After a long voyage, the envoys went from Mumbai to Kolkata, and then passed through the Strait of Malacca to enter the territory of the mainland. The Pacific Ocean, which is tens of thousands of miles, has become the inland sea.

This time, Chu Lingyun went to the West alone to invite the countries to participate in the Second World Expo, and also traveled to some coastal prefectures and counties to understand the changes in these places.

In the past, various dynasties that emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce focused their energy on agriculture. Some commercial hubs in the mainland were even more important as the coastal coast. However, after announcing the eternal suspension of the sea ban and expanded outward, the coastal prefectures and counties suddenly became extremely prosperous, surpassing some towns in the mainland with their geographical location and convenience of shipping.

When railways were not yet developed, the transportation capacity of sea and rivers was much more efficient than that of horse-drawn carriages and coolie transportation.

A large sailboat with a capacity of more than 1,000 tons may require hundreds of horse-drawn carts to be competent.

Resources coming from overseas and commodities exported overseas have become important economic pillars of some prefectures.

For example, due to distrust of Southeast Asia, Chu Yun did not place the center of Southeast Asia in Batavia, Malacca or Annan, but placed it in Guangzhou Prefecture adjacent to Southeast Asia. For example, the Nanyang Telegram Network is controlled by the Guangzhou Prefecture. As long as there is an accident in the base station on Guangzhou Prefecture, the entire Nanyang Telegram Network will be paralyzed.

Guangzhou Prefecture has also become an important export and import of raw materials for tea, and its prospects are even more exaggerated than Chu Yun imagined.

Chu Yun originally thought that the local economic center would be in the Yangtze River Basin, especially in the Jiangnan region.

However, he was somewhat limited by the perspective of his previous era.

After annexing Japan, Goryeo and Siberia, Liaodong and southern Liaoning became a very important triangular trade location, and industrial bases emerged in the north. The combined population of Liaodong, Liaonan, Japan, Goryeo, Siberian provinces, Goryeo, and Ryukyu also has a population of 20 to 30 million.

Guangzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other places have become the economic center of the Southeast Asia because of the merger of Yizhou and Southeast Asia. Moreover, these places are closer to the West and India than the Yangtze River Basin.

The Yangtze River Basin is better in its hinterland, and there is also the golden waterway of the Yangtze River.

The provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian, Yizhou, East Jiaozhi, South Jiaozhi, and South Yang, are actually very popular, and they also have the ability to export spices, rubber, silk, porcelain, tea, and sugar.

In other words, the scene that Chu Yun believed in the Yangtze River Basin was unique did not appear, and the coastal areas became a three-legged trading circle in the north, the Yangtze River and the South Ocean. The economic center of gravity shifted from the south of the Yangtze River to the south of the south of the Yangtze River and the southern Liaoning in the north.

This phenomenon of separation of economic centers is not a bad thing. If wealth gathers in Jiangnan in large quantities, it is likely to lead to excessive regional gaps and even other incidents.

Chu Lingyun and his group came to Guangzhou Prefecture first. The Thirteen Tours in Guangzhou here became extremely prosperous. Countless merchant ships were moored on the Pearl River, and various flags were hung on the merchant ships, which were colorful.

The Thirteen Rows on the shore are even more crowded. The two sides of the street are no longer low shops, but tall stone buildings. You can also see chimneys emitting black smoke in the distance.

Here they saw people with all kinds of appearances, and these people with all kinds of faces in Guangzhou came from South China, India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Western Europe. They were not just merchants, but some were also sailors, travelers, and scholars.

It is hard to imagine an international metropolis began to form here spontaneously.

This is something Chu Yun didn't expect.

The coastal prefectures and counties have lifted the maritime ban without distinction. Guangzhou Prefecture is not a separate trading port, so they can develop on their own.

With its geographical location adjacent to Nanyang, Guangzhou Prefecture has become the economic center of the Nanyang trade circle, becoming an existence beyond Batavia, Hoi An Port, and Malacca. It also relies on the population and specialties of Nanyang to enrich its product categories and become an international metropolis.

If merchants from India, Western Europe and Arab world want to buy Nanyang and Mainland specialties at the same time, they can be satisfied in Guangzhou Prefecture.

"Ten years ago, Guangzhou Prefecture built a railway. At that time, Zhan Tianyou was the one who presided over the construction of the railway. This railway strengthened our communication with the Central Plains." An official from the local area came to pick up the envoys and introduced them to the railway that appeared in Guangzhou Prefecture.

The Pearl River in Guangzhou Prefecture is not as convenient as the Yangtze River's water transportation, so the local area attaches great importance to the emergence of railways.

When Chu Lingyun saw the railway in the Pearl River Delta, he thought of the project of the North-South Railway. The terminal end of the North-South Railway Main Road is Guangzhou Prefecture, passing through Xiangyang and Hankou from the capital, opening up the central central artery.

It seems that this large railway running through the north and south is about to be completed, and the one who presided over the construction of the north and south railway was Zhan Tianyou, who built the Guangzhou Prefecture Railway.

"In the past ten years, our trade with Nanyang has increased by more than ten times. Many people from Guangzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou and Xiamen began to move to Yizhou, Brunei, Annan and other places. The reason is very simple. The government advocates immigration to the outside world, and can contract more land, and exempt agricultural taxes for five consecutive years, and taxes will be cut by half for five years. This is an amazing discount for farmers. Originally, the expatriates in Nanyang were mostly residents of our places, and Nanyang became our government in management. With this encouragement, many people still chose to go to Nanyang." Officials from Guangzhou Prefecture introduced the situation here to them.

After hearing this, Chu Lingyun nodded and agreed.

This decision to "vade to the West" was also proposed by his father.

Although many Han people immigrated overseas due to war and overseas trade during the Southern Song Dynasty, there were not enough Han people in Nanyang, so his father ordered several provinces closest to Nanyang to immigrate to the Nanyang to dilute the proportion of local indigenous people. In addition, China has paid attention to blood ties since ancient times, immigration will completely turn Nanyang into an inseparable part of ancient times.

"That one is the customs building in Guangzhou Prefecture, which has a history of more than 20 years. At that time, it was built when Guangdong Governor Xiong Wencan was in charge of the affairs here. Now that Mr. Xiong dies of illness, it is really sad." Local officials pointed to a building made of cement and stones. For more than 20 years, they have become a little vicissitudes.

Chu Lingyun noticed that Guangzhou Prefecture, where commercial trade began to take off, also popularized new technologies such as railways, street lights, and telegraphs, and also tried to expand the streets and become the trade center of Nanyang with a better attitude.

The complete lifting of the maritime ban and the change in the world pattern have allowed many coastal towns to seize many opportunities.

Chu Lingyun also heard that in the Jiangnan region, a town called Shanghai County began to prosper due to changes in the pattern.
Chapter completed!