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Chapter 133: The Humiliated Woman Beheaded and Abandoned in the City (16)

"Let's settle here!"

After leaving the imperial capital Luoyang, nearly seven months passed, from summer to winter, and Ding Shui and his men finally reached the southernmost part with more than 50,000 people.

That is Yazhou Island in Lingnan.

Although Lingnan Road is still a place of exile today, it is much better than it was hundreds of years ago.

For example, there is also the Yazhou Governor's Office on Yazhou Island.

However, although there is a Governor's Office, it can only govern an area of dozens of kilometers around it. Most of the remaining areas are still in the hands of local tribes. It can only be said to be nominal jurisdiction, not actual jurisdiction. At least taxes can basically not be collected, and at most some tributes can be extorted.

Then send it back to the court.

But that was many years ago.

In recent decades, it has become no different from autonomy.

Ding Shui and his men crossed the ocean, deliberately skipping the already developed southern, western and northern parts, namely the three states of Yazhou, Danzhou and Zhenzhou, and headed straight to the east.

The eastern part is still an undeveloped area.

At least there are no imperial government agencies.

Ding Shui currently has no plans to have any contact with the local government, or even with the local tribes. The less contact the better. After all, they have no foundation at all now, so they have to survive and develop for a few years first.

So we found a sparsely populated area in the east.

He used his mental power to carefully check the situation within a radius of dozens of kilometers and overseas, and then spoke decisively.

The people around had no objection to this.

In their eyes, Ding Shui is now no longer just a simple leader, but a deified figure.

Not to mention just settling down in the wilderness.

Even if they have to settle on the seabed, they believe it.

And dare to follow directly.

After determining the settlement location, Ding Shui quickly led the more than 50,000 people to transform the environment and build homes.

Some chopped down trees, some dug pits, some built brick kilns, and some gathered food or fished in the nearby ocean. With a stable food source, Ding Shui's energy expenditure was finally much reduced. He no longer had to worry about his daily life, even using his pseudo-life essence for cultivation, fearing that even a little practice would leave him with insufficient energy to feed fifty thousand people.

Although everything needs to develop from scratch.

But Ding Shui has the advantage of technology, and she can also obtain some resources that are not produced locally through the rebate system.

In addition, it is summer all year round on Yazhou Island.

So the overall construction speed is very fast.

In just two years, they successfully owned their own house and reclaimed one million acres of land, half of which was planted with various high-yield and high-quality crops transformed by Ding Shui using wood energy, and the remaining half was used to grow crops such as pineapples, sugarcane and cotton.

Useful economic crops such as rubber are also grown in large quantities.

In addition, there are a series of necessary factories or workshops such as shipyards, fishing boats, textile mills, ironworks, oil presses, paper mills, salt drying and boiling salt fields.

It can be said that, aside from specialized minerals like coal and iron, which cannot be self-sufficient and must be purchased from elsewhere or converted through the Dingshui rebate system, the rest is essentially self-sufficient. It's not that Yazhou Island lacks coal and iron resources, but rather that they are largely concentrated in the west and north. Dingshui, settled in the east, is simply out of reach, and at best, they can occasionally steal some, making large-scale transportation difficult.

If you have the time, you might as well just spend money to buy it.

After all, the white salt and sugar they produce are absolute luxury goods and high-profit products. They have now cooperated with several families in Lingnan Road and shipped them to various parts of the country for sale, with a monthly income of two to three million strings of cash.

Of course, the process wasn't smooth.

Those families weren't so well-behaved at first. It was only after being beaten up by Ding Shui and his men and subjected to a lot of mental innuendo that they finally became a little more sensible. Basically, they just wanted to earn a hard-earned living and no longer tried to get Ding Shui to work for them like before.

Relying on these harvests, Ding Shui successfully led the more than 50,000 people he brought with him to live a well-off life.

Although there may not be much spiritual entertainment, there is definitely no need to worry about daily food and drink. If you count fish and seafood, there is no problem with three meals of meat a day. This kind of life and treatment is already better than most people in Daqian.

How can it not be considered moderately prosperous?

At this point, Ding Shui actually didn't want to expand his sphere of influence or increase his manpower. He just wanted to continue to engage in education and climb the technology tree, such as developing cola soda and making a device similar to a centrifuge.

To make the ice cream more delicious.

Many of the ordinary little things or very cheap things in later generations may be inseparable from the development of technology. Ding Shui misses them very much and wants to make them.

It's also completely human nature.

But the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. Both the nearby indigenous tribes and the local government office of Yazhou Prefecture have gradually discovered the power of Ding Shui and his men.

And they are quite coveting their assets.

Furthermore, this place was far from the center of government and civilization, meaning people were less bound by rules, rituals, and moral principles. Therefore, many tribes attacked without even needing to find a reason. Even if Ding Shui didn't want to fight, she couldn't help but resist when someone came knocking on her door.

So her kind and good family was constantly invaded, and eventually her territory became larger and larger.

Finally, Tian Minghui and her group, the registered disciples who had practiced body-refining techniques, became increasingly annoyed by the constant harassment and decided to launch a sweeping attack. They hanged the leaders of all the major indigenous tribes and then selected obedient individuals to take charge of the remaining tribes.

And required them to pay tribute to Dingshui every year.

At the same time, all the people sent by the court were eliminated. Those who should be killed were killed, and those who should not be killed were taken as prisoners to farm.

Just take over the entire Yazhou Island.

Naturally, no one harassed me anymore.

Ding Shui couldn't blame them for acting without authorization, and in this way, they no longer had to buy minerals such as coal and iron from other places.

At the same time, a larger space also makes it more convenient to display your skills.

And climb the tech tree.

After all, climbing technology also requires people.

So the next step, of course, is to continue farming, transforming the environment, expanding production, and building more factories with higher technological content, while also absorbing and digesting the captured population and transforming the local indigenous people.

As for the imperial court, haha...

The imperial court has no time to care about this place. Even Lingnan Province hardly listens to the imperial court, let alone the more remote Yazhou Island.

Not to mention that the imperial court didn't even know about it.

Even if I knew, I couldn't do anything about it.

At most, the governor of Lingnan Road was given the right to launch military campaigns.

Taking into account that it would take a certain amount of time to absorb the entire indigenous population of Yazhou Island and to develop and grow Yazhou Island, Dingshui subsequently strictly restricted the flow of relevant information. In addition, there was not much communication between the Lingnan Road Jiedushi and Yazhou Prefecture.

Moreover, the Yazhou Military Governor's Office usually asks for subsidies from its superior, the Lingnan Circuit Jiedushi, rather than paying taxes.

Therefore, it remained hidden for several years.

Cui Yu, the governor of Lingnan, had no idea that Yazhou Island had escaped the control of the imperial court and fell into the hands of Ding Shui. Instead, he was in a good mood because Yazhou Island had not asked for much money in recent years and he had saved a lot of expenses.

Until one of his aides said that the Yazhou Governor's Office had not asked for subsidies for several years. Maybe they had money and could send someone to check and ask if they could pay the taxes.