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After bidding farewell to their friends, husbands, and classmates in the capital, Chen Jian and Lin Xi returned to Mincheng by boat.

Wait for the trade winds to turn, and wait for the fleets of the rest of the parties to make peace with Chen Jian at the port of Mincheng.

The fleet of the Great Wilderness City is also about to return, the flagship Lanfang will follow Chen Jian to the sea, and the rest will continue to maintain a round-trip transfer with the Great Wilderness City every year.

Every voyage to the western settlement devoured the funds accumulated by Jian Chen like a gold-swallowing monster, and it was far from the time to get the benefits.

Now there is a tax package of 50,000 silver coins to be paid every year, but the most critical tariff issue has finally paid off.

As a place of immigration rather than a colony, the Great Wilderness City enjoys the treatment of Chinese people, except for the prohibition of the import of grain, the rest do not need to pay tariffs.

The price is that if something happens in the early stage, the country will not help wipe the ass, and the fate of the future will be decided in the hands of the country, not in the hands of the Great Wilderness City.

If tariffs are imposed, industrial development is strictly prohibited, and it can only be used as a dumping ground for domestic goods, the idea of independence will soon spread.

This is not something for the people of the emigration to decide, it is up to the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie, which is not yet in power in the country, and who will inevitably do so for their own benefit.

But now the situation is still good.

Chen Jian can systematically transfer many industries to the Great Wilderness City. Since salt was included in the tax package, the glass factory could be expanded there to take advantage of its proximity to Europe for export. There are also some timber for shipbuilding, cotton cloth, jute that can be grown, etc., which are all bulk export goods.

As early as the spring when the fleet returned to the Great Wilderness City, a group of young backbones of the party, craftsmen, students of the Lanxiang Technical School, and a group of activist miners were also on the same ship.

As well as several sets of water-powered spinning machines and a large number of hand-drawn looms, a complete set of flat glass iron desks, a set of water-powered sawmills, and a number of heavily hired prospectors.

In addition, there are a batch of stallions and cattle purchased from the northern horse farm at a high price, and Chen Jian does not know if these things can be safely arrived.

One can only pray that luck will be good and that there will be no big storms.

Those captains and sailors are also veterans, and as long as the ships are not completely destroyed, there is a good chance of survival even if they are separated according to the latitude.

This shows the great significance of the mechanical level or astronomy and mathematics. With a well-made marine clock and an annual moon phase chart, the chances of a shipwreck are minimal, and you can be prepared to know your position as long as you are in the Northern Hemisphere.

It's a pity that this thing is not something that Jian Chen's ability can make, and it can only rely on the accumulation of time or the exchange between various civilizations, as well as the planned investment that does not seek returns for the time being, which may be able to accelerate this process.

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Waiting for the time for the Great Wilderness City fleet to return, Chen Jian still has to deal with a lot of things in Mincheng.

This time, the fleet of ships sailing around the world was set, and there were seventeen large ships in total. There are three of them that are the navy of the former Qi country, and there are also several sea ships on the side of the republic.

The army prepared two battalions of soldiers for this voyage, no cavalry, no swords, shields, spearmen, etc., only a battalion newly equipped with flintlock muskets.

Factors such as the lack of overseas bases, the lack of legal berthing rights, and the lack of nautical charts determined that the Republic's long-range delivery capacity to the outside world at this time was only about 500 to 1,000 people.

This is not for war, but only to defend the fleet from possible pirates. When necessary, some force can be demonstrated in the form of drills.

In the navy, Chen Jian is very weak-minded, and the two brushes of the sailor and the captain on his side can be seen in a big battle.

The army can rest assured, covering half of its face, hiding the ugly and revealing only the beautiful, which can still scare and scare people.

The so-called deficiencies are navy, experience, nautical charts, and religion.

The so-called good, in addition to the army, there are many things to show.

At Jian Chen's request and with the help of some gentlemen, the Academy Palace has provided a lot of outstanding young scholars.

Astronomer, naturalist, agronomist, doctor...... These valuable treasures will follow Jian Chen on the flagship.

These people are indispensable for exchanges in Europe. In the same way, an astronomer is a must for the communication of the Ming Dynasty, although the scholars there still interpret astronomy with celestial induction, but astronomy is the most important thing that can be established.

Coupled with the imminent arrival of the comet, I am afraid that no one in the world today can predict except Chen Jian, this is an opportunity to gain a foothold in the Ming Dynasty. Even if it is a 1 in 10,000 probability, Jian Chen has to give it a try.

There are also many craftsmen and apprentices mobilized by the state who, if possible, will study for five years in Europe or Asia.

It mainly focuses on shipbuilding, machinery, metallurgy, and painting. Starting as an apprentice and coming back after three or five years, all the food and drink are provided by the fleet, but there must be organized to make it easy to manage.

Chen Jian's personal side, as well as within the party organization and the Progressive League, have also produced a lot of exchange personnel stationed abroad.

A large part of them are people who are proficient in law or writing, and their main task is to learn foreign languages.

By the way, after completing his studies, he translated some radical, anti-feudal, democratic, free, and human rights and other things that Chen Jian and the party had caught with the pen and knife in the past.

All of these, one by one, one by one, all sides of the busy are anxious.

In the six southern coastal counties, the campaign activities have not stopped since Chen Jian's return in the spring.

Every day, the stock exchange in Mincheng was crowded with people waiting to subscribe for shares of the Nanyang Trading Company, not only from Mincheng, but also some speculators and big businessmen from nearby counties.

In the spring, Chen Jian had already taken the lead and raised some funds to order ships.

At that time, the situation was still unclear, and Chen Jian used 110 percent of the shipbuilding cost to offset the preferential terms of the future shares, and still ordered about 20 merchant ships and three frigates modeled on the Purple Quartz.

However, it is impossible for the ship to be conjured so quickly, and in such a place it is impossible to learn from the Dutch to make merchant ships with thin skins and large fillings, and not even prepare the muzzles of the armed guards just to load more cargo.

By the autumn, the situation had finally become clear, and the subscription boom in the coastal counties had reached its peak after more than half a year of fermentation, and the activities of trading companies and Chen Jian's fame had been combined for several years.

The large number of accountants that the trading company has trained for several years has finally come in handy.

In order to involve more people in it, in addition to the big businessmen in Mincheng who subscribed, Chen Jian set the amount of each stock very small, only three silver coins.

In order to bring in a large number of craftsmen, citizens and other middle-level people, and to involve more people for possible conflicts of interest in the future.

A month and a half after Chen Jian returned to Mincheng, the summary report of the six coastal counties had also been counted.

A total of 6.6 million silver coins were raised, of which nearly half were raised on the stock exchange in Mincheng, and if it weren't for Chen Jian trying to divide the shares of these shares, it is estimated that it would be even more.

The deliberate reduction of the share of each share has increased the amount of labor for no reason, causing some people to be dissatisfied.

However, the effect was that nearly 60,000 citizens, artisans, petty bourgeoisie, and moderate landowners in the six coastal counties were brought in.

Behind these 60,000 people may be family members of more than 100,000 people.

These 60,000 people don't have much of a stake, but it's necessary for them to exist. Jian Chen's interface is that this can also be regarded as better for more people, and it can't be eaten by rich people that good things are eaten. This reason sounds a lot like Jian Chen's usual style, and no one has delved into the horror behind it.

A large number of small citizens and underlying stock holders only have the right to trade and dividends, but have no decision-making power.

But when interests are involved, once someone wants to touch the bread in their hands, a little incitement is an earth-shattering event.

Most of the shares are still controlled by a small number of people.

Among the 21 members of the board of directors, four were officials appointed by the state, three were under the control of Chen Jianneng, four were merchants from Mincheng, and the rest were big businessmen or landlords with a certain reputation and capitalists in the remaining five counties.

Chen Jian is still needed now, so let Chen Jian temporarily deal with some matters of the board of directors, set the internal regulations, the salaries of employees, the way of dividends, the business plan, etc.

It won't be long before Jian Chen is about to be kicked away. He doesn't care, anyway, his shares will be thrown away when the use of slaves is discussed here, and some bottom lines would rather not make this money than get involved, it is a matter of time before he uses slaves, and it is even possible to catch his own people as indentured slaves.

It is impossible for him to occupy an absolute advantage here, these people are only allies in the future, and they will become enemies as soon as the interests of the alliance are satisfied.

Chen Jian and some people have also prepared various policies and internal regulations in the past six months, and the only thing that is not ready is the merchant ship.

Collected goods, hired staff, installed mid-level personnel from all sides, improved supervision, recruited a militia of 800 people, hired several retired officers, and purchased flintlock pistols from Chen Jian's military workshop......

By the end of December.

The Great Wilderness City fleet returned to the sea, with good luck and quite smoothly.

The official fleet and soldiers of the northern government also began to assemble in Mincheng, and the craftsmen, apprentices, and scholars of various selections also said goodbye to their families.

The Lanfang and four large ships were separated from the fleet and joined the round-the-world fleet.

The cargo began to be loaded on the ship, water and various supplies on the road were prepared, equipment was checked.

At the beginning of January, the Great Wilderness City fleet departed from Turtle Island and joined the round-the-world fleet in Mincheng.

Together with the Great Wilderness City fleet and the seventeen ships that were planned to sail around the world, a fleet of more than forty ships assembled in Mincheng.

For the time being, the two fleets need to travel together, and in addition to the personnel who normally sail around the world, the fleet is also full of goods from the Nanyang Trading Company, which is temporarily borrowed for transportation.

The third batch of immigrants transported by the fleet of the Great Wilderness City was not large, mainly to help transport some goods and more than 1,500 hired workers recruited by the Nanyang Company from Mincheng who were familiar with building roads and buildings.

They wouldn't go too far, just to the place in the south, which Chen Jian named as an oil port, to build forts and forts.