On the sixteenth day of the winter month, the Ming Dynasty Royal Maritime Taiwan Garrison was officially established on Nan'ao Island.

Jin Ke, who had a golden star on his helmet, was appointed as the commander and police commissioner of the garrison area for the first time. It was obvious that he had won the full trust of Mr. Zhao.

In fact, the main reason is that Zhao Hao has become confident. There is no need for him to hold a concurrent position to guard against those below him seizing power.

At the flag-raising ceremony, Jin Ke excitedly and solemnly took the Taiwan Garrison District's flag from him.

The flag was six feet six in length and four feet in width, and was exactly the same in shape as the Tamra Garrison's 'Sun and Moon Shining Together on the Blue Sea' flag, except that the blue horizontal stripe at the bottom of the flag had turned green, symbolizing the emerald green South China Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

The garrison command headquarters is temporarily located at the Nan'ao Island base and will be relocated after the construction of the Fengshan base in Taiwan is completed.

The Taiwan Garrison and the Tamra Garrison are separated by Ryukyu, starting from the south of Ryukyu, east of the mainland, south to Luzon, and west to the Gulf of Tonkin. The entire defense zone has a circumference of 20,000 miles and an area of ​​more than 3 million square kilometers. It is one-third larger than the Tamra Garrison.

Similar to the organizational structure of the Tamra Garrison, the Taiwan Garrison plans to have eight major water police bureaus under its jurisdiction in addition to the headquarters and the main fleet directly under its jurisdiction.

They are Naha Water Police Station, Keelung Water Police Station, Penghu Water Police Station, Hong Kong Water Police Station, Sanya Water Police Station, Champa Water Police Station, Luzon Water Police Station and Sanyu Water Police Station. Each water police station has a local squadron. Its primary purpose is to control the two east-west trade routes between the West and the Ming Dynasty.

One route starts from Fujian, along the southeast coast of Ming Dynasty, around the Indochina Peninsula, and finally arrives in Malacca.

The other route starts from Ryukyu, passes through eastern Taiwan and goes south to Luzon, along Sulu, Brunei, to Java, Sumatra, and Malacca.

The decree of opening the ports during the Longqing reign allowed private merchants to trade across the East and West Oceans, referring to these two golden shipping routes.

Therefore, controlling these two shipping routes is equivalent to controlling the eastern section of the Maritime Silk Road.

In addition, Taiwan and Luzon have vast lands and abundant resources, which can accommodate tens of millions of people. They are exactly the destinations of the first phase of Zhao Hao's century-long immigration plan!

Of course, for the time being, only the first four water police stations will be listed, and the last four can only be on paper for the time being, and we have to wait until the time is right.

However, according to the intelligence collected by Tang Baolu, the Sanya Water Police Station should not have any problems. Although it will become the second largest city in Hainan Province in 400 years and get the prestigious brand of "Qiong B", it is currently just a small fishing port far away from the city - Bitan Port.

Bitan Port was originally a place where tribute ships from Champa docked to pay tribute, and it was once prosperous. However, Champa was controlled by Annan and tribute had been cut off for a hundred years. Bitan Port then became desolate and became a place where Tanka people lived.

Mr. Zhao's efforts to win over the Tanka people were not only because he coveted these hundreds of thousands of natural sailors, but also because of his plot to take over Sanya. These Lianjiang boat people had no fixed place to live, wandering around on the waters of Fujian and Guangdong, so they could always establish a relationship with the Tanka people in Sanya. Zhao Hao had already instructed Tang Baolu to use this relationship to win over the Tanka people in Sanya and try to get them to join him, so that the Sanya Water Police Department would have a place to stay...

After the Sanya Water Police Department has established a firm foothold, we will try to get in touch with Champa. Champa has been driven to the brink of extinction by the Annan people and is on the verge of extinction. It should not reject my father's long-lost love.

Now, all Mr. Zhao needs to do is make good plans for these things. There will naturally be special agencies and personnel to carry them out, so he doesn't have to do it himself.

As for the Luzon Marine Police Station and the Sanyu Marine Police Station, since they have to fight the Spaniards, they can only be put on the agenda after the Luzon attack begins...

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The Tamra Garrison and the Taiwan Garrison are at the same level and both report directly to the group’s board of directors... but in fact they only accept the leadership of Zhao Hao.

In order to coordinate affairs between the two garrison areas and to avoid an imbalance of power, Zhao Hao set up a general headquarters, with himself as the commander-in-chief.

The General Headquarters plans to set up five departments and three committees with eight functional departments, namely the General Office, the Joint Staff Office, the General Police Department, the General Armaments Department, the Logistics Support Department, the Supervision and Discipline Inspection Committee, the Education and Training Committee, and the Coast Guard Asset Management Committee.

And a strategic fleet directly under the General Headquarters, ready to engage in strategic decisive battles with powerful enemies at any time with the cooperation of various garrison areas.

Of course, the headquarters is currently just an empty shell, with no sign of where it is stationed, and it will take time to complete its construction bit by bit.

However, the strategic fleet directly under Wang Rulong as the fleet commander and Ma Yinglong as the police commissioner has been established. It is precisely because of this position that both of them have been awarded two gold stars.

In fact, from the beginning, the main fleet led by Wang Ma duo played such a role, but because the speed of shipbuilding and the number of officers and soldiers in the early stage of the Coast Guard could not keep up with the needs. They also had to serve as the main fleet of the two major garrison areas, and they would be transferred to wherever there was a major war.

But this is obviously not a long-term solution. The sea area controlled by the two garrisons is more than 10,000 miles from north to south. It would take at least one and a half months for the fleet to travel from the northernmost Ezo Island to the southernmost Qiongzhou Island. If there is a headwind, it would be normal to not arrive for two or three months. That would delay the daylily.

So in the final analysis, we still need to vigorously expand the military and build ships, and strive to fill the empty frames as soon as possible, and stop playing the trick of three babies and one milk...

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After dealing with a lot of matters of the coast guard force, Zhao Hao boarded the Zhenwo and rushed to the provincial capital without stopping to attend the Hai Tian Sheng Yan... No, he was going to attend the founding ceremony of the Nanhai Group.

Nanhai Group was initiated by Jiangnan Group and holds a 67% stake.

The Chaozhou gentry were the first to join and provided strong logistical support during the Battle of Nan'ao Island, so they held a total of 10% of the shares.

But in fact, the wealthy gentry in the provincial capital were the key to whether the Nanhai Group could successfully take root in Guangdong, so they also got 10%.

How can there be no Hu Jian people in a place with Guangdong people? Fujian's maritime merchants also received 10% of the shares... After the sea owners along the Fujian coast were swept away, the entire Taiwan Strait was under the control of the Coast Guard. If they did not join, Fujian's maritime merchants would not be able to sell a single ship of goods! Being able to get 10% of the shares was already a special favor from Mr. Zhao.

There is no other way. Fujian is a major province of maritime trade and a major province of foreign immigration in the future. Zhao Hao must tie them to the chariot, so he can only give them a few more sweet dates after slapping them.

The remaining 3% was divided among officials in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

3% may not sound like a lot, but it is actually frighteningly high.

Because the initial shares of Nanhai Group reached 10 million shares, and the subscription price per share was ten taels.

The current top stock in the Ming Dynasty, Xishan Group, has only reached 10 million taels after two stock splits. The current share price is stable at around 30 taels.

Nanhai Group is the replica of Jiangnan Group in Fujian and Guangdong. In the future, it will cover all aspects of foreign trade, finance, industry and commerce, transportation, etc. in the two provinces. Isn't the imagination space much greater than that of a stinky coal seller?

But now the price is only one-third of Xishan Group’s, isn’t that like giving it away for free?

Although many smart big investors think that the accounts cannot be calculated in this way, although the share capital of Xishan Group is 10 million, there are only a few hundred thousand shares actually circulating in the market, and each share is worth 30 taels. In fact, in terms of the actual money invested, it is only about 10 or 20 million taels.

And they had to buy every share of their 33% stake with real money! That's 33 million taels!

Moreover, the price of Xishan Group has increased many times over the past four years, and they are subscribing to the original shares!

By this calculation, the initial shareholders of Xishan Company only needed to pay hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels to get the shares, but now they need to pay tens or even millions of taels to get them.

It’s dark, so damn dark!

But there are too many fools willing to pay this money!

Jiangnan Group sends a shareholding invitation letter to the target object, which lists the shares that can be subscribed. If you agree, you can take this invitation letter to Guangdong to attend the group's first shareholders' meeting.

If the invited person is absent at that time, it will be assumed that he/she has automatically waived the subscription qualification, and the shares will be taken back by the group and sold to the person on the waiting list.

They heard that there were already nearly a thousand companies on the waiting list, which showed how much the wealthy businessmen in Fujian and Guangdong provinces were chasing after the Nanhai Group's stocks.

Even a fool can see that in this situation, the stock price can increase several times in one transaction.

If anyone doesn't subscribe, wouldn't that just give others a bargain?

Moreover, this invitation letter is a symbol of status. Whoever receives the invitation letter means that his family has been recognized by Jiangnan Group and Mr. Zhao, and is a top figure in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

If they gave up the invitation, wouldn’t they be laughed at for being strong on the outside but weak on the inside? So each family sold everything they had and scraped together enough money, deposited it into the Jiangnan Bank account, and then took the invitation letter to Guangzhou to attend the shareholders’ meeting.

There was even a rumor that someone offered double the price to buy the invitation letter. Although the invitation letter clearly stated that "personal subscription is required", how many Chinese people would take advantage of loopholes? People in Fujian and Guangdong are particularly smart.

Can I hold it on behalf of someone else?

But no one would sell, because that would be a sign of self-debasement. Moreover, after Mr. Zhao's operation, they became more and more convinced that the share price of Nanhai Group would definitely rise to the sky in the future. Selling now would be like throwing away the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds.

The most important thing is that I cannot miss this conference which gathers big figures from Fujian and Guangdong provinces!

As a result, all those who received invitation letters attended the first shareholders' meeting and group preparatory meeting at the end of the month, without missing a single one.

It can be seen that the temptation of fame and fortune is more effective than the "Reward the Good and Punish the Evil" of Xiake Island.

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The conference was held on Chengxuan Street, where the Guangzhou Governor's Office was located. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Tang Baolu, who was in charge of the preparations, placed the venue opposite the ruins of the Wuyang Trading House.

On one side is a new picture where everything is possible, and on the other side is the old history that has been swept into the garbage dump, allowing everyone to clearly feel that the times have changed, really changed, and now is the era of the Nanhai Group!

The president of Jiangnan Bank Guangzhou Branch personally led people to the scene to handle the transfer for the shareholders. Then, the interim board of directors issued share certificates to the shareholders, congratulating them on becoming distinguished shareholders of Nanhai Group!

Once all 303 shareholders' share certificates were processed, the interim board of directors was dissolved on the spot and the first shareholders' meeting was convened immediately!

ps. This chapter is slow to write, but it contains a lot of information. If it were in the past, I could write a long... oh no, ten chapters. But I was in a hurry to go back to Beijing to get married, so I couldn't write it in a rhythmic way. But I still have to have some ideas! So please forgive me, I'm so tired, this is the only chapter...