Cangzhou, a city close to the sea, has a long and narrow coastline and many natural deep-water harbors. But in this day and age, it was a barren land, because it was so remote, and many places were uninhabited wilderness. Therefore, only the flying seabirds are lonely in this vast world, flying and singing between the sea and the sky. But in this year, on the shore of the sea that no one cares about, a group of people come, and they will start a new era here.

In the winter of the sixth year of Zhenguan, Li Wan, the king of Chu in the Tang Dynasty, led a group of officials from Cangzhou to this barren seaside and drew a circle on the seaside, and since then he has deduced a change in the Tang Dynasty's maritime frontier. No one knew why the prince had come to see a shipyard here, or where he had gotten a large group of dwarf-like dwarves to work as coolies in the shipyard. But many years later, they knew that in this shipyard, they built a series of behemoths of sea ships, and established the status of Datang's maritime hegemon. Of course, no one has foreseen this qiē yet, and none of them are optimistic about this prince who seems to be doing things only when he has a fever. But no one dares to put it forward directly, over the years, Cangzhou has come to this place one after another, but no one can do it for a long time, why? These people have grown up here for generations, and they really know all too well about this situation. Because the land here is barren, but the taxes of the imperial court have never been reduced, even now it is the same fifteen taxes as all over the country, such taxes are very low in other places, but Cangzhou is a part of the sea breeze because of the salt brought by the waves. As a result, the land is compacted and salinized, and the grain that grows is so rare. Such a tax becomes a heavy burden.

Moreover, because the people are strong. If there is dissatisfaction, the entire clan and the entire village will go into battle against the government, so for so many years, it has been a dead circle here, and no one can solve such a problem. This time, Li Kuan came here, and instead of a plan to dig in the soil, he set his eyes on the vast sea, where endless treasures were hidden. So his first thing to do was to build ships. So a vigorous recruitment was launched in this difficult Cangzhou, and the Cangzhou shipyard was toughened by Li Kuan in less than half a month after Li Kuan came here.

After that, notices were posted in the small towns and villages under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou, and the Cangzhou shipyard recruited supervisors, and what they did was to go to the shipyard to supervise the work of those workers and prevent them from being lazy. This kind of thing is still very simple for these people who can't read a basket of big characters, plus the rich money mentioned in the notice. Countless people were moved. After that, countless people enthusiastically signed up and almost staged a group fight on the beach. If Li Kuan hadn't sent the 3,000 soldiers stationed in Cangzhou City to suppress it, these fierce Diao people would really have staged an all-military march on the seaside for the position of overseer, fighting to the death.

When the end of the seventh year of Zhenguan comes. The Cangzhou shipyard officially began production, in less than two months, on the shore of this barren sea. Factories were built and huge logs were erected. Then the rafters were nailed and covered with green tiles. The walls around it were much more rudimentary, because there were countless workers going in and out of the place, carrying timber here, and building docks and so on, so the walls were ventilated on all sides. After that, several large ships came from the vast waves. The boats were filled with dwarf-like men, all of them yellow-skinned, blind-eyed, with ridiculous balls on top of their heads, and some with beards like dog shit under their noses.

The men were driven off the ship by the sailors of the ship with leather whips, like ducks, and then thrown on the beach, and when some people got off the ship and approached the head of the shipyard, they handed them over to the shipyard, saying that they were a group of slaves, and that they were to be called upon as they pleased, as long as they were guaranteed two meals a day. Then, as if they had suddenly appeared, they disappeared into the vast waves. But these people have brought the most scarce thing to this construction site, and that is manpower. Because the imperial court recruited all overseers, and there was not a single shipbuilder, no one did the most tiring and bitter work. Even before the efforts to speak incomprehensible words arrived, it was a wasteland, and there was no place to stay, and the shipyard veterans, the founders, lived in only a few tents these days.

Under the whip, the slaves in thin fancy clothes began to work, and these people were very cheap and liked to be smoked, which was an interesting phenomenon that the overseers of the shipyard discovered after a while, because if you whipped them on them, not only would they not get angry, but they would bow to you after being whipped by you. Therefore, in the future largest shipyard in the Tang Dynasty, one of the favorite games of countless people is to whip these slaves with shit beards to see who can smoke quickly and accurately.

As the days passed, Li Kuan reviewed all kinds of government affairs documents in the Thorn History Mansion of Cangzhou Mansion, what Xiaowangzhuang and Houshan Village two groups of villagers fought because of a well, what Songjiazhuang outside the city lost a cow, and set up a ring match with Dayantang Village ten miles away. These things made Li Kuan bored for a while, they were all such trivial things, but they were important matters related to people's livelihood. In his eyes, it was insignificant, but in the eyes of the people, a well represented the ability to drink sweet spring water, and a cow represented the ability to plant a crop on time. So the angle of standing is different, and the things you see are also very different, but there is another major event this year that makes these people grateful to the government. That is, they are no longer hungry, because the people in the shipyard are basically from various villages in Cangzhou, and every month when these people go home to save their relatives, they will bring back a cart of grain, which are all golden rice, even crystal clear rice, and snow-white flour. So as long as there are three or five people in the village working in the shipyard, then nearly half of the people in the whole village can have enough to eat.

Because of this, Cangzhou people have more and more respect for the shipyard, of course, these tough people are also a little confused, and even on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, a group of people actually raided the shipyard, but they were directly made dumplings by a large group of officers and soldiers, because in this territory, countless people have become Li Kuan's eyes and ears, they = because the shipyard has lived a full life, for these people who want to destroy everyone's hopes for their own selfishness, all the Cangzhou people are hateful. So before these people could be brought to Li Kuan, they were surrounded by countless people and stoned to death. This made Li Kuan become the soil emperor of the land of Cangzhou in just a few months, even if he wanted to rise up now, these people would blindly follow him and help him overthrow Li Er's rule.

Fortunately, Li Kuan didn't have such thoughts, he didn't know how important it was in the eyes of the people here as just low-hanging fruit in his opinion. The food that is distributed as employee benefits every month is more than the salary of one or two silver per month, which makes these people grateful to Dade. Because here, silver can hardly buy grain, but grain can be exchanged for large sums of silver. Cangzhou is short of food, and the people are short of food, which is the biggest headache for every Cangzhou thorn history. The taxes of the imperial court can not be ignored, so every autumn harvest has become a battle between the government and the people, the government first collects the grain from the hands of the people, hands it over to the treasury, and then asks for grain from the treasury in the poor baba to distribute it to the people, which is the annual work of the previous Cangzhou Thorn History.

Now that Li Kuan has taken office, the taxes of the government do not need to be paid by the people, because Li Kuan has been running around all these years, and food is really one of the cheapest things for him, only a little more expensive than water. With his storage, the entire people of Datang can eat for a year, and this Cangzhou is more than a hundred times different from all the states and counties in Datang, so he does not have the slightest burden.

The spring breeze blows the green earth, in this land, the hard-working people have started a year's work in the fields, countless green wheat seedlings grow in this saline-alkali land, it is so tenacious, and the verdant color is pleasing to the eye. Li Kuan rode a horse, with a group of guards to the edge of the sea, today is the day when the first sea ship of Cangzhou Shipyard was launched, he took people to see, these days he did not pay attention to it except for the original establishment of this plan, and the shipyard was officially opened to see it. Because he is not this material, he doesn't know anything about these, he made up his mind after a letter, Li Er transferred more than a dozen craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, these people were involved in the shipbreaking operation, Li Kuanzhenguan The ship that loaded grain in the second year was dismantled, and then he was responsible for the design and construction of Datang's ships, and the last one became an expert in shipbuilding, and each of them could restore the original ship intact with their eyes closed. This kind of technology let Li Kuan know that at this time, the endless feeling, the Great Heavenly Empire's copycat ability turned out to be a long history.

The sea breeze has a fishy smell, blowing on the face makes people feel uncomfortable for a while, which is also a point that Li Kuan is not very satisfied with, he has always lived in the inland of the mainland, and suddenly the sea breeze blowing on the beach is really unbearable, in his opinion, this piece of sea, in fact, is a natural fish pond, countless big fish are kept in captivity, but no one to harvest, now what he has to do is to let people harvest the fish fry stocked by Mother Earth.

Huge shipyards, countless tall houses stand on the seashore, countless Japanese slaves are here as coolies, two meals a day, but these Japanese slaves eat happily, and even whenever it is time to eat, these people will lie down and kiss the shoes of the overseers who brought the food, and shout words of gratitude to Amaterasu, and only start to eat after a long day of epilepsy. (To be continued......)