Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 208 Ryukyu War Criminals Management Office ([-])

After a brief meal and rest at Silver Island, the prisoners of war returned to the ship one after another, and they would be sent to different islands.

The vast majority of prisoners of war will go to the southern Ryukyu Islands to plant sugar cane, while Wu Han and others will take other ships to the Volcanic Ash Islands.

In just over an hour's voyage, while Wu Han and others were sleeping on the boat, the fleet had already arrived at one of the volcanic islands.

"Get off the boat!"

"The island is full of volcanic ash, volcanic rock, basalt, and sulfur. There is no human habitation, wild animals, or vegetation. Every ten days, a fleet will come to provide you with the food and fresh water you need, and check your work. The various materials collected are taken away."

"You can use the tents provided by the fleet to build your own residence on the island."

A total of more than 400 senior prisoners of war were sent to more than a dozen volcanic islands, with an average of only about 30 people per volcanic island.

Each volcanic island is about the size of a village in the Central Plains, enough to accommodate more than a hundred people.

Wu Han and Peng Chong got off the boat, looking at the crater not far away, very confused.

Not long after, the fleet left, leaving only 32 of them standing alone on the beach.

The beach is full of tents, iron nails, straw mats, woolen quilts, pickled vegetables, pickled fish, salt, fruits (used to replenish water), wooden carts, shovels, picks, hammers, etc.

The officers were also at a loss. It was the first time they saw an active volcano, they lived in the interior since they were young, and it was the first time they came to an overseas island, and it was this kind of deserted island without any life.

Originally in their cognition, after Liaodong captured these precious talents, they should reuse them and let them continue to lead the army to fight for Liaodong.

Who would have known that Liaodong had no interest in striving for world hegemony at all, so these officers were useless.

"Set up the tent first, otherwise there will be no place to live at night." Peng Chong, the former governor of Yuyang, sighed, regretting his attack on Liaodong.

Since Peng Chong and Wu Han were the chief officers of the people before, there were only thirty senior officers working, some of them were school lieutenants, some were ministers of other departments, some were chief bookkeepers, and some were military lords.

Peng Chong was in charge of directing a group of officers to set up tents in an orderly manner.

Wu Han held a shovel to defend himself, and then went to the crater alone, standing on the commanding heights to see the situation of the entire island.

"I'll go there and see if there is really no one on the island." Wu Han said to Peng Chong, and then left with everyone's expectant eyes.

The beach is full of sand, and the ground is paved with cooled magma when you go inside. When you come to the slope of the volcano, the ground is full of volcanic rocks and volcanic ash. When Wu Han came not far from the crater, he found many holes on the ground. basalt and sulfur.

Come to the crater, stand on the edge of the crater, look at the bottomless black hole below the crater, you can still see a little red light in the dark, that is the molten lava.

Basalt and volcanic ash are their basic tasks, and the relatively more precious sulfur can be collected to gain points.

Standing on the commanding heights of the island and looking around, there is a vast sea, and the sky is blue in addition to the sky.

"Is there really no way to escape?" Wu Han muttered to himself in despair.

These volcanic islands are more stable than dungeons. At least the dungeons have a slight chance to drill holes to escape. Here, apart from the sea or the sea, there is not even a single tree on the island. Even if you want to build a canoe and row out, it is impossible. .

"Using an overseas island as a prison, the Liaodong Wang family is very calculating. Such a prison doesn't even need a jailer."

When Wu Han returned to the camp, he found that everyone had already set up the tents. After all, they were military officers, so they were not stupid enough to set up the tents too close to the sea.

"How is it?" Peng Chong first asked Wu Han who had just returned.

The rest of the officers also looked at Wu Han hopefully.

"Dig the ashes honestly, you can't get out." Wu Han sat on a straw mat, picked up a purple Nai and gnawed it into his mouth.

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at the same time
Another uninhabited desert island in the Ryukyu Islands
ransom island

This is an uninhabited deserted island that also has no vegetation, but also no volcanoes. It is a prison specially used by the Wang family to hold prisoners who can be exchanged for ransom.

It is said to be a prison, but in fact there are no buildings. There is only one stone mountain on the entire island, and there are more than a dozen tents at the foot of the mountain.

Regular royal fleets provide food and water to the deserted island.

Therefore, the island was named Ransom Island by the royal family.

Since Geng Yan was defeated in the naval battle of Liaodong Bay, he was transported by the Wang family to this ransom island in the Ryukyu Islands. The Wang family fleet gave him a tent, some pickled vegetables, fish and fruits, and let him fend for himself on the island. There is no respect for meat tickets that can be exchanged for ransom at all.

Today's Geng Yan was the same as usual, fishing by the sea with a harpoon in hand.

He almost vomited from eating pickled fish and pickled vegetables every day. He wanted to eat raw fish and improve his diet a little.

It's not that he doesn't want to grill fish, it's because there's no grass on this deserted island, not to mention trees, so there's no way to set fire to grill fish.

In order to prevent food from rotting, the food of the Wang family overseas is salted.

These salted foods are more unpleasant in taste, but have a longer shelf life.

It is impossible for the Wang family to send a fleet of ships to provide fresh water to the deserted island every day. In that case, the freight alone will not be able to earn back. However, if a large amount of fresh water is provided at one time, the fresh water will become stagnant and undrinkable within a few days, so those who provide fresh water overseas The way is to provide fruits, and use fruits to supplement fresh water for people on deserted islands.

Snapped!
"bingo!"

"I hit it!"

Geng Yan was overjoyed, he finally forked a sea fish.

Not only sea fish, but also some crabs and turtles can be caught from time to time, and there are also many cat's eye snails, snail clams, starfish and shells on the beach.

However, since there are no fire materials and tools, they can only be eaten raw.

Geng Yan returned to the beach, took out the cat’s eye snail meat he had dug, cut the sea fish into slices of sashimi, sprinkled some salt, wrapped the cat’s eye snail meat with two slices of sashimi, and stuffed some pickled vegetables into it. Cut a few pieces of purple Nai (apple) into it, and then eat it in big mouthfuls like this, without fear of parasites.

While Geng Yan was still enjoying the delicacies he made with his own hands, a royal cargo ship came to Ranjin Island.

The sailors brought all kinds of supplies down and let the people on the ransom island go away, and then the servant of the Wang family on the ship shouted to one of them: "Chen Shao, your family is unwilling to pay the ransom to redeem you, starting today you You are not qualified to eat and die on Ransom Island, hurry up and get on the boat, and we will send you to the volcanic island to dig ashes."

As soon as these words came out, the face of a young man on Ransom Island changed drastically.

Although life on Ransom Island is tough, at least there is no need to work. If you go to a volcanic island and dig volcanic ash every day, and inhale a lot of dust, you will easily get lung disease and basically not live long.

However, along with this bad news is another piece of good news.

The servant of the Wang family immediately yelled at Geng Yan who was next to Chen Shao: "Geng Yan, your family paid a ransom of [-] million yuan, now you can go home!"

Haw! ——

Geng Yan, who was eating a sashimi sandwich, was shocked by the sudden good news, his mouth stopped, and the delicious food in his hand fell to the ground.

He had waited too long for this day.

But the ransom of [-] million yuan is a huge sum of money. Is my father emptying Shanggu County?

Geng Yan thought in his heart.

(End of this chapter)