Chapter 822 Global Layout

In October, a mixed fleet of Dahua military and merchants arrived in the Persian Gulf.

Previously, Dahua and the Persian Empire negotiated a territorial sale business. Dahua spent one million taels of silver to buy Bahrain from the Persian Empire.

It was a controversial business, with the Navy firmly opposed but the Civilian strongly supported.

In the words of the military, if they need Bahrain, they can just go and shoot it down. Can they afford to buy it?

However, some of the civilian officials stood up and calculated with an abacus in the courtroom, and found that the cost of the military to conquer Bahrain was far more than one million.

Moreover, it will also have a bad relationship with the Persian Empire.

Of course, Dahua is not afraid of the Persian Empire, but now that Dahua has no plans to recover Persia, there is no need to offend in advance.

Having too many enemies is not a good thing.

Therefore, the meaning of the civil service is that you can buy Bahrain directly with money.

Anyway, the Persian Empire also agrees with this business, and both parties are very happy.

After some debate, the civil officials won, and Wu Changqing approved the plan to spend money to buy it.

As a result, Dahua purchased the small place of Bahrain from the Persian Empire.

Dahua bought this place naturally because of its oil resources.

Dahua also has a lot of local oil, which will definitely not be used up.

But the problem is that Dahua's local oil is deeply hidden in the ground, making it difficult to exploit.

In contrast, oil in the Middle East is very easy to extract, and in some places, oil can even be dug out of a well.

Therefore, when the technology is not developed enough, Dahua would rather go to Bahrain to mine and then ship it back to China.

Although it is a bit troublesome, at least there is no technical bottleneck and can be achieved.

The oil in the Middle East, Wu Changqing is bound to win.

Therefore, there is no harm in going to the layout in advance, so I agreed to this plan.

For the Persian Empire, the sale of territory was somewhat disgraceful.

If the Ottoman Empire made this request to them, they would definitely refuse it without hesitation.

However, who let the buyer be Dahua?

For the incomparably powerful Dahua Empire, the Persian Empire chose to please.

Anyway, a small place in Bahrain can sell one million taels of silver, which is not a loss.

In Persia, where the commercial economy is not very developed, one million taels of silver is a huge sum of money.

One million taels is enough for their royal family to squander for a long time.

At the same time, Dahua's first fleet to North America landed in San Francisco.

The Spaniards had already arrived in San Francisco in 1542, but they were not able to occupy it immediately, mainly because they were few in number and were not the opponents of the local natives.

It was not until the mid-eighteenth century that the Spaniards would send a large number of men and implement the actual occupation of the San Francisco area.

Before that, the Spanish only occupied verbally.

They say that this place is theirs, but all European countries chose to ignore this kind of nonsense, and the local indigenous people also chose to ignore it.

Dahua's textbook also said that the whole world is Dahua's territory, but it has not been recovered for the time being, and it has been occupied by barbarians.

In addition to scolding a few shameless words, other countries chose to ignore them.

In short, when Dahua's gold rush fleet of pure merchants arrived in San Francisco, there was no battle.

In the port of San Francisco, there are only two Spanish buildings, and there are no more than a dozen Spaniards who have lived here for a long time.

When they saw Dahua's dozen or so big ships with thick smoke, they didn't even know what it was.

Western Europe already knows about steam engines, but there are still many places in the world that have never heard of steam engines.

Nearly 3,000 people came to Dahua at one time, including three firms, namely Nanjing Tongjia, Nanjing Chenjia, and Songjiang Dujia.

Among the 3,000 people, more than 2,000 were laborers hired by their three families, and there were more than 400 armed forces who were their own servants.

The rest are some mining talents, as well as servants.

With such a huge team, the Spaniards didn't even emphasize and declare that this was their territory, they didn't have the guts.

As for the locals, they want to express their dissatisfaction.

The two sides who do not understand the language are arguing like chickens and ducks.

Before arguing for a few minutes, the argument turned into shoving, and then a fight. In the end, the big Chinese chose to shoot and killed hundreds of people at one time, which scare the natives away.

So far, Dahua has its first stronghold in North America, and relying on this stronghold, it has begun to explore the surrounding area.

Mainly looking for gold mines, it is said that there are many gold mines here.

This news was naturally leaked by Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing was actually not sure, but he vaguely remembered that there were many gold mines in San Francisco.

The biggest driving force driving people to go to sea is the gold mine.

A fleet of the Chinese army passed through Java, reached the Australian mainland, and established a stronghold here.

Because they came to look for gold mines, they named the place Jinshan in order to make a lot of money.

In fact, it is Darwin.

Jinshan is a more wild area than San Francisco, San Francisco still has indigenous people, and Spain.

And when the Dahua Fleet arrived in Jinshan, no one touched here.

Arrived, encountered all these strange animals.

The Australian continent is isolated from other continents, resulting in a unique climate and environment.

Therefore, the animals here are basically unique.

However, the big Chinese come here not to admire novel animals, but to look for gold mines.

In the riverbed, they found a small amount of golden sand, which made them extremely excited.

This means that there is indeed a gold mine here.

As long as you look up the river upstream, you will find gold sooner or later.

After the establishment of the stronghold, they were divided into two parts, some people stayed behind and continued to search for gold mines, and the other part returned to Dahua to report the situation, and migrated more people to come.

Regardless of whether there are gold mines or not, there is no reason to leave them empty in this large area of ​​unclaimed land, and it is not bad for farming.

Buying one mu of land in China still costs seven or eight yuan, and it cannot exceed fifty mu.

However, in foreign countries, there are no relevant regulations for the time being, and the limit of 50 acres can be exceeded.

More importantly, overseas land does not require money.

As long as you go over, take two stones and swing it there, declaring that this place is yours, Dahua will not care.

As long as they are not too outrageous and declare that the entire Jinshan belongs to them, the imperial court will not care.

In other words, it won't matter for the time being.

Only after the large-scale immigration wave starts in the future and the immigration problem is formed, can Dahua introduce new laws.

These borderless lands are a powerful tool for attracting immigrants.