Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 394, terrible speed
Shuiwa and Huowa got off the boat and looked at the strange world in front of them. The docks and ports here don’t look as big as those in Tianjin. He had already seen the cement-paved playground in Tianjin. Not very fresh.

The mountains in the distance are lush with trees, and the Ryukyu City not far away is a bustling scene. The huge city wall has been repaired for a long time. It is estimated that after a while, the city wall of the Ryukyu City can be repaired .

In Ryukyu City, some tall buildings can already be seen. Like the ones here in Tianjin, they are all made of reinforced concrete, with glass windows, which are very beautiful.

In his dreams, he wondered if he could own a house made of reinforced concrete. In that case, he would no longer have to worry about water leaks, and no longer had to worry about the house being crushed when it snowed heavily in winter.

"This is Ryukyu?"

Shuiwa and Huowa looked at everything here with their curious eyes.

Fortunately, I passed through Tianjin and saw the prosperity of Tianjin, otherwise I would be like Yang Dalang and the others, who didn't even know the cement road.

"Clang~clang~"

Soon, with the arrival of newcomers, the entire Ryukyu City became busy.

Just like recruiting people from Quanzhou, Shuiwa and the others were also divided into teams, and followed the captains of their respective teams to build Ryukyu City.

"I am Yang Dalang, the captain of your team~"

Yang Dalang spoke to the nine members of his team in somewhat broken Mandarin.

He knew that this group of people was recruited from the north. The northern region is different from the south. Most people can understand and speak official Chinese, unlike the south where the pronunciation is different for ten miles, and the customs are different for hundreds of miles. ,big difference.

As the team leader, his first challenge is how to speak official Chinese so that the team members can understand it.

Shuiwa, Huowa and the others looked at the person in front of them who was about the same age as themselves. Although the mandarin of the other party was a bit broken, they could still understand it.

"Everyone come with me first, I think you must be hungry, I will take you to dinner first, before eating, I need to explain some rules to you~"

Yang Dalang looked a little nervous, with sweat pouring out from his forehead. It was his first time as a team leader. Under such a formal occasion, he felt his mind was in a mess, so after thinking about it, he could only learn from his old team leader Liu Mingqi. , While taking them to dinner, slowly tell them some rules here and so on.

The nervous team leader, and the team members who seemed a little strange and timid when they first came, are all young men in the age of seventeen or eighteen, with very strong learning ability and strong plasticity.

In just a few days, this group of [-] people from the north quickly adapted to everything here, and gradually became familiar with the people who came here first.

After everyone got acquainted with each other, Li Yuanshan followed Liu Jin's original order and began to confuse the people from the north and the south. There were people from the south and some from the north in each team. Everyone spoke with different accents. Get along with each other day and night, and eliminate the barriers between regions.

More importantly, Liu Jin is laying the groundwork for the future. Since ancient times, in the land of China, under the barriers between regions, blood, clan, fellow countrymen, classmates, etc. have all easily formed small groups.

And the existence of this kind of small group is very detrimental to the future Ryukyu City, because the small group first considers the interests of its own small group, and rejects other people first.

Just like the party struggles that gradually formed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, they were all represented by regions, such as Chu Party, Zhejiang Party, Donglin Party, etc. These small groups represented by regions fought endlessly with each other. The struggle even reached the point of disregarding the danger of the court.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the clan in Daming is very powerful, and it has been a rule since ancient times that power should not go to the countryside.

In rural areas at the lowest level, what the law says doesn't matter, what the elders of the clan say is what counts.

Ryukyu City is the retreat left by Liu Jin for himself. Naturally, he will not allow the existence of clan forces, nor will he allow the existence of fellow country forces.

Because it is an immigrant city and place, Liu Jin was able to solve this problem from the very beginning.

The immigrants recruited are very particular. They will not recruit too many in the same place, and they will try their best to recruit young people. At the same time, after arriving here, they must be confused and break the barriers between regions. The future of Ryukyu The large-scale recruitment of immigrants here will also adopt this strategy.

With people, money, more efficient organization and planning, and infrastructure artifacts like cement, the construction speed of Ryukyu City is constantly improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The walls of the Ryukyu City, the buildings in the Ryukyu City, and even the entire Ryukyu City seemed to spring up like bamboo shoots in the future, constantly gushing out from this wild land.

In the second month, that is, in July of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the outermost city wall of Ryukyu City had already been built. The three-foot-high city wall was all built with cement and mined stones, and the speed was fast. It is not bad at all compared to the walls of any city in Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for the consideration of the wildness here in Ryukyu, Liu Jin didn't even want to set up a city wall at first, because the city wall would limit the development of a city.

But later, considering the importance of Ryukyu City, it was finally decided to build a city wall. Based on this Ryukyu City, it will slowly expand to the entire Ryukyu Island. Since it is the foundation, it is natural to build a city wall.

The closure of the tall city walls also made Li Yuanshan heave a sigh of relief. With the city walls, the entire Ryukyu City would be much safer. Coupled with the artillery, Li Yuanshan felt that these local barbarians on Ryukyu Island would never be able to take it even if [-] people came. Go down to Ryukyu City.

In addition to the completion of the city wall, many important buildings in Ryukyu City have also begun to be built one after another, and batch after batch of people have been continuously recruited from the north, Fujian, and Zhejiang.

In just two months, there are already more than [-] people in Ryukyu City. Such a huge population makes the whole Ryukyu City extremely lively.

There are more than [-] people. In addition to some people continuing to build the Ryukyu City, Li Yuanshan has also begun to organize people to reclaim it. With the Ryukyu City as the center, large tracts of wild land around it began to slowly appear piece by piece.

Because it is a brand-new immigrant place, all the land and wealth here belong to the Ryukyu City founded by Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao, and Zhang Mao, and it has not experienced the changes of the years.

Therefore, all the reclaimed land is planned and reclaimed in a unified manner. Each piece of land is large, which is convenient for unified management, and it is more convenient to use some simple machinery to cultivate as much as possible to save manpower.

All the reclaimed fields here in Ryukyu City were also planted with sugar cane in the first time. The planting of sugar cane can be divided into two seasons. Spring is carried out from February to April, and it can be harvested from May to July. Autumn It is planted in August-September, and can be harvested in December. A planting period is 2 months.

It is now July in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, and the time is a little bit late, but this is Ryukyu, with plenty of light and heat, and it is the most suitable place for planting sugar cane. It doesn't matter if it is a little later.

If it wasn't too late, Li Yuanshan would even want to grow rice here, and the climate here is also very suitable for rice cultivation.

In addition to planting sugar cane, Li Yuanshan 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, and the surrounding forest areas that have just been cut down can be used to grow fruits. Of course, it will take several years for fruits to bear fruit, and the benefits will not be seen for a while.

But vegetables are different. It is July now, and in a few months, the northern regions will start to get colder. Once the weather gets cold, vegetables cannot be grown. By then, even the rich and powerful here in the capital will find it hard to eat. to a meal of fresh vegetables.

But there is no such problem here in Ryukyu. Even in winter, it is rare to say that there is ice and frost, and the temperature is still very high, which is very suitable for planting vegetables.

Sowing the seeds now, these vegetables will almost be ready to be harvested in the twelfth lunar month of winter. At that time, these vegetables will be transported to Tianjin and the capital for storage so that rich people who are tired of eating meat can buy them back with their pockets.

Sugar cane and vegetables are planned by Liu Jin. They can bring certain income this year. The shareholders of Ryukyu City must see the benefits of investment, so as to stimulate them to continue to invest in Ryukyu City and continue to recruit more. More people came to Ryukyu to reclaim more land and plant more sugar cane and vegetables.

After all, interests are the most powerful source of motivation. Since ancient times, not many people have done things without interests. Even if someone did, it is absolutely impossible for the long-term.

Only profitable things will someone keep doing, and they will be able to grow bigger and bigger.

　I have never grown sugar cane, so how should I grow sugar cane?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)