Chapter 416: Sharpen the knife Huo Huo to Haoqiang
After the news of Wang Yun's opening up of the sea and landing in the Great Ryukyu was transmitted back to Luoyang, it did not cause any waves in the imperial court except outside the imperial court.
Even from the perspective of the most enlightened and long-term ministers, even Lingnan and southern Fujian are still barbarian lands, and overseas can be imagined as barbarian lands.
What is there to be happy about occupying a barbarian land? Rejoice in an exiled land? Will it be time to make a mistake again and go directly to exile with the whole family?
Of course, the royal family does not have to shout, this island can be cultivated millions of acres of fertile land, rich in resources.
After Wang Yun successfully came to the Great Ryukyu, the imperial family began to organize the clansmen of the family who studied agriculture and craftsmen to prepare for sending them to the Great Ryukyu. At the same time, the Wang family also began to contact some of the clans.
The royal family knew very well that if they wanted to migrate people to overseas islands, it would be more difficult than migrating to the Western Regions, and if they wanted to use the Great Ryukyu Island as a back route, they had to prepare at least 100,000 people to migrate to the Great Ryukyu Islands.
The prince's trust in the imperial family was extremely high, and the royal family could rely on its own prestige to make the prince abandon the land of the Central Plains, and the comfortable environment would make it difficult to migrate to Ryukyu.
At this time, the Great Ryukyu Island was still in a state of wilderness, and there were only a few locals living on the island, so Wang Yun needed to determine the situation here first, establish a place to live, and if he wanted to migrate on a large scale, it would take at least a few years later.
And if you want to move 100,000 people, it will take at least ten years.
In order to develop the islands of the Great Ryukyus, the imperial family needed to invest a lot of money and food in the early stage. Wang Yun commanded an army of 5,000 sailors to initially build a camp, and then began to recruit craftsmen to build a small town here.
To build a town, you need a lot of manpower, food, and money, but the imperial court has not been rich financially over the years, and it has opened up the south and the Hehuang Valley, and has invested heavily in shipbuilding and galloping, and there is no longer much money to invest in the Great Ryukyu Islands.
Thinking of this, an idea suddenly popped up in Wang Yun's heart, with the help of the power of those nobles and heroes to develop the Great Ryukyu.
At this time, sugarcane was mostly planted in the south to extract sugar, but due to land problems, the planting area was not much, so the price of sugar has always been high.
At present, the price of one stone of sugar in Daqian can be worth more than ten stones of salt, which is more profitable than silk and lacquerware.
Wang Yun wants to get those nobles and heroes to support him, and the best way is to lure him with benefits. What is the most precious thing on the islands of the Great Ryukyus? Naturally, it is land and minerals, but these are all values that can only be withdrawn later, and the most important value now is the cultivation of sugar cane.
There are now large areas of wilderness on the islands of the Great Ryukyu, and these wildernesses can be easily cultivated and planted with sugar cane. Thinking of this, Wang Yun began to prepare.
He didn't plan to directly contact those nobles and nobles, and then let these people contribute money and efforts, after all, if he really wanted to do this, even if he succeeded, he would need to give a lot of promises and give up a lot of benefits. He knew very well how big his appetite was. So he was going to change the way and let those nobles and heroes come to him.
Soon some rumors in Gusu City began to go viral, and His Royal Highness the Third Prince and overseas discovered a large island with countless gold, silver and jewelry, and fertile land for thousands of miles.
There were also rumors that the island was full of fertile fields where sugar cane could be grown. There are also some outrageous claims that the three princes found overseas Xiandao and wanted to go to Xiandao to enjoy happiness or something.
All kinds of rumors have spread and spread widely in Gusu City, and many people use these as after-dinner conversations. There are few people who really believe it, and many people are thinking about watching the jokes of His Royal Highness the Third Prince.
But as time went on, these rumors did not subside in the slightest, but intensified. Many people even found that His Royal Highness the Third Prince had recruited many people with experience in planting sugarcane.
Seeing this situation, all of a sudden, those nobles, heroes, and businessmen who could not afford to make profits early became interested and began to investigate the truth of the matter. Soon these people got a lot of news from the sailors of the navy.
Discover the Great Ryukyu Island, on which the fertile field is thousands of miles, no one cultivates, the island is vast, almost a state of land, the island has a mild climate, fertile land, suitable for planting sugarcane, His Royal Highness the Third Prince has invited the farmer to see, as long as sugarcane is planted here, the next year will be a bumper harvest, the imperial court has a new source of wealth, the royal family has begun to prepare for a sugar mill and so on.
Of course, these news were deliberately circulated by Wang Yun, and after hearing these news, those noble and powerful businessmen suddenly became anxious, and one by one they couldn't sit still anymore, and began to look around for relationships, ask for favors, and want to participate in it.
Many times, when these nobles and heroes see that they are like him making money, they feel more uncomfortable than they owe it. They are the most direct competitors and naturally do not want to be left behind.
Therefore, after confirming that the news was true, he immediately wanted to participate in it, but Wang Yun didn't see these people at all. There are also many clans in Gusu City, among which the one closest to the royal family is the Wu family, and Wang Yun has secretly contacted the Wu family.
Sometimes, people are cheap, and when you want them to pay, they will find all kinds of reasons to push back, and when you don't want money, they will start to give you money.
With the cooperation of the Wu family, Wang Yun relied on the Great Ryukyu Island, attracting the entire Gusu City and even the nobles of Huiji County. After seeing that the fire was almost over, Wang Yun sent someone to spread the news, and three days later a banquet was held in the Gusu Office of the Imperial Court, and the issue of the Great Ryukyu Island would be discussed at that time.
After getting the news, all the nobles, heroes, and businessmen are looking for famous thorns and want to participate in it, and the Gusu Wu clan and those who hold a single official position in the navy, the threshold of the family will be broken by these people.
Everyone wants to be a part of this feast. If Wang Yun is willing, he can make a fortune on the invitation. It's a pity that this kind of eating is too ugly, and Wang Yun directly refused.
When the banquet was held, near the Gusu Ya Office, the carriages and horses from the nearby states and counties crowded the surrounding roads, and not only the nobles and heroes of Huiji County came, but even the nobles and heroes of Huai'an and Jinling came.
So many people came to make this banquet even more lively.
For these nobles who came from afar, Wang Yun also let them participate in it. Anyway, the more people he has, the more money and manpower and material resources he can raise.
By the time the banquet began, there were more than 200 nobles and heroes present. When Wang Yun saw so many fat sheep, he was naturally ready to slaughter them fiercely and use these noble and powerful money and grain to develop the Great Ryukyu.
Isn't the money for this development coming? That's all, they have to thank us!
(End of chapter)