Dai Huang and the two sent away the Liang family like this, turned their heads back, Dai Xiaoshan immediately couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, saying that men in this era are really very happy, if Nima is placed in the old world, it will be a lawsuit! Now, I still want to make people apologetic for marrying their daughters, this world is ......

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After meeting the Liang family as a family, Huang Lei did not spend the night in Xiyuan, and he returned to Xiaowanshan Island alone on the Assassin before the sun set.

No way, there are a lot of things he needs to take charge of, especially the busy pharmaceutical factory.

As originally planned, compared to the small stone house in Macau's Xi Yuan, the pharmaceutical factory on Xiaowanshan Island is an upgraded version of the large-scale pharmaceutical workshop, which can not only produce penicillin and streptomycin in large quantities---- as long as it can get the basic chemical raw materials regularly transported by the Pride, other sulfonamide anti-inflammatory fungicides can also be produced.

In addition, the production of Yunnan Baiyao is also actively preparing.

Initially, key raw materials were also shipped through the Pride, but in the near future, all the botanical raw materials for the production of Yunnan Baiyao will be available locally.

In addition, according to the division of labor given to this brother by the Red Mansion, Xiao Ai will focus on military and navigation training, and the management of the daily affairs of the island will fall to Dr. Huang.

According to the telegram sent by the Red Mansion and the Pride, the plenary meeting is discussing a major event: the Red Mansion intends to officially list the Wanshan Islands as an "Australian Overseas Territory", just like Xin'an City.

Therefore, there is a need for an official governor here, and the first governor is likely to be Huang Lei, Huang Dafu.

It is obviously a major proposal to keep the island and the surrounding islands as official overseas territories for a long time, and to actively invest in and build them, rather than just as a temporary population transfer station.

The person who put forward this proposal was Zhu Beiguo.

This time, after he returned to the Red Pier on the Pride, he immediately raised it in writing to the plenary meeting, and his attitude was quite solemn.

Dr. Zhu also gave a good reason: whether it is from the perspective of necessity and feasibility, or from the perspective of current economic interests and long-term strategic significance, we must have a permanent foothold near the mainland.

The Wanshan Islands and the surrounding islands are located outside the mouth of the Pearl River, and the islands are surrounded by the core waters of the busiest sea communication line in the East, which is a real maritime traffic crossroads.

From here, it travels north to two vast lands, south to Luzon Borneo, east to Taewon, Samhan, Ryukyu and Dongying, and west to Ann, Siam, Mantzka, and the Strait of Malacca.

Moreover, it guards the coastal waters of Macau and Guangzhou, two of the most prosperous and important overseas trade ports in the South Seas, and is a battleground for soldiers on the sea from any point of view.

The location is so important, and today, it's still a borderland!

Of course, when it comes to the word "ownerless", it is also relative to the inland.

Now, although the local government of the Great Qing Dynasty does not manage these islands, the nature is still different, after all, so far, the Qing court still regards this sea area as its sphere of influence, so there is still jurisdiction, at least what the current Qing court thinks.

It's just that today's magistrates think that these islands are deserted, and it is not worth spending money and grain to set up yamen on the islands to collect taxes and compile households, and now the rulers of the Qing Dynasty do not have the concept of sea power like the Europeans, so they have no idea of managing and controlling these wild places where birds do not.

However, things may change---- once there is a certain number of people and industries here, then according to the speed of the government's response, in a few years these islands may face the jurisdiction of the Qing court, such as regular or irregular landing on the island to collect taxes, and from time to time there are sailors visiting the shore and so on.

However, let's not forget history, one of the most pivotal historical events was the "Relocation Order" promulgated and implemented by the Qing court.

From then on, all administrative jurisdiction and military defenses of the Qing Dynasty would be retreated to the interior of the mainland, and at that time, there would be no armed forces of the Qing Dynasty, including sailors, within thirty to fifty miles of the land and coastal areas, and the islands beyond the coastline would be completely abandoned.

This situation would continue until the Zheng family on Dayuan Island returned to the Qing court, when the court was free of the threat of coastal waters, and Kangxi reopened the coastal areas to the common people.

However, if the inertia of history remains, it will be more than twenty years later.

It can be said that at that time, if we intervene, whether the Qing Dynasty can get that beautiful island is still a matter of words! It can be inferred from this that twenty years later, the "Relocation Order" may have to continue to be enforced.

In short, because of the "Relocation Order", at least in the next thirty years, this sea area and islands will not only become a borderless land, but also a borderless land that the Qing court has clearly abandoned!

Zhu Beiguo wrote in the report: "In that case, why don't we occupy these islands? ”

Regarding the concern that the current development of these islands may conflict with the Qing court, Zhu Beiguo also made it clear in the report:

It is now the end of 1658, and it is only three years since August 1661, when the "Relocation Order" came into effect.

In the past three years, the response speed of the local government has not been so fast at all, and as long as we do not take the initiative to stir up trouble, develop in a low-key manner, engage in construction, and make full use of all kinds of contacts to maintain a relationship with Shang Kexi, the actual controller of Lingnan, then it is very likely that we will be able to pass quietly through this period of time.

To sum up: we only need to survive the first three years to develop here without pressure, and even further occupy other islands along the coast, expand our sphere of influence, and at the same time establish underground immigration channels on the mainland, continue to import people from the mainland, do maritime trade, develop the economy, and expand the military.

When we have a certain amount of strength, we don't even have to wait long before we can intervene in the geopolitical pattern of the region.

Don't forget, during this period, there was another major historical event - the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories.

Of course, how we take advantage of that chaos at that time depends on how we plan at that time.

Zhu Beiguo's report was enthusiastically supported by all the members of the Huotang Club, and it also triggered a big discussion between the two ships and three places.

However, the Red Chamber did not rush to make a decision because there were some differences in the direction of future strategic development.

These differences can basically be defined by the two key words "westward" and "northward".

Obviously, the former was focused on pure business, because at present the maritime trade center of the South Seas was not only Macao for the Portuguese in the north, but also Batavia for the Dutch in the west, which was the primary target of the Westerners, and of course Dili and other places.

From a business point of view, these people argued, we should go as west as possible and eventually control a real choke point in the entire South Seas: the Strait of Malacca.

These people believe that this is the key point for our goods to go out of the South Seas and into the world.

As for the Beijin faction, it is obvious that there are other goals besides business, which everyone knows very well, but it is precisely this that has been complained by many people.