Guo Song thought for a moment and said, "San Francisco is good, but San Francisco seems to be in an earthquake zone." Moreover, the main reason why the western region of the United States has not been developed for many years is because the western hinterland is too small. The Cordillera and Rocky Mountains run parallel to the western coastline, building up the plains in the west to a few hundred kilometers wide, and most of the desert to the east beyond the mountains is unrealistic.

Moreover, there are many volcanoes in the northern part of the West Coast, many of which are in seismic zones, which are very unfavorable for development. The coastal areas of the West Coast of the Americas are also extremely steep, and the climate and ocean currents are not good, the West Coast is a cold snap from Alaska in the north, the water is cold and the waves are rapid, and there is a famous shipwreck area outside San Francisco. Relative to the resource-rich East Coast and the Great Lakes region, the West Coast is simply not comparable. So the choice of the San Francisco area at this stage is still debatable. ”

Qiao Haipeng waved his hand and said: "Actually, it is not realistic for us to consider landing from the West Coast and crossing the Cordillera Mountains and the Rocky Mountains to reach the eastern part of the Americas in the future. I've thought about this for a long time, we just set up a colony in San Francisco, and after we have established ourselves on the west coast, we will develop south along the west coast of the Americas, and gradually control the Central American coasts such as Los Angeles, San Diego, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Actually, my purpose is Panama in Central America, as long as I occupy this place, I don't need to say what the specific meaning is. Hehe...... We can go to the opposite Caribbean Sea through this strip of only a few tens of kilometers, and enter the Atlantic Ocean and the east coast of the Americas. In the future, when we have the conditions, we will open this canal, and at that time, our Far East will hold the throat of two oceans, and it will be cool to think about it! ”

Everyone nodded frequently when they heard this. I think Qiao Haipeng's idea is good.

Qiao Haipeng continued: "But if you want to achieve this idea, you must meet the Spanish colonizers. At the end of the year, Joao, Duke of Braganza, grandson of the Portuguese Duchess Catarina, will carry out a coup d'état to overthrow his cousin, the Duchess of Mantua, and her Minister of State, Miguel. Morality. Vasgoncellos. Fifteen days later, he was officially crowned King of Portugal. Called João IV, he established the Bragança dynasty.

Over the past few years, João, the Duke of Braganza, has always maintained good relations with us, and has sent people to the Far East several times, hoping to establish good relations with our Far East. If history had not changed, Joao's envoy might have been on his way to the Far East or had already arrived in Manila. Hehe...... If we have a certain relationship with Portugal and are determined to help Portugal resist Spain, we will certainly have a reason to send troops to Central America. And if Portugal wants our help, it will have to pay the price. ”

Wang He nodded. He said in a deep voice: "Supporting Portugal is a strategy that our Far East Company has formulated before, in order to lay a nail in the European continent, this does not need to be discussed. I agree with Old Joe's suggestion that the first overseas colony should be in the San Francisco area, in preparation for the later occupation of Mexico and Central America. ”

Gao Jianguo glanced at the standing committee members in the room. smiled and said, "Let's vote first." ”

After he finished speaking, he took the lead in raising his hand, and several other Standing Committee members present. The resolution was also adopted by a show of hands. With this resolution, the next steps in the development of a colony in San Francisco on the west coast of North America began, and a rough plan was worked out and then submitted to the Board of Directors for discussion.

In the next few days, the nine-member Standing Committee of the Board of Directors has been meeting, and it is rare for several Standing Committee members to get together so much in the past two years. Therefore, we just took the opportunity of the company's spring meeting to determine the general direction of the company this year.

The board of directors of the Far Eastern Group has two important meetings every year, namely the spring meeting and the winter meeting, and one is held after the Spring Festival. One is held before the Chinese New Year. This year's situation is special, and it should be after spring ploughing.

A meeting is to formulate this year's work plan, as well as audit the budget of each department this year, etc., and to plan and prepare the company's work this year. The other session was a summary of this year's work.

Every year at the spring meeting, the company's heads from all over the country will rush to the company, which is the most complete of the heads of various departments of the company. Guo Song and others, whose faces were far away in India, and Li Ming and Ma Qing in the Hetao base area, all had to make airships and rush back to Liaodong.

The two annual meetings of the Far East are very distinctive, and the autumn meeting is a family celebration, where everyone praises and supports each other, and one by one they go to the rostrum, competing to brag and wear high hats for other departments.

And when it came to the spring meeting, the style of painting suddenly changed, from mutual support to mutual demolition, it was purely a fierce tearing battle, for the interests of their respective departments, fighting for the blood. There were even cases of two departments insulting each other, but everyone was not worried, which is why the autumn meeting was so harmonious, which has become a tradition of the Far Eastern Company.

At this time, many internal employees of the company will hold a small bench and prepare to watch the play, watching the heads of their respective departments stage a good show and tear up.

In particular, this year's spring meeting has made everyone look forward to it. In the past two years, the company has been in a difficult period, and the whole company is living on its stomach, which makes all departments have a very hard time.

But I didn't expect that this year, the company's military committee launched the Indian campaign, and suddenly became rich. The Far East of the local tyrants is back, and everyone is living a good life again this time.

Therefore, the Far East celebrates and rejoices.

Of course, the heads of various departments also have a lot of ideas, and many of their plans in the past two years have been stillborn, and they all want to get more budget support for their departments in this spring meeting.

Before the spring meeting opened, the entire city of Shenyang already had a strange calm before the war, and there was a cold and solemn atmosphere.

The eyes of the heads of various departments were also red, and they thought about making a big deal at the spring meeting. Whoever dares to stop it, they will go up and bite hard.

The much-anticipated Spring Conference of the Far East in 1640 has finally opened, and unlike the previous opening ceremonies, which were full of festive atmosphere, this year's opening ceremony, everyone could feel a murderous atmosphere. Only the loudspeakers at the venue were still playing exciting music and invigorating announcements. (To be continued.) )