Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 691 Pre-war Preparations (Part [-])
Gao Wushi has not personally visited Qinzhou Port, but Gao Mengnan's report has been handed in.According to the investigation and discussion of the staff team brought by Gao Mengnan from Tianjin Port, Qinzhou Port is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with wide waters in the harbor, less wind and waves, less sand content, and balanced erosion and siltation. It is an excellent deep-water port.

This statement is in line with the understanding brought by Gao Yushi's previous life - well, in fact, he was not very familiar with Qinzhou Port in his previous life. The so-called knowledge is actually mainly because he knew that Qinzhou Port is one of the big ports in the south.

Although China's infrastructure construction in later generations is unparalleled in the world, it must not be possible to create a big port out of nothing, right?It can be seen that the natural foundation of this place must be good.

Not only the natural conditions are superior, but the location advantage is also very good.Qinzhou Port is located in Qinzhou Bay at the top of the Beibu Gulf in the South China Sea. It is adjacent to Nanning in the north, Lianzhou Fuzhi in the east, and Yongan Prefecture (later known as Fangcheng Port) in the southwest. The central gateway of the "Golden Triangle" along the coast of Guangxi, and the most convenient access to the sea in the southwest.

If I can't do this place, what kind of port will I play?
Not much to say, buy land first...

The purchase of land is frighteningly convenient, because Gao Mengnan’s report has already said that the local population of Qinzhou is very small, especially because of the Japanese pirates problem that has lasted for a hundred years, and the coastal area is almost completely deserted. Their expedition team is near Qinzhou Port. After walking around for a long time, there were not many living people at all.

After some inquiries, I found out that the locals had all moved to Qinzhou City, thirty miles away from the port, and the port side was almost a state of unowned wasteland.

What else is there to say, according to the "law of pre-occupation", just enclose the land and it's over!

What is the "pre-occupation" method?
In Roman law, preemption is a method of acquisition in the law of peoples. Whether it is movable or immovable, as long as it is ownerless, it can be acquired through preemption.This preemptive system is preemptive liberalism.Subsequent Germanic law also provided for the system of preemption, known as preemptionism.

Of course, this is from the so-called "international level" of later generations. Ancient China did not believe in European law, and only China's own laws counted. So how does Chinese law treat "preemption"?

As early as the pre-Qin period, the imperial court recognized the Qin people's preemptive acquisition of ownership of timber, prey, etc. within the scope permitted by law.The "Field Law" on the Qin bamboo slips clearly stipulates the ownership of reclaiming wasteland, felling trees, and fishing prey within the time and space allowed by the government.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty, the imperial court recognized the "sealing of mountains and lakes and forcibly occupying official land", that is, it recognized that bureaucratic landlords had the right to seal mountains and occupy land, and recognized the pre-occupation system.

Tang Dynasty "Tang Law · Miscellaneous Law" also has regulations on pre-occupation and acquisition of non-owner property.

The Song Dynasty inherited the regulations of the Tang Dynasty and regarded preoccupation as a way of original acquisition.As long as the person who occupies the unowned land first pays taxes and rents according to the "Yuanye", it does not belong to "piracy", and its ownership is established.

In the Yuan Dynasty, pre-occupation as a way of property acquisition included pre-occupation of unowned property and certain unmanaged public properties.

In the Ming Dynasty, preemptive occupation was not only land ownership, but also an important way to obtain movable property ownership.

Due to the implementation of the policy of garrisoning land in the early Ming Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that "reclamation into land will be one's own property forever", and state-owned wasteland and forests were also tacitly allowed to be acquired in accordance with the principle of pre-occupation.Regarding movable property, the Ming Law stipulates: "If firewood, grass, wood and stones in mountains and fields have been cut down and accumulated by others, and those who take them without authorization, they are considered to be theft." That is to admit the ownership of the things that have been processed.

Now the entire Qinzhou port has become a land of no owner, and Gao Yushi intends to develop there, which naturally fully complies with the principle of "pre-occupation" - as long as he pays taxes and is not afraid of Japanese pirates.As for paying taxes...Gao Yushi actually doesn't need to pay taxes, not to mention his family background.

However, according to Gao Gong's reforms later, if he farmed near Qinzhou Port, he would be exempted from tax, but he would have to pay tax if he opened a private port, and this rule was suggested to Gao Gong himself.

Fortunately, Daming has been accustomed to low tax rates from top to bottom, so the tax rate in this private port is not high. After all, Gao Pragmatic’s idea back then was to promote this kind of taxation as a pilot, and he didn’t intend to kill the chicken and get the eggs from the beginning. Let people get used to the basis of "paying tax when opening a port", and then the tax rate can be raised at an appropriate time.If we set up a high tax rate from the beginning, it is estimated that no one will do it.

That being the case, why are you being polite, hurry up and start working on the enclosure, this is cheaper and more cost-effective than any of his previous private ports!

Once this Qinzhou private port is built, it will really be a real "private port", every inch of land is the legal private property of someone Gao!

From now on, this Qinzhou Port will be called Gaojia Port in private...

For the construction of Qinzhou Port this time, not only Guangzhou Port has mobilized a large number of manpower, but the northern ports, especially Tianjin Port, have also mobilized capable personnel to support them. There are allowances and rewards, and if there is no work, you can only get "dead wages".

The construction of Qinzhou Port is in full swing, and the first batch of personnel for the sugar refinery has also been recruited from Guangzhou Port.Let’s talk about this. China’s sugar industry has always been strong in the south and weak in the north. The reason is that the south is more suitable for planting sugar cane, while the north is actually more suitable for planting sugar beets due to weather conditions. However, there is no sugar beet processing technology at this time. It seems that the Europeans only made it in the [-]th century, so most of the sugar in the north was sold from the south at this time.As for Guangdong, it is obviously a big sugar-making province, and this is the reason why sugar-making talents are recruited from Guangdong.

Of course, Gao Yushi himself didn’t have time to train these people himself and teach them better sugar-making techniques. Fortunately, these techniques are not that difficult. Gao Yushi drew some pictures and wrote the manufacturing process, and sent someone to deliver In the past, let them follow their own example.

In fact, to be honest, there are one or two places where the "heat" needs to be tested, but Gao Wushi had only heard a brief introduction from the technicians of his county sugar factory, and he didn't know how to control the heat. So simply let the people in the sugar refinery do experiments on their own, and then come up with a set of feasible methods.

Anyway, the people below dare not suspect that he pretends to understand.

Just kidding, he has been the real leader in the past 200 years, how could the six champions not understand this trick?The reason why I didn't say it is because Gao Presstai thinks this thing is too simple, you can just think of a way on your own, and I still need to say, what do you want to eat?
It can be seen that the greater the fame, the easier it is to pretend.

The issue of the sugar factory can be dealt with almost here. The rest of the specific site selection for the construction of the factory does not need to worry about it personally. He has been in the big group of Jinghua for ten years. , It's too bad to go on the road.

So there is only one shipyard related problem to be solved.

The personnel are easy to handle, and the high-level and pragmatic transfer orders have been issued from both the north and the south. Most of the people are either on the way here, or have already arrived at Guangzhou Port to wait for the next order.

The site selection has also set a general direction, and it is set in Qinzhou, which is an estuary port, and can build sea ships and river ships at the same time without delay.Although these two areas will be separated sooner or later, we can start doing this now so that we can make better use of existing resources and lay a good foundation first.

The main reason is that the problem of raw materials must be solved quickly. Of course, there is enough timber in Guangxi, and there is no indiscriminate felling now. There are large tracts of good forests waiting for high pragmatism.However, a series of processes such as logging, transportation, air-drying, and storage must be arranged, especially logging and superior transportation. This is a job that Gao Pragmatic has already planned to hand over to the chieftains, and now it must be done quickly.
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