1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2635
The cost issue is undoubtedly one of the important factors restricting the recruitment of immigrants from the North American colonial area, especially when the local output is still very limited, the high immigration cost will impose a heavy financial burden on the colonial authorities.

According to Wang Anguo, the North American colonial area hopes to normalize the recruitment and transportation of immigrants in the future, instead of organizing them every few years as it is now.However, Tao Hongfang and others are not optimistic about whether this can effectively reduce the operating cost of immigration.

The transoceanic route from the East Asian continent to the North American colonial area is thousands of miles long. With the current scale of immigration, if a special immigration fleet is to be organized for this purpose, it is obviously impossible to fully utilize the transportation capacity, and the transportation cost will only be higher than it is now.Unless the trade volume between the two places can be rapidly increased, and every merchant ship navigating between the two places can be guaranteed to get rich profits, then more ships can be attracted to transoceanic routes, thereby solving the current problem of high transportation costs.

However, they did not make suggestions to Wang Anguo on this, because doing so would inevitably lead to the suspicion of playing tricks.The commanding officer on the opposite side of the ocean is the former commander of the Imperial Navy. Who else can understand these matters at sea better than him?Tom Wang must have already considered the issues that he could think of, and most of them have formulated corresponding development plans. Perhaps in a few years, the situation will be very different.

Then I heard Wang Anguo take the initiative to introduce: "In addition to these recruited immigrants, there are also many family members of the advance fleet who will set off with the fleet this time, and the number is probably around a thousand. This time, they have temporarily remodeled at the Zhoushan Shipyard. A few heavy-loaded sailboats have changed the cargo hold into a passenger cabin, otherwise they would not be able to take so many people away."

These words reminded Zhu Zian of his experience when he came to Zhoushan from Hangzhou. The dark and crowded rest cabin was full of snoring sounds and all kinds of strange smells. He had to live in this kind of cabin during the months of drifting at sea. In the environment, it is hard to imagine how uncomfortable it is.In this way, it is no wonder that the number of immigrants recruited by Wang Anguo is not much.

But when he thought about it, he couldn't help worrying about himself. The schedule for this mission to Korea and Japan will take at least one or two months. The living environment during the operation may be similar to that when he came to Zhoushan. ate.

Tao Hongfang and the others were lamenting the difficulty of this feat.They have been taught by their elders since they were young, and they know that the development process of their country is achieved through continuous expansion and colonization. However, because they have lived in Sanya all the year round, they only know that the empire is strong, but they have never personally experienced the difficulty of this process.At this time, witnessing Wang Anguo's organization of immigrants to colonies thousands of miles away, he truly felt the hardships of this external expansion process.

Wang Anguo said: "You may think, since there are aborigines in North America, why don't we focus on subduing the aborigines, but recruit immigrants from the country at any cost. The reason is actually very simple, because the local aborigines The residents are rebellious and warlike tribes, and it is not easy to live in peace with them, and it is too difficult to subdue them.”

Tao Hongfang and others rarely heard about the local situation in the North American colonies. At this time, Wang Anguo took the initiative to mention it, and they all cheered up to listen to his explanation.

The local aborigines in North America are Indians. Although their appearance is similar to that of Northeast Asians, their language and culture are not the same.The western colonists who arrived before Haihan did not get along well with the Indians, and armed conflicts occurred from time to time.

However, Wang Tom obviously knew better how to deal with the Indians. He led the establishment of a system of trading with various local tribes to win over the Indians through trade, and at the same time tried his best to maintain a certain safe distance between the colonial area and the territory of the Indian tribes.After such an operation, although conflicts cannot be completely avoided, it does maintain relations with the Indians better than their Western counterparts.

Of course, there will be some Indians in the process, but it is still almost impossible to achieve the goal of subduing the local tribes as naturalized people.

And the local Western counterparts will not just sit back and watch Haihan come from behind, but will intentionally or unintentionally create some conflicts and try to destroy the relationship between Haihan and the local tribe.

Ha Jianyi said: "With Uncle Wang's style of handling things, probably those who cause trouble will not be let go?"

Wang Anguo nodded: "Of course. In the past three years, the armed conflicts with the outside world, large and small, totaled [-] if not [-]. More than half of them, the opponents were Spaniards."

"It's an old enemy!" Ha Jianyi was not surprised by this answer.

The conflict between Haihan and Spain can be traced back more than 20 years ago. When controlling Taiwan Island, two Spanish colonial points in the Taipei area were pulled out by the way.

After that, the two sides fought in the South China Sea for many years. It was not until Haihan captured the Spanish colonial center of Manila in the South China Sea in 1637 that the two sides finally came to a conclusion.

Since then, Spain's influence in the South China Sea has gradually declined, and it has retreated to the Maluku Sea near the equator to maintain its presence, and dare not have a direct conflict with Haihan.

But the Spaniards probably never imagined that a few years later, the Haihan people would appear on the west coast of North America across the ocean and once again compete head-on with them.

Although the Spaniards explored the west coast of North America a full century earlier than Haihan, the first-mover advantage did not allow them to establish a solid enough foundation there.

Facing the menacing Haihan colonial fleet, the Spaniards also had to avoid the edge temporarily.When they wanted to take measures to drive away the new competitors, they found that the ones sent here by the other party were not ordinary civilians, but thousands of professional soldiers armed to the teeth.

Of course, the Spaniards would not give up the territory they controlled, but it was difficult to confront Haihan's advance troops head-on, so they had been trying to create trouble for Haihan in the past three years, and all kinds of tricks emerged one after another.

And Wang Tom's coping method is also very simple, that is, to report grievances directly. All Spaniards who are caught performing tasks such as robbery, theft, poisoning, and assassination in the Haihan colonial area will be hanged, and all of them will be publicized. Execution, as a warning to others.

"If the Spaniards want to sneak into our place, no matter how they disguise themselves, they should be very eye-catching, right? Isn't it self-inflicted by doing so?" Bai Letong asked puzzled.

Wang Anguo explained: "The Spaniards are not the only Westerners who are active in the local area. Many immigrants from southern Europe are not much different in appearance from the Spaniards. There are also some Portuguese in the local area. They even talk to the Spaniards. Almost, not so easy to tell."

(End of this chapter)