Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 728
Fan Ning reined in his horse when he was still more than a dozen miles away from the Nuamei tribe's camp. He was surprised to find that a large piece of farmland had been opened up on the left and rice was planted. It was spring in the southern hemisphere, and the farmland was full of people who were planting The Nuami people are predominantly women.

Zhu Ying quickly explained: "Beginning last year, Bei Dao sent people to teach them how to plant the land. The soil here is relatively fertile and the water source is sufficient. You don't need to transplant rice seedlings, just sprinkle the rice seeds in the field, and they can grow by themselves, but It took a lot of effort to teach them to plow the fields."

"Are they willing to farm?"

"Of course they would. If they could be self-sufficient in food, they wouldn't need to buy food from us, and could exchange some cloth for daily necessities. So last year they worked hard, and men and women came out to learn farming."

Fan Ning nodded, urged the horse to continue galloping, and after a while, he arrived at the Nuamei tribe's camp. The Nuamei tribe became very large, surrounded by grass fences, with a simple wooden gate on the front, and the inside was low. It was a thatched house with mud walls, but there was a large brick house in the middle, which was probably built by Bei Dao for them.

"That brick building is the school!"

Zhu Ying pointed at the brick house with a horsewhip and said with a smile: "That is the school we aided in Nuamei. There are more than a dozen teachers teaching more than 200 children to read and write. It started last summer."

Fanning immediately became interested. This is what he hoped to see, using farming and education to change the natives of the island.

He got off his horse and walked towards the brick building. When he walked to the window, he saw forty or fifty native children sitting in the school. Everyone was concentrating on writing with a pen. A gentleman went around and stopped to point out the children write.

Fan Ning nodded secretly, this is much faster than he looks like, the next step is to introduce Buddhism and make the Pacific islands full of monasteries.

In the end, Fan Ning did not see their great chief, and they led their troops to fight. Fan Ning did not intend to spend the night on Nuame Island. At dusk, the fleet set off again, heading for the North Island, which was two thousand miles away.

Five days later, the fleet finally sailed into the Han Sea, which is the sea area between the South Island and the North Island, also known as Han Bay.

Entering the Han Bay, you will arrive at Wucheng, the largest port in the North Island. This is the first city built in the North Island, with a population of 150 households and more than [-] people. In addition to Wucheng, there is also a Song City in the north of Hanhai Bay. It is [-] miles away from Wucheng. In addition, there is a Yuecheng along the southwestern coast of Beidao.

Last autumn, another Jincheng was built upstream of Bailongshui. Jincheng is the mineral smelting center of North Island. Iron mines, coal mines and copper mines are all located near Jincheng. There are only 2 households in Jincheng, but there are [-] miners from Japan. million people.

The arrival of Fan Ning's fleet shocked the people of Wucheng. Tens of thousands of people went out of the city to welcome Fan Ning's arrival. The pier was full of drums and music, and elders' halls, trade chambers and officials rushed to the pier to welcome him.

When Fan Ning appeared at the bow, the surrounding people cheered. Fan Ning stepped off the big boat with his hands, and his wife and children appeared, and the cheers were even louder. After eight years of transition, Bei Dao finally has its own leader.

Zhu Qi stepped forward, bowed and saluted excitedly, "Welcome Your Highness to return to Bei Dao!"

This sentence has been repeatedly discussed by everyone. Fan Ning is the King of Chu in the Great Song Dynasty and also the King of Chu in the Beidao, so it is most appropriate to call him His Highness. As for the return, because the Beidao itself was created by Fan Ning. Heavy job, now finally back, of course, use the word "return".

Fan Ning greeted everyone one by one, and then he smiled and waved his hands, "I originally wanted to go ashore in a low-key way, but there was such a big scene. I accept everyone's wishes, let's arrange more than 1000 new immigrants! They are the northerners. The root of the island."

Fan Tieniu smiled and said: "Since His Highness said so, then we will go home as His Highness, there is no need to be so polite."

More than a dozen carriages came forward, and the Fanning family and servants all got into the carriages, and the carriages drove slowly towards the city under the guard of the cavalry.

Fan Ning and his family opened the windows and waved to the people on both sides of the road, and the cheers of the people became louder.

"Long live His Royal Highness Chu!"

"Welcome back, Your Highness!"

"Long live!"

The carriage slowly entered the city, and there were no welcome crowds in the city, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

It was the first time for Zhu Pei and others to come to the North Island, and they were full of curiosity and expectation for everything in the North Island. The docks and warehouses outside the city made them feel a large-scale industry, not a desolate island. Let them have a little confidence in the future.

After entering the city, everyone exclaimed, and even Fan Ning was stunned for a moment. Compared with two years ago, there is a big change!

In the middle is a wide stone street, covered with smooth stone slabs. This is the central axis of Wucheng County, about five miles long. Within the first two miles, there are all kinds of shops, restaurants, teahouses, inns, brothels, Snack shop, grocery store, butcher shop, vegetable and fruit shop, rice shop, bookstore, cloth shop, silk shop, money shop, jewelry shop, powder and soap shop, dental shop, laundry shop, hot spring bathhouse, theater, acrobatic stage etc.

There are five or six snack bars alone, selling steamed stuffed buns, soup cakes, sesame seed cakes, sugar crisp cakes, sugar balls, sweet-scented osmanthus balls, dumplings and various drinks.

The streets were full of people coming and going, and it was quite lively, mixed with the sound of hawking.

Zhu Pei was surprised and asked Fan Ning: "Husband, didn't you say that supplies are distributed in various ways? The business is very deserted, and I think it is very lively?"

Fan Ning smiled happily: "Beidao has been established for nearly eight years, and has a population of 10,000+. It has gradually changed from distribution according to needs to distribution according to work, and commerce has been established. Not only are people in Wucheng consuming themselves, but also There are exchanges of visits between several counties, and there are also guests from the South Island and the South Continent, but it is estimated that Wucheng has the most prosperous business, and the other counties are not so good, after all, this is Wangcheng."

"How many people are there in the county now?" Ouyang Qian asked from the side.

Fan Ning shook his head, "I don't know now, I'll ask Zhu Qi later."

After the carriage passed through the commercial area for two miles, it suddenly became quiet. From here, both sides of the street were full of big trees, called silver wattle trees, also called acacia trees, which were full of yellow and red flowers, which were extraordinarily elegant and beautiful.

Behind the big tree are government houses, private houses, schools and government offices. At the end, there is a temple on each side, one is called Huilin Temple, and the opposite is a Taoist temple called Sanqing Temple.

Huilin Temple has been opened, and there are more than [-] monks. They were monks who moved collectively from Putuo Mountain in Mingzhou the year before last. Their temple was burned down, and the monks had nowhere to go. They unanimously decided to develop overseas, and finally chose North Island.

The Sanqing Temple is closed, needless to say, this is the Taoist temple reserved for Jian Meizi, they will come later.

Directly opposite is a small palace, covering an area of ​​about [-] mu, surrounded by high walls. There is a memorial archway at the main entrance of the palace, with three large characters written on it: "Chu Palace", which was only completed in March this year.

There are two squares on the east and west sides of the Xinggong. Opposite the east square is the North Island Chamber of Commerce, which controls the economic lifeline of the North Island.

Most of the time, the north city gate is closed, and the general public enters and exits through the three gates in the east, west and south.

They entered the Palace of Chu through the side entrance of the palace, and there were soldiers standing guard at the side entrance. The carriage stopped after entering the side entrance of the Palace of Chu. In front of it was a huge screen wall, one foot high and three feet wide, made of six pieces of granite. On it is a huge relief statue, a huge fleet sailing through the waves on the sea, quite spectacular.

Fan Ning and his family got out of the car and walked around the screen wall. Everyone was stunned. In front of them was a Cuiyun Building that was exactly the same as the capital, except that the Cuiyun Stone stood in front of it. The three-acre small hill is covered with various tree species brought from the Song Dynasty, including jujube trees, hazelnut trees, and chestnut trees.

The various layouts are exactly the same as the mansions in the capital, only ten times bigger.

A little squirrel jumped in front of Zhu Zhe and jumped onto his shoulder.

An inexplicable emotion suddenly surged in Fan Ning's heart. Everyone worked so hard for his arrival that even Bei Dao's home was the same as the capital city.

"Do you like it?" Fanning turned around and asked with a smile.

Everyone nodded, without Fan Ning's instructions, Zhu Pei led his family and walked directly along the corridor to the back house. They all guessed that the back house must be the same as the mansion in the capital.

(End of this chapter)