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The public trial of the execution of the pirate leader for several days ended smoothly, and the scale of the meeting this time was far larger than the previous public trial of the local magnates who colluded with pirates to plague the township. The previous time did not involve every county in the coastal areas, but only half of them. In some places, Haoqiang still lives in the same county, and they are still in contact with each other and often cooperate.

This time the execution of the pirate leader was very different, and every county along the coast had arranged for it. For pirates, the people hated them to the core, and for hundreds of years, the coastal inhabitants did not know how much they had suffered, and the strictest time was the large-scale invasion of pirates a hundred years ago. And that's not all of them, there are plenty of other pirates making waves in them. This action of Geng Jingzhong and the Mawei Navy has completely solved this scourge for the people, at least, for a long time in the future, there is no need to worry about pirates going ashore to plunder.

In the past two years, under the operation of Geng Jingzhong, the son of the world, the people of Fujian have indeed received a lot of benefits. At the end of last year, not to mention the warmth action, the people of Fujian saw everything in their eyes and remembered everything in their hearts for disaster relief, building schools, recruiting workers, suppressing bandits, and so on. Although the people are illiterate and most of them are ignorant, it does not mean that they all do not know right from wrong. What they want is very simple, they just want to eat, drink and look forward to live in peace. This qiē, the former Ming court can't give it, and the current court can't give it, Geng Jingzhong slowly gave it to them, and the lives of the people will get better and better in the future. Now in Fujian, the people no longer regard this young prince as a traitor, even if they still have a lot of resentment against Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, but this foreign change has also greatly increased Geng Jingzhong's confidence.

Just as the public trial and execution of the pirate leaders were over, the time also came to the end of October. After the last time Shimazu Hisao led his sailors to destroy the anchorage of the Monkey Island Commercial Port, after more than four months of reconstruction, a new, more solid anchorage with a length of two kilometers was built. This time, a large amount of cement concrete has been put into use in the anchorage of the Monkey Island Commercial Port, and if Shimazu Hisao is allowed to bombard it again, I am afraid that it will not be so easy to collapse.

When the anchorage was newly built in the Monkey Island Commercial Port, the supporting inbound channel and harbor basin were also set up. Now this area, not only the anchorage site, but also the entire large area of Monkey Island, has been paved with concrete ground. It can be said that the current Monkey Island Commercial Port is not inferior to Zhiyue Port at all. There are 60 deep-water berths for merchant ships, which can accommodate even the largest Western caravans. Of course, it is not comparable with the ports of later generations, and if you have to compare them together, the ports of this era are equivalent to a large wharf in later generations.

In later generations, not to mention those internationally renowned ports, the monthly throughput of ordinary inland ports was more than 5 million tons of cargo. And those coastal ports are even more incredible, these domestic ports, the twentieth monthly throughput has reached 10 million tons. In this era, take Moon Harbor as an example, there are about 200 Western merchant ships anchored there a year. The average tonnage is 1,000 tons, so the total tonnage is only 200,000 tons. The total trade to and from the South Seas, even if it were doubled, would not exceed 500,000 tons. Such an annual throughput is no problem at all in the current Houyu Port.

If you look at this port from the eyes of future generations, of course, it is nothing, and it can even be said to be simple, but in terms of this era, it is quite good. Although this harbor was designed with reference to the Moon Port, there are many differences in many places. Geng Jingzhong gave a lot of advice based on some of his later insights. In the discussion of many maritime merchants, these suggestions have basically been adopted, which shows that they are still very effective.

Unlike others, the main role of the port is to promote socio-economic development. As a junction between sea and land transportation, the port is a base of industrial activities and a center of integrated logistics. In the future, the entire commercial and trade economy of Fujian will revolve around a few ports. It can be said that the vast majority of Fujian people rely on these ports for their livelihood.

Since ancient times, ports have played an extremely important role in the economic development of a country. Transportation can connect the whole world, and ports are the most important link in this era when there are no cars, trains, and planes. Nowadays, Western countries basically have their own coastlines and well-functioning ports, so they continue to transport the world's wealth back to their own countries and make a fortune!

Geng Jingzhong combined what he had observed in Yuegang with what he had seen and heard in later generations, and mainly summarized the functions of the port into four aspects. First of all, it is the commercial function, which is also the main reason for his construction of the Houyu Port, which is not only the premise of commodity exchange and domestic and foreign trade, but also promotes their development. This is not just a matter of transaction, but also involves transportation, commerce and financial services.

The second point is also what Geng Jingzhong attaches importance to, that is, the industrial function, once the port is born, it will play the function of integrating the elements of productivity. As a connection point between the domestic market and the international market, the port will be a gathering point for goods, capital, technology, and information flow, and is a gathering point for goods, capital, technology, talents, and information.

The third point is the logistics service function, "the Celestial Empire is abundant, all-encompassing, and the original does not borrow foreign goods to pass through the have-not" This is what Qianlong said in the previous history, although this is strictly wrong, but it also shows the abundance of Chinese products from the side. The port provides integrated logistics services such as transit, loading and unloading and warehousing for a large number of sea vessels and carriages. As early as the Han Dynasty, China established the port of Guangzhou, and traded with Southeast Asia and the countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Later, foreign trade ports such as Hangzhou Port, Wenzhou Port, Quanzhou Port and Dengzhou Port were established one after another. To the Tang Dynasty, there were also Mingzhou Port and Yangzhou Port. From Mingzhou Port, you can cross the sea directly to Japan; Yangzhou Port is located at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River, and was the hub of water and land transportation at that time, leading from the Yangtze River to Japan in the east, or to Arabia in the west through the South China Sea. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, foreign trade ports such as Fuzhou Port, Xiamen Port and Shanghai Port were established. Even now, there are merchants engaged in maritime trade in these places, and Geng Jingzhong can bring a steady stream of resources to Fujian through them.

The last point, Geng Jingzhong will not say to outsiders, that is, the intelligence function. In this era, sea routes are much faster than land routes. It takes two months to travel from Fuzhou to the capital by horse-drawn carriage and ten days by sea-bound boat! It is clear at a glance which is superior and which is inferior, which is a huge help to Geng Jingzhong's intelligence system.

Maritime trade has always prevailed in Fujian, but the imperial court's policy of seclusion and seclusion made them helpless. Trade cannot be carried out openly, and smuggling has never stopped. And for large-scale trade, there must be ports, otherwise it can only be developed on a very small scale. Therefore, when Geng Jingzhong took the lead in the development of maritime trade, so many people responded. Harbors, of course, are the best natural harbors, with natural sheltered bays, inlets, estuaries and other places for ships to berth, such as the world-famous Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong in the future. It's just that Hong Kong is too far away from Fujian, and Geng Jingzhong can't control her, otherwise, she would have used it a long time ago!

In later generations, with the development of commerce and shipping, natural ports can no longer meet the needs of economic development, and artificial ports with wharves, breakwaters and loading and unloading equipment must be built, which is the beginning of port engineering construction. And for this day and age, having an ordinary natural harbor is an excellent choice. Originally, the Meizhou Bay Port in Putian was a natural harbor in Fujian, and Geng Jingzhong also considered building it there first, but considering that the navy was not strong, he could not take care of it, so it was changed to Monkey Island, which is very close to Fuzhou.

A month ago, Geng Jingzhong also often came to Houyu Port to check, but at that time it was still putting the finishing touches on it. Not far from the breakwater and anchorage is a large area of commercial buildings, including shops and warehouses, forming a small town. Although many of the buildings have not yet been renovated, their scale can already be seen. These are all for the service of the port, and it will not be long before a large number of merchants will come in and open a large number of shops.

Now that Geng Jingzhong has come to Monkey Island again, he can see that the city is all whitewashed with houses and towering towers. Standing on the top of Beacon Hill, Geng Jingzhong looked at the buildings like seagulls' nests, and the captured pirate ships moored at the anchorage were like beetles. The workers who are busy around the breakwaters, anchorages, and shops are like sunspots. It was still early in the morning, and the gentle easterly wind was blowing a loud birdsong, and the seabirds had risen to hunt. Geng is the sound of the waves, because it is the moment of high tide, the waves are constantly beating against the breakwater, as if they want to smash the newly built breakwater, but it is just impacting again and again, but it is in vain!

For Houyu Port, Geng Jingzhong has great expectations, and in the next month, more than a dozen shipyards in various parts of Fujian will also have large sea ships launched. When the time comes, the first ocean-going caravan will be able to be formed. Overseas trade will not only pay lip service, but also go out yourself, instead of waiting for businessmen from other countries to come to your door! The Monkey Island Port in front of it is still much more advanced than the Zhiyue Port, which is not only reflected in the construction materials, but also in the supporting facilities of the port.

In the future, the loading and unloading machinery and equipment on the seaport (door type, tire type, truck type, bridge and container crane, unloader, etc.), continuous operation of loading and unloading machinery and equipment (belt conveyor, bucket elevator, compressed air and hydraulic conveying device and pumping station, etc.), power supply and lighting equipment, communication equipment, water supply and drainage equipment, fire prevention equipment, etc., of course, there is no such thing, those are too advanced, and they must be developed for another one or two hundred years. However, simple gantry cranes and other simple equipment have been built here, and the loading and unloading of ships will be much easier in the future, and the efficiency will be greatly improved!