Although no official document has been sent from the local authorities approving the establishment of Osumi Prefecture, this does not prevent Osumi Prefecture from preparing for the yamen to start its daily work.

Since the tax bureau took the lead in recruiting people and started the vigorous tax collection work, Xia Wuyan and the people in their county government have not been idle, and they are also busy measuring land.

Why measure the land, this is naturally for domestic immigrants, if you want to attract local immigrants to come all the way to this ghost place, most of the others are useless, you can only rely on the distribution of land, well, it must be free.

At present, the empire organizes local people to emigrate overseas, all of which distribute land for free, and at the same time, as well as its cheap, installment payment and other ways to provide seeds, farm tools, etc., even guns and swords and other weapons, although it is said that they will not be directly distributed to individuals for free, but according to the previous management of immigrants in Luzon, Ryukyu, and Banten, after the immigrants arrive, they will form militia organizations, and the weapons of the militia organizations are naturally provided by the military, so it is equivalent to providing all kinds of ordnance for free.

In short, in order to attract domestic immigrants to colonize overseas, the policy given by the empire is still very favorable, as long as you are willing to leave your homeland and bring your family to colonize overseas, then the empire will solve all your worries.

This is a very costly operation, but there is no way to do it.

After all, under the impression of thousands of years of traditional thinking, the people of China will not leave their hometown if they are not forced to do so.

Many people now go to the city to make money, and even go to sea to become sailors, but they always want to come back.

This immigration is not to say that they go out to work, and the place where the immigrants go is not a good place, whether it is Luzon or Banten, or Ryukyu Province, or even Dayuan Island, Qiongzhou Island and the southwest mountainous area in China, these places are not suitable for human survival in this era, especially not suitable for the survival of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

This emigrant, in the past, accidentally died.

Because of many restrictions, it is not easy to organize people to immigrate overseas in China.

Nowadays, the empire organizes immigrants to the open sea, mainly from some places along the coast where there are many people and few lands, and the landless peasants are the main recruits, but even so, the number of immigrants recruited is not large.

But even if it is difficult, the move of foreign immigration will not stop, foreign expansion, and immigration, this is already a large phalanx of the empire that has been determined a long time ago, and the officials from top to bottom know this.

Xia Wuyan is also very clear that although Osumi Prefecture is extremely far away from the mainland, it is expected that in a few months, the first batch of immigrants from China will arrive.

And before that, he needs to make all kinds of preparations!

Measuring the land and preparing the land for the immigrants is the top priority, as for the original owners of these lands, I'm sorry, Xia Wuyan has never regarded the original natives on the island as human beings.

In addition to the land, they also need to repair and expand the port!

Although Xia Wuyan was born in the army, his time in the army is long gone, although he still has some characteristics of a soldier, and he hates the navy as much as he did when he was in the army, but in the final analysis, he is also a local official now, and this ass has actually sat on the side of the civilian official for a long time.

After serving as an official for more than a year, most of the time in the Ryukyu Prefecture, it is natural that it is clear what is the core competitiveness of Osumi Prefecture, a small island far from the mainland.

Land?

No, this kind of sub-island is so large, even if the terrain is relatively flat and there is more land that can be developed, but in the end it is still impossible to develop into an agricultural county.

The biggest advantage of Tanegashima is that it is an important transit point on the trade route from Datang to Fuso, and even this positioning is even larger than Nakayama Island on the main island of Ryukyu Prefecture, because Tanegashima is on the edge of Fuso.

There is only a strait of Osumi that is tens of kilometers wide in the middle!

Such a geographical advantage made the navy choose to build a fortress and naval base here, so as to control the western part of Fuso and even the entire Fuso coast, and at the same time obtain the next forward base for entering Fuso Kyushu Island.

Similarly, because of such geographical advantages, Tanegashima can become a bridgehead for the Tang Dynasty's trade with Fusang, not just a transit station!

And to become a place dominated by maritime trade, then the port is a must!

Although the navy has also begun to build a port, it is a special port for the navy, and although it can be used for civilian use in the early stage, it will not work for a long time, so the construction of the wharf must begin.

At the same time, there was a need for a well-established port city, and after consulting with the navy, it was decided to expand the port fortress, which was originally used as a military fortress, and then the county yamen was also moved in.

Anyway, even if it develops in the future, the population of this kind of sub-island cannot be too large, and the expanded fortress is enough to accommodate it.

However, that will be for later, because according to the navy's estimates, it will take at least three months for the port fortress to complete the foundation, and it will be at least a year before it is fully completed.

Xia Wuyan was a little anxious, he just took the initiative to suggest to Feng Qirong: Since the construction time is too long, it must be a shortage of labor, is it possible to try to introduce labor to Fusang on the other side of the strait!

Everyone understands people, Xia Wuyan is talking about the introduction of labor, but Feng Qirong knew as soon as he heard it that the labor force in this person's mouth was a captive!

Because the nearly 1,000 people who are currently building the port and the fortress are all captives!

Is the introduction of labor equivalent to capturing prisoners?

And this is also what makes Feng Qirong sigh, they all say that the people in the army are bad, and from this Xia Wuyan, he knows that he is right.

Such a damaging method, why didn't I think of it in advance!

Yes, it seems that the battle plan for the bandits is going to be advanced!

Originally, Feng Qirong planned to gain a foothold in Tanegashima first, then block the Osumi Strait by the way, and then slowly clean up those pirates on Kyushu Island and the nearby islands, but now it seems that the plan needs to be advanced, because there is a serious shortage of labor on Tanegashima Island.

Feng Qirong is the commander of the Ryukyu Fleet, and his decision is naturally the decision of the entire fleet!

So, three days after the two men talked, some of the ships of the Ryukyu Squadron set sail again!

There weren't many battleships going this time, only one cruiser, two frigates, and the remaining two frigates were left behind to defend Tanegashima, but there were quite a few transports that followed, and they were all empty.

The purpose of these transports is very clear, these transports are to bring back the booty and prisoners of war.

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