Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 695, the prosperous Ryukyu
Liu Jin only stayed in Songhu for two days, tasted the hairy crabs from the south of the Yangtze River, and also saw Songhu, which has just begun to develop.

Of course, the most important thing is to reach a new consensus with these big families, big businessmen, and big landlords in Jiangnan, that is, to jointly promote the legitimacy of private armed firms.

Today's commercial firms still don't have fangs, and they are like sheep when they go overseas, and they are easily bullied by others. This is not acceptable, and it is not in everyone's interest.

It is necessary to allow major commercial firms to have a certain amount of armed forces overseas, so that they can further promote the development of the colonial era.

If the major commercial firms in the north and the south work together to complete this matter, there is still great hope that it can be facilitated. However, Liu Jin has no time to work on this matter. For the expedition to Nanyang, Liu Jin estimates that this year will be almost one year. Nanyang side spent.

Departing from Songhu, I arrived in Ryukyu smoothly a few days later.

In Ryukyu City, Liu Jin wandered around here very casually.

Today's Ryukyu City doesn't look like the Ming city of this era, but it looks a bit like the city of later generations.

Ryukyu City is basically houses made of concrete and steel bars. Everything is neatly planned. Concrete roads extend in all directions, and the four-wheeled carriages coming and going on the road seem very busy.

In just a few years, this Ryukyu City has become quite prosperous.

"Sir~"

Li Yuanshan, the person in charge of Ryukyu Sugar Industry, received the news early in the morning that Liu Jin was coming to Ryukyu, so he returned to Ryukyu City early.

Now he is no longer the lord of Ryukyu City. Ryukyu City has been handed over to the Ming Dynasty government. The imperial court set up Ryukyu County here, and the entire Ryukyu is under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province.

However, Ryukyu was invested and built by Liu Jin and the others. Although it is now under the jurisdiction of the government, every plant and tree here in Ryukyu City still belongs to Liu Jin's property.

This is also the headquarters of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, and the cane sugar produced every year is sold throughout Daming at home and abroad.

"The Ryukyu business is very good. I think you should not only be the person in charge of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, but you can also be an official."

Standing on the top of the city of Ryukyu, holding a telescope to look around the city of Ryukyu.

On both sides of the cement road, there are village buildings, with smoke curling up from the kitchen, loud voices, children playing and playing, old people chatting leisurely, and groups of chickens and dogs. Everything is so peaceful and comfortable. .

There are stretches of good fields that can't be seen at a glance. Some fields are planted with rice, but most of them are stretches of sugarcane, which is the most important economic crop in Ryukyu.

Liu Jin knows that on the Ryukyu City side, the business model has changed, and it is no longer the previous model that belongs to Ryukyu City.

In the past, Ryukyu City was responsible for building the city, organizing people to open up wasteland, and planting sugar cane. Everyone lived in the ring of the moon, but now it is different. It has gradually changed and gradually become a normal operation.

Except that the large piece of land around the Ryukyu City belongs to the Ryukyu City Sugar Industry, and the Ryukyu Sugar Industry is still employing people to plant it, the land farther away is already private land.

They were all recruited by the Ryukyu Sugar Industry to come to Ryukyu in the early days. After they came, they didn’t want to leave again. They had a lot of their own land and fields here, and they moved all their families here.

The business model has also changed. The Ryukyu Sugar Industry is responsible for purchasing the sugar cane planted by everyone, and then hiring people to boil the cane sugar, or simply buying the sugar water fried from everyone's sugar cane to boil sugar.

Relying on this model, the Ryukyu sugar industry has also developed rapidly.

Everything is like this, only private is the most energetic.

Here in Ryukyu, those who obtained the land moved here with their families. They worked very hard in planting rice and sugar cane, and quickly became rich in a short period of time.

They became rich, and it was natural that they drove the folks in their hometown to migrate to Ryukyu, which caused the population of Ryukyu to increase rapidly.

With the rapid increase in population, more than a dozen cities have emerged in Ryukyu in just a few years. Relying on these cities, the sugarcane planting industry has also developed rapidly.

The Ryukyu Sugar Industry quickly adjusted its business model. Instead of planting sugar cane by itself, it instead purchased sugar cane or sugar water. The focus was on boiling cane sugar. This is the unique technology that the Ryukyu Sugar Industry currently masters. There is no way to learn if you want to learn. You can only plant more sugar cane, and then sell the sugar cane to the Ryukyu Sugar Industry. The profit is still considerable.

Ryukyu is a place with fertile land and abundant rainfall and heat, which is very suitable for the growth of sugarcane. The yield is very high and the sugar content is also high. Even the simplest sugarcane plantation, large and small sugarcane plantations are quite profitable.

This is also the reason for the rapid development of Ryukyu, and money is everything.

In just a few years, the total number of people who migrated to Ryukyu from various parts of Ming Dynasty has exceeded [-] million, and the population around Ryukyu City is more than [-].

You must know that these are not organized by the government, they are all spontaneously migrated by the people, and they are all brought by relatives and friends. They have their own fields on the Ryukyu side, and after living a good life, they have attracted relatives and friends. Like a snowball, more and more people migrated to Ryukyu.

All of this is inseparable from the strategy Li Yuanshan set up at the beginning. When he was in charge of Ryukyu City, he managed the operation here in an orderly manner and flourished day by day.

This is also the reason why Liu Jin said that Li Yuanshan's ability is very good, and he can be an official.

"My lord praised me~"

When Li Yuanshan heard this, he smiled immediately, and continued: "I was originally illiterate, with my face facing the loess and my back facing the sky, but it was only because I met the young master that I had this chance in my life."

"Being an official, I have never dared to think about it. My ancestors have been farmers for eight lifetimes. I just know what the poor like most, and I just give a little guidance."

"Anything is possible, it is gold that always shines."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Tell me about the situation in Ryukyu City."

"Yes~"

Liu Yuanshan nodded quickly, thought for a while and said: "Currently there are seventeen cities in Ryukyu City, and seventeen counties are set up respectively. Among them, eight cities were built by our Ryukyu Sugar Industry Organization, and the other nine are other cities. It was established by the business organization."

"Currently, the total population of the [-] cities in Ryukyu is about [-] million, mainly from the five provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Fujian, and Zhejiang."

"Ryukyu's current industry is mainly based on sugar cane. There are large and large sugarcane plantations around major cities, mainly sugarcane, followed by rice."

"However, here in Ryukyu City, Tianjin Shipyard also established a Ryukyu Shipyard here, and Tianjin Cement Factory also built a Ryukyu Cement Factory here, which is still under construction and has not been put into use."

"But once the two factories are put into use, the Ryukyu side will also have its own shipyard and cement factory, and the development will inevitably be faster by then."

"In addition, because of the unique geographical advantages of Ryukyu, it is the transit area for our Ming to go to Nanyang, so the ocean trade here is also extremely developed."

"Business firms from the mainland provinces of the Ming Dynasty transported a large amount of goods to Ryukyu, and then sold them to trading firms specializing in going to sea, and these trading firms then transported the goods to various places in Southeast Asia for sale."

"It not only saves time, but also saves the journey, so the transit trade is also very fast. Nine out of ten ships in this river bay port are like this."

Li Yuanshan began to slowly explain the situation here in Ryukyu.

Liu Jin nodded while listening.

The place of Ryukyu was not fully developed until the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, when Zheng Chenggong brought tens of thousands of people from Fujian.

Because there have been no people, so after a few decades in history, this Ryukyu was also occupied by the Dutch, and was finally taken back by Zheng Chenggong.

But it’s different now. This Ryukyu has developed rapidly, with [-] cities and a population of more than [-] million, and it has extremely close contacts with the mainland. Daming has also set up [-] counties here. Extremely important.

It is simply impossible to say that the Dutch will take it, and naturally the following series of things will not happen.

"This is a treasure island~"

"The treasure island that belongs to our Ming Dynasty, the more prosperous it is, the better."

After Liu Jin listened, he also let out a long sigh.

Li Yuanshan looked at Liu Jin, and really didn't understand why he sighed like this.

This Ryukyu belongs to Ming Dynasty, so what doubts there are?
Could it be that there are still people who dare to come to grab Daming's Ryukyu?

Of course he didn't understand Liu Jin's mood. The Ryukyu of later generations entrusted too much and too much emotion to the descendants of Yan and Huang. This may be why Liu Jin strongly supported Ryukyu.

All that was done was for the inalienable land of the Ming Dynasty, for it to belong to the Ming Dynasty forever, to belong to the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, for it not to be defiled by others, for it to belong to the Ming Dynasty as a matter of course, and for it to belong to other places as a matter of course. The same, as close as brothers, there is no difference between each other.

　Do you think it should be like this?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)