Li Ming didn't wait for Wu Yuan to speak, and continued: "Let's not talk about the moral bottom line first, for this point, there is no common language between us, let's talk about Manila first."

The Ming Dynasty was the center of the world economy at the time, producing almost anything, and in the first half of the 17th century, China imported 5,000 tons of silver, mostly from the American mines of the Spanish colonies. This silver greatly stimulated the economic and population growth of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the population increased sharply, there was no significant increase in productivity, and it was during the Xiaoice period, and the sudden explosion of population caused an extreme shortage of food in a short period of time, which triggered a series of famines and led to years of displaced people in the northwest region.

The world of the Ming Dynasty was full of barren land without sovereignty, and the Ming people were fully qualified and capable of expanding their territory, gaining more living space, and implementing a wide range of immigration policies. South Asia, Central Asia...... There was a wider world for the Chinese to explore, but the Ming Dynasty did not do so. It also provided an opportunity for Western European colonists to invade Southeast Asia, making Southeast Asia the frontier of Western colonialists' aggression against China.

Economic growth also brought the development of the commodity economy and the extreme prosperity of overseas trade to the Ming Dynasty, but behind the prosperity was the corruption and degeneration of the entire nation, and silver stimulated endless consumption desires. But where all this silver went, it was in the hands of the gentry, who were mainly merchants and scholars, and Chongzhen couldn't even take out the silver for sending troops when he was about to die.

Now the whole world needs the goods of the Ming Dynasty. In the case of Manila, the annual flow of merchant ships from China's coast is the basis of its prosperity. As long as there are merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, even a desert island can be turned into a bustling harbor. The luxury goods and daily necessities that Europeans coveted were synonymous with making money in the eyes of the colonizers. ”

After listening to Li Ming's words, everyone talked about each other, Wu Yuan thought for a while and said: "I admit that what you said makes sense, but the company doesn't need trade now, let alone so much silver, the most important thing for us now is development, there is no need to waste resources there." ”

Qiao Haipeng, who was next to Li Ming, smiled, and then said lightly: "You go back and look at the map, maybe you don't know the location of Manila and Luzon yet." As for the strategic significance there, I won't tell you, and you don't understand it. In modern society, it has always been the sphere of influence of the United States.

If we occupy Luzon, it will be equivalent to pinching the egg of Southeast Asia, and we can easily control the shipping routes between Southeast Asia and the southeast coast of China and Japan. Vladivostok has a freezing period of more than 100 days a year, and the Admiralty should stay in Vladivostok all winter.

Sooner or later, our diesel fuel will run out, and several modern warships will be scrapped sooner or later, and the navy goes to Manila once a year in winter and returns in April of the following year, which not only trains the team, but also pulls back a large amount of food and other materials.

The Ming Dynasty was a superpower in that era, and the national strength of the Western colonists was far below that of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was supposed to dominate the world, but the Ming Dynasty's own forces withdrew from the traditional sea areas, and the Western colonists occupied Southeast Asia without much effort, and established outposts of invasion of China in these places.

Not only do we have no reason to abandon Manila, but we have to drive it there like a nail. It is also the www.biquge.info of Biqu Pavilion where we will compete for world domination in the future. Maybe many people don't understand why we want to dominate the world like the United Kingdom and the United States, hehe...... The current world is an era of big fish eating small fish, we don't do it when we have the ability, do we have to wait until we don't have the ability, just like the late Qing Dynasty to be beaten passively.

I was the one who asked the pirates to kill the Spaniards, and my idea was simple, it was to deter. If we want to gain a foothold in Manila, we have to brush up on the zài. Those Western colonists are a combination of merchants, pirates, and robbers, depending on how you communicate with them.

There is no reason to talk about it with robbers, you have to sue them in the way of robbers, this place is occupied by Lao Tzu, if anyone dares to come, I will chop him up. Only then can the robbers understand, oh...... There's someone here, so let's go grab somewhere else. ”

Li Ming and Qiao Haipeng's words finally moved the vast majority of the committee members, and the mention of occupying Manila was passed, and to Li Ming's surprise, Wu Yuan actually raised his hand in support.

The meeting decided that before the freezing of the port of Vladivostok every year, the Admiralty would form a fleet to spend the winter in Manila, and the Civil Affairs Committee would also set up a trade leading group to set off with the ship to take charge of the operation of the Manila branch, and return to Vladivostok with the fleet every spring.

The next meeting was smooth sailing, and many topics were almost unanimously voted or overwhelmingly voted through, after all, in the early stage of the company's development, it was the time when everyone was most cohesive.

The meeting was a great success, and for the first time, the 49 members of the board of directors of the Far Eastern Company exercised their rights in a real sense and made clear arrangements for the company's work in the new year. But the company's task this year is just as daunting.

The year 1629 was a crucial year for the development of the Far Eastern Company, because of the solid foundation laid in 1628, all departments of the company were full of confidence in the completion of various planned tasks.

After the conclusion of the board committee meeting, after the study of Gao Jianguo and other members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, it was decided to form an emigrant fleet and a northward flotilla, as well as an accompanying marine expeditionary force and a northbound detachment.

The first is to form a fleet of immigrants who sailed to Dongjiang Town, Yuan Chonghuan had already carried out an economic blockade of Dongjiang Town at the end of 1628, and about 100,000 people starved to death in Dongjiang Town in history, and some said 200,000, anyway, it has now reached the point of misery.

After the Battle of Ding Mao, North Korea and the Later Jin regime signed a brotherly alliance, and Mao Wenlong's military rations were also cut off, so the historical narrative is still credible, according to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Dongjiang River, the most dead must be the old and weak.

So now the time has come for large-scale immigration to Dongjiang Town, and the company decided to immediately organize a fleet of immigrants to go to the Ocean Island base. This is the second resettlement operation of the Far Eastern Company, and various departments have accumulated a lot of experience in the work of immigrants, so the material preparation is also sufficient.

Because Qiao Haipeng and Lu Gambo both resigned, the commander of the immigration fleet this time was served by Zhou Cheng. The fleet consisted of two landing ships, two whaling ships, one icebreaker, and 26 sailboats, and Li Ming organized a marine expeditionary force to accompany him, including one special combat team of Song Tao, two training battalions and a daredevil's brigade of the Far East Brigade, and one artillery company and one armored company of the Military Commission.

The northward flotilla was also formed, consisting of a landing ship, thirty wooden motor transport ships, and the fleet commander Huang Da. Qiang Quansheng led the army to the northward detachment, including two garrison battalions, a mountain guerrilla battalion, a special combat team led by Liu Baoguo, and a car company.

After the plan was formulated, all units began to actively prepare, and Gao Jianguo specially summoned all the officers and men of the Central Military Commission to draw up a detailed military plan in the base camp.

A few days later, the fleet of migrants was ready and slowly sailed out of the Golden Horn under the expectant eyes of Vladivostok. With the departure of the emigrant fleet, the northbound fleet was also loaded with supplies and left Vladivostok the next morning.

The Northbound Fleet was actually a short-distance transport fleet, which was just constantly going back and forth between Vladivostok and Trudovoye, first establishing a landing site there, and then sending personnel and mechanical engineering equipment there in the shortest possible time.

The company attaches great importance to the northbound plan, which is related to the company's development plan this year. This year, tens of thousands of immigrants in Dongjiang Town are under great pressure for the company, and a lot of work needs to be done in all aspects such as clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Fortunately, this year's immigration work will be different from previous years, and the immigration fleet will occupy Jeju Island first and set up a migrant transit base there to ease the pressure on the company's side.

The screening and registration of immigrants will be carried out at the Jeju Island Migrant Camp. This time the Liaodong immigrants will be significantly different from those down-and-out laborers last year, and the composition will be extremely complex.

In order to alleviate the pressure on Vladivostok, the Military Commission made the decision to take Jeju Island, which will also be the second real overseas territory in Vladivostok.

Vladivostok is not far from Trudovoye and a dozen kilometers on land. It took them just over an hour to drive to the bay near Trudovoye, where the landing site had already been determined.

Song Tao led a special combat unit and a mountain guerrilla battalion to conduct two long-distance training exercises this winter to conduct a dragnet-style reconnaissance and mapping of various areas in the northern part of Vladivostok. The location of this landing site is also provided by them.

There is only one small tribe in the vicinity of here, but it has been included in the sphere of influence of the Far East Company, and the two fighters of the mountain guerrilla battalion are from this tribe, so they can be regarded as their own people. This tribe is poor and weak, and very much wants to be incorporated into the Far East Company, and there are dozens of young people in the tribe who work as temporary workers in the Far East Company.

The No. 3 landing ship was fast, and it arrived at the landing site first. With the huge front tongues turned on, three jeeps roared and rushed onto the beachhead, followed by Liu Baoguo and nine special combat troops, who occupied several vantage points nearby and were responsible for guarding the follow-up landing force.

Qiang Quansheng stepped off the landing ship, issued orders loudly, and landed on the beach with the officers and men of the garrison battalion, and then the three garrison platoons went deep into the land to establish three outposts, and included the surrounding area of several square kilometers into their warning range.

The last to disembark from the landing ship was the Mountain Guerrilla Company, which formed a mountain guerrilla squad and went deep into the surrounding area 10 kilometers away to conduct reconnaissance. There is no danger in penetrating deep into the surrounding area, but since the attack on the forest farm, the requirements of the military commission on the troops have become very high, especially the most stringent vigilance and early warning mechanisms.

Benla Lantern glanced back at the landing ship at the beachhead, and then shouted to the indigenous fighters in his squad, "Let's go......"

He threw the Type 1628A short-barreled rifle behind him, and then led the way deeper into the land, and the nine indigenous warriors of the mountain squad followed him, trotting to follow. R1152