On April 20, two large and three small sea boats drove over from the other side of the strait and were anchored in the harbor of Mani Township.

The butler Lee Min Ho, who had been waiting here, welcomed the people on the boat to Lee Ka-woo Fort.

These people are from the "Haima Trading Company" which specializes in ship trading in Xikaido. Haima Trading Company is engaged in second-hand ship transfer business and does not build new ships.

Half an hour later, Li Luo brought a few local old boatmen and followed a few people to inspect the goods.

Both sea ships are one thousand pieces (500 tons), and are typical three-masted blessed ships. The blessed ship originated in Fujian and was introduced to Goryeo during the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because the Fu Ship adopts an advanced design of watertight cabins and pointed bottoms, it is very suitable for sailing on strong winds and waves, it has quickly become a mainstream ship type in East Asia since the Song Dynasty.

Li Luo boarded the boat and found that the two big bourgeois ships were made of pine wood and fir for masts. They were three layers above and below, about forty meters long, about ten meters wide, and seven or eight meters high. If the sail was added, the height was nearly twenty meters.

Such a sea ship can carry at least a thousand people at a time.

It may be exaggerating to say that "it is as majestic as a mountain, with tall buildings on the sea" but it is still a bit shocking when standing on it.

The side panels of the ship are made of double or triple wooden boards, and tung oil and lime cabins are used to prevent water leakage. Each ship is divided into more than ten cabins. It seems that even if one or two cabins leak, the entire ship will not sink.

Li Luo looked at the mast as high as three meters high and the huge white sail, and observed and evaluated the normal navigation speed, which should be between four and seven knots (7.5-13 km/h). Departing from Goryeo to the Treasure Island of the Taiwan Strait, it will be as fast as four or five days, and it will be as slow as six or seven days.

On the surface, it is indeed a sea ship with good design, qualified construction, and good condition, but unfortunately it is not a warship.

Several old shipwrecks observed carefully on the boat for a long time and reported to Li Luo: "Sir, there is nothing wrong with these two big ships."

Only then did Li Luo feel relieved and delivered a silver bottle worth 3,000 guan to the "Haima Trading Company" on the spot. After receiving the ship deed document, it was considered as a payment for both money and goods.

I bought two large ships, but I couldn't do it without sailors' care. Li Luo issued a document to recruit sailors and ship workers in Mani Township and Xiwan Township the day before yesterday. Now he has found forty or fifty people.

More than 20 sailors and shipmen were arranged on each ship, and experienced people were appointed as captains and deputy ships. Each ship was assigned fifty town warriors and private soldiers to guard them to prevent the large ship from being taken away by pirates.

Li Luo was flirting with the idea that one of the two sea ships was named "May Flower" and the other was named "Golden Deer" (the famous pirate ship).

Others don’t know the true meaning of these two names, but Cui Xiuning knows it.

Although she thought Li Luo was a little funny, she also felt that these two spoof names were powerful and interesting.

After several days like this, I was safe and sound.

The news that Li Luo also served as the capital village in Xiwan Township has now reached Xiwan Township. The villagers ran around and told each other, and were excited.

"Li Xiangjun from Mani Township (Gory's respectful title for the township officials) is also the township we are waiting for!"

"With Li Xiangjun, it won't be so hard!"

Over the past few months, Li Luo's reputation for lending low interest rates, repairing water conservancy, defending against pirates, and loving the people in peace and love the people has spread throughout several villages around him, and the villagers respected him as "Qingjun".

Li Luo summoned the eleven village officials in Xiwan Township to meet these new subordinates. Although these people had been here last time, they happened to be in Hanyang, which was received by Cui Xiuning.

Although it was the second time that the Xiwan Villagers came, they were still a little shocked to see Lijiawu Fort again.

The momentum of Lijiawu Fort is comparable to that of Liujiwu Fort.

They hadn't had the chance to see the village hero training. Cui Xiuning had already instructed that whenever outsiders enter the fort, they would immediately rest on the spot and not be allowed to train.

So, when they passed by the playground of the outer courtyard twice, they only saw the villagers sitting on the ground chatting.

"Li Duzhai is mostly perfunctory in training troops. Yet, he wants to pull the Central Plains refugees who died in Japan. How could the Lord Duzhai really care?" Zhongcun was thinking.

When he arrived at the Intermediate People's Court's Seminary Hall, Li Luo didn't say anything nonsense. After everyone introduced the situation, he directly explained three important tasks to the village officials in Xiwan Township.

First, within half a month, we must select 300 young refugees in the Central Plains in Xiwan Township to deal with the military service in Japan next year.

Second, now that the young and old people are not allowed, in previous years, those who take the opportunity to lend money are prohibited. The interest rate on loans shall not exceed 10%. Those who dare to violate the order will be arrested immediately. People who need loans can be covered by their neighbors and directly come to Duzhai to borrow a low-interest loan.

Third, five hundred villagers were organized to repair the water conservancy in the township to prepare for irrigation of autumn grains. Most of the wages were borne by Duzhai, and the smallest half was borne by the wealthy households with more than 100 mu of land in the township.

Finally, Li Luo reminded: "The Lord of the House repeatedly reiterated that the major events in the village are now, namely, to recruit and deal with the military service of Japan, and to produce more grain to deal with the military rations of Japan. These two major events are based on the above three important matters. You are the leaders of the people. Whether for the livelihood of the common people or the major plans of the court, they are all matters and must not be neglected!

This official serves as the deputy envoy of the League Training Department and serves as the Duzhai of the two townships, and is responsible for a great deal. If you do your job well, you will benefit yourself, but if there is any mistake, I must be serious."

Li Luo calculated that according to his plan to raise troops, he needed to buy nearly 10,000 stones of grain by himself within a year, and the safest, most economical and lowest-key way to buy it nearby is the safest, most economical and most low-key way. He could only allow the people of the two townships to produce more grain with peace of mind.

The villages did not dare to disobey and said together: "I will obey the orders of my lord, how dare we neglect it?"

Cui Xiuning, who was on the side, suddenly said to a village chief: "Cao Cunzheng, your brother-in-law has already given nearly 100 usury loans to the people in your village. He has returned nine out of thirteen, and the term is only two months. What are you planning?"

Cao Cun's face changed and he quickly expressed his opinion: "Madam, I really don't know about this. Lord Duzhai, the minor official will definitely deal with it after he returns."

How to deal with it? Li Luo sneered: "No one who issued usury before was investigated, but it must be corrected. Cao Cunzheng asked your brother-in-law to change the contract. The interest rate is 10% and the term will be extended for three months."

"Yes!" Cao Cunzheng looked cold and sweating. Several of the other villages had abnormal expressions.

Cui Xiuning sneered: "The relatives who give usury loans are not only Cao Cunzheng, but also four village chiefs. I am not named one by one. I wonder, Village chief is a villager's parents, can they bear to let them have no way to survive?"

Li Luo frowned in disgust, "Everyone! If you have any connections, you must correct it! Some people eat the people's things, drink the people's things, and exploit the people's things, but don't pass it!"

Everyone was suddenly as if they were on their backs, feeling uneasy.

After a lot of criticism, Li Luo let the villages leave.

"Hmph, there must be some of these people who want to jump. Let's just wait, just kill the chicken to scare the monkey." Li Luo said as he looked at the backs of everyone.
Chapter completed!