Chapter 403 Northbound (six)
After seeing off Pedro and Fernandez, the new Lieutenant Jiwen quickly joined the construction of the Mobile Trading Station and its affiliated areas. This took more than half a month until the arrival of his old partner, the new Navy Lieutenant Echto.
"After discussing with the Free State, President Ding has decided to adopt a monarchy in the country, but the heirs of each monarch must be recognized by most of the eight chiefs. Well, the reign of the Free State Kingdom has also been confirmed. 1658 is the first year of Kant, and this reign was said to have been confirmed by President Ding Yiyu Ding himself. What the Free State Kingdom needs to do now is to move the Wang Ting, who is still delaying and unwilling to leave in the Hezhong area as soon as possible. Now there is only one crown prince who arrived early in the estuary of the Mississippi River, who is in charge of the situation. The number of people and family members are only more than one thousand, which is really unreasonable." Captain Echto said as soon as he entered the door.
Ding Yiyu, who he said, was the first president of Air Canada, a veteran of the Navy, and the first captain of the "Swordfish". Similar to Nantec Corporation, the president of Air Canada, a large Concension company, will also be an active-duty officer of the Navy. Major Ding Yiyu took office under such circumstances. Without any doubt, Air Canada, which represents the will of the East Coast government, is actually the Supreme Emperor of the Free Kingdom, which can be seen from the fact that President Ding can easily determine the country's many internal affairs.
The reason why President Ding gave the Free Kingdom the reign of "Kant" was simply because his own evil tastes were caused. Now, there are eight factions in this Free Kingdom, which are the previous eight banners, with the largest surname Mo and also the royal family; the four surnames such as Liu, Xie, Xiao, and Chang were followed; the surnames such as Jiang, Sun, Lan, Wang, Guo, and Han were followed. Basically, all the nation believe in new Taoism, with Chinese as the only official language, and of course, most of them are middle and upper class; and there are more than 200 people in the country who have received East Coast primary school education, and most of them are from middle and upper class aristocratic families.
In short, after more than 20 years of rectification by the East Coast people, from the early Black Eight Banners to the modern free state, this country with a population of more than 100,000 has undergone a complete transformation in terms of productivity, organizational structure, or mental outlook. The entire country is integrated with military and civilians, and farming and fighting (of course this is their nature. Just like the Zulu people in later generations, it is not entirely the credit of the East Coast people), and has a strong ability to resist danger. Bringing their group to the North American continent will definitely be a good helper for the East Coast people.
"But the manpower behind must be transported at a faster pace, so that our company can also have more helpers. Now the company has only tens of thousands of yuan in funds, but there are not enough manpower to use it. This is a pity. We have used the Black Eight Banners so many years and are more trustworthy. With them here, we can develop many things in advance." Lieutenant Jiwen happily pulled his old partner over and said: "I hope we can transport at least one more year in 1658 in 1658.
Thousands of Black Eight Banners soldiers who had been through war for a long time came, and even the family members were almost five or six thousand. In this way, the construction progress of Xinjing Port in the Free Kingdom (that is, the capital of the Free Kingdom in the later generations, of course, they are just a city-state now) will gradually accelerate. At that time, our company will almost rectify a lot of land outside Xinjing Port, with sufficient manpower and sufficient funds. A large-scale plantation economy can be fully launched."
"By the way, what are the situations in the opening of ports in New Spain? I have been staying at the Mobile Trading Station and lack of this information." Lieutenant Jiwen asked again.
"There are joys and sorrows." Second Ensign Ashto said briefly: "Major Anda Fifteen made a big deal in Cartagena, fighting two groups of smugglers on the spot, which greatly shocked the local Hidalgos. It is now in chaos, but it is not a bad thing for us, because the merchants, nobles and priests who originally had no big favours on us are now very differentiated. Except for the priests still hostile to us, there are many shaky positions among merchants and aristocrats. Haha, it's very interesting. As far as I'm concerned, things should be done, a city like Cartagena with a bunch of villains. You have to open up the situation with a simple and crude style, otherwise everyone will regard you as a weak and bullied little sheep."
"However, our work in Villacros and Port Bello of Panama has been carried out very well. Not only have people been assassinated one after another, but even the commercial stations have been smashed. Major Longxu, who is currently in Havana, plans to gather a group of army soldiers to suppress the situation. But I am not optimistic. These places are the old nests that the Spanish have been running for many years, and various forces are mixed. It is indeed not a matter of overnight support for us to squeeze in." Lieutenant Echto spread his hands and said helplessly.
The five commercial ports taken over by Air Canada seem to be relatively smooth due to close economic exchanges. The Hidalgo in Cartagena was a little dizzy because of the scrambles of Anda 15th Day, and Havana successfully stood up because of a service city (serving two treasure fleets) and the main force of the army went to the front. However, it was difficult for Villacruz in Mexico and Port Bello in Panama to act because of the stubbornness of the enemy. However, this was also in the initial expectations of everyone. No one had ever thought how easy the money in New Spain would be and how smooth everything would be. But the East Coast people also believed that as long as there were enough things, they would sooner or later completely digest and control these markets and make them another big source of milk in the East Coast Republic of China.
"Ah! I almost forgot!" Lieutenant Echtto seemed to remember something suddenly, and he said: "I met some Italian merchants in Port San Juan, including people from the Doria family. When they were chatting with me (Echtto was originally named Esposito, and was born in Italy), they said that they were also interested in investing in the Americas and asked if we had any good investment opportunities to introduce them. Later, they went to find President Ding. They were really a group of profit-seeking guys, terrible!"
Perhaps this time, we really want to disappoint these Italians from Genoa, Milan, Luca and Tuscany. Air Canada has not yet introduced the idea of foreign investors to invest in North America. If these people really want to invest in overseas colonies, then controlling the West China Island in the hands of the East Coast people seems to be a good place, but it is not North America.
To put it bluntly, the East Coast people would rather introduce a large number of Malays from New China Island in North America than make a bunch of white people (perhaps the Spanish are exceptional). They know very well the impulse of European countries to colonize overseas in this era, but in today's increasingly high colonial costs (mainly security and defense costs and pioneering costs), there are only a handful of countries that can easily colonize North America, such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the West. The remaining Italy, Germany, and Baltic countries lack large-scale naval fleets and merchant fleets (Sweden's merchant fleet is even far inferior to Courland), which undoubtedly further pushes the already extremely expensive colonial risk cost to a higher position, which is prohibitive.
It is precisely for this reason that after the East Coast people took over the largest security and defense costs, the Genoese were so enthusiastic about going to the local and overseas colonies of the East Coast to explore, because the risk factor for them has dropped to an acceptable level. Now these "vultures chasing corruption" followed the East Coast people and stared at the North American continent. Haha, how is this possible! If it is the Spaniards who are incompatible with the British race, society, and systems, the Portuguese are just fine. The Italians who integrate into various countries (such as the Genoese who settled in Amsterdam, etc.) will definitely not be able to let them come. Wouldn't that send ammunition to the British? If you really have money and have no place to use it, then you can go to New China Island to open a plantation, and the East Coast people welcome it with both hands.
Moreover, there are indeed some European countries or regions other than Genoa who are negotiating to establish plantations in New China Island. For example, the Milanese had just signed an agreement with the East Coast to invest 5 million imperial lira to open cotton plantations a while ago; the Hamburgers were also allowed to open pepper plantations in the Tachenggang area, with a total contract value of more than 100,000 gold marks, and so on. Such a variety of European maritime countries have prevented these Central European countries from going to the North American continent for colonization, but the East Coast people opened New China Island to them, which was considered to be a guide to this force. At that time, the Central Europeans obtain profits, and the East Coast people obtain the developed land, and both sides take their needs. But if these Central Europeans and Nordics do not know what to do, I'm sorry, the East Coast people do not allow it, you can find a way for yourself!
Chapter completed!