Nanyang Storm 1864

Chapter 87 Urban Planning and Development
During the following chat, Zheng Guohui intermittently instilled into Zheng Shouzhong some of his ideas on urban development, speaking whatever came to his mind.

Just listened to the beginning

Zheng Shouzhong's expression became serious, and he hurriedly said, "Please wait a moment, General." He waved his hand to call his followers, brought pen, ink and paper, and carefully recorded it.

Zheng Guohui saw this behavior and felt even more satisfied.

Zheng Shouzhong doesn't need to have big ideas, as long as he unconditionally implements his intentions, he will be a qualified mayor.

When Zheng Guohui spoke, he would occasionally come up with new words, such as "foresight". Zheng Shouzhong would always stop writing to ask for clarification and make key annotations.

The so-called "foresight in urban planning" means that there are only more than 4 people in Davao City now, but you cannot plan the town based on more than 4 people. Instead, you have to add a zero or more at the end. This is called "foresight."

For the sake of future development, we should proactively build wider roads, reserve commercial streets, urban parks and urban planning land, rather than using them all up at once.

Just like in a war, when a general is commanding a battle, he always has a reserve force in his hands to prevent the entire front from collapsing due to lack of troops in a critical moment.

If necessary, you can get involved and stabilize the front line.

In terms of specific aspects, Zheng Guohui particularly pointed out;
Because Mindanao is located in the Southeast Asian archipelago where monsoons frequently visit, it has a lot of rainfall, and heavy rains are frequent and heavy during the rainy season, which easily leads to urban waterlogging.

In the early stages of urban construction

We must attach great importance to the construction of urban sewer networks and culverts, and build high-standard sewer culvert facilities. This money must not be saved.

Zheng Guohui believes that the standards of the sewage culvert facilities currently under construction in Zamboanga are too low. Inspectors have to bend over to walk inside, which is not conducive to future maintenance.

In the main sewer culverts in Davao City, the sewer culverts must have a 2-meter-high dome structure, with a 40-50 cm wide inspection path on one or both sides, and a sewage ditch 60-80 cm deep and at least 1 meters wide.

With the current size of Davao City, the main sewer culvert is about 1.7 kilometers long and is crisscrossed in shape, eventually discharging sewage into the Davao River.

The standards for drainage culverts in other branches do not need to be so high and can be appropriately lowered. The specific standards can be determined by the individual and will not be stipulated one by one.

Davao City can first explore construction, gain experience, and then come up with a complete set of feasible solutions for urban sewage facility standards for use in the construction of primary and secondary cities.

In the future, as the city of Davao expands, the main sewer culvert can continue to be extended. This is a process of continuous supplementation and gradual development.

Regarding urban roads, Zheng Guohui's opinion is to divide the city into main roads and branch roads, and construct them according to different standards.

The standards for urban arterial roads are high. Davao City's is set at 36 meters wide, with a central green divider and right-hand traffic on both sides.

When it came to the exciting part, Zheng Guohui simply picked up a brush and wrote and drew on paper, basically transplanting the practices of later urban main roads.

Zheng Shouzhong was stunned by these novel ideas and kept taking notes with his hands and feet.

"Excuse me, wait a moment, what is a road green belt?"

"Oh, oh, oh! Please forgive my ignorance, but it's the small garden in the center of the road. You can plant coconut trees, shrubs, trees, and flowers. Yeah, yeah, I understand."

"Um, I'd like to ask, what does 'keep right' mean? Oh... carriages and pedestrians can't drive randomly. They have to stay in their own lane, which is the right."

"What if you don't listen?"

"Let the police enforce the law, teach them the rules, and promote the idea of ​​driving on the right and keeping to their own lane. Yeah... I know we need to take our time. We can't rush it."

"We need to reserve space for a street garden. We can build some public facilities nearby, such as a library and a post office. Um... Sir, please speak slower, um... "

"Central commercial streets are dominated by two- to four-story buildings. Once the city develops and prospers, land can be sold to merchants to build their own properties. Private residential construction is generally not allowed on the main streets."

"It is allowed in planned residential areas. Ordinary houses should mainly occupy 2 to 5 mu of land. Larger houses can be one or two mu, or three or five mu. The land use of private estates with more land should be strictly controlled and development should be carried out as much as possible in the suburbs."

"In areas downwind and downstream of the city, high-pollution industrial zones should be planned and kept at a certain distance, preferably more than 5 kilometers."

"Excuse me, General, but what do you mean by 'public transportation'?"

Zheng Guohui's endless speech lasted for more than an hour, making the poor Zheng Shouzhong's hands sore from writing, and the paper he used to record it was a thick stack.

It was not until the people below came to report that all the supplies on the three ships had been unloaded, and the indigenous women transported to Davao City had also been loaded on board, a total of 2000 people, and they were so crowded that there was no place to stay.

Zheng Shouzhong finally escaped this indoctrination. A layer of sweat broke out on his back and his hands were sore.

He only then felt

I'm afraid being a prefect is not an easy job. There is so much to learn, and I have to understand it carefully when I go back.

But Zheng Shouzhong is a stubborn person and he must do well in what he has decided to do.

He traveled alone to Southeast Asia for more than a year, and traveled almost all over the Luzon Islands, the East Indies, Singapore and Penang, as well as various places in the Southeast Peninsula. The farthest he went was Chennai, India. It was all thanks to his tenacious character.

He just needs to do his best to fulfill the orders given by the general.

If I didn't do well, that was a matter of ability, and I'm sure the General wouldn't blame me, but I absolutely couldn't betray his trust. "In that case... I'll take my leave," Zheng Shouzhong said with a respectful bow.

Zheng Guohui laughed and took him out of the teahouse, looking very intimate.

In just over an hour, I drank five or six pots of water, my mouth was smoking from talking, but I felt very happy in my heart.

So he said in a friendly manner, "Come on, Uncle Eleven, I'll see you off. It's a good opportunity to take a walk."

"How can this humble official bear this?"

"Haha... Uncle Eleven, you can't write two 'Zheng' characters with one stroke. You and I are blood relatives, there's no need to be so formal."

"In that case, I will accept it with a clear conscience."

The two men walked out of the teahouse and walked along the street. When the pedestrians on both sides of the road saw the general, they moved aside like parting waves and saluted respectfully.

Many people knelt down and kowtowed to the general.

These are the deeply rooted etiquettes of the Shenzhou Continent, and Zheng Guohui has no intention of changing them for the time being. He nodded to everyone and walked forward.

Tagum is not big, and the main street is only more than 800 meters long. After walking all the way to the outskirts of the town, Zheng Shouzhong stopped and no longer went forward.

He bowed with both hands, gave a deep salute and said, "General, please stay. After accompanying you for a thousand miles, we must finally say goodbye. Shouzhong will take his leave now."

"Okay, let's stop here."

Zheng Guohui watched his eleventh uncle Zheng Shouzhong lead his entourage onto the ship, then turned back because he still had a lot of miscellaneous matters to deal with.

After reviewing the military reports submitted by the left and right armies, he encouraged them and ordered all units to implement the 16-character policy of steady and solid colonization, and gradually squeeze the living space of the indigenous tribes.

If they can't stand it anymore, these indigenous rebels will jump out and commit suicide.

Just like wave after wave of waves crashing onto the shore, they are smashed into pieces on the rocks and eventually disappear into thin air.

The colonization methods used by Zheng Guohui were ruthless. He basically did not give any hope to the local indigenous tribes and cut off their roots. What he wanted was a clean and complete Mindanao.

The basis for doing this is the almost endless population resources of China.

This gave Zheng Guohui enough confidence to completely take over the occupied Mindanao Island, leaving no food for the indigenous people.

He doesn't care about Visayans, Moros or Tagalogs, nor does he care about ethnic languages ​​or ethnic diversity. This island can only and must be Chinese, without any other colors.

He was so independent and domineering, and he completely eradicated the future troubles.

After a week of garrisoning in Tagum, the surrounding towns and villages within a radius of more than ten kilometers were cleared out. In addition to the rebels killed, more than 4 indigenous people were captured.

Among them, women account for more than half, and there are only a little over a thousand people left, which is 3.

This was mainly due to the brutal killings. A large number of young and middle-aged indigenous people died in the continuous crackdowns, causing serious blood loss to the local indigenous tribes and having a great deterrent effect.

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There are about 14 indigenous women of childbearing age between 2 and years old. If we divide it among the officers and soldiers and among the Chinese immigrants, there will be more than women left.

The rest were gradually transferred to Davao City, where a women's camp was established to concentrate on doing some work such as textile production, shoe and clothing making, oil mills, and tofu shops, waiting for the arrival of a new wave of Chinese immigrants before being redistributed.

Older indigenous women were assigned to plantations or purchased by Chinese immigrants, officers, and soldiers to work as servants or to provide labor for the family. The price was cheap, equivalent to the price of a donkey.

It’s true, the remaining older indigenous women are really in high demand, especially the strong and healthy ones, who have almost been divided up by thousands of Chinese immigrants.

Some Chinese immigrants buy two or three properties at a time, as they don’t have to worry about having too much debt.

These Chinese immigrants are not stupid, the logic here is very clear.

More than ten taels of silver can be used to buy a laborer, who can help with clearing wasteland and farming, chopping wood, boiling water and cooking, raising chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and can do almost any farm work.

It is always better for several people to work together to make money than to work alone.

It's not that they can't be used at night, nor that they can't give birth. If you give birth to more cubs, they will all be labor force when they grow up.

Under this naive idea, the remaining older Aboriginal women were actually taken away, most of whom were bought on credit by Chinese immigrants.

Only more than 2,000 emaciated or over-old indigenous women were left with no one to care for them.

Finally, they were all sent to the plantations, which also needed labor. The work was not heavy and the indigenous women could do it. After all, they could not eat for free.

(End of this chapter)