A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 467 Sharpening the knife and becoming powerful

After the news that Wang Yun opened up the ocean and landed in Ryukyu was sent back to Luoyang, it did not cause any waves in the court except the royal family.

Even from the perspective of the most enlightened and long-term minister, even Lingnan and Southern Fujian are still barbarian lands, and overseas it can be imagined that they are barbarian lands of barbarian lands.

What's so exciting about occupying a barbarian land?Are you happy to have an extra place of exile?Will the whole family be exiled overseas if he makes another mistake?

Of course, the royal family will not insist on shouting. This island can cultivate millions of acres of fertile land and is rich in resources.

After Wang Yun successfully came to Ryukyu, the royal family began to organize members of the family who studied agriculture and craftsmen to prepare to send them to Ryukyu.At the same time, the Wang family also began to contact some of the public clans.

The royal family knew very well that migrating people to overseas islands was more difficult than migrating to the Western Regions. If they wanted to use Ryukyu Island as a fallback, they would have to prepare at least [-] people to migrate to Ryukyu Island.

The public trust in the royal family is extremely high. The royal family can rely on its own prestige to make the public give up the land and comfortable environment in the Central Plains and migrate to Da Liuqiu without any hardships.

The Da Liuqiu Island was still in a barbaric state at this time, with only a few locals living on the island. Wang Yun needed to determine the situation here first and establish a residence. Large-scale immigration would take at least a few years.

And if you want to move 10 people there, it will take at least ten years.

In order to develop the Ryukyu Islands, the royal family needed to invest a lot of money and food in the early stage.Wang Yun commanded five thousand naval troops to initially establish a camp, and then began to recruit craftsmen to build a small town here.

Building a town requires a lot of manpower, food, and money. However, the imperial court has not been financially wealthy in recent years. It has opened up the south and the Hehuang Valley, and invested heavily in shipbuilding and galloping. There is not much money left to invest in the Ryukyu Islands. .

Thinking of this, Wang Yun suddenly had an idea in his mind to develop Ryukyu with the help of those nobles and powerful people.

At this time, sugarcane was mostly planted in the south to extract cane sugar. However, due to land problems, there was not much planting area, so the price of sugar has always been high.

Nowadays, the price of one stone of sugar in Daqian can be worth more than ten stones of salt, which is more profitable than making silk and lacquerware.

If Wang Yun wants to get those nobles and powerful people to support him, the best way is to lure them with benefits.What is the most precious thing on the Ryukyu Islands?Naturally, it is land and minerals, but these are values ​​that can only be realized later. The best way to reflect their value now is to grow sugar cane.

There are now large areas of wilderness on the Ryukyu Islands, and these wildernesses can be easily reclaimed and planted with sugar cane.Thinking of this, Wang Yun began to prepare.

He does not intend to directly contact those nobles and powerful people, and then ask these people to contribute money and efforts. After all, if he really wants to do this, even if he succeeds, he will need to make a lot of promises and give up a lot of benefits.He knew very well how big Xun Gui's appetite was.So he planned to change the method and let those nobles and powerful men come to him to beg him.

Soon some rumors began to spread wildly in Gusu City. His Royal Highness the Third Prince discovered a large island with countless gold, silver and jewels, and fertile land thousands of miles away.

There are also rumors that there are fertile fields everywhere on the island where sugar cane can be grown.There are also some outrageous rumors that the third prince has found an overseas fairy island and is going to the fairy island to enjoy happiness or something.Various rumors spread widely in Gusu City, and many people used them as conversation topics after dinner.Not many people really believe it, and many people are thinking about watching His Highness the Third Prince’s joke.

But as time went by, these rumors did not subside at all, but intensified.Many people even discovered that His Highness the Third Prince had recruited many people with experience in growing sugar cane.

When they saw this situation, the nobles, powerful men and businessmen who had no profit and could not afford to go early became interested and began to investigate the truth or falsehood of the matter.Soon these people got a lot of information from the navy sailors.

The island of Ryukyu was discovered. It is fertile and uncultivated for thousands of miles. The island is so vast that it is almost a state. The climate on the island is mild and the land is fertile, suitable for growing sugar cane. His Highness the Third Prince has already asked the farmer to see it. As long as it is planted here, There will be a bumper harvest of sugar cane in the next year. The court will have a new source of income. The royal family has begun to prepare a sugar pressing factory and other news.

Of course, these news were spread deliberately by Wang Yun. After hearing the news, those noble and powerful businessmen suddenly became anxious. They could no longer sit still and began to look for connections and favors. participate.

Many times, when these noble and powerful people see the noble and powerful people like him making money, they feel more uncomfortable than if they feel they are in debt.They are the most direct competitors and naturally do not want to fall behind.

Therefore, after confirming that the news was true, he immediately wanted to participate, but Wang Yun did not see these people at all.There are also many noble families in Gusu City, and the one closest to the royal family is the Wu family. Wang Yun has already secretly contacted the Wu family.

Sometimes, people are just mean. When you first want them to give you money, they will find various reasons to resist you. When you don't want the money anymore, they will start to shamelessly insist on giving you money.

With the cooperation of the Wu family and relying on the Da Liuqiu Island, Wang Yun attracted the attention of the entire Gusu City and even the nobles of Kuaiji County.After seeing that the fire was almost done, Wang Yun sent someone to spread the news that a banquet would be held in the Gusu Yamen Office of the imperial court in three days, and the issue of the Ryukyu Islands would be discussed at that time.

After getting the news, all the nobles, powerful people, and businessmen were looking for famous assassins and wanted to participate. The Wu family in Gusu and those who held single-person official positions in the naval army would have their family thresholds broken down by these people.

Everyone wants to participate in this feast.If Wang Yun was serious, he could definitely make a fortune from the invitations.It's a pity that this kind of eating was too ugly, so Wang Yun refused directly.

When the banquet was held, near the Gusu Yamen, carriages and horses from nearby prefectures and counties crowded the surrounding roads. Not only the nobles and powerful people from Kuaiji County came, but also the powerful people from Huai'an and Jinling came. .

So many people came, making this banquet even more lively.

For these nobles who came from afar, Wang Yun also let them participate.Anyway, the more people there are, the more funds, manpower and material resources he can raise.

By the time the banquet started, more than two hundred nobles and powerful families were present.When Wang Yun saw so many fat sheep, he was naturally ready to kill them and use the money and food of these nobles and powerful people to develop Ryukyu.

If you work hard, you will be noble and powerful, won't the money for development come?They have to thank us for this!

(End of this chapter)