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Penglai Immortal Island has appeared more than once in the literature and legends of many dynasties in the thousands of years of history of this world.

However, due to the limitations of shipbuilding technology, even though many emperors or civilians built boats to cross the sea in order to find the legendary Penglai Island and the elixir of immortality on the East China Sea, only a few succeeded and died in the strong winds and waves. Among them, there are countless.

However, Zhou Ming saw on the [World Map] in his mind that the so-called Penglai Fairy Island is just over a thousand kilometers east of the sea outside Haiping County. With favorable winds and smooth water, the speedboat can take three to five days. Reachable, not very far.

And this Penglai Island has a very strange composition, as if it was like a once complete continent. The countless islands that were broken into pieces also look like a complete continent. Due to the movement of the earth's crust, it slowly sank to the bottom of the sea. In the end, only the smaller parts of the land were revealed. high part.

Regardless of how it was formed, the Penglai Fairy Island is like a plate filled with tens of thousands of pearl-like islands. When combined, there are 5 million square kilometers of islands, large and small, which is equivalent to the Great Zhou Dynasty. one third of the country.

With such a large number of islands and vast sea areas, if the Kaihirata family alone, a family with less than 20,000 clan members, can colonize and occupy all of them, I am afraid that given another hundred years, they will not be able to complete this task. Try your best to occupy at most a few larger islands.

And Zhou Ming is afraid of the ghost system in his mind. After the amount of property he owns exceeds a certain amount, he will no longer make quantitative statistics based on specific assets, but will roughly control the land area for accounting. What will happen to him? What lies ahead is the problem of how to control more than 5 million square kilometers of land.

Without rebelling and disrupting the prosperous age, it was almost impossible for Zhou Ming to complete this task with the strength of a medium-sized family alone.

Therefore, he needs to recruit some help to join his overseas expansion plan.

Most of the classmates around him came from wealthy families, and they were the ones he was trying to persuade.

"That's right! Brother Qingxiao, you don't know something. The Penglai Fairy Island is not very far from the land where we are. It can be reached by boat in more than ten days... The year before last, my Tian family had a fishing boat. Encountering a storm, we drifted to the legendary Penglai Island. After surviving by chance, last year, our Tianjia Marine Fishing Company organized an expedition team of ten large ships to go out and explore for a full year. Guess what? Guess what this fleet found? Big islands, countless big islands..."

Zhou Ming began to make up half-truths and half-false stories, telling everyone vividly about the "adventure stories" of this expedition fleet on the Penglai Immortal Island. On those tens of thousands of islands, there are Some boats found "Golden Mountains and Silver Islands"; some boats encountered cannibals and were almost caught and eaten; some boats discovered many strange creatures; still other boats saw volcanic eruptions, etc... ...Each story is full of twists and turns, surprising and surprising.

In addition to stories, Zhou Ming also prepared some "real objects" brought by the expedition fleet and placed them in several large boxes. When the boxes were opened, they found dog-head gold and silver ores, clothing worn by cannibals and bone stick weapons, and some Strange plant branches, bird feathers and other things are displayed before everyone's eyes.

With these "physical objects" as evidence, Zhou Ming's half-truth and half-false story gained another 30% credibility.

"I used to think that Penglai Island existed only in legends, but I didn't expect it to be true." Lu Wencai held a large bone club used by the indigenous people with a look of curiosity and longing.

"Penglai Immortal Realm, there are really gold mountains and silver islands, where are they?! Brother Zihua, can you write down the detailed location of your expedition fleet?"

"Brother Zihua, can your Tian family's ocean fishing company accept other aristocratic families to join? From what Brother Zihua said, it seems that you want to recruit cooperation..."

"Yes, boss, what you said makes me feel itchy. How about letting everyone share a piece of Penglai Island? We are all good brothers who share the blessings. Boss, you won't forget us, right?" Tang Junming Looking at Zhou Ming said.

Yao Qingxiao pointed at Zhou Ming and laughed loudly: "Boss, you always do things like this. I have experienced it myself many times. Don't show off, boss. Tell me your plan. What do you need, brothers?" We can all do our best to help."

"Brother Qingxiao still knows me..."

Zhou Ming smiled slightly and revealed his "joint development" plan to everyone's pricked ears.

The objects of alliance are naturally the wealthy families behind these classmates.

The target of development is, of course, the legendary "Penglai Fairyland" two thousand miles to the east.

As long as the aristocratic families behind these classmates all join this "joint development" plan and contribute, in the future, among the thousands of islands in the Penglai Immortal Domain, the results will be distributed according to the contributions of each family, and the family with the greatest contribution will , will be allocated to an island with an area as large as half a state; a family with a moderate contribution can be allocated an island as large as several counties; a family with a smaller contribution can also gain, and an island as large as one to several counties can also be allocated. Enough to accommodate a population of more than 100,000 people.

This "joint development" plan is very attractive. Although most people present are not that interested in living on an isolated island, from the perspective of a big family, this development plan will undoubtedly solve countless problems. For thousands of years, aristocratic families have been extremely afraid of something: the disaster of genocide. If we could live in a land outside the law of the dynasty, separated by the ocean and a natural chasm, on an offshore island, not to mention the entire clan migration, but only some clan members could be moved here to settle down and preserve their bloodline, those aristocratic families would not even raise their flags to rebel. No more worries.

Therefore, after Zhou Ming announced his plan, all the students present were very enthusiastic and expressed that they wanted to go home, do the work of the clan elders, and strive to join this development plan. It was too late, and the few large islands as large as half a state and those islands of gold and silver were no longer worthy of their family.

It just so happened that the Yuwen family, one of the eight aristocratic families in Qingzhou, had just been exterminated, and the aftermath of the "Biao Zuo Hou" incident had not completely dissipated. I believe these students, and the patriarchs and elders of the families behind them, would be very interested in this "joint development" plan. , will be of great interest.

After getting rid of these classmates, under the setting sun, looking at the blue and red sea, Zhou Ming, who was very interested in poetry, wrote an original poem "Watching the Whale Sea" on the spot. He also used calligraphy and wrote it eloquently. He wrote an article of more than 1,000 words "Travel Notes on the East China Sea" - because he is busy with work, in recent issues of "Collected Works of Zihua", "Mr. Zihua" who has published fewer works has attracted many readers and fans. The letters asked and questioned that it would be impossible if Zhou Ming did not create more works and give an explanation to these fans.

After watching the whale sea, the Haizhuo Type 2 fishing boat turned around and returned. Maybe it was too smooth when it came. It took seven or eight days to go back, and there was also a big storm in the middle. Fortunately, the storm lasted for a long time. Not long after, except for some students who were seasick and vomited and had diarrhea, the group of people landed smoothly on the pier of Fishing Port Village.