Jiang Fangzhen and Wang Xuefu They came quickly, and after a while, the two fleets had gathered together, and deafening cheers sounded on the ship, according to Jiang Fangzhen, it was Wang Xuefu who commanded the battle this time, and what he brought out was the new Ding of the 600 maritime escorts he recruited in Nanyang.

After Wang Xuefu arrived in Nanyang, Chen Xuan did not lose his trust, and invested in Wang Xuefu to buy two 2,300-ton steam ironclad cargo ships, and then bought more than 30 guns through Andre's relationship, and transformed the cargo ship into an armed merchant ship in the repair dock of the Nanyang Group.

Wang Xuefu took 30 members of the escort team from Chuansha, and recruited hundreds of overseas Chinese children in Nanyang to form an escort team, and when there were important ships traveling, they carried out escort tasks, and the rest of the time they trained the trainees according to military standards, and later Phoenix City developed, and added three 800-ton gunboats, although small, but this is a real warship, and Chen Xuan spent a lot of effort to buy it.

In this pursuit, the escort captured a pirate ship, and the other pirate ship ran away smartly, but after this battle, it was not so easy for these pirates to recover, and Zhenhua was not just coming to Nanyang now, and if Zhenhua's ship was moved, he had to accept Zhenhua's punishment.

According to the previous precedent, all the prisoners were handed over to the escort team, and they were counted after they were captured, but it can be predicted that those who participated in this operation should have a lot of rewards, and the specific number can only be rewarded when they go back to the meritorious service.

Chen Xuan's ship can no longer be ridden, can only be towed back to the dock to repair, so Chen Xuan and others got on Wang Xuefu's command ship (that is, an armed merchant ship), after listening to Wang Xuefu's story, Chen Xuan knew how lucky he and others were, now there are many pirates of all sizes in the South Seas, there are bankrupt merchants, there are retired officers, and there are more or less large or small forces behind them.

After the establishment of Phoenix, this waterway has become a golden waterway, from time to time there will be pirates here to hunt wild food, like Chen Xuan and they dare to rush to the South Seas such a passenger ship, it is really a lifeless act, it is really blessed by God to come here smoothly.

"Arrived, saw land."

The ship suddenly became noisy, and people who had been adrift at sea for six or seven days felt so kind when they saw the land.

Chen Xuan looked up, and sure enough, he saw a long gray-black line from a distance, grabbed the binoculars and looked at it, his vision was much clearer, and there was lush green everywhere, as if he saw a crowd gathering point.

As the ship continued to move forward, the line of sight became clearer and clearer, and Chen Xuan clearly saw a few sculptures on a hill - Phoenix City! At the foot of the mountain is a neat and orderly Chinese-style house, there are many places on the huge wharf that have not yet been repaired, many workers are still busy on the construction site, and the built place is full of people.

"Senior brother, I want to kill you."

As soon as he got off the boat, a group of people greeted him, Ye Zhongyu, who was walking in front, first gave Chen Xuan a warm bear hug, Chen Xuan was also very excited, in his memory, his angry young brother seemed to be disheartened after the failure of the uprising, and finally committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and it seems to be this period of time, but it seems that this senior brother of his is in good spirits, but there is no appearance that he can't think about it.

After greeting Yu Youren, Chen Jiageng and Bai Xunjian (Li Luqing transferred to the Northeast, Bai Xunjian took over Li Luqing's work in Nanyang), Ye Zhongyu introduced the overseas Chinese bigwigs to Chen Xuan, and Chen Xuan also stepped forward one by one to salute, Chen Xuan was wearing an orthodox Chinese scribe shirt, and naturally greeted everyone with Chinese etiquette.

"Senior brother, this is Huang Zhonghan, Zhong Weng, we arrived in Nanyang, Zhong Weng gave us a lot of support, without Zhong Weng's help, we would not have been able to develop smoothly."

Huang Zhonghan's first impression of Chen Xuan was down-to-earth and sincere, giving people a sense of trust.

"Junior, Chen Xuan, I have given Zhong Weng a gift, Zhenhua can now gain a foothold in Nanyang, and it is inseparable from the strong support of all the predecessors, Chen Xuan has thanked him here!"

"Oops! Boss Chen said seriously, we are all of Chinese Miao descent, and now we are overseas, and we should help each other, how can we withstand Boss Chen's thanks! ”

Everyone returned the salute one by one, refusing to accept Chen Xuan's salute.

Looking at these people, Chen Xuan sighed in his heart, many of these people are people who can't live in China, and they go overseas in order to have enough to eat, but they have not forgotten their roots, and they are not indifferent to the domestic situation because they have made money.

Strictly speaking, the state did not give these poor overseas Chinese anything, they completely relied on their own hard work and ingenuity to gain a firm foothold overseas, the country actually owes them, and later generations of people who have immigrated overseas on the Internet are all kinds of insults and slanders, and Chen Xuan doesn't know what those people think.

Chen Xuan's welcome banquet is grand but not extravagant, this is Zhenhua's style has always been, extravagance and waste are not allowed, this banquet is paid for by Chen Xuan's brothers and friends, can not be entered into Zhenhua's public account, because Chen Xuan and others came to work hard, so the banquet did not end hastily, Chen Xuan also made an appointment with the people present, and then feasted them three days later, everyone also knew that Chen Xuan must first understand Zhenhua's situation in Nanyang, so they left one by one.

Chen Xuan naturally couldn't go back to rest, Sun Zhiheng arranged for a maid to lead Xu Ruohan to Chen Xuan's station, and took Chen Xuan to the city lord's mansion in the north of Phoenix, which is where the staff of Phoenix City work, the construction area of the city lord's mansion is very large, and it is impossible to complete it now, but the huge Chinese-style office building has been completed and put into use.

The conference room was already full of people, including the management backbone of Phoenix City, and the senior management of Zhenhua Nanyang Group, Chen Xuan had a general understanding of the current situation in Phoenix City on the ship, so everyone reported one by one Chen Xuan also had some bottom in his heart, so he would not be confused.

"Senior brother, I thought that Nanyang was a place where barren mountains and mountains are rampant, and miasma is rampant, but I didn't expect to come here, only to find that the apprentices here are fertile, rich in resources, and the traffic is also a good place.

After everyone reported one by one, Ye Zhongyu couldn't wait to say.

"Senior brother, Nanyang was really not a good place before, if it weren't for the generations of Chinese who fled to here, and paid great hardships and even the cost of their lives to accumulate the experience of Chinese people living here, otherwise dysentery alone can make it difficult for us to move an inch, and the Dutch are not stupid, their military strength is not as good as before, and the Netherlands is a small country, there can be a few people, and the population of our Chinese province far exceeds them, how can we have the strength to come to such a thousand miles away to develop?"

"You only need to look at the Americas to prove that if you are backward, you will be beaten, and the masters of South America were originally Indians, but where are the Indians now? All have been slaughtered by the Europeans, and the remaining small part is only surviving in the remote mountainous areas, and now we Chinese have established a foothold here and even established a city, which is the result of the hard work of all of you here and countless overseas Chinese predecessors, who knows your hardships and sufferings, who is willing to abandon their family and business to this kind of wild land to expand the living space for our Chinese nation, I am here to sincerely thank you, thank you for the hard work of our Chinese survival! ”

Chen Xuan stood up and respectfully gave a big salute to the people present, Chen Jiageng and other people who arrived in Nanyang early also had red eyes, yes, who can understand them, and even the Manchu Qing Dynasty regarded them as traitors, people who abandoned the country, and refused to recognize their countrymen's identity, but if they can really live in the country, who is willing to leave the family and go to the wild land of Nanyang to beg for a living, today, someone finally said a fair word for them.

"In the past, many people did not understand our investment in Zhenhua in Nanyang, now I want to talk to you, why I insist on letting Zhenhua come to Nanyang, first look at the domestic situation, now the domestic polarization is extremely serious, government corruption is rampant, the ruler is ignorant and ignorant, 'Zhumen wine and meat stinky road has frozen bones' is not the ancient poet's complaint, this situation is real in the country, a large amount of land and various means of production gathered in the hands of a few people, countless people are displaced, 'go to the west', 'go to the east' 'Go to Nanyang as a piglet' has become the only way out for the common people to survive, a few simple words are full of how many blood and tears, how many people starved to death on the way to survive! ”

"But these things are not something that we can change with the power of Zhenhua and the Baath Party, so what should we do?"

Chen Xuan was a little excited.

"Are we just watching our compatriots live like animals in waves, watching our compatriots starve to death and freeze to death, are we numb and have no compassion at all?"

"No, comrades, we can't be so cold-blooded, we can't change at home, what to do? We can only save the country, we have a foothold in Nanyang, the land of Nanyang is vast and sparsely populated, we will reclaim a large amount of land, not only can accept the compatriots who fled from the famine, but also can transport the grain we grow back to the country, in this way, by our impact, those gentry can not hoard food to make the country rich, we can also do our part for our country and our compatriots in the places we can, if one day we are old, we can say to our children and grandchildren, we are worthy of the country, Worthy of our compatriots! ”