Chapter 2715

After visiting the small urban area, everyone found a nearby restaurant to have a quick lunch, and then went on to see the local farming situation.

The Sasebo River is the main water vein near the port, so when planning the land, the government will use the valley along the Sasebo River as agricultural land at this stage. Immigrants who are naturalized locally can apply to the government for a piece of land for farming, and receive a

The government provided grain seeds and agricultural tools, as well as basic agricultural technology guidance to ensure a minimum livelihood, which also became a major weapon in attracting Japanese immigrants.

"You have also seen that the terrain here is not too open, the area that can be used as cultivated land is relatively limited, and there is not enough labor. It is difficult to carry out large-scale agricultural development by forming collective farms like other places.

.So local agricultural products basically have no advantages at all. The current output is mainly to supply the local market and reduce dependence on foreign countries as much as possible."

When it comes to agricultural development, this is not Shiro Amakusa's strong point. Although the Ministry of Agriculture has also sent officials here to guide production, due to local objective conditions, it is not possible to pursue specialty agriculture or deep industrial processing.

It is too easy. At present, we can only focus on food production as the main direction and strive to ensure local food supply. This will at least save the expenditure on external procurement.

Rice, corn, and potatoes are the main local food products. Supplemented by fruits and vegetables, livestock breeding, and fisheries, the output can basically meet local demand. When the production capacity of food crops is higher, we can gradually develop some such as

Processing industry chains such as brewing to obtain more economic benefits.

In the final analysis, the problem still lies in the shortage of labor force. The existing number of labor force is simply not enough to implement various government plans, and the Sasebo authorities must give priority to the operation of bases and ports, and the needs of agricultural construction can only be ranked second.

Location, being able to achieve self-sufficiency in food locally is pretty good.

Zhu Zian, who was accompanying him all the way, was thinking that Haihan had already built such a large port and military base in just a few years since he settled here, and with the supporting ancillary industries, the operational efficiency was very high.

.With such a mature operation method, it is no wonder that Wang Anguo and his son dared to go to the other side of the ocean thousands of miles away to open up territories in foreign lands for the Haihan Kingdom.

Japan is not far from China, nor is it close, but no matter how prosperous the dynasties were in the past, they have not been able to achieve what Haihan has done now. More than two hundred years ago, the Mongols organized two cross-sea expeditions, and finally

They all ended hastily. From this point of view, Haihan is indeed much more powerful than his predecessors.

It has only been more than 20 years since the founding of Haihan. If the trend continues, perhaps in one or two generations, Haihan's territory will be so vast that no previous dynasty can match it.

Although Zhu Zian is a descendant of the Ming Dynasty aristocracy and has not even officially been naturalized as a Haihan citizen so far, he can't help but feel a little excited when he thinks that he is in the process of making history. If he was in Hangzhou and Zhoushan, he was acquainted with Haihan.

He had a preliminary understanding of Haihan's strength, so after his mission to North Korea and Japan, he had a more real understanding of Haihan's influence in overseas countries. The attitude shown by the two neighboring countries in the East China Sea towards Haihan

, seems to be far more submissive to Ming than before, perhaps this is due to the gap in strength.

After all, Sasebo is just a small place that has not yet formed a climate. At the end of the day, I basically visited it inside and out. However, the handover of the garrison of the troops was not completed so quickly. Shi Chengwu and Wang Anguo had to participate in it, and the mission also Unable to leave, Amakusa Shiro was afraid that these young people would be bored, so he asked his two sons to take them into the mountains to hunt to kill time.

On the fourth day after the mission arrived in Sasebo, Amakusa Shiro invited them to the base headquarters, saying that someone from Nagasaki Port was coming and hoped to meet the mission.

To be able to receive such attention from Amakusa Shiro, the identity of the visitor is certainly not an ordinary civilian. According to Amakusa Shiro, the visitor is Kosaki Seijiro, a close retainer of Nagasaki magistrate Yuta Kosaki. This person has a wide network of contacts and is responsible for dealing with Nagasaki. Official foreign affairs. As for why he came to Sasebo to ask for a meeting with the mission, he obviously got relevant information and came here specifically to find out.

Sasebo and Nagasaki are not far apart, and the two sides must have maintained a certain degree of communication. However, a huge armed fleet suddenly came to Sasebo. It is normal for Nagasaki to react like this after receiving the news.

Kozaki Seijiro did not beat around the bush, and stated his intention straight to the point. He wanted to confirm Kaihan's purpose of suddenly increasing his troops in Sasebo. Amakusa Shiro probably wanted to win the trust of the other party, so he specially invited the envoys to come out, and they would report to Sasebo. The other party explained the purpose of the trip.

Haihan's decision to send a mission to Japan within the year had been notified to Japanese officials a few months earlier, but he did not mention that a large armed fleet would accompany it. Shi Chengwu told Seijiro Ozaki that the fleet would There was no hostility in the mission, and the main purpose was to protect the safety of the mission and take this opportunity to complete ocean-going training. At the same time, it also showed the Japanese shogunate the willingness of Haihan Kingdom to safeguard international peace.

"According to what this gentleman said, this fleet may pass through Nagasaki Port next?" Kozaki Seijiro keenly grasped the key points of Ishige Takeshi's words. He didn't care about those fancy reasons, but if this armed force The fleet wanted to visit Nagasaki Port, so it had to be handled carefully. So he was very careful when asking questions, and specifically used "passing through" instead of "visiting".

But Shi Chengwu didn't care about such details. He nodded and said: "After we have finished resting in Sasebo, we are going to visit Nagasaki Port at the next stop. I believe Mr. Kosaki will not welcome us, right?"

Kosaki Seijiro's face changed slightly and he said: "The capacity of Nagasaki Port is limited, and I'm afraid there won't be enough piers available for your fleet to dock at the port!"

When he entered the port just now, he paid special attention to the parking situation of the Haihan warships in the port. As expected, it was consistent with the information he had received before. The size of the fleet that came to Sasebo even far exceeded the fleet that was originally stationed. If this force broke into Changchun If they refuse to leave after Qigang, no one can invite them out.

Shi Chengwu heard the other party's intention and responded with a smile: "Don't be nervous, your visit to Nagasaki Port is not malicious. On the contrary, our visit will bring several trade cooperation projects to Nagasaki and establish multiple The plan to fix cross-border trade ship schedules should be of great benefit to the future development of the local area!"
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