Chapter 129 The South China Sea Heard Turmoil Again

The 16th year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty is the 31st day of March 1223 in the Western calendar, and the Qingming Festival. This is an extremely important day for Liuqiu.

Although the commotion caused by the flow of begging for the opening of the port was properly suppressed and temporarily pacified, and the worst situation did not occur, everyone knew that this was only a temporary pacification. In terms of self-interest, it is really possible to communicate with the land in the future, and it is not desirable for such a large number of skilled workers to return to their places of origin. When they returned to their hometowns, they were little more than small farmers who were able to generate a lot of wealth.

They are the spark sown by Zhao and Ju, and they will start a fire in the future.

Therefore, how to appease their nostalgia for their homeland and respect for their ancestors has become a major problem for those who seek to govern. In the end, Fang Youcai, who always provoked the young man with white eyes, came up with an idea, and that was the public sacrifice.

Yang Miaozhen, as the lord of the stream, publicly sacrificed the ancestors of the immigrants, and it took a full hour for a full set of rituals, and it was Yang Miaozhen's physique, which also made him sweat. However, thinking that this was what only he could do for Zhao and Ju, Yang Miaozhen suppressed the anxiety in his heart and completed all the rituals according to the full set of regulations.

At the same time, Keelung is Zhao Zishu, and Yilan is Chen Ren, and they have also completed such a sacrificial act. During the whole ritual process, Yelu Chucai shook his head, he was proficient in the classics of historians, this set of actions was originally prepared by him according to the ancient rites, but Fang Youcai added a lot of actions that he thought were good, and the executor Yang Miaozhen also made some tricks she liked, so in addition to being solemn and solemn, it was also quite a bit of entertainment.

After the sacrificial ceremony was completed, many immigrants cried a lot, but homesickness was also relieved in this crying.

In the morning, it is the ancestor worship ceremony, and in the afternoon it is the grain sacrifice ceremony, which is also a set of rituals, but with the experience of the morning, this set of rituals has been simplified. Yang Miaozhen first held the plough, symbolically ploughed a ridge in the field, and then circled the mulberry tree three times. This kind of ritual made Yelu Chucai shake his head again, but he is not the kind of person who does not know how to be flexible, as long as the meaning is enough, too much red tape and redundancy will delay things.

The reason why there is a grain sacrifice ceremony is because of the importance that Liuqiu attaches to agriculture. Industry and commerce for the flow of wealth to bring a rolling wealth, now the flow of the bank buried deep in the underground cement vault, the storage of gold ingots as much as 50,000 taels, silver also has more than 100,000 taels, which makes the flow of the issuance of gold dollar coupons to get a strong support, even in some of the trade with the flow of the sea, they also use the flow of gold dollar coupons to settle the account and stay easy, which is not only convenient and trouble-free, and far more reliable than the Song Dynasty's coin payment. However, whether it is a young man who is a righteous scholar, whether it is a wealthy man, or a Yelu Chucai, people from all walks of life know very well that food is the most important thing in everything, and they still export a small amount of weapons and armor when they are seeking to export industrial and commercial products, but they still export a small amount of weapons and armor, except for the exchange of people with the Red Jacket Army.

These grains, like those gold and silver, are reserves that keep the gold dollar bills stable and strong.

The young people brought the most advanced farming technology of this era, a large number of alfalfa such grass planting, special veterinary care, so that in the past few years, the number of cattle in the flow of cattle has surged, only in the freshwater farm, there are more than 500 cattle, and the number of Yilan is far better than this. In the southern paddy fields, the ploughing cattle are not afraid of soaking, bear hardships and stand hard work, and the required feed is not as expensive as the horse, coupled with the plough with fine workmanship and considering the mechanical action, as well as a large amount of manpower, can basically meet the needs of farming.

After more than two years of large-scale construction, the water conservancy facilities supporting agriculture in Tamsui and Yilan have also been quite perfect, at least not as when they first came, as long as they encounter typhoons and rains, whether large or small, a large number of replantings will be required. Ordinary floods can no longer cause much harm to the flowing agriculture.

The method of liuqiu agriculture is also different from the small-family, intensive farming that has always been practiced on land. In Liuqiu, even if they are granted land, the vast majority of immigrants rent their land to farms and practice large-scale farming in a unified manner, so that there will be no idle labor and it will be easier for them to collectively cope with natural disasters such as typhoons and heavy rains. With enough food, nearly a quarter of the arable land in Tamsui and Yilan has been cleared up for the cultivation of cash crops such as sugarcane, cotton, tung oil, and mulberry.

Moreover, in order to open up new farms, the expeditions organized by Liuqiu had already expanded south along the west coast of Liuqiu, and they were marching by land and sea. Because of the growing relationship with the Turen, there was also a group of Atayal people who accompanied them by land - when the immigrants first came to Yilan, they had fought with the immigrants, but they were driven away by artillery and armor, and after several years of trial and contact, they now also maintain a cooperative relationship with Yilan. It is just one of their customs to kill people, in fact, after a long period of contact, they are not greedy and shameless except for being violent and warlike. Teaching and turning it into my use, this is the attitude of the immigrants towards them, after all, fighting in the jungle, they can be said to be experts.

In the second half of the fifteenth year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty, in the later Tainan and Kaohsiung places, the immigrants established new strongholds, and the natives in these two places were also Pingpu people, so they were relatively easy to communicate, mainly trading, mixed with military deterrence, to induce the natives to accept the immigrants. The people who moved here were all immigrants who had been newly granted land in the past two years, numbering about 15,000 people, and they arrived with a convoy of 500 men from each of the two places, plus a rotating convoy stationed in Budai, and 3,000 trained convoys in the southwest.

The new stronghold, according to the map of Zhao and Juliu, was named Liunan and Bamboo Forest.

These guards were mixed with some veterans who had fought against the Koreans on Tamna Island, so although the number was small, they were quite effective. The leaders of them are still the young people of Yixue, and now the teenagers of the first and second phases of Yixue are already twenty-two or three, and the oldest is even twenty-four, in Tamsui, Keelung, and Yilan, they have accumulated quite a wealth of experience in government affairs, plus the graduates from Tamsui Primary School, and the managers have been quite useful.

Because of the fact that the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants now relied on to transport raw materials for Liuqiu, Liuqiu's own sea vessels could make full use of it to speed up the transportation of immigrants and control the entire west coast of Liuqiu.

After establishing these two strongholds, at the end of the first month of the sixteenth year of Jiading, the expedition team bypassed the southernmost corner of Liuqiu Island, and in this place known as Nanwan, they set up a new stronghold, but this stronghold still had only a small number of personnel, and the narrow terrain did not support large-scale immigration.

After completing the entire expedition to the west coast of Liuqiu, the expedition team began to survey the east coast again, the east coast is more complex than the west coast, the terrain is more mountainous and hilly, they even encountered an earthquake when they landed, which made the expedition retreat, anyway, the main purpose has been achieved, so they returned to Tamsui before the Qingming Dynasty, although they drew a chart of the east coast of Liuqiu, and also found a few ports, but did not open up a stronghold.

Ah Mao was the interpreter of the expedition, and he had thoroughly enjoyed this life of exploration, and when he returned to Tamsui, he was the only one who was depressed.

"You kid, you've only been on your birthday for a few days, and you're acting like this!" Seeing him like this, Fang Youcai, who was originally very worried about him, scolded: "Honestly stay in Tamsui for me, if it's really fine, hold hands with you and do more activities, you dog, you have been married for two years and only have one son, then Duncan already has three!" ”

Perhaps it was too hard to set off, and after Duncan left, his native wife found out that she was pregnant with a child again. Tamsui took excellent care of mothers and babies, all according to the standards of later generations, so the maternal and infant mortality rate was relatively low, which also made the natural growth rate of the population of Tamsui extremely high, and Duncan's native wife gave birth to his second son eight months after their departure.

For Ah Mao, Fang Youcai has the same feelings as an old father for his young son, although he always punches and kicks and scolds, but if Fang Youcai has not been beaten and scolded by him for a few days, Ah Mao will wonder if he is unwell.

"Daddy, I love adventures!" At this time, Ah Mao's Song language was already spoken extremely neatly: "Those Atayal warriors are just like me!" ”

"Stupid, Duncan-like stupid! Listen to my father, when I made a mistake, do it well at home, you now have a field and a job, holding hands and working in the cotton weaving mill, so that you can live and enjoy happiness at home, why should you be beaten by the wind and rain! Seeing that there were no outsiders left and right, Fang Youcai scolded in a low voice: "You are a dirty fan, you are not good at death, just remember that your father will never harm you!" ”

Ah Mao pouted, although he respected Fang Youcai very much, but over the years, as he grew older and more knowledgeable, he began to doubt the wisdom of his elders like every young man in the rebellious period. He was about to debate with Fang Youcai, when suddenly someone shouted outside: "Steward Fang, Steward Fang!" ”

"Come on, come on, my old man can still hear it, I don't need such a loud voice, I almost want to shatter the glass of my house!" Hearing someone shouting, Fang Youcai walked out chatteringly, but there was a young man from the escort team, these junior college graduates who had just joined the escort team, their main duty was to run errands and deliver letters, through these jobs, they could quickly familiarize themselves with the personnel and systems of Liuqiu.

"Steward Fang, please sign for it!"

The young man of the guard team handed over a piece of paper and a pen, Fang Youcai drew a circle randomly, and then asked, "What is written on it?" ”

"Have an emergency meeting...... Something happened in Luzon? Behind him, Ah Mao stretched out his head and looked at the paper, and now he knew more words than wealth.

The reason for this emergency meeting was that Han Ping, who was stationed in Luzon, returned to Tamsui.

Han Ping's character is finally harmonious, he is a fluke in the third phase of Yixue, he is also twenty years old this year, tall and burly, fair-skinned and dignified, although he is young, but he is like Yelu Chucai, with a good beard. When the natives saw him, there were many awe-inspiring people who thought they were gods, and he was good at learning the natives, and he was able to talk to the local natives in the natives in the native language after only half a year.

When Fang Youcai saw him, he found that his expression was a little excited, and his eyes flickered.

"I invited you here because Han Zhonghe has an important matter to decide." Yang Miaozhen is the person who presides over this meeting, she looks around, everyone has their own affairs, Meng Xisheng, Zhao Ziyue, Chen Ren are not there, only her, Fang Youcai, Chen Zicheng, Li Ye, Li Yunrui, Li Yilao, Yelu Chucai, plus a Han Ping.

"Before March, I discovered a big copper mine in northern Luzon," he says. Han Ping said excitedly: "The things entrusted by the big officials are fortunate to live up to the mission, this matter has been reported by the letter, and you must have seen it." ”

In order to bring the areas under Liuqiu's current control and influence closer together, Tamsui has set up a newspaper with a very small circulation, called "Hong Kong Economic Journal". The reason for this name is that it is all messages sent back by letter from within the Flow's sphere of influence. Only about 50 copies of the "Hong Kong Economic Daily" were printed, which could only be seen by high-level officials in Tamsui, Yilan, and Keelung, and belonged to the category of secrecy. In the letter two months ago, there was indeed a record of the discovery of a large copper mine in northern Luzon, in fact, it was not news to a teenager who had attended Yixue in Yuzhang Villa, because Zhao and Ju had said that there was a large copper mine here when they were in a geography class with them.

"Although the natives can smelt copper, the quantity is limited, and most of them are used to cast Buddha statues, so I thought it would take at least a few years before we could go to Luzon to open mines, but now it is different, we have a chance." Han Ping said with a smile: "Sulu south of Mayi is at war with its neighbors, and both sides have come to me to buy weapons, I can use weapons as bait to ask them for prisoners, and use them to open mines, without using us to beg for manpower, what do you think?" ”

Seeing the glitter on Han Ping's face, Yang Miaozhen frowned slightly, she looked at the people around her again, and found that everyone had different expressions.

Fang Youcai pursed his lips, revealing a look of disdain, Li Ye was eyes shining and clenched his fists, Li Yilao habitually touched his bald head, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, while Li Yunrui squinted, observing everyone's expressions like her. When Li Yunrui's eyes met her, Li Yunrui smiled faintly and looked away again.

Yelu Chucai was twisting his beard and smiling, and his smile was pointed, but Yang Miaozhen had such a temperament that he couldn't see it. Next to him, Chen Zicheng frowned and folded his hands, his eyes fixed on Han Ping's face.

"What do you think?" Yang Miaozhen asked.

"Let's ask for a lack of copper and iron, and you all know it in your hearts. Although Zi said that there is also copper over there, it is not enough to apply, and it is also difficult to smelt. Han Ping said with a smile: "Now that Luzon has good copper, why don't you take it for my use?" ”

"Han Zhonghe, you provoked the war between Sulu and its neighbors, right?" No one spoke for a long time, but Chen Zicheng opened his mouth first.

Yelu Chucai glanced at Chen Zicheng, there was a look of surprise in his eyes, with his eyes, he could naturally see that Han Ping must have exerted his strength in this matter, but he never thought that Chen Zicheng, who had always looked like a pedant, would also see this.

He didn't know that Zhao Youju attaches the most importance to education, ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, and put Chen Zicheng in the position of Tamsui Primary School, because he is really the most comprehensive among the teenagers in the first phase of Yixue.

Note 1: Kaohsiung was named Bamboo Forest because the name Kaohsiung was a transliteration after the Japanese occupation, and the original name was "Dagou", which was transliterated by the Han people according to the pronunciation of the indigenous people.

Note 2: The name of Luzon Island was naturally taken by Zhao and Ju, and at that time, the Philippines was divided into north and south, and the north was Mayi, which was actually the beginning of the slave society, and it could not be said that there was a strong unified country. The south is Sulu, and there is a state.