Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 444, Colonial Plan

Tianjin, with the smooth return of the fleet to the Golden Island, the whole Tianjin has become more lively.

Almost every day, rich businessmen, big landlords, big businessmen, nobles, gentry, etc. came from all corners of the country. These people came to Tianjin with carloads of silver, ready to invest in caravans to the Golden Island.

There are also young people from all over the world who dream of getting rich overnight. Under the huge temptation of earning thousands of taels of silver a year, Tianjin is full of infinite vitality.

In the living room of Liu Jin's mansion in Tianjin, Liu Jin is discussing with Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo about setting up a new fleet to go to Huangjinzhou. His part is missing.

"How big does the investment need to be?"

Zhang Mao frowned. They came to Liu Jin, naturally for the great matter of making a fortune. The fleet to Huangjinzhou brought back [-] million taels of gold and silver at once. Zhang Mao was jealous, really jealous, otherwise Nor will they rush to Tianjin all night and day.

Liu Jin and them are naturally old friends, and they have been working together happily. Naturally, this matter of getting rich must come together.

However, Liu Jin is obviously not the kind who is satisfied with just plundering precious metals from the Golden Continent. What Liu Jin values ​​most is the fertile soil of the Golden Continent.

If you want to occupy this fertile and vast land, you must have a long-term plan and plan.

Open up a fixed route, form a fleet to travel regularly, and at the same time open up a fixed stronghold along the route, set up a colonial stronghold on the Golden Continent, and even build a colonial town, and then gradually understand the entire Golden Continent, and then Slowly encroaching and expanding its own colony, and finally annexing the entire Golden Continent.

This is Liu Jin's plan, and it is also Liu Jin's method of referring to European colonists in history.

Establishing colonial strongholds, relying on colonial strongholds to plunder wealth, and then slowly colonizing, this method is very effective.

However, in order to realize Liu Jin's plan, the investment required is very huge, and it is also quite time-consuming, requiring a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources. backing.

Therefore, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, Xu Guangzuo, and Zhu Houzhao need to be recruited. Only when they are firmly tied to this chariot and have strong support can this Hongda plan be completed.

"I don't think it's big at all. The Golden Continent is full of gold."

Hearing what Zhang Mao said, Liu Jin smiled and said.

Then he came to a world map and drew the fleet's sailing route on the map, and at the same time drew seven or eight points on it.

"Everyone, please take a look, this is the route for the fleet to go to and return to the Golden Continent."

"When they went, they first arrived at Muma Island (the Jeju Island of later generations, which was used to exile prisoners and raise horses during this period), then arrived at the Seto area of ​​​​the country of Wa, and then continued along the country of Wa. Go north."

"In this location, a place named Fish Creek by them, there is a large gold mine, and the entire river is filled with gold sand."

When talking about this, Liu Jin paused slightly, and made a circle above the location of Yuxi, which is located on the Kamchatka Peninsula where the later generations of polar bears lived.

"Fish Creek?"

"Gold mine?"

When Zhang Mao and others heard this, they immediately became interested. There is nothing more attractive than gold. Even Zhu Houzhao, who had been listless, immediately became energetic.

"Yes, when the fleet arrived here, there were countless fish swimming upstream in the river here, so it was named Fish Creek, and a gold mine was discovered here."

"However, the latitude here in Yuxi is too high, it is close to the Arctic Circle, and the temperature is very low. It is difficult for us to go there now. At this time, the sea surface in this area should have been frozen."

"But we can make preparations now. When the weather warms up tomorrow, we can organize people to go to Yuxi to set up a stronghold. On the one hand, we can mine the gold mines in Yuxi, and on the other hand, it can also be used as a route. stronghold."

"There are not only gold mines here in Yuxi, but also pure white snow foxes, ferrets, and a large herd of deer, etc. Just hunting these animals, these furs can be sold at sky-high prices."

"Some of the crew members of the fleet brought back some furs. In our Daming, it's not a problem to sell them for a few hundred taels."

Liu Jin smiled and introduced the rich Yuxi to everyone. When Du Mingen and the others came back, Liu Jin held a banquet reception. At the same time, the diaries written by the crew members over the past year were also collected by Liu Jin. Conducted analysis and research, and then knew everything that happened to the fleet over the past year.

"After the fleet left Yuxi, they continued to head northeast. Here, they called the mouth of the Qianhe River. They encountered the natives of the Golden Continent. These natives were different from our Daming people in appearance. It’s not that big, it’s very likely that they were descendants of Yin and Shang, so the people here can be called descendants of Yin and Shang.”

"Here at Qianhekou, the crew members discovered another large vault. In a large lake, it is full of golden sand, and the entire lake is glowing with gold. According to estimates, at least several million taels of gold can be mined."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangrong couldn't help but widen their eyes, and took a deep breath. All this sounded like listening to heaven, but they knew that it must be true .

"Millions of taels of gold!"

Zhu Houzhao's small eyes were shining brightly.

"The fleet went all the way south along the west coast of Gold Island. Here, here, and here, a lot of gold and silver mines were found, especially in this place, which is the most middle and narrowest area of ​​Gold Island. , here is a huge kingdom of descendants of Yin and Shang.”

"The country established by the descendants of the Shang Dynasty is called the Inca Empire. How much gold and silver did the Inca Empire have? They used gold and silver to build houses in the cities, just like bricks, to build houses."

"It's here that Du Mingen and the others exchanged things like silk, porcelain, and glass mirrors for gold and silver worth thirty million taels of silver, filling ten ships."

When he said this, Liu Jin also paused slightly, drinking tea to moisten his throat.

Regarding these, Liu Jin has also asked the reporter of the Ming Morning Post to interview Du Mingen and others, and plans to publish all of this in detail on the Ming Morning Post, so that the entire Ming Dynasty can learn about the distant Golden Continent, where gold is everywhere. It is an extremely rich land.

As long as you set out bravely by boat and can reach the Golden Island, then congratulations, you became rich overnight.

There must be a constant tendency for more people to go to the Golden Continent, no matter whether these people are for gold or silver, or for other things and so on.

What Liu Jin needs is more people to participate, so that more people can enjoy the frenzy of wealth, so that more people can be stimulated to immigrate to the Golden Continent, and then occupy the Golden Continent.

"Use gold bricks and silver bricks to build houses!"

Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu and the others couldn't help being amazed. How much gold and silver reserves are there before they can be used to build houses? This is no longer a question of wealth, but a question of reserves. .

"The return route of the fleet is relatively simple. They cross the Pacific Ocean and return along this route. The most important point in the middle of this route is here, the Hawaiian Islands."

"The Hawaiian Islands is the only place where fresh water can be added in the entire return route, and it is also the most important transit point."

Liu Jin pointed out the location of an archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and said.

"If we just want to rely on a few ships to go to the Golden Continent to plunder gold and silver, of course we don't need to invest too much."

"It's enough to organize ten ships to go to the Golden Continent at one time, and an investment of three million taels is enough."

"But through the entire route, we can clearly know the most important points on the entire route. These points are the core of controlling the entire wealth route."

"If we can grasp the core of these routes, then we are equivalent to controlling this huge wealth route, and naturally there will be a steady stream of wealth rolling in."

"The investment is indeed bigger now, but it is for the sake of long-term interests."

"There are countless gold and silver mines here in Huangjinzhou, almost everywhere, and these local descendants of wealthy merchants rarely mine gold and silver mines, so most of the gold and silver mines are actually lying on the ground. in the ground."

"If we don't establish strongholds, build towns, and organize immigration, then soon, the gold and silver in the hands of these descendants of wealthy merchants will be exchanged by us. When the time comes, we will work hard to go to the Golden Continent, and it is very likely that we will lose money. You don’t make much money at all.”

"Only by establishing a stronghold, occupying here for a long time, and organizing a large number of immigrants, on the one hand, we can mine gold and silver mines here, and on the other hand, we can also consolidate our gold route."

Liu Jin finished his plan in one breath.

Liu Jin is not satisfied with plundering gold and silver. The influx of gold and silver into Daming is not necessarily a good thing. After all, these things are not edible or drinkable. Too much gold and silver pouring in will only depreciate the value of gold and silver. In the end, it hurt the people of Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Liu Jin's analysis and explanation, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, Xu Guangzuo and others couldn't help nodding their heads one after another. What Liu Jin said was reasonable, and he also had a long-term perspective.

The initial investment is huge, and there are many things to do, but in the long run, it will inevitably bring a steady stream of huge benefits.

　Is this a triangular trade?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)