At the beginning, Zhen Erqi attacked the Wuluo Protectorate, Zhen Qian didn't care about it, although he had a few backup plans to avoid the Anshi Rebellion, but the next thing began to develop beyond Zhen Gan's control, he had just arrived in the Wa Kingdom, and he was still thinking about how to occupy an island unknowingly, who knew that Fujiwara Shuxiong and Shao Erdong Shang began to fight.

The opportunity to fall pie in the sky is not very common, and the opportunity given to him by God is simply sorry for the eighteen generations of his ancestors if he does not take it.

Taking advantage of the battle between Fujiwara and Shaoji Dongshang, Zhen Qian ostensibly helped the maritime merchants lease a port in Nagasaki Town, but in fact turned around and occupied the Wufeng Islands.

During this period of time in the Wa Kingdom, Zhen Qian found that the Wa people in this era were similar to the Tang people, they did not have any maritime concepts, and they did not pay attention to the islands hanging overseas at all, which was embodied in the islands near Saikaido, most of which were not marked on the map of the Wa State government, let alone have island names.

The process of occupying the Wufeng Islands was so simple that it made Zhen Qian doubt his life!

Zhen Qian even laughed in his heart, in later generations, various countries could make a big deal because of a palm-sized reef, but in this era, no one cares about an island the size of a county town, which is even more exciting than giving Zhen Qian a million guan.

Of course, this is also because of the backward navigation technology of this era, and it has a little to do with the thoughts of the ancients, but more importantly, the people of this era do not have the idea of sea power at all.

Zhen Qian knows this, and has never preached any sea power in front of people, but now if it weren't for the increasingly fierce land annexation in Datang, coupled with the continuous natural disasters in various places, countless low-level people have become homeless, and it is impossible for him to let these people be willing to leave their hometowns and come overseas to finally gamble.

Although there is not much cultivated land on the Wufeng Islands, there are not many people! Even if you go out to work, the backyard of your home can also get about an acre of thin fields, of course, these backyards can't grow food, but there is no problem with planting some vegetables and fruits, and with land and jobs, people from Datang can really settle down and live.

"Zhen Lang! Who are you going to send on the trip to Liaodong in winter? ”

"I'm going to let Zhen Jiu go, Zhen Jiu is the best candidate, and I'm relieved that he goes, but it's not decided in the end!"

Zhen Qian didn't want to finalize the person, Zhen Jiu's interest was a little low these days, thinking of his previous two subordinates, one went to the Americas to explore, and the other was about to go to Qiumei Island to pass the strategy, and he was about to become an idler in the Wufeng Islands, Zhen Qian also had to consider Zhen Jiu's feelings.

"It's good! Zhen Jiu has rarely gone to sea in the past few months, and he will always stay on the island and get sick, so let him go back to the Bohai Sea to relax! ”

"That's right!" Wang Lun suddenly remembered something and said: "After the Tang merchants settled in Nagasaki Port, the number of ships passing by the northern tip of the Wufeng Islands began to increase, and there have been several times when the ships of the Tang Dynasty, Silla and Bohai have asked to dock to replenish fresh water, and they have inquired about the situation on the islands in many ways. ”

In these years, sea navigation is basically based on the coastline, but this does not mean that others cannot find the Wufeng Islands, and sometimes the route is a little off, and it is not impossible to find that the Wufeng Islands are inhabited.

But anyone who has been doing business at sea for many years knows that the Wufeng Islands used to be uninhabited, or that only a few fishermen lived on the islands, but now that there are so many people on the islands and houses have been built, can it not arouse the curiosity of others?

Now that he has occupied the Wufeng Islands, Zhen Qian is not worried about being discovered.

Of course, the premise of this sentence is that his own strength is strong, and even Zhen Qian had already thought in advance that a naval battle might break out between the Wufeng Islands and the Wa Kingdom, and the scale of the naval battle was difficult to determine. Only after the victory will the status of the Wufeng Islands be truly recognized by others, and at that time, the Wufeng Islands will become a force in the eyes of others.

The longer this time, Zhen Qian's hope is as long as possible, and the longer the time, the more adequate the preparation of the Wufeng Islands will be.

Zhen Qian was helpless about this kind of thing, he couldn't detain all the ships that discovered the Wufeng Islands, that would only attract more and more people's attention.

"Let it be! However, the necessary precautions must also be taken, and after the 500 stone flyship is built, a fleet will be stationed on the north main island, and all ships within 20 miles of the sea area of the Wufeng Islands will be expelled, and they can be concealed for as long as they can! ”

"Alas!"

Wang Lun sighed lightly, sometimes thinking that the Wufeng Islands were too close to the Wa Kingdom, and I didn't know what it would be like when I chose the Ryukyu Islands?

What Wang Lun was thinking in his heart, Zhen Qian naturally didn't know, explained the matter again, and left the Wufeng Islands.

At the beginning of the occupation of the Wufeng Islands, Zhen Qian had considered the issue of management, and as more and more islands were occupied, the distance between them became farther and farther, and the Wufeng Islands and Keelung Harbor were two thousand miles apart, and management was not something that Zhen Qian could worry about. Therefore, at the beginning, a set of management team headed by Wang Lun was established, which was equivalent to Zhen Qian's staff and cabinet management team, and Zhen Qian also deliberately rarely appeared in the Wufeng Islands, like later generations, tightly grasped the control of the army in his hands, and expressed his own opinions on the administration when formulating the plan, not that Zhen Qian did not want to manage, but that he could not manage, and he wanted to think about the Black Domain City of Murowei, and Zhen Gan's hand could not reach anywhere no matter how long it was.

Three days later, Zhen Qian reappeared in the town of Saga.

It's the end of September, and there's a chill in the air, and the first snow in Saikaido hasn't yet fallen, but the sight is still full of gloom.

The weather was getting cooler, Zhen Qian was still wearing a thin set of regular clothes, lying under the grapevine trellis that was about to wither, his eyes fell on a withered yellow leaf in his hand, his face was cold and he couldn't see what he was thinking.

Opposite Zhen Qian, kneeling sat a short middle-aged man, wrapped in a thick winter coat, with two hands in his sleeves, and said: "Sir, this month there are three hundred and twenty-one new households in Saga Town, with a population of six hundred and twenty-six people, and there are one hundred and nine young people between the ages of sixteen and thirty. ”

The person who spoke was the secretary of Saga Town, named Kamei, who was extremely sleek, and after arriving in Saga Town, the first thing he did was to meet Zhen Qian, and his posture was very low, and he would come to the door every three or five to report the situation in Saga Town to Zhen Qian, even if the official document came from Matsuura City, it was the first time to send it to Zhen Qian's hands, and he still regarded himself as Zhen Qian's subordinate.

Zhen Qian's eyelids slowly raised, swept over Kamei's face, and finally landed on the dead leaves in his hand again and said, "It seems that the relief food in Songpu City has not been seen for two months!" Is it because you are greedy for ink, or is it greedy for ink by Fujiwara, is it true that the entire town of Saga is thirty or forty thousand people counting on this official to feed? ”

(End of chapter)