Chapter 431 Port
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In fact, when he decided to build a city-class starship as his divine realm, Li Anran had acted to transform the entire island, or part of it directly into a starship. Unfortunately, this idea was not recognized by Cortana.
According to the other party, the project of transforming an island into a starship is too large. Although there are ready-made soil and mountains on the island, and the spacecraft also has the technology of energy shields and force field shields on the spacecraft, it will still be quite troublesome to transform.
Not to mention, the inevitable vibrations that such a large city-class starship rises from the sea can easily cause rocks to collapse. Unless the Liuqiu Island or local area is first lifted up, and then renovated.
But in this way, unless the island has been suspended in the air or space, once it enters a state of flight, especially the vibration that can be generated by breaking through the limitations of the earth's gravity and flying into space, it will still have a great impact on the entire island.
To avoid this problem, all the mountains and internal structures must be reinforced and transformed accordingly. In this way, both cost and safety are far less advantageous than the Shenyu city-class starship designed later.
As for greening, although it is impossible to place it directly on the surface of the starship like a floating island, it can be placed in areas such as parks or green belts. While beautifying the environment, it can also play a role in a life-saving system.
Since he decided to occupy Liuqiu Island as the location of his temple, Li Anran has been following the attitude of leaving behind those who are willing to stay, and giving away all the money if they are unwilling to stay.
Anyway, Liuqiu Island had not many people in the early Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. Even if no one was willing to stay and "work" for him, they would have to spend money to send him away, which was not a problem for Li Anran, who was rich enough to rival the country.
But in this process, it is not without resistance. For example, some people are unwilling to leave their hometown where they have lived for a long time, some people want to take the opportunity to gain more benefits, etc. However, this does not have any impact on the development of the whole thing.
Li Anran made arrangements for those who just simply don’t want to leave their hometown. Since you don’t want to leave, then stay and do your best. Although you will be subject to control in the future, the conditions of life will definitely be much better than before.
Li Anran didn't do anything ruthless to the guys who wanted to take the opportunity to get more benefits. Don't you want to get more benefits? No problem, they were all sent to the Lihua family for "renovation". As long as you are willing to work hard, you can always get more benefits on the battlefield.
As for those who simply don't want their original power and interests to be damaged, they want to resist and even privately connect with the guys who want to cause trouble, they disappear without a trace, no one lives or dies without corpses. No one knows where they went.
He didn't even need it for a month. With the help of low-Earth orbit satellites, the entire indigenous people on Liuqiu Island were cleaned up. Even the so-called hermit masters who escaped from the deep mountains and forests for various reasons were "dig out".
After the entire island was included in his hands, Li Anran immediately abolished the original administrative system. Then, while sending people to manage the people left on the island, he arranged various high-tech equipment to transform the island.
Although it was unable to transform Liuqiu Island into a starship, and the God of War only occupied part of the Yushan Mountain on the island and the surrounding mountains, which was nothing compared to the entire Liuqiu Island area, Li Anran has regarded this place as his own private territory.
However, Liuqiu Island, surrounded by the sea, is very close to Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou in the Tang Dynasty. Liuqiu Island was originally a maritime route and a common transit station on the Maritime Silk Road. In addition to winter, ships and even fleets can often be seen docked on several original docks for rest and trade in spring, summer and autumn.
Li Anran really didn't plan to completely close Liuqiu Island. After all, Liuqiu Island has unique advantages in maritime trade and military purposes. Moreover, it is so close to the Tang Dynasty. If it really reaches the point of "closing the country", although it can indeed be quiet, it will waste the value of Liuqiu Island.
Therefore, under the arrangement of Li Anran, large ports were built in suitable areas on the four coastlines in the southeast, southwest and northwest of Liuqiu Island. At the same time, the supporting ports also include corresponding commercial areas, living areas, and port security brigades that are usually used to maintain public order and occasionally go out to sea to fight pirates.
Although these four port security brigades do not have many staffs, and together they only have thousands of people, they are quite well-equipped. In addition, they have received systematic training and training to deal with small-scale troubles and even armed (raucous) and (chaos) that are not at all.
As for the problem of large-scale wars, there is no need to worry at all. Not to mention the automatic turrets surrounding the key points of the island, but also the spherical drone that patrols the waters around Liuqiu Island and has its own optical stealth function. The snake-shaped mechanical bodies in the sea alone are enough to be killed before those invading enemies are close to Liuqiu Island.
The size of these four ports is also quite large, enough to dock dozens of large merchant ships at the same time. The supporting loading and unloading equipment, transportation tools, and sealed warehouses with their own refrigeration and freezing functions are enough to support a large number of maritime merchants to repair and conduct transactions at the port.
Although these four ports will charge taxes on maritime trade, and the taxes are not low, compared with the services provided, various policies, and the safety of routes, this amount of money is really nothing in the eyes of those maritime merchants.
Not to mention the Port Affairs Administration, the Port Authority will also publish a list to the outside world. The list includes a series of useful resources such as slaves, craftsmen, minerals, etc. that are listed in the list, and can enjoy low tax or even tax-free preferential treatment.
As for the price of these resources, although it is not necessarily much higher than the market price, it is good that the port not only receives goods from abroad, but also ships from abroad. There are also many varieties of goods shipped, ranging from various luxury goods to the most common grains and sea salt.
The most important thing is that the sale price of these goods is at least 20% lower than the market price. In this way, as long as you get a shipment of goods needed on the island, and then directly exchange the money you earned for these goods with huge profits elsewhere and then buy them back and sell them. The profits that can be generated between selling and buying are also extremely considerable.
It is also because of this that when winter passed and spring came, and the sea trade began to rejuvenate again after a whole winter rest and recuperation, soon, news about the emergence of four ports on Liuqiu Island, and there were many cheap goods available to purchase, and the like began to spread in the circles of those maritime merchants.
Since he built a port, there is no reason to make all the benefits for outsiders. For this reason, Li Anran also transferred several merchant ships from the Quanzhou Shipyard, and combined with the ships made using high-tech processing technology, forming three sea fleets.
A fleet is specifically responsible for offshore trade between Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou, and Liuqiu Island. A fleet is specializing in offshore trade along the Maritime Silk Road. As for the last ship, it is specializing in commercial transactions with various forces on Fusang Island.
As for the Lihua family, there is no need to arrange a fleet specifically. First, the other party is also one of the forces on Fusang Island, and second, it is because Zheng Chenggong actually joined forces with the original Zheng family fleet to manage the business position from the family that was specifically responsible for offshore business with Fusang, Liuqiu and the South China Sea islands.
In this way, the original plan to completely leave the Zheng family was temporarily put on hold. After all, after the Zheng family has been in operation for so many years, the family's foundation is not comparable to Zheng Chenggong's new business. Not to mention, this position does not conflict with Zheng Chenggong's real plan. If you don't take advantage of it, you will be a fool.
However, Zheng Chenggong also knew that the appointment could be so smooth, it was definitely because of the mistress who had always regarded him as a thorn in his eyes. While sneering, he took advantage of this good opportunity to take his mother to Fusang to reunite with him under the excuse of missing his family.
Chapter completed!