small town.

But now what is reflected in my eyes is a big port that has not been seen in Jinling!

Xingang is located along the right bank of the Yuhong River estuary, about the south of Xinxiang, and its length is two miles, so long that you can see the ambition of future development. And the pier that stretches into the water from the shore is 100 meters long, enough to dock the largest ships in Xinxiang today, and there is one pier like this every 100 meters, all of which add up, a total of ten.

With the help of pulleys and wooden standardized containers, Xinxiang's cargo loading and unloading is very convenient, at least Fang Ziyi has never seen such a scene: just more than ten workers, a box six meters long, four meters wide and four meters high will be hoisted onto the ship.

Seeing Yu Guozhen, people on the dock ran over from time to time to salute, including both the disabled who saluted and the able-bodied people who did ordinary clothes, no matter who it was, when they saw Yu Guozhen, their faces were full of smiles and respect. Fang Ziyi noticed that their clothes were quite clean, except for the patches on the clothes of the people who worked, most of them were wearing new clothes, and the styles were also different, and some of them were still in the style of "Yunxiang clothes".

"The stewards on the docks, as well as the directors in the workshop, many of them are disabled and retired from the Tiger Guard, and their pension is enough to make them worry about food and clothing, but few people are willing to be idle, and most of them hope to have something to do as they do in the Tiger Guard." Yu Guozhen heard her ask, so he whispered: "Don't look at them like this, they are all iron-clad good men and good men!" ”

Fang Ziyi nodded, knowing what Yu Guozhen meant: Xinxiang's disabled characters are not only not discriminated against, but also often extremely honorable. Everyone here may be a brother who was born and died with Yu Guozhen, and they must not be regarded as subordinate servants.

"Uncle Nanhai is kind-hearted, so the soldiers are willing to serve, and General Dashu is also inferior." Zhang Chi next to him originally wanted to avoid it, but he couldn't help but want to listen to Yu Guozhen's explanation, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but sigh.

Yu Guozhen is not humble, compared to any army at this time, the pension system of Xinxiang Huwei is the best, it can be said that any soldier in the Huwei does not have to have any worries when he goes out.

At this moment, a group of people came over, and the leader stretched his tone from a distance: "The governor of Qin'zhou Wang Chuanyu has seen Nanhai Bo......"

"Since you see me, why don't you come and give a salute?" Yu Guozhen glanced at the other side, no matter who it was, he could hear the ridicule in this prolonged tone.

Wang Chuanyu and Wang Haoran came over with a smile, and the two of them were sarcastic and ridiculous, but in fact, they still gave Yu Guozhen a look, and Yu Guozhen also returned the courtesy.

"Jimin is doing a beautiful job in Gyeonggi, and when Jianyu knows, I still have iron-blooded men in the Ming Dynasty!" The first thing to praise was Yu Guozhen's move to King Qinwang in Gyeonggi, which was a very exciting thing for Huaxia.

"It's just a soldier's life." Yu Guozhen has nothing to be proud of. With nearly half of Xinxiang's combat strength, he only dealt with a partial division of Jianlu, and although he won this battle, he also realized that it was indeed impossible for him to completely wipe out Jianlu in a short period of time.

What's more, to a certain extent, he needs Jianlu to put pressure on the Ming Dynasty - if it weren't for Jianlu, how would he have a steady stream of population to replenish Xinxiang?

"Brother Wang came to Xinxiang this time, but he was hungry for wine?" Yu Guozhen looked at Wang Haoran and teased him again.

The two were quite unhappy when they first met, but later found out that they were quite compatible with each other, and then they even had a friendship. Hearing Yu Guozhen say this, Wang Haoran pouted: "Yu Jimin, don't drink in front of me!" ”

When the two first met, Wang Haoran was drunk by Yu Guozhen, and he woke up after a hangover, and then quit drinking. Yu Guozhen laughed, introduced Fang Ziyi, Zhang Chi and others, ignored the two of them, and led Fang Ziyi to the port.

At the northernmost point of the port is a small building with two railroad tracks in front of it. When Yu Guozhen walked here, he couldn't help but be taken aback: "This ...... It's all built for him? ”

The "he" in Yu Guozhen's mouth is Yu Guowei, his cousin.

There are many people in this world who look mediocre, but in fact, they are just not put in the right place, and Yu Guowei is one of them. He is not a person with a pioneering spirit, nor does he lack long-term vision and deep thinking, but he has a good point, that is, he has strong execution and is good at communication. Therefore, when Yu Guozhen transferred him from Jinling to Xinxiang and became the chief steward of Xinxiang, he showed great value.

Xinxiang's plan was jointly made by Yu Guozhen and the people of the Lei family, but it was Yu Guowei who organized people to turn this paper plan into the reality in front of him.

For example, the advent of railroad roads. Although the cement road is good, it also has the disadvantage, that is, it is not conducive to livestock. Whether it is a cow or a horse, if the iron palm is not nailed on the cement road, then the hoof wear will be very serious, and the nail iron palm will vibrate the soles of its feet very much, so that it can not exert force. Therefore, Yu Guozhen thought of the animal-powered rail car, an iron-wheeled car on the rails, which not only has a large load, but also a satisfactory speed, and also saves animal power.

He handed over this plan to Yu Guowei, but he didn't expect that the plan, which was originally intended to start at the end of this year and be completed in the first half of next year, has now been completed.

"This year, thousands of laborers have been recruited from Guangdong, so there is enough labor, and many projects can be built." A port person in charge next to him said with a smile: "Please wait a while, and there will be a car back in a while." ”

Yu Guozhen and the others didn't wait too long, about half an hour or so, and saw a rail car pulled by five horses come here. The rail car is divided into three sections, the first section has a canopy, can sit people, and the rear two sections are to carry goods, Yu Guozhen estimates that a trip like this rail car, can pull about 8,000 catties of goods, asked the results of the test, worse than he imagined, this trip, can pull 7,000 catties of goods.

This is already remarkable, five horses are 7,000 catties, and they can still travel at a speed of more than 15 miles per hour from Xingang to Xinxiang, which only takes one hour.

Everyone got into the car, Fang Ziyi could naturally sit in the first section of pulling people, Yu Guozhen accompanied him, and most of the other people could only sit on the top of the back pulling goods. This trip took more than 30 people, and the rest of them changed to a slightly smaller ship that could enter the inland river and went to Xiang'an from the old port.

When the horse runs, the rail car is extremely stable, and the rocking and bumping are very small.

According to Yu Guozhen's usual hobby, neat drainage ditches are discharged on both sides of the track, which are closed with cement blocks, and various trees are planted on both sides. Fang Ziyi looked at the trees that kept retreating backwards, and there was an excited look on his face.

Xinxiang is far better than she imagined.

"Now Xinxiang has a population of 47,291, which is the data when I left last year, and I don't know much about the current data......"

"Back to the petty officials, a few days ago, the municipal government announced that the population in the first half of the year was 49,954 people." The steward who sent them at the port responded: "The villain estimates that the number is probably more than 50,000 now." ”

"Hehe, that is to say, there are 50,000 people in Xinxiang City, of which about 30,000 live in the city, and the remaining 20,000, more than 10,000 live in the kiln, and some are scattered in various farms......"

"Kiln" is just a customary name, but now the kiln has become a small city, and its population even exceeds that of Qin' Prefecture. A considerable part of Xinxiang's industries are concentrated here, such as iron smelting and glass manufacturing, and weapons manufacturing. The Xinxiang Iron Workshop is still the largest workshop, employing 5,900 people in the entire workshop, followed by the glass workshop, which also employs more than 3,600 people in all production lines. Of course, in addition to iron smelting, the iron-smelting workshop actually includes many "branches" such as ironware manufacturing, weapon research and development, and manufacturing, and the same is true for glass workshops.

Industries such as textiles and grain processing are concentrated in Xinxiangcheng, employing more than 11,000 people, most of whom are women. In addition, the number of the Xinxiang Infrastructure Workers' Regiment, which had developed from the original imperial court officers and soldiers, reached 4,000, and the number of temporary workers who were not suitable for belonging to the Troupe even exceeded 10,000. These people live in Xinxiang City, and in addition to them, there are nearly 10,000 elderly people and children under the age of 15 who live in Xinxiang City.

"There are so many of them!" Hearing this, Fang Ziyi and Zhang Chi were even more looking forward to the new Xiang they were about to meet.

What kind of city would this be?

(To be continued)