[I'm sorry, I wrote above that the new base of the teenagers is in the southeast of Ryukyu Island, mainly for the sake of concealment, and I didn't pay attention to the problem of many typhoons in summer, so after thinking about it, I changed it to the northwest.] This has been changed. 】

The northwestern part of Ryukyu Island, roughly on the offshore plain near the later Keelung port, has gradually become noisy for more than a month.

With the arrival of giant ships, about 10,000 people of Datang started a new life in this strange land.

A city on the originally endless plain has begun to take shape, and it is still a star-shaped building, surrounded by mountains and rivers. The cement city wall is covered with a layer of cyan stone slabs, which looks the same as the ordinary bluestone city wall, but the sturdiness is very different.

The streets in the city are wide, and the cement pavement is still paved with bluestone slabs, which may not be the best, but the purpose of the teenagers is not in the first place.

The road is flanked by two rows of drainage ditches nearly a foot deep, and the coastal plains are flooded with rain, so it is always necessary to prepare for a rainy day. The drainage ditch is lined with cedar trees that have been moved from the mountains.

Facing the road, all red brick flats are rising from the ground. The houses along the street have been spontaneously transformed into many shops, and the teenagers have not banned it, and the gathering point of nearly 10,000 people has long been the prototype of a city. The functional areas that should appear in the city will always be formed spontaneously, and the teenagers only need to guide them.

Not far to the southwest of the city, there is a mountain range, and some buildings are also being built in the mountains, and the workshops that are important to the teenagers are naturally hidden in this mountain forest.

The mountains, covered with old forests, are the best timber producing areas.

The logs are transported to a nearby processing plant for processing, and then loaded into a tin wagon, which is loaded with four large iron wheels and two rails that run from the forest to the shipyard by the sea.

The shipyard here is much larger than it was in Shengzhou. A bay sunken into the land became a natural harbour, with a shipyard and a wharf on either side of the bay, and a wide avenue leading from the sea to the city gate.

On a timber site in the mountains, large trees that have been cut by hacksaws are being cut into round timber. Almost every time the workers cut a piece of wood, someone would come forward and put an iron ring on one end of the wood, and with the sound of the slender man's horn, the wood was pulled along a cement slope to the iron wagon waiting beside it.

After the van is fully loaded, the iron plate on one side is erected, and after the gate is jammed, the van is about to depart.

In the watchtower on the top of the mountain, a big man holds a treasure-like telescope in his hand, and looks all the way along the railroad tracks from the shipyard to the mountain.

It is only when the bell rings and the watchman shouts that the driver releases the brakes on the timber-filled tin wagon, and the heavy wagon moves slowly by inertia, gradually increasing its speed, and when it reaches the foot of the mountain, it is like a lightning speed.

"Boss, lend me a look!"

On the watchtower, the man who had just sent off a van was resting, and a young man next to him came over and smiled.

", can you see this baby? rub it a little, watch your skin!"

The man's eyes widened and he scolded angrily.

"Hmph! If you don't look at it, you won't look at it! I'm rare for you to be a master!" the young man tilted his head with a look of disdain, but the corner of his eye kept staring at the telescope that the man was carrying in his pocket.

Since he got the telescope, the man stayed with him for a moment, and when he went home, he specially asked his aunt-in-law to find a piece of silk leftovers, sew a bag and hang it around his neck, and refused to leave him when he ate and slept.

According to the shopkeeper's words, this treasure is something that can only be used by generals in the army, and ordinary people can't touch it.

"If you kid wants to make this thing too, go and become a soldier! As long as you are lucky enough to be that kind of 'lookout', everyone has one!" The big man seemed to be squinting and napping, but in fact, he had been paying attention to this distant relative of his own.

"Huh, be a soldier?" The young man immediately shook his head like a wave, and said with a sad face: "I heard Brother Tie Dan say that you have to read and write when you become a soldier, how can I remember those reptile-like things!

"Out of breath!" The man straightened up from the rocking chair, slapped it, and scolded: "Your brother Tie Dan has never been to school before, but now that he has been a soldier for two months, he can know hundreds of words." is more educated than that old Chen Xiucai, and he sent me a letter back a few days ago, all of which were written by Tie Dan himself!"

"Why can't you learn?" After scolding, the man continued to persuade him as usual: "When you become a soldier, you will not only get money every month, but you can also divide the house and land, and when the time comes, you will also divide more than ten acres of land, and after two years, you will marry a daughter-in-law and have a baby, and your family will be considered to have a queen, and I can also be worthy of your dead father......

The young man bowed his head, as if in deep thought. How can a young man have a bad scenery? Thinking about the day when Brother Tie Dan returned to his hometown in armor and carrying a big horse clothes, he didn't sleep all night with envy.

"It's just...... I have to be literate to be a soldier! Can I do it......"

Now the people who are willing to follow Xu Chen and them to this wild land, except for the more than 3,000 people who are still willing to stay after coming out of Yuzhang with Yiyi, are all refugees who have lost the disaster and have no land. It is only these thorough proletariats who are willing to follow the young people across the ocean and settle down in a strange place.

Almost all of these refugees have relatives and nephews who serve as soldiers under Xu Chen, and the high treatment Xu Chen gives to each soldier almost stunned these refugees. I have only been in the barracks for two months, and the so-called "allowances" and so-called "allowances" sent home every month are dozens of yuan, plus the ten yuan of settling-in allowance at the beginning, which is enough for them to buy a house in any city in Datang and do some small business.

Not to mention that as long as those who are willing to come to the Ryukyus, each family will be allocated a large courtyard and a piece of land according to the head of the people. The man's home is still under construction, and the man has specially gone to see it, and the three-acre foundation can't fool people, let alone the dozens of acres of fertile farmland outside the city.

The man regrets it a little now, he should have brought his eldest brother and father and mother together, then he would have been able to get hundreds of acres of land!

It's a pity that my father and mother can't think about it, and they always think about the few acres of mountainous land in Huainan's hometown, hoping that the official army will return to their hometown to find the family business after driving away the rebels. The sister-in-law of his own family is a powerful character, and he has been squeezing his own two children for three days, and the mother-in-law of the family is a weak person, even if he goes back to his hometown, after his father and mother pass away, it will not be his turn to be a few acres of mountainous land.

Fortunately, his eldest son Tie Dan was angry and was taken by the little general, not only became a soldier, but also gave him a house and land.

Think about the day when I ran back to the refugee pile, handed over the five copper coins to my father, and persuaded the second elder to come to Ryukyu with me. The sister-in-law of that force actually said that she was greedy for the family business and wanted to kidnap her father, and also said that she had never heard that a soldier could pay ten times, let alone divide the house and land!

With some kind persuasion, the mother-in-law actually ran to find a large group of refugees to drive her away, she was really kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs, and she deserved to be poor for a lifetime!

Don't you look at the life of a human being in the refugee pile? A few grains of rice floated on the clear water soup, and only one bowl a day, and if she didn't starve to death, it really counts as the mother-in-law's fate! Look at the camp set up by the little general, it is even cleaner than the restaurant in the county, and the snow-white sheets I have only seen on the day I got married. Not to mention that the fish and meat are full of dry rice every day, even melons and fruits, and you can try them from time to time, but the county master has not lived like this, right?

It's a pity that I forgot to bring some food when I went to find my father and mother that day, so much so that my father and mother scolded me, saying that I was crazy and hurriedly returned the five copper coins, so that I could return the money quickly, so as not to cause a lawsuit.

The most ridiculous thing is that when the money is returned to his hands, he is still a few hundred wen less!

Pity my two nephews, who are only hungry and have only a layer of skin. I wanted to go again with food the next day, but I didn't want to find anyone after looking for a long time, and later I learned that my father and mother were taken to another place by my sister-in-law.

Alas...... I have a good life here, and my son has a future. Dozens of acres of land cannot be planted, and I wanted to recruit a few tenants who have also lived the addiction of landlords and old money, but who knows that other people's homes have more land than their own! Also, I heard that this island is huge! It is half the size of Huainan Province, and only 10,000 people live there, so how can there be a shortage of land? Now that no one farms the land, all the shopkeepers of the little general have rented it, saying that it is under unified management, and every household only needs to take the rent every month! The little general is a kind person! Obviously, there is still so much wasteland on the island, and he doesn't reclaim it, preferring to spend money to rent his own land and give an extra rent for nothing.

Nowadays, all the people have been recruited into various workshops, working in them, not to mention food and housing, and have received an extra salary!

When they first came here, there were still many people who were worried that they would not become fugitives if they left the Tang Dynasty? The government would arrest the fugitives and put them in prison! Wouldn't this good life come to an end? Later, I learned that General Xu Xiao was actually a disciple of the prime minister of the dynasty, and he had received an order from the imperial court to move the refugees here. I am still the people of Datang!

"Alas...... I heard that the rebels on the Yangzhou side have been defeated by the official army, so I guess my father and mother should have returned to their hometown! When the time comes, I should ask the shopkeeper to send a letter back, and I should invite my father and mother to enjoy a few days of happiness......

"If I really can't do it, I'll ask the shopkeeper for a leave, take a big boat and go home in person, and then spend money to hire a few entourage, ride a tall horse, and return to my hometown in a beautiful way, I don't believe it, my father and mother can still not believe it!"

The man was reverie about his future happy life, but he heard the familiar sound of a bell from under the watchtower......