A group of civil and military generals came to Panama City and looked into the distance, a fortress was rising in the port more than ten miles away, and one or two thousand people of different skin colors were busy.

The fortress was designed with a three-story turret in the direction of the sea, and it was to deploy forty heavy guns, sixty medium guns, and one hundred flexible Furlong light anti-aircraft guns.

The heavy artillery can fire 32-pound solid shells, with a maximum range of 18 miles and an effective range of about 10 miles, which can completely hit any warship in the port and achieve the effect of blockading the port.

After the completion of the fortress, the city wall will be built between it and the original Panama City, and the circumference of an irregular rectangular city with a port fortress and Panama City as a "twin fort" will reach more than 40 miles.

This is the best plan adopted by the designers according to Huang Han's instructions and requirements, and they believe that once the "Hanwei City" is completed, it will be able to fully meet the goal set by the head of the family that it will not fall behind the times for a hundred years.

With money, people, and food, you can easily mobilize tens of thousands of people to build a city, Shi Daxuan couldn't help but sigh:

"The capture of Panama City is enough for all the expenses of our voyage again, I can't imagine that Xiyi has accumulated so much money, how good it would be to come a few years earlier!"

Huang Yi nodded and said: "According to the summary report, not counting the captured warships and armed merchant ships, the property loaded on the ships and the gold and silver treasures seized in the city and those fortresses have reached a total of 10 million taels of silver. It was a good start in the early years. ”

Not long after Yu Fei led his subordinates back from Fort Portovello, he smiled when he heard this:

"Crossing the ocean has to face the warships and armed merchant ships of the Xiyi countries, and there is no absolute strength, so it is a long time to come to North and South America to grab territory. Therefore, although the teacher had planned for a long time, he still waited until today. ”

Wang Yuqi said: "It is indeed important to take a step-by-step approach, but it is indeed a bit difficult to develop the Americas too early.

The 'Red Flag Army' in our development is changing with each passing day, and its strength will increase by three or four percent every year, and winning new territories will open up financial resources widely, and it is not a problem to continue to maintain a growth momentum of thirty percent. ”

Huang Yi learned too much new knowledge from Huang Han, and he thought that it was unrealistic to maintain a high growth rate of 30 percent, knowing that three percent three years ago was not the same as the total amount three years later.

He said: "In the past three years, the financial, manpower, material and military resources of our 'Red Flag Army' system have more than doubled, but it will be difficult to double in the next three years, after all, our foundation is getting thicker and thicker, and it is too ideal to maintain a growth rate of 30% every year." ”

Wang Yuqi said with confidence: "General Huang is reasonable, and this official also thought so before coming to South America, but after this month of conquest and plunder, it is foreseeable that the total economic output of our 'Red Banner Army' will be able to double in the next three years." ”

Shi Daxuan said sincerely: "You don't think that the 'King of Hanjiang County' seems to have clairvoyance, before we set off, he organized a meeting to study and analyzed the current situation in North and South America, and even guessed the size of the deployment of troops in Panama City, which is too godly." ”

Huang Yi said proudly: "Of course, the 'King of Hanjiang County' is known to have no last resort, so the 'Red Flag Army' can be invincible and invincible." ”

Lin Minghai once traveled to South America as an interpreter for the Dutchman East India Company, but the port of call was in the Caribbean Sea on the other side, which should have been a port in Cuba in the future.

He said: "The 'King of Hangang County' asserts that North and South America are rich in natural resources, vast and sparsely populated, and that the armed forces of the Western Yi countries are very weak.

We Longwu Sailor should take this opportunity to establish a foothold in Panama and operate this place as solid as gold, and strive to be self-sufficient in food, which has a long way to go! ”

Wang Zheng had been studying the soil and climate during this time, and he was not ashamed to ask a Spaniard who had lived in Panama for more than three years, to ask about the climate characteristics through an interpreter, and to ask a few students to record it.

At this moment, he said with confidence: "It is warm and humid here, the water source is sufficient, and one acre of fertile land can be cultivated for three crops, and one acre of potatoes can be planted, and the grain harvested in a year is enough for more than a dozen adults to meet for a year, and it is more than enough to achieve food self-sufficiency." ”

Huang Yidao: "Master's judgment is completely accurate, just look at those dense forests and countless towering trees, you can know how fertile the land here should be. ”

Wang Zhengnai was one of the presidents of "Hanjiang University", an academician of the Academy of Sciences, and the young generals of the "Red Banner Army" all called themselves students in front of him.

Wang Zheng said: "Defending the land and reopening the territory is what my generation wants, the old man has decided, this time he will not return with the fleet, stay in Panama City to do some research, and strive to be able to grow rice as soon as possible." ”

Huang Yidao: "Master, the students will not go back, stay here to defend the land and open up the territory!" I'm going to write a book about all the exoticism. ”

Wang Zheng said: "The old man thinks that in order to maximize profits, you should transport as many goods as possible when you return, so you should launch propaganda in advance and strive for more marines to choose to stay."

With the completion of the shipyard and the steel plant, we have the ability to build merchant ships and warships in Panama, and the capacity will increase exponentially, and then more people can travel to and from the Pacific. ”

Wang Yuqi said with a smile: "Lord Wang, the technical team brought by this official is not vegetarian, and the foundation here is even better than this official imagined."

Rest assured! At most, the shipyard and steel plant will be built in half a year.

The forest resources here are too abundant, and the cost is much lower than in the 'Tiger's Den City' and the green mud pool, and the official has arranged for people to start logging.

The Spaniards had already built a dock here, and we captured as many as two or three hundred white craftsmen, and at least five hundred natives who had worked in the dockyard as handymen could be considered skilled workers.

There are too many ship materials in the dockyard warehouse, all of which are giant logs that have been air-dried for two or three years, which is enough for immediate needs. ”

Wang Zheng twisted his beard and said: "Good! Based in Panama, with the development of industry and agriculture, and the transportation of a large number of immigrants, we will definitely be able to expand the land for thousands of miles in less than five years. ”

Huang Yidao: "Master, the student thinks that the pattern of expanding the land is still a little smaller, and it is possible to give birth to a large country with an area no less than the land of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Hahaha!" Wang Zheng laughed and said: "It's a pity that the old man is dying of old age, and he may not be able to wait for the day when he will build another thousand miles of rivers and mountains in the Americas, but the old man believes that you can do it in time." ”

Yu Fei's emotions were a little excited, and he said: "It is endless fun to expand the territory in a foreign land, and students will strive for it all their lives." ”