On the morning of the next day, Fanning and the imperial court signed an agreement on the sale of overseas islands, and the two sides decided to sell Ganjiang Island, which was 3,000 miles east of the southern continent, at a price of 80,000 taels of gold.

This is the name of the two divine soldiers of the Han nation, and the imperial court approved this name, which is also the intention of deterring overseas with divine soldiers.

Prior to this, the Overseas Economic Strategy Government bought ten 20,000 stone oars from Fan's firm at a price of 30,000 taels of gold, with an average of 30,000 taels of silver per ship, and the flagship of the 30,000 stone paddle ships that Fan Ning was riding was also returned to the Jingkou Zhu Shipyard, which would be transformed into steam ships and put into overseas voyages.

The imperial court also accepted the deal and converted it into the purchase price of the island, in fact, the Fan family only needed 50,000 taels of gold to buy this large island with an area similar to Luzon.

The news soon spread in the land buying circle, although it was unexpected that Fanning also wanted to buy the island, but it was normal to think about it, Fanning represented the Fan family, and it was not surprising that the family also wanted to buy the island overseas.

It's just that the remoteness of Fanning's purchase of the island is jaw-dropping, and the remoteness of the southern continent is already unbearable, and the island they purchased is three thousand miles east of the mainland, which is unimaginable, and almost everyone is not optimistic about the Fan family's purchase of the island.

In the morning, Fanning signed the agreement, and in the afternoon, Mingren and Mingli went to Taifu Temple to deliver, Taifu Temple was in charge of the Great Song Zuozang Treasury, and it was necessary to hand over the receipt of the Taifu Temple and other property certificates to the Household Division, and the Household Department would issue a letter of payment for the purchase of the island after the accounting was correct, and finally take this letter of payment for the purchase of the island to the Salt and Iron Division to receive the land deed of the overseas island, which was considered to have officially completed the purchase of the island.

These procedures alone had to run for a long time, and Fanning sat alone in the Zhu Ji Restaurant in the south of the city to drink, waiting for news from the Mingren Mingli brothers.

At noon, Fan Ning met with Cao Tong and at the same time met Cao Cong of the Cao family, who clearly told him that the Cao family and the Gao family would officially sign a contract with the imperial court tomorrow to take Moye Island.

Fanning visited the Cao family in the hope that the Cao family would exert influence on the military and send troops to the South Island and North Island temporarily, preferably with 1,000 troops on each of the two islands, on the one hand to supervise the construction of the city by Japanese laborers, and on the other hand, to continue the search for natives on the islands.

In the agreement drafted by the imperial court for the purchase of the island and land, the imperial court also promised to guarantee the safety of the land sold, and if there was an invasion by indigenous or foreign tribes, the imperial court would send troops to assist the owner in driving them away.

It was this condition that gave Fanning reason to apply to the imperial court for a garrison, and when the owner of the island had the ability to protect himself, the army withdrew from the island.

Cao Cong also agreed to push the military to garrison troops on the north and south islands.

In the elegant room, Fan Ning drank tea while thinking about the arrangements for the next year, his focus next year is undoubtedly the southern mainland, and at the same time to assist the North Island, the North Island will be in charge of the preliminary construction by Akihito, and Zhu Lin will be responsible for assisting him.

But his main focus is still on the southern continent, the southern continent is too important to the Great Song Dynasty, only when the southern continent is successfully developed, the people of the Song Dynasty will continue to migrate and completely occupy this resource-rich continent.

And if you want the development of the Southern Continent to succeed, the first step is particularly crucial, I am afraid that it is really like what Han Qi said, I have to personally suppress the formation in the Southern Continent.

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then the door was pushed open, and Akihito and Mingli rushed in, and the two were very excited.

"A-Ning, we got it!"

Akihito waved a thick deed, Fanning was overjoyed, and hurriedly took the deed in his hand, and took away the tea on the table, and then carefully put the deed on the table.

The title deed is an excerpt, similar in size to a book, with a black lacquer gold cover and a line of gilded letters in block letters: 'Song Dynasty Overseas Island Land Purchase Contract'.

When it was opened, it was written a detailed description of Fanning's purchase of the Great Songganjiang Island, the purchaser was Fanning, the amount was 80,000 taels of gold, the island was an uninhabited island, 1,500 li long from north to south, 600 li wide from east to west, purchased by ownership, and the island was owned by Fanning from the date of the effective date of this title deed.

The title deed is followed by a deed of purchase and followed by a map of the island, hand-drawn by Fanning as an overseas envoy, indicating the north-south and east-west lengths of the island.

This is important about the true size of the island, and if the court sends someone to measure it in the future and finds that it does not match the actual area at all, the court is likely to revoke the title deed, making it no longer legitimate for the Fan and Zhu families to own the island.

This point is clearly written in the contract of purchase of the island, the land buyer should buy the land with the real area, the court retains the right to retest the land, once it is found that the purchased land and the actual difference is huge, the court has the right to revoke its title deed, or order the land purchaser to make up the money and the interest arising therefrom, there is also a mark below, the huge difference refers to the difference between the purchased area and the actual area of more than two percent.

This made Akihito and Mingli very emotional, and they had complained that Fan Ning had truthfully reported the area, and if it was according to their character, they would definitely reduce the area of the island tenfold.

Now it seems that the imperial court is not stupid at all, it retains the clause of post-event inspection, and the clause is permanently valid, but now I am not afraid of them to investigate, I am afraid that the imperial court will come to investigate again in a hundred years, and find a sufficient reason to directly abolish the ownership of the Fan family's island, and then it will be regretted.

"Aning, what should we do next?" Mingli asked excitedly.

Fan Ning said with a smile: "The next step is to gather the Fan family and the Zhu family together to discuss how to develop this big island, and everyone will work together." ”

Fanning had just finished speaking, when he suddenly heard a loud horn sound from outside the city, 'Woo-' The sound had been echoing outside the city, and it was not so much like a trumpet, but like a trumpet.

Fanning suddenly realized that it was the sound of a whistle, a sound made when the ship was emitting steam.

Zhu Yuanfeng's steamship came.

He hurriedly put away the title deed and hurried out of the city with Akihito and Mingli.

At this time, the steamship with the banner of the Zhu clan caused a sensation in the capital, and countless people rushed to the Bianhe River from all directions, and on the Bianhe River, a fleet of 3,000 stone ships did not shake the oars, nor did they have sails, and no one pulled the fiber, and the part of the middle mast became a high black chimney, with black smoke emitting from it.

Behind it was a huge paddle wheel, which was rapidly turning, pushing the boat forward, and many people thought it was a treadmill, but soon they saw clearly, the inner plate of the ship had been removed, and inside was a large machine, and in front was a furnace, and a strong man was adding coal to the furnace, and the high chimney was erected above the stove.

Behind the furnace is another machine, three huge iron cylinders side by side, connected by pipes in the middle, and three iron rods twitch back and forth in the iron cylinder, driving a round wheel, and the rotation of the round wheel eventually drives the paddle wheel to roll.

The big ship cruised back and forth on the Bianhe River, for a distance of fifteen or sixteen miles, and then turned around and came back, as if to show off, and all the other ships were moored to the side, only it walked abruptly on the river, and the speed was not slow.

At this time, the two banks were crowded with people watching the excitement, crowded with people, crowded with more than ten miles of riverbank, at least more than 100,000 people, Fan Ning stood on a bridge and looked at the steam naked ship, Zhu Yuanfeng specially stripped the boat naked, so that everyone could see it at a glance.

However, Fanning is more concerned about the speed of this ship, which is about ten kilometers per hour, which is almost twice as fast as the previous oars, but if the propeller is used, the speed can be increased by eighty percent, and it is estimated that it can reach ten knots, and it can travel more than 400 kilometers in one day and night, and it can reach Luzon in four days, and it can reach the southern mainland in more than 20 days.

At this moment, the officials of the imperial court also rushed to hear the news, Zhu Yuanfeng stood on the bow of the boat, saw several ministers, and he waved his hands to them proudly.

Looking at this big ship that was fast and could sail automatically, several Xiangguo looked at each other, and they suddenly understood Fanning's confidence in insisting on passing through the southern continent, and also understood why Fanning would buy such a distant island.