Three bamboos on the sun, the breeze blows across the surface of the Chu River, afraid of waving the flag of the boats in the river, more than ten dhows are like heroes, surrounded by dozens of sailless clippers like lioness sanitation, driving on the Chu River, rippling layer by layer of ripples.

On both sides of the Chu River is a dense primeval deep forest, where apes are singing, beasts are roaring, birds are singing, and birds and animals are playing forest chorus.

From time to time a clearing of trees stumps appeared on the shore, and at last the traces of people were revealed, where the trees were cut down, and then stripped of their branches and leaves, and thrown into the river, where large logs were left to flow downstream.

There are small boats on the shore, patrolling the Chu River, and if they find any logs that are blocked, they will step forward to deal with them to ensure that the logs can reach the mouth of the Chu River downstream.

In addition to the county seat of the Chu River, there are also a large number of timber processing factories, which are processed into wooden houses, boats, wooden walls, and so on.

The heavily armed Chu army was either stationed in the logging area or patrolled by boat to ensure law and order.

The entire Chu River is like a huge assembly line, producing efficiently and methodically.

Swimming on the fleet of the Chu River, Cao Xingyu watched all this and nodded with satisfaction.

This time, all the seasick people were arranged to rest in Chuhe County, which caused only Xu Shu, Cao Feng, Zhang Nan and a few other people to accompany them, and even Lu Bu and Zhao Yun belonged to the ranks of seasickness.

Of course, the personnel of the sea division are also there, including Gan Ning, who has just joined.

Fortunately, Zhang Bai and his subordinates Sancao were not seasick, and they were also called to the dhow where Cao Xing was, carrying a small sailboat of more than 30 people, all of whom were senior officials of the Chu army without exception.

Standing on the right side of Cao Xing is Zou Tao.

Cao Xing's eyes looked at the west bank of the Chu River, and a tributary of the Chu River appeared in his sight, and his eyes were in the logging area on the bank that crossed the confluence of the river, and he stretched out his right hand and pointed to the depths of the dense forest:

"Zou Tao, this tributary is enough to sail boats, Xinchu has abundant rainfall, I estimate that the tributary can sail hundreds of miles upstream, then this tributary will be called Wu River in the future!"

It is bounded by the intersection and hundreds of miles upstream, the downstream is Chuhe County, and the upstream is your feudal Wu. ”

Zou Tao's eyes lit up when he listened, and he was a little embarrassed, he was rarely honest, and he didn't answer, his eyes glanced at Cao Xing's left head intentionally or unintentionally.

At this time, Cao Xing also looked at his left head:

"Brother Shoot, what do you think?"

I saw that Cao Xing's left head was a middle-aged man in bright iron armor, and there was a slight resemblance to Cao Xing between his eyebrows, and he was the real uncrowned king of the Chu River valley and the southern part of the Indochina Peninsula, the spouse of the former Queen of Funan, and the father of Cao Ming, the current king of the Ming Kingdom, Cao Shu, the general of the Ming Kingdom.

Cao Shot respectfully bowed:

"Everything under the subordinates comes from the head of the family, a little territory, there are countless Ming countries, once the head of the family commands, the subordinates will fully support."

"Well, Brother Shoot has a heart, but if you want Ming'er's territory, Uncle will not let him suffer, within two years, there will be 10,000 Han people as immigrants, tun people, labor prisoners, etc., classified as Ming people, and also ask my brother to develop resettlement areas in advance according to the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" written by Zhang, Hua, and Dong, three divine doctors, in order to prevent soil adaptation and tropical diseases."

"No!"

This time, Cao Jie's answer was very moving, Funan is larger, larger than several states in the Central Plains, but it is sparsely populated, and it is also a primitive tribal situation, the former Funan, and the current Ming State is just the suzerainty of this large land.

There are hundreds of small nations and tribes, large and small, below.

In particular, the population under the rule of the Ming Kingdom added up to less than 100,000 people, and most of them were native to Funan, and he was the only Han who was the only one, and there were dozens of people who were willing to follow him.

The first country of the Indochina Peninsula, in the opinion of Cao She, the uncrowned king, there are less than a hundred real Chinese people, even if every Chinese is matched with three wives and four concubines, the increase in the population of the Chinese people is still too slow, not to mention that the Ming country is located in a wilderness, with many tropical diseases and a high infant mortality rate.

With tens of thousands of Chinese people joining in this way, then his rule, as well as Cao Ming's rule in the future, will be countless times better.

Cao Jian readily agreed, which made Zou Tao excited, this tributary of the South China Sea Fleet has been explored, and the river is no less than five hundred miles long, which means that more than four hundred miles upstream will be his territory.

At this time, Cao Xing poured a scoop of cold water over and poured Zou Tao cold.

"Zou Tao, Zou Guojun, although you are a third-class pavilion marquis and a thousand households, but now the tropical disease has not been fully solved, so that the migration of the Han people can only be carried out slowly, and slowly and gradually adapt, and the Wu country you sealed is obviously still undeveloped and does not have the conditions for immigration."

Cao Xuan looked at Zou Tao and said solemnly:

"Therefore, your food will not be replenished to you so quickly, it will be expanded slowly, and the three thousand labor prisoners promised this morning cannot be all given to you, Chuhe County will soon be promoted to a county, and Chuhe shipyards and lumberyards also need a lot of labor.

Therefore only a thousand are allotted to you. ”

"Ahh

Zou Tao looked frustrated, and he couldn't imagine that there should be three to seven or eight people in a household, that is to say, he was a marquis of a thousand households, and there would be at least three thousand people, but now it is twice as small.

Just when Zou Tao was about to come down with a sad face, Cao Xing's next words seemed to be warmer than the sun in the sky.

I saw Cao Xing looking at him kindly and lovingly:

"This is only the first step, in addition to a small number of Han Chinese blood, there are also a small number of good performance of these prisoners who have been promoted to Han nationality, and the rest are not counted among the Chinese people, and they will serve their sentences for life.

In other words, they can give you a maximum of fifty households.

You are now the governor of the South China Sea Fleet, and the scale of the guards under your command has reached the ratio of 1,000 people.

Here, I will authorize you to select one hundred and fifty people from among the guards, under the premise that the other party is willing, as the countrymen of the feudal state of Wu, of course, you can provide more wives and concubines for these Han people.

This adds up to two hundred.

The remaining 800 households will be distributed to you in five years, so don't worry! ”

Unexpectedly, Zou Tao didn't want to let his battle-hardened and loyal guards be his countrymen, as for the matter of only one person in a household since then, it was too easy for Zou Tao to solve.

Every day, hundreds of single young women are captured by the South China Sea Fleet under his command, and these single young women will all be matched with the Chu army as concubines, and then they will have more concubines for their countrymen, and even child daughters-in-law, so everything will not be solved.

Cao Xing looked at the satisfied Cao Shot and Zou Tao, and sighed in his heart: I still can't directly digest the raw land of the Indochina Peninsula!

But with the feudal state as a buffer, and then the Han Dynasty's ancestral law pushed the grace order, it was only a matter of time before the Indochina Peninsula was digested and slowly became a familiar land.