The sea and the sky are endless, the blue waves are slightly swinging, and more than a dozen sea ships are stretched in a long line, and the sails are rushing.

"That's the floating island!?" 【1】

Looking through the binoculars, the outline of an island in the west was faintly visible, and on the stern helm of the Jinao, Wu Ya asked Bai Yanding, the deputy commander of the navy and the commander of the Hong Kong detachment.

Bai Yanding nodded: "Yes, there are more than 100 fishermen on it, although it is a fishing village, it is a resting place for pirates in the northern part of the South Seas, and my fleet used to supply water there and inquire about news." ”

Seeing a lot of fishing boats floating on the sea nearby, Wu Ya snorted: "Then bother Mr. Bai to spread the word to the islanders, Yinghua wants to set up a township on the island, Changjiang County will set up a people's post here, and your navy will also take on the responsibility of a military post." ”

Occupy an area and set up two posts for the military and the people, which is the usual norm for Yinghua to expand the territory, and Bai Yanding should give it up.

Another said: "We don't go to Jiaozhi Country either, I really don't understand why the King of Heaven wants our fleet to come to Fushui Island for a turn." ”【2】

That person was An Lu, who was now one of the deacons of the Nanyang Company, and this time the fleet was in charge of business. There are three planned stops, and the journey is estimated to be tens of thousands of miles, so I naturally don't want to waste time in such a small place.

"That'...... That's going to be for us to deter pirates, ......"

The commander of the former battalion of the Eagle Yang Army made An Wei also on the helm, and the fleet arrived at this floating island in less than a day from Tieshi Harbor, and the others were impatient, but he was like a pardon, but he was so poor that he had vomited all his bile.

"It should be to deter Jiaozhi country, then Lord Zheng regards me as a thief, and he once sent a letter to Yang Lin, the governor of Liangguang, saying that he could help the troops defend Guangxi, which is really looking for death!"

The commander of the left battalion of the Fubo army made Feng must be gearing up, and the British and Chinese armies fought on three sides, and the Fubo army had not opened much meat.

"Then it's time to destroy the Cochin Kingdom as well! This is my old Chinese land......"

An Wei felt that this matter could not be more convenient, and he could do it by relying on the Yingyang army, but unfortunately, this time out of the South Seas, in addition to the naval ships, there were only the front battalion of the Yingyang Army and the left battalion of the Fubo Army, a total of 2,000 people.

"The north is still fighting with the Tartars, how can it be possible to use troops on both sides."

Bai Yanding shook his head, the army is the army, and he doesn't know the complexity of the situation in Nanyang.

"This trip to the South Seas is just to explore the way and feel the wind. This floating island is the first threshold for the British and Korean dynasties to go out of the South Seas, so naturally we must first consolidate this threshold. You're all right, the pirates and the Cochin countries should be deterred together. ”

Bai Yanding used to be a thief in Nanyang, but now he is back on the old road, and he has a feeling of returning to his hometown in brocade clothes.

"After this floating island, we are no longer Anglo-Chinese officers and soldiers, but the guards of the Nanyang Company, and we are private people's army ......."

Wu Ya spoke again, as the military leader of the trip to the South Seas, he thought extremely simply.

"Guarding the goods like mountains of gold and silver, giving them ......"

He raised his chin at An Lu.

"Open a smooth trade route, and this road is estimated to be a bloody road."

In the Boundless Palace of Huangpu, Guangzhou, Li Xianzheng was surrounded by a group of loyal and enterprising civil officials.

"All in all, if you don't enter Yungui and settle my southern border, or go east to Fujian and Zhejiang, and make a fake Qing fate, or go north to Jingchu and break off the pseudo-Qing atrium, why shouldn't you transfer to Nanyang and plunder money for businessmen!"

Li Zhushou summed up these admonitions, and of course, the "radical remarks" during this period were all filtered out by him.

"If our British dynasty wants to establish an unprecedented hegemony, it is natural to establish a more stable foundation, and we must not wait for the eyes of the Central Plains to fight for hegemony again. At present, I am not transferring to Nanyang, but acting in the face of Nanyang Company, you can rest assured, I always look at the north. ”

This is the newly completed Puren Hall in Wuya Palace, not only the officials are wearing solemn court clothes, Li Xi is also wearing a fiery red dragon robe, the new hall has made great efforts in ventilation and temperature regulation, even in the sunny day of September, everyone does not feel hot, Li Xi can also speak calmly.

"While looking at the north, you have to sit your ass tight, and my throne is sitting in the south and facing north."

Wen Yan resisted this wave of admonition offensive, and Li Yan said to himself in his heart.

Northward? Of course he wanted to, but Anglo-Chinese internal affairs had not yet condensed the new order he wanted. The more territory you occupy, the greater the burden you will carry. Let's just say that the group of civil officials in front of them will face more and more scholars when the time comes, and even officials like Tang Youzeng and Shi Yizhi, it is a problem to absorb them, and it is also a problem to push them away.

Kangxi in the north is full of energy, and he is engaged in "the outside must first be inside", and he Li Shi is the same, for a long time, it is unlikely that the British Dynasty will make a big move in the north and east, at most, Yungui will be included in the rule.

The reason why the civilian officials made a fuss was simply that Wu Ya, the commander of the Yingyang Army, was transferred to Nanyang. Li Xi felt that Wu Ya's murderous intentions were too heavy, and in this land of China, he didn't know what trouble he would cause. Since Wu Ya wants to kill, then ask for the surname and let him kill him, let him lead the force of the Nanyang trip, and properly rectify the various enemies that the Nanyang Company will definitely encounter.

Wu Ya was one of his right-hand men in charge of the army, and his movements were naturally regarded as a strategic priority by officials. The officials saw the essence correctly, and Nanyang was indeed Li Shi's strategic focus, but they were wrong about appearances. This trip to Nanyang is not to seek hegemony in Nanyang, it is just to open the way, and even more to complete the short-term financial goal set by Li Xian: to achieve a financial income of 8 million taels of silver next year in the industrial and commercial body.

Li Shi's industrial and commercial layout, together with a new governance system, is spreading out the shelves, not only lacking people, but also lacking money. In addition to the cost of supporting new political axes, military and scientific and technological research and development, there is also an urgent need for a large amount of money on education, transportation and other public facilities. It is impossible for Yinghua to provide too many taxes for the land that Yinghua has newly acquired and plans to acquire, and even the central government has to subsidize it, so the money will naturally fall on the industry and commerce.

Within a year, it was impossible for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to contribute such a huge amount of tax revenue in Yinghua, so Li Shi had no choice but to set his sights on Nanyang.

At this time, the South Seas were not the South Seas that the great powers had penetrated deeply a hundred years later, the British were bent on sucking blood on the Mughals, and the French had many attempts in the southeast peninsula, but they repeatedly hit a wall. Spain operated in the Philippines, and after the Netherlands was expelled from Taiwan, it operated in Indonesia and Malaya. The colonial territory of the great powers has not yet filled the South Seas, and in the southeast peninsula, many ethnic groups deeply influenced by the Chinese civilization still have the power to confront the colonizers.

This was the most chaotic era in Nanyang, where colonists, natives, pirates, and a large number of Chinese who defected to Nanyang during the Ming and Qing dynasties showed their magical abilities in this chaotic territory. Li Xi was afraid that his actions would be too obvious and stir up Nanyang into an unexpected situation, especially to promote the European powers to condense the "Southeast Asia Consensus" in advance, so he only used Nanyang Company as a disguise to probe his own power into this chaotic territory.

Even so, Yinghua occupies the bottom of the lifeblood of the Nanyang trade route, and with the strength that no force in the Nanyang can compete with alone, with a small half of the effort, the situation in the Nanyang will change greatly. Li Xi only hoped that he could seize the time and grasp the situation in Nanyang.

Therefore, this trip to Nanyang is essentially a trade trip promoted by Yinghua and under the banner of Nanyang Company. The Nanyang Company took the initiative to trade raw silk, silk, tea, porcelain, steel and other commodities, and the initial target was Quang Nam, Cambodia and Siam, which were not deeply penetrated by the foreign powers, the Chinese were quite powerful, and the upper rulers were quite respectful to China.

During the operation, the Anglo-Chinese Navy escorted and surveyed the sea currents and hydrological data to establish mature trade routes. The army led by Wu Ya was to guard the cargo depots set up by the Nanyang Company in several places, and at the same time, if the situation permitted, to meddle in local affairs with the goal of expanding the influence of Anglo-Chinese.

The civil servant under Li Zhushou accepted this explanation, said no more, and then the meeting moved on to practice.

After finishing the "performance" of the Puren Palace, Li Xi changed into the red-clothed military uniform he was accustomed to wearing, stepped on the war horse, and led the guards such as Long Gaoshan and Gesang Dunzhu to go straight to the Whampoa Academy.

When Li Xi faced the complaints of the civil officials in the Puren Palace, An Jiuxiu was also standing in the square building of the Whampoa Academy, facing a group of foreigners through the beaded curtain.

Whether it is the special envoy of the Pope or the special envoy of the Governor of Macao, Li Xi does not want to directly confront them now, and the situation will be clearer one day in the evening, and his status when he talks directly with them will be one inch higher. Doro, Lang Shining, Popper, Ou Liwang and others first entangled with the Like of the Shangshu Hall of the Heavenly King's Mansion, and then spent a lot of money on An Jiuxiu's chosen interpreter, and now they met An Jiuxiu directly.

"The Governor believes that whether we are seamen, gunsmiths, managers, or soldiers who have directly participated in the war, we Macao people are serving the British to the best of our ability, just as we Macao people served the Ming Dynasty decades ago. And all we need is the autonomy of Macau, Madame Princess, you are a combination of beauty, dignity, erudition and wisdom, and your father is an old friend of us Macao, and I sincerely believe that you will be able to understand the voice of our Macao people and convey our heart to His Majesty the Great King. ”

O'Lai Wang knelt respectfully on the ground, just as the people of Macao did with Ming and Qing officials.

"Mr. Special Envoy, I am just a woman, and I don't know a lot about things, so I would like to ask for advice. My husband's employment of seafarers in Macao is just an ordinary business, just like you Macanese serve other shipowners, and have nothing to do with your governor. And the hiring of gunsmiths is only a matter between the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau and your Macao gunsmith, and as for the Macao people to enlist as our Anglo-Chinese soldiers, it is his personal choice, what does it have to do with your governor and Macao? ”

An Jiuxiu pretended to be confused, she had been helping Li Shi deal with official business for a long time, and she had long understood the intentions of this Ou Liwang, and the appeal of the Portuguese in Macao has never changed, that is, to turn Macao into a completely autonomous territory, and what is it after complete autonomy?

Li Xian just entered the hall, and when he heard this, he thought of his current Nanyang strategy, and said in his heart that this is all a curve to save ......, no, a curve to build a country.

(To be continued)