Chapter 816: 816 prosperous Fengjiang

 Chapter 816 816 Prosperous Fengjiang

Fengjiang City can be said to be a reflection of the construction of the Tang State during this period. The city was rebuilt by the Tang State, but was governed by the Tang State and Dahua respectively.

The reason why Fengjiang City is called Fengjiang is because the city was originally built next to the Fengjiang river, so it got its name.

 In order to better differentiate the governance, the Tang State carried out a certain degree of transformation when rebuilding the city.

Nowadays, the entire city no longer relies on the river water for construction, but spans the entire Fengjiang River, with urban areas set up on both sides of the river.

   The reason why the Dahua Empire did not have such a design in the past was mainly because of its limited construction level and the inability to build a bridge of sufficient length to maintain cross-strait traffic.

However, this problem did not exist at all in the Tang State: when building the Fengjiang River, the Tang State built four bridges on the river in one go.

For this reason, the Dahua Empire also recognized the Tang State's full control over the old site of Fengjiang, and adopted an attitude of pretending to be stupid about the fact that the newly built Fengjiang moved more than ten kilometers to Dahua.

 Mainly because they cannot continue to insist on Fengjiang's request to rebuild on the original site, because there is no clear boundary, and they are more afraid of difficult management.

With the strength of the Tang Empire, it would be really hard to tell what kind of conflict there would be, and it might even be impossible to defend it—yes, it couldn’t be defended!

Who dares to rely on Feng Jiang to serve as an official in the land of Tang and make money? If something really goes wrong, the Tang State may have its own ideas, and half of Fengjiang City will become theirs.

There is a river that is more or less safe. When the time comes when the Tang Dynasty takes action, it will not just occupy Fengjiang City for any reason.

With this idea in mind, the new Fengjiang City was built in this way. It took the Tang State's engineering team less than half a year to make the entire Fengjiang City look presentable.

Sitiao dual-purpose bridges were the first to be constructed. Fengjiang City near the Tang Dynasty first built a customs house and a train station. Then a steady stream of materials was transported to the vicinity, and tall buildings began to rise one after another.

Before the supplies arrived, Dahua’s captive laborers dug various holes. Some dug foundations, while others dug pipelines. In short, there are big holes waiting to be filled and there is a busy scene everywhere.

In order to speed up the construction, Tang State actually paid and hired many workers from Dahua to dig holes on the other side of the river at the same time.

The contractors sent their own project supervisors to dig pits according to Tang Guo's construction requirements. After the railway bridge was built, they poured the various pipelines and cement and steel bars that had been built into these pre-dug pits. inside.

 Such construction has greatly increased the construction speed. The entire Fengjiang City was built quickly just like Bunas many years ago.

Because the pipelines were laid in advance, various wires were laid very smoothly. The power plants and water plants on both sides were quickly put into use, and the entire city became fuller at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Those businessmen who smelled the situation began to gather in this city, and some smart people began to invest and buy houses in this city, and the speed was staggering.

Even data obtained by the statistics department of Tang State showed that the funds invested in the construction of Fengjiang City began to generate a large amount of profits before they were all spent.

  Along the Fengjiang River line controlled by the Datang Empire, river defense fortifications were built along the embankment. Two forts were even arranged in a pretentious manner, and fully automatic twin-mounted 380-caliber armored turrets were deployed.

On the other hand, the Dahua Empire had to spend its own money to build the same fortifications. Four large permanent fortification groups were built in one go, each of which was equipped with a twin-mounted 380-caliber cannon.

As a result...these gun barrels were ordered from the military factory in the Tang Dynasty, and they used the same products from the forts in the Tang Dynasty...

 The newly built Fengjiang City has a prosperity that is not found in other cities in the Dahua Empire. It is as lively and lively as Bunas, and it is already intoxicated even before the port is fully opened.

This city looks really great now, and many officials in the Dahua Empire have even seen countless business opportunities from such a beginning.

In the future, countless wealth will be born here. As long as goods from the Tang Dynasty enter Dahua from here, or from Dahua to the Tang Dynasty, there will be countless opportunities to get their hands on them.

Everyone is frantically filling this place with people they trust. Everyone feels that this place is a huge piece of fat without an owner.

With the emergence of tall buildings and the completion of railways, trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Great China Empire naturally began.

The first batch of products shipped to the Dahua Empire were of course products that the Dahua Empire did not have and did not even know how to set tariffs.

  When the border tax collectors of the Dahua Empire saw the luxury leather bags and clothes piled on the train, as well as the exquisite jewelry, they couldn't even close their mouths. The Tang "merchants" in charge of these goods on the train grabbed a handful from the pile of goods and stuffed them into the hands of the tax officials of the Dahua Empire. These Dahua officials immediately felt the beauty of this job.

Their daughters have been waiting for such a necklace for a long time. As long as they wear this necklace to attend a banquet, their self-esteem will be greatly satisfied.

Their wives had wanted such a skirt for a long time, because only the best ladies had heard of the dress that had long been popular in other countries.

They themselves have long wanted a sparkling gold watch. Tang watches are not just accurate, they are a symbol of status and wealth!

The intelligence agencies of the Tang State used the wealth gathered from various countries to open the way, and in turn re-injected these gold coins into these countries in the form of stolen money, opening up the upper and lower joints for themselves, and the road was almost unimpeded.

If you can't win with a ring, smash a necklace; if you can't win with a necklace, smash a car!

 Those who don’t charge money will send artworks from the Eastern Continent, famous paintings and calligraphy, gold and silver vessels, and even exquisite porcelain from famous Tang Empire artists.

If you still can’t get it right, give me a beautiful woman! If you don’t like exotic cat ladies, how about alluring jazz ladies? How about hot beauty celebrities? How about a successful businesswoman with fair skin and good looks?

If the official himself cannot overcome it, he starts from the other party's children. The free study abroad places, the social occasions of the stars, the shares of the money company, and even help you write a well -known poetry masterpiece academic paper.

 Like to be famous? Then just drag them out to make movies. Some people will invest and others will praise them, and help these children become stars that are sought after by thousands of people in one fell swoop.

Like power? Find a group of rich second-generation officials and second-generation officials. They will surround you every day and call you young master, young master, and big brother. Whatever you want, someone will give it to you with both hands. It shows that you are the one who can call the wind and rain.

Under such an all-round three-dimensional offensive, how many people can resist the temptation and stay alone in the torrent?

This is the power of capital. It is easy to conquer a person, corrupt a group of people, erode a circle, and destroy a country regardless of the cost.

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 The Tang Empire built four railways to connect the Great China Empire. These four railways extend eastward from Fengjiang to Linshui.

This is almost equivalent to saying that it traverses the entire east-west territory of the Tang Dynasty, and together with the railway from Beiyuan City all the way south to the border of Chu State, it constitutes the complete railway network of the Datang Empire.

Surrounding these two arteries, countless railways radiated out, like a spider web, covering every city in the Tang Empire.

They play an important role. Together with the road network, they are like half of blood vessels, supporting the giant of the Tang Empire and filling it with strength.

 The Dahua Empire is also working hard to build a railway across the east and west, because the economic value of this railway is too high.

As long as Qin's oil is sent to Tang, the Great China Empire can continuously collect the tolls and obtain a railway for free.

In addition, this railway can also sell the oil that the Great China Empire cannot use to the Tang State. Anyway, the Tang State seems to be willing to accept as much oil as it has.

This is actually a strange phenomenon: other countries seem to need oil, but generally speaking, everyone has a "limit". After meeting their own needs, there will not be so many means to deal with excess oil production capacity.

 But the Tang Empire was completely different. It was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much oil each country produced, it could eat it. Its thirst for oil seems insatiable.

In fact, Tang State does need more oil than other countries: in addition to refining it into gasoline, Tang State also has a lot of chemical factories waiting to refine various things from oil.

Even the residual asphalt at the bottom of the oil and coal final product chain is an important raw material for modern infrastructure.

 The upstream of the asphalt industry is petrochemicals, coal, modifiers and emulsifiers, and the downstream is highways, waterproof building materials, airport construction and municipal engineering road construction.

In the complete petrochemical industry chain, the front-end products of petroleum asphalt are ethers, alkanes, hydrocarbons, benzene and other major products. Petroleum asphalt, which is the back-end product of crude oil processing, can be obtained through the coking process to obtain petroleum gum.

These gadgets are all things waiting to be used in modern industry. The familiar plastics and other messy high-tech materials are all extensions of the petroleum product chain.

 High-tech fabrics used in clothes, lighter helmets equipped by the military, equipment shells that are easier to mold, and even transparent plexiglass plates... Datang Group is working hard to produce these things.

 As a partial substitute for metal, plastic is really so important that no integrated industrial products can bypass this material.

 It is used in cars, ships, airplanes, and even guns in large quantities.

 (End of this chapter)