"Carrying a basket and a bag went across the ocean, and crying in a foreign land. The South China Sea is full of suffering, and tears are dripping all over the seven continents. Make cattle and horses, and send them back to Tangshan to raise their parents. ”

This is a song sung by the first generation of Chinese who went to the South Seas and went to the Americas, which reflects the survival state of Chinese workers from the side.

As the construction of the Pacific Railroad required more and more Chinese workers, the number of piglets in the Pacific Ocean is increasing.

And on such ships, the mortality rate of Chinese workers is at least 10%, and sometimes, it is not impossible to die more than half.

It is precisely in order to change this status quo, at least so that the heritage of Daming is not stained with the blood of too many compatriots, that Zhu Fugui took great pains to get ten ocean-going transport ships.

These ten ships also belong to the sailor sequence for the time being, and are commanded by Zheng Baoguo, the commander of the sailor.

They are called "Prosperity and Strength", "Democracy", "Civilization", "Harmony", "Freedom", "Equality", "Justice", "Rule of Law", "Patriotism" and "Dedication".

As for the "Integrity" and "Friendship", there are already design drawings, and they will be the first or second sea ships independently designed and built by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty.

With an average weight of 2,000 tons, these 10 transport ships are mainly steam-powered wooden-hulled ships, supplemented by sail power, and try to save coal in the process of going to sea.

And today, it is the day when this fleet sails.

"I'd rather miss a handful of soil in my hometown than a thousand taels of gold in my hometown......"

"Wan Sleep Master, I understand!"

Donald picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, threw it in the Coke, and drank it down.

Zhu Fugui watched all this dumbfounded.

To be honest, it doesn't seem to be good to feed the courtiers soil every time, so Zhu Fugui specially prepared black coffee as a substitute this time.

But Comrade Lao Tang took the initiative so much, and it was not easy to refute his Yaxing.

Zhu Fugui shook his head and sprinkled coffee on the coke of Zheng Baoguo, Wang Zhonghuang, and Noichiro Morishita.

On this business trip, Donald naturally negotiated with Minister Tian Bei as a special envoy in Washington, and tried to prostitute the Taiping army.

In fact, along the way, the Daming fleet will fly the American flag, and all kinds of procedures will also use fake certificates from the US government.

In addition to the 10 transport ships, the "Yangzhou" and "Jiading" will accompany the escort, and on the return trip, they will break away from the formation and attack the Russians on Kodiak Island, taking the initiative to fire the first shot of the Ming-Russian naval battle.

Gunboat escort was necessary.

This is the first voyage of the Daming transport team, and there will be various unexpected problems along the way, and it is necessary to be fully prepared.

In particular, according to the plan, the fleet will also dock in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain, Japan.

It is well known that the Japanese of this era are more fond of terrorist attacks than that, and they carry out assassinations and explosions against foreigners stationed in Japan at every turn, which is completely different from those wastes of later generations.

Therefore, the fleet of the Ming Dynasty must also be on guard against Japanese attacks.

As for pirates......

Zhu Fugui had never heard of the existence of such a force in the Pacific Ocean in this era.

However, for the sake of safety, the first voyage of the Daming Sailors was still all dispatched.

In terms of total tonnage, this fleet voyage is likely to be the largest ocean-going voyage in the Chinese civilization circle since Zheng He's voyage to the West.

Of course, Zhu Fugui can't be a loser like Zhu Di.

That's right, to be able to turn such a lucrative business as navigation into a money-losing product, Zhu Di's maritime policy and strategy do have many problems, and it is no wonder that Liu Daxia and other courtiers avoided the word "going to the West" a hundred years later.

Of course, it is not realistic to learn from the triangular trade of the Western colonizers, rolling up such things as population, precious metals, coffee, and sugar, and making hundreds of times the excess profits.

On the transport ship bound for the East, it carried industrial products produced by Daming, mainly rich gold watches produced by Daming Watch Factory itself, Daqianmen cigarettes, and ...... Thousands of pounds of American ginseng......

American ginseng is a close relative of ginseng.

In the eighteenth century, two French missionaries saw the worship of ginseng in the Far East and wondered if they could find a similar plant elsewhere and make a fortune.

Eventually, they heard of a remedy for headaches and injuries among the Indians of northwestern North America and southern Canada.

This is what became the famous American ginseng.

This plant has made Citigroup's trade with China so profitable for more than 100 years that the Americans even added American ginseng to the pharmacopoeia in 2005, even though they never used it themselves.

Zhu Fugui is not very proficient in ancient and broad Chinese medicine, but regardless of whether this thing has an effect or not, anyway, the territory of the Ming Dynasty now happens to be a high-yield area of American ginseng.

If you don't make this money yourself, you can also earn it for the Americans, and Zhu Fugui can only tearfully dump medicinal materials on the motherland.

Speaking of which, for a long time, Zhu Fugui didn't know that there was American ginseng nearby.

Before, the "miracle doctor" of the Ming Dynasty was too strong, and the Yin people were embarrassed to take out the "Galant group" to Zhu Fugui, which made him miss a lot of business opportunities.

Fortunately, the conditions of the newly arrived mercenary corps were relatively difficult, and they were still using this ginseng-like drug to treat their injuries, which was accidentally discovered by the Chinese instructor and immediately reported.

This is the aftermath of the lumberjacks looking for ginseng all over the mountains, and Yin Weasel leading people to visit several major tribes of the Sioux tribe again and exchange flour for ginseng.

In short, these are wild ginseng.

Whether it's the Far East in the second half of the nineteenth century, when ginseng was extinct, or China in the twenty-first century, these things are valuable.

This time, Zhu Fugui also took out some of the goods to Shanghai to explore the market, if the market is ideal, sell it in this era, and exchange it for gold is the most cost-effective and the most economical civilization value.

Otherwise, it can only be sold on the platform.

In addition to American ginseng, tobacco companies are also a new key project in Fengdu Industrial Zone.

To be precise, tobacco is not only an industry, but also an agriculture.

Like the flour mill, because the production and construction corps has not yet been established, and the Xinjin Agricultural Reclamation Area has not yet landed, the cigarette factory is actually a factory for processing with supplied materials.

While selling clothes through the British, the Ming Dynasty also bought cotton, coffee and other agricultural products from the southern states, including tobacco leaves.

Cigarettes are known to be surprisingly profitable, and they are also large taxpayers.

In the future, the annual cigarette money of Chinese smokers will be enough for the country to package military spending, and by the way, it can also help the poor.

And objectively, smokers are also contributing to the country's fight against the aging of the population.

It can be said that the smoker is full of treasures, and we all have to love him.

In Zhu Fugui's era, it is pure nonsense to promote what smoking is harmful to health.

The average life expectancy is less than 35, where can you wait for the onset of harm, first feel comfortable.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui still supports the development of the tobacco industry.

At present, Daming Royal Cigarette Factory has two main brands, one is the high-end brand Zhu Baolu, and the other is the mass brand Daqianmen.

Zhu Baolu is divided into mixed type and flue-cured tobacco type, but in the case of Daqianmen, there is only one type of flue-cured tobacco.

The Chinese people still prefer flue-cured cigarettes, so the Daming fleet mainly brought Daqianmen, and only a small amount of Zhu Baolu, which was mainly handed over to Donald to replace Huazi to establish a good relationship with the American minister.

As for the last product, the rich watch, although the number is not large, it is the first precision industrial product of the Ming Dynasty.

New China set up several watch factories in Shanghai and other places, creating a lot of glory, but most of these factories have fallen silent today.

In fact, in addition to high-end mechanical watches, the entire mechanical watch industry has been in the twilight, with the ubiquitous mobile phone, many people even find the electronic version troublesome, let alone mechanical watches.

Zhu Fugui didn't spend much money to buy the obsolete mechanical watch production line and plant design drawings online.

In fact, compared with the "gold watch" purchased from later generations for 100 yuan by the Daming Navy and Army, the rich watch does not have any cost-effective advantages.

However, if you want to upgrade the Ming industry and become an industrial power from a logging empire, independent production is a must.

From the production of parts further up the chain to steelmaking, these will be gradually implemented in the first five-year plan.

But before that, through entry-level industrial training such as cigarette factories, flour mills, and watch factories (assembly factories to be exact), the quality of Daming's industrial workers was steadily improving.

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