Chapter 212: Governance
"Conscription from Dafu Island?" Ruan Xiaoqi was puzzled.
Because in Ruan Xiaoqi's opinion, this Dafu Island is full of Goryeo people, and few of them can speak Chinese, even if they are conscripted, I am afraid it is not easy to train, so it is better to transfer troops directly from Liangshanbo. Now the population of Liangshanbo is increasing, it has reached 300,000, and the number of troops in Liangshanbo is also close to 10,000, so many people can be transferred here.
"Yes, to recruit troops from Dafu Island. The first is to solve the shortage of soldiers, and the second is to allow the people of Dafu Island to better integrate into the Liangshan regime. They have children in our army, so they are naturally of the same mind as us. Wu Dong said.
The second point is the most important, when all the strong men of Dafu Island join the army and follow the Liangshan army to fight in the south and the north, they will naturally recognize the Liangshan regime from the bottom of their hearts, and they will never have the heart to break away from the Liangshan regime again.
"In that case, then I'll go to the conscription tomorrow." Ruan Xiaoqi said.
It was night, at Wu Dong's residence, Wu Dong called Ruan Xiaoqi, Gongsun Sheng, Wu Yong, and Hua Rong to his place to study the matter of governing Dafu Island together.
"There are 6,000 people in Dafu Island now, and they can be divided into six villages to form a township, Gongsun Sheng, you are now the head of Dafu Township, do you have any good opinions on governing here?" Wu Dong Road.
"In accordance with the policies we have implemented in Yangshan, the villagers' autonomy is also practiced here, and the jury system in Yangshan is also implemented." Gongsun Shengdao.
Gongsun Sheng actually appreciated these two systems of Liangshan very much, he was originally a Taoist, Taoism pays attention to "rule by doing nothing", Gongsun Sheng feels that these two systems of Liangshan are very in line with the concept of "rule by doing nothing". The government does not have to take care of everything, but the village chief selected by the people manages most of the things, and everything is handled in an orderly manner, which is almost equivalent to ruling by inaction. So when he came to Dafu Island, he didn't have any special views, that is, to continue to implement the two sets of policies in Liangshan.
"One thing to note is that when they elect their own village heads, they must elect village chiefs who can speak Chinese. If you don't know Chinese, you can't become a village head. Wu Dong said again.
"It's still the Great Chief's thoughtfulness...... Yes, this will be my Liangshan territory in the future, and it will be my Han territory, so of course I can't do it if I don't know Chinese...... In addition to the village chief's knowledge of Chinese, Chinese language education should also be implemented on the island. Gongsun Sheng drew inferences from each other and said.
"What are your thoughts on the implementation of Chinese language education?" Wu Dong said with a smile.
"You can first let those village chiefs teach the villagers, and if they teach well, give them some rewards, such as fine porcelain, silk and so on...... In addition, the villagers who have learned Chinese can take them to the Central Plains and let them see the prosperous civilization of our Celestial Empire, so that they will definitely yearn for the Central Plains even more, and after they come back, there will be more villagers who want to learn Chinese. Gongsun Sheng pondered for a while and said.
"Yes, yes, in addition, after Ruan Xiaoqi's military camp is recruited, let those soldiers learn Chinese with their comrades, which is also a shortcut to promote Chinese." Wu Dong Road.
If you want to really occupy a place, you must not only occupy the land there, but more importantly, replace the civilization there with your own civilization and make your civilization the mainstream civilization there, so that they can recognize their own regime in their hearts.
Therefore, the promotion of the Chinese language is a particularly important thing on Dafu Island, and the two leaders of Dafu Island, Gongsun Sheng and Ruan Xiaoqi, must do a good job in this matter.
"Of course, how can those soldiers come to the barracks and can't speak Chinese? Do you want me Ruan Xiaoqi to learn their bird language? After Ruan Xiaoqi finished speaking, everyone couldn't help laughing.
"Xiao Qi, the training in the ocean is completely different from the training in Liang Shanbo, I hope you can train me to always be a real 'navy', so that Liang Shanbo can walk sideways in the sea in the future, and you don't have this confidence?" Wu Dong said with a smile.
"Yes! Great Chief, rest assured! Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile.
These days, Ruan Xiaoqi is more and more fond of the ocean, and he can't wait to stay here for the rest of his life, and he is naturally very welcome to the task of forming a "navy", and vows to build an invincible maritime force.
"Xiao Qi, in addition to conscription these days, you also have to write a 'Navy Formation Plan' to show me. No matter what you do, you have to have a good plan. With a good plan, this thing is half done. Wu Dong said.
Ruan Xiaoqi agreed, and after leaving Wu Dong's place, he immediately began to study this matter.
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The next day, Ruan Xiaoqi first went to the villagers to recruit soldiers.
In the past, when I was in Liangshan, although I publicized the "conscription system" every day, but conscription was not an easy thing, and many people were reluctant to let their children become soldiers, because China has always had the tradition of "good men should not be soldiers", and in the Great Song Dynasty, the soldiers were even lower than the people, which caused the people's prejudice against being soldiers. But on Dafu Island, it was extremely easy to recruit soldiers. Because they were bullied by pirates at the beginning, many people wanted to join the army to defend their hometown.
Soon more than 600 people were recruited, and now the strength of Dafu Island has reached more than 1,200 people, and the Liangshan Navy is officially formed.
Ruan Xiaoqi handed over the "Navy Formation Plan" he wrote to Wu Dong, Wu Dong looked at it carefully, and then the two discussed it carefully.
"The army must be in actual combat to succeed, and there are still many pirates in the Bohai Sea. There are many pirates in the East China Sea. When the naval training reaches a certain level, it is time to exterminate the pirates. Wipe out all the pirates in the Bohai Sea first, and then go further afield. Wu Dong said.
This plan was very good, but there was no situation about actual combat, and Wu Dong immediately changed it.
"Okay, I remember! Great Chief, I heard that there are also some naval armies in Goryeo and Dongying, and we can even use these naval armies in actual combat. Ruan Xiaoqi said.
"Yes, but we still have a few ships, and we need to build more ships." Wu Dong Road.
When the pirates of Dafu Island were eliminated, more than a dozen large ships and dozens of small boats were obtained from them, but a large part of these sea ships had to be made into merchant ships for ocean trade, and there were not many ships left for the navy.
"Building sea vessels...... We have no experience. Ruan Xiaoqi said.
"Let's go Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and Hua Rong call, and everyone will discuss the construction of sea ships together." Wu Dong Road.
Now it is not enough to order ships like this, and in the future, the ocean-going trade will become bigger and bigger, and the navy will become bigger and bigger, and it is naturally not possible to rely on buying ships, so you must build your own ships.
In the history of those years, the Dutch became coachmen at sea, and the Dutch had tens of thousands of sea ships at that time. The population of the Great Song Dynasty is much larger than that of the Netherlands, and if the Great Song Dynasty wants to build itself into a maritime power, tens of thousands of sea ships are also the minimum.
Yangsan must build his own shipyard from the moment he touches the sea!
"Dafu Island is dozens of miles in circumference, and there are trees on it, so you can build a shipyard here." Wu Yongdao.
"There are still too few trees here, and besides, this is an island, and if the trees are cut down, there will be no people living in them." Wu Dong hurriedly shook his head.
The wind and waves on the sea are strong, and these trees are used to withstand the wind and waves of the sea, and if all the trees are cut down, this place will become a dead place.
"I heard that Goryeo Mountain is full of forests and forests, and when we enter Goryeo, we can build a shipyard in Goryeo. Moreover, the Koreans were poor, and they could hire a lot of workers with a small amount of silver. There are also quite a few workers who can build ships over there. Gongsun Shengdao.
"That's a good idea, but we'll have to wait until we get to Goryeo. Also, now that we control Dengzhou, we can let Ruan Xiaowu from Dengzhou Customs also build a shipyard there, and hire all the skilled shipbuilders in Dengzhou to our shipyard. Wu Dong said.
Everyone discussed for a while, and after a period of time, everyone worked together to stabilize the environment of Dafu Island, so that it could be completely stabilized and become an important stronghold of Liangshan anchored on the Bohai Sea.
At the beginning of May, Wu Dong, Hua Rong, and Wu Yong went to Longyuan City, Goryeo.
Goryeo Yongyeon Fortress is only about 100 miles away from Daefu Island, so it leaves in the morning and arrives in the afternoon.
Wu Dong and the others walked curiously on the streets of Longyuan City, although it is also a commercial city, but it is much worse than Dengzhou.
The buildings here are low, low, shabby, and dilapidated, the people here are poorly dressed, and there are many beggars on the roads.
"I thought that the people of the Great Song Dynasty were already very poor, but I didn't expect Goryeo to be even poorer." Wu Dong Road.
"The wealth of Goryeo is concentrated in the hands of those nobles, and the general business is also done with those nobles. What they have is money, and we can make a good profit from them. Wu Yong said with a smile.
In the next few days, Wu Dong and others first found a large shop, transported all the goods to the shop, and waited for the aristocratic buyers of North Korea.
The shop was handed over to a shopkeeper, and the three of them looked for a place to build the shipyard.
In the end, no good shipyard location was found, but a few Korean nobles sold their shipyards.
After Wu Dong went to see it, he thought it was good, so he bought the shipyard. This shipyard can build more than a dozen large ships a year, and the output is already good.
"We don't have to build our own factories anymore, we just buy these ready-made shipyards...... Buy all the shipyards in Longyuan. Wu Dong said.
This time they brought a large sum of silver, enough for their expenses.
So for the next month, everyone was buying shipyards.
At the beginning of June, Wu Dong said goodbye to Goryeo and prepared to return to Yangsanbo.
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