Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1110, The Rapidly Developing Penglai City

When it was snowing heavily and the wind was blowing in Beijing Town in the north, Penglai City, which was located in a warm zone, was warm like spring and sunny.

As the new year approached, the entire Penglai City became extremely lively.

Penglai City is the largest city in the entire Golden Continent, gathering many immigrants.

Originally, Penglai City was not the first city established in Golden Continent. Immigrants from the Ming Dynasty first established an immigration office here in Qianhe City, and then followed the west coast to the south, successively establishing hundreds of immigrant strongholds and towns.

Among them, the famous Golden Bay Golden City prospered because of gold mining, and the Silver City developed because of silver mining.

The establishment of Penglai City was only established after the Daming Ocean Trading Company conquered the Aztec Kingdom and expanded its sphere of influence to the east coast.

Although it was built relatively late, the speed of development is very fast.

This is mainly due to its superior geographical location.

Located in the narrow isthmus, it is the most convenient place for communication between the east and west sides of the Golden Island. From the west coast of the Golden Island to the east coast, if you take a boat, you need to bypass the entire South Golden Island, and the journey is thousands of miles.

But from the Aztec Kingdom to the narrow isthmus of Zhongjinzhou, it only takes more than a hundred miles, which is very close.

The Golden Continent is in such a position, and it is an important place to connect the east and west sides of the Golden Continent.

But what really made Penglai City develop rapidly was the trade with Europeans.

The trade with Europeans is very profitable. Penglai City has an excellent port, and a large number of Spanish merchant ships have arrived here, which has continuously brought massive wealth to Penglai City.

This quickly stimulated the development of Penglai City, and a large number of commercial firms and merchants came to Penglai City to trade with merchants from Europe.

In just a few years, Penglai City, which was originally just a colonial stronghold, has developed into a large-scale city, and the population living here has exceeded [-].

Although such a city is far from being able to compare with Ming's Beijing and Tianjin, if it were placed in Europe or anywhere else in the world, it would already be a huge city.

At this moment, the entire Penglai City has begun to decorate with lights and festoons. The city is neatly planned, and the roads are straight and straight. Couplets and lanterns are hung on the doorways of every household, which makes the entire Penglai City fall into a festive atmosphere. middle.

Penglai City has the distinctive characteristics of the cities on the Golden Continent. The rich Ming style is the main theme, but it also incorporates the styles of a large number of descendants of the local wealthy merchants in the Golden Continent, and at the same time, it is influenced by many European styles.

Similarly, in the streets and alleys of Penglai City, you can see elegant Ming people in long robes, and you can also see Ming sailors and explorers with short hair, shaved beards, and new books.

Of course, you can also see the descendants of Yin Shang who are naked and only cover their crotch with cloth, and you can also see some descendants of Yin Shang wearing Ming clothes and speaking Ming dialect, giving people a feeling of nondescript.

Here, you can also see those merchants and sailors from Europe. These people have a very strong smell. This smell is unspeakable. It is the smell of body odor mixed with inferior perfumes and spices, so many people in Ming Dynasty dislike it. Clutching his nose, these proud Europeans were both angry and helpless.

The port of Penglai City has undergone repeated expansions, and the scale is very large. There are docks here and there, and a large number of ships are moored. There are merchant ships from Europe, and most of them are Ming ships from all over the world.

Expedition teams descended from these ships continuously. Many people in these expedition teams looked very tired, but they always had smiles on their faces, and they obviously gained a lot.

Many people settled here in Penglai City, and a large number of businessmen and explorers chose to settle in Penglai City.

On the one hand, the location of Penglai City is good. It is very convenient to go to the west coast or the east coast. There are fixed boats here to go to various strongholds on the east coast, and there are also horse-drawn carriages to go to the west coast.

Another aspect is the climate here, which is very warm and warm like spring all year round. Even though it is already cold winter, it is still very comfortable here.

Under the sunshine, Penglai Bay is very beautiful. The beach stretching all the way to the end is extremely clean. The blue sky and blue sea water are connected at the end, and the whole world seems to be blue.

The last reason is that Penglai City has a strong commercial atmosphere, and there are a lot of transactions every day. The good things discovered by explorers can be sold here for a good price.

Gold and silver found on the west coast, dried fish, deerskin and fur from Qianhe City; silver, gold and copper from the Inca Empire, as well as goods arriving at Gold Island from the southern line of the Pacific Ocean, sugar from South Seas, and kangaroos from Australia Dried meat, cattle, sheep, and horses; food from the vast, fertile fields of the east coast, precious redwoods found here in the vast rainforest, and more.

In addition, there are also goods from Europe, such as European horses, wine, beauties and slaves. jade and slaves.

In short, in Penglai City, as long as you have silver, you can buy almost any commodity in the world here. Here, business is well protected, provided that you pay taxes.

Therefore, here in Penglai City, there are thousands of business houses from Ming Dynasty, large and small. In addition, there are many business houses from Korea and Japan, and some other powerful vassal states and colonies have also set up offices here.

Like Ningguo on the Tianzhu side, who made a fortune by trading slaves, King Ning sent people to set up an office here in Penglai City, specializing in slave trading. Ships regularly take the Atlantic route, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope at the southernmost tip of Africa. Go to the Indian Ocean.

Needless to say, European businessmen, because the exclusive trading rights signed by Daming and Spain have expired and have not been renewed, so a large number of European businessmen come here for their own interests, regardless of risks.

Various languages ​​converge in Penglai City, and people of various skin colors also gather here, forming a unique landscape of Penglai City.

In the county government of Penglai City, Li Zheng was listening to his subordinates report on the situation in Penglai City.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, how the Penglai City was managed in the [-]th year of Hongzhi depends on the data.

Since Liu Jin became the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he has been in charge of officials all over the world and implemented a strict examination system. Officials can no longer be perfunctory like before, and everything depends on the data.

Population growth, tax revenue growth, infrastructure construction, fertile land reclaimed, food produced, etc., are all data, and they are the key points for their examination.

"My lord, in the [-]th year of Hongzhi, our Penglai City has collected [-] million taels of silver in tax revenue, an increase of [-] million taels of silver compared to last year."

"Just in this area alone, you can get a very high score, my lord. In addition to the rapid population growth of our Penglai City this year, I think my lord will be promoted back to Daming soon."

County Prime Minister Du Li reported to Li Zhenghui with a smile.

"I really like this Penglai City now. If I really want to be transferred back to Daming, to be honest, I really don't want to part with it."

When Li Zheng heard this, he couldn't help laughing immediately.

He himself knows very well that his political achievements this year are good, and his promotion is a certainty.

Liu Jin is in charge of officials all over the world. He is stern and selfless. Everything depends on the results of the exam. As long as the officials have made achievements, they have been promoted and promoted in the past two years.

In the past, if you wanted to be promoted, you would need money to clear it up, and you had to have a relationship to be able to clear it up. Therefore, officials are all trying to make money, so that they can send money to get promoted.

But it's different now. Liu Jin has plenty of money himself, so it's useless to clear up the relationship. If he wants to be promoted, the only way is to make achievements.

For this point, Liu Jin has always been strictly implementing it. Those who do well will be promoted, and those who do not will be demoted.

Li Zheng is very clear that he has done a good job here, and he has already received awards, and appreciation is inevitable.

"Even if my lord is not transferred back to Daming, I'm afraid he will be promoted to the state capital."

Du Li smiled and continued.

"Haha, the Golden Continent is pretty good. If I can stay here, I'd like to."

"The land here is sparsely populated, the land is fertile, and the products are rich. We Daming people are hardworking and smart, so we can live a good life here casually."

"Now the west coast has developed quite well, that is to say, the development on the east coast is not enough, that is, the generation of Penglai City and Penglai Bay has developed."

"The rest of the place hasn't developed yet, it's all small immigrant strongholds and towns."

Li Zheng said with a happy smile.

In fact, he has already started planning the development of the east coast of Golden Island.

Although he is only the county magistrate of Penglai City, it seems that his official position is very small, a seventh-rank sesame official.

If it was in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, it would not be a big deal, but on the Golden Continent side, because the Golden Continent is sparsely populated, the administrative division of the Golden Continent is very extensive.

The entire Golden Continent is divided into two chief envoys, South Golden Continent and North Golden Continent, that is, two provinces, South Golden Continent and North Golden Continent.

Each province is divided into several state capitals very simply, and there are also simple counties below the state capital, so that even a single county has a very large jurisdiction.

For example, Penglai City, which is under the control of Li Zheng, is not only the city, but also almost the entire Middle Gold Island area around it is under the jurisdiction of the Penglai City County Government, and the scope of jurisdiction is very large.

As for the scope of the jurisdiction of the state capital, it is even larger. The area under the jurisdiction of a state capital is almost equivalent to half the size of the mainland of Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)