Qianqing Palace.

On one of the walls of Chen Ming's dormitory, a large map hangs on it, a very detailed map with latitude and longitude, but not with the Purple Mountain Observatory as the coordinates, but with the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in Yan'an, Shaanxi as the midpoint.

Chen Ming didn't want to do this, but China now relies to a large extent on the 'achievement construction' that has been completed in similar Western research in the measurement, division, and theoretical construction of latitude and longitude.

But Westerners themselves are not angry, Britain, France, Spain and other countries, each country has its own rules. The British made a great effort in this matter, the French were not much inferior to them, the Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch, the Danes all had their own research. Why should China now follow the British?

This is unfair to France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and them.

The reason why the final conclusion of the original space-time plane was placed in the Greenwich of the British was entirely because the British were the most powerful at that time.

Now the Europeans themselves have not yet reached a conclusion, so according to the 'international practice' of this era, China also needs to come up with its own rules first, after all, this is convenient to use, which is more helpful for China's current navigation.

The large map marks many islands that have been discovered, the location of the Pacific Ocean in the middle, to the south to New Zealand, Honolulu and the surrounding islands, the Dongshan Strait in the north, that is, the Bering Strait in the original plane of time and space, the red dots that represent the meaning of the port, and the red and blue arrows that symbolize the direction of the ocean current, this map is more valuable than a thousand gold.

It can be said to be a microcosm of Chen Han's current maritime history.

Holding a small red flag in his hand, Chen Ming is carefully observing the east coast of Nanmingzhou, and the Third Bureau of Overseas Exploration combined with the navigation charts of Europeans has discovered the ocean current in the south of Nanmingzhou, which runs from Nanming to the southernmost tip of the Americas, and continues to the east along the ocean current, which can pass through the Strait of Magellan to the Atlantic Ocean; If you turn north, you can follow the ocean current to the vicinity of the equator, where you can turn west and go straight back to the east coast of Nanmingju.

It's like a closed gyro, just like the Pacific Ocean north of the equator, and the Pacific Ocean south of the equator is a big 'circle'.

This red and blue route map also evokes a fragment of Chen Ming's deep memory, the ocean current facing north next to South America seems to be called Peru or something, is it a cold current in Peru?

That's pretty much the name, is this ocean current flowing from high latitudes to low latitudes?

But none of this is important, the important thing is that the 'through' of this line can allow Chen Han's warships to set off from the southern tip of Nanmingzhou and directly attack the southern tip of South America. I even went to the east coast of the Americas to make soy sauce. And if the battleship goes west, it is still a westerly drifting belt, and you can also go to the Cape of Good Hope to make another soy sauce.

With the opening of this 'line', the strategic significance of Antarctic Island at the southern tip of Nanming Prefecture has increased rapidly. This island, which has been dubbed the 'Antarctic' by the Third Overseas Exploration Bureau for its extremely irresponsible 'spirit', has a very lofty interpretation in China's official definition – the end of the world's south. Hit here and go south, until the ice and snow of the Ice Age, and no land is seen again.

None of them should have been to Antarctica, but they saw icebergs and were forced by the severe cold, so they had to go home.

Anyway, the previous Antarctic Island didn't make much sense, just like the 'ends of the world' in the original space-time plane, just a tourism gimmick.

Chen Han is building a sizable gathering place at the Antarctic Port on Antarctic Island, which is a port that Chen Han will focus on operating in the next few years, although the development of Dajin Mountain is now in full swing, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recruit immigrants willing to go to the Antarctic Port on Antarctic Island by normal means. But this is not difficult for the imperial court.

The imperial court is dedicated to sending people inside, is it something that ordinary people can choose not to go?

Antarctic Port is a good sheltered port, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the east faces the sea. The climate is comparable to that of the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the four seasons have their own characteristics throughout the year. Spring and autumn are warmer, but evenings are cooler. In the middle of summer, the sun shines for more than 15 hours during the day.

Perhaps by the time the entire Antarctic port was completed, Chen Han's war with Spain would have already ended. However, as an emperor, you must look farther, don't just look at the one-third of an acre in front of you, the future war between East and West America will inevitably have a place for Antarctic ports.

Qin Youzi climbed down from the deck of the Kangaroo a little top-heavy, he was not a landlubber, but the Jiangnan water town was not comparable to the stormy waves on the sea.

He was dizzy all the way to Nanmingzhou from his homeland, and he had previously worked in Haxian Town, but that didn't mean he would go into the water often. This time, he returned to Guangzhou from Hexian Town, and then came to Antarctic Island from Guangzhou, he was just as good at transporting ships, and he hadn't changed much after so many years. On this long voyage, he spent most of his time lying on a wooden bed in the cabin of the Kangaroo to recuperate. Now on the dock of Antarctic Port, when he stepped on solid land, his whole body was completely reborn and reborn for the second time.

A group of soldiers who came here lined up on the dock at the sound of the officer's command, and most of them seemed to be in good spirits, far better than Qin Youzi, the incoming leader of the Antarctic Town, Qin Youzi's mouth couldn't help but pull a wry smile. With the support of his loyal retinue, he was sent to the public office in the town of Antarctica to rest, and as for the people and materials on the Kangaroo, it was entrusted to the Wehrmacht officer.

After the initial construction, the town of Antarctica already has the basic appearance of a city. Thanks to the completion and operation of the brick kiln plant and the cement plant, the construction of Antarctic Town has entered a period of rapid development in the past half month.

Although it is now winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

But it wasn't too cold. The dimension of Antarctic Town is similar to that of North China, but the climate in winter is like that of Jiangnan, and the temperature is almost below zero. The coldest is four or five degrees, and this climate can continue to work.

The first is the construction of the urban area of Antarctic Town.

There is a lack of limestone around Antarctic Harbor, otherwise a lime kiln would not have been built here. While the town of Antarctica does not require the construction of old city wall fortifications, both the port and the fort require a lot of cement. Especially the latter, where all the excavation is marble.

The biggest task of the labor camps and laborers who were transported here in recent times was to install gunpowder in the quarries, fire artillery to blow up the mountains, and at the same time mine limestone to burn lime cement, and process large stones into large strips of stone, which are then transported to the port piece by piece.

This large stone is suitable for both foundations and walls, not only for harbor lighthouses and batteries, but also for offices, barracks, warehouses, schools, hospitals, etc.

To this end, the PCPD spared no expense in the development of the two quarries. So much so that the labor camps and laborers had to go into the mountains, mine cartloads of limestone and large strips of stone, and then haul them along paved paths with oxen and horses to the port.

The large-scale use of these stones has made a qualitative improvement in the protection of the town of Antarctica, which has no city walls. Many public facilities can be used as subcontracting when danger is real. So much so that the local immigrants wanted to use this stone to build their own houses.

If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if.

When the battle began, the town of Antarctica suffered a battle of annihilation.

A brick and wood house can't stand the toss, not to mention the close contact of a rocket, even an iron bullet can easily pierce it. When you think about it, it's still a solid stone that is reliable.

The battalion officer of the local garrison, the Haiphong Battalion, once told the Governor's Office in Mohu that this construction policy of the local office was a waste.

Antarctic Harbor is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the east faces the sea, and there are many small islands at the mouth of the sea, as long as they are properly used, the sea mouth is sealed, and the narrow inlet and outlet channel is locked, the enemy will not be able to attack the Antarctic town deep in the bay at all, unless they give up landing on land from the bay and turn to attack from other places. But that would be more problematic, as it would mean that they would have to traverse at least fifty kilometers of mountain roads – dense mountain roads with high mountains and lush forests, which would be pure death.

Therefore, in the eyes of the garrison, it was a waste to use precious stones for the construction of public offices, hospitals, schools, and so on. Not to mention the common people building houses.

If the enemy all entered the harbor, and the outer fortresses were uprooted or surrounded one by one, would the office be able to use it even if it was poured with iron juice? The tide is over.

The rolling hills and dense primeval forests around Antarctic Town are its best barriers, and it is difficult for the army to sneak attack on a large scale, as the defenders, they only need to consider the sea route to the east. There is really no need to spend a lot of manpower to build stone buildings everywhere in Antarctic Town, those are secondary buildings, and bricks from brick kilns are enough. It's a pity that the voice of the military is very small in the port and city buildings.

However, the chief officer of the office is not a person who does not understand things. The forts at the mouth of the Antarctic harbor are of great importance, and they depend on them to control the bay and keep the enemy out of the gates. Therefore, the office also allocated him a labor camp, and later stuffed him with more than 300 slaves from Mindanao. Under the command of the overseer, these 1,000 prisoners and slave laborers began to build the fort while cutting down trees and clearing the site at the selected location of the fort.

Until now, there has been no sign of several forts. As far as the current manpower is concerned, don't expect the forts outside the port to be erected without wasting a year or two.

At present, there are only more than 40 gun empositions established in various battery positions, and in the same way, more than 40 big guys with a minimum of fifteen pounds of guns have also been placed, and the entire Antarctic Town already has a certain defensive capability.

In the future, Antarctic Town will definitely continue to be replenished with manpower and materials, and the final evolved version of more than 40 heavy guns will also be fully enclosed batteries, and the number of artillery for the overall defense will be more, and at the same time, land defense fortresses, garrison barracks, warehouses and navigation lighthouses will also be built one after another, in short, this is a long-term project.

It is impossible to build houses in the city with stones. Except for the civilian warehouses, hospitals, schools and other facilities that will be built, they are all made of bricks, at most bamboo reinforced concrete.

A few neat rows of residential houses have also been built, with the exception of a few that are 'special offices', totaling about a hundred, divided into four residential areas by a cross-crisscrossed gravel road. The latter is a by-product of stone mining.

To be honest, these houses are far from sufficient to meet the needs of the inhabitants of Antarctic Town. There are already more than 1,000 immigrants in Antarctic Town, and there are nearly 200 families. And are all these 100 houses for immigrants?

Didn't you see that the northwest part of the country has already started to build a fence?

It was for government agencies and personnel, and only seventy-five were for immigrants, and one in each district was a commune house, and in reality there were only seventy-two houses, all of which were only forty percent of the total number of immigrants, and immigrants would come again after the winter had passed in the southern hemisphere.

As a result, most people are still crammed into cramped wooden houses, and their living conditions are probably not much better than those of labor camps and slave laborers!

As for who can get a house, it's very simple, look at the points book. This one is the fairest, almost the year of whoever scores high is the most positive, and whoever scores high has a house. Clear and straightforward.

Migrants also work hard every day. These days, they are either cultivating fields, digging ditches, or burying underground drainage pipes.

In addition, they had to cut timber, build drinking canals, dig wells and ......, and in short, there was not a moment of leisure.

And the only motivation to keep them going was Chen Han's announcement that the land would be allocated to them.

It has fertile land and a climate suitable for growing crops. According to the regulations, if each person has five acres of land, then each family can be divided into 20 acres at the least, and 30 or 40 acres at most, and all the proceeds will be divided according to the repayment period and the government, and the loan will be repaid in three years, five years or longer. After that, only 20% of the land harvest is paid every year. This lasts for three years, and after three years, all taxes are paid according to domestic standards.

Although in the first few years, and even in the first decade, the government exploited the immigrants who were allocated land, but there was a comparison in everything. They are all landless peasants in China, and they attach great importance to the ownership of land, and the ownership of a piece of land deeply stimulates their nerves. Why didn't Chen Ming take this opportunity to charge more money?

He's not really big, so he doesn't have to worry about expenses? He doesn't have any money now. So, is it obviously beneficial to fiscal revenues to collect a little more taxes while immigrants are in a period of euphoria, and then return to normal taxation after this period of euphoria has subsided?

And as long as these immigrants work hard, at least they don't have to worry about food, which is much better than their life in the homeland.

In addition, these immigrants can also rent land from the government for farming, and at the same time, they can continue to buy five acres of land cheaply, so that ten acres of land per person is equivalent to each family can have up to 50 acres of arable land, which is absolutely unimaginable for immigrants in the homeland. Therefore, their support for the government at this time is absolutely heartfelt.

The high exploitation and high-pressure exploitation in the early stage did not fundamentally make the immigrants dissatisfied with the imperial court, so the sequelae of Chen Han's actions almost did not need to be considered.

Chen Ming agreed to this measure of the Ministry of Finance after careful consideration of the whole body, and the maximum profit was made without hurting the people's hearts.