Chapter 1075 The consciousness of the natives of Fusang is quite high
After getting off the ship, Xia Wuyan stood firm with the support of his entourage, and then turned back to look at the naval communication ship behind him, with a complicated expression, but in the end he muttered: "As expected of a country bumpkin, he actually did it.
Such an extreme communication ship?”
As an official with an army background, Xia Wuyan naturally had no chance to deal with ships before. That is to say, when he came to Ryukyu Prefecture to take office, he took a long-distance voyage on a merchant ship of the Tang Dynasty Oriental Trading Company.
However, the ship of the Datang Dongyang Trading Company that he took before was the most advanced 680 merchant ship. Although this kind of ship may not have as much cargo capacity as the Spanish galleons, it is still a merchant ship in the end, and its navigation stability is very good.
Yes, it is relatively comfortable to ride.
After arriving at Ryukyu Prefecture, I thought that Ryukyu Prefecture is an archipelago. If you go out to work on other islands, you will naturally need to take a boat. However, such voyages are short-distance voyages, and most of them are commercial ships that use a mixture of passengers and cargo. Although it is not said that there are
How comfortable, but not too uncomfortable.
However, the naval communication ship he came to the Osumi Islands to board was a disaster for him. Ever since he got on the ship, he felt that he had never been able to stand firmly. His whole body was rising and falling and swaying from side to side with the ship.
Such violent fluctuations also caused him to become severely seasick and vomited almost all the way!
But although this broken boat is very uncomfortable to sit on, what I have to say is that this boat is so damn fast!
When sailing on the sea, he rode the wind and waves almost all the way, and his sailing speed was almost several times that of ordinary merchant ships. He saw many ships on the road.
At first, he saw a vague outline far ahead, and then slowly saw the specific ship type, because at this time, the communication ship had already caught up with it with its excellent speed.
Then, the communication ship would leave those merchant ships behind, and finally those merchant ships would slowly disappear from Xia Wuyan's sight.
This is normal time, when you encounter strong winds, you will truly feel the charm or terror of this communication ship.
The multiple masts were spread out with large sails. Driven by the sails, the communication ship sailed at an almost terrifying speed that Xia Wuyan saw. At its fastest, he even heard the captain next to him say that the speed was too high.
It has reached twenty knots!
Oh my god, even though Xia Wuyan is an army officer, he has seen a lot. He knows very well how fast ships can travel these days. Those Galen ships used by foreigners can reach the highest speed if the wind and water are smooth.
It can reach seven to ten knots, but the average speed is only about four knots.
Other ships of the same era were similar. Datang's shipbuilding industry integrated the characteristics of Eastern and Western sailing ships to design warships that could reach a maximum speed of about twelve knots in smooth winds and smooth waters. However, during long-distance voyages,
The average speed is only about six knots.
The new Datang merchant ships, represented by the 680 Merchant Ship, which was designed based on modified warships, have a maximum speed of about ten knots and an average speed of about five knots.
However, this kind of naval communication ship is said to be a scissor ship type and an extreme design. It can reach a maximum speed of 16 to 17 knots, and the average speed in 24 hours may reach about 14 knots.
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I had only heard about it before, but after actually taking a ride on it, I understood why the naysayers in the Navy used this kind of ship as a communication ship. Damn it, it is really fast enough.
Xia Wuyan looked at the communication ship with a complicated expression, then shook his head, and made up his mind that he would never ride on this communication ship again. It was too bumpy and not suitable for people to ride on.
When they saw Xia Wuyan being supported by someone to walk onto the pier, several naval officers on the naval communication ship also laughed maliciously!
These country bumpkins who came from the army, didn't they say they saw the big scene? How could they become soft-footed shrimps after just one boat ride!
Along the way, in order to rush for time and also to let Xia Wuyan, a country bumpkin from the army, see the latest big toy of their navy, they ran like crazy along the way.
When encountering strong winds, the sails never lowered, and the small communication ship almost rose and fell in the waves!
And they didn't know that their voyage had already broken the speed record of ships in these years!
The top speed reached 20.5 knots, and the average speed for 24 hours reached 17 knots!
This speed cannot be achieved even by ordinary clipper ships. It is only possible for these naval communication ships, which are specially designed for rapid communication and rapid transport of small cargo, to achieve this speed.
As for ordinary clipper ships, for example, the fast transport ship designed by the Naval Ship Administration Department for rapid supply and currently under construction has a designed maximum speed of only sixteen knots.
However, whether it is such an extreme fast communication ship or a fast transport ship, their cargo capacity is very small. Needless to say, communication ships can only carry a very small amount of small items, while the cargo capacity of fast transport ships is also
Extremely few.
These ships are actually not suitable for use as merchant ships because their cargo capacity is too small and the transportation costs are very high. Currently, they are not suitable for use as merchant ships.
After all, the primary task of a merchant ship is to transport cargo, and the key is to take into account stability and speed while transporting cargo.
However, after setting foot on Tanegashima, Xia Wuyan put all the vomiting and discomfort along the way in his mind, and then began to lead his men to meet with the main generals of the Ryukyu Squadron, especially Feng Qirong.
However, this kind of meeting was just a routine meeting. Xia Wuyan did not talk much with Haijun and the others. In order to avoid suspicion, Feng Qirong did not even ask about the preparations for the establishment of Osumi County. He only said that if the local government had any needs,
You can ask their navy for help, and the navy will try its best to provide assistance.
After meeting Feng Qirong and others, Xia Wuyan led a dozen officials to start building the administrative structure of Osumi County.
According to the order of Fang Pinglu, the governor of Ryukyu Prefecture, Xia Wuyan served as the special envoy of Osumi County. The reason why he was not the county magistrate was because Osumi County had not yet been approved. According to official documents, strictly speaking, Osumi County did not exist yet.
Of course, there was no way to talk about the county magistrate, so Xia Wuyan served as a special envoy.
In addition, there are deputy envoys, and the top leaders of some major agencies of the county-level yamen are also selected, such as the industrial and commercial department, agricultural department, patrol bureau, etc. under the county yamen, and the taxation bureau, which is independent of the county yamen.
Inspectorate, courts, etc.
Basically, they had established all the institutions that a county-level local government should have, but they were not county government officials officially registered and recognized by the empire.
It's just that although they are not official officials of the county government, they are the leaders of various agencies of the county government. If nothing happens, their formal appointment letters will be issued after the empire approves.
So the day after Xia Wuyan arrived at Tanegashima, the preparatory office of Osumi County, Ryukyu Prefecture, an overseas territory under the direct jurisdiction of the Tang Empire, was officially established.
On the first day of establishment, Xia Wuyan and the others quickly got into work. Xia Wuyan was busy negotiating with the Navy. Why? Mainly because he wanted to get some prisoners from the Navy for repairs.
County government offices and some basic facilities, such as drainage ditches, public toilets, etc.
Every time we go to a place, we improve the local sanitary conditions. This is also a tradition of the Tang Dynasty. They did this when they were at home, and they did the same thing when they went overseas.
Although this county seat of Osumi Prefecture is just a small village, and so far, the main residents are navy officers and a very small number of indigenous people, this does not prevent them from carrying out their work.
Because Xia Wuyan knew very well that if nothing unexpected happened, immigrants from Ryukyu Prefecture and other domestic areas would arrive soon.
The geographical environment of Tanegashima is quite good, the terrain is flat, and the climate is also good, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture, which means that it can feed more people of the Tang Dynasty.
I dare not say if there are too many, but there will be no problem in accepting thousands of people in the initial stage.
And a few thousand people is already quite good for a small overseas island. Ryukyu has been developed for so long, and only a few thousand people from the Tang Dynasty have immigrated there.
Xia Wuyan has his own work, and people in other departments also have their own work. Among them, the tax bureau is the most active and smoothest in carrying out the work.
This is also a tradition in the local politics of the Tang Dynasty. Basically in every place, the most efficient administrative department is the tax bureau!
There is no way, this department collects taxes, and taxation is the most important task of the Tang Dynasty. Officials in the tax department are often the most outstanding talents in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty.
This talent does not refer to the level of their writing, but to their ability to do things.
When promoting talents, the tax department never looks at their background or writing skills. They only value one thing, which is your actual ability to do things. If you do a good job, even if you are a gangster, they still dare to use you, and they will reuse you.
Osumi County prepared the Yamen Tax Bureau. After it was established, the tax officials recruited people on the spot. How to recruit people? There are no immigrants in this poor place. In addition to a dozen of their officials and dozens of followers they brought, this Tanegashima
Only the navy officers were left.
Naturally, it is impossible for them to find active soldiers in the navy, but recruiting indigenous people from the beginning? This is not reliable!
So they set their sights on passing merchant ships!
The Osumi Islands are an important link in the trade route between China and Fuso. A large number of merchant ships will pass through here. Many ships also got information on the way and knew that Tanegashima was already under the control of the empire, so ships have been arriving at Tanegashima one after another in the past two days.
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The targets of tax officials are sailors on merchant ships!
They squatted directly in the small port and saw a merchant ship coming. As long as they confirmed that the people on the ship were people of the Tang Dynasty, they would immediately pull them in!
They even shouted slogans such as food, housing, wife, generous salary, and bonuses to attract people, and promised that as long as they join our tax bureau, they can become a glorious member of the tax inspection team!
Tax Inspection Team, this name is basically known to everyone in the Tang Dynasty. Unless he hides in the mountains and forests and does not deal with outsiders, many people are also very aware of the prestige of this organization.
There are countless gangsters in the empire who strive to join the glorious and great tax inspection team. Unfortunately, in the past two years, after Chen Lifu's governance, the empire's tax inspection team has basically stopped recruiting from the outside.
, basically recruiting personnel from veterans and the tax school run by the tax department itself to supplement the staff.
Now that these sailors have heard that they have the opportunity to become a member of the tax inspection team, many of them can't help but be tempted.
Although you are just becoming a member of the tax inspection team in a remote place, you are also a member of the imperial tax inspection team. As long as you go in, you will have a worry-free life, and more importantly, you will be prestige. From now on, you can investigate anyone who is unhappy.
If tax evasion is confirmed, the person will be arrested immediately.
This is much better than being a sailor. Although the income of being a sailor is extremely high, the risks are also high. If you are not careful, you will die at sea.
So when Xia Wuyan and other people in other agencies were worried about having no one under their control and were waiting for manpower to be dispatched from the country to support them, the tax inspection team, which had a very efficient administrative efficiency, had already recruited enough manpower. Within a few days, they
, a total of fifty people were recruited from multiple passing merchant ships as members of the Osumi County Tax Inspection Team.
Although these tax inspection teams come from different places in the country, it doesn't matter. What's important is that they know what kind of organization the tax inspection team is, and they are all gearing up to prepare for a big fight.
Therefore, the tax department also quickly prepared work equipment. They set up tax points directly at the port to tax passing merchant ships. At the same time, they also began to measure the land on the island and levy taxes on the indigenous people on the island.
Different languages? No problem, they have translators!
Poor translation skills, difficulty in communicating with the indigenous people, or the fact that the indigenous people are unwilling to pay taxes are not a problem. They come directly to collect taxes with guns and guns, and if they don't pay the taxes, they immediately open fire.
In order to effectively carry out taxation work, the director of the Osumi Prefecture Preparatory Taxation Bureau, but when setting off from Ryukyu Prefecture, he requested the support of a shotgun, fifty matchlock guns, other waist knives, spears, and light plate armor.
There are all of them.
And the sailors they recruited are actually not ordinary people. In these days, when doing maritime trade, they basically have to fight with pirates, natives, and fellow sailors. The merchant ships are also equipped with guns, swords, and swords. Otherwise, how can they be called armed?
What about merchant ships?
So these sailors are ruthless characters who can fight with guns and swords!
Therefore, this fifty-person tax inspection team is actually an armed force. They can sweep across the entire Tanegashima Island without the use of the Marine Corps.
It also allowed the thousands of natives on the island to fully appreciate the combat effectiveness of the Tang Empire's tax inspection team, and deeply realize that living under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, many things, even illegal things, can be done, but only
Tax evasion is not allowed, so everyone is very active in paying taxes!
Whatever the tax officer says is what you pay. There is no nonsense or delay in paying taxes. Your awareness is quite high!
Why do they have such a high level of awareness?
The three or four families whose homes were confiscated and exterminated in the past few days have told them with their lives: In the Tang Dynasty, tax evasion is absolutely not allowed!
In the process of sweeping Tanegashima, the former sailors shouted that joining the tax inspection team was indeed the right choice. In less than half a month, almost everyone's pockets were bulging.