Now Wang Ze's territory is mainly islands, and it is a long and narrow series of islands, from the hot equatorial region of Borneo in the South Sea, to the north to the Kuril Islands at more than 60 degrees north latitude, and even with the exploration of Ling Cheng's navy and the fishermen of Whale Island, it continues to extend to the seas further north.

Such a long and narrow island chain allowed the merchant ships in the East China Sea to sail in their own country's waters almost all the way, and they could go to their own ports every day to rest, which greatly improved the non-governmental commercial activities in various parts of the East China Sea under Wang Ze's rule.

In order to prevent the invasion of pirates in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, Wang Ze arranged three fleets in various strategic places south of Qinjin in one go.

In addition to the importance of the Nanyang Fleet, the detachment on the Ryukyu Islands, which is located between Qinjin Island and Yizhou Island, is very strong.

Because the Ryukyu Islands were a very important strategic stronghold, they played an important role in connecting the islands of the East China Sea with Yizhou and the Nanyang Islands in the territory of the East China Sea under Wang Ze's rule, and in addition to Kan Le's 20 warships, there was also an armed militia force of 2,000 people.

This time Wang Ze traveled, in addition to Shen Sanshui's Central Guard, Zhao Yong's Left Guard, Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu's Yulinwei, it was Gu Bin's Central Guard Army, the whole army added up to 7,500 people, plus large and small accompanying ships, it was a huge team of almost tens of thousands of people.

When Wang Ze took Zhu Qingqing, Cheng Xueyan and his younger brother Feng Fu, Zhu Bofu, Cheng Hu and a large number of teams to Ryukyu City, Ryukyu Island, it was a hot summer.

Although the Ryukyus is an archipelago at a subtropical latitude, it is actually no different from a tropical island due to the influence of the warm ocean current, especially the beach along the southeast coast has a lot of coconut trees, palm trees and a large number of betel nut trees, which seems to be a tropical paradise suitable for tourism.

When the sun rises, sit on the rattan chair by the sea and watch the red sun rise from the sea little by little, and then as the sun rises, a chilled coconut comes in the hot air, and a sip of cold coconut water is cool and sweet in the throat, as if it is cool to the heart, which is simply a great enjoyment of life.

"Da Lang, you said that we didn't drink less coconut water when we were in Qinjin, but how can it be completely incomparable to the coconut water we drank in the Ryukyus?" Zhu Bofu is a very strange foodie, obviously it is also a coconut transported from the south, but the taste is not as good as the taste of the current drink.

Cheng Hu next to him said in a humble voice: "I heard the old man say, as long as you are hungry, everything you eat is fragrant, you sweated so much just now, and of course the taste is different when you are very thirsty!" Anyway, I think it tastes similar to the coconut I drank in Qinjin! ”

Wang Ze just smiled at Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu, he was looking at the Ryukyu City (Naha) in the distance with Feng Fu and the two of them, this city was a city independently completed by a relatively good disciple of Tan Carpenter, although the city area is very small, but it is very distinctive.

In the spring of last year, in order to speed up the development of the Ryukyu Island, Wang Ze brought tens of thousands of Japanese slaves to the Ryukyu Island, and after more than a year of hard construction, he finally built a large, five, and six small ports on the Ryukyu Island, which can not only dock nearly 100 warships of all sizes, but also call hundreds of merchant ships at a time.

Such a large port is very rare even in the East China Sea, and after the construction of six ports, a small castle began to be built, and it took only half a year for a very distinctive, very beautiful small castle to stand near the port of Ryukyu in the south of the Ryukyu Island.

Wang Ze didn't care too much about this place called Naha in later generations, after all, this was only a small place under Wang Ze's rule, but this city designed to face the tropical climate made Feng Fu drool, shouting that the model was chosen wrong.

Ryukyu Castle (Naha) is the only decent castle in the Ryukyu Islands, with more than 3,000 people living in the castle, which is one-third of the population of the entire Ryukyu Islands.

This time when he came to Ryukyu, Wang Ze did not live in Ryukyu Castle, but ordered the army to camp directly in an open field more than ten miles away from the port, which was not only conducive to defense, but also beautiful scenery, and built a castle here is a suitable place for vacation.

"Big brother, you can't even see a shadow of a person on this island, and there are too few people here, right?" Feng Fu also likes Ryukyu very much, and the only thing he thinks is bad is that there are too few people on the island, and it is not lively enough.

Wang Ze listened to Feng Fu's complaint and smiled: "Originally, there were a lot of people on the island, but because the cultivated land was mainly concentrated in the central part, most of the people in the south of Ryukyu Island were concentrated in Ryukyu City, and we were nearly ten miles away from the city, of course no one would come over without nothing." ”

There were originally more than 10,000 indigenous people living on the Ryukyu Islands, and Wang Ze was once very jealous of the dense jungle on the island, but after Wang Ze ordered the Ryukyu Islands to be used as a training ground for the militia in the East China Sea last year, the natives on the island soon disappeared silently, as if no one had ever lived here. 137

For the low combat effectiveness of the Ryukyus natives, it was very difficult for Zheng Kui to transport the militia to Zheng Kui for a long time, and the Japanese people who were used to the East China Sea were very powerful, and took the initiative to take over the sparring work that continued to help Wang Ze train the militia, which made Zheng Kui smile.

Since the indigenous people of Ryukyu have all disappeared, it has lost its qualification as a militia training ground, and it was at this time that Wang Ze began to pay attention to the importance of Ryukyu in order to strengthen the connection between Yizhou and the East China Sea, and soon tens of thousands of ordinary people from all over the country settled here.

Of course, the ordinary people who moved later did not know that the archipelago was still inhabited in the first place, and until now they still think that it was just a desert island with no people.

After a year of development, there are now more than 20,000 official residents of the entire archipelago, and there are thousands of maritime merchants and sailors from all over the world who pass through and stay here for a short time, so at the end of last year, the Ryukyu Islands were unified into a Ryukyu Prefecture, which is temporarily under the jurisdiction of Yishu County.

However, militarily, the naval army of Yizhou had to obey the orders of Kan Le of the Ryukyu Detachment, although Wang Ze said that the Ryukyu Islands connected the important sea routes between the east and the west, the north and the south, so Kan Le's seemingly strength was somewhat beyond the standard equipment was still necessary.

However, Yang Ku and other high-ranking officials in the East China Sea, as well as many generals in the navy, knew in their hearts that Wang Ze was preparing a follow-up to make up for the lack of numbers of Yizhou's naval army.

Because Yizhou is facing Nan Chen, the strength of the naval army is quite good, in order to maintain friendly relations between the two sides, Wang Ze is also reluctant to stimulate Nan Chen, so the ten warships currently stationed there cannot guarantee the safety of Yizhou at all, once there is a problem in Yizhou, the Kan Le fleet stationed in the Ryukyu Islands is the first reinforcement of Yizhou.

Because of the hot climate of the Ryukyu Islands, in addition to the more than 2,000 Han people from Yizhou Island, the largest number of people here are the people from the Huaisi area who fled from the chaotic Haizhou and surrounding counties to Nanqingzhou during the Southern Chen and Northern Expeditions.

However, even the largest number of Huaisi people in the entire Ryukyu Islands did not exceed 6,000, and the other more than 10,000 people basically came from all the prefectures and counties of the Central Plains, so there was no phenomenon here that the people from any prefecture or county were bullying the others with fewer people.

Regarding the formation of an atmosphere of harmony among the people on the island, of course, the local civil officials felt that this was their own education, but the Taoist priests of Haotian Daomen thought that this should be the result of Haotian God's wielding, and only Wang Ze felt that this had something to do with the current number of people in the Ryukyu Islands.

It is precisely because the resources on the island are abundant enough that the people here can live well without competing with each other, otherwise where would there be such a good neighborhood environment, the big guys would have been fighting for a few plots of land and water sources.

Until now, there are still many civil officials in the East China Sea who do not approve of Wang Ze's crazy occupation of land, but Wang Ze doesn't care about that, as long as it is land that can be occupied, even if it is a small island, he must first install his own boundary monument.

Wang Ze, who came from later generations, has always believed that the biggest problem in China, whether in later generations or now, is not the problem of too much population, but the problem of too little land and resources occupied by the whole world.

The large population itself is a manifestation of strength, and in later generations, because of the siege of Omi ghost animals, the huge population of more than one billion people was helplessly concentrated in a small piece of land.

It is precisely because the domestic resources are too limited, so that the Chinese people have to try all means to compete for these things all the time, cutting in line, going through the back door, bribery, etc., etc., etc., if the resources are enough, why should the people do these things?

Some people say that people in developed countries abroad will not cut in line, this is, people have developed public transport systems do not need to be like this at all, if they have the same situation as China, it will not be much better.

I remember a friend abroad said that once waiting for the bus, there were not many people waiting for the bus at first, and everyone was waiting calmly, but because there was a problem with two buses in a row, hundreds of people gathered on the platform to wait for the bus.

As a result, when the first bus came, I didn't see any high-quality whites lining up honestly, and they didn't even squeeze up in one swoop, and even the gentlemanly demeanor that had always been admired was ignored, and some qualitative arguments were self-defeating.

It is precisely because of some lessons learned in later generations that Wang Ze now attaches great importance to the population density of the people in various places under his rule, and when the population of a place gradually rises, so that the local land reserve is reduced to a certain extent, he will ask the government council to issue a relocation proposal to the people here, providing a number of preferential areas for the people to relocate.

It's just that since the end of last year to the present, because of the large-scale development of the newly occupied land of the Japanese state, a large number of people have spontaneously moved to their newly allocated land, which has led to Wang Ze's new regulations not yet officially playing its role, but Wang Ze believes that it will be used in the next few decades.