With the arrival of the rainy season, the construction boom on Luzon Island has reached another low point.

The dry season is high, the rainy season is low, and the weather is determined, which is the inevitable natural law of Nanyang town construction.

One high and one low, one up and down, ups and downs, it's been several years.

The land of Luzon has also changed from a barren land at the beginning to tens of millions of acres of fertile land and 500,000 people. There are dozens of large and small towns, and hundreds of villages.

Among the several overseas feudal states, the comprehensive factor here can be said to be the best.

The immigrant Song people settled the indigenous people here early on, and the good social environment brought great benefits to the development of Luzon.

Whether it is the arrival of immigrants or the multiplication of immigrants here, it is closely related to the safety of the environment.

But because of this, the local immigrants were very weak in their external expansion - there were large fertile plains waiting to be developed on the main island of Luzon, and the situation was completely controlled by the Song army, and the security environment was worry-free.

So much so that to this day, they have not really penetrated into Mindanao. Rather, only a few small strongholds were set up in the narrow coastal plain.

And that's all because of the order issued by Bianjing.

Mindanao is called the South Island in this time and space, this is a mountainous plateau island, the area is vast, almost comparable to the later Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, but it is located in the equatorial region, belongs to the absolute tropical rainforest climate. High temperature and humidity, poisonous insects are abundant, in today's era, such a climate is the most difficult obstacle for Han immigrants to overcome!

The coastline is tortuous, with many peninsulas and harbors, inland mountains and plateaus, and coastal plains with a sea front.

At the same time, the vegetation on the island is dense.

In later generations, the island was known to have a small population in the early 20th century.

At the same time, because of the complex geographical environment, the geographical barriers within the island have been caused, and different ethnic groups have been formed one after another in the time of thousands of years.

In later generations and in the present era, this is the place where the indigenous minorities of Luzon are most concentrated.

The Song people have now set up a few gathering places, which is not a development of the island at all, but a window for communication with the few people on the island.

The textiles, ironware, farm tools, ceramics and so on brought by the Song people are all good things that the indigenous people on the island dream of. And they were able to exchange grain, slaves, abaca, timber, and precious metals such as gold and silver.

In general, Mindanao is a rich island of forestry and mineral resources.

Later, Luzon was one of the countries with the richest mineral reserves in the world. Luzon, located in the Pacific Rim of the Pacific Volcanic Belt, has the world's fifth-largest mineral reserves, according to a report by relevant agencies. Among them, gold reserves are the third in the world, copper reserves are the fourth in the world, nickel reserves are the fifth in the world, and chromite reserves are the sixth in the world.

Among them, Mindanao has more than two-thirds of the gold, copper and iron reserves in Luzon, and is rich in coal resources.

However, the indigenous population here is sparse, there is no large tribal alliance, there are few people and many mountains, the single force is weak, and the civilization is ignorant and uncivilized, so it is impossible to make good use of local resources.

Even now, the natives on the island, who have so many minerals, are still slaves as the material subjects used to trade with the Song people, and the gold and silver that can be taken out are mainly dog-head gold and natural gold sand.

The natives here are too lazy.

Sitting on the treasure land, there is no cold winter all year round, melons and fruits are endless all year round, and many natives don't care about planting at all.

In terms of normal commercial interests, the investment costs of several coastal settlements far outweigh their commercial profits.

The Song people have a lot of good things to sell to the natives on the island, but what can the natives exchange for? Whether it is grain, abaca, or wood, it is the lowest primary raw material, not to mention the price, only to say whether a Song person needs it, this is an unsolvable problem.

Those things of the natives on the island have no market on the side of the Song people.

Will Luzon, which has already emigrated hundreds of thousands, be short of food and abaca? Are there fewer forest trees there than in Mindanao?

On the other hand, the ironware, ceramics, farm tools, cloth, etc. of the Song people are all quite expensive as "industrial products".

The trade between the two sides is not on the same level at all! The only result can only be that the Song people continue to absorb blood from the natives.

The natives are inseparable from ceramics and silk, as well as iron agricultural implements, such as iron pots and knives, and they must find a solid 'foundation' so that the 'trade' can continue for a long time!

This was the case with the slave trade.

As for how much harm this trade will cause to the natives of the island, who here in Zhao Song cares?

Even the Taoist priests in a few small gathering points are enjoying the wealth offerings that the patriarchs of the various tribes have exchanged for their lives.

As I said before, the more ignorant the place, the easier it is to fool people with the many methods of Buddhism and Taoism. That's the case here in Mindanao!

The Song people set up gathering points in the coastal plains of the east, west, north and south of the island, and there were Taoist temples everywhere, and one by one they pretended to be gods and ghosts, and they were very subdued by a group of faithful believers among the local people.

The southernmost point of western Mindanao, where the later Zamboanga is located.

This is the last of the many gathering points to be opened, but a few months have passed, and the construction of Qibao Town has basically come to an end.

Yes, Shippo Town!

From one to seven, the Song people built a total of seven gathering points in Mindanao, that is, one treasure to seven treasures, with the name of the town and the name of the city!

Wood is the wall, and the pillar is the door. Overall, the seven towns here are very basic. But for the local indigenous tribes, it is already impregnable.

The biggest external threat to Shippo is the pirates roaming the South Seas.

Outside the humble town walls are thousands of acres of land that have been reclaimed, and the newly established town of Qibao has four or five hundred inhabitants, plus an almost equal number of slaves, and the town is far from self-sufficiency in everything from grain to vegetables to meat.

Within half a month, a fleet arrived in the direction of Luzon, bringing necessary supplies and various commodities to Qibao Town.

The ships then returned to Luzon with slaves and some gold and silver.

Although the 'quantity' of cargo is simply not enough to fill the ship's hold, there is no way, Qibao Town has only been established for a few months, and the 'output' is only that large.

The crew is not willing to return empty, which is too uneconomical.

However, Shippo had nothing else to produce, and there was some precious wood here at first, but it was quickly cut down, and then the natives stopped cutting it.

Cutting wood from the woods and sending it to the shore is not the way of the natives.

Then the only things that can be sent to the ship are dried fruits and dried fish, but these things are of no value in the South Seas.

From the establishment to the present, the greatest significance of the seven towns seems to be to determine the territory and belonging.

The banner of the word "Qi" fluttered in the wind, and in the first month of the year, Emperor Zhao in the capital had already promoted his second son to the prince - King of Qi, fief Luzon!

And Mindanao is the southernmost point of the Qi country!