Goa had a tropical monsoon climate. Its latitude was even lower than Hainan Island. To put it simply, it was extremely hot all year round. The temperature was only around 20 degrees Celsius in winter, which was more comfortable. When Flat Hair returned from Tianjin, it was the end of the monsoon at the end of September, and the weather was slightly cooler.
According to the agreement, the biplane landed on an uninhabited land in the south of Goa City. When Xu Bing jumped out of the cabin, she immediately covered her eyes with her hands to block the scorching sun. Flat Hair flew out of the cockpit and shouted joyfully, "Missy, the most loyal Flat Hair is back."
Zhou Qingfeng walked forward with a huge parasol and said with a smile, "Beautiful lady, welcome to Goa, India. This barren land is waiting for us to develop. It's just like how humans landed on the moon. Although it's just a small step for you, it's a big step for the Chinese nation. "
Xu Bing was so amused that he couldn't stop laughing. He reached out and punched Zhou Qingfeng a few times. Zhou Qingfeng kept the biplane and introduced Marcelo and Santos to her. He then led her to a horse carriage. The two foreign servants were extremely shocked by the plane that descended from the sky. Only then did they know that their master had such great power.
Xu Bing was wearing a thin and cool gauze dress. She sighed at the humid heat in Goa and laughed at the parasol that Zhou Qingfeng had just kept. "Where did you get such a parasol?"
"I made it myself. Goa has too much light and heat. It's also rich in rainfall. It's great for farming. But I really wish I could bring the parasol with me everywhere I go. No matter how powerful I am, I can't do anything to the sun. "Zhou Qingfeng kept the parasol and threw it at the back of the horse carriage. Marcelo drove the two of them to the monastery in a trance.
"I want to visit Goa first." Xu Bing waved her hand to fan the air in the carriage, and Zhou Qingfeng immediately released his cold air to cool down the temperature in the carriage. After a long journey, she smiled and said, "You've never been so considerate in the past. Did you do something bad and are afraid that I'll blame you? I'm guessing that he bought too many female slaves and had an affair with them? "
"Aren't I just trying to show off for my mistake? Otherwise, I would have been stupid enough to leave the Temporal Island behind, and you wouldn't have had to come all the way here. " Zhou Qingfeng immediately felt wronged. "I only wanted to make good use of the Blessed Enclave's training ability, but I didn't expect that I would need its storage ability for this expedition."
Xu Bing smiled and said, "I think it's pretty good. In just ten days, we quickly trained more than a hundred junior high school students. The training efficiency of the Blessed Enclave is very high. I went there myself to study for a few days. Under the nourishment of the dense spiritual energy, his brain was very agile.
Not to mention anything else, the newly trained junior high school students' handwriting is better than that of primary school students. I put them in the administrative department for internships, and the efficiency of the entire department has increased. As long as we continue to train them, when I have a thousand high school students, the efficiency and control of the administrative department will increase several times, and we will be able to control a larger population and territory. "
Zhou Qingfeng smiled bitterly. He immediately knew that Xu Bing had used her power to change the distribution of training personnel, and she was still using the name of improving the administrative ability. But who asked the important administrative department of the Revolutionary Army to be filled with a large number of primary school students? Improving the professional quality of the cadre was a prerequisite for the future.
Zhou Qingfeng nodded, tacitly agreeing to this adjustment. Xu Bing immediately smiled charmingly, reached out and touched his face, and said, "You're good, I'll allow you to buy a few more beautiful female slaves. This trip to India can be considered a vacation for me. I'm also exhausted these past two years. "
The carriage was borrowed from an Arab merchant. Xu Bing leaned on the window and looked out, enjoying the exotic scenery along the way. Goa currently had a population of more than 300,000. The city was mainly a gathering place for European colonists, religious personnel, and merchants.
Although the city was not big, it was full of large and small churches. Zhou Qingfeng pointed to the spire of a huge hanging bell in the distance and said, "That's the golden bell of the Santa Catarina Church. It rings every day at a fixed time. It is said to be the largest Catholic cathedral in the East. "
"I feel a powerful force shrouding that place." Xu Bing watched intently from the car. "In your letter, you said that we must stop the expansion of Westerners in the East. Is it to stop this force?"
Zhou Qingfeng nodded, and he pointed in another direction. "That's the Governor's Arch of Portuguese India. It has a granite lintel and basalt pillars. All the sailors who came to Goa would pass under the arch. The arch originally belonged to a local king named Adi Saha. But he was defeated and driven away by the Portuguese. Even the palace became the Governor's Palace. "
The carriage drove slowly through the streets of the city. If she only looked at the buildings and trees on the road, Xu Bing would think that she had come to a tourist attraction with a deep history abroad. But in fact, these were the only two trading posts in the East before the Portuguese sunset.
Zhou Qingfeng continued in the carriage, "I hope to bring enough goods. One is to exchange for horses, and the other is to buy slaves. I want to build a new city in Panjim, seven kilometers to the west, and use it as a stronghold to fight with the Portuguese. I want to force them to accept our existence and become our trade agent.
As long as we have a foothold in Goa, we can sell goods such as silk and porcelain at a lower price. For example, the price of raw silk in Macau is eighty taels per load, and in Goa it is one hundred and fifty taels per load. We can sell it in Goa for one hundred and twenty or even one hundred taels per load.
In this way, both sides can increase profits, so that the European colonists can earn money, but also let them find that their purchases in the Far East have become unprofitable. After a long time, their trade network in Southeast Asia will naturally shrink. If we persist for more than ten years, the shipping route that the enemy spent more than a hundred years to build will disappear, and we can win without a fight. "
Any long-term foreign strategy needed to be driven by sufficient profits. When the European merchants found out that they could get cheaper goods in Goa, would they still travel another ten thousand kilometers by sea to Southeast Asia to purchase goods? This was Zhou Qingfeng using the logistics advantage of his isolated island of time and space to attack them.
"You have already determined the location of your base in Goa?"
"That's right. I spent three days to find a place with sufficient water, flat terrain, close to the port, and easy to defend. But you have been flying for two days. Rest first, and go tomorrow. "
"No, go now. I have a surprise for you. "
Zhou Qingfeng was puzzled by Xu Bing's smiling words, but he really wanted to see what kind of surprise there was. He asked Marcelo to change directions and head towards Panjim. The carriage took nearly an hour to reach its destination. It was a wasteland near the estuary of the Mandofi River. Ships heading towards Goa City had to pass through this wasteland.
Master Zhou smiled sinisterly, "As long as I build a city here and build a few forts on the river bank, the Portuguese cargo ships will have to follow my orders. If I am not happy, they can forget about doing business. "
"You have made up your mind to fight the Portuguese here." Xu Bing looked around at the place Zhou Qingfeng had chosen. The ground was filled with the ashes of the vegetation that had just been burnt. The wild tropical plants and the mosquitoes that had been hiding in them had all been cleared away. This was something that only Zhou Qingfeng, who had already mastered fire-attribute true essence, could do.
"The European colonists have never been good people. Instead of letting them ruin this land, why not let them follow us to transform it. If we don't fight, others will not recognize our position. " But Zhou Qingfeng still scratched his head, "I am worried that before I build the city, the enemy will attack."
"I am here to solve your problem." Xu Bing smiled. She opened the space-time door that Zhou Qingfeng had transferred to her, and a series of people came out of the nebula one after another. A few time travelers appeared one by one, followed by Wen Ruolan, He Zhuo, Ye Na, even the two Phoenixes and Jia Gang. Finally, even Xu Xiake came to do odd jobs.
"You …" Zhou Qingfeng screamed in shock, "Why did you all come here? Don't you want your hometown anymore? "
Zhao Ze, who ran out, shouted, "We are worried that you will steal from us and take all the foreign horses for yourself."
Shi Dong ran over excitedly and asked, "Flat Hair said you bought a Persian dancer who can twist her butt?"
Yin Hu came over to massage Zhou Qingfeng's shoulders. "Brother, you have worked hard. I heard that you also bought a lot of little lolis. The important task of spreading the culture of the motherland has to start from a young age. As the Minister of Education, I am responsible for it. "
"You scum …" Zhou Qingfeng covered his face and wanted to say that he did not know these bad friends.
Xu Xiake came up and asked, "Grand Marshal, is this the India that the eminent monk Xuanzang wrote in the Tang Dynasty's Records of the Western Regions? It's so hot here. "
The group of people was lively, wandering around the wasteland and the estuary of the river. They even surrounded Marcelo and Santos who were completely stunned and studied them. When they heard that the two could speak Chinese, they were shocked.
Only Zhou Qingfeng shouted madly, "What are you doing? You don't even want your hometown and come here to travel? If something happens to your family, won't the whole world be in chaos? "
Xu Bing smiled and pointed at the space-time door, "Go in and have a look, and you will know why we have to go together."
Zhou Qingfeng rushed into the space-time door and wanted to know what his friends were doing. The kid, Santos, approached Xu Bing carefully and asked in shock, "Honorable madam, can you tell me who Mr. Zhou is?"
"You are Santos, right? Nice to meet you. " Xu Bing patted the kid's head and smiled, "Don't be nervous, we are not bad people. As for the guy you are asking about, he will soon become … "She paused and said," You can treat him as the emperor of China. He will soon rule a huge country with hundreds of millions of people and an area comparable to the whole of Europe. "
"Oh … Holy Mother Mary!" Father Marcelo was on the verge of collapsing when he heard this. He shouted in a daze, "Hundreds of millions of people, comparable to the emperor of Europe? I can't believe I have the honor to serve such an honorable person, … "
With a plop, Father Marcelo fainted.
Santos was still young, so he didn't understand how high the status of Zhou Qingfeng was. But he immediately crawled on the ground and threw himself at Xu Bing's feet. He held her shoes and kissed them, "Beautiful lady, you must be the honorable Queen. Please allow me to send my most respectful greetings to you. "
Xu Bing liked what he said, and a bright smile appeared on her face.
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