In March of this year, after confirming that An Yixin had been retained by Yang Zhen, Qiu Guangyi quickly ordered Chen Shunong to lead a large number of newly arrived immigrants to the north.

If you have enough people of your own, everything will be easy to handle.

By the end of June, just between March and April, the Jeju City area in the north of the island, which had almost no Chinese immigrants, had regained its popularity and everything was getting better.

However, Qiu Guangyi, who had already set up camp in Seogwipo and established a foothold, did not move to the former Jeju County in the north of the island.

Instead, Chen Shunong was asked to continue to sit there with a large number of villagers drawn from the earliest batch of old villagers to receive and settle more newly arrived immigrants.

Not long ago, after Wang Defa returned to Yingzhou Island from Lushunkou, Qiu Guangyi and Chen Shunong further clarified the division of labor.

Qiu Guangyi's Yeongju General's Office was located in Seogwipo. While overseeing the affairs of Yeongju Island, it was also in charge of military defense such as land, sea, army and horse.

Chen Shunong's governor's camp, Tongbanfu, was located in the former Jeju County in the north of the island. The original county governor's office was the Tongbanfu, which was in charge of immigration and reclamation affairs.

In the afternoon of that day, Yang Zhen, who had just arrived, listened to Qiu Guangyi and Chen Shunong's reports on the spot and immediately expressed his complete agreement.

According to the art of war, if the general is outside, the emperor's orders will not be accepted. Yang Zhen originally fully recognized this.

A place like Yingzhou Island, which is truly isolated overseas, especially needs this kind of attitude.

If everything had to be reported and asked for instructions, without Yang Zhen's specific instructions, they would not dare to do anything and would not do anything, which would be even worse.

Therefore, Yang Zhen not only agreed with their previous actions, but also praised them greatly, and took advantage of the situation and changed the name of the former Jeju county.

And the name is ready-made, it is called Yingzhou City.

Also later that afternoon, Yang Zhen listened to the reports of Qiu Guangyi and Chen Shunong in the inner city of Seogwipo Port. After taking a short rest, he handed over the matter of landing and settling the fleet to Li Lu, and Yan

Sheng San, Guo Xiaowu, Chen Shunong and others.

He himself took a few soldiers with him. Accompanied by Qiu Guangyi, he visited the inner city of Seogwipo Port with great interest in the cool sea breeze, asking questions along the way.

The entire inner city of Seogwipo Port is divided into two parts: inner and outer. The inner city is built on a hill and was further restored on the basis of the original stone and blue brick castle.

The inner city is not big, but it is built on the mountain. The terrain is excellent. City walls, forts, official offices, warehouses, arsenals, and sea-viewing towers are all available. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The outer city is not small in scale. It was built at the foot of the inner city mountain. Inside are the barracks of the Seogwipo Mabu Camp and the Navy Camp. The school is also located. At the same time, the Fortress Fort, warehouses, tax offices, and prisons were built.

etc. places.

In terms of topography, the inner and outer cities are like upper and lower cities, but the inner city is small and the outer city is large. The inner city is in the middle and the outer city is outside, and it is like an irregular concentric circle.

Not far from the south gate of the outer city is Seogwipo's seaport wharf. The harbor wharf has been built with forts, a fishing ground and a special berth for outer ships, making it look like a small water city.

After Yang Zhen sighed and admired it, he asked and found out that apart from the port terminal and the inner city of Seogwipo, the entire outer city and Gyeongchang Water City were built since February this year.

At that time, the weather was getting warmer, but the spring plowing time had not yet arrived, and a large number of newly arrived immigrants needed relief, but Qiu Guangyi and others did not want to help them in vain.

So Qiu Guangyi, Chen Shunong and others hit it off after a little discussion and launched a large-scale work-for-relief operation on Yingzhou Island.

There was no shortage of stone and wood on Yingzhou Island. With the new Sanhe soil "cement" from Jinhai Town, they no longer had to go to the trouble of firing city bricks.

Moreover, all kinds of irregular rocks can be used directly. Therefore, when building strong docks, castles and houses on Yingzhou Island, there is an inexhaustible supply of materials, which is no longer a problem.

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In this way, in just half a year, with the input of tens of thousands of young and strong laborers, Qiu Guangyi, Chen Shunong and others not only established their own operations in Seogwipo in the south of the island, but also in the former Jeju County in the north of the island and Seongsan at the east end of the island.

There was a lot of construction work in Pudu and the castle was expanded.

The city walls that existed on Yingzhou Island but had been in disrepair for a long time were rebuilt, and large forts facing the sea that did not exist before were also built. At the same time, a large number of barracks and warehouses were also built.

Only then did Yang Zhen truly understand why after the plague broke out in Hirado, Nagasaki and other places, the Dutch from the Nagasaki Merchant House and the Goto Clan of the Fukue Domain, which was not far from Yingzhou Island, only dared to come for help.

But they didn't dare to come and rob them.

The reason is simple, it's because they can't beat them.

Of course, what Yang Zhen learned from Qiu Guangyi and the others was not only the series of achievements they had made after taking over Yingzhou Island that surprised Yang Zhen.

In the conversation with Qiu Guangyi, Yang Zhen also learned about the many hardships they had experienced in taking over Yingzhou Island for more than a year.

The first 4,750 households on Yingzhou Island to immigrate to Yingzhou Island actually missed the best farming season when they arrived on Yingzhou Island.

Although they have reclaimed a lot of wasteland, the final sweet potato yield per acre is very low, less than one-third of that in other places in Jinhai Town.

Fortunately, the island has dense forests, numerous rivers, and various resources. At the same time, they have established a firm foothold on Yingzhou Island by expelling and plundering the indigenous and Korean people on the island, and by frequently going out to sea for fishing.

It was only when Qiu Guangyi talked about these things that Yang Zhen realized that the people on the island were leaving one after another, not entirely because of the rumors about the plague.

There is also a very important reason, that is, last winter, Qiu Guangyi, Guo Xiaowu, An Yixin, and Chen Shunong, in order to obtain more rice, livestock and various seafood caught at sea, specially targeted tens of thousands of indigenous and indigenous households on the island.

The Koreans levied heavy taxes.

Those who had money paid, those who had grain paid grain, and those who owned horses, oxen and other livestock paid the top tax on these livestock.

As for the fishermen, they handed over their catch from the sea. If they had nothing, they cut firewood and burned charcoal to pay the tax, or they were directly sent to the camp to perform labor service.

All in all, in order to survive, they took all means and used all tricks at that time, and finally survived last year's winter.

This difficult situation lasted until new immigration fleets arrived in February and March this year, and it was finally relieved.

Because after Yang Zhen returned to Lushunkou, every time the immigration fleet came to Yingzhou Island, he would order them in advance to set aside some ships to carry grain, farm tools, ammunition, cement and other supplies.

If it weren't for Yang Zhen's arrangement, Qiu Guangyi and the others would not have the confidence or spare energy to carry out large-scale construction projects with work-for-relief services. Of course, they would not have the confidence or spare energy to destroy the Goto clan.

"General Qiu Shen, the Goto clan has surrendered. What do you think we should do next?"

"It's better to kill them, eradicate them, clear out the land, and then resettle the immigrants we recruited from here. In a few years, the Five Islands will be ours!"

"I mean, after taking the Five Islands, where should our gunboats and our army attack next?"

"Ah? Oh——"

Faced with Qiu Guangyi's answer, Yang Zhen was noncommittal and just changed the subject with the direction of his next move.

Regardless of whether Qiu Guangyi misunderstood his question, Yang Zhen understood the meaning of Qiu Guangyi's words.

However, Yang Zhen did not have a final plan for how to deal with the Japanese slaves on the Goto Islands, Hirado Island, Iki Island, Tsushima Island and even the entire Kyushu Island in the future.

As Qiu Guangyi said, it would be refreshing to kill them all, then clear the land and immigrate there.

But once that is done, it will inevitably arouse fierce resistance in other unoccupied areas.

If all the vassals of the Nine Provinces of the Japanese Nu Kingdom choose to fight to the end and refuse to surrender, then the cost Yang Zhen will have to pay for this operation will be very high.

Yang Zhen did not dare to expect that the nine vassals of the Japanese slave country could be destroyed within three months, but he also definitely did not want this time to drag on for too long.

This time he came to cut the meat, not to gnaw the hard bones.

For him, the days are long, and when the Qinglu are eliminated and the Hening Kingdom is captured, it will naturally be his turn to live a small life.

At that time, he would dismember it with a knife and scrape off the flesh from every bone.

"Next, let's attack Hirado Island first. Commander Lin is now on Uku Island, the original territory of the Goto family. As long as the governor gives the order, we can send troops to occupy it at any time! That's it-"

"Just what?"

After Qiu Guangyi understood what Yang Zhen meant, he did not take back what he had said about the Goto clan, but immediately suggested that he continue to occupy Hirado Island.

However, the situation on Hirado Island may have changed, so as soon as he made the suggestion, he immediately showed a look of embarrassment.

"That is, the Matsuura family that owns Hirado Island is different from the Goto clan. The Goto Islands have a small population and are weak. The Goto clan has a low status. The feudal lordship is also close to us. If we are surprised, we can attack them unprepared.

Taken it down.

"But the Matsuura family of Hirado Island, it is said that in addition to the territory of Hirado Island, they also own Iki Island and Kita Matsuura County of Hizen Kingdom on Kyushu Island. They are the Hizen Shou of the Wonu Kingdom, and the troops they can mobilize are comparable to those of Goto.

There are so many clans.

"Furthermore, it is said that the Matsuura family of the Hirado clan was once famous for its navy in the Wonu Kingdom. Although Hirado Castle in Hirado Port has been burned down, the Matsuura family's strength in Iki Island and Hizen Kingdom is still not weak.

"Of course, Governor, I am not afraid of him or the Matsuura family. I am worried that it will be easy for us to capture Hirado Island. But after that, it means that we have to do a good job in fighting against the Kyushu feudal clans of the Japanese slave country and even the entire Japanese slave kingdom.

Ready!"

"Of course I know what that means!"

Qiu Guangyi's mind was not dazzled by the victory he had just achieved in wiping out the Goto clan. He was quite sober, knowing that once they went to war with the Hirado clan, they would not only occupy a small town that had been ravaged by the plague.

Just a small island.

But Yang Zhen came here just for this, so he had naturally made preparations in all aspects.

At the moment, it is because Thomas Peder has returned to the headquarters with the Dutch ship Provencha, and the Dutch fleet has not arrived yet.

If the Dutch fleet is right in front of them, then what Yang Zhen is thinking about is not whether to attack Hirado Island, but to directly occupy Nagasaki and directly attack the main island of Kyushu Island.

But it is a pity that the work procedures of these people under the Dutch East India Company are too cumbersome. They have to ask for instructions on all matters, big and small, and everything has to go through some committee, which makes it extremely slow.

Yang Zhen's original intention was that since Thomas Peder had already arrived with Provine, he shouldn't leave. He could just send one of his men to take the boat back to the chief officer, and then take several other boats.

Just come back with the war ship.

But what I didn't expect was that Thomas Pedel still insisted on rushing back to the senior officials to report the terms reached with Yang Zhenxin.

"What's the situation on Hirado Island now? Have you found anything at Nagasaki Port? What's the current situation of the plague in Wonu Country?"

"When I return to the governor, the plague in the Wonu Kingdom may have subsided for the time being. Before I attacked Fukue Island, I asked the Goto clan envoys about the situation. I also sent a ship pretending to be a merchant ship to Hirado and Nagasaki to inquire about it.

Condition."

Regarding Yang Zhen's repeated inquiries, Qiu Guangyi was obviously well prepared or had a plan in mind, and immediately made a report.

"Judging from the situation at the end of June, there have been people coming and going on Hirado Island. Maybe the Matsuura clan sent people to deal with the plague, burn the bodies, and clean up the aftermath.

"The same is true for the situation in Nagasaki Port. Although our ships are not allowed to enter and berth in Hirado Port and Nagasaki Port, and the municipal shipping trade has also stopped, the forts on the east and west sides of the port are obviously manned.

"So, in my humble opinion, the plague in the Wonu Kingdom has come to an end for now. After all, Kyushu Island is just an island surrounded by the sea. As long as the shipping routes from Kyushu Island to other parts of the Wonu Kingdom are cut off, the plague will be over.

He can only be imprisoned on Kyushu Island."

"Well, let's do it! Ask Lin Chongfan to take the boat to Uku Island early tomorrow morning, and ask him to send a message to Lin Qingye to send troops to seize Hirado Island immediately!"

After listening to Qiu Guangyi's report, Yang Zhen felt a little disappointed, but at the same time he immediately made up his mind to send troops to Hirado Island.
Chapter completed!