Not to mention that the craftsmen on this island are all super perceptive, and they understand a lot one by one, and some of them even went to the spinning machine to polish the rotating part of the crank wheel and spindle once, and put on some oil, and said vigorously, "Isn't it that the friction is small, and the rotation is easier." "Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" made Li Yang feel very pleased, and it seems that a few more teachers will be born soon.

In the past, many people in Li Yang's time argued that ancient China only had technology and no science, but now that Li Yang has arrived, he has to establish the concept of science in the hearts of the Chinese and all those who admire Han culture. The machinery factory was also established subsequently, and Li Yang did not want any machinery to be printed by himself in the future, which would be harmful to his own development.

The first task of the machinery factory is to imitate the spinning machine and the shuttle loom, all the most skilled craftsmen are concentrated in this factory, the salary is also staggeringly high, including food, fixed ten taels of silver every year, children enjoy the opportunity to go to school first, Li Yang is trying to do everything possible so that these craftsmen do not worry about the trivial things in life, can completely put their minds on the skills.

And also developed a generous reward policy, each craftsman can have some extra income every month, who is attentive and who contributes a lot of income, I heard that the credit should also be recorded, and it may be knighted in the future, tsk, that is the noble lord, I can't imagine that the craftsman can also have that day.

Not long after the New Year, not only the people of Yaeyama Castle, but also the original inhabitants of Miyakojima felt a noticeable change, and there were more and more goods on the market, especially cloth, which used to be four copper coins and a foot of homespun cloth, now only cost two copper coins, and there are more colors, so that people who did not buy new clothes before the year ago hurriedly bought one after the new year.

In addition, in the busy spring sowing everywhere, the seeds sent by the island owner's mansion are used, and there is no longer a poor man in previous years who begged for a little seed to the door of the noble lord, and one stone of seed should be returned with five stones and six stones of grain, and the island owner's mansion only asked for half of the more than in the past to be given to the island owner's mansion.

Now there is a new gadget in and near the city, everyone calls it a bicycle, just like a bench with two wheels under it, there is a handle at one end, you can turn the front wheel, and there is a crankshaft under the front wheel, you can go forward when you step on it, there is an idle boy and people bet to use this bicycle to ride horses with others, to see who will go from Miyakojima to Yaeyama Castle first, and finally the boy lost the race with a disadvantage of less than 300 meters.

Although he lost the game, but the boy was very happy, every day to the door of the island owner's mansion to ask the owner to authorize him to open a factory to set up a workshop to make this kind of bicycle, the most unexpected thing is that the owner also agreed, just half of the shares, and came up with a few ideas, such as making three wheels, there is a big basket behind to load the goods, the son is very happy, go back to Zhang Luo to get up with this matter.

Speaking of which, the son is also the descendant of a local wealthy family, called Su Donglai, who used to make his father hurt his brain, who knew that this opening not only opened the factory, but also climbed the big tree of the island owner, and suddenly made his father sweep away his previous views, and felt that he had a good son who was motivated and promising.

All the residents of the southwestern tip of the Ryukyu Islands feel that the world has changed because of the arrival of Li Yang, the owner of Miyakojima, and is there really such a big new change in the new year?

Although the New Year has been completed in the territory, it is now more lively than the New Year, and there is an endless stream of merchants from all over the country, who drag a boatload of cotton and linen ore over, and drag back a boatload of cloth tools, and now the products of the weapons and machinery factories are not sold out, and some businessmen try to buy the products of the newly established bicycle factories: single bicycles and cargo bicycles, although the cargo bicycle is still a little bulky, but it does not need animal power to carry two or three hundred pounds of goods for a long journey, Let Uncle Wang, the older generation of Chinese, touch their beards and shout: "Muliu cattle and horses!" Wood flow cattle and horses! ”

Most of the factories and workshops belong to Li Yang, the income is at the disposal of Li Yang, and the taxes are also a lot.

Too much money is not a good thing, Li Yang is well aware of this truth, if you want to make money, you must be able to spend money. How do you spend money now? Spend money at the same time, so that you can earn money faster in the future, that's right! The expansion of production is one thing, and the other is war. That's what the Yankees of the world used to do.

Now the situation on the Ryukyu Islands is still calm, I don't know if King Nakayama thinks that the south can be taken down in one fell swoop, or thinks that there are hard bones like Miyakojima in the remaining small countries, and he is ready to talk about it slowly, anyway, it is calm before the storm.

Li Yang set his eyes on the island of Okinawa, of course, now it is not called Okinawa, but Ryukyu, Yaeyama and Miyako Island are not part of the current Ryukyu Island, only later.

Li Xiang looked at the map and found that Okinawa is a large island located in the center of the Ryukyu Islands, in the southwest of Japan, between mainland Japan and Taiwan, China, and is the largest island in the archipelago. It is about 340 kilometers away from Kyushu Island in the north, about 107 kilometers long from north to south, about 31 kilometers wide, about 560 kilometers in circumference, and about 1,208 square kilometers in area. It is mainly agricultural, with paddy fields and orchards, and the main products are pineapples and sugar cane. Abundant aquatic products. Now there are many small countries on the island, and there are three large countries, namely the King of the North Mountain, the King of Zhongshan and the King of the South Mountain. Of course, the most powerful is still the King of Zhongshan. The lack of a unified government here is actually a good opportunity to intervene, in history it was the King of Nakayama who finally unified the Ryukyus, but now it is estimated that it will have to be replaced by Li Yang.

After a month, Li Yang took Li Wen and Wang Hu to the Nanshan Kingdom on Okinawa Island on a merchant's boat.

When the merchant ships arrived at the port, they found that there was a feature of the port here, all the merchant ships were firmly tied to the pier with multiple cables, and the owner of the merchant ship explained that the waves on the coast here were too big, and if they were not bolted, they were easily swept away by the waves, and even if they were bolted, ships were often overturned by the waves, so this place was not considered a good harbor.

After entering the harbor, Li Yang found that it also has the distinctive characteristics of the Ryukyuan people, and the people live a very idle life, not in a hurry or slow, perhaps because the summer here is relatively hot, which is suitable for a slow-paced life.

The harbor is still a short distance from the city, and everyone is only a twenty-minute walk away, and what Li Yang wants to observe most is the state of the city's defense, which is the most direct sign of whether the country is strong or not.