That's right, this is modified with the city guard winch, which increases the elevation angle of the crane. The winch was pushed into the yard, and several soldiers pulled the winch, and a large iron hammer hung under the winch slowly raised. When they raised to a certain height, the soldiers pulled the handle and released the fixture mechanism. The large iron hammer with the chain slid down from the winch and smashed on the roof, just like a wolf tooth on the city guard winch, but at this time the wolf tooth was replaced with a big iron hammer.

The big hammer hit the roof, and the roof immediately shattered, the beams broke, and the tiles fell to the ground. Soon, a large area of ​​roof was all demolished.

Then the engineer walked into the yard, waved the hammer and smashed the wall, knocked down the house, and the pile of rubble removed was transported away by a cart.

In less than half a month, the demolition area was completely razed to the ground, and all the rubble and wood removed were transported away. The next thing was to dig the foundation.

The engineers sweated heavily on the construction site, dug deep pits on the ground, and cleaned up the original foundation. Some houses in these civilian areas did not even have foundations, and most of the houses were wood foundations, and the wood was buried underground and pillars were nailed on the wooden piles; some were better brick foundations, and brick walls were built on the foundations; some were rammed earth foundations, and the walls on them were also mud walls.

These foundations are easy to clean. After digging out, clean the wood, bricks and rammed earth, and then dig out the corresponding foundation according to the design drawings of the bank building and the surrounding residential buildings.

The engineers were many and powerful. Li Guodong transferred more than 3,000 engineers. It took only half a month to dig the foundation of the residential buildings around the bank building.

The height of the residential building where the demolition households is four floors, the first floor, the mezzanine floor is a shop, the second floor, the third floor, and the fourth floor is a residential building. The door on the first floor faces the street, making it convenient for customers to enter and exit the store. The residential areas on the second floor, the third floor and the fourth floor enter from the alley on the side, and you can go upstairs to enter the residential building from the back. The styles of the residential area are suites, and each house is constructed with a two-bedroom and one living room, with a kitchen and a bathroom.

These newly built resettlement houses are built with brick, stone, cement and wood. The walls are still bricks, the foundations are stones, the walls below the first floor windows are stones, the above are rotating, the pillars are cement and stones, the floors are wood, the roofs are wood, the roofs are blue-green glazed tiles, the doors and windows on the store are made of red wood, the walls are painted with white lime, and the buildings are elegant white, blue and red, which are similar to the colors of Suzhou gardens, but are elegant.

The main building of the bank is all made of cement concrete, with iron bars inside the cement columns and floor slabs, and a frame-like structure, which is as solid as a castle.

Li Guodong, who was an engineer in his previous life, also had a deep study of classical architecture in the north and south. The house he designed was not inferior to any famous contemporary artist.

While building a bank building, helping solve the resettlement of the demolition households seems to be a loss-making business, but in fact, 5,000 households can be built but 10,000 houses can be built. In addition to the resettlement houses, the remaining 5,000 houses can be sold, which can make a lot of money back.

While laying the foundations of the bank building and the residential and commercial dual-purpose building, Li Guodong traveled to Shanghai County.

The famous international metropolis in later generations is now just a small county town. Later foreigners would like to see Shanghai because Shanghai is a crossroads of water transportation, which can span the Pacific Ocean to the east; the Yangtze River shipping trunk line to the north; the north can go to the north and Japan, and the south can enter the South China Sea. After the development of maritime transportation, the importance of Shanghai was revealed. Li Guodong came to Shanghai to prepare to develop this place into the largest port city in the world.

Li Guodong took Chen Yujie and Zhang Huangyan to Shanghai together. Chen Yujie is from Shanghai County, and his uncle Xu Guangqi is also from Shanghai County.

A large inland river boat with 400 official materials flows eastward along the Wusong River and can enter Shanghai.

The Wusong River is the current Suzhou River. The Wusong River was the sea outlet of Taihu Lake and Suzhou. The northern section of the Huangpu River was still the lower reaches of the Wusong River and went out from the Wusong mouth. Today, the section above the Suzhou River in the Huangpu River is called Huangpu Tang and a tributary of the Wusong River. In fact, as early as the Yongle period, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, transformed the Wusong River and Huangpu Tang. During the Jiajing period, Hairui once again transformed the lower reaches of the Wusong River, thus forming the current lower reaches of the Huangpu River. From then on, Zhagang became an important port for the gentry of Jiangnan to go to sea.

The Yangtze River Estuary above Wusongkou was at this time in the most violent land-making movement of the Yangtze River. Chongming Island had not yet been fully formed. There were many shallows and reefs on the river surface. From Wusongkou to the Yangtze River, the wind and waves were high and the waves were severe, and the sailing was very dangerous. Therefore, the ships no longer entered the Yangtze River, but turned directly into the Wusongkou, entered the gateway to stop, or entered the Wusong River, and then entered the South Canal, and then turned into the Yangtze River from the South Canal to avoid the dangerous routes at the Yangtze River Estuary.

The Jiangnan section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has a wide river surface and a deep channel, which can fully meet the capacity of Li Guodong's combination of Chinese and Western warships sailing on the South Canal, and various sea boats can also enter the South Canal. But if you are not familiar with the local waterway situation and no one is drawing water, sea boats will not be able to detour the canal and enter the Yangtze River.

The ship was about to arrive in Shanghai, and the river surface in front suddenly became wider. After turning a corner, you could enter Zhagang in the lower reaches of the Wusong River, which is today's lower reaches of the Huangpu River.

"Wu Weibo, this is your first time to come to our hometown, right?" Chen Yujie asked.

"I have been in my dream before," Li Guodong replied with a smile. In fact, he went to Shanghai a lot in his previous life. "When Mr. Xu was alive, Li just didn't have the opportunity to visit Shanghai. Now he took this opportunity to go to Mr. Xu's former residence."

There are a large number of large and small sea boats moored in the gate port. In Songjiang Prefecture, there are hundreds of small sea merchants, and the Donglin Party has close ties with these sea merchants.

Although the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, it was actually forbidden that the imperial court's ships were traded by sea, and the gentry in Jiangnan was close to the maritime merchant group. Otherwise, how could the Donglin Party, which was mainly in the textile industry, sell their goods?

When Longqing opened the sea, only Yuegang opened. In other words, maritime merchants in Yuegang are legal, while maritime merchants in Shanghai actually have to smuggle ships. In such a good port in Shanghai, there is no foreign ship docking here. If the goods of the Donglin Party are to be sold to Europeans, they can only load the smuggling ships they protected in Shanghai, and send them to Fujian and Guangdong by the smuggling ships, and then load the goods on foreign ships before they can be sold to all parts of the world.

Of course, some ships loaded goods directly from Suzhou and went to sea along the Wusong River. After being transported to Fujian or Guangdong, they were transferred to foreign ships and sent to all parts of the world. Some ships directly went to sea from Suzhou and headed to Japan.

The maritime merchant group under the protection of the Donglin Party was very prosperous, but the money earned from maritime trade had almost nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. Only Yuegang was the only place in Yuegang to collect taxes from merchant ships; in addition, the Guangdong Maritime Mansion Department collected import and export taxes from the Portuguese in Macau.

However, in this treasure land in Shanghai, the maritime merchants protected by the Donglin Party do not have to pay taxes.

These maritime merchants also thought they had not made enough money. In order to make more money, they tried every means to help foreigners save taxes from the Tax Supervisor of the Next Moon and the Guangdong Maritime Mansion Department. They chose to trade at the port controlled by the Spaniards in the northern part of Dongfan Island or the port controlled by the Dutch in the southern part of Dongfan Island. In this way, the foreigners saved taxes and the prices of these smuggled ship merchants sold higher. In this way, the Ming Dynasty did not make much money in terms of the most profitable maritime trade.
Chapter completed!