Liu Yifeng thought that the island they landed on was Attu Island, the westernmost island of the Aleutian Islands, but it turned out to be not.

The Aleutian Islands are the eastward continuation of the Alaskan continental shelf in North America, the northwesternmost part of North America, so the many islands stretch out from east to west in a line, and the top is the westernmost island of Attu.

The Maritime Administration called the westernmost island of Attu an island, and then all the way eastward to all the islands with fresh water resources that could be inhabited as "two islands, three islands...... Twenty-Eight Islands".

But the only thing that the MSA really put into building was the one and five islands in the west, the thirteen islands in the middle, and the two westernmost and largest islands: the twenty-seven and twenty-eight islands.

Among them, there is a shipyard on 27 islands, where all ships going to Dongshan Prefecture must dock for maintenance. All the ships returning to Daming will also dock for the final inspection.

To put it simply, the status of the Twenty-Seven Islands is similar to that of the Ghost City.

"We've already crossed an island?"

"Of course, let's go directly to the thirteen islands, and then to the twenty-seven islands." Speaking of this, a look on the crew's face that all men understand: "There are Qinglou on the Twenty-Seven Islands, and it is said that they are all Japanese female slaves, and there is a chance that those Japanese female slaves who stay in the Ghost City will be sent to the Twenty-Seven Islands in the end." ”

Liu Yifeng didn't care about the Japanese slave girls, he only cared about which of the 27 islands was in the Aleutian Islands.

In fact, he only knows Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands, after all, it is the only American territory occupied by IJN in World War II.

The island not far from the horizon was called the Thirteen Islands by the crew, and the Thirteen Islands were not very big, they were a typical mountain island, and the main body was a mountain. All the buildings were built on a plain at the foot of the mountain, and the main complex was the size of a village.

"There are about 200 people living here, and they basically rotate every two years." Song Yingxing popularized science for his three students: "They are responsible for a certain degree of supply to the passing boats, mainly fresh water and fresh vegetables, although the conditions are difficult, but the remuneration for two years is enough to 200 taels, enough for them to return to Daming to be a small landlord." ”

Yang Changbai and Sun Xin looked at each other, and Yang Changbai said, "Lord Song, 200 taels can't buy much land." ”

"You can't buy it in the Central Plains, but you can buy it in Beiting Prefecture, Annan Prefecture, Northeast China, Dongyi Peninsula, Fusang Island in the north and south, Liugui Prefecture and Dongshan Prefecture."

These places are all frontier places in the minds of the traditional Central Plains people, and most of them are not so willing to go.

"Uprooted, do they really want to go?"

"If you don't go, it's okay to buy a shop in the city for 200 taels and do some small business."

"If you really can't buy the development bonds issued by the Maritime Safety Bureau, it's also good to invest in Dongshan Prefecture or Annan Prefecture."

The discussion of the three people is basically that most of the people in the Ming Dynasty who have accidentally made a small fortune by developing the frontier or relying on foreign expansion wars will basically choose to deal with their own floating wealth.

Few people will choose to leave their hometowns to go to the local masters of the frontier, and most of them have invested in the Ming Dynasty, which has made the atmosphere of private business more and more heavy.

At this time, the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Thirteen Islands were already driving a small boat towards Song Yingxing and their Nanyang-class, carrying fresh water and fresh vegetables.

"Lord Song, aren't we going to the shore?"

"Without docking, among the 28 islands, only 27 islands have ports that can allow Zheng He-class and Nanyang-class to dock, and the other islands can only rely on small boats or sampans to turn around."

"Why don't you build a big port?"

"A large port is not a fishing port, and it is not something that can be repaired."

Song Yingxing explained: "And the construction of a large port is also very expensive, the first time there was only a small port on the 27 islands, and a large port was built only five years ago, which made the then Lord Xu attacked by other cabinet elders in the year-end financial meeting for a long time." Even His Majesty, who had always favored the Maritime Safety Bureau, was forced to retreat by the elders, forcing Lord Xu to promise not to build a large port on the Twenty-Eight Islands before giving up. ”

It is an open secret of the Ming Dynasty that the cabinet and the Maritime Safety Bureau do not deal with each other, but the cabinet is most disgusted by Dongshan Prefecture, and there are not many people who know about it.

Why does the cabinet dislike Dongshan State?

It's not because Dongshan Prefecture, a gold-absorbing black hole that only enters and can't leave, and there is no sign of improvement in a short period of time, can suck up one-tenth of the imperial court's financial budget every year.

Although the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and the newly built Western Army each have to absorb one-tenth of their shares every year, people can see signs of feeding the Central Plains in the short term, not to mention that the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate is already feeding the Central Plains.

In the past few years, natural disasters have continued, but the grain prices in the nine southern provinces have been as stable as Mount Tai, all supported by the rice of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate.

The signs that the Beiting Protectorate began to feed back to the Central Plains are becoming more and more obvious, and the animal husbandry of several small grasslands in the south of the desert and the three grasslands in the north of the desert has sharply reduced the pressure on animal husbandry in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

After the Western Army conquers the rich Western Regions, it will be able to feed back to the Central Plains in a year or two at most. Thinking of the prosperity of the Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty made the cabinet and the imperial court excited.

And what do you have in Dongshan State?

Poor mountains and bad waters!

After the discovery of Dongshan Prefecture, the cabinet was also excited, after all, the coastline comparable to the length of the Ming Dynasty shows that this is a new continent. However, from the north where snow flies all year round to the south in single clothes, except for some small plains along the coast, all of them are poor mountains and mountains comparable to Bashu, and there is no development value.

Those small plains are indeed good arable land, and can also be used for grazing. However, the desperate distance doomed that the food produced in Dongshan Prefecture did not need to be transported back to Daming, because the cost was too high, so it could only be produced and sold.

And Dongshan Prefecture doesn't have so many people, why does it produce so much food?

The Maritime Safety Bureau suggested to His Majesty to learn from the immigrants of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, but the people of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate immigrants were because the grain produced could be transported to the southern provinces in time. What is the use of your dignitaries in Dongshan Prefecture other than cultivating farmland and pastures?

So back to the original question: why do you cultivate so much land and produce so much food?

Although the Maritime Administration has the support of His Majesty, it is hard to emigrate every year. However, the food produced by these immigrants could not become wealth, and in addition to food, all other materials for the survival of these immigrants needed to be imported from the Ming Dynasty, especially iron products.

At present, the development of Dongshan Prefecture is basically in the coastal area, because whether it is the north or the central part, basically you can't go far ashore into the mountains, and it is still a completely undeveloped mountainous area, and even the mountain roads need to be developed by yourself.

There are no minerals found in the area developed by the coastal area of Dongshan Prefecture for a generation, and all iron products need to be transported from the Ming Dynasty.

This is nothing, the agriculture industry in Daming is now very developed, and there are countless commercial houses in the city that sell iron goods to the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.

But the question is: what does Dongshan State do with these commercial firms?

There are animal skins and herds in the north garden. The Annam Protectorate has a variety of grains and some cash crops.

What's in Dongshan State?

Grain that can't be shipped back to the country, and people who are so poor that they can't afford anything. Even if there is a certain degree of fur trade with Daming locality, it will not be able to support the huge demand for basic materials in Dongshan Prefecture.

Therefore, in addition to achieving self-sufficiency in grain, all basic materials and commodities in Dongshan Prefecture were purchased from the people by the imperial court and then transported to Dongshan Prefecture.

The Cabinet had always wanted the Maritime Administration to cover the costs, but His Majesty did not agree.

In addition to adding the glory of expanding the territory to the face of the Ming Dynasty, the existence of Dongshan Prefecture only won more financial budget for the Maritime Safety Administration. It didn't help the imperial court, but it wanted the imperial court to support Dongshan Prefecture, which was the fundamental reason why the cabinet was extremely disgusted with Dongshan Prefecture.