Tianjin, with the smooth return of the fleet to the Golden Continent, the whole Tianjin has become more lively.

Almost every day, wealthy merchants, big landowners, big merchants, nobles, gentry, etc., from all over the world, came to Tianjin with cartloads of silver, ready to invest in caravans to the Golden Continent.

There are also young people from all over the world who have the dream of getting rich overnight, and under the huge temptation of earning thousands of taels of silver a year, the whole Tianjin is full of infinite vitality.

In the living room of Liu Jin's mansion in Tianjin, Liu Jin was discussing with Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo about forming a new fleet to go to the Golden Continent, and Zhu Houzhao was also on the side, crossing Erlang's legs, and making a lot of money was naturally indispensable to him.

"How big does the investment need to be?"

Zhang Mao frowned, they came to Liu Jin, naturally for the big thing of making a fortune, the fleet to the Golden Continent brought back 30 million taels of gold and silver at once, he Zhang Mao's eyes were red, really red, otherwise he would not have rushed to Tianjin in the starry night.

Liu Jin and them are naturally old friends, and they have been working together very happily, so naturally this fortune thing still has to come together.

However, Liu Jin is obviously not the kind of person who is satisfied with just plundering precious metals from the Golden Continent, and what Liu Jin values most is the fertile soil of the Golden Continent.

If you want to occupy this fertile and vast land, you must have long-term planning and planning.

Open up fixed routes, form fleets to travel regularly, and at the same time open up fixed strongholds along the route, set up colonial strongholds on this side of the Golden Continent, and even build colonial towns, and then gradually understand the entire Golden Continent, and then slowly encroach and expand their colonies, and then finally annex the entire Golden Continent.

This is Liu Jin's plan, and it is also Liu Jin's means of referring to the European colonizers in history.

Establishing colonies, relying on colonies to plunder wealth, and then slowly colonizing them is a very effective method.

However, if you want to realize Liu Jin's plan, the investment required is very huge, and it is also quite time-consuming, requires a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and more importantly, Daming needs to be a strong backer behind it.

Therefore, it is necessary to pull Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, Xu Guangzuo and Zhu Houzhao, and only by firmly tying them to this chariot and having strong support can we complete this Hongda plan.

"I don't think it's big at all, there's gold everywhere in the Golden Continent."

Hearing Zhang Mao's words, Liu Jin smiled and said.

Then he came to a map of the world, on which he drew the route of the fleet, and at the same time drew seven or eight points on it.

"Look, everyone, this is the route of the fleet to and back to the Golden Continent."

"When they went, they first arrived at Muma Island (later Jeju Island, which was used for the exile of prisoners and horse breeding during this period), then to the Seto region of the Wa Kingdom, and then to the north along the Wa Kingdom."

"In this location, a place they named Fish Creek, there is a large gold mine, and the whole river is covered with golden sand."

When he said this, Liu Jin paused slightly, and circled the location of Yuxi, which was located on the Kamchatka Peninsula of the polar bears of later generations.

"Fish Creek?"

"Gold mines?"

As soon as Zhang Mao and the others heard this, they immediately became interested, there is nothing more attractive than gold, even Zhu Houzhao, who has always been listless, suddenly came to his senses.

"Yes, when the fleet arrived here, there were countless fish swimming up the river here, so it was named Fish Creek, and gold was found here in Fish Creek."

"However, the dimension of Yuxi here is too high, close to the Arctic Circle, the temperature is very low, it is difficult for us to pass through it now, and the sea surface in this area should be frozen at this time."

"But we can prepare now, and when the weather warms up tomorrow, we can organize people to go to Yuxi and set up a stronghold, which can mine the gold of Yuxi on the one hand, and use it as a base for shipping routes on the other."

"There are not only gold mines here in Yuxi, but also snow foxes and ferrets that are as white as snow, as well as a large number of deer, etc., just for hunting these animals, these skins can be sold for sky-high prices."

"The fleet thinks that some of the crew members have brought back some furs, and it is not a problem for us to sell them for a few hundred taels of silver casually in our Daming."

Liu Jin smiled and introduced everyone to the rich Fish Creek, Du Mingen and they came back, Liu Jin held a shrouded banquet to entertain, and at the same time, the diaries written by the crew for more than a year were also collected by Liu Jin, so that people could analyze and study in detail, and then know all the things that happened in the fleet in more than a year.

"After the fleet left Yuxi, they continued to move in the northeast direction, here, this place is called the mouth of the thousand rivers, they met the local aborigines here in the Golden Continent, these local aborigines are not much different from our Ming people in appearance, it is very likely that they are the descendants of Yin Shang back then, so they can be called the descendants of Yin Shang."

"Here at the mouth of the Qianhe, the crew found a large vault, in a large lake, full of golden sand, the entire lake is glowing with gold, according to estimates, at least a few million taels of gold can be mined."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangrong couldn't help but widen their eyes and take a deep breath, all of this sounded like listening to a book from heaven, but they knew that it must be true.

"A few million taels of gold!"

Zhu Houzhao's little eyes were shining.

"The fleet traveled all the way south along the west coast of the Golden Continent, and here, here, and here, a large number of gold and silver mines were found, especially in this place, that is, the most central and narrowest area of the Golden Continent, where there is a huge kingdom of descendants of Yin Shang."

"The country founded by the descendants of the Yin Shang is called the Inca Empire, and to what extent did the Inca Empire have so much gold and silver, and they used gold and silver to build houses in the cities, and they used it to build houses like bricks."

"Du Mingen, they are here, and they exchanged silk, porcelain, and glass mirrors for gold and silver worth 30 million taels of silver, and filled ten ships to the full."

When he said this, Liu Jin also paused slightly, and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

Regarding these, Liu Jin has also asked the reporter of the Ming Morning Post to interview Du Mingen and others, and is ready to publish all this in detail in the Ming Morning Post, so that the entire Daming people can understand that the distant Golden Continent is full of gold and is an incomparably rich land.

As long as you are brave enough to set off by boat and be able to reach the Golden Continent, then congratulations, you have become rich overnight.

There is a constant trend of more people going to the Golden Continent, whether they are for gold or silver, or something else, and so on.

What Liu Jin needs is more people to participate, so that more people can enjoy this frenzy of wealth, so as to stimulate more people to immigrate to the Golden Continent and then occupy the Golden Continent.

"Build a house with gold bricks and silver bricks!"

Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu and others couldn't help but marvel, how much gold and silver reserves are there, so that they can be used to build houses, this is no longer a question of wealth, but a matter of reserves.

"The route back of the fleet was much simpler, they crossed the Pacific Ocean and returned along this route, and the most important point in the middle of the route was here, here in the Hawaiian Islands."

"The Hawaiian Islands are the only place on the entire return route where freshwater can be recharged, and it is also the most important transit point."

Liu Jin said in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where an archipelago is located.

"If we're just thinking about going to the Golden Continent with a few ships to plunder gold and silver, we don't need to invest much."

"It is enough to organize ten ships to go to the Golden Continent at one time, and investing three million taels of silver will be enough."

"But through the entire route, we can clearly know the most important points on the entire route, and these points are the core of the entire wealth route."

"If we can grasp the core of these routes, then we are equivalent to controlling this huge wealth route, and naturally there will be a steady stream of wealth rolling in."

"It's true that the investment is a bit bigger now, but it's for the sake of the long term."

"There are countless gold and silver mines here in the Golden Continent, almost everywhere, and these descendants of the local Yin merchants, they rarely mine gold and silver mines, so most of the gold and silver mines are actually still lying in the ground."

"If we don't establish strongholds, establish towns, and organize immigrants, then soon, the gold and silver in the hands of these descendants of Yin Shang will be exchanged by us, and when the time comes, it is very likely that we will lose money by going to the Golden Continent hard, and we will not make much money at all."

"Only by establishing a stronghold, occupying this place for a long time, and organizing a large number of immigrants, on the one hand, we can mine gold and silver here, and on the other hand, we can consolidate our gold routes."

Liu Jin finished his plan in one breath.

Liu Jin was not satisfied with plundering gold and silver, a large amount of gold and silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty is not necessarily a good thing, this thing, in the final analysis, can not be eaten or drunk, too much gold and silver influx, will only depreciate the value of gold and silver, and ultimately hurt the people of the Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Liu Jin's analysis and explanation, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, Xu Guangzuo and others couldn't help but nod their heads, what Liu Jin said was reasonable, and he also saw the long term.

The upfront investment is very large, and there are many things that need to be done, but in the long run, it will inevitably bring a steady stream of huge benefits.