Things gather people in groups, Shen Youlong is Xu Guangqi's protégé, and his rise to the high position of a feudal official is of course not unrelated to Xu Guangqi, who used to be a senior pavilion.

They are all scholars with ideals in the Ming Dynasty, and they are all intellectuals with patriotic complexes.

Shen Youlong naturally felt honored when he saw the Ming fleet of the Dragon Martial Naval Division, which was flying the dragon flag.

Seeing that Huang Yong deliberately pulled him and Guangdong officials to share such a big credit, he also felt that Bei'er had face.

Because there were commercial taxes and ship taxes to collect, although there were not many handed over to the imperial court, the silver obtained by the local government was indispensable, and the officials in Guangzhou had plenty of money.

The celebration banquet was very high-grade, not only with fine wine and delicacies, but also with a few red officials from the Qinglou playing and singing, singing and dancing.

At the banquet, Shen Youlong led the Guangdong civil officials and military generals to have a good conversation with the generals of the Longwu Naval Division, and Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates were also courteous.

Seeing that the foreshadowing was almost done, Huang Yong took the opportunity to propose to buy an island outside the Pearl River estuary in the jurisdiction of Xin'an County, Guangzhou Prefecture, to operate and become a supply ground for the Longwu Naval Division.

In recent years, the sea has been turbulent, and the number of foreign warships coming to the mouth of the Pearl River has been increasing, and there are often armed provocations by Xiyi warships.

It is best for the Longwu Naval Division to prepare for an island outside the Pearl River Estuary to operate, which means that the Longwu Naval Division will garrison the Pearl River Estuary, and if there is any Xiyi to provoke trouble in the future, of course, they will be killed cleanly.

Shen Youlong called a few civil officials on the spot for a brief discussion, and soon verbally agreed to Huang Yong's request.

Because the island that Huang Yong asked for is now penniless, it is equivalent to a deserted island, and there are only a few dozen fishermen on the island.

Of course, this island was designated by Huang Han, and the fortress to be built on this island was given a nice name in advance - Hong Kong City, and the island was called Hong Kong Island.

Huang Yong didn't know why his brother gave this name to a small island thousands of miles away, and he didn't ask for a reason at all, and resolutely carried out the order.

A palm-sized desert island is not worth much silver, the Ming Dynasty is not a later generation, most of the islands are deserted, and even Taiwan Island has not been occupied and operated.

Shen Youlong was not ready to ask the "Red Flag Army" to spend money to buy Hong Kong Island, thinking that he would send someone to Huang Yong to handle the relevant documents tomorrow, but Huang Yong insisted on giving 3,000 silver coins and insisting on buying out.

Shen Youlong had no choice but to be flexible, promising to send an official letter to the Nanzhili Military Department asking for the construction of a thousand-household city on that island, and the personnel of this thousand-household office, including thousand-household, hundred-household officials, and suppression officials, were all assigned by Huang Yong, and he was responsible for reporting.

This is completely a wide open door, and what the city will look like depends entirely on the local financial resources, and it is impossible for the imperial court to allocate a tael of silver.

Shen Youlong believed that the general was rich and wealthy, and the fortress he built must be stronger than the castle built by the Portuguese in Macao.

He was even more convinced that Guangdong had a great victory against the English who came to provoke the Ming Dynasty and won a great merit of 2,000, and the reward that the imperial court should give must be indispensable, and the appointment of a few guards officers was a matter of course.

The Portuguese became more and more disagreeable, and the Canton government repeatedly sent notes not allowing them to build permanent fortifications on the leased territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, they turned a deaf ear, built a castle and erected more than 100 heavy guns, and their rhetoric was not to fight against the Ming Dynasty, but to deal with the attacks of the Spaniards and the Dutch.

For this reason, Shen Youlong, who has a patriotic complex, once planned to settle diplomatic disputes by force after taking office, but after taking the civilian and military generals of Guangxi and Guangxi to inspect the field, no one dared to lead troops to attack Macao.

They have advised the governor of Liangguang that more is better than less, and now the Ming Dynasty uses troops everywhere, and it is not appropriate to raise swords at the mouth of the Pearl River, and the Portuguese have been good in recent decades.

The Portuguese compradors in Macao had also been sending mercenaries to assist the Ming Dynasty, selling Hongyi cannons and turtledoves to equip the Ming army.

Shen Youlong knew that the generals under his command thought that they could not defeat Macao, so they did not dare to fight, so he could only choose to swallow his anger.

Now, the purpose of building a castle on an island close to Macao is self-evident, and the interests of Guangdong maritime trade are still being able to sit still?

Will the "Red Banner Army" that dares to kill one or two thousand Xiyi at a time tolerate others sleeping soundly next to the couch?

If you don't do it, you will send troops to seize Macau, and the Portuguese have been more friendly with the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and it is not enough to kill them all, and expel them nine times out of ten.

The next day, under the instructions of the governor of Guangzhou, the officials of the Guangzhou Prefecture handled the relevant documents of the island, and the official documents of the local government setting up a thousand households at their own expense were also sent to the Nanjing Military Department.

It is impossible for such a trivial matter to be unapproved, and besides, the official reasons in Guangzhou are sufficient, and there has recently been an incident of Xiyi warships attacking the Humen Fort and plundering and massacring soldiers and civilians ashore, and it is indispensable to strengthen coastal defense construction.

The city of Guangzhou has long opened "Sifang Express", "Sifang Qianzhuang" and "Hongqi Post Office" and other Red Flag Army industries, and there are many shops selling products such as cosmetics, table clocks, liquor, canvas and so on.

Huang Yong didn't have time to stay here to focus on the construction of Hong Kong, and the Guangdong Military Intelligence Department of the Flag Guard and the Sifang Qianzhuang would take the lead in handling the matter, and with money, food, and official permissions, it was of course much easier to do things than the Portuguese secretly building a castle in Macao.

Moreover, since he negotiated with Chongzhen on the conditions of contracting Pingliao for five years, Huang Han is no longer willing to hide it, as long as it is something that is of great interest to the country and the people, he will resolutely do it, and for this reason, God will block and kill God and Buddha.

The governor of Liangguang can be regarded as half of his own people, and he has the great achievement of completely annihilating the invasion of the Ming Dynasty and the English, so it is of course logical to gain a foothold in the Pearl River estuary.

The "Red Banner Army" could recruit tens of thousands of laborers to participate in the construction of cities, ports, grain depots, forts, and large docks, and there was no severe winter and no frost period, and it could be poured all year round.

It is believed that a Hong Kong city will rise from the ground in a year, and the natural harbor with wide and deep waters can no longer be called Victoria Harbour, but "Sanjie Harbour".

Of course, this name is to let the Han people not forget the national shame and remember Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, and Zhang Shijie, the three heroes who did not give in to Meng Yuan.

In the future, there will be military berths for the Longwu Naval Division in the "Sanjie Port", and a number of civilian and military docks will be built.

Shipbuilding technicians who have graduated from the "Tiger's Den City" university hall and have been practicing for several years will be sent to Hong Kong Island, where it is necessary not only to have the technical strength to maintain warships and merchant ships, but also to vigorously develop the shipbuilding industry.

The English who were causing trouble in the South China Sea were all wiped out, and the Longwu Navy Division captured six deck warships with a displacement of about 1,000 tons, and also captured 13 Junk, Zhuyin, and Galen ships, as well as two whaling ships and more than 100,000 catties of whale oil.