"We're going to go over and have a look, too!" As soon as Li Hao's words fell, Wu Yue and Comrade Xiao Wu both expressed their heartfelt willingness. Although because of Li Hao's popular science, people here know that Qiongzhou is not the southernmost place, nor is it the end of the world, but there is still a lot of interest in it.

Li Mansion now eats all kinds of novel fruits every year, most of which are transported from here, plus several fishing grounds and salt farms here, and the scenery that Li Hao said is beautiful, can you not be curious and want to see it?

"Hehe, no hurry! Then the whole house will come and have a look! Anyway, it won't take long to get there, and it won't delay anything. "Li Hao's children are more than half a year old, so it doesn't matter if you pay attention on the road. So Li Hao is going to take all the people in his house over there to have a look, maybe he will have to stay there for a little longer.

Qiongzhou Island is now the largest "tropical treasure land" in Datang, with a total land area of 3.442 million hectares. Due to the superior conditions of light, heat and water, the growth and reproduction rate of organisms is better than that of temperate and subtropical, and farmland can be planted all year round, and many crops can be harvested 2 to 3 times a year.

For Li Hao, how can he give up such a treasure land? He has a large number of crops in his hands that can be introduced and planted in this place, as long as he spends some points, so that the food he wants to make will become richer, and some special things can enter the sight of the Tang people as soon as possible.

Therefore, after Li Hao came to Lingnan Road, he never let go of his attention there. All kinds of fruits and vegetables suitable for planting in Qiongzhou Road in later generations, as well as cash crops, he spent points to exchange them, and then let his people go there to try planting, just farms and plantations, Li Hao has several in Qiongdao.

At present, grain crops are the largest, most widely distributed and highest output crops in the planting industry of Qiongzhou Island. There are mainly rice, upland rice, mountain orchid slope rice, wheat, followed by sweet potato, cassava, taro, corn, sorghum, millet, beans, etc.

The main cash crops are sugarcane, hemp, peanuts, sesame, tea, etc.; There are many kinds of fruits, 29 families and 53 genera of cultivated and wild fruits, and the main commercial fruits are pineapple, lychee, longan, banana, plantain, citrus, mango, watermelon, star fruit, jackfruit, etc., and there are more than 120 varieties of vegetables. Most of this is due to Li Hao.

In addition to Li Hao, many Han people moved over from all over the country, and there were also some Shanyue people. The original Fan tribe on the island was all under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and there was no capital to resist the advancement of Tang culture and civilization, so everything here was developing very harmoniously.

When Li Hao promoted some new things, he did not miss the original Fan people here, so that they also became rich with the Han people, and their lives became more and more comfortable.

"Brother-in-law, I heard that the Fan clan on Qiongzhou Island is very murderous, will we meet them in the past?" After the Chinese New Year in Guangzhou Mansion, going to Qiongzhou Island was on the agenda, and Wu Yue would shake in front of Li Hao from time to time, and then ask about some things over there.

"Who are you listening to? The Fan people over there have almost been mixed up with the Han people for so many years, how can they be as cruel as you say. Li Hao laughed after hearing this, this news is outdated.

Qiongzhou Island has belonged to the land of the East for a long time, and there have always been Han people from the Central Plains who have been exiled here, so that the Fan people there have slowly integrated into some of the habits of the Han people. And Li Hao has always been a pure Han thought, if those Fan clans were really cruel, they would have been wiped out by him a long time ago.

Qiongzhou Island is rich in tropical crop resources, and there are more than 3,000 kinds of tropical plants growing on the island. However, after Li Hao came over, he introduced more than 1,000 kinds of plants from the system, and unearthed more than 1,000 kinds of useful plants from wild resources for cultivation experiments, and after two or three years, he achieved remarkable results.

At present, the tropical crops with large cultivation area and high economic value mainly include: rubber, coconut, oil palm, betel nut, pepper, sisal, lemongrass, cashew nut, cocoa, etc. In addition to being used for food, it is also used for other purposes, which is a necessary product for Li Hao to develop something in the future.

The vegetation of Qiongzhou grows fast and the plants are numerous, and it is the native place of tropical rainforest and tropical monsoon forest. Among the more than 4,000 plant resources, there are more than 2,500 medicinal plants; There are more than 2,000 kinds of trees and shrubs, of which more than 800 species have high economic value, and more than 20 kinds of special products and rare trees; 142 species of fruit trees; more than 70 species of aromatic plants; There are more than 200 kinds of tropical ornamental flowers and landscaping trees.

The largest amount of plant resources is in the tropical forest plant community type, and the vertical zonation of tropical forest vegetation is obvious, and it has the characteristics of mixed, multi-layered, heterogeneous, evergreen, dry height, crown width and so on. Tropical forests are mainly distributed in Wuzhi Mountain, Jianfeng Mountain, Bawangling, Diaoluo Mountain, Limu Mountain and other forest areas, among which Wuzhi Mountain is an undeveloped primeval forest.

Li Hao is very satisfied with the tropical forest for producing precious tropical timber, but this territory is still a little less. Among the more than 1,400 species of coniferous and broad-leaved trees, there are 800 species of trees, of which 458 species are listed as commercial timber.

There are 5 kinds of rosewood, slope barrier, zijing, lychee, mother, etc., 34 kinds of first-class wood, 48 kinds of second-class wood, 119 kinds of third-class wood, 85 kinds of high-grade wood suitable for shipbuilding and manufacturing of precious furniture, and 45 kinds of rare tree species.

This is also the reason why Li Hao built the third shipyard in the Far East here, and further south from here is Annam, which has the same weather, the same rainforest, and a lot of wood suitable for shipbuilding, so that it is much more convenient to take materials for shipbuilding.

The timber used by the Fourth Shipyard on the Ryukyu Island side came from the north, and there was a lot of good wood on the stick side that could be used for shipbuilding, plus the wood on the Ryukyu Island itself. This fourth plant is also necessary, and the route to the east is as important as the route to the north.

In addition to timber, Qiongzhou Island is also very rich in animal and plant medicinal resources, known as the "natural medicine storehouse". Among the more than 4,000 kinds of substances, there are about 2,000 kinds that can be used in medicine, accounting for 40% of the entire Datang, and there are 500 kinds of pharmacopoeia included in the pharmacopoeia.

There are 137 kinds of anti-cancer plants and more than 30 kinds of southern medicines that have been screened, and the most famous ones are the four major southern medicines: betel nut, nootropic, sand kernel, and morind. There are nearly 50 kinds of animal medicinal materials and marine medicinal resources, including deer antler velvet, monkey ointment, bezoar, pangolin, tortoiseshell, sea dragon, seahorse, sea snake, amber, pearl, sea cucumber, coral, shell, oyster, cassia stone, shark fin, turtle plate, etc.

There are some things in this that Li Hao himself doesn't fully recognize, and he hasn't even seen them. But there is a system, he doesn't have to worry about this, just exchange the information for reference and comparison.

In short, Qiongzhou Island was just a place of exile in the eyes of everyone at this time, but in Li Hao's eyes, this was a real treasure trove. Moreover, running this place well is also very beneficial to Datang's southward expansion policy.

In fact, in addition to the abundance of various crops, the marine aquatic resources here in Qiongzhou are also very rich. It has the characteristics of wide marine fisheries, many varieties, fast growth and long fishing season, and is an ideal place for Datang to develop tropical marine fisheries.

The marine fishery covers an area of nearly 300,000 square kilometres, and 25,700 hectares of coastal flats can be used for aquaculture. There are more than 800 species of marine aquatic products, including more than 600 species of fish, and more than 40 species of major marine economic fish.

In addition, the cycle of going north is much shorter, and the technology of ice preservation has appeared in advance, and it is much more convenient for these seafood to be sold in various places in the north. Therefore, we will vigorously develop these here, and we don't have to worry about not being able to make money, let alone worrying that no one will come to farm.

In addition, Qiongzhou Island is also an ideal natural salt field, where salt can be dried in many places along the coastal harbor and tidal flats. Concentrated in an arc of hundreds of miles along the eastern coast, there are already several large salt farms led by the southern government.

Now there are large salt farms such as Yinggehai, Dongfang and Yuya, among which Yinggehai Salt Farm is a rare large salt field in the south of the Tang Dynasty. These salt farms were not government-led, but were mined by merchants from the south.

Li Hao's new seawater salt drying method was best tried here, and after a large number of salt workers poured here, the daily salt production was as high as that of the hills, and the quality was of high quality.

The daily salt produced here is transported to various parts of the north in large quantities, which also makes the Datang salt industry, which was originally a bit high, decline a lot. Some of the smuggling salt dealers have a lot worse business, which makes the hoarding of salt less and less operational.

Green salt in the west, well salt in Shudi, sea salt in the south and east. The salt production in the other three places has increased greatly because of Li Hao, so this also makes Datang's salt extremely rich now.

The sea salt production in the east is not under Li Hao's jurisdiction, so he can't go over to increase the salt production over there for a while, but Li Hao still sent his own students over, and let's go there first to introduce technology.

In addition to the increase in the output of goods, transportation has become more and more important. It's a pity that except for Li Hao and Li Ke, as well as Li Zhe of Jiannan Province and Liu Renliang of Jingzhou, they are very concerned about this, and officials in other places are not so concerned about this.

Of course, there is another important reason that they want to repair, but they are short of money. Not everyone is willing to accept Li Hao's practices and is willing to change, he can only influence the people around him and the people under him now.

In fact, in addition to the rich plant resources and marine resources, Qiongzhou also has a lot of mineral resources. Li Hao has traveled to this island in his later years, and he has also checked some things here.

There are more than 10 kinds of advantageous minerals in Qiongzhou, such as glass quartz sand, natural gas, titanium iron sand, zircon, sapphire, crystal, tri-water bauxite, oil shale, fertilizer limestone, zeolite, etc.

There is nothing to do about the exploitation of natural gas and oil for the time being, but the rest is much better. More importantly, there is abundant iron ore here, among which, the iron ore reserves of Shilu Iron Mine rank first in the country, and the titanium ore reserves rank first in the country.

This is good news for both Datang and the South. As long as the relevant technology is in place, there will be a new stage of development here.