Chapter 64: The Development of Yizhou Island

Time flies, more than half a year has passed, the two have finished their cultivation, and they are going to Yizhou Island. Although the back road prepared by Li Shucheng has been developed for several years, Jiang Mingyue has never been there.

At the beginning, in order to speed up the migration of people and materials to Yizhou Island, they secretly went to sea from the coast of Fujian, and after the town was built, there were fewer contacts with Fujian, and everything was for the sake of secrecy.

This time I went to Yizhou Island, starting from Wusong Port. After these years of development, Wusong Port has become a large port, and a large number of materials are transported here by small ships every year, and then transported by countless sea ships to sell to Nanyang, North Korea, Fuso, and bring back all kinds of goods welcomed by the Great Song Dynasty. A large number of goods were transshiped, resulting in the prosperity of the port.

After Li Shucheng's trading house was resold, the people in the village came here and formed a trading house by themselves, just in time for the development of the port. Now which family in the village has no money? It is no longer the poor family it used to be.

"How often have you been there?" asked Li Shucheng after getting on the boat. The ship was to pick up these people from the village who worked in the port to Yizhou for reunion.

"Two or three times a year. Dongming said, "Fortunately, the two Tao boys in my family are already sensible, otherwise I wouldn't have come." "Dongming is in his thirties, he followed Li Shucheng when he was a child, and now his eldest son is fifteen or sixteen years old. When the child is older and sensible, he is not so worried about it, and he is relieved to do things outside. A few years ago, the child was ignorant, so he farmed on the island and took care of the family, for fear that the child would be crooked.

"Yes, we are in the port, too far away to take care of the family at all, if it weren't for the fact that there is a lot of money here, I would have been able to farm in the town. The other twenty-point one said. He is the son of Yang Daniu, who just got married and succeeded his father in the business house.

"There will be gains and losses!" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Tell me, how is the town now?"

"The town has now moved, and the new town is bigger and more beautiful than the old one. In addition, the tribes in the mountains also asked us to help them build a few small villages, and they also started farming. ”

"Also, they built a school and asked the husband to teach their children to read and write. ”

"It's changed a lot!" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "What I'm most worried about is the indigenous tribes, if they stay in the mountains, they will definitely have conflicts when they see that life is good in the town, and even plunder the town." Now that they have come out to live, they have also learned to farm, especially to read and write, so that they can get along with us. "It is to call them, let them identify and integrate, so that they can really gain a firm foothold in Yizhou.

"Who wouldn't want to live a good life?" Dongming said with a smile, "Now the elders and patriarchs of those tribes live in the village, and rarely go into the mountains, and only the hunting teams in the tribes often enter the mountains." ”

When they arrived in the town, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue lived in the house they had set aside at the beginning, repaired it overnight, and walked around the street the next day. There are not many shops on the street, but there are many kinds of goods, and there are enough to meet the needs of life.

Entering a bookstore, Li Shucheng glanced at it, there were several shelves full of books, pen, ink, paper and inkstones, Li Shucheng asked: "Are the books and pens you have here shipped from outside?"

"How is that possible!" laughed the owner of the bookstore, "these are small businesses, and they don't make much money by shipping them from outside." My book here is engraved and printed by ourselves, and the pen and ink are collected nearby. ”

"Oh, so it's self-sufficient. Li Shucheng said with a smile.

"Of course, everything you need for life is produced nearby. The boss smiled, "Including salt, hemp, silk and so on." ”

"Zhang Chu, Liu Shan, you two are doing a good job here. After visiting the old and new towns, Li Shucheng praised, "Now the town is not only self-sufficient, but also has surplus products to sell." ”

"We don't dare to take credit, with Gongzi you before you shocked the tribal mountain people, we can develop the town with peace of mind. Zhang Chu said with a smile.

"It's yours for your work, I'm just scaring them. But no matter how big the fright is, it will slowly fade with time. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Now, I'm afraid that few of those natives remember this, so they don't dare to think differently, or rely on the guards." ”

Zhang Chu and Liu Shan's martial arts have not improved much over the years, regardless of Li Shucheng's understanding of their thoughts. When we first practiced martial arts, we just wanted to live a good life, but now that we have already made a fortune, why should we continue to endure the hardships of martial arts training? The vast majority of people practice martial arts not because they like martial arts training, but only to live a better life. Even Li Shucheng himself did not practice martial arts because he liked martial arts, but insisted on it for so many years in order to save his life. If he lived in a peaceful and prosperous world, he might have practiced martial arts just to not be bullied by the gangsters, and then he was just to pretend to be thirteen.

I talked to the two of them for a while, and then I said goodbye after dinner. "Let's rest for a day or two, and then go around the mountains, there are many things going on in the town, so you don't have to accompany them. Li Shucheng said when leaving.

"Do you want to find a few mountain people to lead the way?" Zhang Chu asked, "There are other tribes in the distance, and I am afraid that there will be danger without mountain people leading the way." ”

"It's fine. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "We haven't let go of our martial arts for so many years, and we have also crossed a lot of mountains and forests, and we don't plan to meet the natives in the mountains." ”

"Hey, I didn't expect the lake here to be so ingenious, one like the moon and the other like the sun. Jiang Mingyue said.

"Then you give it a name. Li Shucheng said with a smile.

"One sun and one moon, of course it's Sun Moon Lake. Jiang Mingyue said without thinking.

"Uh, is that how the name of Sun Moon Lake came from?" Li Shucheng thought to himself.

"The scenery is good, build a house here in the future, and you can come and live here when you have time. Li Shucheng said. This side is far away from the indigenous tribes, and no one will come, so Li Shucheng has this idea. However, he wanted to come out of it himself, and this idea never came true.

"Hey, someone's coming. Li Shucheng whispered, and the two hid gently.

Soon a man and a woman came over, and although they couldn't understand what they were saying, they knew from the situation that the two were in love. Whether it is an illiterate aborigine, or a well-educated Confucian, the heart of beauty is the same, the beautiful scenery of Sun Moon Lake, it is a pity not to bring the object over.

"Did you say that the two of them were discussing elopement?" Li Shucheng said softly to Jiang Mingyue with a smile.

"No, they didn't bring a salute. Jiang Mingyue said.

"How can a crazy man and a woman like this who is forced to elope have time to run away with things? Li Shucheng said quietly.

Things didn't develop as Li Shucheng said, the two of them talked to me for a while, and then faced Sun Moon Lake for a while, although they couldn't see what they were doing, but Li Shucheng roughly knew that it should be almost a marriage proposal ceremony.

Then they sat together and whispered again.

Jiang Mingyue was happy to see it and motioned for Li Shucheng to leave with her.

"These two little bastards, why did they occupy this place, are there so many things that can't be said?" ”

"Isn't it very good that they can make a love at Sun Moon Lake. Jiang Mingyue smiled, "We can come back in the future." She liked it, and she gave it a name, and she was delighted that there were men and women who made love again. As the island's population grew, so did it become a mecca for love.

After returning to the town, it didn't take long for Zhang Chu and Liu Shan to find them, and they wanted to continue to increase the population and expand the town.

"There are many wars in the north, people are displaced, and we have a lot of land here for people to cultivate, so that we can bring the refugees here so that they don't freeze to death and starve. Zhang Chu said.

"Yes, you can do it yourself and do what you can. Li Shucheng thought for a while and said. Originally, he didn't want the population to be larger, so it would be easy to be exposed. But Zhang Chu is also right, he can save many refugees. Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, not to mention thousands of lives, Li Shucheng can't selfishly refuse.

"We're definitely not going to mess around, we're going to arrange them. Liu Shan said with a smile.

Once they have established themselves here, they want to continue to expand, preferably by outnumbering the indigenous hill people, so that they can be completely suppressed. And the larger the population, the more escorts will be fed, and the more self-protection will be.

"It's almost the same as the towns of the Great Song Dynasty, and if they take advantage of the war to move more displaced people, maybe they can become a county or even a prefecture. After sending Chang and Liu Shan away, Jiang Mingyue said.

"I'm afraid that if I don't keep it secret, I will attract soldiers in the future, and it will conflict with the previous plan. Li Shucheng said.

"How many people can be moved over in a short period of time? Even if one or two thousand people come to the island, it will not attract the attention of the army, and in my heart, this is a wild place after all, and it is not worth occupying. Jiang Mingyue said with a smile.

It is indeed the case, even in the Ming Dynasty, the government did not want to occupy this place. This is a large island so close to Fujian, and it was only when it was time to attack Zheng Chenggong that it was included in the territorial scope.

Sometimes Li Shucheng can't figure it out, Fujian is mountainous and has few fields, and the population can't be supported after a certain number, so he can drown his children ruthlessly, but he won't come to the island to open up a new world. Or go to the side on Quang Nam East Road. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the Republic of China had no choice but to go to the sea and go to the South Seas to survive.

The small court that finally perished in the Southern Song Dynasty ran to the sea, and did not continue to go south to Nanyang or come to Yizhou Island, and the Mongol soldiers and horses attacked all the way to the southeast peninsula, and even conquered Japan several times, but they did not pay attention to this small island. If the population of the island is small, it may not really attract the attention of Mongolia and survive the war.