The sky is blue, the ground is like fire, the stream is gurgling, the air is mixed with the fragrance of grass, which brings a spring scene.

This is Qinzhou Port, Lianzhou Prefecture. Currently, one of the two major seaports in the eastern coastal Lianwu Development Team. To the southwest, it is a port town that has just invested a large amount of money by the navy and entered a rapid development state, namely Fangcheng Port. The Southeast Asian Squadron of the East Coast Navy's Third Fleet has just officially selected it as its home port.

Compared with Fangcheng Port, Qinzhou Port is almost a pure commercial port. It is the largest foreign trade port in the entire Lianwu Management Committee. At present, it has also received a large amount of capital injection and has launched a vigorous construction. Some of the wharfs have been built, and many merchants and enterprises have been moved in. They have taken advantage of the location advantages of Qinzhou Port and their future development prospects and came here without hesitation, which made Jiang Yunfan, the director of the Management Committee, be overjoyed.

As the largest enterprise in the Far East, Taiwan Bank naturally would not fall behind. In fact, they came to Qinzhou Port earlier than anyone else and established quite solid contact with the management committee. As soon as some port areas of Qinzhou Port were completed, they couldn't wait to rush over, open a branch, and start shipping business with two steam engines and sailboats. The business they operated undoubtedly set a precedent for modern shipping in Qinzhou Port, which is of great significance.

The wharf occupied by the Bank of Taiwan is called the Western Building Wharf, which is named after a beautiful three-story western building nearby. Of course, this Western Building does not belong to the Bank of Taiwan, but is the official asset of the Lianwu Management Committee. Currently, Qinzhou Customs and Port Authority work together here and are the command center of the entire port.

Qinzhou Port also has a pier under construction and is nearly completed, which is the port facility called the club pier by local officials and the people. There is a sailor club on the shore of this pier, which integrates leisure, entertainment, catering and accommodation. Once opened in the future, the business should be very good.

Of course, Qinzhou Port also wanted to build a third wharf, but they were limited in strength and had serious shortage of funds, so they had to give up in the end. In order to reverse the current situation of lack of funds, the Qinzhou local government is preparing a government agency called China Merchants Bureau under the order of the Management Committee, intending to do its best to attract investment from the outside world, improve the local industrial and commercial conditions, expand the government's fiscal and tax revenue, and reverse the adverse situation of poverty.

It is worth mentioning that Qinzhou China Merchants Group is not a poor and indifferent organization. In fact, it also has a lot of land and real estate under its name. Especially those shops and warehouses, due to the low rent, have always been a powerful tool to attract merchants from all walks of life. As long as there are too many merchants, the business development of the wharf will almost begin.

However, we should also realize that the current merchants in Qinzhou Port are mostly foreign merchants in the jurisdiction of the two major development teams of Ningbo and Denglai. Occasionally, some merchants from Guangdong or Fujian, but the number is small and cannot be mainstream. In the long run, the injection of funds brought by merchants is still very beneficial to Qinzhou Port. Although it may arouse local merchants' disgust with the dominant position of foreign business monopoly, their own strength is too weak. Taking shipping business as an example, they really do not have the capital and technology to operate such business as ship transportation, which is also impossible.

However, although it was very competitive, the traditional local sailing and wooden ship transportation business of Qinzhou Port has not yet reached a complete extinction. The reason is naturally because the shipping demand for Qinzhou Port itself is very huge, and the ship transportation business run by Taiwan Bank locally is also in a difficult state. It will be impossible for a while to quickly and completely squeeze out classical sailboats from the circulation channels of modern goods, which requires a process.

Local sailing wooden boats gathered in a "wild wharf", which is a spontaneously formed simple wharf called "fish market wharf" by local merchants. This wharf gathers various sails or unpowered wooden boats, and undertakes various transportation tasks including grain, medicinal materials, wood, etc. The business is pretty good, and there are a large number of merchants. It can be seen that traditional sails or shaking boats are still a major vitality in the transportation industry of Qinzhou Port.

There are many high and low buildings on the shore of the fish market dock attachment. Most of these buildings are built by locals, and the quality is not bad, but there is no plan at all. There is no doubt that this is a mistake by the Qinzhou Port local government. They attach too much importance to the construction of other wharfs and commercial areas, and have adopted a completely laissez-faire attitude towards the fish market dock, which ultimately leads to the appearance of a messy place and the environment is not very good, and has become a place for Xialiba people to gather.

The introduction of steam engine sailing ships and even steamships - Qinzhou Transportation Bureau has received funding from the Management Committee to purchase a batch of 150-ton small steamships from the Heishui Shipyard to strengthen offshore transportation business - undoubtedly has brought about substantial changes in the commercial trade circulation channels of Qinzhou Port, and has formed a new shipping pattern in which modern steamships and classical sailing ships are both competitive and complementary. The people of Qinzhou Port have also been exposed to the equipment, ideas and horizons of modern sailing transport for the first time, which has greatly broadened their horizons, which has immeasurable benefits for the future development of the region.

The first benefit is that steam ships have expanded the trade energy of the Qinzhou market. Qinzhou Port is not simply a port. It also has a relatively vast hinterland. The shipments of various commodities such as grain, medicinal materials, wood, dried fruits, minerals, handmade products produced in inland areas will greatly increase, which can enrich a large number of people and promote the development of local industry and commerce.

The second advantage is to increase the circulation speed of commodities. Taking the 150-ton offshore/inland general steamer as an example, if coal is added on Taiwan Island in the middle, it will not be a problem to sail to Shandong. Of course, this may affect the cargo volume, but if we reasonably design the route and stopping site to reach a load balance point between coal and cargo, it is still profitable. Moreover, the steamer ship is fast and is not restricted by ocean currents and wind directions. Except for typhoons, it can sail back and forth most of the time and can arrive at Ningbo Dinghai Port in one week. This efficiency is indeed beyond the reach of traditional sailing ships, and it is a great stimulation for commodity circulation.

The third benefit improves the long-distance transportation capacity of commodities. With the steam engine sailing ships, the radiation range of Qinzhou Port has been greatly increased. These ships can go north to Manchuria and Mongolia, Blackwater, and south to Australia and Rabaul. Unfortunately, they go west to India and east to the Japanese archipelago. The market range has been greatly increased, which is a great benefit for local merchants.

Of course, there is actually a long way to go to cash out these favorable benefits in the paper. Qinzhou Port and the entire Lianwu Management Committee have to develop industries with their own unique competitiveness, produce various commodities with strong market demand, and then gain a reputation in the external market, so that it can promote the development of the local economy. Otherwise, this may be just a commercial port with imports greater than exports. For the overall jurisdiction of the Lianwu Management Committee, a large amount of silver flows out, and maybe even a blood loss.

Jiang Yunfan, director of the Lianwu Management Committee, realized this problem very early. However, in the past few years, he had been working on local security issues, reorganizing the local government system, and strengthening positive publicity and education on the east coast. In addition, there were a series of local transportation infrastructure construction, military dismissal and reorganization, and so on. It was not time to formulate an industrial development plan for the next few decades or even a hundred years in the Lianwu area.

Fortunately, after several years of rectification, the appearance of Lianwu area has improved to a considerable extent. Several national highways are being steadily advanced, and some local government powers controlled by traditional gentry and chieftains have gradually been taken over to the Management Committee. The attacks and battles of bandits and bandits in the country have come to an end for the time being. It is time to turn some of their energy to economic construction.

At the beginning of this year, Jiang Yunfan held a meeting of senior cadres in Wuzhou City, establishing the policy of ending military struggle and turning to economic construction in an all-round way. For this reason, a large number of surrendered troops, bandits, bandits and other private troops incorporated during the war entered the abolition process. At most, these people reached more than 40,000 people, and now most of them were laid off, and a small part was enriched for digestion in local public security, tax police, customs and other institutions. This item alone can save more than one million yuan in a year, and can be used to do a lot of things. After all, Lian Wu's finances are still ineffective, and they need to cooperate with Ning Shao, Denglai and other places. Taiwan banks sometimes have to "sponsor" them, otherwise they will definitely not be able to maintain them.

The focus of economic construction is in addition to large-scale infrastructure construction, and the development of its own flagship industry. The flagship industry has also been determined, namely wood, pharmaceutical and mining industries. There is nothing to say about wood. Guangxi has many mountains, many trees and rich wood resources. It can be mined to a certain extent for processing and export profits, which is expected to create a lot of employment opportunities and fiscal tax revenue for the local area.

The pharmaceutical industry is basically adapted to local conditions. Guangxi's plant medicinal resources are still very rich, and I don't know how many treasures are hidden in the 100,000 mountains. Therefore, according to the East Coast Medical Classic "Song Medical Book Examination" and "Ming Medical Book Examination" one by one, it is also a way to develop Chinese herbal cultivation and processing industries that suit you. Jiang Yunfan still holds great hope for this, because if this industry becomes bigger and stronger, it can not only be exported to Denglai and Ningshao, but also to the local area. The market demand and people's consumption capacity are not comparable to those in the Far East.

Finally, there is mining. The people of the East Coast have not explored enough in the jurisdiction of the Lianwu Management Committee. So far, they only know that in Qinzhou and Hepu area, there are still rich kaolin resources to be used. Jiang Yunfan, director of the Management Committee, could not take care of so much. A while ago, he directly instructed the local government to occupy these resources and then formed a local state-owned enterprise Qinzhou Porcelain Factory that specializes in mining kaolin and manufacturing porcelain.

The management of Qinzhou Porcelain Factory is currently in place, and the factory is under orderly construction, but there is a serious lack of technical talents. In the end, Jiang Yunfan could only instruct the people below to attack everywhere, recruit porcelain technicians in Jiangxi, and at the same time wrote letters to the local area, requesting that some teachers, students and workers from porcelain schools come over to help them build the racks of Qinzhou Porcelain Factory.

Although the price of the porcelain industry has dropped a lot in recent years due to the efforts of the East Coast people and the progress of the European local porcelain industry, the price of the porcelain produced in the East Coast is still high enough. For porcelain of the same quality, those produced in the East Coast and Europe cannot be sold at a high price, so there is a huge profit margin here, so Jiang Yunfan cannot ignore it.

Jiang Yunfan is not young anymore. He has worked in Denglai for so many years, served several commanders, and then ran the East Coast North Korean company and the East Coast Japanese company. Now he is in charge of the country. Naturally, this resume is beyond words. Therefore, he is also ambitious and wants to take advantage of the front-line opportunity to enter the executive committee and taste the pleasure of peak power. But all of this requires him to make convincing achievements in the tenure of director of the Lianwu Management Committee, and then add a little luck, so that he can be promoted to the executive committee and become one of the "nine elders" in the country.

Therefore, he was absolutely very concerned about the development of the local economy of Lianwu, and it was very pure. For this reason, he really could use any means, anyone could use it, and dared to use it! Not that no one advised him and asked him to increase his security and defense expenses, but he refused them all. Jiang Yunfan didn't believe that Shunguo, which was financially difficult and relied heavily on the equipment of the East Coast, would he dare to attack the East Coast controlled area? Hao Ping's Silver Gun Xiaojie Army had already gone to Yunnan, and with the tens of thousands of people under Wang Wanchun? Do he dare? Jiang Yunfan's confidence came from the huge fleet on the east coast of the Far East and the warlike army. He naturally had - and must - such courage!

Based on this understanding, Jiang Yunfan believes that instead of spending valuable funds on supporting the army that has not yet been re-trained, it is better to save a little and improve people's livelihood. This is the key element of sustainable development. Lian Wu must have his own manufacturing industry, otherwise they will not be able to achieve financial independence.

Of course, trade with the neighboring Li family in Guangdong and Zheng family in Fujian can also be done, which can also provide part of the tariff income. But in the long run, this is actually not worth the loss. The manufacturing industry in Lianwu area is weak, and local handicraftsmen are already very difficult. If external commodities pour in, it will inevitably cause silver outflows, which is something Jiang Yunfan is unwilling to see - it would be fine if silver flows out to Ning Shao and Denglai, but if it flows into the hands of Li and Zheng, he would still be unable to accept it.
Chapter completed!