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.    200 Festival Tenant Farmers

    The island and Funing County face each other across the Bohai Sea, almost on the same latitude, and the distance is only a little more than 300 miles.  All kinds of sand boats and lucky boats sailed to Chahe Island with hard sails and the south wind. They also arrived in one day and one night.  Among Pang Ning's fully equipped sailboats, the Colao Clippers ran faster, taking into account the time it took for the people to board and disembark, and the round trip only took less than two days.

    After figuring out the waterway, ships of all colors no longer gathered together to form a fleet.  Pang Ning divided the fleet into more than a dozen groups, and each group of about ten ships acted alone.  With fewer ships entering the harbor at one time, there will be less time spent at the pier.  As soon as the people were dropped off at Chahe Island, the ship sailed westward to Funing County with full sail.  In Funing County, they were packed with people fleeing famine and sent directly to Chahe Island in the west.

    King Dong offered a good price and gave the company one tael of silver for every ten refugees transported, which cheered up the merchants.  The money doesn't look like much, but after all, it's a short-distance transaction and it comes very quickly.  It was not easy to transport goods from Qiongzhou to the north. The silver obtained here was more useful than that from the South China Sea, so the maritime merchants worked hard one by one.

    These adventurers were very courageous. Anyway, it was a short journey of one day and one night. Some big fortune ships even packed seven or eight hundred people at once. They were so crowded that they shouted and sailed to Tea River Island, demanding money from the King of the East and the King of the South.  record merits.  Not to be outdone, the owners of the small boats also took out the oars and let the people on the boats take turns to slide. The wind and the power of the oars made the boats speed up to seven or eight knots

    The number of refugees in Funing County is getting larger and larger, and a huge fleet is transporting them day and night.  The merchant navy worked for about ten days and sent all the 190,000 hungry people from Gyeonggi to Chahe Island.

    Ten of these people were left by Qin Mingtao to reclaim land in Liaodong, and the other 90,000 people were sent to Pang Ning to transport goods to the South China Sea.  Even Chahe Island alone cannot accommodate 100,000 people, and other islands must be occupied.  Gaishuiying was born in "Gaishui", and officers at all levels were very good at land reclamation.  As soon as he returned to the east coast of the sea, Qin Mingtao began to organize the new people to go to Zhongdao and Changsheng Island to build water conservancy and reclaim wasteland.

    These two large islands are very close to Chahe Island, both near Fuzhou Bay.  Changsheng Island is only fifteen or six miles away from Chahe Island in the north, so it is very convenient to travel by boat.  Zhongdao is in the northwest of Chahe Island, five or six miles away from Chahe Island, but even closer.

    Changsheng Island is very large, nearly two hundred miles long. It used to be a prosperous place. People say that it was the county seat of a county long ago.  After Nurhachi conquered Liaodong, it was once a stronghold of Dongjiang Town. Houjin and Dongjiang Town fought back and forth, causing a mess. The Liao people on the island were either kidnapped by Houjin or escaped eastward with Dongjiang Town.  The population is now very small.

    The area of ??Zhongdao Island is almost the same as that of Tea River Island, and it is also an empty island with no people.

    Qin Mingtao worked non-stop, turning the management structure of Gaishuiying to the extreme.  While he organized people to clean docks and build ferries on various islands, he also organized tenant farmers from the port of Gyeonggi to weed and irrigate, plant soybeans in waste fields to store fertilizer, reorganize fields abandoned due to war, and build buildings beside the fields.  The village settled down.

    It also arranged for the sacrifice of martyrs to be compensated and the craftsmen gathered to build arsenals.  Too busy to be dizzy.

    Mingtao was born busy, but he was born not to be busy.  While Qin Mingtao was busy managing the food, clothing, housing and transportation for 190,000 refugees, Ning Ning left the boring transportation work to the navy and maritime merchants.  Zhao Ru was only asked to go to the dock to count the "credits" of each firm.  I spent the whole day riding horses and hunting on several islands.

    It¡¯s a cloudy day.  The view is not very good.  But Pang Ning was lucky today.  We spent a day wandering around the mountains in Zhongdao.  He shot a good deer deer.  Throw the prey onto the packhorse.  Pang Ning proudly led a group of personal guards.  Ride to a newly opened settlement at the foot of the mountain.  Go halfway.  Pang Ning saw Zhao Ru and the others riding over.

    ?Think about it.  Pang Ning asked with a frown.  "What? Are all the people lucky?"

    Zhao Ru nodded.  I saw a fat deer hanging on the packhorse next to me.  Flattery said.  "Master, you are very good today. You can only hunt such a fat deer."

    Pang Ning spat.  He smiled and said confidently.  "The weather is bad today. I only caught this one." Seeing Zhao Ruxiang, he couldn't help but smile.  Pang Ning raised his eyebrows.  Said with a wave of his hand.  "Let's go! Go to the farmhouse down the mountain. Cook the deer."

    A gathering place at the foot of the mountain is a planned large village, which has begun to take shape, with dozens of thatched-roof wooden houses erected.  Seeing a fat man in rich clothes walking down the mountain, leading a handsome young man, and a dozen knights with swords and guns into the village, the villagers guessed that a high official was coming, so they all instinctively hid in the house.  .

    Pang Ning shook his head and said, "The publicity work hasn't been done yet." He looked around, randomly selected the most spacious room, and shouted into the room, "Let me tell you! Is there anyone in this room?"

    Seeing Pang Ning speak up, the pirates behind him rushed up, banged on the door, and shouted inside, ", encourage everyone to open up wasteland and create new fields.  I did the math yesterday, and looking at it this way, our life is more than twice as good as before.  Now Dong Wang has organized everyone to build water conservancy projects everywhere. This harvest will not be destroyed in the future. If the land becomes fertile, life will be even better.  If we get more plow horses, we can open up another twenty acres of wasteland"

    The farmer stopped here, as if he felt that his vision for the future was too greedy and exaggerated, and he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.  Pang Ning smiled and stretched. He squinted at the farmer and said, "I'm telling you, this island is too small. You might as well follow me to Dongfan Island and give you forty acres of paddy field."  If you plant, you will receive 30% of the land tax. Isn¡¯t it better than here?¡±

    The peasant was stunned when he heard this. He didn't know what the king meant and looked at Pang Ning in surprise.  Pang Ning moved his position, leaned over and said, "I will give you a plow horse in a year and let you open new fields. How about it? Do you want to go?"

    The farmer looked at Pang Ning, who was smiling in an extraordinarily friendly manner, but shook his head, causing Pang Ning's face to fall.  Pang Ning pursed his lips in displeasure, looked at the farmer with his eyes open, and asked unhappily, "Why? Don't paddy fields produce much more grain than dry fields?"

    The farmer shook his head and said, "Paddy fields are goodbut we northerners don't know how to grow rice, so we might not be able to do it in the southI still like to grow some wheat in the north and live a small life."¡±

    The farmer looked at his youngest son who was busy on the stove and said, "I heard that Dongwang's Gaishui camp was recruiting soldiers, and they were paid two taels of silver a month. I heard that Dongwang's soldiers were very powerful and killed thousands of Tatars.  If you hit a Tatar with that musket, you can get a reward of twenty taels, and if you kill a Tatar with a knife, you can get a reward of sixty taels!"

    The farmer said with a hint of pride, "I have made up my mind to let my youngest son go to the camp to serve as a soldier and fight against the Tatars!"

    Hearing this, Pang Ning pursed his lips and remained silent.  Zhao Ru, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said, "Master, let's transport those 90,000 people away quickly. If the King of the East is fooled, these people will be in trouble if they don't want to go to the south."

    Long-distance transportation is different from short-distance transportation.  For short-distance transportation, you can only carry a day's worth of fresh water and rice, and fill the boat with people.  But if you are traveling a long distance, you must carry a large amount of supplies in the cabin, and you cannot transport many people in one trip.  Now that the southeast wind is blowing on the sea, it takes at least a month to drive from Chahe Island to Fucheng. It is not easy to transport these 90,000 people back to Nanhai Country.

    Pang Ning looked at Zhao Ru, nodded, and said, "Tell those bastards who are running to the sea and ask them to help transport these people. I will give you one tael of silver for every two transported back to the Fucheng dock. I  Send a squadron to Liaodong every half month, and those who transport people can follow when the time comes to avoid running into pirates!"

    Zhao Ru smiled and said, "That's good. It won't take a few months to transport it."

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