Hong Tao only stayed in Ximaozhou for two days, and in addition to attending to the board of directors and dealing with some more urgent matters, a batch of silk, porcelain, and tea was also loaded into the holds of two armed cargo ships, which were part of the cargo to be carried on this trip to Europe. In addition, there are some iron farm tools and tools in the hold of the Golden River, which are for Cape Town and Carburg, and the rest of the hold will be filled with sugar and rum in the port of Cape Town, which is the cargo that Hong Tao will transport to Europe in large quantities. After the mouths of the Europeans were raised, the port of Cape Town would have exports to sell, and there would be no need to pull it all the way from Asia, and sugar cane would grow more luxuriantly in that part of South Africa than in Asia.

"Sir, I don't think the population of the empire is too small...... With such a large territory, it always feels a little fragile to rely on these fleets alone. Wen Nan's family stayed in Ximaozhou first, he has been familiar with the situation of the Jinhe Empire these days, from the law to the organizational structure of the information that can be found, read all the information that can be found, and ask Hong Tao directly if he can't find it. Wen Nan has no opinion on the system of the empire, but he is a little skeptical about the population of the empire.

"Don't worry, the time of the Great Migration has not yet arrived, but I think it will be soon. At that time, the empire will receive applications from all over the country, and it is estimated that there are also Great Song people. As for security, there is no need to worry about it in the short term, as long as the Imperial Navy cannot be defeated, no number of troops will be able to threaten the Imperial Empire itself. Whether it is Kalamba, Cape Town, Malacca, Penang, and Phuket, these are all side details, and attacking them will not cause substantial damage to the empire, at most it will slow down the pace of the empire's development. And they are not weak either, both on land and at sea. Completely capable of protecting yourself. "Concern for Vennan. Hong Tao disagreed.

The Golden River Empire began with a navy. And you can only take the road of the navy, the reason is very simple, it is too expensive to raise soldiers! The development of a large navy has already made the financial burden of the Golden River Empire not easy, if you go to the army, not to mention whether the population is enough, where will you pay this money? And it's really useless for the empire to ask for an army, according to Hong Tao's design, it can maintain a marine corps of several hundred people in Jinhe City. It's already pretty good.

At present, the location of Jinhe City is still a mystery, the west coast of Luzon Island is also a forbidden area for maritime merchants, all routes will avoid this area of the sea, there have also been cases of running a single gang of sea ships accidentally intruding into this area of waters, as long as they are discovered by the patrol ships of Jinhe Bay, they have only one result, become slaves to go to the mines, no matter what country people are, it is the same.

As for the question of population, Wen Nan is right. It's a little less, not the average less. It's less structural. The lack of elderly people is tolerable, and the proportion of women in the population is too small, especially teenagers, which is a bit troublesome. Xu Liangzhi is already working to solve this problem, and every time his caravan travels to and from Japan, he will buy a batch of young girls and young women locally, and then send all of them to Ximaozhou Island for quarantine, and then be pulled back by the whaling ships in Jinhe Bay. Not only is Xu Liangzhi transporting people to Jinhe City, but Bo Jiao is also doing the same thing in the Indian peninsula, where women have a lower status and can buy a boat back for little money. He first studied at a Chinese school in the port of Kalamba for half a year, learned simple daily language, and became familiar with the life of the Han people, and then sent back to Jinhe City with the ships of the supply fleet.

Not willing to marry a foreign girl? Yes, then you will keep beating the singles, since the death of the old man Rong, it is difficult for the Tan family to absorb the population from other Tan family groups, and marrying a daughter-in-law has become a big problem in Jinhe City. Habits and customs can be changed, it depends on whether you put so much pressure on him. If it really comes to the point when there are no girls of their own clan to marry, no matter how conservative the parents are, they will not let their children be singles. Moreover, the young people of Jinhewan are not as conservative as their fathers on this issue, which is also influenced by Hong Tao, even the emperor himself married two foreign wives, why can't the subjects marry? Could it be that you are more particular than the emperor?

According to Hong Tao's estimates, in five years, Jinhe City will usher in a fertility tide, and the resident population will probably exceed 30,000 at that time, and the number of slaves may exceed 40,000. In order not to let Jinhe City develop unlimitedly, now there are few people who can only endure it, and carry it for three or five years, in exchange for future generations, it is not too crowded Jinhe City.

In fact, the total population of the Golden River Empire is not small, but it is not directly controlled. Like the Mayi, Brunei, Sri Buddha, and Da Yue, who have already surrendered, as well as the Mamluks, Kalamba, and Cape Town, who control less than half of the Malay Peninsula, can indirectly provide the necessary population replenishment for the Golden River Empire, and these places add up to millions of people, or tens of millions. However, Hong Tao dislikes these too backward natives, and it is really useless except to be coolies, so it is better not to come too much.

"This is also a way, I think as time goes by, more and more people will want to join the empire, and when the time comes, we will have to pick and choose, and only those who are useful to the empire can be naturalized, not everyone will accept it." Wen Nan is quite satisfied with Hong Tao's explanation, he thinks that good things naturally want others to think good, so that he can reflect his forward-looking.

When the fleet arrived at the port of Cape Town, Wen Nan was still surprised although he had heard Hong Tao say that Cape Town had changed a lot. Not only Wen Nan was surprised, but Hong Tao was a little surprised. Compared to the village of Cape Town a year ago, Cape Town should be called a town at this time. From a distance, a residential area appeared at the foot of Signal Mountain, as if a piece of white had been dripping on a green tablecloth, and on the plain north of Signal Mountain, the original forest had completely disappeared, replaced by large chessboard-like artificial crops. Further north, beside a large river, black smoke billowed and flames raged, and huge waterwheels were next to each other. Looking at this number, the scale of the smelters is almost catching up with the Imperial Metal Industry Group.

Now the Golden River no longer needs to anchor in the shallow sea, relying on small boats to get on and off the ship, the newly built wharf can allow the Golden River to dock ships of this physique directly, and a huge wooden gantry crane has been erected on the wharf, only need to use manpower or animal power to turn the winch, you can directly lift the goods on the deck of the ship, no longer need to carry it down from the pedal little by little.

"Well, it's more prosperous than Puerto Calamba, right? I think that if he gave Martini ten years, he would be able to build more than one Cape Town port on the continent. It will also be the largest overseas territory of the Golden River Empire, and it may develop faster than Golden River Bay. Hong Tao is a little jealous of Martini, he is really the emperor here, the fat black man in a white robe on the dock, followed by dozens of black guards in clothes and weapons, looking at their posture, it seems that they are well trained, this young man stands very neatly, there is no wandering, and his spirit is also very concentrated, which is considered well-trained among black people.

"Sir, aren't you afraid that this black fat man will be greedy one day? If he establishes himself as king here, retreats inland, and avoids the range of the battleship, it will not be easy to deal with for a while. Vennan asked the same question as Carl and Royde had asked when they first met Cape Town, and Martini had the face of a profiteer, and no one but himself thought he was reliable.

"It depends on my strength. Martini is a businessman, a cautious businessman, and he always calculates his chips. If one day he finds out that he has a lot more chips than I have, maybe he will build a galactic empire here or something. But I don't think he will act rashly, and it will take a long time to accumulate enough chips! "Hong Tao never believed in loyalty for no reason, nor did he believe in the loyalty he said. Whether Martini will break away from the empire and stand on his own, or even turn against the empire, is not something he can calculate, but he has to decide for himself. If he gets mixed up more and more, and he can't provide enough benefits for everyone, let alone Martini, maybe Qi Zu, Huang Hai, Luo Youde, and Wen Nan will all leave him. To put it bluntly, people are selfish animals who pursue interests, and emotions are also part of interests, depending on which side is lighter and which side is heavier.

"Why doesn't Cape Town adopt the imperial system, or will it slowly change like an empire in the future?" Without Hong Tao's guidance, Wen Nan himself saw that Cape Town and Jinhewan had a different system. The black man-made heads wearing clothes and holding whips, the black slaves who were driven by their compatriots, and the craftsmen of Jinhewan who cheered at the Jinhe and had a few black people around them, all told Wen Nan that this place was different from Jinhewan, very different.

"For the Golden River Empire, a system that is in the interests of the people of the empire is a good system. The development direction of the Overseas Territories and the Mainland is not the same, the Territory has most of the technology, the Overseas Territory is only a supplement to the Mainland, it has a priority after the Mainland, and all resources, policies, and advanced technologies must ensure the development of the Territory first, and then the Overseas Territories. To put it bluntly, the local land is the landlord, and the overseas territory is the long-term worker, as for whether this long-term worker will eventually become a small landlord, it depends on the future development. Actually, you and I don't know much about what the people here think, but the one who knows them best is Martini, and since he is made the governor of Cape Town, it is up to him to decide what system is more appropriate here. Old Mai is a smart man, and he will definitely choose a way to rule this place that is not dangerous to him, and as long as our interests are aligned, his choice is mine. If there's a problem, it's never too late to fix it. (To be continued.) )