Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 528
Fan Ning was not worried that Japan would transfer pig iron to the Liao Kingdom. He was worried that after Japan got the pig iron, its force would increase greatly, which would threaten the safety of Kunzhou. Just kidding, even if the imperial court allowed the pig iron to be sold to Japan, he would never agree.

Fan Ning's answer was expected by Shishi Fujiwara. He knew in his heart that the other party would not agree, and he only proposed it out of luck. He sighed in his heart and said, "I hope that the third request, Shijun Fan, can agree."

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "I just said, as long as it does not violate the laws of the Song Dynasty, I will definitely meet your reasonable demands."

"The third request should be beneficial to everyone. Can we invite experienced officials from the Great Song Dynasty to help us explore the silver mines? In addition, can we teach the Japanese silver smelting technique? Our silver smelting is too rough and the waste is too great."

This request is not bad, it will help squeeze out Japan's silver reserves to the greatest extent. Fan Ning knows that the most famous Iwami Silver Mine in Japan has been mined, but the real vein has not been discovered in Japan. It will not be developed until the Ming Dynasty, and there is also the Sado Gold Mine. , Fuji Jinshan, Kai Jinshan, these gold mines and silver mines should be discovered earlier, which will help the Song Dynasty to improve its finances.

You must know that the condition that the imperial court set for itself is an annual income of 1000 million taels of silver. If you don't make full use of Japan's gold, silver and copper mines, how can you complete the task of the imperial court.

Fan Ning thought of this, and said happily: "This request is completely beneficial to both parties. I can agree. There is a team in Kunzhou that specializes in searching for gold and silver mines. I can arrange for them to come to your country to search for mines. In addition, silver refining methods can also be used." Unreservedly pass it on to Japan, but there is one condition, I hope that Japan will also sell an island in the south to Da Song for the fleet to transfer supplies."

Japan currently does not pay much attention to islands. In addition, the north has sold Sado Island to the Song Dynasty as a transit supply place, and there is nothing wrong with selling one or two islands to the south.

Fujiwara said: "As long as the area is not too large, less than ten miles in radius, it can be sold."

Fan Ning smiled slightly and said: "There is a small island off the Izu Peninsula, with a radius of only five miles, which is just right for the Kunzhou fleet to transfer. In addition, there is also an island off the southern coast of Osumi Country in Xikaido. The locals call it Tanegashima. With a radius of about ten miles, it is very suitable for Dasong merchant ships to resupply midway, and these two islands hope to be sold to Dasong."

Fujiwara Gyotsu and Fujiwara Shishi discussed in a low voice for a moment, and Fujiwara Gyotsu said, "These two islands belong to Izu and Osumi countries. If they agree to sell them, the Japanese court will not object."

Fan Ning was overjoyed. With these two islands, the Song Dynasty navy had a place to station in the south of Japan.

After three days of negotiations, an official trade agreement was finally reached between Da Song and Japan. The two parties agreed to open a second trade port at the port of Dongcheng County, Settsu, connecting with Quanzhou Port, and implement official trade. Fan Ning promoted Cheng Qing to Zhengba The Counselor of Pinjingluefu is the trade representative of the overseas business administration in Japan, and Fujiwara Gyotsu appointed Fujiwara Nagamori as the Japanese trade representative in Quanzhou.

At the same time, Song Dynasty officials recruited [-] Japanese laborers and [-] Japanese girls to Ryukyu Prefecture on [-] ships in three days, which opened the prelude to the large-scale development of Ryukyu Prefecture in the Song Dynasty.

Due to the relatively difficult conditions in the Ryukyu Prefecture, the Overseas Economic and Strategic Administration has appropriately increased the wages of the workers, and the condition of full board, lodging and clothing remains unchanged. The increase is eight hundred Wen, and they are mainly engaged in logistical work such as cooking, laundry, and sewing.

Of course, the officials in the Jinglue Mansion know that this is a replica of Kunzhou’s experience. These Japanese girls will eventually marry soldiers and local people stationed on the big and small Ryukyu Islands, and eventually stay and become overseas residents of the Song Dynasty. This is also to encourage soldiers to stay. A powerful measure to settle down.

In fact, it is no secret that the first group of [-] Japanese girls who went to Kunzhou nine years ago all went home to visit their relatives and brought a lot of money and cloth to their families. The people of the Song Dynasty who made the Japanese people envious, and the second and third batches of [-] Japanese girls finally settled in Kunzhou. They not only married soldiers in the garrison, but also married local ordinary people.

This has also become the best way for many Japanese girls in remote areas to get rid of poverty, so the quota of [-] girls was fully recruited within one day.

After half a month of sea voyage, [-] ships arrived in Ryukyu County.

Fan Ning rushed to Kunzhou and Japan for a month and a half. Officials in Liuqiu County were also ready to welcome the laborers. The [-] large tents and other supplies sent from Quanzhou had already been sent to Liuqiu County. Two military camps were set up in the mine, and [-] workers were mainly engaged in mining, logging and road building, while the people in the city were responsible for growing grain.

First of all, they will spend one year to completely rejuvenate Ryukyu County, making it a large county that can generate blood and be full of economic vitality. Then, based on Ryukyu, they will start to expand to the central and southern regions, and strive to use Ryukyu in five years. The government built the second Kunzhou.

The Ryukyu seaport is extremely busy. Hundreds of soldiers from Kunzhou are skillfully organizing [-] laborers. They have rich experience and can effectively organize and manage labor. This is why Fan Ning considers that the soldiers of the Ryukyu government are inexperienced, and there will be some problems in a short time. Unnecessary conflicts, so he transferred [-] veterans to garrison Ryukyu Mansion to be responsible for labor management.

When the laborers arrive at their destination, they should rest for three days. Firstly, let the laborers recover from the weakness of the boat, secondly, adapt to the environment, and secondly, let the laborers get to know each other so that they can take care of each other at work. This is very important. If they don't take care of each other and help each other, they will have a very difficult life. The reason is very simple. It is not easy for one person to kill a snake, but it is easy for a group of people to kill a snake.

After the laborers were concentrated, the big camps were allocated, and the clothes, shoes and socks were distributed, and the soldiers led them to the two big camps.

Now Fan Ning is more concerned about eliminating the indigenous enemies. As soon as he entered the county, the commander of the capital, Zhou Mi, rushed back to report to Fan Ning on the situation of suppressing bandits in the past one and a half months.

"It was relatively easy for us to uproot the two tribes' lairs. In ten days, both lairs were completely wiped out. But on the way back to Ryukyu County, we were ambushed by the natives, and dozens of brothers were killed or injured."

"Is there a fourth native lair?" asked Fanning.

"No, it's because several hunting teams from each of these two lairs went out to hunt and escaped our attack. There were about [-] of them. They hated us very much and broke up into pieces. They continued to attack and ambush us in the forest. We, for more than a month later, we were besieging these scattered indigenous people."

"How is the effect of extermination?"

"It was not very smooth at the beginning. They were familiar with the terrain, they were flexible, and they came and went like flying, which caused us a lot of trouble. Later, after the southern Yufan natives joined us, we gradually mastered the rules of action of these natives. It started with great effect, killed a large number of natives, and so far, there are less than 50 enemies left."

Fan Ning took two steps with his hands behind his back, and asked again, "Why did the Yufan natives help us?"

"Reporting to the envoy, on the one hand, we obeyed the envoy's order and did not hurt them. They felt the kindness of the Song army, and on the other hand, they had a deep hatred among themselves, so they were willing to join us. In addition, Yufan's The two great chiefs have also come to meet the envoy."

Fan Ning nodded and asked happily, "Where are they?"

"Already waiting in the county seat!"

Soon, Fan Ning saw the two great chiefs in the county government office. It seemed that their appearance and skin color were not much different from those of Quanzhou locals, and they were obviously different from the little blacks who were wiped out. As a result of intermarriage, many indigenous people are even descendants of fishermen who migrated from the coast to Ryukyu Island a hundred years ago.

Yufan is the name given to them by the Song Army, which means the natives who fish for a living, while the fishermen in Quanzhou call them Gaoshan Fan and Dong Fan. The Dong Fan people are actually a partial branch of the Hakka people. In the western plains of Ryukyu Island, more than 200 years ago, the number of aborigines from Luzon continued to increase and took away their territories. They had to flee to the south to make a living by fishing.

The two great chiefs are a pair of half-brothers, one named Alang and the other Dasheng. They are both about 40 years old. Their grandfather was a Quanzhou fisherman. He was dressed in green cloth and sackcloth, no different from coastal fishermen. He can also speak fluent Quanzhou dialect, which is Hakka.

Zhou Mi introduced Fan Ning to the two great chiefs. The two knelt down and said something excitedly. Zhou Mi translated to Fan Ning: "They said that the Lord led the heavenly army to wipe out the little black devils entrenched in Ryukyu. After saving the Dongfan people, the Dongfan people are willing to be loyal to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and become the people of the Song Dynasty!"

Fan Ning nodded happily, quickly helped them up, and asked them to sit down in the lobby.

(End of this chapter)