Chapter 176: Development of Fue Island

Although the wasteland world is great, with advanced technology, materials that can rejuvenate, and countless wealth, it still takes a long time to plan.

Therefore, Yan Xu's development focus during this period is still on Japan, because the difficulty here is the lowest and it is also a small world. As long as he unifies Japan, it is equivalent to ruling the entire world. In this way, he can obtain a place where he can stably gain luck and incense, which is the most cost-effective. Therefore, it is not difficult to choose who comes first and who comes later.

However, in order to achieve this goal, the main island, which is in the Warring States Period, cannot be avoided.

In fact, Yan Xu had planned to launch a beach landing a long time ago to occupy a piece of territory on the main island, and then participate in the battle for hegemony on the main island, and finally achieve his goal of unifying the world.

However, Yan Xu had no idea how deep the water on the main island was, especially during the battle with the Otomo family. He was deeply impressed by the impact of the Rain Girl and had to consider more unexpected factors.

If the first battle fails and arouses the vigilance of all forces on the main island, the difficulty of landing on the island a second time will naturally increase significantly. Therefore, although there is a plan, Yan Xu has not made up his mind to implement it, for fear that he will miss the attack and expose the secondary island instead.

For Yan Xu, although the next major target is the main island, the secondary island is equally important. Even if he gains a piece of land on the main island in the future, the importance of the secondary island will not decrease. On the contrary, it will become more and more important as the rear base. Therefore, he must consider it carefully.

Yan Xu was not idle during this period. He devoted his attention to the development of the secondary island.

However, due to the limitations of terrain and population, the focus of development is limited to four places on the sub-island, namely Onimaru Castle, Komizu Town, Fukushima Castle, and Otomo Castle.

Needless to say, Onimaruyama Castle is the place where the family started. Although it seems remote, it is of utmost importance because it faces away from the main island. If one wants to attack Onimaru Castle, one must take the sea route and go around the island. In this way, the Moroboshi family cannot hide it and can make preparations in advance.

Omizu Town was originally just a small commercial street and a pier, not very prosperous. After all, it was restricted in many aspects by the Mori family on the main island.

But with the large amount of modern goods provided by Yan Xu, the situation was different. A trade deficit was achieved, and cheap modern industrial products were exchanged for a large amount of gold and silver from the main island. Even many big businessmen from the main island were attracted, making Xiaoshui Town more and more prosperous. At the same time, a large amount of tax revenue was provided for the Moroboshi family. The gold and silver extracted every month were like flowing water. Otherwise, how could Yan Xu not be interested in money, because what he lacked was never money.

As for the Fukushima Castle that was burned to ashes, Yan Xu originally regarded it as a place to keep the defeated. After all, because the Daimyo Fukushima had turned into a demon, the population near Fukushima Castle was sparse and the land was barren.

But after unifying the sub-island, Yan Xu realized how important the geographical location of Fukushima Castle was. It could be said to be a transit station connecting the two sides of the sub-island. Therefore, he changed his plan. Not only did he build a road through here, he also built the largest barracks of the Moroboshi family here.

Anyway, the land here is difficult to cultivate due to the damage, so it is best used as a military camp.

As for Otomo Castle, the best castle on the entire sub-island, it has not changed much. It has only been strengthened on the original basis, mainly to avoid the vigilance of the Mori family on the main island.

But this is the location of the four ministries of the cabinet, and it can be regarded as the political center of Fushimi Island. Almost all orders come from here.

However, this is only on the surface, used to confuse outsiders, because the real core has always been Guimaru City and Yan Xu.

The zigzag stone road, which cost huge manpower and material resources to build, not only runs through the secondary island, but also integrates the power of the secondary island.

After the integration, the overall strength of Fuetoshima is far greater than that of the Otomo family at its peak, and it may not be unable to fight against the Mori family.

This is the case when he does not cheat. If he does, how long the Mori family can last depends on how much Yan Xu is willing to pay. If he buys a large amount of food from the modern world to increase his military strength, and then purchases a large number of old-fashioned breech-loading muskets and artillery from the late Qing Dynasty world, it will be easy to defeat the Mori family, but this will inevitably cause unpredictable effects in both worlds.

As I said, a small amount doesn’t matter, but if the amount is large, even if it is just stale grain, no one can predict what impact it will have.

On the towering castle tower, Yan Xu, who had just released his stress, was lazily lying on Fukushima-hime's lap. Although his vision was half blocked when he looked up, it did not prevent him from using the sage time to think.

System integration also affects here, but the effect is not as good as the wasteland world. There are only two more recruitment options, namely, cattle and horse workers and Japanese technicians.

Although the ox-and-horse workers have little education, they can do everything and work very hard, which can greatly accelerate the industrial development of the territory. The only problem is that their shelf life is short and they are easily damaged.

Fortunately, there is no need to pay pensions, which greatly saves costs.

Compared with the hardworking laborers, the Japanese technicians are more loyal to Yan Xu. After all, they are technical personnel, and those who understand technology are popular.

The Japanese technicians had mastered some basic mechanical principles and technologies, and theoretically had the potential to develop steam engines and breech-loading rifles, which naturally attracted Yan Xu's attention.

However, there are also many problems that need to be solved, so Yan Xu cannot indulge in having fun among the women. He can only ignore the slightly resentful looks of the women and hurry to work. This makes him think of his Japanese office worker husband and his beautiful wife, so he decisively decides not to recruit Japanese plumbers in this world, nor to develop the industry of selling newspapers and insurance.

Creating something from scratch is the most difficult thing. It would probably take years to expect Japanese technicians to hand-build a steam engine with the help of a blacksmith. Therefore, Yan Xu directly imported it from the late Qing Dynasty. This was also something that foreigners liked and would not arouse vigilance.

With the steam machinery serving as the mother machine of industry, the next step was continuous replication, but there were only two key points: one was the steam sailing ship, and the other was the breech-loading rifle.

With a steam sailing ship, you can take the initiative in naval battles and fight when you want to or retreat when you want to.

With a breech-loading rifle, you can avoid being affected by the weather.

While Yan Xu was busy with the industrialization of the territory, two savages in the mountains were discussing something.

"Why don't we surrender? With our abilities, we will surely be taken seriously." The goat-bearded Onmyoji, who was wearing tattered Onmyoji clothes but without even a black hat, said weakly.

"Well, it's becoming increasingly difficult to hunt prey now." The great swordsman Shi Deng also sighed, put down the dry, tough and tasteless rabbit leg in his hand, and agreed to the goat-bearded Yin-Yang master's proposal.

These two were the unlucky guys who were introduced to the Otomo family by the Mori family and hired to assassinate Yan Xu.

After the Moroboshi family quickly unified the sub-island, there was nowhere to run because there were only three places for cruise ships on the entire sub-island: Otomo Castle, Komizu Town, and Onimaru Castle.

These places were heavily guarded and patrolled by warships. Even if they seized the ships, they would only be sunk and fed to fish.

(End of this chapter)