There are more than a dozen large ships of 10,000 stones moored on the wharf of Wucheng Port, which only arrived here yesterday and sent a large amount of food supplies to Wucheng.

Compared with the Dingxian wharf in the southern mainland, the Wucheng wharf is more lively, more than 1,000 Japanese laborers are unloading, and nearly 100 soldiers are supervising the unloading laborers from afar.

Wucheng currently has 500 garrisons, although it is lower than the expected 1,000 people, but this is not necessarily a bad thing, on the one hand, the current 500 people are enough, and secondly, as long as Wucheng's own militia is connected, the defense problem can be slowly solved, and the pressure caused by too many garrisons will be too great.

Except for the unloading laborers and soldiers, there were few other people on the dock, and it seemed very deserted, Fanning got down from the large ship with his entourage, and saw Akihito rushing with a few people.

Akihito had been the vanguard of the North Island since the end of last year with dozens of people, and his wife and children had followed the large army, so he had settled in the North Island completely.

"Aning, I thought you would come in a few days!"

Akihito was dark and thin, as if he had returned to the days of panning for gold in Kunzhou, he saw a steam ship of 30,000 stones, and his eyes lit up, "Is this a steam ship?" Well, it's strong at sea! ”

Fanning smiled: "It's indeed much faster than ordinary paddle boats, mainly because they are equipped with two big paddle wheels, and they are very domineering when they sail on the sea!" ”

Akihito was so greedy that his saliva was about to flow, and he said cheekily: "Anyway, your term of office is about to expire, so leave this steamship to us!" It will also be convenient to contact the southern continent in the future. ”

Fanning nodded, "This big ship was originally meant to be left to you, in addition, there are three Wanshi steamships that have been renovated, and it is estimated that they will be sent soon, these four big ships form a preliminary supply fleet, going back and forth between Luzon and the North Island, as well as the South Island, you also need to help!" ”

Although the Gao Cao family had relatively great influence in the officialdom, they were very weak in navigation, and they were completely still the ships of the Fan Merchant House to transport supplies, and Fan Ning was also quite worried about them.

"How's the situation in the South Island?" Fanning asked again.

The city of the South Island was built on the opposite side of the strait, called Song City, less than 100 li away from Wu City, and it was also 16 li in circumference, and they recruited 5,000 Japanese laborers to help build the city, and the lack of labor led to the slow progress of the city, and now only half of the city has been built.

"Yesterday, Cao Pinguo came to us with a few ships to borrow bricks, they didn't have enough bricks to build the city, which affected the progress, I gave them all the remaining bricks, and I estimated that it would take two months to build the city."

"Where's the third uncle?" Fan Ning didn't see Fan Tieniu's shadow.

"Take everyone to farm, let's go to the city first!"

Fan Ning nodded and followed Fan Ning Mingren towards Wu City.

Wu Cheng is only a few miles from the sea, behind a gentle mountain, Fanning is on the wall, and they are condescending, with low mountains and deep blue sea to the south, endless fertile plains to the north, several small rivers meandering from the north, flowing like a jade belt over the field, and in the distance is the snow-capped Egmont Peak, a cone-shaped extinct volcano that looks very much like Mount Fuji, and the people named it Ning Mountain after Fanning.

The most distinctive thing is the forest here, which is not big, gathered together, but down the mountainside of Ningshan is a vast coniferous forest, with clear water, forests, grasslands and snowy peaks, which is simply an extremely beautiful and peaceful paradise.

More than 10,000 hectares of land have been carved out along the river, and like the southern continent, wheat and corn are mainly grown, and almost all the people of the city work in the fields.

Thousands of wooden houses have been built in the city, in a checkerboard distribution, every household covers an area of about ten acres, almost all the houses are made of pine wood, the materials are extravagant, in order to keep it clean, the city has built sewers, the sewage is discharged outside the city.

In addition, one of the biggest features of the castle is that every house has hot springs, and even the well water is hot, and the whole castle is filled with a sulfurous smell.

There is no business in the city, except for two restaurants and a teahouse, as well as a grocery store and a large public bathhouse.

When Fanning saw the poorly furnished bathhouse, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "Every household has a hot spring, but do you still need to repair the bathhouse?" ”

Akihito shook his head and said, "Originally, I wasn't going to open it, but everyone asked for it, so it was built, and men like to come here to drink and bathe at night." ”

Speaking of this, Akihito cautiously asked, "Do you want to open two brothels in the city?" ”

Fan Ning shook his head, "The population is too small, they are all villagers, it is not good to open a brothel, if the army has a need, you can go to the Srivijaya country to recruit some camp prostitutes, in addition, go to Japan to recruit a group of young girls, you must hurry up as soon as possible." ”

"Zhu Lin has already gone, and he should be back soon."

"And then there are the natives!"

Fanning's gaze sharpened, "Hasn't it been in the past few months?" ”

Four months earlier, a Japanese laborer had gone missing, and soldiers searched for him, and a few days later, the body of the Japanese laborer was found hundreds of miles away, and he had encountered cannibals, which caused indignation and panic.

Soldiers and laborers searched for it, but found no traces, and the army had to release the news that the laborer had encountered a crocodile to calm the panic.

But Fanning got the truth that the laborer's head had been cut off with a sharp weapon, not by a wild beast, and what he feared most was that there were still natives on the new island.

Akihito pondered, "We have an inference, but it has not been confirmed. ”

"You say!"

"The Japanese laborer was found on the beach, and no human trace was found within thirty miles of the vicinity, which is unreasonable, so there is only one possibility left."

"They came from the sea and went away from the sea."

Akihito nodded, "Other than that, we can't think of anything else, and it's ......."

"And what?"

"And we suspect that the aborigines came from the South Island, and Cao Pinguo told us yesterday that someone in the South Island had seen a canoe near the fjord a few days ago."

"Show me the map!"

Fan Ning followed Mingren to the council hall, there was no official office in Wucheng, there was only an elders' council, and the Fan and Zhu families took turns to serve as the convener of the council, and the current convener of the council was Fan Tieniu.

Akihito took out a map and spread it on the table, this is a map drawn by the Cao family of the northern fjords of the South Island, Fanning looked at the fjord, if a canoe is found near the fjord, then there are two possibilities, one is to come through the strait, and the other is that the other party has laid a foundation in the fjord.

Fan Ning pondered for a long time and said to Ming Ren: "Quickly bring me Commander Wu!" ”

.........

Fan Ning originally planned to return to the Great Song Dynasty after inspecting Wucheng for three days, but the shadow of the natives always lingered in his heart, and if this matter was not dealt with, how could he return to the Great Song Dynasty with peace of mind.

This matter is not enough to rely on the North Island alone, it must be linked between the north and the south, Fanning immediately asked Akihito to go to the South Island to deliver a message, and it happened that there were more than a dozen supply ships in the North Island, so they were mobilized as warships.

Under Fanning's auspices, 1,500 soldiers gathered in the military camp outside the Song city on the South Island, and a dozen generals gathered in the big tent.

Fanning hung up a map and said to the crowd: "There is a series of small islands in the northeast of the South Island near the strait, the largest of which is about ten miles in radius, the terrain in the fjord is complicated, it is relatively easy to hide, I suspect that there are some natives hiding in the fjord, they should have found us, so they dare not easily land on the island, but these natives are very threatening, they show courage by cannibalism, a laborer has suffered misfortune, we cannot tolerate their existence, we must resolutely exterminate." ”

Zhou Tong, the commander of the South Island, asked: "May I ask the envoy of the scriptures, where do these natives come from?" Or are you a resident of the place yourself? ”

Fanning shook his head, "They are not inhabitants here, they come from distant oceanic islands, they are usually defeated in tribal battles, so they leave the island to find another place to live, they come to the North Island or the South Island, if they spread the news, countless natives will flock to it, and only by completely exterminating it can we prevent future troubles." ”

Speaking of this, Fanning raised his tone and said, "Now I ask you to obey the order and follow me to exterminate these cannibalistic natives!" ”

All the generals bowed together, "I am willing to serve the envoy!" ”