Zhang Qing, everyone probably remembers him-_) He is the brother of the governor of Yizhou, Mongolia, but he has long been the fleet commander of the Chinese Empire Navy. At this moment, he set out from Huaxia Island and led a fleet of up to 15 ships, protecting 200 commercial routes to Jeju Island, and arrived in Catholic.

"Span" is now a city of considerable size, with a population of about 50,000. As a port city, its main business is to provide supplies to the fleets. These fleets are sent from Huaxia Island to Jeju Island once a month, just like all other routes in the world, from them to Huaxia Island, and transporting back a large number of commodities.

In addition to the giant fleet running alone in the Song Dynasty, there are also other fleets in other places, except for some craftsmen and scholars, there are not many populations. Of course, Huaxia Island does not reject foreign populations very much. If we only distinguish whether they are Han or Chinese from blood ties, wouldn’t it be stupid to be the same as the Nazis? Moreover, the future Chinese Empire has some Chinese people with Chinese culture based on technology.

Therefore, "Span" is indeed a prosperous city. The population composition includes the Han people, Arabs, Europeans and nearby Malays. The only premise is the same as other cities under the rule of the Chinese Empire. They abide by the "Chinese Law", abandon the extremes of religion, accept the Chinese culture, and even Singapore as the most prosperous city in the nearby areas in this sea area.

The tall cement breakwater at the port has been established, and the waves have no effect here. It can be seen from the ships anchored at the port that "Span" is within a radius of 200 kilometers nearby. All forces near the wholesale point of the goods. If you want to obtain industrial products from Huaxia Island, you have to bring in a large amount of resources, grain and other commodities from here to barter.

This is an important means for the "Huaxia Empire" to trade foreign countries, that is, to measure the price of goods by gold, but what is actually carried out is just bartering. It is precisely because of such trading methods that all the resources nearby are pouring into the cities to which Huaxia Island belong, especially Huaxia Island. Almost all kinds of materials from the world are constantly rushing there.

This is the case in "Span" at this moment. Small factories such as match factories have been opened to these places. In addition to the "Royal Chinese Academy of Sciences", there are some large heavy industries. To put it bluntly, it is the industry for producing machines. In addition, it is important. There are many technical secrets in the arms industry.

However, this time, Zhang Qing came to the Chaqian Station and his goal was not elsewhere. It is the third largest island in the world. Kalimantan Island, also known as Borneo. The reason why he chose this place as an industrial area other than Huaxia Island and Jeju Island is because of its unique geographical characteristics. The mountains of Kalimantan Island extend from the mainland to the four outs. It is higher in the northeast. It has the highest peak in Southeast Asia, with Mount Kinabalu. It has a gentle terrain at an altitude of 4,102 meters, abundant rainfall, and a large river that goes into the sea.

At this moment, the industrial production system based on hydraulic and wind resources in Huaxia Island was built along the rivers flowing down these mountains. However, in war, Zhang Qing didn't think much about it. Just find a suitable port for a large river to occupy it. The biggest advantage here is that it can make the entire industrial system operate quickly.

Zhang Qing did not stay here for a long time. He just left a squadron of five warships, protecting the cities they established. The warships are no longer "Qinhuang amp" class warships, but "Hanwu" class warships equipped with large caliber artillery. It has 10 210mm cannons nicknamed "Yan Luo Soul Chasing Cannon".

These artillery uses high-quality steel inner pipes, bronze thickened outer pipes, and bronze with multi-layer composite gun barrels, which are easy to dissipate heat. The texture is also better than the steel material at this time. Although Huaxia Island has started to use coke and crucible steel smelting methods, this still cannot solve the huge gap in steel demand. Manufacturing weapons requires steel, cold weapons requires steel, and railway tracks require steel. Because of the huge demand for civilians, military products have to use relatively sufficient bronze materials.

So the reason why Zhang Qing came to Kalimantan Island this time is that it will become the steel production base of the Chinese Empire in the future because it is close to Australia, the future resource continent, and the power here is also easier to control the situation in Nanyang.

Perhaps everyone has understood the strategy of the Chinese Empire in the future. The infantry's power can guard important strongholds and economic areas. The navy can carry out unimpeded mobile combat on the ocean. Although the Chinese Navy is sparse in number, it is already an absolute maritime overlord, especially after mastering the Red Sea, Mediterranean and Suez Canal in the future, then there is no force in Europe and Asia to challenge them.

After all, after the beginning of the Age of Discovery, countries without navigation powers often became plundered, oppressed and massacres, for example, the Inca Empire, India, Arab countries, or the future Ming Dynasty lost Taiwan. Needless to say, the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, what else can I say?

Then, with Kalimantan, in addition to developing the steel industry, an important point is that it will be the basis for further controlling Irion Island Papua Guinea and Australia. Of course, those who believe that those two places are still people from the Stone Age and will not disagree. Even if they say it is useless, this is a real thing. Until then, the people there will not even use bows and arrows, so naturally this is not enough to worry about it.

Zhang Qing led his men here for about a week. After receiving the order of Zhao Fubo, he organized a construction team of nearly 15,000 people to come here. In addition, the fleet that stayed here in the future stationed at the Naval Base of Kariman Island will also send Marines to clean up the tribal elderly on the shore. However, young and middle-aged people will be hired, and children will enter the school to study.

This is the absolute benefit of the Chinese Empire, that is, free education from the age of zero, until graduation from university, of course, the prerequisite is that as long as you pass the exam, the country will always be fully covered by the entire country.


Chapter completed!