Australia, which originally meant "southern continent", comes from the Latin terraaustralis (land of the south). In 1606, the ships of the Spanish navigator Torres sailed through the strait between Australia and the island of New Guinea (Irian Island); In the same year, the Dutchman William. Janes's Duiggan set foot in Australia and was the first recorded actual landing of outsiders in Australia. In 1770, the British navigator Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia, named it "New South Wales", and declared the land a British dependency.

At this time, Australia had not been discovered for more than 30 years, but Australia was not really taken seriously by the British, and only regarded it as a place for exile. It was not until 1790 that sporadic freedmen from England began to migrate to Australia, with Sydney as the center, gradually developing inland. At present, however, there are less than 10,000 British on the large island of Australia, most of whom live on agriculture and animal husbandry, and do not even have a colonial army, but only a militia self-defense force of rogue ruffians and murderers.

Liang Pengfei once scavenged a nautical chart from the British, but it only roughly marked their colonies, and Australia let Liang Pengfei see it for the first time, on their nautical chart, it is just a very inconspicuous island, others may not know the important surname of Australia, but as a traverser, Liang Pengfei, who has been holding weapons and exchanging money and various materials all day long in his previous life, how can he not understand what kind of treasure plate Australia is?

Australia's minerals alone are enough to make Liang Pengfei's greedy heart extremely surging. So, he paid attention to it at the time, coupled with Liang Pengfei's investigation in the past few years, so everything about Australia is quite clear.

After the attack on Luzon, Liang Pengfei not only looted gold and silver and various Western books and materials from the hands of the Spaniards, but also obtained a large number of nautical charts.

When the status quo of the central Luzon Islands gradually developed steadily, Liang Pengfei handed over the task of exploring Australia to Lu Yuan, who was in charge of the central Luzon Islands, and Lu Yuan really lived up to Liang Pengfei's expectations, and hired several experienced old sailors who had sailed with Spanish merchant ships across several continents to arrive in Luzon through Australia through Australia, and sent a fleet of three warships as the main force, which lasted two months, and finally arrived at the big island in Liang Pengfei's mouth, Australia.

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And, after some exploration in the northern part of Australia, no trace of Westerners was found, but there were many natives in the area, who used silk and a small amount of porcelain to gain the friendship of those natives, and exchanged a lot of precious stones and gold from the hands of those natives, although I don't know where these natives got these gold ores of almost pure gold, but one thing is certain, there must be a gold mine with amazing reserves in this vicinity, which is easy to mine. The commander-in-chief of the expedition fleet chose a bay, leaving the natives who served as miscellaneous servants in the fleet to establish the port, and leaving three hundred soldiers to guard it.

After Liang Pengfei compared the location of the port they sent over on the big island, it was almost certain that it was the famous Australian port city in the future: Darwin.

But now, it has been named Liangjiagang by Zhu Ye, the captain of that fleet, Liang Pengfei looked at this name, it was really a little ridiculous, but soon he was annoyed by the content of the letter, because in the letter, Lu Yuan told Liang Pengfei that Zhu Ye began to determine the establishment of a port and fortress in Liangjiagang in November last year, at that time, it was rainy weather almost every day, and they wanted to wait more, hoping that the weather would improve, but no one thought that the weather was getting worse and worse, and at the end of the year, Almost every day was a violent storm, which lasted almost for three months, and if it were not for their preparation, and because of their good relations with the local natives, they were able to get through this terrible time with great difficulty.

During this time, two clever interpreters made some of the locals' simpler language, and learned from their mouths that it was divided into a rainy season and a dry season, the dry season was shorter, about five months, and the rainy season was longer, about seven months, and they finally survived the rainy season, and the weather changed dramatically, and became quite dry, but it was conducive to the construction of their port.

Liang Pengfei snorted and slapped his head. "Damn, I almost forgot about this, and immediately wrote back to Steward Lu, telling them that the weather in the area of Liangjiagang was extremely bad, and if they wanted to build a port, they could not use wood, so they could bring the explosives produced in Liangjiagang over, open the mountain to blow up rocks, and use cement to build ports and fortresses. Houses are also made of cement and masonry, not wooden structures, and it is best to build as much as you can. Also, all buildings have to be equipped with lightning rods for me, lightning rods don't you know? It's okay, I'll explain ...... later."

"In addition, if you can hurry, it is best to rush back when the weather is good, and send more men, in any case, it is necessary to build a port and fortress here as a base for future exploration and expansion to the south of this large island......

With Liang Pengfei's instructions, Ni Ming quickly wrote on the letterhead, and Liang Pengfei briefly explained the structure and installation of the lightning rod by the way, this thing is too simple, but it is extremely effective for Liangjiagang, where thunderstorms are frequent in the rainy season.

Less than a month after Liang Pengfei's order was issued, the central Luzon Islands received Liang Pengfei's warrant and once again recruited a larger fleet than last time, this time, a total of nearly 3,000 Luzon natives were brought to participate in the construction of King Crab Port as laborers, in addition, a large number of tools and 700 soldiers were also transported to Liangjiagang, and a prospecting team was sent to explore the precious metal veins in the area around Liangjiagang in the shortest possible time.

The footsteps of the Chinese, under the deliberate arrangement of Liang Pengfei, finally set foot in Australia, the world's largest island rich in minerals and products. Although Liang Pengfei really wants to take advantage of the fact that the British have not yet discovered the true value of Australia to completely occupy this island, but his strength is still too weak now, and his focus is currently to control the South Seas, as long as the South Seas become his back garden, when the time comes, he will reach out to Australia.

Liang Pengfei was convinced that when the French Revolution and Napoleon led France to turn the whole of Europe upside down, he would have the opportunity to have a strong enough fleet and army to bring the entire South Seas into his arms, and at that time, it would be much easier for Australia to obtain, and he would even be able to get the benefits he needed from the Americas, which were full of European colonizers.

Two days later, Liang Pengfei finally rushed back here after leaving King Crab Island for nearly a year, however, in less than a year, Liang Pengfei suddenly thought that he had arrived at a strange place, yes, in addition to the natural barrier has not changed, as soon as he entered the bay, the newly built wide and busy cement pier immediately attracted Liang Pengfei's attention.

Warships and merchant ships, large and small, squeezed the originally empty bay to the point of cramping. Because in addition to berthing the old Liang family's King Crab Island fleet, there is also a docking of the old Liang family's Hailian merchant ships, and the rapid development of more than a year has made the scale of the Hailian merchant fleet no less than any of the thirteen merchants.

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Because of the factories built on King Crab Island, a large number of raw materials are transported here every day by the Liang family's cargo ships, and the glass and other products produced by the factories on the island are transported out of the island through this wharf and transported to the mainland, Annam, and the central Luzon Islands.

This makes this King of Crabs Island less like a pirate base, but more like a very busy transshipment dock and port. Liang Pengfei looked at the figures who were busy running on the dock, as well as the lifting equipment that transferred the goods through the principle of levers, and his heart was full of pride. All of this is closely related to his planning and design.

When Liang Peng flew to the island, he finally saw the people he wanted to see most on his trip, a group of Westerners with white skin, different hair colors and eyeballs, including British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and even Prussians and Austrians. There are people from almost all the countries of Western Europe.

Chemists, doctors, smelters, teachers, cartographers, watchmakers, eyeglassmakers, weavers, etc., are found here...... There are also the production workers and technicians of the gun factories hired from the countries of Western Europe, and these people alone are enough to 156 people.

Some of these people were tempted to go to the island by Liang Pengfei with a lot of money shortly after Liang Pengfei captured Luzon, and most of these Westerners who arrived in the East came for wealth, and it was for this reason that Liang Pengfei's talent training and looting plan to use the silver bullet offensive can be said to be invincible.

Later, among the talents who arrived at the base of King Crab Island one after another, a considerable part of them were hired by those European businessmen from the West under the instruction of Liang Pengfei, and the last group of people arrived on King Crab Island for more than a month, although they were not very suitable for life here, but the amount of precious metals distributed to their hands on time every month was enough for them to eat bran and vegetables.

Liang Pengfei couldn't help but be a little dazzled. However, from the moment Liang Pengfei stepped into the Liang family's compound, those Westerners who were originally piled up there to brag and fart couldn't help but turn their eyes to Liang Pengfei who stepped in at the gate.

Liang Pengfei bowed slightly to these people with a relaxed expression, crossed the crowd, and walked straight to the temporarily arranged platform. Looking at these Western elites hired by himself, Liang Pengfei seemed to be looking at a group of farmers with cows, and his eyes were so vicious that he wanted to squeeze out the last trace of their milk.

Of course, this is just the Italian silver at the spiritual level, and what Liang Pengfei hopes is to squeeze out all the knowledge in these people's brains.

"Good afternoon, gentlemen, and it is a pleasure to see you here. Let me introduce myself first, I am the owner of this island, Liang Pengfei, a Chinese. Liang Pengfei showed a reserved smile and bowed slightly to the Westerners who had attracted his attention.

(To be continued)