Chapter 30: The Pride of Men
The new work report of Western Australia was delivered to Liuqiu Island as scheduled.
Zhang Daozhu is very happy to see that they are moving towards regularized development------ this is right, so that everyone has the opportunity to develop, whether it is wealth, official position, even those who are serving prison sentences must see hope!
Zhang Daoist also agrees with the attitude of Governor Gnawing Dog and Squadron Leader Dai Weiming towards the local natives, it is of course difficult for them to enter the agricultural civilization from the primitive civilization at once, and they may pay some necessary costs, but this is the progress of civilization and an inevitable general trend.
Any attempt to resist the progress of civilization will be met with defeat and a terrible price.
Of course, sometimes it will be slower, and sometimes it will be reversed------ but it will all be temporary, he firmly believes in that.
He can optimistically calculate that in three years, it will be an important material export place for Liuqiu Island, and it may reach half the level of Shandong!
In fact, Zhang originally wanted to develop South Africa at the same time, where there is also fertile land, huge gold mines, and can also be used as a springboard to the European route.
However, the time it took to get there and the length of the route are not quite suitable for the moment.
Now it only takes fifteen days to sail quickly to Western Australia, and the slowest is only forty-five days, which is equivalent to the time it takes for Da Song's own sea ship to reach the vicinity of Yangzhou City.
Otherwise, maybe even a gold mine wouldn't attract so many people to it.
This time, along with the report, twenty-five kilograms of gold, in the form of lumps and gold sand, were delivered.
Zhang Island Master directly let people melt into the gold brick exchange to ask for money in the vault, these ten years, they have only accumulated more than a dozen tons of gold------ he originally planned to wait for 200 tons, will build an open vault, is the kind that can be visited, let the people of the world take a good look, how strong the money will be!
If you want to buy a physical object, you can have a physical object, and if you want to turn into gold, you can turn it into gold.
However, if the non-ferrous metal smelter on Jeju Island is opened, the silver can be built into an open silver warehouse first.
Zhang Daozhu and Wang Defa put a little wine on the table at dinner.
After reading the report, Wang Defa's family said:
"Don't worry, although the scale of Wenlai estuary development is not as large as now, the potential of gnawing dogs is greater------ we don't have to worry about it anymore."
"I will send another 2,000 Japanese peasants at once, and their spring ploughing is more important than ours at this time!"
Facts have proved that the Japanese peasants are the most elaborate breeders of rice except for the peasants of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are more interested in the origin of Champa rice.
In the Wenlai estuary area, there are mainly some Champa farmers, who also grow high-yield rice brought by the owners of Zhangdao, but the yield is not the highest------ from the perspective of water and heat, there is no reason not to compare with Liuqiu Island.
The Champa peasants were not good at learning and did not like to use struvite and organic pesticides------ while the Japanese peasants were as happy to imitate the practices of the island as the Great Song peasants.
Zhang Island Master was a little proud and said:
"Lao Wang, we have succeeded, and we have achieved at least three major things!
First, it changed the history of the Tatar Song Dynasty------ although it was far from meeting expectations, but the effect was not either
Difference! ”
"Yes, we never thought that the Great Song Dynasty government liked appeasement so much, and liked to use money to solve the problem
Issue! ”
Island Master Zhang sneered: "We don't have to worry about their military anymore------- they are old and don't have much to enter."
Hearted!
It's a bunch of bullshit vested interests, so it's good that there is no wind and grass, and everything is done slowly
The best-------
Second, we can take advantage of the economic problems of the Great Song Dynasty to develop ourselves, and it is a win-win situation, you and me
It's not easy.
Our friends have also made a good start for us, and those house-raising boys are also quite capable, if you count the permanent population under our rule, two million would have exceeded two million long ago!
This base is the starting base of our civilization------ hehe!
Thirdly, we have established our own education system, and there are 40 primary and secondary schools together, and there are 20,000 small schools------ and in the future, one out of 100 will be ten times the number of our domestic children!
Of course, our social system will never let them finish their studies without any way out, and there ------will be no industry monopoly and class consolidation in the military, government, finance, industry and agriculture, even in business and entrepreneurship! ”
"Hehe, Lao Zhang, don't forget our technical school education ------"
"Yes, that's also important, without qualified skilled workers, the development will not be accelerated!"
The quiet master watched the two old friends praising each other while drinking, just pursing their lips and smiling, they had indeed worked too hard for so many years.
A good woman is always tolerant of a man's occasional pride, as long as they keep trying!
The quiet lord also added it to them.
"Don't forget our cinchona cream and cowpox------ otherwise how many people will die if we develop the tropics?!"
Yes, this should be counted as well!
It was precisely because they refined quinine and sold it generously to the Great Song government that perhaps this would allow them to boldly level the Jiaozhi region and the Dali region, and they also gained a foothold there, digging coal in full swing, and I heard that they also found a lot of copper and lead mines.
Of course, the people of Liuqiu Island also dug up there and paid their taxes honestly.
Cowpox is the product of Zhang Island's personal detoxification------- two hundred years ago, the people of the Great Song Dynasty did have a tradition of using human pox to prevent smallpox, that is, it was too dangerous, and the high rate of people who planted pox was terrifying!
This may be the reason why it was not widely spread later, it was simply an act of looking for a sick person.
Zhang personally wore all the protective equipment and repeatedly detoxified the first phase of cowpox in a small cabin that was forbidden to others------ and it was not until after the third phase that he began to test on human bodies.
The first test was on two death row inmates who had killed people.
The owner of Zhang Island ordered people to blindfold them and personally injected them with cowpox vaccines.
At first, the two guys were scared to death and struggled desperately, thinking that they would be tortured in a bizarre way------ but they were only pricked with needles and immediately fell silent.
Two or three days later, the two of them had low-grade fevers, but they quickly recovered within five days.
Then, Zhang arranged for them to be sent to a famous smallpox-plagued area in the Lingnan region, where almost all the locals had fled, leaving only a few sick people waiting to die.
The owner of Zhang Island asked the two condemned prisoners to say that as long as you can live in one place for three months and are not allowed to come out, you will be spared for your crimes and you will be rewarded with a large sum.
As a result, they promised their guards.
Three months later, they appeared before the tightly wrapped guards, and upon examination, they showed no adverse symptoms.
The caretaker threw the family a thousand pieces of money and made them change their clothes.
He hummed and warned them that they would not be allowed to go to the island again for the rest of their lives, and that they would not be so lucky if they sold the Grass of Bliss again and killed and injured our patrolmen.
The two men changed their clothes and ran away.
Later, ten younger people from the Tatar captives were selected to test again, and there were no adverse reactions.
Sure enough, it's a simple and effective way to prevent it.
Finally, massively used on Tatar captives, it still works.
Zhang Island Master breathed a sigh of relief, began to prepare vaccines, and asked people to go to the Great Song Dynasty to find a famous doctor to promote it------- just like that malaria treatment powder, he did not leave his name, only let people say that it was the smallpox potion on Liuqiu Island.