Time flies very quickly. In a blink of an eye, a month passed, and my family gradually got used to Beidao's life. Zhu Pei's lower abdomen was slightly raised. In terms of time, it should be the eve of Fan Ning's battle in Datong Mansion. Now it is exactly four months old.

The Chu Palace is very large. Although the back house and the atrium of Cuiyun Tower were built according to Fan Ning Mansion in the capital, the front yard is still somewhat different. The main reason is that there is an additional official yard covering an area of ​​100 acres on the east side, which is the main gate. This structure is a bit similar to the imperial palace. There is the imperial city in front and the palace city behind. The front of the Chu Palace is the royal office in the royal palace, and the west side is the palace covering an area of ​​200 acres.

The back house is very large, completely a garden, with a small lake covering an area of ​​about 50 acres, and a hot spring courtyard for bathing. Various pavilions and towers surround this lake. There are more than 200 houses and more than 30 courtyards.

In addition to the servants brought from the capital, there are more than fifty maids bought from all over Japan, most of whom are fourteen or five years old and have a little understanding of Chinese.

Fanning's grandmother Yang originally lived with her third son Fan Tieniu. When she heard that her grandson had come, she insisted on moving in with her, but after living there for two days, she moved back. She couldn't worry about the few vegetable fields she planted and the chickens and ducks she raised.

Fan Ning was not in the Chu Palace during this period, but inspected various counties. In particular, he decided to build a fifth county town and prepare to name it New Wucheng. The current Wucheng was about to change its name to Chucheng, corresponding to Fan Ning's current title of King of Chu.

The location of New Wucheng is still north of Hanhai Bay, west of Zhushui's estuary, and two hundred miles away from Songcheng.

At this time, Fan Ning stood on the bank of Zhushui to inspect the city building. About 8,000 Japanese workers were responsible for building the new Wucheng. They were transferred from the mine and were very skilled in building the city. They burned bricks, built walls, logged wood, and built houses, and were very efficient.

The standard for the new Wucheng is two thousand households, between about 10,000 and 12,000.

It was not until this time that Fan Ning realized that Wucheng's population accounted for half of the North Island population, 10,000 households, more than 50,000 people, including a county town and more than forty villages around it.

The accompanying Fan Ning inspected Xin Wucheng were Ming Ren and Ouyang Hua. He was the vice president of the Beidao Chamber of Commerce and controlled the economic lifeline of Beidao. The Beidao Chamber of Commerce was jointly controlled by Fan Zhu's family, and Fan Ning has always been the president. When Fan Ning was not around, Fan Mingren, Fan Mingli and Zhu Lin were responsible for it. The Chamber of Commerce owned gold, silver and various industries, worth millions of yuan, and was rich enough to rival a country.

Ouyang Hua will serve as the Chief Secretary of the Chu Palace, responsible for coordinating the specific government affairs of each county. Fan Ning only carries the strategic direction, and the specific implementation will be the Chief Secretary's Office, and the funds will be provided by the Chamber of Commerce.

The Chief Secretary’s Mansion has just been established, and there are only a few officials at present, but Fan Ning is currently a senior official of the Song Dynasty, a Grand Secretary, and a Grand Tutor. He is also qualified to be the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty. His situation is still relatively awkward. He cannot fully enter the role of King Chu, so the Chief Secretary’s Mansion is his spokesperson. Therefore, this time during inspections of various counties, Fan Ning still brought Ouyang Hua with him.

Fan Ning looked at the county town and said slowly: "The government promised me that the court would migrate 100,000 households to Beidao in ten years. In addition to the immigrant people we recruited ourselves, I estimate that in ten years, the population of Beidao will reach 150,000 households, at least 700,000. In addition to increasing the population of each county, at least 30 county towns will be built, divided into one city, five prefectures and thirty-five counties. Therefore, the Changshi Mansion will make a ten-year plan next, and Ouyang Changshi is very busy!"

Ouyang Hua nodded silently. He was not good at intrigues in the officialdom, but he believed that he could do things well.

"The next step in the humble position is to recruit people and improve the Chief Secretary's Office, which is divided into six Caosi and the Secretary. The plan mentioned by His Highness is to be organized by the Secretary Secretary. It may take a year to travel to every part of the North Island."

"Yes, I will give you a year to discuss recruitment matters with the Elders' Church after you go back and try to streamline the organization."

Speaking of this, Fan Ning turned around and said to Mingren: "Wucheng is still a little too small now. I am planning to consider building a foreign city and building a large city with a scale of 200,000 people."

"Two hundred thousand people!"

Akihito was surprised, "There won't be so many people, aren't they?"

"Why can't there be!"

Fanning glared at him and said, "In the future, it will be a royal city. The population of the royal city must account for about 30% of the total population of Beidao. In fact, it is more than 200,000, but considering the evacuation to the countryside, 200,000 is the minimum requirement."

"I remember it!"

Fan Ning's eyes turned to the south sea again, and asked Mingli again, "How is the situation in the South Island?"

"The situation in the South Island is also good. The population is currently 12,000 households, about 60,000 people. Three county towns have been built. Currently, it is mainly agriculture and animal husbandry. The grain can be self-sufficient. Sheep raised has reached one million. The workshop has only one textile farm with two thousand people and a leather shop with three thousand people. The textile farm wool is woven into carpets and sold to the Song Dynasty. The leather shop tanned sheepskin and made leather boots and furs. It is said that it sold quite well in the Song Dynasty."

"Only two workshops?"

Fanning frowned slightly, which means that all kinds of daily necessities cannot be controlled, business cannot be established, and economic cycle cannot be established.

"The South Island should be allocated as needed!"

Akihito nodded, "Nan Island is very envious of our developed business and our money circulation. In fact, we only have a population of 100,000. Of course, we still have 30,000 Japanese workers and 4,000 Japanese girls, but there are also on the South Island. Our total population is only 40% more than them, but there are more than 100 workshops, ranging from oil pressing, rice pounding, wine making, sauce making, to textiles, shipbuilding, mining, smelting, fine forging and steam making, which are a hundred times stronger than Nan Island."

"Then what do you think is the problem with the South Island?"

Akihito thought for a while and said, "I think the key to South Island is that there is no chamber of commerce like ours, and there is a lot of money to invest, or the South Island is a bit congenital inadequacies."

Fanning pondered for a moment and said, "Tomorrow you accompany me to the South Island, I will take a pulse for them and see if I can find a new way for them?"

The three counties on the South Island are also along the coast of the Han Gulf, facing the county town of the North Island across the sea. Fanning took a three thousand stone fast boat to the South Island. The wind and waves on the coast of the North Island are not big, and the ships are all medium-sized ships with three thousand stone. After installing the propeller, the speed is twice as fast. Zhu Qi is right. The propeller is used on the Wanshi ship, but the effect is very good on medium-sized ships, and the speed is far greater than that of the paddle wheel.

The ship sailed through waves on the sea. Fanning stood at the bow and felt the swelling sea breeze. Akihito next to him said deeply: "The steam engine is really a magical machine. We have been developing it in depth, and its scope of use is getting bigger and bigger. We have been sailing on the sea for more than ten years and have never had such a fast speed."

Fan Ning smiled faintly and asked, "When I left the next year, I drew a pattern of a train for you. How is it now?"

"It is still under development in the Shengong Institute, and I have not asked about the specific progress."

"What is the Seminary Institute?" Fanning asked in confusion.

"The predecessor of the Shengong Academy was Mr. Zhu's steam engine production center. We split it into two parts, and part of it continued to make steam engines, while the other half was responsible for developing various new machinery, including in-depth research on steam engines, with about two hundred people."

Fanning nodded and asked with a smile: "The screws and buckles were also invented by the Shenyi Institute?"

When Fanning inspected the steam machine production center, he accidentally discovered that the workers actually used screws and nuts as fasteners. Although they were made by hand, the output was very small and rough, Fanning was very interested. You should know that screws and nuts were invented in Europe four hundred years later, and appeared four hundred years in advance of the Song Dynasty, but the name was screws and screw buckles.

Akihito shook his head and said, "Screws and buckles were invented by the shipyard when studying propellers. They have little to do with the Shengong Institute. The Shengong Institute has only improved the turning machine to make it."

Fan Ning sighed slightly: "It makes people feel unbelievable. Beidao has only a population of 100,000 and has so many workshops. How did it do it?"

Akihito scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "Actually, I'm sorry to say that although there are many factories in our country, they are all relatively small. There are only dozens of people in the pounding rice, brewing wine, making sauce, and making soap. There are also steam engines that make it sound very powerful. In fact, it's just an assembly workshop. The parts manufacturing were all completed in the Song Dynasty. We transported them to assemble, mining, coal, and coking. As well as the wooden cotton fabric textile factory in our Songcheng County, there are also a thousand Japanese female workers."

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and said, "After all, it's a human problem. One is the small population and the other is the luxury before being rich. The immigration conditions we offer are too generous. Many people are unwilling to do hard work when they come to Beidao, so they can only use labor. I heard that even the bartenders and shops in the hotel are mostly Japanese girls, and the Song people are unwilling to do this. This is not possible. In the future, immigration must gradually reduce the conditions to ensure that those who live in their homes and those who work have their jobs. The conditions cannot be given too generously."

Akihito smiled bitterly, "If the conditions are lowered, I'm afraid I won't be able to recruit immigrants, and I can't compete with other islands."

"That's not to investigate. How many favorable conditions can be achieved in the Luzon Mansion? It is said that five hectares of land can be given, but in fact it would be good to give one hectares. The same is true in the southern continent. In the end, only two hectares of land are given. The conditions for five hectares are very high. If the farming is not developed for three consecutive years, the government will take it back. The North Island must also take measures and not raise lazy people."

Mingren hurriedly said, "We also stipulate that although each household is given five hectares, it must be cultivated within three years. If it cannot be cultivated, it will be repurchased by the government. If it lives in the city, it will be given three acres of residential land, and the five hectares of land will be converted into five hundred taels of silver. Of course, the silver is not given at once, but two hundred taels at a time, and they will be used to build brick houses, and then thirty taels a year and pay them for ten years. It is also stipulated that every man in each household must go out to do things."

"Are there any public grievances?" Fan Ning asked with a smile.

"Of course there are dissatisfactions, but most people can understand that most people do not come to five hectares of land, but to live and work in peace and contentment, we can also satisfy their wish. In fact, it is because of the small population. Many restaurants and shops cannot recruit staff, so they can only invite Japanese girls to do things."
Chapter completed!