Chapter 910: Draw 5 from 1 Dings.
Chapter 910: Draw 5 from 1 Dings.
Ye Kun clasped his fists in return and said with a smile:
"Since we are a family, we should not be divided. I plan to arrange for some of you to serve as officials here and enjoy life. As an official, you will have a fixed salary. In this way, we can manage the Oil Peninsula together, build the Oil Peninsula together, and make this land a better place."
If you want the indigenous people here to work for you, you must win over these tribal leaders.
Give both grace and power.
There are plenty of porcelain, glass and ironware anyway, so just give them more.
There was also plenty of grain and red and white sugar.
When the leaders heard this, they were overjoyed.
Ye Kun took out the map of the peninsula and gave each person a copy, marking the territories of each of these leaders.
Everyone had a pleasant exchange.
The leader of the largest local tribe, who had more than 100,000 people under his command, was called "Aturu". He told Ye Kun that there was a kind of date tree here that had a high yield.
And palm and olive.
Ye Kun nodded and smiled: "The date trees here should be date palm trees. Dates are delicious. Palm trees and olive trees can both be used to extract oil, improve our lives, and also exchange for money."
In order to show his sincerity, Ye Kun kept these tribal leaders and played here for a few days.
They were also arranged to visit the port and see the large ships of the Chinese nation.
In order to show off his military power, Ye Kun also organized shooting and artillery performances to let these tribal leaders see the power of guns and artillery.
A few days later, all the tribal leaders prostrated themselves before Ye Kun with great respect.
Ye Kun asked each tribe to arrange suitable people to serve as officials in Changgeng New City to facilitate communication and management.
They also asked each tribe to contribute some male and female slaves to supplement their own labor force.
In the blink of an eye, it was July.
Ye Kun also arranged all the work in the Oil Peninsula in an orderly manner.
At this time, Ye Shusheng came.
When Xie Baochan saw his son, he was so excited that he rushed over and hugged him, tears streaming down his face.
After not seeing him for several years, Ye Shusheng actually looks like a middle-aged man.
The childishness of those days is gone, leaving only a face full of fortitude.
"Father, emperor, mother!"
Ye Shusheng knelt on the ground, smiling with tears in his eyes: "I greet you. I am very happy to see that my father and mother are in good health..."
"Good boy, you've suffered, get up!"
Ye Kun personally stepped forward, helped Ye Shusheng up, looked him up and down, and said with a smile: "Yes, he is my good son, a good man of China!"
Xie Baochan also wiped away tears and said with a smile: "My son has grown up and has become a man of integrity!"
The family is reunited and we are especially happy.
Ye Shusheng also understood the rules, and he respectfully greeted Jiang Yourong and others, greeting them one by one.
He also brought a large number of gifts from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
There are all kinds of rare treasures.
Ye Kun arranged a banquet to welcome Ye Shusheng.
Ye Shusheng toasted everyone one by one and was very knowledgeable about the rules.
Xie Baochan asked: "Shusheng, are your uncles in the Mediterranean doing well? Are all your relatives doing well?"
"All the uncles are fine." Ye Shusheng nodded and said with a wry smile:
"However, we have been here for seven or eight years. Some of our older relatives have passed away. Some of our relatives and friends have died due to acclimatization problems."
Xie Baochan also sighed: "Yes, it is thousands of miles away from China, so it is inevitable that the climate and soil there are different. The climate and soil of a place nurture the people of that place, and the climate and soil there are not originally ours."
"Mother, that was in the past. Now we have adapted to the local climate and soil. Moreover, we have built three major cities and occupied one million square kilometers as our base camp."
"How big is a million square kilometers?" asked Xie Baochan.
"It's about the size of the original Yizhou."
Ye Shusheng perked up and said with a smile: "My father forbad me to continue attacking the Eastern Roman Empire, otherwise, I would have conquered all of it."
Ye Kun smiled and said, "You should know why I don't let you continue to attack the Eastern Roman Empire."
Ye Shusheng nodded: "I understand what the emperor means. Letting Eastern Rome go for the time being is to let them become our granary and money warehouse to support our large-scale immigration. When the Han people in the Mediterranean reach a certain scale, we will slowly annex Eastern Rome."
"Yes, that's what I said to Huangfu Lin. Otherwise, Huangfu Lin would have conquered the Western Roman Empire by now."
Ye Kun said slowly: "With our current military strength, it would not be difficult to conquer the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, let alone kill all the people in the Eastern and Western Roman Empires. However, there are not many Han people around the Mediterranean Sea.
We cannot manage it if we conquer it. Therefore, we can only build a base camp first, suck blood from the Roman Empire, settle our immigrants, and strengthen our strength. "
It would not be difficult to launch an all-out war and completely destroy Eastern and Western Rome.
But the subsequent management becomes more difficult.
Without food and labor, no matter how much money you rob, it will be of no use.
The best way is to preserve Eastern and Western Rome, suck blood from them, and develop your own strength.
Ye Shusheng smiled and said, "Father is right. I followed his instructions to consolidate the territory and develop the population step by step. Now, I have 300,000 Han people under my command. There are also more than one million Romans, who are also my subjects."
Xie Baochan asked, "The total number of immigrants we gave you is not 300,000, right?"
Ye Shusheng replied: "The total number of soldiers and immigrants from China is only over 150,000. Over the years, more than 30,000 people have died. The current 300,000 include the children born to these immigrants."
"The child is too young to work. He needs to eat and be taken care of..."
Xie Baochan sighed and looked at Ye Kun: "Your Majesty, please give some more immigrants and send them to the Mediterranean. Shusheng has no one under his command, and I am still worried."
Ye Shusheng also looked at Ye Kun and said with a smile: "Father, if you give me another 100,000 people, I think our Chinese people will be able to stabilize their territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean."
A country cannot be considered large if it does not have a population of over a million.
Ye Shusheng meant that only with another 100,000 young people and reproduction could the country truly gain a foothold.
"Our position in the Mediterranean is already stable. This is because the Mediterranean is surrounded by our Chinese territories and armies."
Ye Kun smiled slightly: "The Mediterranean Sea is not very big. Huangfu Lin has already controlled the west coast, and Shu Sheng has controlled the east coast. As long as you support each other, no one dares to provoke you."
The Mediterranean is actually very large.
But compared to the vast ocean, it is not big.
Moreover, Ye Kun now has a diesel-powered warship that can move quickly and come and go like the wind.
Ye Shusheng thought that his father was unwilling to let him immigrate again, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Ye Kun smiled and said, "However, you do have too few people under your command. I have decided to establish the Mediterranean Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet, the Red Sea Fleet, and the Caspian Sea Fleet, and increase immigration efforts!
At least, I will give you 200,000 more people!"
Ye Shusheng was overjoyed and knelt on one knee: "Thank you, father!"
Ye Kun nodded: "The arrangements for the four fleets have already been made. The shipyards in Jiaozhi and Tianzhu are working overtime day and night. Immigrants from China are still being recruited.
We will have forced migration.”
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