The island of Ceylon is later Sri Lanka.

Lin Zhen, the current governor of Ceylon, looked at the reservoir construction site in front of him, and said with emotion to Wang Cheng, the Taishou of Baojun beside him: "The policy changes in the court are faster than turning over books. When the official took office, this Ceylon vultures was still the center of gravity of the imperial court's operation in the land of Tianzhu. Once upon a time, everything changed!

The first focus of the imperial court's development here has become North Tianzhu, and the second focus is South Tianzhu, and we can only be regarded as the third echelon in Ceylon, which is really ...... It's so aggrieved. ”

Lin Zhen was very unhappy in his heart, and the court liked the new and hated the old. When he came here five years ago to take up his new post, Ceylon was still a pearl in the Tianzhu region, and Baojun was the most dazzling splendor on this pearl of Ceylon. The governor's office of Ceylon was established in the city of Baogang, which was later known as Colombo. But now, things are not people, and the importance of the whole Ceylon is not comparable to a tail finger of North Tianzhu.

Wang Cheng's face was bitter and bitter. He was one of the first officials to arrive in Ceylon, and he made great efforts to go from a county official to the current governor of Ceylon, and he also witnessed the region go from 'glory' to 'decline'. What is the taste in his heart?

In the past three years, the imperial court's eyes in Tianzhu have again involved Ceylon, which is a forgotten corner. Although he is very helpless, he can't talk nonsense with long eyes, and Ceylon is indeed not worth mentioning compared to Tianzhu.

Fortunately, Baogang, a port city founded in the hands of Tianfang people 400 years ago, can still maintain prosperity by virtue of its good geographical advantages, and it is still a very important port in South Tianzhu.

Therefore, although the economic development of the whole Baojun has entered a stage of slow development, it has still made progress in the end. Unlike the Governor's Office of Ceylon, whose economic indicators have been stagnant for two consecutive years, how could Lin Zhen 'fight to the death' and raise a large amount of money out of his own pocket to smash into the large-scale development of the Jewel Valley, which is 200 miles away from the port of Baogang?

In Lu Qian's previous life, Sri Lanka's "Gem Valley" was famous.

The Karui River Valley, the central mountainous area, has been eroded into gravel after 12 to 3 billion years of long-term weathering, and then enriched by the natural gravity of rain and rivers to form a layer of gem-bearing gravel. Moreover, there are many varieties, wide distribution, shallow burial, and easy to mine. For example, the Gem Valley, located in the south-central part of Ceylon, is a small town surrounded by mountains, which looks like a cornucopia from the topography. There are intricate underground tunnels, and there are also a large pond with round dustpans that rotate clockwise and counterclockwise, and gradually a pile of loess dissolves into the water, and the sand and gravel are sifted away, leaving small stones with a higher density of rough gemstones containing different quantities. Most of Sri Lanka's gem placer resources are distributed in an area of 15,000 square kilometers from central to southern.

Of course, this is not to say that most of Ceylon's gemstone resources are located here. Ceylon is a true gem island, where gems can be found in rice paddies and on hillsides. It is said that ninety percent of Ceylon's land contains stones of all kinds, precious and semi-precious stones, and half of the world's 200 precious and semi-precious stones. In ancient Sanskrit, Ceylon means "island of jewels". More than 1,000 years ago, the gems produced here were already famous in the Tianzhu Continent.

It's just that the resources of the Gem Valley are more concentrated!

However, after the capture of Ceylon, the Lu Qi Dynasty, its development focus is the metallurgy, agriculture, logging, shipbuilding and some other handicrafts here, Lu Qian's definition of Ceylon is the bridgehead of the army to attack Tianzhu, is the front line base + military industry point of the Lu Qi army.

The war was the biggest driving force behind Ceylon's rapid development in the early years. Local gem mining is completely on the back burner. Until now, the helpless horse master can only take the 'evil way' to strive to promote the good development of Ceylon's economy.

For this reason, he made the Ceylon Development Fund put up at the Guangzhou Jockey Club, and he himself ate half of the total amount of two million!

Lin Zhen has money, but the Lin family doesn't mention it, but only says that his daughter-in-law, the eldest princess of the current emperor, never treats money as money.

Of course, the two million investment funds were not all used to gather labor to dig mines in the Gem Valley, and some of them were used to build reservoirs and accumulate water resources.

The Ceylon Development Fund is not equal to the Ceylon Gem Fund, is it? The whole fund should be 'distributed' throughout Ceylon!

And the reservoir is the top priority. After all, in today's era, water power is like the engine of future generations, and the further development of many workshops and workshops is inseparable from water power. A reservoir that needs a lot of water is an energy reservoir that never runs dry. Especially in Ceylon, where the climate is warm and rainy all year round.

Then there is the recruitment of local masters who polish and cut gemstones, the establishment of corresponding training schools, as well as special appraisal institutions, and the future gem trading market, all of which are in Baogang.

Today is the day of the start of construction of one of them - Baonan Reservoir.

Otherwise, Lin Zhen would not have sighed to Wang Cheng when he said this. The identity background of the two is too far apart. Don't look at Wang Cheng is already the Taishou of a county, but this does not mean that the gap between him and Lin Zhen is only one level!

Wang Cheng is just a person from an ordinary person, and he started as a small official in the Propaganda Department, and he can get to this day more because of his own struggle.

But what about Lin Zhen? That is the sister-in-law of Zheng Guogong Lin Dudu, the only son of the Lin family, who has a golden spoon in his mouth since birth. When she became an adult, she married the precious eldest princess of the current emperor, and she was just a waste of firewood, and she could go to Jinling City.

But Wang Cheng went to Jinling in full arms, and he would still be easily shot to death.

Ceylon's economy is just a stagnation, that is, a regression of the last ten years, and it can't shake Lin Zhen's roots. But it was easy to annihilate Wang Cheng's future career.

The reason why Lin Zhen worked so hard and racked his brains was not without an attempt to show his ability, but there must also be a reason for losing face.

This is inherently different from Wang Cheng's starting point!

Wang Cheng looked at the reservoir in front of him, the reservoir that cost 100,000 yuan to build was mainly to provide a source of power for some factories and workshops to be built in Baogang in the future - the largest enterprise was the Baogang Cement Factory, which was used to crush a large amount of limestone in the vicinity. This is the only cement plant in the whole of Ceylon. The side effect is flood storage and flood control.

From the day he became the Taishou of Shangbao County, he planned to build a reservoir in Baonan. Ceylon is a place where the seasons are like summer, there is no snow or ice, and there is abundant rainfall, and a reservoir is an inexhaustible source of power. However, there is no money in the finances of Baogun.

The investment of 100,000 yuan is nothing for many states and counties in the Central Plains, but for Ceylon and Bao County, it is really a big project. I believe that if Wang Cheng hadn't done a solid job, and because Baogang belonged to the capital of Ceylon, the territory was under the nose of the governor's mansion, and Lin Zhen had great hopes, he might not have been able to get this investment!

But because of this incident, Wang Cheng understood that Lin Zhen's thoughts were really different from him.

At the same time, with Lin Zhen's roots, he can't get the support of the state finance from the cabinet, and Ceylon is a bird's status, and Wang Cheng can see it clearly.

"It's all on your own!"

The imperial court would rather throw a lot of silver into the conquest, and fight the heavens before Tianzhu is peaceful, and fight Rus before the heavens are peaceful, and not pull out a single hair and throw it on Ceylon, so what can they do except be self-reliant?

Wang Cheng thought of the column in the "News" that he sent half a month ago, and in his heart, in his heart, it was not a good life.