"I spent six nights on the immigration boat and returned to the Golden Oak until Yuling Island. I had a great conversation with the immigrants and sailors on the boat, so I got a lot of useful news. These immigrants were completely built by clubs and were very strong. The immigrants on the boat were not as many as I thought. The captain told me that this fleet had only about 3,500 immigrants in total, and the cargo hold was filled with various iron and cotton, Songjiang Bu. These supplies were all used for resettlement of immigrants. The reason why they were only stuffed into these immigrants was that the club hoped that more people would arrive alive. The immigrant boat had a strict sanitation system. At least when arriving at Yuling Island, most people were still healthy, but because of seasickness and vomiting, they looked bad."

"I am gloating about the immigrant fleet of only 3,500 people, but soon another news made me feel like I was struck by lightning. There are five such immigrant fleets, and this is the second time this year to transport immigrants. In fact, there is no need for me to guess. The captain who drank alcohol told me that he needed to go three times this year, and the plan was at least 50,000, which may actually be more. This is a terrible number..."

"I left the immigration ship and returned to the Golden Oak. Before leaving, the captain gave me a kind of Ming Dynasty spirit, called the slap donkey. The general idea was to make the stupid donkey drunk. Seeing Captain Jackson, who still stubbornly called me Lord Oral, I felt that this kind of spirit was very suitable for him. This night he became a drunk donkey, and I finally had the opportunity to read his navigation log. After reading it, I finally understood that I was the stupid donkey, and Jackson was also responsible for the task of investigating the club, and the data he obtained was more detailed than mine. Of course, these data are mine now..."

"...We arrived at Yuling Island, the first port in the north. This port is very busy, but it is not a good port. It cannot avoid the south wind. However, it is the only unfreezing port in the community. The port town has at least 3,000 people, but it has dense warehouses and houses. In the cold winter, the facilities here are used to turn over the supplies needed by the north. Now it is still responsible for immigration turnover tasks. The immigration fleet has left after a little rest and maintenance. They are going to transport the last immigrant before the winter comes...

..., Surprisingly, the city, port, army, business, most of the chief executives here are Japanese, and so are the Chief Executive, he provided us with sake and Japanese women. After leaving Nagasaki five years ago, this was my first time meeting a Japanese woman. However, I found that in the second half of the night, this woman stole some of my books, and during the three days on Yuling Island, I found that someone was monitoring me. The Japanese man was so powerful, he must have noticed something, I must be careful... "

"... Vladivostok is a dual-purpose port for military and civilians, and it is also the garrison of the Northern Territory Squadron, but I only saw some galleys and two notification boats. It is said that most of the boats were put into the immigration... The Golden Oak began to unload the goods, unloading spirits and iron tools, and many immigrants were also transported here by small boats. We did not rest here, so I did not have the opportunity to map the huge prism. But I found that there were several ships from Nagasaki, which were unloading armor, spears and sulfur. The people in the port said that they were fighting the Tatars in a place called Ningguta, but I found that many of the soldiers and citizens here were also Tatars. When I asked them about the difference between them and the Tatars, these people believed that they belonged to civilized society, and the hostile Tatars were barbarians..."

"On July 20th, we arrived at the northernmost port, Yongning City, Your Excellency, you must be unable to believe that this is a city with a population of 40,000, built on the bank of a huge river called Heilongjiang. A city of such a scale should have been a scale that lasted more than ten years in our European history. However, Yongning City only had two years of life. At the mouth of the sea, we encountered a stranded immigration ship and rescued them. As a result, we were treated by the one-armed officer of Yongning City. He led us to watch many programs, including soldiers hunting tigers, and a young native stabbed the tiger with a spear, and then was allowed to become an officer..."

"Jackson said that we will stay in this city for at least one month, waiting for the north wind season to come, I was able to apply for a hunting certificate and inspect the surrounding area with the certificate. A lot of farmland has been reclaimed around the city. The working farmer came four months ago. The industry on which this city relies on is fur and traditional Chinese medicine, the wood industry. I found a huge wood stacking center upstream of the city. In addition to processing wood, the most important task is to dry the cut wood. Among them, the most important one is century-old oak with a length of more than 20 meters. There are at least tens of thousands of them, which are placed separately and dried. There is a strict management system. I think these super ships will eventually be used as the construction of the main ship. In less than five years, they will become strong ribs and heavy bulwarks. I really hope that the company's artillery will not be embarrassed by them."

"...A British sailors made trouble, Jackson was fined nearly 400 Kingdu Carters, and all foreigners were ordered to live in the city, and I was no exception. I lost the opportunity to inspect the shipyard. It is said that the best warship that the shipyard can manufacture is a large notice ship with a displacement of about 200 tons.

I can't leave the city and the port, so I gave up the opportunity to have fun in the city and stayed on the Golden Oak to fish. Fishing was just a disguise, and it was more about observation. Because it was the flood season and now it was the busiest season for river transportation. I observed the goods entering the port, most of which were fur, mink, fox fur, and deer skin, and the number was uncountable. But I heard that last year, there were 100,000 furs of various types went south, and then Chinese medicinal materials, ginseng and antlers were the most precious, and many were all kinds of animals. The most common ones were male deer, but there were also many sea beasts, seals, sea lions and walruses. I really don't know why the Ming people have a special liking for this...

I originally thought fishing would not get the desired result, but in mid-August, a fleet of escorted by inland warships arrived. The goods they transported were not only common ginseng furs, but also a dozen heavy boxes. From the port official, they learned that there were gold ingots, from a gold mine in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. Yes, the charming gold mine. Unfortunately, I cannot know the specific number. This is really a colony with rich resources."

"The north wind blows, and the Golden Oak leaves. One quarter of the space on the ship is occupied by fur Chinese medicine and various whips purchased by the East India Company. The rest are groceries bought by sailors. The first stop we went south was Dongfang Port, the only Northland port that the Golden Oak has never been to. People in Yongning City would rather call this port a steel city.

Faced with the increasingly colder weather, the Indian sailors on the boat always complained, and the purpose of going to Dongfang Port was to make whale oil and some rare seafood, which was an important whale harbor. During the boring voyage, the sailors discussed an interesting topic, and they were eager to know if there were whale whips there...

What’s abominable is that whale oil is a scarce resource, so the price is very high and the profit is suppressed. The merchants at the port don’t care because they come from the richest Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty, where there is a very high demand for whale oil candles, and the club is the only source of goods. However, Jackson cannot accept such a high price. Guangdong has its own whale oil production, and whale oil cannot be sold in Hong Kong. Jackson is very unhappy because he reserved a lot of cargo space. Fortunately, the Chief Executive here once fought side by side with the Golden Oak. Jackson got a batch of whale oil and rare seafood, but the condition was that the ship could not return directly to the south, but to Vladivostok to transport iron ingots and cured meat for it.

Because of the large number of cargo merchant ships, the draught was deeper, the cannon door was closed, and they slowly moved towards Vladivostok. I originally thought it was a bad idea, but I was lucky enough to discover a big secret of the club. The one who ordered the batch of iron ingots and cured meat was a Korean prince, and the goods used to trade were copper ingots! It was really difficult to understand that the club could trade copper ingots with iron, but it did it.

Jackson seized this opportunity and used the opportunity to contact the representative of the Korean prince in the absence of transporting goods. The final result was that he traded nearly eight tons of crude copper with nine cannons on gold oak, which was enough to prove the production capacity of the copper mine, but I think the club would definitely not be happy with such a transaction. The Golden Oak delayed nearly twenty days."

"On October 1st, we finally returned. It is expected that under the strong north wind, the average speed of the Golden Oak reached seven knots. We only supplied food and drinking water on Yuling Island. The next stop is Budai Port. It is expected to take eighteen to twenty-two days to reach the destination. This route will be very boring. However, I got a news from a sailor. This guy took advantage of the supply gap and sneaked to the brothel to find a Japanese woman. From this, I got a news that the main enemy of the community, the Tatar emperor, was dead, and my heart could not be calm. This news will definitely affect the community's strategy and will have an impact on the company. However, we know too little about the Tatar regime in the north, and I must return to Hong Kong as soon as possible."

At the end of October, the Golden Oak arrived at Budai Port. The ship would rest for five days and head to Banten and then return to India. Jackson originally wanted to find a job for his close friend Oral in the British East India Company, but Cologne, which had recovered his identity, disappeared without a trace at the port.

Cologne went to the official and found a boat to go to Hong Kong. When he appeared in the Dutch mall, Da Yang hardly recognized the Shangguan who had been destroyed by sea breeze and bacon for five months. Cologne returned to his long-lost office and did not choose to rest, so he called Da Yang in to discuss the secret.

Da Yang stood there, reporting meticulously about the work of the Dutch shopping mall. Cologne raised his hand to stop him and said, "Da Yang, I don't want to listen to these income and expenditure statements. I know that Hong Kong is a gold and silver nest. The company must have made money. It's just a matter of how much. What I need to know is a big deal. I found that this port is very busy. Where is the Spanish's broken fleet? Have they been defeated?"

Da Yang was slightly stunned. He remembered that when Cologne left, it was the time when the Spanish broke the fleet was most rampant. Da Yang hurriedly said: "No, there was no naval battle between the Tenglong Trading Company and the cruise fleet. They directly attacked Macau and received a large amount of compensation, forcing Macau to end the support of the Spaniards. You know, in the South China Sea, barnacles and shipworms were rampant. In the summer, if the bottom of the ship was not cleared for two months, the shipworms might get into the keel. After the Battle of Macau, the cruise fleet returned to Manila and then harassed them in batches. However, the scale of one cruise ship and less than three schooners can be maintained along the coast of Guangdong. The latest news is that the Tenglong Trading Company used Garen ships and cruise ships to arm pirates and privateers. Last month they attacked Cebu, and the Spaniards needed cruise ships and chased them, so there are only schooners on the sea surface of Guangdong now."

"What a smart man, he grabbed the key points with one move!" Cologne said gritting his teeth. After the Sanbaoyan naval battle against the East India Company failed, he and Vandimen believed that the Spaniards would go north to engage in a break-and-trade battle. In their original estimate, this would have to be properly resolved after the naval expansion of the club, at least until the second half of next year, but unexpectedly, the club would be resolved after half a year.

Da Yang smiled and said, "But this smart man has something to do with you. During the five months you left, Li Mingxun came to the store three times, hoping to meet you. The news I got was that their partners in Jiangnan seemed to have great demands for Li Mingxun, hoping that he could go to Jiangnan, and Li Mingxun wanted to meet you before leaving, or to reach deeper cooperation with our company. I think, it may be that the situation in Ming Dynasty is changing, and Li Mingxun needs to come forward in person."

Cologne nodded slightly and praised: "Your guess is good, and the latest news is that the Tatar emperor died in Ningguta. This matter is very important. You should immediately find a few people who know the war in the northern Ming Dynasty. If you can't find it, go directly to Fujian to find Zheng Zhilong. This matter is very important to us!"

"Tartars, what does this have to do with us!" Da Yang asked in surprise.

Cologne said coldly: "The Tatars have nothing to do with us, but they have something to do with Tamron Trading Company. Do you understand?"

"Add to make a reservation, well... in five days, I want to meet with the consul of the club." Cologne said with a smile.

Da Yang said in embarrassment: "Your Excellency, I must remind you that Li Mingxun has left Hong Kong and went to Budai Port ten days ago. Now he may go to Jiangnan."

Cologne shook his head slightly and said confidently: "Don't worry, he will definitely meet me, and he will take the initiative to come to Hong Kong to see me. In addition, keep the Golden Deer and arrange the cargo onto other ships as a notification ship between Hong Kong and Batavia. This winter, I have a lot to discuss with the Governor."
Chapter completed!