The fourth year of the Tang Dynasty Zhenguan, the tenth day of April.
Penghu County, Quanzhou, Fujian Province.
"Ryuqiu, it's here" On the high mast lookout, the sentry shouted loudly.
Hearing the sound, Li Chao and Zhang Zhongjian in the captain's room in the stern tower came to the deck together, and in the distance, in the blue sea and blue sky, there was an island.
"This is Penghu," Fan Lubing asked, looking at the islands.
Zhang Zhongjian stroked his beard and smiled, "That's right, this is the Penghu Islands, and the name is still named by King Zhao himself."
In addition, the sea outside the port is Penghu, but the water in the port is as quiet as a lake.
This name is really a perfect match, if it weren't for the fact that I knew that King Yue had never been here, I really doubt that King Yue would have grown up in this life. ” Li Chao looked at the island and slowly said amazing words.
"I've been here before, 10 years ago, with my master, Venerable Sanzang, and I once landed with my master on the island of Ryuqiu across the strait.
I've been here before, so I named it Penghu. ” Newly appointed as the Penghu County Commander, Fan Lubing, who came to take office with the ship this time, was extremely surprised.
I have long heard that Li Chao traveled the world with the mysterious monk in his early years, but I didn't expect that Li Chao had been here ten years ago.
Fan Lubing is a native of Hanoi, Huaizhou, and a jinshi in the first year of Zhenguan.
The chief examiner of that subject is Li Chao, so he is actually Li Chao's protégé like Sun Fujia.
After the imperial examination, he first entered the Guozijian to study for half a year, and then joined Li Chao's national history compilation group.
Then he served in Shangshu Province and served as the rear official of Wufangtang.
After the end of this year, Li Chaojing was promoted to the first governor of the government on Liuqiu Island.
Ryuqiu Island was a fief of the Li family, but it also became the territory of the imperial court.
Last year, the Li family began to run Liuqiu, and in one year, nearly 50,000 immigrants have been immigrated to Liuqiu.
There he built a city and forts, built a port and a tunzhuang, and had a good relationship with the indigenous Shanyi.
With such a population, of course, the imperial court also had to set up an official government.
Eventually, the imperial court set up Liuqiu Island as a county, Penghu County.
It is under the rule of Quanzhou, Fujian Province.
The entire Liuqiu Island and the Penghu Islands are just one county, and the imperial court sent Fan Lubing to serve as the first county commander, and first sent the county commander, the chief bookkeeper, and the county lieutenant, but at present, these three Fan's subordinate officials have not yet arrived.
Fan can be regarded as a bare pole, except for one of his own staff masters, he doesn't even have a subordinate.
A county government must have at least a lot of officials, three classes of officials, five masters, records, and so on, but now there are none.
After Li went beyond Beijing, he came directly to Fujian, first to Fuzhou to meet with the Fujian Xuanfu envoy, and the three envoys, and then to Quanzhou, to meet the assassin history.
After staying in Quanzhou for a while, I also have some understanding of Liuqiu.
In April, Li Chao came south by boat, and after converging, they took Li Chao's fleet to Liuqiu.
The moment he got on the boat and went to sea, Fan Lubing was seasick, and he even regretted it.
He had never seen such a big wind and waves, and after leaving the port, he soon saw nothing but the sea and the sea, which was an unknown fear for an inland literati.
The food on the ship was also quite poor, with biscuits and salted fish, and fresh vegetables only bean sprouts.
The sailors, on the other hand, were quite easy, and for him it was a terrible thing, and for the sailors, crossing the Ryukyu Strait was a trivial matter, choosing a good day, calculating the weather, and then setting sail easily, but it was only a few days away.
"When I arrive in Penghu, I will immediately go to Liuqiu Island."
Li Chao patted this protégé and chose Fan Lubing to be the first chief official of this Liuqiu, the most important reason is, of course, that this is his protégé.
The Jinshi in the first year of Zhenguan still has a few real skills.
Another one, he was originally in Li Chao's history revision group, Li Chao was more familiar with him, this is not only talented, but also more honest and loyal, but in the performance of the post-hall official in Shangshu Province, there is no lack of astuteness, such a young official is exactly what Li Chao needs.
He took the initiative to propose to the emperor to set up a state and county in Liuqiu and send officials.
In the end, the imperial court only set up one county, and Li Chao recommended Fan Lubing, and the imperial court agreed.
The official of Shangshu Province is still only an official, but his authority is very heavy, and he has been qualified to serve two terms, and he is qualified to be a Xiazhou assassin in the local area.
Li Chao dragged this post-official of the Jinshitang to Liuqiu, and the emperor was still a little hesitant.
The fleet sailed into Penghu, and it was as calm as a lake.
Fan Lubing was amazed.
Li Chao smiled and said to his protégé, "There are a total of sixty-four islands in the Penghu Islands, and the main islands are Penghu Island, Yuwen Island and Baisha Island, which are about 150,000 acres in size.
More than a thousand acres of islands, there are eight more.
The remaining dozens of islands are under 1,000 acres, and about forty islands are uninhabitable. ” Before Li Chao developed Liuqiu, he had already developed Penghu.
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Forts were built here, houses and warehouses were built, ports were dredged, and docks were set up.
Penghu is located in the Liuqiu Strait, which is the key to the southeast and can be called the southeast key.
This is not only to choke the key point of Fujian to Liuqiu, but even to hold the key point on the way to the southeast shipping.
Penghu has an excellent harbor, which makes it an excellent supply point and safe haven for navigation between the two sides of the strait, as well as the southeast coast.
"This is still ninety miles away from the main island of Liuqiu, and it can be reached in half a day."
"There are still ninety miles" Fan Lubing was surprised.
"It's only ninety miles, and it's already very close."
Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile, on the vast sea, hundreds of miles are only very close distances.
The inland sea surrounded by the three main islands of the Penghu archipelago is Penghu Bay, which is about 25 miles long from north to south and about 16 miles wide from east to west.
The south mouth is about six miles wide, the water depth is more than 10 meters, and the muddy and sandy bottom is an ideal sheltered anchorage in winter.
"How many people are there here now," Fan asked.
"About three thousand."
A captain of the Li family replied for Li Chao that the Li family attaches great importance to the Penghu Islands, where there is a castle and a port city.
There are even fishing villages and farmsteads on several large islands.
"You can farm here" Fan Lubing looked at the big island at his feet, the island here has a characteristic, that is, it is very low and flat, it looks like a plate floating on the sea, and there are no mountains.
Although the area of the three islands is more than 100,000 acres, there are no rivers and mountains, and the soil layer is also shallow, all of which are red-brown soil, with insufficient fertility and lack of water sources, coupled with strong sea breezes, which are not conducive to the growth of crops.
"You can grow taro, sorghum and watermelons here."
The captain also said truthfully that it is not possible to grow food here, but it can grow some special melons and vegetables, which can be regarded as supplying the island and passing ships on the spot.
Grain, vegetables, and meat are mainly supplied from Quanzhou or Ryuqiu Island.
"In the past, we all shipped from Quanzhou, but since this year, we have all shipped from Liuqiu Island."
However, the fishery resources here are abundant, and in addition to those engaged in ship repair, supply and trade, the rest are mostly engaged in fishing and processing.
Fresh fish, dried fish, fishmeal, canned fish, as well as whaling, whale oil processing, etc.
"Liuqiu Island has been able to supply the needs of more than 3,000 people here" Fan Lubing is more interested in this, after he saw this Penghu Island, he felt that it was very ordinary, there was no land, it could not be planted, it was a rootless tree.
In his concept, there are Tusi people.
Land is fundamental.
Li Chao didn't correct Fan Lubing, Penghu's role was great.
And a few thousand people here can also make a lot of money.
"We now have more than 50,000 people on Liuqiu Island, including Liuqiu Port, Liuqiu City, and several forts, and through several transactions with the Shanyi people, we have now bought a lot of surrounding land, successively established about 30 tunzhuang, reclaimed nearly 500,000 acres of land, and are still in the process of reclamation."
These figures surprised Fan Lubing, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that Lailiuqiu is still the right bet, this is really a good place, it has only been less than two years, and there has been such a big situation here.
With a population of more than 50,000, there are ports, cities, tunzhuang, and grain fields, which is good, very good.
Li Chao knows the development of Liuqiu well, and even all along, the development here has been controlled by him remotely, first running Penghu, and then contacting the natives, buying land with them, trading, and peaceful development, which is the tone set by Li Chao himself.
Some people objected to this decision at the beginning, thinking that the entire Liuqiu belonged to the Li family, so why bother to buy it from Shanyi, but now it seems that the Li family did not waste the rich and noble time in the struggle with Shanyi, and achieved a good development space in the early stage, the castle was successfully built, the immigrants also came, and the tunzhuang here was also built, and the harvested grain was already self-sufficient, and there was even a surplus.
This greatly reduced the cost of the Li family's development and Liuqiu, especially since there was no loss in the early stage.
Li Chao's development strategy for Liuqiu is to first gain a firm foothold, slowly find out the roots of the Shanyi people, and then slowly assimilate the Shanyi while basing himself on development.
"Lu Bing, as the first county magistrate of Liuqiu, do you have any policy policies?"
Li Chao asked the young student.
Fan Lubing, who is still a little young, is a tall young man, but he is not simple in history.
Historically, he later became Wu Zetian's North Gate Bachelor, which was an institution set up by Wu Zetian to seize power, just like the Hanlin Academy established by Li Shimin today, sharing the power of the prime minister.
Wu Zetian used the North Gate Bachelor to help her become the empress Wu Zetian step by step, Wu Zetian became the emperor, and Gao Lubing, a think tank, also became the prime minister all the way.
Gao Lubing looked at the calm Penghu, "Recruit the mountains, develop farming, increase the population, and increase taxes." ” These sixteen words can be seen as the result of his careful consideration.
Li Chao is quite satisfied with this, although to develop Liuqiu, he still has to build workshops, open mines, trade and promote immigration, but he did not think about exterminating Shanyi as soon as he came, but thought of appeasement, this one, Li Chao is still very satisfied.
Shanyi is not the top priority of Liuqiu's development. t1706231537: