My life skills in Daming Liver

On the closing day of the World Expo, Su Ze accepted Ryukyu's credential at the Crystal Palace.

Su Ze took the Ryukyu envoy and announced that from now on, Ryukyu Kingdom would become Ryukyu Prefecture and be subordinate to Fujian Province.

For the time being, the officials of Ryukyu Prefecture will be retained by the original officials of Ryukyu. At the same time, a special class for Ryukyu officials will be opened at Nanjing Imperial College, and officials recommended by Ryukyu will come for further training.

However, there are no nobles in the southeast, and the Ryukyu king and Ryukyu nobles will automatically lose their status as kings and nobles. Honglu Temple will send people to Ryukyu to divide the royal and noble properties of Ryukyu.

In other words, the private properties of the Ryukyu Kingdom were separated from those of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the private properties of the Ryukyu Lord and nobles were retained, but all the public properties of Ryukyu were assigned to the newly established Ryukyu Government.

For example, the palace where the King of Ryukyu currently lives was built by the people of Ryukyu. The King of Ryukyu also handles official business in the palace.

After Ryukyu was annexed, the Ryukyu Royal Palace was assigned to the government as official property.

However, the private property of the Ryukyu royal family will be confirmed to belong to the royal family and classified as their private property.

The merchant shipping terminals and ports owned by the Ryukyu royal family and nobles will also be converted into shares. The royal family and nobles can enjoy the dividends of these industries in the future, but they cannot participate in the management of these industries.

The Southeast will not restrict whether the Ryukyu king and other nobles can continue to stay in Ryukyu, and they are welcome to live anywhere in the Southeast.

This is a plan that the Southeast Cabinet drew up over several nights. The reason why it attaches so much importance to the small Ryukyu Islands is that this plan is a model. In the future, countries and regions that choose to include Southeast Asia will all implement this plan.

The Ryukyu envoy readily agreed to this plan.

Just when the Kingdom Expo was closing, newspapers in the southeast were overwhelmingly announcing that Ryukyu was annexed.

Most people don't even know where Ryukyu is, but that doesn't stop them from cheering for Southeast Asia to become stronger.

North Korea.

The luck of Li Sunchen and other Liangshan heroes was really not good.

Yi Sun-shin collected ships in Laizhou and tried to cross eastward from the Jiaodong Peninsula to North Korea.

This plan sounds crazy, but it's actually quite reliable.

The ocean in the Bohai Bay is not too violent, and Jiaodong originally faces North Korea across the sea. Mingting fishermen in the Bohai Sea often appear in the waters near North Korean territory.

Normally, this "fleet" should land on the western coast of North Korea.

However, Yi Sun-shin's "fleet" was really unlucky. It encountered a big storm while floating on the sea. The sails were blown off by the storm, and several weak ships were lost.

Without the sail, Yi Sun-shin and others could only drift with the tide.

The storm also blew a lot of supplies into the sea. Everyone could only survive at sea and pray that the fleet could drift to land before the supplies were exhausted.

Kinoshita Tokichiro worshiped almost all the Chinese and Japanese gods in charge of the sea. Finally, before all the food was exhausted, the fleet's lookout hand saw land.

Strictly speaking, this is not a continent, but a relatively large island.

Yi Sun-shin immediately ordered everyone to grab everything that could be used as oars and paddle toward the landing.

When everyone landed on the beach, the Liangshan heroes hugged each other and cried with joy.

When Liangshan was at its peak, tens of thousands of people gathered throughout Shandong to respond.

However, they were later surrounded and suppressed by Li Chengliang, and only 2,000 people remained before crossing eastward.

After encountering a storm at sea, plus those who contracted diseases and died accidentally at sea, there are now only a thousand people who have landed on the island.

However, leaders like Yi Sun-shin and Kinoshita Tokichiro did not have time to be excited about surviving the death. They immediately arranged their personnel to search for water sources, food, and settlements where they could camp.

This is a big island, and the Liangshan heroes quickly learned the source of the water and found some edible food near the beach.

After a few busy days, everyone finally settled down. Yi Sunchen called a meeting of Liangshan heroes to discuss the next action.

Kinoshita Tokichiro has become very talkative since his eastward journey. When he arrived on the island, he built a Mazu temple. He claimed that he prayed to Mazu the night before he saw the island from the lookout, so he firmly believed in Mazu.

"This island is the land given to us by Mazu!"

Li Sunchen raised his forehead, automatically filtering out his words, and looked at the others.

Everyone had just escaped from death, and they all looked at him in confusion.

After a while, someone suddenly shouted:

"The boss! There is someone! There is someone on the island!"

Yi Sunchen stood up immediately, and everyone became excited.

Yes, how could such a big island be uninhabited?

Yi Sun-shin led everyone out of the camp, only to see a few guys in coarse cloth who looked like savages being driven by his men to the front of the camp.

"How is this going?"

"Master, we met these guys when we went hunting in the mountains. They couldn't speak Chinese."

When Yi Sun-shin walked over, these people in coarse cloths were saying begging for mercy. Yi Sun-shin's eyes lit up. They were speaking Korean.

Yi Sun-shin heard his hometown dialect and quickly stepped forward to ask.

But these were ordinary people. Yi Sun-shin asked several people before he could figure out the current situation.

Kinoshita Tokichiro immediately came up and asked:

"Master, have you asked? Where are we?"

Yi Sun-shin nodded and said, "As expected, we have arrived in North Korea."

"This is North Korea? Isn't it said that North Korea is very big?"

"This is Jeju Island, the southernmost island of North Korea."

Some heroes from coastal areas who joined Liangshan opened their eyes wide, and they had heard of this name.

Kinoshita Tokichiro was semi-literate in Japan and had no knowledge of geography. He looked at Yi Sun-shin in confusion.

Yi Sun-shin looked at the island and finally understood why it was so sparsely populated.

In fact, Jeju Island was developed relatively early. As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was an important port and trade center.

But at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to attack the Japanese country, the Yuan Dynasty chose Jeju Island as a pasture for raising horses.

The Yuan Dynasty moved all the Koreans on Jeju Island. People who were good at raising horses went to Jeju Island and raised horses on Jeju Island to provide war horses for the Japanese army in the eastward expedition.

As a result, the Yuan Dynasty's expeditionary force encountered a kamikaze on Tsushima Island, and the plan for the Eastern Expedition was aborted.

Later, the Yuan Dynasty also returned Jeju Island to North Korea.

However, the people who have moved out will naturally not return to this barren island. After the horse farmers of the Yuan Dynasty also moved away, Jeju Island became deserted.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea, as the great eldest son of the Ming Dynasty and a loyal executor of the Ming Dynasty's policies, also implemented a sea ban in North Korea.

Anyway, the sea is closed, so Jeju Island naturally has no significance to North Korea. North Korea has never developed Jeju Island, but only prohibits people from landing on Jeju Island.

The residents on these islands are North Korean refugees who could not survive in North Korea and smuggled themselves to the islands.

Yi Sun-shin looked strange, why did he meet refugees wherever he went?

But if you think about it carefully, Jeju Island is a better place than North Korea.

This island is very large. In the Tang Dynasty, it was used as a military port for the Tang Dynasty army and accommodated tens of thousands of Tang Dynasty troops.

With so many people like him, he can definitely take root on Jeju Island.

Jeju Island’s geographical location is actually quite important.

It is not far from the main island of Korea, not far from Japan, and not far from Ming Dynasty. It is a place where maritime traffic of the three countries will pass.

Yi Sun-shin also asked these indigenous people, and some ships would also dock on the coast of Jeju Island to buy some fresh water and food from the locals, and the locals also exchanged some seeds and agricultural tools through these trades.

Yi Sun-shin immediately untied the prisoners and asked them to take him to find the Korean villages on Jeju Island.

In October, the autumn wind gradually becomes cooler.

The charcoal fields in the capital have begun to stock up on charcoal for the winter, and ordinary people have begun to prepare for the winter. However, most people are still reluctant to burn charcoal in October and carry it if it is too cold.

The dignitaries had already started burning charcoal.

The winters have become colder and colder these years. Xiangzi dragged the green chartered car to the front of Wang's house.

"Lord Wang!"

Wang Shizhen frowned and said, "I'm not an official of the imperial court, so I don't dare to call you "sir" indiscriminately. If you say that again in the future, I won't take care of your business."

"No, no, no, please spare your life, Mr. Wang! Xiangzi, I am relying on you for my livelihood!"

Wang Shizhen smiled and said, "Just point at me and kill him alone."

Wang Shizhen has a humorous personality and has no airs about ordinary people. She often makes jokes with Xiangzi.

Xiangzi immediately said: "What you said is that you are willing to do good and generous!"

Wang Shizhen laughed and said, "You still speak idioms."

Xiangzi immediately said with a playful smile: "Isn't this a gentleman hired by the guild to read newspapers to everyone? I just learned these idioms, wouldn't they be useful now!"

Wang Shizhen knew about the recent establishment of a guild by green cab drivers.

The first people to form a guild were not the coachmen, but the dockworkers of the water transport industry.

Speaking of which, the "culprit" in this matter was also Su Ze.

Influenced by Su Ze's new theory, many Confucian scholars accepted the new ideas. Among them, the most practical ones were the Confucian students of the Taizhou School.

Yan Jun once studied under Wang Gen and was a disciple taught by Wang Gen himself.

The Taizhou School was influenced by Wang Yangming's theory of the integration of knowledge and action. It placed special emphasis on practice and had close ties with the people at the bottom.

For example, He Xinyin once carried out utopian social practice in his hometown, hoping to realize a harmonious world through co-governance of the same race.

After He Xinyin's practice failed, he accepted the new learning ideas and tried to establish a new world of great harmony by establishing a complete legal system.

Of course Yan Jun was different. After he accepted the new learning ideas, he did not become an official in the southeast.

Yan Jun chose another path. He believed that no matter what regime it was, no matter how nice their governing slogans were, they would eventually become an interest group that exploited ordinary people.

Yan Jun appreciated Su Ze's thoughts and chose another practical path.

In the early years, Yan Jun organized a water transport workers' guild in Yancheng, and organized several strikes to fight for the treatment of dock workers.

Later, Yancheng was liberated from the southeast, and Yan Jun followed some water transport workers northward.

Yan Jun then continued to organize water transport workers to form a guild, forcing the Ming court to improve the treatment of water transport workers.

Now Yan Jun has become a wanted criminal in the Ming court. However, the Ming court wanted Yan Jun but did not dare to ban the Caoyun Association. It was regarded as acquiescing to this organization.

After the canal transport workers won many victories, all walks of life also followed the canal transport guild and established their own guilds.

It's a pity that most guilds have also learned to organize strikes, but the results are not good.

Water transport was the lifeblood of the Ming court. If water transport went on strike, people in the capital would go hungry and the front line would be short of supplies. Therefore, as long as the water transport workers' demands were not excessive, the Ming court would eventually give in and compromise.

But it's different in other industries. For example, in guilds like green chartered cars, if you don't pull the carts, there are people who have to pull the carts. Xiangzi is so busy that there is no way to organize a strike.

Even if a strike is organized, a green chartered car is not a necessity. At most, you can just travel in a sedan or on horseback.

Therefore, the green rickshaw pullers' guild could only hire a few literate and down-and-out scholars to read newspapers to the rickshaw pullers in their spare time.

Or distribute some free cold water and give the drivers some place to rest.

Although he failed to improve his salary or reduce his car rental, Xiangzi was still very satisfied with this kind of life.

The fellow countrymen who fled to the capital with him from their hometown in Shandong were almost dead. It was already very difficult to survive, so what else could they ask for?

When Wang Shizhen arrived at a gorgeous house, a young man was already standing at the door. When he saw Wang Shizhen get out of the car, he immediately stepped forward to help him.

"teacher!"

Xiangzi glanced at the plaque of the Prime Minister's Mansion, did not dare to stay too long, and quickly pulled the car away.

Wang Shizhen looked at the young man in front of her, Zhang Jingxiu, the eldest son of Zhang Juzheng, and said:

"Don't let the Prime Minister hear this. I don't dare to be the teacher of the Prime Minister's son like you."

"My father also said that a master is a teacher, and a teacher is a master of writing. Why can't he be called a teacher?"

"Teacher, please come in quickly. Today's literary meeting is ready. Everyone is waiting for you to start your lecture!"