Thinking of this, Guo Zhiyuan happily patted Li Jin's shoulder and laughed: "Okay! Your idea is good, give you a credit, let's go to Penghu Island! ……”

Immediately, Guo Zhiyuan instructed the captain of the ship to adjust the route, and the fleet headed for Penghu Island instead. After a day of sailing on the sea, Penghu Island appeared in Guo Zhiyuan's field of vision, when the sun had just risen and was shining with golden light. The reef on one side of the island casts shadows in the sunlight, like a huge fan. Layers of reefs, the ladders are distinct, straight into the sea, the surging waves want to wash its top but do not reach, then desperately retreat, into bursts of foam, the reef is licked by the sea water to shine brightly, slightly red, like a pile of copper cast walls just baked, white seabirds happily flying around the island, from time to time let out bursts of happy chirp, red sun, reefs, seabirds, waves, this beautiful spectacular and harmonious picture made Guo Zhiyuan fall in love with this feng shui treasure at first sight!

If you look down from the sky, the small island and several smaller islands in the distance are surrounded one after another, enclosing a semi-arc, although the waters are open to the open sea, the water surface is far calmer than the open sea, like a big lake, in the Hokkien dialect Penghu is the meaning of a calm lake, take this name because the inner sea surrounded by this circle of small islands is like a calm lake, and it also forms a natural haven.

Guo Zhiyuan is very satisfied with this piece of feng shui treasure, the boat is not completely stable on the first rush to the gangplank, after landing on the island, Guo Zhiyuan stood on the reef and observed the environment on the island is more satisfied, although there is no permanent population on the island, but there are a lot of ready-made wooden houses, that is the past fishermen passing by to rest and build themselves, there is a Mazu temple on the hillside of the island, the fishermen passing by here will make a special trip to the island to worship, according to Li Jin, there are several ancient wells on the island, there is no problem with daily drinking fresh water, The only fly in the ointment is that there are no tall trees on the island, all low shrubs, and there is a lack of wood if you want to build a camp and repair boats.

However, for Guo Zhiyuan, it is not a big problem, he wants to build Penghu Island into a base, and the buildings on it must naturally be strong enough, so he prepares that all the buildings on the island are built with stone and sanhe soil, and when the trade route to Manila is restored, it will become a trade transit point between China and Manila, and all kinds of materials will be continuously transported, and there will be no shortage of building materials.

There is also a water village military camp on the right side of the island, which is the camp where the imperial court water division is stationed, but there is no one at this time, according to Li Jin, only when the temperature rises in spring, the Ming Dynasty water division will send troops to the island to take turns stationed, now is the window period for them to change their defense, Guo Zhiyuan honestly and unceremoniously directly occupied the water village military camp of the water division, the status of the Ming Dynasty civil officials is higher than that of the military attaché, and he is naturally not afraid of fighting lawsuits with the generals of the Fujian water division.

There are also two improvised forts built on the island, which were built by Wei Malang and them, and now it is cheap Guo Zhiyuan, Guo Zhiyuan transferred two Hongyi cannons from the Fu ship and installed them on the fort, so that even if there is a pirate ship coming, he is not afraid, and the island with the fort defense is like an unsinkable aircraft carrier, and if a small group of pirate forces dares to attack without their strength, it is basically a food delivery.

There are ready-made wooden houses on the island, so more than 500 surviving businessmen can easily settle down, Guo Zhiyuan made a list of the materials needed on the island and handed them to Sun Laosan, with the strength of the Sun family, these materials can be procured soon, and he also wants Sun Laosan to report the news of his successful completion of the mission to the imperial court, he has made a great contribution this time, and the imperial court will definitely have a reward, but what the specific reward is, it depends on the game at the top, so Guo Zhiyuan himself is ready to stay on Penghu Island and see the limelight.

In addition, some of the more than 500 surviving businessmen still have relatives in the interior of Fujian and need to go back to visit relatives, but most of them expressed their willingness to go back and bring their relatives to settle on Penghu Island.

Guo Zhiyuan also asked people to register the specialties of the remaining surviving businessmen, so as to facilitate them to show their strengths, which is indeed full of talents, all kinds of talents, including technical talents and commercial talents, and so Guo Zhiyuan's maritime expansion plan is fully rolled out, these people can become the backbone who can be independent.

A week later, Sun Laosan came to Penghu Island again with three merchant ships full of various materials, along with Sun Chuan and Xu Guangqi, the last time Sun Laosan left, Guo Zhiyuan asked him to bring a letter to Sun Chuan, saying that he was ready to give the task of resuming the trade route between China and Manila to the Sun family, and let Sun Chuan serve as the Chinese tax officer stationed in Manila, Sun Chuan's investment in Guo Zhiyuan was naturally looking forward to returns, but he didn't expect Guo Zhiyuan to give him such a return so big and so fast, so he was so excited that he didn't close his eyes for a day and a night, He personally went to Penghu Island to thank Guo Zhiyuan, and said that all the materials needed for the construction of Penghu Island were handled by the Sun family.

Xu Guangqi's arrival is a great help to Guo Zhiyuan, the construction of Penghu Island is a big project, a thousand things make Guo Zhiyuan's head bigger, with Xu Guangqi to help Guo Zhiyuan is easy, basically can be a hands-off shopkeeper, under Xu Guangqi's scheduling, the construction of Penghu Island is carried out in an orderly manner, with the concerted efforts of everyone, the construction of Penghu Island can be said to be changing with each passing day, and it is no longer the uninhabited desolate island in the past!

According to Guo Zhiyuan's plan, after the construction, Penghu Island will be divided into living areas, production areas, and commercial areas, and the number of protective forts has also increased to five, which can basically cover the entire island.

In addition, Guo Zhiyuan successfully completed the mission of the mission, not only successfully rescued the surviving businessmen of the Ming Dynasty who were imprisoned by the Spaniards to do business in Manila, but also forced Spain to deal with the Manila last year. Slaughter. The news of the apologization of the killing incident and the compensation in the form of deducting trade taxes immediately caused a sensation in Fujian, and the people clapped their hands and celebrated, feeling that the morale of the Chinese had been greatly increased, and they asked who Guo Zhiyuan was, and his outstanding political achievements in Gutian County and his outstanding performance during the plague period in Fujian were also mentioned, and Guo Zhiyuan's reputation among the people soared for a time.

On the contrary, most of the people in the Fujian officialdom are very sour and unpleasant after hearing the news, the reason is very simple, so many senior Fujian officials have not done what they have failed to do in Manila several times, so where do you let them put their faces?