After the Spring Festival, the war on 'Nanhua Island' was already in the final stage, and the fleet of the "Huaxia Development" flying the dragon flag set sail on the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Huang Sheng emphasized efficiency, how can a fleet with tens of thousands of navies passively defend the territory? Expansion by force and expansion of territory and economic expansion and market development are carried out simultaneously.

Huang Mingdao served as the commander-in-chief of the voyage, the pioneer officer was still Guo Huaiyi, and the senior admirals of the navy included Ma Cheng, Liu Liangcai, Shi Zhong, Wang Lianfa, etc., who set off with him, which can be described as a strong lineup.

The fleet dispatched 200 warships, 500 merchant ships, 35,000 navy personnel, and 20,000 merchant sailors.

Where is the big country that can be compared to the west, and the mighty fleet will make many small countries dumbfounded.

The fleet was loaded with porcelain, glassware, tea, Songjiang cloth, Shu brocade, Hangzhou satin, embroidery, and romanized table clocks, pocket watches, and so on, and they were to pass through the Cape of Good Hope to the countries of the Franco-Rang machine for trade.

Many of the people who accompanied him had the special mission of the head of the family, they were young intellectuals trained by the Huang family's new school, and it was very possible for them to become scholars and scientists.

Huang Sheng spared no effort to develop education, and more than 20,000 students are studying at Huaxia University, Hainan University, and Jiaozhi University, and the "University of South China" under construction is larger in scale and covers more disciplines.

In order to educate Huang Sheng not to be afraid of investment, he gritted his teeth and insisted when the funds were stretched. Huang Sheng knew that only knowledge could change fate, and it was his responsibility to make no one illiterate in the Huang family system.

Most of the people of the Huang family know that the earth is round, and the school has a globe, which Huang Sheng provided to the craftsmen according to his memory, which can only be regarded as almost the same, and of course it is not accurate.

But this globe will be improved every year, because the Huang family intellectual youth will personally go to the unknown territory, and the mountains, rivers, landforms, customs and customs will form words and atlases.

Hu Jianya, Li Lanxiang and Wu Youxing, the Huang family's medical authorities, also set off with the warship, because the head of the family told them that there was a plant called cinchona in the distant Andes Mountains of South America that could cure malaria.

Malaria, also known as "swinging", is an acute infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes, and once people are infected with the disease, they will suddenly develop chills, shivering, followed by high fever, nonsense, and confusion.

If left untreated, it can be life-threatening. Many people in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the humid climate, suffer from this disease, and doctors have nothing to do about it, and patients often sit and wait to die.

The Huang family system strictly implements health management and spares no effort to prevent and control diseases, but malaria is still the number one killer.

Hu Jianya, Li Lanxiang and Wu Youxing listened to the introduction of the head of the family, there is such a magical tree in the world that can be used as medicine to cure malaria, and of course they took dozens of the best students to the South American Andes to find it.

More than 200 scientific and technological workers from the Huang family who specialized in agriculture also came, and of course they went to study the habits of wild cinchona trees, and later carried seeds and transplanted saplings to be artificially cultivated on a large scale in "Nanhua Island", Hainan Island, and Jiaozhi Province.

Huang Sheng explained the efficacy and general shape of the cinchona tree, and was worried that they would make a mistake, so he asked scientific and technological workers studying medicine and botany to cooperate.

In uncertain circumstances, patients with malaria are brought in and take soup from the bark of what they believe to be cinchona trees, and after drinking it for a while, the patient will get better.

In this era, there are too many patients with malaria, and it is not fatal for a while, and some people will delay for many years before they die, so it is easier to find patients to test the drug.

Of course, everyone understands the confidentiality of the Huang family system, and all the insiders who came into contact during the search asked them to board the ship and brought them back to "Nanhua Island" for resettlement.

This voyage also had a mission, of course, to find rubber trees, to start tapping rubber while the fleet was waiting, to try to bring back as much rubber as possible, to transplant more rubber trees, and to collect as many species as possible.

This is relatively easy, and the South American Indians have begun to use rubber to make black rubber balls that they wield during rituals to worship the gods. These barbarians will not take advantage of good things, and they are completely tyrannical.

They call the rubber tree "the weeping tree" and collect it, knowing that if you carefully cut the bark, the milky white gum juice will slowly flow out, and you will get the original gum by catching it in a container.

Huang Sheng also arranged for young intellectuals to go to Africa to find a kind of palm tree, which is different from the Daming variety, which is oil palm.

Oil palm is native to the edge of the humid forests on the west coast of Africa.

Palm oil is a kind of tropical woody vegetable oil, which is the largest vegetable oil variety in terms of production, consumption and international trade on the earth in later generations, and is known as the "world's three major vegetable oils" together with soybean oil and rapeseed oil, with a history of more than 5,000 years.

Oil palm is the most suitable for growing on "Nanhua Island" and is the first cash crop in Sumatra in later generations.

"Palm oil is produced on the ground, and oil is produced underground" The Feng Shui treasure land Han people have obtained, and they have to operate better than the monkeys no matter what.

Therefore, this time, transplanting a large number of oil palms from Africa to "Nanhua Island" for large-scale planting is one of the general tasks.

Huang Mingdao and Guo Huaiyi are both veterans of naval warfare, they are full of confidence in this escort mission, and the intellectual young people are all Han elites who are eager to explore, and they will spare no effort to find all the good things to bring back to the Ming Dynasty.

Such a large amount of cargo will of course be coveted by too many pirates, and it will also be spied on by the navies of various countries. This is normal, sea trade and pirates are twin brothers.

The Huang family is not a moral gentleman, and they will spare no effort to rob pirates, and there is no psychological obstacle to fighting other countries' navies to kill people and cross goods.

It stands to reason that if there are more goods sent to Europe, the price will fall? The Huang family system of trade categorically refused to do so.

In recent years, the merchant ships of other countries have been robbed by the Huang family, and there are too many Xiyi sailors and merchants who have been arrested.

Moreover, due to the disappearance of many merchant ships running to the Far East, and the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty was monopolized by Huang Sheng, Xiyi got even less goods from the Ming Dynasty, and the price has been rising.

Therefore, the pricing power of the goods is in the Ming Dynasty, and the gold will not be sold if it is less than a penny, and the price will not be reduced if it cannot be sold and thrown into the sea.

If any country wants to buy and sell at a lower price, we will simply go ashore and reason with a flintlock pistol, or simply snatch them clean.

The return of the king must have the domineering spirit of those who follow me and those who go against me, and the voyage will sign trade agreements with various countries, and the countries that are willing to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty will have friendly trade with them.

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