I watched two "Truth"-class gunboats cleanly blast an abandoned 3,000-material wooden ship to pieces outside Jinkou, and bargained with Wu Yanen, an old picker, and worked all day. By the time I returned to Tianjin Dongshi (Jinkou), it was already dark.

There are a lot of boats in the boundary river, and it is not safe to sail at night, and if you hit something, the loss will be too great. So Wu Haogu simply got off the ship at Jinkou Port and spent the night in the castle in Tianjin East City. Early the next morning, I rode back to Tianjin.

Because he was preparing to send troops to Goryeo, the heads of the three divisions of the Youzhou Republican Mansion had a lot of things to discuss with Wu Haogu, so as soon as he returned home, he didn't have time to talk to Pan Qiaolian and Ximenqing for a while. The left and right sides of the republican ruling government sentenced Mi Youren and Zhang Xizai, Ma Zheng, the military envoy of the capital, and Su Dalang, the governor of Tianjin, came together.

It is different from Zhao Ji's regular living court and Chongzheng Palace's reciprocal government affairs activities. Wu Haogu is still a grass platform team here, and it is a republican system, so there is no early dynasty or late dynasty. His daily administrative activities were the Ruling Government Meeting, the Senate Meeting, and the Military Aircraft Conference, in addition to the Senate meeting which had to be held in the Senate building in Tianjin, the other two meetings could also be held in Wu Haogu's mansion.

In addition to these three formal meetings, Wu Haogu could also summon the heads of the senators of each department, each room, each prison, and the senate to ask questions. The leaders of the divisions, houses, and prisons, as well as the elders, may also take the initiative to request an audience.

In addition, Wu Haogu is not a personal person. For Mi Youren, Zhang Xizai and Ma Zheng and others, he still trusts them.

"Old man Wu promised us 885,000 yuan, all of which are copper coins from Zumo."

In his study, Wu Haogu was discussing with several visitors while looking at the various documents and newspaper summaries sent by the head of the ruling government, Ji Yizhang Zhifeng (after returning from the Jurchens, he was appointed as the "secretary general" of the ruling government).

"That's what you want?"

"Why do you still have a small change?"

Regarding the questions of his subordinates, Wu Haogu just smiled bitterly: "The old man can do business, and he is not very good at talking!" ”

"It's not enough," Mi Youren shook his head, "at least 2 million military expenses must be prepared...... Moreover, two more commercial markets will be opened in Xijing and Nanjing in Goryeo, which are said to be commercial markets, but in fact they are castles, and they cannot be built without hundreds of thousands of capital. The doctoral group also had to follow up on the opening of academies in Goryeo, at least in the vicinity of Xijing, Kaijing, and Nanjing. The ruling government inevitably has to give a subsidy, and 3 million is not enough.

If Tamna becomes our direct Andong Mansion after the war, we will have to invest a lot of money there.

In addition, we are still working on Japan. If they take the bait, we will continue to expand our investment in Japan......"

To be honest, Goryeo is not a very suitable territory for development into a colony, and there is too little oil and water. Especially in the southern part of Goryeo, it is nothing more than population, food, wood charcoal, and so on. However, the colonists had to invest in the construction of concessions, the opening of academies, the stationing of troops, and so on, and they also had to support agents and participate in the political struggle in the colonies. I am afraid that all kinds of expenses will exceed the income that can be earned......

However, Goryeo, a territory lacking oil and water, was a colony that Muryogu had to occupy.

Because Goryeo has strategic value! Only by taking control of Goryeo did Muryo further expand into the Sea of Whales (Sea of Japan), the Japanese archipelago, Ezo Island, and the outer northeastern coastal areas.

Of particular value is Ezo Island, which later became Hokkaido, Japan, which was not occupied by Japan at this time and was still a wild land belonging to the Anui people.

And in a few hundred years, this wild land will become the most important food base in Japan!

With enough food, the island can become a colony of Youzhou, and the Youzhou army will be able to settle a certain number of people on Ezo Island, build cities and ports, and build ships for long-distance voyages.

From Ezo Island, sail along the Chiba Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, and Aleutian Peninsula to reach the New World, which has a bright future.

Since it will take time for the progress of navigation technology, it is unlikely that Wu Haogu will form a voyage across the Pacific Ocean without docking in his lifetime.

In his opinion, the only possible way to discover the New World was to take the route of Goryeo-Hokkaido-Chiba Islands-Kamchatka Peninsula-Aleutian Islands, spend several decades, slowly set up strongholds, open up shipping routes, develop industries (mainly hunting for furs), and finally discover the New World.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, it is time to start working on it.

The first is, of course, to defeat the Goryeo Kingdom and gain a springboard to advance to the Sea of Japan.

The second was the establishment of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate on Tamna Island, which was specifically responsible for the eastward expansion.

Again, it's heading for the Sea of Japan!

......

"Most of the Japanese will take the bait." Wu Haogu said slowly, "Muto Qinichi has been awarded the title of the fifth Danzheng Shaobi, in Japan, with the five official positions is the so-called palace master, qualified to go to the palace to meet the emperor and the emperor. The fact that the pro-ichi got such an official position means that he will be able to meet Shirakawain soon. Troops should soon be sent to recover Tsushima and Oki Island.

With this excuse, Japan should be open to us. If they still refuse, then after Goryeo submits, we will use troops against Japan! ”

The march to Ezo Island is also inseparable from the support of Japanese resources. If you start from the insulated island merchant market and cross the Whale Sea to reach Ezo Island, you need to sail about 3,000 miles, and the round trip is 6,000 miles! It's okay when the wind is downwind, otherwise the sailing time is too long and the consumption on the road is too much. The cost of supplying the early settlers to Ezo by sea would be unimaginable.

But if Japan had completely opened up to Takehoko, it would have been easier. All you need to do is bring some goods that can be sold in Echigo Province in Japan, exchange them for food there, and sail along the Japanese coastline to reach Ezo Island.

"King," Zhang Xizai shook his head, "we can't spend money like this!" Goryeo spent 3 million, Tamna spent at least 1 million to change Andong Province, and after the founding of Japan, it had to invest 1 million to 2 million in it...... That's five or six million! Although we will be able to get it back from Korea and Japan sooner or later, there are a lot of places to spend money right now. ”

Wu Haogu thought about it, what was indeed going on!

He is no longer the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty's sea and land market. Da Song is a "big company" with a population of 10,000,000 and an annual income of nearly 10,000. Wu Haogu is backed by a "big company", so of course he can spend a lot of money and invest.

But how big is Youzhou now? If you don't count Wu Haogu's private income, it is just the financial income of the Republican Government, which is nothing more than the 3 million "annual coins" given by Ji Yi, the tax income of the municipal supervisor and the municipal tax paid by Tianjin City (Tianjin is tax-included), as well as the dividends of several public-owned commercial banks, all of which are added together, and it will not exceed 10 million a year in the past few years. It seems like a lot, but after deducting the necessary expenses, the remaining "living money" will not exceed 1 million per year.

If it weren't for the fact that Wu Haogu didn't hand over the reserves of the Hailu City Shipping Division to Ji Yi (Ji Yi didn't ask for it), and the Tianjin Municipal Shipping Division and Weapons Company also earned a vote from the arms trade when Ji Yi was the Hebei transit envoy, so that the republican government had a lot of savings. Now Wu Haogu is afraid that he is going to use private property to start a war!

"Then sell Taiwan Island and the Penghu Inspection Division together!" Wu Haogu thought about it, and the way was to dispose of unnecessary assets, "Su Zhe is now judging Quanzhou affairs, Su Shi is promoting Quanzhou City, and Su Chi is still Shangshu Youcheng...... Tai Peng sold it to them, and it was no problem to get one or two million, right? We spent a lot of money in Taiwan and Peng in previous years. ”

"Is the Su family willing to buy it?" Tianjin Governor Su Dalang asked. "There doesn't seem to be anything on the island of Taiwan, right?"

"What a big piece of land!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Su Zhongnan will definitely convince his father."

Only by taking Taiwan can the coastal areas of Fujian be safe! In addition, Taiwan has extensive land, which has just been reclaimed to resettle the poor peasants in Fujian, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment. What a good reason? ”

Wu Haogu paused, "With these two million, this year's account can always be flattened." Let's talk about next year......"

Originally, Wu Haogu only wanted to sell Penghu and keep Taiwan Island (the name was changed by him) in his hands for the time being. But now they find it difficult to keep, and it is useless to keep it - there is no money to continue development, and there is no place to find poor middle peasants who can immigrate to the island of Taiwan.

A few years ago, when Wu Haogu was rich, he spent the money of the Hailu City Shipping and Purchasing Division to build Lukang City on the island of Taiwan, and also built a castle and a port in Penghu.

There is also the entire Great Song Dynasty to send him all kinds of bad guys, some of which can be sent to Taiwan Island for reclamation. So around Lukang City, a lot of land has also been opened.

But now Wu Haogu does not have the Great Song Dynasty's Hailu City Shipping and Purchasing Division, a wealthy yamen, and there is no way to go to all parts of the Great Song Dynasty to catch bad guys. What else to use to develop Taiwan? Rather than letting Taiwan rot in your hands, it is better to transfer this asset and let those who have the ability to take over settle in.

And the Su family father and son are quite ideal pick-up heroes! Not only do they have a way to raise money to "buy Taiwan" - even if the Quanzhou government and the Quanzhou City Shipping Company do not have so much money in their accounts, there are still many maritime merchants in Quanzhou! Many of them have accumulated huge wealth for several generations, there are many million-level and tens of millions of wealthy families, and there are also super-rich people of tens of thousands of levels in legends.

It shouldn't be difficult to scrape out millions of dollars from them to develop Taiwan, right? Moreover, Fujian Road is known as "eight mountains, one water and one field", because there is too little land that can be cultivated, and the contradiction between man and land has always been more acute.

In this case, it should be possible to find some poor middle peasants from Fujian to go to Taiwan to break through, right?

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