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After several years of development, the starting point town has become more and more like a big city. Although it is not as large as those big cities in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not much inferior in terms of prosperity. The town now has a permanent population of 150,000, two-thirds of whom are workers, but who have settled here at the moment. The scope of the starting point town is no longer as good as the original Geng Jingzhong's construction, and the overall scale has tripled.

The miners who work in the mines have always accounted for the majority, totaling 50,000 or 60,000 people, but these miners used to live in collective dormitories, occupying relatively small areas. But now it's different, the three brothers Geng are in charge of this side, and they continue to expand with Geng Jingzhong's method, build a lot of square buildings with Fujian characteristics, and sell the houses to these workers. You only need to deduct a small part of your salary every month and use it as a mortgage for the house. This model is almost a way of copying the housing loans of later generations, so that the workers can completely settle down here.

Compared with other cities, although the starting point town is not big, it has the most modern atmosphere. This place was originally designed by Geng Jingzhong himself, and the overall layout is more reasonable, most obviously reflected in the sewer system. The sewer system can be said to be the conscience project of a city, and one of the most important points of the sewer system is to measure the quality of a city.

This year has passed so fast, and it will be the New Year in half a month. Although it suffered a typhoon some time ago, it still can't stop the New Year's celebration. Geng Jingzhong and Yang Jian wandered around the starting point town all morning and felt the biggest difference. It's just that there are more Westerners here. Twice recruited from Europe. Recruit all kinds of talents. Nearly 4,000 people now live in the town. This number is quite a lot, that is, after nearly a hundred years of development in Manila under the control of Spain, there are only more than 13,000 Westerners there.

What's more, most of the 4,000 people here in the starting point town are excellent workers with a skill, and the family members who accompanied them only accounted for less than a quarter of the total number. In the past few years, many of the first batch of Western craftsmen have married their daughters-in-law here and started a family, and they have begun to slowly integrate here. Arguably. Few of the first batch of Western workers still don't speak Chinese, but they all learn the official dialect of Beijing, that is, Mandarin, and there is no problem in communicating with people.

Last night, Geng Jingzhong and Geng Da began to discuss the matter of opening a post office during dinner, and it did not end until the third watch. A detailed plan for the trial around Longyan has been preliminarily set. As far as southern Fujian is concerned, Longyan and Zhangzhou are arguably the two most closely connected regions, mainly because of the two important commercial and trade centers of Yuegang and Qiqi Town, which are also the most frequently exchanged.

Let's be honest. Geng Jingzhong still has great expectations for the post office, and he waved his pen. Geng Da was granted 100,000 fast silver dollars for the construction of the postal system, which is only an early investment, if it is a qiēshun lì, it will be extended to the whole of Fujian, less than 500,000 yuan will definitely not work. However, if 500,000 yuan is used to build Fujian's postal system, it will be worth it, and once this system is established, the government, businessmen, and people will all gain great convenience.

Later generations of express delivery systems were based on online shopping to develop in a big way, and various express outlets spread all over the towns and streets, robbing the post office of business. At this moment, your own post office can integrate these businesses, and at least it should not lose money.

Ordinary people mail things to distant relatives, and large and small merchants deliver goods to other cities, if they hire their own cars to deliver them in person, the cost is quite high, and if you entrust these to the post office, you can save a lot of money. This account, presumably few people will not count, and it is precisely for this reason that the logistics industry in later generations is so developed. If mail logistics is unprofitable, this industry will not develop, let alone develop so well!

In the next two days, Geng Jingzhong continued to inspect the construction of roads around the starting point town. There is very little arable land in Longyan, surrounded by mountains, and the roads are not easy to repair. But Longyan is very rich in minerals, in addition to the gold, copper, iron seven mines that have been mined for a long time, and later have been mined in coal mines, I have to say that Longyan is really a treasure given by God to Geng Jingzhong. Geng Jingzhong has always attached great importance to these mines, and the number of marines themselves is not as large as that of the navy, but Geng Jingzhong still set a system of transferring marines to guard them in turn.

Two of the mines were the most heavily guarded, and there was no place where a separate battalion was set up. For copper, iron, and coal mines, three to five brigades are sufficient. With the guards of these elite marines, it can be said that no one dares to come to this place to make trouble, and the order in the mine itself is quite good.

The New Year is approaching, and I must return to Fuzhou to reunite with my family. When it comes to the New Year, I still run outside, it's really a bit unusual, I often don't go home, my family doesn't say it, but my heart is still missing, and I am the same. But the plan could not catch up with the change, and just as he was about to go home, a news came from Fuzhou and the horse, so that he, who was still planning to return to the city slowly, threw down the carriage and rode back on a fast horse.

Three days ago, Geng Jingzhong had just arrived in the starting point town when an edict came from the capital. Kangxi Xiao Mazi personally issued a request for Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jimao, the three vassal kings, to arrive in the capital on the occasion of Xinzheng and enter Beijing for pilgrimage. For such a big matter, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, immediately sent the edict to Mawei, he didn't care about the matter, and the matter still needed to be handled by Geng Jingzhong himself.

When Li Guangdi and Yao Qisheng saw the edict, they immediately sent soldiers to chase after Geng Jingzhong. Fortunately, Li Guangdi knew that Geng Jingzhong's destination was the starting point town, so the soldiers received the order and went straight to the starting point town. Geng Jingzhong did not delay any longer, and he had to go back to Fuzhou immediately and discuss it with Li Guangdi and Yao Qisheng.

When I came, I traveled all the way, and it took me half a month, and now I dropped the carriage and arrived at Mawei in only three days. When Yao Qisheng and Li Guangdi first saw the edict, many thoughts turned in their heads. Want. The imperial court issued this edict. There must be his intentions.

"Shizi!" Geng Jingzhong had just returned to the barracks. Li and Yao immediately came to see!

"Brother Li, Mr. Yao. Sit. The two of you have already read the edict in advance, what do you think? Although Geng Jingzhong often exercised, the galloping of fast horses for three days also made him tired enough. It hadn't been long since I came back, and I had just taken a breath, but I still picked up my energy and asked.

"Shizi, the imperial court has not summoned the three feudatories for nearly seven years. This time, he suddenly summoned the three feudal clans to Beijing, which must have its intentions. The result of my preliminary discussion with Chief of Staff Yao was that Kangxi should want to make a move against the three feudatories! Li Guangdi and Yao Qisheng glanced at each other, and then Li Guangdi took the lead and said.

The secession of the three feudatories was already a serious threat to Kangxi's rule and the unity of the country. Therefore, the contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable, and it is simply impossible to get the three feudatories to take the initiative to withdraw the feudal domains and hand over their military power. And the power of the three feudatories, especially Wu Sangui, became stronger and stronger. Kangxi already felt like a thorn in his back, and he couldn't do it if he didn't pull it out.

"Shizi. Kangxi was able to endure until now and was ready to do it, which already shows his endurance. According to the conjecture below, Kangxi's edict this time must have asked the three feudatories to enter Beijing together, and then follow the story of Zhao Kuangyin's capture of troops in front of the table, but even if we know this, we still can't ignore it. The prince has been sick for the past few years, and he will definitely not be able to go to the capital, so you must go to the palace on behalf of Jingnan Wangfu. This is also where the tangle lies, it is not to go, it is not to go, it is really troublesome. Yao Qisheng shook his head and said.

Geng Jingzhong also thought about it on the way back, and recalled some actions of the imperial court before preparing to abolish the three feudatories in the history of his previous life. It seems that this summoning of the three feudal clans into Beijing is one of the more important ones. That's right, there was a TV show, there was such a paragraph. However, the final result was that Wu Sangui said that he was ill, and only Geng and Shang entered Beijing, and only Wu Yingxiong, the son of Wu Sangui, who stayed in the capital, came to see him on his behalf. Kangxi's idea of releasing the three cups of wine from the military power was also gone.

"It's okay! I'm going to the capital this time. I expect that Wu Sangui will never go back to the capital, as long as Wu Sangui does not go, Kangxi will never dare to do anything to us. After all, once he made a move on us, he would give Wu Sangui a real mouth, and he would immediately rebel. Besides, Ah Hou has already laid out several dark lines in the capital, and it is not difficult to leave the capital. Geng Jingzhong said confidently.

Li Guangdi and Yao Qisheng are both strange, how can the prince be sure that Wu Sangui will not go to the capital, but after thinking about it, this possibility is extremely high. In the sixth year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui wrote to the imperial court with a vision disease, asking for the dismissal of the governor of the affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to test each other. Emperor Kangxi simply ordered Wu Sangui to hand over all the affairs he was in charge of, and ordered the governors of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to manage them. Funnily enough, Bian Sanyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Zhang Guozhu, and Li Benshen are all Wu Sangui's people, but Kangxi doesn't know it. The three of them wrote together to ask the king of Pingxi to still be in charge of the affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou, but Emperor Kangxi refused on the grounds of taking care of Wu Sangui's health.

This time, there is a chance that Wu Sangui will not go out of ten years, as long as Wu Sangui stays in Yunnan and does not move, then it will be easy to do. How strong Wu Sangui is, as long as Kangxi doesn't get Wu Sangui himself, he will never act rashly. For the imperial court, Wu Sangui was the one who was a threat among the three feudatories, and the other two kings were not a problem. Wu Sangui's subordinates Wang Fuchen, Li Benshen, and Wu Zhimao were respectively the governor of Shaanxi, the governor of Guizhou, and the general army of Sichuan, and ten people, including Ma Bao, Wang Pingfan, and Wang Xu, were the general soldiers of Yunnan.

Therefore, Kangxi will definitely not be so unwise, and at the same time, his plan this time is destined to fail. As long as he still wants to take down Wu Sangui, then encircling the other two kings is a necessary means. Therefore, Geng Jingzhong's trip will not be a problem. With this in mind, everyone's mood relaxed.

Li Guangdi is still a little worried about this, after all, all of the above is just conjecture, and it may not necessarily come true, and some necessary preparations are still needed. "Shizi, the subordinate Jianyì, the whole army should enter a state of secret preparation from now on, and send troops to guard the key passes everywhere. The navy is also all on standby, just in case. At the same time, an order was immediately sent to the capital to start preparations. If the imperial court really wants to do something to you, it will not be unguarded. ”

"Okay, just do as you say!" Geng Jingzhong nodded in response. Plan ahead and be careful.

The vassal king will not be in such a hurry when he enters Beijing, and the gifts to the emperor's harem concubines must be prepared, and besides, the part of the capital officials is of course also indispensable. (To be continued......)