I saw two "Truth"-class gunboats overseas in Tianjin, neatly bombarded an abandoned 3,000 wood ship to pieces, and then bargained with Wu Yanen, an old stingy person, and worked hard all day. When I returned to Tianjin East City (Tiankou), it was already very dark.

There are many boats in the Jiehe River, and the night sailing is not safe. If you hit something, the loss will be too great. So Wu Haogu simply got off the boat at Jinkou Port and only took one night in the castle in Dongshi, Tianjin. The next morning, he rode back to Tianjin.

Because he was preparing to send troops to Goryeo, the leaders of the three departments of the Republic of Youzhou had to discuss with Wu Haogu. So as soon as he returned home, he had not had time to talk to Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing. The left-hand magistrates of the Republican government, Mi Youren, Zhang Xizai, Ma Zheng, and Tianjin Governor Su Dalang, came together.

It is different from Zhao Ji's regular daily life and the Chongzheng Palace's reciprocal government activities. Wu Haogu is still a grass-roots team and is republican, so there is no morning court or evening court. His daily government activities are government meetings, senate meetings, and military conferences. In addition to the Senate meetings that must be held in the Senate building in Tianjin, the other two meetings can also be held in Wu Haogu's mansion.

In addition to these three formal meetings, Wu Haogu could also summon the heads of the senate, each department, each supervisor, and the heads of the senate, and the leaders of each department, each supervisor, and the senate, and they could also actively request to receive the meeting.

In addition, Wu Haogu is not always in charge. He still trusts Mi Youren, Zhang Xizai, Ma Zheng and others.

"Old man Wu promised that our 885,000 pieces were all Zumo's copper coins."

In his study, Wu Haogu looked at the documents and newspaper summary of various departments sent by Yizhang Zhifeng, the head of the government (after returning from the Jurchens, he was appointed as the "Secretary-General" of the government), while discussing matters with several visitors.

"That's what I'm giving?"

"Why are you still carrying a fraction of the money?"

Regarding his subordinates’ questions, Wu Haogu just smiled bitterly: "The old man knows how to do business and is not easy to talk to!"

"Not enough," Mi Youren shook his head, "at least 2 million yuan of military expenditure must be prepared... and two more markets must be opened in Xijing and Nanjing, Goryeo. It is said that it is a market, but it is actually a castle. Without hundreds of thousands of dollars, the doctoral organization must follow up on opening academies in Goryeo, at least it must be opened in Xijing, Beijing, and Nanjing. The government must also give a subsidy, and it is not enough without 3 million.

If the Danluo Kingdom became our direct Anton Prefecture after the war, it would have to invest a lot of money there.

In addition, we are still doing Japan's work. If they take the bait, we will expand our investment in Japan in the future..."

To be honest, Goryeo is not a very suitable territory for developing into a colony, and there is too little oil and water. Especially in the southern part of Goryeo, it is nothing more than population, grain, wood, charcoal, etc. However, colonization requires investment, construction of concessions, opening academies, garrisons, etc., and agents must be built and political struggles of the colony must be supported. Various expenses may exceed the income that can be obtained...

However, Goryeo, a territory with insufficient oil and water, is a colony that Wu Haogu must occupy.

Because Goryeo has strategic value! Only by controlling Goryeo can Wu Haogu further expand to the Whale Sea (Sea of ​​Japan), the Japanese archipelago, the Hoiyi Island and the northeast coastal areas outside.

What is particularly valuable is the Hokkaido, the later Japanese country of Hokkaido. At this time, it has not been occupied by the Japanese country and is still a wild land belonging to the Anui people.

And this wild land will become the most important food base in Japan in hundreds of years!

With enough food, this island can become a colony of Youzhou, and the Youzhou army can place a certain number of people on the Hoiyi Island, build cities and ports, and build long-distance ships.

Starting from the Hokkien Island and sailing along the Chiba Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, and Aleutian Peninsula, you can reach the new continent with an infinitely beautiful future.

Since the advancement of navigation technology will take some time, it is unlikely that Wu Haogu will form a voyage that will not be docked across the Pacific Ocean during his lifetime.

In his opinion, the only way to discover the new continent is to take the route of the Aleutian Islands on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Hokkaido, Koryo, and spend decades to slowly set up strongholds, open up shipping routes, and develop industries (mainly hunting furs), and finally you will definitely discover the new continent.

To achieve this strategic goal, we have to start working hard now.

First of all, of course, it is to defeat Goryeo and gain a springboard to advance towards the Sea of ​​Japan.

Secondly, the Andong Protectorate was established on Danluo Island, which was specifically responsible for the development of the eastward development.

Again, it is moving towards the Sea of ​​Japan!

"The Japanese country will most likely take the bait." Wu Haogu said slowly, "Mutou Kiichi has been granted the title of five sams. In Japan, five sams are the so-called palace masters, and are qualified to go to the palace to meet the Emperor and the Emperor. After getting such an official position, it means that you will soon be able to see Shirakawayuan. You should send troops to recover Tsushima and Hiroki Island soon.

With this excuse, Japan should be open to us. If they still refuse, then after Goryeo surrenders, we will use troops to Japan!"

Advancing to Heiyi Island is also inseparable from the support of Japanese resources. If you start from the Insulated Island Market and cross the Whale Sea to Heiyi Island, you will need to sail about 3,000 miles, and it will be 6,000 miles back and forth! It is okay when you are on the wind, otherwise the sailing time will be too long and the road will be consumed a lot. If you want to transport the sea to supply the early immigration of Heiyi Island, the cost will be unimaginable.

But if Japan is completely open to Takeoko, things will be easier. You only need to carry some goods that can be sold in Echigo, Japan, and then exchange them for food there, and then sail along the Japanese coastline to successfully arrive at Hokki Island.

"King," Zhang Xizai shook his head, "We can't spend money like this! Goryeo spends 3 million, and Danluo will change Andong Prefecture to spend at least 1 million. After Japan founded, it will have to invest 1 million to 2 million... This is five or six million! Although we can get it back from Goryeo and Japan sooner or later, there are many places to spend money now."

Wu Haogu thought about it and found out what was going on!

He is not the commander of the Hailu Maritime Market in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was a "big company" with a population of 10 million and an annual income of nearly 10 million. Wu Haogu was backed by the "big company", so of course he could invest heavily.

But how big is Youzhou now? If you don’t count Wu Haogu’s private income, it is just the fiscal revenue of the Republic of China, which is nothing more than the 3 million "year-old monies" given by Ji Yi, the overdue tax revenue of the Maritime Commission and the municipal tax payment of Tianjin (Tianjin is tax-inclusive), and the dividends of several public commercial banks, all together, no matter how much you calculate in recent years, it will not exceed 10 million a year. It seems a lot, but after deducting the necessary expenses, the remaining "living money" will not exceed 1 million every year.

If Wu Haogu hadn't handed over the reserves of the Hailu Maritime Control Department to Ji Yi (Ji Yi didn't want them either), and the Maritime Control Department Trading and Weapons Bank in Tianjin would have made a fortune by relying on arms trade when Ji Yi was the Hebei Transportation Army, which gave the Republican government a large amount of savings. Now Wu Haogu is probably going to use private property to start a war!

"Then sell Taiwan Island and Penghu Inspection Department together!" Wu Haogu thought about it, but the solution was to deal with unnecessary assets. "Su Che is now judging Quanzhou affairs, Su Shi is also referring to Quanzhou Maritime Warehouse Department, Su Chi is still the Right Chief of the Shangshu... It's okay to sell Taiwan and Peng to them, and it's okay to get one or two million, right? We spent a lot of money in Taiwan and Peng in previous years."

"Is the Su family willing to buy it?" Tianjin Governor Su Dalang asked. "It seems that there is nothing on Taiwan's island, right?"

"What a big piece of land!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Su Zhongnan will definitely convince his father.

Only by taking over Taiwan can the coast of Fujian be safe! Moreover, Taiwan has a lot of land, which is just right to reclaim the poor peasants in Fujian so that they can live and work in peace. What a good reason?”

Wu Haogu paused, "With this two million, this year's account can always be settled. Let's talk about next year's things..."

Originally, Wu Haogu just wanted to sell Penghu and keep Taiwan Island (the name was changed by him) temporarily. But now he finds it difficult to keep it. It is useless and has no money to continue to develop, and there is no place to find poor and lower-middle peasants who can immigrate to Taiwan Island.

A few years ago, when Wu Haogu was rich, he spent money from the HaiLu Maritime and Maritime Control Department to build Lugang City on Taiwan Island and a castle and port in Penghu.

The entire Song Dynasty also sent him all kinds of bad guys, some of whom could be sent to Taiwan Island for reclamation. So a lot of land was also opened around Lugang City.

But now Wu Haogu has no longer the Hailu Maritime Control Department of the Song Dynasty, which has a wealth of money, and has no way to catch bad guys in various parts of the Song Dynasty. What else can you use to develop Taiwan? Instead of letting Taiwan be ruined, it is better to transfer this asset and let those who are able to take over it.

The Su family and his son are quite ideal buyers! Not only do they have a way to raise money for "buying a Taiwan" even if the Quanzhou government and Quanzhou Maritime Mansion Department do not have that much money, there are many maritime merchants in Quanzhou! Many of them have accumulated generations of wealthy families, including millions and millions of wealthy families, and in legend, there are also super rich people of millions of levels.

It should be no difficulty to scrape out millions of people from them to develop Taiwan, right? Moreover, Fujian Road is known as "eight mountains, one water and one branch of land". Because there is too little land that can be reclaimed, the conflict between people and land has always been relatively acute, because of the fear of having too many children and being unable to support it. Such tragic things as drowning in babies have almost become popular.

In this case, it should be possible to find some poor and lower-middle peasants in Fujian to go to Taiwan to explore, right?

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