Great time travel

Chapter 21, 27 moments in the four years of Chongzhen (21)

No.20 A moment: when an Australian meets an Australian
The "Australian" base camp in Lingao County, Hainan Island, the residence of the Senate, Bairen City
According to the views of some European "international observers" in this time and space, among the [-] "Australian elders" in Lingao, a European-style "council" system is implemented.Formally all senators enjoy the same political status and form a so-called "senatorial" institution.In theory, all major policies should be voted by the Senate.But in fact, since it is impossible for [-] elders to convene a plenary meeting every day, there are ten most senior "executive members" who actually hold all the power, forming a circle of highest power similar to the ruling cabinet.

And the top of this circle is naturally the head of the ten elders of the Executive Committee—the eternally glorious, great, and correct Chairman Wen Desi!
However, the eternally glorious, great, and correct Chairman Wen Desi is standing in the office of the chairman of his executive committee with a sad expression on his face.

On the wall in front of Chairman Wen Desi, there is a huge map, with a small red flag marking the increasing territory of the Senate - so far, after three years of conquest and expansion, Hainan Island, Taiwan Island and a small half of Fujian Province have become the actual territory of the Senate. Even if the "wild areas" that cannot be effectively controlled are deducted, the actual territory controlled has reached more than 4 square kilometers. The mainland of the Republic of the Netherlands is almost the same, and it can be said that it already has a foundation for contending for hegemony in East Asia.In addition to this core territory, there are a series of important strongholds such as Hong Kong Island in Guangdong, Hongji Coal Mine in Vietnam, and several islands along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, forming a strong chain that firmly restrains the people from North Vietnam to Jiangsu. The mainland coastline, the northernmost tentacles on the Chinese mainland, has extended to the Huaguo Mountain in Haizhou at the junction of Sulu.

Outside of this island chain stronghold, the Ryukyu Kingdom has in fact become a vassal of the Senate. The Satsuma Fan of Japan was defeated and surrendered, and the Changzhou Fan is the most important ally of the Senate in Japan. The Academy is already the well-deserved maritime overlord of the entire East Adam!
——I remember that when Britain was still the empire on which the sun never set, Jevons, a famous British economist at that time, once proudly boasted: "...the plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields, Canada and the Baltic are our logging grounds, Australia our pastures, Peru our silver mines, South Africa and Australia our gold mines, India and China our tea bases, the East Indies our sugar cane, coffee and Spices, the American South is our cotton plantation..."

And today's Chairman Wen Desi can also proudly declare: "...Siam (Thailand) and Annan (Vietnam) are our rice fields; Japan is our gold mine, silver mine and copper mine, and it is also cannon fodder samurai The chiefs of Malacca and Sumatra provided us with slaves; the Dutch in Batavia were our contractors, and the primitive and wild Taiwan was our lumber field; the densely populated Guangzhou and Jiangnan sent us tea and tea. Silk is also the dumping market for our commodities; and the principle of China, which has been plagued by disasters, has continuously sent us people and provided labor..."

On the whole, the situation of the Lingao Senate seems to be very gratifying, but in the eyes of Chairman Wen Desi, there are many various threats and hidden dangers—in fact, since the start of the great cause of crossing, all strategies The plan has always been in a state of derailment where "the plan cannot keep up with the changes".

First of all, it is the early time travel and rise of Huang Shi, the younger generation - it is really hard to imagine that he would go wrong during the collective time travel and fall to ten years ago alone.What is even more unbelievable is that this young man who originally only had a good handwriting in big characters, after experiencing several years of hardships in Liaodong, unexpectedly reborn and became a peerless famous general who moved the world and shocked everyone; swept Liaodong Invincible hands, Huang Gongbao and Huang Dashuai who broke into the enemy camp and killed the slave chiefs alone!Not only does he have a veteran soldier in his hands, but he also occupies a large territory in Fujian Province after he was ordered to transfer to the south.Not long after the Fengcheng ship carrying five hundred traversers arrived in Lingao, Huangshi's envoy and secret letter were welcomed...

For the newly arrived Lingao people, at the very beginning of their journey, it is certainly a blessing to have such an influential and powerful faction join in, but the resulting redistribution of power caught Chairman Wen Desi who had planned the strategy by surprise for a while... In the end , the Executive Committee, which is the actual highest authority, had to gain an extra seat, and various factional disputes also emerged within the Senate—as one of the five hundred traversers, Marshal Huangshi also had different Few friends can be cited as a helping hand.And as Chairman Wen Desi's supreme authority was shaken, various cliques formed within the traverser also surfaced one after another, eager to compete for various discourse rights, causing the Chairman a headache.

——No matter what kind of deified propaganda was carried out among the natives and "naturalized people" of the Ming Dynasty, among the five hundred truly important traversers, Wen Desi was unlucky from the very beginning. Absolute prestige and power, its prestige and real power are only equivalent to ordinary company bosses.Although Chairman Wen Desi never thought of himself as a cold-blooded iron-fisted strongman like Hitler or Stalin, nor did he intend to add a yellow robe to become king and emperor, nor could he raise his butcher knife to cleanse his fellow travelers to centralize power, but the current situation is still Make him uncomfortable.

Fortunately, although Wen Desi couldn't turn the executive committee into his own words, there are basically no such stupid and funny comparisons among the "executive committee members". Under the banner of conquering the world, almost no one is willing to turn the Senate into a It has become the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan in later generations, so there is no trouble in the strategic and tactical decision-making. At least for a long period of time, there should be no need to worry about the internal unity of Lingao traversers.
Secondly, it is to find out that these traversers are not alone in this world-not to mention Fujian Huangshi who had already returned to the team earlier and Taiwan Zhang Wei who voluntarily surrendered. I was surprised to find that the Portuguese in Macau were actually helping two "Oriental immigration countries" in the Americas recruit refugees from the Ming Dynasty!According to some small commodities "Made in Gorgeous" and "Made in the East Coast" obtained from the Portuguese, the Lingao Travelers, who originally thought highly of themselves, could not help but find out in frustration that there are two groups of traversers who have already arrived in this world!

Fortunately, due to the poor transportation capacity of the Portuguese people at this time and the long sea journey from East Asia to the east coast of America, such an ultra-long-distance population business can only transport more than 1000 people per year at most, so it has not affected the Lingao Senate for the time being. recruitment.Also due to the long geographical distance, the two Chinese transversal countries located in the Americas seem to be unable to interfere with the changes in the situation in the East Asian continent, and they do not pose any threat.

However, although the group of American traversers far away on the other side of the earth can be ignored for the time being, other traversers who appeared in the territory of Ming Dynasty must be treated with caution.For example, Dengzhou Town, which occupies the Shandong Peninsula, has already competed with Lingao Travelers in the cigarette business in the south of the Yangtze River.Regarding how to deal with this force, the Senate still has different opinions and no conclusions, but everyone basically knows: if the traversers who formed Dengzhou Town can also be drawn into the Senate, it will certainly be able to provide the Senate's northern strategy. Huge help.But if they turn their faces into enemies, then this warlord force, which is quite good at fighting, will also become a rather troublesome stumbling block on the journey of the Senate.

As for other sporadic "suspected" traversers, there are more, but due to the distortion and distortion in the process of information dissemination, it turned out that almost all of them were false positives and misjudgments-the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty linked to the era of global navigation , was originally an era of mavericks and the spread of Western learning to the east. The imperial court ordered officials to convert to God and become Christians, and the people were full of countless non-mainstream people who behaved strangely.What's more terrible is that because Huang Shi's ten-year travel career has greatly changed history, even if he finds something that doesn't match the history books, it may not be able to explain the problem.

In this regard, Lingao's Traveler Senate has no good solution. It can only take one step at a time, and let's talk about it after seeing the trick.

And then, the sudden arrival of the "true-Australian"—when I accidentally received the wireless telegram from Australia at the end of last year, it really shocked all the five hundred people in Lingao: The modern full metal [-]-ton sailing ship crossing Australia, the unlucky Australia crossing life, the global voyage of the "Chinese East Coast Republic" in South America... and the Polish expedition attempting to colonize Australia? ! !This is really a lot of information!

Although it feels strange why the Poles also come to play the great voyage - just as mentioning Russia will make people think of vodka, Siberia and the Arctic Ocean, mentioning Poland will only make people think of wing cavalry with bird feathers and super gorgeous His death-defying disposition has absolutely nothing to do with things like nautical colonization.But after all, this happened in another isolated and wild continent thousands of miles away, so in addition to continuing to maintain radio contact with Australia and the expedition fleet of the east coast country that arrived in Australia, the "pseudo-Australians" of the Lingao Senate did not Paying too much attention to this.

After all, there are still a lot of troubles and troubles around them, so they worry about these things far away all day long, so they don't have to worry about other things anymore.

But at this moment, the "pseudo-Australians" of the Lingao Senate can no longer put this trouble aside.

—According to the information exchanged in the wireless telegram, as Australia entered the rainy season, the tide was high again, and the "true-Australian" and their big boat would soon be able to escape from the shallows of the lagoon.After returning to the capital of the future Uruguay, the East Coast Country's global voyage expedition team immediately caused a huge sensation in the country, and quickly assembled a second, larger expedition fleet, which just arrived in Australia a few days ago... And it is planned that after the [-]-ton ship "COSCO Star" of the "Australians" completes the renovation, the two parties will go north to visit Batavia together and establish trade relations with the Dutch colonists there. It will go further north to recruit refugees and purchase supplies along the coast of China.

This earth-shattering news caused immediate confusion in Lingao—the "senior time traveler" who was originally far away in the sky is actually going to bring a warship to his own territory?Hey, the game of chess in the Ming Empire has been messed up enough, why do you want to intervene?
What's more terrible is that if those "true-Australians" came to Batavia with their [-]-ton giant ship, talked about their origins with the local Dutch and Chinese businessmen, and didn't talk to Lingao beforehand. If the confession is correct, then the identity of the "Australian visitor" fabricated by Lingao Travelers before will be exposed, or at least the two sides will be wrong, and finally a big joke will be caused.However, the Lingao Senate could not prevent the departure of the "Australians" and the East Coast Fleet. It could not say: "The name Australians has been used by us. If you appear in front of the Dutch, there will be trouble, so Please continue to play kangaroos and look at the stars in the Australian wilderness to be modern primitive people, and never contact the civilized world of the East and the West."
——Such brazen words, even if I can say it shamelessly on my side, Australia will definitely not listen to it!
"... Sigh, I really regret that I just slapped my head and claimed to be an Australian! Now I don't know how to deal with people from Australia! Why didn't I think that I could claim to be from Antarctica? What about it? At least emperor penguins don't talk to others..."

Chairman Wen Desi unbuttoned his clothes a little irritably, got up and opened the window, and the fresh sea breeze blew in from the window by the sea, which had a cooling effect.However, there may be cicadas or insects similar to cicadas in the green belt bushes outside the window. Anyway, the noise was so loud that people almost ignored it subconsciously.When the window was opened, the noisy insect sound became louder.

Chairman Wen Desi couldn't help covering his ears from the noisy worm sound, and it also made everyone staying indoors discussing countermeasures feel more and more irritable.

"...How about we publicize to the outside world that 'Ausong' was hit by a natural disaster and we were forced to relocate the whole country, not wanting our homeland to be stolen by pirates?"

The one who spoke was Dai E, the deputy of the Taoist Council of the Lingao Senate, and one of the five hundred veterans of the time traveler.When Daoist Priest Daoquanzi was away, he was solely responsible for the educational affairs of the Lingao Taoist Council.Including sanitation promotion, literacy classes, and calls for Aboriginal loyalty to the Senate, among others.Recently, a pamphlet about the new Taoist classic "Dongyuan Shenmantra" was printed, which excerpted the myth of "five hundred immortals descended to earth in a big iron boat to save the end of the world" (according to the "Australian Catholic Church" It was five hundred angels who came down to earth, which made believers very confused by the contradictory statements of the two sides).

However, with the emergence of "true-Australians", these missionary myths full of mistakes and omissions are immediately facing the danger of being completely debunked.

"...What? You just call him a pirate? How could those Australian compatriots agree? Please be more realistic!"

Sitting on a small sofa drinking tea, Ma Qianzhu, the prime minister of the Central Government Affairs Council, whose online name is "Supervisor", couldn't help but rolled his eyes, and complained to Dai E, who took it for granted, "...not to mention, we don't even have a formula Provide a unified standard source background information - your new Taoism made a version of five hundred immortals descending to the world, the Catholic Church made a version of five hundred angels to save the world, and then there is a version of the sons of Australian and Song Dynasty dignitaries who failed in the court struggle and went into exile, plus an Australian version. The Song Empire’s doomsday catastrophe survivors fled back to their homeland version… I have heard so much in the Lingao market alone, and those comrades who are sent abroad don’t know how to talk nonsense with Vietnamese, Ming Dynasty people and Dutch people What happened? This issue must be taken seriously!"

Regarding Ma Qianju's above statement, everyone in the meeting nodded their heads one after another. However, although they all looked serious on the surface, they didn't really care about the matter itself in their hearts: "Australian mythology" has come to the fore now. After a while, it doesn't really matter if you don't wear gangs|--the crossovers in Lingao have already established a firm foothold in the border corners of the Ming Empire. The rise and failure of the Qing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement has nothing to do with the Catholic Church in Europe.

However, for the current Executive Committee, or Chairman Wen Desi, the bankruptcy of the "Australian Myth" is tantamount to giving various factions within the Senate a target for attack, which will inevitably lead to The prestige of the party has further declined.And for the work of the propaganda and education department, it is really a big blow - no one can tell what kind of consequences the bankruptcy of ideology will bring.

Fortunately, there is still a chance to remedy it—Chairman Wen Desi finally decided to ask someone to send a telegram to explain the matter to the Australian side, hoping that the other side would help cover it up... Not long after, the call back came, and the Australian side agreed to negotiate on the matter , but because there are too many issues involved, I may not be able to explain clearly in the short telegram, so face-to-face communication is required, and in addition to unified external publicity, the image of Australia must also be taken into account...

"...Isn't Ping Qiusheng's trading fleet still in Hongji? Let him stop going to Thailand, and wait for the Australian fleet in Batavia in advance!"

Chairman Wen Desi proposed this way, "...Now, please show your hands to vote...Very well, it is passed! Now organize a diplomatic delegation and take the fastest boat to Hongji to join Ping Qiusheng's fleet. !Of course, before departure, we have to inform the trade representative of the Dutch East India Company in Lingao to avoid misunderstandings. In addition, the navy also tries to gather as many warships as possible, so as to give the diplomatic delegation a boost..."

"...Then what should we do about the backgrounds of our own four versions? Which version should we discuss with the Australian side?" Premier Ma Qianzhu asked.

"...It's too late, let the delegation discuss it slowly on the boat! Anyway, it will take a lot of time to get from us to Batavia..."

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Vietnam, Hon Ki Fort (near Haiphong Port in the modern Republic of Vietnam, adjacent to Halong Bay, a famous tourist attraction)

After several years of construction and development by future traversers, Honji Fort, which was originally just a coal mine, has become a mining city and trade center under the protection of a military fortress. The scale of the coal mine extends farther and farther, and the Vietnamese miners The number of Vietnamese people is also increasing rapidly. Every day, poor Vietnamese people who have nothing to eat come here from afar - the brutal civil war between the Zheng and Nguyen warlords, and the resulting heavy taxes, have made these ragged peasants They were almost desperate, and going to Hongji to earn a living by mining with their strength was the last straw in their minds.

At the same time, the goods in the Hongjibao Trade Zone are also dazzling. At present, commodities with overcapacity in Lingao and the mainland, such as salt, sugar, and patent medicines, are being dumped. In addition, Lingao’s traditional advantageous products, glassware, Crystal mirrors, bone china, and light industrial products that are extremely scarce in Vietnam—shoes, umbrellas, fans, hats, etc. are also available, making Hongji a big destination on the Red River Delta. Hongji Port's outbound calls are mainly Chinese businessmen, who were originally doing business along the Beibu Gulf.

With the increasing prosperity of trade and the continuous inflow of a large number of refugees, Hongji's shipyards and warehouses have also been established one after another. Every week, a large number of small-tonnage ships travel between Lingao and Hongji. These ships are mainly engaged in Trade in light industrial products sometimes provides valuable transport capacity for Vietnamese rice.With the expansion of the supply chain, "Australian goods" completely occupied the entire market in the Red River Basin almost overnight. Even in remote places near Laos, there are small traders of various nationalities who continue to transport "Australians" from the inland. Potash mines are traded in the market at Hongji Port.The flood of cheap industrial products flooding the market has even begun to have an impact on the economic structure of northern Vietnam.

Even Runshitang, which sells Chinese patent medicines in partnership with "Australians", opened its semi-colon to the "castle town" of Hongjibao half a year ago-it is more convenient to transfer goods to Southeast Asian countries from here, and the banks of the Red River itself are also Chinese. Since the opening of Runshitang's Hongji branch, it has earned no less than 3 taels of silver from the two popular products of Biwensan and Zhuge Xingjunsan to cool off the summer heat.

Generally speaking, the situation on Hongji's side is not a small one, but a great one, almost a rapid change.In addition to urban hardware construction, cultural construction as "soft power" has not been relaxed-the Lingao Senate reached a guiding opinion at the latest meeting, that is, no matter the Koreans or Vietnamese, there are already people in this time and space. A considerable degree of Sinicization, without the influence of foreign civilizations from the West and the decline of China's national power, this process will not be reversed. Therefore, when dealing with the people in these areas, they should be regarded as the population directly under the control of the Senate and can be educated. native peoples.

Therefore, Honji Fort should also set up basic cultural and educational facilities such as schools and hospitals to lay a solid foundation for the thorough "education" of the local area—many of the poor Vietnamese who come to Honji to work as miners are with their families, and there are many children. If the Senate can provide a unified education for their children, then after these young children graduate from school, they will become the pioneers of the Senate to advance to Southeast Asia in the future.Although Hongji's new school has not yet been completed, and there is only a Chinese character literacy class, some Vietnamese children who were selected to return to Lingao before have already returned to school at this time.

13-year-old Ruan Bicheng is a native of Hongji. This is his hometown. His parents used to live by farming and fishing, but later became "naturalized people".A year ago, he and dozens of other Vietnamese children of Hongji won the favor of the "Australian chief" and were selected to be sent to the national school in Lingao.

Like most students in national schools, Ruan Bicheng, who came to Lingao, was suddenly overwhelmed by countless knowledge that he had never imagined. During the year in school, he sucked up all the knowledge like a sponge, and he was learning In addition to Mandarin and Chinese characters, he also passed a second-class diploma-such academic performance is even more difficult for many children from ordinary families in Ming Dynasty.For a Vietnamese child, it is a miracle.

Such outstanding and excellent academic performance made a veteran in charge of education admire this Vietnamese child, and specially gave him an official name Ruan Bicheng. Originally, he wanted to name him Ho Chi Minh, but was discouraged by another veteran, saying That name was too ostentatious, so it was changed to Ruan Bicheng - which made the 13-year-old feel extremely excited and excited.This time, when the Trade Department of the Lingao Senate sent a trade fleet to Southeast Asian countries, he, a native of Southeast Asia, was brought on board in the name of an intern, so that student Ruan Bicheng could drop by to go home and visit his relatives.

However, walking on the streets of Hongji, looking at the bustling market, Ruan Bicheng found himself a little afraid to recognize:
"...Only a year has passed, and in the hands of the chiefs, the place of Hongji has changed again!"

In just one year, Hongji's cityscape has changed a lot. Ruan Bicheng clearly remembered that when he left, the miners who gathered in Hongji were still a group of scruffy, skinny and disheveled guys.But almost everyone I see now is fully dressed.Even though some people are still shirtless due to the hot weather, at least everyone has shoes, whether they are straw sandals or cloth shoes.

And the originally dirty and dilapidated shantytowns have also become like a city-in general, the layout of the market streets on the Hongji Fort side is completely based on the replica of Lingao Dongmen City, of course, the scale is smaller much.The current Honji Fort itself and the surrounding business districts and light industrial districts have completed the basic hardening of the ground. The cleanliness and cleanliness of the streets alone have greatly surpassed all the towns and cities in Le Dynasty, Vietnam.

In the shops along the street, there are all kinds of sugar, salt and the most scarce daily necessities in Vietnam. With the rapid development of light industry construction, the production capacity of daily necessities in Hainan Island has exploded. A large number of bamboo, rattan and paper Products not only meet the needs of Hainan Island, but are also continuously transported to the mainland. When the market research report of Fort Honji reflected that Vietnam lacked the ability to manufacture daily necessities, the Ministry of Colonial Trade, which immediately discovered business opportunities, immediately organized a large number of shoes. Products such as socks, hats, umbrellas and folding fans are exported to Hongji, including a large number of rattan shell thermos bottles.

There was not much market for thermos bottles in Vietnam. Apart from making tea, there was not much demand for boiled water here.But when the market in Fort Hongji officially started to sell ice cubes, the situation changed completely. Ice cubes paired with thermos bottles immediately became the most respectable treats for the gentlemen from all over the Le Dynasty in North Vietnam. The emperor has already used such Australian products - due to its geographical location, Vietnam has no place to mine ice, let alone an ice cellar for storing ice. The people and the lords are all big news. Everyone wants to know where the ice cubes of the Australians come from, especially their ice cubes are not only abundant, but also seem to be continuous.

All in all, Hongji is completely different from before...

Ruan Bicheng, who returned after a long absence, found his father who had just become a naturalized cadre at the customs, and then sat together in an open-air restaurant on Hongji Street, using the scholarship he had accumulated to treat his father to the restaurant's newly launched "summer food". Australian style set meal": chilled candied tomatoes, roasted corn, and "Coke Chicken" cooked with Lingao white sugar instead of caramel, and at the same time telling each other about the things that have happened since we parted this year.

During the gaps in the conversation, he couldn't help but look at the distant port thoughtfully, with a vague thought in his mind: These supernatural "Australian chiefs" have traveled thousands of miles to Hongji, a rural place, and they must It's not just here to dig coal or help the poor.According to what he learned in Lingao, Ruan Bicheng has vaguely realized that the world conceived in the minds of the chiefs is beyond his reach... However, before Ruan Bicheng could think of anything, he heard the rumors from the pier. The siren coming, and the announcement from the loudspeaker in the street:
"... Attention Nanyang Trade Fleet Crew! Attention Nanyang Trade Fleet Crew! Urgent assembly now! Urgent assembly now! The fleet is about to anchor and leave port early! Relevant personnel are requested to return to the fleet as soon as possible! Repeat, the fleet is about to anchor and leave port early! Please return the relevant personnel to the team as soon as possible!..."

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Under the still intense tropical autumn sun.A large fleet of ships anchored in Hon Gai, Vietnam, began to change from lazy calm to noisy commotion.People on and off the ship are constantly busy: Soldiers are checking weapons, laborers are busy carrying supplies, sailors are repairing sails and changing cables... The team leaders, squadron leaders and group leaders of the labor team Shuttle back and forth among the sweaty crowd, while cheering everyone up, while urging the laborers to speed up the speed of moving materials.In any case, all replenishment operations must be completed today, and the entire fleet will set sail tomorrow morning.

Although the suddenly canceled shore leave and the urgently suppressed loading and finishing tasks made everyone complain.But under the always strict military orders and the whip of the supervisor, no one dared to go on strike—there was no rule against corporal punishment these days, and one would be beheaded if one failed to work!

In order to boost morale, Fort Honji provided the crew with a hearty lunch as much as possible.Everyone was sent a wooden lunch box, and when they opened it, they found that there was snow-white rice mixed with chopped vegetables, and the side dishes were whole grilled fish and oily fried eggs.There is also miso soup made of bean paste in the steaming tin bucket, which contains dried fish and sea vegetables. Anyone can scoop up a bowl. It tastes very delicious... The laborers and soldiers happily took this meal After eating up the unprecedented sumptuous work meal, the mood that was originally depressed due to fatigue finally began to improve slightly.

However, the commander-in-chief of this Nanyang trade fleet, Ping Qiusheng, a veteran of the trade department of the Senate, still had a gloomy face and no appetite-according to the plan, he originally planned to enjoy a period of sunshine, beach, The tropical holiday with blue sea, coconut trees and Vietnamese chicks and other important elements, who knows that it only took one day to land in Hongji, and just slept in the guest house, and was put on such an unlucky urgent task.

At this time, he was wearing a floral shirt and large shorts, holding a parasol, and overseeing the supply operations of the fleet - originally the fleet was only intended to sell rice as far as Siam, but now it is going to Batavia on Java Island almost doubled the voyage. Although there are many lands along the way, fresh water and fruits and vegetables can be replenished everywhere, but there is no half of the coal filling station, so the whole crew is desperately trying to load coal on board.

However, since the fleet had just set off from Lingao, the cargo hold of each ship was still full of trading goods, and there was not much room left.The crew had to pile up extra coal on the deck, in the aisle, and in the living quarters, and even the VIP cabin where veteran Ping Qiusheng lived was stuffed with a few bags of coal.The gun positions on the deck are surrounded by piles of coal bags. Once the guns are fired, they will become a dusty hell, and it will be even more unimaginable if they are hit by shells. Veteran Ping Qiusheng’s evaluation of this is: It’s just like the Russo-Japanese War. The Russian Second Pacific Fleet that circled half the world to die!

Of course, strictly speaking, this is nothing more than angry words, because in front of the Lingao Senate fleet, there is no Japanese combined fleet waiting to intercept.And the voyage from Hongji, Vietnam to Batavia (Jakarta), Java, is really not very far by the standards of the Age of Discovery... In fact, the trouble that really made Ping Qiusheng scratch his head was in What to do when you arrive in Batavia?
——Regarding this trip to Batavia, the Executive Committee of the Lingao Senate did not know whether it was a brain twitch, but actually assigned a series of whimsical tasks to Comrade Ping Qiusheng who was unprepared: The shore country reached a harmonious relationship, tried to collude with the Australians about their origins, tried to fool the Dutch and Chinese businessmen who lived in Batavia, and even asked him to find a way to fool the vote of "true-Australians" Come to Lingao!

Although increasing the quota of more than 100 veterans may cause troubles in finance and power division, the [-]-ton all-metal modern sailboat owned by the "true-Australian" is enough to return the ticket price-that is The supreme overlord who was absolutely invincible on any sea in the world in the seventeenth century!

The problem is that the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.Just how to deal with the relationship with the east coast country is not an easy task-if the east coast country dumps a large number of their industrial products to Southeast Asia after opening the waterway, it will inevitably crowd out the market for "Australian goods".And what if the East Coast Country proposes to recruit a large number of people from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty?The labor force under the Lingao Senate's own hands still feels that it is not enough!

What distressed Ping Qiusheng the most was that now he had to go to Batavia to negotiate with the Australian and South American traversers, and the Lingao Senate did not even concoct a standard "History of Exile in Australia and Song Dynasty" come out!Seeing that several elders from the education department and the religious department each took a draft of a very different outline, and they were arguing in front of him, blushing and thick-necked. Ping Qiusheng, who has always called himself a gentleman, finally couldn't help but slapped the table angrily. :

"...Calm down! Ladies and gentlemen, from Hongji to Batavia, it takes ten days at the fastest, and half a month at the slowest! During this period of time, you have to order the manuscript no matter what, that is, five hundred. Monkeys can jump out of rocks! But I must not be allowed to negotiate with four or five versions of the manuscript!"

——And just when Ping Qiusheng was as big as a bucket, another team of uninvited guests from the Americas also quietly knocked on the door of East Asia...