"Recruiting troops from Daefu Island?" Ruan Xiaoqi expressed confusion.
Because in Ruan Xiaoqi's view, Dafu Island is full of Koreans, and few can speak Chinese. Even if they recruit troops, it may not be easy to train. It is better to mobilize troops directly from Liangshanbo. Now the population of Liangshanbo is increasing.
It has reached 300,000, and the number of troops in Liangshanbo is close to 10,000. Many people can be transferred here.
"Yes, we need to recruit troops from Daebu Island. One is to solve the shortage of soldiers, and the other is to allow the people of Daebu Island to better integrate into the Yangshan regime. They have soldiers in our army, so naturally they are of the same mind as us.
." Wu Dong said.
The second point is the most important. When all the strong men in Daebu Island join the army and follow the Yangshan army in the north and south, they will naturally recognize the Yangsan regime from the bottom of their hearts and will never have the intention to break away from the Yangsan regime.
"In this case, I will go to recruit soldiers tomorrow." Ruan Xiaoqi said.
It was evening, at Wu Dong's residence, Wu Dong called Ruan Xiaoqi, Gongsun Sheng, Wu Yong, and Hua Rong to his place to discuss the governance of Dafu Island.
"There are now 6,000 people in Dafu Island, which can be divided into six villages to form a township. Gongsun Sheng, you are now the head of Dafu Township. Do you have any good opinions on the management of this place?" Wu Dong said.
"In accordance with the policies we implemented in Liangshan, villagers' self-government is also implemented here, and our Liangshan jury system is also implemented." Gongsun Sheng said.
Gongsun Sheng actually admired the two systems in Liangshan very much. He was originally a Taoist, and Taoism emphasized "governing by doing nothing." Gongsun Sheng felt that the two systems in Liangshan were very consistent with the concept of "governing by doing nothing." The government did not have to do anything.
Everything is in charge, but the village chief selected by the people manages most things. Everything is handled in an orderly manner, which is almost equivalent to governing by doing nothing. So when he came to Daebu Island, he had no special views and just continued to implement Yangshan’s policies.
Those two sets of policies.
"One thing to note is that when they are allowed to elect the village chief on their own, they must elect a village chief who understands Chinese. If you don't understand Chinese, you cannot become the village chief." Wu Dong added.
"The chief has thought carefully... Yes, from now on this place will be my territory in Liangshan, and it will all be my territory of the Han people. Of course it will not work if you don't understand Chinese... In addition to the village chief having to understand Chinese, he also needs to promote Chinese education on the island.
." Gongsun Sheng said, drawing inferences from one instance.
"What are your thoughts on promoting Chinese education?" Wu Dong said with a smile.
"You can first let the village chiefs teach the villagers, and the village chiefs who teach well can give them some rewards, such as exquisite porcelain, silks, etc. In addition, villagers who have learned Chinese can take them to the Central Plains and let them
Seeing the prosperous civilization of our heavenly country will definitely make them yearn for the Central Plains even more. If they come back and spread the word, more villagers will want to learn Chinese." Gongsun Sheng thought for a while and said.
"Not bad, not bad. In addition, after Ruan Xiaoqi's military camp recruited soldiers, he asked those soldiers to learn Chinese from their comrades. This is also a shortcut to promote Chinese." Wu Dong said.
If you want to truly occupy a place, you must not only occupy the land there, but more importantly, replace the civilization there with your own civilization and make your own civilization the mainstream civilization there. Only in this way can they truly recognize their regime.
.
Therefore, the promotion of Chinese language on Daebu Island is particularly important. The two leaders of Daebu Island, Gong Sunsheng and Ruan Xiaoqi, must do this well.
"Of course. How can those soldiers come to the military camp and not speak Chinese? Do they want me, Ruan Xiaoqi, to learn their bird language?" After Ruan Xiaoqi finished speaking, everyone couldn't help laughing.
"Xiao Qi, the training in the ocean is completely different from the training in Liang Shanbo. I hope you can train me to be a real 'naval' so that I, Liang Shanbo, can walk sideways in the sea in the future. You don't have the confidence?" Wu
Dong smiled and said.
"Yes! Don't worry, big boss!" Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile.
These days, Ruan Xiaoqi is becoming more and more fond of the ocean and wishes he could stay here for the rest of his life. He naturally welcomes the task of forming a "navy" and vows to build an unrivaled maritime force.
"Xiao Qi, in addition to recruiting troops these days, you also have to write a 'Navy Formation Plan' for me to see. No matter what you do, you must first have a good plan. With a good plan, this matter
Even if it’s half done,” Wu Dong said.
Ruan Xiaoqi agreed and immediately began to study this matter after leaving Wudong.
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The next day, Ruan Xiaoqi first went to the villagers to recruit soldiers.
When I was in Liangshan, although the "conscription system" was publicized every day, conscription was not an easy task. Many people were unwilling to let their children become soldiers because China has always had a tradition of "good men should not be soldiers."
In the Song Dynasty, military households were even lower than civilian households, which further caused people's prejudice against soldiers. But on Dafu Island, recruiting soldiers was extremely easy. Because they were bullied by pirates, many people
I want to join the army and protect my hometown.
Soon more than 600 soldiers were recruited, and now the military strength in Daebu Island has reached more than 1,200, and the Yangshan Navy was officially formed.
Ruan Xiaoqi handed the "Naval Formation Plan" he wrote to Wu Dong. Wu Dong looked at it carefully, and then the two discussed it in detail.
"The army must be capable of actual combat. There are still many pirates in the Bohai Sea. There are even more pirates in the East China Sea. After the naval training reaches a certain level, we will go to destroy the pirates. First, wipe out all the pirates in the Bohai Sea, and then go further.
A place." Wu Dong said.
This plan was very good, but it had no actual combat situation, so Wu Dong immediately changed it.
"Okay, I remember! Chief, I heard that Korea and Japan also have some naval forces, and we can even use these naval forces for actual combat." Ruan Xiaoqi said.
"Yes, but we still have a few ships, and we need to build more sea-going ships." Wu Dong said.
When the pirates of Daebu Island were eliminated, a dozen large ships and dozens of small ships were obtained from them. However, a large part of these ships were converted into merchant ships for ocean-going trade, leaving not many ships for the navy.
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"Building sea ships... we have no experience." Ruan Xiaoqi said.
"Go to Wu Yong, call Gongsun Sheng, and Hua Rong, and let's discuss building sea ships together," Wu Dong said.
The current number of ships is simply not enough. In the future, ocean trade will become bigger and bigger, and the navy will also become bigger and bigger. Naturally, it will not work by buying ships, so we must build our own ships.
In the history of that year, the Dutch became sea coachmen. At that time, the Dutch had tens of thousands of sea ships. The population of the Song Dynasty was much larger than that of the Netherlands. If the Song Dynasty was to build a maritime power, it would also have tens of thousands of sea ships.
At the very least.
Liangshan must build its own shipyard from the moment it touches the sea!
"Daebu Island has a radius of dozens of miles and is covered with trees. A shipyard can be built here," Wu Yong said.
"There are still too few trees here. Besides, this is an island. If the trees are cut down, there will be no way for people to live there." Wu Dong shook his head hurriedly.
The wind and waves on the sea are strong, and these trees are used to withstand the waves on the sea. If all the trees are cut down, this place will become a dead place.
"I heard that there is a lot of forest in the Goryeo Mountains. After we enter Goryeo, we can build a shipyard in Goryeo. Moreover, the Goryeo people are poor, and a lot of workers can be hired with very little silver. There are also a lot of workers there who can build ships."
Gongsun Shengdao.
"This is a good idea, but we have to wait until we go to Goryeo. Also, now that we control Dengzhou, we can let Ruan Xiaowu from Dengzhou Customs build a shipyard there and hire all the skilled shipbuilders in Dengzhou to us.
Go to the shipyard." Wu Dong said.
Everyone discussed for a while, and in the following period, everyone worked together to stabilize the environment of Dafu Island, making it completely stable and becoming an important stronghold of Liangshan on the Bohai Sea.
In early May, Wu Dong, Hua Rong, and Wu Yong went to Yongyuan City in Goryeo.
Goryeo Yongyeonseong Fortress is only about 100 miles away from Daebu Island. We set off in the morning and arrived in the afternoon.
Wu Dong and others walked curiously on the streets of Longyuan City. Although it was also a commercial city, it was much different from Dengzhou.
The buildings here are all low, short, shabby and dilapidated, the people here are poorly dressed, and there are many beggars on the road.
"I thought that people in the Song Dynasty were already very poor, but I didn't expect that Goryeo would be even more poor," Wu Dong said.
"The wealth of Goryeo is concentrated in the hands of those nobles. Generally, when doing business, we do business with those nobles. They have a lot of money in their hands, and we can make a good profit from them." Wu Yong said with a smile.
In the next few days, Wu Dong and others first found a large shop and transported all the goods to the shop, waiting for the noble buyers from North Korea.
The shop was handed over to a shopkeeper, while the three of them looked for a location to build a shipyard.
In the end, no good shipyard location was found, but a few North Korean nobles sold their shipyards.
After Wu Dong went to see it, he thought it was pretty good, so he bought the shipyard. The shipyard can build more than a dozen large ships a year, and its output is already pretty good.
"We don't need to build our own factories, we can just buy these ready-made shipyards... buy all the shipyards in Longyuan," Wu Dong said.
This time I came with a large sum of money, enough for them to spend.
So in the next month, everyone was buying shipyards.
In early June, Wu Dong said goodbye to Goryeo and prepared to return to Liangshanbo.
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