After Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island, he ran around non-stop, looked everywhere, and urged the production everywhere to speed up significantly, in addition to the workshops everywhere, he was also very concerned about the development of the island.

The number of residents on the island has grown to nearly 3,000, of whom more than 2,000 have been resettled in several migrant villages, responsible for the expansion of the island's wasteland.

These immigrants were very energetic, like a swarm of industrious ants, working day and night in the fields, first cutting down or burning the weeds or shrubs, then cultivating the land with human or animal power, drying the land, and leveling it so that it could grow crops.

By the end of the year, thousands of acres of land had been reclaimed on the island, 1,500 acres per square kilometer, and in this way, these immigrants had carved out about three square kilometers of land on Nanri Island.

The area of Nanri Island is about 50 square kilometers, but there are many hills and mountains, which are not suitable for Kentuo as farmland, so by this time, the land available for reclamation on the island has been about 30% of Kentuo, if it continues at this rate, there will be another year, and the land available for reclamation on the island will be basically gone.

After Yu Xiaotian calculated, he shook his head secretly, Nanri Island is still a little small, and it can't support his future plans, if the food problem can't be solved by itself, it is a big problem, once there is a big famine on land, their food supply will be in big trouble, so he chose to run to the Taiwanese to occupy the territory, which can be said to be a very wise decision, which strengthened his idea of increasing the development of Taiwan Island.

However, fortunately, in addition to the cultivation of farmland, the hilly and mountainous areas of Nanri Island are also more suitable for raising some goats or cattle for grazing, which can also make up for some of his food needs.

And in order to reclaim Taiwan Island in the next step, he had to prepare a lot of ploughing cattle in advance, so he had to let people go to the land and try his best to buy some ploughing cattle.

In addition, the abundance of seafood around Nanri Island and the abundance of fishing and storage techniques prevented fishermen from fishing at sea for a long time, so the abundance of seafood along the coast in this era could not be imagined by later generations of fishermen.

In order to solve the problem of fish storage, last year, Yu Xiaotian made up his mind, and after ending the battle of Dongitch Island and the problem of Nangantang, he beat the mixed river dragon back to Funing.

After the winter, he asked the council to send several boats all the way north to the coast of Shandong, collect sea ice, load it into the hold, and transport it back to Nanri Island.

This era is in the Xiaoice era, the climate is much colder than later generations, no need to cross the Bohai Bay, after winter, a large amount of sea ice will appear on the sea surface along the coast of Shandong.

Therefore, they don't have to run too far north to get ice, and even in the Yangtze River estuary, they can get some ice floe, but the transportation cost is relatively high.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian thought about the method of using saltpeter to make ice, but at present, the supply of saltpeter on hand is not even enough for gunpowder, so where is he willing to take it out and use saltpeter to make ice! So you can only use this stupid way to stock up on ice.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian chose a cave on Nanri Island, in which the four walls were laid with thick thatched mats as an ice cellar for storing ice, and the entrance of the cave was sealed with several layers of thick grass walls, and the ice transported back was stored in the ice cellar, saving the labor and trouble of digging the ice cellar.

Now that it's hot, he has renovated a small ice room on the ship, and put the ice stored in the ice cellar on the ship, so that when the ship goes out to sea, it can eat some fresh meat and vegetables.

He also gave this method to the fishermen on the island, so that the fishermen can renovate the cabin, which can keep the ice warm, and when they go out to sea, the fish caught are thrown directly into the cabin with ice, so that the fishermen do not have to worry about the problem that the fish caught will stink and rot if they are not transported back to the island as soon as possible.

In this way, the fishermen can go out to sea for a longer period of time and catch more catches, which will benefit the fishermen and at the same time, they will also get more fish reserves in the wolf's den on Nanri Island.

However, this method is still a bit stupid and can't solve too big a problem, but so far, it is also the best way that Yu Xiaotian can think of, in short, he has to find a way to reserve more food in case of emergency, and the temporary cramming of the province will not be able to catch up when the time comes.

In short, his hard work, four years after the Apocalypse, began to harvest, and things were going relatively smoothly in all aspects, plus the government was still busy dealing with the Dutch in Penghu, and they had no time to come to them for trouble, so they were living a pretty good life at the moment.

In addition to these things, Yu Xiaotian also has another place that belongs to his key concerns, that is, the shipyard on Nanri Island.

The shipyard has now been expanded and has already begun to undertake ship repair work, and the Seawolf's ships have basically been given a chance to be maintained and repaired, making the Seawolf's fleet more sophisticated.

But this kind of tinkering is not all Yu Xiaotian wants, he does not hesitate to invest a lot of money to repair the dilapidated shipyard on Nanri Island, in addition to maintaining his own ships, there is only one purpose left, that is, to build his own ship.

Nowadays, the number of craftsmen in the shipyard is very sufficient, among which the experienced in addition to Guo Fu, there are two shipwrights captured from the land, one of whom should still be above Guo Fu, according to his own words, through his hands, at least hundreds of boats have been built.

According to him, the cost of a medium-sized lucky boat is about 3,000 taels or more, and the cost of the ship's anchors, sails, and sails and cannons on the ship is almost more than 4,000 taels, and if everything is ready, the construction period is about four months, and sometimes it can be as long as half a year to build.

But the bird boat, the cost of more than 1,000 taels is enough, if you use good wood, add 30 percent, the cost is not more than 2,000 taels of silver, the construction period is about two and a half months to three months, you can go into the water early.

Therefore, at present, the shipyard on Nanri Island has built its own new boats, and there is no technical problem, the main problem is that in terms of the source of wood, especially the wood used to make the keel and mast of the ship, it is necessary to use the whole material.

These materials can only be put down along the river by waterway from Yunnan and Sichuan, and they can only be used after they arrive in the shade for more than half a year, otherwise even if they are forcibly used, the boat built is not durable, and it is easy to crack, causing the ship to enter the water.

But if you want to be faster, it is not impossible to solve, at present some of the coastal areas of the ship, some of the shipyards have prepared materials, these materials are dry materials, can be put into use immediately, but the price is much higher, all the use of these wood, the cost of a ship at least more than three percent, or even more than half of the cost, is not too much.

For these things, Yu Xiaotian, a veteran of ship models, of course knows the truth, but he also has a solution to this.

If the wood is wet when it is purchased, the drying method can be used to shorten the drying time of the wood, but this requires the construction of a workshop dedicated to drying the wood, and the shed alone needs to be built very large, otherwise it is difficult to put the wood in.

In the drying room, the wood should be erected, a fire should be lit under the oven, and the moisture contained in the wood should be forced out by heat, so that it will not be deformed after the material is used on the ship.

Yu Xiaotian doesn't think this matter is much of a problem, and now the manpower and material resources on the island can basically meet his needs.

The main problem is the problem of feeding, Yu Xiaotian originally planned to ask the council hall to purchase a large amount of wood from the land through the relationship between all parties, but when he raised this matter, Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi's faces changed color.

Because with Yu Xiaotian tossing wildly on Nanri Island, the silver they had saved before has basically bottomed out now.

Yu Xiaotian didn't care too much about the funds during this time, he thought that he started to collect tolls last year, and there was money coming in every day, plus his subordinates went out to hunt from time to time, and they could often grab a lot of goods, plus they received Zhang Hu's inheritance at the beginning, so they shouldn't have too big problems with their funds.

But when he heard Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi say that their treasury had bottomed out, Yu Xiaotian was taken aback, and hurriedly beckoned them to their residence to ask about their income and expenditure during this time.

So Li Gouzi brought a bunch of account books, put them in front of Yu Xiaotian, and said to Xiaotian:

"Take a look for yourself, big boss! Although in the past six months, our harvest has been good, but a large part of the harvest has been distributed to the brothers below in the reward and punishment system set up by the big boss!

Of course, there are a lot of left, as much as 30,000 taels of silver, but the big boss himself may have forgotten that the money can be entered with the left hand, and the right hand will come out! I can't keep it at all! ”

Yu Xiaotian scratched his head and said, "Oh? Did I spend so much silver? Where did it go? ”

Li Gouzi immediately began to vomit: "Aren't all these silver spent by the big boss?" Lo and behold! From last year to now, we have been recruiting homeless people to come to the island, and we have to recruit all kinds of craftsmen, which is a big piece!

In addition to being tied up by force, we recruited a lot of them through various means, and we also spent money to buy a lot of domestic slaves! This one cost more than 10,000 taels of silver!

In addition, the big boss is buying copper and iron on land, buying cattle, buying grain, as well as medicinal herbs and cloth, the cost is very large, each piece remembers that there is an account, if the big boss doesn't believe it, you can check it yourself!

There was also some time ago to deal with various relationships on the land, and it cost more than 8,000 taels of silver, but no one in our council hall dared to make money from this, and every account was remembered clearly! ”