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In the third year of Xuanwu, Luzon Fuzhou was the Manila area in later generations.

A sudden heavy rain finally kicked off the annoying rainy season. It was about a month before that, the large-scale rice harvesting work had just ended.

Although this place is not cold at all and the temperature is suitable for planting throughout the year, whether it is an immigrant from Lingnan or a native native, they are accustomed to planting rice only in the rain and dry seasons.

Luzon is located in the South Ocean, with a typical tropical climate of rain and dryness. Generally, rainfall begins at the end of April every year and ends at the end of September. The dry season starts from October to April the following year.

There are more than 700 immigrants in Lingnan in Fuzhou, with a population of more than 4,000, and a land and water garrison of about 1,000 people. In addition, there are tens of thousands of local natives who depend on this city.

They are the cattle and horses of immigrants. For those natives who have not yet been civilized and are still in the ignorant tribal clan class, swords and guns are always the most convincing things.

The Song army entering Nanyang did not target Ma Yi from the beginning. Although many strategy games in later generations used "Ma Yi" to represent the entire "Luzon Kingdom", that was really too exaggerated Ma Yi. The latter position was probably in Duluo Island in later generations, that is, in the south of Luzon, and it was just a backward village and community alliance.

It is just because Duluo Island is gentle and has fertile land, which is suitable for the reproduction and survival of the population. Handicrafts such as salt making, wine making, weaving and other handicrafts were also quite developed. In the early Song Dynasty, I arrived in Guangzhou and had direct trade with the Central Plains. It became a trade center and commodity distribution center in the central Luzon region, and traded quite closely with the nearby islands. In a sense, it became a representative of the civilized area of ​​Luzon! But this does not mean that Ma Yiguo really walked out of Duluo Island.

In fact, in the Luzon Island area, there is no longer the "ruling scope" of Ma Yi.

The Song army, who set foot on the island, looked down at the many indigenous people on the island with a high attitude of "educating sentient beings". Any resistance force was completely wiped out by swords and guns. The gap between them, who were fully armed and the local indigenous people who were still in the tribal clan period, was the difference between heaven and earth, and the indigenous people were unable to resist at all!

For the immigrants and garrisons on the island, their biggest enemy was not the natives who resisted locally, but the mosquitoes, flies, poisonous insects, and the natural environment here.

Since the three years of Jingkang, many immigrants and military soldiers died of illness every year, and the probability of the first year was more than 10%!

Even when he first entered Nanyang, Zhao Gou had already ordered all the people and military soldiers not to drink raw water and to keep hygienic, but the number of soldiers and civilians who died of illness was still emerging one after another.

Fortunately, this ratio continues to decline.

Next is the evil land where plagues are everywhere. As long as someone enters it, there will be good changes gradually.

For example, Lingnan and Jingnan, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the first sense that gave the people of the Central Plains (northern people) was the ghost places where miasma was humid, mountains and rivers were dangerous, and poisonous insects were everywhere.

But what about now?

Even though the South has not yet experienced the great development of the Southern Song Dynasty, few people immediately remembered miasma, poisonous weeds, pythons, and diseases and deaths when they mentioned it.

The biggest reason is that there is a larger population. The epidemic of epidemics is closely related to land development. When a large area of ​​forest is developed into fertile fields connected to rural areas and fields, the number of mosquitoes and poisonous insects will naturally decrease greatly, and the epidemic will also decrease accordingly. Then the south of the Yangtze River is a most obvious example.

No matter how people in this era think, in Zhao Gou's eyes, the so-called miasma is a vicious infectious disease such as dysentery and cholera. The tropical and subtropical areas are warm and humid, which is the breeding place for mosquitoes. Mosquito bites cannot be prevented, and the disease spreads faster. In the eyes of people in this era, this is a miasma. But Zhao Gou's opinion is actually not enough sanitary conditions.

As long as you deal with it well and be hygienic and safe, especially in diet and water, it can greatly reduce the breeding and spread of diseases.

But this point is difficult to implement in the army, so let alone implement it on the people.

The only thing that is gratifying in Fuzhou now is that with the continuous development of surrounding areas, their annual mortality rate has gradually declined in the past three years and their living environment has improved significantly.

Otherwise, not to mention that the immigrants are going to make trouble, even the garrison will be dissatisfied.

The death rate of more than 10% in the first year is more than the dead soldiers on the battlefield. Who can withstand this?

Gossiped through.

The third year of Xuanwu was the year when Zhao Song changed from outside to inside. After the Jurchens were eliminated, Zhao Song's external threat had been reduced to the extreme. He consolidated the internal strength and accumulated enough external expansion as soon as possible, which became Zhao Songxin's outline for governing the country.

So Nanyang was naturally raised, and the natural environment was very good. Luzon, which had new discoveries in copper mine exploration, became one of the centers of gravity.

First, a large number of immigrants will arrive, and later some troops will come, because the court will take full control of Luzon as soon as possible.

As a city at the southern end of Luzon Island, Fuzhou seems to be of little significance at first glance. Although its north is connected to the central plain on the island, in fact, Xinjinfu City in the northern part of Fuzhou has greater geographical advantages over the central plain.

You can tell from the name that the real center of the Song court was not Fuzhou, but Xinjin Prefecture. It was the later Linjiayan Bay, which is now named Xinjin Bay by the Song army.

The distance from mainland China is closer than that of Fuzhou. After landing in Xinjin, the southern end of the Central Plains was as soon as they went out, and the geographical advantage was far superior to Fuzhou.

Unless all the civil and military ministers in the court have broken their heads, they will abandon Xinjin Prefecture and use Fuzhou.

Just like Dingzhou, which is set up for the northern plains, how to master the large plains in the northern part of Luzon as soon as possible, Dingzhou City is the best bridgehead, rather than Xinjin Prefecture, which is separated from the northern plains by many mountains, and Fuzhou City, which is far away from the southern end of the island.

Control the entire Luzon Island at the fastest speed. The first thing to succeed is the Fuzhou Bay in the south, the Great Plain sandwiched between Fuzhou Bay and Xinjin Bay, and the large plains in the north. Then there is a guide to mountainous and hilly areas.

The reason why Fuzhou, which has long settled the coastal areas of Fuzhou Bay, has become a strategic focus of the army and assumes important responsibilities is that its main role is not targeting the native island of Luzon, but the indigenous forces of many small islands such as Mayi in the south of the island.
Chapter completed!