Compared to the war-torn land of the Central Plains, the islands in the East China Sea are really like paradises, of course, it would be better if there were no annoying Japanese people! It is no wonder that whenever the Central Plains is in turmoil, many families and people flee to various parts of the East China Sea to avoid trouble.

As one of the sunrise places in the eyes of the Chinese, the sun rises half an hour earlier than the Central Plains, although the time is not yet yin, but the eastern sky has begun to see a bright blue appear, the sky is about to dawn, and another night is about to pass.

In April, it was early summer, but the morning was still a little cool, and the sky was still a little dark, but the people on the ground had already gotten up and started their busy day, and if you looked at it from above, you would find that it was a big city under construction.

The area of the city in front of us is not small, the whole city is in an irregular long shape, five or six miles long from east to west, about three or four miles wide from north to south, one-third of the city area in the east is connected with the city wall and the buildings in the city have basically been completed, and the city in the central and western regions is still only half of the city wall has been completed.

This was originally a bay in the former Aki area of Choshu County, and there was an unlucky city called Hiroshima in the later Wa Province, but now it is the county seat marked as Choshu Castle on the map of the East China Sea, which means that this is where Choshu Castle is located, and Guan Yumi, the county guard of Choshu County, is working in this castle.

At present, it is also the temporary residence of the Yangkuan East China Sea Left-behind Prefecture, so although the castle has not yet been built, it is in fact the administrative center of the East China Sea islands.

As soon as the sky was bright, the Changzhou County Guard Guan Yu had already washed up, accompanied by several entourages and walked towards the mansion, since Wang Ze was assassinated in Nanchen Jian'an County, Wang Ze also equipped the officials above the county under his command with guards, in case there was a matter of assassination of officials, it would be bad.

The county magistrate's office in Choshu County is in the area that has already been built, but some of the areas that are under construction are a little noisy! At present, this government office is a little crowded because it is shared by the staff of the East China Sea who are withered and the clerks of the Changzhou County Government.

"It seems that Dean Tan has to hurry up and build other urban areas! This place is getting more and more crowded! Guan Yuyu looked at the originally spacious mansion and said to himself, if only the officials of Changzhou County worked here, it would still be relatively spacious.

In fact, Guan Yu's mood is also understandable, if the employee and the boss stay in the same office all day long, then the employee will either resign or go crazy sooner or later.

In addition, there was a saying in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty: 'Three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to the provincial city of Guo; The evil is full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng. 'Guan Yuyu and Yang Ku are not only in the same city, but also in the same courtyard, even if they don't have other thoughts, this pressure is not small!

Guan Yuyu had just walked into the courtyard of the mansion, and a door in the main hall opened in the sound of 'crunching', Guan Yuyu fixed his eyes and saw that the person who pushed the door out turned out to be the sheep left behind in the East China Sea, and he was surprised: "Envoy, you didn't sleep all night last night?" ”

Yang Ku pushed the door out and saw the Changzhou County Guard Guan Yumei who was pulled up by himself, and the impression of this official who was slowly promoted from a small official was still good, so he smiled at Guan Yuyu and nodded: "It turned out to be Wenda (Guan Yuyu), you came just in time, it just so happened that I was also hungry, let's go to the canteen to eat some porridge together!" ”

In order to improve the efficiency of officials, Yang Ku opened canteens in the governments of various counties and counties in the East China Sea, but these canteens were not free, but because of the government's subsidies, the food prices in them were relatively cheap, just like the canteens of universities in later generations.

Guan Yuyu was pulled by Yang Ku and had to keep up with Yang Ku's footsteps, he looked at it from the side and could clearly see the tiredness on Yang Ku's face that could not be concealed, so Guan Yuyu opened his mouth and persuaded: "Envoy, although there are many things in the East China Sea now, the body is also very important, how can you do a good job of the little marquis without a good body!" ”

Yang Ku sighed as he walked: "How can I rest in peace, now the people of Sanqi are constantly transported from there, from the beginning of the year to the present two or three months, almost two or three hundred thousand people have been transported!" For so many people, food, housing, and arable land that needs to be allocated must be prepared in time! ”

Among the more than 2 million people gathered east of the Weihe River, at least nearly a million people need to be resettled, and such a large-scale resettlement of the people is an earth-shattering event even in the socialist New China of later generations, let alone at this time!

Therefore, this big problem is not only Wang Zechou, but also the sheep in the East China Sea! As early as before the battle of Jiaozhou City a year ago, the people in Jiaozhou began to retreat, and the evacuated nearly 100,000 people were divided into three or four batches and transported to various parts of the East China Sea.

When the sheep withered and finally finished this period, they were ready to take a breath after the New Year, but at this time, with Wang Ze's withdrawal from Qingzhou and other places to the east of the Weihe River, hundreds of thousands of people were transported a lot, and now Sanqi is still transporting people to the East China Sea every month.

Now the sheep are even busier, and there are always a few days in a decade on days like today, when there is almost no sleep at night.

The dining hall is in a small courtyard next to the government office, there is a door and the government office, there are six rooms in it, plus seven or eight east and west wings, enough to accommodate two groups of people in the government to eat at the same time.

Although the yard is not big, it is a special hole, a few trees in the yard that can't see any trees on weekdays are full of pink or white small flowers at this time, and the clusters of flowers are like clouds.

Yang Ku didn't seem to have been here for a few days, and when he saw a few beautiful flowers and trees in front of him, he looked at them curiously, so he wondered: "I think this tree seems to be the same as the cherry blossoms of the Southern Dynasty that I used to say when I was in my books, it is really 'yesterday's snow is like flowers, and today's flowers are like snow'!" ”

Guan Yuyu saw that Yang Ku was carefully observing the flower tree, so he smiled and said: "I don't know, this is originally the cherry blossoms that the Southern Dynasty has always liked to plant, and last year Fan Junshou sent them to the Southern Dynasty, and when they came back, they brought back a lot of saplings from there!" In addition, there are a lot of larger trees, and more than a dozen cherry blossoms are planted in the yard of the county guard's house, but they don't grow well and don't bloom, so you don't pay attention to it, and I don't know why this cherry blossom is reviving so well! ”

Of course, Yang Ku didn't know that this flower, which was originally produced in China, had become a representative of the Wa Kingdom in later generations, so he only thought that this flower was very good, and it seemed that there could be more varieties in Changzhou in the future, and then he turned around and walked into the canteen.

At this time, there were already several scribes in the dining hall eating, and when they saw the two of them coming in, they hurriedly got up and saluted, and the two also nodded and entered a private room.

It's not that the two of them are not close to their subordinates, it's just that the two are high-ranking officials after all, if they eat outside, everyone has to come over to salute, but it makes everyone eat badly, although Yang Ku said that there is no need to be so troublesome, but he can't stand the enthusiasm of the scribes, so he has to avoid it.

There are not many breakfast dishes in the canteen, that is, steamed buns (meat buns), cooking cakes (steamed rolls), oil cakes, fried dough sticks, fried buns, flower rolls, tofu brains, soy milk and various flavors of porridge, all of which are relatively cheap and affordable.

Yang Ku asked for a fried bun and a tofu brain, and Guan Yuyu asked for a steamed bun and sweet porridge with corn, at this time the two were also hungry, and they no longer cared about the theory of 'food is silent, sleep is silent', and talked about the resettlement of people in Changzhou while eating.

"Wenda, how are the hundreds of thousands of people from Changzhou County settled now?" Yang Ku swallowed a fried bun and chewed it vigorously, and then asked Guan Yu while drinking soy milk.

Different from the natural casualness of Yang Ku, Guan Yu was obviously much more nervous, at this time he was holding a spoon to stir the corn sweet porridge in front of him, and when he heard Yang Ku's inquiry, he sat upright and replied: "Envoy, when we set up a county in Changzhou County before, there were only 70,000 or 80,000 people, which was considered to be a vast and sparsely populated area, and most of the population transported from the entire Sanqi last year was placed here by us, and there were 60,000 or 70,000 people!" ”

"At present, the houses of this part of the people have been built by the Japanese slaves, and the Yongye fields and mulberry fields needed by each family have also been distributed, but this year, more than 200,000 people have been transported from all over Sanqi, and more than 100,000 people have been distributed to our Changzhou County, but Changzhou County no longer has enough flat land to distribute!"

Seeing Yang Ku looking at himself with an inquiring eye, Guan Yu said: "Envoy, we don't have much flat land in Changzhou, and the east is bordering the Japanese people, basically we don't dare to settle ordinary people within a hundred miles behind the front line of the army, where there are only more than 10,000 armed colonization teams in the wasteland, if the army on the front line can advance another hundred miles to the Japanese people, we can all settle these people!" "Chinese Library

The armed colonization team is basically a reclamation team dominated by armed militia, and these people are also responsible for cleaning up the surrounding Japanese aborigines while reclaiming the land, and guarding against the infiltration of small Japanese troops on the front line into the rear, and the pressure is also quite great.

Yang Ku listened to Guan Yuyu's suggestion, and after thinking about it, he still shook his head and said: "Now General Jiang and General Chu and others who have returned to help Sanqi have not returned to the East China Sea, and the summer harvest will be coming soon, so it is impossible for us to advance to the Japanese people now!" Didn't the Great Tribes of the Japanese people on Xiadu Island (Shikoku Island) sweep up General Jiang when he left last year? Is it not possible to house the people now? ”

Guan Yuyu shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's not good, there is only a narrow waterway between Xiadu Island and the Japanese people, even if the Japanese boats are bad, they can go to the island at any time to harass them, if ordinary people are placed there, they have no experience in dealing with the Japanese people and will soon suffer heavy casualties!" When the time comes, the little marquis will definitely be held responsible! ”

Yang Ku's eyes were cold and said: "Since Xia Du doesn't have the existence of the Great Tribe, don't you dare to send people up, do you have to wait until the little marquis comes back?" You, Zhuo Ran, and Fan Wenzhong have all recruited people from the county who are willing to participate in the armed colonization, and I will ask Zheng Kui to send some militia to cooperate with them to clean up the Japanese people above as soon as possible! ”

Although Yang Ku was a little nervous after he got angry, he still got up and reminded: "Envoy, if you want to completely exterminate the Japanese people on Xiadu Island, you must have a naval army to cruise the waterway between Xiadu Island and Changzhou Island, in case the Japanese country takes a boat to reinforce the Japanese people on Xiadu Island!" ”

Yang Ku nodded and said: "This is right, but this matter is also simple, as long as the navy sends twenty or thirty warships, and cooperates with the many islands in the waterway, you can cut off the idea of the Japanese people to reinforce Xiadu Island (Shikoku Island)!" Besides, the Japanese people are now fighting endlessly, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, where do they still have the heart to reinforce Xiadu Island! ”

There are many islands scattered in the Seto Inland Sea, and these islands can become the garrison supply points of the naval army, but after occupying Xiadu Island, Wang Ze's occupation is only a few hundred miles away from the Kyoto of the Japanese people, and he has basically arrived at the door of the Japanese King Qinming, and I don't know if the powerful Soga clan and the Monobe clan who are fighting in the nest can still watch it!

It seems that Xiadu Island will not be able to carry out large-scale resettlement in a short period of time after all, and the more than 100,000 new immigrants in Changzhou County must find a way to resettle as soon as possible, otherwise it will not be long before Wang Ze will send many people to the East China Sea.

Yang Ku thought for a while and said to Guan Yu: "Didn't you say that there are many miners in this group of people sent by the little marquis?" Nowadays, there are many gold, silver and copper mines in Changzhou, and a group of people who are willing to go to mining can be selected to go to work in the mines, and those who can fish and graze are also selected to come out, and strive to send another 10,000 people to Whale Island and Sakhalin Island, where although the weather is bitter and cold, but the land is divided into a lot, and there are still people who are willing to go! ”

Last year, when Qu Liulang delivered supplies to Whale Island and Sakhalin Island, he brought thousands of war horses to these two places for grazing, although a small number of war horses were frostbitten in winter, but as long as they take care of the cold, the war horses raised will be more cold-resistant than those raised on Jeju Island.

Sending Guan Yu away, Yang Ku continued to sit in his seat and think about the situation in front of him, at this time he had to be fortunate that Wang Ze was like a hamster to pull grain from outside to the East China Sea, and with Wang Ze's efforts at that time, even after the consumption of the previous year and last year, the granaries of the entire East China Sea were still stored with four or five hundred thousand stone of grain.

Although these grains are only more than two months' rations for the people in various parts of the East China Sea, as long as they wait for more than a month, all parts of the East China Sea will be able to usher in a new bumper harvest, and then more than half of the grain in the East China Sea will be solved, and there will not be such a big shortage.

At this time, Yang Ku suddenly heard someone greeting him, and turned his head to see that it was Tan Carpenter, who had not been seen for many days, and there was a wooden plate in his hand containing a lot of fried dough sticks, tea eggs, steamed buns and so on, and the amount of food was four or five times that of Yang Ku.

Yang Ku was a little surprised to see that Carpenter Tan had come to the canteen of the mansion to eat, and said, "Haven't you always thought that my canteen has no oil and water?" Why did you come to me for dinner today? ”

Carpenter Tan said with a smile on his face: "Haha, I'm tired of eating at my place, come to you to eat something light for a change of taste!" ”

Yang Ku didn't believe Carpenter Tan's words, he also smiled and said, "Don't be too disappointed, I don't have any wine here!" Drinking alcohol can easily affect work, of course Yang Ku will not allow drinking in the canteen, he frowned and said, "Your old man has nothing to do, what is the matter?" ”

"Where did Mr. Yang come from, although our old Tan loves wine, he never drinks during the day at work!" Carpenter Tan said with a haha, "Just now, the county guard said that he wanted to speed up the construction of the city, but now I only have so many people in my hands, and I don't have enough manpower, so I can't get up quickly!" ”

Yang Ku smiled and said: "You old man came to cry poor with me, didn't you deceive a lot of craftsmen from Jiaozhou Port Kongyi at the beginning?" There were quite a lot of people when Jeju New Town, Qinjin Fortress and Jinmun Fortress were built, so why are they not enough now? ”

Carpenter Tan sat opposite Yang Ku and explained: "Nowadays, cities and houses are being built everywhere in the East China Sea, especially Whale Island (Hokkaido), Zhenhai (Vladivostok), and Jiangkou (Temple Street), and these places are too far north, and only less than half a year can start construction, and many craftsmen have been sent to these places!" ”

Saying that, Carpenter Tan rubbed his hands and smiled: "So Mr. Yang, if you can't increase the number of people for me, the construction speed of this city will at least wait until the end of the year, when the construction of these places will stop, and then we can have the energy to build our big city!" ”

In fact, Yang Ku doesn't care when this Changzhou City will be built, anyway, his left-behind mansion is only temporarily staying here, and Yang Ku's left-behind mansion has always been moving everywhere, and he followed the Jeju Mansion when he was on Jeju Island, and later worked in Zhuoran's Mansion in Qinjin, and now he is just coping with Guan Yu.

He heard Carpenter Tan's words and asked, "Dean Tan, you said that Zhenhai, Whale Island, and Jiangkou have all started construction?" Is it possible that the cities in these places are being built now? I remember that the little marquis said that it would be a few years before he would immigrate there! ”

Carpenter Tan said with a smile: "Where is the big city to be built, Captain Zhao, who is in charge of Zhenhai and Jiangkou, said that two castles that can be garrisoned will be built there first, and they are not big, two or three hundred meters long and wide, but they will be planned there first, so as not to demolish the castle built now in the future!" ”

Saying that, Carpenter Tan sighed: "One of my apprentices wrote to me that the land in Zhenhai and Jiangkou is really fertile, although only one crop can be planted a year, but one person can get a hundred acres of land, this is the big landlord!" He also said that there is no need to trouble eating meat there, where there is water, there are fish, and wild animals can be caught everywhere at the door! ”

Saying that, Carpenter Tan wiped his saliva and said: "Don't say it, a few days ago, my apprentice asked the fleet to bring me a few roe deer legs, deer legs, and a bird called the flying dragon, the soup is very delicious, tomorrow Mr. Yang might as well come to my house, let's drink two cups together?" ”

Yang Ku laughed and said: "That's a certainty, my saliva will flow out when you say this!" It seems that the vision of the little marquis was not bad at the beginning! As he spoke, Yang Ku's voice changed: "You said that Whale Island is now starting to require a large number of people to build houses or something, is it that it has already begun to prepare to accept immigrants?" ”

Tan Carpenter has many apprentices and is well-informed, so he nodded and said: "The apprentice I went there wrote that Captain Ling Cheng Ling and the nearby Ezo people are not bad, because there are few Ezo people in the local area, we have exchanged grain and cloth and iron tools for a lot of land with them, and there is no contradiction between the two sides, so Captain Ling is ready to apply for resettlement after building a number of villages!" ”

Yang Ku didn't expect that Ling Cheng, a young lieutenant, could handle these civil affairs quite well, but this was a good thing for the East China Sea, after expanding the population of Whale Island, he could expand the amount of fishing, which could greatly make up for the food shortage in various parts of the East China Sea.

"That's right!" Yang Ku suddenly remembered something, "Dean Tan, when General Cao led his troops to Sakhalin Island to support the Kuyi people there, he hasn't come back until now, do you know what's going on?" ”

Carpenter Tan shook his head and said, "My apprentices only said that General Cao fought a few battles with the Beji people on Sakhalin Island and killed a lot of people, but I don't know what the specific situation is!" If you think about it, General Cao will not suffer a loss with thousands of elites! ”

Yang Wei didn't worry about Cao An's loss, but he also felt that Wang Ze's stall was a bit big now, and now with the new increase in immigrants this year, the entire East China Sea was only close to 900,000 people, so many people occupied such a large territory, it was really surprising and a little panicked.

Just when Yang Ku was pondering, suddenly a soldier rushed over under the leadership of a scribe and saw that Carpenter Tan and Yang Ku were there, so he surprised the two of them: "Yang Envoy Jun, Dean Tan, the little marquis is back!" ”