Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1431 We came out too late

Chaling in the Persian Gulf.

The Li family has occupied this place for almost half a month. The entire Li family that moved here, from Li Zhaofan and Li Zhaochun to the ordinary Li family members, are very busy.

Build ports and wharves that can moor ships, build places to live, explore the geography of the entire Chaling, and find out everything here, so that the next colonization activities can be carried out.

"Brother, the original local tribes have expressed their willingness to submit to our Li family, but these Arabs must be convinced but not convinced. It is not easy to make them truly submit to our Li family."

"We suddenly occupied this place by force and killed many of their people. They must have a grudge against us."

"And they regard us as heretics, and they are cursing us to go to Hell, and there will definitely be many troubles in the future."

Li Zhaochun came to Li Zhaofan's room, took a sip of water, and felt extremely comfortable.

The weather here is hot and fresh water is very scarce. It is definitely a very comfortable thing to drink a sip of sweet fresh water.

"It doesn't matter if you hold a grudge. As long as we have a sword in our hands, I don't believe there are people who are not afraid of death."

"Now we still need to use them to help us build ports and cities. After we stabilize, we will have a large number of immigrants from our Daming side in the future, and then we will find a way to sweep them all out."

Li Zhaofan smiled and didn't care about these things.

There are not many locals here, and there are only less than [-] locals on the entire peninsula, and they are divided into different tribes. They used to be enemies with each other. kill each other.

Li Zhaofan didn't take them seriously at all, what he really cared about was the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire.

The Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire are the behemoths that can really threaten the Li family's Chaling in this place. Of course, the Ming Empire is behind the Li family. If they move the Li family, they have to consider whether they will be retaliated by the Ming Empire.

"What about the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire?"

Thinking of this, Li Zhaofan also asked.

"The Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire have not expressed anything yet, but they have never cared about the place we occupy, and they will probably acquiesce in our colonial activities here."

Li Zhaochun replied.

"Leng and the others dare not do anything to us."

Li Zhaofan nodded slightly and said confidently.

The powerful deterrence of the Ming Empire is no joke.

The Persian Gulf is not far from Nanyun Province and Hezhong Province of the Ming Empire. There are troops from the Ming Empire here. As long as necessary, the army of the Ming Empire can fight all the way to the Persian Gulf at any time.

In the Red Sea to the south, the Ming Empire also has a Red Navy. The warships of the Red Navy not only patrol the Red Sea, but also patrol the Persian Gulf from time to time, and they can also come to support them.

In addition, in the Aegean Sea of ​​the Mediterranean Sea, the Ming Empire also has colonies, and the Mediterranean Fleet is stationed there, which can attack all the way from the west.

On the east side, the whole of Tianzhu was divided up by Ming's vassal states and colonies. As long as the Li family asked, they would be willing to help.

This is why Li Zhaofan is confident, because there is a powerful Ming Empire behind him, so as soon as he occupied this place, he immediately sent people to notify the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire, announcing to them the colony of the Li family here.

"My side has basically figured out the situation here."

"There is not much arable land here, but the arable land needed for our Li family's life is still enough. Don't worry about food, and we can also buy it from Tianzhu."

"The only thing we need to worry about is fresh water. The water resources here are too scarce. We have [-] people here, and the population will definitely continue to grow in the future. If the water problem is not solved, it will always be difficult for us to develop. "

Li Zhaochun took the map and began to speak in detail.

"According to what we get from the locals, fresh water is mainly obtained from the springs in the oasis, and the amount is very limited. In addition, they also get fresh water from the sea."

"Sea water gets fresh water?"

When Li Zhaofan heard this, he immediately asked in surprise.

"Yes, it is indeed to obtain fresh water from the sea."

"There is a very peculiar phenomenon in the Persian Gulf, that is, the phenomenon of the sea in the sea. The seawater from the Arabian Sea wraps a large amount of freshwater emerging from the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Local people can get some freshwater from the sea by boat using bamboo poles. "

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it."

Li Zhaochun nodded and said: "It is precisely because of this confluence of salty and fresh water that the pearls, corals, and fishery resources here are very rich."

"In terms of pearls, there are a large number of natural mother-of-pearls in Chaling and the surrounding islands and reefs. There are several types, and the quality of the pearls produced is very high. There are two collection seasons every year. If the Li family wants to obtain income from the colony, the pearl fishing industry must be monopolized by us."

"In this way, by virtue of our monopoly advantage, we can control the quantity, raise the price, and obtain more profits just like Nanyang United Commercial Bank and the Zhang Brothers."

Li Zhaofan listened carefully. Now the Li family is very poor and owes a lot of debts, and urgently needs resources that can bring continuous wealth to the Li family.

Pearl seems to be the only thing here that can bring wealth to the Li family.

"However, the scale of pearl collection here is limited, and the number of each collection is not large. Moreover, this pearl collection is also a very dangerous thing. Some people will die because of pearl fishing every season."

"Our Li family wants to monopolize the pearl trading here. On the one hand, we want to control the source. Next, we want to annex the Bahrain Islands in the west and monopolize the source of all pearls."

"The second aspect is to find a way to increase the production of pearls. It is best to try to see if artificial cultivation can be carried out. The price of natural pearls is high, but the production is too small, not much in a year."

Li Zhaochun shook his head while talking.

Even with resources like pearls, the output is too low. For the Li family, it is still difficult to satisfy the huge appetite.

"Let's try to see if it can be cultivated artificially."

Li Zhaofan nodded slightly. To be honest, he didn't really count on this pearl. The output is too low, and there are many places in the world that produce pearls.

Nanyang, Japan, Australia, and Ceylon all have natural pearls. In addition, Hepu County, Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty has a long history of pearl cultivation.

Before the large-scale overseas colonization of Ming Dynasty, pearls were still relatively valuable. At that time, no matter the princes and nobles, rich gentry, and landlords, all liked pearl jewelry.

Hairpins, necklaces, bracelets, etc. made of pearls are relatively expensive, and even pearls are one of the important tributes. The four vassal states all offer pearls to the Emperor of Heaven.

But since Daming's overseas expansion and trade, a large number of pearls began to flow into Daming. Although they are still very popular, the price has dropped a lot.

Generally speaking, although this pearl is also an item for making a fortune, it cannot satisfy Li Zhaofan's appetite.

"Have you found any gold or silver mines here?"

Li Zhaofan thought for a while and asked.

"No, if there were gold and silver mines here, they would have been exhausted long ago."

"The Persian Gulf is different from the Golden Continent. The history here is very long. It is no different from the history of our Ming Dynasty. In history, many powerful empires were born here, such as the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Arab Empire."

Li Zhaochun shook his head slightly. Can the gold and silver mines here be mined by his own Li family?
If you think about it too much, if there was one, it would have been discovered and dug up long ago.

"Oh, I really chose the wrong place."

"Where there is no water and no arable land, it is a desert, and there are even no resources."

Li Zhaofan sighed, he really had no choice now.

"I knew it would be better to go to West Africa. I heard that the few colonies built by the Koreans and Japanese in West Africa are very fertile, and everything they grow grows very well."

"I also heard that at this time, Africa is very big, with a lot of land and resources, but if you go a little deeper into the inland areas, there will be a lot of various diseases, and many people will die in Africa."

"Although this place is not good in all aspects, it is now our Li family's colony, so we should try our best to solve many problems first."

Li Zhaochun also nodded, he has already reached this point, so what if he is envious?

If you want to blame, blame the Li family for being too late.

If you followed Liu Jin, Zhang Mao and others to set up colonies at sea in the early years, there would be no good places all over the world for you to choose.

"It's good that our Li family can occupy this place now. If it takes a few more years, there will be no place for it. There are too many people going to sea to grab the colony now."

"That's right~"

"You said that there is a shortage of water resources here, but there is a lot of seawater. When I was on the boat, I saw that kind of seawater desalination still. You said, can we find a way to desalinate seawater into fresh water on a large scale."

"If this can be realized, then there will be no need to worry about running out of water in the future. There is still a lot of seawater."

"Desalination of sea water into fresh water?"

"I'm afraid it won't work, but it's hard to say. It can be studied and studied by people."

"Well, one of the things we have to do now is to monopolize the pearl trading here, and the other is to see if we can do slave trading. The profit of slave trading is extremely high. The people here are all white, and they are very popular among us. If If this business can be done, the money will come in much faster.”

"It's not so easy to get involved in the slave trading business. Ningguo and the big trading houses are almost divided."

"It's true, everything is difficult, we came out too late."

　The Li family will develop when the internal combustion engine appears~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)