261, Construction of Shanghai [1/2]

The next morning, when Yi Yun woke up, he found a talisman showing his figure on the bed, which was the one he drew last night. "Piaotian, Literary Registration Member Recommended This Work" Piaotian, Literary Registration Member Recommended This Work. It seems that the Death Girl has left. Before leaving, it left this thing, which has a bit of a difference in it, but Yi Yun is not afraid. He knows that this woman will not leave, and she will never be willing to get the treasure of her job.

He walked into the yard and saw a group of girls sitting in the yard chatting. Chen Yuanyuan sat in the middle. Her depressed state yesterday had been wiped out, washed clean, wearing a beautiful silk dress, and she smiled frequently, as beautiful as a fairy. She was talking about her experiences wandering in the desert these days recently, such as how to avoid scorpions and venomous snakes on the road, blown down by the sand and wind, looking for directions... When she arrived in Suzhou, she looked for water, asked for clothes from the peasant woman... Later, she took a ride all the way, almost met a bad person, and she blackened her face herself, etc.

This story is really a bit like "Robinson Crusoe" or "The Adventures of Tintin", but it tastes almost the same.

Everyone was joking for a while, and suddenly someone came in to report that the merchants from Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and others had arrived, and this group of merchants were here to cut down trees.

Dameng Country is full of deserts, forest resources are very scarce, and most oasis are forbidden to be cut down. Some oasis only have a few pitiful trees, who dares to cut them? Are you looking for death? In this case, the wood in Dameng Country is amazingly expensive, and any wooden table is worth hundreds of taels of silver, and better red sandalwood is even more expensive. In the entire Dameng Country, the places with the richest forest resources are Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and most merchants can only purchase wood from these three places to make furniture.

Unfortunately, rebels in Yunnan and Guizhou have caused trouble in recent years and are no longer able to transport out the wood. Guangxi is another territory occupied by wolf soldiers, and there is a high risk of cutting trees there. Maybe it is still cutting trees today, but some savage will be cooked to eat tomorrow.

Therefore, when merchants heard that Yiyun's new oasis made people cut trees for free, they were immediately excited and gathered towards Jiashan County. In just a short period of time, dozens of large merchants gathered, each of them brought a logging team and a transportation team, with a total of more than a thousand people. The latest chapter of the Holy Temple, Piaotian, Literature Registered Members recommended this work.

Yi Yun was overjoyed and did not wait for the merchants to rest well, and immediately led the team to set out and headed towards Shanghai Oasis.

After arriving at the center of Shanghai Oasis, Yi Yun first drew a huge map and then outlined a circle in the center of the map. This circle is as large as Xuhui District, Changning District, Jing'an District, Zhabei District, Huangpu District in later generations... The overall look is a bit like a rectangle. The area is thirteen kilometers away from east to west and eight kilometers away from north to south, and the total area is about hundreds of square kilometers. It is basically enough to build a city. If it needs to be expanded in the future, it will be the second phase of the project.

Yi Yun stood on a high platform, and the merchants and the logging teams and transportation teams they brought were shown. He showed the map to everyone, and then shouted: "Businessmen, you can cut down the trees in this area, and whoever cuts down the trees will be yours. The roots are all yours, but trees beyond this area are not within this period of the plan. If anyone cuts out of the world, I will confiscate all the trees he cut down and prohibit him from continuing to participate in my free tree cutting group."

"Wow!" The merchants were startled and said in unison: "We dare not leave the boundary."

"It's good if you don't leave the boundary, come on, cut it!"

"Oh!" The merchant quickly turned around and shouted to the lumberjack behind him: "Roll! Grab the tree!"

With a loud noise, thousands of people rushed to the woods. The lumberjacks quickly began to cut down trees. Hundreds of logging axes were waving, and the crackling sound rang out from all directions.

The convoy responsible for transportation now has nothing to transport, so I started the whole road first. The latest chapter of the Holy Temple, Piaotian, Literary Registered Members recommend this work. These people who are engaged in transportation understand the importance of the road. Without a good road, it is impossible to transport the wood back quickly and steadily to make money.

Not long after, a large area was empty in the woods, and hundreds of trees were put down. The loggers began to clean up the branches on the trees, saw down the branches and sort them into a pile, which could be used as firewood and sorted them into a pile. These branches could be used to make table legs and other things. The huge and round trunks are the most valuable things, and they can be used to make anything, such as ships, cars, houses....

"Money, these trees are all money!" The merchants' eyes shone. They didn't need to do it themselves, so they surrounded Yi Yun and said with a smile: "Prince, you are such a good person. You actually gave us so many trees for free. This is really... so sorry."

Yi Yun chuckled twice and said, "If I were you, I would not rush to grab the trees. Let the workers build a few wooden houses first. Anyway, the trees of hundreds of square kilometers cannot be cut down in one or two days. The workers have a wooden house to rest at night, so they can keep their energy. Otherwise, the workers will not be able to cut down the trees tomorrow."

"Ah, right! What the prince said is." The merchants quickly ordered the workers to build temporary sheds.

Yi Yun laughed and said, "When you cut down the trees and evacuate them, these sheds are not allowed to be demolished. Keep them for me, and I will still be useful."

The merchants quickly said, "It is appropriate to leave something for the prince, of course we will not tear it down."

The next half day, lumberjacks and transport workers all built wooden houses. They were skillful. Building houses these days is not like later generations. It takes a long time to lay the foundation and pour cement or something. Anyway, putting up a few pieces of wood and putting on the boards makes it a wooden house. It doesn’t take much effort. Thousands of people work together, and the speed is very fast. It quickly built wooden houses that are enough for thousands of people to live in, lined up neatly.

Yi Yun secretly thought in his mind that after these merchants evacuated, the row of wooden houses left behind could allow him to accommodate many immigrants, haha, he made a lot of money.

A few days later...

A huge flat land was cut out from the woods, and the roots were dug up and taken away. The land was turned soft and the fertile soil made all the workers drool. Such a good land was rarely seen elsewhere.

Two long gravel roads were also built, one extending from the center of Shanghai Oasis to Jiashan Oasis, and the other extending to Suzhou... The location of Shanghai Oasis is perfect, not only close to Yiyun's territory Jiashan, but also close to the prosperous Suzhou. In the future, you will definitely get a lot of business opportunities through Suzhou.

A large number of logs were tied to camel trucks and transported from two newly paved roads to Jiashan and Suzhou, and then transported to various cities for transactions. Since the logging area was close to the Huangpu River, Yiyun thought of a new way to make money. He asked Luo Lemao to transfer the ship from Jinshan Wharf, enter the Yangtze River through the Huangpu River, and transport the wood to Nanjing... This can reduce the transportation pressure for merchants coming from Nanjing. Of course, ship transportation is much faster than car transportation. Taking this opportunity, Yiyun earned a large amount of transportation costs.

A few days later, Li Huamei and a group of Ningbo maritime merchants came, and some of them joined the work of transporting wood and transporting wealth. On the other hand, once there are more ships, there will be a port.

The maritime merchants were all experienced people. They drove along the coastline of Shanghai Oasis for a while, surveyed the situation along the coast, selected the most suitable place to build a port, and finally selected a port a little bit north of the Huangpu River estuary.

Of course, the naming rights of this port are in Yi Yun's hands, and Yi Yun named it "Wusong Port" without hesitation.

Since Yiyun allowed merchants who invested in the construction of the port to moor here for free in the future and had priority purchasing and sales rights, many maritime merchants paid out of their own pockets and spent manpower to build the port. Not long after, a huge port was built. The port was built very grandly, with a marina coastline of more than 200 meters, and many floating platforms were built, and various types of docks were built. There were special docks for ships in large and small boats, and hundreds of sea boats could be moored at the same time, without appearing crowded.

No one knows better what kind of docks are suitable for merchants than the maritime merchants. The ports they built themselves are more professional than the official ports in Ningbo. They are not only wide but also sturdy. Large trucks will not have any problems when moving on the wooden bridges of the docks. There are also special small commodity trading areas and large commodity trading areas, which saves the trouble of relying on intermediaries to introduce business like Ningbo wharf. Everyone needs to find the corresponding goods directly to the trading area.

In the trading area, it is classified according to the type of goods, such as the silk product trading area, the ceramic trading area, the tea trading area... all kinds of things are classified, which greatly facilitates the activities of merchants.

A few days later, the port was finally completed. Although there was no commodity circulation in this port yet, Yiyun knew that it would develop soon. In the history of another world, Westerners have always wanted to open several more docks along the coast of the Ming Dynasty for trading. However, due to the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy, at most, there were only three ports, and at least, there were only Ningbo.

Although the world has changed now, this is Da Mengguo, which is a bit different from its own world, but the direction of the greatness will not change. Westerners hope to have more ports in Da Mengguo. Their newly opened port will soon attract a large number of merchants. Moreover, Shanghai is closer to Suzhou and Nanjing, and it is more convenient to transport. It is impossible for the goods from these two places to go to Ningbo again, so they will definitely give priority to their own place.

The port, which is currently deserted, has become a den for Li Huamei and his group of people. Her big blessed ship and the stolen iron-armored ship are parked in the port for many years and occasionally go out. When she comes back, she brings back a lot of Fusang goods. Needless to say, she goes out to rob again...
Chapter completed!