The Count of Monte Cristo, who was on the rise, was surprised by a deflated thought, which was his most proud idea, and he wanted to save 1.8 million taels of silver for the kingdom of heaven.

He was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked Wei Lu what to see if he had said something wrong.

Mai Ke told him that he was not wrong, but that the military projects of the Kingdom of Heaven would never be interfered with by outsiders, let alone contracted to different merchants.

The tunnel across the ocean is undoubtedly a military project.

Mai Ke then said another reason, as far as technology is concerned, at present, except for the Heavenly Kingdom itself, which can build an undersea tunnel, there is no one who can do it.

"I don't need to explain it to you in detail, but when I finish it, you can see for yourself. Mai Ke saw that the Count was going to continue to ask, so he stopped him.

The Count of Monte Cristo made two more proposals, both of which were approved.

A few people decided on a permanent address for the Pacific Ocean, which was placed in Sydney, and then Mai Ke built a skyscraper, 80 floors, which was also a complex.

Then Mai Ke proposed: "There is still some time, how about we go and see which of our friends who have been exiled?"

"Okay, there is one of the largest transit stations nearby, and there happened to be a few boatloads of prisoners some time ago, and the Heavenly Expeditionary Force should have received it. ”

"Okay, let's go there and have a look, if it's not far, just walk and just take a look at the city of Sydney. ”

So, a few people walked towards the penal center, and as they went, the Count of Monte Cristo told everyone about the origin of the city.

It turned out that the name of the city of Sydney was a person's name, and it was the first British ship to come here. The captain's name was Cook, and he introduced Australia to Britain during the time of American independence.

One of the biggest problems, in addition to the problems that American independence brought to Britain, was that the criminals were not exiled, and before the United States became independent, all the criminals were exiled to the United States, because it was the largest colony of Britain.

The temporary solution was to gather some old boats on the Thames that were no longer fit for navigation and to enclose the prisoners there; The old ship industry was overcrowded. The peak reached 40,000 people.

Not to mention the deterioration of the conditions of incarceration, the danger of the concentration of criminals became unbearable, and the placement of a powder keg next to the largest city, ready to explode at any moment, was unacceptable to the British from top to bottom.

Because they have long used exile to deal with prisoners. This is a typical practice of directing the water to someone else's home. It was a privilege of being a suzerainty at that time. It is also a privilege of their own inhabitants, and it is certainly much better to be exiled than to be beheaded. And as soon as he arrived in the colony, he became a master and enslaved the local natives.

But what about the people in the colonies? They don't care, one of the reasons for America's Revolutionary War is the refusal to dump criminals on the United States anymore.

In order to solve the problem of British prisoners and find a new place of exile, one of the crew members of Cook's ship named Sydney proposed to make the place where they were anchored as a new place of exile, and the British government also adopted his suggestion, so the place was named after him, which is where Sydney came from.

From the end of the eighteenth century, until the present day, prisoners have come every year, almost no free people, and only recently have very few free peasants come, because these prisoners are not very willing to work.

Speaking of transporting prisoners, the Count of Monte Cristo also sighed. He said that the early prisoners, although the British royal family also cared about the safety of these prisoners, but the distance was too long, and the responsibility for transportation was left to the shipowner, so the mortality rate was very high.

"The bureaucrats of the time were so stupid that they paid the ship according to the total weight of the number of people on board, and so much all the way to the destination, including the beginning of the road. The Count of Monte Cristo gritted his teeth in anger and said, "As a result, these black-hearted shipowners, in order to make more money, cut down on their food and water, and did not give them medical treatment, and even killed them, and threw them into the sea!

"It was not until I became Governor that I proposed to improve the method of payment, from payment on board to payment on disembarkation, payment for the number and weight of the ship, so that the owners of the ships took the initiative to supply sufficient food and water, and hired doctors to take care of their health, so that the death rate of the exiled balls dropped dramatically, and in recent years it has remained at about one percent, with a regular zero death. ”

"Well done! It's a smart change. Mai Ke praised, and couldn't help but feel that he really chose the right person to let this guy manage foreign trade.

"Are these prisoners relatively peaceful?" Wei Changhui asked.

"It's getting harder and harder to manage now. Do you know that the basic idea of exile is to put them here, and they can be tossed as much as they want, and no matter how they toss, it will not affect the British mainland, because they basically do whatever they want, and there are no constraints.

However, as the number of people here became more and more civilized, and there was almost no difference from the mother country, especially the Christians who came here, who loved the Lord more and thirsted for God's love, so that the basic order became necessary and gradually established, and thus those who imagined that there was still lawlessness here felt dissatisfied, even unacceptable.

Therefore, they started from passive sabotage, to disobeying orders, until they pulled out of the city, and established their own colonies, and became independent from other liberal people's points.

"If you have time, try to get in touch with these independent colonies and see if they return to Heaven, hehe!" said the Count of Monte Cristo, smiling like an old fox.

"Well, that's a must-go!" Mai Ke affirmed.

As they approached the colonial center, they suddenly heard a commotion coming from the direction of the center, could it be that something had happened?

Suddenly, two men on horseback came in front of them, one was a British soldier and the other was a soldier of the Heavenly Expeditionary Force.

"Let's go! Let's take a look!" Mai Ke and Wei Changhui rose into the air and rushed first, and the two messengers also handed over the war horses to the earl and Tan Guo, and then rushed away.

It turned out that the four ships that had recently arrived to carry prisoners, totaling more than 2,000 people, although they were engaged in different professions and were basically Christians, had a common political demand, that is, to establish a covenant in which individuals or families were members, and that the members were equal in relations with each other, and that the principle of life was to love and help each other.

They had a very authoritative leader, named Peterson, who gathered all the members of this covenant around him.

As a result of the informants, everyone from the leaders to the members was caught and immediately sent here.

Guided by the situation, Peterson had already planned for the long journey to realize his political ideals in the colony!

So, taking advantage of the handover between the British army and the Heavenly Expeditionary Force, their long-planned uprising was suddenly launched! .

(To be continued......)