Liu Jin only stayed here in Songhu for two days, tasted the hairy crabs in the south of the Yangtze River, and also saw Songhu, which is just beginning to develop.

Of course, the most important thing is to reach a new consensus with these big families, big businessmen, and big landowners in Jiangnan, that is, to jointly promote the legitimacy of private armed trading houses.

Nowadays, the commercial houses still have no fangs, and they are like sheep overseas, and they are easily bullied, which is not good and is not in everyone's interests.

It was necessary to allow the major trading houses to have a certain amount of armed forces overseas, so as to promote the development of the colonial era to a higher extent.

If the major commercial houses in the north and south work together to complete this matter, there is still a great hope that it can be promoted, but Liu Jin has no time to be busy with this matter, and he will go on an expedition to Nanyang, Liu Jin estimates that this year's time will be spent in Nanyang.

Departing from Songhu, a few days later we arrived at Ryukyu without incident.

Ryukyu City, Liu Jin wandered around here very casually.

Today's Ryukyu Castle looks less like the Ming City of this era, but a bit like the city of later generations.

The Ryukyu Castle is basically made of concrete and steel houses, everything is neatly planned, and the concrete roads stretch in all directions, and the four-wheeled carriages on the roads seem to be very busy.

In just a few years, Ryukyu Castle has become quite prosperous.

"Childe~"

Li Yuanshan, the person in charge of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, received the news early in the morning that Liu Jin was coming to Ryukyu, so he also returned to Ryukyu City early.

Now he is no longer the lord of Ryukyu Castle, Ryukyu Castle has been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ming government, and the imperial court has set up Ryukyu County here in Ryukyu, and the entire Ryukyu is under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province.

However, Ryukyu was invested and built by Liu Jin, and although it is now under the jurisdiction of the government, every grass and tree here in Ryukyu City still belongs to Liu Jin's property.

It is also the headquarters of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, and the cane sugar produced every year is sold throughout the Ming Dynasty.

"This Ryukyu business is very good, I think you shouldn't just be the head of the Ryukyu sugar industry, in fact, you can also be an official."

Standing at the head of Ryukyu Castle, you can look around Ryukyu Castle with a telescope.

On both sides of the concrete road, there are village buildings, smoke curling, people buzzing, children playing and playing, old people chatting leisurely, and groups of chickens and dogs, all of which are so peaceful and comfortable.

Rice is planted in the fields that stretch as far as the eye can see, but many more are sugar cane, which is the most important cash crop in the Ryukyus.

Liu Jin knew that on the side of Ryukyu City, the business model had changed, and it was no longer the previous model that belonged to Ryukyu City.

In the past, Ryukyu Castle was responsible for building the city, organizing people to open up wasteland, and planting sugarcane, and everyone lived by the ringing of the moon, but now it is different, and it has gradually changed, and it has slowly become a normal operation.

In addition to the large area of land around Ryukyu Castle that is still owned by the Ryukyu Castle Sugar Company, which is still employed to grow it, the land is already private land further afield.

They were recruited to Ryukyu by the Ryukyu Sugar Industry in the early days, and after they came, they didn't want to leave, so they owned a lot of their own land and fields here, and moved their families here.

The business model has also changed, and the Ryukyus Sugar Industry is responsible for buying the sugarcane grown by everyone, and then hiring people to boil the sugarcane, or simply buying the sugar water fried from everyone's sugarcane to boil the sugar.

Relying on this model, the Ryukyu sugar industry has also developed rapidly.

This is true of everything, only the private ones are the most motivated.

Here in the Ryukyus, those who had acquired the land moved with their families to grow rice and sugar cane, and they quickly became rich in a short period of time.

As they became rich, they naturally drove their villagers to move to Ryukyu continuously, which made the population of Ryukyu also increase rapidly.

As the population exploded, more than a dozen cities appeared in the Ryukyus in just a few years, and the sugarcane cultivation industry developed rapidly thanks to these cities.

The Ryukyus Sugar Industry quickly adjusted its business model, no longer planting sugar cane by itself, but buying sugar cane or sugar water, focusing on boiling sucrose, which is the technology that Ryukyu Sugar currently has mastered, and other trading houses have no way to learn even if they want to, so they can only grow more sugar cane, and then sell the sugar cane to the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, and the profits are still considerable.

The Ryukyus are a region with fertile land and abundant rain and heat, which is very suitable for the growth of sugar cane, and the yield is very high, and the sugar content is also high, and even the simplest cultivation of sugar cane is quite profitable.

This is also the reason for the rapid development of the Ryukyus side, and silver is everything.

In just a few years, the total number of people who migrated to Ryukyu from all over the Ming Dynasty has almost exceeded 2 million, and the population around Ryukyu City is more than 500,000.

You must know that these are not organized by the government, they are all spontaneously migrated by the people, and they are all brought by relatives and friends, and after having their own fields and living a good life in the Ryukyus, they attract relatives and friends to come, and it is like a snowball, and more and more people are moving to the Ryukyus.

All of this is inseparable from the strategy set by Li Yuanshan at the beginning, when he was in charge of Ryukyu Castle in the past, he managed it in an orderly and prosperous manner.

This is also the reason why Liu Jin said that Li Yuanshan's ability is very good and he can go to the official side.

"Childe lifted me up~"

When Li Yuanshan heard this, he immediately smiled, and then said: "I was originally illiterate, facing the loess and facing the sky with my back, but it was only because I met my son that I had this life experience. ”

"As an official, I never dared to think about it, my ancestors have been farmers for eight lifetimes, and I just know what the poor people like the most, and I just guide them a little."

"Anything is possible, gold always shines."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Let's talk about the situation in Ryukyu Castle."

"Yes~"

Liu Yuanshan nodded hurriedly, thought for a while and said: "At present, there are seventeen cities in Ryukyu City, and there are seventeen counties respectively, of which eight cities were built by our Ryukyu Sugar Organization, and the other nine were built by some other trading house organizations. ”

"At present, the total population of the 17 cities in the Ryukyus is about 2.2 million, mainly from the five provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Fujian and Zhejiang."

"At present, the industry in the Ryukyus is mainly based on the sugar industry, and there are large and large sugar plantations around the major cities, mainly for the cultivation of sugarcane, followed by the cultivation of rice."

"However, here in Ryukyu City, the Tianjin Shipyard also established a Ryukyu Shipyard here, and the Tianjin Cement Factory also built the Ryukyu Cement Plant here, which is still under construction and has not been put into use."

"But once these two factories are put into use, the Ryukyus side will also have its own shipyard and cement factory, and the development will inevitably be even more rapid at that time."

"In addition, because of the unique geographical advantages of Ryukyu here, it is the transit area for our Ming Dynasty to Nanyang, so the ocean trade here is also extremely developed."

"The trading houses from the land provinces of the Ming Dynasty transported a large number of goods to the Ryukyus and sold them to the trading houses that specialized in going to sea, and these trading houses that went to sea transported the goods to various parts of the South Seas to sell."

"It saves time and travel, so the transit trade is also very fast, and the ships in this river bay port are like this nine times out of ten."

Li Yuanshan began to slowly explain the situation here in the Ryukyus.

Liu Jin nodded straight while listening.

In the later generations, it was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty that Zheng Chenggong brought tens of thousands of people from Fujian to get a certain amount of development.

Because there has been no one else, so in the history of another few decades, this Ryukyu was also occupied by the Dutch, and finally recovered by Zheng Chenggong.

But now it's different, this Ryukyu has developed rapidly, with 17 cities, more than 2 million people, and extremely close exchanges with the mainland, the Ming Dynasty has also set up 17 counties here, and attaches great importance to Ryukyu here.

It is impossible to say that the Dutch will occupy it, and naturally there will be no series of things that follow.

"This is a treasure island~"

"The treasure island that belongs to our Daming, the more prosperous it is, the better."

After Liu Jin heard this, he also let out a long sigh.

Li Yuanshan looked at Liu Jin, and really didn't understand why he had such an exclamation.

This Ryukyu belongs to the Ming Dynasty, what is the doubt about this?

Could it be that there are still people who dare to come to rob the Ming Dynasty's Ryukyu?

Of course, he will not understand Liu Jin's mood, the Ryukyus of later generations, it has too many and too many feelings of the descendants of Yan and Huang in it, which may be why Liu Jin vigorously supports Ryukyu.

Everything that has been done is just for this inseparable land of the Ming Dynasty, for it to always belong to the Ming Dynasty, to the descendants of Yan and Huang, for it not to be defiled by others, for it to be the Ming Dynasty as a matter of course, and it should be the same as other places, as close as siblings, without any difference from each other.