Chapter 36503652【Luzon Kingdom】
After arriving in Luzon Island, Xiang Nan led the people in the village to set up camp, dig pits, bury stoves, and settle down.
In the following months, he led his gang to cut down wood for cooking and cooking, pioneering farming, fishing and hunting, making ceramics, mining minerals, smelting iron, etc., and began to establish contact with the local indigenous people.
The location where they stopped is located in the central and western part of Luzon Island. This is the largest plain on the island and the largest grain-producing area in Luzon today.
There have been some primitive indigenous people living here since ancient times, but because their culture and technology are not developed enough, they still live a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming, fishing and hunting.
The arrival of Xiang Nan and others brought them advanced farming, fishing and hunting, textile, and porcelain technologies, and also won the favor of the local indigenous people.
It is said that when everyone gathered firewood, the flames were high. Three months later, a huge village was built on the central plain.
The village is arranged like a gossip, with eight gates: Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Death, Jing, and Kai. Trees and flowers are planted all over the village, making it as beautiful as a garden.
Actually, this is the formation used by Xiang Nanhua. If he is not from this village and does not understand Qimen Dunjia, he cannot enter the village at all. In this way, invasion by foreign enemies can be avoided and the defense of the village can be strengthened.
Subsequently, Xiang Nan held a ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven at the Temple of Heaven in the center of the village, announcing the formal establishment of the Luzon Kingdom. He established himself as king, named himself King Xiang, named Fu Wanqing the princess, and named Gu Wuzheng the crown prince.
They exchanged pig iron, cotton yarn, herbs, cooking oil, etc. for Luzon's gold, silver, glass, coral, agate, gemstones, etc., each getting what they needed.
So you must learn to mine and smelt minerals yourself in order to meet the needs of the people. Fortunately, this is not a difficult problem for Xiang Nan.
In this way, the people finally don’t have to worry about running out of food. This made them initially complain, thinking that they should not come to Luzon Island from Lianyun Village.
In the following years, under Xiang Nan's diligent management, the Luzon Kingdom grew stronger and stronger.
Gold refers to mining. Luzon Island has very rich reserves of gold, silver, copper and iron, generally exceeding 100 million tons. Luzon is isolated overseas. If it wants to develop, it cannot rely solely on the ironware sold by merchants.
Ruan Mingzheng is the king's master, Xi Hongyu is the bachelor, Lianyun Siluan is the master, and he is in charge of the four industries of gold, water, fire and earth.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan was proficient in all these things, and under his diligent guidance, a bumper harvest of rice was achieved in the first year. One acre of rice can yield up to 400 kilograms, and with two to three crops a year, the annual yield per acre can reach over a thousand kilograms.
But now that they had filled their stomachs, they no longer complained.
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Because Luzon has a developed economy and strong national power, merchants from the Song Dynasty did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles to come to Luzon to do business.
You must know that in ancient times, salt and iron were managed by the government, and merchants were not allowed to hoard and export large quantities of iron. Therefore, relying on merchants to smuggle a few pieces of iron was simply not enough for the people of the country.
Soil means cultivation. The citizens of Luzon are all from the north and are not good at farming in the south, so they need careful guidance to achieve a good harvest.
Water means digging canals and developing agriculture. Luzon has no shortage of water, with up to 3,000 millimeters of rainfall per year. However, it is precisely because there is too much rainfall that floods are prone to occur, so it is necessary to dig channels to release floods.
Fire is used for firing porcelain and smelting metals. Porcelain and ironware are indispensable in home life and production work. It must be fired in large quantities to meet the demand.
Surrounding tribes were gradually attracted to it and moved closer to it, which also caused the domestic population to increase. In just a few years, the number exceeded 100,000, making Luzon a considerable force in Southeast Asia.
And the arrival of the merchants also brought the information Xiang Nan needed most. For example, in the fourth year of Xuanhe, the Song and Jin Dynasties together destroyed the Liao Kingdom. After the fall of the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty also took back the sixteen states of Yanyun.
In the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Jin Kingdom launched troops to attack the Song Dynasty. In less than half a year, they had already reached the Yellow River. Everything north of the Yellow River belonged to the Jin Kingdom, and Lian Yunzhai was naturally among them. Upon hearing the news, even the members of Yunzhai Gang burst into tears and lamented endlessly.
Many of their brothers, sisters, and fellow villagers are still in the north. Now that the north is occupied, they are exposed to war and don’t know whether they are alive or dead. How can we not make people sad.
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In the first month of the first year of Jingkang, Jin soldiers crossed the river for the first time and surrounded Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
Huizong of the Song Dynasty was as timid as a mouse and quickly passed the throne to his son, who became Qinzong of the Song Dynasty.
However, because the Jin Kingdom's West Route Army was blocked in Taipu, they did not have enough troops to attack the city by force, so they had to withdraw in the end.
But in August, the Jin soldiers came back again. This time the army besieged the city and finally captured Bianliang. Finally, Huizong, Qinzong, concubines in the harem, civil and military officials, etc. were plundered back to the north. History books called it the "Jingkang Incident".
After hearing the news, the people burst into tears again. They did not expect that the mighty Song Dynasty would be reduced to this. How could one not feel sad.
Xiang Nandu was filled with emotion.
The great and majestic Chinese country was actually bullied by barbarians in this way, which is really sad, infuriating and emotional.
"Xichao, I really didn't expect that such a thing would happen." Fu Wanqing was shocked.
It is really unimaginable that all the emperors of the Song Dynasty were taken away.
“Your Majesty, please forgive me and accept the change.” Ruan Mingzheng advised, “Fortunately, Your Majesty is wise and wise, and took us to leave the Central Plains early and immigrate to Nanyang. Otherwise, we would not have the prosperity, peace, happiness and peace we have today.”
"Sister is right." Xi Hongyu also advised, "In my opinion, it's all because the emperor is bad. He favors treacherous ministers, harms loyal ministers, and exploits the common people. That's why such a huge empire was invaded by the Kingdom of Jin. It really deserves it. I just pity those who The people have suffered in vain.”
"Okay, my two beloved concubines, let's not talk about this anymore." Xiang Nan waved his hands.
He brought Ruan Mingzheng and Xi Hongyu into the harem a few years ago and named them princesses.
Although they are girls, they are as good as men. In terms of skill and knowledge, they are far superior to ordinary men. There are not many people in Luzon who can compare with them. They also look down on ordinary men.
Hsiang Nan is a man of literary and military skills and has many talents. Farmland water conservancy, metallurgy and forging, civil engineering, economic arithmetic...proficient in everything.
Such people are extremely charming in themselves, and compared with other Chinese people, they cannot be said to stand out from the crowd, but simply stand out from the crowd. So Ruan Mingzheng and Xi Hongyu couldn't help but be attracted to him.
Originally, Xiang Nan didn't want to agree. After all, he now wanted to practice "The Heavenly Book of Forgetting Love" and he had to be "affectionate". Since he was "affectionate", he couldn't be "emotional".
But I didn’t expect that Fu Wanqing was really virtuous. After realizing it, she actually persuaded him to accept Ruan Mingzheng and Xi Hongyu.
Seeing her doing this, Xiang Nan was so moved that he actually understood the two battles of Feng Liu and Yunyi in "The Heavenly Book of Forgetting Love".
Feng Liu is a sword of wind and snow. Each sword can make the air flow, make snowflakes fly, mix with the sound of wind and snow shadow, and make the wind and snow revolve around it at high speed.
Yunyi, no matter how high the enemy's Qinggong is, he can move and intercept the enemy at lightning speed. At the same time, he is as void as the wind and clouds. The enemy loses the target of attack and is left to you to slaughter.
These two battles are really powerful.
(End of this chapter)