A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 469 Colonial Fusang
50 imperial silver coins is not a small amount of money. Just like building a large-scale ship in Dengzhou Shipyard now costs about [-] imperial silver coins.If more sea-going ships are built, the price can be further reduced.

Because of the need to develop Liuqiu Island, the imperial court would need a large number of ships to go there in the next period of time, so Wang Yun directly placed an order for fifty large-scale ships to the shipyard.

It was also when Wang Yun ordered the construction of more sea-going ships that these nobles and powerful men also discovered the problems with the ships, so they all requested that the Dengzhou Shipyard be moved to Suzhou.Because as long as the shipyard is moved here, they will have the opportunity to obtain the technology and crafts of sea-going ship manufacturing.

Wang Yun directly rejected the proposal, and the Dengzhou Shipyard even sent [-] soldiers to guard it.

Because the shipyard used a division of labor method from the beginning, except for a few master craftsmen, others did not have the manufacturing technology and craftsmanship of large ships. Moreover, those master craftsmen were all direct or collateral lines of the royal family, which prevented technical leaks to the greatest extent. .

Of course, in addition to these, the shipyard is located in Dengzhou because the wood used for shipbuilding is basically large wood produced in the north.

Due to the climate, the wood in the north is harder and less likely to deform, making it more suitable for building ships than the wood in the south. The large wood in the south is prone to breakage when building sea-going ships when encountering big storms.

After Wang Yun ordered the construction of more ships, he began to recruit a large number of craftsmen from the north to Daliuqiu Island.The location of Da Liuqiu is very important. The imperial court is planning to turn this place into a base for the navy, and various facilities need to be built.

After a large amount of money was invested, Ryukyu Island also entered a stage of rapid development.At the same time, the nobles also organized a large number of farmers and cattle to come to the Ryukyu Island to open up wasteland and plant.

The land selected by Wang Yun is basically plain, which is very suitable for farming with cattle.Basically each of these distinguished families purchased more than a thousand acres of land on the Ryukyu Islands, and some even had three to five thousand acres. It would be too difficult to farm such a large amount of land by humans, so farming with cattle was the best option.

After years of development, Daqian farming technology has been greatly improved. Just like the curved shaft plow has been promoted for a long time, the double shaft plow has been implemented in the north in recent years.

The curved shaft plow is suitable for one-person operation, also because the animal power is not enough.These nobles and powerful men are naturally good at farming cattle.In this way, only a few people are needed to cultivate a thousand acres of farmland.

Therefore, in this era of underdeveloped science and technology, a strange modern farm farming method appeared on Daliuqiu Island.

When Wang Yun came to Daliuqiu Island, he sent envoys to contact the local aborigines, and the final result was good.These aboriginal people do not reject contact with Daqian.Especially after the envoy gave the aborigines some iron tools, salt, and silk, the relationship became better.

So Wang Yun began to trade various materials with the local aboriginal people, and invited local residents to help them build a gathering place.For this kind of transaction, these local aborigines are happy to accept.

After all, salt, cloth, ironware and other materials they were in urgent need of were very precious, and they had never seen ironware like it.Now you only need to help the Dagan people build houses and level the land to obtain these items.

It is much cheaper to use these indigenous people than to bring people from Daqian. Building settlements and reclaiming wasteland does not require any skills, and these people are completely competent.After using some aboriginal people and discovering the benefits of aboriginal people, Wang Yun immediately invited more aboriginal people to come. At the same time, he also gave many gifts to the leaders of the aboriginal people to get them to agree.

After many nobles discovered the deal between the court and the aboriginal people, they immediately used the aboriginal people to open up wasteland in this way.This has made the development progress of Ryukyu Island very fast.

The arrival of Daqian brought huge changes to these indigenous tribes that had remained unchanged for hundreds of years.

After the construction of the naval base on the Da Liuqiu Island was completed, Wang Yun once again led the navy to Fusang, heading north from Da Liuqiu Island. There were many small islands along the way, and the navy soon arrived at the Xiao Liuqiu Islands.

The Xiaoliuqiu Islands are much smaller than the Daliuqiu Island, not even one-fifth of the Daliuqiu Island. However, there are also people living on this island. Since there are people living in it, that is a good thing. Wang Yun once again used the words Daliuqiu Island. In the same way as the islands, we successfully established relations with the aboriginal people on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

The indigenous people of the Xiaoliuqiu Islands welcomed the arrival of the Dagan fleet. Wang Yun once again used salt, iron tools, silk cloth, and lacquerware to get the enthusiastic help of these indigenous people.

And successfully established a stronghold on the Xiaoliuqiu Islands. After learning that Daqian was a big country with a population of tens of millions and an area of ​​thousands of miles, the residents of the Xiaoliuqiu Islands were very eager to wait until Wang Yun's fleet was revised and prepared to continue. When heading to Fusang, the leader of Xiaoliuqiu Island asked Wang Yun to follow them to Daqian, and expressed his desire to become a fan of Daqian.

Hearing this, Wang Yun was also very surprised. After confirming, Wang Yun immediately agreed to their request. Foreign countries requested to be attached to become a fan country. This has always been encouraged in Daqian, and as an envoy, you will also be rewarded. .

Obviously, the people of Xiaoliuqiu are willing to join in, which is the credit of the envoy this time. When he returns this time, the envoy will also be promoted.

After carrying out supplies in the Xiaoliuqiu Islands and repairing the ships, Wang Yun led the ships to continue northward. Because of the existence of the nautical chart and the small islands that could be docked along the way, the fleet sailed very smoothly. However, there were encounters in the process. A storm did not cause any damage.

More than half a month later, Wang Yun led the navy to successfully reach an island in the south of Fuso.

After arriving at this island, Wang Yun immediately sent people to build a temporary stronghold here, and then began to search for the local aborigines. It was only after Wang Yun saw the aborigines here that he discovered that the books left by his ancestors were indeed Quite right, these aborigines are as tall as half-grown children.

No wonder our ancestors called them Japanese. Our ancestors said that these Japanese were despicable, shameless, and good at forbearing. They would retaliate whenever they had the opportunity, so they could not be given any chance.

These Japanese people were very afraid of the arrival of Daqian, and Wang Yun had a bad sense of these Japanese people because of the books left by his ancestors.Therefore, after coming here, the attitude towards the Japanese was completely different from the previous attitude of the Ryukyu people. It could even be called a world of difference, and they completely used these Japanese as slaves.

(End of this chapter)