Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1515 Back to Yizhou
Since Taiwan City and Chikan City were taken back by the Kyushu Army from the Netherlands, Yizhou has been under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province. This seemingly simple division is actually quite normal. Many farmers who went to Yizhou from the mainland to open up wasteland are mostly from Fujian. They occupied the coastal plains and gradually mixed with the original plain tribes and mountain tribes in Yizhou.

It is inevitable that new immigrants will conflict with aborigines, which is also an inevitable process of civilization. Facing the influence of more advanced civilizations, plain tribes and mountain tribes have to learn the way of life of outsiders and actively integrate into the process of changing customs. middle.

Bengang is a very important port in Yizhou at this time, and it is also the wasteland where Zheng Zhilong and other former pirates recruited refugees from Fujian.

Now Bengang is very prosperous. Ships from the mainland pass through the Penghu Islands and then arrive at Bengang, or there are ships from Luzon Island sailing from the south.

Yizhou currently has two very important agricultural products—one is rice, the staple food of southerners, and the other is sugar cane.

Don't underestimate these agricultural products that seem to be seen everywhere, but they are actually very important to the national economy and the people's livelihood. Agriculture is still the foundation of industry. Without agricultural progress, there will be no industrial revolution.Agriculture is not just for food, it can provide raw materials for industry itself.

A merchant ship docked, and a few men and two women came down. They looked not just ordinary people, but they were not considered wealthy.

"Sister Xiao, Bengang is more prosperous than when we left several years ago." A woman in a narrow dress with narrow sleeves said.

This woman is the daughter of the patriarch of the Atayal tribe in the high mountain tribe of Yizhou. Because she wanted to see the world outside the mountains of the island, she followed Xiao Xiuer and left the tribe. She went to the south of the Yangtze River and the capital. Cheng's wife.

Yu Cheng was originally Chu Yun's guard captain, but was sent by Chu Yun to protect the two of them.

To be honest, Yu Cheng felt that when he got older, his skills were often not as flexible as his younger subordinates, so he was very relieved that the younger subordinates would start to take the responsibility of protecting Chu Yun.

This trip to Yizhou is said to be to protect Xiao Xiuer and Goya, but in fact it is more like a long vacation.

It has been a long time since Xiaoxiuer and Goya left Yizhou. The number of people in Bengang has changed from a few tens of thousands at that time to about 10 now, and the scale of the port has been artificially expanded to accommodate more people. merchant ship.

Looking from the port to the distance, it seems that the area of ​​farmland near Bengang has also increased significantly, and this place has gradually become prosperous, and it is no longer a wild place, and it is no less inferior to some ports in Fujian.

"I heard from the military leader that there has been a telegram between Bengang and Xiamen, so even if we are in the capital, we can send a telegram from the capital to Bengang and directly contact the people in the tribe." Xiaoxiu son said.

Although she is from Hangzhou, after all, she grew up among the high mountain tribes in Yizhou and was raised by the mountains and rivers here, so she also has an indescribable feeling for this place.

"Huh?! Why didn't I know there was such a thing?" Goya exclaimed.

"That's what the military leader told me not long before we set off. It is estimated that the telegraph line has just been laid here. Of course you don't know that you have been in the army lecture hall for a long time. The connection between the capital and Bengang There are not many, and they usually have to be forwarded here through the telegraph station in Xiamen, and the cost is more expensive than sending them to other cities." Xiao Xiuer explained.

"I will also graduate from the Army Lecture Hall this year, and I will serve as an alternate officer in the Second Corps guarding the capital. If there is no problem after the two-year assessment, I can apply for promotion to the Army Second Lieutenant. I can be promoted to second lieutenant in advance because of military merits, but the Second Corps is a corps guarding the capital, and there is no chance of meritorious service. I am very envious of those officers who used to be able to fight in the north and south, but now there are fewer and fewer wars. Lord Lord deliberately lowers the military ranks of all troops. Even if the fleet commander of the Fourth Fleet is only a colonel, it will be even more difficult to get promoted. Otherwise, sister Xiao, you can tell Lord Lord and let him The No.12 Corps, the East India Expedition Army, and the Far West Expedition Army that sent me to Nanyang, I heard that the places where those troops are stationed are often fighting, if I go there, I can make meritorious service and be promoted." Goya said on a whim .

"How dare I make such a request with the military master..." Xiao Xiuer quickly shook her head.

Normally, she just quietly served as the private doctor of the military lord's mansion, and even received a salary from the military lord's mansion, but she never made any request to Chu Yun.

"You should have a good relationship with the military leader. I don't really want to be promoted as soon as possible. It's just that I'm a little bored in the peaceful capital. It's like "Zhuangzi". It took three years to complete the skill, but I have no use for it. Now I am the one who has mastered the dragon slaying skill, and I have no place to use what I have learned." Goya said.

"How can I have a good relationship with the military leader... When did you learn to quote scriptures!?" Xiao Xiuer looked at Goya in surprise.

When he first left Yizhou, Goya could barely speak Chinese, and could not write Chinese characters, let alone quote allusions from "Zhuangzi".

"The Army Lecture Hall is not all about formations or physical fitness classes. There are also many cultural classes. It makes people crazy to think about it. Now I have learned to write calligraphy and recite a lot of classics. It is difficult for you Imagine how painful it is to use the strict discipline in the army to make you take cultural lessons, and it is difficult not to remember." Goya said with lingering fear.

Yu Cheng heard his wife talking about how hard the culture class was, and he couldn't help but smile wryly. The couple didn't have much interest in the culture class, and their future children didn't know if they could cultivate an intellectual.

Whether it is a guard or a non-commissioned officer, it is not an easy task.

They came to Bengang to rest and inquire about the changes of the Atayal tribe after Goya and Xiao Xiuer left.They heard from the local officials that many Atayal children volunteered to study in the private schools in Bengang, and they also built a hall in the city for people from the tribe to settle temporarily in the city. Working in farms and plantations, I can't help but feel that the Atayal tribe, like other Gaoshan tribes, has begun to integrate into the economic system of Yizhou, and it is no longer just hunting... In fact, the business volume of animal fur is small, far inferior to planting Industry.

"Miss Xiao!" A dark-skinned scholar bumped into Xiao Xiu'er and Goya in the hall of the Atayal tribe, and he hesitated for a while before exclaiming.

(End of this chapter)