Chapter 1687
The bamboo forest is quiet, and the breeze is rustling. The dappled sunlight sprinkled through the dense bamboo leaves on the winding path paved with cobblestones. The winding path was secluded, with a small building faintly discernible at the end.
This is Shuzhou, the inland southwest of the empire.
Small buildings like this, in the fifteenth year of China, are everywhere around the city, which can't be considered rare. The expansion of territories and population migration have never stopped, making the per capita land area of the empire rise year after year. Even if they spare no effort to encourage fertility, they can't keep up with this rhythm.
It is the area around a major southwestern city like Jinguan City. The land area per capita has exceeded 100 acres. Many commoners will build their own homes like landscape gardens, which are more enjoyable, and a small number of them use it for commercial purposes, sightseeing or eating.
This garden is a tea house opened by commoners.
Various Xia pays attention to the integration of Celestial. It is a major city with few high-rise buildings. It's not that it can't be built, but it's not needed. People prefer the combination of landscape and artistic conception.
The deep part of the bamboo forest is a garden with an area of more than ten acres. This is just a teahouse opened by an ordinary commoners. There are not many guests among them, but it is more quiet and meaningful.
In the garden, pavilions, towers and pavilions row upon row, flowers and trees around the corridor, curved water transfers, it is leisurely and elegant.
In a bamboo pavilion, two people with high noses and deep eyes and Eguan Bo belt are sitting opposite each other. The four eaves of the bamboo pavilion hang down the vines, and the breeze is slow, and the four sides are open, making it cozy.
The blond and blue-eyed maid made tea for the two elegantly and soothingly, folded her hands on her waist and stepped back slightly.
One of them flicked his sleeve, said with a smile: "Brother Li, drink tea."
Brother Li laughed: "No hurry, eat some cakes first. Not used today For breakfast, I’m hungry and beat the drums."
The two chatted casually while eating cakes or drinking a sip of tea.
"Brother Li has been on the sea for the past few years, and he will never see a face all year round." The middle-aged man with brown hair and gray eyes and a black robe with a bronze crown said: "I was so happy to receive the news from Brother Li yesterday. But right now. The season is when the shipping is busy, how can Brother Li return to Shuzhou?"
Brother Li hearing this faintly sighed said: "Brother Wang has been inland and doesn’t know much about shipping. The current season is indeed When shipping was busy, but that was before. Since the opening of the large Origin Item airship to the private sector at the beginning of the year, the decline of shipping is inevitable."
Brother Wang suddenly said: "Yes. Air transportation is faster and faster than sea transportation. Many. I heard that the cargo capacity of the civil-class large airship is not worse than that of the largest seaborne Origin Item. The speed is fast, fresh, and the cost is not high."
"Yes." Brother Li said "I managed to save money and bought a medium-sized Origin Item transport ship. Didn't expect to face elimination in less than five years."
The expression is depressed, exhibit one's feelings in one's speech.
Brother Wang said with a smile: "Brother Li has made a lot in the past five years."
Brother Li slightly smiled: "No loss."
Brother Wang laughed: "Do you think I don't know? According to the latest statistics, the hottest years of shipping, that is, the years when Brother Li bought ships and went to sea, can earn back all the capital in just one year. Brother Li Shipping After running for nearly five years, four years of pure profit, still not satisfied?"
Brother Li said: "I am not dissatisfied. At the beginning of this year, I planned to buy two more ships and form a fleet. Now Yellow. How can you teach me not to be depressed?"
Brother Wang said with a smile: "Brother Li is back to Shuzhou, I must have already thought about it."
Brother Li said "There are some ideas. The decline of shipping and the rise of air transportation. I want to see if there are any opportunities."
Brother Wang said: "There must be opportunities, but most of them are not now. Original Item ships were also in the city. It was only a year after the establishment of the company that the company gradually opened up to private individuals. I think Air Transport Origin Item will probably not get out of this old example."
Brother Li said with a smile: "Brother Wang can't look at the new with old eyes. Things. At the beginning, the shipping of Origin Item could not be immediately popularized, which is closely related to the production capacity of the Origin Item industrial area. Today, the Origin Item industrial area of the empire is blooming everywhere, and the Origin Item factories opened by individuals have sprung up, and the production capacity is worry-free. I came back the In the past few days, I ran back and forth between the commercial office and the transportation office. The situation is already understood."
"Oh?" Brother Wang startled and said: "So the popularity of Origin Item by air is just recently?"
Brother Li nodded: "I have ordered a medium-sized airlift Origin Item, which is thoroughly digged out."
Then he said: "The world is changing too fast now, Brother Isn't Wang going to do something?"
Brother Wang hearing this smiled bitterly and said, "I am not more aggressive than you. When you first came here, you couldn't sit still, and tried everything possible to do something to do something. And I am content with the status quo. You made enough money to buy an Origin Item by air , And I can only make it passable. "
He sighed: "But that's right, I'm going to move. "
"What is Brother Wang going to do?" "Brother Li said.
Brother Wang said: "My business. "
"The Country Estate? Planting or breeding? Agricultural crops or cash crops? Livestock or herb? "Brother Li has several questions.
In the nineteenth year of China, Great Xia Empire and the European countries were torn apart, and the war was on the verge of breaking out. This caused panic in the European countries. The people of Europe tried their best to escape from Europe, and many people I came to Great Xia and wanted to become a member of this extremely powerful country.
These two people in front of me are the Europeans who came to Great Xia at that time.
They One is Charlie and the other is William. Both of them are from a little nobleman in Europe. They are relatives and have certain knowledge. After a period of investigation, they were allowed to be naturalized and become citizens of Great Xia.
Renamed, Charlie changed his name to Richard, and William changed his name to Wang Lian.
After naturalization, the two and their family members were assigned to the corresponding land. However, Richard gave up the stability of digging in the ground and put his own land Sold a part of it, and then joined the sea trade. Wang Lian put his mind on the land.
A few years later, Richard has become a rich man. Wang Lian is far behind.
"I have a good friend in the farming yamen and got some news from him. I heard that the empire will develop the eastern continent. I plan to move my family to the Eastern Region and develop there. "
Wang Lian said.
Richard heard this and said: "I have also heard of this. Since the Empire and Europe cast aside all considerations for face, most of the Eastern Region, Southeast Region, Southern Region and Desolate Region have been captured by the Empire. Over the past few years, he has been pursuing the suppression and recruitment of local aborigines. It seems that the Eastern Region's cleansing and encumbering has been Perfection completed. ”
It has been more than ten years since Great Xia established diplomatic relations with the European countries. With the expansion of Great Xia Empire, especially after cast aside all considerations for face, Great Xia has shown its tyrannical strengths. In a few years, the colonies of the European countries were almost taken away.
Then Great Xia Empire re-divided this world, the planet. The area where the main body of the Great Xia Empire is located is called It is the Divine Province or the Central Region. North America in the original population of Europe was changed to the Eastern Region, South America was changed to the Southeast Region, Australia was the Southern Region, and Africa was renamed the Wild Region. As for Europe, it is now called the Western Region by the Great Xia people. .