Chapter 52: The Old Land is Deep

The Australian Federal Office in Ming, these big characters have been hung at the gate outside a private house, this room is the best in the whole village, so Yang Yuzhou and others put the temporary office here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

That is to say, from today the office in Macau is officially abolished, and the office location will be changed to Hong Kong in the future, of course, this is now a fishing village, there are not many people at all, before it is completely built, you can imagine that there will not be much popularity here.

Yang Yuzhou's task is very simple, one is to wait for the approval of Lu Zhen, the commander of Xin'an County, and the other is to start the construction project of Hong Kong after the approval is down, and some infrastructure must be built here if you want to develop a port trade transit station.

Not to mention the rest, that is, the port dock has to be expanded, it is so big, the whole length is only twenty meters, twenty meters, how to dock the perfect number, but to build the dock, first need materials.

If you build it with existing wood, it is not cost-effective, and the construction period is relatively long, so it costs a lot of money in one place, so it is not considered at all.

What we need to do now is to tear down some of the houses and rebuild them, most of which were originally low wooden buildings, which did not have the functions of cold and frost resistance.

As for the brick buildings that we commonly see in TV dramas, they are all rich people, and these fishermen are not so rich.

But to build this kind of brick house, it is not a problem for Australians, they have money, just the sale of mirrors and glass cups made them a profit of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, in addition to the purchase of materials and necessary items, the remaining money is finally left with 35 taels of silver, leaving 100,000 taels of silver to be handled by Yang Yuzhou, and the rest of the money is shipped back to Australia.

It's not that Australians don't worry about depositing money in Daming Silver, but they really don't dare at this time, although the south is much more stable than the north, but such a large amount of money is really not safe in Daming, even if it is placed in the silver number of the Batavia Chinese, it is much safer than putting it here.

Of course, it is not of much use to transport so much money back, the silver itself has no value, but must be used in exchange items to generate value, so so so much money can only be stored when it is shipped back to the homeland.

There is absolutely no value for putting so much money there, so before that, the trade team has discussed how to use this money to play its due role.

In the end, the members of the trade group felt that in addition to increasing the purchase of raw materials, the money was not suitable for investing in the industry of any place in the Ming Dynasty, after all, everyone knows the history, how the world will be taken away by the Manchu Qing in a few years, and then the money will be wasted, and you may be a little difficult to recover.

Since it is difficult to recover this money, it will definitely not carry out some activities such as mineral real estate investment on the territory of Daming, in addition to these, the main investment is to buy raw materials.

The purchase of grain and raw materials has become the main task of the foreign trade team, if it is not for the limited transportation capacity of the full load, it is estimated that the trade team will definitely buy out the products from the coastal generation of the Ming Dynasty to the generation of Southeast Asia.

In order to acquire these items, Australia needs such a place for loading, unloading and storage, and it is not impossible to put this place in Macau, but the Portuguese in Macau may not agree to do so for a long time, and the shrewd Macau Council will definitely collect high heavy taxes.

This is also the main reason why Australia needs such an independent territory, and of course, the main reason is to interfere with the future Manchu Qing entry, which will be a frontier military base.

When the Ming Dynasty was unable to resist, the Crossing Congregation would consider helping the Ming Dynasty and defending the Manchus outside the Guan, after all, they had a special affection for that period of history.

Although there is no internal unity in the idea of helping the Ming Dynasty, there is at least one thing that can be guaranteed, that is, most people do not want the tragic events in history to happen again.

Since there is such an idea, it is destined that the people will not treat the land of Hong Kong as a colony, and the use of such a special word as overseas territory actually has a more far-reaching meaning.

According to the idea of the Executive Committee, it is hoped that in the future, it can be built into a free trade place between the two sides, and at the same time, an army unit and a naval fleet will be stationed here to help the Ming Dynasty fight against the Manchus in the north.

This is a bit far-sighted, of course, it is not impossible to think about this possibility, the Australian army is stepping up the speed of expansion, as for the navy, subject to the problem of ships, there is no large-scale construction yet.

However, the 10 Western sailing ships ordered by the Dutch, for example, have already paid a deposit, and it is expected that they should be able to reach Batavia in February next year.

The members of the overseas consular office are composed of ten young men such as Yang Yuzhou and Zhang Jie, who have opened the company is different, Yang Yuzhou divided ten people into several groups, including the security group and the recruitment group, as well as the construction group, and the comprehensive group, the power is delegated to the hands of these group leaders, and then the division of labor management.

With the division of labor, there is something to do, Yang Yuzhou asked the boys to do a good job, as long as they do a good job, the future will definitely be immeasurable, after all, with such a qualification here, no one can erase it.

In fact, needless to say, as long as anyone who understands can think of this kind of encouragement, the Executive Committee attaches great importance to Hong Kong, and before setting out, it has repeatedly asked to take Hong Kong as a base in the Far East, and if it can't take it, other coastal towns or islands can be considered, in short, there must be a place in the Far East.

"Brother Yuzhou, you said that if Daming understood the meaning of these words, would he expel us, after all, this is a matter related to the sovereignty of Daming's territory."

Zhang Jie, who looked extremely worried, was a little cold to the name of the overseas consulate that obviously divided other people's countries, in his opinion, this is simply a bit dangerous, once the officials of the Ming Dynasty understand the meaning of these words, then they will not come to make trouble.

As for whether the Ming officials will make trouble, Yang Yuzhou doesn't know about such a thing, but he can be sure that at least Xin'an County will not make trouble for himself, and if he really wants to be so chaste, it is impossible to rent this to Australia, but directly expel the Australians.

It is precisely because of this that Yang Yuzhou dared not take it to heart at all, saying that the word overseas consulate has a special interpretation in the executive committee, which is different from the original explanation of that time and space, but one thing is right, that is, the people who travel through the country have a deep affection for this land.