Chapter 651: Capital of Commerce and Trade

Somalia, Port of the Brave.

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

There is no port facility built in the harbor, but for the convenience of unloading cargo, merchant ships temporarily built rows of wooden piles, and then covered with a layer of wooden boards, which looked extremely shabby.

Even so, there is still an endless stream of ships entering and leaving the port.

Seeing the ocean-going fleet approaching slowly, 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 dispatch, the ocean-going fleet slowly docked on the west side of the port.

Ouyang Shuo plans to divide the Port of Bravery into two parts. The west will be built as a dedicated military port for the navy stationed here to dock and replenish; the east will be a purely trading port for ocean-going merchant ships to dock and replenish.

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

In the middle zone, Ouyang Shuo is planning to build a large shipyard to produce merchant ships and warships on site. Wherever the navy is stationed, the shipyard will be built. This is Ouyang Shuo's consistent requirement.

Not to mention other things, just by selling merchant ships, the profits earned are enough to maintain the daily operation of Friendship City. As an emerging pillar industry in the territory, Shanhai City's shipbuilding industry has already matured. According to the year-end inventory of the Household Registration Department, there are no less than 30,000 to 40,000 people engaged in shipbuilding-related work in the territory, which can be described as a huge lineup.

In a week at most, Shanhai City can build a large shipyard.

After Ouyang Shuo landed, he saw all kinds of supplies piled up on the shore, and nodded with satisfaction.

Coolies coming and going to unload cargo are like ants, lining up to carry bags of goods from the cabin. When they saw Ouyang Shuo and his party, they would stop consciously, bow down and salute before leaving.

Ouyang Shuo is the master of the fief.

According to the plan, the first construction task of the fief is neither the construction of the city wall nor the construction of the port, but the construction of the city lord's mansion and post station.

The City Lord's Mansion has great symbolic significance. Only when the City Lord's Mansion is completed will it truly mean that Ouyang Shuo officially becomes the owner of this valley and begins his rule.

As for the station, it is for communication needs. Ouyang Shuo can communicate with the country only after the station is built.

Just relying on the ocean-going fleet, coupled with local craftsmen, cannot build Friendship City. Not to mention anything else, what Ouyang Shuo needs most now is an architectural design team.

The overall planning of 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 if the construction of the city is completed, there will still be problems with the management of the city, requiring all kinds of officials to operate quickly according to the structure of Shanhai City. Of course, a city guard is also needed to have an overview of the overall situation.

The officials accompanying the ocean-going fleet are, after all, only a minority. Their role is to assist Ouyang Shuo with some daily government affairs. The real helm needs to be recruited from the territory.

All of the above require the support of the territory.

Others are fine, the key is time.

From Xingzhou Port to Brave Port, it will take twenty-five days at the fastest. Including the deployment and assembly time, it is estimated that it will take a month.

Taking advantage of this time, Ouyang Shuo is going to personally take the lead in building the port and the city wall first.

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Five military tents form a circle in the center of the valley, which is the temporary headquarters of the fief engineering construction. Ouyang Shuo personally took charge of the headquarters, allocated craftsmen and labor, and started the fief construction in full swing.

The entire fief suddenly turned into a large construction site, which was extremely lively.

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

In fact, in just two years, the territory has undergone earth-shaking changes and achieved a qualitative leap. And Ouyang Shuo was no longer the Ouyang Shuo before.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo burst out with extraordinary enthusiasm for construction, and turned into a contractor in an instant. In just two days, the construction of the City Lord's Mansion was completed, along with the post station.

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

"The construction of Friendship City is related to the success or failure of the territory's ocean trade. The officials assigned by the Administration Department should be capable and pragmatic people first. Remember, remember." Ouyang Shuo entrusted in the letter.

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

When Shanhai City was promoted to a second-level county city, the canyon channel was greatly widened, and merchant ships traveling to and from Shanhai City could directly enter the city's wharf, and no longer needed to transfer through Beihai City.

As a result, Beihai City, which has always been the sea gateway of Shanhai City, is losing its strategic position day by day.

Gu Xiuwen, as an early leader of the territory, was highly valued by Ouyang Shuo, and he also had experience in managing coastal cities, so it was perfect for him to be the guard of Friendship City.

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

In addition to the officials, Ouyang Shuo also requested to deploy a group of skilled talents that were scarce in Somalia, such as architects, shipbuilders, steelmaking technicians, and so on.

Officials and skilled personnel are just the routine configuration for building a new city. Ouyang Shuo broke the rules 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 Friendship City, Ouyang Shuo also fought hard.

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 deploy a group of elite personnel to establish an intelligence station in Friendship City.

"The intelligence station in Friendship City can be used as a territory to radiate the entire African continent, and even be a key stronghold in the European continent. It must be constructed with great effort and must not be slackened." Ouyang Shuo said in the letter.

Intelligence must always be at the forefront of territorial expansion.

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

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

Although Ouyang Shuo would not dream of dominating the world and controlling the dynamics of the world, it is very necessary.

As for Honglu Temple, its task is to continue to attack the Kingdom of Somalia. Regardless of the fact that Shanhai City and Somalia are in the honeymoon period, they wish they could wear the same pair of pants, 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 big question.

Ouyang Shuo can't expect to be able to dominate the country of Somalia with just one battle. It is the right way to completely tie all the forces in Somalia to the chariot of Shanhai City.

After sending the letter, Ouyang Shuo was free to go to the City Lord's Mansion and head straight to the meeting hall.

Since Friendship City is a fiefdom, it naturally has a territory stele. As soon as the City Lord's Mansion was built, a snow-white territory stone tablet was directly formed in the meeting hall.

Just one thing, the territory stele in Friendship City can neither be upgraded, nor has any territory characteristics, and even said that it will not refresh refugees, which is a complete tasteless.

However, Ouyang Shuo had a solution. He came to the stone tablet and took out a black token from the storage pouch. It was a black iron grade village building token fused with [Fusion Order].

"System prompt: It is detected that the player Qiyue Wuyi has a village building token that can be fused, which can be fused with the territory stone tablet. Is it fused?"

"Fusion!"

With a "swipe", the village building token turned into a black awn, completely blending into the white stone tablet. The black light dissipated, and the snow-white territory stele was about to turn into icy black.

"System prompt: The village building token has been fused successfully, and Friendship City has the refugee refresh permission. Please select the race of the refugee, is it a Han refugee or an indigenous Somali refugee?"

"Han refugees!" Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate.

"System prompt: The selection is complete, and the refugees will be refreshed from now on."

Although Ouyang Shuo planned to build Friendship City into a huge city, its foundation is still a third-level village, and only 12 refugees can be refreshed every day.

"Talk is better than nothing!" Ouyang Shuo exclaimed.

Using fusion tokens does not mean that an original territory has been added.

Friendship City, which incorporates village building tokens, still doesn't have any territorial characteristics. As for the teleportation array, it is impossible to open it, and it is just an isolated city.

For this reason, Ouyang Shuo took out another scroll.

[Territory title scroll "Commercial Capital"]: After using it, the territory can obtain "Commercial Capital", which derives related territorial characteristics.

This scroll was found in the Xingguo treasury, and now it is finally in use.

"System prompt: It is detected that the player Qiyue Wuyi has a territory title scroll, do you want to use it?"

"use!"

Another white light flashed.

"System prompt: Congratulations to player Qiyue Wuyi, Friendship City has obtained the title of [Business Capital], please check the specific attributes yourself, congratulations player!"

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

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

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It is too inefficient to increase the population of the fief only by the refugees who are spawned, and it is impossible to rapidly develop the City of Friendship. Apart from emigrating, Ouyang Shuo's approach is to recruit people.

In addition to the 3,000 pirate orphans, there will also be a naval battalion permanently stationed in Port of the Brave, and some sick sailors will also be placed in Friendship City. In this way, there are more than 10,000 people.

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

For a large city, 30,000 people are still too few. Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to focus on the people of Somalia.

The next day, the City Lord's Mansion posted a recruitment notice, "Anyone who is willing to settle in Friendship City will be given a settling allowance of one gold coin. The first batch of settlers will even get a 20% discount on the sale of houses and shops."

Next, it depends on who will take the bait.