Chapter 1887 What I saw in Kaohsiung

When traveling abroad, he was able to take the initiative to suppress his desire for fun, which made Yu Yao's impression of Li Bo a lot better. Before Li Bo went on the road, Yu Yao also gave him some local specialties, including a bunch of

Although the three-foot-tall peach-colored coral does not cost much to pick from the sea, it is a rare item that is expensive in the market. Li Bo could not come up with a gift of comparable value for a while. Yu Yao saw that

Expressing his embarrassment, he laughed and said that if he had the opportunity to visit North Korea in the future, it would not be too late for Li Bo to entertain him as a host.

The voyage from Magong Port to Kaohsiung Port in the southern part of Taiwan Island is closer than that from Zhangzhou to Magong Port. Yu Yao specially made a little fuss on the route and arranged for the fleet to take a slight detour southward along the west coast of Taiwan Island, so that it can logically

Passing by the Dutch port of Damien, Li Bo saw the gap between the ports operated by Western colonists and Haihan.

"Your Majesty, the coast ahead is Taiyuan Port." Yu Yao lost no time in reminding Li Bao and asked him to use the telescope in his hand to observe Taiyuan Port. Of course, the fleet will not dock at Taiyuan Port, so it can only take advantage of "passing by"

"Look at it from a distance.

Fortunately, the weather today is quite good. There is almost no fog on the sea surface and the visibility is extremely high. With a telescope, you can even see the ships parked at the port dock several miles away.

Li Bo was actually quite curious about the conditions of the port run by the Dutch, but what he saw through the telescope was a bit disappointing. There were only two Western-style sailing ships with slightly larger hulls docked at the pier, and the others were all small sampans.

, even compared with Magong Port, which has a small trade volume, there is a clear gap.

"It seems that this is not a lively port." Li Bo quickly came to his conclusion, but he did not put down the telescope in his hand - this thing is indeed interesting, and after using it, he couldn't put it down. As a result,

One of the gifts I received is far more useful than those corals that can only be used as decorations.

"The Dutch once tried to control the Fujian Strait, but because of our appearance, they failed in the end." Yu Yao proudly introduced: "In order to retain this colony, the Dutch finally chose to sign a peace agreement with our country.

And abandon the garrison of troops in Taiyuan Port."

This choice of the Dutch is also a last resort. They are inferior to Haihan in terms of force. If they want to regain control of the Fujian Strait, they have to organize a fleet expedition from Batavia. However, considering the other opponents

The Dutch do not dare to use their homeland as an empty city strategy. Otherwise, if any of Spain, Portugal, and Malta take advantage of the situation, Batavia will become very dangerous. In desperation, they can only

Choose to compromise and recognize Haihan's dominance in the Fujian Strait.

However, Li Bo had never dealt with the Dutch, and he basically knew nothing about the strength of the East India Company. He didn't even know much about the grudges between Haihan and the Dutch, so Yu Yao made this arrangement.

The impression on him was very limited, and he did not understand the other party's full purpose. In Li Bo's view, the Haihan people might want to use the Dutch's surrender to prove their strength to themselves, but in fact this move is a bit redundant.

, because on the Korean battlefield, the Haihan Army had proven its strength with actual actions. Even the Qing Army's cavalry was defeated by the Haihan Army without any suspense. Li Bo did not think that the Dutch were stronger than the Qing Army.

powerful.

Of course, Li Bo still expressed his praise for Haihan's achievements. After all, this advantage was obtained by Haihan's practical force, and there was no water mixed in it.

The current situation of Damuan Port is just as Li Bo sees it. Due to Haihan's threat of force, it has transformed from the bridgehead where the Dutch East India Company occupied the Fujian Strait a few years ago into a mediocre colony.

However, Taiyuan Port is too far away from Batavia. The one-month voyage has made many European immigrants doubtful about this destination that is isolated overseas and has no development prospects. Therefore, in the past two years, Taiyuan Port has

The population size has been standing still, and the level of infrastructure and agricultural development have naturally stagnated due to this impact.

The top leaders of the East India Company also clearly realized that Haihan's control over the Fujian Strait would not allow them to develop colonies on a large scale on Taiwan Island. As for military use, it was even more delusional. Therefore, investment in Damuan Port gradually slowed down.

After all, if you have this spare money, you might as well open a few more plantations in the South China Sea, where you can at least be sure to get economic returns.

If the functions of Magong Port in Penghu tend to be military, then Kaohsiung Port is more inclined to the economic and trade field. Since the construction of Kaohsiung Port in 1632, Fort Victory's planning here has been based on the local agricultural products and deep processing industry.

While developing large-scale agriculture, we will also build a regional trade center.

Since Kaohsiung Port attracted a large number of investors from Fuzhou and Guangzhou through investment promotion at the beginning of its construction, the development funds and manpower in the early stage were relatively sufficient, and there were no problems that are prone to occur in general colonial areas. Moreover, Kaohsiung Port

The location is built based on the natural topography of the natural haven, and the initial engineering investment required is much smaller than that of a general trading port.

The benefits brought by these advantages to Kaohsiung Port are obvious. Among the ports built by Haihan in the Daming coastal area, the construction progress of Kaohsiung Port should be one of the fastest. Moreover, due to its large natural harbor area, there is still room for future development.

It is quite large, and unlike Victory Port, due to congenital conditions, the space within the harbor was almost completely developed in just a few years.

The chief officers appointed by Haihan here also have great room for growth just like Kaohsiung Port. Li Dou is one of the youngest among the senior officials of Haihan. He was stationed at the Pearl River Estuary University together with Chen Yixin.

When they arrived at Wanshan Island, they were both twenty years old. Later, they were transferred to Penghu to serve together in 1632, and then parted ways in Penghu the following year. Chen Yixin first went to Zhoushan, and then went all the way north to Liaodong, and

Li Dou came to Kaohsiung to serve as chief administrative officer.

In the blink of an eye, Li Dou has been in charge of Kaohsiung Port for four years. The high school graduate who participated in time travel is now a mature man who is about to enter his thirties. During his tenure in Kaohsiung, Li Dou married a Fujian woman.

, now has a son and a daughter, and is considered to have blossomed in this time and space.

Li Dou had a clearer understanding of the itinerary arranged by Victory Fort for the North Korean crown prince Li Bo than Yu Yao. He knew that Li Bo’s purpose of going south this time was to study in Sanya, and Victory Castle hoped to increase Li Bo’s life on the way.

He learned about Haihan's national power in order to strengthen his understanding of Haihan's national power. This trip south to visit the colonial ports under Haihan's rule was to let Li Bo see with his own eyes how Haihan ran a country with such scattered ruling areas.

, which gave him a personal understanding of Haihan’s advanced nature in terms of national political system and governing philosophy.

Kaohsiung Port is different from Penghu. There are relatively richer economic development projects here, and there are much more things to show Li Bo than in Penghu.

Before the ship even docked, Li Bo had already noticed that the port facilities here were different from those at Magong Port. There were many more large cranes and iron frame cranes used to lift bulk cargo than at Magong Port, and there were also paving on the pier.

The track used to transport goods indirectly proves that the cargo handling scale here should be higher than that of Magong Port.

Of course, the more intuitive evidence is that the number and tonnage of the ships docked at the dock completely overwhelmed the Damuan Port that Li Bo had just seen not long ago. The process of their fleet sailing into the port was almost complete.

Regardless of the commotion, the staff and laborers on the dock still performed their duties and did not treat the fleet as anything rare.

At the two stations of Zhoushan and Penghu, Haihan was always received by military attachés to receive Li Bo, and here he finally met the first senior civil servant of Haihan on this trip. However, in Li Bo's view, this Lord Li saw

Apart from not wearing a military uniform, his appearance seems to be no different from the Haihan military attachés I have seen before. They are both dark-skinned, short-haired, muscular men, and there is a sense of confidence in every gesture.

"Welcome His Majesty to the Port of Kaohsiung!"

Similar to the arrangements at Magong Port, Li Dou did not prepare a complicated welcome ceremony. He also just brought a few subordinates to the dock to welcome Li Bo. But facing Yu Yao who escorted Li Bo and his party to Kaohsiung Port, Li Dou

According to Haihan's social behavior, he stretched out his hand and shook it tightly. He and Yu Yao had been working together for several years, and they knew each other relatively well, so they no longer needed to make some superficial remarks in front of outsiders.

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Like other trading ports owned by Haihan, the urban area of ​​Kaohsiung Port is built close to the port area. Outside the urban area are various economic crop planting areas that stretch for dozens of miles inland. Thanks to Haihan’s efforts,

There are currently more than 5,000 people living here, about two-thirds of whom are engaged in agricultural work on plantations.

"Our place is much richer in products than Penghu. I believe the prince can also feel this feature from the dinner table."

At the reception banquet, Li Dou easily joked with Li Bo. However, his statement was not false. Kaohsiung has an extremely rich variety of local agricultural products. In the past two years, the construction of animal husbandry and breeding has begun. Coupled with the original natural conditions

As for the unique fishery industry, it can be said that the agricultural development in Kaohsiung has covered various categories. Almost all the various ingredients, drinks, condiments, and spices used in the feast are produced locally, which is true in many overseas colonies in Haihan.

It is also extremely rare.

There were indeed many tropical fruits and vegetables on the dinner table that Li Bo had never seen or tasted before. Although eating and drinking was a matter of appetite, it could also be regarded as a special way to increase his knowledge - at least that's what Li Bo thought.

Taking advantage of the relaxed topic of eating and drinking, Li Dou introduced the local agricultural development situation to Li Bo.

The agricultural development plan of Kaohsiung Port is hosted and directed by the Ministry of Agriculture of Haihan. It is divided into four major items: agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. Agriculture alone includes cereals, beans, and potatoes.

, oil crops, vegetables, fruits, edible fungi, nuts, spice crops and many other categories, each category includes several categories.

Under the planning of the Ministry of Agriculture, varieties suitable for Kaohsiung's geographical and climatic environment have been selected from a wide variety of crop types, and large-scale planting has been achieved locally through collective farms or private plantations. Such agricultural development

The model is also far superior to the traditional small-scale farmer economic model in terms of output efficiency, and it took less than two years to achieve local food self-sufficiency.

The large-scale planting of cash crops has also brought development space for the deep processing of local agricultural products. After the deep processing of sugar, hemp, tobacco, oil crops, and spice crops in local workshops, their economic value will also be doubled.

The rate of return far exceeds that of traditional food crops. Therefore, although the Kaohsiung area is superficially a colonial area with agriculture as its main industry, the commodities exported from here to the outside world are not cheap crops such as rice. Invest in Kaohsiung

Most of the businessmen who built the plantations have now entered the harvest period. The good return on investment and the safety conditions under Haihan's rule have also attracted more businessmen to come here with money and labor to get a share of the pie.

It is not just the planting industry that is driven by the primary industry. For example, the livestock industry has driven the local leather processing industry, and the prosperity of the fishery has made several local small private shipyards prosperous. And the other supporting facilities driven by this

The industry and service industry have enabled Kaohsiung's local economy to develop soundly, and the average income level of residents has even exceeded that of some places on Hainan Island.

Although the agriculture-related development plan is formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture, as the local administrator, Li Dou has played an indispensable role in it in recent years. During this year’s National Day, the Executive Committee has already raised concerns about his performance.

received awards and approved the Ministry of Agriculture’s proposal to designate the Kaohsiung area as a national agricultural development demonstration zone.

In fact, Li Bo could not fully understand the agricultural development-related information introduced by Li Dou, but he still tried hard to listen to every word Li Dou said, trying to absorb more useful things. As Li Dou said, the Kaohsiung area is known as

Agriculture is the main industry, so North Korea, which is also an agricultural country, should be able to learn some useful experiences from Kaohsiung. However, due to the limited agricultural knowledge he has, he could not even listen to many of the crops mentioned by Li Dou.

I have never heard of it, let alone understand its value.

This also made Li Pu feel a little helpless. The saying that a book will be used only when it is used, and he will not know the difficulties until he has experienced them, can well describe his current situation. Now the Haihan people are willing to teach some experience in agricultural development, and he

This student, however, was unwilling to waste this rare opportunity because of his poor foundation and was unable to understand the course.
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