Chapter 1593 Honolulu Island without exotic customs
Unlike many aristocratic children who enthusiastically join the army or join politics even if they don't join the army, Xinbei Hou Wang Lulin has no interest in joining the army or politics. Instead, he is interested in business affairs.
If it were other noble children, there would probably be elders suppressing him, but he himself was the head of the Wang family, and no one could control him.
In recent years, he has also opened a lot of industries, but how can I put it?
It’s not that you can do well whatever you like or want to do.
Wang Lulin is such a person. He has invested in the textile industry over the years, has also invested in overseas trading companies, and has also been involved in the machinery and steel industry. If you are losing money, it is not a problem. After all, the current environment of the empire is positive.
As long as you have the capital and don't act foolishly, it's not easy to lose money when investing in industry.
But there’s no talking about how much money you make!
However, although he was not very successful, he was not reconciled.
This time, taking advantage of the transfer of his fiefdom to North America, he was preparing to shift the focus of his career to fiefdom development.
This is also the common choice of many nobles. When Li Xuan conferred nobles, he usually granted them semi-real titles. Most of his fiefs were nominal fiefs. He could only receive fief salaries, but at the same time, he would also give part of the fiefs to them.
Land was given directly to the nobility as private property.
These private lands are the real fiefdoms of the nobles.
In Xinbei Houwang Lulin's fiefdom in North America, there is also a large area of land that is private property.
Now that the empire's development of North America is in full swing, he does not dare to lag behind and is preparing to personally lead his people to North America to develop his own fiefdom.
There are two other nobles like Wang Lulin on the Pacific, but those two are both viscounts, which is a step behind Wang Lulin in terms of title. Last year, the Holy Emperor conferred thirty titles in North America in one go.
Many nobles are now sending people one after another, or going to their fiefdoms in person like Wang Lulin.
As time passed, the Pacific also sailed away from the dock, then exited the Huangpu River, entered the Yangtze River estuary, and then headed east.
Along the way, the Pacific will pass through Ryukyu Prefecture and Beihai Province, and then enter the depths of the Pacific from Beihai Province. After passing several supply islands along the way, it will arrive at Tanxiang Prefecture and then head to Xinjinshan.
This route is already a very mature route. Every year, a large number of ships pass through this route between North America and the mainland of the empire.
After the Pacific left Shanghai, Wang Lulin walked out of his first-class guest room and looked at the sea from the upper deck, which was reserved for first-class passengers.
At this time, the wind and waves were calm, there were only gentle microwaves on the sea, and the dark blue sea extended all the way to the horizon.
The vastness of the sea makes people feel involuntarily small.
In the sea at this time, only a behemoth like the Pacific Ocean could make people feel safe.
"This Pacific is really stable. A big ship is built to be stable. I remember when I took the boat to Xinjinshan a few years ago, it was shaky all the way. It's not as stable as it is now!" Wang Lulin was surrounded by people who didn't know.
When did a middle-aged man in business attire come?
Wang Lulin looked back slightly and said immediately: "Manager Lin, it seems that you travel to and from North America frequently!"
The middle-aged man surnamed Lin said: "No, there is no way. Most of our American mining business is in North America, so we have to run away!"
Wang Lulin knew that this person was a senior manager of the American Mining Company, and the American Mining Company was the empire's largest mining company in North America. It owned multiple gold and silver mines in North America. The company was able to
Transporting shiploads of gold and silver back to the empire.
Therefore, the performance is quite good, and the stock price has been rising all the way. Most of the funds Wang Lulin invested in have also purchased the company's shares. Therefore, Wang Lulin is actually one of the shareholders of the company.
Of course, he was only an indirect shareholder at most. After all, it was the fund that held the company's shares, and Wang Lulin only invested in the fund.
As a senior manager of the American Mining Company, he is naturally qualified to fly first class.
After the two started chatting, they naturally talked about the situation in North America. During this period, Manager Lin also revealed his motivation for taking the initiative to talk.
American Mining Company wants to cooperate with Wang Lulin. What should we cooperate with?
Naturally, they should cooperate to develop the mineral resources in the land under Wang Lulin's name, especially gold and silver mines.
Wang Lulin also welcomed this, and his fiefdom was quite large.
His fiefdom is New Taipei State, which is a newly established state last year. It is located in the north of New Taipei State. Although the population is less than 100,000, the administrative area is quite large, covering more than 200,000 square kilometers.
Woolen cloth.
And his private territory is almost 20,000 square kilometers!
Such a large area belongs to Wang Lulin's private property, including minerals, cultivated land, forest land, even lakes and rivers, etc.
It is normal for someone to come to you and want to survey and see if there is any mineral development.
As for Wang Lulin, although he likes to do business, it won't work if you ask him to set up a mining company. His business behavior is more focused on investment, and he is not good at doing this kind of thing himself.
The American Mining Company came to the door, so naturally he would not refuse.
Of course, it is impossible to finalize the specific cooperation now. I just said that we would cooperate together if we have the opportunity, and invited them to conduct on-site inspections and surveys in their fiefdoms.
Do you want to cooperate? You have to have minerals first!
Manager Lin was just one of the many people he met on his journey.
Because of his special aristocratic status, when the Pacific arrived in Beihai Province, several local nobles heard the news and came to greet him, and there was inevitably another round of socializing.
It was not until we left Beihai Province that we regained peace.
But if this kind of calmness lasts for a long time, it will turn into boredom.
Although the Pacific was a large ship and sailed smoothly, the journey was too far. The voyage often took ten and a half days without seeing any land.
And looking at the empty sea every day, Wang Lulin gradually became bored.
Later, I simply participated in various gatherings organized by the dignitaries on the ship, and my life passed quickly.
After arriving at Honolulu Island after a smooth journey, the Pacific is expected to stay here for three days. In addition to replenishing coal, fresh water, affairs and other supplies, it will also perform simple maintenance.
After all, it spans more than half of the Pacific Ocean. The various systems on the Pacific, especially the continuous operation of the power system, are also relatively large and require timely maintenance.
Taking advantage of this time, Wang Lulin went to Tanxiang Island to browse around.
At this time, there were about 10,000 residents of the Sandalwood Islands, most of whom lived on the main island, Sandalwood Island. Forestry, sugar cane planting, and port services were the main industries. In addition, food cultivation was also an important industry.
However, overall, Honolulu Island's main strategic role and even its economic model are to provide services for ships passing by.
Wang Lulin originally wanted to experience the exotic customs after arriving on the island, but after walking around, he found that Tanxiang Island was no different from other small towns in China.
People are all subjects of the empire, and the buildings are all in the empire's native style.
After walking around for three days, he didn't even see a single native...
However, he was not disappointed by this. On the contrary, he felt relieved.
For this reason, when he had dinner with the prefect of Tanxiang Prefecture, he even complimented him a few words, saying that his localization policy was implemented flawlessly, which made people feel relaxed and happy.
This compliment was very helpful to the local officials!
In terms of the empire's policies in overseas territories, there are many criteria for evaluating the performance of local officials, but the most important one is localization!
Policies related to localization are the most core policies in the empire’s overseas territories in the past ten years.
The purpose is to turn those overseas territories into imperial territories and support the people of the empire.
How should I put it? The military seized territories through a series of wars, and then internal affairs officials turned these territories into lands that supported the empire.
The two are indispensable.
The Sandalwood Islands have already become the territory of the empire, and they are also the most important strategic transit point for the empire to develop North America. The empire has already completely localized this archipelago.
All the people living here are subjects of the empire.
In addition to ordinary citizens, there are thousands of military personnel stationed here, including naval and army garrison troops, and it has complete coastal defense facilities.
To put it bluntly, the Tang Empire had already built Sandalwood Island into the empire’s unsinkable warship in the Pacific.
After staying at Honolulu Island for three days, the fully replenished Pacific Ocean once again found that it was impossible to obtain supplies along the way. It needed to directly cross the last several thousand kilometers of the voyage and then reach Xinjinshan.
During the last part of the voyage, the Pacific, which had been going smoothly, was hit by a storm.
The storm that could make the Pacific, which was loaded with more than 5,000 tons, sway and turbulent, was naturally not a small storm. Wang Lulin could not stand steadily in the cabin, and he was worried that he would die unluckily for the first time he went to sea on a ship.
On the sea.
But in the end it turned out that his worries were unnecessary!
As a steam steel passenger ship, the Pacific's hull structure uses a large amount of steel, and the hull is far stronger than traditional wooden ships.
In addition, after the storm, the Pacific had lowered its sails to avoid the impact of strong winds, and at the same time increased the output power of the steam engine. The huge steam unit drove the Pacific to continuously adjust its course, keeping the ship stable.
So it seems to be shaking and bumping, but a storm of this magnitude is not a big threat to the Pacific.
Of course, if it were a ship with hundreds of tons or even a thousand tons, it would have been capsized by the storm.
The storm lasted for several hours, and finally the Pacific successfully broke out of the storm area. When they saw the sun again, Wang Lulin couldn't help but cheer.
He even ran to the cockpit in person to express his gratitude to the crew who had been fighting the storm at work!
After experiencing the storm, the Pacific sailed for a few more days before arriving at Xinjinshan.
When Wang Lulin saw Xinjin Mountain, he couldn't help but feel a sense of security in his heart.
After drifting on the sea for so long and encountering a big storm, Wang Lulin became a little afraid of the sea. Now that he saw land, he couldn't wait to get ashore.