Fan Ning was not worried that Japan would transfer the pig iron to Liao, he was worried that after Japan got the pig iron, its military force would increase greatly, which would threaten the safety of Kunzhou, and joked that even if the imperial court allowed the pig iron to be sold to Japan, he would never agree.

Fan Ning's reply was expected by Fujiwara Shishi, he knew in his heart that the other party would not agree, but he only brought it up with luck, he sighed in his heart, and said: "I hope that the third request Fan Yuanjun can agree." ”

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "As I just said, as long as I don't violate the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, I will definitely meet your reasonable requirements." ”

"The third requirement should be beneficial to everyone, can we ask the experienced officials of the Great Song Dynasty to help us explore silver mines, and can we teach the Japanese art of silver smelting, our silver refining is too coarse and the waste is too big."

This requirement is not bad, it is conducive to squeezing out Japan's silver reserves to the greatest extent, Fanning knows that Japan's most famous Iwami Silver Mountain has been mined, but the real vein has not been discovered in Japan, and it will not be developed until the Ming Dynasty, as well as Sado Gold Mountain, Fuji Gold Mountain, and Kai Gold Mountain, these gold and silver mines should be excavated earlier, which is conducive to the improvement of the Great Song Dynasty's finances.

You must know that the condition prescribed by the imperial court is 10 million taels of silver per year, and if you don't make full use of Japan's gold, silver and copper mines, how can you complete the task of the imperial court.

Fan Ning thought of this, so he said happily: "This request is completely beneficial to both sides, I can agree, there is a team in Kunzhou that specializes in looking for gold and silver mines, I can arrange for them to come to your country to find mines, in addition, the silver smelting method can also be taught to Japan without reservation, but there is one condition, I hope that Japan will also sell an island to the Great Song Dynasty in the south to be used as a transit supply for the fleet." ”

Japan is still far from paying attention to the islands, and since Sado Island has been sold to the Song Dynasty in the north as a transit supply point, there is nothing wrong with selling one or two islands in the south.

Fujiwara said, "As long as the area is not too large, less than ten miles within a radius, then it can be sold." ”

Fan Ning smiled slightly: "There is a small island off the coast of the Izu Peninsula, with a radius of only five miles, which is just suitable for the transit of the Kunzhou fleet, and in addition, there is also an island in the southern sea of Osumi Province in Saikaido, which is called Tanegashima by the locals, with a radius of about ten miles, which is very suitable for the supply of the Great Song Dynasty merchant ships, and these two islands hope to be sold to the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Fujiwara Kyotsu and Fujiwara Shimi discussed in a low voice for a moment, and Fujiwara Kyotsu said: "These two islands belong to Izu Province and Osumi Province, if they agree to sell them, then the Japanese Imperial Court will not object." ”

Fanning was overjoyed in his heart, with these two islands, the Great Song Navy had a garrison in the southern part of Japan.

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After three days of negotiations, an official trade agreement was finally reached between the Great Song Dynasty and Japan, and the two sides agreed to open a second trade port at the port of Dongcheng County in Settsu, docking with the port of Quanzhou, and implementing official trade.

At the same time, Song officials recruited 25,000 Japanese laborers and 2,000 Japanese girls to go to the Ryukyu Province on 300 sea ships in three days, opening the prelude to the large-scale development of the Ryukyu Province in the Song Dynasty.

Due to the relatively difficult conditions in the Ryukyu Prefecture, the Overseas Economic Strategy Prefecture appropriately raised the labor treatment, and the condition of full coverage of food, lodging and clothing remained unchanged, mainly because the monthly salary rose from one tael of silver in Kunzhou to one and a half, while the monthly salary of 2,000 girls rose to 800 yuan, and they were mainly engaged in logistical work such as cooking, laundry, and sewing.

Of course, the officials of the Jingluo Prefecture knew that this was a replica of the Kunzhou experience, and these Japanese girls would eventually marry the soldiers and local people stationed on the Ryukyu Islands, and finally stay and become overseas residents of the Great Song Dynasty, which was also a powerful measure to encourage the soldiers to stay and settle down.

In fact, this is no secret for a long time, nine years ago, the first batch of 500 Japanese girls who went to Kunzhou have gone home to visit relatives, bringing a lot of money and cloth to their families, they have already married into a wife, settled in the official government, and became the envy of the Japanese people in the Song Dynasty, and the second and third batches of a total of 3,000 Japanese girls also finally settled in Kunzhou, they are not only married to the garrison soldiers, but also to the local people.

This has also become the best way for many Japanese girls in remote areas to get rid of poverty, so the 2,000 girls quota was filled in one day.

After half a month of sea voyage, 300 sea ships arrived in Ryukyu Prefecture.

For a month and a half when Fanning rushed to Kunzhou and Japan, the officials of Ryukyu Prefecture were also ready to welcome the laborers, and 3,000 large tents and other supplies sent from Quanzhou had been sent to Ryukyu Prefecture first, and the Ryukyu Prefecture had set up two military camps in the south of the city and the Liyu Silver Mine, and the 25,000 laborers were mainly engaged in mining, logging and road construction, while the people in the city were responsible for growing grain.

First of all, they will spend a year to completely revitalize Ryukyu Prefecture into a large county that can make its own blood and be full of economic vitality, and then use Ryukyu as the foundation to begin to expand to the central and southern parts of the country, and strive to build Ryukyu Prefecture into a second Kunju in five years.

The Ryukyu port is extremely busy, hundreds of soldiers from Kunzhou are skillfully organizing 30,000 laborers, they are experienced, can effectively organize and manage labor, this is also Fanning considering the lack of experience of the soldiers in the Ryukyu Province, there will be some unnecessary contradictions in a short time, so he transferred 500 veterans to garrison the Ryukyu Province, specifically responsible for the management of labor.

When the laborers arrive at their destination, they first rest for three days, firstly, to allow the laborers to recover from the weakness of the boat, secondly, to adapt to the environment, and secondly, to let the laborers get acquainted with each other, so that they can take care of each other at work, which is very important, in the Ryukyu Province, if they do not take care of each other and help each other, they will have a very difficult time, the reason is also very simple, it is not easy for one person to kill a snake, but it is easy for a group of people to kill a snake.

After the laborers were concentrated, the large battalions were allocated, clothes and shoes were distributed, and the soldiers took them to the two large battalions.

Fanning was now more concerned about the situation of sweeping away the indigenous enemy, and as soon as he entered the county seat, the commander of the envoy Zhou Mi rushed back and reported to Fanning the situation of the suppression of bandits for a month and a half.

"It was relatively easy for us to uproot the two tribal nests, and in ten days, both nests were completely wiped out, but on the way back to the county seat of Ryukyu, we were ambushed by the natives, killing and wounding dozens of brothers."

"Could it be that there is a fourth natively lair," Fanning asked.

"No, it's because each of these two nests has several hunting teams that went out to hunt and escaped our attack, and there are about 400 of them, who are extremely hateful to us, and they have broken into pieces, and they continue to sneak attack and ambush us in the forest, and for more than a month, we are encircling and suppressing these scattered natives."

"How effective is the extermination?"

"At first, it was not very smooth, they were familiar with the terrain, their bodies were flexible, they came and went like flying, which caused us a lot of trouble, but later after the southern Yufan natives joined us, we gradually mastered the movement of these natives, and began to be effective, killing a large number of natives, so far, there are less than fifty remaining enemies."

Fanning took two steps and asked, "Why do the Yufan natives want to help us?"

"Returning to the envoy, on the one hand, we obeyed the envoy's order and did not harm them, they felt the goodwill of the Song army, on the other hand, they themselves have a deep hatred between them, so they are willing to join us, in addition, the two big chiefs of Yufan also came to meet the envoy."

Fanning nodded and said happily: "Where are they?"

"Already waiting in the county!"

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Soon, Fanning met the two great chiefs in the county office, and it seemed that their appearance and skin color were not much different from the local people of Quanzhou, and they were obviously different from the exterminated little blacks, which was also the result of their long-term intermarriage with the fishermen of Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and even many of the indigenous people were the descendants of fishermen who migrated from the coast to Ryukyu Island a hundred years ago.

Yufan is the name given to them by the Song army, which means Tufan who fishes for a living, and the fishermen of Quanzhou call them Gaoshan Fan and Dongfan, Dongfan people are actually a partial branch of the Hakka people, originally lived in the western plains of Ryukyu Island, more than two hundred years ago, the number of natives from Luzon increased, taking away their territory, they had to flee to the south, to make a living from fishing.

The two big chiefs are a pair of half-brothers, one is named Ah Lang, the other is a student, both about forty years old, their grandfather is a Quanzhou fisherman, wearing a green cloth linen clothes, no different from the coastal fishermen, can also speak fluent Quanzhou vernacular, that is, Hakka.

Zhou Mi introduced Fanning to the two big chiefs, the two of them knelt down and said something excitedly, Zhou Mi translated to Fanning: "They said that the king led the heavenly army to exterminate the little black devil entrenched in Ryukyu and saved the Dongfan people, and the Dongfan people are willing to be loyal to the Great Song Emperor and become the people of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Fan Ning nodded happily, quickly helped them up, and invited the two of them into the lobby to sit down.