On January 12, 1677, as the steam boom brought the last box of special supplies for officers produced by the Dafeng Food Company to the deck, the originally empty hold of the "Andean Vulture" was now filled with nearly 100 kinds of goods, including yerba mate, coffee, cocoa, biscuits, canned goods, Virginia tobacco, various medicines, dyes, flower cloths, woolen wool, clocks, and musical instruments.

These things are mainly for the supply of the large number of people on the East Coast of the Far Eastern Domain, mostly soldiers, technicians, officials, merchants, sailors and their families, rather than for the local population, although in the last decade in Denglai and Ningbo more and more locals have begun to gravitate towards the consumption habits of the East Coast.

The Andean Vulture was accompanied by five other ships, two of which belonged to the Sun Chunyang Transport Company, which was commissioned by the War Department to transport two ships of military supplies to the Far East; The two ships, which belonged to the Ministry of Immigration, carried dozens of women and children, family members of East coast officials or engineers working in the Far East, and their limited cabins also carried a lot of supplies destined for the colonies along the way, such as the Turtle Islands, Tahiti, and Rabaul, ballast and even bundles of steel bars; The last one is also a ship under the flag of Yu Xingguo, named "Acacia", which is an old foreign merchant ship bought at auction, with the appearance of more than 300 tons, which is currently filled with standard rails, which is commissioned by the Southern Railway Company for transportation.

It is basically routine for terminal officials to flexibly shuttle between several ships, checking all kinds of departure documents one by one, including proof of settlement of various port charges, proof of cargo insurance, proof of payment of export duties, and identification documents. Moreover, when the "Andean Vulture Eagle" was inspected, a retired officer of the Southern Railway Road Protection Brigade, he also saluted the original training officer Xu Xiangdong, and then let them all go.

The total tonnage of the six ships combined is close to 4,000 tons, which is already quite a considerable scale in the Pacific Ocean. After a final lunch of fresh food, the six ships lifted their sails, left the dock one by one, and then formed a little at sea, and then sailed north with the strong Peruvian cold current, arriving at the port of Xuanwu in the Turtle Islands, which would later be known as Bacsori Moreno, on 16 February.

The Turtle Island archipelago is located in the tropics, thousands of kilometers from the Spanish Guayaquil Prosecutor's Court District on the mainland, so it has always been inaccessible. The Spaniards had been operating the Americas for more than 100 years, but only a few missionaries and explorers had landed on the islands in the 16th century, and then abandoned them because of the lack of fresh water and any resources.

During the last East-West War, the archipelago was occupied by the East Coast Navy and served as a temporary supply terminal, ship repair yard and field hospital. After the end of the war, the people on the east coast did not completely evacuate, but expanded the small ship repair shop built during the war, and also built lighthouses, warehouses, castles, batteries, barracks and other facilities, and the intention of long-term occupation was very obvious. The main reason is that the geographical location of this archipelago is too important, and if the east coast ships go north to Chinese mainland through the Pacific Ocean, this island is a very good intermediate node, which can supply fresh fresh water and food to ships, care for the sick and wounded, repair and maintain ships, and even avoid bad weather at sea.

It was precisely because of this consideration that after the end of the war, after the Spaniards discovered that the easterners had blatantly occupied the Taodao Islands, they had been seeking to drive the easterners out of the islands for many years, so they refused all the exchanges of interests proposed by the easterners regarding the sovereignty of the Taodao Islands. In the end, the people of the east coast were also angry, and it was doubtful whether the sovereignty of the island was necessarily attributed to the Kingdom of Spain, because there was no evidence of Spanish activities on the island, but the activities of the colonists on the east coast were spread over three of the islands of the archipelago. Therefore, after discovering that the Spaniards were embarrassed, the local executive committee simply authorized the Southern Railway Company to choose a port in the archipelago to build a colonial base, and the Southern Railway Company was not ambiguous, and directly announced that the wartime camp that already had a certain foundation would be opened up as a port city, called "Xuanwu Port".

The Spaniards naturally knew about the behavior of the people on the east coast, and they certainly hated the direct slap in the face of the Southern Railway Company, but if they wanted to let the colonists on the east coast leave the Turtle Islands, it was definitely not possible to rely on their mouths, and they still had to use means, including force. But the problem is also here, with the poor strength of the Spanish Lima fleet, they are really powerless to restore the Turtle Island Islands, not to mention that even if they have a few large ships, they will be afraid that the Third Fleet of the East Coast will retaliate in the future, so things have froze as soon as they come and go, and after a long stalemate, there are fewer and fewer Spaniards who are willing to fight for the sovereignty of the Turtle Islands. By 1677, some missionaries from the two viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain were still campaigning for appeals, but unfortunately no one responded to them.

Now, with the number of colonists on the east coast of the archipelago officially exceeding 1,500,000, the skeleton of the ship repair industry is not only supported, but the agricultural output is also very considerable, and with the number of ships passing by the Pacific route every year, Xuanwu Port can easily provide a lot of food including wheat, corn, vegetables, melons and fruits, salted fish, beef and mutton, and even a small reservoir has been built on the island (which is very critical for tropical islands with low rainfall), so that the South China Sea Transportation Company, Many people, including Sun Chunyang's transportation company and even the Navy's Third Fleet, were very satisfied.

What's even more exciting is that the archipelago has never had malaria, a malignant tropical disease, ever transmitted because of its remoteness from the mainland and its inaccessibility. After the arrival of the colonists on the east coast, perhaps because of the small number of people, or perhaps because of luck, not a single Plasmodium carrier has been sucked by mosquitoes to spread the disease. All in all, this large archipelago is a very good overseas supply colony, and its only drawback is probably that it is relatively arid and hot, which makes large-scale agricultural reclamation impossible, and can carry a small number of people.

The formation of six ships sailed into the port one after another, and the small Xuanwu Port was parked to the brim at once. At this time, if other ships enter the port, sorry, they can only anchor at the offshore point of the harbor, and then transfer personnel and supplies back and forth by small boats.

Xu Xiangdong took a group of henchmen to the shore to make corrections. Since Xuanwu Port has not yet been officially handed over to the government, if it is handed over, the Government Council will allocate 200,000 yuan for compensation, which is regarded as "buying" the port and ancillary industries, so the local officials are still employees of the Southern Railway Company, so Xu Xiangdong and others have been relatively well received, which makes some of the technicians in the team who are dizzy for the first time finally breathe.

The rest on the Tao Island Islands lasted only three days. When the mechanics of the island's shipyard had roughly repaired a few boats (some planks were replaced, some canvas was sewn), the six ships set sail again. They sailed slowly southwestward for a short while, and after catching the currents and a weak crosswind, they adjusted their course and headed westward with the current. Due to the good and bad weather along the way, it took them more than a month to arrive at the port of Jinhua in the jurisdiction of the Tahiti Pioneer Team.

The port of Jinhua is the largest city on the island of Tahiti, and at the same time the only city, which is currently managed by the Tahiti Management Committee, which Han Xiangdong is the director. The development of Jinhua Port in recent years can only be said to be so-so, and it can stably supply a certain amount of specialty commodities to Australia and other places, mainly coffee, cane sugar, vanilla, dried fruits and black pearls.

The main reason for this is that the local burgeoning plantation economy has oppressed the natives so badly that they are overwhelmed and die in large numbers. For this reason, Han Xiangdong, director of the Tahiti Management Committee, has instructed them to temporarily stop this kind of behavior, and no longer expand the scale of the plantation at will, but instead invest valuable manpower in other aspects, such as the cultivation of grain, vegetables, melons and fruits.

The arrival of Xu Xiangdong and others unsurprisingly caused a stir on the island again, as it meant that a large amount of goods from outside the world would flow into the local market. At this time, it is also the traditional time of the island, and the inhabitants will come from the countryside from all over the country to the port to celebrate and celebrate, and even many slaves who have not yet been taken from other islands without official status will rarely have a day or two of leisure at their disposal.

Han Xiangdong is also a second-generation wearer, many years ago he was the deputy director of the Tahiti Management Committee, after Zhang Jinhua returned to the mainland to promote the executive committee of the executive committee, he naturally acted as the director, leading the whole island, but also remote control some surrounding islands or coral reefs. This position is undoubtedly prominent, and at the same time super boring, if it weren't for a shortcut to promotion, he would not be too lazy to spend it here.

Therefore, when Xu Xiangdong brought him a lot of books, newspapers, and magazines from the local area, and chatted about a lot of local news and anecdotes, the relationship between the two was quickly established, so that they began to call each other brothers. After drinking two wines, Han Xiangdong even said that if the Southern Railway Company was interested, he could participate in Tahiti's trade, and he could make the decision to give preferential prices for local specialties. Even, even on the side of the Rabaul Management Committee, he is not unable to help contact, everything is easy to talk to.

Xu Xiangdong thanked the people for their kindness and said that he would seriously consider the feasibility of such a trade. Later, after seeing that the ships were almost repaired again, he waved goodbye to Han Xiangdong, and took the remaining five ships (a migrant ship belonging to the South China Sea Transport Company sank on the outskirts of the harbor because of strong winds and sudden swells when entering the port, and most of the personnel were rescued in time), pulled anchor and set sail in turn, left the port of Jinhua, continued to sail westward, and arrived at anchor near the port of Noumea, the southernmost point of the later island of New Caledonia, on April 30, 1677.

According to the plan, they will leave a critical supply for the East Coast team that has set up an expedition camp here, including daily necessities, weapons, medicine and some exploration equipment. The size of the team is about 100 people, one-third of whom are engineers and technicians from the local geological department, and the remaining two-thirds are armed personnel sent from the Australian side to protect them.

Their main task was to establish a small and solid foothold here, and then to rely on it, they continued to expand inland in search of nickel deposits with mining value. Judging from the latest information, the situation is relatively optimistic, because the technicians on the east coast are excited to find that almost the entire island is composed of nickel ore, which is unimaginably large, and any pit with mining value is everywhere. It is to be expected that when they finally send this report back to the mainland, the colonization of the large island by the people on the east coast will be greatly accelerated, so that as much nickel ore as possible can be mined and returned to the mainland as soon as possible.

Although Xu Xiangdong had no direct business contact with them, he still encouraged him and gave the expedition a box of wine he had brought with him. For these people who are fighting on the front line and have made great sacrifices for the development of the country, he still has a trace of respect in his heart, and he does not hesitate to express his appreciation to them.

After leaving New Caledonia, the five ships did not delay, but continued northward, towards the Rabaul Authority. To tell the truth, it was a difficult journey, because of the changing seasons and winds, and the currents were slightly disturbed, so although the distance was not very far, they still lingered at sea for a full month and a half before reaching the port of Rabaul.

This port was the last supply point of their trip, so each ship was seriously overhauled, and at the same time a large amount of fresh fresh water, fruits, vegetables and vegetables, live poultry and live animals were replenished to the ship, and even a lot of spirits that were not easy to spoil were purchased. During these five days of rest, Xu Xiangdong did not bother to wander around, but concentrated on writing reports until the day of departure: June 24, 1677.

After a short period of time to cross the equatorial windless zone, the rest of the voyage is much easier, as the strong southeasterly winds blow on the sea, which is very conducive to sailing north. But unfortunately, they still lost one ship in the ocean east of the Philippines, a ship full of munitions belonging to the Sun Chunyang Transport Company: more than 9,000 flintlock rifles or heavy arquebuses sank to the bottom of the sea, and with them, 4,000 horses of calico, 2,500 military tents, 200 artillery pieces of various types, and a large number of shovels, pickaxes and other hardware products.

On August 16, 1677, after more than seven months of arduous voyages (which was relatively smooth, otherwise it would have taken longer), the fleet successfully arrived at Yantai Port, and this sea adventure journey that made Xu Xiangdong, vice president of the Southern Railway Company, unforgettable and even changed in color in the future, finally came to an end. 7kankan