When Zhao Lie returned to Jeju Island, Li Hu's fleet had just returned less than five days, and when Zhao Lie went down to the dock, Huang Han, Ma Tao, Li Hu, Qi Wei and others greeted him at the dock.

"I can see Li Hu here, my heart is settled, the fleet arrived in Beihua a month ago, and I didn't receive the news of the southbound fleet, which really makes me anxious, the money is small, and the safety of my army is the most important thing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Zhao Lie said with a smile as he returned the salute.

"Thank you, sir," Li Hu said gratefully, "so that your Excellency may know that the three thousand soldiers of the southbound fleet have returned victorious." Of course, Li Hu said that after all, there are many inconvenient people on the dock.

Zhao Lie knew when he heard this, "How about the casualties." ”

"My lord, there are one hundred and thirty-four people killed in battle and disease." Li Hu replied.

Zhao Lie's face darkened, "They are all good brothers, they are all good men who sacrificed their lives so that hundreds of thousands of Liao people can live and work in peace and contentment." Zhao Lie is really heartbroken, they are all seafaring talents that have been cultivated with great difficulty, and the warships in the shipyard are still being produced in a steady stream, and the lack of talents is even more prominent.

"My lord, the brothers are all rescued from hunger and cold, and now they are full of food and money, and it is a matter of course for them to be born and die for adults, and you should not be worried." Li Hu bowed and said.

"Having said that, Ben Jiang is still uneasy." Zhao Lie's uneasiness was due to the fact that these people had all died in battle with his baton in the south, and of course they had a lot to do with him.

After the fleet docked at the wharf, a large number of logs disembarked, which is a native product of Beihua, and it is also the most urgently needed by Jeju, and now the Jeju shipyard has just completed the construction of more than ten warships and more than ten new Galen ships on the slipway are made of Beihua wood, which greatly reduces the construction cost.

After a day's rest, Zhao Lie convened everyone at the official office. It's been a long time since he left, and Zhao Yeol is eager to know the situation in Jeju.

"My lord, last year, this year, Jeju reclaimed a total of more than 300,000 mu of land, plus the original land reached 630,000 mu, and 5,000 Liao households were resettled. With more than 20,460 people, Jeju this year is another bumper year, and the two consecutive years of bumper harvest have made the people of Jeju smile," Ma Tao said with a smile.

"What is the income of the people?" This is what Zhao Lie is most concerned about, and only when the people live and work in peace and contentment can their own rear be consolidated.

"My lord, most of the acres of land here are not water-retaining, after all, it is the land on the island, but there is no problem in growing sweet potatoes. More than 600,000 acres, only less than 80,000 acres of sorghum corn are planted with sweet potatoes, but the sweet potato yield, according to a household of 40 acres of land, 35 acres of sweet potatoes per mu of three stones, can produce 100 stones of sweet potatoes, leaving 10 stones, the rest are purchased by the government for three cents of silver and one stone. That's twenty-seven taels of silver, which is not a small income. Ma Tao carefully listed the account books.

"So what is the sweet potato purchased by the government used for?" Zhao Lie asked one by one.

"Your Excellency. Most of the white sweet potatoes purchased last year were used in refugee camps as staple food or cooking, and many Liao people who ate them had a headache when they saw white sweet potatoes. Ma Tao said with a smile.

"No, no, I am tired of eating white sweet potatoes in the refugee camp, sweet potato puree for breakfast, and sweet potato stew at noon. In the evening, sweet potatoes are stewed with seafood or sea vegetables, and I am full when I see sweet potatoes now. Wu Bo interjected with a smile.

The crowd burst into laughter.

However, this spring, according to the adults, Luo Changshan organized people to make sweet potato vermicelli in Shidao. According to the recipes left by adults, fried vermicelli, meat stewed vermicelli, hot and sour vermicelli, are all good dishes, no, in the first half of the year, Luo Changshan organized manual production, and sold the vermicelli to Shandong, Beizhili and other places, which was very popular, and the people called it sweet potato flour. No, most of the Jeju vermicelli was ordered by Luo Changshan this year, and Luo Changshan borrowed a lot of silver for this. Ma Tao said with a smile.

"That is, our refugee camp also thanks to Luo Changshan's blessing, you can eat more corn, sorghum rice, and you can be regarded as boiling." Wu Bo looked like he jumped out of heaven and was happy.

"Okay, when I went to Macao to find talents for shipbuilding and artillery making, today I want to say that there is another talent that is this Luo Changshan, who is good at business and even better at creating, and his achievements in the future will not stop there." Zhao Lie lamented that China's business talents emerge in an endless stream, as the ruler is not simply to grab its assets, but should encourage its development, collect its taxes, to achieve a win-win situation, if the Ming can achieve this win-win situation, why destroy the country, the key is internal affairs.

"Since the beginning of autumn this year, the cement, timber, iron reinforcement and other things in Shidao are in short supply, what is it, most of the money that the people of Jeju have accumulated for two years have been invested in the construction of new houses, which also caught us off guard, the two cement kilns outside Jeju City are not enough at all, and the iron reinforcements sent from Shidao are far from enough, only the wood is still supplied because of Beihua, this is not, some time ago, outside Jeju City, Dajing and Seongsan each built two kilns, and the subordinates also passed through the Shidao Zhao Lord to produce more iron reinforcements." Ma Tao shook his head as he spoke, and prices quadrupled in the black market due to the shortage of cement and iron bars.

"No one regrets taking the medicine, so let's take it as a warning in the future. However, what happened in Jeju today may happen in Beihua tomorrow, many families in Jeju are rebuilt housing, Beihua has no housing at all, all of them are the first to make do with the nest, Ma Tao, we must tell Beihua in the spring, build more kilns, in addition, let Shidao produce more iron, and add the amount of Beihua Island to the estimate. So as not to be in a hurry when you get it. Zhao Lie nodded.

"Subordinates obey." Ma Tao replied.

"Huang Han, Ma Tao, how is the reserve military service system on the island, can the Koreans complain?" Zhao Lie asked.

"Last year was a start-up, except for a few areas, there was no resistance, this year just gathered to prepare for winter training, as for complaints, it's not nothing, but, since the Liao people who allocate acres of land on the island are also training and reserving, what else do they have to say." Huang Han said with a big grin. In his opinion, under the sword and gun, whoever dares to stab will take it immediately.

Zhao Lie glared at him, "This is an internal affair, and the instability of internal affairs is dragging down the external war." ”

This Huang Han, the army has done more things, and his methods have become more and more rude.

"Don't worry, my lord, our civil affairs have done our homework, let Li Xuan, director of the Department of North Korean Affairs, talk about it." Ma Tao said.

Li Xuan respectfully saluted, walked out of the back row, and was about to kneel down to face Zhao Lie.

"Not necessarily. We don't kneel here, we still stand and say. Zhao Lie said weakly.

"My lord, most of the people of Jeju were official slaves and private slaves in the past, and since the lord abolished the official slaves and private slaves on the island, I and other Korean people are extremely grateful to my lordship. The distribution of acres, the purchase of grain, and the reduction and exemption of taxes are all brought by Lord Cho, who is a reborn parent in the hearts of the people of Jeju. Li Xuan replied in a trembling voice.

"It's too famous, but it was just out of humanitarian considerations, and he didn't want to rule the people in poverty, lack of food and clothing, and didn't dare to take credit." Zhao Lie said humbly. His purpose is simply how to govern the place properly. Jeju will be used as a pilot to gain experience and promote it to various places.

"Master Ma discussed with his subordinates about this, and asked the affairs department to send people to the village to preach that the establishment of the military service system is to ensure that the good life of each family can continue, otherwise there will be no soldiers to guard, and Li Chao will be able to turn us back into official slaves and lose our acres of land and houses. In this way, the people everywhere are all brave, and no one wants to go back to the way of life of slaves and maids in the past. Therefore, this year's drill was enthusiastic, and the villagers were all enthusiastic. Li Xuan returned to normal at this time, his tone was calm, his face was calm, and his early years of training still calmed him down.

"Very good, that's the truth, I don't want to lose the freedom of the fields. Then pick up the sword and gun and guard it. Zhao Lie praised.

Li Xuan respectfully bowed and stepped back.

"My lord, now every village in Jeju has begun to open Mongolian schools, teaching Chinese and arithmetic for free, for this purpose, the government has recruited nearly 600 literate and hyphenated students from the Liao people, and spends more than 10,000 taels of silver every year for one item alone." Ma Tao said distressedly. But. This is an adult's order, and according to his thoughts, there is really no need to let the children of North Korea go to school for free.

Zhao Lie could see Ma Tao's thoughts, but he didn't say much, and letting him return to his heart culturally is the real great governance, although it takes a long time, it is not stable.

Everything in Jeju made Zhao Lie very satisfied, and the internal affairs had to be repaired.

Between the Yinshan brought back by the southern plundering fleet, Zhao Lie, who felt that the cavalry was insufficient, ordered the formation of the second cavalry Qianzong, purchased 2,000 war horses in advance, recruited personnel from the Liao people, and transferred the personnel of the 1,000th cavalry headquarters of Beihua Island back in the spring to form the backbone. After all, Zhao Lie's only thousand headquarters at hand were trapped in Beihua, and there were no cavalry in his hands in this era, so his heart was unstable.

Ma Tao also shrank his neck when he heard this, and the horses plus the salaries of the personnel, and the chewing grain of the horses went out more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Three days later, Cho Yeol personally led the congregations to bury more than 130 fallen sailors at the Jeju Martyrs' Shrine to pay a grand tribute and comfort the souls of the dead.

"My lord, this is a two-masted schooner, twenty-three meters long, three decks, more than one hundred and sixty tons, three twelve-pound guns on each side, three eighteen-pound guns, and a twelve-yard pound gun in the bow, this ship is flexible in turning, enlarged sails, and can sail at speeds of up to ten knots when the side is downwind, with one hundred and sixteen soldiers, twenty-eight sailors, and the others are gunners, armor, and miscellaneous services. The cost was three thousand one hundred taels of silver. Iuliano led Zhao Lie to board the small warship and introduced.

Zhao Lie nodded in approval, Lao You has always been very reliable, and he has always completed tasks on time, which makes Zhao Lie wonder if he has German ancestry, he doesn't look like a lazy Latino, Zhao Lie wants to ask, can't you finish it in advance.

Zhao Lie then accompanied Lao You on board the 800-ton battleship that had just been built.

"This ship, sixty-eight meters long, sixteen meters wide, five decks, four mainmasts, front skew, rear skew, four masts on the sail, thirty-two guns on each side, all 36-pound and 48-pounder guns, ninety-five sailors, more than 100 armor, 200 gunners, the side and rear downwind can reach a speed of ten knots, and the cost of 10,000 and 500 taels of silver, this is because of the large supply of logs in Beihua, otherwise the cost will have to be doubled, of course, because of its hugeness, I waited for half a month to build it." Lao You proudly showed off.

"Mr. Iuliano, if the shipyard is fully engaged in the construction of Type 3 warships, the current manpower will be sufficient." Zhao Lie asked.

"No, no, now the shipyard only has 10,000 people, and if it is fully operational, it will have to expand the slipway。。。。。" Iuliano's head shook like a rattle.

"The expansion of the slipway would have requisitioned the Liaomin." Zhao Lie said.

"Then we will have to recruit at least 8,000 more men." Lao You said.

"Six thousand, I can only give you six thousand." Zhao Lie said.

"Well, though, it will take four to six months for them to become skilled craftsmen. Until then, production will not increase. Lao You insisted.

"Well, as you say." Zhao Lie believed at this time that Lao You was of Italian descent, and the extra work was definitely pushed out, and it was too tiring without him.

In the end, Zhao Lie named this type of patrol ship the Jeju class, and the 800-ton warship named the Song class. (To be continued.) )