While the Beijing-Tianjin area was going crazy because of the gold and silver from the Golden Continent, thousands of miles away on Ryukyu Island, the entire Ryukyu City was also becoming extremely busy.
More than half a year has passed, and the entire Ryukyu City has undergone earth-shaking changes. With the existence of cement, an infrastructure artifact, in just over half a year, a huge city has stood on this wild land.
At the bend of the Tamsui River, the wharf is getting bigger and bigger. At the same time, a spacious cement road is built directly between the wharf and Ryukyu City, making travel extremely convenient.
In Ryukyu Castle, all buildings are made of reinforced concrete. The buildings are neatly distributed. The streets are dotted. All roads are paved with cement roads. They are very clean and spacious.
Outside Ryukyu Castle, everything was originally a barren land, but now, after several months of reclamation, Ryukyu Castle is surrounded by fertile fields.
In this fertile field, sugar cane and vegetables are planted in large areas, one after another. When you look at it, you can't see the end at all.
Spacious cement roads have also been planned here in Tianye, and the ditches built are all made of cement, which is very pleasing to the eye when you look at them.
At the foot of the mountains, there are also rows of pig pens, cattle and sheep pens, in which a large number of cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock are raised. On the mountains, various fruit trees are planted. They are still seedlings at this time and will take time.
Come and grow slowly.
Today is the third day of November in the twelfth year of Hongji's reign. Along with the clanging sound, figures emerged very quickly from all corners of Ryukyu City.
These figures quickly gathered in the open spaces everywhere, and then went into the busyness of the new day as usual.
The harvest season of sugarcane planting has finally arrived.
Shui Wa, like other immigrants, holds a sickle in his hand and goes to the fields outside the city to harvest sugar cane.
When we came to the sugar cane field, we could see that it was endless. Everything as far as the eye could see was sugar cane. Teams of small teams, led by their respective captains, also came to their assigned sugar cane fields.
"Brothers, let's do it~"
Yang Dalang looked at his brother No. 7, picked up his sickle, took the lead, and started working.
The others had no intention of being lazy at all, and began to work hard.
It has been two days since I came to Ryukyu Castle. Everyone has already understood the rules of Ryukyu Castle. Hard work will be rewarded, and cheating and cheating will be punished.
In addition, when you come to Ryukyu City to work, you will not only have good food and accommodation, and live comfortably, but you will also get money. Where in the world can you find such a good thing.
For people like them from poor backgrounds, this place is paradise. Everyone cherishes everything here, so they work very hard.
With the swing of the sickle, each sugar cane was chopped down continuously, and the sugar-free part on the head was removed, and then tied into bundles with sugar cane leaves, and then the sugar canes were carried to the cement road.
There are horse-drawn carriages on the cement road, and the ox-carts are constantly pulling sugar cane, and they are pulling the sugar cane to Ryukyu City to squeeze juice and boil sugar.
"This sugar cane is so sweet~"
After working for more than an hour, Yang Dalang was so tired that his back ached. He signaled to his brothers to take a rest first and cut off a section of sugar cane to eat.
While eating, Yang Dalang also sighed.
He is from Quanzhou, Fujian, and there is a tradition of growing sugar cane in Fujian, so he has seen a lot of sugar cane and has tasted it.
But the sugar cane I have eaten in the past cannot be compared with the sugar cane here in Ryukyu Castle. The sugar cane grown here in Ryukyu Castle is not only big in size, one sugar cane can be as strong as two others. The key is that it is very rich in sugar.
It also has a lot of water and tastes very sweet.
“This sugar cane is so delicious~”
Shui Wa was also nibbling on a section of sugar cane. He was from Henan. Before coming to Ryukyu City, he had never eaten sugar cane. And because his family was poor, he rarely ate sweets since he was a child.
It's different when you come to Ryukyu Castle. The fields outside the sugar cane are everywhere. If you want to eat sugar cane, you can eat it as much as you want. As long as you don't deliberately destroy it and just eat it, you can eat as much as you want.
So Shui Wa also fell in love with eating sugar cane and the sweet taste.
Similarly, when she first came here, Shui Wa always felt that there were too many things here, too many things that made her uncomfortable.
There are so many mosquitoes here in Ryukyu Castle that one bite will cause a big squirt; there are also savage barbarians here. In just half a year, the barbarians have launched several attacks on Ryukyu Castle, but they were hit by cannons at a distance;
There are too many rules here in Ryukyu Castle. There are rules for eating, rules for sleeping, and even rules for using the toilet.
In short, when he first came here, he was very unsuitable and once regretted immigrating here.
But soon, he gradually adapted to the life here and gradually fell in love with it.
The roads, streets, etc. here are very clean and tidy. The application of tap water makes life here very comfortable. In addition, here you can eat well, live well, and get free money. What other reason is there?
Don't like it here?
"If it tastes good, eat more. When the sugar is boiled, take a few kilograms of sugar home with you during the Chinese New Year."
Hearing Shui Wa's words, Yang Dalang smiled and said.
"Brother Yang, how much sugar cane can we receive this time, and how much sugar can we boil out?"
Shui Wa smiled, then said with a big grin.
"I don't know how much sugar cane can be harvested, but I can still roughly calculate it. Looking at the appearance of this sugar cane, it is definitely no problem to conservatively calculate 10,000 kilograms of this acre of sugar cane."
"We have planted more than 30,000 acres of sugar cane outside Ryukyu City. A simple calculation shows that we can harvest almost 30,000 kilograms of sugar cane this time. There is no problem at all."
Yang Dalang was illiterate before, could not read at all, and could only do simple arithmetic.
But when I came to Ryukyu City, because of my hard work, I was selected as an outstanding individual and became the squad leader.
The team leader is considered a low-level manager here in Ryukyu City, so after working during the day, he also has to attend night classes here in Ryukyu City at night. In the night classes, he also learned to read and write, and also learned some arithmetic.
The fields in Ryukyu City are very neatly planned. All the fields are made as square as possible, with one field per acre. There is also a wooden sign erected on the edge of each field, indicating that this field is on it.
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Liu Jin also applied his business management experience to Ryukyu City. The management model here in Ryukyu City is no different from that of many industries under Liu Jin's command.
"30,000 kilograms of sugar cane?"
When the team members around Yang Dalang heard this, they all couldn't help opening their mouths. They didn't know how to describe this number in their minds.
"There is so much sugar cane, how can I eat it all~"
Someone sighed.
"These sugar canes are used to squeeze juice and boil sugar. Do you think you can eat them all like this~"
Yang Dalang smiled and said.
"Brother Yang, how much sugar cane can you produce with more sugar cane?"
Shui Wa thought about the number in her mind, 30,000 kilograms of sugar cane, and then looked at the cement road next to the field. Team members continued to carry bundles of sugar cane to the side of the road.
The sugar cane was piled high on the road, and the carts were so full that the oxen and horses pulling the carts were struggling.
A bumper harvest of sugar cane~
So much sugar cane is used to make sugar.
"I don't know about this."
Yang Dalang smiled and shook his head and said.
"Okay, it's almost time to rest, it's time to work~"
Then he looked at the other teams who were working hard, picked up his sickle, and continued to cut sugar cane.
There was a bumper harvest of sugar cane, and the sugar cane fields were extremely busy. Pieces of sugar cane were harvested continuously and began to be transported to Ryukyu Castle in a steady stream.
Here in Ryukyu Castle, it is also extremely busy.
The harvested sugar cane needs to be juiced immediately and then boiled into sucrose, otherwise the sugar cane will rot very easily.
Once the sugar cane rots, the boiled sugar will no longer be good and will have some peculiar smell, and the sucrose will not be sold at a high price. In this era, sugar is considered a luxury product and ordinary people cannot afford it.