The first year of Jianchu, March 15th, an ordinary day.
Although Lin Hai insisted that what he was going to hold was just an ordinary international conference, this conference had a special significance because it was proposed by the Qinghe Empire after it destroyed the Khmer and collapsed the Chen Dynasty, and it was the only face-to-face meeting between rulers that could be found in the history books on this continent.
At least except for Lin Hai, almost no one called it an "international conference" but simply called it an "alliance". Lin Hai became the only candidate for the leader of the alliance at the moment.
After all, apart from Qinghe, the only empire that hadn't suffered much damage during the continuous fighting was the Great Liang Empire, and Liang's Emperor Xia Junao personally said to his ministers: "We still have to listen to Mr. Lin's words."
Of course, Lin Hai also reciprocated the support of the Emperor of Liang. He rejected the proposal to invite the heads of state to Xijing for a meeting on the grounds of inconvenient transportation, but instead set the meeting place within the territory of the Daliang Empire, or to be more precise, in the former Qinghe County.
Emperor Liang welcomed this.
Since the old Qinghe County was already in ruins, the Emperor of Liang agreed to rebuild a brand new Qinghe City as the basis for the alliance, mainly with engineering teams from Qinghe and Daliang, assisted by other countries. He even agreed to allow the heads of state of various countries to come with their own armed forces as guards during the meeting.
After all, in this era, for an emperor, a king, or any other ruler, going to another country for a meeting was a symbol of bravery, but going alone was reckless.
People may trust Lin Hai, but they may not trust Xia Junao.
In response to this, His Majesty Lin Hai, the initiator of the meeting, expressed his welcome and understanding. He even gave the newly built Qinghe County a new name, "Dawn City", saying that it indicates that the continent will eventually enter the dawn.
This confused most people, after all, it was daytime and the continent was not plunged into darkness.
However, after carefully analyzing and studying the content of the emperor's speech, the construction team felt that this was probably because the emperor was dissatisfied with the gray tone of cement. After all, for such a festive event, it would not look good to have a new city painted gray.
So they immediately modified the plan and painted the entire exterior of Dawn City's walls white.
Well, it's a bit like dawn now.
Of course, since most of the people involved in the construction were civilian laborers, and these laborers were sent by the Daliang Empire, for the civilian laborers who were illiterate (Daliang has not yet completed universal literacy, and of course, other countries have not completed it either), things like dawn and decline were really too far away from them, and they could not understand anything they said.
But the emperor of Qinghe called this city Dawn City, and now it has been painted white...
Well, let’s call it Baiming City.
Since agricultural production had not yet recovered after the war, the Daliang Empire could only provide basic grain and food for the laborers. This caused everyone to complain. Not only did the laborers complain about not having enough to eat, but the officials in charge of the construction also complained bitterly. After all, the laborers cried out that they were hungry and wanted to eat only an hour after the work started, which greatly delayed the progress of the project.
For this reason, Qinghe officials had to choose to catch a large number of sea knife fish that were spawning in the near sea at this time as supplementary food. The sea knife fish at this time was not only nutritious, but also a rare item for inland residents, so it naturally received widespread praise.
In the end, no matter what the outcome of this alliance was, the sea knife fish produced from the coast of the Chen Dynasty became the new favorite of the inland residents of Liang, and economic activities became a little more active.
Many years later, the people of Liang State who liked sea knife fish turned the whole story into an allusion and passed it down, and finally condensed it into one sentence: Bai Ming who likes sea knife fish.
As the telegraph finally reached Dawn City on March 15th, Lin Hai, one of the hosts of this alliance (the other host was Xia Junao), also arrived in this city that was considered a miracle.
Although at this time, the city had only repaired the city walls as a framework.
Lin Hai's convoy passed through the mountains beside Liming City. Due to the steepness of the mountain, the long convoy slowly slowed down and moved towards the road leading to the square outside Liming City. Fortunately, the mountain, as a source of stone and timber for the construction of the city, had been significantly improved. Otherwise, with the old mountain roads, Lin Hai would have had to stay in the mountains tonight.
Lin Hai and Shi Zhen'er were carefully observing this large-scale construction site, the supporting cement mixing sites, temporary roads, camps for migrant workers and construction personnel, as well as the "Qinghe Management Measures" that filled the area, which were incomprehensible to ordinary people but went into every detail.
Led by Qinghe and Liangguo, this city was built with the manpower and material resources provided by all the countries in the continent. It was built on the ruins of a city that was destroyed by war many years ago and not a single brick was left intact.
For the people of Qinghe who have been rebuilding ruins and building new cities all year round, such scenery is very familiar and exciting, but for the officials of Zhongdu of Liang State who accompanied Lin Hai, this is a wonder that they have never seen in their lives.
In this world, building a new city or fortress is nothing new, but to complete it within half a year is really new. Oh no, that’s not the right way to say it, it should be a miracle.
When Lin Hai expressed his intention to build a new city on the ruins of the old Qinghe City for the alliance, most people actually thought that it was just a sentiment of Lin Hai and his sworn brothers, similar to returning home in glory. If the hometown was no longer there when he returned, then he would just rebuild it brick by brick.
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