"Your Highness, Wang Aoke, the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, led his army to set up camp in Wando a few months ago, and attacked Silla several times, occupying Silla South Sea Island and Geoje Island as outposts, and attacking the counties of Hadong, Guseong, Nghe An, Dongnae, and Dong'an in southern Silla, breaking more than 20 cities. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info snatched more than 200,000 stones of grain and grass, 60,000 horses of cloth, more than 30,000 catties of copper including copper coins, 100,000 catties of various iron tools, 100,000 taels of silver, 100 taels of gold, 800 horses, and 1,000 cattle. Fifty-seven thousand men and women were captive. Annihilated more than 20,000 Silla land and water armies ......"

Xue Jun held Wang Aoke's battle report and read it aloud, while Li Yu intently pinched the pen and depicted the lotus pond blooming outside the window on rice paper.

After some careful depiction, the two-foot-long rice paper gradually showed a piece of green lotus leaves, the crystal rain and dew on the lotus flowers with pink petals in full bloom shimmered with the luster of water pearls, two dragonflies on the water surface dotted a circle of rippling water waves, chasing back and forth between the lotus and flowers, and the egret in a white raincoat walked in the pond with light steps.

After Xue Jun finished reading, he found that His Royal Highness was still concentrating on painting, unmoved by Wang Aoke's battle report, and stepped forward with curiosity to see how His Highness's painting skills were.

At a glance, the animals and plants in the painting Xu Xu Rusheng, Xue Jun praised from the bottom of his heart: "Your Highness's painting skills have been improved, and Yan Xianggong will be very pleased to learn about it." ”

Li Yu's martial arts studied under Xue Rengui, the art of war under Li Ji and Su Dingfang, and the painting skills under Yan Liben, who was also a famous painter, and Yan Liben's only disciple, even if his sons had never taught painting.

"Hahaha......" Li Yu said with a smile: "I have nothing to do to practice my handwriting, I just want not to insult Yan Xianggong's teachings." ”

Li Yu's modesty, Xue Jun smiled, and asked: "Wang Aoke captured more than 50,000 Silla men and women, and now there are 20,000 people who have been transported to Xingzhou Island, and 30,000 people are detained on Geoje and Nanhai Island. The transport ships under his command alone will not be able to be transported for a while and a half, Your Highness, is it possible to send additional transport ships from Jiaolong Sea Navigation? It is not a matter for more than 50,000 people to be imprisoned on Xingzhou Island, should they be dispersed and transported to the governor's mansion immediately? ”

Li Yu put down the paintbrush in his hand and said, "In addition to the three hundred warships obtained from the imperial court, there are also five hundred transport ships. One hundred and fifty Liaodong shipyards were refitted and their crews were well equipped, and fifty ships could be assigned to the Yellow Sea Fleet to transport prisoners. As for the Silla men and women imprisoned on Seongju Island? ”

Li Yu thought about it carefully and said: "First divide 6,000 Silla men and transport them to the three prefectural palaces under construction in Nanyang with forty transport ships with a displacement of more than 200 tons, and use them as slaves for their land reclamation. Two thousand Silla women were transported to the island of Beihai in twenty ships, and they were given concubines to the soldiers who had made great contributions to the land and the prisoners who had been pardoned. ”

"As for the remaining Silla men and women, they will be held on Seongju Island for the time being. But he couldn't just eat and drink for nothing, so Lu Zhaolin sent people to organize these Silla people to open up wasteland and cultivate land. ”

"The radius of Xingzhou Island is only more than 50 miles, and there are 40,000 aborigines on the island, so there is not enough wasteland for the remaining 40,000 Silla people, right?"

Xue Jun's words reminded Li Yu that not only did Xingzhou Island not have enough wasteland to reclaim the more than 40,000 Silla captives who had been taken captive, but they were also prone to tandem riots when they were placed on one island, so they had to be placed separately for the time being.

"In the past, the Governor of the Ryukyu Prefecture, Xie Ting, did not report that the Ryukyu Islands had been greatly reduced due to the slaughter of the unsurrendered villages on the islands by his uncle Sun Kang when he conquered the islands, and he also carried out extensive labor labor. Today, there are only about 50,000 natives in the Ryukyu Islands, and there are more women than men. ”

"Your Highness doesn't want to transport some of the Silla people to the Ryukyu Islands to pair up with those islands?"

Li Yu looked at Xue Jun in surprise and said, "Xue Sanyang, where do you want to go, isn't there a shortage of labor in the Ryukyu Islands?" I wanted to transport half of the Silla men to the Ryukyu Islands to work as slave laborers to reclaim the land, and when the situation in the South Seas opened up, all of them would be transported to the South Seas to open up the land. Silla originally belonged to Dongyi, and if it were paired with the islands on the Ryukyu Islands, wouldn't it still be a Yiren? ”

"It turns out that His Royal Highness thinks so thoughtfully, and he admires and admires!" Xue Jun smiled and slapped Li Yu on the back to relieve the embarrassment that he would be wrong.

Li Yu smiled indifferently: "Actually, you have been following me for several years, and you haven't received much practical benefit until now." With tens of thousands of Silla slaves available for land reclamation, officials from the former Yanwang Mansion could choose a piece of land of 300 to 1,000 mu in Seongju and the Ryukyu Islands according to the size of their official positions, and set up a manor for another 5 to 20 Silla slaves. ”

Xue Jun was stunned by the good news of hitting his head for a while, although after entering Andong with His Royal Highness the year before last to quell the rebellion of the remnants of Goguryeo, he obtained a large area of land in Liaodong according to the size of his merits. But Liaodong's population has been sharply reduced due to decades of war, and no matter how much land it gets, it can't find enough people to cultivate it! Moreover, the land of Liaodong can only grow grain, how can it compare with the land of Xingzhou and the Ryukyu Islands where sugar cane can be grown? Not to mention the great good thing of distributing Zhuang slaves for the first time.

Under Li Yu's gaze, Xue Jun reacted for a long time and thanked him: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!" ”

Li Yu urged with a smile: "Why don't you go and tell Xue Ne and Dapu that everyone has to celebrate this gift package I gave." ”

"Hahaha, Your Highness is right, the minister has taken his leave."

"Go ahead!"

Watching Xue Jun leave with a fart, Li Yu sat on the rocking chair and dangled around, Xin'er pulled away the barrier and rubbed Li Yu's shoulders and smiled: "Jun Xun will use land to buy people's hearts." ”

"There's no way, whoever told me to have not much else in my hands, just a lot of land, with the development of the colony, this land in my hands can't be squandered."

……

Under Xin'er's gentle massage, Li Yu closed his eyes and said, "It's time for me to establish Wangzhuang." ”

"Wang Zhuang?" Xin'er was a little puzzled, "Hasn't Jun always put his mind on business operations, how could he think of establishing Zhuangtian today?" ”

"I'm also an advocate of sugarcane planting in Ryukyu and Taiwan, and I have to get a piece of the huge income from sugarcane!"

"Huh?" Xin'er stopped and said in surprise: "The slave family still thinks that the huge profits from planting sugarcane in Ryukyu and Taiwan are just to deceive those powerful, wealthy, and ordinary people to voluntarily immigrate and help Xun Jun open up the two places." ”

"Nuo is a lie, the lie will be exposed in a year or two, at that time, where is the credibility of me, the king of Yan?"

Li Yu smiled lightly: "I just used a little exaggerated words when I publicized it in the newspaper, arousing the greed in people's hearts, at least planting sugarcane is not much different from reality." ”