The most arrogant in history

"It is the duty of a minister to expand the territory for the Han Dynasty."

Song Poliu's eyes turned red, and she choked up and said, "It's just that Poliu is incompetent. The soldiers she brought here, the victims who got sick... too many."

Ye Kun's eyes also turned red, and he nodded, "I know everything, so I came to see you all. This time, I brought you another 3,000 young people to supplement your strength."

Song Poliu nodded and invited Ye Kun to go to the newly built Honghe New City.

Honghe New City, located 20 miles away from the sea, began to be built three years ago. It has now grown to a considerable size and can accommodate more than 100,000 people.

And it's very clean and tidy.

During the dinner, Song Poliu and Jiaozhi prefect reported the situation.

In Honghe New City, many native trees were uprooted and a large number of camphor trees and other mosquito-repellent trees were transplanted, and the fragrance of flowers was everywhere.

All the toilets in the new city have been planned.

There are more than 500 biogas digesters, which are clean and hygienic.

Other toilets also discharge directly into the sea through sewers.

The people and garrison troops in the new city have ensured that everyone has boiled water to drink, mosquito nets, and washes their hands and hair frequently.

Honghe New City is also an important transit station.

The technicians and soldiers sent by Ye Kun will first receive training here to understand the local climate and environment and strengthen their awareness of hygiene before they will be put into combat or production.

It is precisely because of these strict measures that the infection and mortality rates have dropped significantly in the past one or two years.

After listening to the report, Ye Kun asked, "How many people are there in the entire Jiaozhi Peninsula now?"

"According to incomplete statistics, there are more than three million people. Some natives have fled to the mountains to avoid the war. Adding them all together, there are at least four million people." Jiaozhi prefect stood up and reported:

"There are about three million people who have been registered as 'civil servants'. Half of them are descendants of the Chinese people, the descendants of Zhao Tuo, who was sent by the First Emperor, who brought 300,000 soldiers and civilians. The other half are indigenous people."

Song Poliu smiled and said, "Thankfully, there are so many descendants of the Chinese people, so we can recruit soldiers locally, open up mountains and roads, and advance our work."

Ye Kun nodded and asked, "How is the degree of Chineseization of these natives?"

Song Poliu pondered and said, "Anyway, everyone knows now that this place belongs to the Great Han Kingdom and the Great Han Emperor. But there are still not many natives here who can speak Chinese."

The governor of Jiaozhi said: "We have established a thousand large farms, which are managed by the descendants of the Han people. We recruit local natives, produce crops, and slowly educate them. Each farm has about one or two hundred native barbarians. There are primary schools, medical clinics, and blackboards on the farms to teach everyone to read and write. There are some effects, but they are slow to take effect."

Song Poliu said: "The southeastern part of Jiaozhi Peninsula has almost been completely sinicized. The northwest part of the peninsula, Yunmian area, has too many barbarians."

Xiao Dequan smiled and said, "Enclose all the good farmland, so that the natives lose their farmland and can only work as helpers on the farms, and then we can slowly educate them."

Ye Kun nodded: "This is a solution. We should move the Han people in the eastern part of Jiaozhi Peninsula to the northwest to enhance integration."

It was getting late, so everyone dispersed and agreed to visit the new city tomorrow.

The next morning, Ye Kun took everyone to inspect the new city.

Honghe New City is indeed well developed.

The streets are filled with people wearing Chinese clothing and with faces of Chinese descent, and they all speak Chinese.

There are also schools and hospitals in the city, and the toilets are paved with tiles and are bright and clean.

The hospital also collaborated with local doctors to develop some herbal prescriptions to treat common local diseases.

There are also a wide variety of goods on the streets.

Soap, toilet water, sulfur soap, and matches can all be bought.

"Isn't this great? It's beyond my expectations!"

Ye Kun praised Song Poliu and others, and said with a smile: "In the future, we will plant cotton in Jiaozhi, and then set up a textile factory to process mosquito nets, masks, towels and other sanitary products on the spot. I will also leave you a few sets of large broadcasting equipment, and you must strengthen cultural propaganda. When the time is right, you can also publish newspapers..."

Song Poliu smiled and said, "The southeastern part of Jiaozhi Peninsula was originally the territory of the Han Dynasty, and was mainly populated by Chinese people, so it was developed very quickly. But the central and western parts are much worse."

Xiao Dequan had always wanted to occupy the entire Jiaozhi Peninsula and knew it very well:

"The main problem over there is the smoke and miasma that can harm people, making it difficult to develop. To the south of Savage Mountain is a large area of ​​river valley swamps, with inconvenient transportation, lots of mosquitoes, and leeches crawling everywhere. It's really not a good place."

Ye Kun looked at the map and asked, "Is it similar to the Liaohe Plain in Liaodong?"

The Liaohe Plain in Liaodong was called Liaoze at that time and was impassable.

The land is very fertile, but you can't develop it.

Later, it was Xiahou Chang who gave the order to dig a canal in the Liaoze Lake, piled the excavated soil on a high place, and built a highway so that troops could be transported across.

Ye Kun thought this was a good idea, so he arranged a construction team to continue developing Liaoze. Following the terrain, he dug more canals, cleaned up the marshes, drained the accumulated water in Liaoze, and at the same time leveled the land, developing the area step by step.

The Liaohe Plain can be governed, and so can the wooded river valleys south of Yunnan and Myanmar.

Xiao Dequan shook his head: "This place is more difficult to develop than the Liaohe Plain. If 100,000 people go in, only 10,000 or 20,000 people will come back alive..."

Song Poliu smiled and said:

“That’s not the case. We now have experience. We can start by dredging the downstream and digging a small canal. We can also cut down trees and burn miscellaneous trees. We can still carry out construction in winter.

Miss Ding Ding cut through the mountains and opened a road. She has already passed the Savage Mountain and reached the northern part of the Yunmian River Valley. In another six months, we will dredge the water system of the Yunmian River Valley and it will become a thoroughfare. "

"I came here this time to see Junior Sister Ding Ding."

Ye Kun nodded: "It's really not easy for a girl like her to stay in the mountains and forests for several years."

Song Poliu and the others nodded and praised: "Miss Ding Ding, you have made outstanding contributions. In the past few years, you have cut through countless mountains and widened the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, which can accommodate five-foot-long carts."

In the past, the Ancient Tea-Horse Road was closed to traffic, and merchants were called horse caravans and could walk along it leading horses.

Now open to traffic, the lane passes through the eastern part of Ailao Mountain and over the Yeren Mountain.

Although it is tortuous, it is still several hundred miles shorter than before.

The governor of Jiaozhi said with a smile:

"This winter, Tintin has been setting fires. She prepares dry firewood in the summer and transports it to the deep mountains and forests in the winter to set fire to it.

Along the way, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of coarse salt were spread. Many roads are now barren of grass, the miasma has dissipated, and even many mosquitoes have been burned to death. "

Ye Kun nodded: "Let's prepare for the military parade tomorrow. Three days later, when the parade is over, I will leave for the western part of the peninsula to visit Junior Sister Ding Ding."

Having finally arrived at the intersection, Ye Kun had to do something to make his presence felt.

It has been more than four hundred years since Jiaozhi was incorporated into the territory of China.

However, Ye Kun was the first Chinese emperor to set foot on the Jiaozhi Peninsula!

The dream of the first emperor of the previous dynasty was to build a five-foot road so that he could take a horse-drawn carriage to visit the site.

Too bad he didn't finish it.

Based on the work of his predecessors, Ye Kun further controlled the Jiaozhi Peninsula and was about to complete the complete sinicization of the Jiaozhi Peninsula!

Song Poliu said: "The military parade has been prepared. A total of 10,000 troops have been assembled in the military city south of Honghe New City."