Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 791 The Guest of Huang Shunlong's House

Hong Kong's water sources are mainly concentrated in mountainous areas, while surface water sources are concentrated in the Wong Nai Chung Gorge area. There are several intermountain basins where ponds and dams can be built to form so-called "reservoirs".In the old days of Hong Kong, in addition to building ponds in mountainous areas, Hong Kong Island also relied on setting up protective parks and planting trees in mountainous areas to increase the amount of water culverted in mountainous areas.

"We have taken similar measures to merge small settlements, reduce the impact of human activities on the mountains, and plant trees when necessary. The base number of 3 people is still conservative." Merlin seems very confident about this.

"There is only a guaranteed population of 3, is it enough to engage in industrial agriculture?"

"Of course, the needs of the industrial industry were taken into consideration." Meilin said, "In 1634, another large pond was constructed on Lantau Island."

There is a stone wall pond on Lantau Island, with a storage capacity of 2455 million cubic meters, which is the largest among ponds in mountainous areas of Hong Kong.The main dam is 718 meters long, 354 meters wide and 54 meters high.The filling is 4764 cubic meters, even according to the standards of the Lingao project, the amount of work is not too large.

"With this pond, it will not be a problem to set up large-scale purification camps and agriculture on Lantau Island—farming may not be possible, but vegetables and farming can still be done."

"The figure of 3 people is actually conservative." Hong Hongyin said, "The Planning Institute calculated that the per capita water consumption of modern people is 80 liters. People in this time and space can't use so much water. Especially in our big Some residents live intensively and cook together. Seawater is used to flush toilets or to accumulate manure in septic tanks. The water consumption will not be as large as in the old days."

Hong Hongyin has water in his name, but actually knows nothing about water affairs. This information was learned by surprise before departure.He is very enthusiastic about the commercial development of Hong Kong, and he is very dissatisfied with the executive committee's enthusiasm for Guangzhou instead of Hong Kong-as a commercial representative in Hong Kong, the importance of Hong Kong is closely related to his own importance.

"You want to protect water and soil, what about my building materials here?" Shi Dafu expressed concern.He is engaged in infrastructure construction in Hong Kong. The biggest difficulty is the lack of building materials. Hong Kong does not produce limestone locally, so earth and cement projects cannot be launched, and there is a lack of coal and kilns to make bricks and tiles.At present, the granite is extracted from the mountain by blasting in the quarry.Now I heard that in order to maintain water and soil, digging mountains and quarrying rocks is a very destructive problem to the environment, and it must be stopped again.

"Granite mining can continue. The exploration team will draw out a part of the mountain to minimize the overall damage. As for the wood and bricks, it's up to Guo Yi—is there anything he can't buy when he returns to Guangzhou?"

"Cement, and coal for boilers."

"Cement continues to be transported from Lingao. As for coal, Guangdong can also supply it. There is a large coal mine in Chaozhou—I heard that this time the Guangzhou station will stretch out its tentacles to suck the juice of girls from all over Guangdong..." Shi Jiantao Said, "Our shipyard has to work hard as soon as possible."

Shi Jiantao has great ambitions for the shipyard, and plans to build a Lingao version of the "Freedom Ship", completely replacing all large ships in the offshore and far seas of Daming with the Lingao Freeship.The ultimate fate of these ships was to serve the Senate's conquest of Greater East Asia.

"Lingao's Liberty Ship will continue to be launched in Hong Kong like dumplings!" This is the heroic statement he uttered when he was entertaining the veterans of the shipyard before departure, and it was of course met with cold eyes from Zhou Ke and others.

Shi Dafu was full of enthusiasm: "Our people can finally go back to Guangzhou? We have to go back majesticly under the escort of the navy fleet. The fleet fired a 100-gun salute at Baietan..."

Mei Lin laughed: "Guo Dongzhu's prestige is dead—envy, envy, and hate."

"The shipyard is building a paddle yacht for him." Shi Jiantao drank kvass, "He is going to engage in a corrupt capitalist lifestyle. I don't know if the ship will be completed in time this time."

Guangzhou Commercial Station will resume business soon.According to the plan: Once the Guangzhou station is restored, most of the construction materials and living materials needed for the construction of the Hong Kong base can be purchased from Guangzhou and shipped in.It not only saves time, but also does not need to occupy the transport capacity of the Transit Group.

In the near future, not only Hong Kong itself, but also materials needed by Lingao and other coastal island bases in the future will be purchased by commercial stations in various places and transported to Hong Kong for unified transshipment.Hong Kong will become the largest logistics center of Transway Group in the south China coast.In a series of plans to be launched by the Australia-Song regime against the Zheng and Liu families, the strategy against Taiwan, and the mainland’s coastal region, Hong Kong will also become the main military logistics support station.

The Planning Institute will set up a material procurement center in South China in Hong Kong, relying on Delong Hong Kong Branch for liquidation and payment.Supporting customs, commodity inspection, classification societies and shipping insurance companies will also be gradually established.

The sun seems to be shining brightly in the sky—but the sun doesn’t bring much warmth to this place at all. In Macau during the Little Ice Age, some wealthy people on the streets even wore leather robes.The poor wore padded jackets full of patches.

The sun shines on clusters of pointed roofs and fish-scale tiles that surround Macau.Some of the tiles on the roof were pink, but most of them had turned reddish brown or off-white from years of wind, rain and sun, and shimmered slightly in the sun.

The windows are inlaid with dense wooden lattices, and some have complicated patterns.Even if you don't hang the curtains, you can't see the scene in the house up close.The plastered white walls have turned yellow due to the washing of the rain, and the walls reflect off-white light. The wooden window sills are cracked and the paint on them has also peeled off.Deep in the cobbled alley, you can still smell the stench of urine, feces and garbage from time to time.

In this alley full of exotic flavors, Lin Ming looked helplessly at Li Yongxun who was walking ahead in high spirits, but she was looking around in high spirits.

This kind of "adventure" had lasted for more than half a day, and Lin Ming felt extremely bored: Macau City itself is not big, there is not much to see.The fort barracks of the Franc Robotics looked neat and chic, but the Chinese were not allowed to enter.As for those Frangipani houses, although they look small and unique, and the lazy sound of the piano and the deep singing of a woman can be heard from the closed windows from time to time, it makes people imagine, but these are other people's private houses after all.

If he was in Foshan or even Guangzhou, as long as he showed the Jinyiwei sign, as long as he was not a noble family with an official background, he could go wherever he wanted.Whose garden is good, as long as he sends someone to tell, how can the owner dare to say that he doesn't welcome it?
Here, however, the Francoids controlled everything. Although there were many Ming people on the street, they obviously followed a social norm with a strong exotic color.Lin Ming felt very uncomfortable with this - not only because he didn't like the Franji people, but also because he realized that he couldn't do his best in this land like he did in other places.Jinyiwei's name here is not a term that makes people fearful.Although the Xiangshan county magistrate treated him very respectfully and even sent a general officer as his guide, he obviously didn't want him to be troublesome here.

"What is this place?" Impatient Lin Ming asked Tong Tong beside him.

"This is the residence of Frangji, Fifth Lane." Tong Shi is a Ming businessman with a mustache, who specializes in selling fruits and vegetables to the Portuguese in Haojingao.I often travel between Xiangshan and Haojingao, and I am very familiar with both public and private parties.Also speaks fluent Portuguese.The magistrate of Xiangshan County took him to handle every negotiation.

"It's such a boring place, the doors and windows are closed everywhere!"

"Most of this place is the back door of the mansion of the Franji businessman." Tong Shi said.

Lin Ming was just about to reprimand Tong Shi for bringing them here, but thinking that his precious sister-in-law asked to come in, he had no choice but to swallow it again.

"Master, don't be impatient," Tong Shi knew what he was thinking, and said cautiously, "This is the wharf at the end of the walk, where you can see the big plywood boats of the Franji people. There are also many sailors of all kinds—you can see them occasionally Where is the mother-in-law!"

"Really? I've seen the big plywood boats for a long time, and they all said that the hulls are as high as several floors, and the masts are even more frighteningly high." The light-footed young man in front turned around and said, "How far is it?"

"Not far, not far. It's just out of this alley." Tong Shi said.He knew that the boy walking in front was actually a girl: the overly delicate face, high-pitched voice, slender frame, and twisting waist when walking clearly showed her true gender.However, he didn't want to know what Jin Yiwei's people were doing in Macau.

Just then she stumbled and fell, her ankle twisted by pebbles and shoes.She yelled, and then sat down on the stone pavement.Lin Ming immediately ran towards her.

"How is it? Did you hurt from the fall?" He leaned over and frowned at her with concern. Li Yongxun grabbed an ankle and cried out in pain.

"It seems to be sprained." She couldn't help moaning as she said.

Lin Ming looked around, all the wooden doors here were locked, and there were protective iron bars on the outside.Not a single pedestrian could be seen in the alley.

"Little man, let's call for a sedan chair." Tong Shi was very sensible, and said, "I think the master should take Lingmei to Huang's house first, and then invite a doctor as soon as he settles down."

The Xiangshan county magistrate arranged for him to live in Haojingao in the home of a big businessman named Huang Shunlong—this shopkeeper Huang is very kind and very rich, and the mansion is very luxuriously built.Lin Ming knew from his peers in the past that Huang Shunlong was a "collector of stolen goods", colluding with all kinds of good men on the sea, not only buying stolen goods, but also selling various prohibited goods to the sea owners.He is a man with all-hands and eyes.

(End of this chapter)