Chapter 242 The opportunity is coming!
Australia, which originally means "southern continent", comes from the Latin terraaustralis (the land of the south). In 166, the ships of the Spanish navigator Torres sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea (Irian Island); in the same year, the Dutchman William. The Janet Duyfgen has set foot in Australia and is the first recorded real landing of outsiders in Australia. In 177, the British navigator Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia and named it "New South Wales" and declared the land a British territory.
At this time, Australia has not been found for more than 30 years, but Australia has not received much attention from the United Kingdom. It only regards it as the territory of exiled prisoners. It was not until 17 in 1970 that sporadic free people from the United Kingdom began to emigrate to Australia, with Sydney as the center and gradually developing inland. However, at present, the total number of British people on the big island of Australia is less than 10,000, mostly living from agriculture and animal husbandry, not even a colonial army, but only a militia self-defense force composed of rogue ruffian murderers.
Liang Pengfei once found a sea map from the British, but the above only roughly marked their colonies, while Australia let Liang Pengfei see for the first time. On their sea map, it is just a very inconspicuous island. Others may not know the important surname of Australia. But as a time traveler, Liang Pengfei, who took weapons and exchanged money and various materials all day long in his previous life, could not understand what kind of treasure plate Australia is?
Australia's minerals alone are enough to make Liang Pengfei's greedy heart extremely surging. Therefore, he kept his mind at that time, coupled with Liang Pengfei's inquis in the past few years, so he was quite clear about everything in Australia.
After attacking Luzon, Liang Pengfei not only searched for gold, silver and various Western books and materials from the Spanish, but also obtained a large number of charts. You know, Spain can be regarded as the earliest and most powerful sea colonist. According to their charts, Liang Pengfei can finally follow himself. The memory coincides with reality.
When the current situation of the central islands of Luzon gradually developed steadily, Liang Pengfei entrusted the task of exploring Australia to Lu Yuan, who was in charge of the central islands of Luzon. Lu Yuan really lived up to Liang Pengfei's expectations. In Luzon, he hired several people who had crossed several continents with Spanish merchant ships across the ocean through Australia. Da Luzon, an experienced old sailor, sent a fleet of three warships as the main force. After two months, he finally arrived along the big island in the mouth of Liang Peng, Australia.
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Moreover, after exploring the northern part of Australia, no traces of Westerners were found. However, there were many local natives. They obtained the friendship of those natives with silk and a small amount of porcelain, and exchanged a large amount of gems and gold from those natives, although However, I don't know where these natives got these almost pure gold gold ore, but one thing is certain. There must be an amazing amount of gold mine nearby that is easy to mine. Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the expedition fleet and the expedition team chose a bay, leaving the natives who served as handymen in the fleet to establish a port. Another 300 soldiers were left to guard.
After Liang Pengfei compared the location of the port they sent on the big island, it was almost certain that it was the famous Australian port city of later generations: Darwin.
But now, it has been named Liangjiagang by Zhu Ye, the captain of the fleet. Liang Pengfei looked at the name and was really ironic, but soon he annoyed the content of the letter, because in the letter, Lu Yuan told Liang Pengfei that Zhu Ye had been confirmed to be in Liangjiagang in November last year. At that time, the ports and fortresses were built. At that time, it was cloudy and rainy almost every day. They still wanted to wait. They hoped that the weather would get better, but no one expected that the weather would be getting worse and worse. At the end of the year, there were storms almost every day, which lasted for almost three months. If they hadn't prepared enough And because of their good relationship with the local indigenous people, they were able to get through this terrible time.
During this period, two smart interpreters slightly understood the simpler language of the locals. From their mouths, they learned that it is divided into the rainy season and the dry season. The dry season is relatively short, about five months, and the rainy season is longer, about seven months. They finally survived the rainy season. The gas has changed the drama name again, which has become quite dry, but this is conducive to the construction of their port.
Liang Pengfei slapped himself on the forehead. Shit, I almost forgot this. I immediately wrote back to the stewards of Lu and told them that the weather around Liangjiagang was extremely bad. If you want to build a port, you can't use wood. Let them take the explosives produced by Liangjiagang over, open the mountain and blow up stones, and use cement to build the port and fortress. The house also uses cement and masonry, and wooden structures should not be used, and it is best to repair as much as it is. Also, all buildings must install lightning rods for me. Don't you know the lightning rods? It doesn't matter. I'll explain later..."
"In addition, if you can hurry, it is best to rush back when the weather is good and send more people. In any case, we must build a port and fortress here as a base for exploration and expansion to the south of this big island..."
With Liang Pengfei's instructions, Ni Ming wrote quickly on the letter paper, and Liang Pengfei briefly explained the structure and installation of the lightning rod. This thing is too simple, but it is extremely effective for Liangjiagang, where thunderstorms are frequent in the rainy season.
Less than a month after Liang Pengfei's order was issued, after receiving Liang Pengfei's order, the Central Luzon Islands once again recruited a larger fleet than last time. This time, a total of nearly 3,000 Luzon indigenous people were taken to Crab King Port as laborers to participate in the construction. In addition, a large number of tools and seven Hundreds of soldiers are stationed in Liangjiagang and will send a prospecting team so that precious metal veins can be explored in the surrounding areas of Liangjiagang in the shortest time.
The footsteps of the Chinese finally set foot in Australia, the world's largest island rich in minerals and products, under the deliberate arrangement of Liang Pengfei. Although Liang Pengfei wants to completely occupy the island before the British find the real value of Australia, his strength is still too weak now, and his focus is currently to control Nanyang. As long as Nanyang becomes his back garden, he will reach out to Australia.
Liang Pengfei is convinced that when the French Revolution and Napoleon guided France to turn the whole Europe upside down, he would have the opportunity to have a strong enough fleet and army to include the whole Southern Ocean into his arms. At that time, Australia's It's much easier, and he can even get the benefits he needs from America, which is full of European colonists.
Two days later, Liang Pengfei finally rushed back here after leaving Crab King Island for nearly a year. However, in less than a year, Liang Pengfei suddenly thought that he had arrived at a strange place. Yes, except for the natural barrier that had not changed, as soon as he entered the bay, the newly built wide The busy cement dock immediately attracted Liang Pengfei's attention.
Large and small warships and merchant ships actually squeezed the originally empty bay to make people feel narrow. Because in addition to the Crab King Island fleet moored in Lao Liang's family, it also has to dock the Hailian merchant ships of Lao Liang's family. The rapid development over the past year has made the size of the Hailian merchant fleet no less than any of the thirteen merchants.
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Because of the factories built on Crab King Island, a large number of raw materials will be transported here by Lao Liang's cargo ship every day. Through this wharf, the glass and other products produced by the factories on the island will be transferred out of the island to the mainland, Annan and the Central Islands of Luzon.
Make this Crab King Island not look like a pirate base, but like a busy transfer terminal and port. Liang Pengfei looked at the figures rushing on the dock and the lifting equipment that transferred the goods through the lever principle, and his heart was full of pride. All of this is closely related to his planning and design.
When Liang Peng flew to the island, he finally saw the people he wanted to see most on his trip, a group of white-skinned Westerners with different hair colors and eyes, including British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and even Prussians and Austrians. There are people in almost every country in Western Europe.
The people here are in almost all professions, such as chemists, doctors, smelting experts, teachers, cartometers, watchmakers, glasses makers, weavers... and the production workers and technicians of gun factories invited from Western European countries. These people alone are one hundred and fifty-six.
Shortly after Liang Pengfei captured Luzon, some of these people were given a lot of money to the island by Liang Pengfei. Originally, most of these Westerners who arrived in the East came for wealth. It is for this reason that Liang Pengfei's talent training and search plan to use silver bomb offensive can be said to be unfavorable. .
A considerable part of the talents who arrived at the base of Crab King Island one after another were hired by Liang Pengfei by those European businessmen from the West. The last group of people arrived at Crab King Island for less than a month. Although they were not used to the life here, the precious metals distributed to their hands on time every month. The amount is enough for them to eat bran and swallow vegetables.
Liang Pengfei couldn't help but be a little drayed. However, from the moment Liang Pengfei stepped into the Liang family's compound, the Westerners who had been bragging and farted there couldn't help but turn their eyes to Liang Pengfei, who stepped in from the gate.
Liang Pengfei easily nodded to these people, crossed the crowd, and went straight to the temporarily arranged platform. Looking at these Western elites hired with a lot of money, Liang Pengfei seemed to be looking at the farmers of a group of cows, as if to squeeze out their last trace of milk.
Of course, this is just the spiritual silver. What Liang Pengfei hopes is to squeeze out all the knowledge in these people's brains.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen. It's nice to see you here. Allow me to introduce myself first. I am the owner of this island, Liang Pengfei, a Chinese. Liang Pengfei showed a reserved smile and bowed slightly to these Westerners who attracted his attention.
(to be continued)