It was not Qin Zheng's personal opinion to regard Gordon Hall as the administrative building of the Time Travel Group in Tianjin, but decided at the meeting held at Dagukou. Because the area of ​​Tianjin City is too large, the development space is limited, and the place is relatively remote, it is not the center of Tianjin. The concession area not only has a good urban construction foundation, but also has a coastal layout, convenient shipping and transportation, and huge development potential. The focus of Tianjin area in the future will inevitably shift towards the concession, and the British concession is the core of the concession area. Therefore, in the old time and space, the Republic of China and the New China all set the location of government agencies in Gordon Hall, which is not unreasonable.

Gordon Hall is also the largest building in the Tianjin Concession at present. Of course, there is no need for time travelers to start a new job. They still set up Tianjin's administrative center in Gordon Hall according to the old habits of time and space.

Everyone sat in the military camp for a while, listened to Qin Yuhai's brief report on the current situation in the concession, and then conducted an investigation in the concession accompanied by Qin Yuhai.

The current Tianjin Concession is actually the British and French Concession. It was built earlier and well planned. It is now quite consistent with the scale of a modern city. At that time, the British Concession was centered on Victoria Road (North Jiefang Road) and expanded to both sides. It also focused on the area between Victoria Road and Heba Road (Taierzhuang Road), which concentrated most of the commercial enterprises in the concession. However, since there are not many people settled in the concession, there is still a large amount of idle land and there is still great development potential in the future.

However, after investigation, although there are quite a number of modern enterprises in the concession, among which there are many well-known enterprises in this era and even in the old time and space, such as HSBC, Swire Foreign Company, Gaolin Foreign Company, Jardinet Foreign Company, Lishunde Hotel, etc. But overall, the enterprises in the concession are mainly finance, trade and service industries, while there are not many factories, mainly concentrated in ship supporting repair, food processing, municipal supporting facilities, daily necessities, etc. This shows that the economy of the Tianjin concession is still mainly in circulation economy, while large industries and manufacturing industries are not developed.

Of course, such an economic structure is also related to Tianjin's special geographical location, because Tianjin originally existed as Beijing's coastal defense city and was also an important festival of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal was an important water transportation for the exchange of materials between the north and the south in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Most of the food, taxes and other items that were needed from the south to Beijing were transported through canals, which was called the canal transportation in ancient times.

Tianjin is the last stop for the canal transport from the south to the north, so almost all the materials sent to Beijing have to pass through Tianjin. With such convenient transportation conditions, Tianjin's circulation economy naturally developed very fast. In modern times, although transportation was weak, sea transportation rose. As the nearest seaport to Beijing, Tianjin has convenient conditions for the Haihe River system. Its transportation routes, the location of material distribution has not decreased but increased, and of course, it has vigorously developed the logistics economy. In the old time and space, Tianjin has brought this advantage to the extreme.

After spending a morning, Qin Zheng and his group transferred more than half of the concession, and also visited several residents' gatherings that centrally managed residents. They had a general understanding of the situation in the concession. At this time, the team departed by land also arrived at the Tianjin concession. More than 300 people came here, and the Victoria Garden became lively.

After lunch, Qin Zheng asked Qin Yuhai to arrange a team to set off by land to rest in Victoria Garden for the time being, while everyone rushed to Tianjin City to continue the investigation. Qin Yuhai arranged for Luo Yue to lead all the platoon of soldiers to protect Qin Zheng and others.

The group of people left the concession and headed towards Tianjin City along Hai Avenue (Dagu North Road).

However, after leaving the concession, the landscape suddenly changed. Although the economy of Tianjin was not mainly agriculture, China in this era was still an agricultural country. Therefore, on the other side of Haidao, there were still vast farmland and villages, and everyone seemed to have traveled from modern Europe to ancient China.

The crops in the fields grew taller, almost reaching waist-length, and some were as tall as one person. However, there were no agricultural experts among the people and did not know what crops were planted in the fields. But now it is mid-September, which should be the season for harvest. There are no many people working in the fields. Instead, there are a large number of birds flying in the air, rushing down to eat, and there is also little smoke in the village, which looks very desolate.

Wang Yunpeng couldn't help but say, "This is too desolate."

Qin Zheng said: "This is the real situation in China in this era. Don't be confused by the special cases after the concession."

Wang Yunpeng sighed and said, "It seems that our mission is really not light. We want to build a modern country on this basis."

Qin Zheng laughed and said, "You don't have to be too pessimistic. It's because of humans. In the old time and space, didn't the new China also come from this step? Besides, it's not too late for us to start developing now, and it's still the end of the first industrial revolution; and the second industrial revolution has just begun, so China is not actually too far away from the world. We should start much more than in the old time and space, and it's easier to catch up. Moreover, the technical level we master is far higher than that in this era. As long as we have a certain population and resources, we will definitely catch up with the world in a short time, and what is more than the world."

Wang Yunpeng raised his head and asked again: "Political Commissar Qin, how many people are there in Tianjin in this era?"

Qin Zheng said: "Some records of the residents' population in Tianjin should be around one million, but during the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, there were only more than 100,000 people left."

Xu Jichao on the other side was shocked and said, "The Eight-Nation Alliance killed 900,000 people in Tianjin? This is going to catch up with the death of three Nanjing Massacres."

Qin Zheng shook his head and said, "There are not that many people. How many people have been killed in Tianjin by the Eight-Nation Alliance? The numbers of the whole body cannot be clearly counted, but it is estimated that it should be around 100,000 people, and the rest have escaped."

Wang Yunpeng said: "There are only more than 100,000 people left. How many troops can we recruit?"

Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, those who escaped can come back again. The Chinese are hard to leave their hometowns. As long as they know that the situation in their hometown has stabilized, they will come back immediately. In the old time and space, the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin on July 16th. In August, Tianjin had only more than 100,000 people left. In December, the population of Tianjin area rose to nearly 600,000, because although the Eight-Nation Alliance was still ruling Tianjin, the normal order had been restored, so all the escaped people came back, and the current situation was more beneficial to our recruitment of troops."

Everyone talked all the way, and in a short while they arrived at the south gate of Tianjin City. At this time, Qiu Yahui, who was responsible for guarding Tianjin City, had received a notice from Qin Yuhai to greet everyone at the south gate.

After entering the city, I became more angry. There were pedestrians coming and going on the street, and there were several shops opening to welcome business on the street.

It turned out that Qiu Yahui accepted Fang Bin's opinion and sent Tianjin soldiers to shout in the city in Tianjin dialect. It is OK to spread the discipline of the time-traveling troops so that residents should not worry. This trick was indeed effective and made the residents in Tianjin have indeed stabilized a lot. A few brave people even opened the door and looked into the street in annoyance. But they did not hear gunshots or cried, so there were too many things.

In the afternoon, someone took the initiative to come to the Bell and Drum Tower to find the time-traveling troops. It turned out that they were the representatives of the squire in Tianjin. They brought some silver and food to meet the commander of the time-traveling army and test the attitude of the time-traveling soldiers.

Qiu Yahui was a little surprised when he turned around. He was not good at dealing with such a scene. Fortunately, he was not the only company in Tianjin City, but also two reserve teams. Therefore, Qiu Yahui immediately called Colonel Fang Bin, the commander of the reserve team, and asked him to receive the representatives of the squire in Tianjin City.

I have to, the level of university professors is different. I have never seen any scenes and no one has seen them. These few representatives of the gentry are nothing. Therefore, the entire reception was included in his own control from the beginning. First, they told them the identity of their own people, of course, the same as overseas Chinese. However, Fang Bin emphasized that although his group was overseas Chinese, they had always cared about their hometown and regarded themselves as Chinese. This time, they made a special trip to return to China and happened to meet the Eight-Nation Alliance, so they captured Dagukou and regained Tianjin. And they were asked to rest assured that they only fought against foreigners and would never hurt the people of Tianjin. The gifts they sent were politely declined by Fang Bin.

In fact, these gentry representatives are not without knowledge. On the contrary, they have good relationships with foreigners in Tianjin. They have industries in the Tiangui Concession. During the Boxer Rebellion period, they all hid in the concession until the Eight-Nation Alliance defeated the Boxer Rebellion and occupied Tianjin. They returned to Tianjin and assisted the Eight-Nation Alliance to maintain order in Tianjin. Of course, they also asked the Eight-Nation Alliance not to kill innocent people in Tianjin. This would stabilize the situation in Tianjin. It is precisely because of this that after the time-traveling army occupied Tianjin, they dared to come forward to meet the time-traveling army.

After hearing Fang Bin's words, they were half-believing and half-doubted. They had a lot of dealing with foreigners. Of course, they had a certain understanding of the overseas world. However, Fang Bin's words were too incredible, but they had to believe it. After all, this group of people is indeed Chinese, and because they are the Beijing films that Fang Bin talks, they are more authentic than Beijingers. Although foreigners can also speak Chinese, they have never been able to speak Beijing accent, so they can't help but not believe it.

After some words, several gentry representatives finally felt relieved, so they all stood up to say goodbye. Before leaving, they must leave the gift they brought. Fang Bin politely declined, and they just thought it was a polite word.

Na Zhi Fang Bin refused again and emphasized the three major disciplines and eight points of attention for the time traveling through the army. He also asked them to supervise them on their behalf. If soldiers who found any violations of the discipline could be reported immediately.
Chapter completed!