America, it must be found, even as soon as possible, but more and more proposals, do not deal with it, it will not work, Zhao Xin is the emperor of the Dinghai Navy, and the controller of the supreme power of the entire Dinghai Navy.

If it is a feudal emperor, he can make any decision that he can make, his right is already the highest, and he can do whatever he wants.

But from the very beginning, when Zhao Xin was in the navy, he had already begun to cultivate, and some of the subjective personalities of middle-level officials came up with such a thing similar to internal reference, and these things were not taken out for show.

In this case, these people have little influence on Zhao Xin, but they can't ignore it, otherwise, it will be easy to shake the confidence of these activists.

Public opinion and attention can be diverted, now, the investment in the Americas continues to increase, but there is no benefit, in such a situation in a row, there will definitely be people who have opinions, this is the internal reference, more and more people are discussing, now, change their attention, with new things, to attract their attention.

At this time, Zhao Xin did not know that in the Americas, which were tens of thousands of kilometers away, the vanguard of Dinghai's exploration had already landed on the American continent, and the exploration that he had always pinned hopes on would soon come to an end.

In fact, they have discovered the American continent, and this location is exactly where the Aleutian Peninsula is located, and they are reporting back to them.

There is no radio and cable telegraph, the fastest way, can only rely on ships to communicate with each other, under such a premise, from the American continent and Asia to the distance, more than 10,000 kilometers, even if it is a day of relay, 300 kilometers a day of speed, to come back more than 1 month, that is, Zhao Xin to know the good news, at least more than 1 month.

Even if Zhao Xin already knows the news of the discovery of the American continent, it also needs to be transferred, after all, the American continent was discovered, and only Zhao Xin knows the benefits of the crops in the Americas, but this benefit must be gradually released, and it is impossible to show it without a year or two.

Zhao Xin made a serious choice, and really found a place to transfer the target, didn't it mean that the voyage cost was huge, and there was no profit, so it would be good to come up with some benefits, what is better than the war, under the premise that Liao, Japan, and Korea have already arrived, you can wave the army to the south.

Before, there was no choice to continue southward and stop at Hainan, in order to accumulate strength and build Hainan.

Hainan is the second largest island in China, only slightly smaller than Taiwan, such an island, in later generations, is mainly tourism, but in this era, it can be developed.

For example, Hainan iron ore was developed, a small iron and steel plant was built, and at the same time, many factories such as agriculture and shipbuilding have taken root in Hainan and have developed a lot.

At present, Hainan's construction has achieved initial results, with at least 12 cities set up and about 3 million people deployed, and after these people gradually adapt to the tropical climate, it is time to start the offensive.

A large number of warships, troops, including some logistics forces, after Zhao Xin's order, continued to concentrate on Hainan, and once they arrived, they would start an offensive in Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia, at present, is still scattered and fighting separately, and there are even some Han Chinese, but the total number is not large.

Zhao Xin's purpose is very simple, here, it is not very ready to be incorporated into China, because it is too far away, and the climate is too hot, in this case, it is a good way to choose to form some plantations.

By the way, these natives will be dealt with in pieces, and integrated into the entire Chinese system step by step, and then consider the issue of immigration and integration when the land has been developed to a certain extent.

Land may not be able to produce direct benefits, but mineral deposits can, Southeast Asia has a large number of mineral deposits, among which copper is the most important, China lacks copper, but Southeast Asia is not lacking, and there are some gold and silver maniacs, etc., these precious metal deposits, once discovered, will cause a huge sensation.

Sure enough, as soon as the war appeared and pointed to the south, there was a lot less discussion of the exploration of the Pacific in the whole internal reference.

After all, timeliness exists, taking Japan and North Korea, it will be of great help to the Dinghai Navy, and the direction of Southeast Asia should also be helpful, there are some smart ones, directly from Zhao Xin's actions, you can see Zhao Xin's purpose, smart ones, just don't discuss this issue immediately, even if they are still insisting, they can't continue because they don't have followers and continuous hot spots.

War is always the best way to divert attention, when the Americas are about to be taken, it is more appropriate to mobilize manpower to Southeast Asia, at the same time, when the Liao State was just occupied, most of the land has not been developed, and now it is almost developed, the railway and highway network has basically taken shape, and the fixed population growth has also been filled into various cities one by one, and there is spare time to take care of others.

In the beginning, Southeast Asia was just a colony similar to later generations, in Southeast Asia, a series of plantations were built, and then with the help of the people, and some indigenous people, for cultivation and planting, it was necessary to mobilize the population of the past without too much, and the whole of Southeast Asia, maybe not even 3 million people.

Only China has such a large population to support such immigration, and such colonies can also slowly increase the population, control the density, and finally completely control it through immigration.

It will not be like the colonizers of the West, although in the heyday of seafaring, many colonies were encircled, but in the end, except for the Americas, which became the United States and Canada, these colonies disappeared when the national awakening and national liberation flourished.

In this era, there is no national awakening, under the butcher's knife of the conqueror, everything can be solved, although Zhao Xin is quite conservative in the problem of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Han people, and for Japan, Korea and Liao, these people are also treated as kindly as possible, and it does not mean that Zhao Xin will continue like this.

Those natives in Southeast Asia, if they are interested, don't mind giving them a way to live, work hard for a few years, or one or two decades, and through their own hard work, they can finally obtain the identity of China, but if they are unwilling, or resist, the sword of the Dinghai Navy is not impossible to raise.

On the issue of nationality, Zhao Xin has always maintained an attitude of integration, but to a certain extent, the number of ethnic minorities cannot exceed a certain standard, and when this standard is exceeded, in the future, this nation may not be able to fall behind.

Of course, now these are assumptions, when the state machinery of the entire Dinghai Navy is opened, huge manpower and material resources will be continuously transported to Hainan, after all, it is Asia, although there is a distance from the Dinghai Navy, it is not very large, at least it is much easier than the American route, especially some materials do not need to be purchased from the mainland, directly from Yizhou and Hainan.

The shipping lanes of Southeast Asia, as early as in the previous investigation, have been investigated, the experience of the navigators of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, plus the exploration of the Dinghai Navy, finally formed a relatively complete chart, on this chart, clearly indicates the shipping route to Malacca, and there are some larger islands on the general location.

It was on the basis of this that the Dinghai Navy formulated a plan to occupy the entire Southeast Asia, and from the Hainan side, the troops were divided into two routes, one directly rushing to the Strait of Malacca and directly targeting the Indonesian side, and the other way, going directly down to the Indochina Peninsula, striving to bring down all the territory in the shortest possible time.

Not to mention that Zhao Xin started a war against Southeast Asia on the side of the Dinghai Navy, but on the other side of the ocean, a huge fleet was formed and went to the depths of the ocean.

The fleet of more than 100 ships was divided into two parts, one part of course, the speed of the Spanish sailing ships was not fast, only about 8 knots on average, but 5 days was enough time to reach the island, and some preliminary development could be carried out, for example, to identify and build some ports, and for example, to explore, and at the same time, at least 40 clippers were gathered together, not only carrying enough personnel, but also a part of the armed forces.

The fleet of more than 60 clippers did not act at the same time as the follow-up Spanish sailing ships, but crossed this fleet, they were faster, about 2 days, they could enter the location of the island from the base, because the coordinates had been assigned, they could not even arrange a whole fleet, but in groups of three or four, which seemed safer and more flexible.

On the way, I didn't meet the other two clippers who came back, and on the ocean, I missed a fraction of a millimeter, and although I took almost the same route, it was a very normal thing to miss forty or fifty kilometers, or even nearly a hundred kilometers.

Under the high-speed sailing, more than 60 ships successfully arrived at the place of discovery.

The 3 clippers could not carry many armed men, but more than 60, nearly 70, could carry enough armed men, and even among these ships, 5 ships had undergone emergency refits.

The clipper ship is not suitable for the existence of a warship, just because of the overall state of the clipper ship and the situation when sailing, but if the cannon is forcibly installed, it is not impossible to install it.

5 ships, were loaded with 10 guns, a total of 50, this, in terms of caliber, compared to the guns of the Spanish sailing battleships, the caliber is much smaller, but to a certain extent, it is acceptable, 50 guns, can provide the necessary support.

Along with more than 60 ships, there was also a company of fully armed soldiers, a team of nearly 100 people, distributed among more than 60 ships, and the pressure on each ship was not great.

In fact, the five soldiers on each of the five ships accompanying the expedition were not fully armed, they only carried the necessary light weapons, no heavy weapons, and no other auxiliary equipment.

Such a company, 101 people, but the equipment of all field armies, not only has 15 machine guns, but also has 3 guns, even the lightest anti-defense guns, but can provide considerable suppressive firepower, with the support of the fleet, can occupy a solid base.

Unlike the previous exploration fleet, which was cautious, this fleet quickly arrived at the island and chose a suitable place to start landing.

The vision of the army is not the same as that of the seafaring captain, and what they choose to land is not the place where they landed before, but suitable as a base for advancing and arranging a solid position.

Under the escort of the ships, the assault boat sent a platoon, first to the shore, and then built a stall position, and began to arrange, and then when a company has come up, it is the position to build the foundation, this position, on a small high ground on the shore, this high ground is about 100 meters, on the terrain, it is a very small high ground, but in the eyes of the soldiers, it is very different.

The terrain is relatively steep, there is an attack posture from top to bottom, and at the same time, the surrounding terrain is relatively open, and he controls here, not to mention the beachhead behind him, and the area of at least 1 kilometer around is within his influence and control.

Once this position is successfully set up, and then get a few guns on the ship to the high ground, this is a huge fulcrum, even if there are thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people to attack, it is enough to support it, and it is easy to deal with.

Leaving 5 so-called warships, the remaining ones, in a very wide area, began to explore, because there were enough ships, also divided into different parts, to begin a comprehensive exploration of them.

The whole exploration work is very long and destined to take a lot of time, but they are very active, as far as they can see so far, and those who know from the reports, this is a very large territory, not the American continent, but also the big island of the American continent, which has great benefits for finding the American continent.

After having occupied a sufficiently large shore base, having a stable fulcrum, it began to proceed in two directions, both on land and at sea.

On the sea, of course, they will continue to search deeper according to the direction of the original exploration, but this search, unlike the previous search, will be slower to figure out whether this is an island or a continent, which is a key aspect, and in addition, to record the shape and characteristics of the coastline, this is to go up to the chart.

However, when it is determined that this place is indeed a very large place, this kind of search will be carried out in accordance with the established rules, this time, will last for 20 days, or even 40 days, after a large number of follow-up materials are delivered, the construction will officially begin, a huge island that can be used as a base, it will take at least 3 to 6 months to build, open at least 4-6 port groups, and form a basic port.

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