In April of the 25th year of the Empire, when the southwest monsoon rose, a fleet of three flying ships, the Cassia Falcon, the White Falcon and the Peregrine Falcon set off from the Imperial Shinkyong Port, and its destination was the American province, the most eastern overseas territory of the Empire.

In the winter of the 24th year of the empire, the American Development Company officially announced the abolition, and America also changed from a company to an overseas province. In fact, when the third cabinet of the empire took office, this plan was established because the colonies under the company system were no longer in line with the empire's strategy.

Under the corporate system, profit is the priority, which leads to the empire's political and military actions in the Americas to consider whether to benefit. Although national behavior is also based on interests, the difference is that national interests include many, such as geopolitical interests, long-term interests, etc., while companies only look at profits, only gold and silver.

The three flying scissors are special ships of the Imperial Government, and are also dual-purpose ships for passengers. The reason for this is that among the more than 1,300 people on the three ships, all of them were officials from the American provinces and their families sent by the Empire. Among the more than 340 officials, 120 were dispatched by the cabinet, and the rest were further education officials from the Americas or graduates from the Americans.

The shipping route has been determined, and you will leave from Shinkyung, then pass through Tsushima Port, Dongfang Port, Hot Spring Port, Cod Port, and Beiyuan finally arrive in Jinzhou, the capital of the American province.

Of course, some ships will be transported along the way, and the cargo will be unloaded to the shore.

Five days later, the fleet arrived at Tsushima Port, arrived at noon, and rested during the day. The next morning, Li Junwei moved into the home of the local chief executive without hesitation, hoping for peace for one night. The local chief executive was also sent by Shen Jing to arrange everything for Li Junwei intimately.

The Peregrine Falcon is the ship of King Yu, the fleet. The royal family also carried out large-scale transformations to make King Yu feel more comfortable during his trip to the Americas, but the result was not satisfactory. The main reason was that the passengers on the ship were dispatched officials. Most of these guys came from the Americas and studied and studied in Shenjing, Beijing and Tianjin for more than three years. Most of them were second-generation immigrants from the Americas. They were already very excited to come to the local area. They felt even more glorious to marry a local girl as a wife, so most of these people had wives and children, because along the way, the sound of children crying in Li Junwei's ears always sounded, which made him unable to sleep all day, so he urgently needed to change a ship.

When the ship was set off the next morning, a flying sheared with a tonnage of about 600 tons berthed beside three large flying shears, called Changning, which is an immigrant ship from Jeju Prefecture. Because Jeju and Tsushima Islands are close to Japan, Japan often drifted to the islands of the coastal empire due to wars and disasters, especially Tsushima, which is very close to Kyushu, and many people come every year. At the beginning, the two places accepted it directly, but it caused many public security problems, especially in Jeju where some Japanese burned ports and storage areas.

It happened that King Yu had a westward expedition, and there was a lack of immigration to the mainland, so these immigrants from Japan would be packaged regularly and sent directly to Beijing, Tianjin or Liaoning, and then moved to various border areas. Of course, the East and West Siberia areas north of Yongning were also immigration locations. The Changning ran twice a year and originally had to set off in June, but now King Yu needed it, so the shipping schedule was advanced.

"This is Tian Zhongjian, and it is also the ship's chief who went to the Hot Spring Port this time. He has asked the immigrants on the boat to clean up the things overnight." Li Junwei met Tian Zhongjian in the stern building of the Changning ship that had just been washed.

Generally speaking, there is no shipmaster on the ship, but the immigration ship is different from the cargo ship. Immigration is human and needs management. The Changning carries Japanese immigrants, and the captain obviously does not have the ability to manage them, and even cannot communicate, so the shipmaster was established.

"Tanaka is naughty, Japanese?" Li Junwei asked.

"Chinese, Japanese ethnicity." Tian Chukai said carefully.

Li Junwei's chief guard suddenly grabbed his hand, pushed up his sleeve, exposed an iron ring, and said to the chief executive angrily: "You dare to arrange it to the prince?"

Iron rings are the symbol of criminal officials. Officials who commit crimes will also be exiled overseas, but officials are officials, and their management talents should be used for the full range of their management skills. Therefore, during the immigration process and even when they go to overseas territories, they will act as middle and lower-level management positions. However, in order to separate from ordinary officials, they will be handcuffed and shackled at the beginning, but they found that the work was not going smoothly, so they became Iron rings.

Li Junwei patted the shoulder of the guard chief Li Su, untied his knife and picked up Tian Zhongjian's trouser legs, without shackles, which shows that this criminal was not a vicious crime, but generally a corruption, economic crime, and dereliction of duty. For Li Junwei, such people are very interesting, have stories and are not violent.

"Okay, that's him." Li Junwei ordered.

There are also many children on the Changning, including Japanese children and ordinary people who voluntarily immigrated to the Hot Spring Harbor. However, because of the arrival of Yu, they were all arranged to the Peregrine Falcon. These people did not know about the arrival of Yu, but they only knew that they wanted to change the boat, and thought that Tian Zhongjian was causing trouble. Therefore, everyone angrily called Tian Zhongjian's nickname - the Zhongguo merchant!

Li Junwei was very interested in this and took the boat to the next stop of Dongfang Port. Bored, he talked to Tian Zhongjian and found that he was really a person with a story.

Tian Chuken belongs to Japanese ethnic group, but he is actually a mixed Chinese-Japanese race. His mother was originally a Yum girl from Nagasaki, a prostitute in a hot spring resort. Because she was young and beautiful, she was favored by a wealthy Chinese businessman. However, because her family had a roar of the Kawatoshi Lion, she was kept in a house. Tian Chuken's father's surname was Tian, ​​and his mother's surname was Tanaka, so she gave her a name of a half-year and a half-day.

Later, the wealthy merchant died in a shipwreck. Although illegitimate children like Tian Zhongjian also have basic inheritance rights in the imperial law, it is impossible to determine whether Tian Zhongjian is the biological child. Therefore, he did not inherit any property and was sent by the Tian family's clan. Tian Zhongjian remarried to a small businessman in Tsubasa with his mother, which was considered to have a legal identity.

Tian Zhongjian was very smart and used the money he had saved to finish the middle school and went to Jeju to attend a senior high school. If his mother had not given birth to two younger brothers and was forced to tighten her investment in him, he would be qualified to go to the local area for further studies with good results.

Tian Zhongken started working at the age of 17 and successfully entered the Public Security Bureau of Tsuma. Because he could speak Japanese, he participated in Japanese immigration and community work for many years. He became the deputy chief of Tsuma Security Bureau in just ten years. However, he was charged last year because of a case. Because of his lack of guilt, he became a criminal official and was sent to work in the Hot Spring Harbor without being imprisoned. The name of the loyal and incompetent businessman also came from this.

"In fact, it's just a villain who was confused for a while. Two years ago, a serial murder case occurred in Shin Kyung. Because the murdered person was the daughter of the Persian envoy to Shin Kyung, it was a big fuss. Shin Kyung Security Bureau finally identified a murderer, but was fled by him. At the end of last year, his accomplices confessed that he might have fled to Jeju and Tsuma, so..." Tian Zhongjian said, showing a shame.

As the deputy director of the Mass Security Bureau, Tian Zhongjian received a notice of the joint investigation and found that the reward was 10,000 taels, so he had bad intentions. At that time, his mother and a younger brother born to him owed a lot of gambling debts and urgently needed to be repaid. He looked for himself several times, but Tian Zhongjian's wife was silent, so he took the risk.

He detained the notice of cooperation investigation, drew a large number of portraits of the suspect, and posted them at the gathering place of people throughout Tsuma. However, the notice of the reward was not issued, but a private notice of missing persons. He posted it in the name of his younger brother, saying that the man was his brother's lost uncle, and he offered a reward of 1,000 taels of silver dollars to search for it, but the culprit was quickly caught.

My younger brother received the reward and earned merit, but this incident spread quickly. The reason why Tian Zhongjian's middleman made a profit was reported, so he became a criminal official. He simply committed a minor crime and indeed caught a murderer. Therefore, he was deprived of his official position and exiled to Hot Spring Harbor for five years.

Tian Zhongjian is a very talkative person, especially knowing the situation in Japan. The two of them talked all the way and arrived at Dongfang Port.

Dongfang Port is located at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, but it is already a declining city. There were iron ore and coal mines near the city, so the iron smelting industry developed. Because it is close to fishing grounds, fishing, whaling and seal hunting, it was also very developed. At its peak, Dongfang Port had more than 30,000 people. However, with the development of coal and iron resources in the Tumen River Basin of North Korea, Vladivostok replaced Dongfang Port and became the steel industry base among the three provinces.

When the Beihai Province, including Sakhalin and Hokkien Island, was established, the Dongfang Port was the provincial government. However, as time went by and economic development, the river city with a more mild climate and richer resources (Sapporo means a large river), became a city with a large population, so the provincial government moved accordingly.

Because of this, Oriental Port has become an important transit station for immigrants to the North and Americas. Immigrants from the local area will undergo a long-term rest here. This time, the immigration fleet will be repaired here for half a month.

The reason is very simple. With the migration of the provincial government and the desolation of the iron smelting industry, many empty houses appeared near the port, one of which was operated by local people and became cheap hotels. The most important industry in the local area is the fishing industry, which is a seasonal industry. Therefore, a large number of merchants come here every year, and these cheap hotels are also used. Spring is not the peak season for fisheries, so there are a large number of empty rooms to temporarily settle immigration. On the contrary, if you rest in Vladivostok or river city, the cost will be very high.

Dongfang Port is not the peak season now, so there are only more than 8,000 people. It can only be considered a relatively large town in the empire. The population of the entire Sakhalin Island is only more than 100,000. Because of the arrival of immigrant ships, local businesses immediately flourish. You must know that this fleet belongs to the dispatch fleet, with officials and their families on the ship, so there are no paupers. This is also the starting point for the Americas. With the arrival of the immigrant fleet, ships and fleets participating in ocean trade have also arrived one after another.

Because America has changed from a company's jurisdiction to a province, the monopoly of American development companies on ocean trade has disappeared. Therefore, there are many more ships to trade in the Americas this year. When these merchants arrived at the Oriental Port, they also bought and bought. It is said that even the Oriental Steel Plant, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, was directly bought by a merchant from Shenjing, and dismantled many instruments and equipment and sold them to the Americas.

Li Junwei rode a horse to explore the local scenery. When he returned to the fleet, there was a beautiful flying scissor ship called the Flying. The ship was flying a Dutch flag. The owner was Thomas, the British jazz who made a big splash in Shin Kyung before and after the New Year.

Thomas conducted a half-year political lobbying in Shinkyung, and finally turned the two East India companies from colonial companies to trading companies, and obtained some imperial port trading rights. Oriental Port is one, and Jinzhou Port in the Americas is also one.

"Sir Thomas, I didn't expect to meet you here. Why, I didn't show off enough in Shenjing, and I went to the northern border city of the empire again?" Li Junwei asked with a smile.

This winter, Thomas did make a big splash. He got a chance to speak in the House and tell the Imperial MPs about everything about the East India Company. That's not all. Thomas met the Emperor and the Supreme Emperor of the Empire as he wished, and received a banquet. Although this was mainly the cheaper his father brought, his abilities were beyond doubt.

In the face of Lee Junwei's joke, Thomas had no choice but to deal with it. He said: "Great Your Highness, you know that if the agreement reached by our two companies and the Ministry of Overseas Affairs is known to London, I, as a sir, will immediately become a traitor and go to the guillotine."

"Is that true? I don't think so. If there really is one day, you can join your second brother." Li Junwei said with a smile.

Thomas' father Captain David's status and glory in the UK and subcontinent were all inherited by Thomas alone, but he still had several younger brothers, the most promising one was his second brother. He was raised in Madras from the beginning and later in Penang. After growing up, he went to Manila. He was one of the major shareholders of Palawan Development Company. Thomas' brother once participated in the extermination of the Sulawesi Pirates and had a history of protecting the Australian gold transport fleet, so he was able to obtain the title of Count awarded by the Imperial Senate, which was much more promising than Thomas.

"I don't want to have that day. I have to say, Your Highness, after a few days of thinking, I feel like I've been trapped." Thomas shrugged helplessly. This was the only thing he had figured out during this period.
Chapter completed!