For the immigrants of the empire, even if they do not go overseas, they still have many choices in their homeland. They do not need to risk their lives in Southeast Asia.
Even if they want to go overseas, people usually give priority to North America or other places with better conditions.
This Nanyang is really not a good choice.
But even if it is difficult, it cannot be troubled by the Immigration and Reclamation Division!
As a professional immigration agency that sends millions of immigrants overseas every year, as well as millions of local immigrants, they are all professionals.
It was difficult to find immigrants from other places, so they focused on provinces such as Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangzhou. People in these provinces had little fear of the Nanyang region, especially Guangxi, which was close to Jiaozhou, which was close to their hometown.
In fact, the difference is not big.
Land was provided here, and there were various subsidies and preferential policies. As soon as the preferential policies came out, many people signed up to go.
The Immigration and Reclamation Division has helped Jiaozhou get enough immigrants, but the subsequent organization of resettlement and settlement of immigrants still requires Jiaozhou Yamen.
However, these newly appointed Jiaozhou officials also know that although the work may seem busy and hard now, it is actually a good time to make political achievements. If they do well, their subsequent promotion and fortune are certain.
Just when Jiaozhou was in full swing, the fleet carrying the last batch of immigrants from the Kingdom of South Vietnam also left the port of Malacca. After replenishing coal and various daily necessities, this huge fleet will cross the Strait of Malacca and go straight to Tin
Orchid Island.
After the second resupply at Ceylon, they will continue across the Indian Ocean and then head straight to Africa to reach their destination.
In order to transport the last nearly 100,000 immigrants to Africa in one go so as to build their new kingdom in the new African territories as soon as possible, the people of the South Vietnamese Kingdom did not hesitate to pay part of the extra freight. Only then did they hire enough ships.
This time, the fleet included more than a dozen ships from the Tang Empire Shipping Company, most of which were cheap passenger ships newly ordered by these shipping companies.
Its tonnage is generally between 1,500 tons and 2,000 tons, but the tonnage is not large, but the passenger capacity is quite large.
There are also some ships that are traditional mixed passenger and cargo ships.
Such a large fleet can only be seen in large-scale military exercises except for large-scale immigration operations.
However, although the fleet is large, its performance is not very good, and in order to save navigation costs, other shipping companies use the most economical cruising speed, which is naturally relatively slow.
When the fleet was about to arrive at the African coastline, many people in the fleet saw a huge ship coming quickly from behind the fleet.
"What kind of ship is so big?"
Many people on the ship had questions, but someone quickly answered them: "I can tell it's the New Pacific Ferry just by looking at it, but I don't know which one!"
"With a displacement of tens of thousands of tons and a cruising speed of fourteen knots, there are not many ships like this. And if you look at the flag on the bow, it is the flag of the Pacific Ocean Shipping Company!"
Even many sailors in the fleet couldn't help but sigh when they saw this huge passenger ship passing quickly by.
"It would be great if I could serve on such a giant ship of 10,000 tons. I don't have to worry about encountering any storms. It's also very fast. I don't need to stay at sea for long before I can dock!"
"Okay, it's very tiring to serve on this kind of passenger ship. Many of them are sailing around the world. Even if they dock on weekdays, they won't stay for a long time. This trip is a complete circle around the earth. I can't stand it.
No!"
All the Tang sailors in the fleet were like this, not to mention the South Vietnamese.
They were already surprised enough by the ships they were riding on. They had also seen large ships of several thousand tons in Malacca, but these were nothing compared to the 10,000-ton ship in front of them.
The 10,000-ton passenger ship "New Atlantic" of the New Pacific series quickly surpassed the immigration fleet, and then headed straight to the South African port with passengers fully loaded.
Relying on its high speed, this luxury liner can arrive at the port of South Africa in just a few days.
According to the scheduled plan, after the passengers disembarked, the passenger ship entered the Atlantic Ocean and headed for Ceuta in Europe after replenishment.
Relying on the endurance and self-sustainability brought by its high speed and huge tonnage, the New Atlantic, with more than 3,000 people on board, only needed to resupply once on the way to reach Ceuta.
From this we can see how much advantage the Atlantic's huge tonnage brought.
Because the New Pacific series of luxury liners are currently the most luxurious ocean liners among the liners currently used by the Tang Empire to carry out global routes around the world, they are very popular among many passengers, especially the rich and powerful.
In recent years, high-end passengers traveling around the world like to take the New Pacific series of global liners. However, there are not many New Pacific series luxury liners, and it is not easy to buy tickets, especially if you want to buy first-class tickets.
That is even more difficult.
However, several wealthy businessmen who stayed in Ceuta and wanted to return to their homeland discovered that tickets for the new Atlantic were no longer available, not just for first class, but for all tickets.
However, after this investigation, they were even more surprised to find that the New Atlantic was still chartered.
More importantly, it was not a certain person or company that booked all the first-class tickets on the New Atlantic, but the Palace Affairs Office.
This has made many people wonder, why is the Palace Administration chartering the New Atlantic when it has nothing to do?
And I haven’t heard of any members of the royal family running to Europe because of their free time.
However, there were many people who were well-informed, and they soon found out that there was no need to count on the tickets for the New Atlantic, as they were all covered by the Palace Affairs Department and were used to welcome Elizabeth Zhaoyi.
As soon as they heard this name, everyone felt relieved!
There are countless Elizabeths in Europe, but the one that is well-known to some people of the Tang Dynasty is the third daughter of the King of Spain, Elizabeth. This daughter has long been determined to be married to the Tang Dynasty. According to the scheduled plan, she will go to Jinling to enter the palace this year.
The first-class cabin of the new Atlantic is naturally used for the new Zhaoyi.
Although this girl was only Zhaoyi and the daughter of the King of Spain, her status was nothing in the Tang Dynasty's court. It was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to send a huge fleet to welcome her.
But even if Spain is not considered, Datang itself must maintain the dignity of the royal family.
Moreover, the Kingdom of Spain has long announced that Elizabeth’s bride-to-be team will be relatively large, with a total number of more than a thousand people.