After Ouyang Xuan set the principles for handling several emergency military situations, several people went separately to implement them. The first to act is Shi Zhongshu, who will take the men and horses that have been assembled in Guankou Village to Maozhou; Yang Bangxian returned to Chongqing Mansion to find Li Shuang for arms, and resigned to Yang Yan by the way. In order to support the training of a new type of field division, Ouyang Xuan has promised to sell and give Banzhou a batch of firearms, including the latest copper artillery; Zeng Yong first went to Genting City and then south to Jiading, and conveyed the requirements for preparing for war to Cao Ergou and Zan Wanshou respectively. As for Ouyang Xuan, he went to the Mianzhu front line via Pengzhou to inspect the battle situation and discuss the next military action with Huang Dagen.

In addition to the guard class, those who accompanied Ouyang Xuan to Mianzhu were Xia Xiaogen and two scribes, who carried pen, ink, paper, and official letters. Ouyang Xuan traveled during the day, and at night he had to deal with official business and read letters. On the way to Mianzhu, the one-year report of Liuqiu Company was delivered to him. Therefore, in the next few days, Ouyang Xuan had to read a part of the situation report every night. Saying that, time flies so fast, and before you know it, it has been a year and a half since Yu Zhu led his army to land on Liuqiu Island. Although the connection between western Sichuan and Liuqiu was not interrupted, after all, the distance and the need for secrecy meant that the contact between the two places was limited to important circumstances. The Perak Army's top brass only grasped the general situation, but did not understand the full and detailed situation. Therefore, after the last semi-annual report, Yu Zhu sent a secret envoy to send back this year's work report. The report is as thick as a book, covering many aspects such as politics, military, economy, and culture, and contains a huge amount of information.

After a year of unremitting efforts to recruit people, the Perak army had 200,000 people on Liuqiu Island, most of whom were recruited from the north and poor people from coastal states and counties, and the local aborigines were no more than 1,000 people. On the one hand, the population of the island is already sparse, and after the Thunderbolts arrived on the island, many Shengfan tribes did not want to change their cannibalistic customs, nor did they want to change from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, so they moved to the depths of the inland mountains. On the other hand, it is also because of the diseases brought by the immigrants on the island, which have been isolated for a long time, and the tribe has been unable to resist it, resulting in a large decrease in population. After the Thunderbolts were subordinated to the Thunderbolts, they were given full medical assistance and energy, but they still died in large numbers due to the lack of immunity in their bodies, and the population was reduced by two-thirds. Although the top management of the company is sad about this situation, they are helpless, after all, with the passage of time, it is inevitable to seek development, even if the Thunderbolt army does not go to the island, there are other forces that will go to the island to develop.

At present, there are three cities and more than 2,000 cantonment sites on the island. All three cities are located on the coast facing the mainland and have excellent seaports, located in the northern, central and southern parts of the island. The largest city in the north of the island has about 20,000 people, which is not only the headquarters of Liuqiu Company, but also the industrial and mining concentration area and shipbuilding base. There are 10,000 people in the central city of the island, and in addition to mining, the surrounding area is mainly rice, sugar cane and tropical crops and supporting sugar factories. Cities in the south have a minimum population of only 6,000 people, and the surrounding areas are not highly developed. However, there is an excellent seaport here, not far from Liangguang and Luzon, Cochin, and Champong, and Liuqiu Company plans to build it into a hub for trade in the South and the West. Yu Zhu had mentioned these three new cities in his previous letters, and Ouyang Xuan asked him to name them Taipei, Taichung and Tainan respectively.

After a year and a half of pioneering, there are now 1.2 million acres of cultivated land on the island. Although the efficiency of this reclamation is really not high, Liuqiu Company has done its best. The Perak army used to set fire to the artemisia grass, thorns, and miscellaneous trees on the western Sichuan Plain, turning over the soil, which had been cultivated for thousands of years and had only been abandoned by the Mongol invasion. But it is not easy to open up the land on this ancient and wild island, not to mention the harassment of cannibals, take the primeval forest and the swamp as an example, it is a headache, thanks to the excellent iron tools and the introduction of a large number of buffalo, otherwise it will be even more difficult to open up. In addition, a lot of effort had to be spent on building water conservancy ditches, and building paths to the fields, which was too much work.

Although it is difficult to open up the wasteland, the rewards are also extremely rich. The conditions of the flow of light, hot water and soil are often superior, and it can easily be harvested twice a year, or even three crops a year. The humus formed by thousands of years of fallen leaves and dead branches makes the cultivated land extremely fertile, and in the words of Xia Dagen: "Roots and chopsticks can sprout". Therefore, the rice harvest in the first season of the land was shocking to everyone - it was actually higher than the yield of the western Sichuan Plain. At present, there are 600,000 acres of arable land on the island, and it is estimated that the harvest of two crops a year and the catch of fish make it possible to meet the demand even without purchasing grain. In addition, 600,000 acres of sugarcane are planted on the island, and the yield is even more gratifying, with an average yield of 8,000 catties, and the highest yield per mu is actually more than 10,000 catties. In addition to the high yield, the sugar content of these sugarcanes is also quite high, and the sugar yield is more than 10%, that is, one mu of land can produce 800 catties to 1,000 catties of sugar. Sugar is cheaper in the south, but it is also more than 10 times the price of food, and even more expensive in the north and inland.

Due to the war, there are many differences in grain prices in various places, but according to conservative estimates, one tael of silver can only buy about 100 catties of grain, and ten catties of sugar are worth one tael of silver at this price. In fact, Liuqiu Company sells at this price, and it is their business how much the middlemen sell. It is reported that in a few states and counties in the northern Han region, the price of sugar produced by Liuqiu Company has reached a staggering 30 taels of silver per 100 catties. Although the cane sugar is expensive but in short supply, under the operation of the Qian boss, these cane sugar were sold to Jiangnan Prefecture, the northern Han region, the Japanese kingdom, the Goryeo and Nanyang countries through various trading stations, and a total of nearly five million taels of silver worth of income were sold, which made the senior management of the Liuqiu company a lot more confident, and they also sighed that Ouyang Xuan was unpredictable and planned this "sweet business" in advance.

It is said that it is too expensive to open up a business, and it takes a lot of money to open mines and build factories, build reclamation points, build bridges and roads, build ports, and build cities. Although the island is rich in trees and mineral resources, labor is free, and the Liuqiu Company has accumulated a lot of capital before, and Qian Yuzhu and Qian Boss have brought a lot of money and materials from western Sichuan, and even issued bonds, but these investments are still stretched thin compared to the expenditure. "Debt-free and light", when the year's income is deducted from the cost, and after paying off the debt, there is still nearly two million taels of silver left, which makes everyone smile.

The top management of Liuqiu Company agreed that in the next year, it will continue to expand the land reclamation and strive to increase the cultivated land area to 3 million mu, of which the grain and sugarcane planting areas will reach 1.5 million mu respectively. On the one hand, Liuqiu will still increase the recruitment of the population, and the population will still increase on a large scale, "with grain in hand, there is no panic in the heart." On the other hand, considering the problem of market saturation, the sugar price in the Jiangnan area has fallen a lot. And it is expected that there will be many forces that will follow the trend of planting sugar. At present, the government and business are integrated, and these forces will definitely not let Liuqiu sugar enter their territory for sale.