Jinyi champion

Chapter 1072 Stand firm
The first natives have entered the integration stage.

Now we are facing a big problem. The reclamation team of Ming Dynasty brought by Zhu Hao himself is prosperous, and the situation of the indigenous people is not much better than that of Daming. Even though the population of Zhu Hao’s men has exceeded 5000, they still The number of women is only about [-], and the ratio of men to women is too unbalanced.

Especially those Ming soldiers who did not bring their families to the New World. Compared with ordinary craftsmen, farmers and fishermen, they had higher needs in life, or they were more assertive.

The aborigines live in the camp, and the ration problem needs to be arranged urgently. The next step is to take over all the land of the people of Jingjing Er, especially to let all the people from Ming Dynasty try to use potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn as their staple food. Relying on the food brought by the fleet, it is estimated that it will not be enough in about half a year.

Lu Song went out to inspect that day, and when he came back, he said to Zhu Hao: "Sir, those foreign people, especially the women, don't seem to take chastity and other things very seriously. They were found to be harassed by soldiers earlier... They don't seem to be very serious. care."

When Lu Song reported this matter to Zhu Hao, as the deputy commander of the army, he was actually a bit worried about it.

After all, there are only so many women. Once you open your mouth, it may cause disputes, and may even lead to civil strife.

In this place far away from Ming Dynasty, the only law is Zhu Hao's military orders. In addition to the native women, there are also wives and daughters brought by craftsmen. Soldiers have weapons in their hands, and they are likely to mess around.

Zhu Haodao: "That's why I insist on conducting military training for all personnel, and select the outstanding ones to form the militia. It is to form a military force that can check and balance besides the officers and soldiers. Now let the people of Fanbang be secretly and properly distributed. work, and find someone to teach them Chinese, and stipulate that no soldiers should come to disturb them!"

For the current situation, what Zhu Hao can do is to regulate by military orders.

At present, the two sides do not understand the language, and the aborigines joined in to get asylum. It is okay to talk to ordinary soldiers, but they are afraid that some of them will cause trouble.

So Zhu Hao added a sentence afterwards: "If someone makes trouble, the military law should be enforced immediately, and heavy codes should be used in troubled times."

"clear."

What Lu Song wanted was Zhu Hao's military orders.

The Jinyiwei under his command is one of the few teams with strict military discipline in this team, which is equivalent to a supervisory team, and Lu Song still has to come out to support the scene at critical times.

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For the next period of time, about a month or so, Zhu Hao did not expand easily.

However, Zhu Hao got a general understanding of the current situation from Jingjing Er... Generally speaking, the surrounding indigenous city-states have basically been wiped out by European colonists. The city of Jingjing Er belongs to the western part of Central America, far away from Europe The colonists landed in the direction, and this area is not very rich, the European colonists just came to plunder, and have not come back for more than a year.

This in disguise tells Zhu Hao that if he wants to set up camp locally, this is an excellent opportunity.

But for Zhu Hao, resting and recuperating is not a good idea.

Whether it is planting or mining, it requires manpower, and more importantly, the accumulation of resources. Now, in addition to the basic wood and fresh water, the resources in this place depend on the supplies brought by the ship. For silver and other items, no veins have been found so far, so they cannot be produced.

The iron ore and coal mines that Zhu Hao is interested in also require a large number of people to explore and excavate.

In the past month, it was almost time for Zhu Hao to build a strong city. With nearly 4 people on his own, and the 5000 people brought by Jingjing Er, he built a city with strong barriers from scratch, and with this As a basis, civilian houses were built in the city, as well as docks and piers by the sea that could be attacked, retreated and defended, and artillery was also erected in place.

"My lord, are we going to stay here forever?"

Lou Suzhen is highly motivated to conquer the New World.

She seemed to see that this piece of land was vast and boundless, so big that it might be comparable to the territory of Ming Dynasty. This was just her initial impression, and Lou Suzhen felt that there were opportunities everywhere in such a barren land.

Zhu Haodao: "Didn't the Fanmin say it all, only the places near the west coast have fewer white people coming here. If we want to go inland, we will definitely meet the Frangji colonists and a series of fierce battles will occur. Our biggest problem is where we are. Being overseas, we cannot replenish our troops.”

Lou Suzhen asked: "Could it be that those foreigners have a steady stream of soldiers?"

Zhu Hao sighed: "They are used to being robbers, and they may face problems in their own survival, so they loot everywhere. On this land, they should have more people than us, but whether they can be integrated is another matter, but in the next few days In [-], we will definitely encounter repeated attacks, and it would be too embarrassing not to launch a counterattack across the board before we develop to a certain scale."

Lou Suzhen said: "This is the reason why the young master wants to establish a firm foothold before expanding, isn't it?"

"Ah."

Zhu Hao nodded, "This is our last bastion... If the army is defeated, the food and other materials we currently have are not enough to support us to return to Daming. At that time, the army's morale will be weak and the soldiers will have no fighting spirit. The last support, build the strongest fortress of Ming Dynasty in the New World!"

Lou Suzhen said: "I don't know much about fighting, but I can still hold this city."

"it is good."

Zhu Hao originally planned to hand over the administrative affairs in the city to Lou Suzhen.

Organizing residents including the aborigines to reclaim wasteland, grow food, let women spin and weave cloth, etc., all need to be planned and handed over to people for execution. Zhu Hao brought spinning machines and looms, and there are ready-made ones in the local area. Wooden materials are used to make some simple textile machines, and Central America is rich in cotton and has a continuous supply of wool, so it can take the lead in developing the textile industry... However, all the rich tools need to use steel, which is what Zhu Hao must solve at present Trouble.

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As the Ming Dynasty pioneering team stationed in the coastal area of ​​the west coast of Central America, the aboriginals discovered the arrival of "uninvited guests". Zhu Hao asked Jing Jinger to send people to mobilize and contact the aborigines that could be found around, and let them join the city. Actual actions told them that the reclamation team of the Ming Dynasty was fundamentally different from the European colonists.

Zhu Hao's purpose is to complete the rapid accumulation of human resources, so he is more kind to the indigenous people.

It's just more benevolent.

It is impossible to completely treat people equally, and it is difficult to twist into a single rope just because of the language barrier. The terrible thing is that these indigenous people have the survival resources needed by the Ming Dynasty's reclamation team, such as food, women, etc., so there are still some contradictions between the two sides. .

Soon, there was a response.

"There are a few surviving citizens of the city-state. They want to send someone over to check the situation here. They are living very hard now... It seems that they have no other choice but to migrate!"

Jing Jinger asked Ah Da to convey his meaning to Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao probably understands the predicament that Jingjinger and the surrounding Aztecs are facing. Either stay where they are, and the European colonists will continue to come and harass them. Once they come, they will experience a bloodbath, and the ethnic group may be destroyed at any time.

They have two options.

Either continue to hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and break them into pieces.

Either the tribe as a whole migrates north or south, but even if they migrate, it is difficult to avoid the approaching European colonists, unless they go to a more desolate place, but if they do so, they will probably have conflicts with other tribes because of the survival resources. There was a terrible war.

Now Zhu Hao gave them a third option, which was to find the Daming team as their backer.

Unlike Jingjing Er who was directly defeated by Zhu Hao's army, those aborigines who had never fought against the Ming army were unwilling to hand over their fate to a group of foreign colonists. There is no essential difference, because they are all here to plunder them.

"There are two small tribes who really can't survive. They have already joined them. There are a total of 200 people..."

There are only 200 people in the two tribes.

Zhu Hao really wanted to say that the population of this village is not even as large as that of a Daming village.

However, with these two tribes taking the initiative to join, it was finally a good start.

Zhu Hao immediately called Lu Song and his son and Guan Dezhao over to discuss the next move.

"There is a big river to the south along the coastline, and many indigenous tribes live along the river. What we have to do is to send troops and horses, go deep inland along the river, and sweep the surrounding castles. The next point is to do Understand the movements of the Frangbots, design to attract them, and choose a place to complete the first battle with them!"

It has been a month since the troops led by Zhu Hao landed, but there are still no European colonists.

Obviously, the European colonists would not have thought that there would be such a newly emerging coastal city near the west coast in the dense forest.

Europeans are busy plundering all over the Americas, and don't care about those places that don't look very rich in a short time.

Zhu Hao also has his own plan.

It is best to use the city-states of the aborigines to attract Europeans to attack, and then suddenly break out to give the European colonists a disarm. After both sides know each other's existence, then in the next year or two, the two sides will fight very frequently .

Europeans have advanced weapons such as firecrackers and artillery, and have a certain degree of war power.

The top priority, Zhu Hao, is to quickly find the iron mines and coal mines. Although he knows the location of some mines in Central America, they seem to be some distance away from the landing point. However, walking inland along the river, there is a silver mine and a mine. It is a small coal mine, and even the local aborigines know to use superficial coal for cooking.

The banks of the river are the places where the aborigines like to live most.

"Before the end of the year, the coal mines and silver mines will be destroyed, and then we will gather enough grain for the winter." Zhu Hao said his plan.

Lu Song said: "I heard from those Fanmin that those executioners with blond or red hair, fair skin, and tall stature don't rob food very much, but come for their silver and gold."

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "That's because the food production here is too high, and a lot of it can't be taken away. For robbers, taking away food is not as cost-effective as taking away gold and silver. After all, food is too heavy. But for us , Food is the necessary condition for survival, only a steady stream of food and people can allow us to gain a firm foothold here, but gold and silver are temporarily secondary."

(End of this chapter)