Chapter 357: Target: West Coast
Not to mention that Zhang Jin, Wei Chunhua and others happily boasted everywhere after they came back, but the Japanese martial arts world seemed to have collapsed, watching the mythical characters in the Japanese martial arts being easily defeated by the Red Flower Society, making these samurai unable to raise their heads in front of the Chinese people for a while, and the commercial development of the Red Flower Society was a lot smoother.
A few days after Zhang Jin and the others wandered around, he and Yang Chengxie were invited by Chen Jialuo to talk in the office again, and when they arrived in the house, they found that Jiang Sigen was also there.
Seeing them come in, Chen Jialuo hurriedly got up and ordered someone to serve tea, and after listening to the two of them boast about their brilliant achievements in Japan, Chen Jialuo said the reason for calling them over, "Brother Starling, Brother Ten, this time there is an important matter to ask the two of you!" ”
"But the chief helmsman says it's okay, and the two of us will obey!" , Life in the barracks has exercised their obedience and discipline, and after hearing Chen Jialuo, he immediately got up and saluted.
"Two brothers, please look!" Chen Jialuo turned sideways to reveal the map on the wall behind him, and he dotted between the two points on the map, "This is Fuzhou, this is what the English call the American continent!" ”
Chen Jialuo paused slightly, waited for the eyes of the few of them to turn around again and continued, "This American continent has fertile land, vast and sparsely populated, and it is a chosen place given to us by God!" Now the English and the French only occupy some territory here and here. ”
Chen Jialuo pointed to a narrow strip of land on the east coast of the United States and Quebec in present-day Canada, and then drew a big circle on the west coast, "This land of tens of thousands of miles is uninhabited, and it is for us to wait!" ”
As he spoke, he turned around again, "Your brothers have been in Fujian for a long time, and they already know that we have few people in Fujian, and if we didn't get food from overseas when we first arrived in Fujian." These people are going hungry! ”
"After all, it's farther away, and when we occupy the whole world, I'm afraid we won't have to worry about the problem of not having land to plant!" , Zhang Jin looked at the incomparably vast Pacific Ocean on the map and said that he had learned how to read the map in the barracks.
"Now there are as many as 30,000 people in the whole world, and the land of the Central Plains alone is almost unable to support these people!" Looking at the world map and treating China as the whole world, Chen Jialuo always had an awkward feeling, "The Nanyang area is full of plague and miasma, and the people's lives are also difficult, far worse than the American continent!" ”
Of course, this is an excuse made by Chen Jialuo, and now Nanyang can be said to have been classified as his sphere of influence, but it will be a little late for North America not to rob it, "Once we occupy this place, we will not have to worry about the problem of the people not having enough to eat for hundreds of years in the future!" ”
"It's a long way to go. Isn't it far from Europa to us? What can they do, we can't? At the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Three Treasure Eunuchs led the fleet to take a much farther road than now! Could it be that our Red Flower Society doesn't have the guts? Chen Jialuo shouted.
"The chief helmsman said to do it, then we'll do it!" , Zhang Jin was short-tempered and the most irritated, and as soon as he heard this, he immediately stood up and shouted, and Yang Chengxie and Jiang Sigen also immediately agreed.
"Good!" , Chen Jialuo high-fived and praised. "The navy has already allocated manpower, and the thirteenth brother is responsible for navigation. Starling and Tenth, which of you will lead the Marines to move with the ship? Jiang Sigen has been training with the Navy for several years, and it is enough to command a small fleet.
Chen Jialuo originally wanted to ask Wei Chunhua, but when he thought that Wei Chunhua was now a person with a wife and children, it might not be appropriate to go far away, and he didn't say it himself, I was afraid that Zhou Zhongying would find trouble for himself. So he called Yang Chengxie of Zhang Jin.
"Starling has more things to do in the special forces camp than me, and I can't do without starlings over there for the time being, so I'll go!" , Zhang Jin immediately rushed to say, Yang Chengxie was the one who had been the leader of the gang in the end. His position in the army is higher than that of Zhang Jin.
The two argued for a few words, and in the end, Chen Jialuo chose Zhang Jin; After going down, Zhang Jin immediately selected many special forces who grew up by the sea from the barracks and incorporated them into the Voyage Marine Corps.
Chen Jialuo's side also began to coordinate the resources of all parties, and made preparations before the voyage, such as tea and oranges to prevent scurvy, new firearms for the navy, various first-aid medicines allocated by Master Wuqi, various rough charts obtained from Westerners, and captains, sailors, doctors, interpreters and other personnel also quickly began to assemble and train.
A month later, everything was ready, five large ships with a fleet of several small boats were ready to set off on the docks in Fuzhou, and all the backbone of the Red Flower Society in Fuzhou were all assembled.
"Tenth brother, thirteenth brother, this is not far away, you two have to take care!" , Zhao Banshan pulled the two of them and told him carefully, "All the way to the sea route is the most important, don't be brave and ruthless!" ”
Chen Jialuo took a few young students to Zhang Jin and Jiang Sigen's side, "Tenth brother and thirteenth brother, these are Mr. Dai's senior apprentices, who are good at using all kinds of navigation equipment and drawing charts, so they will be handed over to the two elder brothers." ”
"Don't worry, the helmsman!" , Zhang Jin immediately patted his chest and promised, "As long as I am here, I will not let them suffer any damage, and I promise to bring them back with all my hands and feet!" ”
"There is Brother Lao!" Chen Jialuo turned his head to a few of him and admonished, "My Chinese shipbuilding technology is not lost too much to the Westerners, but it is a lot behind in the hydrological situation and navigation spirit of the major waterways, you must carefully draw charts along the road and measure the hydrological conditions of various places, let's start to catch up step by step from now on, one day our Chinese sails will be all over the ocean!" ”
These young people who said something arrogant were all in their blood, and one by one they responded loudly with red faces, vowing to successfully complete the task of this trip.
A long table was set up on the dock, and the sailors who were about to board the ship picked up the wine bowls from the long table one by one and drank them all after paying homage to Mazu, and clenched their fists vigorously, "Take care, chief helmsman!" I'll wait for this to go! ”
"Have a nice trip, everybody!" , Chen Jialuo and others replied in unison.
When the sails were raised, the cannons on the shore fired a salute to see them off, and everyone standing on the pier raised their hands in salute to see the fleet move slowly.
It wasn't until the last mast disappeared below the horizon that Chen Jialuo turned around, fortunately, the population of Europe is not enough to occupy the continents, and now he only needs to bring these 300 million people under his rule, and he can cut the biggest piece of cake in the colonial era with the advantage of population, now the South Seas and the Americas, followed by New Zealand and Australia (to be continued......
PS: Anyway, we all went to make an appointment on the weekend, and the subscription is so desolate these two days.