After getting off the ship, Xia Wuyan stood firm with the support of his entourage, and then looked back at the naval communication ship behind him, his expression was a little complicated, but in the end he muttered: "It's worthy of a turtle, can you make such an extreme communication ship?" ”

As an official from the army, Xia Wuyan naturally had no opportunity to deal with ships before, that is, when he came to the Ryukyu Mansion to take office, he took a long voyage on the merchant ship of the Tang Oriental Trading Company.

However, the ship of the Datang Oriental Trading Company that he took before was the most advanced 680 merchant ship, although this kind of ship was not as good as the Spanish galleon, but in the final analysis, it was still a merchant ship, and the stability of the navigation was very good, and it was relatively comfortable to ride.

After arriving in Ryukyu Prefecture, I thought that Ryukyu Prefecture was an archipelago, and when I went out to work on other islands, I naturally needed to take a boat, but this kind of voyage was a short voyage, and most of them were also on merchant ships with mixed passenger and cargo use, although it was not very comfortable, but it was not too uncomfortable.

However, the naval communication ship that came to the Osumi Islands to take was a miserable blow to him, and since he got on the ship, he felt that he had never stood firmly, and the whole person was up and down with the ship, swaying from side to side.

Such a violent fluctuation also caused him to suffer severe seasickness and vomit almost all the way!

But although this broken ship is very uncomfortable to sit on, I have to say that this ship is really fast!

When sailing on the sea, he rode the wind and waves almost all the way, and the speed of sailing was almost several times that of ordinary merchant ships, and he saw many ships on the way.

At first, he saw a vague outline in the distance ahead, and then slowly saw the specific ship type, because at this time, the communication ship had already caught up with its excellent speed.

Then, the communication ship would leave those merchant ships behind, and in the end, those merchant ships would slowly disappear from Xia Wuyan's sight.

This is still an ordinary time, when there is a strong wind, you will really feel the charm or horror of this kind of communication ship.

The multi-masts were all open sails, and under the drive of the sails, the communication ship was almost sailing at the terrifying speed that Xia Wuyan had seen, and at the fastest time, he even heard the captain next to him say that the speed had reached twenty knots!

Mom, although Xia Wuyan said that he was born as an army officer, he was also well-informed, and he knew very well how fast the ships were in these years, and those Galen ships used by foreigners, when the wind and water were smooth, the maximum speed might reach seven to ten knots, but the average speed was only about four knots.

The other ships of the same era are similar, Datang shipbuilding industry integrates the characteristics of Eastern and Western sail ships, so as to design a warship, in the case of smooth wind, the maximum speed can reach about 12 knots, but in long-distance voyages, the average speed is about 6 knots.

The new Datang merchant ship represented by the 680 merchant ship, which was redesigned according to the warship, has a maximum speed of about 10 knots and an average speed of about 5 knots.

However, this kind of naval communication ship is rumored to be of the type of flying clipper and is of extreme design, which can run to a maximum speed of 167 knots, and the average speed of 24 hours may reach about 14 knots.

I've only heard about it before, but after really sitting on it, I will understand why those turtles in the navy use this kind of ship as a communication ship, Nima is really fast enough.

Xia Wuyan looked at this communication ship with a complicated expression, then shook his head, and made up his mind to pay attention to it, he would never take this kind of communication ship again in the future, it was too bumpy, and it was not a human seat at all.

And seeing Xia Wuyan let people help him to walk up to the dock, several naval officers on the navy communication ship also let out a malicious laugh!

Didn't these turtles from the army say that they saw a big scene, how could they become soft-footed shrimp after taking a boat once!

Along the way, in order to be in a hurry, and at the same time, it was also to let Xia Wuyan, a native bun from the army, see the latest big toys of their navy, so they ran wildly along the way.

When the wind is strong, the sails have never been lowered, and the small communication ship is almost up and down in the waves!

And they didn't know that their voyage had already broken the speed record of the ships of this year!

The maximum speed reached 20.5 knots, and the average speed of 24 hours reached 17 knots!

This speed is unattainable even by ordinary clippers, that is, they are specially designed to achieve it for rapid communication and rapid transportation of small cargo.

As for ordinary clippers, for example, the fast transport ships designed by the Navy and the Ministry of Naval Affairs for rapid replenishment and are currently under construction have a maximum speed of only 16 knots.

However, whether it is this kind of extreme fast communication ship or fast transport ship, their cargo volume is very small, not to mention that communication ships can only carry a very small number of small items, and the cargo capacity of fast transport ships is also very small.

In fact, these ships are not suitable for use as merchant ships, because their cargo volume is too small, and the transportation cost is very high, and at present, they are not suitable for use as merchant ships.

After all, the first task of a merchant ship is to transport cargo, and the key is to transport cargo while maintaining stability and speed.

However, after setting foot on Tanegashima, Xia Wuyan put all the vomiting and discomfort along the way in his mind, and then began to take his subordinates to meet the main generals of the Ryukyu fleet, especially Feng Qirong.

However, this kind of meeting was just a routine meeting, Xia Wuyan did not talk much with the navy, and Feng Qirong, in order to avoid suspicion, did not ask even a word about the preparation for the establishment of Osumi County, but only said that if the local yamen had any needs, they could ask them for help from the navy, and the navy would try its best to provide assistance.

After meeting Feng Qirong and them, Xia Wuyan took more than a dozen officials and began to build the administrative organization of Osumi County.

According to the order of Fang Pinglu, the governor of Ryukyu Prefecture, Xia Wuyan served as the special envoy of Osumi Prefecture, and the reason why it was not a prefectural order was because Osumi Prefecture had not yet been approved, and in official documents, Osumi Prefecture did not strictly exist, so this prefectural order naturally could not be talked about, so Xia Wuyan served as a special envoy.

In addition, there are deputy envoys, and then the leaders of some major institutions of the county-level yamen are also selected, such as the industrial and commercial section, agricultural section, patrol police bureau and so on under the county yamen, and the taxation bureau, the inspection yuan, the courts, and so on independent of the county yamen.

Basically, they have all set up institutions that a county-level local yamen should have, but they are not county yamen officials officially registered and recognized by the empire.

It's just that although they say that they are not official county yamen officials, they are doing the work of the top leaders of the various institutions of the county yamen, and if nothing else, after the approval of the empire, their official appointment letters will come down.

So the day after Xia Wuyan arrived on Tanegashima, the preparation yamen of Osumi County, Ryukyu Prefecture, which was directly under the overseas jurisdiction of the Tang Empire, was officially established.

On the first day of its establishment, Xia Wuyan and the others quickly entered their work, and Xia Wuyan was busy negotiating with the navy, why? The main thing is to get some prisoners from the navy to repair the county yamen and some basic facilities, such as drainage ditches, public toilets and the like.

And every time they go to a place, it is to improve the local sanitary conditions, which is also a tradition of the Tang Dynasty.

Although the county seat of Osumi Prefecture is a small village, and the main inhabitants are naval officers and a very small number of natives, this does not prevent them from carrying out their work.

Because Xia Wuyan knew very well that if nothing else, immigrants from Ryukyu Province and other domestic regions would arrive soon.

The geographical environment of Tanegashima is still good, the terrain is flat, and the climate is also good, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture, which means that more people of the Tang Dynasty can be fed.

I don't dare to say more, but there is no problem in accepting thousands of people in the early stage.

And a few thousand people is already very good for an overseas island, and the Ryukyus side has been developed for so long, and there are only a few thousand people from the Tang Dynasty who immigrated to the past.

Xia Wuyan has his own job, and people in other departments also have their own jobs, among which the most active and smoothest is the tax bureau.

This is also a tradition in the local politics of the Tang Dynasty, basically every place, the most efficient administrative efficiency is the tax bureau!

There is no way, this department is taxed, and taxation is the most important work of the Tang Dynasty, and the officials of the tax department are often the most outstanding talents in the Tang Dynasty officialdom.

This talent does not refer to their level of writing, but to their ability to do things.

The tax department promotes talents, never looks at the background, the level of the article, they only value one point, that is, your actual ability to do things, do a good job, even if you are a gangster, they still dare to use it, and it is reused.

Osumi County prepared for the Yamen Taxation Bureau, and after the establishment of the establishment, the tax officials recruited people on the spot, how to recruit people, and there were no immigrants in this broken place, except for their dozen officials and dozens of retinues they brought, there were only sailors left on this Tanegashima.

Naturally, it is impossible for them to bring in the active officers and men in the navy, but recruit natives in the first place? It's not reliable either!

So they set their sights on passing merchant ships!

The Osumi Islands are an important part of the trade route between China and Fuso, and a large number of merchant ships will pass through here, and many ships have also received information on the way that Tanegashima has been controlled by the Empire, so ships have arrived at Tanegashima in the past two days.

The tax officer's target is the sailors on the merchant ships!

They squatted directly in the small port and saw a merchant ship coming, as long as they confirmed that the people on the ship were the people of the Tang Dynasty, then they would immediately pull people!

He even shouted slogans such as "Food, Wife, Salary, and Bonuses" to pull people, and promised that as long as he entered our tax bureau, he would be able to become a glorious member of the tax inspection team!

The tax inspection team, this name is basically known to the people of the Tang Dynasty now, unless he hides in the mountains and old forests and does not deal with outsiders, the prestige of this institution is also very clear to many people.

In the empire, I don't know how many hooligans and gangsters are striving to join the glorious and great tax inspection team, but unfortunately, in the past two years, the empire's tax inspection team, after Chen Lifu's governance, has basically not recruited outsiders, and basically recruited people from veterans and tax schools run by the Ministry of Taxation itself to supplement.

Now that these sailors have heard about the opportunity to become part of the tax inspection team, many of them can't help but be intrigued.

Although it is just a member of the tax inspection team in a remote place, but it is also a member of the imperial tax inspection team, as long as you go in, life is worry-free, and the more important thing is the prestige.

This is much better than being a sailor, although the income of a sailor is very high, but it is also very risky, and if you are not careful, you will die in the sea.

Therefore, when Xia Wuyan and other people from other agencies were still worried that there was no one under their hands, and they were waiting for the domestic dispatch of people to come to support, the tax inspection team with quite efficient administrative efficiency had already recruited enough people, and within a few days, they recruited a total of 50 people from a number of passing merchant ships as members of the Osumi County tax inspection team.

Although these tax inspection teams are from different parts of the country, this is not in the way, the important thing is that they know what kind of organization the tax inspection team is, and they are all grinding their fists and preparing to do a big job.

Therefore, the tax department also quickly carried out the work equipment, they set up a tax collection point directly in the port, to collect taxes on passing merchant ships, and at the same time began to measure the land on the island, and collect taxes on the natives of the island.

Different languages? No problem, they have translators!

The poor level of translation, the difficulty of communicating with the natives, or the natives' unwillingness to pay taxes, is not a problem, they directly bring guns to the door to collect taxes, and if they don't pay taxes, they will shoot and fire immediately.

In order to effectively carry out tax collection work, Osumi Prefecture prepared for the director of the tax bureau, but when he set out from Ryukyu Prefecture, he asked his superiors for the support of a shotgun, fifty arquebuses, and other waist knives, spears, and light plate armor.

And the sailors they recruit are actually not ordinary people, these years of maritime trade, basically inevitably have to fight with pirates, natives, peers, merchant ships are also full of guns and swords, otherwise how can it be called armed merchant ships.

So these sailors, they are all ruthless characters who can fight with guns and swords!

Therefore, these fifty-man tax inspection team is actually an armed force, and without the help of the marines, they themselves can sweep the entire Tanegashima Island.

It also allowed the thousands of natives on the island to fully appreciate the combat effectiveness of the tax inspection team of the Tang Empire, and deeply realized that living under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, many things, even illegal things, can be done, but only tax evasion cannot be done, so they are all very active in paying taxes!

The tax officer said that he was as much as he wanted, and he would never talk nonsense about paying taxes, and he would never delay, and his consciousness would be quite high!

Why do they have such a high level of awareness?

In the past few days, three or four families who have been exterminated have told them with their lives: In Datang, there must be no tax evasion!

In the process of sweeping Tanegashima, the former sailors shouted that joining the tax inspection team was indeed the right choice, and in less than half a month, almost everyone's pockets were bulging.