"When the old house was demolished," Xu Zixian said in a deep voice, "the clans here were scattered and scattered, and some people were dissatisfied, but fortunately, they were all suppressed." ”

The demolition of the old clans, including the ancestral hall, greatly displeased the beneficiaries of some clans.

It's just a trivial matter, what big thing can a few dozen dirt buns make?

After a lot of persuasion, plus some threats, under the bright and long-standing voice, everyone still honestly obeyed the arrangement.

Now Huaxi's side is also all scattered, all of them have become miscellaneous surnames, and each hundred households have more than a dozen surnames, and if you want to bully people with your surname clan, you have to consider the guard first.

"For every 500 households, there is an additional criminal officer who is responsible for hearing and adjudicating cases." Xu Zixian continued: "Ten hundred households is one thousand, and so far, we have not filled five thousand households. ”

Xiuniang said softly: "When I was in Nan'an, people mentioned that they came to the Eastern Domain, and they said that it was better to come to the Eastern Domain to try their luck, anyway, they would not suffer if they were an official in the Nan'an Hou Mansion...... I'm worried about the epidemic here, this time there are dozens of doctors and apprentices who came with the ship, it should be a lot better? ”

Speaking of this, Xu Zixian also frowned a little.

After a large area of burning in the periphery and the preaching of health and epidemic prevention knowledge, there is no sign of an outbreak of large-scale epidemics for the time being.

However, Chen Changnian, a medical officer, was not optimistic, because when people go to unfamiliar places, they are not adapted to the new environment, including drinking water.

If it were a normal place, it would definitely be able to prevent a large-scale outbreak of epidemic madness, but it would certainly not be enough in the Eastern Domain.

"Epidemic prevention." Xu Zi first pointed to the distance, about ten miles away, where smoke was rising. He frowned and said to the two girls: "The shrubs on the periphery, while they are still green, and there are still a lot of dead leaves and dead grass, I am sending people to burn the wasteland everywhere, most of them are at the foot of the mountain, deep in the hills, those places with lush vegetation." One is to drive away fierce beasts, poisonous snakes, there are not many fierce beasts on the island, only some small beasts, but there are many large deer. But there are many snakes, so we must drive them away with fire, and many of them have been killed by sporadic snakes in this time, so that many people have made tooth sacrifices. ”

When it comes to snakes, the two girls don't make as much fuss as the young girls of later generations...... After all, the absolute population of this year is not much, but Fujian has a population of 40 million in later generations, and now it is more than 10 million people, far less than Henan and Shandong, Gyeonggi and Gangneung Province, Jiangnan East Road, and West Road have a high degree of population density.

At present, there are still many deserted and uninhabited areas, and there are not many forest areas formed by large-scale giant trees, shrubs, grassy areas, and many snakes and insects.

"The second is to prevent mosquitoes." Xu Zixian continued: "Burning shrubs and grass-deep places everywhere can be changed into fertile land, and mosquitoes can be repellent. ”

Xu Zixian sighed and said, "There are some effects, but there are still a lot of mosquitoes." ”

The little sister asked in surprise: "Is there an epidemic spreading?" ”

"There are some, and they are still under control." Xu Zixian said: "About 100 people are sick, and the high fever does not go away, and they are all isolated and treated with medicine. ”

Those high fevers that do not go away are estimated to be mosquito-borne malaria, and if it spreads on a large scale, it will be human-to-human, and it will be difficult to clean up at that time, and even if there is a medicine to treat it, the number of people who will die cannot be one or two, but hundreds or thousands.

In later generations of Taiwan, there are still many folk traditions to drive away the plague, such as setting off cannons to worship gods, etc., indicating that in the process of hundreds of years of immigration, plague and malaria have become the number one killer of people's health.

In addition to the abundant resources, fresh water and forest resources, malaria is a major cause of death for the islanders.

Zheng Chenggong died of malaria, and at that time, with Zheng Chenggong's status, he must have done his best to treat it, but with the medical standards at that time, medicine was only an auxiliary, and the important thing was the patient's will and physical fitness.

Plague is also divided into a kind, plague, smallpox, malaria, all kinds of influenza, as long as it is a large-scale spread of diseases are collectively called plague, China from the pre-Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, records of plague and treatment of plague records, medical prescriptions are a lot, but there are very few real practical effects.

"Big brother calls people more than mosquito nets?"

"Ask someone to go to Fujian Road to purchase." Xu Zixian said: "There are not too many private preparations for this thing, so you can only buy it slowly in various states, counties and towns, fortunately, the weather is hot, and there are more stocks, otherwise it will be really troublesome." ”

"That's all we can do at the moment." Xu Zixian showed a smile on his face and said: "I never believe in destiny, nor do I believe in luck, luck is only for those who are fully prepared." We've done our best, and the worst result is that the people who go to the island will get sick more or less once, and I don't believe how many people will die! ”

"That's what the big brother said."

"What the prince said is very true."

The two women looked at Xu Zixian with convincing eyes, others could say that such words could be said to be irresponsible, or suspected of bragging, and the two women knew that Xu Zixian was sincere, and would never shirk responsibility for such a major event, since they had done their best, no matter what the result, they could accept it calmly.

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Under the order of the captain Lin Chonggui, including the boatswain secretary and the deck chief, the five chiefs and five officials all contributed, and everyone looked at all the affairs on the ship before getting off the ship in an orderly manner, and at noon, there were officials from the Hou Mansion from Cao to give an order, and the Hou of Nan'an invited the captain and deputy captain of Fu No. 1 and the five chiefs and five officials in the hundredth official hall of the hundredth household in Huaxi, and Si Congcao suggested that everyone put on clean clothes and go to the banquet, which was the most basic courtesy.

Of course, Lin Chonggui and Huang Laigui and others will not have an opinion, in fact, they all know that Si Congcao is the attendant staff around the prince, including the Chinese book staff, responsible for writing letters, playing tables, official documents, circulating official documents up and down, and filing records.

Then there is the guard room, which is responsible for the security of the prince and marquis, stationed in the guard when he is in the other courtyard, and guards when he goes out.

There is also an audit room, Huang Laigui and they don't know much about the audit process, so they don't know it.

Then there is the Security Division, which is responsible for the lawbreakers on the whole island, as well as the intelligence collection, investigation, extermination, and daily security of bandits, etc., which are directly under the management of the division from Cao, and are also in the hands of the prince.

Then there is the concierge room, which is responsible for the internal and external exchanges of the Hou Mansion, including the holding of ceremonies, which are all in charge of the concierge room.

Originally, the Hou Mansion had a special position, that is, the guests of the Hou Mansion, but there were no subordinate officials and special institutions, that is, Wu Shizhong was one person and several officials, and now of course it is not enough to use.

And even if Wu Shizhong has the official position of a guest, it is only used to cover up the outside, and when he arrives on the Eastern Domain, he will also be the right assistant of the secretary's cabinet and the judge's room, which is also a good position reserved for Wu Shizhong a long time ago.

According to the requirements of the priest Cao, Huang Laigui and others have changed into a relatively clean robe, to say decent is certainly not very decent, they have just received two or three months of money, and their hands are loose, but many people give their money to their wives or parents for safekeeping, in the system of Nan'an Hou Mansion, most of the families of all sailors are placed in Nan'an or Dongfan, and the sailors have to accept unified management and arrangements after going ashore, and they can't spend much money on food and clothing.

According to the people of the Hou Mansion, the prince and the prince are most tired of gambling, even if the population of the Eastern Domain is large in the future, brothels can be opened, this matter is the physiological needs of people, blindly suppressing it is counterproductive, but breeds more contradictions and problems.

But gambling is not a physiological necessity, so Xu Zixian strictly forbade gambling when he was in Nan'an, and he didn't want to have a gambling house in the Eastern Domain.

The sailors' money was of little use, and they spent little time ashore at sea all the year round, so naturally they would not have thought of buying a few decent robes for guests.

Everyone went ashore together, and Huang Laigui also took a special look at the left-hand side.

There are ant-colony craftsmen and Ding Zhuang building a large shipyard, many people have talked about this shipyard, and the Hou Mansion is easy to repair damaged ships and maintain normal ships when explaining to the outside world, but Huang Laigui still feels that the Hou Mansion has the heart to build its own ship, and its spirit is extremely high.

This is good news for the sailors, and the same is true for Huang Laigui.

After just a few months, there were many more ships in Nan'anhoufu, 20 warships, more than 30 small and medium-sized merchant ships, and more than 200 large and small sentinel ships.

Sentinel ships and ships can be controlled by sailors, while warships and merchant ships must be handled by a large number of experienced sailors and captains, plus more senior captains.

This month, several senior sailors were transferred away, and Huang Laigui heard that he should be going to serve on the finished Fu Jiu merchant ship.

Most of them are technical positions such as boatswain and deck chief.

The chief clerk and the medical officer, the culinary officer, can be held by ordinary people, provided that the secretary is familiar with the operation of the whole ship and is proficient in the necessary techniques such as arithmetic.

The same is true for medical officers and cooks.

Huang Laigui's current idea is to perform well on Fu No. 1 and wait for the opportunity.

Fu No. 1 This is the earliest Fu ship obtained by Nan'an Houfu, it has been overhauled once, it has not been overhauled in recent months, and the surface has just been cleaned and painted a while ago, if it is repaired again, its performance will definitely be improved again.

There are now more than 30 small and medium-sized merchant ships in Nan'an Houfu, about 15 Fu ships, as well as Linglong ships, Guangdong ships, Jiangling sand ships, water ships, etc., the sources are very miscellaneous, the capture of the previous battle of the river beach, the spoils of the battle of Qizhou, and the ships of the Nanyang Naval Division, all of which are in disrepair, and now they are all moored in the port of the Eastern Domain, waiting to be repaired one by one according to the degree of damage and repair, and then restored to use.

This project is extremely huge, and the amount of money is also a lot, and it will cost at least a few thousand to ten thousand yuan to repair a fortune ship of about 100 tonnage.

The Eastern Domain Shipyard can continue to recruit and try out qualified craftsmen by repairing ships, learn experience, and when these dozens of ships are almost repaired, it is estimated that they will be able to try to build ships by themselves.

If most of the ships are repaired, qualified captains will definitely not be enough, Huang Laigui hopes that he will perform well, gain more experience, and become the captain of a lucky ship at that time.

Huang Laigui's current salary is 20 times a month, which is many times stronger than farming, even if he is a soldier of Nan'an, the soldiers of the ballista group who come on the ship to fight hard, the monthly salary is only four yuan, and the salary of the officers is about the same as Huang Laigui.

If you become a captain, the monthly salary is not much higher, but the captain can participate in dividends, if you get a good route, fast shipment, big profits, it is not impossible to get a thousand a year.

In the past, Huang Laigui's salary was not high, and he levied a lot of miscellaneous taxes, even if he was not used outside, he would have to be skinned at the tax customs after he came back.

This is true for everyone, which is the main reason why sailors have not been able to save money before.

Now under the Nan'an Hou Mansion, the tax customs on the side of the Great Wei no longer have a way to take the sailors, there is no way to squeeze them anymore, and after the family is connected to the Eastern Domain, the morale of all the sailors is further rising.

Run more boats, make more money, move money, and buy acres of homes, even if it is a further home.

In addition to the settlements of the official households, the Hou Mansion will continue to expand the settlements along Huaxi to Nan'an Creek, and set up camps on the periphery to protect the settled people.

After a few months of observation, Huang Laigui was already certain that the Eastern Domain would not only be successful, but also quite successful.

This gave him the motivation to go to the next level and drove him and the rest of the sailors to work harder.

On the Fu No. 1 ship, there are more merchant ships, and there will be more and more sailors like Huang Laigui.

There are many poor people along the Fujian Road, many of whom have been on the ship, but they feel that the hard work at sea is not proportional to the reward, and many people have disembarked one after another.