Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1014

[Chapter 1014 Southeast]

Starting from Lucheng, Zhao Xu continued southward on a steam locomotive.

After passing through Pengcheng, Huaicheng, Yangcheng and other Ningzhou cities, they finally arrived at Jinling.

Here, the railway was interrupted in the north of Jiujiang, and the railway on the south bank was still being laid, and it was planned to extend to Lincheng.

When passing through these important railway node cities, Zhao Xu stopped by to inspect the construction of the industry.

Generally speaking, some of these cities have workshop areas that are as impressive as Lu City,

and some cities are not as good as Lu City, but they also have the workshops they should have.

As for not being able to compare with Lucheng and other cities, it is not necessarily due to its own reasons.

For example, many officials complained to him that there were too few people who were proficient in workshop construction and management, and the outstanding people were all separated by the big cities of Lucheng, Jincheng, and Jinling.

For this, Zhao Xu didn’t blame them, after all, this itself was Da Song’s current predicament.

Due to the rapid development, the supply of talents with the corresponding quality is not available.

In this way, development will be unbalanced.

But for Zhao Xu, this problem is also unsolvable.

Talent is limited at the moment. Although he wants Dasong to be full of flowers, according to the actual situation, he can only give priority to the development of coastal and other areas with convenient transportation.

“Your Highness, if Mi Xuan can do it, so can I. If the Jinling workshop area is not as good as the Lucheng workshop area, you should dismiss me now.”

Jinling is the capital of Ningzhou and is responsible for the government affairs of Ningzhou. Zang Yichuan is also one of the seven county magistrates of Yan County.

After he arrived in Jinling, Zang Yichuan led Jinling officials to greet him, and then led Zhao Xu to the workshop area outside Jinling City.

“That’s what you said, don’t complain when the time comes.” Zang Yichuan has a lively temper and likes to joke.

Zhao Xu understood his temperament and started talking and laughing with him.

“Crying for grievances is no longer a subject.” Zang Yichuan was still very confident.

After chatting, the two arrived at the workshop area.

At a glance, Zhao Xu showed a satisfied smile.

Just as Zang Yichuan said, the scale and planning of the Jinling workshop area is really not inferior to that of Lucheng.

And there are even twice as many horses and chariots on the road as in Lucheng.

The reason is that Jinling is the industrial center of Jiangnan in Dasong’s industrial planning.

Therefore, in terms of industrial construction, the imperial court’s support for Jinling’s industrial construction was much greater than that of Lucheng.

Every day, steam ships set sail from Yancheng port to transport machinery and equipment to Jinling.

It can be said that regardless of the industrial scale or the types of workshops, Jinling is copied from Yancheng, which can be said to be complete.

He took such good care of Jinling, on the one hand, because Jinling was once the old capital of Dasong, with a dense population.

On the other hand, he plans to rely on the Jinling Workshop District to provide support for the development of other states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the future, the industrial equipment and goods needed for Jiangnan City can be purchased directly from Jinling, while Yancheng will be responsible for Jiangbei to reduce transportation difficulties.

But compared to the present, Jinling’s location advantage is obviously not as good as Sioux City, which is Suzhou, and Songcheng, which is contemporary Shanghai.

However, these two cities are not as good as Jinling in this period.

Therefore, he plans to build a large port in Songcheng next, making it a commercial transfer point first.

When its geographical advantages are revealed, merchants will naturally move their workshops to Songcheng and Sioux City.

In doing so, he did not prefer these two places.

The only way for Dasong to get rich is overseas trade. By exporting industrial products in exchange for raw materials and money, several economic centers must be built along the eastern coast.

In addition to the triangle belt of Jinling, Sioux City, and Songcheng, he also plans to build an industrial economic circle in Jincheng, which is the contemporary Guangzhou area.

“Very good, it looks like you don’t need to take off the official hat on your head.” Zhao Xu was in a good mood.

Then he went to inspect various workshops under the leadership of Zang Yichuan.

After staying in Jinling for two days, Zhao Xu has a comprehensive understanding of Jinling’s industrial situation, and is quite satisfied with this industrial center in the south of the Yangtze River.

After that, he left Jinling and went to Lincheng.

However, there is a certain gap between the industrial development here and Jinling.

After all, the time to regain Jiangnan is too short, and it would be nice to be able to build a Jinling template, and the rest of the city must be done slowly.

When the southern tour arrived here, Zhao Xu ordered the officials of the Industry Department to continue to inspect the rest of the city, and he went directly to Jiaozhi by steamboat.

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at the same time.

When Zhao Xu went to Jiaozhi, the news that the Dasong army swept through Jiaozhi and Pyuman Kingdom had already reached the ears of the Western Turk Alliance Army.

This surprised the Xitu generals who had expected Jiaozhi and Pyuman to hold off Dasong’s army for several months.

Everyone immediately gathered in Calcutta to discuss the next solution.

“Dasong’s Azure Dragon Army has captured one Jiaozhi city after another, and is approaching Jin’ou County where Frank is stationed. The battle is urgent, and the coalition forces can no longer sit still. They must take the initiative and change the current passive situation.” General of the coalition forces in the meeting room of the Governor’s Mansion Sitting around a long table.

General Goller of the Frankish Army almost slapped the table and yelled.

He is very angry now, it’s like a fire is burning in his stomach.

Jiaozhi, Pyuman, Nanzhang, and Funan Kingdom constitute their Frankish Southeast China.

But overnight, their southeast branch would be far away from them, how could he not be anxious.

In order to save their Frankish Southeast China, he must let the coalition forces send troops to drive the Dasong army out of their Southeast China.

Wesley’s face was livid, not annoyed by Goller’s speech.

Instead, he was worried about Tianzhu’s safety.

The Pyuman Kingdom borders Tianzhu, and it is only a thousand miles from the westernmost border of the Pyuman to Calcutta.

This is tantamount to the Dasong army directly putting their guns on their heads.

In addition, the territory of the Pyuman extends to the north shore of the Malacca Strait, which means that the Malacca Strait is also in danger.

But at the moment, they regard Malacca as a key fortress in the western world to resist the king of Yan, which is like praising Yanguan in the north.

Once they lose Malacca, the Da Song Navy will be able to drive in.

Before, what he lost was only the sea area east of Malacca, and they will lose more in the future.

“I understand what Admiral Goller means, but the coalition forces can’t fight the Dasong army for the sake of East Tuchina. I always think that the best defensive strategy is to stand firm and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.” Wesley looked at Gao Leer said slowly.

Now, he hated these native troops.

They spent so many resources training them.

But they couldn’t even fight for them for half a year, they were simply useless.

Now, the Southeast China is in a mess, and the Franks are not happy, and it is difficult for him to change the established strategy of the coalition forces.

But now that Southeast China has fallen, he naturally can no longer let Tianzhu face the same dilemma as Southeast China.

(end of this chapter)