"Mr. Brontë, as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Britain to China, I am sure that you must have some knowledge of China as a country and of Chinese history. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info China has a long civilization and history, but we have been spinning in a strange circle for 2,000 years. Infinite cycle after cycle!

Three hundred years became a fate of the Chinese Dynasty.

How many powerful dynasties have come to an end at the nexus of fate, and a very important reason for this lies in the land.

People flourish, but the land does not grow as the population grows.

When there are many people and little land, when more and more land is concentrated by the rich and noble, when the rich have no place to stand, when the poor have no place to stand. The power that is not satisfied with the dynasty will be like the weeds on the steppe, and it will not be burned if it is set on fire.

Then the revolt broke out, and the continuous war decimated China's population, leaving the nascent dynasty with enough land to accommodate everyone. Then it's the beginning of a new cycle.

I believe that there is only one solution to this problem, land. China needs land, more land. Therefore, Mr. Brontë, in my capacity as Emperor of China, I propose to you this purchase of the New South Wales Territory from the Kingdom of Britain for thirty million dollars. ”

William El Brontë, Earl of Norwich, is a veteran aristocrat in British politics that has lasted for 400 years. Sending such a person to serve as ambassador to China shows that the British attach great importance to China.

It's just that this young man, who had done well in the House of Lords and a staunch supporter of the former British Prime Minister of the Whigs, Pitt Sr., now looked at the Chinese emperor in front of him and his mouth grew dumbly. What's going on here? Shouldn't I be talking to the venerable Emperor of China about the demarcation of New South Wales and Southern Mingzhou? Why did the conversation turn to the fact that the Emperor of China wanted to pay for the purchase of New South Wales?

And it was 30 million Chinese dollars, that is, 3 million Spanish silver dollars, which was more than 600,000 pounds. God...... such a large sum of money, Brontë was going to be stunned by this surprise.

Two days ago, he read on the second page of the Zhongyuan Daily that the Chinese government had announced that it would organize immigrants to open up the "Southern Mingzhou," and that the term "Southern Mingzhou" was not the "continent" of Asia or Europe, but the "state" of the thirteen states of North America. In fact, he didn't know that Nanmingzhou was the geographical term of that land, and Nanmingzhou was the administrative unit of that land. He immediately made a request to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet the Chinese Emperor, because as early as seven years earlier, Captain Cook had discovered the east coast of Australia, named it "New South Wales", and declared the land to belong to the British.

It's just that now seven years later, the British presence in New South Wales is still only Captain Cook's words. On the contrary, in New Zealand, southeast of New South Wales, since 1769, British Captain Cook has visited New Zealand four times, and there are still small settlements.

Captain Cook was also much more fortunate than the Dutch navigator Abel Jansson Tasman of a hundred and forty years ago, who had a more friendly exchange with the natives of the area, unlike the Dutchman Abel Jansson Tasman, who was attacked by the natives and had to leave immediately. Seal and whale fishing boats have appeared in New Zealand in recent years, and missionaries have followed, and they have heard that a miniature settlement has been established. But New South Wales, not far from New Zealand, is still a wilderness.

The Chinese sailed to the south coast of Nanmingzhou just last year and erected a boundary marker, declaring the entire west coast to be occupied by China, and only a year later, the Chinese have begun to emigrate there.

Brontë, with the most basic qualities of a diplomat, quickly proposed a meeting with the supreme ruler of China in order to agree on the boundaries between the two sides, but he did not expect that he would get such a large piece of pie......

A desolate land, where no one exists at all, and the Kingdom of Great Britain does not have a single occupation where money is thrown, the initial price of the Chinese is called 600,000 pounds, and as long as they insist on it, a million pounds is not impossible.

New South Wales is huge, but it's too inhospitable. And now the British are desperately in need of money!

You know, the Bank of England has issued government bonds for the British government for 80 years, and although the British current annual income is as high as more than 10 million pounds, the huge interest makes it difficult for the entire government to maintain. The huge national debt of almost 150 million pounds has made every British politician despair. Although more than ninety percent of Britain's national debt is fixed national debt, that is, long-term national debt, only a very small part of it is liquid national debt, the total amount may be less than five million pounds, and the interest on British government debt is far lower than the average level of continental Europe, only 4%, but even so, the annual interest alone costs five or six million pounds, accounting for about half of Britain's total annual income.

Now that the war on the North American continent has started again, Britain's military spending reached 1,700 pounds last year, and this 17 million pounds was not all applied to the war on the North American continent, otherwise Washington would have been hanged a long time ago, but a lot of it was spent on the navy.

Because Franklin had arrived in Paris, the whole of France was in the midst of excitement, and London had to consider the possibility of the French entering the war. Therefore, the navy needs large-scale military spending to repair and build new ones.

At the time of the Seven Years' War, the British had 120 battleships, while the French had 45, and the French navy had lost 37 battleships of all classes and 56 mast ships in the seven-year war. But what about now? The navy of the French has regained its former strength. After the British were defeated by Dugu, their naval power was constantly declining.

From the beginning of Lexington's gunfire to the European continent, the French Navy's military budget began to rise steadily, in 1775 and 1776, its total reached about 50 million livres, and now the French Navy has 48 capital ships, many of which are much larger than British warships of the same class. And that number is going to increase quickly!

In addition to this, the Kingdom of Great Britain also needs to be careful of the Spanish navy, which also has more than fifty capital ships. Although the strength of the British Royal Navy is definitely stronger than that of any of its individual opponents, and the quality of the officers and men of the British Royal Navy is even better than theirs, the British Royal Navy can now concentrate its fleet forces in Europe with only sixty-two capital ships, although it will only take a year or two, and Brontë believes that this number will definitely recover to about 100. But the French don't stop either, do they? And before that, John Bull was about to taste the taste of "outnumbered" that he hadn't tasted for a long time.

Most importantly, British foreign policy was terrible during this period. In 1762, under the auspices of the Tories, the British had firmly severed relations with their trench ally Prussia, and the Whigs who succeeded did not redeem this bad decision, and with the Earl of North, a favorite of the British king, as the tenth British Prime Minister, the British took high-pressure measures against the shipping industry of neutral countries such as Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. It was also very unpleasant with the Russians, and now Britain in Europe is a complete loner.

Brontë was very disgusted with the current British Prime Minister.

If the French had declared war on the British, their little henchmen, the Spaniards, would certainly have declared war on the British, and then the Dutch would most likely have given loans to the French, the Spaniards, and even the rebels in North America.

The British are not only facing challenges in North America, but also in Europe.

Therefore, London cleanly abandoned the Gongbang dynasty in Burma and gave up the alliance with the French in the Far East, which was to show goodwill to China. At this time, if the Chinese, who hold the trade initiative in their hands, also fall into the trap against Britain, it will bring huge pressure on the due finances and affect the confidence of the people in the war.

But what did Brontë hear now? The Great Emperor of China was going to spend so much money on the purchase of a desolate and uninhabited New South Wales. If the Emperor of China had adjusted his funds upwards, Brontë believed that London would have been willing to exchange such an uninvested piece of land for Chinese money and the favor of the Emperor of China.

"Your Majesty, I am very shocked by your proposal. It's not something I have the right to decide alone, although I'd love to have this deal done. I'll get the news back home immediately. ”

Brontë took up his top hat and walked out of the palace in high spirits, not even caring about the question of the Chinese Emperor's opinion on the demarcation of the land between the two countries. This is very good news for the UK!

Regardless of whether London will eventually approve the deal, it will only be a bilateral exchange of letters, or whether London should have sent an envoy. Then you can put this on for a year or two. A year or two later, Brontë, who had absolute faith in the Kingdom of Great Britain, believed that the rebellion on the North American continent had been put down.

"Your Majesty, a message from Guoan." Chen Ming took a sip of water, his eyes narrowed, and he was thinking about a series of things in Australia, when Liu Wu came to him with a fold.

"Liu Wenwei is eyeing the Yuan family......"

But Guoan also has a certain concern about Hongchang, and has not found anything illegal and undisciplined. Liu Wenwei: How is this going to happen?

Looking at the orders placed by Hongchang Textile Company in various shipyards shown in the report, Chen Ming knew what Hongchang was going to do. Ever since the North Sea Company set off a big firecracker under his instructions, and then stimulated the stock market to soar, this method has been learned immediately. Moreover, many people will specially invite "masters" to calculate the day and time, auspicious days and auspicious times, and the Chinese pay attention to this. And the "press conference" has not evolved to this point, but they will choose to announce it on a fixed podium outside the stock exchange.

Hongchang must be the same, and the first day of August is the day of the last dynasty. If Liu Wenwei really caught Hongchang's handle, it would definitely explode on this day. Chen Ming suddenly had an expectation for the first day of August.

But before that, he still needs to plan the armed forces of immigrants to Australia.

The western part of Australia is far less suitable for survival than the eastern part of the country, although Australia is rich in mineral resources, but it is suitable for the human life of this era, and it is more in the southeast and southwest corners of the south, which are now occupied by China and Britain respectively.

There should be some indigenous people in Australia, but not too many. Chen Ming didn't know anything about this, only knew that there were about 700,000 Australian aborigines in later generations, but he didn't know how many aborigines there were in this era. I also don't know the distribution of these people, even how aggressive these people are.

So the first immigrants had to have an escort.

The Japanese were one of them, employing two or three hundred security teams, and the immigrants themselves had to organize their own armed forces.

It's just that there is no need to take the local natives too seriously, and their threat is not so great. Chen Ming subconsciously despised those Australian natives in his heart. These Maori people don't know if there is a bronze civilization now! It would be ridiculous to have a force to protect them. Even Japan's security forces focused more on port security, and guarded against European pirates.

Chen Ming felt that the list handed over by the cabinet was overkill. The northwest and northeast need these people more, and as for the Australian ......, "let Zheng Ji go!" ”

"Zheng Ji?" Chen Cong was surprised, shouldn't this kind of person sink into the long river of history and never emerge again? Hold the title of the imperial court and live a stable life, and the juniors below will come out to mix with the society. Why did the emperor pull him out again?

After this guy 'swept away' central and southern Fujian, he was relieved of his military power and put him in the city of Nanjing. His father, the monk Waner, also followed the Emperor Taishang to Beijing.

"Your Majesty, isn't this a bit risky?"

Nanmingzhou is really a vast piece of land, and it is initially estimated that the area will not be much smaller than that of the Central Plains. Chen Cong was congenitally inclined to choose his own people, the children of the three surnames, and for people like Zheng Ji, who had been buried in the soil for two or three years, the heavens did not trust.

Although most of the 'bandit leaders' in central and southern Fujian were arrested, Ling Liang escaped and appeared in the remnants of the Qing army in North Vietnam when he reappeared. Chen Jie also took the initiative to explain Ling Liang's appearance to Nanjing, but Chen Ming didn't care. But in Chen Cong's eyes, this Ling Liang, as the first target of the Third Division of the Fujian Army at that time, should have been taken in one fell swoop. People were surrounded, but this person just ran away.

That dog and Li Shaomin and Ling Liang both have a grudge, and Chen Cong has always suspected that it is Zheng Jifang's Ling Liang who has a way to live. It's just that in the next battle, this kind of inexplicable thing is gone.

"What's the risk? The whole world is under my control. Just one Zheng Ji, why be afraid? Chen Ming didn't care at all.

"Let him select a battalion from the Fourth Construction Corps in Sanduao, and all of them must have a family and a room."

The Construction Corps is a structure that was added to the labor camp last year, and there are as few as 10 or 20 battalion heads and as many as 34 or 50 battalion heads, and the commander of the Construction Corps is one level higher than that of the Fuhan Corps.

This was done in order to make better use of the labor camps, and the battalion heads of each corps were given mixed formations, and all the people in the south and north of the world were dispersed, and then the team-level formation in the battalion heads was mixed, and sooner or later, there would be people from six or seven provincial capitals in one team.

The personnel of the Fourth Construction Corps are mainly composed of prisoners of war from Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian, hostile elements, and people of the Eight Banners, and so on, with a total of more than 30,000 people, divided into 26 battalions. There were seventeen or eight thousand strong men. The most tiring and suffering in these years, all the people's delusions have long since disappeared.

Now Chen Ming asked Zheng Ji to choose people from the Fourth Construction Corps, which means pardoning their crimes, as long as they are out of the labor camp, no matter how much suffering and hardship there are, these labor prisoners will also see tomorrow and hope, so they have a certain loyalty. Most of these people went to the battlefield, and their families were still in the hands of the imperial court behind them, let alone throwing them in Australia or South Africa, and they didn't need to worry about anything for three or five years.

The 'work' of this labor camp does not say that they must work in China, they all went to Nanyang, and what is there to Australia further south?

Chen Ming turned to look at a global map hanging on the wall that roughly matched the map of the world in later generations, and the location of Australia was marked in red and white. New South Wales is written on white, and South Ming is written on red.

At the same time, many places north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains were also dyed red, including the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. The Bering Strait became the Dongshan Strait, which was the number of Chai Daki. The Aleutian Islands became the Northern Islands, because the First Bureau of Overseas Exploration was also called the Northern Bureau. Alaska was named Xiangzhou by Chen Ming, China's first step on the North American continent. (To be continued.) )