PS: There was a big change in the previous chapter

In the fifth year of Xianheng, Li Yu was still in Chang'an to attend the prince's wedding.

A few years ago, with the planned Li Wenchang rate, the soldiers from Jiangnan, Lingnan, and Jiannan in Anton's army were drawn out and reorganized, and the reorganized Jiaoduanwei set off by boat from Duli Town. It took more than a month to arrive in Taipei County, and 10,000 young men and women selected from the more than 50,000 immigrants who arrived in Taiwan before the year ago formed a huge immigration fleet and went to the South Seas.

According to Li Yu's plan, the southward immigration fleet passed through the Yanshui Governor's Mansion in the Cagayan River Valley in the northern part of Luzon Island, the Luzon Governor's Mansion in the area of Manila, the capital of the later non-Lunar Empire, and the northern part of Borneo, and destroyed the Boni Governor's Mansion established by the Bo Ni State in its place, resettled 3,000 immigrants each, and set up counties for reclamation.

For the three prefectures, which had been in the military but not the people for more than a year, the arrival of the immigrants solved the problem of the people who were in urgent need of advanced farming techniques to come and cultivate the land.

Although the three governors had Silla slaves and their own local slaves available, it was clear that the advanced farming techniques of the land were not available to these low-productivity slaves.

The natives of Luzon still live a primitive agriculture of slash-and-burn farming, and they really rely on the sky to eat criminals, and the local natives are lazy and stupid.

Getting the Governor's garrison to lay down their arms and go to the fields to teach slaves to farm is another very time-consuming and military problem.

In the view of Xiao Rensu, He Ruolie, and Wei Chi Xunyu, the governors of the three prefectures, soldiers should be used to conquer the local natives who did not obey the king, and it was the right way to expand a larger new territory for the country.

The matter of ploughing the fields was, of course, handed over to the arriving immigrants, who then taught the slaves the advanced farming techniques of the Central Plains.

Nine thousand migrants disembarked along the way, and the size of Li Wenchang's fleet was reduced to one-third. After leaving the Bo Ni Governor's Mansion, it took five days to sail and finally arrived at the final destination, a large island given to Tang by Luo Yueguo, Puluozhong, which was later known as Singapore Island.

Under the shocked gaze of the people of Luo Yue on the island of Singapore, Li Wenchang led 4,000 soldiers and civilians to land on the island, and joined the Luo Yue Kingdom to build a city that occupied a circle of two miles and a port at the southwest end of the island for the Tang Dynasty.

King Luoyue, who heard the news of the Tang army, rushed to greet him with wine, food, and generous gifts.

For the warm reception of King Luo Yue, Li Wenchang smiled, before coming to Nanyang, he had an exchange with Wang Haichong, a little Taoist priest who knew the truth of Nanyang very well.

For the Nanyang countries, Wang Haichong's opinion is: "Those who do not accept will be beaten or destroyed at will, and those who serve will be gracious and powerful, and the generous gifts given by the kings of those countries cannot be polite." ”

After he was full of wine and food, Li Wenchang took out Li Yu's instructions and read: "King Luoyue has made meritorious contributions to the land and admires Wang Hua, and I will go to the court to ask for an official title for you." From then on, Luo Yueguo was subordinate to the Tang Dynasty Andong Governor's Mansion, and listened to the Puluo Governor's Mansion. If there is a small offender who crosses the border, my Tang Heavenly Soldiers will come, and the jade will be burned......"

"His Royal Highness Xie Yan Wang is ...... love"

King Luo Yue hurriedly thanked him in extremely unskilled Chinese.

"According to His Royal Highness's wishes, Puluozhong has since changed its name to Singapore Island, established Fengzhou on the island, ruled Yongxing County, served as the seat of the Puluo Governor's Mansion, and named the port Yee Fung Harbor."

Li Wenchang spoke eloquently.

"When the Tang envoy came to Singapore Island last year, Xiao Wang gave it to the Tang Dynasty, and it was up to King Yan to change the name or set up a state and county."

King Luo Yue sneered.

"It's just that I have just arrived on Singapore Island with my army and civilians, and I need a lot of manpower to reclaim the land on the island to adapt to the local climate and the small population. The Governor's Mansion wants to recruit some young and strong laborers from Luo Yue, I don't know if King Luo Yue is willing? ”

"If you are willing to be willing, it is a lifelong blessing for the people of a small country to serve the kingdom."

King Luo Yue hurriedly agreed, for fear that his slow reaction would make Li Wenchang mistakenly think that he was disrespectful to Datang. After all, the three thousand well-equipped soldiers brought by Li Wenchang were not something that little Luo Yueguo could resist.

Luo Yueguo's capable soldiers have reached the sky for 2,000, and they don't even have a decent leather armor, otherwise they won't be bullied by the surrounding powers, so they want to take refuge in the north of the sea, tens of thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty.

King Luo Yue didn't know that he had just jumped out of the wolf's den and fell into the tiger pit, and his territory had long been remembered by Li Yu, so he would harvest it when the time was ripe.

After King Luo Yue returned, he immediately levied 3,000 strong laborers and sent them to Singapore Island to return to the governor of Puluo. Seeing that the number of people was not enough, the Puluo Governor's Mansion demanded labor force, so he simply levied and distributed even the young and strong girls in the country, and brought the required food, which made Li Wenchang very satisfied, and sighed that Nanyang Fanbang Xiaowang was still quite good.

With the use of four or five thousand free laborers, Li Wenchang cleared the dense tropical rainforest in the areas suitable for cultivated land on the island of Singapore, and made up patches of paddy fields.

After the paddy fields were reclaimed by Luo Yue's laborers, Li Wenchang let 1,000 people and half of the Jiaoduan guards plant a batch of rice, and the grain harvest in more than three months could also meet the food needs of the Governor's Mansion for a period of time.

In addition to reclaiming cultivated land on the island, the city wall of Yongxing County is also being heightened and reinforced, and the port has also been widened and deepened. The port was also renovated with cement transported from thousands of miles away, making the berthing conditions of the port the first in the South Seas. It is used to attract merchant ships to and from the Straits of Malacca to berth and drive the development of commercial trade in Fengzhou.

The rise of the Nanyang powers, Suluo You and Sri Buddha, was due to the fact that they controlled the passage of Nanyang merchant ships through Malacca, and forced passing merchant ships to berth in their ports by force to collect berthing fees and collect merchant taxes, and thus became rich and flowing.

Singapore Island is stuck at a key point in the shipping lanes of the Strait of Malacca, and it is common to see merchant ships coming and going from the eastern and western oceans on the sea every day.

In the past, because the Luo Yue Kingdom, which controlled Singapore Island, was weak and weak, it was unable to take advantage of the superior geographical conditions of Singapore Island, and could not earn a cent of profits in Nanyang commercial trade.

However, with the entry of the Tang army into the mastery of the establishment of the Puluo Governor's Mansion to implement effective rule and vigorously build ports, the situation changed silently.

The establishment of Yee Fung Port on Singapore Island and the optimization of cement, and the superior geographical berthing conditions have attracted many merchant ships to come to the island, instead of making a detour of more than 700 nautical miles away from the shipping channel to Palembang, the capital of Sri Buddha.

The fame of Vivoport gradually spread as merchant ships docked there, and it grew larger and larger in the South Seas, attracting the attention of the surrounding powers.

It was the Tang Dynasty that occupied Singapore Island to operate port trade, which had never gone south in the past, which made the surrounding countries in the South Seas puzzled and worried.

The haze of war hung over the South Seas.