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From Fujian to Liuqiu, the nearest straight-line distance is more than 100 kilometers.

However, this distance that does not look very far is actually not very easy to pass.

Because there is a "black water ditch" of "ten goes, six die, three stay, and one turn".

In layman's terms, if ten people go to this "black water ditch", six will die at sea, only three will be able to cross safely, and the last one will choose to give up crossing the sea because of the fear of this risk.

This "black water ditch" is actually the Penghu waterway.

The Penghu waterway flows very fast, and the depth is bottomless, and the color of the sea water is like ink dyeing, so it is called black water.

Moreover, there is a large ocean and a small ocean in this waterway.

The great ocean and the small ocean make it very difficult to cross the strait in both directions, and because the water depth is too deep to anchor and fix, the sailboat must travel quickly with the wind to pass, and if it does not have time to pass, it will be swept away by the current and lost.

However, most of the ships that appeared in this situation were those small sampan manpower wooden boats, and for the big ships of the Tiger Ben Army, when crossing the black water ditch, as long as the wind direction was suitable, they rushed over in one breath.

The real trouble is that there is a lot of miasma in Ryugushang because no one has developed it and the vegetation is too luxuriant.

When Li Cun went to Fujian, the team sent to Liuqiu fell ill not long after arriving on the island, and several even died of illness in the end.

Until these people, according to Li Cun's prior confession, set a fire on the western coastal plain.

It took almost a month for the fire to burn out a large area of white land in the western coastal plains.

It's strange to say that after this fire, the miasma in the white ground really disappeared.

Actually-

It is not right to say that there is no one living in Ryuqiu.

There are thousands of Malays living in the mountains behind the island.

There are even more than 10,000 Han Chinese on it.

These Han Chinese are mainly Hokkien and Hakka, who first lived on Penghu.

Later, he slowly began to develop towards Ryu.

However, this part of the Han people only survives by fishing on the edge of the western coastal plains, and rarely goes deep into the island.

The team that first landed on the island really encountered a lot of difficulties after landing in Liuqiu.

Not to mention the miasma, they also encountered the grass.

The so-called grass is the custom of hunting people's heads, that is, after killing people, the head is brought back and placed in the head shed of the family or tribe to show his military achievements.

They cut off people's heads, not for hatred or money, but for reasons that were sacred to them, such as sacrificing ancestors, proclaiming adulthood, boasting of bravery, driving out disease, and so on.

In fact, it is not the Malay race that preaches their own force, but the Han Chinese, who were also very hostile to the Tiger Ben army detachment that came to their territory at first, especially after the detachment suddenly set a fire to scare them.

But—

All of this was calm after Li Cun sent 20,000 sailors to the island.

- It's the same everywhere, a big fist is the last word.

Compared with the real army wearing strong armor and holding sharp weapons and divine arm bows, whether it is those "wild men" who think they are superior in force, or those fishermen who can only fish, including the tens of thousands of Han people entrenched in Penghu, they are not enough to see and can only surrender.

Because the strength of the two sides is not an order of magnitude at all.

Later, Li Cun sent 100,000 people and a large number of craftsmen to build Liuqiu in one go.

This made Ryuqiu a little popular.

Now, with boatloads of immigrants coming to Liuqiu, Liuqiu is sure to usher in a period of rapid development.

But then again, no matter how fast Liuqiu develops, it can't change its primitive and backward nature in a short period of time.

Therefore, Li Cun only has three short-term expectations for Liuqiu and one medium- and long-term expectation.

The three short-term expectations are:

First, Li Cun counted on Ryu to help him solve the problem of the victims caused by the war.

You must know that if these victims are not handled well, it will be a big hidden danger, and they may also rebel in the future.

And throwing them to Liuqiu to reclaim the wasteland can not only help you build a new site, but also solve this group of troubles, killing two birds with one stone.

Second, Li Cun is going to build a large shipyard on Liuqiu - because no one has landed on Liuqiu, there are a lot of shipbuilding materials on it, and some shipbuilding materials are even enough to build treasure ships and very different giant ships, and it is a pity not to use them.

Third, Li Cun planned to set up some glass factories and soap factories in Liuqiu to mass-produce man-made luxury goods to earn military expenses for himself.

And that medium and long-term expectation is that Li Cun hopes that Liuqiu can become a granary for himself, so that he can deal with the troubled times in the future more calmly.

As for retreating to Liuqiu or something, since Li Cun stopped by to take a look at Liuqiu when he came back, Li Cun completely dispelled this idea.

Without it.

That's too desolate.

Li Cun didn't want to go there to be the chief of a primitive tribe.

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While preparing for the upcoming war and seeking immigration to Liu, Li Cun closely followed the progress of the decisive battle between the Fangla Yi army and the Song army.

What Li Cunwan didn't expect was that the reinforcements of the Song army were much slower than he expected.

What Li Cun didn't know was that this was actually due to him and Fang La.

Because Li Cun and Fang La occupied the largest grain production base of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and also robbed the autumn grain that was shipped to Bianliang City in Tokyo last year, Zhao Song's grain was a little nervous.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhao Song will have no grain, after all, one of the traditions of the Chinese for thousands of years is to store grain.

Because of this tradition, there is actually a lot of food in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

But the problem is that it is the grain that ensures the stability of the capital's dignitaries and nobles and the people of the capital, and who dares to fight the idea of that grain when the largest grain production base in the south of the Yangtze River is gone?

Therefore, after Wang Hao and others discussed, they handed over the task of ensuring the food supply to the front line to the Lianghuai region, Jingnan Road, Jingxiang area, Jiangnan West Road and other prefectures and counties where the Song army transited.

After receiving this order, the officials of the various transit departments distributed the amount of grain to the common people.

Due to the lack of transportation forces, the officials of the various transportation departments used their brains - they specifically asked the people to transport the grain to the front line by themselves to pay, otherwise it would not be considered to complete the errand service, and they would face extremely heavy punishments, such as stabbing for thousands of miles or something.

As a result, in order to transport one stone of grain, the freight along the way costs more than a dozen or even twenty stones of grain, which brought great distress and even disaster to the people.

Moreover, people can't figure it out.

There was a strict quota control over the manufacture of official ships in the imperial court, and the quota of ships in the country was 2,854, and the edict decreed that it was not allowed to increase or decrease by itself.

What about these nearly 3,000 ships?

Also, it is said that when Jia Weijie was serving as the deputy envoy of Jianghuai shipping, in order to echo Cai Jing, he built 25,000 large ships without authorization for the exclusive use of Huashigang, and transported Taihu Lake stones and strange flowers and trees from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to please Zhao Ji.

In addition, there are so many private shipyards that can build many ships every year.

There are so many ships in the Great Song Dynasty, why is it that when it comes time to transport grain and grass materials, there are no ships, and they have to rely on manpower to transport them?

What these people didn't know was that the nearly 3,000 boats were all taken away by Li Cun because of the autumn grain last year.

As for the 25,000 large ships that Jia Weijie built to transport flowers and stones, they are definitely not real, because Li Cun's people only found more than 2,000 large ships that transported flowers and stones.

And those private shipyards, I'm sorry, they have all been confiscated by Li Cun, and now they are building warships for Li Cun.

And the area currently controlled by Zhao Song cannot be said to have no ships, but these ships are scattered in various areas of Zhao Song, and it is very difficult to concentrate them in a short period of time.

People in many places, because they couldn't stand the order of "cash on delivery" issued by the Zhao and Song courts, broke out many anti-donation storms or peasant riots one after another.

This undoubtedly brought a lot of difficulties to the Song army in raising grain and grass materials.

Because the supply of grain and grass is always intermittent, the reinforced army often has no meal.

In addition, the weather is too hot, so hot that these northern soldiers don't want to move.

In this case, let alone let these uncles march, even if they don't mutiny, they are all worried about Tan Zhen, Xin Xingzong and others.

Later, Xin Xingzong discussed with these proud soldiers and fierce generals, marching for an hour every morning and an hour at night, and it was so hot that he could rest during this time.

At the same time, Tan Zhi and Cai You asked for grain from the states and counties they passed along the way, and even bought grain.

Only then did Baal take great pains to bring this army to Jiangzhou and Hongzhou near the middle of July, and handed it over to the seed master Dao and the seed master.

What makes Tan Zhi and Cai You's teeth itch with hatred is that when these arrogant soldiers arrive here in the Seed Master Dao and the Seed Master, they will no longer have the stinky problems they had before, and they will not make any trouble.

At this time, Tan Zhi and Cai You also realized that Xin Xingzong's prestige was still not enough, at least it was not comparable to the two famous generals of the Western Army, Dao and Seedmaster.

After discussing with the generals, it was decided that it could not be delayed any longer, and the longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be to the Great Song Dynasty, and it was necessary to immediately seek an opportunity for a decisive battle.

On the other hand, due to the failure to conquer the city in the recent period, another 670,000 troops have been frantically consumed, and the food of the Fangla Yi army is almost at the bottom.

Therefore, Fang La also desperately hoped to solve the Song army in a war, and then go to the vast Jingxiang region to develop.

Therefore, Fang La gathered the most devout believers of Manichaeism and formed a group of 200,000 elite soldiers, which were personally controlled by himself, and the remaining 400,000 people were divided into four armies by Fang La, the front army was controlled by the eight kings Lu Mai and Zheng Mowang, the left army was controlled by Fang Qifo, the right army was controlled by Fang Wuxianggong, and the rear army was controlled by Qiu Daoren and Lu Shinang.

In fact, some people persuaded Fang La to defend the city, or to lead the water to Li Cun, who forced him to fight to the death with the Song army, and some people even had the courage to suggest accepting the court's recruitment.

But Fang La refused all, and also suggested that he accept Zhao Song Zhao'an's people to shoot him to death, Fang La's reason is: "If you listen to the words of this generation, I will never be able to turn over under the fence of Yongle Dynasty, and my holy sect will also be despised by the world. ”

But then, Fang La rarely found Bao Kang and said something else......

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