"Sister, look, there are so many trees here!"

As soon as he landed on the shore, Jiang Xiaoyu saw his younger brother, running like crazy on the entire grassland, and even lying on the grass, looking up at the sky, so happy.

"I haven't run like this since I was that old! It's the first time I've seen such a big grassland."

"Sister, are we going to live here from now on?" As he said that, Adi turned back to his sister Jiang Xiaoyu with a longing look on his face. He was still a little unsure in his heart.

"Yes!" Jiang Xiaoyu stepped lightly on the grass, for fear of damaging the flowers and plants. Her face was full of joy, and she looked at the birds not far away, feeling very happy in her heart.

"Now -" he said with green fingers pointing to the row of rough wooden houses, "there is one house there that belongs to us. We will build a more beautiful one over time. Let's live there for now!"

"Ayu, Queer——" On the other side, the father, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was supported by the mother with thick limbs, and also got off the boat. Along with them, there were hundreds of former neighbors.

"Ada, Amu!" Que'er suddenly jumped up, grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground, held it to the tip of his father's nose, and said happily:

"Ada, we no longer have to live on a boat, and we are no longer afraid of typhoons!"

"Yes, Ah Da, I heard that Li Langjun also allocated land to us. We can be like the people on the land, growing land and raising vegetables, no more fishing!" Jiang Xiaoyu said happily.

Since she was a child, she has faced the ridicule of the children on land. Even if she caught a big fish, the children on land would hold rabbits and laugh at her for being just a fish...

Although she likes the sea very much, she has always longed for land deep down in her heart. She hopes that she will no longer have the smell of fish on her body, and she also does not want to face the raging typhoon.

"Fishing is a job passed down from our ancestors. If we don't go to sea, how can we eat?" My father was very ill. Although he was being supported, his words were very convincing.

"Ah Yu, living on the land is what our ancestors have been longing for for countless generations, and now it has finally come true. However, this is the guy we eat, born from the sea, we can't forget it!"

"Besides, Li Langjun likes us, but it's not because of our ability at sea!"

"Live on land, live in the sea!"

"Live on land, live in the sea? Live in the sea!" Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoyu's eyes lit up, and he kept repeating it, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

The joy of Jiang Xiaoyu's family is certainly not unique, and the joy of hundreds of households comes from the joy deep in their hearts.

Farmers on land only dream of arable land, while people in the sea just want a square place where they can be buried without fear of typhoons, nothing more.

Often, this trivial wish is not fulfilled, and the poor people who never pay taxes suffer the malice of the government and the contempt of the peasants.

Therefore, after seeing this land, many Danan people cried bitterly and even put the soil on the ground in their mouths and chewed it repeatedly, as if they had been reborn and relieved of their heavy burdens.

If Li Jia had a system, he would have discovered that the loyalty points of those Dan people who came to Hainan Island had reached full level.

However, our Li Langjun is particularly worried. He needs to pay for this big move.

"The 15,000 shi of grain that was transported is being consumed at an unexpected rate. It was expected to take three months. It has only been consumed in ten days, and more than half of it has been consumed!"

A bookish middle-aged man stood in front of Li Jia and said worriedly.

His name was Wang Ning, and he was a local scholar in Yongzhou. Due to poverty, he had been unable to raise enough travel expenses for many years to go to Panyu to participate in the "provincial examination" of Shangshu Province. However, when he went to Panyu, he discovered that the officials in the court were not the same.

It's just a puppet. The person behind the scenes is the eunuch in the palace.

The integrity of the Confucian scholar for many years forced him to regretfully return home and live in a cottage at home to teach and read literature for the children of his neighbors.

As the saying goes, a short man will grow taller. In the cultural desert of Yongzhou, such talents were naturally actively attracted by Li Jia to take charge of people's livelihood affairs and various supplies.

"How come it's so fast?" Li Jia was very surprised. This was planned for three months.

"In recent days, the special dispatch team has gone to the dense forest many times and captured a total of more than 500 people. Together with the latter group of people, the total number has exceeded 2,300. Before, we only

There are more than 1,200 people, almost doubled!"

Wang Ning explained in a serious manner.

"Moreover, expanding the wharf, building a fortress, digging rocks, building a shipyard, etc. required a lot of meat, so we used grain to exchange meat with the people of Danzhou, and that's how we persisted!"

To do heavy work, you must eat meat and take care of yourself. Human resources are already scarce, and if you waste them anymore, you are no different from a fool.

"Since there is insufficient food, send people out to sea, fish more, seize the time to reclaim wasteland, and be self-reliant. Yongzhou cannot transfer too much food. The next batch will be 30,000 shi. This is the last batch this year..."

Li Jia sighed. It is not a lie that Yongzhou is desolate. The people are few and the fields are sparse. Although there are two crops a year, there is not much food in stock. We have to prepare for famine years. Too much will be diverted, which will affect people's livelihood.

"What happened to those captured Liao people?" Looking at this and that in the past few days, Li Jia finally remembered that the number of captured Liao people had reached five hundred.

"I was unruly at first, so I starved them for three days. Now I have a bowl of porridge every day. I think my temper has been reduced a lot!"

The ancients naturally had a mature way of dealing with those captives, so there was no need to worry.

"We are short of manpower. Let them come out to work in a few days and make do with it! We can't let them eat and drink for free every day!" Li Jiayi said righteously, ignoring that they had nothing because of his words.

"There's nothing much going on here in Danzhou, just follow the steps!"

"In a few days, I will go to Qiongzhou, which is the most prosperous place in Hainan. It happens that I will transport several thousand pieces of Yong cloth from Yongzhou to try the water!"

As the base camp, Li Jia did not plan to place too many people in Danzhou. A few hundred households of Danzhou residents and the army would be enough. It would be the location of shipyards, military camps, ordnance factories and other secrets.

The real nourishment for development is in Qiongzhou, the most prosperous port in Hainan. Businessmen from all over the world use this place as a transit point, and then go north to the Central Plains, Liaodi, Korea, Japan, and south to Qinzhou, Jiaozhi, Champa, etc.

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Due to the lack of strong control, this free trade port has developed more and more prosperously. Pirates use it as a gold sales cave and merchants use it as an export point for goods.

Countless second-hand dealers also rushed here to select their favorite products and ship them to various places.

The Southern Han Dynasty even set up a shipping department to collect money.

Li Jia was very interested in it because money can buy most things here.

Food, slaves, bows and arrows, weapons, craftsmen, and even the official seal of the imperial court, the horses of the Liao people, and the Tang sword of the Japanese...
Chapter completed!