Chapter 500: Jeju Development

There are also some other official adjustments on Jingdong and Jingdong, including the elimination of some incompetent officials, such as Han Yuan, the former prefect of Jinan, whose performance is remarkable, Gao Feng reminded him to go to Yizhou, Jiang Yuan, the governor of Yizhou, made great contributions to the surrender of Song Jiangzhong, Gao Feng asked him to go to Dengzhou, and Cai Juhou, the prefect of Dongping, was willing to let him stay in office because of his good ability. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And so on, the entire Jingdong Road is basically built according to the requirements of the peak, and its purpose is also very simple, that is, to build a team of honest, efficient, decent and diligent officials.

The official team is completed by Gao Feng's communication with the imperial court, during which some means are inevitably used, but as long as the goal can be achieved, Gao Feng does not mind bothering about it.

At the same time, Gao Feng did not relax his guidance on the construction of Jeju Island.

The Bangla Uprising brought nearly 100,000 people, more than 100 ships, and a large amount of supplies to Jeju Island, as well as countless craftsmen, cattle, horses, and tools.

Although a large amount of grain was purchased from Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty in the early stage, it was only for a small number of people, and there were 100,000 mouths for 100,000 people.

However, the span of half a year is not short, and the peak has a way to solve this problem. The best way to do this, of course, is to cultivate the land, so that the problem of self-sufficiency can be solved. The island has recently been developed, and there are few people on the land, and the 100,000 or so people are not crowded when they are sprinkled in, so Ni Yuchen distributed land and cattle to everyone by household, encouraging everyone to open up the wasteland and farm, believing that in this way, a virtuous circle can be formed on the island in less than a year.

The second is to buy, buy in the Great Song Dynasty, go to Goryeo to buy, occasionally go to Japan to buy, during which they also exchange goods, in short, the more grain they get, the better, which is also to do a good job of strategic reserves.

Of course, it is not possible to buy grain with money, no matter which country, grain is a strategic resource, and it is difficult for outside forces to buy a large amount of grain. This is still Gao Feng as a magistrate in the Great Song Dynasty, occupying an innate advantage, otherwise, the food on the island will definitely not be able to meet the needs.

In addition to the problem of food, the establishment of a good army is also a top priority. Originally, there were 20,000 or 30,000 people on the island, but at that time there were only a thousand troops, but now there are more of them, and it is no longer a problem to form a large-scale army.

Song Jiang, Zhang Xian, and Li Tai's men and horses were transported to the island, and they were all extremely powerful people, and these people must be the backbone of the army.

Most of the 100,000 people recruited from Jiangnan came from the Fangla army, and many of them were carefully selected by Wu Jue, and it was just right for these people to be absorbed into the army.

After some selection, a complete army skeleton was finally formed.

This army has a special forces of 1,000 troops, 5,000 sailors, 10,000 cavalry, 20,000 infantry, and some arms responsible for equipment, logistics, reconnaissance, engineering, and other tasks, all of which add up to 50,000 troops.

Of course, there is also a division of labor within the major arms, such as light infantry, heavy infantry, crossbowmen, instrumentalmen, shield bearers, swordsmen, axes, pikemen, and so on.

In fact, in this era, there were many more infantry in the army firing weapons than fighting soldiers, which was also the result of the development of technology at a certain stage of the development of warfare. Can kill enemies from a distance, who wants to fight in close quarters?

The team of 50,000 people, everything else is easy to form, but the 10,000-person cavalry is a little useless, why? Because there aren't so many horses.

Gao Feng's horse breeding program has been launched, and the ship he imported Arabian horses has also entered the harbor, and he has finally brought dozens of horse breeds along the way.

It's just that horse breeding is still in its infancy, and it is difficult to see results in a few years, and if you want to get tens of thousands of good horses at once, it is tantamount to talking about the Arabian Nights.

Not to mention Jeju Island, which has just started, it is difficult to find too many good horses in the Great Song Kingdom, which has implemented the horse administration, and no matter how many horses there are, it is useless to not be used as war horses, so the losses caused by the lack of horses in the war are too numerous to mention, especially the next step of Jin Bingnan's crime, which is simply a situation of being beaten, and the reason for correcting it is that there are not enough war horses available.

There is no good way to solve the problem of lack of horses, so he can only set up a cavalry team first, train in rotation with a limited number of horses, and perhaps wait for his horse breeding plan to bear fruit.

The army occupies 50,000 people, and there are more than half of the immigrants on the island, and these immigrants are mainly responsible for the construction of the island, including the production of various workshops, from which they are also drawn, so it seems that there are many people, but in fact there are not enough people at all.

In particular, the area of land reclamation and farming requires more personnel, and it is impossible to solve the problem by relying on those people alone. Therefore, Ni Yuchen's strategy is to concentrate all the personnel, and once the wasteland is reclaimed, it will be contracted to individuals, so as to save a lot of cumbersomeness.

According to Gao Feng, life on the island today is similar to socialism, everything is public, and more work is practiced in labor, so there are neither poor nor landlords, and it is simply a Datong society.

In fact, Gao Feng really wants to develop in this direction, but he also knows that it is not realistic for the time being, this is the place where he has managed to operate, and he doesn't want it to get out of control, he wants to use this place as his most powerful rear base.

In addition to these, the workshop production on the island continues, which is fundamental to feeding these people and improving the quality of life, so it must be done well. Of course, in addition to satisfying their own lives and needs, the main group produced here is Goryeo.

Through these goods, a large amount of food and money can be exchanged from Goryeo, some connections can be opened, and it is more likely to attract a group of powerful people, and these people will be of great use.

In addition to Goryeo, they also gradually began to do business with Japan, which was more factional and the domestic situation was more complicated, so it would be a good thing to be able to cut into it through trade.

It's just that Japan is more xenophobic than Goryeo, and they are very distrustful of foreign businessmen, and if it weren't for Gao Feng's acquaintance with Takei, it would be difficult to enter the docks in Japan.

Of course, in addition to the goods produced by the workshops, they also traded goods from the West, which were mainly cloth, incense, skins, groceries, medicinal herbs, and some treasures such as ivory and precious stones, which were very popular in the aristocratic circles of several countries, and it was easy to make money and make friends.

Overall, with the participation of 100,000 people and a large number of ships, Jeju Island has achieved rapid development, and gradually, it has become famous in this area, but because of its strength, no one dares to covet it.