With a shocking salute, on February 5, 1664, the third-deck battleship "East Coast Ren" carried a small number of officials and families of the Hei Shui Town transferred back to China under the accompanying water supply ship and ammunition supply ship. They bid farewell to the heavy battleship "Cadis Rock" stationed in Macau, and then adjusted the sail trusses and sailed towards the South Pacific without looking back. They were going to return to their homeland!

The East Coast fleet, including the "East Coast Man", has been in the Far Eastern Ocean in the past few months. The "Cadis Rock" which originally had more than 40 guns was already scary enough, but it came a super warship with 108 long and short guns, which really scared many people, and many of the irresistible activities were also weakened.

The most typical example of this is the North Korean. Lieutenant Colonel Han Dezhi, who led the team, still remembers the scene when he went to Ganghwa Island, North Korea to conduct talks with North Korean officials, and fired on the spot on the sea: When the North Korean officials, who were skilled in learning, saw the cannons in the side gun windows of the warships fired, they were almost shocked. There were such powerful warships in the world? Compared with this kind of warship, the turtle ships of the navy can really be chopped and burned as firewood! So, some of the little thoughts that originally appeared in their hearts disappeared. Jeju Island, Busan Port and Wonsanjin seemed to be doomed to be taken back!

In addition, Shao Shuguang originally wanted to invite the battleship "East Coast People" to the Port of Relanzha Port and Haizhu Island, thinking that they were strong and powerful, but they did not make it. The main reason was that the sea outside the Lelanzha Castle was shallow and the large warship with a displacement of 1,730 tons was too dangerous to sail. The Haizhu Island Merchant Station also made this consideration because the navy has not yet conducted a detailed survey of the hydrological conditions there, so he dared not let the warships that hold the spiritual symbol of the East Coast people take risks in the past. What if it gets stranded? Wouldn't it make people laugh!

But no matter what, many powerful warships, including the "East Coast Man", were still deeply afraid of all forces with the East Coast Man. The Qing Dynasty (maybe they don't know yet...), the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese, and the Dutch, believed that even if the "East Coast Man" battleship had returned to its homeland, the deterrent power it left on the Far East Ocean would not be eliminated for a while. The benefits of this for the local development of the East Coast Man are self-evident.

On February 9, the three-ship fleet approached the Port of Manila and requested to dock and replenish supplies. Of course, this move was more of a deterrent intention. After all, no one could not hold back after sailing for a few days. The Spanish colonial governor of Manila insisted that the East Coast warships were not allowed to enter the Port, because they were obviously frightened by such a powerful ship, for fear that they would use their super side firepower to stew the Spanish on the dock in a pot. Therefore, they let the East Coast people talked about it, and only allowed the supply outside the sea and said that they would send small boats to carry supplies to their door.

At the same time, Lieutenant Colonel Han Dezhi also discovered that the Spanish soldiers in the forts on the high ground on both sides of the port were also silly, as if they were on close guard. The officers and soldiers of the East Coast who found this laughed loudly and pointed at the Spanish who were facing a great enemy on the shore, looking extremely arrogant. Of course, they had reason to be so proud.

After paying a little supply fee, the Spaniards sent the food and fresh water to the "Grocery Merchant No. 3" water supply ship. What is surprising is that at this time the Spaniards made a strange request, that is, they asked the East Coast people if they were willing to take away the many Chinese people in Manila because they believed that the East Coast people were blood relatives and should accept these people to help them solve a big problem.

To be honest, the Spanish colonial governor is now extremely troubled by the increasing number of local Chinese people. Although these people have always been gentle and obedient, they have basically paid the taxes they should pay, which is much better than those cunning and lazy natives. But it cannot be ignored that these Chinese people have huge wealth at hand. In the eyes of the Spanish who believe that money is strength, this is a potential major threat and must be cut off, otherwise their rule in Manila may be overturned in the future. What's more, these pagans are still very rich, just like the Moors and Jews who had a lot of wealth in Spain (mostly merchants or farmers or handicraftsmen, who were richer on average), expelling or sending them to the stake is profitable. Therefore, the Spaniards in Manila also particularly hope to kill or expel these Chinese pagans.

But killing is simple, but the subsequent end is difficult to deal with, because now the Spaniards also know that the East Coast people call themselves "descendants of the Song Dynasty". Aren't there many Chinese people in Manila who sailed south to take refuge when the Mongols invaded? Therefore, the consequences of killing these people are uncontrollable and it is very likely to cause war, so they must be treated with caution. Therefore, when the Spanish saw the East Coast ships coming, they had a sudden idea and asked whether the East Coast was willing to accept these people. If the East Coast people were willing to accept them, they could give them all to the East Coast people, and at the same time ensure that they could take away their private property; and if the East Coast people were unwilling to accept them, then things would be simple. They could have a carnival feast just like the actions of the Moors and Jews back then.

As a time traveler, Lieutenant Colonel Han Dezhi vaguely knew about the massacre of Chinese in the ruling region in the Spanish history. Therefore, after thinking for a while, he expressed his willingness to accept these Chinese people, but their ship could no longer carry more people, so he could only wait for subsequent ships to come and transport them, which might take some time.

The Spanish quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Although allowing these Chinese people to leave with their property may have fewer benefits, it is good to at least solve a major hidden danger that has been hanging in their hearts for many years. What's more, when these Chinese people left, many fields, forest farms, and houses could not be taken away, and they could only be sold at a low price or even abandoned directly. This naturally gave the Spanish gentlemen in the city an excellent opportunity to make a fortune. After sending off these pagans, the only Chinese people in the city were left who were willing to convert to Catholicism. The Spanish were still relatively at ease and tolerated, so everyone was completely happy this time.

Han Dezhi knew the Spanish's little calculations, but considering that his country did not have any plans to colonize Luzon, he did not intend to destroy harmonious relations with the Spanish Kingdom in the near future. In addition, there was also a shortage of people in the New China Island, Rabaul and Yicheng areas - especially those who have a certain ability to adapt to the tropical climate - so it should be more feasible to send this group of Chinese to the above places. The local executive committee's official should also be able to agree, so he defeated the Spaniard's proposal on the spot and moved these people away.

After leaving Manila Bay, the formation of three ships began to adjust their course and head to the southeast. On March 3, 1664, it arrived at Rabaul Port. This coast, which was once not valued by the East Coast people at all and only serves as a supply of coconut and freshwater in the middle, had to hurriedly establish a colonial institution, the Rabaul Management Committee, in 1658. It was originally subordinate to the Australian Development Team, but now it is a local institution and is directly under the local government.

This institution now has 8 members and 1 General Secretary, and almost all matters of the port are decided by them. The members were originally all selected by the local government, but now, except for the General Secretary and some members, they are assigned by the local government, the rest are selected among the local residents with high prestige to manage this city as an important intermediate node in the immigration route.

Rabaur Port now has more than 8,500 vassal Han residents, and the growth rate is still quite fast. Although the environment here is harsh and the epidemic is rampant here, it cannot withstand the emigration and transportation fleets are embarrassing here every year. In addition to a few natives who have settled in the country, it is normal for this population to grow to this level today.

However, the people here are still too ugly after all! This is the first thought of Han Dezhi and others after they landed. A large number of Kukuku people, Melanesians are flooded in docks, coconut forests, plantations and other places that require a lot of labor. The descendants born after the natives and Ming people intermarried and worked in hotels, hotels, shops and other institutions. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the East Coast Navy were at the first sight of so many ugly "barbarians" living in the city in such a grand manner. They were all a little stunned. When did the East Coast people clean up the natives when they arrived?

The market in Labaur Port is still relatively prosperous - of course, this prosperity is limited to the South Pacific region - the sucrose, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, dried fruit, black pearl and other commodities under the jurisdiction of the Archipelago Development Team (formerly Tahiti Development Team) gathers here. Immigration boats heading south from the north occasionally bring some medicinal materials, leather, salt and tea and other commodities. Ships heading north from Australia often carry some livestock, local commodities, wine, and metal utensils. In short, after so many years of development, this place of all directions has become very large now - don't you see the large neatly planned crop production area outside Labaur City, which is mostly produced in taro, bananas, big potatoes, rice and coconuts for the ships coming and going, which has made great contributions to the immigration cause of the East Coast Republic of China, and also made local residents richer.

Of course, their so-called wealth is actually not worth mentioning in the local area. Due to its geographical location, Gain Rabaul Port is ultimately in the same economic circle as the Archipelago Development Team. The Australian Trail Team is in the same economic circle, as the so-called "Ocean Economic Circle". But the flaws of this economic circle are quite obvious, that is, they are sparsely populated and away from the major routes in the world, which makes people helpless. No wonder some rich people in Rabaul Port also chose to immigrate to the East Coast after their development. They really don't want to wander around in this poor mountain valley.

On March 5, the East Coast ship fleet that had been rested left the port again and headed towards Jinshan Port, Australia. The trip was smooth and the expressway was all the way. In the end, it took only eighteen days to arrive at Jinshan Port. At this time, Jinshan Port was just beginning to fall, and the ground was full of yellow wheat, which made people very pleasing to the eye.

Although the strongholds located on the Australian continent on the East Coast have been repeatedly drawn in recent years (the population is loaded and transported to Chile), under the painstaking management of the Australian Development Team captain Wang Yan, it has developed to a certain extent in recent years, such as the establishment of Gushan County, Western Australia.

In Dong'ao, as an important intermediate node for shipping, the population of Kingsoft Port has also become quite large after 20 years of development and has begun to spread to the surrounding areas. A while ago, the leader of the pioneer team, Wang Yan, officially ordered several large villages to be upgraded to township settlements, namely Zhehu Township, located near the small town of Geelong, Damang Township, located near the city of Frankston, and Xingta Township, located near the town of Pointlonsdale in later generations. These three settlements, together with the existing Kingsoft Port, basically surround the entire Kingsoft Bay (i.e. Philip Bay) and include it.

The four settlements around the bay have a population of less than 12,000, most of which are descendants of Ming immigrants in poor health. Secondly, there are Shandan, Korean, Japanese and local exiled prisoners, but the number is relatively small. There are not many things that can be done in such a small population. After all, their main task is to provide water, temporary residence places for passing immigrant ships, and provide coal-fired and maintenance services for ships. It is impossible to do whatever they want according to their wishes. Therefore, you can see that these 12,000 people are basically living around the bay and have not expanded to the inland hinterland. The main reason is that they need to serve the huge number of immigrants and ships every year, and they have to do so.

However, the Australian Development Team has its own interests after all, and Wang Yan himself also has the urge to develop the place and highlight the political achievements. Therefore, after hearing that there were a large number of Portuguese residents and their descendants in Macau, this guy planned to recruit three to five thousand (if possible, even more) from them to these two areas on the south coast of Australia to settle down, open up land, and develop the local economy to the greatest extent. Even these people had a livelihood, plant wheat, grow grapes, make wine, and export flour and wine to the neighboring Dutch East India Company. Although the scale of the business cannot be large (after all, the total number of white people scattered throughout the Far East East to serve the Dutch East India Company is only more than 10,000), it is also a way. If done well, it can feed a lot of people, and even develop some trade and earn some pitiful import and export tariffs for the Australian Development Team government.

However, it is hard to say whether his wish can be realized. After all, the Executive Committee has ignored this "remote place where birds do not shit". The voices on the Australian continent are hard to hear from most of the time, so that this place once became a blood transfusion place for Southern Cone and Chile, which is miserable to think about it.

Han Dezhi and others were not interested in listening to the devastating things in the Australian colony, nor were they interested in learning about them. After the three ships were resting here for several days, on March 28, after purchasing supplies, they set sail again, leaving this poor colony that was remote in a corner of the world, and heading towards the southern cone area.

Going eastward, we walked the sea area far away from the northern edge of the westerly wind belt, and the sailing speed was relatively fast. Although the wind and waves on the sea surface were constantly and the climate was as bad as ever, the naval soldiers still arrived at the Port of Araucan in southern Chile without any danger, with their calm minds and relatively rich sailing experience, and the entire journey took only more than twenty days.

The hull caused by strong winds and waves was repaired in the Pacific shipyard under the jurisdiction of the Nan Railway Company. After the canvas was damaged, the three ships set off again on April 23, heading south through the Magellan Strait toward the eastward, and heading towards the Atlantic coast. Their final destination was Dongfang Port, the capital of the East Coast Republic of China.

On May 8, 1664, three ships that had inadvertently sailed around the world dragged their tired bodies and slowly sailed into the military dock of the Oriental Port. At this point, the entire journey that lasted more than a year was over was over.

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Chapter completed!