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Qin Mu thought for a while and said: "Longjiang Shipyard can be considered for selection, and the ocean trading company is not short of funds, so it does not need to be listed for the time being." Xu Qing, the selection of the first batch of listed enterprises, it is best to select some small scale, but have development potential as a pilot, such as Longjiang Shipyard, just choose three or two as pillars. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Qin Mu was a little worried, the Ocean Trading Company was now a behemoth that was no worse than the Dutch East India Company, and now it was actually not short of funds, and it had a background that others did not have.

If it continues to grab the first batch of listings, it will just be a circle of money. Its speed of development and excessive monopoly advantage may overshadow all competitors in the same industry, which is not conducive to the overall development of Daqin's maritime trade.

Xu Yongshun was a little disappointed, but he didn't dare to say anything, so that Longjiang Shipyard could be regarded as the first batch of listed companies, which could be regarded as Qin Mu's care for him. No matter how dissatisfied he is, I'm afraid it will make Qin Mu feel disgusted.

Qin Mu took out some ideas about stock trading and regulation that he had written down in the past few days, and handed them to Xu Yingjie, asking him to take them back for those financial researchers to study and improve.

In his idea, no matter what he does in the future, he will try not to do it himself, put forward an idea, and then hand it over to his subordinates to study and improve, in this process, he can better cultivate some professional talents. Otherwise, if you continue to pull out the seedlings and help them grow, sooner or later there will be problems.

After Xu Yingjie left, Qin Mu looked more relaxed and asked casually, "Xiao Shunzi, do you have any new ideas?" ”

Xu Yongshun looked dazed, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"The plan of the year is in the spring, and this is also spring, so you don't have any plans or anything?"

"Hey, hey. Yes, there is, but there are thousands of opportunities, Weichen has this little plan, how dare he ask His Majesty. ”

Qin Mu said disdainfully: "Don't say that I don't like to listen to it, you just hide it." ”

"Don't don't, Your Majesty, Wechen knows it's wrong, this well, Wechen's plan is actually very simple, the main goal of this year is to break into the European market. My Daqin's mission should have arrived in Europe, although there is no news back, but Wechen believes that with the support of the great victory in the Indian Ocean, the mission will definitely achieve good diplomatic results, Wechen pondered, this opportunity to enter the European market should have arrived. ”

"Hahaha good, good, little Shunzi. I really didn't misread you. However, I would like to warn you not to overdo this part of the ocean trading company. You have to leave some soup for someone else. Also, here in Nanhuazhou, don't toss with it, you have the ability. If you want to go to the Americas, it's a huge piece of cake, and you can't let the Europeans share it all. Let's go and see first, others can go, why can't we go? ”

Regarding the current situation in the Americas, Qin Mu didn't know much about it.

What is known is that after Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, England and other countries came one after another, and various countries successively established some invasion bases in the Americas.

The famous British Empire, on which the sun never sets, fell behind almost all Western European countries in this massive campaign to colonize the Americas.

Before Britain established its first colonies along the Atlantic coast, explorers from six European countries had already surveyed the coasts of the Americas. First the Portuguese, Danish, Italian, British, Spanish sailors;

Then there were the armed Spanish conquistadors who drove north from Mexico in the mid-16th century to explore the Great Southwest; In the late 16th century, the Spanish monk St. Francis established missionary communities in Florida, Georgia, and two Carolinas. However, it was Britain that first established a permanent colony.

In the first half of the 16th century, after the conquest of Mexico and Peru, Spain first established colonial bases in the Gulf of Mexico on the Atlantic coast of North America, present-day Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas.

Later, a new Spanish colony was established in North America, which included the contiguous zone between the present-day southwest and Mexico, as well as the contiguous territories of Central America, South America, and Spain. In the first half of the 17th century, Dutch colonists founded New Amsterdam (i.e., New York) in North America, which later expanded into the colony of New Netherlands.

In the 16th century, the French established the colony of Nofasco in North America, which included the eastern part of present-day Canada and the vast area of the Mississippi River in the United States. The British also began to explore the southeastern part of the Americas in the 16th century, but the invasions were in the 17th century.

In 1606, the English crown granted charters to two joint-stock companies made up of large merchants and landed nobles, the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company) and the Plylaus Company (later merged with the Massachusetts Bay Company), granting them the privilege of developing the North American colonies.

It was a comprehensive combination of overseas commerce, smuggling, piracy and the slave trade. In May 1607, the London Company sent the first immigrants to North America and founded James City.

The immigrants included speculators, bankrupt gentlemen, white indentured slaves, etc., a total of 105 people. Originally built as a grassy wilderness, immigrants built a church, a gun emplacement, and a few huts to begin their new life in North America. The mortality rate of immigrants was extremely high due to plague, smallpox, yellow fever, and the national revenge of the Indians. Only 32 of the first immigrants survived.

In 1607, none of the settlement areas established by the Plymouth Company were successful.

At this time, the bourgeois revolution in England was becoming more and more intense, and the secessionists, the most radical of the English Puritans, left England for the Netherlands in August 1608 due to the cruel persecution of the Anglican Church. Some of them decided to move to North America and signed an immigration contract with Virginia.

On September 1620, under the leadership of the priest Brest, he sailed to North America on the Mayflower. The Mayflower carried about 180 tons and was 90 feet long, carrying L02 passengers, including 35 secessionists, the rest were artisans, fishermen, poor peasants and 14 indentured slaves.

On 21 November, he arrived at Cape Cod and disembarked at Plymouth on the first day after Christmas. Prior to the landing, on 21 November, the Separatist leader presided over the elaboration of a jointly respected Mayflower Convention in the cabin of the ship, which was signed by 41 free adult men. Its content is: organizing civic groups; Prepare just laws, decrees, rules and regulations.

This convention laid the foundation for self-government in the New England states and was of great significance to later developments.

Since then, Jamestown has grown into a Virginia colony. After the outbreak of the bourgeois revolution in England, many royal and landed aristocrats also migrated to Virginia, and most of them became the new aristocrats and large plantation owners of the region.

These include the Washington family, the Mordison family, and the Monroe family, which are famous families in later generations.

On the whole, the current European colonization of the Americas is mostly predatory rather than constructive.

In particular, the colonization of the Americas by countries like Spain was almost always destructive and predatory. Many places are looted and left behind. The so-called colonies are more just places for them to plunder resources.

Now that Great Qin's power has not yet expanded to Europe, Qin Mu has set his sights on the Americas, which makes Xu Yongshun stunned.

Qin Mu said casually: "The fragmented pattern of Europe as a whole has been finalized, and it is difficult to unify it, in other words, as long as my Great Qin keeps moving forward, it will be difficult for Europe to become the real enemy of Great Qin."

The Americas, on the other hand, have a superior geographical location, abundant resources, a suitable climate, and more importantly, its overall pattern is in the process of being shaped and has not yet been finalized.

The Renaissance in Europe is in full swing, and the speed of its scientific and technological development cannot be ignored, and under the fragmentation of Europe, it is unlikely to form a threat to Great Qin, and it is likely to take shape in the Americas, which I do not want to see.

What's more, the resources of the American continent are so abundant, when I, Daqin, have the ability to get a piece of the pie, or even dominate it, why don't I go. People have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries. Take a long-term view and you'll never be wrong. ”

(To be continued......)