Chapter Eighty-Three: The Golden State Opens the Ya
"This is the Qinglong Knife, the third generation of the Qinglong Knife, blowing and breaking the hair, sharpening iron like clay, and giving it to the king today as a gift. We're going to build a barracks and station my sailors, and we're going to survey Mayi Island, and hopefully the king will give us some guides. Bai Wave directly stated the purpose.
After King Ma Yi got the sword, he couldn't put it down, and he didn't panic at all about what Bai Bolang was going to say about stationing the army, and he didn't realize what it meant at all.
King Ma Yi nodded, inserted his knife into the sheath, and enthusiastically called a few of his attendants, babbling something. It took a while for Anshak to translate King Mayi's words: "King Mayi wants your gift very much, and intends to give you a piece of land and five hundred slaves. ”
After a while, several naked Mayi people were called to the deck, and they knelt and kowtowed to the white waves, which was explained by Anshak: "General, you should take off your shoes and step on the top of their heads with your bare feet to show your acceptance of their subordination, and from now on, they will be your slaves." ”
White waves and sweat, this kind of thing, he can't do. What you have to do, it's hard to explain it to the political affairs hall. Then he said: "Tell them that from today onwards, restore their freedom, and from now on, they will be the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and we will provide them with housing and livelihood." ”
After getting the permission of King Ma Yi, Bai Bolang led the fleet out of the port, and when the fleet left, in the port, King Ma Yi was directing people to tie more than 50 slaves to the harbor, and pulled out the Qinglong knife that Bai Bo gave him just now, one by one, and more than 50 people rolled down.
Anshak said: "General Bai, the custom of Ma Yi, they are thanking God for allowing General Bai to bring the gifts they need. ”
"Damn, I thought I was the only one in the world who killed people like hemp, and today I know that I am lagging behind. A tribe so barbaric, no matter how civilized the Great Song is, it can't assimilate them, so it can only use a knife to break everything about them! Bai Bolang scolded and said, and began to complain in his heart that the political affairs hall was coming.
If he is in a temper, he will definitely slaughter the Mayi people here cleanly, and take away all the slaves, women, and goods. However, if you can't pass the political hall, let the Jinzhou governor sent by the political hall solve it!
The following month. According to Zhao Ji's instructions, Bai Bolang found the Manila Bay mentioned by Zhao Ji and settled down on the land of Manila, the capital of the Philippines in the future. Now this harbor is named Liuyue Bay by the white waves, because this harbor is too much like willow leaves, and the place where it is stationed is Jinzhou City in the future Great Song Dynasty. On the island where Jinzhou City is located, there is the world's third largest copper mine, which has more copper reserves than all the copper mines in the Great Song Dynasty combined.
After stationing, Bai Bolang assigned men to comprehensively survey Mayi Island according to the map provided by Anshak. Of course, under the guidance of Anshak, Bai Bolang and his soldiers got a lot of good treasures, a large number of golden pearl shells, a large number of coral trees, worth tens of millions of yuan, and this wealth will certainly not be handed over to the treasury. White Wave was overjoyed, and almost became a brother to Anshak.
Although Anshak didn't get the craftsmanship of Shen Kuo's three major inventions, and he didn't even have the opportunity to take a look at those three instruments, he was also lucky to have a very affectionate general like Bai Bolang. In the future, with the white wave cover, he can also show his strength in Mayi, and the opportunity to stand on his own is not impossible.
Two months later, 100,000 miners recruited by the government hall came to Jinzhou City and began to establish a mining company. The newly arrived Zhizhou Zhangqi was also unambiguous, and immediately registered the miners and surveyed the entire Liuye Island. Willow Leaf Island, which later became Luzon Island in the Philippines. There are very few Mayi people on the island, and most of them are entrenched on the island where the port of Calera is located. There was no conflict between Jinzhou and Ma Yi Kingdom, after all, Ma Yi Country was a loose alliance with a population of less than 30,000, so it could not afford to conflict at all.
Along with the arrival of the miners, there will be the families of the miners, at least half a million people. It was inevitable to establish a county on Willow Leaf Island. In addition to making a register for the miners, Zhang Kai also registered the farms that came to Mayi to open up the wasteland freely, but explicitly decreed that he would not interfere with their operations and would not tax them.
Zhang Qi, at the age of 46, was a native of Pucheng County, Jianzhou, Fujian Road. Yingzong Zhiping was only in the second year of Jinshi, and he was appointed as Chen Liuzhi County. When he was a sergeant, he was already thirty-eight years old, and he could be said to be a late bloomer. Zhang Kai in history was a famous military strategist in the Northern Song Dynasty, known as: deep and strategic, using soldiers like a god. He was a Confucian general of the Zhezong Dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty, defeated the Western Xia, swept away the Qing Tang Dynasty and the Yellow Heads Hui Hui, and entered the title of Qin Guogong.
The arrival of Zhao Ji changed history. Zhang Ji was a southerner, who was reused by Wang Anshi and was sent to Jinzhou to serve as the governor of Jinzhou to preside over the development of copper mines in Jinzhou. Zhang Kai submitted the development plan of Jinzhou to the government office, with mining as the main industry, offshore fishing, logging, and shipbuilding as side businesses, building ports in important locations, and controlling the entire Mayi Island in the mode of small ports and small towns. This development plan was affirmed by the political affairs hall, and he was appointed as the governor of the largest state in the Great Song Dynasty.
Bai Bolang was unfortunate and was demoted again, demoted three ranks in a row, and was appointed as the general of the Golden State Joint Defense Army, and the five hundred soldiers who surveyed the Golden State were reorganized into the Golden State Joint Defense Army. However, Bai Bolang also breathed a sigh of relief, at least he was not sent to the Patriotic Academy for renovation. Although he has less, he now has money.
Mayi Island is the closest big island in the South China Sea to the mainland of Middle-earth, as early as the Han Dynasty, Mayi Island has been in contact with the mainland. Mayi Island is very close to Liuqiu Island, but there are many small islands on the sea route, the reefs are dense, and there are often big storms from the Pacific Ocean, and Liuqiu is also a wild place like Mayi, so there is no route between Liuqiu and Mayi. Now, from Anping (Tainan) on Liuqiu Island to Jinzhou on Mayi Island, if there is a tailwind, it is generally three days.
The climate of Mayi Island is even hotter than that of Liuqiu. For this reason, after the miners who arrived on Mayi Island settled down, they let their families move over one after another. Most of the miners come from the southwest of the Liangguang region, and they also live in the miasma all the year round, and they also live in the heat, and they do not feel particularly uncomfortable when they come to Mayi.
After the Southwest Yi rebellion was forced to surrender by the absolute power of the Great Song Dynasty, the population also dropped by more than 300,000, which means that 300,000 people were killed in that great turmoil. The Southwest Yi succumbed, and their leaders were either executed or relocated to the prefecture and county to become citizens. Southwest Yi was organized as a customer and assigned to the big landlord as a long-term worker. However, Southwest Yi is stupid and lazy in the eyes of the landlord, and there are not many people who are willing to accept Southwest Yi. A large number of southwestern Yi have no livelihood and no place to live.
Although the government hall tried very hard to arrange jobs for them, there was no workshop, and the mines and farms were willing to take them in. Most of them symbolically accepted some of them as a face-saving gesture to the government and expressed support for the government's work.
Zhao Ji wanted to develop Mayi, set up Jinzhou, and open copper mines, which just provided a livelihood for Southwest Yi, and the salary was still very high. As a result, 100,000 miners from Xinanyi came to Mayi to open a mine. The inspector of Jinzhou is the original Taizhou Zhizhou Gou Hongshe, who has experience in developing liuqiu.
The heat is the place, and making a hole to make a house is the best choice. At least it's more time-saving and labor-saving. The 100,000 miners and all the officials and officials of the entire Golden State now live in the mines. The thatched houses of the natives were all burned down, and the land had to be leveled first. The Great Song Dynasty had a large population advantage, and the plan was to build a city with a population of 200,000 here, as well as a huge port.
It was hot, humid and rainy, flora and fauna grew luxuriantly, and the air was stuffy like a sauna. Now, it is only two months before the New Year, and in the Great Song Dynasty, where the four seasons are distinct, this time is winter. At this time, when you come to Mayi Island, you must also stabilize before the arrival of the hot season.
The fundamental reason why there is no strong civilization in the tropical rainforest area is that the tropical rainforest is almost a green desert. Plants and animals grow luxuriantly, and all the nutrients in the land are in the plants, so the land is very barren, and if the land is deforested, the farmland may not be able to operate for a few years before it has to be abandoned. Moreover, because animals and plants grow vigorously, there are many pests and diseases, and agricultural income cannot catch up with the fishing and hunting industry. Without agriculture, the income from agriculture could not exceed that of fishing and hunting, then it would not be possible to settle down, and civilization would not have arisen .
This is the reason why the Nanyang region is still developing slowly, even if it can be under the same Chinese civilization as Japan and Goryeo and other countries. This is not the future generations, there are pesticides, pesticides and fertilizers, so the development of agriculture in Nanyang is still a huge challenge for the Great Song Dynasty. The main reason for the sparse population in the Nanyang region is that agriculture is difficult to develop.
It is also for this reason that civilization in the Americas has developed slowly. The fate of Latin American Indian civilization was already determined by geography and topographically.
North America, where the United States and Canada were later located, was a cold place, and the land was frozen for a long time. Cold currents from the Arctic Ocean are able to enter the central Great Plains directly. The fertile land was frozen in, and before the invention of gunpowder, the great development of the mining industry, and the drastic reduction of iron farming tools, human beings did not have the ability and capital to develop the frozen soil.
In order to develop Nanyang, the main crops that could be planted in the Great Song Dynasty were Champong rice, sugarcane, pepper, sweet potato, and ramie, which were all crops that were very suitable for the climate of Nanyang. The rest is the nutritional problem of the land, and the fast growth of crops is an advantage, but it is estimated that it will not be planted a few times under the nutrient conservation capacity of the land. Therefore, the first step in the development of Mayi is to open up mines, not wasteland. Let these miners get rich first, and then their families will have the money to buy advanced agricultural tools, implement the rotation system of rice and sugarcane in Champa, and then cultivate deeply and carefully to maintain the fertility of the land, then it is not impossible to develop Mayi.
On the one hand, the reason why Zhao Ji adopted the development step of first the south and then the north was that the northern Liao was relatively strong, and the countries in the South Seas were very backward. On the other hand, it is this era, the Xiaoice River period is coming. The Yangtze River is likely to be frozen, not to mention the Yellow River, as well as the rivers in Northern Liao. Northern Liaona is covered with snow and thousands of miles of frozen soil, and the development difficulty is greater than that of Nanyang, and the cost is even higher.
The arrival of the Xiaoice period was a catalyst for the Great Song Dynasty to develop the Huguang region, manage Jiangnan, and establish the ruling center of the empire. At least, with the arrival of the Xiaoice period, the Huguang area will not be so hot anymore, and Guangdong will be able to snow. Then the population of the north will move south on a large scale, develop Huguang, and operate the south of the Yangtze River, and there will be favorable climatic conditions.
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