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Chapter 1148 Construction of Oceania Stronghold
Chen Bangyan led people to take over the East India Company, Li Jinde led Western companies to establish factories and expand markets in Europe, Cao Bianjiao and Zheng Zhihu arrived in San Francisco Bay to establish a colonial base, and the Chinese began to travel across the world to find raw materials and markets.

After the Kyushu Army took control of the Spice Islands, it was equivalent to controlling the spice supply of the Nanyang Islands, and gained sweetness from it.Plantations of sugar cane, rubber, coconut, and spices related to economic crops were established in Southeast Asia, as well as oil refineries, coal mines, lead mines, tin mines and other mines.

The Tianji City colony established earlier in Melbourne Bay, Oceania was unknown, and not many citizens even knew the existence of this group of people.Only the military department organizes a group of people to come over every year to replace the expedition members stationed here.

The colony here was named Tianji City by the expedition leader Cheng Hong, but in fact it is not even considered a town, at most it can be regarded as a large village.

Cheng Hong and others intervened in the local tribal conflict with muskets in hand, and captured hundreds of captives as labor force to reclaim wasteland and raise livestock.Tianji City in Melbourne Bay has reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and raised thousands of cattle and sheep. The local expedition team can eat meat every month.

This management method of centralized cultivation of farmland and grazing led to a large increase in production, and many surrounding indigenous tribes were attracted by the established towns and came to trade.

Although the things brought by the Oceania expedition team every year are not the most advanced technology in the capital, the iron smelting technology alone is enough to make the natives on the primitive continent dumbfounded.

The natives of Oceania living in the Stone Age directly crossed the Bronze Age and came into contact with the more advanced Iron Age.The aborigines found that iron weapons were much more efficient whether they were used for war with other tribes or for hunting.Iron tools are more deadly than stone tools when dealing with wild beasts.And tribes with iron tools can easily defeat ordinary stone tribes.

The primitive tribes who understood the benefits of ironware began to find ways to trade with outsiders, and they exchanged labor, prey, and captives for ironware.

Cheng Hong and his group of outsiders also had things that the primitive tribes longed for - more condiments, firearms that were more powerful than iron, wooden barrels and other practical tools.

Tianji City has become the core area of ​​southeastern Oceania. Some primitive aborigines even regard the guns and explosives of outsiders as gods, and Tianji City has become the place of "gods", and they regard it as a holy place.

When the monsoon suitable for sailing in the Pacific Ocean blows, another group of ships arrives at Melbourne Bay to replace a group of expedition members via the waters of New Guinea and the Great Barrier Reef from Batavia.

"This is the only town in the New World." The members of the new expedition team who set foot on this batch of land saw a colony like a large village. The colony with hundreds of people is not too big, just like a large self-sufficient manor. There are many cattle and sheep.

In order to resist the storm by the sea, the Oceania expedition led by Cheng Hong built forts and houses mainly with stones, and also built a long embankment to prevent the Yarra River from flooding the farmland during the flood season and typhoon weather.

"Welcome to come!" Cheng Hong and others saw the arrival of the ships from their hometown, and gathered on the bank of the Yala River to welcome the expedition team members who came to rotate at the simple wharf they built.

"The storm in the Pacific Ocean is too dangerous. One of our ships was sunk by the storm, and more than a dozen crew members died..." This group of expedition members who came to Tianji City to change the guard did not have the adventure of Cheng Hong and the others when they came to Melbourne Bay Fortunately, a large ship sank, and thanks to the rescue of other crew members, not all the sailors on the sunken sailing ship were killed.

The expressions of Cheng Hong and others became solemn. They have survived in Oceania for more than three years. They go out to sea to fish and explore the surrounding islands and coastlines from time to time. They know how terrible the sea storms in the Pacific Ocean are, and they can easily capsize a large sailing ship. .Cheng Hong once wanted to cross the sea to discover the New Zealand Islands depicted on the map, but encountered a storm on the way and suffered heavy losses, so he had to end the expedition early and return to Tianji City.

The new expedition members have the excitement of setting foot on the new continent, the sadness of losing their companions, and the worry about whether they can survive on this continent.According to the Oceania development plan of the military department, every year a group of people come to replace another group of people and return to the mainland. On average, each person can return after living for three years and receive a batch of generous compensation.If the expedition members are willing to stay in Tianji City to reclaim land, they can also apply to become lifelong residents.At present, Tianji City's taxes are extremely low, similar to a large autonomous village.

"This time it's your turn to return to your homeland. We will take over from you and continue to build Tianji City. We have also brought geological experts and ore experts this time to explore the nearby terrain and ore veins. The military department will organize the fleet every year. Supplies It costs a lot of money to send people here, but at present, Tianji City can only be self-sufficient and cannot subsidize the finances. Therefore, the military department plans to dig mines here, and transport the minerals here to Bada when the personnel are rotated every year. Via." The new expedition leader who succeeded Cheng Hong said to him.

"If we open up a mine and transport the minerals to Nanyang, we can indeed make up for the cost of supplying Tianji City..." Cheng Hong said.

He still has nothing to say.The biggest expense of establishing a colonial foothold in Oceania is to find people to come here in turn to stipend and supplement, otherwise no one is willing to take the risk of leaving their hometown and living in a strange continent.

And to make up for such expenses, it seems that it is not enough to transport the mining from Melbourne Bay to Batavia on Java Island, unless the exploration and mining are gold and silver mines...

In fact, Cheng Hong did not guess wrong. The reason why the military added geological experts and mineral experts to the expedition team this time was to find gold mines near Melbourne Bay to make up for the investment in colonial strongholds in Oceania.

"Get ready. When the wind direction changes, you can set sail and return to your homeland." The new expedition leader said to Cheng Hong, "You have stood firm in Tianji City until now, and your first batch of expedition members decided not only to be willing to stay forever, Except for the members who live here, you are the only ones left, it's time to go back to your hometown and take a look."

Cheng Hong shook his head: "We don't want to return to the mainland so soon. Before returning to the mainland, we plan to sail to the east for the last time. After we find the New Zealand Islands on the map to declare our sovereignty, we will return to the mainland. Otherwise, we feel right Can't help but set out for the first time to find the team members who died on the way to find the New Zealand Islands."

(End of this chapter)