1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 50 Investigation ([-])

Fu Li sat sideways at the bow of the boat, his legs stretched out from between the railings and rested on the side of the boat.The bow of the boat kept breaking through the waves, but Fu Li felt that the hull had only a very small ups and downs.Fu Li has also been to the seaside with the elders in Dongli before, but he has only gone out to sea once by boat, because he is very uncomfortable with the turbulence of the sea - a small canoe in the Tiandu River is completely the same as the sea. Two different things.Since then, Fu Li has had an inexplicable fear of going out to sea by boat, but today this ship completely eliminated Fu Li's previous negative impression of sailing at sea.

In Fu Li's impression, the sailboats of the Han people should be like the wooden sailboats he saw in the port of Victory Harbor. These Han people who call themselves "Haihan" have built a completely different sailboat. The hull is wide, the hull is low, and the sails look light and thin. This sailboat is made of unknown materials. It runs fast at sea.As soon as they sailed out of the Victory Harbor, the small ship that set off first was thrown behind.

"Surprised? I had the same expression as you when I first got on this boat."

When Fu Li heard the words and looked sideways, seeing that the speaker was Yu Xiaobao, he smiled kindly and motioned for Yu Xiaobao to sit down beside him.Yu Xiaobao now also attends Ningqi's temporary school every night, and he naturally recognizes Fu Li.Although the two are not of the same clan, they are of the same age, one fifteen and sixteen, and there is no major language barrier, so they quickly became friends.

"Have you been on this boat before?" Fu Li asked curiously.

"This boat is called 'Flying Speed'. I have taken this boat to sea several times. The Haihan people took me out to sea for fishing. Their fishing nets are very powerful. One net can catch hundreds of catties of fish, and they have even caught such a large net. The shark..." Yu Xiaobao opened his hand as he spoke, gestured with an exaggerated size, and showed off his tone.

"The seafood rice they make is also delicious." Fu Li immediately thought of the fragrant seafood rice that only Haihan people are qualified to eat. He has been fortunate enough to eat it twice.Of course, if it wasn't for his status, Ning Qi usually took special care of him, and he would only watch it like Yu Xiaobao.

Hearing this, Yu Xiaobao swallowed his saliva and said unconvinced, "Mr. Ning said yesterday that when I come back from this mission, he will reward me with a seafood rice meal!"

While talking, the "Speedy" had already bypassed Luhuitou Jiao, and at this time the small ship had not even left Yulin Jiao. After "Speedy" bypassed Luhuitoujiao, it headed northward along the coast of Luhuitou Peninsula.

"If you want to go to Yazhou City, shouldn't you go west?" Although Fu Li didn't go out to sea much, he still has the ability to see the direction of the sun. He noticed that the direction of the sailboat was not right, and he couldn't help feeling a little strange. .

"You don't know that!" Yu Xiaobao immediately seized the opportunity to pull back a city: "Our ship is not going directly to Yazhou, but will stop along the way. The Haihan gentlemen said they want to see In these places... um... yes, development value! Yes, development value."

The two teenagers couldn't figure out what "development value" meant for a while, so they could only ask Mr. Ning for advice after returning from Yazhou.

The purpose of the action team choosing this northbound route is very clear. They want to use the waterway to go deep into the urban area of ​​Sanya in later generations, and collect data on the hydrological and geographical conditions along the Sanya River and the Linchun River.

In the regional planning of the Executive Committee, the area along the river valley from Shengli Port to Tiandu Iron Mine will be developed as the main industrial base and military base in the future. Mine and Hongji Coal Mine moved northward after development, but some "high-end" industrial products and chemical products, especially the ordnance industry that will be strictly controlled, will still be concentrated in the inland areas of the upper reaches of Tiandu River. .This is also done in order to avoid that after the expansion of the cross-controlled area in the future, some people will use the crooked brains of dividing the territory and breaking the soil - without the support of modern industry, whoever wants to stand on their own outside is courting death.

The prosperous urban area of ​​Sanya in the future will be developed as a future business area, administrative area and residential area.In particular, the junction of the Sanya River and the estuary of the Linchun River forms a terrain that is narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, which is simply a natural harbor that the Executive Committee dreams of.The last time the Ming army led by Luo Shengdong attacked, it was after landing in this harbor that they traveled by land to Yulin Fishing Village to hide.After capturing the Haicang ship at that time, the crew also conducted a preliminary hydrological survey here, and this time they will really collect data for future comprehensive development.

The "Flying Speed" began to lower its sails and slow down when it reached the mouth of the river, and gradually adjusted its course.The narrowest part of the waterway that enters this good inland port from the sea is only more than 20 meters, which is much narrower than the gorge outside the Shengli Harbor, and the gorge is one mile long. If you want to sail at high speed in this place , that would really be in danger of running aground.Almost everyone flocked to the deck to watch the terrain here.Some crew members stood on the side of the ship with plumb weights and other tools and began to measure the water depth and velocity.According to the hydrological data of later generations, although the navigable channel of this harbor is very narrow, the water depth here is excellent, enough to accommodate the passage of [-]-ton ships in later generations. It seems that the hydrological conditions here are not much different from those hundreds of years later. difference.Looking at the uninhabited environment on the shore, and then thinking that these people set off from this place more than [-] days ago, the people who traveled on the boat felt as if they had passed away.

Yan Chujie pointed to the mountains on the south bank of the gorge and explained to the people from the North American Gang: "This is the Nanbian Ridge. I have been there when I visited Sanya before. There is a small park on the top of the mountain, from which you can have a bird's-eye view of the entire city of Sanya. The scenery is very beautiful. good."

Yan Chujie said that these are not just to remember the days before the crossing, Tom Wang has understood his overtones, nodded and continued: "The terrain here is really very good, we can build fortifications on the hillside in the future, look at the distance , we only need rifles to block this channel into and out of the port!"

Qiao Zhiya whistled and said, "I said that when I passed by here last time, this place is literally the Panama Canal in Sanya."

The North American gang escorted the captured Haicang ship back to Victory Port and passed through this strait.It was just that there was a rush at that time, and there were several sailors captive on the boat, and everyone didn't have time to check the terrain slowly and carefully like today.

After passing through the gorge, on the left is the estuary of the Sanya River, and across a narrow and long river island is the estuary of the Linchun River.The intersection of the two rivers is the connection between the Luhuitou Peninsula and the mainland of Hainan Island, forming a huge arc-shaped harbor here.This harbour includes the estuaries of two rivers, and in the future, all of them can be built into ports, so that at least hundreds of ships can be parked at the same time.

The "Flying Speed" circled along the harbor, and then sailed north into the Linchun River.At this time, the narrow and long island in the middle of the river sandwiched between the Sanya River and the Linchun River was not as large as the later generations, and the widest point was only 500 meters, but its length was about the same as the later generations, more than 3000 meters. The "Flying Speed" made a big circle along the Hexin Island, sailed into the Sanya River at another junction upstream, and then went down the Sanya River.

In the upstream inland area, there are sparse houses along the banks of the two rivers, but the land reclamation area does not seem to be large.Yu Dashan explained that this is because even if they open up wasteland here, farmers still need to go to Yazhou to go through the registration procedures, and of course pay fees and bear the corresponding taxes.And because it is far away from Yazhou, even the land that has been reclaimed has a very low market value. A large amount of land reclamation requires more money to be paid to the government, which is not very cost-effective for farmers.Of course, there may be "smart people" who deliberately do not go through the registration procedures, but the consequence of doing so is that once they are discovered by the clerks who go to the countryside to collect taxes, all the fields will be confiscated, and the owner will be punished as hard labor. way of doing.

In the area inspected by the action team, the fertile plain formed by the erosion of two large rivers for countless years will not be ignored. The Ministry of Agriculture has already made plans to build several large farms in the inland plain area of ​​Sanya long before crossing. development plan.Especially in the upper reaches of the Sanya River, with its flat terrain, numerous river channels, and convenient irrigation, it is very suitable for grain cultivation. It still retains tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields under such a strong tourist and commercial atmosphere in Sanya in later generations, and it is a key area for hybrid rice research.After traveling through this era, the Executive Committee also positioned it as a food security area in Sanya in the future.

(End of this chapter)