Chapter 169 The way out
The islanders of Wangyue Island are divided into two groups. One group is the pirates, who are considered the original inhabitants of the island.

The prostitutes and wandering women who came here were also willing to marry these pirates, and the two groups were able to integrate relatively well.

There is another group, the criminals, who are educated and do not like the original islanders, but since they came later, they cannot say anything.

These people claim to have some culture. Although they are down and out, they still think they are aristocrats and are different from ordinary people.

They are also quite keen on opening shops. Half of the shops on the island are opened by Lu Yuan, and the other half are opened by them.

As for the original islanders, none of them had any intention of opening a store.

Because opening a store is too expensive, the store needs rent and taxes, and they are extremely afraid of taxes.

Lu Yuan opened a school and hired two of these people as teachers. They had a fixed monthly salary and were not allowed to charge money for teaching. They had to teach all the children under the age of eighteen on the island. These children did not need to pay extra money to go to school. As long as they wanted to come to school, boys and girls could come and learn to read and write.

Although it is free, not all children go to school.

Nowadays, there are still a lot of chores to be done at home. Although these parents know that reading and learning to read are good things, they do not let all their children go. They think that it is enough to let two smarter children go to read and learn to read.

Otherwise, if everyone goes to school, who will do the housework?

This kind of work is done for one's own family.

If the crops are grown well, all the vegetables are mine. If you can’t finish eating them, you can sell them.

But now there are farmlands everywhere in the north city, so there are plenty of vegetables and the prices are low.

But the salt on the island is very cheap, so it is better to make it into pickles, which can be stored for a long time and can be eaten in winter.

The same goes for sea fish, which can be made into dried goods and sold, and can be stored for a long time.

I used to feel like vomiting after eating sea fish, but now with soy sauce, oil, and vegetables, it tastes so delicious.

They never thought that this sea fish could be so delicious.

But every time the pork is shipped over by big ships, they buy a lot.

After eating too much sea fish, I still want to eat some other meat.

Moreover, the ship was not only carrying these dead objects, but also some live piglets and chickens.

Although the price is a bit high, anyone who has pearls at home will buy some to keep.

The main reason is that they have suffered too much and have never had a full meal in their lives.

They always feel that all this is just like a dream and may disappear at any time, and they want to hold on to everything they have now.

In the past, they didn’t know the benefits of feces and urine and defecated them everywhere. Now every household classifies and collects them strictly. These are good things to fertilize the soil. Without them, crops cannot grow.

Wangyue Island is very big, not much smaller than North City.

Not all pirates are on Mochizuki Island.

There are some other small islands, and Lu Yuan only occupied Wangyue Island.

Originally, the pirates wanted to wait and see, but Lu Yuan only purchased pearls from the islanders of Wangyue Island.

And they found that Lu Yuan really wanted to help the islanders of Wangyue Island. Look at the bright and spacious houses, clean and tidy streets, and shops of the islanders of Wangyue Island.

In just a short period of time, the people of Wangyue Island have changed completely.

Lu Yuan issued an order that within three months, these people could become residents of Wangyue Island at any time, with the same treatment and all being able to get land.

But after three months, one must pay ten taels of silver to become a resident of Wangyue Island, and one does not even have land.

Lu Yuan would not take the initiative to eliminate them, but if they dared to rob Lu Yuan's ship, then Lu Yuan would definitely not let them have an easy time. Lu Yuan also brought Niu County Lieutenant to identify people. If the bandits were to be eliminated, the people of Wangyue Island were not bandits, but the people of Beicheng.

This also gave these people enough confidence. If Lu Yuan wanted to kill someone, he would definitely not use so many people.

Almost everyone is scrambling to become a resident of Wangyue Island, for fear that if they come here, there will be no land to share.

The key is that if you want to sell pearls, you must become an islander, unless you pay half of the money to the islanders of Wangyue Island and ask them to help sell them.

This is too much of a loss.

This is what Lu Yuan said openly. The islanders of Wangyue Island can sell pearls, but they must take half of the proceeds. Otherwise, once they are discovered, they will never be able to sell pearls again. This is to protect the interests of Wangyue Island.

What's more, this will benefit them themselves and they can make money in a legitimate way, so almost no one will refuse.

The reason why Lu Yuan did this is because people are sometimes the least valuable, but sometimes the most valuable.

If a place wants to develop, it cannot do without people.

If Lu Yuan really has no place to stay in Sheng Country in the future, this is a fallback he has prepared for himself.

He couldn't accept that he would live a miserable life in the future, being a savage in the mountains, where there would not be much difference between living and dying.

He can't be like these pirates, so poor that he doesn't even have clothes to wear!

He must have someone to serve him. He doesn't like working every day, living in a shabby house, or wearing tattered clothes.

I don’t want to eat tasteless food every day and live simply for the sake of living.

He wanted to maintain his wealth.

So Wangyue Island can’t be too bad.

The house he built for himself couldn't be too bad.

He wants to live in a big house, a beautiful big house.

This place has to be self-sufficient.

In order to set up a textile factory, people must be able to weave the fabrics.

These criminals are not just any random people. They were carefully selected by Lu Yuan. Some are proficient in weaving, some are proficient in forging, some are carpenters, and some are skilled in embroidery.

These islanders now cannot appreciate the embroidery work, they only think that the cheap ones are the best, and these are too expensive.

Lu Yuan could only support her with his own money and collect some embroidery works regularly, not much, just enough to have enough to eat and leave him with plenty of free time.

These islanders made money from selling pearls, but not all of them were reluctant to spend it.

Some people are willing to spend a lot of money to make a piece of clothing for themselves and their families.

There is no dyeing workshop here yet, so if you want some patterns, you can only rely on embroidery and dyeing the cloth yourself.

Some flowers on the island have special fruits that can be used for dyeing.

The islanders bought white and beige linen, dyed it themselves to make it beautiful, and then made it into clothes to wear.

The island is now self-sufficient in some of its supplies.

Even if Lu Yuan's ship doesn't come for a month, life on the island will not decline much.

After all, meat is usually only eaten during festivals and the New Year.