In late November, the weather was sunny and even colder. Birds were rarely seen on the blue-green sea, and snow-white sails kept coming and going. Dongzhou's most important sea transshipment ports made the entire port even busier.
In the city lord's mansion, it is so fashionable and deserted. The sun shines through the windows, and only fine dust floats in the golden air. The time is slow and quiet. Those who are interested in watching the fortune here will find that the originally scattered people's hearts are condensing and a whirlpool is flowing.
, waiting.
Steady footsteps were heard in the corridor, and with a click, the two magicians pushed open the mahogany door, respectfully invited someone in, and then closed the door gently from the outside.
It was the first time for Ye Qing to step into the core room of Port of Hope. He sat down after taking a seat at the table. He looked back at the map of the entire territory on the wall that symbolized power. He recalled the respectful looks from the guards along the way. He felt very interesting for a moment.
You must know that when we first came to Port of Hope half a month ago, the soldiers and civilians were very respectful and respectful. It was purely out of 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 their inspection that the atmosphere gradually changed. Now that I stepped into the city lord's mansion, I felt a faint sense of luck flowing around me and unknowingly.
A newly arrived lord, Ye Qing made no bold words or did big things. He was really special. He just patrolled and participated in four or five large and small battles, but he was invisibly worth a thousand words. The people here seemed to follow a simple criterion of judgment -
—We have fought side by side and are our own people.
Think about it, even Liniang hated male suitors so much that she pinched her nose and endured the entanglement because of the excessive fighting side by side. It is an interesting spirit - the rough social structure and the severe living situation, which allowed the king to win the hearts of the people.
It's very simple. No wonder the pioneering leaders of the past dynasties are the most praised and respected by people. The East China Sea Alliance, which has been established for a hundred years, may have a leader.
When there was a knock on the door, Ye Qing withdrew his gaze and said, "Come in."
With light steps and a faint fragrance, Liniang came in with a person, a port officer, and said concisely and concisely: "Zhenjun, the list of the second batch of support from all parties has been compiled, and it is as originally agreed, there is no shortage... Should it be activated or closed?
in stock?"
"Let's close the warehouse first."
Ye Qing nodded slightly and handed her a map. He had perfected this map on the way back from his frontline patrol at Tea Castle and drew it today.
"In these points, build me warehouses, docks, and standard walls. They must be completed within a month, and the materials supported by each department can be used."
Liniang took the picture and opened it with bare hands... Several warehouses were located in places with fertile land and convenient water conservancy. She couldn't help but think deeply. She was a real person and felt that these were very suitable for cultivation.
"This is a big project," the port officer said after seeing it. Although he knew Ye Qing's secret identity, he did not have the full confidence that Liniang did.
"Just finish this matter. I will continue to patrol the second half of the area." Ye Qing dismissed the port officer and asked him to just follow the instructions, and then he was immersed in sorting out the results of the recent inspection - rushing along the road, actually
There is a lot of military, economic, political, social, and environmental information recorded in Sichuan Lin's notes. Now that I have stopped, I have a chance to sort it out.
He spread out a copy of the map, took a red pen and dipped it in the cinnabar, and drew a red circle on the part of Dongzhou close to the coastline: "The power of the Immortal Sect is a large piece... ports, important towns, and fortresses, corresponding to sea lanes, population,
Only when all three are able to control the strategic throat can there be room for development."
Ye Qing was quite satisfied with this. He knew that the territory he was given had all the conditions, but the transportation was poor. This was the same in Dongzhou, so he couldn't complain.
After recalling it, I drew a red line between Port of Hope, Fragrance City, and Tea Castle. It was roughly straight but slightly curved: "The terrain here is flat and a railway can be built...but the problem of miasma purification needs to be solved. It can be solved by railway alone."
will be able to monopolize the benefits of land transportation.”
Then he clicked red circles between scattered villages: "In these small villages, they are basically descendants of cultivating immortal families. Some are conservative, some are open, and they are all stubborn...and they obey the strong and do not resist the rule of the new lord."
In this crisis-ridden continent, the human race can only stick together closely. The tradition of unity within Qingmai has strengthened this point. Those who are not tenacious and do not obey the strong will have long since died.
The difference between conservatism and openness is also very interesting. Some people have been born and raised here, and have lived here a generation or even two generations ago. Some people have just immigrated here across the sea. The primeval forest is mixed with miasma, which must be transported by the immortal sect.
, when the team that transported them here left, they themselves could not get out of this dangerous forest.
This means that natives or immigrants can only live within a radius of twenty miles throughout their lives. This is their world of survival, a small but complete home.
Ye Qing believed that this would cause mental problems. During conversations with soldiers and civilians from various places, he discovered that the Immortal Sect still left magicians in villages and towns to teach knowledge and even held annual temple fairs. Everything was an imitation of mainland traditions. Many adults
People are used to it.
They only hope that their child will be tested by the Immortal Sect and have the aptitude for green veins, and be sent to live and practice in a big coastal city. This is currently the best way out in Dongzhou.
"In general, this continent shows typical... immigration characteristics..."
Ye Qing paused his ink pen and stared at the territory of Dongzhou, thinking of the rice country on the earth...people with different customs, cultures and even different languages and nationalities gathered into a big pot. How did its dragon energy gather and how did the national destiny turn out?
What about the rise?
Different civilizations have different directions of exploration, and there are always many similarities. After thinking for a while, Ye Qing had some ideas in his mind.
Although he currently controls three counties and has a population of only half a million, his personal inspections still revealed many things that would never be mentioned in reports. The people in charge in various places speak straightforwardly and have many demands on their lords, with great differences.
There is a lack of youth, a lack of women, a lack of magician defense, a lack of spiritual stones...the list goes on. The common complaint is that the roads are not smooth and there is no way out or in.
"The large differences mean there is little communication... In the final analysis, it is still a problem of roads and traffic hazards in virgin forests. These require the blood, sweat and lives of generations of ethnic groups to overcome in an agricultural society, but can be quickly improved under industrial conditions."
Ye Qing thought about it, he had been prepared for this, and now that he has received a practical inspection, he should be able to rest assured.
The various forces within Qingmai still work together relatively well. They know that if you want to get rich, build roads first. In Hope Port and Xiangquan City, past historical records show that deeper towns also have certain ground roads, but the traveling caravans and
Passers-by were easily attacked by wild beasts, savages and alien city-states. The danger made people more willing to choose sea shipping, and eventually formed the habit of establishing colonial areas around the edge of the land.
Looking at the entire map, the entire colonial area on the west side of Dongzhou is in the shape of a crescent moon. The gap of the moon is facing east, as if a black shadow has swallowed up and covered a large piece of moonlight. That is the true face of Dongzhou——
Eastern Wasteland.
According to previous inspections and observations, the wilderness environment has a super strong vitality that is unusual.
Now in the cold winter season, when I look at the forest near the port, there are no fallen leaves. It is basically green all year round. Specifically, it is cold in the morning and evening, and the forest is silent. The temperature becomes obviously higher at noon. You can still hear the sound of branches and leaves growing in the smell of earth. So hurry up like crazy.
Take in sunlight and nutrients at all times to grow stronger.
The ecological vegetation in Dongzhou grows too fast, even in winter. You can imagine the state of the forests here in spring and summer. Every inch of the land is filled with vegetation, and the natural primitive ecology takes the initiative. Except for the occasional human village, it can be seen
There are no traces of civilization - roads.
Such strong vitality is very beneficial to the foundation of Qingmai. The proportion of Qingmai monks produced in Dongzhou is very high. Practicing in the rich wood spiritual energy environment is more effective with half the effort. The training of fighting against wild beasts, savages, and foreign races has promoted Li.
My mother reached Yangshen when she was less than twenty years old. Such geniuses are not uncommon in Dongzhou - or usually if you don't have enough heavenly skills to transform into immortals, you can only stop at Yangshen. But when a vassal state comes into being, then
These will be the cornerstones of a new force in the fairy world.
This has been seen frequently in the history of past dynasties. Almost every celestial force was once the pride of humanity's pioneering work, and then it was elevated to the heavens to continue to exist.
But things have advantages and disadvantages. Magicians can use magic to purify the air they breathe, but it is difficult for mortals to adapt to the miasma environment characteristic of the wilderness - different miasmas correspond to different racial territories, each with different properties. For those who grow up here
Wild beasts, savages, and alien races are nourished by spiritual energy, but they are poisonous gas to the human race in this area.
"There is a mystery in this." Ye Qing stroked his chin and thought, and said to himself: "But after hundreds of thousands of years of experiments by many people, it was concluded that violence is the fastest to break?"
The so-called violent destruction is a practice used by various immortal sects during the development. Colonial villages and towns are built on the intersection points of spiritual veins. After the guidance and construction of the immortal sects, the human energy is mixed with the earth energy to form a magic circle. This will dispel the miasma and spiritual energy.
The fertile soil under nourishment is conducive to cultivation and cultivation.
However, this colonization model that relies on spiritual veins results in long distances from each other, insufficient manpower and material resources, and the cost of opening and maintaining ground roads has skyrocketed.
Colonial speed and colonial security are two trade-offs in an agricultural society.
Whenever large-scale transportation and in-depth support are needed - this winter counterattack, I heard Liniang say that the coalition forces of the major immortal sects are very rough and push forward, taking advantage of the slowdown of vegetation growth in winter, the dormant insects and snakes, and the reduction of farming in the colonial areas.
, organized manpower and material resources to cut down trees on the old road again, armed to ensure safety, a large vehicle-mounted magic circle to drive away the miasma within a ten-mile radius, and the brigade broke through the dense forest and forcibly advanced to the destination. Such a road is called the trade wind road by the Xianmen disciples, which is intermittent.
the meaning of.
As time passed, after the coalition forces defeated the enemy and seized the new spiritual colony, most of them returned home to prepare for spring plowing. The roads that were originally opened with blood and sweat became less and less crowded, and nature would be restored in just half a month.
Due to its dominance, all kinds of thorns and shrubs have crazily flooded the roadbed, making it completely unsuitable for mortals to pass.
"So we return to the starting point again...it's still a road problem." Ye Qing dropped the ink pen and his eyes brightened little by little: "It's very clear that other things can be put aside. Even the railway in the Northern Wei grassland can slow down the progress. That road was originally
It has a sense of strategic deception... After the air fleet arrives, it must immediately roll out railways among the colonies in Dongzhou. As for solving the air purification problem during the journey..."
"Isn't the train closed? We just need to install air conditioning... Well, an air purification array will do."
"But in this case, we have to adjust the first batch of transportation plans and let me transport more rails and Huoling steam engines."
"It must be spread to local mines and initially complete the self-production of rails to reduce the pressure on long-distance transportation of thousands of miles."
"The complete policy is that although it is a pity, many settlements must still be abandoned and concentrated in the city, which is more economical and affordable."
"We need to use both hands, both hands are tough. There is still half an area that has not been inspected, but the basic idea can be settled. Sporadic rural areas are not advisable, and residents must be concentrated in cities that are more fertile and have more convenient transportation."
"These cities are the future county towns - as for the county towns, it is too early to mention them now. We will find a more suitable location later."
"Relocating rural areas to cities is the first policy, and the second is that these cities must be connected by official roads and railways, so that institutions and territories can be quickly formed and economies of scale can be achieved."
"According to the data, in cities with clear division of labor, sufficient food, and adequate medical care, the population can double every generation, while in scattered rural areas it can only be maintained simply and may not double in a hundred years."
"So concentration is inevitable."
"It's more cost-effective to build the county first, once the population has multiplied, then to build the villages, and then to recover those villages."
After obtaining the support of on-site inspections, I peeled off the cocoons of the problem in depth. When the problem itself was clear and unquestionable, the answer was as simple as this. The final success or failure depends on whether the strength is strong enough and the speed is fast enough - the half-year appointment is still not completed.
Not to mention, there is still an old rival, Prince Qing, waiting to enter the scene.
Ye Qing glanced at some scattered colonial settlements in the southern part of Dongzhou. The densely packed earth-yellow signs were the extending tentacles of the Cai Dynasty. They were very annoying and unsightly. Unfortunately, I couldn't come and unify the entire Dongzhou Immortal Sect, so I would just stay here for the time being.
Can't reach...
Unless he can start a trend of development in Dongzhou, all the Qingmai Immortal Sects will spontaneously gather under his banner in the direction of their interests.
This will be his core goal for the next five years. In the long run, it is also Qingmai's only hope for survival...
And those who stand in the way of this hope must be crushed, no matter whether they are wild beasts, savages, aliens or princes of the Qing Dynasty.