Ma Jiude expanded the port, waited for a few days, and Yang Cong finally led the fleet to arrive as scheduled.

This guy, when they saw the sails covering the sky and the sun on the sea, the people of Yong'an Prefecture couldn't help but be stunned, when did Daming have so many warships, in their impression, it would be good if the Daming Naval Division could have dozens of large warships, where would they have thought that the large warships of the Daming Naval Division would be hundreds.

Spectacular, truly spectacular!

In fact, the Cangshan boat is not a large warship, and the Fu boat with a length of more than ten zhang is a real large warship, but in the eyes of the people of Yong'an Prefecture, these Cangshan boats and centipede boats are already considered to be great ships, and you must know that the fishing boats they usually use for fishing near the coast cannot exceed one zhang long.

Ma Jiude was already excited at this time, he was originally looking forward to Yang Cong's arrival, but he didn't expect Yang Cong to come with hundreds of warships, this battle is really exciting, who doesn't want their motherland to be strong.

Just as he rubbed his hands and waited, a unique Cangshan ship had already approached the dock where he was, first more than 20 brocade guards rushed down and protected the dock tightly, and then, Yang Cong, the governor of the five provinces, strode down under the support of a group of civil ministers and military generals.

Seeing this, Ma Jiude hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Ma Jiude, the governor of Yong'an Prefecture, see the governor. ”

When Yang Cong heard this, his brows furrowed secretly, Ma Jiude?

This "Nine Virtues" is not a good name, although he knows that this "Virtue" is a moral "Virtue", but Chen Jiude has made the word "Nine Virtues" a stigma, and it is really a bit disgusting to be virtuous but not virtuous.

Of course, he also knew that this Ma Jiude was not Chen Jiude, he just frowned secretly, and then smiled: "Lord Ma has worked hard, half a month ago, I heard that the sailor sentinel ship reported that there is only a low small wharf here, I didn't expect that in just ten days, Lord Ma will be able to expand the port to the city, not bad, not bad." ”

When Ma Jiude heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he said modestly: "Your Excellency the Governor has won the award, this is all due to the leadership of the Lord, and the subordinate officials are just acting according to orders." ”

Why is this fart so blunt?

Yang Cong frowned secretly again, and then smiled: "Master Ma, I wonder if the garrison and the place to store grain can be prepared?" ”

Ma Jiude hurriedly nodded and said, "Ready, ready." ”

Yang Cong nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Then please ask Master Ma to take us over to have a look first." ”

When Ma Jiude heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and made a gesture of please, and then took the lead to walk towards the city.

Although this Yong'an Prefecture is small, the state city is not a small city, because the state capital and county seat of the Ming Dynasty are built according to certain regulations, according to the standard, a state city should be able to live at least about 20,000 households, and a county town can live about 10,000 households, so Yong'an Prefecture City looks more than twice as large as Hui'an County.

However, as soon as he entered the city gate, Yang Cong's brows furrowed again.

The entire vicinity of the south gate of Yong'an Prefecture City turned out to be empty!

He looked around carefully, and in some places he could still see the traces of house demolition, which proved that this place should have been inhabited by ordinary people.

Wouldn't this guy have driven away all the people who originally lived here to please him?

When he first got off the ship, he saw that the good mood of the new port was all gone at this moment, although he did not resent the sycophants of others, but he was very disgusted with the people and money for the sake of sycophants.

He couldn't help but say slightly angrily: "Master Ma, didn't the official order someone to explain to you, try not to disturb the people, just find a vacant land in the city, how many households have you moved away?" ”

Seeing this, Ma Jiude hurriedly explained: "No, no, the lower officials have not moved away many households, and the adults don't know, because there were pirates a few years ago, and the Guangxi Metropolitan Division also sent people to station here, so the south of the city was originally emptied, and not many people have moved over to live in the past few years, after all, no one knows if there is a garrison here." No, this time, I heard that my lord was going to lead an army to camp here, so the lower official moved a few broken houses to other places. ”

It's unlikely that you've only moved a few broken settlements, right?

Yang Cong couldn't help but have a picture of Hui'an County in his mind, Hui'an County is not like this, not to mention the area near the city gate, even if the four corners of the city wall are full of people, although this Yong'an Prefecture is poor, there is no one living in the state city, right?

Yang Cong looked up at the street in the distance, and then asked coldly, "How many households are there in Yong'an Prefecture City?" ”

Ma Jiude has been a parent official here for several years, so he is naturally familiar with the number of residents here, so he said without thinking: "Yong'an Prefecture City has a total of 2,316 households and 13,675 people. ”

What?

Yang Cong thought that he had heard it wrong, and he subconsciously asked, "There are only more than 10,000 people living in Yong'an Prefecture City?" ”

Ma Jiude hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, my lord, there are only more than 40,000 people in Yong'an Prefecture, and nearly thirty percent of them live in the city. ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, there are only more than 40,000 people in a state, is there any mistake, Hui'an County has a population of more than 100,000.

Well, it's all because he didn't do enough homework, he just wanted to use Yong'an Prefecture City as a transit place for grain, so he didn't pay attention to how big Yong'an Prefecture was, let alone check how many people Yong'an Prefecture had.

He coughed embarrassedly, and then said softly: "Master Ma, I'm sorry, this official thinks that there are at least twenty or thirty thousand households in this city." ”

When Ma Jiude heard this, he hurriedly smiled and said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, adults love the people like sons, and they can't bear to work hard and hurt money, and it's too late for the officials to admire." ”

In such a large state city, there are only more than 2,000 households, which means that it is not a problem to have 100,000 troops stationed in it.

Yang Cong originally wanted to build the grain storage place in Yong'an Prefecture first, and then inspect it to see where it was suitable for the garrison, but now it seems that this Yong'an Prefecture City seems to be a good place.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his hand and said, "Map of Guangxi." ”

Soon, the two guards unfolded a huge map of Guangxi in front of him.

His subordinate Luo Hongxian is specialized in drawing maps, the maps of all parts of the Ming Dynasty Luo Hongxian have carefully checked and re-drawn according to the new drawing method, he naturally has no shortage of maps in his hands, before coming to Guangxi, he ordered someone to enlarge the map here for backup.

The place in Yong'an Prefecture on this map is actually not small, but ninety percent of the places are mountains, he originally thought that the mountains could also be inhabited, but now it seems that the mountains in this place should not be inhabited.

He took a closer look and asked, "Is there a passage to Annan here?" ”

Ma Jiude shook his head without hesitation and said: "No, although the distance between here and Annan is less than 100 miles, there are 100,000 mountains in the middle, and there are no roads in the mountains at all. ”

Yang Cong pointed to the coastline on the map and said, "If you build along the coast, won't it take much effort?" ”

Ma Jiude frowned and pondered for a moment, and then estimated: "If it is purely dependent on the labor of this state, I am afraid it will take about a year." ”

Yang Cong asked: "How many laborers can Yong'an Prefecture recruit?" ”

Ma Jiude said without thinking: "If it is purely used for hard labor, I am afraid that only about 2,000 will be conscripted, because most of the people have served hard labor this year, and if they pay or pay for the conscription, they should be able to conscript about 9,000." ”

Yang Cong asked again: "Is the time you spend a year calculated by 2,000 people or 9,000 people?" ”

Ma Jiude said without hesitation: "Of course, it is calculated according to nine thousand people. ”

9,000 people, it takes a year to build the passage to Annam, that is to say, 100,000 people can repair the passage in more than a month at most, it seems that it is indeed a good choice to garrison troops here.

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