One Piece of Song Dynasty

After Lu Wenbin quickly returned to Huating, he began to prepare for the expedition to Ezo Island. First, he mobilized the people and craftsmen, and prepared food, grass and building materials. The first batch of naval officers, including the ship's officers, will go to Ezo Island. There will be people. .

Lu Wenbin does not plan to go directly to Ezo Island. It will take a long time, and there will be much more food and grass to prepare. Lu Wenbin’s first stop is Jeju Island. After arriving at Jeju Island, he will replenish food and grass before heading to Ezo Island. From Jeju The island is much closer to Ezo Island.

After half a month of preparation, Lu Wenbin finally prepared everything that needed to be prepared, and then led the fleet out to sea to begin the expedition to Ezo Island.

The fleet traveled all the way north, and it took ten days to reach Jeju Island. After replenishing food and grass in Jeju Island, it took another half a month to reach its destination, Ezo Island.

"Look, sir, there is land ahead." A soldier pointed with his arm at a black line that appeared between the sea and the sky in front of him. Lu Wenbin said oh, raised the telescope, and looked at the line that appeared in the telescope under the morning sun. Lu Wenbin couldn't help but be filled with emotion at the vast land full of primitive coniferous forests.

According to the emperor, this land that has been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for many years has finally welcomed the army of the Celestial Dynasty again.

Soon, the entire fleet came to the shore, and immediately buckled the side planks, and a large number of soldiers and craftsmen arrived at the coast of Otaru, Hokkaido, like a raging tide.

Simple military tents, warehouses, and workers' camps were immediately built on the spot. Finally, when dusk came, these simple buildings were completed, and all the army officers and craftsmen could finally sleep peacefully on land.

Ezo Island is located in Northeast Asia, with a huge temperature difference between day and night. Now that we have just entered April, the temperature at night is still very low, and the cold wind is biting. All the soldiers in the army were wrapped in thick quilts to sleep. At the same time, each camp cut firewood on the spot to ward off the cold night.

In this quiet time of night, breathing the cool air filled with the rich fragrance of the coniferous forest, and hearing the crackling sound of the burning firewood, Lu Wenbin's heart was ups and downs, and it was difficult to fall asleep for a while. He was reading Li Xin's book about Ezo Island’s future plans.

Li Xin planned to build the city in Sapporo as the core area of ​​Beiting City, and then build several county towns in Wakkanai, Hakodate, Asahikawa, Obihiro, Nemuro and other places to control the entire Hokkaido.

As the core area of ​​Beiting City, because Hokkaido is sparsely populated, Li Xin plans to build a small town with a circumference of miles first, while several other county towns will have a circumference of more than ten miles. However, the county town will have to wait until the core area is built. Construction will begin. After the core area is built, Li Xin can transport immigrants on a large scale. However, Li Xin only plans to immigrate one hundred thousand people to the population of Beiting City. As for the Forbidden Army stationed in Beiting City, Li Xin will give The quota is still only people.

Hokkaido is a very good grain-producing area. The land here is mostly made of soil accumulated by volcanic ash, which is quite fertile. Although it may only be planted one season a year due to the cold weather, its output is quite considerable, and the specific The area of ​​developable farmland cannot be roughly determined until Lu Wenbin takes people to explore the entire island. However, once Beiting City is developed, it will be equivalent to another huge granary for Li Xin.

Lu Wenbin watched it all night, and then fell asleep for a while until dawn.

The next day, hundreds of craftsmen and people immediately began to quickly use the bluestone, cement, bricks and other building materials shipped on the ship to urgently build a simple dock. After the dock was built, the naval fleet had a port to dock.

While most of the craftsmen and the people were building the port, Lu Wenbin led a small number of craftsmen and soldiers to the northeast according to the sketch drawn by Li Xin, and arrived at the location of Sapporo, the capital of modern Hokkaido, Japan.

After three days of careful inspection and repeated discussions with his craftsmen, Lu Wenbin finally determined the specific location of the city in the core area.

This selected place is located on a gentle terrain in the Tokachi Plains of modern Japan, about six or seven miles away from the Sapporo River. It is backed by a tall extinct volcano. It has convenient transportation and a wide view. If future immigrants want to come, It should be very convenient in the city.

After observing the terrain, Lu Wenbin decided that the city in the core area would only have three city gates in the west, south and east. Because the north is facing an extinct volcano, there is no need to open city gates and there will be protective walls dug around it. , just use the tributaries of the Sapporo River to fill in and make it pass around the city.

Li Xin is a person who strives for perfection and pursues things once and for all. When he handed over to Lu Wenbin, he asked all the cities in Beiting City and every gate to be designed with hidden weights at all costs, and the city walls, such as urns and towers. , turrets, gun emplacements, parapets, battlements, etc. will also be fully constructed. The city was designed with a city height of 15 meters and a bridleway on the wall 6 meters wide, thus greatly strengthening the city's defense.

Due to the current abundant supply of manpower and construction materials, as well as the availability of thick pine wood as construction lumber, Lu Wenbin predicts that the new city should be built within half a year, just in time before the weather becomes cold and the ground freezes and becomes hard to dig. , the basic construction of this core area city has been completed.

After more than ten days of construction, the port was finally completed. The naval fleet under Lu Wenbin finally had a reliable docking place. After unloading all the supplies, Lu Wenbin ordered the transport fleet to return to Jeju Island immediately to transport another batch of people and grain supplies. Here, when passing through Jeju Island before, Lu Wenbin had already discussed with Ruan Xiaoqi, the admiral of the North Sea Fleet, and Yu Yunwen, the new governor of Jeju Prefecture, and asked them to transport the people and grain supplies stranded in Huating to Jeju Island in advance, so that Lu Wenbin could It saves a lot of time in transporting people and materials.

When the city in the core area was being built, Lu Wenbin also sent two groups of people to contact the Ezo tribes on the island, informing them of the news that the Tang Dynasty occupied Ezo Island, and told them that when the new city was built, Later, you can come to the city to trade to improve the difficult life in this bitter and cold place.

Another group of people, under the protection of the military, went around the island to explore the reclaimable wasteland and mineral locations. These people were specially selected by Li Xin from among university graduates for Lu Wenbin's expedition to Ezo Island. These people will provide a basic reference and data for future immigration and factory construction in Beiting City.

After the island is completely explored, these people will provide all aspects of the data to Lu Wenbin. After Lu Wenbin summarizes it, he will write a memorial and send it to Yanjing to give it to Li Xin.