Chapter 650: The City of Commerce and Trade

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The uncultivated Port of the Brave is just a natural harbor with rippling blue waves.

There were no port facilities built in the harbor, but the merchant ships temporarily erected rows of wooden piles and laid a layer of wooden planks for the convenience of unloading, which looked extremely shabby.

Even so, there is a constant stream of ships coming in and out of the port.

Seeing the ocean-going fleet slowly approaching, and the large and small merchant ships docked in the harbor consciously avoided a channel, they were not afraid, but a kind of respect for the ocean-going fleet from the bottom of their hearts.

Under Zheng He's command, the ocean-going fleet slowly docked on the west side of the port.

Ouyang Shuo planned to divide the brave port into two, and build a special military port to the west, which was used for the sailors stationed here to dock and replenish; To the east is a pure trading port, which is used for ocean-going merchant ships to dock and replenish.

The two are distinct and do not interfere with each other.

In the middle, Ouyang Shuo is preparing to build a large shipyard to produce ships and warships on site. Wherever the sailors are stationed, the shipyard will be built, which is Ouyang Shuo's consistent requirement.

Not to mention anything else, the profits earned from the sale of merchant ships alone are enough to sustain the day-to-day operations of the City of Friendship. As an emerging pillar industry in the territory, the shipbuilding industry of Shanhai City has long been mature. According to the year-end inventory of the Household Registration Department, there are no less than 30,000 or 40,000 people engaged in shipbuilding-related work in the territory, which can be described as a huge lineup.

In a week at most, a large shipyard can be built in Shanhai City.

After Ouyang Shuo went ashore, he saw all kinds of materials piled up on the shore, and nodded with satisfaction.

Coolies unloading to and fro were like ants, lining up to carry bags of cargo from the hold. When they saw Ouyang Shuo and his party, they would consciously stop, bend down and salute before leaving.

Ouyang Shuo is the master of the fiefdom.

According to the plan, the first task of the fiefdom was neither to build a city wall nor a port, but to first build the castle lord's mansion and the post station.

The symbolism of the Castle Lord's Mansion is huge. Only by building the City Lord's Mansion can it really mean that Ouyang Shuo officially became the master of this valley and began his rule.

As for the post station, it is for communication needs. Only by building a post station can Ouyang Shuo communicate with China.

Friendship City cannot be built by relying only on the ocean-going fleet, coupled with locally hired craftsmen. Not to mention anything else, what Ouyang Shuo needs most now is an architectural design team.

The overall planning of the Friendship City must be scientific and reasonable, and professionals should be invited to design it.

There are countless other complicated affairs related to the construction of the city.

Even after the construction of the city is completed, there is still the problem of city management, which requires all kinds of officials to operate quickly according to the structure of Shanhai City. Of course, a castle guard is needed to see the big picture.

The officials accompanying the ocean-going fleet are, after all, only a minority. Their role is only to assist Ouyang Shuo in handling some daily government affairs. Those who are really at the helm also need to be requisitioned from the territory.

All of the above requires the support of the territory.

Otherwise, it's all about time.

From Sin Chew Port to Brave Port, it will take twenty-five days at the earliest. Coupled with the time of deployment and assembly, it is estimated that it will take a month.

Taking advantage of this time, Ouyang Shuo was ready to personally take the lead and build the port and city wall first.

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Five military tents formed in a circle in the center of the valley, which was the temporary headquarters for the construction of the fiefdom. Ouyang Shuo personally sat in the headquarters, deployed craftsmen and labor, and began the construction of the fiefdom in full swing.

The entire fiefdom suddenly turned into a large construction site, which was very lively.

Ouyang Shuo seemed to have returned to Gaia for a year, and he personally led everyone to build Shanhai City. Thinking about it now, I still remember it vividly, as if it happened yesterday.

In fact, in just two years, the territory has already undergone earth-shaking changes and achieved a qualitative leap. And Ouyang Shuo is no longer the Ouyang Shuo he used to be.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo still burst out with extraordinary enthusiasm for construction, and became a contractor in the blink of an eye. In just two days, the construction of the city lord's mansion was completed, and the post station was built at the same time.

As soon as the post station was built, Ouyang Shuo sent a letter to Xiao He, briefly explaining the situation of the fiefdom, and asked Xiao He to quickly deploy a group of officials, teleport them to the Lion City, and then rush to the Friendship City by sea to take office.

"The construction of the Friendship City is related to the success or failure of the ocean-going trade in the territory, and the officials deployed by the Administration Department should give priority to capable and pragmatic people, remember, remember." Ouyang Shuo asked in the letter.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo also ordered to transfer Gu Xiuwen, the city guard of Beihai City, to serve as the city guard of Friendship City.

When Shanhai City was promoted to a second-class county town, the canyon channel was greatly widened, and merchant ships traveling to and from Shanhai City could directly enter the docks in the city, and there was no longer a need to transfer through Beihai City.

As a result, Beihai City, which has always been the gateway to the sea of Shanhai City, is declining in strategic position.

Gu Xiuwen, as an early cadre in the territory, was deeply respected by Ouyang Shuo, and had experience in governing coastal cities, so it was very suitable to serve as the city guard of Friendship City.

Although Friendship City is only a city, the rank of the city guard is the same as the prefect.

In addition to officials, Ouyang Shuo also asked for the deployment of a number of skilled personnel that are scarce in Somalia, such as architects, shipbuilders, steelmaking technicians, and so on.

Officials and skilled personnel are just the usual configuration for building a new city. Ouyang Shuo broke the routine this time and asked the household registration department to deploy at least 20,000 immigrants from the territory and transport them all the way to Friendship City by sea.

For the sake of Friendship City, Ouyang Shuo also fought hard.

In the second letter, Ouyang Shuo wrote to the three major intelligence agencies and Honglu Temple. He asked Shanhaiwei, Black Snake Guard, and the Military Intelligence Department to assign a group of capable and important personnel to Friendship City to set up an intelligence station.

"The intelligence station of Friendship City can be used as a territory to radiate the entire African continent, and even a key stronghold on the European continent. Ouyang Shuo said in the letter.

Intelligence must always be at the forefront of territorial expansion.

The construction of the Friendship City is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for the territory to extend its intelligence tentacles to Africa and Europe. To this end, Ouyang Shuo was ready to allocate another 400,000 gold coins for the expansion of the three major intelligence agencies.

Black Snake Guard is the focus of this support, and will directly receive 200,000 gold coins.

Although Ouyang Shuo will not delusionally dominate the world and control global dynamics, it is very necessary.

As for the Honglu Temple, its mission is to continue the raid on the Kingdom of Somalia. Don't look at Shanhaicheng and Somalia are in the honeymoon period, so good that they want to wear the same pants, that's because the aftermath of the war has not yet dissipated.

When the war completely cools down, how the two sides will get along is a university question.

Ouyang Shuo couldn't expect to be able to dominate the Somali country with just one battle exploit. The right way is to completely tie all Somali forces to the chariot of Shanhai City.

After sending the letter, Ouyang Shuo had time to go to the City Lord's Mansion and go straight to the meeting hall.

Since Friendship City is a fiefdom, it naturally also has a territorial stone monument. As soon as the City Lord's Mansion was built, a snow-white territory stone tablet was directly generated in the council hall.

It's just one, the Friendship City's territory stele can neither be upgraded, nor does it have any territorial characteristics, and it doesn't even refresh the outcasts, which is a complete chicken rib.

Ouyang Shuo had a way, he came to the stone tablet and took out a black token from the storage bag, which was a black iron-level village building token that had been fused by the [Fusion Order].

"System prompt: It has been detected that the player has no clothes, and has a village building token that can be fused, which can be fused with the territory stele, is it fused?"

"Fusion!"

With a "brush", the village building token turned into a black light and was completely integrated into the white stele. The black light dispersed, and the snow-white territorial stele was ready to turn into a cold black.

"System prompt: The fusion of the village building token is successful, and Friendship City has the refresh permission of the displaced people. Please select the ethnicity of the displaced people, Han Chinese or indigenous Somali displaced people? ā€

"Han refugees!" Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate.

"System prompt: After the selection is completed, start refreshing the homeless from now on."

Although Ouyang Shuo planned to build the Friendship City into a giant city, its roots were still a third-level village, and it could only refresh 12 homeless people every day.

"Better than nothing!" Ouyang Shuo sighed.

Using a Fusion Token does not add an original territory.

Friendship City, which has integrated the village building token, still does not have any territorial characteristics. As for the teleportation array, it is even more impossible to open, and it is only an isolated city.

For this reason, Ouyang Shuo took out a scroll again.

["City of Commerce" of the Title Scroll of Territory]: After use, the territory can obtain the "City of Commerce", which derives related territory characteristics.

This scroll was looted in the Star Nation treasury, and now it has finally come in handy.

"System prompt: It has been detected that the player has no clothes and has a territory title scroll, do you use it?"

"Use!"

Another flash of white light.

"System prompt: Congratulations to the player for having no clothes, Friendship City has obtained the [City of Commerce and Trade] title, please check the specific attributes by yourself, congratulations to the player!"

[City of Commerce and Trade]: Increase trade visibility by 25%. Increases trade prosperity by 30%.

Very simple attributes, but also very practical, just in line with the positioning of Friendship City, can be described as a perfect match.

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It is too inefficient to increase the population of the fiefdom by simply relying on the outcasts to develop Friendship City quickly. Ouyang Shuo's approach is not only immigration, but also recruiting people.

In addition to the 3,000 pirate orphans, Brave Harbor will also have a permanent sailor battalion, plus some sick sailors, who will also be housed in Friendship City. In this way, there are more than 10,000 people.

Coupled with the more than 20,000 immigrants in Shanhai City in the future, it is just over 30,000.

For a large city, 30,000 people is still too little. Ouyang Shuo had to hit the people of Somalia with his ideas.

The next day, the city lord's mansion posted an announcement to recruit people, "Anyone who is willing to settle in Friendship City will be given a settling-in allowance of one gold coin." The first batch of settlers can get a 20% discount on the purchase and sale of houses and shops. ā€

Next, it's up to who gets the bait.