Just after the New Year, the Shangyuan Festival, which the people of the Great Song Dynasty are most looking forward to, was put on the agenda, and in order to catch up with the forefront of the fashion of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang San also organized a small lantern festival and lantern riddle guessing activities in the house.

After visiting the Lantern Festival, Zhang San began to arrange for people to organize the southward journey, first recruiting unemployed workers near various mines to go south, and then hiring prospecting masters with a lot of money.

Wen Huanzhang has also improved a lot after more than half a month of cultivation, Zhang San asked him to go to the south to help with the civil affairs problems on Ryukyu Island, of course, he told him that he had made an island overseas, and hoped that he would go to see it and help deal with some problems.

After sending Wen Huanzhang away, Zhang San began to arrange for people to go to Shandong to go to Liangshan, the first one to go was the faceless Jiao Ting, Zhang San had the grace of knowing him, so when Zhang San explained what he meant, Jiao Ting happily went.

I remember what to prepare for the name of Shangliangshan, Zhang San made dozens of goods, and arranged for the people over there in Yuncheng to prepare the head and other things, of course, the head is those who are wicked or should be killed.

As long as Jiao Ting is low-key and shows that his martial arts are not as good as Du Qian and Song Wan, then there is still a great chance to stay in Liangshan, after all, although Wang Lun is jealous of his ability, if your level is not good, he is still willing to expand the strength of the cottage.

After more than a month of busy work, the last group of orphans was finally sent to Ryukyu Island, and letters were sent to the island, and the children were properly settled.

Zhang San also let go of half of his mind about this, and the island also mentioned that the master of the best went out to visit friends, Zhang San didn't say anything about it, this monk has not expressed refuge, although he lives on the island, but he rarely participates in the things on the island.

However, it is not so easy for such a jealous and hateful monk to become a Buddha, and it is really only a little peaceful after only half a year of cultivation, as long as he is willing to go out, it proves that he has walked out of his cage, Zhang San is looking forward to his next performance.

Jiao Ting also successfully defected to Liangshan, became a small leader, Zhang San's preparation really played a role, when Jiao Ting went up the mountain, Wang Lun and others immediately asked Jiao Ting to hand over the name, Jiao Ting carried the head and the money that was 'robbed' was immediately recognized by Wang Lun.

In addition, he pretended not to be good at using weapons, so he could only have a draw with Song Wan, which immediately reassured Wang Lun, and appointed him as a small leader, in charge of more than ten people, Jiao Ting did not show the slightest dissatisfaction with this, Wang Lun sent people to observe for a while and then completely relieved.

At the end of February, Zhang San sent a second undercover agent, that is, Tong Wei who returned from Ryukyu Island, compared to Tong Meng's reckless image, as the twin's brother is indeed much smarter, combined with his later achievements, Zhang San feels that he is still a more reassuring one.

Sure enough, as a general of the navy army that was urgently needed on Liangshan, Tong Wei was reused by Wang Lun without even accepting his name, and he became the leader of the navy earlier than Jiao Ting and sat in the fourth position.

Moreover, Tong Wei has been able to manage a small fleet of five warships from one ship to another in the past year, and now it is even more a piece of cake to manage a Liangshan fishing fleet of dozens of people, and he doesn't want to grab a big boat in half a month.

This made his prestige in Liangshan more solid, and his lack of murder made Wang Lun, who claimed to be a scholar, like it, since he could grab it on the water, he didn't have to risk going ashore every time to try his luck, which made Wang Lun even happier.

In February, the Ryukyus sent news that another copper mine had been discovered on the east coast of the Ryukyus, and Zhang San immediately became even more happy, and the two copper mines were developed together, and Zhang San hoped to produce more than 100,000 tons of ore a year.

Of course, such an output requires at least 30,000 miners to mine and more than 10,000 smelters, so the total number of people must exceed 50,000 to complete the development of copper mines.

The taste of the two copper mines is about 3.5 percent, and according to the current smelting technology, it is good to be able to smelt three tons of copper from 100 tons of ore. In this way, 100,000 tons of copper would require more than 3 million tons of raw ore.

At the current copper mining speed, a person can mine up to five or six hundred catties a day, and miners cannot continue to mine beyond a certain limit, otherwise it is easy to die of exhaustion, so after removing the rest time, a miner can mine more than 100 tons of ore a year.

Three million tons of raw ore need more than 30,000 miners to mine, plus related work, so 50,000 people will only be more and not less, then the problem is, the population on the island is obviously not enough, and Zhang San needs a new slave production area.

Because this is not only copper mines, but also iron and coal mines, but also quarrying, brick burning, paving roads, and so on, a large number of slaves are needed, so the hundreds of thousands of wild people on the island have now been almost captured.

In the end, Zhang San decided to grab some slaves from Luzon for emergencies, after all, there are several island states established by some small island natives, Zhang San can easily break through as long as he sends a few thousand people, and there are no strong forces around Luzon.

There is no need to worry about the participation of other forces in the fight, Zhang San told Ryukyu his ideas, and let the other side organize a southward fleet and a slave capture team, this kind of thing does not need to be led by Zhang San himself, I believe that the people on the island can easily complete it.

Originally, when Zhang San thought that everything would develop according to his expectations, Fujian Road finally organized an encirclement and suppression army to attack Zhang San's Ryukyu pirates.

Why did the fleet that was supposed to leave last year drag on for so long? This is entirely due to the fact that there are no decent warships along the coast of Fujian Road, and during this time they have been working hard to repair ships and organize businessmen to carry out joint encirclement and suppression.

After several months of preparation, a crusade fleet of more than 100 large ships was finally organized in February after the new year, and the attack will be made at the end of February.

Zhang San immediately ordered the fleet on the island to prepare to meet the attack, and took all the invading ships and all the prisoners into labor camps, and then carried out a month-long retaliatory raid on the coastal areas of Fujian, robbing the population of the coastal villages to Ryukyu.

Zhang San's letter was sent to Ryukyu Island through carrier pigeons, and the island immediately began to prepare to deal with these arrogant and unknown officers and soldiers, and the Ryukyu Navy completed the task of annihilation almost unscathed, and since then the coast of Fujian Road has become an undefended place.

After mid-March, even the capital knew the news that the coastal areas of Fujian Road were harassed by large-scale attacks by pirates, and the DPRK and China immediately experienced a wave of personnel turmoil, but Zhang San did not block the trade routes at sea, and the raids were also controlled in the villages along the coast of Fujian, so the imperial court did not make a big effort to crack down, but only ordered Fujian Road to organize sailors to exterminate the pirates.