After so many years, the population of Fengtian finally increased to 20 million, but the agriculture on the rich Liaohe Plain attracted most of the population, and there was naturally less to engage in industry, compared to the population of Shandong has exceeded 60 million people, the industry has entered a stage of strong growth, and urbanization tells the development stage, there are 30 million people living in the city, embarking on a fast lane of industrialization and urbanization. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Obviously, the natural development continues, the gap between the Northeast in terms of manpower and talents, and Shandong will only get bigger and bigger, their products are indeed rich, the largest export place happens to be Shandong, continue to develop, the three eastern provinces will only fall step by step to the source of raw materials and markets for Shandong's economy.

Although Yang Chao does not interfere in industrial management, he still gave suggestions to the Northeast government on the fundamental issue, that is, to continue to attract immigrants, and strive to increase the population of Fengtian to 30 million within five years, the population of Jilin to 20 million, Heilongjiang must have at least 10 million people, as for the population of the Outer Northeast, it must also be increased to more than 10 million people, and the East Siberian region cannot carry too many people, and 3 million is enough.

The population of the Northeast can increase to more than 80 million, it is possible to get rid of the situation of raw materials and primary processing, otherwise such a large place, such rich resources, just eating resources is enough to support, but without industrialization, this is obviously not the way of future development, the best way to stabilize the frontier is to let the frontier develop.

After seeing Fengtian and Jilin, they did not stop in Heilongjiang, and went directly to the East Siberian Province, Chita, Ulan-Ude and other cities are the same as in the past, except that commerce is more prosperous than in the past, and there is not much expansion in scale, these cities are now relying on mining, and agricultural development is very laborious, and the land is not as fertile as the black soil in the Heilongjiang River Basin, and even agriculture has declined compared to the Japanese when they were here.

Yang Chao's advice to the local government was to set up ranches, encourage large ranches, breed cattle and sheep on a large scale, develop meat processing, and fur industries, and have no other choice.

Along the way, it was the end of October when I returned to Irkutsk, and after more than two years of construction, the summer residence of the Tsar on the shores of Lake Berga was finally built, and Olga moved here.

The summer palace was built on the banks of the Angara River, with the river on one side and Lake Baikal on the other.

The summer palace was built on a high slope, but it was enclosed for more than ten miles near the confluence of rivers and lakes, so it was not only the summer residence of the tsar, but also the Russian-style royal village.

The palace was built in a grand way, designed by the German architect Rio Ber, who had built the Russian Consulate in Shanghai, with the participation of Chinese and Russian engineers, mainly by Chinese workers, and the contractor was Yang Ruitai Construction Factory in Shanghai, which cooperated with Riober.

It is precisely because of the construction of the Chinese construction team that this palace complex, which combines Baroque and German revivalist elements, has a construction area close to the Kremlin, and costs 100 million taels of silver, can be completed within two years.

During the construction period, tens of thousands of Chinese laborers were employed, most of whom were skilled workers in Yang Ruitai's construction factory, and apparently they also knew how much to help the Tsar build the imperial palace would boost their reputation.

It is also because of the rapid development of the construction industry in Shanghai in recent years, and the number of construction workers represented by Yang Ruitai Construction Factory established by Yang Sisheng has exceeded 200,000, so as to recruit so many skilled construction workers, and it is also because Yang Ruitai Construction Factory is the oldest and most technically capable construction company in Shanghai, so it has such a huge technical reserve.

The main palace is a three-story structure of the Great Baikal Palace, with a construction area of 30,000 square meters and 1,200 rooms, including 70 large halls that can be used for balls.

The palace is located on the highest part of the slope, with a large meadow slowly descending behind it, and the façade faces Lake Baikal, with a square stone masonry road leading to the lake, and a small and elaborate square and pier have been built on the lake.

"Well, there are no boats, we have to build a few boats, and we will go to the lake in the summer."

Yang Chao stood in the bedroom on the third floor of the Velikal Palace and said to Olga.

However, the boat has not yet been built, because it is not yet summer, it has just arrived in December, and suddenly there was a heavy snowfall, and the lake was full of snow, Yang Chao felt very beautiful, and the calm lake, the snow flakes that fell suddenly, made him suddenly have a new interest.

"Ship a ship, build a ship immediately, and while the lake is not yet frozen, let's go to the lake!"

Visiting the lake on a snowy day is a special taste, but Lake Baikal is much colder than West Lake.

The efficiency brought by power is amazing, and it is really possible to find someone who understands shipbuilding, and several Chinese construction factories engaged in construction in Yishi have produced dozens of carpenters, and in three days they have built a Chinese-style small wooden boat for Yang Chao, which is in the form of a canopy boat in the south of the Yangtze River.

Not to mention, Yang Chao thinks it's pretty good, and it feels like a snow lake boat.

Putting on a thick cotton coat and wearing a Siberian bear skin outside, he got on a wooden boat with Origa, and Yang Chao rowed the boat himself and swayed to the lake.

"In a hurry, you should prepare a charcoal stove, warm the hot wine, and add a hanging rod, it will be perfect."

The first day was very unpleasant, except for half a day of freezing, there was nothing to gain.

So the next day Olga refused to go again, for the Russians snow was really tasteless.

Just like the people of Guangdong and Hong Kong in later generations saw the snow as if they had won the jackpot, Yang Chao went to school and saw the heavy snow with his own eyes, and the students in Guangdong and Guangxi rushed to the snow to have fun in the snow in thin clothes, as if they were celebrating the New Year.

And it is not surprising that Russians see snow for half a year every year, so there is no novelty at all, and they may prefer sunny days, so the beaches of Dalian can be used by Russians as tropical sunbathing.

But Yang Chao is still very interested, after all, here is boring, nothing happens, the life of the Russian aristocracy is simply too boring, very unsuitable for Chinese with some workaholic complexes, now do not go to the lake, wait for two days for fear that it will freeze, and then want to go there will not be that taste.

So Yang Chao prepared a stove, borrowed rice wine from a group of Shanghainese who still insisted on making a fortune in Siberia in the ice and snow, found a fishing rod, and set off again after everything was ready.

There are dozens of guards on the wharf at any time, this is the Tsar's royal village, the radius of more than ten miles is surrounded by barbed wire, not to mention, there is a tall wall around the palace that is ten miles long, it is impossible to be dangerous, they follow Yang Chao, in fact, they plan to rescue Yang Chao when he falls into the water.

"Go and go, don't affect Lao Tzu's interest in swimming in the lake, this one has no wind, two has no waves, where will the boat capsize!"

The guards insisted on getting on the boat and were chased away by Yang Chao, just like yesterday.

"Mr. Yang, is it convenient for you now?"

At this time, a voice sounded behind the soldiers, and I don't know when, Sara appeared on the docks.

"Sarah? You're back! ”

Yang Chao sent this girl to learn painting with Qi Baishi, more than half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, I heard that their art academy organized a large group of painters to collect wind in various places, what deep mountains and ancient temples, Dongting West Lake, Huangshan Taibai, and finally ran to Xinjiang, nested in the Dunhuang Museum for three months, this should be back from Dunhuang, and he was still wearing a geological expedition team's khaki field work clothes.

"I'm back."

Sara said.

Although I was wearing a field work suit, it was clean and obviously washed.

"It's good to come back, what are you looking for me?"

Yang Chao asked.

Sara said, "I want to finish my group painting. ”

Yang Chao nodded, Sara wants to paint a set of portraits of herself, Yang Chao is also looking forward to it, I don't know what this girl can become, but it's not convenient now.

Yang Chao said apologetically: "But I'm going to swim in the lake now, can I change the time?" ”

Sara whispered, "I'll go with you, you don't care about me, just as I don't exist, I just need to observe." ”

Yang Chao thought for a while and nodded: "It's okay, then come up, with beauty, it's not too fast!" ”

Sara just got on the boat, and her movements were quick, not at all like a rich businesswoman, and she had obviously worked out for more than half a year.

After traveling all over the mountains and rivers of China, walking through the south and north of the Yangtze River, just living in the arduous Dunhuang for three months, it is time to grind out the temperament, you must know that sometimes they have to sleep in the wild, sometimes in order to completely depict a big Buddha statue, even have to climb the beams of the house.

Yang Chao rowed the boat, and after a few miles, he could no longer see the situation on the shore, and the snow flakes the size of goose feathers were sprinkled with snow, blocking the line of sight, making people feel that they were clearly in this world, but they had nothing to do with the world.

Yang Chao enjoyed this feeling very much, there was a feeling of not being disturbed by the mundane things, the snowflakes were falling, and when he calmed down, he could even hear the sound of them falling on the canopy.

"Sara, you can do it yourself, there is a charcoal stove here, there is rice wine, roast the fire, drink wine, and you won't catch a cold."

Yang Chao beckoned to Sarah, and he himself climbed out of the canopy with a fishing rod and a thick hat on his head.

He sat down on a straw mat borrowed from a Chinese worker, covered with a bearskin coat and a fishing rod in his hand, and threw a thin line out, then sat down quietly and closed his eyes.

The whole world was gone, except for the quiet sound of snow.

Yang Chao breathed evenly, felt the boat swaying slightly, and remembered the elegance, calmness, and comfort of those hermits fishing alone in the cold river in ancient times, without contamination and without dust.

At this time, everything in the world is so virtual, what kings want to dominate, what family and country rise and fall, what ambitions, ambitions, all seem so ridiculous.

Sara held the stove in her hand and quietly looked at Yang Chao, as if she had seen the scenery she had seen in many treasures of Chinese painting, and saw that the snow slowly turned Yang Chao into a snowman, and he still held a fishing rod in his hand, fishing on the vast and white Baikal Lake, Sara felt that this artistic conception was too beautiful.

I don't know how long it took, Yang Chao suddenly woke up and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Tamar's, these days are too devastating to the mind! Lao Tzu almost fell in. ”

Yang Chao found that he was almost stunned and let out a sigh of relief. (To be continued.) )