Liu Yiming walked into the office. In the room, a young man in a suit was sitting upright, looking intently. He seemed to be in a trance, and Liu Yiming didn't even notice when he walked in.

"I heard you were looking for me?" Liu Yiming walked straight to the desk and said first.

"Ah? Commander Liu!" The young man stood up suddenly and wanted to apologize in a panic.

"No need to be formal. I can see that you have done some work. Sit down." When Liu Yiming heard the young man call him Commander Liu, he knew that he had done some work and there should be some connections...

"You all know to call me Commander Liu, but I still don't know what to call you?" Liu Yiming saw the young man's restrained look and smiled to ease the atmosphere.

"Ah, I'm rude. My surname is Lu Ping and my courtesy name is Zhengyang. I'm Chinese-American..." Lu Zhengyang was stuck again. He didn't know whether he should say the next thing or not.

"Zhengyang! Sit, sit, sit." Liu Yiming saw that this man was a little reserved. In fact, Liu Yiming knew what Lu Zhengyang wanted without having to guess.

"We are all wanderers, meeting old friends in a foreign land? It doesn't seem to be the case. Don't be too restrained, just say whatever you want!" Liu Yiming told a cold joke, but it also lightened the atmosphere.

"Commander Liu, can you defend Java?" Lu Zhengyang, who grew up in the United States, is more knowledgeable than the Chinese who grew up in Java. After all, the Dutch wanted to control the writing of the entire colony.

"Hahaha! Look at what you said." Liu Yiming smiled, and Lu Zhengyang's expression became a little nervous.

"I don't know either." Liu Yiming stopped and said easily.

"You don't know either?" Lu Zhengyang didn't believe it.

"In a land battle, Nanhua has an 80% chance of winning. In a naval battle, I don't know yet. Nanhua doesn't even have enough sailors." Liu Yiming lamented.

"I heard that Commander Liu has finalized a loan contract with Britain and the United States. Why not buy a warship?" Lu Zhengyang thought.

"In the UK, Armstrong Shipyard, Vickers Shipyard, Portsmouth Shipyard, and Pembroke Shipyard have all laid the keels of the South China Navy warships and are speeding up work." Liu Yiming thought for a moment and chose

I believe the people in front of me, regardless of the specific warships, no one would have guessed that Liu Yiming was so crazy and directly boarded a battleship of more than 20,000 tons.

No one could have guessed that Britain and Nanhua had reached a technology exchange agreement, allowing contracts for large warships of nearly 10,000 tons.

"Why not buy existing ships? Instead, order four new ones." Lu Zhengyang said doubtfully.

"I have ammunition but not a gun!" Liu Yiming didn't care, let alone correct this misunderstanding.

The matter of ordering warships and naval training cannot be kept secret for long, and the British may even take the initiative to inform the Netherlands to balance Nanhua's surge in military force, and maybe it can still get orders.

"But we are short of manpower? I can..." Lu Zhengyang was halfway through speaking when he realized that the two of them hadn't discussed anything yet.

"It's lacking! It's very lacking!" Liu Yiming planned to continue talking about this.

"Commander Liu, I want to know what you think of Chinese Americans!" Lu Zhengyang said seriously.

"Well... it's tragic. The United States is much more powerful than the Dutch. It will undoubtedly be very difficult to carry out a revolution like mine in the United States... To be honest, I am not willing to help you. It will only cause more losses to the Chinese people."

Liu Yiming stared at Lu Zhengyang.

"Revolution requires bloodshed and sacrifice!" Liu Yiming said in a low voice.

"I wonder when you said that Nanhua is the home of all overseas Chinese, does it count?" Lu Zhengyang looked a little like an eggplant beaten by frost.

No way? No way? You don’t really want to be stubborn, do you?

Liu Yiming didn’t know what to say. It seemed that his success inspired some people. But it’s fine anywhere, even if you go back to start an uprising. The United States doesn’t seem to have many armies, but it has many National Guards! And the number of militiamen in the west is also small.

How to fight if there are too many...

"I keep what I say. As long as you are willing to come, Nanhua is your home. But you can't go out and murder people and set fires, and then come to Nanhua. Moreover, you must follow the rules at home, and abiding by the law is the basis!" Liu Yiming said.

"What else?" Lu Zhengyang didn't believe it was just like this, although he earnestly hoped in his heart.

"If you insist, you have to work!" Liu Yiming insisted on work.

"Work?" Lu Zhengyang touched his head, isn't this what he should be doing?

"Yes! It's not an ordinary job. For example, if you come to Nanhua, I will throw you into the army. In fact, most of the normal men between the ages of 18 and 32 will enter the army, and the service period is from half a year to two years.

No wait.”

"But it's not just about serving. You will be arranged to join the army, learn military skills, then join the government to do odd jobs, and finally be arranged to be the head of an immigrant village, or work in a township." Liu Yiming said, "In short, you are not

Those who come to enjoy the blessings, of course, will be able to choose their career freely after their service period is over, and they may not necessarily obey the final arrangement."

"Why is it so troublesome?" Lu Zhengyang didn't understand.

"Let's go back to the problem just now, there is a shortage of people." Liu Yiming and Lu Zhengyang were chatting enthusiastically.

"We are immigrating in large numbers, two batches a month, one batch of 3,000 people, and building six villages a month. We need dozens of qualified cadres. The navy needs highly educated trainees, and so do the factories, but Nanhua only has 2.7 million Chinese.

There is simply no way to draw out so many people." Liu Yiming said sincerely.

"I welcome you when you come. And unlike Die Qing, at least I will discuss the issue of discrimination with Americans. It's all for the sake of the Chinese, and there is no conflict of interest."

"I will tell my family that, whether they want it or not, I will stay in Nanhua!" Lu Zhengyang said seriously.

"Okay, in addition, I have something to consult with you." When Liu Yiming saw Lu Zhengyang getting up to leave, he quickly stopped him. He hadn't finished talking about the main thing yet!

"Do you know about the construction of the Central Railway?" Liu Yiming asked first.

"How could you not know!" Lu Zhengyang's face turned red and he gritted his teeth.

"My father was a Chinese laborer on the Central Railway. There was no news in the end. No one was seen alive, and no body was found after death. Grandpa was so angry that he died in a foreign country without leaving his eyes open!"

Grandpa Lu Zhengyang was from Siyi. The two brothers went to the United States together. The difference was that the eldest family encountered a shipwreck on the way and nothing happened. The Lu Zhengyang family, the father took his six sons across the ocean to pan for gold.

However, the Chinese could only scavenge abandoned mines and were heavily taxed.

The twenty-year-old eldest son and the eighteen-year-old son secretly signed up and went to the railway company to have a meal for the family. There were two of them when they went there, but when they came back only the eldest son was left. The old man felt that he had dragged his son down, and he was depressed and unhappy.

"My father married my mother with the money my father sent me. When my father learned that my father was dead, he adopted me into the second house." Lu Zhengyang told this story with hatred.

"Is your uncle still okay?" Liu Yiming couldn't bear it, but still asked.

"Uncle, forty-four, he is still alive! It's just that he fell on the snowy mountain and got the root of his disease." Lu Zhengyang didn't know why Liu Yiming asked this, but he still said.

"It's like this. Nanhua is going to build a railway. Don't worry. It's like this..." Seeing that Lu Zhengyang was about to refuse, Liu Yiming said quickly.

"Let me try asking uncle." Lu Zhengyang was not stupid enough to ask the United States. You must know that this practice was initiated by the Americans.

"It's okay. You don't need to participate. Let's teach you some experience. In addition, anyone you know in the United States, especially those who have skills or are enthusiastic young people, can recommend them." Liu Yiming said.

"But, I want to do something more for Nanhua..." A young man like Lu Zhengyang was deceived by Liu Yiming with just a few words.

"This is also work. The nature of the work is different. Just like soldiers and workers, they are both contributing to Nanhua. There is no difference except for the danger!" Liu Yiming explained.

"Go down and think about how much funding is needed for the event. Someone will take you to go through the formalities later. Get a work permit first, and then go home with a special pass so that people will laugh at us."

"No, no, no, the round trip tickets, food, clothing, housing and transportation expenses are all reimbursed by the American company. Finding someone mainly takes time and doesn't cost much money." Lu Zhengyang felt that Nanhua was just established, and it was a big loan and a purchase.

I probably don’t have much money on hand and don’t plan to get a warship.

"How can that be done? It's not like we don't have the conditions. Let's take this note. I'll call the Ministry of Finance later and approve 10,000 pounds for you. You don't have to save money. You can spend it when you have no money.

Call the Immigration Department and I will return you to the Immigration Department later." Liu Yiming decided.

How can you do it without money? Yes, this is mainly based on passion, rather than money, but if you really don’t give money, let people travel thousands of miles across the ocean to come to Nanhua at their own expense? Liu Yiming can’t bear it, it’s not like we don’t have that

condition!

"Too much, too much!" Lu Zhengyang's family runs a small business in San Francisco. There are dozens of people in the family, and their total assets are only this amount. Of course, there are still too many children and a lot of people going to school.

"A poor family is going to be rich, what? How are you going to get here without money? Spend fifty dollars on a slave ship that has outbreaks of epidemics from time to time?" The slave ship is an exaggeration, but it is not too low. People from Siyi traveled far away in the 1860s.

When we were on the ocean, the ticket was 50 US dollars, and we lived in a cabin with a dozen or so people, lying on the bed. It was difficult to be single.

"This..." Lu Zhengyang still felt bad.

"Just take it, mother-in-law, Nanhua is richer than you think. You have to change it in your future work. No matter what decision you make, it is better than no decision at all!" Liu Yiming frowned.

After sending away his headhunter on the front foot, something happened again on the back foot.

"Commander, there's a call from Batavia. The Dutch have returned the ship. Also, there's a call from Wang Yang, hoping to send more people to guard the prisoners." Staff Wang ran in and said.

Does anyone remember the merchant ships seized by the Dutch before?
Chapter completed!