For the Han people, who have never been picky about land, Yingzhou Island is full of farmland suitable for cultivation, so the slopes around Chaotian Mountain in the center of the island, as well as some horse farms and horse grazing lands in the plains, have been preserved after a large number of Han immigrants came. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The more than 20,000 horses of all grades that were originally scattered on the island were also provided with more than 2,000 adult horses every year after being taken over by the Yingzhou Town Guard Government to be used as military horses or pack horses.

Of course, the horses on Yingzhou Island were not as tall and strong as the Central Asian or Arabian horses at this time, but these horses from the Mongolian breed were hard-working and able to carry heavy loads in difficult conditions.

This is also the advantage of Mongolian horses.

According to the will of Emperor Chongzhen, the Zheng family fleet led by Zheng Xing, but if one person is transported safely to Yingzhou Island, then the Yingzhou Town Guard will pay the freight according to the capitation, regardless of men, women and children, two silver dollars per person.

In this way, Zheng Xing and other generals of the Zheng family's fleet were happy and satisfied, and indeed ensured that more than 20,000 people were safely and completely sent to Seogwipo in Yingzhou Town, but for Mao Weizhang, the warden of Yingzhou, when the last group of rebellious people came ashore, Zheng Xing asked him for money with a holy decree, his heart was not so happy.

Mao Weizhang, Chen Jisheng and others needed population, because only when the island had sufficient population, other undertakings could develop, and Yingzhou Island and its surrounding islands could be regarded as truly the undoubted territory of the Ming Dynasty.

But that doesn't mean he's willing to pay for the population.

Because although the island is rich in products, it is limited to the strict order of the imperial court, and it is not allowed to sell sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, horses and other products to Japan that is close at hand, and the money and grain allocated by the imperial court to the Yingzhou town guard every year are limited to the salary and rations of the five thousand soldiers under the command of the Yingzhou town guard.

Later, when Zheng Xing learned that the island produced a large number of horses, he immediately gave up the silver and chose horses instead.

There were more than 20,000 men, women, and children, and 20,000 were transported by Zheng Xing's fleet, and if each person paid two silver dollars, it would be 40,000 yuan.

The price of horses in this era has dropped due to the reopening of the mutual market with the Mongolian provinces in many parts of the Nine Border Areas, but it has also remained at an average price of 35 taels of silver per horse, which is even more expensive in the Fujian area, which does not produce horses.

However, Zheng Xing's willingness to use horses to offset the freight was a happy practice, so Mao Weizhang didn't bother with him too much about the price, and gave Zheng Xing 1,000 horses at a discount of 35 Chongzhen silver dollars per adult horse, and the rest was offset by the high-quality sea salt produced on the island.

Weng Zhiqi did not ask for horses or salt, but chose a large number of sweet potatoes and potatoes produced by the island's reclamation.

Zheng Xing was overjoyed to be able to get a thousand military horses on Yingzhou Island, and after the delivery of the men and horses, he quickly set off with the Zheng family's fleet and sailed back, as if he was worried that Mao Weizhang and others would regret it.

For Zheng Xing and even Zheng Zhilong, it is not easy to get a usable military horse, not to mention that Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places do not produce horses, that is, they produce horses, and he can't imagine it before he attaches to the imperial court!

After annexation, it is possible to buy horses in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places, but the horses in the south are mostly Yunnan horses and Sichuan horses, although these horses are very good in the mountains, but more are pack horses, rather than war horses.

And Mongolian horses are sold from the northern border of the Ming Dynasty to Fujian and Zhejiang, the price is not only several times higher, but also the quantity is very small, and it is necessary to give priority to the supply of the counterinsurgency army on the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan front, which can be said to be priceless, and it is not the turn of people like Zheng Zhilong to buy it.

Although Zheng Zhilong is mainly based on the fleet of sailors, he also wants to be dominant on land one day, and without cavalry, it is basically impossible to dominate on land, not to mention that now he is going to make a big fight on Dongfan Island, preparing to compete with the Dutch red-haired devils for the southwest plain of Dongfan Island, it is the time when war horses are needed.

So Zheng Xing returned to southern Fujian with his horses, and then went straight to Ben Port, and Zheng Zhilong and his generals were all happy.

Now, although the war horses in the Ming Nine-Border Army are gradually abundant, and the situation is much better than in the past, Li Xin came to Yingzhou Island and found that it was actually a good horse breeding place, and he was still surprised and happy in his heart at the moment.

It usually farms land and raises horses, operates trade, prepares for farming and war, and dies in battle to attack Korea and Japan, and retreats back to the Dongjiang River and Denglai, which is definitely a treasure land on this sea area.

Li Xin and others went to the town guard mansion and conveyed the will of Emperor Chongzhen to Dongjiang Town and the Korean State to Mao Weizhang, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde and others.

For North Korea, Mao Weizhang, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde and others naturally did not pay attention to it, and they were not afraid of the North Koreans sending troops to attack, but now that the North Korean State has recognized the status of Yingzhou Town, it is of course the best.

In the next few days, Li Xin, Huang Long and others, accompanied by Mao Weizhang, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde and others, traveled from Yingzhouao to Chaotian Mountain, and then from Chaotian to Seogwipo, almost every place on the island.

If it weren't for Mao Weizhang serving as the supervisor of Dongjiang Town, then Yingzhou Town Guard Mansion would be more like a part of Denglai from all aspects.

The Han people from Liaodong and Denglai were recruited to come and get land, whether they were military dependents or refugees, and now every household has become a landed landlord or yeoman farmer, and the difference between the landlord and the yeoman farmer on the island is only the difference between more land and less land.

The 3,000 soldiers of the standard battalion of the supervising army who originally followed Mao Weizhang and others to occupy this island have now undoubtedly become landlords with at least 100 acres of fertile land, and what they hope most is to recruit more displaced people, whether it is to be their tenants, or to give them long-term and short-term jobs, in short, they can live the life of real landlords, rather than having a lot of land at home, but the family is the same hard work.

This time, the appeased rebels sent from Zhejiang just solved this problem, and the land on the island was of course still there, but it was opened up in large numbers as military camps and horse farms, and there were other arable wastelands, but they had to be left for the next wave of displaced people transferred from Denglai.

These surrendered people who participated in the rebellion were brought over by the army, so naturally they could not get their own land.

Therefore, as soon as they landed on the island, they were scattered and assigned to different places in the five defense areas of the island, most of them were used as tenants of the military tun, salt households of the salt fields, and servants and tenant farmers of the generals and colonels at all levels of the town guard office, and some were recruited as long-term and short-term workers by the military landlords who came to the island a year earlier.

More than 20,000 people were assigned to Seogwipo within ten days, and the 20,000 people who had been a disaster in western Zhejiang were quickly arranged here, whether they were tenants or long-term workers, or they were arranged to work for the town guards in the north and south ports.

Li Xin has seen it with his own eyes and experienced such a feat himself, and he is envious in his heart.

On the way from Beijing to North Korea, Tanhualang Zhang Pu hung the "Four Sentences of Hengqu Teaching" in his mouth every day, and Li Xin of course also "had relatives in his heart", but what he wanted to do was not to "establish a heart for heaven and earth" and "continue to learn for the saints", but to "establish a life for the people" and "open peace for all generations".

If you can open up a territory with your own hands, settle the suffering poor people in the Chinese region, and let them live in peace and contentment, this is what a good man should really do!

However, this is already the place where Mao Weizhang, Chen Jisheng and others have made contributions, and there is no way to envy it, and another place that is similar to this place, I have to fight for it no matter what.