Chapter 267: What needs to be hidden and what needs to be lured

This made Du Guangyuan a little disappointed. He replied depressedly: "On the other side, sir, where is the other side - Leizhou, the most exiled in the world! Demolishing the ridge is similar to a heavy punishment for the ministers. What are the interests of the officials there to come to check here?

Sir, although it is a common practice for Hainan to inspect every five years, an official will be sent to inspect it every five years, but they all regard the sea as a fear. At most, Qiongzhou County, which is closest to the mainland, landed and summoned officials on the island to inquire about the situation - what is going on in Hainan? We are not talking about it casually.

Adult, this island cannot even be self-sufficient in food, and food and drink must be supplied by the mainland. If the grain transport ships from the mainland encounter slight storms, the officials on the island will go hungry. It is better to see Qiongzhou Prefecture across the sea, and there are only a few hundred families in other prefectures and counties. Local officials are willing to trek through mountain roads and cross the dangerous mountainous areas where the Li people live to see what hundred families... If he really dares to come, will he let him go back alive?

Our bay is not a serious business road. It is hidden in the valley. The cliff in front extends for more than 30 miles (20 kilometers). If you are not careful, even if the boat passes along the shore, it is difficult to find that there is such a large bay hidden behind the cliff, and such a large foundation is hidden in the bay.

Hehe, speaking of it, the officials of the Song Dynasty are not as brave as merchants. We have detained more than ten merchant ships that drifted along the water or ventured into the market in recent years. Therefore, this place has become a 'a sea route without returning'. After a long time, it is said that no merchant ship dares to take risks again. So, even if you don't worry, no one should pay attention to our port - now you don't have to worry about it. It's not a good thing to go to Guangnan to be an official and cover up this matter..."

Zhao Xing nodded: "In ten years of development, Hainan should be revealed. I plan to slowly relax the ban and allow businessmen to wash their feet and log in. However, I have to choose a good time..."

Du Guangyuan didn't say anything about it just now. The land transportation in Hainan was not smooth, and it could even be said to be without roads. In the nearby Dan County, the Changhua Army also had winding paths to Qiongzhou County, but this dock area was originally just a wasteland. In real history, it would not set off a development boom in the 21st century. When Zhao Xing developed this place, he deliberately did not build roads. Officials would discover this hidden Palembang unless they were willing to take a boat to patrol the coastline of the island.

But it is difficult to let officials patrol the coastline by boat. It is difficult to find such a bold person in hundreds of years. For example, after the Portuguese occupied Macau, the court officials were vague about the situation in Macau for hundreds of years - they did not want to understand it.

"Is the island self-sufficient in food now?" Zhao Xing asked again.

"It's still not!" Du Guangyuan replied: "Although the adults have transported some Nanyang slaves in recent years and summoned local Li people to open up land, but the adults are not here. Everyone wants to act in seclusion, and the Li people on the island have not summoned too many. There are more than 10,000 people building ships here, and Mr. Pu (Pu Yi'an) intends to use food to control people's hearts. Therefore, the island still has insufficient food. Ten ships of food need to be transported from Vietnam every month to be self-sufficient."

"It's good in the future. I plan to try to include Hainan's military power in the jurisdiction of my Guangnan East Road. When I go back, I will formally request the establishment of a naval army supply port in Hainan. From now on, the place will be able to develop in the Ming Dynasty..." Zhao Xing replied. After a while, he added: "I have ordered a hundred iron rib ships from the port. I may be a little busy here this year. Don't run around, guard the dock area and wait for the officials."

Du Guangyuan was very happy and asked, "Sir, can I move the government office to the dock area? The original broken yard of Changhua Army has not been repaired at all in order to cover up the eyes and ears. It is so dilapidated that it is too much for people to live..."

"It's what you want," Zhao Xing replied casually, and then boarded his own boat.

On the boat, Shuai Fan looked at Du Guangyuan on the dock and said with a smile: "The people are afraid of officials. With your words, he can command the people to build a luxurious official office for him in the dock area."

Zhao Xing asked casually: "How is the recruitment of soldiers?"

Shuai Fan replied: "The adults are all good families who need to recruit good families and require industries. But in this situation, soldiers need tattoos on their faces to prevent escape. How could the good families come to join the army... By the way, Cheng Xian listened to Mr. Su and planned to repair the barracks, but I stopped him. During the dynasty, the army was unbearable and prepared to cause trouble, so I took the opportunity to dismiss most of the soldiers. Now the armed forces in Guangnan are only the servants we brought over. What will the adults do next?"

Zhao Xing glanced at the servants on the boat and said with a smile: "The tattoos on the soldiers' faces are the laws of the court, but I plan to write to the court to allow the Guangnan Navy to not tattoo on the faces. In addition, when will the soldiers on the land tattoo on the faces be tattooed on the faces? I can also forget this matter. But this cannot be said formally.

When recruiting soldiers, we must recruit good families, we must have guarantors, and we must have industries. This is an iron rule. Those with constant property have perseverance, and those without constant property have perseverance. This is a simple truth. We make huge profits in the future of maritime trade, so we must recruit some good families to insure.

Let's start with the soldiers' clothing. Anyone who joins our army will give him a good outfit and take a day off every ten days to allow him to go home to visit his relatives. Gradually, as time goes by, the soldiers will find that I don't tattoo their faces, the clothes I wear are beautiful and the salary is generous, and there will inevitably be more and more. Don't worry, the Great Wall is not built in one day. I am already satisfied that we can form a fleet of thirty large ships by the end of this year."

Shuai Fan nodded and said, "The navy will need to train for at least three years. No matter how many people we recruit this year, our servants are the main force. Don't worry, sir, I will definitely train them well."

Zhao Xing shook his head with a smile: "Anything that you do personally is not understanding management. You have to let your subordinates help you manage. After the navy has formulated a training plan, let your subordinates do other things. The key is the Army. I have bought a temple in Guangzhou and planned to open an Army Academy there. The key is that we have to hand over the content learned by Huanqing to the soldiers. When you go back, you mainly preside over the Army Academy and teach a group of soldiers who know how to fight."

Shuai Fan mustered up the courage to ask again: "Sir, I heard that Huanqing finally pulled down a batch of muskets, and I also heard that adults are good at using gunpowder to attack. Can we Guangnan develop musket soldiers?"

Zhao Xing pointed to the mainland opposite and said, "We went to Hong Kong, and I installed two factories on a small island there, so I went there to see it."

At a location approximately equivalent to modern Hong Kong Causeway Bay, Zhao Xing met his third brother Huang. As soon as he saw Zhao Xing, he excitedly held an iron pipe and shouted: "Dalang, it's successful, we finally succeeded. We made the barrel that Dalang said. Dalang took a look and found that it was all iron."

Zhao Xing held the two-meter-long iron pipe in his hand and observed it carefully. The iron pipe was made, which meant that the era of gunpowder was coming. He was very excited, but he said lightly: "How did it be made? I have thought of many ways to do this..."

"Stamping, Dalang, we looked at the stamping machine and suddenly thought of the winding and stacking method you mentioned. So we tried to wrap the rolled steel plate around the hard iron rod and wind it into dozens of layers of extremely dense steel pipes. During the heating, we kept forging and stamping under the forging hammer. We kept pulling out the middle core and changing it to a thinner model. We also had to brush graphite powder on the outside of the iron core again and again... After repeated stacking and hitting, we finally made the seamless iron pipe as Dalang said. Then we used a super hard iron boring rod to round the inner bore... This is the barrel we made. We have tried it and can shoot two thousand guns in a row and still not explode. Dalang, we are still planning to continue to try it to see how many guns it can hit at most."

"No need to try," Shuai Fan interrupted: "The central iron core is lubricated with graphite powder, which is equivalent to soaking charcoal into the inner chamber of the barrel. The barrel made by winding this way will not explode even if it is shot for 20,000 guns."

"You still have to try it," Zhao Xing continued to add. After saying that, he looked at Shuai Fan again and asked curiously: "Have you tried such a musket before? How did you know that this gun would not explode if it was shot for 20,000 yuan?"

Shuai Fan's eyes dodged: "Sir, you often say that things need to be analyzed logically. You think that the iron is wound layer by layer and bonded together by hot stamping. Each layer of iron sheet is equivalent to iron hoops. If the barrel made in this way wants to explode the barrel, how much force is needed to break the number of iron hoops? According to this principle, the gunpowder we are using now does not have enough explosive power, and it is completely impossible to explode such a barrel, right?"

Zhao Xing nodded and asked Huang Da again: "How many barrels can such a gun be made every day?"

Huang Da replied: "Before such a barrel is made, it must be stamped hundreds of times, and its chamber wall must be washed and rounded... If the machine is enough, we can make ten barrels every day."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "It's not enough. The yield of ten barrels per day is far from enough. I need at least one thousand every day. I need to pull coal for you, I need steam presses for you, and I need to adjust for you by hand. I must achieve a yield of one thousand every day."

Zhao Xing paused and said, "This island belongs to Hong Kong County. I have registered in Hong Kong County. Half of the land of this island belongs to you. You are the owner of this island. The other half of the island belongs to my wife's house. She opened a glass shop on the island. From now on, this island is forbidden to land at will. It belongs entirely to the workers of your two places, you and me. You three brothers will separate one person and form a guard team on the island. My wife will also transfer some personnel to you. Huang Da, from now on, you are a formal resident of Hong Kong County in the Song Dynasty, and you own half of the island. This is a treasure land. If you want to defend this foundation, you can build more muskets and cannons for me.

By the way, I allow your island’s guards to use muskets to kill anyone who lands at will without applying, even if he is an official in Guangdong.”

"The most important thing about artillery is artillery," Shuai Fan emphasized: "Mustguns are just ordinary weapons, and artillery is the god of war. We must arrange artillery on our new warships, and those crossbows and cyclone cannons can be thrown away. We need artillery."

Zhao Xing touched his chin and replied: "Architecture warship, this is a new thing. To redesign the warship, we must reconsider the focus of the warship."

Shuai Fan smiled very treacherously: "I have seen all your warships. I use iron keel bones as warships. The center of gravity of the ship is very low. It is not a problem to install twenty bronze cannons on each ship. If it is replaced with iron cannons, it can be equipped with sixty or even eighty. Sixty iron cannons are enough, and it can destroy the country."

Zhao Xing looked at Shuai Fan, and the two of them were stunned for a while, and they understood each other and smiled.

It was already February when Zhao Xing returned to the mainland. At this time, Guangnan had been completely involved in the development boom set off by Zhao Xing. People in various counties were recruiting friends and busy developing wastelands. Zhao Xing hired 120,000 civilians from Shandong and Henan. These people were scattered next to the main roads along Guangnan. The cannons were rumbling and the road was frantically renovating.

In February, Zhang Dun, who had completed the reshuffle of the court, began to take action. He directed the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Cai Jing to submit a letter to the restoration of the Qingmiao Law and posthumously awarded Cai Que as the Grand Tutor. Immediately afterwards, a strange earthquake occurred in the Central Plains, and frequent earthquakes occurred in Suzhou. Although the magnitude of this earthquake was not high, it ran through the entire farming season from summer to autumn.

The Chinese people pay attention to the response of heaven and man. Any disaster is believed to be a policy incorrect that caused God to get angry, so the disaster was brought down. At that time, Wang Anshi stepped down because of a long drought and no rain. Now there are constant earthquakes, which is a lack of "land virtue". The Qingmiao Law happens to involve the land of the people. Although the ministers in the court remained silent under the restraint of Zhang Dun, there were many discussions among the people.

Just at this time, Zhang Dun's strongest support arrived. Zhao Xing, the governor of Guangnan East Road, wrote a letter asking to implement the Qingmiao Law first in Guangdong, and proposed that the continuous earthquakes in the Central Plains would probably affect the harvest of the people. The court asked Guangnan to allow landless farmers from the Central Plains to go to Guangzhou, and then Guangnan East Road used the Qingmiao Law to lend money to the people to reclaim land and farm.

In his memorial, Zhao Xing pointed out: Guangnan's climate is hot and the rice is ripe three times a year. Even if the people miss the farming season, they can still grow rice in Guangnan for a season, so they don't have to worry about having enough food. After they pay off the loan from the Qingmiao Law, Guangnan allows them to sell the land they distributed to them at will and return home freely.

Zhang Dun was shattered by continuous earthquakes. The national treasury was now empty. He was a little overwhelmed to help the refugees in the Central Plains. At this time, Zhao Xing's letter was extremely supportive of him. With a big stroke, he removed Fu Caiyuan's official position as the transfer envoy of Guangnan East Road. Then he felt that Zhao Xing was so helpful that Guangnan could not spend all the money, and the court also had to do some efforts. He ordered that the landless farmers in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang be trained into wing troops, and the whole ship was sent to Guangnan. The travel expenses were paid by the court.

After receiving the news, Wanqiyong hurried to Zhao Xing's mansion and congratulated Zhao Xing: "Sir, there is no need to pay for the land reclamation in Guangdong now. The funds we advance in the early stage can be paid with the Qingmiao Method. In the future, the people who reclaimed the land will no longer be allowed to pay the travel expenses, and this time we enter and exit, we will save a lot of money."

When Wan Qiyong came in, Zhao Xing was lying on the ground and was riding by his son. His eldest son Zhao Yi (nickname) ignored Wan Qiyong and still waved his whip to urge his father to climb quickly. The younger son Zhao Min (nickname) couldn't walk steadily, but he also ran with his father. His daughter Zhao Xiaofeng (nickname) was still holding her in the wet nurse's hand, smiling.

When Cheng Azhu saw Wan Qi Yong coming to ask for official business, she quickly directed the maid to take the child away. Zhao Xing then straightened up and took the newspaper from Wan Qi Yong lazily, saying with a smile: "Finally, I know that he will implement the Qingmiao Law sooner or later. Now, we pay the money we pay, so don't worry about the amount of money we borrowed. The money we borrowed this year will be paid back with the money we borrowed next year, and the interest will be paid every year. Since we have the support of the court, we might as well set a higher goal this year and strive to migrate farmers to reach two million."

Wan Qi Yong was startled: "Sir, two million, this number is too high."

Wan Qiyong still didn't know that modern farmers go out to work hundreds of millions every year. Zhao Xing planned to let farmers from the Central Plains come to Guangnan to work. The government provided land and labor tools. The taxes were set very low, which was enough to repay the loans from the Qingmiao Law. When the same farmer farmed on the same land for three consecutive years, they would legally own the land.

"I am very satisfied with the fact that two million farmers go south to farm, about 30% of them can stay. To make them develop the habit of working, it is better to open a formal flight between Guangzhou and Hangzhou, sending ten fast ships every day, from Hangzhou to Guangnan. At the beginning, the government can subsidize a little. When the people get used to it, they will naturally know that it is convenient to go back to the inland, and they will be willing to come out to work." Zhao Xing asked Wan Qi Yong with the newspaper.

Wan Qiyong agreed: "This method is good. As long as the flight is opened, it only takes more than ten days for us to contact the inland. It only takes three or five days for workers from Hangzhou to Guangzhou. It is easier to come and go, than to work in Beijing. They will definitely be happy to come out. When the land in Guangnan is reclaimed, it will be fertile land. The government can sell it at a high price when it is sold. It is enough to repay the green seedlings."

Wan Qi Yong was just talking, Chen Yiyi was already running excitedly: "I found it, I found it, the official, Qi Shisan found good clay for glass and ceramics in Huizhou. Do you think we are building a factory in Huizhou or let them transport the clay to Hong Kong."

Zhao Xing said: "The roads in Huizhou are blocked, and even if the ceramics are burned, it is difficult to sell them. As for sand and soil, it is better to build a wharf in Huizhou and ask them to transport all the raw materials to Hong Kong. It is convenient to ship there, and it can be transported directly to Yangzhou after burning."

Chen Yiyi bowed to Wanqi Yong and suggested: "Officials, how to place the group of porcelain workers we captured in Huanqing? Why not place them in Huizhou, and each person will give them a few hectares of land, so that they can settle their homes in Huizhou, and then burn kilns in Huizhou."

Zhao Xing shook his head and said regretfully: "The kiln requires a lot of charcoal and charcoal. Huizhou has a lot of clay. But if the kiln factory is opened, or a large amount of coal is transported from outside, or the amount of cutting is needed nearby, don't move that good scenery. Let them all go to Hong Kong and place them next to the glass yard, build a good house for each of them, take out the shares of the porcelain yard and share them with them, so that they can settle their homes in Hong Kong."

Wan Qiyong persuaded him, "Mrs. Chen, we will set up a yamen in Hong Kong soon. Once the yamen in the Money Cash is located there, the official road from Guangzhou must be built, and then the Navy Army Office will be set up there. When the Navy Army Office goes there, it will gradually become prosperous. In the future, the adults will also plan to move the Maritime Mansion Office there, and they expect Hong Kong will be more prosperous than Guangzhou in the future."

Zhao Xing slapped his forehead: "By the way, Fu Caiyuan has been dismissed. We should go to the Maritime Service and go now."

Wan Qiyong smiled and said, "Mr. Fu lost money this time, and he only paid us 300,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, he was dismissed after only a few months of seats. That guy must be crying in the yamen."

Zhao Xing laughed, he put on his official robe proudly and hummed: "This guy is gone, from now on, we will cover the sky in Guangdong."

In the Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse, a tall white man with blond hair and blue eyes came to greet Zhao Xing in the official robe of the Song Dynasty. This white man was the head of the Fan. He was an official appointed by the Song Dynasty court to specialize in managing the Fan people. The Song Dynasty stipulated that people from overseas countries would live together and hold one Fan chief to take charge of the official affairs of the Goufanfang.

The Song Dynasty court did not explicitly stipulate the division of the power of maritime merchants, but the Arab merchants and European white merchants unconsciously chose their own territory - Arab merchants are rarely seen here in Guangzhou, and there are basically no white merchants in Quanzhou.

This white tyrant chief was a ninth rank official, and was a formal official in the Song Dynasty court, with a rank of the same as that of the magistrate. The officials who served as the tyrant chief were all elected by the tyrants, and they were often maritime merchants who had settled in the Song Dynasty for many years and were proficient in Song language. When he saw Zhao Xing, he learned the etiquette of the Song people: "Mr. Zhao is deeply honored. I would like to ask you to come to the cheap land. Please give me a name below, Song Xiaobo, and his original name is Faulkner."

Faulkner was covered with rings, the most eye was a cat's eye, which was shining like a living creature. As his fingers waving, the eye was still blinking.

In the house of the foreign people, most of the foreign people were busy with their own affairs. When Zhao Xing came here, he seemed to enter a British club. Many foreign people were sitting at the table to work on their own affairs. When they saw Zhao Xing coming in, they put down the documents in their hands, stood up and bowed to Zhao Xing. Each of these foreign people had a thick ring on their hands - the ring on the hands of the foreign people, which the Song people called "rings".

The only one table did not get up. They were sitting around a small square table with a chess game on the table. Several people standing by the table watched saw Zhao Xing come in and bow to pay tribute, but the two chess players were addicted to the chess game and did not raise their heads.

Wan Qiyong came to Zhao Xing and whispered: "These two foreign people are gambling chess. Strangely, the chess of the foreign people are not made of chariots and horses. They only use ivory, rhinoceros horns, and sandalwood to move them in pairs in the chess game. I heard that this kind of chess also has rules to determine victory or defeat, which is completely different from ours. As for how to control victory or defeat, I haven't had time to ask."

Zhao Xing casually replied: "This thing is Western chess. I heard that Byzantine Emperor Alexis Comnenius likes this kind of pastime the most. Westerners regard it as one of the seven compulsory subjects for knight education."

Fan Chang Faulkner widened his eyes and asked curiously: "Sir, I know this kind of chess. This is the first time I have heard that officials of the Song Dynasty knew this kind of chess, the name of the Byzantine Emperor, and the seven compulsory courses of our knights."

Zhao Xing glanced at Fan Chang and found a cross on his chest, and asked again: "Before I came to Guangzhou, I read the notes about your Song people, so I know... I heard that the Pope was making an appeal to call on the believers to attack the Holy Land. Is Mr. Faulkner planning to call on the call to the congregation back?"

Faulkner held the cross on his chest and nodded devoutly: "Sir, everyone here has this idea, but it has not been decided yet to go back. I heard that there are many pirates in Abbas. We intend to gather enough strength and gather enough ships to break through the pirate-covered sea."

Zhao Xing casually found a table around him to sit down. The two people playing chess in the distance were not affected by this place. Zhao Xing glanced at the hall and bowed slightly to the other people standing. The people immediately sat down to work on their own affairs. After looking around the villa, Zhao Xing suddenly asked Faulkner in Latin: "I'm very surprised, how did you come to the Song Dynasty - after going through many obstacles and coming to this land, in my opinion, you are the most precious people of this era. Your value is far more important than Jerusalem.

War is a long-term thing, and the Crusaders set foot on that land for why. Because that land is a hub for communicating trade between the East and the West. If you return home at the time - I don't know if you can survive the interception of the Abbas Dynasty and the numerous pirates. Even if you did a miracle, you have no one who is familiar with the Eastern route. What support does the holy land rely on, and the limited output on that barren land?

I think the greatest support for the jihad is to stay here and wait for the outcome of the war. If the war is victorious, you will transport goods from the East to the West and transport goods from the West. This is the greatest support for that holy land. With a steady stream of goods flowing, the land can survive by relying on its own strength - survive by surrounding strong enemies everywhere."

At this time, the person who was playing chess was also attracted by Zhao Xing's words. One of them slapped and interrupted, "The speech was very beautiful. This adult reminded me of a Song Dynasty official described by Steele on the Somali Sea. May I ask that the adult is the lord of Kirimaiyou Village, a marine merchant in Hangzhou, and a Mizhou official, Lord Zhao... I can't think of another person who knows us so much."

Zhao Xing clapped his hands: "You'd better drive all the 'tongues' in the lobby out. I have something to tell you privately."
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