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Forty or eighty Guangzhou model

"I'm dizzy...... Have you found a Japanese architect? ”

Soon after, Pang Yu met the construction craftsman who was in charge of civil works for Liu Mingqiang, who could speak Chinese and was completely Chinese-dressed. The full-text and ad-free novels are all on Aishang Novel Network biquge.info but the habitual kneeling posture and the grammar of lying on the ground as long as he talks "Hai Hai Hai" clearly explain his identity and origin.

"Don't look at his obscenity, this guy's father once built a house for Toyotomi Hideyoshi!"

Liu Mingqiang's words surprised Pang Yu and the others, and they inquired carefully, it turned out that the family of this craftsman named Gao Qiao was a family of architects, and he was best at building cities - of course, according to Japanese standards, cities could only be regarded as villages in the Central Plains.

His father had helped build Osaka Castle when the Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a well-known master craftsman in Japan. However, with the fall of the Toyotomi family and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, the whole of Japan was ruled by a single family. The shogun did not allow the construction of tall and majestic castle towers in various places, lest anyone rebel against the castle.

As a result, the Takahashi family lost the soil on which they depended, and the family members had to disperse in search of their own livelihoods. This one came to the Ming Dynasty, traveled all the way south from Ningbō Mansion, and came to Guangzhou, where he lived for more than ten years, and was able to integrate into the Central Plains in terms of language and living customs.

Relying on a good skill, Takahashi is okay in Guangzhou, after all, it is an area that is often easy with the Yi people, and the Japanese craftsmen and Japanese style are not as exclusive as other places. However, in Takahashi's mind, he has always held the dream of building a magnificent castle tower in the Ming Dynasty, but with the strict system of the Ming Dynasty, which is far more unified than Japan, his idea is obviously delusional.

- until he ran into Liu Mingqiang, the fat man of xiǎo.

Liu Mingqiang is an ordinary modern Xiǎo citizen, Xiǎo once went to the municipal fǔ with other Xiǎo friends to welcome Japanese friends with Xiǎo red flag. When he grew up, he also participated in anti-Japanese demonstrations. I usually play glorious games and watch Japanese dramas with relish, but I also cheer loudly when I see others burning yào ointment flags...... He doesn't have a strong national concept, but he relies on his own heart. As long as he is not directly bullied, he has no prejudice against Japanese and Westerners.

At that time, the fat man needed to build a sturdy manor for himself, and Takahashi was good at building such a walled city on the scale of xiǎo, and wanted to build it - the two hit it off. Liu Mingqiang allocated him the money and labor he needed, and Takahashi fully contributed his experience and wisdom to him. In addition, the local government and the common people were afraid of the short máo who had once thrown cannonballs into the city of Guangzhou, and they did not dare to stop it even when they saw that this strange thing was clearly beyond the control - of course, this also had something to do with the fact that the fat man was willing to give huā money.

It is with the cooperation of several parties that a "high-rise" building can be erected within half a year. Of course, the scale is not large - Pang Yu they went in to visit, nominally it is seven floors, in fact, the first and second floors are earth and stone foundations, the sixth and seventh can basically only be regarded as attics, you have to bend your waist to drill up the stairs, and the really more spacious can live in three floors, according to Pang Yu, a modern architect, this can only be regarded as a three-story single-family villa with a high foundation ratio.

Of course, it was a cause for celebration to be able to own a Xiǎo villa in 17th-century Guangzhou, and Liu Mingqiang was proud to entertain Xie Xi and others in the castle tower as the owner. He introduced Takahashi to them, because when Takahashi-kun heard that they were going to Shandong Province to build a large number of buildings, he volunteered to follow him to Weihai to continue his dream of building a bigger and grander castle tower.

"After all, my house is a private house, and it is not good to build too tall. But your side is different, you have military defense requirements, and you have more manpower and resources, you might as well use his design, I think this shape is very suitable for building a castle. ”

Liu Mingqiang was very enthusiastic to recommend here, and Takahashi himself was also next to "Hai Hai" bowing, and his attitude was very sincere. But Pang Yu and Xie Xi looked at each other, and both of them shook their heads in unison.

-- Weihaiwei is to be used as a military base in the future, and its layout plan can not be designed by an outsider! Xie Xi was embarrassed to say it in front of the Japanese, but turned his head and complained to Liu Mingqiang. And the reason why Pang Yu disagrees is mainly in his feelings - there are still people in front of him who advocate naming the fleet Beiyang, and you are here to build a castle tower at the Weihai base? Isn't that asking for trouble? Moreover, since Qi Jiguang trained in Dengzhou Shuizhai, the people of Shandong have always been at the forefront of the anti-Japanese struggle, and they are not as tolerant as the southerners.

Although the castle tower was indeed suitable as a fortress in this era, in the eyes of modern people, there are many other forms of construction that are better than it, and there is no need to cause criticism for no reason. So they politely declined the máo of the Takahashi craftsman, and then offered himself, which made the latter look a little lost. However, once the Japanese made up their minds, they were really persevering. After a period of time, Pang Yu and others saw him again on the island of Taiwan - Gao Qiao actually went to build a castle for the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhihu, who was deeply influenced by Japanese culture, had no sense of rejection at all for the architectural form of the castle tower, and happily made several of their Zheng family's strongholds on the island of Taiwan into Japanese style, the largest and most conspicuous of which was the main castle, the castle tower style of Seiichi sè, and the one headed by the castle tower of Osaka Castle Castle was said to be even larger than that built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the strength of the whole of Japan - because the Zheng family had learned from the Joan navy how to fire cement and use pulley lifting devices, and the construction technology was much stronger than that of Japan at the end of the 16th century.

Of course, that's all for later.

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Liu Mingqiang's men currently employ a lot of people, and of course it is impossible to squeeze into a castle with him, so there is also a "castle town" next to his castle tower. However, this village was built completely according to the standards of the Qionghai Navy Migrant Village, and the houses used were also the kind of modular wooden houses that were quickly assembled -- when Qionghai Town passed through Guangzhou when a large number of immigrants from Shandong, Liu Mingqiang heard that the Ministry of Civil Engineering had prepared simple houses for these immigrants that could be built in only half a day, and without saying a word, he immediately sent a telegram back to order a batch, and even the topographic layout map was built with reference to the migrant village, which looked very kind in the eyes of Wu Nanhai and others.

However, there was not so much wasteland to be cultivated in Guangzhou, and most of the surrounding acres of land were owned, so most of the people who were resettled in the village were shop employees and yarn factory workers - Liu Mingqiang immediately expanded his business after taking over Cheng Zhong's business, and began to sell various industrial products in addition to the original grain and sugar jiāo Yi, as well as the salt trading in Sī Xiali. And he not only transported goods from Hainan Island to sell, but also planned to buy raw materials for production. Of course, I couldn't do anything that was too high, so I only built a yarn factory near the Pearl River, and used water power to spin yarn, but it was also very good.

In the next two days, Julie, Wu Nanhai, Qin Shiqing and others inspected and understood all aspects of the "Guangzhou Branch of Qionghai Trading Company" presided over by Liu Mingqiang, and generally believed that Xiǎo Fat Man did a good job. Although it is not as meticulous and high-end as the headquarters of Hainan Island in terms of specific projects, it has gradually taken its own path in trade, farming, and manufacturing.

With the expansion of the business scope of the trading company's branch in Guangzhou, all kinds of goods and living habits from Qiongzhou, Hainan are also changing the city more and more. The hot sale of thermos flasks is just one of the very xiǎo silhouettes, and Qiongzhou goods have achieved a very good reputation in the local area.

On the one hand, high-end goods such as thermos flasks, glass mirrors, glassware, bone china ware, etc., have been regarded as indispensable by the local upper class; On the other hand, all kinds of cheap iron utensils, cloth, sugar, salt and other bulk commodities are also sold very well among the people. Qiongzhou goods have both a high-end luxury brand and a reputation for practicality and convenience, which is rare in the business model.

Julie was pleased with the situation and quickly set new goals:

"The next step is to gradually expand inland!"

To do this, it is not enough to pass through the crowd themselves - what they want to go is the coastal area, the area where they can be supported by the rear at any time. Further inland, the danger and hardship will be greatly increased, except for idealists like Zhang Shenyue, I am afraid that no one is willing to suffer that hardship.

For those places that their own people did not want to set foot in, the trading company still adopted the method of cooperative distribution, subcontracting the goods to local merchants in the Ming Dynasty in the form of agents, and letting them sell them inland. Liu Mingqiang also adopted this model in Guangzhou -- if it weren't for the fact that local merchants also gained benefits, and with the terrible ability of a trading company to sell everything and grab all customers, I am afraid that it would have encountered strong resistance from local forces long ago.

However, at present, the problem is not big, and a considerable number of merchants in Guangzhou have formed a solid cooperative relationship with the trading company, and everyone has money to earn together, and common interests are the best means to eliminate contradictions. In the not-too-distant future, this "Canton model" will be replicated in other short máo strongholds, and will play a huge role.

- Guangzhou, Ningbō, Shanghai, Huai'an, Weihai, Tianjin...... Around the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, the Qiong Navy was gradually weaving a web of commerce and trade, providing the Ming Empire with high-quality goods and advanced ideas.

But can this net pull the Ming Dynasty out of the quagmire of imminent destruction?

No one knows.

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