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The south of September is still very hot, but it is not as humid and rainy as in summer.

Chen Xu took a big boat to Panyu first and inspected the construction of the local harbor. However, Panyu, like Dongye, was not produced by land transportation, and the south did not produce coal, iron ore, so cement and steel were scarce. However, there was a huge convenience in the south compared to the Central Plains. This was that the forests were dense and the stone was abundant, and the rivers were well connected and developed water transportation. Therefore, with the cooperation of local officials and the Qin army stationed in Lingnan, prisoners of war and local Yue people who were stationed in the Battle of Lingnan were sent to the local area to cut down huge trees and dig stones, and the wood was scattered and spread to the water near the mouth of the Pearl River. With these giant trees and stones, even if they did not use cement and steel, they could still build a pier, but the degree of strength was not as strong as concrete, but fortunately, the local materials were very convenient to obtain.

When Chen Xu arrived in Panyu, tens of thousands of people were also carrying out harbor construction. Heavy stones were pushed into the sea by black and thin labor slave prisoners and were buried in the foundation of the harbor. Camphor wood, yellow rosewood, teak, ellipse, lychee wood, and other high-quality wood unique to the south were lifted by dozens or hundreds of people using thick rope pulley cranes to buried it in the foundation pit as a support frame for the wharf. Their lively posture was no less than the river port harbor wharf in the Central Plains.

However, behind this booming prosperity is the result of more than 10,000 soldiers stationed around to monitor and drive them away.

Although the Yue tribe was destroyed, the barbarity of the Yue tribe's bones was still not easy to tame. Unlike the people in the Central Plains who voluntarily went to the construction site to work and earn money, these people rarely voluntarily, and most of them were forced to conquer. They often curse and make trouble during their work. However, now that people are on the throne, I am a fish, and all the Yue tribes who have been completely conquered can only swallow their anger and accept this situation of enslavement.

The three most special seaports in the Tantu Project are Dongye Port, Panyu Port and Nanhai Port, located in the three counties of central Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi respectively.

These three ports were not entirely completed by investment promotion. These barbaric places were inconvenient and could hardly get in. Fortunately, some materials could be accessed through the Xiangshui River through the Lingqu Canal to the Pearl River, but the Beibu Gulf in later generations was too difficult. If there was no sea transportation, there would only be Yue people who crossed mountains and ridges as if walking on flat ground.

Although all the four counties in central Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan are under the jurisdiction of the Qin Dynasty, they are actually in a semi-autonomous state. Except for some gathering places of Yue tribes, basically no barren mountains and wild ridges with dense forests are under control. Because the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the court has not sent a large number of officials to implement the jurisdiction. They all rely on the two generals Zhao Tuo and Ren Xiao, as well as some officials who implemented the policy of erosion in Lingnan to rely on the army to suppress and surrender, giving local Yue tribe leaders some benefits to make money together, and there is still a long way to go from complete control.

However, Chen Xu did not want to delay this arduous task, which was a long journey, and slowly realized it after hundreds of years. Therefore, he directly built three harbors by the river and the sea, forcibly gathering popularity to form three harbor cities, so as to drive the local barbaric Yue tribe to integrate into the cultural circle of the Central Plains as soon as possible. With more than 200,000 garrison soldiers, tens of thousands of prisoners who implemented the policy of encroachment, and tens of thousands of Yue tribe prisoners, and in addition, the caravans between China and the West continue to interact soon, the process will be greatly accelerated.

Chen Xu had great expectations for the three ports in Lingnan, and the court also invested huge sums of money, hoping to attract more engineering teams and merchants and gentry from the Central Plains to join in the development. However, the harsh conditions and barbaric state still have great resistance. At present, there are almost no people from the Central Plains in Panyu Port. Except for local officials and the Ministry of Industry and the Academy of Revenue and Sciences who came to guide the construction of the port, they are almost all Yue people from Qingyishui.

Chen Xu in Panyu only inspected for two days, communicated with local officials and garrisons, and then continued to take a boat south to Nanhai Port.

The development of Nanhai Port is even more backward. After Chen Xu arrived, he had to summon local development and construction officials to give some simple instructions and encourage them to overcome difficulties and complete the first phase of the wharf as soon as possible, because at most two or three months, a fleet will definitely come to the South China Sea. With the travel of these merchant ships, the two counties in Guangdong and Guangxi can be closely linked to the Central Plains. The steel, porcelain, cloth, books, newspapers and even many people who are keen on adventures and make money will come with the ship, and the harbor will soon become lively.

The biggest gain of this trip to Guangxi inspection was that Chen Xu met the general Zhao Tuo stationed in Guangxi. He learned from him that the general situation of the four counties in Lingnan was still unwilling to accept it, especially near the South China Sea. Ren Xiao led tens of thousands of troops to still strangle the remaining troops of Luo Yue in Yunnan. Zhao Tuo's role was to prevent the Yue people from raiding the harbor. At present, the biggest difficulty for the garrison in Lingnan was still the difficulty in supplying weapons and food. He was completely unable to do so in the face of the more southern areas.

"Marty, the current situation in Lingnan is very complicated. After the Lingnan garrison was stationed, the strength of the Lingnan garrison was relatively weakened. In order to ensure the construction of the harbor, Tuo specially dispatched 3,000 soldiers from Guilin to assist in defense. However, some local Yue tribes often come to raid the port construction, Tuo had to come and command in person. This ghost place is simply not a place for people to stay, with wild beasts and poisonous snakes... "

Zhao Tuo, who was fighting against the Yue tribe dozens of miles away, learned that Chen Xu had arrived, so he stopped suppressing the bandits and took the army directly back to the harbor. After a visit, Zhao Tuo began to complain.

Chen Xu felt sad after seeing Zhao Tuo's appearance.

When he was in Xianyang, Zhao Tuo had a white and black face and a handsome and handsome beard. He was the most brave in his thirties. He usually had a neat and neat manner, but he hadn't seen him for four years. He was so dark that he could hardly recognize him. He had messy hair and unshaven beards, and he was not wearing armor. He was holding a sugar cane with his bare hands. If he hadn't spoken and spoke a Guanzhong sing, Chen Xu would have doubted whether Zhao Tuo was pretending to be a fake.

"The situation in Lingnan is indeed complicated. These imperial courts have expected that the food, grass and military equipment are still being transferred in a steady stream every year. However, after most of the Vietnamese tribes are pacified, there is no need for large-scale military deployment and mobilization, and the expenses are much smaller. What you need to do is to encourage soldiers and prison slaves to garrison and reclaim wasteland, and to intermarry with the Yue tribe, take root in the area of ​​the Yue tribe. The meritorious soldiers can enfeoff more land and real estate, and to reward those who have made meritorious prison slaves. Not only should they restore their household registration status, but they should also enfeoff land and real estate to encourage their development.

Production, integration... Only when civilians in the Central Plains and Lingnan continue to intermarry and exchange and fusion, this state of mutual hostility can gradually ease. Tongwu Hou and the two generals conquered Lingnan, which was a contribution to the creation of the world. Your Majesty mentioned the follow-up rewards and resettlement of the two generals and the soldiers involved in the conquest of Lingnan several times in the court. This marquis has also personally issued several court orders on the resettlement of soldiers, but these are the arrangements of the court. General Zhao can be more bold. He cannot rely solely on force to treat the Yue tribe, but also needs civil governance..."

Chen Xu roughly said his thoughts. After hearing this, Zhao Tuo smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The Marquis said that Tuo naturally knew what he said, and he had been doing it all the time, but the counties in Lingnan are different from the Central Plains and will not completely surrender without decades. Since the construction of this harbor, the nearby Yue tribes have repeatedly attacked the logging and transport teams, causing hundreds of casualties. Tuo was the county magistrate in Longchuan and had to come to suppress the bandits again!"

"The Yue tribe here is really so rampant?" Chen Xu was puzzled.

He stayed in Panyu, Guangdong for two days. Although the local conflict between some Yue tribes and the army of the Qin officials was quite serious, most of them were still very honest. They cursed the most when working, but they had never heard of Yue tribes haunted the construction site. However, according to Zhao Tuo's statement, the situation in Guangxi and Yunnan was much more complicated.

"Marty, General Zhao is not an exaggeration at all. He attacked us three times last month, and not only dozens of casualties, hundreds of giant trees drifted directly into the sea along the river and disappeared, wasting half a month's time!"

"Not only that, many locals are now afraid that they will not help us go up the mountain to quarry and log wood. It is unlikely that the construction of this port will be completed as scheduled!"

"The Marquis must help us excrete from the court, otherwise we may be punished by His Majesty!"

"It's just that, it's not because I don't work hard, and it's not because I'm going to miss the work schedule."

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The group of port engineering construction officials and craftsmen who participated in the discussion all agreed with Zhao Tuo's statement, making Chen Xu more serious.

"How many tribes are there in these Yue tribes that plague the construction of ports? How many people are? Where are they hiding? Have you ever talked about it?" Chen Xu asked after pinching his chin and thinking.

"According to our inquiry, there was only one tribe at the beginning, a tribe in Xiou. The leader was Ping Azai. He was very savage and brave. He had great archery skills. There were about a hundred people in the tribe. He usually traveled in the mountains and had never found out where they were hiding. Under the leadership of Ping Azai, in June and July, three or four different tribes began to attack us. Now in August and September, there were more and more Yue people, and there were seven or eight tribes. Although there were not many people, they crossed mountains and ridges like the wind. The places where we quarrying and logging were relatively fixed. Although there were soldiers guarding each time, they were still unable to defend themselves. They were attacked many times, and many casualties were injured..."
Chapter completed!