During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shanghai and the southeast end of Jiangsu were still a vast sea, and after thousands of years of sedimentation, a piece of land was gradually formed. At this moment, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, there is a pebble-shaped sandbar, which has become a large island at the mouth of the Yangtze River after being enlarged by the game map, named Fuhaizhou.

Fuhaizhou was originally part of Hailing County, Guangling County, and there were a few aboriginal NPCs living on the island, some of whom had been fishing here for generations, and some of whom came to the island to escape the war. Not long ago, a group of NPCs claiming to be from Skyfly City and Iron Sail City set foot on this island, and built towns, roads, and farmland on the island, building a barren island into a beautiful one.

At first, the aborigines who lacked food and clothing traded fish or animal skins, medicinal herbs and other items with outsiders in exchange for grain, clothing, agricultural tools and other necessities. Later, the aborigines found that these NPCs from the Inhuman forces were not as aggressive as they imagined, and their living standards were much higher than those of the aborigines, so they joined them with their clans and villages, and their lives got better day by day.

In February of the seventh year of Guanghe, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and people who were far away from the war enjoyed a rare peace. Until one day in June and July, transport ships from the north and south brought countless displaced people to Fuhaizhou, and there was an endless stream of them, and it did not end until the end of November.

When these displaced people first landed in Fuhaizhou, it did have a certain impact on the local public security, but fortunately, the city defense army coped with it effectively, and the city defense army, which was mainly composed of fifth-order soldiers and sixth-order soldiers, was not something that individual homeless people could think about. Coupled with the thunderous methods of Zang Jie, the head of the Criminal Department, those lawbreakers were soon suppressed, and the other restless homeless people also settled down.

In addition, Lu Shuang, Huang Shi and others did not treat these displaced people badly, whether it was to rescue them in the war, or to ensure that there was enough food and medicine every day on the transport ship, or to come to Fuhaizhou without any abuse, but to arrange work and shelter for them in an orderly manner. Gradually, half a year has passed, and this group of NPCs who escaped from the war also regard Fuhaizhou as their second home.

Lu Shuang took a group of civilian and military generals, took the silver-class battleship he captured from the White Shark Pirate Regiment, and arrived at Fuhai Town, the largest town in Fuhai Continent, in less than half a day.

Starting from the port of Tiefan City, it is only two or three hours to take a boat to Fuhaizhou, and even the straight-line distance from the west coast of Fuhaizhou to Tiefan City is not as far as Feitian City to Tiefan City. However, Fuhai Town is not on the west coastline of Fuhaizhou, but on the south coastline of Fuhaizhou. Boats coming out of the mouth of the Yangtze River to the east can also pass through Fuhai Town.

"Lord, the one in front is Fuhai Town." Huang Shi, as an accompanying official, introduced Lu Shuang on the boat.

"Looking at the ships coming and going on the docks of this port, and the rows of buildings in the town, it is developing very well, and it should be upgraded to a small city soon." Lu Shuang was in high spirits, looking at this Fuhai Town, which had developed from a small fishing village to a quasi-small city, and said proudly.

"Back to the lord, now all the other conditions in Fuhai Town are complete, and the heart of the city is the heart of the lord." Huang Shi is an emperor-level civil official with 98 political points, and Lu Shuang hardly has to worry about the administrative affairs in the territory.

"It seems that today is a good day, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and upgrade Fuhai Town to Fuhai City today." Lu Shuang replied.

"The lord is wise."

Lu Shuang learned from Huang Shi that the terrain of Fuhaizhou is mainly plains, with almost no mountains and basins. Similarly, since it is mainly formed by the deposition of flowing water, there is no ore, and mineral resources are scarce, so it is necessary to import iron tools or iron ore from Feitian City or other regions.

On the contrary, the forest resources of Fuhaizhou are very rich, not only dense forests, but also a wide variety of varieties and high quality. The production drawings of the three types of boats that Lu Shuang bought at the ultimate grocery store in Luoyang can find the wood he needs in Fuhaizhou. For example, the wood required for the gold-class building ship is a six-grade wood, while the gold-class transport ship and the gold-class warship have lower wood requirements, but they also need seven-grade wood.

In addition, higher quality wood can be used to make arrows, including arrows for bows and crossbows, to increase stability and penetration. If high-quality wood is used to make catapults and ballistas, the durability of catapults and ballistas can also be greatly increased.

Therefore, after listening to the introduction of Huang Shi and the emperor-level carpenter, Lu Shuang planned to build the extra ultimate carpentry room on the side of Fuhaizhou to meet the huge wood processing demand. Lu Shuang also made a suggestion to the emperor-level carpenter on the spot, that is, to change the use of some carpentry workshops from the production of wood products to simply processing wood, and rename such carpentry workshops as wood factories. The wood that is transported from the lumber yard to the lumber mill is only processed into a semi-finished product and sold to the carpentry workshops that need it.

One of the advantages of this is that the division of labor is refined and work efficiency is improved. The lumber mill is responsible for processing the cut wood into semi-finished timber, while the carpentry workshop processes the semi-finished timber into finished products according to the requirements of the goods produced.

Although the emperor carpenter is an expert in this professional field, due to the setting of the system, he did not think about this aspect. After Lu Shuang brought it up, the emperor-level carpenter's eyes lit up, so that there was no need for some carpenters to process wood in a carpentry workshop, and they only needed to spend all their thoughts on producing finished products.

Subsequently, Huang Shi introduced to Lu Shuang the changes in Fuhaizhou after receiving the displaced people. Unlike the outcasts in the realm who refresh every day, one out of ten outcasts with a profession is already very lucky. Most of the displaced people brought back from various states and counties are with occupations, and even some of them were already king-level occupations before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that before they came to Fuhaizhou for refuge, they may have been a farmer, fisherman, miner, or carpenter, blacksmith, merchant, etc., after joining Feitian City, they will retain their original profession, and their qualifications will be higher, and it will be easier to advance. Those NPCs who can't comprehend skills because their qualifications are too low, such as E-level and F-level NPCs, can't even comprehend basic skills, and they can't even become beginner farmers. After joining Flying City, he became a very sought-after B-rank NPC who could comprehend 100% of the primary skills.

With the addition of this group of high-quality population, the total population of Fuhaizhou has increased by 10 million, and the labor force is no longer a shackle restricting the development of Fuhaizhou, but has become one of the advantages. It is worth mentioning that this 10 million people did not crowd in all at once, but like a stream, slowly flowing into Fuhaizhou. Beginning in June, almost every two or three days, several transport ships loaded with displaced people landed on Fuhaizhou, and the local civil officials and city defense troops could quickly arrange where to go for them.

After the displaced people came to Fuhaizhou, their demand for food, clothing, shelter and work surged, although they all brought some money, but it was impossible to eat the principal all the time. Therefore, Huang Shi organized civil officials such as the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry to set up a special working group to implement the policy of cash-for-work, funded by the government, to carry out large-scale infrastructure projects in Fuhaizhou, which not only met the work needs of the displaced people, but also solved the problem of insufficient infrastructure.

And in order to mobilize people's enthusiasm for production, Huang Shi also made a commitment that all residents in the Fuhaizhou area enjoy certain preferential tax policies. Farmers can enjoy agricultural tax exemption for one year, and the tax exemption period ends in October of the following year; The commercial tax is directly reduced by half, and for high-level occupations and above, if you want to build production buildings, you can get low-interest loans after being assessed by government personnel, and if you are a king-level occupation, the degree of preferential treatment is even greater.

Although the tax collected from Fuhaizhou will be reduced in a short period of time, it is also a measure for the benefit of the people. When a new farmer learns that the tax exemption is exempt for a year, then he will work hard to cultivate and produce food, and after saving enough food for the whole family, he will pull some of the grain to the market and sell it, and the money he earns will be used to build a house, buy furniture, etc., which will indirectly stimulate consumption, and this money will also indirectly go into Lu Shuang's pocket.

Huang Shi is also a small expert in the economy, as the so-called grain cheapness hurts the peasants, in order to prevent farmers from selling a large amount of grain for cash, pulling down grain prices, and then affecting the grain prices of the entire territory. He set the price of grain in the Fuhaizhou area at 5 copper units, and the grain transaction price should not be less than 80% of the grain price (4 copper units), and once it was found that there was an ultra-low price transaction, it would be immediately confiscated and fined. Of course, if there is a real need for money, and the market is saturated with grain, it can be sold to the government at 80% of the price of grain, and the government will receive it indefinitely.

This move not only stabilized the market, but also increased Lu Shuang's income. Huang Shi resells the newly acquired grain into the granary, and sells the old grain to other player factions and NPC towns. The price of grain outside has soared to a high price of 13 to 15 copper units, and the cost of Feitian City is only the purchase price of 4 copper units and the transportation cost of about 1 copper, that is, the cost of 5 copper is sold to 13 copper, and there is no worry about the market at all. This 160 to 200 percent profit margin, along with lower market risk and higher market demand, is enough to drive any capitalist crazy.

The same goes for business and manufacturing, although the tax rate has been reduced, but the demand of 10 million people, earning a little from one person, multiplied by 10 million times is also a huge number. When people come to a new place, they need to build houses if they want houses, and they need timber, bricks, and carpenters. To build a house, you need furniture such as beds, tables, chairs, and chopsticks, and farmers, woodcutters, and miners need tools for production. With the huge demand and the huge base, Lu Shuang's pockets are bulging, and the displaced people can live and work in peace and contentment in this short year.

After half a year of construction and development, when Lu Shuang came to Fuhaizhou at the end of November, it was already a thriving scene, and it was not at all obvious that this was a group of displaced people who had escaped the war, nor could it be seen that this was once a barren island, and Fuhaizhou would become a rich place among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty in the future.