Shui Wa and Huo Wa got off the boat and looked at the unfamiliar world in front of them. The docks and ports here didn't look as big as those in Tianjin. He had already seen the cement-paved playground in Tianjin.
Not too new.
The mountains in the distance are lush with trees. The Ryukyu Castle not far away is a bustling scene. The huge city wall has been repaired for a long time. It is estimated that in a while, the Ryukyu Castle wall will be repaired.
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In Ryukyu City, you can already see some tall buildings, which are the same as those here in Tianjin. They are all made of reinforced concrete and have glass windows, which are very beautiful.
He always dreamed about whether he could own a house made of reinforced concrete. In that case, he would no longer have to worry about water leaks or the house would be crushed when it snows heavily in winter.
"This is Ryukyu?"
Shui Wa and Huo Wa looked at everything here with their curious eyes.
Fortunately, I have passed through Tianjin and seen the prosperity here, otherwise I would be like Yang Dalang and others, not even knowing about cement roads.
"Dang~dang~"
Soon, with the arrival of new people, the entire Ryukyu City became busy.
Just like recruiting people from Quanzhou, Shuiwa and the others were also divided into teams, and they followed the captains of their respective teams to build Ryukyu City.
"I am your team leader Yang Dalang~"
Yang Dalang said to the nine members of his team in somewhat lame Mandarin.
He knew that this group of people was recruited from the north. The north is different from the south. Most people can understand and speak Mandarin. Unlike the south, where the pronunciation is different and the customs are different.
,big difference.
As the team leader, his first challenge is how to speak Mandarin so that the team members can understand him.
Shui Wa, Huo Wa and others looked at the man in front of them who was about the same age as themselves. Although the other person's Mandarin was a bit lame, they could still understand him.
"Everyone, come with me first. You must be hungry. I will take you to eat first. Before eating, I have some rules to explain to you~"
Yang Dalang seemed a little nervous, with sweat pouring from his forehead. It was his first time as a squad leader. In such a formal occasion, he felt that his mind was in confusion, so after thinking about it, he could only learn from his old captain Liu Mingqi.
, while taking them to eat, he slowly explained to them some of the rules here.
The nervous team leader seems a bit unfamiliar when he just arrived, and the timid team members are all young men aged 17 or 18. They all have very strong learning abilities and are very malleable.
In just a few days, this group of 5,000 people from the north quickly adapted to everything here, and gradually became familiar with the people who came here first.
After everyone became familiar with each other, Li Yuanshan followed Liu Jin's original instructions and began to divide the people from the north and the south. Each team included people from the south and some from the north. Everyone spoke with different accents.
Get along with each other day and night and eliminate the barriers between regions.
More importantly, Liu Jin is foreshadowing the future. Since ancient times, in the land of China, due to the barriers between regions, blood, clan, fellow villagers, classmates, etc. have easily formed small groups.
The existence of such small groups will be very detrimental to Ryukyu City in the future, because small groups first consider the interests of their own small group, and exclude others first.
Just like the party struggles that slowly formed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, they were all represented by regionalism, such as the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Donglin Party, etc. These small groups represented by regionalism fought endlessly with each other.
The fighting went so far as to disregard the danger of the imperial court.
Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the clan power in the Ming Dynasty is very strong, and it has been a rule since ancient times that power should not go to the countryside.
In the most basic rural areas, the law has no say but the clan elders have the final say. The law has no say in the face of clan rules. This phenomenon of clan power controlling local areas will still exist even in later generations.
Ryukyu City was the escape route left by Liu Jin for himself, so naturally he would not allow clan forces to exist, nor would he allow fellow countrymen forces to exist.
Because it is an immigrant city and place, Liu Jin can solve this problem from the beginning.
The immigrants recruited here are very particular. They will not recruit too many in the same place, and they will try to recruit young people. At the same time, after arriving here, they will be more confused and break the barriers between regions. In the future, Ryukyu
The large-scale recruitment of immigrants here will also adopt this strategy.
There are people, money, more efficient organization and planning, and even infrastructure artifacts like cement. The construction speed of Ryukyu City is constantly improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The walls of Ryukyu Castle, the buildings in Ryukyu Castle, and even the entire Ryukyu Castle seem to be springing up from this wild land like bamboo shoots.
In the second month, which was July of the twelfth year of Hongji, the outermost wall of Ryukyu City had been built. The three-foot-tall city wall was all built with cement and quarried stones. It was built very quickly.
It is no worse than the walls of any city in the Ming Dynasty.
If he hadn't considered the barbaric nature of Ryukyu, Liu Jin wouldn't have even wanted to build a city wall at first, because a city wall would limit the development of a city.
But later, considering the importance of Ryukyu Castle, we finally decided to build a city wall. Based on this Ryukyu Castle, we will slowly expand to the entire Ryukyu Island. Since it is the foundation, it is natural to build a city wall.
The closing of the tall city wall also made Li Yuanshan breathe a sigh of relief. With the city wall, the entire Ryukyu City would be much safer. Coupled with the artillery, Li Yuanshan felt that even if 100,000 people came to Ryukyu Island, these local barbarians would not be able to take it.
Lower Ryukyu Castle.
In addition to the city walls that have been built, many important buildings in Ryukyu City have also begun to be built one after another, and groups of people are constantly recruited from the north, Fujian, and Zhejiang.
In just two months, there are already more than 30,000 people living in Ryukyu City. Such a huge population makes the entire Ryukyu City extremely lively.
There are more than 30,000 people. In addition to people who continue to build Ryukyu City, Li Yuanshan has also begun to organize people to reclaim land. With Ryukyu City as the center, fields are slowly beginning to appear in the surrounding large tracts of previously wild land.
Because it is a brand new place of immigration, all the land and wealth here belong to Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao, and Zhang Mao. The Ryukyu City established by them has not experienced the changes of the years.
Therefore, all reclaimed land is planned and cultivated in a unified manner. Each field is very large, which facilitates unified management and makes it easier to use some simple machinery for farming as much as possible to save manpower.
All the reclaimed fields in Ryukyu Castle were planted with sugar cane as soon as possible. Sugar cane planting can be divided into two seasons. Spring is carried out from February to April, and harvest can be done from May to July. In autumn, sugar cane can be harvested.
It is planted in August-September and can be harvested in December. A planting period is 3 months.
It's July of the twelfth year of Hongji's reign, so it's a little late. But this is Ryukyu, with plenty of light and heat. It's the most suitable place for growing sugar cane. It doesn't matter if it's a little later.
If it weren't for it being too late, Li Yuanshan would even want to plant rice. The climate here is also very suitable for rice cultivation.
In addition to planting sugar cane, Li Yuanshan also did not forget Liu Jin's words and planted vegetables and fruits in a large area around Ryukyu City.
Fruits do not need to occupy fertile land. The surrounding forest areas that have just been cut down can be used to grow fruits. Of course, it will take several years for the fruits to bear fruit, and you will not see any benefits for a while.
But vegetables are different. It's July now. In a few months, it will start to get cold in the northern region. Once the weather gets cold, vegetables will no longer be grown. Even the rich and powerful here in the capital will find it hard to eat.
Get a meal of fresh vegetables.
But there is no such problem here in Ryukyu. Even if there is little ice and frost in winter, the temperature is still very high, which is very suitable for growing vegetables.
Sow seeds now, and by the twelfth lunar month of winter, these vegetables will be almost ready for harvest. At that time, these vegetables will be transported to Tianjin and the capital, and they will be kept so that rich people who are tired of eating meat can buy them back.
Sugar cane and vegetables are things that Liu Jin has planned to bring a certain amount of income this year. The shareholders of Ryukyu City must see the return on investment, so that they can be stimulated to continue investing in Ryukyu City and continue to recruit more people.
More people come to Ryukyu to cultivate more land and plant more sugar cane and vegetables.
After all, interests are the most powerful driving force. Since ancient times, not many people have done things without interests. Even if some people have done it, it will never last long.
Only if things are profitable, people will continue to do them, and they can do them bigger and bigger.
