Zhen Qian's visit to Qiumei Island this time was not to interfere with Zhen Shi and Zhen Thirty-one's plans, mainly because there was nothing to do during this time, and he wanted to come out and take a look, and his impression of the first island chain in the Tang Dynasty mostly stayed on the reports of others to him, and many of the experiences of later generations were not necessarily feasible when dealing with the natives, and he didn't want to end up talking on paper.

Sitting in the office and listening to other people's reports, you inevitably end up hearing what other people want to tell you.

Even if the people under him are very loyal to themselves, human nature will always change, and after a long time, some people will use themselves as ancestral tablets, or even as monkeys.

To control this kind of thing, you have to feel it to understand the mystery!

For example, now, after Zhen Qian saw Qiumei Island, he immediately thought of the military base of the US military on Okinawa Island in the future, Zhen Shi's landing point was only forty or fifty miles away from there, and it was the best place in the entire Ryukyu Islands in terms of geography, climate and natural resources, and it was no wonder that Zhen Thirty-one would regard this place as a base for his own development, rather than choosing other islands to gain a firm foothold first.

The landing site still looks very rudimentary, but fortunately there is no shortage of wood on the island, and the thick wood does not need to be processed at all, and the rows of houses are directly built, which looks very rough.

"After going to the island, can there be diseases, water and soil adaptation and other phenomena?"

Zhen Qian and Zhen Thirty-one sat facing each other, on both sides were Zhen Jiu and Wang Tianxing, and there were two big hot pots in the middle of the four of them, one hot pot was seafood, and the other hot pot was filled with mountain delicacies and some dry goods, but there were some green vegetables missing.

"So far, there have been no cases of people getting sick or unaccustomed to the soil, and I have heard from the natives that storms often pass by here in the spring and summer, and I have prepared that the houses here will be built of cement and stone, and that the towns will be built on the high slopes, and the plains will be left for agricultural ......."

Zhen Thirty-one proudly introduced his plan for urban construction, and the geographical and climatic conditions of each place are different, and the urban construction is naturally very different.

The southern end of Qiumei Island belongs to the low-lying range, and there will be waterlogging here every year in the rainy season, and there are often storms passing by, and the first thing to consider is natural disasters, which Zhen Thirty-one has already considered.

"Not bad!"

Zhen Qian was holding a sea crab in his hand, weighing two catties, which was very common in the Tang Dynasty, but it was difficult to see in later generations, and it tasted delicious.

"The more likely the outbreak of diseases is in places with dense forests and abundant water, especially in the summer, there will be more mosquitoes and poisonous insects, you burn the entire plain with fire, this method is very good, at least it can ensure that the probability of disease occurrence is reduced a lot, and there is a fight against the indigenous people, try to avoid entering the forest in spring and summer, and at the same time don't underestimate the indigenous people, after all, they have lived here for a long time, they know the situation here very well, there are some desirable places to learn, don't deny it all at once!"

In fact, Zhen Qian's biggest concern is not the combat effectiveness of these people, but the impact of the local climate and environment on these people, especially in forests and swamps, where miasma can often make the entire army lose its combat effectiveness.

Historically, from Qin Shi Huang's conquest of South Vietnam to the development of Lingnan and other places in the Tang Dynasty, the biggest difficulty was not how strong the local aborigines were, but the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army caused by the local climate and environment.

Therefore, most of the places that Zhen Qian really wants to occupy overseas are the plains on the islands, and he is not in a hurry to fight the local natives to occupy their mountains, lakes and forests, which he will not want if they are given to Zhen Qian now.

Zhen Thirty-One's practice of burning the plain is equivalent to completely changing the small environment here at one time, although there is a "big crime" of destroying the environment, but in Zhen Qian's eyes, it is the best and only way.

"Master, after this burning, a total of more than 150 square kilometers of land has been obtained, about nearly 200,000 acres of land, if calculated according to the calculation of two crops a year and two stones per mu, it will be 800,000 stone of grain in a year, enough to feed 150,000 people, if it continues to develop eastward next year and occupy the southern end of the entire Qiumei Island, it can feed more than 300,000 people......."

Since then, the entire island of Okinawa has lived in the southern region with more than 2 million people, most of them in the southern region, and it is not a problem to feed 300,000 people today.

The problem is that there are so many people there!

Now there is no shortage of land overseas, even according to the productivity level of the Tang Dynasty, the land area of Tanegashima and Yakushima alone can feed more than one million people, Zhen Qian no longer wants to think about expansion for the time being, and what is needed now is how to build the islands that have been occupied.

"Our plan for the next step is how to transport a large number of people from Datang to here", Zhen Qian thought about this question for a long time, and found that the time for large-scale immigration has not yet come, and the best time to emigrate is after the start of the Anshi Rebellion, when the government's control over the people was the weakest, but now it is necessary to make some preparations in advance.

"The Shengsi Islands and Qinhuangdao are our springboard for immigration from Datang, and I am ready to secretly occupy a few more such islands around Datang, and once the time is ripe, large-scale immigration will begin!"

Zhen Qian does not have a good impression or a bad impression of the natives of the Ryukyu Islands, the aborigines of the Tang Dynasty and the later generations of Okinawa islanders are no longer the same in a sense, and now the natives of the island have just begun to appear tribal alliances, and have no contact with the Central Plains Dynasty, it is a completely closed society, and both sides have no sense of identity.

Even the aborigines on Qiumei Island are not as good as the aborigines on Taiwan Island, mainly because Ryukyu Island is too small, not rich in products and other reasons, plus the aborigines on Qiumei Island are more barbaric and unfamiliar with the outside world, which makes it difficult for Qiumei Island to develop.

Zhen Thirty-one did not describe the entire occupation process with Zhen Qian in detail, both Zhen Qian and himself thought that if there was anything wrong with the natives on Qiumei Island, he could jump into the sea.

Fighting with the natives is not because they are afraid of their strength, but because they are worried that the natives will take advantage of the terrain to conduct an asymmetrical war with themselves, and drag down the opponent with sneak attacks and harassment.

Even after Zhen Qian heard about this, he had palpitations!

This kind of fighting style of the natives is equivalent to guerrilla warfare in later generations, only Zhen Qian knows that if the natives really adopt this method and do not give up, they can only retreat temporarily.

(End of chapter)