Port of Hope

In late November, the weather is sunny and colder, birds are rare on the blue and green sea, snow-white sails have been coming and going, and the most important sea transshipment ports in Dongzhou have become busier.

In the city lord's mansion, this fashion and no one, the sun shines through the window, only the fine dust rises and falls in the golden air, the time is calm and quiet, people who are interested in watching the luck here, will find that the original scattered people's spirit is condensing, a whirlpool is circulating, waiting.

There was a sound of steady footsteps in the hallway, and with a click, the two magicians pushed open the mahogany door, respectfully invited someone in, and gently closed the door outside.

It was the first time for Ye Qing to step into this core room of Hope Harbor, and he sat down after a few cases in the main seat, looking back at the map of the whole territory that symbolized power on the wall, and recalling the respectful gazes of the guards along the road just now, he felt very interesting for a while.

You must know that when you first came to Hope Port half a month ago, the military and civilians were respectful and respectful, and it was purely a fear of the joint authorization of the East China Sea Alliance, but there was no such admiration.

It wasn't until Liniang and the others announced the inspection that the atmosphere gradually changed, and now when they stepped into this city lord's mansion, they unconsciously had a faint sense of luck circulating around and returning to their bodies.

A newcomer lord, Ye Qing didn't say anything arrogant, didn't do big things, really said special, just patrolled and participated in four or five large and small battles, but it was invisibly worth a thousand words, and the people here seemed to pursue simple judging criteria - they had fought side by side, and they were their own people.

Thinking that even a misogynistic suitor like Li Niang, looking at the excessive side by side, pinched her nose and endured entanglement, but it was an interesting spirit - the rough social structure, the grim survival form, made it easy for the lord of the country to win the hearts of the people, no wonder the lord of the country who pioneered in the past dynasties was the most praised and admired by the people, and the East China Sea Alliance, which had been established for a hundred years, may have an alliance leader.

When the knock on the door sounded, Ye Qing retracted his gaze: "Come in." ”

The footsteps were light, the dark fragrance was faint, and Li Niang came in with a person, it was the port officer, and said succinctly: "Zhenjun, the second batch of support from all parties has been summarized, and there is no shortage as originally agreed...... Do you want to enable, or do you want to seal the inventory?"

"Let's seal the warehouse first. ”

Ye Qing bowed slightly, handed her a map, returned from the first-line inspection of the tea castle, this map was conceived and perfected halfway, and it was drawn today.

"These points, build me a warehouse, a dock, and a standard fence, which must be completed within a month, and can consume the materials supported by each door. ”

Li Niang took the picture and opened it with her bare hands...... Several warehouses are located in locations with fertile land and convenient water conservancy, and she can't help but think about it, she is a real person, and she feels that these are very suitable for reclamation.

"This is a big project!" After the port officer saw it, although he knew Ye Qing's secret identity, he didn't have the full confidence of Li Niang, so he just said.

"Once you're done with this, I'm going to continue to patrol the second half of the area. Ye Qing dismissed the port officer and told him to do so, and immersed himself in the collation obtained from the recent inspection - hurried along the road, and the actual Chuan Lin notes recorded a lot of military, economic, political, social, and environmental information, and now he had a chance to sort it out.

He spread out a copy of the map, took a red pen and dipped it in the dansha, and drew a red circle on the part of Dongzhou near the coastline: "The Xianmen forces are large...... Ports, important towns, and fortresses, corresponding to the control of sea lanes, population, and strategic chokepoints, can all be mastered, and only then can there be room for development. ”

Ye Qing was quite satisfied with this, knowing that he had both the conditions for his territory, but the traffic was poor, which was the same in Dongzhou, and he couldn't complain.

After recalling, he drew a red line between Hope Port, Xiangquan City, and Tea Castle, roughly straight and slightly curved: "The terrain here is flat, and a railway can be built...... However, it is necessary to solve the problem of miasma purification, and if it is solved, the railway alone can control the benefits of land transportation. ”

He also dotted a red circle between the scattered villages: "In these small villages, they are basically descendants of the Xiuxian family, some are conservative, some are open, and they are all tenacious...... And obeyed the strong, did not resist the rule of the new lord. ”

In this crisis-ridden continent, the human race can only hold together closely, and the unity tradition within the Qingmai has strengthened this, and those who are not tenacious and disobedient to the strong have long since died.

And the difference between conservatism and openness is also very interesting, some people were born and grew up in Si, the previous generation or even the last two generations lived here, and some people have just immigrated here across the sea, the primeval forest is mixed with miasma, and it must be transported by the Xianmen organization, and when the team that transports them here leaves, they themselves can't get out of this dangerous forest.

This means that natives or immigrants can only live within a radius of 20 miles for the rest of their lives, which is the world where they live, a small but complete home.

Ye Qing thought that this would cause mental problems, and found in conversations with soldiers and civilians in various places that Xianmen still left magicians in villages and towns to teach knowledge, and even had an annual annual temple fair, which was an imitation of mainland traditions, and many adults were used to it.

They only hope that the child can be tested by the Xianmen and sent to the big coastal city to live and practice, which is the best way out in the current Dongzhou.

"In general, the continent presents a typical ...... Characteristics of immigrants ......"

Ye Qing paused his pen, stared at this Dongzhou territory, and thought of the rice country of the earth...... People with different customs, cultures, and even different languages and nationalities converge into a big cauldron, how does its dragon energy gather, and how does the national fortune rise?

Different civilizations have different directions of exploration, and there are always many similarities, Ye Qing thought for a while, and then had some ideas in his heart.

At present, although he controls the land of the three counties, the population is only 500,000, and the personal inspection still finds many things that will never be mentioned in the report, and the principals in various places speak bluntly, and there are many demands for their lords, and there are also big differences.

Lack of youth, lack of women, lack of sorcerer defense, lack of spirit stones...... To name a few, the common complaint is that the roads are not smooth, and they can't get in and out.

"The big difference means that the communication is small...... In the final analysis, it is still the problem of roads, the problem of traffic hazards in the primeval forest, which need to be overcome with the blood, sweat and human lives of generations of ethnic groups in an agricultural society, and can be quickly improved under industrial conditions. ”

Ye Qing thought about it, he had prepared for this, and now that he had been actually inspected, the deity should be able to rest assured.

In the past history of Hope Port and Xiangquan City, there are also certain surface roads in the deeper towns, but the caravans and passers-by are prone to the attacks of wild beasts, savages and alien city-states, and the danger makes people more willing to choose sea shipping, and finally formed the habit of establishing a colonial area around the edge of the land.

Looking at the whole map, the colonial area on the west side of Dongzhou is in the form of a crescent moon, and the gap of the moon is facing east, like a black shadow swallowing and covering a large piece of moonlight, which is the original face of Dongzhou - the Eastern Wilderness.

Judging from the previous inspections and observations, the barren environment has a super vigorous vitality, which is extraordinary.

Now in the cold winter season, looking at the forest near the port, there is no fallen leaves, basically green all year round, specifically in the morning and evening, the forest is silent, the temperature becomes significantly higher at noon, and the sound of tree branches and leaves can still be heard in the mud and fishy atmosphere, and frantically seize a qiē time to absorb sunlight and nutrients to grow.

The ecological vegetation in Dongzhou grows too fast, so in winter, it is conceivable that the state of the forest here in spring and summer is completely filled with vegetation in every inch of land, and the natural primitive ecology occupies the initiative, except for the occasional human village, there is no trace of civilization - the road.

Such vigorous vitality is very beneficial to the foundation of the green vein, the proportion of Qingmai monks produced in Dongzhou is very high, and the cultivation in the rich wood spiritual energy environment is more effective and half the effort, and the tempering of the battle with wild beasts, wild people, and alien races is promoted, Li Niang is less than twenty years old to reach the yang god, such a genius is not uncommon in Dongzhou - or under normal circumstances, the heavenly power of immortal transformation is insufficient, and can only stop at the yang god, but when it comes to the feudal kingdom, then these will be the cornerstone of a new force in the fairy world.

This was not uncommon in the history of various dynasties in the past, and almost every side of the Heavenly Immortal Force was once the pride of humanity and pioneering, and sublimated to the heavens to continue to exist.

But there are pros and cons to things, sorcerers can use spells to purify the air they breathe, and it is difficult for mortals to adapt to the miasma environment characteristic of the wilderness - different miasma corresponds to different racial territories, each with different properties, for those wild beasts, savages, and alien races that grow here, it is spiritual nourishment, and for the human race in this domain, it is poisonous gas.

"There's a mystery to this. Ye Qing stroked his chin and thought about it, and said to himself: "But hundreds of thousands of years should be a lot of people, and in the end, it is the fastest to break the violence?"

The so-called violent destruction is a practice when the various veins of the immortal gate are developed, the colonial villages and towns are built on the intersection of the spiritual veins, through the guidance of the immortal gate, with the popularity of the mixed earth qi to form a magic circle, which will dispel the miasma, and the fertile land under the nourishment of the spiritual qi is conducive to reclamation and planting.

However, this colonial model that relies on spiritual veins has resulted in a long distance from each other, a shortage of manpower and material resources, and the cost of opening up and maintaining surface roads has skyrocketed.

The speed of colonization and the security of colonization cannot be the best of both worlds in an agrarian society.

Whenever it comes to the need for large-scale transportation and in-depth support - this winter defense counterattack, I heard Liniang say that the coalition forces of the major Xianmen are very rough and flat, taking advantage of the slow growth of vegetation in winter, the dormant and snake dormant, and the reduction of agriculture in the colonial area, organize manpower and material resources to cut down trees on the old road again, arm to ensure safety, and drive a large magic circle to drive away the miasma within a radius of ten miles, and the brigade breaks through the dense forest and forcibly advances to the destination, such a road is called the trade wind road by the disciples of the Xianmen, which means intermittent.

And as soon as the time passed, after the coalition forces defeated the enemy, they seized the new spiritual vein colony, and most of them returned home to prepare for spring ploughing, and fewer people took the roads that were originally opened up by blood and sweat, and it would only take half a month for nature to regain its dominance, and all kinds of thorny shrubs frantically flooded the roadbed, which was completely unsuitable for mortal traffic.

So I went back to square one again...... Or a road problem. Ye Qing threw down the red pen, and his eyes brightened little by little: "It's very clear, you can let go of others, even the railways in the Northern Wei Dynasty grassland can slow down the progress, that road is a bit of strategic deception...... After the arrival of the air fleet, it must be the first time to spread the railroad between the colonies in the Eastern State, as for solving the problem of air purification during the journey......"

"Isn't the train closed? just need to install air conditioning...... Well, the air purification circle will do the trick. ”

"But in this case, we have to adjust the first batch of transportation plans, and let the deity bring more rails and fire spirit steam engines. ”

"It is necessary to spread to the local mines, and initially complete the self-production of rails to reduce the pressure of long-distance transportation. ”

"The whole policy is that, alas, many settlements have to be abandoned and moved to the cities in a centralized manner, which is more economical. ”

"We have to do both hands, both hands are hard, and there is still half of the area that has not been inspected, but the basic idea can be set, scattered villages are not advisable, and we must concentrate on living in more fertile and convenient cities. ”

"These cities are the county seats of the future - as for the county seats, it is too early to find a more suitable location later. ”

"The first policy is to move from the countryside to the cities, and the second is that there must be official roads and railway connections between these cities, so that the system and territory can be quickly formed and the scale effect can be formed. ”

"According to the data, the population of cities with a clear division of labor, sufficient food, and medical care in place can double every generation, while in scattered villages, it can only be simply maintained, and it may not double in a hundred years. ”

Therefore concentration is inevitable. ”

"First there is the county seat, the population has multiplied, then there are the townships, and then those villages are recovered, which is more cost-effective. ”

Obtained the support of field investigations, and then peeled back the problem in depth, when the problem itself is clear, the answer is so simple to come out by itself, and in the end, whether it succeeds depends on whether the strength is strong enough, and whether the speed is fast enough - the completion of the half-year appointment is not counted, and there is an old opponent Qingjun Wang waiting to enter the field.

Ye Qing's gaze swept towards some scattered colonies in the south of Dongzhou, and the dense earthy yellow marks were the tentacles of the Cai Dynasty's continuous extension, which was very eye-catching and annoying, but unfortunately the deity couldn't come, and it couldn't unify the entire Dongzhou Immortal Gate, so it couldn't reach it for the time being......

Unless he can roll up the general trend of development in this Dongzhou, then the interests are directed, and all the Qingmai Immortal Sects will spontaneously condense under their own banners.

This will be his core goal for the next five years, and in the long run, it is also the only hope for Qingmai to survive......

And in the way of this hope, whether it is a wild beast, a wild man, a foreign race, or the king of Qingjun, they must be crushed.