"Let me tell you, in fact, the geographical location of your island is quite good."
"You see, we are in the Gulf of Guinea, not far from the African continent."
"As long as you make full use of it, it's not difficult to develop."
"To be honest, although there are gold mines on this island, if you keep mining gold mines, you won't be able to mine much gold in a year. With just your manpower, when will you be able to build this island?"
The next day, after the feast of eating and drinking last night, Sterling and Huang Chong decisively became good friends, and now they are called brothers.
Sterling and Huang Chong even walked arm-in-arm on the soft beach. Sterling also gave Huang Chong, Li Meng and others some suggestions for the development of Jindao based on his own experience of traveling all over the country.
"Brother, you are right."
"Although there are gold mines on this island, mining is difficult. The gold we mined in a year can only barely cover the island's expenses. We still don't have extra funds to repair houses and ports."
"But some people just don't believe it. There are people from several trading houses who openly or covertly want to take away our golden island."
Huang Chong seemed to have met a close friend and started to complain.
Everyone thought that the Saber Colonial Company must be extremely rich and live a comfortable life by occupying the gold island.
But in fact, on the contrary, although there are gold mines, Huang Chong and others who do not have enough funds can only mine the gold mines by themselves. Not to mention it is very tiring. The gold mined is actually not much, and life is tight.
, there is no extra funds for construction.
"I have traveled a lot across the country, and I once went to West Africa to get gold mines. I know that gold mines are not as lucrative as I imagined."
"The real way to make a fortune, hey, is to do business."
"It's like silk from your Ming Dynasty. It is said that here in your Ming Dynasty, it is only more than ten taels of silver per piece, but in Europe, it is only more than ten taels of gold per piece. The profit from this is very huge."
"Your golden island has a very good geographical location. It is in the middle of West Africa and on an important route. In fact, the golden island is insignificant compared to its geographical location."
"You can definitely repair the port, build more beautiful houses, and slowly turn it into a free port. Then you can also buy some female slaves to develop the entertainment and leisure industry."
"With the beautiful scenery here, many wealthy people will be willing to come here for vacation and leisure. It will definitely make money faster than digging for gold."
"If you casually transfer your goods, provide some entertainment and leisure projects, open a tavern, a brothel, and so on, it will definitely develop rapidly."
Sterling smiled and said.
As an Englishman and a part-time maritime merchant and pirate, he has traveled a lot and is well-informed. He has also seen the rise and development of Hong Kong. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly felt that Golden Island could actually be a reference to Hong Kong.
The edge model developed.
Of course, the West African coast radiated from Jindao cannot be compared with Europe, but it does not necessarily mean that it cannot rely on its own geographical location to develop.
Mainly, Sterling is still thinking about his future.
These pirates under their command are working hard at sea with their heads high. Usually when they go to a place to rest, they will definitely have three things: alcohol, women and gambling.
If Jindao can also provide these things, plus help sell stolen goods, that would be great for me.
In the future, goods, slaves, etc. plundered on the golden coastline of West Africa can be disposed of directly here, and you can also come here to rest.
For a short period of time, this place will be safe and secretive. As for the future, no matter how hard it is, the fact that several countries have joined forces to create the Pirate Alliance will be known to everyone sooner or later.
By that time, Sterling was no longer worried about the matter.
"Listening to what you have to say is better than ten years of reading!"
"Why didn't we think of this~"
When Huang Chong heard this, he couldn't help but slap himself on the head.
Suddenly it seemed like I could see the future of Jindao.
The busy port welcomes merchants and cargo ships from all directions. They trade freely here. It is enough for Jindao to just collect the berthing fee.
A large number of shops, taverns, brothels, etc. were opened, and the beautiful scenery attracted a large number of wealthy people to come here to spend money. The Saber Colonial Trading Company only had to sit back and collect money.
"Haha, this is just my personal suggestion."
Sterling immediately laughed happily.
I feel that my deception is still very successful. After I go back, I must study more, learn the language and characters of the Ming Dynasty, and have a deeper understanding of the culture of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, the Ming Empire has the final say in this world.
The Ming Empire was too big and too powerful.
How can you walk in the world if you don't learn to deal with people from the Ming Dynasty?
For example, if I hadn't learned the language and culture of the Ming Dynasty and knew some of the customs and hobbies of the Ming Dynasty people, how could I be brothers with Huang Chong and others in front of me?
"Well, maybe I should consider getting an identity of the Ming Empire, preferably a Ming name~"
"It's just that the Ming Dynasty and us Europeans can see at a glance that it is not easy to obtain the identity of a citizen of the Ming Empire."
Thinking of this, Sterling couldn't help but frowned.
The identity of a citizen of the Ming Empire is very easy to use. Not only can you travel freely in European countries, no one dares to make things difficult for you. Even if you go to the Middle East, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire, the identity of a citizen of the Ming Empire is still easy to use.
What's more important is that most of the world belongs to the territory of the Ming Empire and its vassal states, colonies, vassal states, etc. As long as they are citizens of the Ming Empire, they can freely walk, do business, settle, etc. in these places.
There are so many benefits to this. He has wanted to become a citizen of the Ming Empire for a long time, but it is difficult.
“Maybe we can try it here in Hong Kong~”
Soon, Sterling thought of Hong Kong and immediately thought about going to Hong Kong after returning to England.
The pirate group led by Sterling rested on the Golden Island for three days, replenished fresh water and food, and left with satisfaction. As for where they went, no one knows.
…
In the main palace of Sunset City, Dongfang Yue is receiving the Spanish envoy Duke Corste from Fernando Island (Saint Tome Island). He came to Sunset City this time mainly to find cooperation with the Japanese people and see if he can
Join forces to deal with the increasingly rampant pirates.
"Mr. Dongfang, the threat of rampant pirates to the Gold Coast is obvious to all. They not only seriously destroyed the existing colonial order, but also wantonly killed people in the civilized world like us. This is absolutely unforgivable."
Duke Colste looked at the eastern moon in front of him and said loudly, expressing the Spaniards' deep hatred of pirates.
The main reason why we looked for the Japanese people was because the Japanese people also suffered heavy losses and blows.
Sunset City was attacked and suffered heavy losses. Even now, you can see the ruins all over the ground, and the white papers hanging everywhere still describe what happened here not long ago.
"I deeply agree with His Excellency the Duke's words~"
"We, the Japanese country, have always hated pirates and must wipe out all these pirates."
Dongfang Yue nodded solemnly. She really hated this group of pirates and gritted her teeth.
The Japanese country finally managed to lay some foundations in West Africa and built a decent Sunset City, but it was completely destroyed by these pirates in one fell swoop.
"According to our inference, this group of pirates are not ordinary pirates~"
"Not long ago, our Spanish colony in North Africa, the port of Hoceima, was also attacked by a pirate group with more than 20 large ships. It was completely looted. In addition, there are a large number of pirates in West Africa."
"I seriously suspect that the English or French are behind these pirates."
When Duke Colster saw that Dongfang Yue hated pirates so much and there was a possibility of cooperation, he immediately knew that he had found the right person, and began to share some of his intelligence and inferences with Dongfang Yue.
"Is it possible that the Portuguese are also behind this?"
Dongfang Yue nodded slightly after hearing this, then thought about it and asked again.
"Portugal?"
When Duke Colster heard this, he was immediately startled. Although the Portuguese were also merchants and part-time pirates at sea, their reputation was much better than that of the famous English pirates.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out~"
"If that's the case, the situation would be even worse~"
Kolster frowned. The English and French didn't even need to think about it. These two were both gangsters. They used to specialize in robbing Spanish treasure ships and colonies. They were the first to suspect.
"Report~"
Just as the two were discussing these pirates and how to work together to prevent and destroy pirates, someone hurriedly walked in and said.
"Sir, I just received news that Yanshan City, a colony of North Korea in West Africa, was attacked by a group of powerful pirates and suffered heavy losses!"
"Yanshan City?"
When Dongfang Yue and Kolster heard this, they immediately came to the map and immediately found Yanshan City on the map. It was located in the Bay of Benin, which was not very far away from the time when the Japanese robbed Lagos from the Portuguese.
, the Spanish Accra is also very close.
They never thought that this group of pirates would be so bold and dare to attack the colonies in the Bay of Benin again under their noses. Fortunately, this time they attacked the colonies of North Korea.
