The huge Daming Mariner fleet slowly sailed out of Manila Bay and continued south, but instead of heading directly to the Strait of Malacca, it followed Kalimantan all the way south to Batavia.

At this time, Batavia did not change much compared with a few years ago, because Zhang Bin's focus in the past few years is in Daming, and he simply does not have time to take into account the Mughal, Persian, and European areas outside the South Ocean, and the East Shengtang has not received the support and protection of the Daming Water Division, and can only slowly develop in the South Ocean region.

This year, without strong force protection, ocean trade is basically impossible to expand, because many shipping lanes are pirates, and sometimes, the fleet of the great powers is more vicious than the pirates, if you encounter pirates, you may stay for a life, if you meet the fleet of the great powers at sea, it is very likely that you will disappear with the ship!

Dongshengtang Nanyang treasurer Zheng Zhibao is not a timid person, but he is not a reckless person, there is no support from the Daming Water Division, he did not vainly try to open the Persian or even the European market, he is just a well-behaved operation in the South Ocean, waiting for the moment of Daming Water Master Yang Wei overseas.

He believed in the ability of the Grand Duke, he believed that Daming always had a day in the sea, the Great Ming Marine Division could defeat the fleet of the Dutch, who was the lord of the sea, and what was there to be afraid of, the Grand Duke would sooner or later lead everyone out, but there were anti-throws in Daming, there was a threat of slavery and the Mongolian Yuan, and the defender could not come from for a while.

In the past two years, the good news has come, the anti-throws have been annihilated, the slaves have been defeated, the Liaodong has been recovered, and even the East has been knocked down by Daming, he knows that the defender is about to look overseas, and the Great Ming Shui master is coming!

Sure enough, a few days ago, he received news that Zhang Bin, the general of the Great Division, would lead the Fujian Marine Corps to visit the continent, and he was really excited and could not sleep at night.

On this day, the Da Ming Shuishi fleet is not expected to arrive in Batavia until about noon, but since the early morning, he has organized the employees of the East Shengtang Hall to be busy on the dock, arranged, and prepared to welcome the arrival of the Daming Water Division and the Taishi National Guard.

Batavia city is also now Daming merchants and their families, heard that the first support of the Daming cabinet, Taishi and the country to come, many people spontaneously came to the port, the port soon became like the beach on the other side of Manila, crowded with the lively crowd.

The first assistant of the cabinet or the grandfather of the country, many people have not seen it in their lives, not to mention the super-officials who are the first and deputy of the cabinet, the master of the three positions of the cabinet, and the three positions of the national government, and no one has ever seen such a big official in Batavia.

Before noon, the dense black spots appeared in the distant sea level, these black spots became larger and larger, bigger and bigger, accompanied by the cries and cheers of the people on both sides of the port, thousands of warships entered the port in a wide field, suddenly, all eyes were filled with warships, the town far cruiser, Weiyuan battleship, light iron armor, full of warships, Batavia ordinary people although most of them have seen these three warships, but did not think.

Zheng Zhibao is also a very knowledgeable person, he also heard that the shipyard on the other side of Dongfan is constantly producing warships, Fujian Marine Division warships have already exceeded a thousand, but when thousands of warships appeared in front of him at the same time, he was still shocked, too spectacular, too spectacular!

He stood there in a daze, looking at the overwhelming warships in front of him, until several town-wide cruisers leaned up on the dock, and countless Ming army soldiers gushed out from above, and he took a few East Shengtang treasurers to ask the Ming army generals.

Soon, he found the location of the flagship, and at this time Zhang Bin has been under the escalator under the cluster of a group of generals, Zheng Zhibao, rushed forward, waiting to leaned down on his knees, Zhang Bin but held him, kindly said: "Okay, are my own brothers, do not have to be so polite, Chile Leopard, where this guy ran."

If according to the relationship between Zheng Zhilong brothers and Zhang Bin, Zheng Zhibao and Zhang Bin are indeed cousins, but there is no blood relationship between them, Zheng Zhixuan can not kneel down, can only be embarrassed to arch: "Thank you, the grandfather, the return of the grandfather, this time Chi leopard is carrying the fleet in the outer inspection post on the island of Sumen, he went to more than ten days, he did not know."

Zhang Bin heard the words, not only did not get angry, but gratified nod: "Well, good, this boy is still quite hard."

At this time, Schweil and Corquila also took a few kisses with the boat, and Zhang Bin introduced Zheng Zhilu, even if they led the people to the direction of the Batavia Governor's Office.

He is not here to show his face, he still has something important to arrange.

In the afternoon of the same day, a special meeting was held in the conference room of the Batavia Governor's Office, and there were no officials of the Ming Dynasty and the generals of the Daming military, but representatives of the major merchants.

After Zhang Bin came in, a group of business representatives naturally stood up awe, a compliment, he directly raised his hands, motioned everyone to sit down, even if they picked up the ash pole on the conference table, turned to the big map on the wall and introduced: "Everyone should be clear, now we have the main business area in the Ming territory is east and south, and like the west of Mughal, big food, Persian, Amisyl and our big Ming merchants are rarely involved."

The representatives of the major business gangs in the room nodded with regret, they more or less know that Mughal, Big Food, Persia, Amicill and Continental's money is very good, many goods in those places are very profitable and amazing, but they do not dare to go, because it is too dangerous, accidentally will even accompany the ship with a blood.

They could only do business with the Portuguese, the Spaniards, or even the Dutch, and sell the goods to these people for a small profit, and let these people make a surprising profit.

This time, the reason why these large business gangs actively respond to the call of Zhang Bin, send a large number of business representatives and also bring a large number of samples of goods, that is, I heard that the company wants to lead everyone to explore the Western market, which is a huge market.

Sure enough, Zhang Bin then pointed to the map: "The reason why our Daming merchants dare not step foot in these places, it is only one aspect of the danger of sailing out to sea, on the other hand, you have thought that no, to go out to sea to organize a certain size of the fleet, the fleet scale up, more people, hundreds or even thousands of people are likely, then the hundreds or even thousands of people's drinking water from where, this sea water can not drink."Where does the food come from, there is not food everywhere along the western coast.If your merchant ships are stuffed with fresh water and food, how much more cargo can you bring, and how much profit can you make when you venture to run?”

Most merchants have not really considered this problem, because most of them do business in the territory of Daming, even if they go to the east, to the south, along the way are basically under the control of the area of Daming, where they want to get fresh water and food supplies, so they are mostly not aware of this problem.

This trip to the West is thousands of miles, at the speed of the now popular ship, it is months or even half a year, a year, during which everyone eats, what to drink, bring enough fresh water and food, that is impossible, even if nothing is not carried with all the crew for months or even half a year of fresh water and food.

Everyone's faces are slowly showing the color of worry, it seems that this ocean business is not good, not only to have enough merchant ships and goods, the most critical, but also enough supplies ah, otherwise, the entire fleet even if you are thirsty will starve to death!