Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1449, to engage in trade and tourism

"Brother~"

"Let me tell you, in fact, the geographical location of your island is quite good."

"Look, it's in the Gulf of Guinea, not far from the African continent."

"As long as you make full use of it, it is not difficult to develop it."

"To tell you the truth, although there are gold mines on this island, if you blindly mine gold mines, you won't be able to mine much gold in a year. With your little manpower, when will you be able to build this island?"

The next day, after eating and drinking last night, Sterling and Huang Chong became good friends resolutely, and now they all called brothers directly.

Sterling even walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Huang Chong on the soft sandy beach. Sterling, based on his own travel experience, also gave Huang Chong, Li Meng and others some suggestions for the development of Jindao.

"Brother, you are right."

"Although there are gold mines on this island, it is very difficult to mine. The gold we mined in a year can only barely maintain the island's expenses. Up to now, there is no extra funds to repair houses and ports."

"But some people just don't believe it. There are several people from the trading firm who want to steal our Golden Island openly or secretly."

Huang Chong seemed to have met a bosom friend, and started complaining accordingly.

Everyone thought that the Saber Colonial Company must be very rich and live a comfortable life when it occupies the gold-producing Gold Island.

But in fact, on the contrary, although there are gold mines, Huang Chong and others do not have enough funds, so they can only mine the gold mines by themselves. Not to mention very tiring, the gold mined is actually not much, and life is also very tight Yes, there is no extra funds for construction.

"I have traveled to many places, and I also went to West Africa to get gold mines before. I know that the gold mines are not as rich as I imagined."

"The ones who really make a fortune, hehe, still rely on doing business."

"It's like your Daming's silk. It is said that in your Daming, it costs more than a dozen taels of silver, but in Europe, it costs more than a dozen taels of gold. The profit is very huge."

"Your golden island has a very good geographical location. It is located in the middle of West Africa, on an important route. In fact, compared with its geographical location, the gold is very insignificant."

"You can definitely repair the port, build more beautiful houses, and slowly build it into a free port. At that time, you can also buy some female slaves to develop the entertainment and leisure industry."

"With the beautiful scenery here, many wealthy people will be willing to come here for vacation and leisure. Compared with digging for gold, the money will definitely come in faster."

"Casually change the goods, provide some entertainment and leisure items, open taverns, brothels, etc., and they will definitely develop rapidly."

Sterling said with a smile.

As an Englishman and a part-time pirate who was a sea merchant, he traveled to many places and was well-informed. He also saw the rise and development of Hong Kong. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly felt that Jindao could actually refer to Hong Kong. The edge pattern develops.

Of course, the coast of West Africa that radiates from Jindao, West Africa naturally cannot be compared with Europe, but it may not be impossible to rely on its own geographical location to develop.

The main thing is that Sterling is still thinking about his future.

The pirates under his command held their heads in the sea one by one and worked hard. Usually, when they arrived at a place to rest, alcohol, women and gambling were absolutely indispensable.

If Jindao can also provide these things, and if it can also help sell the stolen goods, then it will be great for me.

In the future, the goods, slaves, etc. looted on the gold coastline of West Africa can be disposed of directly here, and you can also come here to rest.

In a short period of time, this place is safe and secret. As for the future, there will be no fire in the paper. Sooner or later, the fact that several countries have joined forces to create a pirate alliance will be known to everyone.

At that point, things are not his concern for Sterling.

"Listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books!"

"Why didn't we think of this~"

When Huang Chong heard this, he couldn't help but slapped himself on the head.

All of a sudden, it seemed to see the future of Jindao.

The busy port welcomes merchants and cargo ships from all over the world. They trade freely here, and it is enough for Jin Island to simply collect the berthing fee.

A large number of shops, taverns, brothels, etc. have been opened, coupled with the beautiful scenery, attracting a large number of local tyrants to come here to spend, and the saber colonial firm only needs to lie down and collect money.

"Haha, this is just my personal suggestion."

Sterling immediately laughed happily.

I feel that my fooling is still very successful. After I go back, I must study more, learn the language and characters of Daming, and understand the culture of Daming more deeply.

After all, the Ming Empire has the final say in this world.

The Ming Empire is really too big and too powerful.

How can you walk in the world if you don't learn how to deal with Daming people?

For example, in front of him, if he hadn't learned the language and culture of the Ming Dynasty, and knew some customs and hobbies of the Ming people, how could he call Huang Chong and others brothers and sisters in front of him?

"Well, maybe I should consider getting an identity from the Ming Empire, preferably with a Ming name~"

"It's just that Ming people and us Europeans can tell at a glance that it is not easy to obtain the identity of a citizen of the Ming Empire."

Thinking of this, Sterling couldn't help frowning again.

The citizenship of the Ming Empire is very useful. Not only can you travel freely in European countries, no one dares to make things difficult for you. Even if you go to the Middle East, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire, the citizenship of the Ming Empire is still very useful.

More importantly, most of the world belongs to the territory of the Ming Empire and its vassal states, colonies, vassal states, etc. As long as they are citizens of the Ming Empire, they can freely travel, do business, and settle in these places.

There are too many benefits in this. He has long wanted to obtain the identity of a citizen of the Ming Empire, but it is very difficult.

“Maybe you can go to Hong Kong to try~”

Soon, Sterling thought of Hong Kong, and immediately thought about going to Hong Kong after returning to England.

The pirate group led by Sterling rested on the Golden Island for three days, replenished fresh water and food, and left contentedly. As for where they went, no one knew.

……

In the Mansion of the Lord of Sunset City, Dongfang Yue is receiving the Spanish envoy Duke Corster from Fernando Island (Sao Tome Island). He came to Sunset City this time, mainly because he wanted to cooperate with the Japanese to see if he could Join forces to deal with the increasingly rampant pirates.

"Mr. Dongfang, the threat of rampant pirates to the Gold Coast is obvious to all. They not only severely damaged the existing colonial order, but also wantonly killed people in the civilized world like us. This is absolutely unforgivable."

The Duke of Colster looked at Dongfang Yue in front of him, and said loudly, expressing the Spaniard's deep hatred for pirates.

The reason for looking for people from the Japanese country is mainly because the people from the Japanese country have also suffered heavy losses and blows.

Sunset City was attacked and suffered heavy losses. Even now, you can see ruins all over the ground, and the white papers hanging everywhere are still telling what happened here not long ago.

"I fully agree with the Duke's words~"

"Our Japanese country has always hated pirates, and we must wipe out these pirates."

Dongfangyue nodded solemnly. Dongfangyue really hated this group of pirates.

It was not easy for Wa Kingdom to lay a foundation in this West Africa and build this decent Sunset City, but it was wiped out by these pirates all at once.

"According to our inference, these pirates, they are not ordinary pirates~"

"Not long ago, our Spanish colony in North Africa, Huceima Port, was also attacked and looted by a group of pirates with more than [-] large ships. In addition, there are a large number of pirates in West Africa."

"I seriously doubt that these pirates are most likely supported by the English or the French."

Seeing that Dongfangyue hated pirates so much and there was a possibility of cooperation, the Duke of Colster immediately knew that he had found the right person, and began to share some of his own intelligence and inferences with Dongfangyue.

"Is it possible that the Portuguese are also behind it?"

Dongfang Yue nodded slightly after listening, thought for a while and asked again.

"Portugal?"

When the Duke of Colster heard this, he was taken aback for a moment. Although the Portuguese were merchants and part-time pirates at sea, they had a much better reputation than the famous English pirates.

"This possibility is not ruled out~"

"If this is the case, the situation will be even worse~"

Colster frowned. The English and French didn't even have to think about it. Both of them were robbers. They used to specialize in robbing Spanish treasure ships and colonies. They were the first to suspect them.

"Report~"

While the two were discussing about these pirates, and discussing how to work together to prevent and destroy pirates, someone hurried in and said.

"My lord, I just received news that Yanshan City, the North Korean colony in West Africa, was attacked by a group of powerful pirates, causing heavy losses!"

"Yanshan City?"

When Dongfangyue and Korster heard this, they immediately came to the edge of the map, and immediately found the city of Yanshan on the map, which was located in the Bay of Benin, not far away from the Japanese country's snatching of Lagos from the Portuguese. , the Spaniard's Accra is also very close.

They never imagined that this group of pirates would be so bold that they dared to attack the colony here in the Bay of Benin again under their noses. Fortunately, this time they attacked the colony of North Korea.

(End of this chapter)