The British court had already begun to discuss the issue of Ryukyu Island fiercely, but before it could begin to have a clue, it caught up with the end of the year to put aside the pen and the government to take a year off, so the issue was temporarily shelved. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fu Ning was scrambling for time with God, and before the Spring Festival had time to pass, he urged the army to move south, asking them to complete the work of clearing the remaining natives by March; He also asked the Immigration Department to take advantage of the Chinese New Year to speed up the introduction and resettlement of displaced people, and to increase the Han population in Liuqiu as much as possible before the British court reacted. So in just one year, hundreds of thousands of natives on Liuqiu Island disappeared into the world of the Red Mansion "out of thin air", but on the contrary, four or five hundred thousand Han refugees migrated over, and the number is still increasing.

In mid-February of the 20th year of Qianping, the Intelligence Department heard news from Fengge from Yanjing Feige -- the British Imperial Court had discussed sending troops to Liuqiu Island. At the end of February, I heard the news from the flying pigeons in the Huaiyang Hall of the Wind Pavilion -- on the fifth day of the second month, when there were still 20 days before Lin Ruhai's six-year-old birthday of Lin Daiyu, a leper monk appeared in front of Lin Ruhai's mansion for no reason, but the leper monk only stopped in front of Lin Ruhai's house and watched for a moment and then disappeared, and more than a dozen intelligence officers spent half a month unable to find out any news about it. The maid bought by Huaiyangtang once reported: "On Lin Daiyu's third birthday, there was a leper monk who went to Lin Ruhai's mansion to patrol the salt imperial history and wanted to make Lin Ruhai's daughter Daiyu a monk, Lin Ruhai was furious and refused, and the leper monk claimed: 'I can't bear her, I'm afraid that his illness will not be good for a lifetime.'" If you want to be good, you will not see crying from now on, except for your parents, and no one who has relatives or friends with a foreign surname, so that you can live this life in peace. ’； The leper monk spoke like a madman and his speech was disorderly. Lin Ruhai was furious and drove him out of the Lin Mansion, and Mrs. Jia Min also fell ill in anger at that time. ”

After receiving the news, Fu Ning immediately instructed, "Continue to monitor, pay close attention to the Lin Mansion, and at the same time pay attention to your own safety and prevent leaks!" In addition, as soon as there was news of the leper monk and the lame Taoist, it was immediately reported!! ”

"You've finally shown up ......!" Fu Ning sat at his desk and sighed.

"Who's there?" Yao Yun walked in with a plate of fruit and asked.

"Nothing."

Fu Ning looked at Yao Yun's wet hair, "You went to take a shower again?" ”

"Well, it's too hot, so I'll go play for a while."

"Hot what? It's only February! You're really, you've been here for a year and you're still not used to the weather. ”

Yao Yun stuck out her tongue and smiled embarrassedly, then hugged Fu Ning from behind and rested her head on Fu Ning's shoulder. "Husband, you said that it was so hot here, wouldn't it be even hotter in the homes of those Hongmaoyi people from the south?"

"Whew!" , Fu Ning smiled, "How many times have I told you, those Hongmaoyi are Dutch, they came from the west, not from the south, and besides, they are not red-haired, you can't always call Hongmaoyi to others!" ”

"I don't care! They're the Red Hairy! Yao Yun curled her lips.

Fu Ning hooked his hand to his shoulder and patted Yao Yun's head, "You don't wipe your head, what does your hair look like when you're wet all day long, go!" Wipe your head clean! ”

"Don't wipe it! How cool it is! ”

Fu Ning is helpless! patted Yao Yun and said, "I still have something to do, you go play first!" By the way, what about Xiao Yanglan? ”

"She went to the finance department again to help! Uncle Shi Zhu doesn't hurt me anymore, you know that if you love her, you don't hurt me! Yao Yun pouted again.

"You pouted again, you can hang the oil bottle! - Yang Lan's father has saved my life, and I can't pay it back for the rest of my life; We should love her so much! ”

"I know, I'm just talking. Don't be angry! Yao Yun happily ran out to play again.

Yao Yun is not yet eighteen years old, after coming to the chicken coop, she gradually became lively without restraint, and her daughter's nature, which had been bound by feudal etiquette, was completely released, and people became more and more lively and active, often playing like a child for a day; It's just that because I've been married to Fu Ning for two years and haven't been pregnant, I'm used to pestering Fu Ning every night. And Xiao Yang Lan was treated by Fu Ning as her own daughter, and she taught her by herself, Xiao Yang Lan was only twelve years old, she was very competitive, and she helped the finance department to calculate the accounts. So much so that there is no one in the Finance Department who doesn't like Xiao Yanglan. Fu Ning's former housekeeper, Yao Shisun, who is now the prime minister of the political secretary, is eager to raise Xiao Yanglan as his daughter.

Shaking his head and shifting his thoughts, Fu Ning picked up a blank piece of paper and wrote down four big words - "universal education"; After pondering for a while, he put the four words aside and picked up a piece of paper and wrote: "The Intelligence Department, together with the Government Affairs Department and the Foreign Affairs Department, selected dozens of people to prepare for the British Imperial Court, in order to delay the time for them to send troops to the Imperial Court; It would be ideal if peace could be reached through tributary peace talks. The first choice of tribute was eight five-foot corals sent by Dutch merchants, and the glass workshop was notified to quickly make fifty pieces of magnificent and exquisite glassware, and the perfume workshop quickly selected 600 large bottles of thirty-six kinds of perfumes for the British court, and the rest of the tribute was mostly made of gorgeous and surprising things, and the consumption of as little silver as possible. Yang Zhen, deputy director of the Intelligence Department, was appointed as the tributary envoy, and Hong Bin, director of the Foreign Affairs Department, was appointed as the deputy tributary envoy, and the two of them were fully responsible for the tributary affairs, and they set off before the end of February, so as to buy as much time as possible for the stability and development of the island! ”； Then Fu Ning signed his name and stamped it.

Called Chen Dong, "Send it to Yao Shisun!" Also, call me the old man of the financial secretary. ”

Lao Yue, the finance department, is the maritime merchant Lao Yue, who Fu Ning has been dating for two or three years, was originally the Lingnan distributor of perfume in Yaowan Village, and has been cooperating with Fu Ning to sell perfume, and later came to Jilong Port in July of the 19th year of Qianping under the persuasion of Fu Ning to become the director of the finance department.

Lao Yue quickly rushed over, and when he came in, he was still holding Xiao Yanglan's hand, and Chen Dong followed behind.

"Come on, Xiao Yanglan, come here!" , Fu Ning hurriedly stood up and brought the fruit plate over, "Tired, right?" Come and eat some fruit! ”

"I'm not tired, it's fun to settle accounts."

Fu Ning beckoned Lao Yue to do it, while asking the guards to bring tea over.

"Chen Dong said that you called me, and it happened that Yang Lan was at my place, so I brought her over." Lao Yue sat down and said, "This girl is very fast in settling accounts, and one person is the two of me!" ”

"Haha! She likes to read and count, to say that she is a genius in arithmetic, she is only twelve years old, and she will be great in the future. Fu Ning smiled.

"Who says it's not, I can't even wait for her to be my daughter!"

"That's not good, I'm still reluctant, haha!"

"Uncle Yue will say about me! Yue Yu and you are not close anymore! Yang Lan interjected.

Yue Yu is the second girl of the old Yue family, also twelve years old, and plays with Yang Lan quite well.

So Fu Ning and Lao Yue both laughed.

"I have something to do with you, how much food does the Finance Department have now? I want to popularize public education, and I plan to distribute the 50,000 copies of the list of simplified and traditional Chinese characters and the Chinese Pinyin table and the 120,000 books of enlightenment printed by the Chief Secretary of Administration, so that the people can learn literacy on their own initiative, and get a load of rice when they know 20 characters. Fu Ning said.

According to the statistics of the Finance Department, there are still 50,000 quintals of rice and 230,000 quintals of rice, which can barely be used until July, but the number of immigrants is still increasing, and the rice intake from Guangdong and Zhejiang is getting less and less, and now they dare not use grain indiscriminately. Twenty words a load of rice? Now there are more than 600,000 people, so how can there be millions of loads of food? How can we have so much food? ”

"There are not as many as you think, the literacy of the people is not as simple as you think, and you can only know dozens of words in a year, and a family can only read and receive one or two loads of rice a year; What worries me is that those half-grown children have a very fast learning ability, once they are tempted to learn to read and write, and they can learn to read and write in half a year. As for the 100,000 or so children, if we take one or two million quintals of rice a year, we will not have enough food at all! As for the future, it is easy to know one or two hundred words, but it is difficult to know one or two thousand words, and few children can do it! ”

"Then why don't you know a hundred words and send a load of rice?"

"A hundred words and a load of rice are not attractive to the common people at all!" Fu Ning pouted.

"How about a tentative set of 50 words a load of rice? Recently, the Spaniards promised me to send me 100,000 quintals of rice from Luzon and other places, and I have no silver left to pay the bill. Fu Ning continued.

"The silver is also a little tight, there are more than 800,000 for the time being, and I haven't paid the ship dealer yet for the 30,000 immigrants who have come recently." "By the way, recently people from Japan want to buy some swords, the quantity is relatively large, do you sell them?" ”

"When? How did I not know? Fu Ning began to rummage through a pile of papers, and Xiao Yanglan, who was sitting at the desk looking through the papers, handed over a document, "Well, this!" ”

Fu Ning knocked on Xiao Yanglan's head, rubbed it and said, "You little ghost!" Yang Lan grinned: "Uncle Ning, you knocked me stupid-!" ”

Fu Ning looked at the document and turned to Lao Yue and said, "It was reported by the Foreign Affairs Department yesterday, and I haven't had time to read it yet." ”；“ 80,000 steel knives, 20,000 fine swords, 1.6 million taels of silver! Japanese people have such a big appetite! It looks like the shogunate wants to use force against whom! ”

"Do you sell or not?"

"Sell! Of course it was sold! As long as it's not a firearm, anyone wants to sell it! The Foreign Affairs Department has contacted the North Koreans to sell swords to no avail. Kindness? Isn't it that the shogunate wants to use force against North Korea again? It's lively! ”

"Didn't the shogunate close the country? Why do you still want to fight North Korea? Lao Yue asked suspiciously.

"Who knows what they think, but last year we bought more than 1 million quintals of rice from Japan, and now there must be a serious shortage of food in Japan, maybe there is a rebellion? Tokugawa Yoshimune has only been on the throne for a few years, and now he is buying a large number of swords, perhaps for the purpose of countering the rebellion. Fu Ning thought for a while, "Isn't it that the buyer is not the shogunate but the feudal town?" What feudal town could use so many swords? Well, no matter what he is, as long as someone dares to buy us, we will dare to sell! ”

"Don't be timid with your financial department, you should work hard to expand financial resources, I don't plan to set up a commercial department this year, your financial department is also in charge of business, you are a maritime businessman, and you are very familiar with business; Perfume, glass, knives and paper, swords, matches, soap, and all kinds of ironware are our fist products, and you should boldly sell them; We should buy grain boldly, and buy as much as we can; In addition, the allocation is inclined to the shipyard, first all the funds of the Department of Transportation have been deducted, and recently I have taken a big step, and now I should not build a railway, but should greatly expand the steam engine, steam lathe, rice mill, and timber yard, and increase the supply of steel to the shipyard; Recently, I thought about it, we should expand shipbuilding on a large scale, set up a special fishing fleet, and catch a lot of fish and increase meat production. ”

"You should call Lao Hong today, how many times has he scolded me, saying that I deducted the silver grain and steel of their transportation department."

"I was wrong about this, I shouldn't have built the railroad now; Now the British court doesn't know that it will call that day, I have to fully support the shipyard to build ships, how can there be steel for his old Hong to build a railway? Just one Taoyuan artillery ship ate more than 2,000 tons of steel from me, and I only hate that steel is not enough! What's more, the Huwei iron ore is almost finished, and no new iron ore has been found, where can I make steel for him? You just say that I said it, let Lao Hong come to me! Fu Ning said remorsefully.

After a while, Yao Shizhu rushed over, and when he entered the door, he said, "The owner! You asked me to prepare for the tributary, but we haven't built a country now, what do we call ourselves in the tributary court?! ”

"Without the need to build a country, he called himself the Liuqiu Autonomous Government. Relying on the title of king and country will only anger the imperial court, and when paying tribute, we should keep a low profile, call ourselves the Taiwan Autonomous Government, kowtow more and talk less, pretend to be obedient, and try to give us time for peaceful development! I have already sent a letter to the Zhen family in Jiangning, promising to send them 200,000 taels of silver in April, and they will find Concubine Zhen and the third prince to help us talk. As soon as the Japanese have the money, I will ask the Intelligence Department to send the money to the Zhen family. ”