"Isn't this Ryukyu full of miasma, mosquitoes and insects, and the barbarians are extremely ferocious?"

Zhu Benduan thought about it and asked the three of them again.

"Miasma?"

"In the deep mountains and old forests, there are indeed miasma in some places, and there is no miasma in most other places, as for the mosquitoes, they are indeed very powerful, but as long as there are mosquito nets and drinking hot water, in fact, these mosquitoes are nothing."

"It's even less worrying about the barbarians, our young people in Ryukyu City have to train regularly, they have guns and cannons, and if they are afraid of what they will do, if they dare to come, we will kill them cleanly."

Old man Wang smiled and said.

"This Ryukyu is really a treasure land, the land here is very fertile, and the precipitation is very abundant, I don't know how much better than the high slopes of the loess."

"What miasma, mosquitoes, and raw pans are nothing, no matter how good the land, there is no one yet, how much reclamation is their own family, rice can be planted three times a year, and this sugarcane can be planted three times a year."

Chen Laohan also nodded and said.

"Can rice be grown three times a year?"

When Feng Xiang heard this, he immediately hurriedly asked.

He is a native of Jiangnan, and the rice in the Jiangnan area is generally two crops a year, so it has made Jiangnan rich, who knows that the rice here can be planted three times a year.

"Of course you can plant for three seasons~"

"Now if it is in my hometown of Shandong, it must still be cold, and it will snow from time to time, you look at the clothes we are wearing, now it is a cold winter, we don't even have to wear cotton clothes."

Qin Laosan said with great certainty.

The winter here is too comfortable, if it is winter in the north, basically you can't do anything, you can only cat winter, most of the time you are on the kang, basically rarely go out.

Because everyone is poor and has no money to add new clothes, this padded jacket or something is basically three years new, three years old, and another three years of sewing and mending, passed down from generation to generation.

But here in Ryukyu Castle, it is the most comfortable time in winter, the weather is very comfortable, winter clothes can be free, and you can go out to work.

Hearing Qin Laosan's words, Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang looked at the three of them, and then looked at themselves, they didn't feel any difference at first, but now they found that they were all dressed very thinly.

"Two gentlemen, we still have to deliver goods to the city, so we will leave first~"

Wang Laohan looked at Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang, then looked at the sun in the west, smiled and said.

"Good~Good~"

Feng Xiang and Zhu Benduan hurriedly arched their hands and replied.

"Driving~"

Wang Laohan and the three of them also bowed their hands, and then drove the ox cart to Ryukyu Castle.

Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang were slightly silent, looked at the lively scene at the gate of Ryukyu City, and walked inside while pondering.

As soon as you enter Ryukyu Castle, the streets inside are neatly planned and spacious, and they are also hardened with cement, and camphor trees are planted on both sides of the road.

The streets are very clean, and the houses on both sides are all high-rise buildings made of reinforced concrete, and the glass windows glisten in the setting sun.

Some buildings have begun to light up, the oil lamps are very resistant to burning, and there is no peculiar smell, the key is that they are also very cheap, plus the lamps made of glass, so that the lights on the building look brilliant.

"It's so lively~"

Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang walked slowly on the street, carefully observing everything here.

As businessmen, they are very observant and good at seeing things in the details that others can't see.

There are many shops on both sides of the street, including restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, snack bars, grocery stores, grain and oil stores, etc., covering almost all kinds.

Ryukyu Castle is very strictly managed, and there are no small vendors, so if you want to do business, you have to rent a shop here, and these shops are divided into many types.

The main streets of Ryukyu Castle are very large in terms of shop area, mainly for big business, such as restaurants, teahouses, inns, high-end restaurants, etc.

On the secondary streets, the shops in these places are very small and numerous, and the rents of these shops are relatively cheap, so they are rented out to small vendors.

Snacks, breakfasts, noodle shops, and some grocery stores, etc., are all set up on these streets to facilitate everyone's life, in short, Ryukyu City is not allowed to set up stalls without permission.

The street that connects to the Tamsui River Bay Wharf is naturally the busiest street in the whole of Ryukyu City, and it is full of high-rise buildings and a variety of shops.

At this time, because of the arrival of the fleet, hundreds of ships arrived, and tens of thousands of people poured into Ryukyu Castle at once, which immediately made the entire Ryukyu Castle extremely noisy. 137

Originally, there were arrangements for Ryukyu Castle here, there were arrangements for food and lodging, and there was a rest here, and the fleet paid a sum of money to Ryukyu Castle as a whole.

However, the people who go to sea to do business are basically rich people, whether it is the crew or people like Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang, they all belong to the masters who are not bad for money.

Naturally, the accommodation arranged was not satisfactory to them, not to mention that they had been on the ship for half a month, and they had already been tired of it, so they naturally swarmed into the restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, inns, and so on in Ryukyu City.

Eating must be good to eat, this residence is also to live comfortably, it is best to be able to go to a place like the Qinglou Chu Pavilion and be chic, but it is a pity that no one here in Ryukyu City has opened the Qinglou Chu Pavilion for the time being.

"Even the First Bank of Daming has opened a branch here~"

Soon, Zhu Benduan saw a building, a building with very particular decoration, and the recruitment of the First Bank of Daming was shining in the sunset, which made him can't help but say.

The branches of the First Bank of Daming are almost all over the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Daming, but there are generally only two or three branches in a province, and there are branches of the First Bank of Daming only in the most important cities, but I did not expect that there will be a branch of the First Bank of Daming here in Ryukyu City.

"What's so strange about this, it was built here by the crown prince, Liu Jin and those nobles in the court, and the same is true for the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty, it is not strange to open a branch here."

Feng Xiang smiled and looked as a matter of course.

"Let's go, find a place to have a good meal, and then find an inn to have a good rest~"

Then Feng Xiang looked at the bustling street and took the lead towards a luxuriously decorated restaurant.

"Shopkeeper, come to a private room~"

Feng Xiang, who was habitual, threw out a silver ticket and said to the shopkeeper.

"This guest officer, I'm really sorry, the private room is full today, and there is only one table on the third floor, I don't know if you want it?"

The shopkeeper looked at Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang, the two of them were richly dressed and wearing winter clothes, obviously the people who followed the fleet to the sea, they were all rich people, not bad money, but at this time the entire restaurant was already full, and the business was booming.

"Okay, just add seven or eight of your store's signature dishes, and bring any good wine to the altar."

Feng Xiang looked at the lively restaurant, many of them were acquaintances, and they were all dressed similarly, obviously all of them were people in the fleet.

Look at the street outside, the flow of people is too large, and there are people coming in a steady stream of people behind, if you dislike it again, maybe there will be no place.

So he was also out of tune, dropped the silver ticket, and said casually.

"Okay~Guest, please upstairs~"

When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately hurriedly shouted.

The two of them walked one floor at a time, the first floor and the second floor, all of them were already full, and when they came to the third floor, it was the same, there was only one position by the window and no one was sitting.

"Your Ryukyu Castle is really good~"

Standing on the third floor, you can look further and look at Ryukyu Castle, where lights have been lit everywhere, and even on some roadsides, there are street lights.

Looking at the whole past, everywhere is very bright, which is completely different from the cities they have seen in the past, most of the cities in the Ming Dynasty are pitch black at night.

Now it is the capital and Tianjin New Town, and there is such a scene at night.

"It's really very good, this Ryukyu Castle will become very important in the future~"

"Once the Nanyang route is opened, all ships going to the Nanyang will pass through here in the future, and if they all dock here, it will be very profitable to do anything here."

"Not to mention anything else, open a shop here in Ryukyu City, specializing in transit trading, buy our Ming porcelain, silk, tea, etc., and then sell them to those fleets that go south, and then buy the ivory, jewelry, jade, jade, precious wood, etc. that these fleets transport back from the Nanyang region, and the profits are very amazing."

Feng Xiang nodded solemnly, as if he had seen the glorious future of Ryukyu City in the future.

Being in the middle of such an important route, this can be very profitable.

"It's much more than that~ The land of this Ryukyu City is ownerless land, whoever reclaims it belongs to whom, you said that if we invest here, recruit some displaced people to come here to reclaim and plant fields."

"The cane sugar in this Ryukyu City is a best-selling product in our Ming Dynasty, and even the Wa Kingdom and North Korea like it very much, and you can specialize in some plantations to grow sugarcane and rice, which is absolutely profitable."

Zhu Benduan saw another side of Ryukyu Castle.

Through chatting with a few old men, they know that the land here is fertile, the precipitation is abundant, and the key is that there is enough light, and sugarcane can be harvested three times a year, and rice can also be harvested three times a year.

The land here is terra nullius, and whoever cultivates it belongs to it, and such a good place is to make money by investing casually.

"Yes, whether it's opening a store to do resale or opening a plantation, it's very good~"

"Well, I'll fix the book tomorrow and go back to my hometown, and let someone come over at home."

Feng Xiang nodded, and made up his mind to invest here without hesitation.