After capturing Lu Song, Xinghai Kingdom did not manage Lu Song as laissez-faire as the Franji people did. They gradually began to immigrate to the vast land here, building large farms one after another, planting rubber trees, grain, flax, and rapeseed.
And so on, they also excavated gold mines and other mineral deposits in various places.
Of course, building such a vast land cannot be completed in a few years. Xinghai Kingdom just needs to sow some seeds first and slowly wait for them to sprout.
After all, the key destinations for immigrants now are the mainland and the southward strategic destination.
After that, the Tu'ao fleet returned to Sanya Base to perform maintenance on all warships and prepare for the next target.
A month later, the Tu'ao fleet, which had recovered well, set sail again. They set off from the Sanya base. After arriving at Mani La, they only repaired for two days, and then headed south, passing between Tianzhu Nixiya Islands and heading straight to
Ben Tuao.
Although Tianzhu Nixiya Archipelago is also a target of Xinghai Kingdom's expansion, Tu'ao is undoubtedly more important at this time.
As mentioned before, Tu'ao at this time was still a vast and uninhabited land.
Except for a few red natives, there are no permanent colonists here.
Although some colonists discovered this big island, they did not want to stay in this place where poisonous insects were everywhere and birds did not poop.
They also hope to obtain oriental spices, silks, and porcelain.
In the library materials, the distribution of mineral deposits in Tuao is clearly recorded.
Tu'ao has the largest amount of bauxite in this plane, with reserves accounting for 35% of the entire plane.
This is also the largest producer of diamonds, lead, and tantalum in the world in later generations.
I won’t say much about diamonds. They are quite useful in the industrial system. Besides, the demand for diamonds by those female elders is also quite large.
Lead is also a widely used metal, especially the compulsory education system that Xinghai Kingdom is vigorously promoting, which requires lead to expand the printing industry.
As for tantalum, a metal with strong corrosion resistance, it can replace the widely used metal platinum in chemical systems, reduce chemical costs, and can be used to make electronic tubes, capacitors, and even has some uses in medicine.
In addition, it also has a variety of rich resources such as gold, iron ore, coal, lithium, manganese ore, nickel, silver, uranium, etc., and its output ranks among the top.
There are two most important goals for the Tu'ao fleet to go south this time. One is to establish the main base of the Tu'ao fleet in Tu'ao, so as to bring the entire Tu'ao into the jurisdiction of the Xinghai Kingdom.
The second is to mine bauxite located at Joko Kok in the north of Tu'ao.
Well, Tu'ao's mineral resources can be said to be unique.
Its iron ore is mainly concentrated in the western coastal areas, with huge reserves and high purity.
Bauxite is even more abnormal. It is mainly concentrated in the Cape Cape Peninsula in the north. The veins are very concentrated and the mining difficulty is extremely low.
In later generations, he would be a typical example of reaching out and bending down to pick up money from the ground.
However, the elders of Xinghai Kingdom were not prepared to leave these benefits to the colonists.
Besides, due to the rapid expansion of its land area, Xinghai Kingdom is in urgent need of a means of transportation that can quickly travel across the country.
That’s right, it’s a plane!
Compared with ships, aircraft undoubtedly have advantages such as faster speed and ignoring terrain obstacles.
But the only troublesome thing is that there is not much bauxite within the current control area of Xinghai Kingdom. Even if there is a little bit, it is troublesome to mine and the quality is not high.
Guizhou and Guangxi under Nanming do have relatively rich bauxite reserves, but the problem is that in this era, the transportation between the two places is really poor, and the bauxite is basically in the mountains.
It is too difficult for Xinghai Kingdom to mine it.
On the contrary, it is better to go to Tu'ao for mining. Anyway, I will keep the ones close to me first and mine the ones far away first. If something unexpected happens and the land no longer belongs to me in a few hundred years, I won't regret it.
Of course, as far as the preliminary work that Fang Xiaoyue is currently doing is concerned with the temporary use of wood to make propeller aircraft.
However, in the opinion of the veterans, propeller aircraft are just technical reserves, and what really needs to be studied is jet aircraft with metal bodies!
No way, the difference between the two types of aircraft is too big. The elders don't want to go to the sun and beach for vacation in a propeller plane that leaks air everywhere. In that case, it would be too low, and the elders' face will fall to the ground and become scattered.
For Fang Xiaoyue, with some information in the library, the difficulty difference between studying propeller aircraft and jet aircraft is not too big.
Because whether it is a propeller aircraft or a jet, its engine is essentially a fuel engine, not a steam engine.
As for propellers and jets, they are just two different power conversion methods.
In fact, from the perspective of power conversion, jets are simpler than propeller aircraft.
Early propeller aircraft relied on a piston engine to drive the propeller through a belt to achieve the purpose of flight.
Jet aircraft rely on the high-temperature and high-pressure gas produced by fuel combustion to be injected backward, thereby driving the aircraft to achieve its flight purpose.
From this point of view, are jets simpler?
Of course, if you want jets to reach the heights of later generations, the difficulty is not as simple as propeller aircraft.
However, what Xinghai Kingdom needs now is to solve some problems first. As for the upgrading of aircraft, it can be left to the apprentices to study and solve them.
Fang Xiaoyue now has hundreds of apprentices in the Industrial Affairs Department. Many times, he is so busy that he often forgets how many apprentices he has.
No way, when there are too many things to do and too many apprentices, who will spend their energy on remembering the appearance and name of the apprentices?
At the junction of Xinghai City and Lingao, outside an airport covered by cement, hundreds of sentries watched the surroundings vigilantly.
Dozens of steam cars were parked on the lawn outside the airport.
Today is the day for the test flight of the Propeller 1 aircraft. After hearing the news, the chief executive, deputy chief executive, chief elders and some ministers all rushed over.
They feel like they are witnessing history.
In order to obtain first-hand data, Fang Xiaoyue did not let the carefully selected test pilot test Propeller 1, but sat on the simple aircraft by herself.
Although the skinny little test pilot looked a little depressed, Fang Xiaoyue wanted to say to him, I am doing this for your own good. How many ignorant teenagers have died in the process of humans conquering the sky in future generations?
The prototype was not much different from the first aircraft of later generations.
It flew more than 100 meters at a height of more than ten meters above the ground and then hit the concrete floor.
No way, it's a prototype, it's normal to have some problems.
But even so, cheers from the elders rang out around the airport.