At this time, next to Hongze Lake, there was still a field of reeds, but when 25,000 middle-aged laborers began to work, there was a change soon.

Hoist cranes, various tools made of stainless steel, and some tools suitable for excavation and wall building, plus professionals from the Daimyo Prefecture and the Dinghai Navy, can make a drastic change here in a maximum of 3 months.

Zhao Xin, he didn't take control of this place, just like the Daimyo's Mansion, they were all incidental, and the real key was to set the navy.

This pinned Zhao Xin's hopes in this era, and even gave up the right to inherit the throne for the sake of the construction of this fixed navy.

In the eyes of the people of this era, this cannot be given up, and even in the eyes of future generations, in the eyes of the traverser, the same is true.

With this title, as long as you stay in peace for ten years, develop a little, and bury some forces, you can control such a huge country as the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and this temptation is absolutely incomparable.

Even if it is full of danger, even if it is full of calamity, there are people who are willing to give it a try, this is a shortcut.

However, farming is a different path, full of hardships and dangers, but also full of various tests, the slightest carelessness, maybe you will be picked peaches.

Zhao Xin threw himself into it without hesitation, and spent a huge amount of money to start the entire construction, for no other reason, he was more confident.

A place where he can write and paint casually, a place full of spirituality, and even an industrial area beyond this era.

Such an unprecedented place, far more than the industrial areas and cities of this era, how could Zhao Xin be relieved.

In the Daimyo's Mansion, the existence of a blacksmith workshop is the focus of the future.

Not to mention a series of things in the future, from government orders, to civilian sales, from auctions, to Dinghai currency, everything is an important thing related to the future.

The blacksmith's workshop produced smoothly and created a terrible, innumerable productivity giant, which may have an output value of up to 30 million guan a year and a profit of more than 20 million guan, which can support anything after that.

Not to mention, the Dinghai coins that were extended because of the blacksmith's workshop, although the current Dinghai coins cannot be used for industrial production.

After all, in this era, the direct appearance of credit currency, the step is too big, some too much more than this era, only when the Dinghai currency circulates for a period of time, and then when the power and financial resources of the Dinghai Navy reach a certain level, and then start to implement, when the time comes, this Dinghai currency will directly enter the level of credit currency from the precious metal currency.

The cost of one percent, if it is not called credit currency, then what can be counted, Zhao Xin is now, it is just a time difference.

A new industrial zone, a completely different from the current Northern Song Dynasty, full of scientific and technological atmosphere, at that time the mountains of gold and silver piled up, not to mention three or five million yuan, the future investment, may exceed the current Northern Song Dynasty entire wealth.

Even billions are possible, only huge funds can pile up terrible production monsters, and when this one's train really starts, let alone ordinary people, tanks can't stop it.

It is precisely because the Dinghai Navy is too important that Zhao Xin went to the Dinghai Navy after settling down the Xiang Army, and he was not here for 4 months, only a few people were left at that time, and there was a lot of money, after going to the Daimyo's Mansion, the money earned through the blacksmith workshop, except for a part of it in the blacksmith workshop for expanding production, the rest was sent to the Dingjun.

It can be said that from the beginning to the present, Zhao Xin has invested at least 5 million yuan in Dingjun.

5 million guan, it doesn't sound like much, the entire Northern Song Dynasty, all the annual income in a year, should not exceed 30 million guan.

This can support the entire work of the entire clan, nobles, officials, and the entire government, and even includes all the expenses of some water conservancy, farmland, and projects, but it is only 6 times the amount of this money, and now, it has smashed into an area that is not much larger than a county.

This area is not only small, but also lonely overseas, and the whole island is not much flat, and it is mainly mountainous, quite steep and rugged.

This amount of money is invested, even in the current era when all aspects are underdeveloped, after it is invested, it will have a terrible effect, at least the manpower is not to worry, and there are a large number of materials, which are the most lacking in the Dinghai Navy.

Zhao Xin chose Dinghai, which was useless except for its location, not only a wasteland near the sea, but also without any resources.

Only a large amount of money can buy all kinds of materials, not to mention, a seaport, the most important thing is the ship, without enough ships, the seaport has no role at all.

Of course, Zhao Xin can't just give money and let it go, because there is no way to monitor it directly, only to control it remotely.

One after another, there are also some news coming, for example, large cement kilns, brick kilns, and small blacksmith workshops have been put into production, and some small iron ore and lime kilns have also been found near Dinghai, which are enough to support the use of construction.

Before, Huainan East Road, worried about the bearing of the Dinghai Navy, and later after the blacksmith workshop was on the right track, after a large amount of money and grain arrived, they were also relieved, and sent personnel in a steady stream, and now, the Dinghai Navy has more than 250,000 people, of which the vast majority are young and strong.

It sounds very good, and the development is also very good, but if you don't see it in person, Zhao Xin is still not at ease.

This is the case with the blacksmith's workshop, many problems, it's not that you say the order, and you can execute it according to the order, you can execute it very well.

There will be a deviation between the command and the final result, and this deviation may have a big impact.

The later Zhao Xin arrives in Dingjun, the greater the impact may eventually be, especially in terms of construction.

There are not many places suitable for a port to become a port, and this Dinghai is already a place with the best natural conditions, holding the center of the entire Chinese coastline, from the Bohai Sea to the South China Sea, which is a central axis.

This is especially true in this era, the land of Lingnan is too far away, and it is far from being developed, and now the southernmost is Hunan and Jiangsu, and the location of Lianyungang here is better.

Before Zhao Xin, he had already believed that the location was given, and the three ports were the initial stage, the expansion and the final state.

He doesn't worry, his subordinates will set the location at will, but the second and third phases are still more important, if there are some buildings or projects that occupy a little bit of their territory, they will need to be demolished at that time, isn't it a waste of effort.

On this side of Hongze Lake, there is nothing to do, the future positioning is just a river port wharf and warehouse, the fault tolerance rate is very high, along the lake, I don't know how many similar ports there are, they are really wasted, it is a big deal to rebuild, and there is not much time wasted, there are 2.5 laborers here, give them jobs, prevent them from thinking nonsense, this is fine.

On the same day, he set off on horseback, and in one day, he traveled more than 200 miles, rested for a night in Haizhou, and then the next day, he took a boat to Dinghai.

The sea is only a few miles away, but it is a little depressing, Zhao Xin even when he got on the boat, he could see the towering fortress in the distance, which was erected before he came, there were 4 in total, guarding the most critical place of the island.

At that time, it took more than ten days to build 4 fortresses, and left enough longbow teams to defend the top, which was weak, but unless it was a naval army of the size of the Great Song Dynasty and attacked the city, otherwise, the ordinary small pirates had no way to take the navy.

In fact, there will be no water bandits, set their sights on the Dinghai Navy, this is a desert island without much oil and water, even if the Dinghai Sea starts to build, it will not be better there, it is all some raw materials, as well as food and the like, which is the most worthless for the bandits.

For a few months, the wind and waves were calm, Zhao Xin thought more about the development of this Dinghai Navy, for other places, maybe a few months, there will not be too many changes, but for the Dinghai Navy, which has smashed at least 5 million guan, it must be changing with each passing day.

The ship soon arrived at the port, which was positioned as one of the three major ports of the future Dinghai Navy, and it was also the original port, which had begun to take shape.

It is still the same as the port of the Northern Song Dynasty, but a large amount of cement and bricks are used, which is particularly smooth.

With the help of cement, not boulders, a huge breakout was built in a specific area, like a powerful arm, to include the port, even if a typhoon passed by, the ships anchored here would not have any problems.

Zhao Xin nodded with satisfaction, this is similar to his previous plan, huge manpower, financial resources, plus the use of cement and bricks, together to realize this port.

There is no transaction in the new port, only more than 30 ships, these are Huainan East Road, from various places to transfer about 3,000 super ships.

The shipbuilding of the Northern Song Dynasty was quite developed, from the Tang Dynasty, and even in the previous dynasties, the navigation industry was very developed, and even in the Qin and Han dynasties, there were records of merchants from Southeast Asia and even Arabia, and these merchants came from the sea, the number was very small, like a legend.

But the Tang and Song dynasties were also a node, during the Tang Dynasty, the ships were all Arab, where the performance of the ship was outstanding, the performance of the ship at sea was the most critical, this is a hard indicator, otherwise, it encountered a storm, and no one came to save it.

After the Song Dynasty, he has been using Chinese sailing ships, he not only has a lot of load, the performance is also very stable, but also the earlier the bigger, I heard that the current Northern Song Dynasty, the largest ship is close to 5000 materials, more than 3000 materials, it is also a rare sea ship.

Zhao Xin didn't expect that these sea ships would come so quickly, he also thought that Huainan East Road would shirk it a little, but he didn't expect it to be so simple, it seems that he could make a little fuss on the ship, so that the Ding Navy, and even the Navy of the Northern Song Dynasty, would develop faster.