Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 571, building Songhu

As Songhu fell into Liu Jin's hands, Liu Jin also began to make arrangements.

Songhu is a good place.

Liu Jin looked at the map of Songhu and slowly pondered how to plan.

Songhu at this time is far from being comparable to Shanghai in the later generations. It is just an ordinary county town. Except for the county town, all other places are paddy fields, a land of fish and rice, and the kind where hairy crabs are rampant.

"It's also quite close to Ma'anshan. Miyun Iron Works can come here to build a branch factory. With iron, other things are much easier to handle. Moreover, the Jiangnan area is also the place where the entire Daming Railway consumes the most."

"The cement factory must be built. Tianjin Cement Factory can also build a branch factory in Songhu, but it still needs to attract more people to build cement factories in Songhu."

"Cement has become popular in the north. The economy in the south is strong. Once it becomes popular, it will only be for building bridges and paving roads. The cement needed in the south will be astronomical."

"Textile factories are also indispensable. The south is where silk is produced, and a large amount of cotton is also grown here. The key is that labor is much cheaper than in Beijing and Tianjin."

"Well, a glass factory will also be built in Songhu to meet the demand for glass in the south, and it will be much more convenient to export overseas in the future."

"The shipyard also needs to be built. With the rise of capitalism in the south and the rise of maritime trade, it is estimated that it will soon surpass the north. We must occupy the pit in advance."

Accompanied by his fingers, Liu Jin calculated carefully.

There are too many industries under his command, but they are basically concentrated in the north. The next step is to slowly expand to the south, and expand to the entire Ming Dynasty.

For Songhu to develop, it is far from enough to rely on its superior geographical location.

Daming has thousands of miles of sea and territory, and there are many good places.

But not every place can develop.

The geographical location is superior, but it also requires a lot of investment and construction to be able to drive it.

The development of Shanghai in later generations was not only because of its good geographical location, but more because the country concentrated its efforts on building Shanghai, so the Pearl of the Orient was built.

The same is true for Songhu now, it is just an ordinary county, and without investment, it is very difficult to get up.

Even if it can get up, its speed will be very slow, very slow, maybe after decades or hundreds of years, it may not be able to have the prosperity of Tianjin now.

Tianjin can have the current situation, and at the beginning it was slowly driven by the millions of taels brought by Liu Jin.

Investment is necessary, and it requires large-scale investment.

Soon, Liu Jin's order was conveyed to many industries under his command. Miyun Iron Works, Tianjin Cement Factory, Tianjin Textile Factory, Garment Factory, Coal Factory, Glass Factory, Shipyard, etc. also began to send people south to Songhu .

According to Liu Jin's instructions, I plan to start choosing a site in Songhu and prepare to invest in setting up a factory.

Liu Jin is the bellwether of Beijing and Tianjin.

Many industries under Liu Jin's command were going to invest and build factories in Songhu. As soon as the news spread, people in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area began to follow in Liu Jin's footsteps.

A large number of capitalists, factory owners, workshop owners and the like also sent people to Songhu one after another, planning to follow Liu Jin's footsteps and invest in building factories here in Songhu.

Everyone has already identified one thing.

If you want to make a fortune, you must follow Liu Jin, follow this high-ranking disciple, follow this God of Wealth, and you can't go wrong with keeping it.

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Songhu.

Sun Xin, who bought almost the entire Songhu, was not in a hurry to leave.

He began to recruit workers on a large scale, not only in Songhu, but also in the Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions around Songhu.

Teams of people set off from Songhu, brought a few local people, and started beating drums and shouting every time they reached a place.

"We're hiring~ we're hiring~"

"Recruit workers to go to Songhu to repair the wharf, build the port, and repair the cement road~"

"Three liang of silver is paid in full every month, including three meals a day, and you can eat every meal."

With such attractive conditions, it is almost effortless to find people easily.

In less than half a month, thousands of people from places around Songhu began to gather here in Songhu.

Sun Xin's work for them is also very simple, such as repairing docks, ports, and concrete roads.

These are also what Liu Jin ordered him to do. If a place is to develop, the basic hardware facilities must be built first.

This is what the three links and one leveling of later generations said.

Songhu is still very backward here, there is no concrete road, and the wharves here on the Huangpu River are still made of wood, which is very small and cannot park many ships at all.

Various factories and workshops will be set up here in the future. Without these basic things, it will not work.

Thousands of people gathered here in Songhu, turning the whole of Songhu into a bustling construction site.

A large amount of matter began to gather continuously.

Dozens of large ships arrive here in Songhu every day. The ships are filled with cement, cement in standard wooden barrels, and ship after ship of steel bars.

Now the only one that can produce steel bars is the Miyun Iron Works. It is absolutely necessary to build high-rise buildings, ports, and wharfs without reinforced concrete.

With steel and cement, the construction of this infrastructure is very fast.

It seems that tall buildings are rising from the ground, and it seems that the sea has changed.

On both sides of the Huangpu River, great changes are taking place every day.

The day before yesterday, the two banks of the Huangpu River were still paddy fields and tidal flats, but soon thousands of people flocked here. They were busy here every day, and large ships arrived here to unload massive supplies. down.

Then, in just a few days, a huge open space was built on the bank of the Huangpu River, and the open space was paved with cement. Next to the open space, newly built piers were neatly arranged.

A few days later, a spacious cement road was built along the bank of the Huangpu River. The cement road was so spacious that saplings were planted in the middle, so it was called a green belt.

Like magic, the speed is so fast that people feel incredible.

In just a few days, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

This made the local people in Songhu County feel very shocked. Every day when they have nothing to do, these local people in Songhu would come to the Huangpu River to have a look.

Take a look at the bustling construction site and see the huge changes.

However this is just the beginning.

Along the two banks of the Huangpu River, more and more piers are being built, and the bigger and bigger they are, they are neatly arranged. Large ships can berth on the piers, and the piers have become extremely busy.

The roads were built farther and farther, and they began to be built farther and farther. They were horizontal and vertical, like a neatly planned chessboard, planning the surrounding large tracts of land into squares and squares.

At the same time, on both sides of the spacious road, buildings began to rise.

This kind of reinforced concrete building is very tall, and any one has seven or eight floors, standing like giants on both sides of the Huangpu River.

Compared with these buildings, the houses in Songhu County are very small and ugly.

The exterior walls of these buildings are all covered with ceramic tiles, which are very beautiful. The windows are very large and equipped with glass windows. At night, whale oil lamps are lit, under the magnification of the glass lamps.

These buildings are brightly lit and resplendent.

Looking at the place where I live, the entire Songhu County is completely dark at night, and there is no comparison.

However, at this time, the locals in Songhu are not in the mood to compare these.

Because they also become very busy.

Along with the construction here in Songhu, these local people in Songhu suddenly discovered that the money suddenly became easy to earn.

To go to work, the monthly money is only three taels of silver, and three meals a day are also included.

If you have brains and some capital, you can sell things to sell.

More and more people gathered here in Songhu. In the past, there were only more than [-] people in Songhu, but now, there are tens of thousands of people working on both sides of the Huangpu River.

Everything sells very well.

Vegetables grown, chickens, ducks and geese raised, fish caught from the water, crabs caught, etc., as long as you have goods in your hands and send them to the construction site, they will be robbed immediately.

The whole Songhu has become more and more lively, with more and more people, and more and more consumption.

There are specialized merchants who go to the areas around Songhu to buy chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc. These things are very cheap in rural areas, but if they are resold to Songhu, they can make a good profit immediately.

The local grain merchants are even more busy, constantly buying grain from all over the country and transporting it to Songhu to satisfy this growing appetite.

The injection of huge funds into Songhu seems to have given Songhu an extremely powerful impetus, making the entire Songhu extremely noisy and lively.

But this is just the beginning.

Along with the initial construction of the wharf and port, cement roads were also initially built, and factories began to settle here in Songhu one after another.

　It's not too exaggerated, if there are tens of thousands of people engaged in construction, the speed should not be very slow, right?
　　
　
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