Huo Qingtong and Li Nanxing stood at the bow of the boat, the two of them didn't know what Lu Dao was talking about, Huo Qingtong's face was flushed with a thin flush, and there was a faint sweetness between his eyebrows. The company of Jiangnan, life and death on the battlefield, although the relationship between the two people is not clear, but anyone with a discerning eye can see the ambiguity between the two.

"I don't mind bothering you!" Yao Huang walked up to the two of them and said in a narrow voice.

Huo Qingtong's face turned even redder, and he glared at Yao Huang with disgust. Li Nanxing smiled good-naturedly: "We are discussing how to build after arriving in the New World, so we can't talk about disturbing." ”

"On the issue of construction, I have made a plan and will show it to you in a moment." Yao Huang said, "Now I have a more important issue to discuss with you. ”

"What's the problem?" Huo Qingtong asked.

"I want to buy two more big ships and some more weapons." Yao Huang said, "Now that we have more and more people, the ship we bought in Guangzhou is almost unloadable, and it is imperative to buy a ship." ”

Huo Qingtong nodded: "You don't need to buy weapons, it's too expensive!" ”

All the expenses along the way were made with Yao Huang, Huo Qingtong felt very embarrassed, thinking that he could save it, and not spend money on meaningless things.

"Weapons are not useless things, those foreign guns and foreign bubbles are huge, even if we are strong in martial arts, we can't easily dodge it." From the invention of gunpowder, the application on the battlefield in the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, to the research and vigorous promotion of gunpowder by Westerners after it spread abroad, European countries relied on foreign guns to claim hegemony within the world and occupied many base areas. Even Tianzhu, which has the same ancient history as China, has become a British colony.

"Australian land is fertile. Abundant resources. There must be a big fat piece in the eyes of European countries. Fortunately, they have not yet discovered this land, and when we occupy this land, in addition to construction and development, it is important to strengthen the armed forces, so that no one else will come to rob our homeland. ”

Huo Qingtong frowned: "Do you want to guard against people from other countries coming to rob you?" What is the difference between this and guarding against the Qing court when returning to Xinjiang? ”

"It's different! Huijiang was nominally subordinate to the Qing court, while Australia belonged entirely to us. We can build nations on top! Yao Huang's words lifted Huo Qingtong's spirits, a country that completely belongs to them, and there is no oppression. A country of freedom and abundance sounds like it makes them yearn for it.

"Now the most advanced weapons are in the West, and now we are at sea, where to buy weapons?" Li Nanxing asked.

Yao Huang took out the navigation chart he had drawn by hand according to the map of the world, pointed to Sumatra next to the six corners of the horse and said: "This is Sumatra, also known as Sumudu, which is a very wealthy island country with a relatively long history. In the second year of Xianheng in the Tang Dynasty, the high monk Yijing once visited the land where the ruling dynasty at that time Sri Buddha died and stayed for six months. The first year of Jianlong in the Northern Song Dynasty. Sumatra sent emissaries to pay tribute. In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the king of Sumatra dedicated a gold leaf tablet. Tribute horses and objects. When the eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the West, they repeatedly passed through the coast of Sumatra. It is a pity that the Qing court closed off the country, which led to the invasion of all these subject countries by the Western powers and became colonies of the Western powers......"

"It's a pity......" Huo Qingtong and Li Nanxing sighed after hearing this.

"Today, Sumatra is a colony of Portugal, which is relatively strong among the Western powers, and their weapons are more advanced. I want to buy some from them first, and when I get to Australia, I will personally go to Europe to buy the most advanced weapons. Yao Huang said, "It's best if we can make our own weapons, and then select a group of people to go to Europe to study with me." ”

"Yao Huang, I don't know what kind of words to say to thank you, no words can represent my heart. I just want to say that I am the greatest luck to know you, thank you! ”

Yao Huang smiled: "Qingtong, we are good friends. ”

"Yes, we are good friends, good friends for life!" Huo Qingtong held Yao Huang's hand and swore an oath.

It is not easy to build a home, especially in the early stage, how to plan the land and how to settle his subordinates are all big problems, especially to have a good relationship with the local aborigines, everything is on the body of Huo Qingtong and the three of them, and Yao Huang's trip to Europe has to be shelved.

Repair houses and open up wasteland...... Everybody is busy, everybody is busy. Australia's climate is good, and there are two crops a year, three crops a year, and this alone makes the displaced people who come with them excited, and as soon as the houses are built, they are excited to devote themselves to the work of clearing the land. A large amount of fertile land was reclaimed, and when he got on the boat, Yao Huang bought a large amount of seeds, all of which were scattered into the fields by the displaced people. Australia has a vast territory, abundant products, and a huge grassland area, which is very suitable for the development of animal husbandry, which makes the Hui people very happy, and even the houses are not built, and after setting up tents, they rush to the grasslands to graze and run.

Huo Qingtong looked at everyone's performance with a smile, and her heart was also excited, she didn't expect that the environment in Australia was so good, this was her dream home. The construction work is in full swing, and the entire station is in full swing. Li Nanxing was in charge of the garrison, and he organized the Huijiang soldiers who followed Huo Qingtong, and took them to train their skills and learn muskets and artillery—while on the ship, Yao Huang taught Li Nanxing how to operate muskets and artillery. After Huo Qingtong and the others learned the musket, they picked out the most loyal two hundred people from the middle, and asked them to take the map drawn by Yao Huang to find the gold mine.

Yao Huang drew a map of the city, and the base was chosen at the original site in Sydney. Building a city is a long-term and arduous thing, at this stage, everyone's mind is all on grain planting and animal husbandry, the enthusiasm for building a city is not very high, Huo Qingtong formulated a half-day participation in the construction of the city, half-day planting and grazing of the compulsory regulations - Huo Qingtong and Li Nanxing know the importance of building a city, only a strong city wall can block the invaders' artillery. They will surely establish a new homeland when the Western powers discover the land, so that the Western powers will not be able to take it from them.

Yao Huang selected some craftsmen who could burn kilns from among the people - not only Huijiang and displaced people arrived in Australia, but also Han Chinese who had been in the Nanyang area along the way. They were immigrants during the Ming Dynasty, and they were unwilling to accept the rule of the Qing government, so they fled overseas. Overseas, they are unfamiliar with the land and their lives are very difficult. Seeing Yao Huang and a large group of people, and hearing that they were going to a new world without oppression, these people came to take refuge one after another, making the entire team of 80,000 people, many of whom were highly capable - opened a brick factory and burned bricks to supply the city construction. Yao Huang remembered the cement formula, and after leading people to try it a few times, he made cement, which greatly improved the speed and hardness of urban construction.

After more than a month, all the seeds sown have sprouted, and at a glance, all of them are green and vibrant. By this time, the farmers were idle and had more time to participate in the construction of the city. Yao Huang devoted all her energy to education after building a brick factory and a cement factory, and Yao Huang asked them to teach children to read and write, while she wrote down textbooks such as the ninety-nine multiplication table and elementary mathematics, junior high school mathematics, and elementary physics and chemistry and taught them to the children. She focuses her teaching on teenagers who she decided to bring to Europe to study, and now lays a good foundation for them to learn more quickly when they go to Europe.

The days passed, the city changed day by day, and it took two years for a solid and magnificent city to appear on the land of the New World. Industrial area, commercial area, administrative area, living area...... The urban planning is very modern, with sewers built under the city so that the road surface does not accumulate water. Inside the spacious cement, ten horse-drawn carriages can run side by side; The sidewalks on both sides of the carriageway are regulated, and on the side of the sidewalk are bright shops. The shops sold a wide variety of items, such as soaps, soaps, thermos and toothbrushes, which were made easier for the common people and improved the status of women, who were all women workers, as were the textile factories. It will be several years before the Jenny spinning machine will be available, but the wisdom of the Chinese is no less than that of the British, and after Yao Huang told the principle of the spinning machine to a few old carpenters, these old carpenters and their apprentices made a textile machine with an efficiency no less than that of Jenny's spinning machine, which greatly increased the speed of weaving.

The local natives were slowly assimilated by the immigrants, and some chieftains had already come to Li Nanxing and said that they were willing to join them and become the lords of Li Nanxing and Huo Qingtong. Everything is developing in the direction of Haolu, and Yao Huang decides to set off for Europe.

The first stop of Yao Huang's European tour was naturally the United Kingdom, which was the time when the first industrial revolution was about to break out. The vigorous development of the handicraft industry in the workshop has trained a large number of skilled workers with rich practical experience, creating conditions for the invention and application of machines; The development of the natural sciences and their achievements, especially Newton's mechanics and mathematics, laid the scientific theoretical foundation for the creation of machines. In 1733, the mechanic Kaye invented the shuttle, which greatly increased the speed of weaving, and cotton yarn was suddenly in short supply, and the Jenny spinning machine was about to be introduced. Yao Huang is a bit of a pity, she is decades late and can't see Isaac? Newton was a great man of science. However, Newton's manuscript was bought by Yao Huang at a large price.

The second stop, of course, is France, one of the hegemons of the European land, just across the sea from Britain. (To be continued......)