Chapter 2 Wasteland Fever
The name of this city in Luzon that belongs to Chen Wenhui has long been decided. In fact, when the names of the four cities were in the capital, the emperor gave them well, and Chen Wenhui didn't like it very much, but the emperor's order was difficult to disobey, so he could only accept it. The city of the Black Family, the name is Heidan City. The emperor originally wanted another name, but the Hei family had their own set, saying that their Hei family's city names were all particular, besides, the Hei family's stronghold in Luzon Island had been one or two hundred years old, and they already had a name, and now people still have that name, which is Puning City. The emperor had no choice but to agree. Puning City is the first stop on the island of Luzon, on the top of the island near Yizhou Island, in the northernmost part of Luzon, it is a natural harbor. It already has a certain scale, after all, it is a stronghold that the black family has been operating for more than two hundred years. There is a city on each side of Puning, and to the east is Chen Wenlin's city, whose name is Tianshui City. It is bordered by the sea and has a natural harbor. To the west is the city of the families, whose name is Tongren City. Because the emperor said that this city is run by several major families together, so it must be sincerely united and work together to develop, so it is called Tongren City. The southernmost part, exactly the southwest, next to Tongren City is Chen Wenhui's city. It was named Qingchun City. Chen Wenhui doesn't like it very much, but if the emperor doesn't like it, he has to use it. Besides, Chen Wenhui thought about it, among these four cities, only her own city is a female city lord, and it is also a good thing that there is a spring character in this name, so let's take this name. The city also has a natural harbour and, of course, a lot of mountains.
Chen Wenhui felt that it was acceptable and readily agreed. Therefore, now what Gui Yuxia and the others want to build is Qingchun City. This thing. When I was bored on the boat, everyone said it and talked about it many times, and everyone accepted the name.
Now, Qingchun City is busy, originally, according to Qiubi's meaning. The walls were to be built first. In this way, everyone can feel safe. After all, this is a primeval deep forest, and there is not even a native man, and wild beasts and insects are rampant. Not without walls. But Wan Shuhui disagreed. Because the construction of a city wall is not a matter of one or two days, it is the biggest project in the city, before that. What about the residents? We have to give them a place to live.
Speaking of which, Qiu Bi thought. These people are one step ahead, and the girl in my own family is still in Shanghai, but it won't be long before she will come here. At that time, if there was even a place to live, there was only one city wall. Where do you let the girl sleep? Sleeping on the city walls? Therefore, Qiu Bi did not insist.
Since Qiu Bi accepted to build houses for the people first. Just ask Wan Shuhui, what about the safety of these people? Before Wan Shuhui could answer this question, Jian Da was already dissatisfied with it and said, with so many guards, I was afraid that I would not be able to protect the safety of these people and craftsmen. Besides, there are about 60,000 or 70,000 people in my city, but not all 60,000 or 70,000 people came all at once, only more than 5,000 people came in the first batch. This time, the team was big, so I had to send another boat from the black family to follow. Even so, it is only more than a thousand more. There are more than five hundred guards in this alone, and the black family has already sent five hundred guards, and a thousand guards are not enough to deal with those beasts? Of course, after the first batch arrives, people will come one after another, each time about 5,000 people, but there are also guards who come with it, so what are you afraid of? Janda thinks that building a house first is the first thing. Not only will the first people who arrive want to be housed, but those who will arrive later will also need to build houses. Also, the most important thing is to build a house for the girl, not to mention completely built, how can you have a place to live.
Jian Da's words made Qiu Bi also nod, and agreed to Wan Shuhui's arrangement, after landing, build a house first, and when the houses are built, half of the people will be assigned to build the city wall and dock, and the other half will go to open up the wasteland and grow food. You can't live without a place to live, and you can't do without food.
These are all decided when they are on the ship, and once they are decided, the stewards at all levels begin to arrange things, so when they arrive in Qingchun City, everyone understands what to do first and what to do later, and everything is carried out in an orderly manner. The stewards, slaves, and craftsmen who belonged to Chen Wenhui who were paid monthly money began to mine stones and build brick kilns, and hurriedly fired a batch of bricks to build houses. The carpenters are also buying wood and preparing to start making furniture, so that when the next group of people arrives and the ship sails back, they can return to Shin Kong City or Shanghai City with finished furniture or simply processed wood to sell. It's not a waste of money.
The families of the craftsmen who did not belong to Chen Wenhui, the people, the families of the stewards, and the slaves that the family members bought in Xinguang City, they were free people, and they didn't have to do this, they had two choices, either they bought land and went outside the city to reclaim their own wasteland, first cut down all the trees on the ground, and sell them to the carpentry workshop. You can get the first money. There are many people, who are lucky, and basically not only leave behind the timber that their families need to build their houses, but also sell the timber not only to buy land, but even to buy slaves.
There are also those who have surplus labor, and they go to work in those workshops, so that they can learn some crude and low-level crafts for free, and second, they can earn wages. In the future, if you are really talented, with these elementary foundations, you can learn from the senior craftsmen, and if you can pass the guò assessment, you will be able to enter Chen Wenhui's workshop and earn a lot of monthly money.
Therefore, Qingchun City has not yet been established, and it is already in full swing. Everything here was originally under the control of Chen Wenhui, but Chen Wenhui is now in Shanghai and has not yet come, so Chen Wenhui handed over this matter to Wan Shuhui to manage. But Wan Shuhui is not alone, there are two deputies, that is, Qiu Bi and Jian Da. One is Chen Wenhui's eldest girl, who has long participated in the construction of Shanghai City and Xinguang City, has rich experience, and has been working for Chen Wenhui for several years. One is the captain of the guard that Chen Wenhui trusts, and now Chen Wenhui has named him the general of Qingchun City.
These two people helped Wan Shuhui and carried out the construction of Qingchun City in a hot way.
In the past few days, Da Niu has been working with Gui Da, and Gui Er has taken the five Japanese slaves he bought to reclaim the wasteland. Together, they bought a thousand acres of land. Among them, there are 500 acres of big cattle, 300 acres of Gui Da and 200 acres of Gui Er. Next to this thousand acres are their in-laws, there are Gui Da's daughter-in-law's mother's family, Gui Er's daughter-in-law's mother's family, and the land of the second girl's and third girl's mother-in-law's family. They all bought 200 to 300 acres. They also bought a few slaves in Shin Kong City. Now they are also in the process of taking the first step in clearing the land, cutting down trees.
The woods here are dense and completely primeval and deep. There were also a lot of beasts inside, but fortunately, when they had nothing to do on the ship, someone specially taught them how to open up the wasteland. First, the guards went inside to clean up and kill a number of dangerous beasts, and then they began to cut wood, because everyone began to be very close, and there were many people, and the beasts were afraid of these people, so they did not dare to come out. However, the guards hunted a lot of prey, these are all good meat, after the identification of the people of the Black Family's Medicine Refining Hall, they saw which ones were edible and which ones were inedible. Those that were edible were skinned and disemboweled, and began to be sold in spontaneous markets. Among these people, because many of them are relatives of stewards and craftsmen, there are really many rich people, so there are many people who buy meat. The money from the sale of meat goes to these guards, which greatly increases the enthusiasm of the guards to hunt.
The work of cutting down trees went smoothly, because the ship was well prepared, not only did they purchase many unique tools of the black family, but also specialized people to teach them the experience of cutting trees. In addition to these, there are many people who teach them about trees, flowers and plants, of course, trees and flowers that are unique to Luzon, which ones are called and which ones have medicinal value, which ones can be stepped on to sell for money, which trees are worth more and which are not. Which ones can be made into furniture, which ones can be made into beams, and which ones are not strong, are all detailed and have drawings. Therefore, these people did not waste it, and from time to time collected many precious herbs from the land they bought, and the trees were also transported to the place where the workshop purchased them to exchange for money. Here Wan Shuhui has already started to set up the Nanyang Bank, first issuing unique banknotes to everyone, after all, everyone in this wilderness, the house has not been built, how to hide the gold and silver? Therefore, when the wages paid to everyone and the money they carried on their bodies were in Shanghai, they were deposited in the bank, and the deposit receipts were given. Wan Shuhui promises everyone that this newly issued banknote for use on Luzon Island can be exchanged for cash from the Bank of Shanghai. Because the bank in Shanghai has been open for many years, and there is also a branch in the capital, everyone knows that the money of the big families is deposited in the bank, which is very reliable, so this matter has not encountered any resistance and has been carried out very smoothly. The things of gold and silver are very heavy, so if you can not bring them, you naturally don't want to bring them.
Therefore, all that is circulating on Luzon Island now is the paper money that Wan Shuhui discussed with the disciples of the Hei family, and entrusted the disciples of the Hei family to print in Xinguang City, Yizhou Island, and gave it a name, silver paper. (To be continued)