When Dong Yanyun saw this place, he had a diǎn impression in his mind, he often traveled to and from Zhangzhou and Dayuan Port in his early years, and he also passed by here by boat, and knew that there was a large harbor in the narrow bay mouth here. However, he has never landed in this place, because it is said that the natives of this place are very cruel, not only delicious human flesh, but also have a very strong taste, and must wait for the corpse to be eaten after the worm. Of course, this is actually just a false statement, although the Makadao people do have a diǎn heavy taste, but they have not yet reached the point of eating people. Regardless of the purpose of the person who spread this rumor, the sensational rumor is enough to discourage people like Dong Yanyun who do not know the truth.

Dong Yanyun was still a little interested in this place at that time, and planned to report to Xu Xinsu to send more people to him, and then explore whether this place has the value of immigration and development. However, later, the relationship between Xu Xinsu and Zheng Zhilong took a sharp turn for the worse, and he had to spend money to buy officials in exchange for a dǐng umbrella, and then Eighteen Zhi occupied Penghu and took over the shipping route between the mainland and Dayuan Port, and Xu Xinsu also broke off trade relations with the Dutch, so he lost the opportunity to occupy this place.

Eighteen Zhi has a large-scale immigration colonization area in Bengang, north of Dayuan Port, and it is difficult to open up another colonial area in a short period of time with their strength, and most of the sea ships of Eighteen Zhi are concentrated in Penghu Magong Port, and the port conditions on this side of Taiwan Island are not high. And the Dutch, who are close at hand, can't even make their own nests, and it took almost eight years to complete about half of the construction of a city of Geranza, so naturally there is no time to come here again to open a mine. As a result, turning around, this place was cheaper than the last Haihan people to arrive, and they directly sent someone to occupy this place without making a sound.

Throughout the history of Haihan's fortune, as long as he is judged by the ground that he eats in his mouth, he has never spit it out again, and this place must be no exception, in the end, it is just to see if it will invest a lot of resources as Haihan advertises to build it into a large seaport city in the region.

Dong Yanyun also admired the decisiveness of the Haihan people in opening up colonies, as long as they saw the target, they would start very quickly, and the scale of resources mobilized in a short period of time was difficult to compare with even the Ming government. Similar to the development of Kaohsiung Port this time, the Haihan people suppressed the neighboring Dutch with military strength on the one hand, and deliberately concealed the quasi-∵dǐng∵diǎn∵ Xiao∵ from the Fujian government on the other hand, .2+3.os_ ♀(); Equipment, to exclude possible obstacles, it is clear that the overall plan has been in place for a long time. Whether it is the Dutch or the Fujian government, I am afraid that it is difficult to influence Haihan's development plan.

As the sailboat slowly sailed into the strait, Dong Yanyun also noticed that there were also many brazier cursors set up on the shores on both sides, so as to prevent the ships entering the harbor in the dark from running aground on the shore due to unknown directions. Although there was no figure on the shore because it was dark, Dong Yanyun could imagine that there must be more than one pair of eyes on the shore in the darkness.

After the sailboat sailed through the narrow channel mouth, the water in front of it suddenly opened up, and you could already see the lights of the stars on the pier in the distance. Dong Yanyun suddenly had a strange thought in his heart, since the lighthouses built by the Haihan people at the mouth of the harbor were still temporary facilities, it must have not had time to build a fort here. If you launch an offensive here, you may be able to snatch this place from the Haihan people.

However, this idea only existed in his mind for a short time before disappearing, because he had already seen a slip of Haihan warship docked on the coast, not only the "Exploration Class" warship of the same level as his own sailing ship, but even a "Expedition Class" warship with a larger size, regardless of whether the Haihan people had time to build shore fortifications on the coast or not, the deployment of the militia navy here alone was enough to hold this harbor.

"Haihan people have always been shrewd, how can they leave obvious loopholes for others to exploit?" Dong Yanyun not only felt a little ridiculous about his previous thoughts, but only Haihan had always calculated others, but he had never heard of anyone calculating Haihan.

The sailboat slowly docked, and after setting up the springboard, Yang Yun came to invite Dong Yanyun ashore. Dong Yanyun went down to the dock and immediately saw Anxi. He knew that after he set off from Penghu, Qian Tiandun must have contacted this side by telegram, and hurriedly took the initiative to greet him and said, "How dare you have President Lao An!"

Sure enough, Anxi smiled and replied: "It's still Mr. Dong's hard work, in order to come to this wilderness place, he specially took a day's boat from Penghu to come over, it must not be easy." ”

The two stood and exchanged a few words, and Anxi invited Dong Yanyun to eat in the canteen of the port center. Dong Yanyun hadn't eaten dinner on the boat, and he was indeed a little hungry at this time, so he responded happily immediately.

The base of Kaohsiung Port has just been created, and it is not even open to the outside world, of course, there are no restaurants and restaurants to entertain guests, only the port center has set up a canteen for naturalized cadres and Haihan chiefs, and the environmental conditions are naturally not as good as other ports that have become climates under the rule of Haihan, just a bamboo shed ventilated on all sides. However, the dishes are no different, and almost everything that can be eaten in Sanya Shengli Fort can be served here, that is, the dining conditions are a little shabby.

Dong Yanyun didn't mind this kind of detail, the purpose of his coming to Kaohsiung Port was to see the development progress here, and by the way, he was close to the local Haihan supervisor, and the conditions of food and accommodation were not what he was concerned about. However, after arriving at the cafeteria, he was very happy to meet another acquaintance he knew, Chen Yixin, a young officer of the Haihan Militia Regiment.

The three of them didn't talk too much about the development of Kaohsiung Port at the dinner table, and Dong Yanyun tried to lead the topic to the development progress several times, but Anxi changed the topic very smoothly, only saying that he would personally take him around tomorrow. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, since the Haihan people don't plan to talk about this matter at the wine table, Dong Yanyun will no longer continue to ask.

Early the next morning, a staff member brought breakfast to Dong Yanyun and the two entourages he brought. Not long after breakfast, Anxi took the initiative to come to the door and invited Dong Yanyun to visit the local development situation.

The first stop of the expedition was the migrant camp located not far from the shore, which was also next to Dong Yanyun's residence. It was too dark last night, and the migrant camp was still under curfew, so Dong Yanyun didn't see how big the camp was. In the daytime, Dong Yanyun also secretly took a breath of cold air, just looking at the rows of large tents and the simple board houses being built in the distance, he could roughly deduce that the immigrants sent here by Haihan were only afraid that they would have already exceeded a thousand.

Extrapolating from the time alone, after the Penghu garrison landed on Taiwan Island for the second time, Haihan began to implement the resettlement plan, and it has only been about ten days before and after, and so many immigrants have been settled here. Judging by Haihan's past practice of developing colonies, what I saw was probably only the first advance team to arrive here to engage in infrastructure construction, and there must have been many more batches to follow.

The Dutch had been in operation in Dayuan Harbor for eight years, and now the population of the area was only two or three thousand, including the servants and natives who belonged to them. The time of operating in Bengang is not much different from that of the Dutch, and the population in the district is one more than that of the Dutch, but because there are no better port conditions in the local area, and only an inland port is connected to the outside world, the commercial development process is extremely low, and the vast majority of the local population relies on farming and fishing to make a living, and the ability to create wealth is also extremely limited.

The Haihan were obviously much more sophisticated and powerful than their competitors in this regard, choosing the location according to the operational needs of the trading port from the beginning, bringing in a large number of immigrants in the early days and providing a strong military escort. The immigrants who came here dare not say anything else, but at least in terms of safety, they should be very assured, if the place where the Haihan militia is stationed is not safe, then there is no safe place in the entire southeast sea.

Anxi took Dong Yanyun into the camp and walked around, just like the Haihan colonies that Dong Yanyun had been to before, the camp here was also equipped with all kinds of public facilities. There are shallow drainage ditches outside each simple prefabricated house and temporary tent, and each camp has a special public toilet, bathhouse and garbage station, and there is even an artesian well in one corner of the camp, and a small water reservoir is built next to it.

After the previous theft of the camp, the management has also increased the corresponding security maintenance efforts, and the camp will be patrolled by police and vigilante teams from time to time. In this way, if anyone dares to commit a crime, they probably really want to stay in the hard labor camp until they die.

"May I ask Mr. An, what is the current population of the local area? Is there any plan to introduce immigrants in the future? Can you tell us a little bit about it? Dong Yanyun asked about this at the dinner table last night, but Anxi didn't give a positive answer at that time, and when he saw the situation here today, he couldn't help but ask the question in his heart again.

This time, Anxi was very happy, and did not avoid the important anymore: "At present, the immigrant population is about 1,600 or 7, counting the militia troops and some craftsmen temporarily stationed here, there should be 2,000 people." As for the follow-up...... Probably 1,800 people will be sent here every month, and when the local residents reach 5,000, it may be slowed down. ”

Dong Yanyun said in his heart that when the Haihan people first landed in Shengli Port, it was said that the number was only 500, but now they can easily settle 5,000 people in the new colony. In addition to the port infrastructure, there is probably no local industry that will need such a large number of laborers in a short period of time, so it is conceivable that Haihan is not bragging to build a large port here.

"If Mr. Dong is interested, we can go and see the planned port area. Anthy offered to invite.

Dong Yanyun naturally would not refuse such an invitation, and immediately responded: "Then there will be President Lao An!"

Ansidang even ordered: "Come on, go and lead two horses!"

Dong Yanyunqi said: "This port is not a hundred feet away from here, and it is only a short walk away, why do you need to ride a horse to it?"

Anzai smiled: "What Mr. Dong saw when he came last night was only a small part of the port area we planned. I would like to take you to see how big the scope of the first phase of the Kaohsiung Port project we are planning. ”

Then two pack horses were brought in, and although they were not majestic in appearance, there was nothing to be particular about riding in this wilderness. Dong Yanyun got on the horse with doubts, holding the reins and advancing in parallel with Anxi.

When he entered the port last night, it was too dark, and Dong Yanyun didn't see the situation in the harbor clearly, but when he looked at the coast today, he found that this harbor was much bigger than he had imagined.

At present, the temporary wharf where Haihan docks ships is only a small harbor surrounded by a type of coastline in the big harbor, but just at the end of this small harbor, its coastline is about ten miles long. According to Anxi's introduction, the area of this small harbor in the entire Kaohsiung Port is only about one-fifth. This stretch of coast alone is enough to create dozens of piers. When Dong Yanyun heard this, he was convinced that the statement he had heard from Qian Tiandun before was not boasting, and the seaport in this place could indeed accommodate the coexistence of maritime merchants in Fuguang and Guangzhou, and it was more than enough.

"Mr. An, is that the construction site of Furuifeng in Guangzhou Mansion over there?" Dong Yanyun suddenly saw a familiar face in the crowd working on the shore, and immediately asked Anxi.

Anxi diǎndiǎn head said: "This place has indeed been assigned to Fu Ruifeng, it seems that you know their foreman!"

Dong Yanyun responded: "It's not that I know each other, I met him a few times when I was in Guangzhou before, and I know that he is a member of the Li family." Mr. An, can you reveal how much land the Li family has zoned here?"

"On this side of the wharf, a hundred and fifty feet of coastline was drawn for them, and another sixty acres of adjacent land were set aside for them to build warehouses and merchants. Anxi didn't mean to help the Li family hide it, so he said it as it was. As the chief executive of the local government, in addition to managing administrative affairs, attracting investment is also part of his job. In terms of the competitive state of maritime businessmen in Fuzhou and Guangzhou, even if it is only in the stage of enclosure infrastructure, Fujian will probably not let its counterparts in Guangdong have the upper hand.

Sure enough, Dong Yanyun immediately continued: "Then please allow Lord Xu to apply for a piece of wharf land here, if the rules allow, the land will be twice as large as the land zoned by Fu Ruifeng." As for the cost, Mr. An does not need to worry. ”

Anzay smiled and said, "I'm not worried about whether you can get the silver, but with such a large piece of land, how many people are you going to transport over for construction?"

Dong Yanyun replied without relenting: "It's okay, at least it's much closer than coming from Guangdong." ”

Now that it has become a foregone conclusion that Cantonese people will settle here, Dong Yanyun decided to change the method, at least to suppress competitors in terms of the scale of operation.