Chapter 260: Arriving at the Land of Gold (Part II)

Li Ji returned to the boat at the dock in a hurry, "Wang Xinyu, the good student you brought, the calm atmosphere of bullshit, the good leader of the team and the iron-faced selfless judge, Lu Anguo's bastard boy is simply a bastard, Lao Tzu believes that you promoted him and arranged him to the New World Development Company as one of these quasi-early colonial affairs officers who will definitely become a third-level land in the future is simply blind." The people under his hands actually ignored the ban and got the things of the Mayans, and he didn't know how serious the consequences of this direct communication were, so he didn't need to let him take care of the people under his hands. If he can't manage such a small number of people who travel to and from the New World every year, what other big things can he do? ”

"I don't think you're going to be angry. This kind of thing is the same as smuggling, how can it be forbidden? Aren't you a copy of the sea ban -- the land ban? Kang Mazi is a piece of board and can't go to the sea, you can't go deep into the inland alone, how can this kind of thing really be done? Where there are people, there are interests, where there are interests, there are risks, high risk means high returns, this is the original words of the primary school social studies textbook, or are you yourself the editor-in-chief, you don't remember? Why are you angry with others? Wu Qi persuaded.

"Forget it, don't talk nonsense, our armed forces are enough, the Mayan plan will be launched in advance! Let's hurry back to China, speed up the stockpiling of vaccines and medicines, and hurry up when they are shipped over. Let's hope Kukulkan will bless his children and grandchildren, if we have fully emigrated and imported goods, and too many people have died due to infectious diseases, then we will have to do our best. ”

"The development of this continent is an established national policy, but the resources needed to build industrialization in the country are sufficient. Labor is in short supply, so there is no need for emigration for the time being. Bai Jia said.

Although the enclosure is important, it is not urgent, and the cost of large-scale immigration is very high. The vast majority of the tenant farmers disappeared and became basically agricultural workers and landlords, and it would be a few years before enough agricultural migrants could be found.

Seeing that there is no enemy in Chizhou, it may be difficult to find a reason to mobilize the masses, and it will also be difficult to do it in Juntun. Bai Jia said the problem unhurriedly.

"Then we have to launch a special move, out of the gold mine!" Li Ji said viciously.

"We will lease out all the Chizhou gold mines we occupy to contractors, and after quickly recovering the rent, we will have money for development, which is much faster than issuing bonds and auctioning wasteland. It is more difficult to solve the problem of epidemic prevention and racial health segregation. If there are not enough medicines, it will be over, and these future consumers and workers will lose money if they die too much. ”

"The many primitive tribal city-states of the Maya died in wars and sacrifices with a much greater population, definitely no less than smallpox. The abolition of blood sacrifices and the lives saved by war are enough to offset the 'likely' death of infectious diseases. As long as there is money to be made, those lack of transportation capacity and not enough drugs are excuses, and the high profits are enough to stimulate those gold diggers who want to make a fortune to take away smuggled and prohibited arms, what is a little medicine? I only need to buy the goods I need at a high price. Those bastards will naturally ensure that the supply is sufficient. The lack of labor is even more of a joke, if the price is high enough, those traffickers from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will dare to sell the fierce herdsmen on safari!

But then again, is it better to follow the plan to contact those plain tribes of North Chizhou first, and then go south to conquer the plateau and rainforest? Is this practice of supporting backward civilizations and overthrowing advanced civilizations inconsistent with our consistent practice? Why don't you first contact one of the Maya city-states, then start a unified civil war, and then unify the central isthmus and rainforest? ”

"It's too annoying to do this, although it is easier to buy the Maya than the Indian tribes, who do not have a unified culture and language. However, the Mayan vices and habits of pretending to be ghosts are difficult to reconcile, and it is better to let the future Aztecs conquer the Maya without trouble. At least we don't have to act as villains and take matters into our own hands to deal with those stubborn parasitic aristocrats. ”

"It's still the same old rule. Democratic voting, unifying to fight a proxy war, and unifying the tribes of Chizhou to raise their hands! Li Ji looked at Wang Xinyu and Bai Jia, who was speaking, and raised his hand to know that the others were once again swayed by the idea of saving money. It costs money to support agents to fight wars, which is far more difficult to deal with than trade and assimilation, and the original plan was to make money by contacting the Maya for trade and alliances without spending money. Occupying the place for a short period of time for long-term benefits and only needing to form alliances to trade quickly and make money, and then slowly integrate the culture with water mills, the second method always prevails. The reason may be that they are technical nerds who like to use money and technology to solve problems, and violent means have always been the last resort to press the bottom of the box.

"News of gold mines at the Port of Golden Gate Bay (San Francisco) and rumors of silver mines in Potosi could reach the country in as little as 10 days, and perhaps by next year, Chizhou would be a replica of the second South-state gold rush. I don't believe that there are cruel blood sacrifices and barbaric customs in this world that wealth and civilization cannot distort, and what will the history books of the Mayans say about our invasion? Could it be the Chizhou version of the Black Ship Incident? Zhao Shouzhong raised his eyebrows, a rare playful time.

"If you want to do it, it is not too much to exaggerate, it is not too much to portray the land here as a sea of gold and silver, and the evil result of the rapid expansion of domestic capital is that the bubble hidden in the financial system is getting bigger and bigger. We have found out that this continent has been 20 years, and there is no need to endure it anymore, the development will be a big scene, I don't believe that those upstarts who got rich overnight in Nanyang don't want to get more cheap. Lao Bai thought that a copper mine he had seen in Nanyang was taken by an upstart first, so he was angry.

"How so? Do you want to bring the legend of El Dorado to the present day? Marco Polo said that China is full of gold, that is fooling the illiterate Europeans, you say that Chizhou is full of gold, that is fooling domestic investors or poor eggs? Liu Xin smiled.

"There is nothing wrong with using official channels to publicize the vast land and wealth of Chizhou, the gold everywhere is over, the legend of the El Dorado can be there, and it is enough to fool people with a few pieces of ingenious gold, such a large continent, it is very likely that there are thousands of tons of gold hidden in that horn. It is not known how many precious jadeite and gold products the Mayans threw into the wells for thousands of years, and who can come up with evidence to deny this possibility? Lao Zhao's science fiction novel of a trip to the Golden Country is enough to set off this storm. ”

"What could attract the aristocracy but good food in terms of material temptation? This news can also alleviate the pressure on the gold-silver price comparison of the composite standard, which is already very large. Gold buying in the futures market can be a little smaller. Chen Guanxian was also very supportive of the proposal to release gold mines.

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Three days later, near the equator in the South Pacific, everyone huddled on a research ship and sailed with a research expedition ship in front of them. The team of more than 100 people was indeed a great pressure on the Chizhou repatriation fleet, which limited the number of ships and the number of seafarers, and the original 200-person repatriation team of only two ships was stuffed with more than 100 people who crossed the crowd, and it was really difficult to arrange the overcrowding of ships. A third of the 200-person return team was left in the port to wait for the next fleet to return to China.

In order to avoid the wind and rain near the equator, and in order to return home in a hurry, the ships sailed all the way to the southwest, hoping to use the automatic west of the South Equatorial Current and the southeast trade winds in the southern hemisphere to have a smooth journey. The North Equatorial Current and the northeast trade winds in the north were not bad, but the fleet had little possibility of sailing northwest in the wind and rain, and the strong northerly winds and high waves made it difficult for the fleet to cross the entire storm zone, so it had to choose to escape south by grazing the southern edge of the storm zone.

After two days, the fleet that left the storm was very badly damaged, and many places were cracked and leaked by the huge shear force generated by the surge, and if they continued to sail, they might not be able to reach the next supply point and would be sunk, and the ships had to dock on the island because they had already approached the dragon lizard islands discovered by Lear (there were huge tortoises and marine iguanas that resemble dinosaurs and dinosaurs, which were the Coron Islands of the old plane), so the ships had to dock on the island.

The hapless crossers had no choice but to get off the ship and rest on the beach, and only when the ship was repaired could reach the nearest western supply port within a month. The Viceroyalty of the South Pacific was a huge area, but it was sparsely populated, with unimaginably rich fishery resources and various tropical flora and fauna, and expensive seafood such as sea cucumbers, corals, copra copra, tuna, lobsters, and abalone flooded these islands, and a large number of domestic merchants came to sweep the goods. Several large centralized transport and trade ports and dozens of supply ports were established, several of which were designated by the empire as ports for the return of expeditions to Akasu (the departure port was Edo, and the Kuroshio sailed northeast to the west bank of North Akasu, all the way south to the vicinity of the equator and then returned from east to west). As long as it takes a future when steam turbines replace sails on a large scale, this tedious long-distance mode will naturally be abolished.

However, what the people did not expect was that the progress of the expedition to South Akasu lagged far behind that of North Akachu, and the strong South Equatorial Currents and southeast trade winds made it difficult for Western ports to establish supply points on the islands in the eastern South Pacific (the Japanese fleet followed all the way down to the last mainland coastal port in South Akachu, and there were few supplies left, and then the return to the west was a quick crossing of the Pacific Ocean to the nearest fishing port on Shivahua Island to resupply and return home), so far, this archipelago has not been settled.

If there had been no storm and no overstaffing, the return of the two ships would have been very smooth, but in the event of a storm, the personnel were overnumbered again, and the food consumption was doubled, so they had to stay on this desert island for a while longer. The equatorial archipelago at 150 degrees east longitude is not desolate, and it is customary to have enough food and clothing to do it yourself. (To be continued......)