Great Song Pirate

Chapter 183 Never Be King
After a few days of excitement on the island because of Xu Yi's second wedding, Xu Yi took the opportunity to enjoy the gentleness for a few days, completely relaxed and rested for a while, and all the work returned to the original track.

He first sent a large ship back to Hangzhou, and continued to pick up the adopted orphans back to the island. He took the first batch of children who came to Dulong Island to visit around the island. There are many workshops, such as whale processing workshops, soap workshops, blacksmith workshops, tailor workshops, carpenter workshops...all of which make them feel novel, and the thriving scenery here is completely at ease. They have something to eat here. There are clothes, someone to take care of, and no one will go hungry or cold again. Compared with their days of wandering around, I don’t know how much better they are. Although they don’t say it, their gratitude to Xu Yi and the others has reached the point where it cannot be added .

After these children got used to the life here, Xu Yi would not let them just be idle and have nothing to do, nor would he assign them any jobs. Some people were selected to teach these children various skills.

Combining his previous experience in school, he formulated detailed courses and schedules for the children. He got up regularly in the morning to run and exercise, then washed and ate, and according to their age and gender, someone taught them various activities throughout the day. Things, reading and writing, practicing martial arts, girls are taught embroidery and cutting skills, the courses are full, and the older ones have to practice in the workshop every few days to learn some life skills, Only at night is their own time, where they can rest and play. These children were born in hardship. After Xu Yi arranged these things for them, they are very serious and obedient, and they will never be lazy and make trouble. Immediately, he was stopped by those other children, and after a hard lesson, he calmed down. Compared with those children in later generations, he did not know how many times stronger.

Xu Yi also put in a lot of effort in selecting people to teach these children. There are not many people who can read and write on the island, which made Xu Yi feel very headache. He wondered if he should find some poor scholars on land. When teaching these children literacy, Yiqing and Cuiyu took the initiative to stand up and want to be their literacy teachers. Although Xu Yi was a little worried about Yiqing's health, but thinking about pregnant women, they can't stay at home all the time. It's not good for her health, it's better to do more activities, so she agreed to the request of the two of them, and asked Yiqing to be responsible for teaching the children literacy. She also knows how to do accounts and bookkeeping, so she has the right to act as a math teacher. Not to be outdone, Yue Hong volunteered to be the embroidery and sewing teacher for those girls, so Yingchun simply became the martial arts instructor for these children. , has become a scene on the island.

These children see that the wives of the big family are teaching them, and they all respect them very much. They are not worried that they can't control these little things, and Xu Yi also selected some from the navy team on the island. Capable and patient personnel came out, each responsible for managing dozens of children, and selected some women from among the female relatives on the island to take care of the daily life of these children.

After a period of time at his mercy, a rather large area was specially designated on the island, allowing the carpenters to build a lot of movable equipment on the open space for these children to exercise or play, and to gather for the children who will come later. The dormitories were arranged, and the children who were free to run around and play on the island were gathered here, forming a boarding school similar to later generations, but this place is more like a juvenile military academy. Even Xu Yi used to be in Hangzhou. All the various books collected were confiscated and became school textbooks or reading materials. Anyway, there were not a few books of the Four Books and Five Classics in it, so there was no need to worry that these books would harm these children.

While Xu Yi was running the school, he kept receiving orphans from Hangzhou. In a short period of time, he took in more than 1000 orphans, including men and women. According to his staff who came back, such a charity in Hangzhou There are still children in the hall who are attracted to go there, and even orphans from many nearby counties and counties have heard about this and began to gather in Hangzhou. It is estimated that there will be more and more orphans in the future. I asked Xu Yi if he would continue to let them take in there Xu Yi asked them to continue without even thinking about it, but he had to do it as concealed as possible. After a large number of children were taken in, they disappeared strangely. Once they were reported, saying that they bought and sold children would be very bad. Even if the government does not pursue it, it will always be a troublesome matter. This matter must be kept low-key and not done with great fanfare. When necessary, people can be sent to set up some charity branches in nearby counties and counties to do this matter as low-key as possible.

Groups of children were transported over continuously. After these children arrived on the island, they were panicked when they knew their identities. After arriving at the place to eat and live arranged for them on the island, these children gradually felt at ease and quickly adapted to the life here. Everyone's little brains were shaking like rattles, and they said they would not go back if they were killed.

In fact, receiving these children on the island will not increase the cost too much, because a lot of meat on the island is fished out of the sea by Liu Laoliu's whaling fleet, and there is too much whale meat and fish to eat. The houses were built by the people on the island themselves, with only some manpower. Most of the clothes they wore were looted from the sea before. Continue to run this business outside, grab a boat that transports cloth at random, it is enough for these children to wear, the big deal is to let those idle female relatives on the island do more work, and the only place to spend money is to arrive regularly. Purchase food and other things that are not self-sufficient on the island by land.

Qian Laoben looked at the growing school on the island and said with a smile to Xu Yi: "To tell you the truth, now I feel more and more that we are not like pirates, but that we are a bit like a small country. Now we want workshops to have workshops, sailors to have sailors, and this school, plus so many children, let me say, you should just call yourself king, and call it the Lord of Dulong Kingdom. What do you think? ?”

Xu Yi was taken aback by his words, frowned a few times, and quickly said, "Brother Qian, what joke are you kidding! How dare we call ourselves kings with this little manpower and this little place? It makes people laugh! I don't have such big ambitions. I just do this for the future development of the island. I never thought about being king or hegemony. As long as the brothers on the island live better day by day, I will That's enough, not to mention that I didn't feel it before. Now that there are more people on the island, I feel more and more that our Dulong Island is too small. Although we still have no worries about food and clothing now, we can wait until there are more people in the future. No matter what, we need to find a bigger place, otherwise our Dulong Island alone won’t work! I don’t know what’s going on with Wang Feng and the others, how can we find a place to stay on Liuqiu Island? No, it seems that this matter should be considered!"

Hearing Xu Yi mention Wang Feng and the others, Qian Laoben said: "The last time the head of the family left, I sent someone to look for Wang Feng on Fujian Road, and conveyed your meaning to him. Some time ago he They sent people back to bring back a lot of good goods. It seems that the business over there is good. He sent a letter to let us rest assured. As you said, that Liuqiu Island is more than a thousand times bigger than our Dulong Island. Even if we get there, moving everyone from our Dulong Island there may not be of much use! I know that even if we can get to this point here, it took Li Tong and us many years to get to the current situation. To change to a new place, I am afraid that the manpower and material resources needed will be scary. I'm afraid it's not enough to rely on our manpower alone! Could it be that we go to land to snatch people?"

Xu Yi has already considered the worry about Qian Laoben. Others don't know, but he knows that the Jin Kingdom will destroy the Liao Kingdom in a short time, and then invade the south on a large scale, and then destroy the Northern Song Dynasty. The Han people north of the Central Plains will be large in number Influx into the south, forming the form of the Southern Song and Northern Jin separatist regimes. The reason why he asked Wang Feng to find a place to stay on Taiwan Island was because he saw this opportunity. On the island of Taiwan, there is no need to worry about the lack of manpower to develop the island of Taiwan. By then relying on these manpower, they may really be able to form a self-sufficient society or country!But he can only know this kind of thing by himself, even if he told Qian Laoben, he might not believe it, so he smiled and said to Qian Laoben: "Brother Qian, don't worry about this manpower matter. I have a plan. In a few years, you will know that we can have as many people as we want. The reason why I take in these orphans now is to plan for that time. These children will soon become orphans. The backbone of our island, we rely on these children to build a huge power, believe it or not, there is no need to worry about this matter at all!"

Qian Laoben has always believed that Xu Yi will not talk big words. There must be a reason why he is so confident, so he stopped talking, but looked at the south and said: "I think Wang Feng and Kong Qingxi are also It's time to send back the news!"

(End of this chapter)