Chapter 507 2-in-1 Plan
After reviewing the navy and army, the Ryukyu Kingdom began to get busy again, the immigrants on Zhoushan Island had not yet moved, and the Borneo clearance operation had just begun, and most of the last million immigrants had to immigrate to Borneo, so the immigration and settlement were carried out at the same time.
The newly trained conscripts, with the cooperation of the new army that had completed the training, began to clear Borneo, while the Borneo fleet was responsible for guarding the waters near the island to prevent anyone from fleeing or foreign enemies from coming.
When the settlement of Borneo was proceeding in an orderly manner, Zhang San and others were studying the problem of how to deal with the industry of the Great Song Dynasty in Tamsui City, Zhang San now has a lot of industries in the Great Song Dynasty, but now if you let Zhang San go back to Tokyo to deal with the industry, needless to say, Zhang San himself is not at ease.
But the industry of the Great Song Dynasty can't be so lost, not to mention the question of how much it is worth, just relying on the intelligence system built by these industries, if it is not there, it will be very troublesome, but as the saying goes, paper can't hold the fire, Zhang San has not appeared in Tokyo for more than half a year, and sooner or later someone will be discovered.
So after discussion, everyone felt that instead of waiting for others to find out, it was better to merge the two identities together, so as to deter those forces with bad intentions towards Zhang Sanye.
This also has the advantage that Zhang San also has a very good reputation in Tokyo, not only for benevolence and righteousness, but also for a considerable position in the literati circle, so Zhang San became the king, and it also reduced everyone's resistance to the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Therefore, this two-in-one identity plan was launched, in order to reduce the resistance of the Great Song monarchs and ministers to Zhang San's identity, so the compilation of this identity could not make the Great Song monarchs and ministers disgusted.
So it didn't take long for the Great Song Dynasty newspaper to appear in an article titled Revealing the Secret of the King of the Ryukyus Kingdom, which described that the previous monarch of the Ryukyu Kingdom had always admired the culture of the Central Plains, and that when the whole family came to Tokyo to watch the lanterns during the Shangyuan Festival more than 20 years ago, the prince was unfortunately separated from the king.
The prince was adopted by a vegetable farmer outside the sour date gate and raised for 18 years, when the prince was 18 years old, the vegetable farmer and his wife died of illness one after another, and the vegetable farmer told the prince before he died that he was not the couple's own child, but the couple picked it up at the lantern festival 18 years ago.
The old king of the Ryukyus Kingdom was deteriorating in health, and when he remembered the prince he had lost more than ten years ago, he sent the whole country to Tokyo to look for him, and he happened to meet the prince by chance, and finally the father and son recognized each other, and the prince was able to return to Japan to inherit the throne.
Because the prince grew up in the Great Song Dynasty and has been admiring the Central Plains culture since he succeeded to the throne, he immediately asked for a request to be attached as a vassal, which led to everything that followed, and this prince who lived in Tokyo was the famous benevolent and righteous Wushuang Zhang Saburo, who once served in the imperial history of the Great Song Dynasty.
Then the newspaper praised Zhang San's righteousness and benevolence and righteousness, and the Da Song News Newspaper, as the second best-selling newspaper in the Da Song Dynasty, was known to the whole country for a while.
For ordinary people, Zhang San's life is like a legend, but it is just a conversation after dinner, which increases everyone's pride in the Great Song Dynasty and envy of Zhang San's good life, and fantasizes that one day he can inherit the Great Unification and become a king or something.
But for the Great Song Junchen, this mood is mixed, Gao Yu and others feel that things are a little unreal, and the opponent who was on a par with him yesterday has become an existence that he can only look up to today.
For Zhao Ji, such a result is barely acceptable, after all, people admire the Great Song Dynasty, after all, they used to be their own courtiers, and they were quite deferential, and after agreeing to his attachment, they immediately withdrew from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.
Tong Guan, Cai Jing and others were even more speechless when they saw such news, they had seen the power of the Ryukyu Army, and those who originally studied this to get a little cheap from Zhang San's industry were extinguished, after all, they couldn't afford the crime of forcing the vassal state.
The development of things was exactly the same as Zhang San and others expected, and the Great Song Dynasty Junchen had no intention of confiscating Zhang San's industry at all, but this also brought a new problem, that is, when the time came to fight Shandong, it was estimated that these industries would eventually be confiscated.
Zhang San's opinion is to sell them, sell these industries before the war starts, anyway, when the time comes, selling these industries will not affect the transmission of intelligence, in addition to selling, it is also necessary to set up an intelligence secret line to prevent accidents.
In addition to this problem, Zhang San also launched a merchant ship redemption campaign, and with the end of the war, the cargo ships that Zhang San controlled from various ports along the coast of the Great Song Dynasty were of little use.
Sold to the merchants here in the Ryukyus, the ones here are still reluctant to ask for it, after all, these old ships are not only slow but also have poor resistance to wind and waves, and Ryukyu now has new types of Fukubun ships and Tokai type fast merchant ships, so no one wants to ask for this old style.
Zhang San stipulated that as long as he handed over one-tenth of the cost of the ship, he could go to Ryukyu to redeem his ship, this policy was to reduce the resistance of the Song merchants, and another benefit was to promote Tamsui City.
For the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, Tamsui was a strange city, and the ships of the Great Song Dynasty would generally only travel along the inherent routes in the coastal waters, and Zhang San wanted to make Tamsui City prosperous, so he needed to attract more merchants to trade in Tamsui.
Return these old ships to those merchants, and the merchants must come to Tamsui to take their ships, so that the merchants will know the place of Tamsui, and when they see the prosperity of Tamsui City, as well as the special goods of Tamsui, some smart merchants will naturally find the business opportunities in it.
In this way, as long as someone makes money from it, then it will naturally attract more merchants to come here to trade, and it can also take the opportunity to promote the shipyards in the Ryukyus, because of Zhang San's looting, the shipbuilding industry along the Great Song Dynasty has been dealt a major blow.
But this thing, as long as there is a demand, then the recovery is still very fast, so in order to slow down the recovery of the shipbuilding industry in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang San needs to attract merchants from the Great Song Dynasty to come to Ryukyu for shipbuilding.
In short, every time one more ship was built on the Ryukyu side, then the Great Song Dynasty would build one less, so the price that Zhang San set for the shipyards on the Ryukyu side was not only affordable, but also the ship types were all new-style Daifuku ships.
As for the Tokai-type fast merchant ships, only local merchants in the Ryukyus can buy and use them, and Zhang San uses a lot of machinery, as well as simple gantry crane pulley sets, etc., so the efficiency of shipbuilding has increased by about one-third, and the cost has also dropped by a quarter, so the price is lower and will not suffer too much.
In order to prosper the economy of the Ryukyus, Zhang San planned to open up some port cities this time, and the first batch of six cities to be opened were Tamsui City, Taichung City, Tainan City, Luzon City, Borneo City, and Zhenwai Island City.
In addition to the people who followed Zhang San in the first place, Zhang San also eliminated transport ships under 10,000 koku in batches, and these ships would be leased at a low price to those who were willing to engage in ocean trade.