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At dusk at sea, there is an indescribable softness.

The crimson waves are jumping, and the sea breeze is blowing on the sea, sparkling red, like a mirror of hundreds of millions of red makeup and pink delicacy.

The sailors sat on the deck in twos and threes, looking at the beautiful scenery of the sea and sky in the distance, talking and laughing, enjoying this rare leisure time after being busy.

Sun Chu, the commander of the sailors, accompanied Liu Muzhi to stand at the bow of the ship, admiring the warship riding the wind and waves in the sea.

Liu Gaozhi went to sea for the first time in his life, and he was already shocked by the magnificent beauty of the sea.

After a long time, he sighed: "A year has passed in the blink of an eye, and I don't know what has become of Yizhou." ”

"This time I went to Yizhou Island, in addition to visiting Xiu Zhi and Bozuo, the main thing is to inspect the operation of Yizhou."

"Running Yizhou is related to the overall situation of the sea in the future, and I can't rest assured if I don't see it myself."

"Besides, I can't wait to see Dadu Hu in the future, I don't know if I ask Yizhou, right?"

"Anyway, I have nothing to do in Wu County at the moment, so it's better to go to sea with Ji Gao, take a good look at Yizhou."

"Look at the magic of this island, which is called a treasure island by most of the capitals."

Sun Chu smashed his mouth and sighed: "Speaking of which, Yizhou is really a treasure island, the island is rich in resources, the land is fertile, and rice can be planted three times a year. ”

"The only inconvenience is that there are many natives on the island, and miasma is rampant, so it is not suitable to go deep into the hinterland for the time being."

"In view of the strong strength of the indigenous people on the island, Master Fu and Captain Sima did not blindly expand into the island."

"Fu Xianling and Sima Xiaowei have successfully built a simple harbor city on the island, and there are currently about 20,000 displaced people stationed there."

"After having a population, the two adults immediately organized people to reclaim tens of thousands of hectares of farmland."

"Although Yizhou is desolate and inhabited by indigenous people, the local land is very fertile."

"Master Fu said that this year's rice yield per mu in Yizhou will likely exceed five stones."

"If the entire island can be reclaimed in the future, and the island is harvested three times a year, Yizhou is expected to become the largest grain production base in Hexi in the future."

"Right Sima, you haven't seen those crops on the island, the growth is really good!"

"Speaking of which, Sanwu can be regarded as a place of ointment, but it is far from being comparable to Yizhou."

Listening to Sun Chu's description of the scene of Yizhou, Liu Mu's heart suddenly became hot, and he couldn't wait to fly over with wings under his ribs.

When Hexi carried over the natural disaster, Liu Muzhi and others shifted their focus to running Yizhou and training sailors.

And, as Sanwu fell into turmoil, they took the opportunity to smuggle a large number of displaced people to Yizhou.

Fu Long and Sima Xiuzhi followed the first batch of immigrants to the island and initially established a political organization.

This time, taking advantage of the death of Liu Gaozhi and the temporary restoration of calm in the southeast, Liu Muzhi then took a ship to Yizhou to inspect.

Since the summer of the nineteenth year of Taiyuan, Liu Gaozhi was ordered to run Yizhou, and a year has passed, and Yizhou has long been different.

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The fleet left present-day Hangzhou Bay, entered the East China Sea, and then went south.

They had been sailing along the coastline for several days, and had barely encountered any ships on the way.

In the evening, the outline of a huge island finally appeared in everyone's sight, which attracted the cheers of the sailors.

The huge body of the Qianliu sand boat slowly opened in the sunlight and slowly docked on the dock.

When the big ships were moored on the dock in turn, Sima Xiuzhi and Fu Long greeted Liu Muzhi's arrival with a smile.

As soon as he stepped on the simple dock, Liu Muzhi suddenly felt a feeling of dizziness on his head, and he stumbled under his feet.

Seeing this, Sima Xiuzhi hurriedly stepped forward to support Liu Muzhi, and said with a smile: "This is a long stay on the ship, just wait for a rest." ”

Liu Muzhi looked back and found that in addition to the sailors, the rest of the displaced people who came with the ship were also the same.

He hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up and send someone to settle the homeless, and then unload all the supplies on the ship." ”

"In order to facilitate the cultivation of farmland by the displaced people on the island, I specially asked Ji Gao to go to Liaodong to trade a batch of cultivated cattle."

"Really? Thank you so much. Fu Long's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly turned around to settle the cattle and the homeless.

Standing on the wharf, Liu Gaozhi looked around and saw thousands of people busy on the beach.

He took a few deep breaths, and the fishy sea breeze immediately rushed from his nostrils into his lungs.

In the turbulent harbor, more than a dozen fishing boats are docked, just returning from fishing.

Although the land of Sanwu has long been in chaos, Liu Muzhi and others have not given up sea fish fishing and canning processing.

Instead, all the workshops were moved to Yizhou Island, which greatly promoted the development of Yizhou's fishing industry.

Despite the dangers of deep-sea fishing, people have gone out to sea to fish without hesitation in order to make a living.

As the amount of fish brought in by fishermen continues to rise, the workshop is running out of demand.

Fu Long was trying to ask Liu Muzhi for advice on whether to build another processing workshop.

In addition, the wharf is surrounded by a large construction site under construction, and a seaport city has become quite large.

This is all Fu Long's big money, don't look at the scale is quite large, in fact, it didn't cost anything, it all relied on the indigenous captives.

As long as Sima Xiuzhi leads people to sweep around, he can catch a lot of people, and then let them go to work.

Of course, you can't blindly use force to treat the natives, and the combination of grace and power is the king.

In order to win over the island's natives, Fu Long set up a formal bazaar in the open space outside the city.

Although it was not as formal as later generations, it also had fences and sheds that sheltered the vendors from the elements.

In order to maintain order in the market and collect taxes, Fu Long specially sent people to manage the bazaar.

"The main reason for building this trade market is to trade with the local natives."

"At present, the market has attracted more than a dozen indigenous tribes from the surrounding area to trade."

"They exchanged mountain goods, prey and other items for various daily necessities."

"Relying on this market, Hexi has formed an invisible alliance with about tens of thousands of natives, which greatly guarantees the safety of the port."

"Of course, Huairou alone can't completely guarantee the safety of the displaced people, and Captain Sima has already organized a thousand government soldiers."

"With the protection of the government soldiers, the displaced people can live on the island with peace of mind."

"Well, good, well done."

As he spoke, the group happened to walk near the bazaar, and there were constant sounds of quarrels and shouts.

Liu Muzhi then led everyone to walk over, only to see that the market was crowded with people, most of whom were dark-skinned.

A native has a side shoulder next to him, and the two large bamboo baskets in front and back are full of ground, and I don't know what it is.

In addition, there were several homeless people gathered nearby, with red faces and thick necks, looking angry.

Suddenly, a large number of people gathered around, and they were immediately frightened that these people did not dare to quarrel any further.

"What's going on?" Liu Muzhi asked with a smile on his face.

The homeless people had obviously seen the world, and they hurriedly saluted Liu Muzhi and said: "Xiaomin has seen adults, these two people came from the mountain tribe and came to the market to sell bananas. ”

"Xiaomin tasted one and thought it tasted good, so he planned to buy some for his family to taste."

"But I didn't expect that these two people don't charge five baht, so they have to ask for small things in exchange."

"Xiaomin came here today to buy things, and he didn't come to sell things, where is there anything to exchange with him?"

Liu Muzhi and Sima Xiuzhi and the others glanced at each other, turned their heads and asked the native, "Is what he said true?" ”

The indigenous man opened his mouth and screamed for a while, which made Liu Muzhi confused.

At this time, Fu Long hurriedly stepped forward and said: "He said that he didn't want copper coins, just iron, porcelain or cloth." ”

"Bo Zuo can also understand barbarian language?" Liu Muzhi was surprised.

"I've been on the island for a long time, and I've been dealing with the natives all day long, so I know a little bit about it." Fu Long said with a smile.

"And what do you think should be done about this?"

"Zuo Sima is not in a hurry, someone will come over to deal with it later." Fu Long comforted.

"This kind of thing happens almost every day, and the natives have never seen copper coins, and are only used to bartering."

"But as the scale of transactions expanded, bartering was no longer sufficient, and the use of coins became imperative."

As Fu Long said, a small official ran over in a short time sweating profusely.

He first had a brief understanding of the situation, and then led everyone to a shop that sold porcelain.

Then, under the guidance of the servant, the natives first exchanged the fruit for copper coins, and then used the copper coins to buy porcelain.

After this process, the native thought and seemed to understand the purpose of copper coins.

In the next few days, Liu Muzhi inspected most of Yizhou, and visited various processing workshops such as canned fish, canned fruit, and sugarcane, as well as tens of thousands of hectares of rice farmland.

Liu Muzhi spoke highly of Fu Long and Sima Xiuzhi, and promised to personally ask Dadu Hu for credit to them in the future.

Four or five days later, Liu Muzhi said goodbye to Sima Xiuzhi and Fu Long, and accompanied by Sun, embarked on the return journey.