Ashri, no, Shi Shi stood tremblingly, while looking at the stronghold of the "boat man". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

These people, whom they secretly called "boat people", claimed to be Han Chinese, and how many days ago they landed, Ashri could not remember.

It shouldn't have been too long, but these Han people have shown terrible building power. The village that Ashri's own clan spent ten generations to build is much smaller than the "village" of the boatmen in front of him.

This stronghold has three layers of walls, the outermost layer is wooden, and there are few other streams, but there is a lot of wood, especially some giant trees in the mountains, which Li Bao has reported to Zhou Quan and plans to use for shipbuilding in the future. The outermost wooden fence was about six miles in circumference, and was made entirely of human-height logs, and Ashri was now blocked from this level.

In addition to him, there are also some leaders who have brought women and children from their villages here.

"Shi Shi, Shi Shi!" Shi Shi was tiptoeing there to see the situation inside the fence, but he heard this voice.

At first, he was a little overwhelmed, but soon realized that he was calling himself.

"In, in, in!" He screamed as he ran over.

At the gate of the fence, a team of neatly dressed chambers of commerce guarded it, and behind them, within the fence, there was a triangular earthen platform, and on the earthen platform was a bottle of copper cannon.

Shi Shishi didn't know what the bronze cannon meant, and his attention now was all on the Han people who called his name.

"You are Shi Shishi, how many women and children have you sent?" The Han man asked.

The native translator next to him explained, Shi Shishi stretched out his two slaps, thought about it, sat on the ground again, and raised his two feet.

"Twenty women, twenty children." The Han people didn't understand what he meant, but the interpreter did, and answered for him with a smile.

"I can't even do the math!" The Han man snorted.

However, he can write and count on his own, and he only studied at a night school in Jeju. These displaced people who were originally born in Yanjing, during their time in Jeju, they did not eat and drink in vain, they naturally had to work during the day, running from one construction site to another, and at night they had to learn to read and count by the lights.

Like he is a fast learner, after a year, he has learned more than 800 words, the basic reading and writing can barely be completed, and there is no problem with arithmetic addition and subtraction, so he can find a good messenger, not to shave food in the pastures or farms in Jeju, but to follow Zhou Quan to Liuqiu.

According to Zhou Quan's promise, the first batch of pioneers who came to seek beggars, after working for five years, they will be able to have a field of no less than 100 mu -- the reason why they say no less is because 100 mu is the bottom line, and the real quantity, judging by the results of their work in the past five years, he once tacitly calculated that as long as he can do the assigned work well, the field that he can get after five years should be about 300 mu.

What's more, in the past five years, he has been able to get a salary of three times every month!

Food, shelter and food, three times a month, five years later, 180 yuan in cash plus 300 acres of land...... At that time, the daughter-in-law gave birth to a few babies, and how beautiful the life was!

Therefore, when he looked at a native like Shi Shishi, he naturally had a bit of a condescending taste. And Shi Shishi was afraid of the power of the "boat man", and he was not dissatisfied with it at all.

"Woman...... Is it a woman to be so young? Counting on the children's side, there are a total of fifteen women, okay, the Zheng family, these fifteen women were sent by Shi Village, you take them to the women's camp! ”

Shi Shishi looked at what the Han man had written down, and then called a woman, who had broad shoulders and a round waist, and was even stronger than a man, with a smile on her face, and took the women of Shi Village aside.

Immediately afterwards, the Han man had a smile on his face, this smile was respectful, but it was somewhat similar to Shi Shishi. He beckoned over there: "Brother Duan, Brother Duan!" ”

Duan Tongxiao ran over quickly, he was so busy these days that even he was pulled in to help.

"Little brother, this is the children of Shi Village, twelve men and thirteen women, bother you to lead them in!"

Duan Tong nodded, signed the list handed by the man, and then summoned the children together.

These children range from seven to fifteen years old, in fact, in terms of age alone, Duan Tong is not much older than them.

But these people wearing bark or deer skins, seeing Duan Tong's straight clothes and heroic face, who is not ashamed of themselves! Therefore, even if they couldn't understand Duan Tong's words, they all obediently followed, and none of them dared to be naughty.

When Shi Shishi saw that everyone was taken away, he suddenly became anxious, and pulled the translator and said, "I, what about me?" ”

"You go over there, I've got something to eat for you, just go eat it!" The native translator pointed to a shed not far away.

So Shi Shishi, who came with great ambitions, didn't even have a chance to enter the first layer of the stronghold's wall, so he could only slip away to the shed.

But half a day later, he held his stomach and moved out of the shed triumphantly.

Without it, the food he was served to was really a delicacy he had never tasted in his life. He only hated that when he came in the morning, he did not go on an empty stomach, so that after eating only five bowls, he could not stuff a grain of rice again.

While moving back to his house step by step, he was also thinking in his heart.

The Han Chinese said that he was allowed to visit once a month - that is, every time the moon was full, he could come and eat for nothing.

If he is willing to contribute to help the Han people, then food like today's can be eaten often!

As for the women and children who had been sent as hostages, including even his own son, he had been gone for a long time before he remembered: "I wonder what happened to them!" ”

These women and children are undergoing the most thorough cleansing they have ever had since they were born.

Because of the parasites in their hair, the first order of the Han people was to shave all their hair.

Some of them were reluctant, and then they were whipped five times in public, and they wept in pain, and then they became honest.

Immediately after that, it was rushed to a water tower to rinse.

The water from this water tower is received from a small reservoir in the middle of the mountain, and bamboo tubes form its waterway. Under the eighteen faucets, the stopper was unplugged, and these people, who had never taken a clean bath in their lives, rubbed their bodies desperately with soap one by one.

There are also people who patrol the side with whips, and whoever dares to steal and play tricks is a whip.

Soap is produced in Jeju, and the main resources in Jeju are livestock and marine fish, and meat can be marinated and canned in sealed clay pots, which are now popular because of the addition of MSG. Animal fats are used to make soap, and the production is not high at present, mainly for internal use by the Tokai Chamber of Commerce.

After bathing, these native women and children were worried, sobbing incessantly, not knowing what fate awaited them.

However, at this time, they saw a native like them coming.

This native is the translator, and like these women and children, he also has a big shaved head, but he is now dressed in Han clothes, and looks at these women and children with a little disdain.

"You are blessed, the old man said, from today on, you will live here, everyone can come and receive things, all line up, don't line up, wait for the master to whip it!"

At the urging of the native interpreter, the women and children lined up crookedly, and then came to a Han man, who looked them up and down, and said something, and then someone brought a whole set of things.

Clothes, quilt mats, bamboo cups, bamboo bowls, chopsticks...... A full set of living utensils, there are nearly 20 catties, but fortunately, even the children of the local people are used to hard work, and they can barely move.

"Come with me, from this day on, you will learn to speak the words of the old man here, and you will also learn to do ......things," the native interpreter called twice, and then urged the children to follow him to a row of newly built wooden houses.

"Dalang, what should we do with these women and children?" Sun Cheng looked at this side from afar and asked Zhou Quan for advice.

From the governor of the Ganghwa Island concession to the governor of Liuqiu, this will be Sun Cheng's new position.

"What do you think?" Zhou Quan actually had a plan in his heart, but he didn't say it directly, but asked Sun Cheng rhetorically.

According to the size of these native villages, the number of hostages handed over ranged from 20 to 50 people, and among them there must be the children of the head or other close relatives, so the small stronghold now has more than 900 women and children from various villages.

Some villages feel that women and children do not have the ability to hunt, so it is cheaper to let them go to the boatman and let them raise them for them, so the number of people they send exceeds their quota.

"In my opinion, Huairou is the mainstay, and grace and power are combined, and Da Lang also means this, right?"

The natives did not burn bricks, but sought many trees, so their houses were made of trees. Within the outermost wall of the stronghold, a large area of about 100 acres has now been leveled, and many natives are driven to work here every day in exchange for gadgets that are not worth a few dollars in the eyes of the Song people.

"Well, what else?"

"To establish a school, let them read books and read history, they are not allowed to speak local language in the school, they must speak Chinese, and the customs and food in the school should be the same system as we set in the Longchuan Courtyard." Sun Cheng said.

"Oh, aren't you afraid that people will say that you are too good to the natives?" Zhou Quan asked.

"Soft knives hurt people, they are used to it here, even if they grow up and return to their own village, they are not used to living in the village. After passing through cotton and linen silk, and then letting them wear deerskin, how can they adapt to it? At that time, they will naturally want to be us, and I am afraid that they would rather come to us to be craftsmen and farmers than go back to the village to be a little man! ”

When Sun Cheng said this, his eyes drifted for a moment, and he said: "Moreover, they grew up in me, and they were born to be close to me, even if they reluctantly returned to the village, every move was incompatible with the old people in the village, and in their village, they were afraid of being isolated and excluded, and at that time, they could only rely on us!" ”

Zhou Quan laughed and patted Sun Cheng on the shoulder: "Yes, even Qi Nian's thoughts, you have learned, take charge alone, who else will you be!" ”

Sun Cheng's growth made Zhou Quan very satisfied, and the specific methods still need to be explored, but Zhou Quan is convinced that the vast majority of the native children who have grown up in the stronghold will completely forget about their tribe and become an important help for them to develop this island.

Here the problem is solved, and the next ...... It's time to concentrate and solve the problem on the side of the Great Song! (To be continued.) )