Starting from the Daimyo's Mansion, all the way along the coastline, almost around the entire Shandong Peninsula in a circle, I saw countless original ancient fishing villages, and also saw a lot, but also hidden in the original ecological port of the seaside saline-alkali land, if it is said that the large-scale construction of seaside dikes, will definitely make these originally saline-alkali land, into a fertile land.

The seaside embankment, this is not difficult to build, as early as hundreds of years ago in the Tang Dynasty, there was a matter of establishment, to the Song Dynasty, many famous officials are famous for relying on the establishment of seaside embankments.

It's just that it is in the south, the south that is rich and rich in all kinds of raw materials, and in the north, even a port like Qingdao is not available.

There are thousands of things, Zhao Xin also knows the severity, although he took tens of thousands of guan from the daimyo's mansion, but if he really wants to build a city, these tens of thousands of guan, almost a drop in the bucket, almost to build a 30-mile-long seaside embankment, as well as various infrastructure construction, a modern port, the investment required is huge, even in the 21st century, with the help of all kinds of machines and tools, it will take a long time, let alone now.

Sun Ji and they are relatively relaxed, they don't even know what Zhao Xin is going to do in a barren place like the seaside, in their opinion, there is nothing more suitable than the Daimyo's Mansion, they only stayed in the Daimyo's Mansion for 10 days, and they earned tens of thousands of yuan, with money, what is not good.

Sun Ji and others also tentatively expressed their views in front of Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin was noncommittal about this, the Daimyo Mansion is good, very prosperous, far more than Baozhou, but if he wants to take the Daimyo Mansion as the foundation, it is no less than suicide.

A modern industrial city, after a reasonable layout and development, surpasses the daimyofu is certain, and it is not easy to attract the attention of others.

What is the place of the Daimyo's Mansion, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, one of the most important cities in the whole of northern China, has a very high exposure, as long as Zhao Xin experiments new things here, either under high exposure, it is quickly promoted and learned by others, or, because it violates tradition and ethics, it is criticized.

No matter which possibility it is, it's not that Zhao Xin is willing to see it, even if he starts from scratch in another place, it's better than here.

Soon, he left Shandong and arrived at Huainan Road, which was later known as Anhui, and was very close to the goal set by Zhao Xin.

Not to mention the environmental problems of the port, just say the location, the location of Lianyungang in the later generations, there is a huge advantage, between Qingdao in the north and Shanghai in the south, a relatively moderate location, from the end of the Huai River, Hongze Lake is relatively close, as long as there is a simple road or open up a canal, you can be connected with the Huai River, on this point, the traffic environment is quite convenient.

Unlike Qingdao, which is too far north, at some times, for example, when the climate is particularly cold, there will be the possibility of freezing, and Lianyungang will hardly freeze.

In the century, the biggest advantage is the dimension, Lianyungang and Bianliang are almost on the same dimensional line, through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal directly into the Huai River, all the way to Hongze Lake, where Lianyungang is already quite close.

At this time, Lianyungang is still a white land, and even most of the location of the port area is still under the sea water, and now Lianyungang belongs to the jurisdiction of Haizhou.

Haizhou already has a city, and it is also a relatively important state on Huainan North Road, but the area of the state is very large, and the location of the state capital is dozens of miles away from the sea.

Zhao Xin is not very demanding, and will not include Haizhou into his jurisdiction, in the future, there may be this consideration, in the early stage of development, he only needs the location of a city.

At this time, most of the location of Lianyungang is still below the sea water, and the location that originally belonged to the core of the port area is a huge island, which is called Yuntai Mountain Island.

This island is the largest island in the north, and Chongming Island, which was once the largest island in the Yangtze River Basin, is not as big as Yuntai Mountain Island.

After Zhao Xin arrived in Haizhou, he learned that Haizhou and such a place, compared to the land connected to the mainland, the island made him feel more at ease, and the most important thing is that Yuntai Mountain Island is only a dozen miles away from the mainland, and you can see it almost from the coastline.

Perhaps, the establishment of this island will have a certain pressure on transportation, for example, for transportation, the things produced on the island must be sent to the ship from the island first, and then to this land, and then unloaded, which greatly increases the cost of work, but compared to secrecy, Zhao Xin will make a choice.

"That's it!" After a brief look around the island, Zhao Xin said with an atmospheric clap.

Sun Ji looked at the empty island, a little helpless, there are people on this island, and there are quite a lot of people, hundreds of square kilometers of land, many villages dotted with stars, and there are almost tens of thousands of people.

Because it is an island, it has been eroded by the waves and has been severely salinized, and there is almost no land on the island, and most people rely on fishing for their livelihood.

In the middle of the island, Zhao Xin and Sun Ji also saw the ruins of ancient cities, of course, most of them were buried under the loess, but it also proved that hundreds of years ago, this was still a city, and even on the edge of the island, the ruins of the port were seen.

It's a pity that time has passed, and for some unknown reason, these things have been abandoned.

This is what Zhao Xin expects to see the most, a place with a blank sheet of paper, a place that is big enough, and a place that is safe enough, among the three, even if he occupies two, or in other words, as long as he occupies one, he can arrange it, not to mention, it has a unique situation here, even if it is in the court, a land with only one county, an island hanging overseas, and a city located in Gyeonggi, with developed commerce and a large population, anyone will make a choice.

After identifying Lianyungang, Zhao Xin stopped, he needed to make a simple measurement and evaluation, the development of a city, not to say, comprehensive and overnight, needs a process.

In terms of manpower, he doesn't have to worry, if he has money, he can hire people, but money doesn't mean everything, the north doesn't produce grain, and it's not a place where shipbuilding is developed, the most important thing is manpower, which needs to be coordinated, but before that, there is a precedent, that is, he needs to set his name first.

Whether it is a fiefdom, or a military state, the festival makes it a class, these need to come from the top-down list, Miaojiazhuang's manpower, it is best to come over, it doesn't matter if he can't come, he is more set the goal on the Xiang army.

If he can mobilize a part of the Xiang army, even if it is only tens of thousands, plus tens of thousands of affiliated families, he can complete the first step of gathering manpower, and the rest is to use money and food to recruit, a huge city that can accommodate millions of people in the future, at least in the beginning, the requirements for manpower are endless.