The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 28
"The Bamboo Flower Gang recruits refugees to reclaim deserted islands and establish incense outlets. The young and strong are paid [-] Wen and [-] catties of rice per day, and the old and weak, women and children are paid [-] Wen and [-] catties of rice per day. Family members are given priority, so hurry up."

After the Jiangyin sub-helm of the Zhuhua Gang settled down a bit, the newly released housekeeper, Xiangxiang, arranged for sixty or seventy gang members who were more eloquent, and set up refugee points in the county and surrounding areas.

With Hu Douzhou's conditions, he didn't lie or lie, and directly recruited refugees and recruited them as workers.

In troubled times, it is very difficult to live, who cares what they do to make a living.

After the Bamboo Flower Gang's recruitment notice was posted, there was an endless stream of refugees coming, and Chu Liang arranged for them to be sent to Hudou Island one by one.

After sorting them into categories, according to their specialties, some are responsible for reclaiming wasteland, some are responsible for fishing out of the river, and some are responsible for building houses. Anyway, Huduzhou is poor and empty now, and there is a lot of work to do.

After gaining the sales and purchase channels of the Zhuhua Gang, one of the "Eight Gangs and Ten Factions" in the world, Xing Rong, who was waiting in Zhen Haijun, quickly sent someone to find Chu Li, the head of Xiangxiang, to discuss business routes. , The problem of write-off.

After some business, Xingrong quickly exchanged the gold and silver treasures and all kinds of stolen goods that he could not eat or wear into merchant ships and fishing boats, fishing rods, fishing nets, grain and meat, cattle, seeds and agricultural tools, And everything else Hu Douzhou desperately needs right now.

This is naturally a huge expense, just to ensure the transportation of the cultivated land and the island, 5 war horses, [-] mules and [-] head of horses were purchased from the Pegasus Ranch near Jingling County. Farming cattle cost Chu Tianxiu [-] taels of silver.

If Chu Tianxiu hadn't really made a fortune after capturing the Dajianghui, he really couldn't afford such a huge expense.

However, after sowing the silver that needs to be calculated in "ten thousand taels" and making a mountain of wealth, the effect is very remarkable
All of a sudden, it was as if a spring rain had spread over a piece of long-thirsty wasteland, causing the seeds in that piece of wasteland to take root and germinate instantly, creating a scene full of vitality.

Today's Hu Douzhou is still in its infancy, but from anyone's point of view, there is prosperity here.Especially when the world is in turmoil and refugees are everywhere, such a paradise is even more precious.

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After Chu Tianxiu finally got some free time and stepped into Hu Douzhou again, he found that the place has changed a lot.

Today's Hudouzhou, besides the 2 township navy and [-] Dajianghui captives, there are now more than [-] refugees, engaged in various jobs, making this place finally full of human breath .

On the water near Hudouzhou, there are hundreds of fishing boats, and fishermen are almost everywhere, happily casting nets there to catch fish, and catch one after another.

These fish will not only meet the needs of Hu Douzhou, but will also be sold to Jiangyin County, so that the price of fish in Jiangyin County has plummeted a little because of this.

Although most of the camps on the shore are wooden houses, which are still very simple, there are already several rows of tile-roofed houses under construction. It will take at most three to five months to replace all the houses here. It becomes a row of red brick and tile houses.

On the land behind the camp, a large piece of land has been reclaimed, so that after Chu Tianxiu took a look, he couldn't see the edge of those new fields.

Hudouzhou is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River, with fresh water on both sides, so to plant farmland here, as long as ditches are dug, there will be no problem of water shortage. Not a big deal.

With the joint efforts of more than 600 migrant farmers and more than 5 cattle, more than [-] mu of new fields were reclaimed in just six days.

According to the plan, about 15 mu of basic arable land will be reclaimed for the first phase of cultivation, and it will be completed by the end of the month. In this way, after sowing, seedlings, and topdressing, the first batch of autumn harvests should be obtained in five months.

After the food on the island is basically satisfied, the second season of rice can be planted quickly and harvested again, and by that time, the cultivated land on Hudouzhou should be able to be reclaimed, and finally about 40 mu can be obtained. the fields.

There are some obvious things that cannot be said, but it is completely true that those refugees who were relocated to Hudouzhou were not randomly selected, but "elites" selected from among the refugees after careful screening. "It must be the kind of talent that has a little bit of ability.

Otherwise, if all the refugees are migrated here, then given the current situation in Jiangnan, not to mention 50 to [-] refugees, even [-] refugees, there are still some.

But the capacity of this Hudou Island is limited after all.

Although this small island is rich in products and extremely rich, it is only a small island with a total area of ​​about 35 million mu, 100 miles from north to south, and [-] miles from east to west. The area is just a slightly larger county.

Even if all the land on this island is used, it is impossible to accommodate too many people, so in Chu Tianxiu's plan, the island will continue to migrate refugees in the next three years, but the population will never exceed ten. Ten thousand, this will be used as a red line to ensure food in and out, so as to prevent this fertile land from being dragged down abruptly by the excessive population.

In addition, after several trials, Chu Tianxiu also used merchant ships to transport refugees in Yongdong (Zhoushan Islands), which is not far from Hudouzhou, and Yizhou (Taiwan), which is farther away. They have established strongholds with about five to six hundred people.

Compared to Hudouzhou, which was occupied by gang members, these two big islands were even more barren, with only a few savages and pirates on them, so it didn't take much effort to occupy them.

But it is also because it is more wild, so it is a hundred times more laborious to clean up than Hudouzhou, so that Chu Tianxiu is obviously short of manpower, so he has to send Chu Zhi and Chu Qian under him, and take them as the owner of the island. , manage those two places, and also sent out the original high-level "Little Tao Zhu" Wang Ye and "Bagua Dao" Han Nuo of the Zhuhua Gang's Jiangyin sub-helm, and gave them two as deputies.

Chu Tianxiu vaguely remembered that the Zhoushan Islands in later generations had the title of "the best fishery in the world", and there was the largest gold mine in Asia, Jinguashi, near a small mountain town in the northeast corner of Taiwan, so he asked them to choose places to build fish farms and gold mines , as the basis for development.

However, because he chose to occupy these two places for the sake of future considerations, he didn't make too many demands on Chu Zhi and Chu Qian. He just gave them money and let them develop on their own.

As far as he is concerned, these two islands can serve as important nodes for Chu Tianxiu's future maritime trade and maritime strategy. Going east along Zhoushan, you can contact Koguryo and Japan, and going south along Taiwan, you can spy on the Philippines and Indonesia. maritime strategic hub.

Today's Central Plains Continent, due to the kind of chaos before chaos, has not yet reached the time for Chu Tianxiu to exert his strength.

In comparison, it would undoubtedly be much easier to manage the forces at sea and attack the wild lands of North Asia and the large and small islands in Southeast Asia that went north. It only needed to wipe out some natives and native countries.

Chu Tianxiu was very clear about this account.

(End of this chapter)