In addition to Lantau Island, the three of them also inspected the Wailingding Island in the south, and the brothers felt that this island was really good, there was a basin in the middle of the island, not to mention the abundance of fresh water, and there was a sheltered bay suitable for repairing the port next to it, but the shortcomings were also obvious: this is a traffic artery, there are many pirates, and the sailor battalion is still gratifying.

According to the handlebars and sailors, although the sailors of the king of Nan in this town are not pirates, they are sometimes more powerful than pirates when they extort past merchant ships, and although there are no permanent residents on this Wailingding Island, there are seasonal households, and nearly 300 people come to the island to dive pearls near the island every winter, and these people are nominally the house slaves of King Pingnan, and sometimes they come in other seasons to collect pearls, corals, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and other seafood for the palace.

However, these people secretly make a living as pirates, often robbing merchant ships that pass alone, but fortunately it is summer, and there is no one here, otherwise it would have been a difficult time to get to the island.

However, the ship's handlebar also said that the Qiao family has a good relationship with these forces, and there is tribute on weekdays, so if the Qiao family's ship needs to go to the island to repair in a storm, there will be no obstacles.

Of course, because of the season, this small fleet is not harassed at the moment, and after a few visits to the island, they believe that the location and natural conditions of this island are quite good, and we should control it in the future, at least after the promulgation of the Qing Dynasty's order to move the sea, we must occupy this island.

Of course, it's better to be exempt now.

As for the islands closer to the mouth of the Pearl River and the mainland, the brothers accepted the advice of the handlebars ---- took refuge for the time being.

In addition to this Wailingding Island, the two also inspected the Dangan Islands, which are more than 10 kilometers long and only one to two kilometers wide, and are a long and narrow island, located in the main traffic point outside the mouth of the Pearl River, and are one of the key targets of the brothers.

According to the data of the old world, the three main islands of the Dangan Islands in this era did not have a permanent population, only the pearl divers who came with the season lived for a few months, and occasionally there were passing merchant ships to dock for shelter, the vegetation and fresh water here were very rich, as well as limestone and sandy beaches, and the brothers spent a whole day walking from east to west, thinking that this island is relatively vast, the resources are relatively rich, the land is quite fertile, if you are engaged in cash crop cultivation here, it should be an ideal place.

Next, the brothers inspected some other islands from east to west, including Erzhou and Zhiwan Islands, and after some comparison, they once again landed on the large and small Wanshan Islands that Ren Ke strongly recommended.

Because of the foreshadowing of the previous investigation, the brothers finally decided that the first step was to develop the big and small Wanshan Islands, although the brothers are not agricultural experts, but at home with Lao Wang to do farm work, belongs to the half-hung professionals who have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, they feel that the land here should be suitable for spice planting, maybe they can also engage in sugarcane planting, because the rainfall and surface water resources here are quite rich. Moreover, there are many small ponds on the island, so it should be judged that the groundwater resources of the island should be good.

The island is still densely forested, which means that you can obtain building materials from local materials, and the land looks fertile, the key is that it is far away from the Pearl River ** road, and there is relatively little external harassment, so it should be a good choice to use this as a base for early low-key development.

Especially when they visited Xiaowanshan Island, as soon as they landed on the island, they were attracted by a patch of sand, not the beautiful scenery of the beach, but the beach is very similar to the beach on Mornington Island, the yellow and white sand is delicate, the three of them immediately thought of the raw materials of the glass factory, the beach here looks really close to the raw materials used in the glass factory at home, so they ordered someone to collect ten loads of sand to be brought back to Macao, and when the Pride came, it was brought back to Mornington Island for the glass factory to see, if the raw materials are really suitable, once the power problem is solved, There's really a glass factory here.

Think about it, a sugar factory and a glass factory, and close to Macao, can completely achieve nearby production and sales, isn't it beautiful!

Moreover, the small bays on the east and south sides of Xiaowanshan Island not only have sandy beaches, but also deep-water harbors where wharves can be built, and the limestone and granite here can also be used, so the brothers and sisters agreed that although the planting here is slightly narrow, it is still good to engage in industrial production, and when the conditions are ripe, Xiaowanshan Island should be able to build glass, cement and brick and tile factories.

On 20 July, another long telegram was sent from Macau City.

In order to improve the communication effect, the brother found the blacksmith and carpenter in the city, built a wooden shelf more than ten meters high, and then put the radio antenna up, fortunately, this house was originally on the high ground of Guia Mountain, not far from the main peak of Fortress Mountain, which belongs to the relatively high terrain in the city of Macau.

Moreover, the content of this telegram was sent repeatedly for three consecutive days, in the hope that Xin'ancheng would receive the complete signal and forward it to the Red Mansion.

Dai Xiaoshan and they calculated the days, and estimated that the Pride should be about to arrive at the Red Wharf, if they didn't send a telegram at this time, and when the Pride left Mornington Island again, they would miss the entire return time.

The content of the telegram was about the development plan of the Wanshan Islands, and Dai Xiaoshan divided the entire development plan into three stages in the telegram.

The first stage: reclamation of large and small Wanshan Islands.

It is planned to recruit hundreds of immigrants to reclaim land on this island and try to grow sugarcane and other cash crops, Dawanshan Island has a total land area of about 10 square kilometers, and due to the limitations of water sources and topography, this island should be able to reclaim 1,500 to 2,000 acres of agricultural land, and at the same time, the telegram also applied for family support to build a complete set of equipment for the construction of a sugar factory.

Regarding the development of Xiaowanshan Island, it is planned to be carried out simultaneously with Dawanshan Island.

The telegram highlighted the possibility of building a glass factory, saying that if the family succeeds in producing glass from the raw materials we have brought you, we hope to support a set of industrial equipment for the glass factory, including power generation equipment.

After all, there are many islands here, and there are many beaches, think about it, once we have a factory near Macau, it is also an option to import raw materials from other places, and the glass factory has been built, which is undoubtedly very beneficial to our business, so that we don't have to go all the way from the Red Wharf to Macao to transport glass goods, how much effect on the improvement of economic benefits, needless to say, you should be clear......

The telegram went on to talk about the recruitment of labor, and the telegram said that in addition to our own efforts in Macau, we mainly assisted in recruiting through the Qiao family and three other Chinese businessmen, and now the four have made it clear that they support our development plan, and they are now preparing to use their own channels to recruit displaced people from the interior, and these labor will be transferred to us after recruitment.

Of course, the assistance of the four families is also conditional, one of the conditions is that all the production on the island should be sold to these four, in addition, the reason why we ask the family to provide sugar factory production equipment, another important reason is that the Qiao family has a large brown sugar business in southern Guangdong, if we have a sugar factory on Wanshan Island, these brown sugar of the Qiao family can be transported here to be processed into white sugar, if it reaches a certain processing scale, the processing fee we earn is enough to meet the expenses here.

At present, Qiao's sea ships have opened up new routes to the west in addition to doing business with the ports of Annan Champa, and recently the Qiao family has brought back ten tons of selected saltpeter that the family urgently needs, which was purchased from the port of Pattani, which belongs to the kingdom of Ayutthaya, which is located on the east side of the isthmus of the Malay Peninsula, and according to the Qiao family, these saltpeters come from the east coast of India. Obviously, this is good news, which means that there is another supply channel for saltpeter, and as the scale of Qiao's sugar and rice business gradually expands, our white sugar and white sugar processing business will also get better and better.