On May 26, the 11th year of Chongzhen, Li Xiao first came to Jeju Island.

He only rested in Jeju for two days, and then inspected the construction of Jeju Island, and then led two troops from the Dongying General A and General B of Zhen to take 110 warships back from Taiwan and headed straight to Heiyi Island.

Wu Liang, the former general manager of Jeju Island, also went to the expedition with Li Xiao. The position of general manager of Jeju was replaced by Li Xiao. Now Wu Liang's new position is the general manager of the Hokkien Island. He will fully manage the two boundaries of Heiyi Island and Sakhalin Island in the north. The scope under his jurisdiction is much larger than that of a small Jeju Island.

On Jeju Island and Satsuma, Li Xiao left only the General Bing army in Zhendongying to guard. Now in a peaceful environment, there are thousands of general Bing army in the area, which is enough to ensure the stability of the place.

In addition to the soldiers, there was a team of craftsmen with more than 20,000 people and a large number of building materials. In Li Xiao's plan, these craftsmen immediately began to build cities on the spot after arriving at the Hokkien, so that Li Xiao's army could live in this cold and cold Hokkien Island before winter came.

In Li Xiao's previous life, he had a rough understanding of some of the situation about Essays.

The Hokkaido was originally a territory of China. During the Han Dynasty, Hokkaido was under the jurisdiction of Liaodong County. During the Tang Dynasty, the Hokkaido was under the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate. During the Ming Dynasty, the Hokkaido was under the jurisdiction of the Nurgan Dushi.

Later, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because the Nuergandus was abolished, the Hokkien Island was stolen by the Matsumae vassal of Japan and occupied the southernmost Hakodate area.

In 1807, the entire Hokkien Island was controlled by the shogunate and completely became Japanese territory since then.

In modern Japan, this place was renamed Hokkaido in 1869.

The entire Hokkien Island covers an area of ​​83,453.57 square kilometers, accounting for about one-fifth of Japan's territory. It is the second largest island in Japan except Honshu, and is slightly larger than Sakhalin Island in the north.

Among them, on the Hokkien Island, the mountainous land accounts for 60% of the entire island area, and the volcanic terrain accounts for 40% of the mountain area. Although the Hokkien Island has many mountains, it is one of the few huge granaries in modern Japan. For example, wheat, potatoes, and dairy cows are the first in Japan to produce, and it is Japan's most important agricultural and animal husbandry base.

In addition to being a natural granary, this seemingly wild and cold island also hides amazing minerals under its quiet appearance. Just in Ishikazu and Kushiro, its coal reserves have reached more than half of the minerals in the entire Japan!

In the late Ming Dynasty when Li Xiao lived, the population of the Essential Island was very small. Except for the Matsumae Basilica in the southern Hakodate area, only tens of thousands of Essential natives settled here and made a living by hunting and fishing. These Essential natives are the Ainu people in Japan now.

This key island that has strangled the Northeast Asia marine route, a territory that China has inherited since ancient times, is not a reason to let the vulgar and despicable little Japan steal the stolen property!

Thinking of this, Li Xiao, who stood at the bow of the Shenglong ship and looked at the waves in a calm manner, secretly swore in his heart, but his face became more and more determined.

According to Li Xiao's plan, the fleet will land in the Otaru area of ​​Ishikari Bay in Hokkaido, and then build a port here. The port is built and the entire army will continue to go deeper. A new city will be built in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido in modern Japan, as the place where the entire army will settle down.

When building the city, Li Xiao would send the generals of the East Envoy to the south to suppress the Songqianfu, and let him obediently submit to him.

Speaking of which, the Matsue vassal lord, Matsue Kyohiro, is still a very alternative existence in Japan. Because of his weak strength, basically no matter who fights, the so-called vassal lord immediately raised his hand to surrender, without any Bushido spirit at all. Compared with the fierce and cruel Shimazu family in the southern end of Japan, it is simply a coward.

Therefore, Li Xiao was convinced that in front of the Damingtian soldiers with strong ships and powerful guns, the surrender of this Matsumaki Keihiro would probably be much faster than the current Tokugawa Shogunate.

As for the general general of Zhendongying, Li Xiao planned to leave behind troops to protect the city-building craftsmen, and then dispatch a small group of troops to various Emirate tribes. Just like the natives of Taiwan, they implemented coercion and inducement methods, and gradually absorbed Emirates into new members of the Han people through cultural assimilation.

For such a barbaric nation with extremely backward culture and religion, Li Xiao believed that the culture and etiquette of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Kingdom could easily conquer them, allowing them to eventually destroy the national symbols and eventually become members of the Han people.

The fleet sailed northward in the south wind. In just 18 days, Li Xiao's huge fleet arrived at the scheduled landing point, Otaru, Ishikawan.

"Sir, look, there is land ahead."

A soldier pointed to a black line in front of the sea and sky with his arm. Li Xiao said oh, raised the Qianli Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles Miles

This land that had been separated from China for many years has finally ushered in the army of the Celestial Empire again. Li Xiao swore that from now on, he would never leave this fertile land that had been passed down for thousands of years in China.

Soon, the entire fleet approached the shore and then buckled the shore. A large number of soldiers and craftsmen came to the Otaru coast like a surging tide.

The simple military tent, warehouse, and worker camp were immediately built. Finally, when dusk arrived, these simple buildings were completed, and all the soldiers and all the craftsmen of the army could finally have a safe sleep on the land.

The Hokkien is located in Northeast Asia, with a huge temperature difference between day and night. Now it is in the Little Ice Age, so although it is midsummer, the temperature at night is still very low, and the cold wind blows. The soldiers of the army fall asleep wrapped in thick quilts, and at the same time, each camp also chops firewood to make fire to resist the coldness of the night.

When people were quiet late at night, they breathed in the cold air filled with the fragrance of the coniferous forest. When they heard the blazing firewood making a crackling sound, Li Xiao's heart was undulating and he couldn't fall asleep for a while.

He was thinking carefully about the future plan of this Emily Island.

The city that Li Xiao planned to build in Sapporo was already known as the name of the city. Because this place is a place in the extreme east, it means sunrise, and this newly built city was named Dongshengcheng by Li Xiao.

Because the Hokkien Island is extremely remote and desolate and has a sparse population, Li Xiao did not intend to build this Dongsheng City too large. Instead, it would be enough to build a small town with an area of ​​eight miles, just like the Changhua County in Taiwan.

However, although the scope of this city to be built does not have to be too large, measures such as barracks, granaries, forage yards, storage warehouses, arsenals, horse farms, government offices, outer city walls, city gates, urns, corner towers, water wells, and city protection measures must be built to ensure that the city has sufficient defense and that the residents and military forces in the city can facilitate their lives.

Of course, the specific plan needs to be carried out on-site testing before making a decision.

After Dongsheng City was built, Li Xiao could transport refugees on a large scale, allowing them to reproduce and survive in this fertile land overseas, and have always settled on this land forever.

Considering that the soil accumulated by volcanic ash is mostly fertile, although it may only be planted for one season a year due to the cold weather, its yield is also quite considerable.

The specific area of ​​cultivated land that can be developed can only be roughly determined after Wu Liang and others have completed their inspections on the entire island.

But Li Xiao believed that a small Satsuma could accommodate 100,000 refugees. This larger Heiyi Island should be no problem to resettle 300,000 refugees.

With a larger population, all kinds of factories can be built and all kinds of minerals can be mined. This silent thousand-year-old island can finally usher in the golden age.

Once the development of the Essay Island is completed, then, the next step will be to develop Sakhalin Island in the north. Li Xiao believes that after the development of these two islands, they will definitely become their own two new huge granaries.

Li Xiao thought about it all night, and it was not until dawn that he slept in a daze for a while.

The next day, more than 20,000 craftsmen immediately began to quickly use the bluestone, cement, bricks and other building materials shipped on the ship to urgently build a simple wharf.

The reason why we should build the wharf first is that it is midsummer and the season of frequent typhoons. Now the navy fleet scattered on the sea is in urgent need of a stable safe haven, so building the port first is an urgent task.

According to Li Xiao's plan, when the craftsmen were urgently building the dock, Li Xiao personally led a fleet and took the general soldiers of the Dongying Army in Zhen, heading south toward the Hakodate area of ​​the Matsumaki vassal.

"What! A large number of Ming Fleets appeared outside Hakodate?!"

The Matsumae vassal lord Keihiro Matsumae, who was enjoying the fun in the Imperial Palace, was surprised to hear the urgent report from Xiao's surname.

"That's true, all the ships are hung with the Sun and Moon Double Dragon Flags, but they are undoubtedly ships of the Ming Kingdom. The entire Ming army fleet is huge, and from a distance, there are as many as hundreds." Xiaoxian said in a look of horror and hurriedly.

Song Qian Qingguang waved his hand irritably, and Xiaoxian bowed and retreated quickly.

"What's going on? Then why did the Ming fleet run to Matsumaki's vassal? I'm so remote, but I don't know what they are doing here?" Matsumaki Kaiguang asked himself repeatedly with a look of uneasiness. The tatami he sat down seemed to burn his butt, making him twist back and forth.

"Father, can the Ming army be here to annex my Matsumaki vassal? Why did the Ming army suddenly have an idea of ​​attacking me with Matsumaki vassal?" His son Matsumaki Daohiro's words were extremely uneasy and panic.

"The vassal lord, the Ming army is coming from afar, and its intention is unknown. Let's go ahead and negotiate with the Ming army before making a decision." The retainer Yishen said with a frown.

"Okay, go quickly and see why the Ming army came from. Pay attention to our vassal, our strength is weak, so we should try our best to avoid triggering wars, so that we can do a good job." Song Qianqian Qingguang sighed and said in a low voice.

A victory is also a sigh, and then he leaves with a promise.

Kazuno came to Hakodate's port, and the Ming fleet had just landed.

Yi Shengzhi said with a sigh, and he whispered: "Mr. Li, your conditions are so rigorous. If you reply to my vassal lord like this, the vassal lord will probably be killed."
Chapter completed!