Dengzhou in September is the busiest season of the year.

The ships of grain arrived at Yantai Port along the northeast wind. The big grain wholesalers sat in the teahouse and were on high alert. The mates and intermediaries hired by them ran around and kept asking for instructions back and forth, and finally set a price that both buyers and sellers could accept, and changed the grain and transported it to the warehouse not far away.

These are all grains transported from North Korea, which are not expensive, including wheat and rice, which are very popular among the people of Dengzhou. Of course, due to the protection of local agriculture, people in the East Coast have quotas for grain imported from North Korea in addition to the year when the grain is poor. If this quota exceeds this quota, the import tariffs will become very high, and the price advantage of North Korea's grain will no longer be there.

The grain carried by ships entering the port is within the quota, and the price is only about 80% of the local grain, so the profit margin is high, which has caused the snatch of grain wholesalers.

The difference from the scene here is that at Yantai Railway Station, more than 100 meters away, the order of purchasing grain is much better. These are local grains transported along the rubber smoke railway, with huge output and excellent quality, so they are purchased for a large number of consumer-capable classes in Yantai and the surrounding areas.

The largest distribution center for local grain is at Taocun Railway Station. All major grain merchants in Dengzhou have set up some there and selected smart and capable shopkeepers to be on duty for a long time to be responsible for grain purchases. Thanks to Tianzun, although Denglai has not been a good weather in recent years, the weather has been helpful. The grain production of the two governments is stable, and all kinds of vegetables and fruits are also prosperous. The market is prosperous and everyone is smiling.

The increase in food production has brought about a torrent of life. The birth rate of Denglai has been stable at a high level for many years. According to a researcher in the civil affairs department, "children are all over the ground", and almost every household has raised several children. After a continuous small steps, the population of Denglai is on the verge of an outbreak. The natural population growth rate is catching up with the east coast, and may reach the level of 4%-5%, which is very amazing.

In order to ensure that the children can grow up normally and not die in the middle (which was too normal in ancient times), the government of the Denlai Development Team was also trying every means to improve the sanitation conditions of the two governments. The peace agreement signed with the Qing Dynasty gave them a good external environment, so they reduced some military investment and began to build modern water and drainage facilities in many major cities to ensure that urban residents are not harmed by polluted water bodies. At the same time, a more sanitary lifestyle was also taught by the medical propaganda team to many urban or rural residents, which made the frequent cholera, dysentery and other diseases in the Qing Dynasty, Shun Kingdom, and Ming Dynasty converge a lot in the jurisdiction of the East Coast, and the number of residents who died due to these was greatly reduced.

Take this crowded dock as an example. All kinds of wastewater generated by the teahouse are dumped into a small culvert next to the road, rather than being directly spilled on the road as decades ago. The culverts are also cleaned regularly to ensure that they will not be blocked and silted by various domestic waste, which will cause sewage to flood the road.

Residents in Yantai, Jiaozhou and other places have basically become accustomed to this lifestyle and have truly realized that these good living habits are indeed helpful to their lives. As the leading big city in Denglai, the residents of Yantai and Jiaozhou can be said to be no worse than those of many local cities in this regard. With an average monthly income of 4-5 yuan, they have overcome the early ignorance and backward stage, and have begun to fade more medieval colors and enter the ranks of more modernization. In this regard, Yantai and Jiaozhou already have the characteristics of many local cities on the east coast. If they build more hospitals, factories, schools, libraries, research institutions, and infrastructure, they will be no different from local cities.

Of course, the government of the Denlai Development Team has been working in this direction over the years. In addition to the forced expenditure on immigration, the Denlai Development Team has cut military expenditure for three consecutive years and stopped hostile activities in Qingzhou and Liaodong. The navy rarely traveled to the Yellow Sea and instead invested more funds into construction. This seems to be the main reason why the local people in Denlai support this government is increasingly supporting the government. It should be like this.

Therefore, some people once joked that the Qing Dynasty and Shunguo had always fantasized about their future army entering Denglai. During the Ningshao period, local people would support the elderly and young and kneel down to welcome the royal army, but the reality would probably surprise them. The people of Denglai would not only not welcome them, but on the contrary, they would respond to the call of the pioneering team government and join the army to fight against it. The Qing Dynasty and Shunguo wanted to conquer these places, but there was no other way except to win military victory. Even if the nationalist banner was sacrificing, it would not be effective, because the Denglai Development Team government was a Chinese lineage and was naturally mostly immune to nationalist ideas.

At the other extreme of Denglai are the Lianzhou, Wuzhou, Xunzhou and other places that the East Coast people have just occupied. The East Coast government has never ruled, and ordinary people know very little about the East Coast, and they can even be said to have no idea about the East Coast. The scholars who control the right to speak know more or less, but they are basically negative things. With their three views, they naturally cannot have any good impression of the East Coast. Therefore, when the East Coast army captured these areas with lightning speed, the local gentry scholars were

They were really unwilling to give up and tried their best to restore the old order. Even those heads of the toast who were not very harmonious with the gentry class were not very interested in the East Coast, because the people of the East Coast have always claimed equality and are not very interested in the slave-like dependence relationship (although they also enslaved black people), and the toasts can no longer control a large number of population and means of production, because the people of the East Coast must liberate them and devote themselves to the production of the entire society, so this is an irreconcilable contradiction between the two sides.

The gentry disliked the people of the East Coast, and the chieftains were not interested in them. Then it would be normal for the people of the East Coast to not receive support from the local people in Lianzhou, Wuzhou and other places. Compared with them, although Dashun was also clearing out the forces of the chieftains, they at least received part of the support of scholars. Therefore, the situation was much better than the people of the East Coast, and they were more like fish in water in the local area.

Some upper-class people in Denglai also learned a little bit about the situation in the south from newspapers. To be honest, their views on this are very complicated, because it not only involves that they may have to pay for troops (some new troops have boarded the ship in Jiaozhou Port, but also more importantly, they are very disappointed with the construction of places that may be affected.

You should know that local approval of the introduction of local technologies such as Denglai, Ningshao and other places has long been flying all over the world, and everyone has been ready to try. At the same time, the success of Jiaoyan Railway has also made everyone have great expectations for the Pingrong Railway, which is doing preliminary survey work, and they have also asked around when to start so that they can make corresponding preparations.

But what's going on now? It's going to fight. How can this be done! Lianzhou, Wuzhou and Xunzhou are thousands of miles away. What does it have to do with us Denglai? Why do we use Denglai's taxes to fight in these places? And we have to let Denglai's disciples die. Isn't these people working very well locally? If it really doesn't work, we can also let North Korea, a vassal state, help send troops!

It can be said that the view of the social elites in Denglai on this matter reflects that their localization ideas are becoming more and more serious. That is, after gaining a certain social status and voice, they no longer remain silent on things that harm their interests, but instead make suggestions through various channels, although they may not be adopted by their superiors.

Compared with them, the Ningshao region, which has always valued business, may not be so resistant. Some local merchants regard the occupation of the Lianwu region as a rare opportunity, and can expand their commercial capital to Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Vietnam, so as to go out of a small place like Ningbo and grow freely in a wider space. Although the gap between the rich and the poor is not as big as that between Ningshao, it is indeed a bit less than that between the expansion ambitions, which is quite interesting.

Well, let's get back to the point. In short, the various colonies in the Far East have different attitudes towards expansion in the Lianwu area. Overall, Denglai opposes, Ning Shao is neutral, Heishui supports it, and Manchuria has no feelings. Of course, the above is only about the middle and lower classes of society, but it is obvious that power is not in the hands of these people, so the occupation and long-term development of the Lianwu area should become a fact. After local approval, it is unknown whether a new development team will be established, because the location here is really too critical. If it is in the hands, its influence in Guangdong and Guangxi will be extraordinary in the future.

Of course, the above things also reflect the unclear guiding ideology of the East Coast people in mainland China. On the one hand, the local people are afraid that these vassal states will grow bigger and become difficult to control. On the other hand, they hope that they can maintain considerable influence and deterrence on the surrounding strength to maintain the local immigration and commercial interests. The former requires that the Far East vassals should not be too strong, while the latter requires that they have certain strength. This sporadic guiding ideology has led to the current situation, that is, the colonial residents know that you do not have the idea of ​​unifying China. Of course, now it is clear, and both countries can pull out hundreds of thousands of well-equipped troops. In fact, the East Coast people do not have the strength to unify China. So it is better to live a small life and not kill one hundred eight thousand miles away. It is a waste of life and money.
Chapter completed!