Chapter 53: Arrival in the Western Continent
After acquiring the Wild Continent and Moore Harbor, as well as having a transit port, Fang Xiaoyu's trip to the Wild Continent can be described as fruitful, and the satisfied Fang Xiaoyu set sail again and headed towards the New World. Sailing in the sea, looking at the endless blue will feel a wide field of vision and a comfortable mood at first, but after a long time, it will inevitably be a little visually tired.
The same is true for Fang Xiaoyu, he has never done a big ship to go to sea in his previous life, this time he was able to go to sea and sail far away, which made Fang Xiaoyu extremely excited, and he felt very refreshing when he had time to blow the sea breeze on the deck, but before the ship sailed to Siam, he felt bored, and when he set off from the wild continent again, Fang Xiaoyu was no longer in the mood to watch the sea view.
The bored Fang Xiaoyu remembered the dilemma of encountering wolves on the wild continent, in order to strengthen his strength, he began to practice Baji Boxing according to Xiao Feng's prompts, with Xiao Feng's strong body transformed by bioelectricity, Fang Xiaoyu got started very quickly, and he had already beaten Baji Boxing to a decent time in half a month.
Bajiquan is extremely fierce, Liu Junxi praised Fang Xiaoyu after seeing him practice boxing, and he also took the iron-blooded team members to practice, and the whole ship set off a martial arts boom. Of course, Fang Xiaoyu can't always box, after exercising, Fang Xiaoyu compiles textbooks in the house.
With the support of the Xia family, after Fang Xiaoyu returns to China, he will have his own territory, and now Fang Xiaoyu has to take precautions. The importance of education to a country Fang Xiaoyu is very clear, if any country wants to be strong, the most important thing is to improve the quality of its citizens.
Only when a country has enough talent reserves will it have the hope of rising, so Fang Xiaoyu attaches the most importance to education. Of course, it was an impossible task for Fang Xiaoyu to compile the textbook by himself, all he had to do was to rely on his strong memory and write down all the books he had learned in his previous life.
Fortunately, Fang Xiaoyu had just finished the college entrance examination before the crossing, and he was very familiar with all the knowledge. Above Wangxiang Star, Xiao Yu has been receiving bioelectric stimulation from Xiao Feng, which makes his memory extremely strong, and all the knowledge he remembers is very clear.
With a strong memory as a support, Fang Xiaoyu is familiar with compiling textbooks, plus some content of his personality cult to consolidate his rule in the future, these books are done. Of course, this matter cannot be completed in a moment, Fang Xiaoyu plans to use this time when there is nothing to do to sort out these books as soon as possible. With something to do, time passed much faster, and the transports approached the New World after two months at sea.
The Boston Empire, a powerful power in the north of the New World, and the St. Martin Empire in the south, were at odds with each other for centuries. There is a weak Central South Africa Alliance between these two countries and their allies, and the territory of the Central South Africa Alliance is long and narrow and it is right between the two empires, in order to protect itself and not let its land become a battlefield, this country has always maintained neutrality, and the two countries do not help each other, and the two major powers are also happy to have such a buffer, so that the war will not expand out of control, so the two major powers that have no borders on land are mainly naval battles.
The Boston Empire has a certain naval advantage due to its stronger manufacturing capabilities, but unfortunately the northern part of the Boston Empire is located in the cold Arctic Circle, and ships cannot pass all year round, so it must maintain two fleets of equal strength in the Eastern Ocean and the Storm Ocean, and the two fleets cannot help each other.
The St. Martin Empire is different, it has the Strait of Magellan to the south, through which the two oceanic fleets of the St. Martin Empire can support each other, that is, because of this geographical advantage of the St. Martin Empire, so that the slightly inferior St. Martin Empire can always maintain the balance of power with the Boston Empire.
Fang Xiaoyu did not stay too long in the New World, the supply ship had been sailing along the southern coastline of the New World, and after half a year, Fang Xiaoyu's ship bypassed the Strait of Magellan and turned north, heading towards their ultimate target, the Western Continent.
In order to better understand the minerals in various places, Fang Xiaoyu ordered the supply ships to cross the storm ocean and sail along the coastline of the southern subcontinent, anyway, there are supply ports set up by various countries along the coast of the southern subcontinent, and there is no possibility that they will lack food and fresh water.
The transport ship continued to sail along the coastline of the Southern Subcontinent, Fang Xiaoyu opened Xiao Feng's scanning to collect intelligence, with a scanning radius of 6,000 kilometers, Fang Xiaoyu could clearly observe most of the mineral resources of the Southern Subcontinent, which he asked Xiao Feng to record in detail one by one.
The three-month voyage passed quickly, and Fang Xiaoyu's ship finally arrived at the island nation of the Saar Empire, located on the west side of the Western Continent. The steam-powered supply ship slowly approached the docks of Poulsport, the capital of the Saar Empire. Fang Xiaoyu walked down the gangway and immediately found an abnormal situation, the sky here was actually gray, he asked someone to inquire, but found that they spoke a language similar to English, and he couldn't understand it at all. Fang Xiaoyu knew from Xia Tingwei that the Western Continent spoke Aberdeen, but fortunately, he brought a few sailors who had lived in the Western Continent, and with their help, Fang Xiaoyu finally understood what he wanted to know.
It turned out that the gray sky here was because of the pollution caused by the massive use of steam engines, Fang Xiaoyu was stunned, the steam engine that had only been invented for decades had been so popular in the Western Continent, it seemed that the industrial revolution here had begun for a long time, and he had to hurry up.
The Saar Empire was the first country in the Western Continent to start using steam engines, and from Fang Xiaoyu's point of view, the ongoing construction here could definitely be regarded as the first industrial revolution. The sharp increase in productivity brought about by the industrial revolution will naturally lead to a sharp increase in wealth, and Fang Xiaoyu decided to seize the period of wealth explosion in the Western Continent to make a lot of money.
Bringing Wu Yu and some shop guys over, Fang Xiaoyu had a useful intention, and he planned to set up a trading company here. As long as you have your own trading company, it will be very convenient to buy and sell goods, not only to promote your own goods faster, but also to better grasp the information of the Western Continent. Relying on this company, he can establish an intelligence network throughout the entire Western Continent, which is conducive to his future layout.
With a lot of money to carry with them, the house was very easy to rent, and Wu Yu and the others quickly rented a large shop facing the street and set up a stall with the goods brought by the ship. What Fang Xiaoyu didn't expect was that the glass beads were not easy to sell, it turned out that there was already glass manufacturing in the Western Continent, but it was still relatively rough.
Glass is not easy to sell, but Lan Sugar and spices have made a great profit, which makes Fang Xiaoyu understand the importance of information, fortunately, Fang Xiaoyu has an equipment library, and the shortage of things can be made at any time. As a result, Fang Xiaoyu let Xiaofeng's temporary soap be snapped up again, making money so quickly that Fang Xiaoyu had the urge to stay. However, Fang Xiaoyu understands that these are small profits, and only by developing his own power as soon as possible can he make a lot of money, so that he can quickly gather wealth and make Xiaofeng upgrade quickly.
After Wu Yu and those shop guys established a shop, Fang Xiaoyu taught Wu Yu how to make soap, after all, it would take a long time to set up an ocean company by himself, and Wu Yu and others could not do business here without their own fist products. Soap has a wide market and is easy to manufacture has become the best choice, not to mention that Fang Xiaoyu has a patent, so he is not worried about the leakage of the manufacturing method, even if he is learned to make it, he must apply for it and pay him the patent fee.
While making money, another order Fang Xiaoyu gave to Wu Yu was to try to collect talents from the Western Continent, including talents in machinery, chemistry, shipbuilding and various basic disciplines, and even senior technicians and well-educated teachers, of course, these are not in a hurry and can be carried out slowly, because Fang Xiaoyu's ocean company will take some time to establish.
After arranging Wu Yu and the others, Fang Xiaoyu's next target was the Nantes Empire on the mainland. The Saar Empire was an island nation in the middle of the sea, and the closest country to this island nation was the Nantes Empire, located on the mainland, eighty nautical miles to the west.
The Nantes Empire is a traditional power in the Western Continent, once known as the first army in the world, but recently it has been surpassed. Catching up with the Yaman Empire, which is known for its strength and bravery, the two countries have a border because they have a border on land, and the two sides often have some border skirmishes, and the relationship has been relatively tense, for which the two countries also broke out a major war more than ten years ago, the result is that although the Yaman Empire has a slight upper hand, it can not completely defeat the Nantes Empire, and finally the two sides stopped making peace under the mediation of the Thar Empire.