News from Hokkaido was transferred to Kaohsiung through the transit station of Tsushima Island and was relayed by carrier pigeons.

Last time, Tao Wenfu, who was at the former station, reached an agreement to rent a supply point with local Japanese indigenous people on Tsuma Island. After a round trip, the flying pigeons from Tsuma Island and Kaohsiung were passing messages back and forth. Tao Wenfu left more than a dozen people and a ship on Tsuma Island. These dozen people stayed alone on Tsuma Island for two or three months until Jinding led the fleet to arrive again.

The Feige password for Hokkaido and Kaohsiung communication is different from the password used on Tsukuma Island. Whether it is Kaohsiung or Hokkaido, the password for Tsukuma Island alone is the same, while the password for Hokkaido and Kaohsiung communication is higher, which is done to avoid the intercepting of the carrier pigeon on Tsukuma Island. In this way, even if the Japanese on Tsukuma Island change their minds in the middle of the journey and even seize the Taisong employees at the supply point, they cannot know what kind of information the Feige letter between Kaohsiung and Hokkaido is transmitting.

In addition to Tsukuma Island as a transit station, Jeju Island is a backup transit station. Of course, so far, Jeju Island’s transit station has only maintained the minimum number of flying pigeons to Hokkaido, Kaohsiung and Tsukuma Island. The current pigeon communication is still mainly based on Tsukuma Island’s transit.

There are three groups of pigeons in Tsushima Island, each performing its own duties, and performing round-trip communications between the three routes of Tsushima Island-Hokkaido, Tsushima Island-Kaohsiung, and Tsushima Island-Jeju Island. After receiving the letter from Hokkaido, Tsushima Island-Jeju Island, Tsushima Island-Jeju Island, Tsushima Island-Tsushima Island-Tsushima Island. If Tsushima Island receives the letter from Hokkaido, if it is stated that it is necessary to transfer to Kaohsiung, you only need to take the pigeon book and transfer to the pigeons flying to Kaohsiung, and vice versa.

Hokkaido and Kaohsiung rely on this method of transit and relay for communication. Within three days, one end can receive pigeon books from the other end.

A few days ago, the good news from Hokkaido made Zhao Han and Han Tuozhou feel indescribable excitement, and today's news is even more exciting.

After reading the translated pigeon book, Han Tuozhou pushed back everything at hand and explained:

"Prepare the car, I'm going to the Duke's headquarters."

The office building of Taiwan Song Haimao was originally more than one mile from the Duke's headquarters. It had to follow the rules of Lin'an, so of course it was to take a sedan chair. However, now the Special Administrative Region is not very popular to carry a sedan chair, but it is popular to take a carriage. Han Tuozhou's newly replaced carriage has not changed much in appearance, but its riding performance is no longer the same as the first generation carriage.

The carriage was winding and arrived at the Duke's headquarters in a short while.

When the guard at the door saw that Han Tuozhou was coming, he quickly saluted:

"Please, Lord Han! The Duke is riding a bicycle."

"Oh." Mao Geng recently tried out ten new bicycles and sent one to Han Tuozhou. However, Han Tuozhou was not interested in learning to ride a bicycle, so he let Xing Fu, who was running errands under his command, learn it. Now that he has a bicycle, this guy is running errands faster.

When he entered the pedestal, he saw Zhao Yan wearing a short suit, riding a bicycle around the cement floor, occasionally letting go of one hand and driving freely. When he was walking around this side, Zhao Yan saw Han Tuozhou, waved his hand with his right hand and showed off:

"Mr. Han, look at the style of my country's bicycle riding? It's not inferior to that guy Xing Fu!"

"Haha, of course, there is nothing to say about the Duke riding a bicycle. Xiaguan is very impressed. Look, Mao Geng gave me a bicycle, but Xiaguan just can't learn it. It's a cheap guy Xing Fu!"

Zhao Yan laughed. Although he knew that Han Tuozhou was trying to compliment him, after all, looking at the entire Special Economic Zone, there were only a handful of people who could ride bicycles, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Zhao Han jumped off the bicycle, threw the bicycle to his subordinate Chen Man, and asked:

"Mr. Han, what good news should I tell me this time?"

"Duke, this time it was a news from Hokkaido. When the junior official received the news, he came to report the good news to the Kung Fu as soon as possible."

After saying that, he handed over the translated pigeon book. Zhao Han took it and took it. Good guy! He picked up the treasure again!

"Chen Man, hurry up, go and invite Chief Executive Mao. Well, please invite Mr. Lu, so ride my bicycle."

When he saw Chen Man having a bitter face, he realized that Chen Man could not ride a bicycle yet, and waved his hand and said:

"Forget it, let's go by carriage."

Not long after, Mao Geng and Lu Jiuyuan arrived. When Mao Geng saw that Zhao Han was still wearing short clothes for riding bicycles, hehe, this was the Zhongshan suit he gave him. It was obvious that Zhao Han should have been riding a bicycle before. But after riding the bicycle, he did not change into the Song Dynasty formal attire, which was a bit strange.

Zhao Yan's face was red and he smiled:

"The guy from Jinding is lucky. He has made a fortune in Hokkaido. Ambergris alone is worth four or five million kilograms of cement production in the Special Administrative Region! The guy from Jinding is very lucky to catch fish, with more than 600,000 kilograms of fish. The guy from Jinding is so lucky that he is unimaginable."

Mao Geng laughed in his heart, saying that Hokkaido is known as the world's largest fishing ground, of course it is not a false reputation. It is not worth making a fuss about catching such a few fish now. However, being able to catch sperm whales is indeed a good luck.

After taking the pigeon book, Mao Geng felt relieved that whale oil and fish bladder were what he valued the most. These two items were urgently needed industrial raw materials. As for making money, it was something that Taiwan Song Haimao was more concerned about.

"Jinding proposed to ask for people, even if they were exiled prisoners, they wanted them. Mao Geng, what do you think?"

Zhao Han invited Mao Geng to come because he wanted to listen to Mao Geng's opinions.

Mao Geng felt that the wing troops raised by the Song Dynasty would consume national treasury anyway, and Taiwan could digest part of the treasury, and large-scale official enterprises like Minmetals Holdings could digest part of it, and in fact, Hokkaido could also digest part of it. Even some of the imperial guards with low combat power could be sent to Hokkaido, because Jin Zhangzong of the Jin Kingdom had just ascended the throne and could never attack Song at this time. At this time, the Song Dynasty was just dismissing the old and weak in the army and seizing the opportunity to develop towards the elite troops.

"The Duke, the junior official, thinks that he can ask the court to send 10,000 troops to Hokkaido. The situation in Hokkaido is so gratifying, it is justified to send more people."

When Lu Jiuyuan heard this, he shook his head and said:

"Teacher Mao, don't forget that the Special Administrative Region is also very short of people. In my opinion, it's impossible to eat too much. Hokkaido will send two or three thousand people to the place. The Special Administrative Region needs not 10,000 or 20,000 people. If the court can send the Xiang army to the Special Administrative Region, the more it will be better. Besides, Hokkaido is very far away and very cold. All the soldiers and generals of the Xiang army are like masters, and they are afraid they will never be willing to go there. However, when the Special Administrative Region comes to the Special Administrative Region, the Xiang army may be willing. The Special Administrative Region is now famous. Anyway, the Xiang army or the imperial guards who have come here before are all very glorious. With the example in front, it is enough to drive the subsequent Xiang army soldiers to the Special Administrative Region."

Mao Geng also knew that Lu Jiuyuan's words were justified, but Mao Geng did not want the proportion of the Central Army in the Special Administrative Region to occupy too much. These guys who have been used to eating big pots in the military camp for a long time have still had too many problems. As the Special Administrative Region develops well, there is no need to worry about no immigration coming. Moreover, Mao Geng did not feel that he had to go to the human wave tactics from the beginning, and needed to maintain a certain artificial gap, so that everyone could find ways to replace human labor with machines, which is also one of the driving forces for industrial development.

Regarding the positioning of Hokkaido, Mao Geng felt that Zhao Han needed to understand his ideas as much as possible.

"Mr. Lu's words are not unreasonable. However, the people needed in the next step of the Special Administrative Region are mainly craftsmen and young and strong people with potential to become craftsmen. Of course, some female workers are also needed. The people needed by the Special Administrative Region can be recruited through advertisements. As for the Special Administrative Region's planting industry, there are policies here. I believe that some people will move to the Special Administrative Region one after another. Now, the focus of the Special Administrative Region is to plant sugarcane, sweet potatoes and cotton. Some people want to plant rice, and they are all respectful. In short, there is no need to worry that farmers will not come. The weather here is good, and there will be people who will come."

Mao Geng said this, it felt a bit exaggerated. Growing sugarcane, sweet potatoes, and rice can certainly produce high yields, but growing cotton doesn’t seem to be very good, and the rain seems to be a little too much. Speaking of cotton, it is far from being large-scale planting at the moment. There are farmers who grow cotton sporadically near Quanzhou and Fujian, and there are also scattered plants in Qiongzhou Island, Guangdong and Sichuan, but they are far from being large-scale. In view of this, Han Tuozhou’s Taiwan-Song Hai Trade has been importing Indian cotton with great fanfare.

Mao Geng continued:

"When it comes to Hokkaido, it's different. The people who want Hokkaido don't need any skills at all. Whether it's slaughtering, making whale oil, breaking fish, or drying fish and smoked fish, they can be done by everyone. Therefore, it's just right to send the wing army to come."

Zhao Han nodded. It was not a good thing for those scammers in the Xiangjun to come to the SAR, but it was easier to ask them to go to Hokkaido than to say that it was better than the local Xia people.

"The cold is good in Hokkaido, but the temperature is minus six degrees Celsius, which is nothing. Everyone provides a set of cotton coats, and if one set is not possible, just two sets. According to my opinion, there is no need for duck down jackets." Mao Geng felt that keeping cold was not a problem.

The Song Dynasty was the Little Ice Age, and it was so cold everywhere. Mao Geng initially thought that Hokkaido must be minus ten or twenty degrees below zero, but now it is only minus six or seven degrees below zero, so why fear!

The Song Dynasty distributed fur clothes to the imperial guards, and only five sheepskins could make a set of military fur clothes. The Xiang army did not receive the treatment. The nominal silk cotton robe, but in fact there were a lot of messes. The so-called silk cotton robe is filled with silk cotton and hemp fibers in double-layer linen cloth, which is called silk cotton robe. At this time, the quilts in the Song Dynasty were also filled with silk cotton, which is of course not as good as the silk cotton of later generations. The short silk silk and silk cocoon shells are all raw materials for silk cotton. When filled into the double-layer linen cloth, it is a quilt. Of course, there are also high-end silk cotton quilts, which are filled with brocade as the surface, and top-level silk cotton, but this is by no means something that ordinary people can enjoy.

"After the Xiang army went to Hokkaido, they could raise horses, sheep, and cattle. Anyway, Hokkaido is vast and sparsely populated, and the climate is suitable for animal husbandry. The Xiang army doesn't know anything else, so it's not difficult to raise horses and sheep!"

Of course it is not difficult! When Han Tuozhou heard this, his eyes lit up. Since the Song Dynasty lost the northwest and lost the place to raise horses, horses have been able to buy horses from the Jin Kingdom through smuggling, and then buy short Dali horses from Dali. The climate in Jiangnan is too hot and it is not suitable for raising horses, but Hokkaido is different. Hokkaido has a cold climate and can be called a natural pasture.

"Mao Geng, you mean that you can make money by grazing in Hokkaido, right?"

"Of course!"

"This is another good news. I'm afraid that the soldiers of the Xiang army will not go so far." In Han Tuozhou's eyes, everything that can create benefits for the Taisong Company is worthy of attention, but it is not easy to make people willing to travel thousands of miles to Hokkaido.

Mao Geng smiled and said:

"There must be a brave man under the heavy reward. First, the monthly salary will double, six or even seven guan per month, and family members will also have monthly salary. Some people will always be moved! Second, there is a rotation every three years, so there is no need to live in Hokkaido for a lifetime. In three years, at least there is no need to go to the battlefield. With such conditions, what's the difficulty of mobilizing 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers in the army!" Later generations have overseas subsidies and no special policies. Who can go overseas?

After hearing Mao Geng talk about this, Zhao Han felt that it was worth talking to the emperor and grandfather about the conditions, but there were still some questions:

"Mao Geng, who will pay the money alone? Taiwan Song Hai Trade or the court? If the Taiwan Song Company is paid, will it lose money?"

Mao Geng thought to himself, can the court have motivation to ask the court to pay the wages? He said without hesitation:

"The Taisong Company will pay the monthly salary. Anyway, if the court wants to buy horses, it will pay to buy them from the Taisong Company. In addition, the price of mutton is high, and more sheep are raised, and one person will have to shepherd at least two hundred sheep. With whaling and fishing, there is endless potential and will never lose money."

Strangely, in the Song Dynasty, eating pork was not popular, but mutton was popular. The price of mutton was very high. In the early days of the Nandu period, the price of mutton was at a maximum of 900 jin per catty. Later, Liangzhe gradually learned to raise sheep, and the price dropped, but it was still the highest among meat.

Another advantage of shepherding is that it can shear wool. Shepherding is very optimistic about economics.

Haha! Zhao Han now has an economic vision when he sees everything. Well, only by understanding the economy can he be a good leader. Not bad!
Chapter completed!