"Haha, I finally arrived in Ryukyu. I heard that the construction of Ryukyu City is very good. Mr. Liu intends to implement the Ryukyu City model overseas in the future. I finally have the opportunity to go and see it in person."
In the waters north of Ryukyu Island, the mighty fleet finally arrived at Ryukyu.
On board the Taishan, Taiping Hou Du Mingen looked at the Ryukyu Island in front of him and couldn't help but laugh happily.
The journey was very smooth. The pirates and Japanese pirates we encountered did not cause any casualties. We directly used artillery to beat the pirates and Japanese pirates to pieces.
In the first battle, Ryukyu arrived smoothly.
The Tamsui River bend outside Ryukyu Castle has become extremely busy. The newly expanded pier is filled with ships of all sizes, and hundreds of ships are almost overcrowding the place.
Fortunately, Ryukyu City has been continuously expanding its piers and building ports, and it is finally able to barely meet the demand. Many small ships can just find a place to berth, while large ships need to berth at the pier.
"This is Ryukyu Castle?"
"Didn't the book say that Ryukyu is a land of lawless barbarians, full of miasma, and even the barbarians will eat people?"
On a ship, everyone came to Ryukyu City for the first time, and everyone looked at everything here carefully.
The neat, clean and orderly distribution of the pier is not too big and cannot be compared with Tianjin Port, but it can berth hundreds of ships, so the port here is obviously still good.
The docks are all built with cement, and there is a very wide playground, which is filled with boxes and boxes of goods, and a large number of porters are busy.
Not far away, Ryukyu Castle has a very tall and majestic city wall. The spacious concrete roads lead directly to the dock. You can also see the spacious cement roads from the city gate to the end of the line of sight.
The fields outside the city are neat and dotted, and almost all the farmland is square in shape, stretching as far as the eye can see and fertile fields are thousands of miles away. There are busy figures in the farmland, and a large number of cattle and horses can also be seen.
On the spacious cement road, there are horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts walking slowly. These four-wheeled open ox-carts and horse-drawn carriages have very powerful carrying capacity and are often filled with all kinds of things.
Further on the mountain, there are also rows of fruit trees planted. At this time, people are weeding and taking care of these fruit trees; at the foot of the mountain are rows of brick buildings, which look like breeding farms, with many animals raised inside.
Cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigs, etc.
Further along the road, at the foot of the mountain, you can still see villages here and there, with smoke rising from their cooking stoves, and farmers who have been busy for a day slowly going home singing ancient folk songs under the setting sun.
This is a completely idyllic scene, with no trace of a wild land at all, which makes everyone who comes to Ryukyu City for the first time dumbfounded.
This is completely different from what is said in the book.
"This is Ryukyu Castle?"
Zhu Benduan got off the boat and looked at everything in front of him with some disbelief. No matter which direction he looked from, this place didn't look like a wild land, but was similar to the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.
No, the land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River is not as good as here, because it is very clean, the roads are spacious cement roads, and even the ditches on both sides of the road are made of cement, and the water is very clear.
Ryukyu City not far away is full of tall buildings. You can clearly see that there are many tall buildings inside. All the houses are made of reinforced concrete. The city walls are very tall, with turrets and doors built on them.
The artillery was aimed at important checkpoints.
"It's unbelievable. I heard that the construction of this football city only started last year. In just over a year, a paradise has been built out of nowhere."
Feng Xiang also widened his eyes, unable to believe his eyes, and sighed.
"Incredible, simply a miracle~"
Zhu Benduan also nodded.
The two of them followed the large army towards Ryukyu Castle.
Ryukyu City is different from all cities in the Ming Dynasty. There is no one guarding the gate here, and no one collects tolls or anything like that. People can come and go very freely.
The two of them walked very slowly, carefully observing everything here as they walked.
"There are so many people today~"
"Isn't that right? I heard that there are a lot of ships coming from Tianjin, and they are going to Southeast Asia and they have to rest here in Ryukyu City for two days."
"That's great. I don't know if there are any of our fellow villagers from Henan."
"There must be some~ We in Shandong also have them. I heard a familiar voice."
Several farmers were driving bullock carts to deliver goods to Ryukyu City. When they saw the huge team, they started discussing.
"Brothers, your accent sounds like you are from Henan or Shandong?"
Zhu Benduan and Feng looked at each other. Zhu Benduan quickly raised his hands and asked, "There are some things that only those who live here can get more accurate information about."
"Yes, yes, I am from Henan, Brother Qin is from Shandong, and Old Chen is from Shaanxi."
When Old Man Wang heard Zhu Benduan's words, he quickly stopped, looked at Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang, cupped his hands and replied.
"Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi are very far away~"
When Feng Xiang heard this, he said slightly surprised.
"Isn't that right? When I first came here, I first walked for almost half a month to Tianjin, and then took a boat for half a month to get here. I almost didn't give this old bone an account."
Old man Chen smiled and nodded.
"It's really far away. It's hard to go back."
Qin Laosan also nodded and said.
"It's so far away, why do you want to come here?"
Zhu Benduan nodded, and then asked full of doubts.
"Why come here?"
"Because it's easy to live here. Last year, my son came to work here in Ryukyu City to help build the city and plant sugar cane. Because of his outstanding performance and hard work, Ryukyu City rewarded our family with more than 300 acres of farmland. Why do we have so many fields?"
My son can’t grow the land alone.”
"We are all farm laborers in our hometown and don't have our own fields, so after some discussion, the whole family came to Ryukyu Castle."
Old Man Wang smiled and said, then after thinking for a while he added: "Their situation is similar to my family's. Their sons came here to build the city and plant sugar cane. They were rewarded with a lot of land, so the whole family moved here."
"Yes, my son is very ambitious. Last year, he was rewarded with more than 200 acres of land. If you put more than 200 acres of land in our hometown, it would be the property of the landlords."
Old man Chen also nodded and said, with a proud look on his face. He was obviously very proud of his son.
"Isn't that right? After hearing that my son was rewarded with more than two hundred acres of land, our family unanimously decided to come here. We can't give up hundreds of acres of land."
Qin Laosan also nodded. He seemed quite proud when he said this. He felt like a master. Having land and not having land are two completely different mentality. With land, even if it is a foreign country, you can still take your time.
If you want to build your own hometown, without land, even if it is your own hometown, there will be no place for you.
"So how are you doing here?"
Feng Xiang nodded, thought for a while and asked.
"Needless to say, I must be living a good life~"
A smile appeared on Old Man Wang's dark face.
"Here we not only have our own fields, we have more than 300 acres of fields, dozens of acres are used to grow rice, and then a few acres are used to grow vegetables and pasture, and the rest are all used for sugar cane. When the time comes,
Sell them all to Ryukyu Castle."
"The water we use here is tap water, the roads we walk on are cement roads, and the houses we live in are all made of reinforced concrete, painted snow-white."
"The food here is very cheap. Fish and meat from the sea cost two or three pennies a pound, so you can eat every meal without any problem. Every household of ours has cattle or horses."
"My whole life, I have lived in vain before. Only when I get here can I truly live my life."
When Old Man Wang said this, he felt as if he was living in a dream. He always felt that it was a bit unreal and that happiness came too suddenly.
Next to him, Mr. Qin Laosan and Mr. Chen also nodded.
"It's better to be here in Ryukyu City. My hometown in Shaanxi is located on a high loess slope. It doesn't rain much all year round. You have to go far away to get drinking water. There are thousands of ravines everywhere.
It’s too hard to go out.”
"Everyone says my hometown is good, but I never want to go back. I will die here."
Old man Chen couldn't help but compare his hometown with this place. He liked everything here very much and had already fallen in love with the life here.
It's also tiring, but here it's worth it.
"Yes, it's better here. We have a bright future. My grandsons and granddaughters are all studying in private schools. In the past, this was something I couldn't even think about. We, the old Qin family, have spent countless lives digging in the fields.
Food, now that the grandchildren are here, they can finally go to school and learn to read and write."
Qin Laosan nodded solemnly, very satisfied with the life here.
After Zhu Benduan and Feng Xiang listened to the three people's words, they looked at each other and saw a trace of shock in each other's eyes. This place not only looked like a paradise, but a real paradise.
Every household has its own land and has no worries about food and clothing. Children can still go to school and study. Even girls can study. This is simply unbelievable and unbelievable.
However, looking at the happy and proud expressions on the three people's faces, the two of them believed that this was definitely not a lie to them. What's more, the fleet rested here for two days, and they had plenty of time to take a closer look at everything in Ryukyu City.
