On the morning of the same day, Lu Wang and others were arranged to check in at a big hotel in Shanghai. The hotel is six stories high, with a roof garden and a roof villa on the top floor. In order to take care of some people who are difficult to climb stairs, a slope-shaped staircase that can go up to the sixth floor was built at the back of the hotel, equipped with a mule cart to pull people to the sixth floor with a mule.

"This is thoughtful, but what's the use of building such a high building? There are so many open spaces outside the city to build houses, why do you have to build such a high building?" Zhu Changqing sat in a mule cart and chanted to himself.

The coachman replied, "Prince, you can't just look at the front of you, but look at the future. If you don't want to be as good as the future, every inch of land here is worth every inch! You may not imagine how much money you have to sell for acre of land here now."

"How many?" Zhu Changqing asked hurriedly.

"One acre of land is one hundred taels of silver."

"One hundred taels of silver? Oh my God, this is too expensive, right?" Zhu Changqing gasped. One hundred taels of silver per acre of land was indeed a sky-high price. Even if it was the best acre of rice fields, it was less than ten taels of silver, and the land price here was at least ten times more than ten times. But he didn't know that in another two or thirty years, it would be difficult to buy acre of land here even if it was one thousand taels of silver.

The mule cart goes up to the top floor, and it is a two-story rooftop villa. When you walk through the hall in the middle, you can see a rooftop garden. It is called a sky garden, with fish ponds, rockery, flowers and plants, and pavilions on it.

The room is covered with a big red carpet, and the hall is covered with red carpet embroidered with flower and bird patterns. There is no carpet. The exposed floor below is marble floor and wooden floors. Whether in the living room or in the room, the lamps used are whale oil lamps. They ignite whale oil lamps and emit a light fragrance because it is whale oil of sperm whale. The bathroom in the room is very clean and emitting a fragrance. This kind of bathroom is something that Lu Wang has never seen before. He is curious about the decorations in the room.

The hotel is located on the street by Huangpu Tang, sitting in the pavilion of the sky garden, and you can overlook the river.

On the river surface of Huangpu Tang, sails are shadowed, and boats of all sizes are anchored on the pier. This is the intersection of water transportation. After passing Wusongkou and leaving the Yangtze River estuary, you can go east to the other side of the ocean, go to Japan, sail north to Liaodong, or go south to the South Ocean; when passing Wusong River to the west, you can enter the Yangtze River and go straight to Chongqing.

There are not many houses across the river. Outside a row of buildings facing the street, there are chimneys lined up.

Zhang Bingzhen said: "The prince, the other side is an industrial area, which is an industrial area, which is smelting iron, making ships, making cars, making paper, and producing silk. There are special ferries coming and going on the river."

"Finally, let's take a look at the scenery of my Ming Dynasty. We will all leave tomorrow morning." Lu Wang sighed.

Of course, only Lu Wang and those high-ranking officials can enjoy the treatment of Shanghai International Hotel, and other immigrants can only live in those small hotels.

That night, King Lu visited the night market accompanied by everyone. At night, Shanghai was still full of flowers, and gorgeous beacons lit up on the streets. These lights were lit with biogas. After ignition, no one needed to control them. As long as the gas pipe was kept on, it could be ignited all night.

There are various food stalls in the night market, small commodity markets at night, and there are nightclubs that are not inferior to the Qinhuai River. The girls here are all over the country and have taken away the business in Nanjing and Suzhou. A large number of scholars like to come to this city. Although this city is a Western-style city, in the alleys of those nightclubs, there are standard Chinese buildings.

It was late at night, and Lu Wang reluctantly left the nightclub. After having lunch at the food stall outside, he returned to the big hotel where he stayed.

The next morning, the immigrants boarded the boat and prepared to set off.

The first batch of immigrants sent to Oceania had more than 25,000 people. Except for a few women and children, most of them were strong men. In fact, in addition to soldiers, sailors and laborers, as well as their families, there were also some tenants, slaves, farmers, etc. The series of immigrants from Lu Wang had a total of more than 100,000 people. They could not be sent all of them in one trip and needed at least four trips to complete.

Lu Wang was riding the largest ship, with a displacement of 1,000 tons. His cabin was the most luxurious room at the stern, and the decoration equipment inside was similar to the luxury hotel on land.

Standing on the deck and looking at the scenery on both sides, Lu Wang was deeply moved. When the ship sailed out of Wusongkou and turned into the estuary of the Yangtze River, the land behind him gradually disappeared, Lu Wang knelt on the deck and cried bitterly.

The fleet left the Yangtze River estuary and entered the sea, began to turn, sailing south.

The ships of those days were sailing along the coastline as much as possible. Standing on the deck and looking west, you could vaguely see the hazy coastline.

Along the way, there were supplies all the way. After entering the Fujian waters, the fleet arrived at Yuegang, Zhangzhou, obtained some supplies such as food and freshwater from Zheng's army, and continued sailing. Then he went straight south and sailed along the Luzon Island waters.

The dates for departure were carefully selected. There were no typhoons in the northern hemisphere this season, so there was no need to worry about the fleet encountering terrible storms on the sea. In winter, the northern seas were relatively storms, and Lu Wang was seasick and could only lie in bed for several days. However, after passing through the Fujian seas, he entered the Luzon seas and was calm all the way.

Although it is the middle of winter, it is not cold at all. Not only is it not cold, but it is very hot.

Before they knew it, people discovered that the sun shone from the south and turned from the north! After nightfall, the starry sky I saw was different. They didn't know that in fact, this was because they had reached the southern hemisphere.

After more than a month of long-distance voyage, Lu Wang and his group finally arrived at a wide land. Fang Guoan and others picked up the map and looked at it, thinking that they had arrived at their destination.

"I haven't arrived yet, I'm still more than 5,000 miles away to our destination." Wu Liuqidao, deputy navy general who is in charge of commanding the fleet.

In fact, this land is not the Oceania that Lu Wang and the others are going to. It is the island of New Guinea in later generations. However, this island is a large island with an area of ​​nearly 800,000 square kilometers. It is the second largest island in the world. It is already very large, almost as big as one-third of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

"Although we haven't reached our destination yet, we also need to build a transit supply base here." Wu Liuqi said.
Chapter completed!