"I hope that the next cotton cloth will be delivered as soon as possible." Fukuyoshi Masatsuna and Kuroda and others have already competed for the right to trade, of course, only cotton, and even then, it will be very profitable.

"Don't worry." Chen Daojian said: "We are more anxious than you. ”

Fuji Zhenggang said: "I know that there are rogues on Fujian Road, and His Royal Highness King Qin did not directly send troops to fight the thieves?" ”

"The rebels have been pacified." Chen Daojian smiled implicitly and said, "Apart from our Highness, who can appease the rebels?" ”

Several Japanese merchants are showing thoughtful expressions, the Japanese merchants in addition to trade, but also the intelligence of various countries, now a few Japanese merchants look at each other, the meaning is also very clear, after the Qin Wangfu and the Eastern Domain's intelligence collection, I am afraid will be listed as the top priority.

Chen Daojian looked back, but saw Deng Fang smiling reservedly, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

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"It's all the work of the year before."

Huang's father and Huang's mother drove two miscellaneous horses to plough the land, and they were almost day and night for the past two days, and finally opened all the ten acres of tea mountains in front of them.

Huang's father undertook most of the hard work, he was in his early fifties, his body was quite strong, and there were a lot of livestock, and there were two miscellaneous horses at home, a mule and a donkey.

The Huang family has successively opened the top three land, has reached the limit that Huang's father can bear, now he and the Hun family are sitting together on the ridge of the hill, the two of them are full of happy smiles, Huang's father beat his waist with his fist, turned his head to look at the rolling hilly area, everywhere are pulling the iron plough to plough the miscellaneous horses and horses of the peasants, here in the last year burned the famine, the climate is good, the land is simply fertile flowing oil.

"The eldest and the second child don't know if they can't come back...... Huang Mu drank a few sips of water, and talked about the two brothers Huang Laifu and Huang Laigui.

"They are all doing business, one is serving the king on the warship, and the other is a soldier and eating food, they are all good, and they are all talking about what they are doing!"

Speaking of his son, Huang's father is also full of pride and pride, the two sons have always been his heart disease before, but now they are the pride of the Huang family, most of the other immigrant houses and farm tools are on credit, including livestock, but the Huang family is all the money accumulated by the salaries of the two sons, just this one, the people of the entire hundred households are envious.

The whole hundred households have been opening up the land after the winter, Tainan is much warmer than Fuzhou, even if it is going to be the New Year in a few days, the weather is very warm, these tea mountains are the peripheral area of 1700 households, the whole landform is an undulating hilly area, after the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry divides the lot, let each family reclaim, the powerful one will open more, the weak one will open less, anyway, each family has livestock and livestock, after more than a year of cultivation and reclamation, each family has accumulated a certain amount of wealth, after the large-scale cotton cloth out, In addition to the money from repaying the loan, each family still has a lot of money, and with the bumper grain harvest, the more families who plant land, the higher the income.

Although he has to face the repayment of the loan and pay taxes after more than a year, the Qin Shogunate has announced the tax amount, compared to the heavy service of the Great Wei, the tax of the Qin Prince's Mansion is not low in Xu Zixian's opinion, but for Huang's father and Huang mother, as well as all the immigrants of the seventeen hundred households, the set tax and servitude is so low that people wake up laughing in their sleep.

After the opening of the Qin Dynasty, the number of official households rose to 20,000, but at this time, the people of the Shogunate Military Department did not continue to register the official households, and the shogunate officials did not clearly announce it, but the people who immigrated to the Eastern Domain were all under the rule of the Shogunate, and they all paid taxes and undertook labor according to the number of acres and income, and even the Shogunate faintly announced that after that, the Qin King Shogunate would no longer levy free labor, and where there was service, it must be paid for requisition, and it would be paid according to the average income of the island's residents...... Of course, this is also after three years, and within three years, many immigrants are on the island empty-handed, and the farm tools and livestock houses are borrowed, and it is only natural that part of the arrears be offset by free labor every year.

In the six months after Nan'an Hou worshiped the king of Zhongshan, there were more than 6,000 households and more than 30,000 people on the island of Dongfan, and the entire southern plain area was developed one after another.

If you are a newcomer to the Eastern Domain, you will definitely not believe that the Eastern Domain in front of you is a rumored desolate island.

There are farmland everywhere, large cotton fields, bean fields, rice, sorghum, as well as a large number of mulberry trees, sugar cane fields, tea mountains, because of the good climate, fertile land, abundant livestock, excellent farm tools, and water conservancy projects are also quite good, almost no one will doubt that the future will be difficult.

More people are starting to rest, and the Chinese New Year is just a few days away, and many people are taking advantage of the last few days of the year to finish the work at hand.

In fact, the climate during the New Year is similar to now, but people have been accustomed to rest during the period of time after the New Year, this biological clock has experienced thousands of years of inheritance, even if you want to change it is very difficult, people subconsciously want to finish their work quickly, at least ten days and half a month of rest.

Liu Shujing's body has recovered, he is patrolling the boundaries of his hundred households, and he is also a veteran sheriff by his side, and there are several guards on horseback patrolling in the distance.

In fact, there is no longer much need for such a vigilance, and the agricultural officials are far to the east of the garrison, as if they are observing whether the tea mountain can continue to the east, and the expanded tea mountain will provide more tea and make the nearby people more profitable.

Liu Shujing was extremely satisfied with everything at the moment, he sat cross-legged on the ground, with a weed in his mouth, and smiled at Li Guozhu beside him: "Old Li, how big is the boat you saw yesterday?" ”

Li Guozhu is also sitting cross-legged, his two and a half sons have been high for more than a year, even if they work hard for a long time, they are still chasing and laughing on the side, eating enough, the young men are full of energy, Li Guozhu has been thinking about telling them about his daughter-in-law for two years. When I ran away from Zhangzhou, I never expected such a day.

The Li family has four miscellaneous horses and two cows, and Li Guozhu feels that although the miscellaneous horses plough the land quickly, it is more suitable to work slowly and carefully every day, so it is better to slowly drive the cattle to work deeply. In addition, there is a mule, and he is reluctant to ride the miscellaneous horse, but now that Li Guozhu is out on foot, he chooses to ride a mule.

Even when he was in Zhangzhou, Li Guozhu never thought that he could raise cattle and several horses, which were all things that only rich families and landlords were qualified to serve, and the cattle and horses had to be fed with concentrate, and if they just ate grass, they couldn't do any work, and the cattle had to have half a day to eat, and if they didn't feed and worked, they would be thin and out of shape in a few days. Horses are even more squeamish, and if they are not careful, they will die, and there are not many rich families who dare to raise horses, let alone poor people.

Li Guozhu has opened a total of Liujia land, he and his mother-in-law are in the prime of life, half of the eldest son can be half an adult, plus there are enough mules and horses, his confidence in opening the land is very sufficient.

In addition to the first-class tea mountain in front of him, Li Guozhu also has two first-class cotton fields, two first-class rice fields, and first-class sugarcane fields.

In the corner of the field, he planted many mulberry trees, preparing to raise silkworms in the future.

Cotton, raw silk, tea, sugar, these are the main products of the future Eastern Domain, and they are also the most profitable things, and the people of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry said quite clearly, Li Guozhu has no interest in the imperial court's mansion, but he can almost memorize any laws, regulations, and notices under the shogunate.

Good days are just around the corner, and what worries Li Guozhu is that both boys want to be soldiers, which makes him quite hesitant. The status of the soldiers of the Eastern Domain is quite high, and the salary rises almost every other year, and many people rumor that in another two years, the salary of ordinary infantry will also be dozens of times a year, and if you become a sergeant or officer, it is quite easy to pass a hundred times a year.

Moreover, the welfare of the military and the status of the people are quite high, and those little ladies are proud to marry soldiers, and it is much easier to say that daughters-in-law are soldiers.

But the Li family also needs labor, if it is done well, farming can also earn a lot of money a year, if the two sons are soldiers, Li Guozhu will have to retreat half of the land, at most the top three, even if there are many livestock, it is useless, farming always requires manpower.

"Speaking of ships, it's still Master Fu who is very ......powerful," Li Guozhu answered Baihu's question, squinted and smiled: "The four newly launched are all big ships, which are more than 300 tons to more than 400 tons of Chinese warships, No. 11 to 14, three masts and four sails, the hull is very large, I went to the beach that day to see, just the soldiers of the government army and sails pulled back from Jianzhou, after receiving it, directly anchored, turned the rudder and hoisted the sails, and went to Penghu." ”

"Don't call it a hundred households now." Uncle Liu said with a smile: "At the beginning, it was called a hundred households and a thousand households was not in line with the imperial court, and it was a cover-up, but now it is all the chief, the total A, one mile per hundred households, one total A for thousands of households, and one township for five thousand households. ”

Li Guozhu came to his senses and said with a smile: "It's my fault, now I have to call Liu Zongjia." ”

There are more and more immigrants on the island, and the number of households is also growing every day, and hundreds of households like Liu Shujing, who were born as veterans, can easily get the opportunity to be promoted, and now Liu Shujing is already the chief a, and he has managed thousands of immigrants under his rule, managing almost five or six thousand people, plus the civil officials, sheriffs, industrial and commercial officials, academic officials, and medical officers under his rule are all very effective, and they are becoming more and more handy in doing things.

"Whether it's a hundred, a thousand, a long or a chief, you have to help you pay it back." Uncle Liu smiled and said: "I do things seriously, don't give me black beans, I'll thank God." ”

Although the name has been changed, many of the systems set up by Xu Zixian at the beginning have only become more and more standardized and detailed, and these officials in Lijia are also becoming more and more dedicated.

"Four Chinese ships." Uncle Liu said: "I heard that there are also shipyards in the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou areas to build warships for us, plus trebuchets and a large number of crossbows, look, in another year, the naval warships of our Eastern Domain will have a look, and we no longer have to be afraid of pirates." ”

"I've heard from the sailors about this, and the scale of the sailors next year will be much larger than now......" Li Guozhu is still more cautious when mentioning things in the army, in fact, it is what Huang Laifu, the deck captain, said, because there are many ships launched, the ships of the Nanyang Naval Division that have been received, as well as the original warships of the shogunate, plus the capture of Yan Qi's First Battle, the total number of ships of the Naval Division has exceeded 100, of which there are more than 20 large warships of more than 300 tons, and then there are capital ships that have been launched one after another, and the capital ships of the Eastern Naval Division are expected to exceed 40 next year.

With the addition of small and medium-sized warships, the naval division warships can exceed 200, which is almost the same as the strength of Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi's fleet, slightly inferior to Pu Xingfeng, and the sailor soldiers may also exceed 20,000, with more than 2,000 crossbow machines and more than 100 trebuchets, all of which are more than ten times the scale of the previous one.