Chapter 709 Notorious
The most urgent task is that only people are right.
The emperor's imperial edict did not come, but the special zone has started construction. In addition to straightening out the royal naval affairs, the top priority is the construction of this special zone.
The construction of the special zone focuses on two places, one is civil engineering and the other is human beings.
In the civil engineering field, Eunuch Wei spent an hour to release the construction plan. It was very simple. To put it bluntly, it was to build roads and houses, divide production and sales into regions, and then build them in a concentrated manner.
The most difficult part of this plan is that the construction of Wusong Port is undoubtedly a huge task to build a flat dock project by manpower. Fortunately, the current sea ships are not the 10,000-ton ships of later generations, but are mostly hundreds of tons. As long as the dock is generally flat and connected everywhere, the ship can dock directly, so there is no need to require the concept of a deep-water port.
By drawing the cat and drawing tigers, combined with the concept of later generations, Eunuch Wei proposed the construction concept of "two connections and one level", that is, it requires water, roads and flat ground.
The left-behind detachment and the people involved in the village were mobilized to build roads and open water. The construction period was quite long and there was a shortage of technical personnel, so the Admiral Maritime Office was recruiting a large number of people from outside.
The wages offered are very high compared to those in the surrounding areas. Eunuch Wei also rewards the officers and soldiers and the people engaged in road construction, ensuring that the officers and soldiers always maintain their enthusiasm for building special zones.
Spending money is like flowing water. Almost all the money Wei Eunuch has invested in this bottomless pit, but it is still not enough for a huge project and early investment.
Eunuch Wei had already sent instructions to Chen Mo and others in Beijing, asking Chen Mo and others to transport at least 200,000 taels of silver to travel south within one month.
For this reason, Eunuch Wei had to write a letter to Shouning's mistress, saying good things, not only to tell him the current difficulties, but also to tell the beautiful scenery of the future. It is necessary to ensure that Shouning can not hold back and allocate the money as scheduled.
Of course, in the letter, Eunuch Wei must not say too much to His Highness the Princess, just to prevent the letter from asking the princess to have bad associations when he saw it.
The gift was given by Eunuch Wei. He asked someone to find several shops in Suzhou City and finally bought a box of exquisite jade. Eunuch Wei gave these jade a nice name, called Eight Stars and Eight Arrows Cupid Jade.
I specially selected the largest one to give to His Royal Highness, and vowed that this Cupid jade is the only one in the world.
This painstaking effort was really a fear that the mistress would swallow the silver issued by the bonds against his conscience when he saw that he was not here.
The Xunbing, who went to Beijing to give gifts, also brought a cupid jade in the world, which was given to them by Eunuch Wei.
Eunuch Wei didn't dare to give it to Empress Li, so he could only feel at ease.
Because the lack of technicians affected the progress of road construction, and the construction of roads required a large amount of stones, Eunuch Wei cast the batch of firearms packaged for him, and the maintenance masters sent them to various construction sites.
In addition, Japanese soldiers such as Anguo Temple were sent to demonstrate the method of targeted blasting to these craftsmen. After learning this method, the mountains and forests near Wusong and surrounding Shanghai, Jiading, Huating and other counties suffered.
The biggest reason why the surrounding counties made things difficult for Wusong to buy supplies was that Wei Yin's minions were really annoying. They openly used gunpowder to blow up the mountains and destroyed several famous places.
For example, Yushan, Xueshan, Chenshan, Tianmashan, Jishan and other peaks are all in great danger.
Like the Phoenix Mountain, the altitude is only a few dozen meters, but the mountain is steep, like a phoenix that stretches its neck and wings, and wants to fly into the sky. There is a huge green wall on the mountain, more than 20 meters high, like an axe. It is said that it was the place where Tao Zongyi, a writer of the Yuan Dynasty, studied. As a result, the Japanese soldiers under Wei Yin touched it in the middle of the night, and heard a loud bang, and the green wall was actually blown down.
Like the Chen Mountain, this mountain is not high, only about 70 meters. According to legend, Peng Suyun, one of the Eight Immortals, practices here, so it is also called the sacred mountain. Because later generations quarreled, the southern slope has been cut into cliffs, with the wonder of "cliffs, echoes of the empty valley". The Suyun Pavilion on the mountain and other scenic spots are the favorites of Jiangnan literati and poets.
As a result, Wei Yin said, "The mountain is not high, just have stones" and buried medicine and exploded the stones. From then on, there was no reply from the empty valley.
When the counties heard about Wei Yin's evil deeds, no one was angry. The gentry was angry, the people were angry, and the officials were even more angry. However, Wei Yin's minions and trunks were elite, and they built firearms. When they arrived, they either sealed mountains or forests. Who dared to approach the government yamen runners, and who dared to come forward to stop them.
The Taoist monk on Youyu Mountain once came forward to stop Wei Yu's minions from destroying the mountain, but asked Wei Yu's minions to hang it on the tree and beat it to death. This is really a hatred between Confucianism and Buddha, and people hate ghosts.
Eunuch Wei knows very well that he is notorious now, but he doesn’t have to worry about having too much debt. If he has a gun, he should put it on his waist. What can those people do to scold him, what can they do to him, a "brother"?
The overall area of the "Marine Special Zone" occupied by forcibly sent troops reached 36 square kilometers, which is the latest measurement data given by Eunuch Wei. The area involves 18 villages and 3,400 people. These villages belong to Shanghai County and Huating County. Now they are unified into special zone households.
In the past, these special district households have no more yellow books. Eunuch Wei envoys the Admiral’s Office to re-create them, and the chief of the village is re-appointed, and they threaten that all matters in the village are under the supervision of the Admiral’s Office, and those who are in the village are arrested and punished by the people who are concealed by the private parts of the village.
It is called the imperial power and will go to the countryside.
The gentry dared not speak out about this. Fortunately, Wei Yin just recreated the book for them and paid the wages to ask them to organize the villagers to build roads, and never demolished their houses and dominated their land. Otherwise, they would be afraid that the people would become unavoidable.
However, it is precisely because of the existence of Wusong Shuiying and the fact that the special zone is mostly located in mudflats, the population density of this land is weaker than that of other places. Otherwise, it would be more than these 3,000 people involved.
The Admiral’s Office is actually two brands and one set of people with the Royal Navy’s Left-behind Detachment. Eunuch Wei only takes charge of the general affairs of all kinds and sends a message to him. The specific affairs are handled by Cao Wenyao and others in the Left-behind Detachment.
In terms of civil engineering, Eunuch Wei requires that the production and sales areas must be roughly formed in the short term, and that at least 5,000 people must be accommodated before October.
Now, he has to find a way to get these five thousand people.
This is not about tying it up, but about asking people to come over willingly.
To put it bluntly, Eunuch Wei wants to attract investment.
He is not a local snake, and now he is doing something that offended the Nanzhi officialdom and is called a rebellion by others. Most of the merchants and gentry are one, so who is willing to come here willingly?
There is never a shortage of people who are competing for the situation, but this also requires him to gain a foothold in the Special Administrative Region first. At least, Beijing has to have an order to support and endorse him.
However, Eunuch Wei is still acting on his own now, so no matter how many announcements he issued from the Admiral’s Office, no one could come to his special zone to do business.
Eunuch Wei had no choice but to focus his eyes on a bunch of Qingpi.
Chapter completed!