The Shilongmen gold mine has been officially mined, and two days have passed. In these two days, not only was the gold mined out, but Wang Kun also asked Zhao Shichang to arrest the training of thirty-two people. However, it is not a military training as soon as it comes up, but a simple formation and military exercises.

In fact, it is a little simpler than the military training of domestic universities in later generations. Because these people are a bunch of mud legs with one shot, they honestly don't understand anything, and their physical fitness is also very poor. As for the rifle, of course Wang Kun will not take out the 38 rifle, which will be a strategic weapon in the future. Then there was only one use, more than a hundred breech-loading flintlock pistols seized from British merchant ships.

Anyway, in this era, this kind of gun is enough, after all, it is just simple training!

In these two days, Wang Kun can be regarded as having seen the most primitive way of gold mining. It's inefficient, but that's the way it can be for now!

Wang Kun is a little bit disdainful of such a slow speed, since he robbed British merchant ships, after experiencing such a fast money business, Wang Kun feels a little that even if he keeps digging gold mines, it is still too slow.

Looks like we can plan to do another vote! So who is it targeted?

Wang Kun called Zhang Lei, Zhao Shichang, Xie Wu and Cheng Luo over, and Wang Kun has basically accepted Cheng Luo and the two now. After this recruitment, Wang Kun feels that there is still a 'generation gap' with the times. And like this, it is necessary to hand over some of the tasks of contact with the outside world to professional people. After all, Cheng Luo has lived here for more than ten years before, and he used to come and go to these places often.

Wang Kun called a few people over to brew for a while, and said: "Now that our gold mine has entered the regular stage, then what should we do next, it's time for us to think about it!" ”

"The next thing we do, of course, is to protect our gold mines, recruit people, and then dig for more gold. As long as we keep this place, we will become a big company like Dagang! Hearing Wang Kun's question, Xie Wu felt that Wang Kun was a little inexplicable. Of course, guarding such a gold mine is digging for gold, so why don't you rob it!

After listening to what Xie Wu said, Cheng Luo stretched out his hand to his head and slapped him: "How can you speak here!" Shut up! ”

In fact, Cheng Luo didn't take these three people too seriously at first, but since seeing such a magical ship, Cheng Luo has restrained his arrogance. Although he was considered the number one person in Lanfang and even Borneo, he thought that it would take strength for them to be able to kill him in the encirclement of Chen Shuisheng!

Then there was the robbery of the British ships, which were not only sharp and precise in their gunfire, but also unambiguous in their killings. Therefore, Cheng Luo felt that these three people must be powerful, so he did things more dutifully. And now as soon as he heard this, he knew that these three people must have a lot of plans.

Besides, Xie Wu opened his mouth to answer at this time, it is indeed not right to anyone, and no one himself has spoken yet!

Xie Wu smiled brightly, he was a little carried away in the past few days. Mainly in the past few days, he has been pestering Zhang Lei and Zhao Shichang to ask questions, and the relationship between the three of them is also getting along well, but after all, he joined later. According to the old rules, he was still in the inspection period, so he was still reckless.

"Huh! It's okay, it's okay to say the wrong thing with me, you can also talk freely! Wang Kun knew that Cheng Luo was too restrained, since he saw that he had robbed the British ship, he was really a robber. And if they can build Lanfang Kingdom, they will clean up all the bandits on the road and on the sea.

In Cheng Luo's heart, he may still be a little unable to turn around, Wang Kun is also understandable, after all, they were considered soldiers before, and now they are bandits.

"Now that the gold mine here is on track, we must protect it!" Zhang Lei feels that no matter how it develops in the future, this gold mine must be guarded. It's a constant source of gold.

"It's inevitable! But where do we go from here? Wang Kun looked at Zhang Lei and Zhao Shichang and asked. Then he glanced at Cheng Luo and Xie Wu again.

Cheng Luo and Xie Wu just listened and didn't react, but Zhang Lei and Zhao Shichang frowned!

"I think we should build a base in Singapore that has what it takes to be a metropolis, and that's proven!" Zhao Shichang felt that Singapore would be an international metropolis in the future, so it must be a strategically located place.

"Singapore has to be well developed, but Singapore is not the best place to be. I think Batavia is good, there is a good Chinese base, and the location can echo Singapore. Zhang Lei thinks that Batavia is still good in terms of location, after all, the Dutch have been operating there for more than 200 years.

Wang Kunhou shook his head lightly, and then said: "These two places are very important, but they are not very ideal, and they are not the best choice!" ”

"Oh?" Zhang Lei just nodded thoughtfully.

"Isn't Singapore good? So where could it be better? "Zhao Shichang was forced to drop out of school before he didn't just go to primary school. So he only knew that the Opium War was fought by the British, so as long as he held the Strait of Malacca, presumably China would not suffer so much trauma in the future.

So it's just an angry opinion, not so scientific. Wang Kun picked up a map of South Asia seized from Marven's cab, which was quite good in terms of the level of map production. All the places that have been discovered are clearly drawn.

Wang Kun thought for a while and fixed his eyes on the east side of Borneo, and then pointed to this place and said affirmatively: "Here! This is it! Manila! Our next step is to take Manila! ”

Hearing Wang Kun's words, Zhang Lei didn't react a little, the whole Nanyang is not without a good place, why do you choose to take Manila The next step is to seize Manila! Is it because it's close to the mainland?

Although Zhao Shichang didn't understand it a little, he was used to believing in his eldest brother. Since the eldest brother said that it is good here, the eldest brother must have his own reasons!

Cheng Luo and Xie Wu didn't have much reaction, but they were a little curious about why Zhang Lei and Zhao Shichang's reactions were so strange! They think it's the same everywhere, as long as they don't get attacked by the Europas!

In fact, there is a reason why Zhang Lei reacted like this, because in later generations, the Philippines was one of the countries he hated the most. The reason why they hate it so much is not only that they always have conflicts with China, but also that among the people who died in the Philippine hostage incident were his relatives.

Wang Kun also knew that they didn't understand why they chose this place, but there was nothing curious about it, as far as strategy was concerned, this place had to be taken.

"Manila was occupied by Spanish colonists in 1571, and it has been more than 200 years now! And the current Spain is not the Spain of the past! Right now, he is the weakest of the three forces in the South Seas, and there is no more of them in the entire East! At that time, even if they wanted to shoot reinforcements, they would have to send fleets from so far away in Mexico. So when the time comes, our occupation of Manila will become a given fact! Wang Kun thought about it and said.

"Moreover, they have a record of massacring Chinese on a large scale during the Wanli years, so the Spanish power in Manila must be eliminated!"

Hearing Wang Kun say this, Zhang Lei and Zhao Shichang were full of anger. In later generations, there are many tragic stories of the crimes committed by the entire Nanyang aborigines and colonists against us Chinese. Now the two of them also feel that for this one reason, they must also take Manila from the Spaniards!

"And what are the resources we are most lacking right now?" Wang Kun asked this question, and without waiting for the four to answer, he continued: "It's the population!" What we lack most now is a large population! ”

"In the West, most of the way colonial rule was to colonize a place by colonial corporations, and then they began to plunder the resources of that place, and they began to enslave the people of that place. But their population was relatively small, so a later colonial revolt was inevitable. So we have to have a Chinese majority in our colonies, and these places have to be Chinese-dominated. ”

"So we need a lot of Chinese people to occupy these places now! The next step we have to do is to migrate a large number of people overseas, and this is a strategic task! ”

When Cheng Luo heard him say this, he hesitated now when he thought it didn't matter. After a simple calculation, I decided to speak my mind.

"That, I'm afraid it's not easy for you to do this, not to mention the imperial court's control of the population. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't get by, no one would want to drift overseas to make a living. So it's probably not easy for you to move a large number of people here, but if we kidnap a small amount of bandits, maybe it will be faster and more convenient. Cheng Luo himself couldn't survive in his hometown back then, and then risked his life to run to the beach and go to sea with the elders of the clan.

After hearing this, Xie Wu also nodded in agreement, obviously it was not easy for him to go to sea back then.

Wang Kun didn't take it too seriously when he heard it: "You were forced to go to sea back then, and you don't know what life overseas will be like." But not only do we provide free boats, but we also give them free land, or just tell them that there are a lot of gold mines waiting for them. It's really not going to work, and when the time comes, let these people who have made a fortune come to the past! There's always a way! ”

Cheng Luo thought that this was really the case, he didn't know what technical words to have, but he felt that this should be okay!

In fact, the main difference is that these people used to passively go to sea to live, and in the future, they can be said to actively go to sea with lure, after all, there are always people who will be tempted by gold, and there will be a lot. In later generations, Americans used this method to lure hundreds of thousands of people to that strange United States. What's more, there are still a large number of Chinese in Nanyang now, so it should be relatively more attractive here!