Three days later, the messenger arrived as promised. The first batch of 800 people rushed to Fuxing Island. The top priority was to build the infrastructure as soon as possible, so most of the first batch of people were craftsmen, and the rest were guards. The real production staff will not land on the island until the third batch.
In recent years, the Mongols have frequently marched south to attack the Song Dynasty. The Mongols looted and plundered without restraint. Everywhere they passed was empty, and many people fled with their families as soon as they heard that the Mongols were about to attack.
In troubled times, human life is both the most valuable and the least valuable. Li Jie secretly recruited about seven to eight thousand refugees in two years. This number is already quite large. Without overseas bases, he can only place them in various places to support these refugees. The money and food that the group of people spent was not a small sum of money.
But now the plan has begun. After waiting for a while, until the factory on the island is completed and put into production, the small amount of money spent to support them is not worth mentioning compared to the wealth they will create in the future.
Among the refugees gathered, in addition to young adults with their families, there is also a special group of people - orphans. The parents of this group of children either died in the war, or were separated from their fathers, and some were sold by their parents.
Li Jie accepted these orphans and taught them literature and martial arts. Of course, the articles they studied were not the mainstream Confucianism in society. At this time, Confucianism alone cannot save the world. What Li Jie urgently needs in his future plan is various skills. Technical talents with professional qualities are uniformly trained in accordance with the standards of future generations of technical schools.
All the teaching materials are compiled by him, and the teachers are taught by him personally. The teachers here are different from the mainstream teacher group in society. They are craftsmen with excellent skills, veterans who are well versed in military affairs, musicians who are proficient in music theory, and people who are good at farming. There are many farmers, Confucian scholars with open ideas, officials with rich resumes, etc. In short, there are people from all walks of life. Li Jie wants to cultivate a group of hard-working talents as quickly as possible.
In the past two years, he has traveled frequently to Lin'an mainly to train teachers. Otherwise, he alone would not be able to teach so many students. As Fuxing Island gradually comes into operation, more and more refugees will be recruited in the future.
According to the traditional education in mainstream society, most of the Confucian scholars trained are generalists who need to know something about everything. The training cycle is too long and Li Jie cannot afford to wait. He can only train a group of professional talents as much as possible and wait for this group of people in the future. After entering the work, slowly continue to cultivate.
These orphans will be the team for Li Jie's future career. They will receive professional education, and those with outstanding talents will be included in the youth army. After graduation, they will not work directly like other orphans. Their main task is to learn literature and martial arts. Students in the literature class will be professional administrative talents in the future, and students in the martial arts class will be professional military talents in the future.
The person who came back to report this time was Liu Xiaoyu. In addition to the planned things, he also told Li Jie an unexpected news.
"Boss, this time we encountered pirates when we went to Fuxing Island. This group of pirates happened to be Fan people. Under the command of Brother Sanli, we captured this group of people and their ships without any damage. The plan is Can’t we start in advance?”
The plan Liu Xiaoyu mentioned was to dump sugar, salt, glass, mirrors and other high value-added commodities to the Southern Song Dynasty in the name of Fan people. Originally, this plan was not expected to be implemented until next year, but he did not expect that there would be an unexpected surprise this time. Someone actually took the initiative to deliver it to my door.
Ocean trading merchants of this era did not mind appearing as pirates while selling items. Liu Xiaoyu and the others' encounter with pirates this time was a complete accident.
In order to transport supplies and personnel this time, Li Jie had all the ships in his hands and formed a large fleet. Generally, pirates would not choose to plunder when encountering such a large fleet, but this time it was a coincidence. Unfortunately, a merchant ship broke away from the fleet.
When the frigate found the merchant ship, the group of Fan people were preparing to plunder. The escorts accompanying this time were basically warriors. To deal with a group of non-professional Fan pirates, they naturally cut melons and vegetables, and captured them without any effort. these people.
Now that there are people and ships, Li Jie thinks that he can test the water first. Anyway, the test will be carried out sooner or later, and now it is just a little earlier.
"Well, we can test the water first. How many ships have been captured in total?"
Liu Xiaoyu replied without thinking: "Three three-masted sailing ships!"
Li Jie nodded: "In this way, one of the ships will be used to dismantle the craftsmen to practice their skills, and the other two will be used for trade. During the rotation, they can be used to train sailors. The location should be closer, Mingzhou (Ningbo) Hong Kong."
Compared with the Northern Song Dynasty, the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty was greatly reduced, and all trade routes in the north were cut off. Due to the situation and the needs of development, the Southern Song Dynasty had to expand trade channels outwards. Thanks to the improvement of shipbuilding technology and navigation skills, overseas trade became An indispensable part of the economic prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty.
There are more than 20 specialized trade ports, among which Guangzhou Port, Quanzhou Port and Mingzhou Port are the three largest ports. The imperial court has a municipal shipping department here to manage overseas trade and establish trade relations with the Southern Song Dynasty. There are as many as forty overseas countries. The development of the Maritime Silk Road has since entered its heyday. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Maritime Silk Road went from prosperity to decline, and overseas trade was far less developed than during the Southern Song Dynasty.
"In addition, the first batch of goods will only use glass and a small amount of icing sugar. The trade of other goods will be temporarily postponed. By the way, how are the training of those people now? Are they obedient?"
Liu Xiaoyu chuckled: "Be obedient, how can you be disobedient? With Brother Su Shan here, these people are just like good babies. If you tell them to go east, they will never dare to go west!"
Su Shan was originally a police officer. He was thoughtful, extremely good at investigating cases, and was a man of justice and wealth. He was considered a well-known righteous man in the local area. Later, he was kicked out by the government for offending a yamen. Not only that, he was also raped by that person. Mingyamen sent people to hunt him down, causing his family to be destroyed.
Li Jie saved his life by chance. After finding out the whole story, Li Jie took action and caught the yamen in front of Su Shan and let him deal with him. After Su Shan took revenge, he followed Li Jie wholeheartedly. Now, Mainly responsible for internal security work, and occasionally guest-starred in torture work.
"Okay, how to make use of these people? I told you before, did you forget it?"
Liu Xiaoyu said categorically: "Of course I haven't forgotten it, boss, don't worry, if something goes wrong, Xiaoyu'er will come and see you!"
Li Jie frowned slightly: "Why don't you mention your head? Don't say these things in front of me in the future!"
"Yes! Xiao Yu'er knows he was wrong!"
Li Jie nodded slightly when he saw this, and then turned to give instructions to Liu Xiaohu who was standing on one side.
"Xiaohu, recently you asked the brothers in Jiaxing to pay more attention to the news in Lujiazhuang!"
