Chapter 0419. Thriving, greedy...
Because of the fear of the newly established colony, in just twenty-nine days, the Fujian fleet sailed to Luzon once, this time the fleet was even larger, in addition to five Qichuan warships, more than ten small boats, there were also three fifty-meter big-bellied fortune boats, used as ocean-going fishing boats.
Full of worries, according to the map, Manila gradually came into view, holding the telescope and looking at it for a long time, the cigarette pouch in Li Rong's mouth almost didn't fall out: "Damn, this change is too big, right?" ”
A month ago, the wooden houses of the estuarine tidal flats were deserted, but now a castle made of clay and stone has taken its place, and a row of streets has been neatly built underneath, and the wooden tiles are carried on banana leaves, and the sturdy masonry houses are plastered with lime, which is cool and clean.
Not only that, after making some space for the construction of the town, a large area of farmland, sugar cane orchards, and tobacco fields were also built on the banks of the Bashi River, waiting for the seeds to be transported from Fujian.
"This, this is what Yang Dudu led more than 1,000 people to do in a month?" Seeing that the dredging of the port had been completed a lot, and that the February 'Hua' and the large and small ships left behind were all docked in the port, Li 'rubbed' his eyes in disbelief.
There was a ship coming from afar, and the colonial soldiers immediately drove the boat vigilantly to meet them, and after informing each other of the flags, they happily led the Fujian fleet into the port, and a wooden ladder was set up on the boat.
The Goguryeo people, the She people, the slang people, the sultry people, the Japanese people, one by one timidly and curiously got off the boat, and of course, the Tang people, among all the new immigrants, the Tang people were the most relaxed, because they were all hired, there were good farmers, fishermen, sailors, and the Governor of Min promised them high wages and land, and they could come back after a few years of not staying here.
As for the other ethnic groups, they are not so lucky, all of them are sent by the Governor's Office of Fujian, and they want to enter the newly reclaimed colony to become tuntianhu, and they have to stay and stay if they don't.
There are more than 1,000 people in a row, there are men and women, the most exciting thing for these soldiers is that there is actually a nurse group, everyone in Quanzhou Hospital has heard of it, not to mention that it is more secure when you are sick, these beautiful 'women' nurses alone look at it is enough to be uplifting.
As soon as the nurse group left, the condolence group composed of the 'women' of the Japanese country and the Silla maid got off the ship, and the guards guarding the port were even more nosebleeds.
"Hahaha, Yang Fujun is really a shocking talent, in just one month, the vicissitudes of life here have changed like this, and Li almost thought that he had come to the wrong place." At the other end, on the sturdier VIP wooden ladder, the crunching sound that was stepped on by Li Rong, in Yang Yucheng's fear, he could be regarded as safely stepping down the deputy wooden ladder, and when he came up, he gave a big hug, which made Yang Yucheng roll his eyes.
"Oh, I don't dare to take this seriously, thanks to the kingization of my Tang Dynasty, this is why it has been built so quickly." Finally broke free from Li's 'hairy' and hot 'chest' full of seafood, and rolled his eyes for a long time, Yang Yucheng recovered his head and said quite arrogantly.
Speaking of the royal road, the corners of Yang Yucheng's mouth couldn't help but 'show' a weird smile.
What is the royal road? Tobacco, wine, grain, and cloth are kings.
But with him leading 1,200 people tired and tired, it is impossible to build a castle in a month and reclaim so much land, thanks to the fact that he did not fight with the local natives that day, drank the wine of the Tang people, and 'smoked' the cigarettes of the Tang people, and within two days several local chiefs were hungry at a time, and came over with dried fruits and other specialties in the hope of finding the Tang people to continue to 'trade'.
Yang Yucheng is not short of that bit of dried fruit, that day hundreds of natives attacked, so that Yang Yucheng was especially concerned about safety, and the land was not reclaimed, so he simply organized all the people to go up the mountain to mine earth and stone to build a fortress, originally wanted to give a little to send these natives away, but he didn't want Hou Jie to stop in front.
"Maybe we can hire natives to help us build the castle." That's what Hou Jie said.
It is the natives who build the castle to defend it, is this idea successful? As it turned out, it happened!
Or the gold medal translator Wu brothers came out, and after a while, several chiefs called thousands of people to come over and help build the fortress, mine stones, dig clay, where are these things they know better than the Tang people, just fifteen days, more than fifty meters long and wide fortress battlements stood at the foot of the hill.
Yang Yucheng, who tasted the sweetness, continued to take out grain and cloth and hired natives to open up the wasteland, build houses, and fight the streets, in a month, there were really cars, houses, and the pleasure brought by construction was incomparable, no wonder Yang Yucheng was proud.
"Thanks to the Hou Observation Envoy and the county lord, otherwise Yang would also be a clever 'woman' and it would be difficult to cook without rice, haha."
During the conversation, Yang Yucheng was very kind and did not forget to help Hou Jie with two small expressions, but when it came to the county lord, Li Rong's face was obviously unnatural, and he circled left and right, and then pulled Yang Yucheng to simply re-board the boat, and in the captain's room, Yang Yucheng couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately bowed to the ground.
"The lower official pays a visit to the princess."
A few quarters of an hour later, Yang Yucheng hurriedly got off the boat and ordered to the port soldiers: "Come on, go to the county lord and come to see the official quickly, oh, by the way, don't tell Hou Gongzi yet." ”
"This, Governor, today the county lord and Hou Gongzi were invited by the two adults of the martial family." The captain of the harbor guard scratched his head in embarrassment, which made Yang Yucheng entangled.
On the other side, more than ten miles away from the Manila colony, there is a large manor house backed by the mountains.
Now in the colony, the Wu brothers have really become big people, natives, both sides in the colony, hands and eyes are all over the sky, many government soldiers, officers have to accompany the smiling faces to ask for them, who let now only the Wu brothers and a few chiefs have a 'friendship', can ask the natives to help plough the fields, everyone came all the way to this barren land to do what, isn't it just for the field.
Now you can open as much as you can, as much as you own, and you don't have to 'pay' taxes, and the government soldiers still need to fight in addition, and there is not much time left for their own reclamation.
The two-story wooden pavilion is extremely beautiful, but because of the brothers-in-law with a few chiefs, the Wu brothers, who understand the local people's habits, don't dare to hang a curtain brocade or anything like that, and the quilt has to be hidden under the 'bed', and it is impossible to say whether they are happy or happy.
In the small courtyard, there is also a pavilion made of wood, a large round table is full of local fruits and fish, eh, durian is thrown far away, looking at the king of fruits in the distance, Hou Jie is full of resentment, Li 'Yu'er is huffing and hugging his shoulders.
There are more than a dozen natives working in the sugarcane field in the distance, the huge mountain field is still quite empty, just waiting for the fleet from Fujian to bring sugarcane seedlings, the two Buddhas sit on one side of the pavilion, and the Wu brothers happily raise their wine glasses.
"Come, cheers to us to be able to settle in this out-of-this-world land!"
"." A few vacations to accompany the group, the lieutenant officer also raised the wine glass happily, not so much wine, in fact, it is more like juice, blended with a little wine and honey, the sweet taste is unique at that time, Hou Jie and Li 'Yu'er also gave face to drink, which attracted several people to applaud loudly.
After chatting for a while, the lieutenant surnamed Lu first began to complain.
"Alas, the grace of the King of Min allowed us to reclaim land overseas and build a grange, but now we are entangled in official affairs, and we can only look at the ocean and sigh when we have a large piece of land, alas, it is really painful to think about it."
"No, it's better for the two martial arts lords, and they have a good relationship with the indigenous chieftain, but they can get the help of the natives to farm, and they have cultivated the huge mountain fields, which makes a certain good student envious." Another group surnamed Yang muttered sourly, but Wu Yuanshuang, who was listening, hurriedly smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "Brother Yang is serious." ”
"Brother Yang doesn't know, don't look at our brother's land reclamation, in fact, he is also worried, in the future, it will take care of a large number of people to plant sugarcane and take care of the sugarcane plantation, but you see, it was originally lent to our brother thirty people, and it has only been a few days, and there are twelve left."
"In fact, the Tu people also have their suffering, there is still a group of Tu people living in the southwest of our Manila, where there is a group of Tu people, they do all kinds of evil, killing and plundering people, snatching livestock, it is simply more hateful than our Fujian people, Luzon is rich in real estate, and the natives can be fed with banana fruits and some wild rice, but these people are still so brutal, it is really too hateful."
Wu Yuanqing was also full of anger, and his face was shaking with "fat" and "meat", but all the afterglow looked at Hou Jie who was pinching the wine glass, but unfortunately this kid didn't seem to pay attention at all, while sipping fruit wine, he was still full of remembrance of the durian that was thrown out, and almost didn't make Wu Yuanqing angry.
Eat and eat, why don't you eat to death?
ruthless, Wu Yuanqing simply 'revealed' a 'shrewd' and 'twink' merchant portrait again, beckoned and leaned a few heads together and whispered: "And, the chief of the Bird Don't Department **** (transliteration) Brother also told me that generally catching that tribesman is to kill the sacrifice god directly, if we help them defeat that tribe to attack, all the captured prisoners will be given to us, and now every family is short of manpower, if there are these slaves......"
Several officers 'shot' greedy eyes in their eyes, and after a while, they focused their eyes on Hou Jie, and what made them vomit blood was that Hou Jie was still intently remembering the durian, and he didn't even pay attention to it.
Helplessly, he simply gritted his teeth, Wu Yuanqing was embarrassed, and directly stretched out his hand and grabbed Hou Jie's hand, and said affectionately: "Brother Hou, haven't you thought about starting a family and marrying a wife in the future?" Haven't you thought about how to make your wives and concubines live a happy life in the future, as long as you have slaves, these will not be dreams, which excavator is strong, Shandong is looking for Lan Xiang......"
Wu Yuanqing said it was like an advertisement, and Hou Jie, who listened to it, was 'confused' together, but he took his attention back from the durian, quickly 'pumped' his hand out, wiped the oil on it depressedly, and spread his hands helplessly under the resentful gaze of the Wu brothers: "This thing is basically impossible." ”
"Why?" Several officers who had been in charge for a long time couldn't calm down, and asked in unison, but Hou Jie simply pointed his head: "In the entire Luzon Island, the Tang people are more than 1,000 and more violent girls, oh don't pinch, multiple county lords, do you think that Yang Dudu will so easily throw his precious troops into a war with no future?" ”
"You don't need to go!" Wu Yuan on the other end was anxious, and hurriedly gestured with his fat hand and explained: "Brother **** and Big Brother ****** said, as long as we Tang people can have a hundred warriors like the 'chest' and mouth broken boulder that day." ”
"A hundred people, it's just enough for me to wait for my good fellow villagers and relatives to join together, and I only need an order from an adult." Captain Lu nervously clenched his fists, and on the other end, he gritted his teeth again, Wu Yuanqing also patted his 'chest' and promised: "This time to send troops, the three layers of slaves harvested will belong to Brother Hou, you only need to give an order and watch the battle in the back, Slave Brother Hou, you pick first!" ”
"Say it earlier! I'm in this case! "Finally threw the durian aside, it seemed that he was waiting for Wu Yuanqing's words, patting his big 'legs' Hou Jie readily agreed, but the Wu brothers who listened were all stunned, and then they couldn't wait to slap themselves twice.
Damn, this kid has long been tempted, and he is obviously waiting for the price to sell, why didn't I see it!