After taking a bite of Jian Chen, Lin Xi finally caught a few, just like he did when he caught geese and geese in Caohe many years ago, cut the wing feathers of the black swans short, and brought them back to the boat to feed.

That night, the crew slaughtered many beautiful black swans, celebrating the fleet's discovery of a new, uninhabited continent with extravagant and aesthetically destructive stewed swan meat with corn kernels.

The land along the river is fertile, and the Mediterranean-like climate with no simple ocean currents in the mountains makes it suitable for those at the same latitude.

A few days later, the latitude here was carefully calculated, and the latitude of 31 degrees and 52 minutes south latitude was the most suitable latitude for habitation.

After a vote, the people on the boat named the river the Black Swan River.

A wooden plaque written in Chinese, the Chinese variant, Flemish and Latin was inserted along the river, and the crew built a proposed hut out of stone and hung a metal piece made of brass.

"The year 512 of the Chinese calendar, the 38th year of the Chinese calendar, and the 1610th year of the Christian calendar. Month, day. The Global Expedition of the Republic of China landed here and named the river the Black Swan River. ”

On a stone next to the wooden sign, a group of people write their names in paint and add a phrase such as a visit.

In the nearby bushes, several people caught a few quokkas that were not afraid of people at all. The round chubby face looks like he's always smiling, even if he lies on the ground and pretends to be dead, he has a satisfied smile.

The fluffy appearance made the people in the fleet laugh, and they took some food from the ship and put it in their hands, and these wallabies that had never seen people and were not afraid of people jumped over to lick the food in their palms, and their semicircular ears moved slightly.

This is the first time Lin Xi has seen marsupial animals, and she has left all the slight doubts before - the animals of the ends of the earth or Africa can at least understand, but the little things here have opened up a new world to her, all species that have not been discovered before.

The fleet decided to rest here for a while, and Chen Jian and a group of people took guns and propped up the small raft along the river, and found a quiet valley dozens of miles later.

Digging through the dirt and looking at the endless meadows, the people of my companions lay comfortably on the grass and chatted.

"It's a great place. It's much better than the hot and humid places of Wangbei City, at least there won't be so many tropical diseases. ”

"yes. Migrations at the same latitude are always pleasant, and migrations at the same longitude are always irritable. It is difficult for northerners to adapt to the life of Wangbei City, but they did not expect that if they continue to the south along the longitude, there will be a different world under the extreme. ”

"Well, the little ones here who Lin Xi named kangaroos are not afraid of people, so there should be no foxes, wolves, tigers and lions here. It will be a good pasture and arable land. This valley alone is enough to feed 100,000 people, and it is much better than working as a hired laborer in the country. Behind the Grand Canyon and snow-capped mountains in our homeland is the Great Wilderness City, which is very lucky, but what about people elsewhere? ”

Chen Jian broke a grass stalk, played with it around his fingers, and said with a smile: "Even if there is, what can I do?" For emperors and kings, subjects were nothing more than cattle and sheep to maintain family rule. It's so far away, what emperor would choose to use the tax collected to reclaim the land for immigrants to reduce the starvation of the people? What about those trading companies? There is no profit here, neither sugar cane, nor spices, nor anything of value, nor can the cattle and sheep be transported to the market and sold, and that is meaningless land to capital. ”

Lan Qi continued: "It is meaningless to capital or emperors, but it is meaningful to the living. If this were a vast continent that could feed millions of people, and those millions could live the most ideal lives of the agricultural age, the idyll would be much better than the difficult water-powered workshops in the cities. ”

Another said: "Before I went to sea, I was full of hope for the world countless times. But when I went to sea, I realized that the world was really black. If I'm the talker, I'll collect taxes, build fleets, build an 'immigration school', and send the poor people to these places in bulk." Just like Lin Xi said, the problem now is not that the garden is not enough, but that the garden is big enough, but there is no pair of hands to put the seeds of those cabbages outside the garden. ”

"Immigration Academy?"

Someone asked, and the man looked at Jian Chen and smiled: "Don't ask me, hasn't he always done that?" Whether it is Turtle Island or the Great Wilderness City, it has been proved that a thousand immigrants need some skilled craftsmen and guidance, and the easiest way is to customize - from the immigration school to train specialized talents in batches according to needs. The migration of 1,000 people can form a village community, and the armed villagers can make the cost of raiders such as pirates too high to choose to forget and retreat. Now the question is, who will be the hands? Or is it against human freedom? After all, not everyone wants to emigrate, and some would rather starve at home than leave. ”

A few people nodded, and said, "What about free choice?" ”

"It's too inefficient. In some places, there are too many people and few places to survive, and in some places, people and land can still support it, and the more people and less places are, the more serious this kind of constraints and thinking will be. The question now is whether it is wrong for us to enforce it if it is determined to be beneficial? And after the formation of this habit, will it lead to the abuse of rights brought about by this coercion? As Lin Xi said, if this matter is right, then if the same other thing is also proved to be right, is it reasonable to execute a group of people, starve a group of people, and give up relief is also the best solution? ”

Lan Qi glanced at this person and said: "What Lin Xi said can actually be refuted, but fortunately, she gave me enough time to react, and when I go back, I will inevitably have a confusion of thoughts and a war of scolding in newspapers and pamphlets. The left, the right, and the middle, this time the position can be seated, and it is more chaotic. You read those Chinese stories in Wangbei City, and have you heard the stories of the master and the young man? ”

"I've heard it, and I've started to punish it for the sake of politics. Didn't his disciple Zigong also wonder if this was his fault? ”

"That's what I'm worried about. When we go back, in addition to arguing and scolding, I'm afraid we will face such a threat. Jian Chen, what do you say? ”

On the grass in the distant southern hemisphere, a group of people discussed their hometown that they were about to return to, and Chen Jian shook his head and said, "It's hard to say. Let's see what's going on. I am sure that I will withdraw my shares in the Nanyang Company, which is too profitable for the trade of Europe and the Spanish colonies, the tropical plantations and the slave trade. Where there is money, there is power, whether it is the fleet or the army, I am afraid that we are not opponents. After the 'March of Dignity', the petty citizens and petty bourgeoisie also distrust us. Say something you don't like, don't be judgmental. ”

"Say it."

"When I got back, I avoided talking about the slave trade. Not for it, it's for it, it's against it, but not against it now. Acquiescence in exchange for their support, allowing the rest of the conservative and reactionary retrogressive parties of the former Progressive League to launch a march of dignity, and using the petty bourgeoisie to frighten the big bourgeoisie and the big workshop owners in exchange for their concessions on factory welfare. ”

Chen Jian spread his hands helplessly and said: "Let's put it this way, after I withdrew from Nanyang Trading Company, I can't participate in the most profitable places." The Nanyang Trading Company had a monopoly on trade with Europe and the Spanish colonies, as well as tropical plantations, which were bound together. With such a share of dividends, we can immigrate to the Great Wilderness City by 20,000 or 30,000 people a year, but it really doesn't work, we have to have our own bottom line, and it is impossible to say that there is no bottom line at all for the purpose. ”

"Well, it's inevitable. Otherwise, everyone is afraid that you will be expelled from the party. ”

"Yes, principles, if a party comes and doesn't talk about principles, then it is not far from dissolution. The short-term income of immigrants is really not enough, and it will be at least five or six years before the Great Wilderness City will become the most important city on the West Coast, and it will be the thirty-seventh county in our hands to enforce our set of laws. We can't liberate the slaves in the Great Wilderness City, oppose feudal privileges in the Ming Empire, and do the slave trade in the Nanyang Company. When I go back, I will donate all my property to the party, but the money is still not enough, so I should take my time. ”

The crowd asked curiously, "How much of your estate can you have?" ”

Jian Chen calculated, shook his head and said, "I didn't count either." In terms of accumulation and savings, or land is also money, it is certainly not comparable to those families that have been around for hundreds of years. But in terms of annual profits alone, it may be comparable to the monster of Nanyang Company. The oil wells and kerosene with a technological monopoly, the private canal at the Nan'an Coal Mine, the shares in shipping insurance, the monopoly glass factory, the mining explosives workshop, the scientific and practical technical machinery institute, the steel ingot workshop, the firearms workshop, the large housing estate in Min County, the 99-year management right of Turtle Island, and the phosphorus match factory and matchbox sewing workshop jointly established with the Min County Prison...... It's still a lot. The accumulation and organization in the past few years have helped the operation, and I don't know much about the income, but it is certainly not low. ”

"After I go back, I will integrate the industry after it becomes a party property. In the future, the amount of iron will increase dramatically, and we have to invest in an iron smelting plant. Salt well craftsmen hired at high prices from the Ming Empire could expand oil well production. There are also ceramic craftsmen hired from Jingdezhen at a high price, who can open our own ceramic factory. The cotton spinning industry should also use the cooperatives we control and the Great Wilderness City to continue to build. There is also one of the most profitable industries, and now it is estimated that the habit of smoking has accumulated, and the match industry has begun to sell on a large scale, and the tobacco industry must also be grasped in our hands - let's put it this way, after we withdraw from the maritime trade of the Nanyang Company, we must ensure that in the future, the chemical, petroleum, oil refining, tobacco, steel, cement, canals, railroad or wooden rails, explosives, and machinery industries in the six coastal counties will be in the hands of our organization. Industries such as cotton spinning and ceramics should also form their own large factory brands. ”

"Remember, capital is transnational, don't keep your eyes confined to national borders. The ideology of our organization must be transnational, borderless, and global. Otherwise, I'll ask you a question, and you won't be able to solve it. ”

Everyone looked at Jian Chen, and Jian Chen smiled and said: "If it is based on national boundaries, even if we succeed in the Ming Empire, why are the people there willing to pay taxes to support the immigration of the Chinese people to the Black Swan River?" Without money, how can you organize immigration in bulk? ”

"Where you can't manage it, there's no point. Those who cannot participate in the trade of the world market are not rewarded. Even if it produces grain, cattle and sheep here...... Does it make sense to the people north of Wangbei City? If you can't transport it back, you can't support it if something happens, you can't regulate food prices, you can't make your people eat more meat, so what is the significance of immigrants based on national borders to your country? If we do things in the tone of the country, the people will only be resentful, and we pay taxes but let those people enjoy the idyllic song in the Black Swan River, but they can't contribute to the country at all...... Is the state equal to the race? I'm afraid not, so they can only do things with the familiar argument of 'the world'. ”

"If there is a bright future, ideology should not shrink into the 'natural borders' composed of natural mountains and seas at this time."

"In short, it's difficult, the future is bright and beautiful, but it will inevitably be scolded for decades...... No way, who made us futuristic? The infamy is rolling in front of you, but you don't know what is behind you, I don't care, you have to be mentally prepared. ”