In addition to chili peppers, pepper is added to the spices produced on the island, and their production has been increasing after two or three seasons of cultivation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Pepper is not very difficult to grow, but in addition to the natural conditions, there are some requirements for fertility, which may be the reason why pepper can become an expensive spice in this time and space, and everyone has a low yield.

In two more years, Zhang Guoan is confident that he will make it a general cargo.

Of course, he has to do advanced processing, directly using a steam boiler to dry, using a steam power machine to crush, it is easy to make powdered goods.

These are all good ways to make sales better...... Therefore, the spice fame of Liuqiu Island slowly began to grow.

In short, the overall situation of the commercial operation of Liuqiu Island is developing at a high speed, and the sales of various commodities have risen, making it a place to attract gold, and it has also attracted a large number of people to flow in, not to mention that they also took the initiative to relocate the population on the Shandong Peninsula.

Zhu Qing was cut off from the northern region with Liuqiu Island, and at the beginning he really grabbed a few boats, and confiscated them all with the ships and goods...... Who called this the time of the war?!

But soon there would be no Tatar merchant ships, and this situation was in the interests of Liuqiu Island and the Great Song government, but not in their own interests!

When there was no choice, the people who were sent to the Huainan area to look for coal really found a lot of minerals...... This gives them another chance.

So they started mining by using the labor they had stolen, plus by confiscating the sailors of the hostile ships.

Liuqiu Island needs charcoal, in fact, it is needed in every big city in the Great Song Dynasty, and they are also ready to process it into coke and sell it, which is more expensive.

They are running their own small lives, but Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, can't, his mind is divided into several pieces, and he has to take care of everything.

At present, it is still necessary to focus on combat services on the Shandong Peninsula.

On the Shandong Peninsula, more than 10,000 members of the joint force are actively preparing for war, and all counties east of the peninsula have basically arranged for relevant team members to be stationed there.

They don't collect taxes here, they don't need to go out into service, and of course, they don't need any management at all, so they don't need local officials at all, except for law and order.

There are no magistrates in the two cities on Jeju Island, and the situation is still calm, as long as the law and order are well managed, for ordinary people, you can do whatever you like, and do whatever you want.

If you want to earn more money, go to Liuqiu Island, where the wages are so high that they can't think of it, and many sea boats come every month to catch the return sea boats, and the boat fare.

For businesses who are really reluctant to go, since some county towns are not war zones and belong to the rear, then try to persuade them not to leave in the end, even if it is, it is not forced at all.

Therefore, the squads stationed in various counties can be regarded as playing a role in the management of the local people.

They don't collect taxes at the moment, and they certainly don't care about their livelihoods.

There are clever little traders on the island of Liuqiu, so they bring their products to sell, and for a time they can still earn money, because there is no tax here.

Those who stay in the local area can also earn some money, that is, the Liuqiu Guard often hires laborers, and the payment is paid on a daily basis, although the price is not as good as that of Liuqiu Island, but fortunately, they do not leave home.

Dengzhou is a major seaport in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula.

But for Liuqiu Island, its scale is not enough, so they can only make do with it, while desperately expanding.

On this day, Xiao Xiang's team leader saw many laborers on the Dengzhou wharf under the command of technicians using Liuqiu tower crane to lift the last piece of reinforced concrete components, and the expansion project was completed.

He thought to himself, what a strange thing it is that those laborers would rather earn a small amount of money here than cross the sea to beg for more than twice the wages of the island.

What is there to be nostalgic for here? Where is the best place to stay on the island?

What Zhang Island Master said is really right, people's experience determines a person's height, they are afraid that they will work on the land all their lives, and at most they will have some labor, right?

At this time, he received a report from Captain Bao Wei on the enemy situation, which was the latest description of the situation.

The detailed report they sent said that the main force drawn from Zhuozhou had finally arrived at Jinan Road.

They have about 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 soldiers, both in morale and armament, they are far stronger than the local soldiers, and it is estimated that they may officially start contact in a month.

10,000 cavalry? The Tatars really look up to us.

Captain Xiao Xiang was not afraid at all, but he was thinking about the Tatar war horse.

The agriculture of Liuqiu Island is now in great need of animal power, and Captain Xiao Xiang understands this practical problem.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, told them before that the efficiency of horse ploughing is far higher than that of ox ploughing.

At that time, he compared the characteristics of cattle and horses, compared the input costs and outputs of cattle and horse farming, and clearly revealed to the half-sized people that the benefits of horse farming were far greater than that of cattle farming.

In fact, in the Great Song Dynasty, cattle farming was still widely used in farmland farming, which was only related to the fact that the Great Song Dynasty was basically paddy fields.

However, as the number of acres of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes increased, horse farming could be used.

Jeju Island produces horses, but the horses are too small, and several horses can be used together to stretch and grind.

Fortunately, Shandong has a lot of donkeys, which are stronger than Jeju horses, and they have bought a lot from Yao Mai before.

But no matter how good a donkey is, it is not as good as a real Tatar horse.

The Tatar horse is an ancient breed, it is small in stature, and it is not good-looking, but it can tolerate the scorching heat of mosquitoes in the summer and the cold of minus 40C in the winter.

In the windy, frosty, snowy and rainy steppes, it has not lost its majestic horse nature, they have a large head and a short neck, a strong body, a wide chest and a long mane, thick skin and thick hair, can withstand the Siberian blizzard, and can also raise their hooves to kick the head of the fox.

The well-trained Mongolian horse, which is not frightened or deceived on the battlefield, is extremely brave, and has always been a good military horse.

Thinking of Zhang Guoan's words, Captain Xiao Xiang was full of longing:

"Sooner or later we will have to organize our own cavalry!"

However, if you can only buy some sporadically from Korea like now, when will it be formed?!

The Tatars have 10,000 cavalry, so the war horses must be at least more than 10,000, what a fat piece of meat, how can you eat more?!

In fact, everyone is thinking about this problem, because everyone is cultivated by Zhang Guoan, and the knowledge content is the same.

The city of Jiaozhou has been built long ago, and in order to give the enemy the confidence to attack the city, the city wall here is only three meters high.

Guo Beyu, the deputy captain of Dajiaozhou, wrote a letter with great interest, and he thought of a way to get a war horse.

He wrote to Captain Bowie:

"We tried to hide in the grass near the side of the road, and when the enemy approached, we fired in unison!

Since the muzzle of the gun is raised, it does not hurt much to the horse, which is the best policy. ”

Unexpectedly, Captain Bao Wei quickly denied it, saying that the enemy would still have infantry retinues, which was too risky and did not meet the requirements of the island owner.

As soon as Deputy Captain Guo Beyu saw that the other party directly raised the request of Zhang Daozhu, he also felt that something was inappropriate, so he gave up this style of play and thought again.

They're studying others, and they're studying them.

The main general who carried out the pacification of the pirate rebellion this time was called Suyetai, who had participated in the pacification of Li Tan's rebellion and was quite familiar with the entire Shandong Road. (To be continued.) )