Chapter 1030 Southeast

Starting from Lucheng, Zhao Xu took a steam locomotive to continue southward. Read М

He passed through Pengcheng, Huaicheng, Yangcheng and other Ningzhou cities, and finally arrived in 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 took the opportunity to inspect the construction of the industry.

In general, some of the workshop areas in these cities are as colorful as Lucheng,

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

As for not being as good as Lucheng and other cities, it is not entirely due to their 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 excellent people were divided by big cities such as Lucheng, Jincheng, and Jinling.

In this regard, Zhao Xu did not blame them. After all, this is the current dilemma of Dasong.

Due to the rapid development, the supply of talents with corresponding qualities is not enough.

In this way, development will be unbalanced.

But for Zhao Xu, this problem is unsolvable.

Talents are limited at present. Although he wants to make Dasong flourish, he can only give priority to the development of coastal areas and other areas with convenient transportation according to the actual situation.

"Your Highness, what Mi Xuan can do, I can do too. 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 the person in charge of Ningzhou's political affairs is also one of the seven county magistrates of Yan County, Zang Yichuan.

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

"That's what you said, don't cry out for injustice when the time comes." Zang Yichuan is lively and likes to joke.

Zhao Xu knows his temperament and jokes with him.

"If you cry out for injustice, you are not a minister." Zang Yichuan is still very confident.

The two chatted and arrived at the workshop area.

At a glance, Zhao Xu showed a satisfied smile.

Just as Zang Yichuan said, the scale and planning of Jinling Workshop District are really not inferior to Lucheng.

And the number of carriages and horses on the road is even twice that of Lucheng.

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

So in terms of industrial construction, the court's support for Jinling's industrial construction is much greater than that of Lucheng.

Steamships set sail from Yancheng Port every day to transport machinery and equipment to Jinling.

It can be said that whether it is industrial scale or workshop types, Jinling is copied according to Yancheng, which can be said to be complete in categories.

He took such good care of Jinling, on the one hand, because Jinling was the former capital of Dasong and had a dense population.

On the other hand, he was prepared to rely on the Jinling Workshop District to provide support for the development of other prefectures and counties in Jiangnan.

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

However, compared with the present, Jinling's location advantage is obviously not as good as Sucheng, that is, Suzhou, and Songcheng, which is the contemporary Shanghai.

However, these two cities were not as good as Jinling at that time.

Therefore, he planned to build a large port in Songcheng and make it a trade transit station.

When its geographical advantages become apparent, merchants will naturally move their workshops to Songcheng and Sucheng.

In doing so, he was not partial to these two places.

The only way for Dasong to become rich is overseas trade, exporting industrial products in exchange for raw materials and money, so it must build several economic centers on the eastern coast.

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

"Very good, it seems that you don't need to take off your official hat." Zhao Xu was in a good mood.

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

After staying in Jinling for two days, Zhao Xu had a comprehensive understanding of the industrial situation in Jinling and was quite satisfied with this industrial center in Jiangnan.

After that, he left Jinling and went to Lincheng.

However, the industrial development here is somewhat different from that of Jinling.

After all, the time to recover Jiangnan was too short. It was good enough to create a Jinling template. The remaining cities had to be taken slowly.

After the southern tour arrived here, Zhao Xu ordered the officials of the Industrial Department to continue to inspect the remaining cities, and he went directly to Jiaozhi by steamship.

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At the same time.

When Zhao Xu went to Jiaozhi, the news that the Dasong army swept Jiaozhi and the Piao Man Kingdom had reached the ears of the Western Earth Coalition.

This surprised the Western Earth generals who expected Jiaozhi and Piao Man to block the Dasong army for several months.

Everyone immediately met in Calcutta to discuss the next response.

"The Qinglong Army of Dasong has taken down one Jiaozhi city after another and is approaching Jinou County where our Franks are stationed. The war is urgent. The coalition can no longer sit and wait for death. It must take the initiative to change the current passive situation." In the meeting room of the Governor's Mansion, the coalition generals sat around a long table.

Frank Army General Gao Leer almost slapped the table and shouted.

He was very angry now, like a fire burning in his stomach.

Jiaozhi, Piaoman, Nanzhang, and Funan constituted their Southeast China of Frank.

But overnight, their Southeast China was going to be far away from them, how could he not be anxious.

In order to save their Southeast China of Frank, he had to send the coalition forces to drive the Dasong army out of their Southeast China.

Wesley's face was livid, not because he was angry about Gao Le's speech.

But he was worried about the safety of Tianzhu.

The Pyu Man Kingdom borders Tianzhu, and it is only a thousand miles from the westernmost border of the Pyu Man Kingdom to Kolkata.

This means that the Dasong army has directly pointed the muzzle of the gun at their heads.

In addition, the territory of the Pyu Man Kingdom extends all the way to the north bank of the Strait of Malacca, which means that the Strait of Malacca is also in danger.

At present, they regard Malacca as a key fortress for the Western World to resist the King of Yan, just like the Yan Pass in the north of Dasong.

Once they lose Malacca, the Dasong Navy will be able to march in.

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

"I understand what Admiral Gao Le'er means, but the coalition forces cannot fight the Dasong army for East China now. I always think that the best defensive strategy is to hold the position and wait for the arrival of reinforcements." Wesley looked at Gao Le'er and said slowly.

Now, he hates these native troops.

They spent so many resources to train and cultivate them.

But they couldn't even win them half a year, they were just useless.

Now, Southeast China was in a mess, the Franks were unhappy, and wanted to change the established strategy of the coalition forces, which made him very embarrassed.

But since Southeast China had been lost, he naturally couldn't let Tianzhu face the same dilemma as Southeast China.