In fact, Wu Feng has been thinking about overseas expansion and exploration for a long time. The New World was first discovered by the powerful countries in the Central and Western Continents and began to set foot in it. This has made Wu Feng, who has not yet obtained the throne, feel a little pressure. It can be said that the Laya Continent has been occupied by powerful forces from all sides. The carvings are almost done. If you want to reshuffle the current situation, you must not only have strong strength, but also pay a considerable price. The situation in the New World is completely different. At least for now, all parties have not been able to Before understanding the true situation of the New World, all parties will not go to war directly because of this seemingly illusory thing. Even if there is competition, it will mostly be reflected in non-armed conflicts. Once the New World contains After the real interests gradually emerge, countries will inevitably increase their efforts to enter the undeveloped continent, and the competition for the land and rights in the new continent will be inevitable. However, latecomers have lost their advantages both morally and in terms of opportunities. Among them are Geographically, the empire even occupies a disadvantage, which Wu Feng never wants to see.
And now they are pouring a lot of effort into the yet-to-be-established empire to plan this new continent that is still a little far away. Not to mention the difficulty in getting the support of their own people, even Wufeng himself feels that it is a bit unrealistic. Many matters before Xi One thing after another, there are many places that need to be spent. In addition to encouraging the navy that is training hard on the coast of Nanyang to explore westward to prepare for the later entry, Wu Feng could not think of a better way for a while. To advance this work process that does not seem urgent but is really lagging behind and difficult to catch up with.
Utilizing private power seems to be a good way, but the Tang people's idea of not paying attention to maritime rights and interests has been deeply ingrained. If they want to reverse it, they can only lure them with benefits and let them see returns. But it is quite difficult to get started. After all, this is There has never been any precedent before, but this head finally took the first step with the full push of Wu Feng himself. As the first part got its name, the wheel seemed to be slowly spinning, and faster and faster.
Long before the three sisters of the Shi family jointly invested in the establishment of the expedition company, Wu Feng had already tried several launches. The first one Wu Feng found was the Jiangnan family. The Wen family had the advantages of Jiangnan Shipyard and the Wen family. The broad vision of the Cultural Revolution made Wu Feng first think of the Wen family, and the Wen family's strong financial foundation and strong business awareness were also the main reasons why Wu Feng chose them.
Wu Feng's actions did not disappoint him. After presenting a series of intelligence information obtained from the Western Continent, and after a long conversation, the Cultural Revolution and Wu Feng almost hit it off, and Wu Feng also symbolically contributed 500,000 yuan. Gold coins were used as shares, and the Wen family invested 9.5 million imperial gold coins as shares to establish the so-called Far East Shipping Trade Development Company. The Wen family also promised to invest another five million imperial gold coins in the two years from today to build ships and develop expeditions, which also achieved Wu Feng's height. The Far East Shipping and Trading Company was the prototype of the Far East Company, one of the most famous colonial companies in the empire in the future.
According to the ideas of Wu Feng and Wen Ge, the Far East Shipping and Trading Development Company was established almost overnight, and ordered eleven ocean-going expedition ships from Jiangnan Shipyard. As special ships for commercial expeditions, these ships were not very large. , but it has good wind resistance, and the hull has been specially designed and processed to be particularly strong. The design of the sail also draws on some technologies obtained by the intelligence department from the Western Continent. Wufeng even specifically asked the Military Affairs Administration to agree that these ocean-going expedition ships can be used The technology that originally could only be used for the multi-angle sails of golden masts on military ships was used to enhance the adaptability of these ocean-going expedition ships on sea routes. According to the plan agreed upon by both parties, the expedition ship should complete its trial voyage by February 700 at the latest, and start sailing to fulfill its true mission two months later. Among the eleven ships, five are used to open up routes to the new continent to the west, and the remaining six are used to go east and south respectively, looking for undiscovered land and islands. Each ship will be equipped with two military officers according to Wu Feng. The Department's surveying and mapping staff surveyed and produced nautical charts.
After promoting the establishment of the joint-stock company with Wen Chou, Wu Feng was not satisfied. More than ten exploration ships were too insignificant for a huge empire, and if he wanted to find new land and wealth, this was The dedication and dedication simply won’t do it. The exploration groups and trading companies in the Western Continent paid an unknown price in search of the New World before they discovered the New World south of the Latin Ocean. And if the New Empire wanted to open up another world, it would also have to pay a lot.
In the days that followed, Wu Feng summoned the Zhan and Wei families, who had firmly established themselves as leaders in the northwest county's industrial and commercial circles, and facilitated the Zhan and Wei families and the three imperial Gu families to jointly invest 10 million imperial gold coins, plus his own private investment of 50 Wan Empire Gold Coin established the Great Nanyang Development Company with Sanbao Port in the South China Sea Autonomous Territory as its registered place. In this way, the company later became a quite famous reclamation company that could stand on a par with the Far East Company. Immediately afterwards, Wu Feng mobilized the elders of the Gaoyue tribes, some nobles of Mote, the chief of Sykes, Takla, the Duke of Maliyamutu, plus his own five parties to contribute 500,000 imperial gold coins each, for a total of 2.5 million. Imperial Gold Coin, and the Giggs family of the city-state of Eastern Samoa invested 2.5 million Imperial Gold Coins to form the Eastern Samoa Tongliu Development Company to develop routes from the South China Sea Dominion to the New World and participate in the development of the New World. This company later became The empire's well-known development company not only achieved great success in its operations in the New World, but also almost took over the business of exporting Japanese prisoners of war to the New World as slaves for plantations.
Even so, Wu Feng still didn't give up. After discussing with a few of his confidantes, he quickly convinced a group of women with his unique vision and ability to talk like a lotus. He and An Qier each contributed 200,000 yuan to let them. The three Li sisters each contributed 100,000, Hua Yumei contributed 200,000, Guan Yingying and Lu Xianxian contributed 50,000, making up one million gold coins. Together with the Gray family of Eastern Samoa, they contributed four million imperial gold coins to form the famous empire again. The Southern Shipping Company developed routes to the New World, specializing in routes from the New World to Eastern Samoa, Moro, Sambo and Princesa Island. This was also the reason why the new empire could
Said to be an unprecedented pioneering work, the Emperor of the Empire, his concubines and others jointly funded and formed a profitable company with businessmen to make money. This has also been permanently recorded in history as a tidbit of the Emperor of the Empire. Stimulated by Wu Feng's move, Princess Anne even took the initiative to invite the two daughters Ha Liqina and Tuo Ji. Princess Anne raised 800,000 yuan herself, Ha Yuqina raised 150,000 yuan, and Tuo Ji contributed 50,000 yuan, for a total of One million, forcibly buying a stake in the Southern Shipping Company, forcing the Gray family to reduce their own family shares, which made Wu Feng laugh and cry.
All these overseas expansion companies, without exception, have to undertake an important task, that is, they must record and map out the information learned about exploration and development, shipping routes and exploration routes in detail, and submit them to the Military Affairs Administration and Intelligence. The Ministry, the Military Administration and the Intelligence Department will give certain rewards, and if this principle is violated, the company will be severely punished by the empire or even shut down.
As for the Shi family's investment, it was just a small investment made by Wu Feng. Even if the Shi family contributed as promised, it could only raise one million imperial gold coins. Compared with Wu Feng's previous large investments, Investment can be described as drizzle, but it is a great shock to the entire Wulin Jianghu, enough to attract these people to focus their attention here. Wu Feng is interested in the fact that people in the martial arts have different abilities from ordinary people. If these people can find in the New World Once the new colors take root at a suitable foothold, no matter which country or force wants to surrender or conquer them, they will face fierce counterattacks. With the exception of the empire, from the private sector to the officialdom, they are on the right track step by step. This This is what Wu Feng hopes to achieve. And this is just a small example of Wufeng's deliberate move into overseas exploration and development.
Although the fact that Wu Feng and many industrial and commercial families and martial arts families jointly invested in opening up overseas trade routes was not announced to the public, Wu Feng did not deliberately conceal it. He originally intended to use this opportunity to set off a wave of change in the empire based on the New World. The key craze for overseas expansion of industry and commerce. Under the propaganda of thoughtful people, His Highness the King of Qin believed that huge profits could be obtained by expanding industry and commerce overseas. It spread like wildfire and immediately spread throughout the entire empire, from the Luobei nobles to the Kansai gentry. From then on, From the former landowners and the Heshuo martial arts family to the wealthy industrial and commercial tycoons of the East China Sea, almost everyone has learned that it is almost no secret and secret, that is, since His Highness the King of Qin is so interested in this investment, he would rather spend huge sums of money privately. What does that mean? It will definitely be an extremely generous reward!
This domino effect soon exerted great power. It is a habit of Tang people to follow the trend, especially authoritative statements are often more attractive to many people. Although Wu Feng has been asked this question many times by the media, he has avoided answering. Or he may be vague, but he has never denied whether he has participated in investments in these areas. There is no doubt that this fact has increased everyone's interest. The more so, the more profitable it is.
From the Atlantic Ocean to the Southern Ocean, from Dengzhou to Quanzhou, from Princesa Island to Eastern Samoa, several development companies were followed by a series of upsurges in outward colonization, exploration and development. This upsurge It even lasted until the second half of 700 before it slowly calmed down, but soon the good news brought back from the New World set off an even greater craze.