"Sir, there hasn't been any major movement in Baekje for a while, but our precautions still can't be relaxed, what do you think we should do next?"

On Jeju Island, Qin Qiong found Liu Zhi, it has been more than two months since his people landed on the island, and it is already spring at this time, there is a volcano on Jeju Island, so the temperature is relatively high, and the temperature on the island is not very cold. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Zhi was in a refugee camp outside Jeju at this time, where all the refugees from the Central Plains were concentrated, and the Sui army took them from the area of Shandong Hebei and settled them on the island, and this winter they were building houses and reclaiming the land so that they could sow seeds after the spring of the next year.

"General Qin, I really have something to look for you, according to my tip, Jiangdu has sent a fleet and is searching in the direction of Shandong."

Qin Qiong's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Is Jiangdu's side suspicious of our disappearance?" ”

Liu Zhi nodded and said: "I'm afraid that's the case, an army of more than 30,000 people disappeared out of thin air, no matter how you say it, it is impossible not to attract the attention of the imperial court, it is not strange that they sent troops to find us, but the person who came this time is not an idle person, he is here to protect the child!" ”

"Come to Hu'er? How is he? ”

Lai Hu'er was a key figure in the battle of Sui to destroy Chen, and was also the general of the first naval army under Yang Guang, who followed Yang Guang to Goguryeo twice, although he did not achieve victory, but his status in the naval army is undoubted.

"The size of Laihu'er's fleet is not large, but this person has entered Goguryeo's Hunshui and even led his army into Pyongyang City, so he is more familiar with the shipping lanes in the northern part of Goguryeo, but we are currently in the south of Baekje, even if Laihu'er leads the army over, he is unlikely to find here, but we can't continue to send fleets to Shandong and Hebei for a while, so it is easy for Laihu'er to track and find our location."

Liu Zhi didn't want Jeju Island to be discovered by Laihu'er's sailors, this is an important stronghold for them to attack Baekje and the peninsula, if they were found by Laihu'er, then Qin Qiong and they would be a little difficult, their identity is still the Sui army, if Laihu'er asks them to follow him back to Yangzhou, even if Qin Qiong doesn't want to agree, then he has to test the ideas of other generals in the army.

"This is natural, but, Mr. Liu, we avoided this time, won't Jiangdu continue to send people to find us?"

Liu Zhi shook his head and said: "No, Jiangdu will soon be difficult to protect itself, I got the news, Li Mi and Wang Shichong are fighting fiercely in the Luoyang area, Li Shimin in the west is also eyeing the tiger, Luoyang is about to be lost, and then Jiangdu will become a lonely land, Yang Guang made a mistake, that is, he sent out the generals who were loyal to him, but left a few powerful ministers with wolf ambitions by his side, Yu Shiji, Yu Wenshu, Yu Wenhua and these people have already been united, Jiangdu will soon change the sky!" ”

Qin Qiong was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Sir, do you mean that the Yuwen family wants to usurp the throne?" ”

Liu Zhi didn't answer, glanced at him, and asked, "General Qin, if the Great Sui is gone, who will you be loyal to?" ”

This is a good question, so that Qin Qiong never thought about it before, a few years ago he was just a small catcher on the boundary of Shandong, at that time he was obviously loyal to the imperial court, and later because of disasters for many years, coupled with the surging of rebels in various places, he entered Zhang Xutuo's army, under Zhang Xutuo's command, he gradually grew up, and became a general who is not too big or small, Zhang Xutuo is the leader of this army, and his allegiance, and after Zhang Xutuo's death, the situation in Shandong was cleaned up by Qin Qiong, Therefore, he was also enshrined by Emperor Yang of Sui, and at this time the object of his allegiance became Emperor Yang of Sui.

But if the Great Sui is gone, then who will be his allegiance? He never thought about it yet!

Liu Zhi saw that he fell into deep thought, he really had to think about this question, so he said to him: "I'll go below to take a look at the resettlement of new immigrants, General Qin, you think slowly, when you figure it out, when to give me an answer, I need to know your thoughts!" ”

The area of Jeju Island is not small, but the previous Tamna country is too unbearable, the king is corrupt and greedy for money, the people are insensitive, and the total population is too small, so the whole island is very desolate, and even the place where the king's palace is located is not a city at all, at most it is a castle, and even the smallest county in the Central Plains is not comparable.

After getting enough people, Liu Zhi also made arrangements for these people, and there is still some grain on the island, which can support them until next year, but they can't always rely on only eating and storing grain, they must make their own promises and farm their own land, so as to ensure the total amount of grain.

Even in the 21st century, agriculture is still very important for a country, because once there is a problem in the food link, then the collapse of a country is very rapid, the ancient Chinese dynasty lasted less than 300 years, because in the process of dynastic inheritance there was a large-scale land annexation, so that the bottom farmers lost their land, and the homesteaders lost their land, and the country's tax revenue will be reduced. When the central government has no money, it will only increase the level of taxation, which in turn will encourage more yeoman farmers to lose their land because they cannot pay the rent, and finally a large amount of land will go into the hands of the big landlords and chaebols, and they will become the greatest danger to the empire, because a large number of peasants who have lost their land are a time bomb for the state, which may detonate at any time.

This did not happen in Tamna, the main reason is that the population here is too small, and the people can still go out to sea to fish, even in a disaster year, the possibility of starvation is not too great, but now the situation has changed, after a large number of immigrants come to the island, it is obviously impossible to rely on the original land and fishing alone to feed everyone.

After more than two months of hard work, two large plots of cultivated land have been reclaimed on the island, one in the west and one in the south, both of which are the places with the most abundant rainfall, and the terrain here is relatively flat.

As for why the terrain is relatively flat, Liu Zhi speculates that the main reason for this is because of China's Loess Plateau.

The Loess Plateau is one of the most serious soil erosion and the most fragile ecological environment in the world, the terrain is inclined from northwest to southeast, in addition to many stony mountains, most of them are covered by thick layers of loess, after long-term strong erosion by flowing water, gradually form thousands of ravines, the terrain is fragmented and special geology, according to the research of later generations, the thickness of the loess of the Huangtu Plateau is as high as 180 meters, which was formed eight million years ago, due to the movement of the earth and the geological changes, so that the original plain area continues to rise, Finally, the landform of the Loess Plateau was formed.

People who have been to the Loess Plateau know that due to the higher terrain and the dense vegetation coverage, the soil erosion on the Loess Plateau is very eye-catching, and the wind is full of wind and sand when the wind rises, and the sand in it is not sand and gravel, but the fine particles of loess.

These loess will gradually blow east to south with the northwest wind in winter, most of these yellow sand have fallen to the place in North China, which is the sandstorm that later generations said, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, since there were meteorological records, Beijing began to appear with the same sandstorm in later generations, but there are also in North China, not only Beijing.

These yellow sand was not only blown to North China, but also across the ocean, blown to the Japanese archipelago, some historians have studied that the Japanese islands were originally not suitable for farming, because the land is too barren, most of the Japanese archipelago is formed after volcanic eruptions, such land is mostly formed by volcanic rock, is not very suitable for farming, because the surface is uneven, and too hard, it takes years of weathering before the thin soil for plants to take root.

The loess blown from the Loess Plateau in China gradually accumulated over the Japanese archipelago over the years, and gradually formed a large area of land suitable for farming, so the Japanese developed.

The geographical location of Jeju Island is closer to Chinese mainland than the Japanese archipelago, and there are volcanoes on the island, which are mainly formed by volcanic eruptions, so the situation of the Japanese archipelago will also appear here, and the south and west sides of the island are the most fertile places, and the terrain of these places is also flatter, so it is easier to reclaim.

At this time, in addition to the 30,000 Sui troops brought by Qin Qiong, plus the 10,000 people of the original Tamluo country, there were also refugees who were successively picked up from Shandong and Hebei, and their number had reached 60,000 or 70,000, almost 10,000 households. Each woman received 40 acres of open land, and did not give it to Yongye land; Slaves and maids are the same as ordinary people. Yongye fields do not need to be returned, and open fields must be returned to the state after the death of the cultivator.

In this way, the 60,000 people on the island need at least 4 million mu of land, but this area has exceeded the total area of Jeju Island, so it is obviously unlikely, so Liu Zhi formulated for Qin Qiong, although it is still a uniform land system, it is very different from the Sui system, mainly because the field allocated to each household is greatly reduced, an adult man is given ten acres of Yongye land, twenty acres of open land, and women are halved, as for the population under the age of fifteen and over sixty years old, no land is allocated to men and women. In addition, the aborigines of the island need a total of one million acres of land, and the original arable land on the island is too small, so basically it needs to be cultivated, and this will miss the wheat sowing period before the winter, which will affect the harvest of the next year, so that rice can only be planted once.

However, Liu Zhi has a way to solve this problem, he brought a large number of corn seeds, and corn is not only easy to store, but also has a good yield, at least much higher than the current wheat, there is no problem with the yield of more than 400 catties per acre, you must know that in later generations, the use of genetically modified corn plus the use of pesticides and fertilizers, the yield of corn is as high as 900 kilograms per mu, even if Liu Zhi brought over is not hybrid corn, but traditional local corn, their yield is also very good.

Corn is usually planted after the beginning of spring, and it can be harvested at the end of July, so that you can also grab a round of late rice according to the conditions, even if you can't plant late rice, Liu Zhi still has sweet potatoes and potatoes in his hands, these good things are short, the yield is high, and it can be stored by digging a cellar at home, so the problem of grain is very easy to solve, and now the key is to have enough fields.

After more than two months of hard work, most of the houses and villages have been basically completed at this time, and because of the construction of villages and new cities, the large forests cut down are just used to clear the wasteland at this time, but because everyone was mainly busy cutting down trees and building houses some time ago, so the total land area reclaimed so far is less than 300,000 mu, which is still a long way from the number that Liu Zhi needs in his heart. And they must reclaim the remaining 700,000 acres of land in the next two months, otherwise by the beginning of spring, their land will not be enough, and the next food production may not be able to keep up with their growing population.

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"How much more do we have?"

After searching for more than 20 days in the Bohai Sea, the fleet of Laihu'er has completely lost hope of finding the disappeared Sui army, the Bohai Sea in winter is not very comfortable, although it will not be attacked by storms, but the Bohai Sea will freeze in winter, which makes their activities must be cautious, they can only sail during the day, and they dare not move at night, not only to be careful of the ice icebergs on the surface, but also to worry about those floating icebergs, which are as fatal to the fleet.

After coming to Hu'er and his entourage from Jiangdu, they entered the East China Sea along the Yangtze River, at this time the East China Sea included the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in later generations, they sailed all the way to the north, and came to the vicinity of Shandong after more than half a month, but they searched for more than a month on the Shandong side, but there was no gain at all, if the army of more than 30,000 people wanted to disappear out of thin air, it was impossible, and it was only left in Shandong in some way, and it has been confirmed that there is no trace of them on land, so they must have gone to sea, But the sea is so big, and no one knows where they went.

Lai Hu'er led the fleet to search the islands in the coastal area of Shandong, and did not find anything, although the traces of the army stationed on Bird Island were found, but the army on the island had already disappeared when they went, and they could not judge whether the army on the island was the Sui army based on these traces alone, and at this time Dou Jiande's army was still stationed in Shandong, and it was impossible for them to dock to ask the locals for verification.

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