Chapter 189: Ming Island
The New Yingtian fleet of more than seventy ships found a terrain that formed a bowl-shaped area, surrounded by almost right-angled cliffs and flanked by two peaks. It has a ridge that stretches in the direction of the Atlantic, ending at the Cape of Good Hope, this location is the Cape Town that the Dutch opened up the port to build, but now it is Sun Yuzhi who preempted it, and naturally there will be no Cape Town, Sun Yuzhi gave it the name Ming City, and the peninsula that extends out is called Ming Island, which is the place of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Sun Yuzhi found a large number of indigenous people here, and asked them to help build a port here, of course, this is a relatively simple small port, if you want to build a big port, you have to talk about it later, let the soldiers rest here first. Now that the princes are not here, Sun Yuzhi himself is not easy to make up his mind, so he simply arranged for five hundred people to stay here, this place is too important, and it must be occupied in the future, so he has to send people here again in the future, and the idea is to build a strong castle and a strong port, even if it is to supply the ships passing by along the way, he will receive a large amount of wealth, which is a cornucopia and a cash cow.
The remaining 500 people are all the elite of the soldiers, Sun Yuzhi told them to think of a foothold here, but also to expand this port, and then mine a large number of stones from the mountain, build a stone castle, and will continue to send people here in the future, this place is very important, if King Duan allows, he will come in person. The ships brought by Xin Yingtian were not repaired, only the captured warships were repaired, and all these warships were left behind for the soldiers to use, and the artillery ammunition on them was concentrated on a few of the best warships, blocking the entrance to the harbor, and began to build in a big way.
After arranging the things here, Sun Yuzhi took the fleet and began to return to Xinyingtian, this time with experience, only along the coastline downwind, relatively smoothly arrived at the Portuguese colony given by Mo Sanbi, and the Portuguese warships that came back in advance had already arrived at the supply port.
The combined fleet of Portugal, the Netherlands, and Spain did not suffer much loss on the battlefield, after they withdrew from the battlefield, they waited for the new Yingtian fleet in the eastern sea area for a day, but there was no news, and then they sent a small fleet to inquire about the situation, only saw some wood chips floating on the sea, as for the corpse, it is estimated that the sea fish have been eaten clean, after getting these news, the Portuguese coalition fleet did not dare to continue to stay here, the fleet of the British coalition army has too many warships, and the strength is very different, It's a pity that the new Yingtian fleet sacrificed itself to block the attack in order to delay their pursuit this time, and it should be the whole army annihilated, so it seems that they have to go back to give the new Yingtian some compensation, but now that the new Yingtian fleet is back, everyone is very surprised.
Sun Yuzhi told them that after he blocked for a while, he found that the other party was too strong, and he also turned the bow of the ship and retreated, but fortunately, at this time, there was a strong wind and waves, and the British coalition army could not catch up, so he was able to return with the whole division, but because the wind and waves were too strong, his fleet got lost on the way back, so he only returned now. Sun Yuzhi didn't know whether he should share the interests of Mingdao with Portugal, the Netherlands, and Spain, and he also wanted to cover up the strength of his fleet, so he covered up the matter of the Xinyingtian Fleet annihilating the allied forces.
After returning to Xinyingtian, Sun Yuzhi reported this matter to Zhu Changhao, and after a brief discussion, he decided to hand over the problem to Zhu Youxiao and let him make a decision to see what the problem of benefit distribution is, this is a general direction issue, and Zhu Youxiao must decide it. Now the fleets from Xinyingtian and the Daimyo Kingdom to the Ming Dynasty have fleets going back and forth every month, transporting the gold, silver, treasures, spices and spices here back to the Ming Dynasty, and then transporting the goods of the Ming Dynasty here, and then bringing people who are willing to do business, migrate, and take risks here.
Niu Jinxing sent back to China from Lisbon, Europe, as early as Zhu Changhao when they were robbing along the coast of India, they had to meet, a boat full of various books, so that Zhu Youxiao was very happy, he let Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, these big bulls into different categories, and then handed over to the Daming Institute of Technology and the Daming Officials College, so that they could be stored in the library of the Daming Academy of Sciences, and the students could read them freely. Among them, the books on mathematics, physics, astronomy, geography, chemistry, etc., which are systematically arranged and made into textbooks, are used by schools in various places, and carry out universal education throughout the country in the Ming Dynasty, so as to improve the cultural quality of all children and teenagers.
Combined with the information brought by Niu Jinxing, and then integrated the information brought by Zhu Changhao's fleet, Zhu Youxiao has a basically clear understanding of the current world. The Western world has come out of the dark Middle Ages, the Age of Discovery has arrived, and with the advent of the Age of Discovery, the progress of various science and technology is very rapid, with the prelude to the explosion, the Ming Dynasty has caught up with this era, and is still in a leading position in some fields, but there are their own reasons for cheating, in the basic scientific research of the Ming is still somewhat insufficient, which needs to be slowly accumulated for a long time, the school must continue to expand, and the knowledge taught needs to be constantly updated. Let the most basic scientific knowledge be popularized to all the children of the next generation of the Ming Dynasty, and completely eradicate illiteracy under the age of 20 within ten years.
In the international situation, the old colonial empires are beginning to decline because their colonial methods are too barbaric, and new empires are being formed, thinking that their colonial methods are more hidden, and the invasion of cultural traditions is pervasive. Song Xiance and their planning of the Ming cultural traditions and beliefs need to be spread outward, can build some Taoist temples in the new territory, Taoist temples are equipped with a certain amount of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, using this relatively hidden way, so that the Ming culture slowly spread there.
On strategic issues, Ming Island must be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, which can lure Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain and even the Germans, and let them go deep into the interior of Africa, unlike now limited to the coast, so that a large number of African colonies will be quickly divided, and after tasting the sweetness, they will definitely colonize those places and arrange a large number of troops, maybe that is the starting point of a new war.
South Africa has a large amount of gold and diamonds, but it is not yet time for a large number of outbreaks, Zhu Youxiao might as well stretch out his golden finger, let the Ming merchants find out first, and then play it up to attract their attention, anyway, in addition to spices, the current sea trade is the Ming Dynasty's tea, silk, porcelain, etc., let them mine gold and silver on a large scale, and then circulate to the Ming Dynasty through commodity trading, and the Ming Dynasty itself has garrisoned troops everywhere.
According to this way of thinking, Mingdao must also increase control, the five hundred people will definitely not work, Zhu Youxiao asked the fleet to gather a group of people who are willing to travel the world from the coastal area and the populous places in Huguang, Sichuan, and take them to live in Mingdao. The second is to encourage local commercial banks to form expedition teams, or to form joint-stock companies to explore around the world, operate mines, and colonize, but they must be registered in the Ministry of the Ming Dynasty, and when they need the assistance of the state, they need to pay a certain amount of remuneration, of course, they can also set up their own security teams, which need to be filed with the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty.
South Africa's main gold and diamond producing areas are not on the coast, the main gold producing areas are in Johannesburg, and Kimberly-Clark, the main diamond producing areas, of course, there will be no such names now, these places are desolate places, their prosperity is after the discovery of gold and diamonds, Zhu Youxiao made these two regions famous a hundred years earlier in order to make his plan more perfect.
He handed over this plan to Sun Yuzhi, and appointed Sun Yuzhi as the governor of Ming Island, responsible for everything in the Ming Dynasty, regardless of military and political affairs, everything was entrusted to him, and he could decide on major military and political matters according to his own judgment, and the consequences were responsible for the imperial court. This is a very big right, and when I first heard about it, Sun Chengzong was taken aback, this is the rhythm of overseas countries! He is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, how could the emperor give him a head-killing errand! The old man was almost scared to death.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao also knew that this matter was too big, so he told Sun Chengzong all about his strategic intentions, which reassured the old man, but the old man insisted that Sun Yuzhi should be the governor for five years, and he must get it back in the future, lest this kid be too ambitious, and if he built the country independently, he would harm his whole family. Zhu Youxiao smiled and agreed to Sun Chengzong's request, in fact, he really had the idea of letting Sun Yuzhi establish a new country there, after all, the location there was too good.