Chapter 909: Colonization and Exploration

10,000 years is too long, seize the day! The Yellow Han in the competition for North and South America certainly spared no effort.

Huang Han made a decision on the spot, with the "Hanjiang Junwang" as the flagship, plus 16 first-class battleships to form an escort formation, and 36 merchant ships and supply ships with a displacement of more than 800 tons were used to load equipment and immigrants.

The crew consisted of 7,000 sailors from the two battalions of sailors and marines under the direct leadership of An Xiaole and Zeng Tong, as well as 20,000 craftsmen, technicians, and immigrants, and the number of people who sailed again was 10,000 more than the number of immigrants on the first voyage.

In order to maximize efficiency, the assembly place and departure place were selected at the port of Ryukyu, and after two months, all the ships and passengers of the voyage would arrive.

Shi Daxuan, the main general of the voyage, An Xiaole, Zeng Tongxiang, and Huang Kezao, the chief official of the town, 800 college students who graduated this year and covered various disciplines set off with the army.

Huang Yong's plan to capture the city of Relansha will be implemented after sending Huang Han back to Shanhaiguan, in addition to the first battalion of sailors led by Huang Yong, there are also 1,000 Ryukyu guards trained by Yang Dayou.

The new flagship "Hanwang" directly participated in the battle, plus nine booty Xiyi deck warships and six first-class battleships, with a total number of fifteen thousand troops, and it was estimated that if the Dutch did not choose to surrender with dignity, they would be headless and faceless.

The Hainan Island rubber plantation finally waited for 3,000 rubber trees from thousands of miles away.

In fact, there are more than 5,000 transplanted adult trees, but unfortunately, even though dozens of craftsmen and hundreds of sailors who are proficient in transplanting flowers and trees are carefully served, nearly a small amount of them are still lost and thrown into the sea after a long journey.

The 100,000 rubber tree species collected have also begun to be sown, and even if the seedling emergence rate reaches half, it will reach 50,000, and the climate of Hainan Island is suitable for the growth of rubber trees, and the trees will become green in a few years.

Relatively speaking, the evergreen shrub is relatively easy to transplant, and the average annual temperature in Daiyun Mountain, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, is in line with the growth characteristics of cinchona trees, where 2,000 mountain people cultivate cinchona trees for a fee under the guidance of dozens of florists.

After getting the cinchona tree in the Andes Mountains of South America, Wu Youxing and Shen Langzhong took their disciples to use the bark into medicine, and it didn't take long for them to master the medicinal properties and cure hundreds of people infected with malaria.

Shen Langzhong did not participate in the voyage again, because they not only brought back the cinchona tree, but also found many unknown plants that were used in the medicine of the aborigines, and he had to spend time researching them.

This time, medical officers Guo Xiao and Ye Zifan won the task of leading more than 100 medical school graduates to provide medical services for the expedition team.

The more than 100,000 catties of rubber raw materials brought back by the fleet have been delivered to the rubber research group of "Hanhua University" located in "Tiger's Den City".

Dozens of craftsmen under the leadership of professors and graduate students to carry out vulcanization experiments, with the right research direction, twice the result with half the effort, I believe that it will not be long before rubber tires will come out.

The "Red Flag Daily" carried a series of front-page headlines on the triumphant return of the fleet sailing to the American continent, and also published many articles describing the scenery of the Americas.

These articles were all written by young intellectuals who volunteered to stay in the Americas to continue their exploration, including a serialized travelogue written by Huang Yi.

Too many Ming scholars were attracted by the distant overseas scenery, and many talented people took the initiative to sign up to participate in the development of the Americas.

In the end, the 800-year-old and able-bodied students who were younger than 30 years old were given what they wanted.

Their families were immediately able to receive a subsidy of thirty silver coins, and they would later be treated as military dependents.

Huang Han did not ask the eight hundred Shizi from the Ming system to drag their families to immigrate, at least not this time.

Because these 800 talents go to the Americas to work for a year or two, the "Red Banner Army" system is a double salary for business trips, and they will also be rewarded according to their work performance and merit, and they will get no less remuneration.

Xiucai Gong has been full of poetry and books, and has seen the vastness of the world again, and has a high income, and when he comes back, he will definitely call friends, and then the number of readers who yearn to go to the other side of the ocean to open up will show an explosive growth.

When the entire group of Daming scholars was discussing the fresh topic of overseas development, a stock began to be publicly issued with the name of "Overseas Development", which will raise 30 million silver coins.

The "Red Banner Army" system subscribed more than half, leaving 10 million silver coins to the Ming system.

On the same day, the wealthy people of the Ming Dynasty inquired about the 20 million shares of the "Red Banner Army" system that were given priority to the soldiers to buy, and basically they were not sold in the "Sifang Qianzhuang" and were digested internally.

Moreover, the "Han King" demanded that all the regular soldiers must resolutely hold the shares after they get them, and they must not sell them when they cannot reach more than three times their income, and they can mortgage them to the "Sifang Qianzhuang" for loans when they urgently need money.

All this news is true, and the "Overseas Development" mode of operation is equivalent to that of the Dutch, British "East India Company", which made a fortune.

Therefore, Huang Han gave all the regular soldiers 50 shares and the Weisuo army 30 shares in the mode of placing, and the generals could buy 100 to 1,000 shares according to their ranks, and they could only go to the secondary market to buy at a higher price.

It doesn't matter if the regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" and the guard army don't have so much spare money.

Ordinary soldiers can register with their waist plate numbers without collateral, and the "Sifang Bank" can lend up to 100 silver coins.

This is not a blind loan, the soldier has the ability to repay, the military salary can be at least 350 silver coins per year, and the death pension and disability allowance is not less than 100 silver coins.

In the future, there will be an extra income, which is, of course, the dividend from "overseas development".

Huang Han made a hard rule that half of the profits obtained by "Overseas Development" every year are used to expand its strength, and half are used to distribute dividends.

In order to attract more Daming officials and nobles to join the family, it is clear that the "Red Flag Army" system can digest all the "overseas development" shares, but Huang Han still left 10 million shares for the Daming system.

In order to attract more wealthy people in the Ming Dynasty to take the bait, Huang Han also gave some restrictions, the upper limit for each person to buy is 1,000 shares, and Tian Hongyu was approved, he can buy 10,000 shares.

In fact, because of the continuous absorption of funds, many Daming capital has flowed into the "Red Flag Army" system, and it is difficult to absorb 10 million taels of silver again.

However, because the news of the purchase restriction has been infinitely expanded, too many small and medium-sized investors think that strange goods are livable, and queue up all night to buy, which has attracted more uncertain investors, and finally evolved into a difficult to find again.

With a capital injection of 30 million silver coins, 300 warships, merchant ships, and supply ships will be split from the Dragon Warrior Naval Division and included in the "Overseas Development", which is dedicated to colonization and exploration.

Of course, the robbery of privateers, pirate ships, warships of other countries, and armed merchant ships is also one of the income-generating projects of "overseas development".