Chapter 50: Investigation (1)
Fu Li sat sideways at the bow of the boat, his legs sticking out from between the railings and resting on the side of the ship. The bow of the ship kept breaking the waves, but Fu Li felt that the hull only had a very small undulation. Fu Li had also followed the elders of the mountain to the beach before, but he had only taken a boat out to sea once, because he was very uncomfortable with the feeling of bumps in the sea, and the small canoe in the Tiandu River was completely different from the sea. Since then, Fu Li has had an inexplicable fear of going to sea by boat, but today this ship has completely eliminated Fu Li's previous negative impression of sailing at sea.
In Fu Li's impression, the Han sailing ship should be like the wooden sailing ships he saw in the port of Shengli Harbor, the hull is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with thick and tall pine masts and heavy sails, but these Han people who call themselves "Haihan" have built a completely different sailing ship, the hull is wide, the hull is low, and the sails look light and thin. As soon as he sailed out of the Victory Harbor, he had already left behind the small Guangzhou boat that had set off first.
"Surprised, didn't you? I had the same look on your face when I first got on this boat. ”
Fu Li looked sideways when he heard this, and saw that the person who spoke was Yu Xiaobao, so he smiled kindly and motioned for Yu Xiaobao to sit down next to him. Yu Xiaobao is also attending classes in Ningqi's temporary school every night, and he naturally knows Fu Li. Although the two are not of the same race, they are the same age, one is fifteen and one is sixteen, and there is no big barrier in language communication, so they quickly made friends.
"You've been on this boat before?" Fu Li asked curiously.
"This ship is called the Speedy, and I've been to sea on this ship several times. The Haihan people took me out to sea to fish, their fishing nets are very powerful, one net can catch hundreds of catties of fish, and they have also netted such a big shark......" Yu Xiaobao said as he opened his hand, and compared a very exaggerated size, showing off in his tone.
"The paella they make is also delicious. Fu Li immediately thought of the kind of fragrant paella that only Haihan was qualified to eat, and he had the privilege of eating it twice. Of course, if it weren't for his identity, Ning Qi usually took special care of him, and he would only have to watch like Yu Xiaobao.
Yu Xiaobao swallowed his saliva when he heard this, and said unconvinced: "Yesterday, Mr. Ning said that when I come back from this mission, he will reward me with a seafood rice!"
As he spoke, the "Feisu" had already rounded Luhuijiao, and at this time, the small Guangzhou ship had not even left Yulin Jiao. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable) (.) After the "Feisu" bypassed Luhuitoujiao, it headed north along the coast of Luhuitou Peninsula.
"If you want to go to Yazhou City, shouldn't you go west?" Although Fu Li has not been to the sea much, he still has the ability to distinguish the direction by looking at the sun, and he can't help but feel a little strange when he senses that the direction of the sailboat is going is wrong.
"You don't know this, right?" Yu Xiaobao immediately seized the opportunity to win back a city: "Our boat is not going directly to Yazhou, but to stop along the way." The Haihan lords said they wanted to see these places...... Well...... That's right, development value! That's right, development value. ”
The two teenagers couldn't figure out what "development value" meant for a while, so they had to wait for Mr. Ning to ask Mr. Ning for advice after returning from Yazhou.
The purpose of the task force was to use the waterway to go deep into the urban area of Sanya in the future to collect data on the hydrological and geographical conditions along the Sanya River and the Linchun River.
In the regional planning of the Executive Committee, the area along the river valley from Shengli Port to Tiandu Iron Mine will be developed as the main industrial base and military base through Zhongzhong in the future, and even though the coal-iron composite industry may move north after the development of Shilu Iron Mine and Hongji Coal Mine, some "high-precision" industrial products and chemical products, especially the arms industry, which will be strictly controlled, will still be concentrated in the inland areas of the upper reaches of the Tiandu River for production. This is also to avoid crossing the crowd-controlled area in the future, after the expansion of the territory, some people will do what "independent" crooked brains are not supported by modern industry, and whoever wants to pull a team outside to play "independence" is looking for death.
In the future, the prosperous urban area of Sanya will be developed as a future business district, administrative area and residential area. In particular, the terrain of the Sanya River and the Linchun River at the confluence of the sea is narrow and wide inside, which is simply the natural harbor that the Executive Committee dreams of. The last time the Ming army led by Luo Shengdong attacked, it was after landing in this harbor that they marched overland to Yulin Fishing Village to lurk. After the seizure of the Haicang ship, the crew also conducted a preliminary hydrological survey of the place, and this time they really came back to collect data for future comprehensive development.
When the "Flying Speed" reached the mouth of the river, it began to lower its sails, slow down, and gradually adjust its course. The narrowest part of the waterway that sails into this inland harbor from the sea is only a hundred meters, which is much narrower than the mouth of the gorge outside the port of Shengli Harbor, and this gorge is a mile long, and if you want to sail at high speed in this place, there is really a danger of running aground. Almost everyone flocked to the deck to see the terrain. A crew member with a plumb hammer and other tools stood on the side of the ship and began to measure the depth and velocity of the water. According to the hydrological data of later generations, although the navigable channel of this harbor is very narrow, the water depth here is excellent enough to accommodate the passage of 10,000-ton ships of later generations, and the hydrological conditions here do not seem to be much different from those of hundreds of years. Looking at the uninhabited environment on the shore, and thinking about the fact that these people had set off from this place more than 20 days ago, the people who crossed the boat felt as if they were in a different world.
Yan Chujie pointed to the mountain ridge on the south bank of the gorge and explained to the North American Gang: "This is the South Ridge, I used to travel to Sanya and went up, there is a small park on the top of the mountain, from where you can have a bird's-eye view of the entire Sanya city, the scenery is very good." ”
Yan Chujie said that of course, these are not just to remember the days before the crossing, Wang Tom has already understood his voice, nodded and continued: "The terrain here is indeed very good, we can build fortifications on the hillside in the future, look at this distance, we only need rifles to block this passage in and out of the port!"
Qiao Zhiya whistled and said, "I said last time I passed by here, this place is simply the Panama Canal in Sanya. ”
The North American Gang had passed through this gorge the last time they escorted the captured Haicang ship back to Shengli Harbor. It was just that there were several sailors on board who were in a hurry, and there were several sailors on board, and everyone did not have time to take a closer look at the terrain as they did today.
After passing the mouth of the gorge, the estuary of the Sanya River is on the left, and across a narrow island in the middle of the river, it is the estuary of the Linchun River. The confluence of the two rivers is the junction of the Luhuitou Peninsula and the mainland of Hainan Island, where a huge kidney-shaped harbor is formed. The harbor includes the estuaries of two rivers, all of which could be built into ports in the future, so that at least a hundred ships could berth at the same time.
The "Feisu" circled along the harbor and then sailed north into the Linchun River. At this time, the long and narrow island between the Sanya River and the Linchun River was not as large as that of later generations, and its widest point was only four or five hundred meters, but its length was about the same as that of later generations, with more than three thousand meters. The "Feisu" made a large circle along the island in the middle of the river, entered the Sanya River at another confluence upstream, and then went down the Sanya River.
In the upper inland areas, there are sparse houses along the banks of the two rivers, but the area of land reclamation does not seem to be large. Yu Dashan explained that this is because even if the land is cleared here, the farmers still need to go to Yazhou to go through the land registration procedures, and of course, pay fees and pay the corresponding taxes. And because it is far away from Yazhou, even the land that has been cleared has a very low market value, and a large amount of land needs to pay more money to the government, which is not very cost-effective for farmers. Of course, there may be "smart people" who deliberately do not go through the registration procedures, but the consequence of this is that once the small officials who went to the countryside to collect taxes are discovered, not to mention that all the fields are confiscated, the owner will be punished with hard labor, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Yu Dashan's words have brought some enlightenment to Gao Huan, a special commissioner of the Ministry of Agriculture, that how to carry out "land reform" in this special era has always been a research project that the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture are very concerned about. In the late Ming Dynasty, due to various reasons, the phenomenon of strict land annexation led to more and more farmers who lost their land and property, and later natural disasters eventually formed a social chaos in the late Ming Dynasty. The initial idea of the Executive Committee was to partially follow the land policy implemented in later generations in the ruling area, that is, all land should be nationalized, and whether it was a peasant or a landlord, private individuals would only have the right to use the land, and the ownership could only be controlled by the government.
Naturally, this would offend the interests of the ruling class of the era and provoke a strong backlash, so the Executive Committee did not intend to implement this practice overnight, but to implement it in stages. The first step is to establish a solid ruling area in the sparsely populated area, that is, the line from Shengli Port to Tiandu Iron Mine; the second step is to combine the "people's commune system" and the "labor hierarchy" in the ruling area, so that the significance of land ownership and use rights will gradually be accepted by the ordinary people; the third step is to expand the scope of the ruling area, and then take over, confiscate, redeem, The last step is to pass legislation after the establishment of political power, and directly formulate the state ownership of land as one of the national policies, and use legal means to ensure the implementation of the policy.
In the area inspected by the task force, the fertile plains formed by the countless years of erosion by two large rivers will not be overlooked, and the Ministry of Agriculture has drawn up a development plan for the construction of several large farms in the inland plains of Sanya long before the crossing. In particular, the upper reaches of the Sanya River, the terrain is flat, the river channels are numerous, the irrigation is convenient, it is very suitable for grain planting, and there are still tens of thousands of acres of fertile land under such a strong tourism and commercial atmosphere in Sanya in later generations, and it is the key area of hybrid rice research. After traveling through this era, the Executive Committee has also positioned this place as the future food security area of Sanya.