The fleet of the Daming Naval Division rested in Batavia for a day, and the next morning, the whole fleet began to set out again, this time aiming at the Strait of Malacca.

Batavia was about 3,000 miles from the Strait of Malacca, and the fleet traveled at sea for three days, and by the afternoon of the fourth day, the Strait of Malacca was already in sight.

The Strait of Malacca has changed a lot, because when Zhang Bin left, there were still many forts and fortresses that had not been completed, and the artillery had not all been installed in place, but at this time these have been completed, and the entrance to the entire Strait of Malacca has become a jungle of artillery, full of artillery, which makes people's scalp tingle to watch.

At this time, the original desert island is no longer desolate, a huge three-story fortress stands tall at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, behind the fortress is a huge city, that scale, it is estimated that millions of people live in it is no problem, however, at this time, there are not many residents in the city, except for the 20,000 soldiers on duty in the East Fan Jiuwei, the others are some employees of Dongshengtang, this has not yet become a formal commercial port, for the time being, this is just a military port in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Bin stood on the watchtower of the three-story fortress, looking at the strait and the dense warships in the strait in the distance, and couldn't help but be full of pride in his heart, the Ming Dynasty was about to step into the ranks of colonial hegemony, and from now on the Ming Dynasty would also become a member of the great powers, not the "natives" who were bullied by the great powers!

However, he did not intend to lead the Ming Dynasty on the road of colonial plunder, because it was to exhaust the water and fish, and the scenery would not be long, just like Spain and Portugal at this time, plundering was like making himself fat, and economic colonization could really make him develop and grow.

At this time, the great powers should not have fully realized this problem, Spain and Portugal are still mainly plundering and colonizing at this time, and the Netherlands is still groping, but they are still biased towards plunder, because robbing money is still the fastest way to get money, and there is no one.

As for Britain and France, which came later, it seems that they have just stepped into the colonial hegemony at this time, and it will take a long time for them to develop, and they will consume their time and stamina!

He looked at the nearby island again, and then pointed to the harbor surrounded by the island on the right side of the fortress and said wisely: "Chang Gung, all this side is planned to be a wharf, and there must be all kinds of scales, and all the coasts will be repaired, and a road at least ten zhang wide will be built to lead to the city." ”

Song Yingxing, who had already been named as a waiter in the Ministry of Works, hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "The lower official understands. ”

Zhang Bin turned around again, pointed to the city behind him and said: "Yuankong, this city, except for the barracks behind the fortress, is all planned as a ten-zhang wide street, and the interval between the two roads should be at least more than 100 zhang. ”

Song Yingsheng actually didn't have any official position at this time, because he had been assisting Xie Zhenggang in managing civil affairs in Dongfan, and he was suddenly promoted to the prefect of the fourth rank at this time, but he was so excited that he couldn't help but tremble: "Thank you Grandpa Guo, the lower officials understand." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, then pointed to the peninsula behind the city and said: "Zhihu, send troops to occupy the old city of Johor on the opposite side, and from here to the north, until the Siam country, it will be included in the territory of Xingang Province." ”

Zheng Zhihu was stunned when he heard this, and then arched his hand and said: "Grandpa Guo, what about Malacca City, it seems that it is still in the hands of the Portuguese." ”

Zhang Bin said proudly: "I will negotiate with the Governor of Goa in Portugal on this point, we can help them take back such a big island of Ceylon, won't they even give us a small fishing port?" Leave them alone for now, and subdue all the natives here. ”

Zheng Zhihu hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The last general understands." ”

Zhang Bin turned around and pointed to the left side of Xingang City and said: "Zhihu, build a large supply point at the mouth of the Johor River, many times fresh water, grain, fruits and vegetables, medicines and other materials, in addition, move the Dongshengtang Nanyang Branch to Xingang City, it will definitely become a large transfer station or even a cargo distribution center in the future, on the left side of Xingang City, close to the supply point of Sancheng District, I will allocate it to you, you can manage it yourself." ”

When Zheng Zhihu heard this, he arched his hand excitedly and said, "Thank you Grandpa Guo, the villain understands." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's discuss the specific plan of Xingang City." ”

With that, he took the lead and walked down the observation deck towards the large conference room on the third floor of the fortress.

At this time, there were already several elite special operations battalions who were proficient in drawing in the conference room waiting there, and on the conference table was a huge floor plan of Xingang City, but at this time, only the basic landforms such as fortresses, city walls, military camps, mountains, straits, rivers, and lakes were on the map, and the rest of the map was empty.

Zhang Bin summoned everyone to the conference table and stood still, and then pointed to the barracks behind the fortress and said, "Here, about onety percent of the area is divided as the barracks according to the terrain. ”

When the elites of the special operations battalions heard this, they immediately took out various rulers and carbon pens, lay on the map and carefully calculated and drawn, and soon, a long area appeared behind the fortress, which not only included the existing military camps, but also a large blank area.

Zhang Bin thought for a while, then pointed to the east side of the map and said: "Here, according to the terrain, about 30% of the place is divided for the Nanyang branch of Dongsheng Hall." ”

Soon, the special operations battalion carved out the eastern 30 percent area.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin began to discuss with Song Yingsheng the specific location of the governor's palace, the political envoy's yamen, the prefect's yamen and other local yamen, and the planning of the roads in the city, and combined with the port wharf and supply points, the roads on the entire island were planned one by one, and a new planning map was slowly formed.

Early the next morning, a group of representatives of the Chamber of Commerce were invited to a meeting by the Duke of Weiguo, but this time there were not only representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, but also a few officials and generals they did not know.

The grandfather of this country is looking for everyone to say what good things, a group of chamber of commerce representatives are sitting there wondering, Zhang Bin has walked in with a spring breeze on his face, he is not ambiguous, after everyone saluted for a while, he tore off the curtain on the wall, picked up the ash pole next to him, pointed to the location of the fortress on the map and said: "Everyone, this is the fortress we are in now, the defense here has also been seen, if the barbarians don't work hard, this prince estimates that they can't get in, of course, they don't necessarily fight hard." ”

The representatives of the Chamber of Commerce actually understood when they looked at the map, Wei Guogong was going to sell land, or lease land, such a strong defense, so many artillery, they really didn't believe that anyone else could take down here, everyone nodded with a smile and agreed.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin pointed to the buildings in the city and introduced: "You can all understand it, this duke is going to build a new city here, the name is Xingang City, and this will be the capital of the Nanyang Cheng Xuan Envoy Department in the future, and this duke is also ready to build a large commercial port city here, I believe you also know that out of this Malacca, it is the West, if you want to do business in the West, this will be the best transit station." ”

Everyone understands this, they are waiting for Zhang Bin to sell the land, this will definitely become a more prosperous city than Yuegang or even Fuzhou in the future, if you can have a piece of land here, the value is simply incalculable.

After introducing these, Zhang Bin finally pointed to a vacant land in the city and introduced: "This city has a total of about 600,000 mu, excluding mountains, roads, ponds and other plans, there are about 40,000 mu of vacant land left. Of course, this land can't be rented to you for nothing, you have also seen the investment in the early stage of this new port city, and later this prince will also recruit about 100,000 guards to build a new city here, and the cost of building and maintaining this city is not low, so you have to pay some money. It's still the old rule, if you pay 1 million taels per family, you have the right to rent 10,000 acres of land, and the rent of one acre of land is 10 taels a year, of course, you can not rent it. ”

Just kidding, this is a huge bargain, who doesn't rent a stupid hat.

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