When Liu Jin heard this, he hurriedly said: "Eldest prince, I can't help it! This city was built by us with hard work, and every brick and tile, and every centimeter was built by us at our own expense, but now you have to give it to the imperial court for nothing?

When Xu Chen heard this, he sighed: "But how can I have time to govern? These guys around me all have their own things to do, who can take care of them? Besides, you don't know what I'm going to do, now this city can't be hidden, and the court must give an explanation!"

According to Xu Chen's original idea, at this stage, he was just secretly gathering some people to expand the scale of production, relying on the technology he mastered, and using the intensive labor force to enhance his military strength, so as to fight against those powerful cultivators.

As for the use of more population and the accumulation of more productive forces, they can only wait until they have put in place a high weight, after all, this era is still the world of the Tang Dynasty, and the taboo thing of accumulating population can only be done under the banner of the government, otherwise what is the difference from rebellion? Not only will it attract the suppression of the imperial court, but even these refugees who regard themselves as the people of the Tang Dynasty will not agree with it.

If you are not willing to do such a thing, and learn from the serf owner's practice of serfs, not only will it not work, but it will not be much different from looking for death.

Originally, Xu Chen's positioning of the city of Ryukyu was just a larger farm, and in the future, he only had to fight for it to become a small village under the rule of the imperial court, which was not difficult for Xu Chen.

Once it becomes a farm, it can be managed independently and in a closed manner, while using its self-sufficient economy to systematically limit its communication with the outside world and protect its secrets from outsiders.

As for whether he will be noticed after a long time, Xu Chen is not worried at all, the higher he climbs at that time, the heavier the power in his hands, even if he is discovered, he has enough strength to deal with it calmly.

After all, how many wealthy families in Datang are not fertile land and countless tenant farmers?

However, Xu Chen did not expect that the city's population was growing too fast! In just over two months, it had a population of 100,000, and at the same time, its connection with the interior became closer and closer, so close that it could no longer be cut off.

So many people know the existence of this city, so many people know the current situation of this city, a city with a population of more than 100,000 people, are you embarrassed to say that it is just a small village?

Xu Chen and the others don't have the strength of the Yuzhang Wanjia now, so they can't deceive the superiors and subordinates, so naturally they can't hide the existence of this city like Wu Yuezhen.

After listening to this, Lin Jin, who was sitting on the other side, suddenly said loudly: "Eldest prince, in my opinion, it is better to turn this city into a military town of the Wuwei Army!"

"Guntown?"

"Yes, military town!" Lin Jin thought about it, and said in an orderly manner at the moment: "In the past few decades, the imperial court has continuously set up military towns in various parts of the frontier, which are under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu envoys, and the Jiedu envoys have their own herdsmen, train soldiers, and pay taxes on their own......"

Xu Chen interrupted him: "I understand all this, go on!"

Lin Jin then said bluntly: "We only need to turn this land of Ryukyu into a military town of the Wuwei Army, firstly, to ensure that we can rule here independently, and secondly, the credit of expanding the territory can also contribute to the future goals of the eldest prince." ”

"Moreover, this place of Ryukyu is a wild place in the eyes of the officials of the imperial court, and even if the prince is willing to hand it over to the imperial court, I am afraid that no one will want to come here to be an official. ”

"But if it becomes a military town, it will be Wuweijun's own territory, and we only need to pay some taxes to the court every year, no matter what we do here, the court will not care. ”

"Although the Wuwei Army is only a newly recruited army, the imperial court still has to pay a military fee somewhat. And when the war is calmed down, even if the imperial court wants to disband the Wuwei army, the soldiers of the Wuwei army will inevitably have a bereavement and reward, and these will cost money! But once Ryukyu becomes the military town of the Wuwei army, it means that we will not only help the imperial court save this considerable expense, but also the imperial court will be able to pay a symbolic tax every year in the future.

"Moreover, in the eyes of the imperial court, this place of Ryukyu is just an overseas enclave, which is dispensable, and even if something happens in the future, the imperial court will not feel distressed. It's just a little less free of taxes!"

"After it becomes a military town, the eldest prince will be able to appoint subordinate officials justifiably, and then I am afraid that there will be no one who is willing to come to serve?"

Xu Chen gradually understood what Lin Jin meant, Lin Jin's words were a little vague, and the taboo things were not spoken, but after following Xu Chen for a long time, he also understood some of Xu Chen's thoughts.

According to Lin Jin's meaning, that is, to turn Ryukyu into Xu Chen's private territory, although it is still nominally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the people only have a court in the hearts of the Tang Dynasty, but a town can do whatever it takes on this land, no matter what it does, as long as it does not pull the flag and rebel, it can be justified!

And what Xu Chen just wants is a legitimate savings population!

Once the problem of population can be solved, then the plan to rely on the advantage of population to form a strong productive force to fight against the cultivators will be on the right track.

In order to maintain the status of the Ryukyu military town, keep the position of the envoy of the festival, and even intensify the process of people's migration, it is imperative to absorb more people for a long time and go to Chang'an to obtain greater political resources.

As for whether there is any other purpose for going to Chang'an, it is just Xu Chen's own careful thinking, and it is not enough for outsiders!

The more Xu Chen thought about it, the more excited he became, and he immediately laughed: "Okay!

"Lao Liu, go back and organize people to help the new people reclaim wasteland and build houses, except for the mountainous areas around the arsenal that are listed as forbidden land, the rest of the places are all released!"

"Lao Lin, you go and help him, let the fleet go to the mainland more in the future, organize those rich people to come forward and say the truth, and pull more people for me! Now there is a military disaster on the southern land, and the people in exile and the government can't stop it if they want to, otherwise as soon as the war is over, it will not be so easy to pull people again!"

"In addition, the role of the caravan should also be fully utilized, and the necessary materials such as seeds, ploughing cattle, and farm tools should be as many as possible!"

"Since we can't hide it, then we simply let it go, and we will collect as many people as many people want to come!"

"Okay, eldest prince, we'll do it!" Lin Jin and the others nodded with a smile.

After solving a major matter, Xu Chen, who was in a good mood, asked Jiang Liu, who had not spoken up, with a smile: "Master Jiang, what is the matter with you, let's talk about it together!"

Jiang Liu replied with a smile: "It's not a big deal, now that the population is large, even if the shipyard expands its scale, there is no shortage of manpower, but it's just ......."

"What's it?

"It's just a few new drawings from the eldest prince, I ...... I really don't understand!" Jiang Liu said embarrassedly.

Looking at Jiang Liu's old face, Liu Jin laughed and said, "Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, there are drawings you can't understand!"

"Haha!" Xu Chen smiled, waved his hand to stop Liu Jin's teasing, and said: "Don't say that, those new drawings are all new ships designed by me, and it's normal for Lao Jiang to not understand them!"

Jiang Liu smiled, and then said: "The rest of the place is fine, it's just what kind of power device, I really can't figure it out! Without relying on wind power or manpower, can the iron guy painted by Childe really drive such a big ship?"

Xu Chen nodded and said: "It is called a steam engine, which uses the heat of coal combustion to propel the wheel and propel to rotate, which can ensure the navigation of the ship without wind, and can also increase the speed of the sea ship when necessary." ”

Originally, after Xu Chen obtained the rune technology, his favorite power device was the internal combustion engine, but Xu Chen still overestimated the level of steelmaking, and now the steel trained by the large induction cooker is far from being able to support the strong pressure generated by gasoline deflagration in a small space in terms of hardness and ductility.

The prototype of several small internal combustion engines, which were originally intended to be installed on locomotives, all exploded during the experiment.

Of course, this is also related to the lack of purity of the gasoline refined by Xu Chen from crude oil, the boiling point of gasoline with too many impurities and the density of impurity gases are extremely difficult to control, and the explosion is inevitable.

If you use the materials of the cultivation world, you can build an internal combustion engine with a full hardness, but as long as that thing is exposed to oxygen and without the support of aura, it will instantly turn into flying ashes. Even if Xu Chen could engrave runes on it, what was the use of more runes in the face of the strong oxidation reaction of gasoline combustion?

In desperation, Xu Chen could only give up his plan to develop an internal combustion engine, and retreat to the second most demanding steam power device, which does not require so much steel.

However, this steam device is so large that it is really useless except for large sea vessels, workshops in the mountains, and mines.

The troubles about technology are not only these, in addition to the bottleneck in the research and development of artillery, the first locomotive that Xu Chen built at the beginning also fell apart a few days ago.

Of course, it was not Shi Lei's naughty reason, Xu Chen originally thought that the runes carved on the locomotive body were enough to resist the erosion of oxygen from the outside world, as long as there was a supply of spiritual power in the spiritual stone trough, then the runes on the body that contained a lot of spiritual power should not be worn out so quickly.

Unexpectedly, Xu Chen still underestimated the power of oxygen in the outside world, this locomotive had been seriously damaged in the few days that Xu Chen had taken it out, and the spiritual power in the runes on the body had been consumed by oxygen.

When the naughty Shi Lei stole the car to show off to his friends, he only walked a few steps, and the car fell apart with a bang!

As a result, Xu Chen could only use the steel of the outside world to recast the body of the locomotive, and the originally envisioned internal combustion engine could not be realized, so Xu Chen had to retain the runic array as the power plant of the locomotive.

Fortunately, the erosion of oxygen on Reiki is only one-sided, and Reiki is not harmful to people and things in the outside world, but has a buffing effect.

Instead of damaging the gun, the runes carved into the guns made of steel from the outside world can use the power of the runes to increase the range and accuracy of the guns.

It's just that the damage to the runes caused by the gas emitted when the outside oxygen and gunpowder is burned, and there is still no way to avoid this problem.