On March 20, 1648, Xinhua Port, which was already at the end of the rainy season (hot season), was extremely hot. Although it did not rain today, the air was still filled with heavy water vapor, which made people who came here particularly uncomfortable.

The Explorer expedition ship "Exploration" has been docked at the dock for two days. The ship encountered wind and waves while crossing the Cape of Good Hope. The boards were damaged in many places. They are currently undergoing emergency repairs in the shipyard in Xinhua Port. I don’t know if it is because of the poor skills of the workers at the repair shop or why, but the ship has not been rectified after two days of repair, which makes Zhang Jinhua very depressed.

After asking someone for a while, it turns out that the most skilled masters of the factory died of illness a few days ago due to an unknown cause and then disappeared due to unknown reasons. Now there has been a gap in the factory's technical talents, and the recent middle-level technicians are not experienced enough, so they are a little busy for a while.

Zhang Jinhua was also helpless when he learned the news, so he simply called the crew to get off the boat and go to the dock for fun. Sun Ji Restaurant on the dock recently launched several new varieties: eel rice, cold sea cucumbers, and drunk shrimps. They are all new dishes made from local ingredients, which are cheap and sufficient in quantity, and are very popular among sailors who don’t have much money in their pockets. They can’t afford expensive beef and mutton, so they can only eat some local rich seafood.

It was almost noon, and Zhang Jinhua was sitting in the dining room with a wind blowing through the hall, picking up drunk shrimps, making wine from time to time, and life was quite comfortable. But at this moment, a steam-powered cargo ship drove in from outside the harbor, and more than 20 men in faded old military uniforms jumped off the deck of the ship after the stationary stop, and then quietly walked into the restaurant.

Zhang Jinhua looked at him and saw these people walking with their heads raised and their chests raised. It was not like the ordinary wise man with his head slightly lowered. Several middle-aged people with vicissitudes were walking in the front. The others made the second step and the steps were neat, so that outsiders could tell at a glance that these people were all from Qiu Ba.

The leading man with a wise man had a low figure, about 1.65 meters tall, but seeing his military uniform being bulging, he knew that this man was sturdy and powerful. He played a bayonet to hit those thin Indians like stalks. At this time, he saw Zhang Jinhua sitting in the dining room, wearing a naval captain uniform that he had found from somewhere. So after hesitating for a while, he went forward to salute, and then sat next to him with a group of people behind him.

After more than twenty people sat down, they suddenly filled the empty restaurant. Boss Sun immediately brought his grandchildren to greet the business happily, and at this time the men also started talking.

"Brother Zhai, I have been here for many days, and I have spent a lot of money, but I haven't even found a piece of land. Seeing that the return date is approaching, what should I do? Brothers are still waiting for me to get things done, but now I have spent a lot of money. The matter has not been done, so it's frustrating to think about it!" A man said a few sips of wine and spoke.

His words quickly aroused some people's consent: "The Chuangji Investment Company is also too bullying. He even robbed two pieces of land that Brother Zhai liked. If I hadn't seen that they were crowded, I would have come to the door to argue."

"Fart! Big fart!" The man called Brother Zhai slapped the table twice, then silently said twice, "Quality, you must talk about quality, don't swear." After scanning the brothers sitting around him, he said in a calm tone: "Don't ask me, otherwise don't blame me for not talking about brotherly friendship. What is the background of Chuangji Investment Company? You dare to come to make trouble without asking about it? It's ridiculous! Damn, now I'll explain it to you clearly

, so that you won’t know how to die at that time! Chuangji Investment Company is now under the control of Li Zhengang. Who is Li Zhengang? He is the celebrity in front of the throne of Dashun Mo, the guest of honor of Dashun Li, Gao, Yuan, and Guo Zhushun. Now he is in charge of the Laushizi Chuangji Investment Company. The fuck is to make money for Mo Dashun, and he is also to set up a way out for Emperor Li Xiaoli of Dashun. If you dare to make trouble, just make trouble. If you are anxious to reincarnate, no one will care about you!"

"He broke into the backend of the investment company, and our Patriotic Industrial Promotion Association was raised by the stepmother..." A man muttered a few words in a low voice, but soon he was glared at by Brother Zhai and swallowed the second half of his words back.

"This time, our New China Plantation bidding was small and weak, so it was normal for us to compete for them. However, we can't get the good land in Xinhua Port, so we can go to the west of the island, where the imperial court opened a cotton plantation. Because it is a newly opened land, the rent is extremely low, and cotton can be sold at a high price in the country, which is just right for us to go to grab land." Brother Zhai paused for a moment and said his idea.

Unexpectedly, his idea caused a whisper among the people around him. He didn't care much, but instead started drinking a small wine leisurely, as if waiting for the brothers around him to unify their opinions.

Zhang Jinhua listened interestingly while picking up shrimps. Of course, he knew very well what these people were talking about. In fact, the government encouraged the soldiers who had a lot of money to invest in overseas New China to solve the pressure of excess domestic funds. Of course, this investment mainly refers to investing in plantations, namely sisal and coffee plantations. Of course, there are more pepper and cotton plantations now. The pepper plantation is located in St. Mary's Island and Tacheng Harbor. The cotton plantation is far away. It is located in the north bank of the Fehranana River in the west of the island (tropical savannah climate), that is, it is not very far from the Dutch colonial map Lyre.

This place is a traditional cotton planting area in Madagascar in later generations. The climate is dry and the sunshine is strong. There is a big river next to it. It is very convenient to get water and irrigate. It is a very ideal cotton planting area. After reporting to the Executive Committee for approval, the New China Development Team transferred a large area of ​​land on the north bank of the Fehranana River into the territory of the East Coast Republic of China with one stroke. Then they sent people to bury the sovereignty monument and held a flag-raising ceremony, which made the few Dutch people on the south bank of the river stunned.

Speaking of which, in recent years, the Dutch merchant stations in Toulaire have become increasingly dying. Not only has the number of soldiers dropped from more than 50 to more than 20 (most of them died of illness and were not supplemented), but the business of catching slaves has become increasingly difficult to do. Almost all the descendants of the nearby Malays have been captured, and there are no local specialties worth mentioning. Perhaps in a while, the merchant stations in Abbas Port will be closed by the East India Company because they are not profitable.

You should know that East India Company is a highly efficient company with strict management. They are always intolerant of business stations that fail to generate profits for the company. Many business stations such as the Port of Abbas in Iran, and the strongholds on the Comandel coast of India were abandoned. Perhaps in another two years, the Turaire Merchant Station will disappear without a trace like those strongholds that disappeared on the books of East India Company.

After carefully deducing the international situation after the end of the Thirty Years War, the Executive Committee agreed that the trade situation on the East Coast in the future will be very unsatisfactory, especially textile trade. According to incomplete statistics, England, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Venice have plans to develop the textile industry. Except for Venice who was involved in the war and may have plans to get out of the way, the other countries are developing the textile industry in a practical way. While snatching cotton resources in the New World, they use various relations to implement trade protection and tariff barriers in the Old World, in order to block the East Coast textile organization that is of high quality and low price is outside their own sphere of influence.

In order to deal with this situation, people on the east coast must make various preparations in advance, and having their own cotton source is an important part of it. After considering the territory at hand, the Executive Committee found that there was no place suitable for growing cotton (the local cotton quality and yield were not satisfactory). Fortunately, they later found that the arid and semi-arid areas in the western part of New China Island have a tropical savanna climate, long sunshine time, high intensity, and insufficient precipitation. There are many large rivers with abundant water passing by nearby (cotton growth is very water-consuming), which is an ideal cotton planting area.

In addition, there were no powerful indigenous forces or European colonial forces nearby (the Dutch commercial station with only 20 soldiers was gorgeously ignored), so the Executive Committee quickly approved the report on the development of cotton plantations on both sides of the Fehranana River submitted by Shi Qinjie, the captain of the New China Development Team, and guided the surplus domestic funds to enter the development of plantations here to ensure the safety of the source of raw materials for the textile industry in the east coast.

Now, what Brother Zhai said about opening a cotton plantation to the west of the island is located in this area. Moreover, because it is a new place, the land rent is indeed extremely low, which is not much different from free gifts. These investors only need to solve the source of labor and can basically be planted. The quality of the cotton planted will basically be taken away by merchants, because the price of cotton should be on a slow rise for a long time in the future. It is too late to compete for raw materials, so why would they be picky?

"We can't afford to offend the wealthy and wealthy brands such as Dongfang County Industrial Xingguo Tongmenghui, Ping'an County Township Military Investment Association, Luoqia County Rongjun Farm Investment Fund and other wealthy brands, but we can't afford to offend them, but we can't afford to offend them! Then we can avoid them far away and go to the west to grow cotton! They grow their sisal, coffee, pepper, we grow our cotton, and we go their own ways!" Seeing that everyone was a little inclined to their opinions after a while, they hit the railway while it was hot: "You brothers don't have to worry too much. Although it is a new place, the locals nearby are not very powerful. Besides, we have all been on the battlefield. If even those birds who eat raw meat and drink blood, that's a big deal! That's all, our Patriotic Industrial Promotion Association will rent land to the west to grow cotton, and if the natives come, they will fuck him!"

Everyone agreed and then started drinking warmly. In places like New China Island, if you don’t want to get malaria for no reason, then you should drink more wine for prosperity.

Zhang Jinhua also smiled and took a sip of wine, then pushed the plate with shrimp aside, took a bowl of eel rice and ate it. He had to go to the repair shop to urge the ship's repair progress later. Now he would hurry up and have a full meal first. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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