In this way, by the end of 1659, half of the dozen or so women's villages on the left and right sides of the Xijiang River went to the South Seas - a total of more than 3,000 self-combing women came to Zixia Island one after another, and after landing on the island, all of them, regardless of age, joined the "Australian Federation of Zixia Island Women's Self-reliance Federation" with Yang Qiaoqiao as the president, and then became employees of various development companies.

For Zixia Island, which has 600 square kilometers, by the end of this year, the total population was still less than 90,000, and the population density was less than 150 people per square kilometer, which was neither crowded nor scarce.

The first is the expansion of the new Qinzhou wharf, which is the No. 1 project on Zixia Island – because the hydrological conditions here allow the Nicole to dock directly.

Zixia Island is nearly 40 kilometers long from north to south, obviously if there is only one Zixia Town Wharf, then the north-south land route between the new Qinzhou area and Zixia Town direction of the round-trip transportation is a big problem, after all, water transportation is the cheapest and manpower-saving mode of transportation, so the expansion of the new Qinzhou Wharf is the most important project.

Zixia Island has a different natural environment and resources from Mornington Island, first of all, there is no shortage of timber for building docks on Zixia Island, including some wood that is very valuable in the "civilized world", such as ebony, mahogany and iron pear wood.

Li Junming knew that Hou Xianglin was very experienced in repairing wooden docks, so he often asked Hou for advice on the problem of repairing docks, and Hou Xianglin also knew everything, and said everything, and these telegrams were naturally received by the Red Mansion, so Wang Xue called in the Red Mansion and said: These timbers are high-quality timber that can be used for shipbuilding, and you actually used them to drive wooden stakes to repair the dock! What a waste! Ship them all home to me.

However, Li Junming called back: Report to Wang Gong, I have a small wharf here, and there is a lack of trucks, so even if I keep it, I can't transport it! There's a lot of wood here, so I'll build the dock first.

Not long after, Xiaoshan called from Macao and said: Lawyer Li, do you know how expensive timber is sold here in Macau? Seeing that the silver can't be earned, it's painful, so it's better to let the Nicole be transported to Macau to sell the silver.

A few days later, Zhu Beiguo sent a telegram to Li Junming, saying that if Brother Li could transport the timber to Macao, Dai Ai and his brother could transport the timber to the mainland through the channels of his father-in-law and Qiao's family to sell it at a good price.

The telegram also said that there were many things that could be done by selling timber to the interior, such as building an underground channel to smuggle people or something.

Zhu Beiguo also suggested that according to the information we got from the Chinese merchants, high-grade timber was a material urgently needed by the Qing court, and the government allowed the import of high-grade timber all the way, because timber needs to spend a lot of manpower to transport, so we can gather a group of people to transport timber openly, and this kind of business is very suitable for our immigration bureau to do the export of population in the form of timber transportation.

What's more, the timber business is also very profitable, and the money sold can just fill the budget of the Immigration Bureau, in short, this is a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone, and I ask Minister Sun Laoxia and my colleagues in the Senate to approve this plan at their discretion.

Zhu Beiguo also said that he had been germinating this idea for a while, especially after meeting the Xue family brothers recently, the Xue family had helped the Zheng family to immigrate from the mainland to Jinxia Island in Fujian, and they had both experience and resources in this regard.

Zhu Beiguo said in the telegram: Do you know Zhang Huangyan? The Xue and Huang brothers have a close past with the famous "Three Heroes of West Lake" in history!

In short, we should all use these connections, and in the last three years, we should seize the time to establish our own immigration channels, which are both underground and openly covered by legal status---- such as the timber business channel.

Therefore, we must strive to establish a legal and open business channel with the Qing court as soon as possible, so that we can not only earn money, but also take it out of private mouth......

Immediately, Li Junming, Xiaoshan, Xiao Pingguo, and several others immediately sent a telegram in response to Zhu Beiguo, saying that after the end of Operation Changfeng, we must definitely find another source of immigration, and this suggestion of the Federal Immigration Bureau is very important, and we should indeed seize the time to establish immigration channels connecting the mainland to overseas to deal with the influx of refugees caused by the upcoming relocation order.

It's just that Ren Ke, Wei Hong, and Ai Rushi and other members of the Huotang Club have a "reserved approval" attitude towards Brother Zhu's idea of doing business with the Qing Dynasty, obviously they are emotionally unwilling to do business with the Qing Dynasty, but they are bent on fighting against the Qing Dynasty---- but they also know that their own strength is limited now, and various construction undertakings have just begun, so they can only bear it.

It was not long after that Ren Weiai suddenly jointly wrote a written report and handed it to Sun Lao, this report was written by Ren Ke, and the report put forward a major suggestion: in view of the fact that once the sea relocation order is implemented, almost every village on the southeast coast will be on fire, and it is recommended that we directly send troops to land and intercept the population driven inland by the Qing court, and not hesitate to directly confront the Qing army, but also receive as many of these people as possible to our side.

Ren Weiai and the others said that according to their experience in confronting the Qing army, as long as we take a defensive position and do not seek to forge ahead, we should be able to be invincible.

Then, in accordance with the usual pretense routine of the Huotang Club, Ren Ke named the report "White Lightning Action Plan".

As soon as this action plan was proposed, it immediately aroused the interest of everyone, and there were many people who participated in the discussion, including those who have always advocated only doing business and living a small life without asking the rest of the "Sun and Moon faction", especially Wei Dongxuan, Li Dewei, the backbone of the vegetable garden club, and others actually expressed their support---- after all, they are now working overseas, and after really coming into contact with this world, some changes have also taken place in their ideological concepts, although the fundamental attributes of their "Sun and Moon faction" have not changed, but they do have more enterprising spirit than before- For example, Li Dewei recently accepted a concubine on Zixia Island, and his father-in-law was the first batch of immigrants in Zixia Town, and he also had the status of a land councilor.

Okay, let's talk about it here, just by the way: Li Dewei and his father-in-law first had a work intersection - initially, it was the father-in-law who handed over his stubborn and unintentional son to the garrison, so Deputy Captain Li accepted it, and then he found that the young man was very smart, and his essence was not bad, but he was unwilling to do a lifetime of farm work with his back to the loess and the sky, so Deputy Captain Li was promoted to become his own communications soldier after a while.

One day, Li Dewei took the communication soldiers out to run errands, passing by the young man's house, his father treated him warmly, and asked his daughter to come out to serve tea to the captain...... In short, it didn't take long for Li Dewei to take a concubine, and now Xiao Li has a young and lovely child on Zixia Island, and a lady in the sunflower school, which can be regarded as enjoying the blessings of all people.

Xiao Li is like this, how can Wei Dongli, who is the eldest brother, fall behind? It's just that Liu Sanniang is so virtuous that Wei Dongli has a mental burden, and he can't bear to find his father-in-law in the immigration immediately for a while, but fortunately, not long after, Xia Xiaoou sent a few financial personnel to Zixia Island, including Liu Sanniang's sister who begged Principal Xia to send to Wei Dongli to be a concubine - actually surnamed Liu, so Wei Dongliang called her Liu Siniang.

It seems that the Sun and Moon faction really have the heart of entering the mainland to find a sister, this time they are very supportive of Ren Ke's idea, obviously Sima Zhao's heart is well known to passers-by, of course, these are currently Ren Weiai's colleagues, they are all buddies, and not being able to walk in person is also one of the reasons.