The first thousand and seventy-six chapters go to arrest no one
Although the local authorities have not yet sent formal documents approving the establishment of Osumi County, this does not prevent Osumi County from preparing to start its daily work.
And since the tax bureau took the lead in recruiting people and started the vigorous tax collection work, Xia Wuyan and others in the county government were not idle either. They were also busy surveying the land.
Why measure the land? It is naturally prepared for internal immigrants. If you want to attract local immigrants to come all the way to this damn place, most other methods will not work. You can only rely on distributing land. Well, it must be free.
At present, the empire organizes local people to immigrate overseas. They all distribute land for free. At the same time, they provide seeds, farm tools, etc., and even guns, swords and other weapons at low prices and through installment payments. Although it is said that they will not be directly distributed to individuals for free,
According to the previous management of immigration in Luzon, Ryukyu, and Banten, immigrants will form militia organizations after arrival, and the weapons of the militia organizations are naturally provided by the military, so it is equivalent to providing various ordnance for free.
In short, in order to attract domestic immigrants to colonize overseas, the empire provides very favorable policies. As long as you are willing to leave your hometown and take your family to colonize overseas, the empire will solve all your worries.
Although the cost of this method of operation will be very high, there is no way around it.
After all, influenced by thousands of years of traditional thinking, Chinese people would not leave their hometown unless they were forced to do so.
Many people now go to the city to make money, or even go to sea to work as sailors, but they always want to come back. The four words "fallen leaves return to their roots" are almost deeply ingrained in the minds of the Chinese people.
This immigrant does not mean to go out to work, and the place he immigrated to is not a good place, regardless of whether it is Luzon or Banten, or Ryukyu Prefecture, or even the mainland's Dajuan Island, Qiongzhou Island and the southwest mountainous area.
In this era, the place is not considered suitable for human survival, especially not suitable for the people of the Tang Dynasty.
This immigrant passed by and died accidentally.
Because of many restrictions, it is actually not easy to organize people to immigrate overseas.
Nowadays, the empire is organizing immigrants to the outer seas, mainly from places along the coast where there are many people but little land, and the main recruitment target is landless peasants. However, even so, the number of immigrants recruited is not very large.
But even if it is difficult, the overseas immigration will not stop. External expansion and immigration have been the imperial grand square that has been determined for a long time. Officials from top to bottom know this.
Xia Wuyan also knew very well that although Osumi County was extremely far away from the mainland, the first batch of immigrants from the country should arrive in a few months.
But before that, he needs to make various preparations!
Measuring the land and preparing it for immigrants is the top priority. As for the original owners of these lands, I'm sorry, Xia Wuyan and others have never regarded the original indigenous people on the island as human beings.
In addition to land, they also need to repair and expand the port!
Although Xia Wuyan was born in the army, his time in the army was long gone. Although he still has some characteristics of a soldier and hates the navy as much as he did when he joined the army, in the final analysis, he is also a local official now.
Yes, this ass has actually been sitting on the side of the civil servants for a long time.
I have been an official for more than a year, and most of the time I have worked in the Ryukyu Prefecture. Naturally, I know very well what is the core competitiveness of Osumi Prefecture, a small island far away from the mainland.
land?
No, this kind of sub-island is just that big. Even if the terrain is relatively flat and there is more land that can be developed, it will still be impossible to develop into an agricultural-based county in the end.
The biggest advantage of Tanegashima is that it is an important transit point for the trade route from Datang to Fuso. This positioning is even larger than Zhongshan Island on the main island of Ryukyu Prefecture, because Tanegashima is right next to Fuso.
There is only the Osumi Strait, which is dozens of kilometers wide, in the middle!
Such a geographical advantage made the navy choose to build a fortress and naval base here in order to control the western part of Fuso and even the entire Fuso coast, and at the same time obtain an advance base for the next step into Fuso Kyushu Island.
Similarly, because of such geographical advantages, Tanegashima can become a bridgehead for the Tang Dynasty's trade with Fuso, not just a transit station!
To become a place dominated by maritime trade, a port is a must!
Although the Navy has also begun to build a port, it is a port exclusively for the Navy. Although it can be used for civilian use in the early stage, it will not work in the long run, so the construction of the wharf must start.
At the same time, there is also a need for a complete port city here. After consultation with the navy, it was decided to expand the port fortress that was originally used simply as a military fortress, and then the county government moved in.
Anyway, even if it develops in the future, the population of this kind of sub-island is unlikely to be too large, and the expanded fortress will be enough to accommodate it.
But that's all for the future, because according to the navy's estimates, it will take at least three months to complete the basic construction of the port fortress, and it will take at least a year for it to be fully completed.
Xia Wuyan was a little impatient. He took the initiative to suggest to Feng Qirong that since the construction time was too long, it must be due to a shortage of labor force. Could he try to introduce labor force from Fusang across the strait?
Everyone is a sensible person. Xia Wuyan was talking about bringing in labor force, but Feng Qirong knew as soon as he heard it that the labor force in this population was a captive!
Because the nearly a thousand people currently building ports and fortresses are all prisoners!
Does bringing in labor force mean taking prisoners?
And this also made Feng Qirong sigh, everyone said that the people in the army were bad, but Xia Wuyan knew that he was right.
Why didn't I think of such a damaging method in advance?
Yes, it seems that the battle plan to suppress the bandits is going to be advanced!
Originally, Feng Qirong planned to establish a foothold on Tanegashima, then block the Osumi Strait, and then slowly deal with the pirates on Kyushu Island and nearby islands. But now it seems that the plan needs to be moved forward, because Tanegashima
There is a serious shortage of labor.
Feng Qirong is the commander of the Ryukyu Squadron, and his decision is naturally the decision of the entire fleet!
So, three days after the two men talked, some ships of the Ryukyu Squadron set sail again!
There were not many battleships going this time, only one cruiser and two frigates. The remaining two frigates stayed at Tanegashima, but there were quite a few transport ships following them, and they all went empty-ship.
The purpose is very clear, these transport ships are to bring back the spoils of war and prisoners of war.