Chapter 35: The Idea of Prison Island (3,000 words)

Li Zhen thought that his reasoning was correct, but Lin Fa quickly corrected his mistake: "Your Highness, you are wrong, the environment here is not only not bad, on the contrary, it is also very good, this is a typical tropical island, the rainforest is dense, the food is abundant, and there is a big river inside, whether it is food or water shortage, as long as you know a little survival skills, you can live well here, maybe in the eyes of others, it is a waste of resources to exile prisoners, but the problem is ......." ”

Speaking of this, Lin Fa's voice changed in vain: "The problem is that the environment here is too good, and the good ones are a bit too ......."

"What does it mean that the environment is too good?" Li Zhen is a little confused, what is good excessive? Is the environment good or not? Is it a good place to be in a bad environment? What is the rationale for this?

"It is precisely because the environment is so good that a hegemon has been bred on the island." Lin Fa explained with a wry smile: "Because the environment is so good, snakes and insects breed, almost all over the island - that is to say, this is actually a snake island, and almost all the poisonous snakes that live on it are highly poisonous snakes that have blood and throats. ”

"Snake Island? I see...... I said, why did Situ Chen recommend this place to this palace? Li Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, this makes sense, because the environment is too humid, resulting in many snakes and insects on the island, so ordinary people cannot live, just exile the prisoners, let them fight against the snakes, to see if they have done the poisonous snakes, or the poisonous snakes finally eat them.

Snake Island, as the name suggests, is an island with an ecological chain dominated by snakes and insects, and there are many snake islands in the world, such as the local Qiandao Lake Snake Island, Dalian Snake Island, foreign Brazilian Snake Island and Ukrainian Snake Island, etc. Snake Island is formed for a variety of reasons, but most of them are due to the right environment and the absence of natural predators, snakes and insects can thrive on the island, eventually exterminating other creatures on the island and dominating the island.

The only difference is that the current area of this snake island is a little too large, more than 1,000 square kilometers......

I don't know how many poisonous snakes there are on it?

After receiving Li Zhen's inquiry, Lin Fa replied: "I definitely don't know the specific number, and my subordinates haven't seen it with their own eyes, anyway, according to Situ, the island is full of poisonous snakes, and an average of ten steps will encounter a snake......

His exploration team only explored the edge of the island, and they didn't know what was going on inside, but according to Situ, the reason why his exploration team didn't finish exploring was not because they were lazy, but because of fear - the exploration team didn't dare to explore after exploring the island for three days, they all ran back like crazy, and after they went back, they did psychological counseling with the political commissar for several days, even so, they couldn't hear the word snake anymore, otherwise they would definitely get goosebumps all over their bodies, and then fidget, Even they don't dare to look at something that is too dense...... It seems that I have the dense phobia that Your Highness said. ”

"I see." Li Zhen is even more satisfied, even the exploration team that often takes the lead and has to face danger at all times, and the heroes in the army have a psychological shadow, which shows how dense the snakes and insects on the island are - even if the center of the island is an open space, there is no need to worry about poisonous snakes, as long as there are these poisonous snakes guarding the periphery, the prisoners inside will not be able to escape.

"Very well, in that case, let's put 10,000 people here, and divide the rest into the other three islands." Li Zhen clapped his head.

Such a large island, if there are not 10,000 people, it is a waste of resources, in fact, according to the area of this island, no matter how many people there are, it is enough, but Li Zhen's plan is not clear to others - the environment of this snake island is really good, it is simply a natural prisoner penal colony, he not only wants to exile the group of prisoners in front of him, he also plans to make this snake island a real prison island, whether it is domestic or overseas criminals in the future, they will be put here, so it is not appropriate to put more people first, Otherwise, if it becomes crowded, it will be difficult for future people to put it here.

"Of course, it is beneficial to put it separately, after all, the power of the prisoners will be much weaker, and it will be more convenient to manage, but if you are messed with by Your Highness, it is estimated that Situ will die of sorrow when he hears it, after all, the people in his hands are not very enough, and if you pull it like this, his hair is estimated to be gray." Lin Fa said with a little schadenfreude, originally Situ Chen may have planned to let Li Zhen choose one of the five islands, but Li Zhen actually used all five islands - you must know that the prisoners are not thrown into these islands and let go, the fleet needs to send people to guard, the number of the fleet is not enough, and even patrolling the southern waters of Luzon is enough to stretch it down, and now Li Zhen wants to transfer a part of Situ Chen's men to guard the prisoners, it would be strange if he could be happy in his heart.

"Then you can rest assured Situ Chen, this palace does not intend to use your people this time." Li Zhen said with a smile: "This time the palace plans to set up a C-class fleet, equipped with a second-class battleship, ten third-class battleships, and twenty cruisers (the fourth-class battleship is improved, the original fourth-level battleship should actually be regarded as a reduced version of the third-level battleship, but later after having a third-class battleship, the role of the fourth-class battleship was greatly reduced, so Li Zhen asked people to change the original drawings, reduce the weight of armor and the number of guns, increase the caliber of artillery, increase the speed of ships, and specialize in patrolling the sea frontier. As for the fifth-tier warships, they are no longer in production, and they will gradually be replaced by destroyers in the future) and thirty destroyers, whose sole role is to manage Prison Island and also transport or capture prisoners, which is relatively more independent. ”

"So that's the case, then the subordinates are relieved." Lin Fa breathed a sigh of relief, because if Li Zhen transferred men and ships from the native fleet of Luzon, not only the Dagang fleet would be transferred, but his Coconut Harbor fleet would also not be able to escape the fate of being transferred, and now Li Zhen specially organized a small fleet, which means that his manpower will not be used, which is also good news for him.

As for whether the new fleet will dilute his rights, this Lin Fa is not worried, not to mention that he is loyal to Li Zhen, let's just say that Luzon is so big, their two fleets can't be protected at all, and they are often exploited by smugglers and pirates, for which they are not less reprimanded by the imperial court.

Now that there is an additional fleet, it will reduce their pressure - although the main role of this fleet is to guard the prison, but Linfa does not believe it, and they will not arrest pirates and smugglers when they encounter them.

"By the way, there's one more thing." After talking about Prison Island, Li Zhen remembered one more thing: "You have been here in Luzon for almost three or four years, right?" ”

Linfa added: "Three and a half years. ”

"In this case, your term of office should be over." Li Zhen said: "You should prepare for the next few days, at most two months, the fleet that came to change guards with you will arrive." ”

The main reason for changing the defense, as the name suggests, is that the troops that were originally stationed in a certain place hand over the defensive tasks and are replaced by the newly transferred troops, and the main reason is to prevent the troops from staying in a certain place for too long, which will lead to deep-rootedness, and eventually form a trend of not falling behind.

Speaking of which, not only Lin Fa, but also Cheng Chuliang, Liu Renliang and others have not changed their guards, and the two of them, Yu Chi Baolin and Qin Huaiyu, who have been in Dengzhou for nearly ten years, should have changed their guards a long time ago.

However, in the past few years, because the navy had just been established, the number of fleets in Datang was not neatly arranged, and everything belonged to crossing the river by feeling the stones, and it was naturally impossible to talk about changing guards. However, with the development of time, the size of the navy has become more and more complete, and some old fleets have already been in place for a long time, and at this time it has become a matter of course to change the guard - otherwise, after a long time, something will really happen.

"Yes, Your Highness, am I going to be transferred to the mainland?" Lin Fa's face showed a hint of joy, to be honest, he had already stayed in this place enough, although Coconut Port is very prosperous, and he has made a lot of money here, but no matter how prosperous the place is, staying for three years in a row, it is a person who will be bored, not to mention that in addition to Coconut Port, the entire Luzon is only a few cities that are barely considered to be well developed, where is there good local development?

What's more, Datang is at the beginning of the Age of Discovery, which can be described as gold everywhere, where to make money is not to make money? Not to mention overseas business activities, let's talk about the coastal cities in the mainland, although the overall income of these cities is not as perverted as that of Yuezhou and Quanzhou, but the annual cargo ships entering and leaving the port are also a very decent figure. In particular, with the popularization of seafood farming technology, some cities with underdeveloped maritime trade have changed their development direction and changed to large-scale seafood farming, and at the same time established seafood processing plants to process seafood into various products and ship them to the mainland, and the profits harvested are not much lower than those obtained by sea.

"Don't think about it in the mainland, this time the place you go to is Borneo." Li Zhen knew Lin Fa's plan, to be honest, this Lin Fa is good anywhere, but he doesn't have much ambition, especially after becoming the governor of the fleet, he feels that his life has reached the peak, he has lost the meaning of struggle and struggle, and has become a Buddhist youth. Of course, Li Zhen doesn't want to see Lin Fa abolished from now on, after all, he can sit in today's position, and he was promoted by himself, if he loses his fighting spirit, not only will he be laughed at, but Li Zhen will also lose his face.

Since he himself is unwilling to move forward, Li Zhen doesn't mind being a whip behind his back, whipping him well, and urging him to move forward.

(End of chapter)