Major General Black is really speechless!

He is a staunch republican! In order to chop off the head of the British King, he carried a rifle and went to the battlefield with his father when he was a teenager. After struggling for so many years, he finally turned the Stuart Kingdom into a

He conquered the Republic of the Cromwell family. Now he went to the east to conquer the world for the son of another absolute monarch.

Moreover, he had to take on all the dirty and tiring work, and finally let a prince from the Ming Empire become the ready-made monarch!

This is quite a bit like finding a master for yourself!

If Major General Blake wanted a monarch so badly, he had one more than twenty years ago. Why would he want a republican revolution?

"If we can complete the preliminary exploration of the southern continent and establish a colonial stronghold, then why should we accept a Chinese as the monarch there?" Major General Black expressed his feelings, "Why can't we turn it into the Republic of England?

colony?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the two captains of the East India Company starting to shake their heads at the same time.

"What? Am I right?" Blake asked.

"Major General," Beckett said, "According to the information currently available, the southern continent is located east of the Strait of Malacca and south of the East Indies, within the sphere of influence of the Ming Empire."

Blake shook his head and said: "We can take the westerly belt and sail directly eastward from the Indian Ocean. It may be easier than passing through the equatorial windless belt."

He is right. It is indeed more advantageous to take the westerly wind belt of the Indian Ocean to the southern continent than to take the equatorial windless belt. This is because taking the windless belt can reach the northern part of the southern continent, but most of them are savannahs and wastelands with little development value (

There is a small amount of tropical rainforest in the northeastern part of the Australian mainland, but it is far away from Timor and Java islands, and there are only a few wetlands.

Taking the westerly belt of the Indian Ocean can reach the southwest and south of the relatively humid southern continent, which is of greater value for colonial development.

But the problem is that in this era, Britain does not have many citizens who can colonize overseas!

Vorster looked at the Major General who had a somewhat weird idea, shook his head and said: "Major General, even if we can find a passage from the Indian Ocean into the Southern Continent, we will not be able to send enough labor to the Southern Continent. According to the Dutch in decades

During the exploration years ago, there were no civilized people there.

As for the British mainland, there are currently only a few million people, and the number is getting smaller every year! Moreover, we have recently opened colonies in the Hudson Bay and the Caribbean, and immigrating there is much easier than immigrating to the southern continent."

The British colony of Hudson Bay was founded because of the fur trade, and Cromwell was planning to establish a chartered trading company specializing in the areas around Hudson Bay.

The British colonies in the Caribbean include Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas. From the map, these small islands are not very eye-catching, but because the special climate there is very suitable for using black slaves to grow sugar cane, those few small islands

The island became Britain's most profitable colony.

In addition, it was also profitable for the British to establish small colonies in Gambia, the Gold Coast, and the coastal areas of India.

But what really attracts the residents of the British Isles is that every year in the Kingdom of New England, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of English Catholics, Scots, Irish and some Anglicans who are persecuted by the Republic of England leave their homes and cross the ocean.

, to seek refuge with the Kingdom of New England, which occupied the land of the thirteen states in North America in history.

In a sense, while the British Isles were moving towards complete reunification, the residents of the British Isles were divided into two. Most of them either voluntarily or forcibly converted to Puritan Christianity and became a small number of people in the Republic of England.

He went to the New World and became a subject of the New England Kingdom, which believed in Roman Catholicism.

In this process, the population of the British Isles has continued to decline, and it has lost the ability to export a large number of people.

Without a population, what ability did the British East India Company have to develop the southern continent?

"Maybe we can attract other Europeans to go to the southern continent." As soon as Major General Blake said these words, the two East India Company executives couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Who would voluntarily immigrate to a Puritan colony? Unless there was gold to be mined there, how was that any different from exile?

Blake also knew that the Puritan rules were not very palatable, so he could only sigh: "It seems that this land was left by God to the Ming Emperor, but we can't build a kingdom for the Ming Emperor just for a little money!"

The two captains of the East India Company nodded vigorously.

Of course you can’t do that kind of thing just for a little money, it has to be a lot of money!

Blake was still a bit idealistic. He said firmly: "For the benefit of the Republic of England, we have to serve the Ming Emperor. But we must insist that the colonies discovered by the East India Company must be completely autonomous."

He looked at the two East India Company executives and said seriously: "Moreover, we should also spread the Puritan beliefs and republican ideas in the colonies in the southern continent!"

Spread republican ideas? What do you want to do?

Worster and Beckett, the two chief executives of the East India Company, were dumbfounded. They were not real Puritans, nor were they republicans. When Britain was undergoing a revolution, both of them were doing business in India. They were dealing with corruption all day long.

The Indian princes mixed together and have long forgotten all the teachings of Jesus. And they still don’t understand what is the difference between the hereditary Lord Protector of the Cromwell family and the hereditary king of the Stuart family?

Just when the Dutch were planning to maintain their position in the Eastern trade with the big business of exploring and building the southern continent, and the British were preparing to use the same opportunity to spread dangerous republican ideas, the governor of the Australia-New Zealand Company, run by Portuguese merchants,

Anthony Robert and chief executive Alfonso Lopez were already sitting in the living room of Zuoyuan, holding Mancini milk tea.

The Zuoyuan is Zhu Cihong's newly built residence for Marie Mancini. It is located within the palace wall of Laoshan Palace and also has a door leading to the outside of the palace.

The reason why this Western-style garden house was built was to make Mancini not look too inferior to Princess Nessa. Princess Nessa also owns a magnificent red castle in Laoshan Palace. If Mancini did not

A new house would be a bit pricey. Mancini's new house is called "Zuo Yuan" because the surname Mancini means "left-handed", so Mary Mancini's Chinese name is Zuo Mary.

, Zuoyuan is Zuo Mary’s garden.

Like Mary Mancini, Anthony Robb and Alfonso Lopez both have Chinese names, the former is called Luodoni and the latter is called Luo Afang.

Zuo Mary, Luo Dongni, and Luo Afang are not Chinese names that are spoken casually, but are official names that are officially written on the imperial edict.

Of course, these three are all Ming nobles with titles!

After Zuo Mary gave birth to Zhu Henry for Zhu Cixiang, she was granted the title of First Grade Madam. Luo Dongni was originally the governor of the Portuguese people in Macau. After defecting to the Ming Dynasty, he was granted the title of Hao Ao Bo. Luo A Fang was more senior, he was the founder of Shanghai.

The Portuguese merchants from Macau who came to open an arsenal when they arrived in Macao were awarded the title of Ke Nangchuan Sha for their merits in supplying arms.

The Australian and New Zealand Company in which the three of them hold large shares is also a shipping company engaged in East-West trade. It is called a "Ming-Portuguese joint venture", but it is actually a local licensed trading house in the Ming Dynasty, together with the Royal Chamber of Commerce and the Yiguandang Trading Company.

There is no essential difference between Shachuanbang Trading Company and Jiale Trading Company. However, they have the name of Portugal and employ a large number of Portuguese sailors living in the East (Portugal itself has been ruled by Spain for decades, so it has no influence on the colony).
Chapter completed!