Zheng Jing is now expanding the army, but he doesn't have much money, although the Zheng family has accumulated a lot of money, but in order to open up Australia, almost half of this money is put into the treasury of the Huaxia Kingdom, and some of it is taken away or hidden by other brothers, especially Zheng Zhi, who obtained the resources of Nanyang, and the Han people in Nanyang supported him, because Zheng Zhi sent troops to protect them when the Spanish governor did something to them.

Therefore, Zheng Zhi's prestige in Nanyang is higher than that of him, the orthodox prince who inherited Zheng Chenggong's throne and mantle, and Zheng Zhi's strength is much stronger than him, don't look at Zheng Zhi's actual population of less than two million, everyone else is actually vassals, and there are many princely states attached to him, and the ships he can use are not as many as his Zheng Jing, but in terms of economy, Zheng Zhi is much stronger than him.

At present, he has 500,000 regular Han soldiers and horses, 200,000 slaves and horses, but the total population is only 8 million, of which 3.9 million are Japanese, previously because the Chinese Kingdom did not wait to see the Japanese, Zheng Chenggong era, in order to cater to Zhang Qiang's likes and dislikes, suppress the Japanese, in his opinion, the Japanese are a good source of soldiers, although the Japanese also caused him a lot of trouble, but he still lifted the restrictions on the Japanese, allowing most of them, especially the families of the servant army to become free people, After meritorious service, you can transform into ordinary people and become Australians.

Moreover, he mixed the 300,000 soldiers and horses of the Japanese servant army with his own 500,000 Han soldiers and horses, from the naval division to the army, and promoted some Japanese officials to serve as officers in the middle of the army, in order to integrate the Japanese into his current regime and increase his soldiers, horses, and combat effectiveness.

The natives of Southeast Asia, who had been reassured by his father, began to distance themselves from them, because some of them could be used, while others were too lazy and could not be used, so they could only go to farming, or at most serve as yamen servants.

After dismantling some Southeast Asian servant armies, he incorporated the remaining 100,000 soldiers and horses of these Southeast Asian servant armies into his own troops, and there will be no servant armies in the future, and now he has a population of 8 million and 900,000 soldiers and horses.

The slaves were handed over to the generals and nobles below, and there were no slave soldiers in the future, which greatly improved the overall quality of the Australian Zheng family, and let the Australians see his sincerity, receive his good intentions to them, and be loyal to him.

It can be said that Zheng Jing all this is to consolidate his rule, and eliminate Zheng Chenggong's influence, and make Australia his own territory.

But he knew that His Majesty Zhang Qiang, the powerful king of Huaxia Kingdom thousands of miles away, was a master who could not afford to be unprofitable, and his father Zheng Chenggong told him that they were just fighting for Zhang Qiang to pioneer and open up Australia, and that the Huaxia Kingdom would definitely get involved in Australia in the future.

Because of such worries, Zheng Jing was very disgusted with Zhang Qiang and the Huaxia Kingdom, and at the same time secretly surprised, more than ten years ago when he was still young, Zhang Qiang began such a far-reaching arrangement, what else could he Zhang Qiang not do?

Now Zheng Jing doesn't have many uncles who are fighting for the Zheng family, one or two are still idle at home, and they have no ability, so they can only be a mascot and tell people that Zheng Jing will not kill all the heroes of Zheng Chenggong's generation.

There are not many people under his hands who can fight, and all this is in one word loyalty.

The Zheng family, which seems to be powerful and populous, is at its weakest, and the key is that there is no money.

Australia is at the very edge of all civilizations, nearly 5,000 nautical miles from Indonesia, the nearest country, and 7,000 nautical miles from the southern coast.

If it weren't for Zhang Qiang's guidance, who would have known that there was such a big island in the depths of the ocean that was comparable to one and a half of the Ming Dynasty, so many people actually didn't know that they were here.

So there are no traders, the Nanyang people know, but here is so far away, and there are not many specialties, rich furs, someone has to catch it, iron ore has to be mined, so far to get a few furs, a few boats of iron ore, obviously not profitable, not as good as the spices that the Spaniards have been dealing in, Indonesian, Indian spices, tea, coffee, cloth, and so on are the things that businessmen need, things that can make money.

He can only go out to buy, go out to trade.

There is no way to meet the needs of buying and trading volumes, and there are not so many ships when there is more, so they can only implement the national buy-and-sell policy, so in fact, these people in Australia are actually very poor, and the business is not developed, but animal husbandry and agriculture are okay, and agriculture can barely feed so many people.

Now if he wants to continue to consolidate this Australia, he has to invest more money and sell the iron ore, but the problem is that there is no place in the Huaxia Kingdom that needs so much iron ore, and guano, there is no place that needs so much guano, he feels lonely, yes, you don't come to this place, don't you feel lonely?

Animals that have no natural predators will have nothing to love after a long time.

Now except for the Dutch, they have no friends in Australia, Zheng Zhi is quite conscientious, and he doesn't have much bad relations with them, but he is also guarding against them, and he can do business, but once he takes action, Zheng Zhi immediately turns his face.

Just when Zheng Jing was troubled, his subordinates came to report that they found that the fleet of the Hong family in New Zealand was approaching Australia.

Zheng Jing was stunned in his heart, he didn't like someone to make trouble with him, fighting, the fleet's current ships are relatively backward, nearly 500 or so are merchant ships, nearly 900 are backward old ships, all the fleets he sent to harass Hong Hongxiu can only be called fleets, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, so they have all been beaten back, and there have been no brilliant victories a few times, and there are no losses in those gained.

Now Australia can build its own warships, but the speed of the warships is not fast, the combat effectiveness is not strong, and the artillery is outdated, all of which are some old guns of the Qing Dynasty.

He also wanted to buy the warships of the Huaxia Army, but now that he was at odds with the Huaxia Kingdom and was close to the Taixi people, it was impossible to obtain the warships and warships of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Nevertheless, he sent warships and warships to intercept them.

One hundred ships of sixty tons, fifty ships of three hundred tons, thirty ships of six hundred tons, ten ships.

He didn't know if he could stop the Hong family's fleet, if not, what should he do?

Fight the quantity? That's all I can do.

He didn't have much money if he wanted to buy ships.

No one sold him a good warship, buy it from the Tessie, what kind of face do those people, he knows, there are no bones left to eat you.

In the midst of his nervousness, his fleet passed through the Strait of Papua New Guinea and headed farther out to sea.

No sooner had they passed, behind an island, than Hong Hongxiu set sail for Papua New Guinea.

Fifty nautical miles to go, and it was already dark, and the little boat that had guided them in front began to come down, and the boat led them through the well-explored reef, into the harbor, and into the harbor.

Of the 100 armed merchant ships moored in the harbor, 10 warships had already discovered them and set sail immediately, but for a while there was no time, before they could get ready, the warships in Hong Hongxiu's fleet lined up in a horizontal line, shelled the docks and berthing areas at the bottom of the harbor, and set fire to the battleships of armed merchant ships.

(End of chapter)