This huge fleet ready to go to the Americas, like the previous fleets to the Americas for migration, trade, and exploration, is the result of a tripartite cooperation between the Navy and the Department of Immigration and Reclamation, as well as the American Trading Company.

For the Americas, the empire has basically formed a consensus on immigration development, but when exactly will immigration development be a matter of conflict between multiple parties.

For the navy, it is natural to hope that the sooner the better, the sooner the Americas are developed, and the sooner the empire's strategic focus will be shifted to the Americas and to the sea, which will have countless benefits to the navy.

The same is true for the Immigration Reclamation Division and the American Trading Company, which has always been the vanguard of the Empire's external expansion, especially when those immigration officials know that the American continent is rich and the local geographical environment is good, and it will not be as bad as the Nanyang region, they regard immigration to the American continent as the main immigration task in the future.

For the Resettlement Division, any place suitable for immigrants is a good place, and it needs to be occupied as soon as possible.

As for the American Trading Company, this company was established only four years ago, and it is the latest of the trading companies controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and this American Trading Company is different from the other three trading companies with official backgrounds in the Tang Empire.

The Tang Empire has an official backing ocean trading company, there is the Datang Oriental Trading Company, which specializes in trade in the Fusang region, and the Datang Nanyang Trading Company, which specializes in trade in the Nanyang region, both of which are ordinary trading companies, although they have an official background, strong capital, and many ships, but they are no different from other private trading companies.

However, the Datang Western Trading Company is a bit special, because this company has a Western trade license, not to mention monopolizing Western trade, and can also legally possess large-scale arms.

The Inter-American Trading Company, on the other hand, is a combination of some of the above two characteristics, first of all, the company does not say that it has a monopoly Americas trading license, but this company has an Americas construction license, which is also specially designed for the Americas trading company.

The permit allowed the American Trading Company to build settlements, cities, etc., on the American continent, and to have some administrative assistance in the management of the cities they had created, as was the case with the Western Trading Company, and to allow the company to form an armed force of limited size in order to protect these port cities.

However, these armed forces are extremely restrictive, that is, they are only allowed to be stationed on the American continent and carry out military operations against the indigenous people.

At the same time, if there is a conflict with Spain, Portugal and other seafaring powers on the American continent, the armed forces of the American Company only have the right to self-defense, and if they want to launch an active attack, they need to report to the military and obtain approval.

At the same time, all armed employees of the company's armed forces must be Tang people, and the officers among them must be veterans.

This American Trading Company is partly similar to the American Trading Company, but some of its powers are less than those of the Western Trading Company, such as the special power of monopolizing trade, and at the same time, it does not have the power to conclude treaties and declare war independently for any country, and these powers are limited to the indigenous tribes on the American continent.

At the same time, when fighting the enemy, the Western Trading Company has the autonomy to fight against any country or power on its own, as long as the scope is limited to India, West Asia, Africa, and Europe west of Malacca.

Then the Imperial military actually has no power to interfere.

This is not the case with the American Trading Company, which can only fight freely against the natives, but against the civilized countries of Europe, they only have the right to defend themselves, and they have no right to attack freely.

Of course, this is only talking about Spain, the official power of Portugal, if it is just these two ordinary immigrants, merchant ships and the like, this does not matter, you can decide for yourself, after all, there are many pirates in these years, and when pirates attack merchant ships and even ports, it often happens, Spain has been attacked, and Datang is no exception.

So, it's not worth all the fuss.

As for who those pirates are, whether they are the navy of a certain country, there is no need to delve into this kind of question, because it is useless to investigate them, and everyone will not admit it.

The almost miniature version of the American Trading Company was the vanguard of the Tang Dynasty's development of the Americas, and in recent years it has been jumping up and down to promote immigration to develop the Americas.

The Navy, the Department of Immigration and Reclamation, and the American Trading Company agreed and cooperated in the development of the Americas.

That's why we have this massive fleet today.

Moreover, this huge fleet is different from the previous fleets, and a considerable part of the ships in this fleet are equipped with steam engines.

In the past, it is not that there have been no steam ships to the Americas, and last year there was a steam merchant ship that arrived in the Americas, but the scale was not large, and because there was no coal replenishment along the way, the steam engine actually did not start much, but it would only start in case of no wind or other emergencies, and it usually saved coal.

But this time, in order to ensure the safety of the fleet and the time required for the voyage, and, of course, more importantly, the American Trading Company issued a small coal mine in the Americas, which was prepared for the large-scale use of the steam engine as the main power.

It's a small coal mine in the Americas, but it's coal.

As soon as there was a supply of coal in the Americas, ships that used both sails and sails on a large scale were able to use steam power.

When the huge American fleet set sail with smoke, countless people along the Huangpu River watched them set sail.

The formation and planning of the American Fleet was not for any purpose, and even in order to expand its influence, the American Trading Company was still conducting large-scale propaganda.

So, on this day, many people are paying attention to this fleet.

Not to mention the naval officers and immigration officers, the insiders of the American Trading Company, and others are also paying close attention.

The other trading companies are paying attention to this action, because the American trading company does not have a trade monopoly, which means that if it is profitable in the Americas, other trading companies can also get a piece of the pie.

Unlike India's trade with Africa and Europe, which is monopolized by Western trading companies, there are currently no other companies' merchant ships that can cross Malacca to India.

The upper echelons of the empire also intended to change this kind of monopoly, but considering the huge role of the Western Trading Company and the huge operating costs of the company, if it was not supported by the profits brought by the monopoly trade, then the Western Trading Company would probably be in a difficult situation.

You must know that at present, the Western Trading Company has established more than a dozen colonial bases on the east and west coasts of India with the Indian state of the Goh River as its core base, penetrated deep into the Indian continent, and established a number of bases along several major rivers.

It was even established in West Asia and the east coast of Africa, the most distant stronghold is located in southern Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope, where the Western trading company invested a lot of money, used the large fleet to transport a large amount of cement and other materials at one time, and then landed, and bought off the local tribes to provide labor, etc., and secretly spent three months to build a large-scale fortress.

By the time the Portuguese noticed it and sent their fleet to attack, the fortifications and other fortifications had been completed, and there were 800 armed employees stationed there.

In the end, the two sides fought a three-year continuous war around the South African stronghold, but Datang Western Company withstood it.

However, it is a pity that so far the Western Trading Company has not been able to establish a stronghold on the west coast of Africa, and those Portuguese are like madmen, stationed in South Africa to see a large number of fleets, strictly defend the Cape of Good Hope, and even dare to carry out blockade operations at the extremely dangerous Cape of Good Hope, regardless of their own life and death.

The establishment of each of these strongholds meant one or more wars.

It's not just about the natives, it's about the Portuguese.

At present, the conflict and competition between the Portuguese and the empire on the Indian side has entered the most intense thing, and the two sides have basically torn off their skins and attacked each other's colonial strongholds.

Many of the strongholds of the Western trading company were taken from the Portuguese.

Of course, the Portuguese also robbed many strongholds and merchant ships of Western trading companies.

What's even more interesting is that the two sides are fighting for life and death in India, but they are at peace in the South China Seas, and there is no shortage of business to be done.

The Western trading companies fought with the natives and the Portuguese in India and Africa, and their annual military expenditures were astronomical, and if they had not been subsidized by the profits of the Western monopoly trade, they would have gone bankrupt.

Therefore, in view of the situation in India and Africa, the monopoly of Western trading companies will not be abolished in the near future.

That's why many trading companies are looking to the Americas.

It is a new and untapped market, and it can also bypass the Grape People and the Tang Western Trading Company, and trade directly with Europe through the Spaniards, which is very promising, and many trading companies are already preparing to run the American route.

These trading companies are concerned, ordinary people are also concerned, and some poor people hope that the Americas will bring back good news, if it is really beautiful and rich, and there are countless good lands waiting for them, then they will inevitably grit their teeth and then board the immigration ship to go to the Americas to make a living.

In the Wusongjiang Hotel at the mouth of the Wusong River in Shanghai, the group also stood on the balcony and looked at the huge fleet on the Huangpu River outside.

Most of the people in this group were officials in official robes, but in this group of men in official robes, there was a young man in civilian clothes.