Recently, Lao Zhu and Lao Wang have warned that because of the rapid increase in population in the short term, the island is barely self-sufficient except for poultry eggs, milk, fish and some meat products, and the current bulk of grain and edible oil will become difficult to self-sufficiency in the near future.

Although Lao Wang is currently actively organizing reclamation, and Lao Zhu is also expanding the scale of pastures in Saifu Island, it is obvious that there is still a process to achieve it without relying on external input.

As far as food is concerned, the current situation is that once Nicole stops transporting food to the island, we may face a food crisis.

As a result, the pace of immigration at home may have to slow.

However, immigrants from overseas territories do not have many of these problems, so the pace of immigration from overseas territories has been accelerating recently.

This includes the development and construction of Zixia Island, which was an important decision made after discussion at the recent plenary meeting.

After talking about a lot of foreshadowing, Dai Xiaoshan clearly told the brothers on Xiaowanshan Island: The Red Mansion has decided that in view of the current changes in the situation, the military threat faced by the large and small Wanshan Islands is not so great, so the various preferential treatment and care for Wanshan Island in the past must now make "important adjustments".

One of the adjustments was to reduce the military budget, which had been increased every month to normal, and the military budget was reduced from 3,000 taels of silver per month to 1,500 taels of silver.

And the special budget of 50,000 taels of silver has been canceled, of course, the silver spent in the early stage of the Red Mansion will definitely admit it, but the rest of the Red Mansion will definitely not continue to be allocated.

Adjustment 2: In the past, you were allowed to intercept orphans sent by orphanages and various channels, but this discount is now cancelled, and in the future, orphans sent by Macao orphanages and other channels will be sent to the two schools at home on the Pride number.

Adjustment 3: Regarding the two ships and the thirty orphans sent by the Qiao family as sailors, after you receive the ships, you must immediately hand them over to the Pride, and let the Pride bring the two ships back to the Red Dock.

Because the plenary meeting has already made a resolution asking Wang Gong to carry out "magic modifications" on these two ships, this term now means to add mechanical power to ships in the context of the polytechnic man.

Correspondingly, the thirty young sailors will definitely be handed over to Captain Gu for unified deployment.

Of course, while waiting to receive the ship, the training of these young sailors is still in charge of you, Xiao Ai.

Dai Xiaoshan also said in the telegram that it is difficult to say where the two new ships after the "magic reform" will be sent in the end, but judging from the intention of the Red Mansion, it seems that at least one will be sent back.

As for the Assassin, it will also be sent to Wang Gong to "change the magic", but it will definitely return to Wanshan Island, after all, the supply transportation here also needs ships.

Regarding Ren Ke's question to Lao Wang, Dai Xiaoshan explained in the telegram that as mentioned earlier, the Red Mansion is currently brewing the development of Zixia Island, which may be accompanied by an important personnel appointment---- which is related to you.

Anyway, I've already heard that Elder Sun has proposed to the Supreme Executive Council to nominate you Ren Ke as the governor of Zixia Island, and let you lead those Han tenant slaves from Sulu to reclaim Zixia Island.

You should also know that Elder Sun has paid more attention to you and Wei Hong since before the crossing, so you must not be surprised that Elder Sun has such a personnel proposal.

According to limited information, the total number of surviving Han tenant slaves in the entire Sulu country should not be less than 7,000, and in the near future, once the king of Sulu succeeds in his own government, you may have the opportunity to lead 7,000 men and women to Zixia Island to pioneer the land, the total number of people is more than the large and small Wanshan Island and Xin'an City, even Mornington Island cannot catch up with the scale of your there.

You see, the reason why Lao Wang wants you to be in charge of these spice cultivation is because he hopes that you will gain planting experience on Wanshan Island first, so that you can take immigrants to Zixia Island to plant spices for the production of five-spice powder on a large scale, of course, and because Wanshan Island is located in tropical and subtropical waters, it is originally a place to grow spices, and it is worth experimenting.

Obviously, this move is of great significance, and you won't be unclear about how much benefit the production of five-spice powder will bring us, right?

In a word, you Ren Ke is about to shoulder an important mission.

As for who will take your place after you leave Wanshan Island, the Red Mansion is currently discussing, and the specific candidate is still in the pipeline, but I heard that a single person will be sent over.

Of course, all the things mentioned above are only an expectation at present, and it is not yet known when it will be realized, so you Ren Ke can grow spices on the island with peace of mind now, and take care of the two factories by the way......

With the assistance of Huang Lei, he organized a reclamation team of more than 100 people within a few days, all of whom were familiar to him, and this team soon opened up 50 acres of dry land on the island.

The spice seeds were cultivated by Lao Wang at home, in addition to these seeds, there were enough potatoes and sweet potato seedlings to grow a hundred acres of land, Ren Ke was no stranger to the cultivation of these crops, and his level could even guide those villagers.

While Ren Ke's factory was busy with both ends of the reclamation, Xiao Ai's work also increased: he had to train the thirty orphans sent by the Qiao family to the level that they could be put on board within a month.

Because the Qiao family sent someone to say that the two thousand materials Daguang ship of the uncle's ** will be completed and delivered in a month, and the Qiao family has already selected the ship, and the ship will be directly driven to the East Beach Wharf and handed over to the uncle.

These two Qianliu Guang ships were recommended by the Qiao family, and Dai Ai and his brothers have also seen sample ships.

In January, when the Pride arrived in Macao, Dai Xiaoshan, Li Sanduo and Zhu Beiguo went to Qiao's house to negotiate the purchase of the ship, because Dai Xiaoshan reported the matter more than half a month in advance, so Qiao's family had already prepared for this.

After listening to the request of the brothers, the Qiao family recommended a medium-sized sailboat for their own use, which was a thousand-material Cantonese hard-sail tea boat, and the boat had already begun to be built on the slipway in Chaozhou.

These two ships were originally used by the four Chinese merchants, because the Australians were in a hurry, the Qiao family discussed with the other three, and gave the two Cantonese tea boats that were still in manufacture to the Australians, and according to the requirements of Li Sanduo, they recruited thirty teenagers from the inland as sailors, and the Qiao family was only responsible for recruitment, and the training was the responsibility of the Australians themselves.

For this reason, several people also specially boarded the Qiao family's two Guangzhou ships "Ming Huaxing" and "Feng Huaxing" to carry out investigations, because the ships recommended by the Qiao family were exactly the same as these two ships.

After visiting the Qiaojia sailing ship, Dai Ai and the others couldn't help but feel the development and advanced shipbuilding technology in China, but they also put forward some other requirements on the spot, such as the number of watertight cabins and the style of the rudder.

For this reason, Dai Xiaoshan took out a sketch and gave it to the second son of the Qiao family present, which was painted in the style of a porous long rudder.

The second son is an insider, and he is very surprised how this doctor is so knowledgeable, because he knows that this kind of porous rudder is the secret of the Han boatwright, how can the Australians know everything, it is simply amazing......

Of course, Dai Xiaoshan didn't know what a porous rudder was, and the sketch he handed over to the second prince was actually drawn by Li Sanduo, and in the history of the Old World, this kind of rudder did not reach Europe until decades later, allowing European shipbuilders to follow suit.

In fact, in this era, Europeans also learned various shipbuilding techniques, including watertight compartments, from Han Chinese shipwrights.

Of course, the Han Chinese shipwrights also learned the techniques of European shipbuilding, such as the Assassin's pointed bottom ship, which came to be known as the "Old Gate Ship", as well as the sail layout of soft sails and various surveying techniques.