After a month of organizing and gathering, on April 10 in the historic city of Zamboanga, Mindanao, outside the city named after the Three Treasures eunuch Zheng He, all the people on the shore and the ships on the sea in Morro Bay were shocked by the large fleet.

In the era of sailboats, the so-called caravans of the sea were generally three or four ships gathered together to travel, but today there are actually 35 clippers of various types gathered together, and the formation was opened layer after layer in the bay, and the bows of the ships all rushed to the east.

The Roma, the captured frigate of the Ryukyus, was now moving through the fleet like a general reviewing the army, and every time the Roma and the merchant ships passed by, they could be exchanged for bursts of earth-shattering roars.

The 10,000 Taiping army had been assembled, all the food and fresh water supplies had been loaded, and Xiao Letian even sent a telegram to Prussia, reporting all the details of the Taiping army to the winged king Shi Dakai.

The current telegram has not yet been returned, but Xiao Letian knows that if the Wing King knows that there is still a group of veterans working so hard, he will definitely cry with excitement.

In the telegram, Xiao Lotian asked the Wing King to use the money in the foundation to purchase some top-level individual equipment in Prussia, the industrial quality of the Germans is absolutely good, and then secretly transported from Berlin to South America, these 10,000 people must be armed to the teeth in the end.

Either don't do it, if you want to do it, you can be the strongest army in South America!

At the sea parade, Xiao Lotian didn't say a word, he just stood on the deck in a military uniform so that all the veterans could see him.

The two flags behind Xiao Letian are the instructions and instructions he gave to the veterans.

"Although the kingdom of heaven is dead, the dream of peace has not been broken!"

"Guanshan is 40,000 miles, this body is China!"

Everyone chewed these two sentences, swallowed them in their stomachs and turned into their own blood, yes, the kingdom of heaven has died, and there is no possibility of recovering the country, but the dream of establishing a peaceful and prosperous world is still there, and there are future generations who will work hard.

Maybe the kingdom of heaven in South America is not what it looks like when Jinling, but it will definitely be better than before, because the dream of a peaceful and prosperous world in everyone's hearts has not been broken.

Guanshan is 40,000 miles, China has reached the edge of the sky, but don't be afraid that you go abroad, no matter where you stand there you are China, this body is China, what you present to the world, the world will think what China is like, men are self-reliant!

Xiao Lotian waved his hand, the Roman salute rang out, 35 merchant ships were jubilant, the white sails were raised, the sea breeze sent huge kinetic energy, and the fleet rushed towards the distant South America.

Tie Toutuo and Tang Lei took the two largest merchant ships respectively, and the moment they sailed past Xiao Letian's side, the Prime Minister of the East China Sea stood up and saluted to see them off.

"Good job...... As expected, I'm sending you a big gift package this year...... Wait in South America to receive it!" Xiao Lotian roared.

"The prime minister is relieved...... Do not disgrace the mission......" The voice became farther and farther away, and Xiao Letian's saluting hand was never put down.

The safety of this expedition is still very high, because the current Pacific Ocean is not an important strategic target of any major power, the United States is now in the difficult recovery period of the civil war, and its basic national policy is completely isolationism, in the words of the Chinese, that is, lying on the salary to try to accumulate industrial strength.

The British and French are now focused on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and Australia in the Pacific is just a place of exile for mortals, and its important economic value has not yet been highlighted.

Of course, we must not forget about the Russian war bear, but the current polar bear is also in the stage of being suppressed by the British navy, and Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867 for only 7.2 million dollars.

In the middle of the 10th century, the dollar was still a real dollar, completely locked in the price of gold, and the exchange ratio of one tael of silver to the dollar was about 2.5, which means that the transaction was actually only used, 2.88 million taels of silver.

This is really a suitable transaction, the handicap of three million taels of silver, to be honest, those giant merchants in Jiangnan can get together, but it's a pity that people don't sell it to individuals.

But Xiao Letian is an exception, as an important Asian partner with close ties with the United States, it is no problem for him to be prepared to buy some permanent land property rights with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Probably recalling the location of the best forests and mining areas in Alaska, Xiao Letian's envoys signed countless perpetual land property rights transaction agreements with the U.S. government, and we don't want the sovereignty to be the United States, but the permanent use rights of these lands are ours.

Indefinite, definitely an indefinite agreement. To ask why the deal went so smoothly, because in real history, the U.S. purchase of Alaska was almost single-handedly pushed by Secretary of State Seward.

At that time, the United States was in ruins, and money was needed everywhere, and all the mineral deposits in Alaska at that time were not discovered, and because of its location in the cold zone, it was difficult to transport timber, so it could provide almost nothing except for some good seafood and some precious fur trade on land.

At that time, people called Seward a fool, Alaska was Seward's refrigerator, this kind of ridiculous joke spread all over the United States, everyone thought that the United States had suffered a big loss, and now there is Xiao Lotian who wants to share Seward's stupid idea, how can anyone in the country stop it.

So even if Seward was a little worried, he was powerless to stop Xiao Lotian from swallowing up pieces of excellent port land, forests, and mountains.

In the end, no one knows how much land Xiao Lotian ate, but with 1.52 million square kilometers of land, Xiao Letian can still eat two or three hundred thousand square kilometers easily.

The main reason why the Russians lost Alaska, in addition to cashing in on the barren land, was that they were afraid of a British attack from the Pacific, and in the Crimean War of that year, the British almost swept all the Russian ports in the Far East.

Alaska is too far away for the Russians to hold on, and selling to the United States is a helpless option.

Now the Russian navy is cowering in Vladivostok, with a total of six or seven warships, they are enslaving the Chinese laborers who are carefully building permanent fortresses, and their Far Eastern Navy will not be able to survive without more than ten years of effort.

Sometimes Xiao Lotian can also feel God's favor for himself, the timing of his crossing is really good, the decades between the two industrial revolutions, it is really the last chance for backward nations to exert their strength, and they can jump on the last train, and they want to wait for another chance to get on the bus, but they really have to wait until after World War II.

After removing the Western powers, the biggest threat factor of the expeditionary force, all that remains is natural and man-made disasters, which do not need to be considered are veterans who have come over in hard times, and they will definitely cherish the opportunity to be a man, and there will be no internal and external strife.

As for natural disasters, there is no need to worry too much, because the route Xiao Lotian chose for the fleet should be the safest plan for crossing the Pacific Ocean in the era of sailing.

Note: I'm so good at the fourth watch! Today it looks like I'm going to stop at the fourth watch.