On Sado Island, Japan, a group of reform prisoners wearing uniform felt work clothes and short hair were shaving hammers and hammers, shaving stones in a stone yard by the sea. The large stones had been blown up by the powder, but they still needed manpower to break them before they could be used to pave the road.

As for convenient equipment such as water conservancy forging hammers/breakers, I'm sorry, everything here is simple and has not been able to install such advanced equipment.

These labor reform prisoners in labor were also serious offenders from the Han area, or stubborn prisoners of war among the Khitan, Jurchen, Dangxiang and other tribes. Zhao Gou was not ruthless at all when using them.

The land reclamation of Sado Island requires a lot of manpower. If you don’t need these people, would you still have to pay for the Ministry of Works to hire people?

As for why these people have short hair, they were already shaved when they were serving their sentences. There is no way not to shave them. They are wearing long hair to clear the wasteland, lice and dirt, and hygiene problems cannot be solved at all. Only when baldness is clean.

As for whether the labor reform prisoners are willing to shave their heads, they have to bow their heads under the eaves. This is unforgivable.

What's more, three meals a day after shaved hair: two dry and one thin, and you can also eat some dried meat and fish every day. If you don't shaved hair, you can only do one thin and two meals, and the work you do is even harder. Not to mention the Khitan, Jurchens and Dangxiang tribes have a tradition of baldness (balding does not mean baldness), and no one can withstand even the Han people.

No matter how big the rules are, they cannot be more than their own life or even more than their own belly.

And they were all thrown into the sea. Apart from working hard and trying to escape early, no one was following them, and no one could escape, right?

Where can they escape?

Since Zhao Song negotiated cooperation with Japan, the few Japanese on the island have moved to the inland. Now, in addition to the garrison and the sent labor camps, this place has a group of prospecting teams.

Everything on Sado Island was prepared for the gold and silver mining soon, and it was also a transfer station for the sea troops led by Liu Ziyu.

That's why labor reform prisoners are so hard because their workload is extremely huge. They have to build ports and open up transportation. They have to work in mines in the future.

It is also said that it is just gravel at the beach under the cold wind, and this is all easy to work.

Although there is no natural port in Sado Island, as an island, isn’t it a piece of cake to build a harbor under the current conditions? Isn’t it necessary to build a naval base here?

Today, in addition to these five or six hundred regular soldiers, Sado Island is an exploration team of thousands of people, divided into multiple teams. Under the leadership of an experienced master, he has been working hard among the mountains of Sado Island for more than half a year. The effect is extremely significant!

Then there are the labor reform prisoners who are more than 2,000 people.

The total number is no less than 4,000 people, and this number is no less than that of Sado Island.

The Japanese government said it very well, but in fact, it was still on the other side of the Echinokon, and the Echinokon region added troops. However, compared with the carefulness and caution of the Japanese government, the Echinokon, the Echinokon merchants were happy. Because they were backed by Japan, many of the needs of Sado Island for land reclamation, whether it was food or daily tools, were purchased directly from Japan.

This is a population of 4,000. Even if the treatment of many labor reform prisoners cannot be compared with that of military soldiers and exploration teams, the total amount cannot be underestimated.

Because the labor prisoners do the labor camps and work hard, as long as they are obedient and do two jobs every day, they will also make people full.

This has benefited a lot of Japanese businessmen who are approaching.

Because when Zhao Song bought supplies from Japan, he was extremely generous. Not to mention the prices in Japan, but only the easy purchases made by buying nearby and the promotion of land reclamation on Sado Island, the Zhao Song government would not care about such a small amount of money at all.

Today, Sado Island looks like a busy workplace. Regardless of whether it is voluntary or not, they are all working hard.

Even the officers and soldiers stationed in the island were all busy without touching the ground.

Because the gravel and transportation errands are not only done by the labor prisoners, but also by the military.

In addition to the necessary guards and surveillance work, half of the officers and soldiers are busy on the stone field every day. This is also the most fundamental reason why Sado Island can build a beautiful stone stronghold in a short time.

Diligence. Not only the labor prisoners who were exploited and had to work hard, but even the soldiers and exploration teams on the island were diligent one by one.

There is no extra reward for this, it is just a subtle influence of habits becoming natural.

When Zhao Song first landed on Sado Island, although there were several Japanese villages here, the wooden houses obviously did not meet the pursuit of the Song army, so it was not safe to use them as prison cells.

What's more, the order they accepted was to build a stone city. The interests of Sado Island were not known. The officers and soldiers of the Song army, exploration team members and reform prisoners did not know, but Zhao Gou of Bianliang City knew it well. Who can guarantee that the Japanese would not send troops to fight after they had learned about the interests of Sado Island?

So based on the future, building a solid fortress is something that must be done.

No matter what their identity is, the population on Sado Island has increased its energy from the first day of going to the island.

Although Sado Island has begun to take shape now, its habits have been developed and cannot stop. What's more, when the results of exploration teams are constantly summed up, who doesn't know what Sado Island represents?

That is absolutely unsafe at first glance. Not to mention one stone city, even three stone cities cannot block all the roads.

So, how to solve this problem? Only work hard.

If three stone cities don’t have, then five; if five stone cities don’t have, then ten will come. As long as you do it too much, you can always block the road.

Just like the Goryeo people on the western peninsula, facing the threat of the Song army, they were constantly accumulating troops, especially in Busan.

The second largest city in later generations is still a small fishing village at present.

The Song army took the excuse of preventing the Jurchens and used the reason that the Goryeo Dynasty betrayed Zhao Song and surrendered to the Jurchens as a reason, and successfully cut off a few pieces of bloody meat from the Goryeo territory. It was Danluo Island and Busan.

Goryeo has always been a vassal state of the Khitan and has not paid any respect to Zhao Song at all. However, in the face of the Song envoy's case, no one in the court and the country dared to refuse. No one of them expected that Zhao Song could turn defeat into victory in the war, and not only did not suffer a great loss under the barbaric Jurchens, but instead repulsed the Jurchens and restored the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun in one fell swoop. The situation between Song and Jin was fundamentally reversed, which was completely beyond the expectations of Goryeo's government and the people.

So, just like the Jurchens who chose to be complacent, Goryeo also offered his knees to Zhao Song.

But this does not mean that the monarch and ministers of Goryeo are willing to watch Zhao and Song increasingly erode Goryeo.
Chapter completed!