Na Haonan planned to choose the address of the general's horse farm in the coastal area north of Vladivostok, but it was still close to the Jurchen tribes of Jianzhou, which was very dangerous.

So Deng Haonan moved the address to the north and chose Nuergan, which was opened up during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

Nuergan is located at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, facing the sea of Okhotsk Sea, far away from the actual control area of Huang Taiji. Nuergan was an ancient city, but after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the city was abandoned. There are three guards nearby, namely Yimu Hewei, Youtiwei and Boluo Wei Sakhalin Island, which were originally occupied by the Mongol Kugu, and later after the Ming Dynasty established its place in Nuergan, the Mongol tribes withdrew from the area and moved to the desert.

After Nurhachi raised his army, he successively defeated the Haixi Jurchen and Beishan Jurchen, who occupied the Nuergan region, and then moved the two tribes of Jurchen to the south, turning the vast grassland of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River into a no-man's land of 120,000 square kilometers.

However, there is still a problem with choosing to build a military horse farm in Nuergan.

Lin Feng gave an explanation and said: "Nuergan is indeed a good place to raise military horses, but now there is a six-month cold time, and the forage for raising tens of thousands of war horses is not a small amount. ”

Huang Zupei said: "There are six dings left, and the grazing time of one month can prepare four months of forage at most, but there are still two months without forage, and we need to mobilize it from other places." ”

Liu Hu is the biggest support for this Ji Ge, after all, raising war horses is for them to the War Department. So he said: "Two months of forage is not simple? One is to take advantage of the time of grass fertilizer, send more people to hoard forage, and the other is to transport it from Liaodong or other places, isn't it simple? It's everywhere. If there is really a shortage, we will raise the war horses as people, and we can't consume much food to feed them! ”

Qian Shun, Liu Jiran and other officials of the logistics department were all in pain when they heard this. The grain of tens of thousands of war horses can be fully supported by the Liaodong Governor's Office, but the logistics department needs to send a considerable number of additional human resources to complete it.

"One more question!" Lin Feng said: "Raising tens of thousands of war horses, even if our food supply is up, but the winter there is very cold, and the war horses may not be able to withstand that kind of cold weather!" ”

Na Haonan waved his hand, he knew that the latitude of Spain and England was basically the same as that of the Nuergan region, and their war horses could definitely withstand the cold.

So he said: "It's okay, these war horses can withstand it!" ”

Since Deng Haonan said that there was no problem, then the General Staff Headquarters must implement it to the letter.

However, the Admiralty also had ideas, and Chen Yaoming said: "Lord Qiqi! Some of the officers who returned from the Mexican trade last time had such thoughts. They learned from the locals in Mexico that the British and Dutch had carved out a colony somewhere in northern Mexico. The Dutch bought one for ten guilders. The island, renamed New Amsterdam. Listen to them, there are huge continents north of Mexico that are undeveloped, and they are all terra nullius! ”

Na Haonan was shocked in his heart, and Chen Yaoming's words reminded him.

At this time, only Spain in North America opened up a vast Mexican colony near the Caribbean Sea. To the north, there are borderlands, and since last year, the Dutch and the British have opened up colonies in eastern North America. However, the scale is not large, and the new Amsterdam of the Dutch is the New York of the future.

I didn't expect that my subordinates' ideas were quite avant-garde, so they smiled and said: "They won't follow the Dutch and think about opening up American colonies!" ”

Chen Yaoming nodded, noncommittal.

Na Haonan said with a smile: "The idea is good, there is still a vast land north of Mexico, and the area is even wider than the land area of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Chen Yaoming hurriedly said: "Central and South America were occupied by the Spaniards, and now the Dutch and the British want to occupy North America, so it is better for us to open up colonies in North America." ”

Lin Feng said suddenly: "The Dutch and the British opened up colonies in the eastern part of North America, so naturally we can't go to the east. But we only need to establish colonies on the Pacific coast of the western part of the Americas. There are few Dutch, and there are many of us, and even if Hou Ye is not an official in the Ming Dynasty, he can be the king of the Americas. ”

King?

Na Haonan was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart that this might not just represent Lin Feng's thoughts alone. Looking at the eyes of other people, Deng Haonan suddenly understood. With the expansion of their own power, the ambitions of their subordinates are also expanding day by day, and they don't seem to have any feelings for Daming.

Huang Zupei saw that Na Haonan didn't speak, and knew that this matter was in a hurry, so he changed the topic and said: "By establishing a colony on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, our goods can be hoarded in the Americas and earn silver coins from the Spaniards at any time." Other than that. Isn't Hou Ye going to build a military horse farm? It can be raised on the vast prairies of the Americas! Since there is no one there, there is no need to worry about the enemy. Don't worry about forage and cold weather, why not! ”

Na Haonan asked: "In that case, wouldn't the war horse be transported too far?" ”

Chen Yaoming said with a smile: "One month is enough time to cross the Pacific Ocean, as long as we build more large transport ships." When he went, he carried goods for sale, and when he returned, he returned with war horses and gold and silver, and there was no delay. ”

Na Haonan thought about it, so he nodded and said, "Then prepare with both hands!" Build a horse farm in Nuergan, then build a colonial fort and horse farm in the no-man's land of North America! As for the issue of war horses, try directly to negotiate from the Governor of Mexico to buy horses in Mexico to breed and breed Qiang"

Na Haonan nodded, General Staff

First of all, all the war horses purchased from the Philippines and Kolkata were transported to Taiwan, and after a short period of adaptation, they were transported to Liaodong.

At the same time, the Liaodong Governorate sent a fleet to bypass the Korean Peninsula and enter the Whale Sea, and now a small fortress is being built on the Vladivostok Peninsula in the Whale Sea to guard against the large army coming from the direction of Huang Taiji.

Vladivostok Fortress is a square fortress with a side length of 400 meters, a city height of 8 meters, and a female wall of 2 meters.

There is only one city gate, which is on the south side, and the water gate pier is also located on the south side. The fortress is equipped with 20 Ares artillery, and a beacon tower is set up on the central drum tower. There were 500 soldiers left behind, one lieutenant colonel commander and one supervisor.

The main purpose of the Vladivostok Fortress was to attract Huang Taiji's attention, so that he would not think about a military horse farm in the Liaodong Governor's Mansion thousands of miles to the north.

The fleet then followed the Whale Sea into the Shoe Target Strait, and on the east side of the strait, rebuilt the abandoned Balo River Guardhouse. On the west bank of the strait, the abandoned Youtie Guard and the Yimu River Guard were restored, and only the Balo River Guard was the largest, because the Polo River Guard was located on Sakhalin Island, and the shoes could not pass. The Polo River Guard Station was used as a place for the grain and forage storage of the Nuergan Army Horse Farm, with a length of 2,000 meters and a width of 1,000 meters, equipped with 20 Ares artillery, 500 soldiers, and one lieutenant colonel. A pontoon bridge was built at the most important point in the Le An Strait, which was 1,900 meters long, all connected by small boats, and a total of 1,900 small boats with a width of one meter were used, which were paved with wooden planks, and the pontoon bridge could be disassembled and assembled at any time according to the enemy's situation.

The Polo Acropolis is not high. Only five meters. Stockpiling of food, umbrellas, and forage in the city. Once the horse farm is really discovered, you can use the guò pontoon bridge to transfer all the horses to the island.

The other Youti Guards and Yimu River Guards are also not large, but they are very high. The walls are square. The width is 200 meters, the same as the Vladivostok Fortress. However, the height is ten meters high, and the female wall is two meters high, like a large blockhouse. It is equipped with 20 A.S. artillery pieces and 500 defenders. The two forts had a total of 1,000 men, and a colonel commander and a superintendent were appointed as the supreme military commander of the Nuergan Army Horse Farm.

The military horse farm is located on the west bank of the Mangge River, just behind the Youti Guard Station and the Yimu River Guard Station, near the strait pontoon bridge.

The entire Far North Military Horse Farm was planned and launched for four months, and it was officially put into operation in April of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. Na Haonan has high expectations for this military horse farm, considering that after the Ningyuan War and the Jinzhou War, the national strength of the Later Jin Dynasty was severely consumed and there was a shortage of troops, so there should be no large-scale military action in one or two years. Therefore, Deng Haonan bought 10,000 horse horses, 20,000 war horses, as well as Dutch war horses in Taiwan and stallions bought from other countries, all of which were put into breeding in the Far North Military Horse Farm.

At the same time, Deng Haonan also prepared for the worst. There are two thousand catties of arsenic hoarded in the military horse farm. Once the commander determines that he cannot keep the horse farm, the curtain will have an accident and will be attacked and retreated in time, and all the horses will be poisoned to death.

As the worst plan, Di Haonan naturally didn't want it to happen in his heart. However, no one can predict what will happen in the future.

The Far North Military Horse Farm was successfully put into operation, and the Pacific Trading Company's second trade with Mexico began after the New Year of the Apocalypse.

Among the goods purchased from Mexico last time, perfume fragrances such as ambergris brought huge profits to Di Haonan. The Ming people don't like to buy Western luxuries, but for spices, the ladies and ladies of the Ming official family have a soft spot, although the men of the Ming Dynasty always like to collect gold and silver, but that Hao Nan successfully took out the silver from their female dependents.

As a result, all kinds of spices were quickly sold out, bringing huge profits to Deng Haonan. In particular, the finest ambergris, which was a necessity for the royal court. Na Hao Nantong guò Xiao Liuzi took the lead from it and secretly sent people to deal with the court in the name of supply and marketing merchants.

Xiao Liuzi has been promoted to the eunuch of the imperial room at this time, and this is all because of the gold that Haonan gave him. With Xiao Liuzi as an informant in the palace, Deng Haonan can learn about the news in the palace at any time.

Fifty kilograms of high-grade dragon incense, four hundred kilograms of ordinary ambergris, two tons of perfume and spices totaled a net profit of 2.7 million taels of silver for Deng Haonan, and the funds for purchasing war horses came out as soon as the trade changed hands, and Deng Haonan, who was happy, couldn't find the north. This was also the main reason for Deng Haonan to quickly organize the second ocean trade.

This time, Li De also personally set out to cross the Pacific Ocean to Mexico with 30 large armed Galen cargo ships of 2,000 tons and 50 medium-sized Galen merchant ships of 1,500 tons, carrying luxury goods such as silk, raw silk, tea, and porcelain. The value of the goods this time was relatively small, mainly because Na Haonan spent all the money on military and people's livelihood construction, so there were only one million taels worth of goods, and only four of the large Galen ships were occupied. However, since it sailed in January, it can still run back and forth twice in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and the funds will be turned around.

However, this time, in addition to trade, Li De also continued to trade arms with merchants in Mexico, while the 4th and 5th Squadrons of the Pacific Fleet escorted him, and found a no-man's land on the east coast of North America to establish a colony of the United States.

Therefore, although the cargo was scarce, there were many workers, craftsmen, and craftsmen on board, and a total of 10,000 men were distributed on seventy-four Galen ships and forty frigates, and countless people stood on the deck every day to let out the wind.

On the morning of 15 February, the Pacific Blade 4 team again arrived in Southern California on the west coast of Mexico, because two days before Li De sent a clipper to deliver a letter to his friend Matvala in Mexico, so when the huge trading fleet of the Pacific Trading Company arrived off the coast of Mexico, the west coast of Mexico suddenly boiled again.

Matwala personally greeted Li De and Liu Jian, the commander of the escort fleet, and his party on the dock, while Wen Sanjiu, the chief of staff, stayed on the fleet to guard the trade fleet. However, when Li De and the others set foot on Mexican soil, they found that there was a chubby and bearded Mexican official beside Matvara.

"He's Reynoldsa, the governor of Mexico!"

Matwala whispered in Lid's ear as he pointed to Lid. And Li De greeted Liu Jian and told him about the situation.

It turned out that Reynoldsa, the governor of Mexico, was very dissatisfied with the smuggling of the Pacific Trading Company last time, mainly because he did not get any benefits. As a result, Reynosa carried out a series of repressions against Matwala and other merchants, and finally Matvala and other merchants bribed him, so that his anger temporarily subsided.

However, Reynosa asked Matvala to help him introduce him to Na Haonan's people next time, and Matvala was helpless, no one in Mexico could afford to mess with the governor of Reynosa.

Two days ago, Li De sent a clipper to deliver a letter informing the Matvala Pacific Trading Company to come to Mexico again for trade. Unexpectedly, as soon as the Oriental people appeared, the Mexican customs sued the governor of Reynosa. The Governor of Reynosa immediately judged that someone from the Pacific Trading Company had come, so he personally visited Matvala.

In this way, the Governor of Reynosa appeared at the docks.

"It seems that it is not easy to smuggle into the customs this time!"

Liu Jian smiled and said, "Don't worry." If Governor Reynosa doesn't come, we're going to be in a bad place. His appearance shows that he is still greedy for money, and looking at the silver, I don't think he will embarrass us. ”

As he spoke, Matwala had been whispering to Governor Reynosa for a while, and the two sides walked across from each other and exchanged polite expressions, but Reynosa's expression was obviously unhappy.

Liu Jian nodded at Li De, and the latter said, "Your Excellency the Governor, I am sorry that I was in a hurry last time and couldn't visit the mansion in person!" A small meaning is not a tribute! ”

After Li De finished speaking, he took out a box from his bosom and handed it to Governor Reynossa.

Governor Reynosa took a deep look at Li De, then at Liu Jian, and then at the box before opening the box.

As the box opened, ten thousand rays of light shot out, revealing a pearl the size of a fist.

With a bang, Reynosa closed the box, a little surprised, he didn't expect Li De to be so generous, this pearl is worth fifty or sixty thousand Mexican eagles, which is equivalent to the official salary of his governor for a year.

Taking a deep breath, Reynosa carefully opened it again and looked at it, and with his eyes, he naturally recognized that it was genuine.

After closing the box again, Reynosa's face looked much better.

"So thank you!"

You're welcome! Li De and Liu Jian glanced at each other, they had seen such a person, an out-and-out miser, who dared to do anything for money.

"But!" Reynosa changed his words, his expression was still not very good-looking, and said: "You didn't go through the customs last time, and the smuggling of goods, Mr. Ben."

As soon as Reynoldsa opened his mouth, Li De knew what he was going to say, it was nothing more than that he made so much money last time, and a pearl could not be explained.

So Li De interrupted Reynoldsa's words and didn't let him say the rest of the words, otherwise it would be difficult to round the game.

"Your Excellency the Governor". Li De pointed to a box carried by several sailors and said, "Please see that this is our compensation for you!" ”

As he spoke, a man opened the box, revealing a crack that could be seen by Reynosa.

Yellow! Canny!

Oh, my God! That's gold bars!

Reynosa stepped forward and hurriedly closed the box, looking left and right, for fear that the others would approach. However, the neighborhood was isolated by Mexican soldiers, and other Mexicans could only watch from a distance.

"This is for me too?"

"Of course". Liu Jian said with a smile: "I still have a letter from Governor Fernando to you here, please take a look at it!" ”

Reynoldsa was in a much better mood all of a sudden, although it wasn't cloudless, but it was also a big guess.

After receiving the letter from Liu Jian, after Governor Reynosa read it, he immediately smiled and said, "Did you say it earlier?" It's all your own people, why are you so polite! Let's go, go to my governor's palace, and I'll wash the dust for a few of them! ”

Damn! You don't need to be so fast!

Liu Jian and Li De glanced at each other, both smiling bitterly. Matwala next to him was visibly relieved, and it seemed that he was not optimistic that Governor Reynosa would give them a good look at first.

However, when Matwala saw that Li De gave Reynosa a precious pearl and a box of gold bars, he was also envious in his heart. Of course, what Matwala valued most was the letter, which turned out to be that of Fernando, the governor of the Philippines. Obviously, the Pacific Trading Company was quite extensive, and had infiltrated the Spanish governor-level figures. Matwala is naturally happy about this, and it is clear that he can not worry about this transaction. As long as the deal is done, nothing else matters to him.

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