From the beginning of the strategy of entering Zhejiang through the sea in Luxury, the Song family was not optimistic about the situation since Song Fu and below, and in recent years, the focus has been on Jingluo Quanzhou, and there is no intention to follow the Luxury family into Zhejiang and Jiangxi to attack the city and seize the land.

It is also the Song family's behavior of being alone that makes the Song family and the other seven clans farther and farther away, making the relationship between each other not as complicated and inseparable as before.

With the war in eastern Zhejiang as the division, after the Zhejiang-Fujian army was strategically defeated on the eastern front, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and a large number of Fujian children died in a foreign land. On the one hand, the Song clan was secretly lucky, and on the other hand, it was also more determined to be alone, and it had no intention of going all the way to the black with the luxury family and other clans with the six surnames.

Since they are wait-and-see, then attaching themselves to Huaidong or Jiangning is an option that has long existed in the hearts of many people of the Song clan but is inconvenient to say.

Compared with the other six surnames, they have long regarded the luxury family as the leader, and they are closely entangled with the interests of the luxury family, and the Song family chose to throw themselves into Huaidong at this time, but there is not much psychological burden. In addition, the Quanzhou garrison was relatively purely controlled by the Song family's children, which also made the Song family have fewer worries when they chose to throw themselves into Huaidong.

The situation is also obvious, the Song family will not vote for Huaidong at this time, and when Huaidong pulls out his hand and organizes soldiers and horses to land from Mindong, it is likely that they will be the first to choose to fight Quanzhou.

The luxury family has a large number of elite soldiers and horses stationed in Jin'an, and the pressure on Huaidong to fight Jin'an at the beginning is too great - landing from Quanzhou, first, it is close to Yizhou Island, and it is most convenient to hoard war materials and assembled soldiers and horses in Yizhou, and transport them to Quanzhou to land; Moreover, Quanzhou is bordered by the Jinjiang River in the north, and the Huaidong soldiers besiege Quanzhou City, which can well block the Jin'an reinforcements on the north bank of the Jinjiang River; In addition, landing from Quanzhou can also isolate the coastal counties of southern Fujian south of Quanzhou from Jin'an, so as to achieve the purpose of dividing and attacking.

When it was affirmed that Huaidong had the ability to organize a large force of troops and horses to land from the coast of eastern Fujian after the autumn, the Song clan from Song Fu to Song Fu actually had no choice at this time.

Song Jia came to Quanzhou at this time, not so much for Huaidong, but for the Song family, she didn't want to drag the Song family to surrender when the soldiers approached the city.

On the third day of Song Jia's entry into Quanzhou, since Song Fu and below, Song Valve decided to give up watching and throw himself into Huaidong.

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Song Jia was inconvenient to stay in Quanzhou for a long time, and the big event had been decided, so she took a boat to Yizhou first, and then changed to a big boat through Yizhou to go north to Xuzhou in Heishuiyang.

The New Year's Festival has just passed, it is already the early spring of the third year of Yongxing, Quanzhou does not feel very cold, but the spring breeze will blow all over the land of Xusi, and it will take another two months.

Song Jia stood on the deck, looking at the surging waves, reflecting the sun, as if thousands of scale armor were hidden in the middle of the fight, calculated carefully, and Lin Jian had known each other in Jiangning for six years, and the first encounter was because Ao Canghai led people to assassinate Luxury Feihu and hijacked her and Luxury Mingyue, and finally rescued Lin Bound. Ao Canghai has long become the leading general of Huaidong, and now the Song family is also subordinate to Huaidong, thinking about this process is really tortuous.

If it hadn't been that accident, it wouldn't have happened so much, right?

Song Jia secretly thought in her heart that this creation was really making people.

Song Bo stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the mountains in the distance and the beacon pier built in Huaidong between the mountains along the coast.

On behalf of the Song family, Song Bo went to Yizhou Island to meet with Zhao Qingshan, Sun Shangwang and others, who were in charge of the affairs of the southern front in Huaidong, to discuss the cooperation between the two armies. There are also dozens of Song relatives led by Song Yi are also on the ship, and they will go north with Song Jia, intending to be incorporated into the Jeju camp army and serve Huaidong, as a promise and guarantee that the Song clan will not repeat Huaidong's surrender.

The ship was so close to Yizhou Island that it was already possible to see the trees on the shore clearly, and the beacon pier on the headland near the sea was still flashing with the cold light of knives and guns.

Under the protection of the two Huaidong Jiyun-class warships, Song Bo and the others were on the boat that was sticking to the northwest coastline of Yizhou Island and heading towards the mouth of Sanzhu Creek.

Like Zhejiang and Fujian, Yizhou Island is also a mountainous terrain, with many lofty mountains and mountains above thousands of zhang, which is very majestic, but the resources of Pingtian are richer than those in eastern Fujian, and the coastal plains and basins suitable for cultivation are mainly concentrated in the western part of the island.

The eastern part of Mindong has only been fully developed in the past 200 years, while the development of Yizhou Island is even lagging behind.

If it weren't for the suppression of the East China Sea Kou forces, the luxury family would have painstakingly invested in development, and Yizhou Island would still be a wild place where only Shengfan and Daoyi live.

Although Jinzhu Creek is called "Creek", it is the most important river in the northwest of Yizhou Island. At this time, in early spring, it is the dry season, and the mouth of the sea is ten miles wide. The boat goes upriver from the mouth of the stream, the mountains on both sides are undulating endlessly, about more than 20 miles against the epidemic, and the terrain is abruptly open, and there is a lake basin with a circumference of more than 70 miles hidden between the mountains.

According to ancient records, there was a huge lake between these mountains, into which streams and rivers such as Jinzhu Creek flowed into it, and then entered the sea from the mouth of the northwest mountain range, and the sediment was deposited, and gradually formed today's Hudang Plain in the northern mountains of the island mountain.

Yizhou Island is affected by the storms in the summer and is difficult to survive, except for the Hudang Plain between the northern mountains, which is surrounded by mountains, and is the least affected by the storm. It is close to the mouth of the sea, there is a big river to communicate, and the luxury family originally built the county seat of Yizhou, which was selected on the north bank of Jinzhu River, and it is also the earliest area of Yizhou Island to be developed.

In the early years, more than 10,000 households and more than 200,000 fields belonged to Yizhou County, most of which were distributed on both sides of Jinzhu River.

In the thirteenth year of Chongguan, that is, the first year of Yongxing, after the loss of Mingzhou, the luxury family was forced to abandon Yizhou Island, and about 20,000 people were forcibly relocated into Fujian, and the houses on both sides of Jinzhuxi were all set on fire, and the county seat of Yizhou was naturally a mess.

It has only been a year and a half since Huaidong took over Yizhou Island, although my sister said that Huaidong has moved nearly 100,000 people to the island in the past year and a half, Song Bo still has a question mark in his heart.

There are many mountains and little land in eastern Fujian, and there are large coastal plains in the west of Yizhou Island that can be cultivated, but in the past two hundred years, only this Hudang plain between the northern mountains has been developed, and it is not for nothing.

Yizhou Island has a hot climate and lush forests, which makes it extremely difficult to reclaim land and hoard land.

Secondly, the miasma on the island is serious, and in the early years, the luxury family built a city on Yizhou Island, and also used prisoners, and those who died of miasma, four or five out of ten.

With such a high mortality rate, how could ordinary people be willing to move over?

In addition, the stream of Yizhou Island flows out between the mountains and flows into the sea, and the flow is relatively short, but the rainfall is abundant in summer, and it is very easy to form floods.

The county seat of Yizhou was twice washed away by floods, and it was not until huge manpower and material resources were invested to build a stone pond on the north bank of Jinzhu River in the southeast of the county that the county was not directly threatened by floods. However, although the fields on both sides of Jinzhu Creek are fertile, they are always under the threat of flooding in summer.

In addition to the Hudang Basin where Yizhou County is located, the coastal plain in the south is more extensive, and it is necessary to seriously measure, tens of millions of acres of flat fields are not a problem, but in addition to the difficulty of reclamation, serious miasma, and flooding of streams and rivers in summer, it often faces severe storm tests in summer and autumn.

If Huaidong hadn't taken over Yizhou Island, Song Bo wouldn't have believed that any force could triple the population of Yizhou Island in such a short period of time.

Song Bo had been to Chongzhou, although at that time Huaidong Lianyun Salt River dredging had not yet begun, but Xisha Island had a scale, Song Bo had a preliminary impression of Huaidong's ability to govern - over the years, Zhejiang-Fujian secret piles and secret agents, the most concerned is Huaidong's information, including the dredging of the Salt River, the construction of a seawall, the reclamation of Huaidong Lake and other affairs, all show that Huaidong has extraordinary ability in governance.

Think about the time before Lin Lian made his career, in Jiangning Prison Island, although the methods were disdained by Qingliu scholars, and even stained as a "swineherd", they really reflected Lin Lian's extraordinary ability to govern. It was also when he was governing Prison Island that Lin Jian cultivated the first batch of capable people.

Later, Huaidong Xing miscellaneous learning, advocating craftsmanship, and eclectic recruitment of talents have laid the foundation for the rapid rise of Huaidong.

In Quanzhou for a few days, Song Jia told everything she had seen, heard and felt in Huaidong over the years, that is, to let the Song family understand that the rise of Huaidong was by no means a fluke, and the rise model of Huaidong was by no means something that others could imitate.

Although it is far away from Huaidong, it is easy to sneak in, and it is close to Yizhou, but it is not easy to approach and sneak in across the vast sea, so the Song family is not very clear about the recent situation of Yizhou Island in Huaidong.

After entering the Hudang Plain, it was found that the two banks were outside the original old embankment, and a new remote embankment was built, and the double embankment was used to protect the fields and houses from the flood

Although Song Jia's identity was not disclosed, Zhao Qingshan and Sun Shangwang, who were in charge of military and political affairs in Yizhou, understood it, not to mention that Song Jia went south with a secret letter from Lin Bin, ordering Zhao Qingshan and Sun Shangwang to cooperate in order to recruit the Song family to attach to Huaidong, and when the time was ripe, Huaidong would directly land from Quanzhou and occupy eastern Fujian.

In the Chiwei Cape Bay on the south coast of the Zhuxi estuary, the main anchoring port of the Huaidong No. 1 Water Battalion, only a few warships responsible for the island's internal defense are moored in Neihu Harbor in the southwest of Yizhou County -- in addition to the internal guard warships with soldiers on the deck, there are also more than 100 large and small ships stationed in Neihu Harbor, including several five-masted giant ships.

It was only when the luxury family forcibly withdrew the army and civilians from Yizhou two years ago that so many ships were moored here.

"Huaidong has really opened up the South China Sea route!" Song Bo sighed that those five-masted giant ships were not conducive to inland waterways, so they could only go to the Nanyang Islands for trade.

"Do you still suspect that I lied to you?" Song Jia said with a smile, "Huaidong only allocates an additional 200,000 taels of silver to Yizhou Island every year, if it is not for the opening of the Nanyang route, this silver is not enough at all...... At present, Yizhou is responsible for the Nanyang route, and it also ensures that all the Nanyang income in the first three years is invested in Yizhou Island. Last year, the goods transshipped through Yizhou to the Nanyang Islands, including 1,000 quintals of raw silk, seven ships of tea, more than 20 ships of iron, porcelain, cotton cloth, tung oil, and dyes, which transported back 400,000 stone of rice from the Nanyang Islands to make up for the initial shortage of rice and grain on Yizhou Island, and also transported back more than 800,000 taels of gold and silver -- all of which were invested in Yizhou Island! ”

Of course, Song Bo is clear about the huge profits of sea trade, and in the early years, the Song family also had sea ships to go to sea.

In addition to the restrictions of navigation and shipbuilding technology, it was mainly because the interests of maritime trade at that time were scattered in the hands of various families, and the luxury family was unwilling to take on the responsibility of clearing out the sea bandits near and far, so the scale of maritime trade in eastern Fujian has been seriously restricted.

Every year, the Song family will have several or more than a dozen families, raw silk, tea, cloth and other goods to gather two or three ships, venture from Xiapu to leave the port, through the Heishui Ocean, to the Kyushu Island in Haidong to make a profit, each ship of goods profit enough to build a new ship.

The risk of going to the South Seas is too great, and it is easy not to send a ship there.

According to the scale of trade between Yizhou Island and the Nanyang Islands in the past year, it is natural that a stable route has been developed, so many ships can come and go.

The difficulty in the development of Yizhou Island is mainly due to the severe limitation of natural conditions, but it is not impossible to overcome the harsh natural conditions that can be ruthlessly invested in huge amounts. In the past year, the profits of the Nanyang route, including 400,000 stone rice grains and 800,000 taels of silver, have been invested in Yizhou Island, and it is not impossible for nearly 100,000 people to move to the island in such a short period of time.