From Propulsion City To Multiverse

The itinerary of Li Tang's mission continued.

But Zheng Sen didn't have much interest in Li Tang's mission. After all, the two sides are not speculative. Even if they sit together, it is estimated that it will be difficult to reach a treaty.

at this moment.

The immigration work from all over the south of the Yangtze River became more active with the arrival of winter. At this time, it happened to be the northwest wind, which had an accelerating effect on sailboats and steamboats.

Moreover, the temperature in various parts of Southeast Asia in winter, especially the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula and the northern part of the Luzon Islands, will become relatively cooler.

This climate is conducive to the initial adaptation of immigrants.

At present, the immigration transport ships of the Ministry of Immigration have expanded to 327 ships, including 210 wooden sailboats with a displacement of about 300 tons, 106 wooden sailboats with a displacement of about 800 tons, and 21 steam wooden sailboats with a displacement of 1,800 tons.

In order to ensure safety, we set off in groups along the way.

Every time immigrants are transported, there are 10 ships, some of which are immigration ships for transporting immigrants, some of which are material ships for transporting supplies, and warships for escort.

However, the escort warships usually adopt a relay scheme, that is, the East China Sea First Squadron, Liuqiu Squadron, and Luzon Squadron are responsible for the escort missions in their respective jurisdictions.

Due to the impact of the flood in the south of the Yangtze River, the shipping that had been suspended for more than eight days resumed quickly.

The immigration and material fleet composed of 23 transport ships departed from Zhenjiang Prefecture, took advantage of the northwest wind and the flow of the river, quickly exited the Yangtze River Estuary, then adjusted the sails, and changed east to south.

The ships of the Human Revolutionary League have already figured out this route clearly.

Usually it is Zhoushan-Quanzhou-Jian'an-Zhangzhou-Penghu-Pingtung-Kuroshio Strait (or Dongsha Sea)-Dingnan Port in Luzon.

There are supply ports, ship repair yards, and temporary hospitals along the way to ensure the survival rate of the immigrants.

Now the northwest wind is very harsh. After the typhoon, the southeast coast is almost clear, which is a good time for long-distance sailing.

In Luzon State, Wang Zhong, the chief of staff of the squadron, took people back to Liuqiu to form a new fleet. The previous Liuqiu Squadron was renamed the Luzon Squadron, responsible for the defense of Luzon State, while continuing to explore south .

Song Lu and An Gou, the governor of Luzon State, sit together on the big island of Luzon.

At present, the aboriginal tribes of the entire Luzon Island have been subdued, adding 43,000 people to the local population, plus 82,000 people who have immigrated successively (some of them are from Lingnan and Guangnan), which has accelerated the development of Dingnan Port. .

On the north side of Dingnan Port is a rare corridor plain on Luzon Island, where settlements are laid out one by one along the river.

The Xiao Huo family, who immigrated from the south of the Yangtze River, were assigned to Qingshui Village in Dingnan County. There are more than 20 surnames in the village, and one-third of them are aboriginals.

He skillfully pulled a big buffalo to his 70 mu of land, where Guan Li next door was fertilizing the sugar cane.

Brother Guan, you plant so much sugar cane, what will you eat then?

Seemingly unable to understand what he was talking about, Li Guan didn't answer, but just gestured a few times.

I can't understand what each other is talking about. This is a common problem in all immigrant villages. Xiao Huo's family is from Baling, Jianghan Prefecture, while Li Guan is from a small tribe in Guangnan Prefecture. It is difficult to change.

After burying half an acre of manure, Li Guan washed his hands beside the ditch, and then shouted to Xiao Huo who was grazing cattle: What did you just say?

After listening for a while, Xiao Huo could barely hear a few words, and then said with gestures: Brother Guan, I'm asking you why you plant so much sugar cane? It's so good to grow food.

After communicating for a long time, Li Guan finally understood, and then replied with a smile:

You know what a fart, the purchase price of grain will be lower and lower in the future. I can see many people planting sugar cane in Guangnan, and the government's purchase of sugar cane is much higher than that of grain.

But if everyone doesn't grow food, won't they starve to death? Xiao Huo still felt unreliable.

In fact, they don't know that the Human Revolutionary Federation is constantly adjusting the purchase price of crops. Through this price adjustment, various specialized agricultural areas have been formed in various regions.

For example, in Jiaozhi Prefecture in Guangnan Prefecture, the purchase price of grain is obviously low, while the purchase price of sugar cane is relatively high. The purpose is to guide Jiaozhi Prefecture into a sugar production base.

However, Luzon will not transform in the early stage, but it does not mean that sugarcane cannot be planted, but the purchase price is the same as that of rice, and the white sugar produced is enough to meet the local needs of Luzon.

The industrial layout of Luzon State is copper mining, port service, fishery and grain planting, and it will become the alliance's granary in Nanyang.

After all, although rice can be grown in the Nanyang Islands, there is no way to develop large-scale development inside the islands densely covered with tropical rain forests. It is better to develop a plantation economy based on cash crops.

Therefore, the Nanyang Islands need the granary of Luzon State as a ballast stone.

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In the south of the big island of Luzon, there are several broken archipelagos, which are either uninhabited or primitive small tribes of Austronesians.

Lin Sandao and Chang Guyu went all the way south, in addition to surveying hydrology and making topographic maps of the island, they were also collecting samples of local flora and fauna.

The other is to bury the monument of sovereignty and recover the small tribes along the way.

Along the way, the fleet did not encounter a relatively developed feudal kingdom, only a small tribe composed of some Austronesian people.

Until January 13, 4th year of the new calendar.

Chang Guyu, who had just finished writing the logbook, found that the fleet was bustling.

Stepping out of the cabin, he found a large piece of land not far away, which looked like a big island.

The small boat for hydrological exploration went first to explore the way.

Exploring the island was already commonplace for them, and soon they found a suitable location for landing.

After logging in.

Chang Guyu and Lin Sandao stood on a temporary wooden frame, looked at the entire island with a telescope, and found that the island was very large.

Lin Sandao pointed to the southwest direction and said: Hey! There is smoke in the southwest direction, it seems that there are people here.

Want to go over and get in touch? Chang Guyu asked.

The distance is only 5-6 kilometers, and it should be next to the coastline. I will send three ships to have a look later.

More than five hours later, one of the three ships that went to contact the aborigines returned to the temporary berth, bringing unexpected news to Lin Sandao.

Lin Sandao felt helpless: It's another headhunting tribe.

Destroy it! Chang Guyu also looked depressed.

After all, a headhunting tribe with a habit of cannibalism has no value in assimilation.

Following Lin Sandao's order, several warships followed.

In the evening, under the setting sun, the headhunting tribe in the southwest had been completely wiped out, leaving only the burning camp.

Among the returning ships, the captured spoils were brought back, mainly some things that may have words, a small amount of bronzes, and some strange stones, shells and pottery.

These things are only for archaeological research and have no practical value.

Chang Guyu, who was looking at these things, found several pottery plates, which were made of a special combination of black pottery and red pottery, and fired into characters and patterns.

He quickly figured out the writing, because the Austronesian writing didn't change much.

Is this a chart?

Grain

On one of the pottery plates, there are rough orientations of the Luzon Islands, Liuqiu Island, and Nanyang Islands, as well as the outlines of the islands.

Although there are errors in distance and contour, they can still be distinguished in general.

There are a total of 12 pottery plates, which seem to be a little old.

According to the translated content, Chang Guyu knew the meaning of these pottery plates, except for 3 of which were special, the remaining 9 were all inherited from the great witches of this tribe.

In other words, this tribe has passed through at least 9 generations of inheritance.

This tribe is called Chiligu. About 200 years ago, they fled from the big island of Borneo and settled here.

And those three special pottery plates were actually brought over from Borneo. One of them is a nautical chart, the other is a rough map of Borneo, and the other is a description of a kind of flowers and plants and a boa constrictor.

Chang Guyu didn't pay much attention to it, but just recorded this incident in the logbook, and when he has the opportunity to go to Borneo in the future, he will go to the hometown of this tribe.

The fleet rested here for three days, and then began to sail around the island to determine the outline of the island.

After going around for more than half a month, I returned to the position where I landed for the first time.

This island is very large in front of it. It is a large island in the Luzon Islands, second only to Luzon Island. It covers an area of ​​about 94,000 square kilometers, and its terrain is mainly plateaus and mountains.

After discussion, the island was named Highland Island by Lin Sandao. It is different from the Star Luo Islands in the central Luzon Islands. Chang Guyu believes that there is good potential for agricultural development here.

After all, there are too many islands in the Star Luo Islands, and there are no big islands.

The high altitude of Highland Island is actually an advantage in the tropics. The high altitude can offset the too hot tropical climate and at the same time block the invasion of some tropical cyclones.

In addition, this island has an area of ​​94,000 square kilometers, making it the second largest island in the area under the control of the Human Revolutionary Federation.

The largest island is Luzon Island with an area of ​​109,900 square kilometers, followed by this highland island with an area of ​​about 94,000 square kilometers, the third is Liuqiu Island with an area of ​​36,000 square kilometers, and the fourth is Qiongzhou Island with an area of ​​33,900 square kilometers.

In other words, the area of ​​Gaodi Island is about three Qiongzhou Islands.

If it weren't for the small population, a separate state could be set up here.

Now it can only be temporarily divided into Luzon State, temporarily designated as Highland Island Prefecture, becoming the third government of Luzon State.

Luzon currently has North Luzon, South Luzon (including the Xingluo Islands Nature Reserve), and the highland island that Lin Sandao and others have just explored.

After preliminary exploration of the coastal area of ​​Highland Island, Lin Sandao and Chang Guyu decided to stay and build a port here with a battalion of troops after discussing with Chang Guyu.

And Lin Sandao brought a steamship squad, continued to explore south for a month, and joined them when he came back.

The 5 steamships that continued to go south did not turn on the steam engine, but relied on the wind to sail. Unless they encountered too strong headwind and countercurrent environment, they would not use the steam engine casually.

Just ten days later.

They also saw a larger island.

In fact, in the area of ​​the Luzon Islands and the Nanyang Islands, there are more than 30,000 small islands, especially those islands and reefs, which can be seen everywhere.

This is also one of the reasons why the Austronesians who originated from Fujian and Liuqiu can spread throughout the Luzon Islands, Nanyang Islands, and Pacific Islands.

There are no major problems with fresh water and food supplies along the way. The only thing to worry about is perhaps the frequent typhoons in Southeast Asia.

The steamship slowly approached the island. Lin Sandao was not in a hurry for fear of running aground.

In the evening, I found a suitable coast for anchoring.

After a night of rest.

When he came up the next day, he took hundreds of sailors, armed with rifles and equipment, and officially landed on the island.

Head! Look what I found? A sailor said excitedly, pointing to a large tree.

Lin Sandao took a closer look: Damn! It turned out to be a large piece of pepper? There are so many peppers here? Could it be the pepper plantation of the aborigines?

Soon they found more pepper vines, as well as nutmeg and cloves.

The latter two things are actually native species in Southeast Asia, and there are no East Asian continents.

The cardamom native to East Asia, that is, grass fruit, is not the same thing as Southeast Asian nutmeg.

As for the southern lilac, it is completely different from the East Asian lilac.

Southern lilac belongs to Myrtaceae, while East Asian lilac belongs to Oleaceae. The former is often used as a food seasoning, while the latter is a traditional Chinese medicine and aromatherapy. The lilac we often say refers to East Asian lilac.

It's developed! It's wild. Lin Sandao felt that this trip made a lot of money.

Even though the Human Revolutionary Alliance is vigorously developing the local flavoring and seasoning industry, because it has not obtained the original plants of pepper, nutmeg, and clove, and the spices sold by the Nanyang kingdoms are mainly dry ingredients.

The outside world does not know the original plants of the spices, and these spices are currently grown in the Tianzhu area.

Due to climate and transportation factors in East Asia, it was not introduced until the 20th century.

The island that Lin Sandao discovered was actually one of the islands in the Spice Islands, where a large amount of wild pepper, nutmeg, and cloves grew.

He quickly ordered the botanists on board to collect samples of these wild peppers, nutmeg, and cloves, and at the same time collect data on their planting environment, so that they can be introduced and cultivated in the future.

For the next ten days, Lin Sandao kept on the place he named Pepper Island until he collected more than 200 kilograms of peppercorns, more than 500 kilograms of nutmeg, more than 60 kilograms of cloves, and some young seedlings.

Lin Sandao was reluctant to take the people back. Because he was worried that Miao Miao would have an accident, when he returned, he directly started the steam engine and the speed soared to 15 knots.

It took him only 8 and a half days to return to Taoban Port on Highland Island, where he saw the Taoban Port that had begun to take shape, and his colleagues who hadn't seen each other for more than a month.

Chang Guyu said helplessly: Old Lin, I can't go back to Dingnan Port with you this time, you brought a part of the fleet back to Dingnan Port, there are more than 5,000 immigrants coming over there, and the higher authorities need you to escort them to Highland Island to open up wasteland.

That's really a pity. By the way, I brought back a lot of seedlings of pepper, nutmeg, and clove. The climate of Highland Island is similar to that of Pepper Island. I will keep half of the seedlings here. You can try to plant them.

Chang Guyu's eyes lit up, spices are good things.

He is still worrying about the economic development of Highland Island. If these spices can be successfully grown, he can definitely make this place a spice planting base for the Human Revolutionary Union.

After all, in order to have long-term stable rule over these areas, it is best to make the area valuable.

Minerals, specialty products, fertile land, fishing grounds, pastures, etc. can all generate economic value.

Otherwise, how can people be interested in immigrating to a place where the birds don't shit.

For example, the Monan, Mobei, and Inner Western Regions that the Central Plains have not completely occupied for thousands of years are because economic interests are not enough to drive the feudal dynasty.

In the agricultural era, these areas were tasteless to eat and a pity to discard.

If these areas were high-quality arable land like the North China Plain, they would have been wiped out by the Central Plains dynasty long ago.

The plan of the Human Revolutionary Federation to open up Nanyang was not developed casually, but a careful plan was formulated and various preparations were made.

Just when Lin Sandao returned to Luzon with a part of the fleet.

Zheng Sen appeared in the Zhoushan Islands, the technology research and development center of the Human Revolutionary Union. This time he came to watch a behemoth.

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