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Chapter 1073 Head-to-head confrontation
Before the battle with the European colonists, the Ming reclamation team led by Zhu Hao will not encounter any danger.

This is the west coast, which itself is the favorite migration area for Native Americans who escaped from European colonists. Zhu Hao belongs to the sweet dates and sticks. It didn't take much effort to find a lot of tribal gathering places.

As the reclamation team of the Ming Dynasty entered the inland, a dry desert was soon discovered in the northeast, which made the exploring army of the Ming Dynasty somewhat uncomfortable.

After exploration, it was found that about a hundred miles to the northeast, the forest suddenly disappeared here, and a large area of ​​Gobi and desert bordered it. Zhu Hao knew very well that the terrain of Central America is basically high in the middle, flat from east to west, and deeper inland , the more mountains there are, the more difficult it is for the aborigines to survive here, so this direction is ordered to be a secondary exploration area.

So the focus of exploration was naturally placed in the south.

In the next two months, Zhu Hao's troops followed the river known as the Santiago River in later generations, and carried out carpet-like sweeps upstream.

As they went deeper into the land step by step, the Ming army gradually gained a firm foothold.

More indigenous tribes were conquered, and many tribes joined voluntarily. The indigenous population successfully exceeded [-]. This put pressure on the Ming's reclamation team to manage the tribes.

In mid-November, Su Xigui moved from the landing place "Bridgehead" to the No. [-] settlement near the mouth of the Santiago River where Zhu Hao is located. This place has been named "New City" by Zhu Hao. This city was rebuilt on the basis of an indigenous city-state made.

The old city-state has been used by the natives, and the Ming soldiers and horses were stationed on the side closer to the hills in the lower reaches. Relying on the coastal hills with an altitude of more than 200 meters, a city wall was built on three sides for protection, and a dock and wharf were built in the city.

Food is basically nothing to worry about now.

On the one hand, the fishermen of the Ming Dynasty's reclamation team have the most advanced boats and fishing tools of this era, which can provide a large amount of fish; These natives did not complain about the taxation of the grain harvest. Instead, they hoped to be protected by the Ming army. Compared with the cruelty of the European colonists, the Ming army was simply a benevolent army. There has not been any large-scale violence or bloodshed until now.

This is also related to the fact that the Ming army was born as a "good citizen". In addition, Zhu Hao strictly restrained the army. The pioneers of Daming still wanted to return to Daming to enjoy the blessings after overseas gold panning. The cost of crime was too high. worthy.

However, the European colonists used bloody methods to plunder, and most of the people who came to the New World to pan for gold were desperadoes, ambitious, and bloodthirsty. Almost every region conquered is a one-kill.

"There are tens of thousands of people, all of whom are black-eyed, black-haired and yellow-skinned natives. If they can be brought back to Daming..."

When Su Xigui saw Zhu Hao, he felt as if he was here for human trafficking.

Zhu Hao asked: "Why did you bring these aborigines back to Daming? Sell them? Or leave them to you as tenants?"

Su Xigui smiled, he naturally knew that these people were the foundation of a strong colony.

"Little Master, I heard that the raiding team has found coal mines and iron mines?" Su Xigui came here mainly because he wanted to get an official position in Zhu Hao's hands.

So far, Su Xigui is just an ordinary businessman beside Zhu Hao, and gets along more as a friend, and Zhu Hao has not entrusted him with any position, and when he set off for the New World, Zhu Hao promised that in the future, with the city, Su Xigui can be As the city lord, he is responsible for external liaison and business affairs.

It turned out that after arriving, they found out that this continent is full of aborigines, who belong to the subjects of conquest, so why do they need to do business?
Slowly he became anxious. Under Zhu Hao's leadership, the most important thing is to gain power. After all, he can be regarded as the "Founding Father". Now he can only be marginalized more and more if he continues like this.

Zhu Hao said: "The mine has been opened, and the quality of the iron ore is not bad, but the quality of the locally produced coal is quite mediocre. According to the refugees who escaped from the upper reaches of the river, there are high-quality coal mines on the east coast, but it is a pity that they were taken away by Francois." The people have taken over... If we want to go to rob the coal mine, we must have a conflict with the Frangji people."

Zhu Hao was in no hurry to confront the European colonists.

Now that coal and iron mines have been found, even if the quality of the coal is not good, the surrounding forest resources are extremely rich, and there is no problem in burning charcoal and making steel. In addition, a large number of indigenous people have joined, and the manpower is much more abundant. The conditions for the development of industry and agriculture are already available. It is necessary to develop more plantations on the basis of the establishment of steel plants to ensure the survival of the population.

Of course, expanding territory needs to be done at the same time.

Unlike the European colonists, Zhu Hao didn't come here just to shoot and leave. His main purpose was to plunder, but to operate for a long time. Occupying and managing the territory was equally important to him.

"Su Dongzhu, normal commercial activities have begun in the city. At present, some tribes in the south have not yet sent troops to attack. The population of each tribe there may only be one or two thousand. I want to focus on recruiting security and gradually strengthen my own strength. But then As we take root here, the Frangji who heard the news should come to loot before the twelfth lunar month, and a fierce battle will inevitably be fought."

Zhu Hao meant that if you are afraid of death, you should go back to the "bridgehead" first, as the rear base camp there is relatively safer.

Su Xigui sighed: "Ever since I came here, I've been spending time with my family, drinking and drinking, and my life has been so muddled, it kind of feels like I'm drunk now... Sigh, it's impossible to go down like this. If you’re alive, you still have to find something for yourself to do.”

Zhu Hao thought to himself, others are working hard, but you bring your family, and the singer and dancer you bought back, enjoying life on the boat moored at the port all day long, how embarrassing you?
But who made you my big benefactor?
It seems unrealistic to expect the sponsor to fight with you. Anyway, you can't help much if you have one more person. It's actually good for you to continue to eat and wait for death.

"Little Master, what do we need most now? Is there anything I can help you with?"

Su Xigui finally has some sense of responsibility now.

Zhu Hao said: "There is a shortage of people."

Su Xigui asked in surprise: "Ah, including our own people, there are already more than 8 people, is there still a shortage?"

Zhu Hao nodded: "It's very short, it's better to give me another 1000 million people, maybe I won't worry about the lack of manpower... We want to build a country here from scratch, I am the king, you are the duke, of course we Now that I can't get the imperial seal from the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, I don't need the imperial seal when I look back..."

"understand."

Su Xigui suddenly became full of energy.

After several months of wandering at sea, when he arrived on land, he found that this place is a virgin jungle where the fur and blood drink blood. This made him feel disheartened and rested for three months. Only now did he come up with a shrewd mind of a businessman and prepare to do great things with Zhu Hao .

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Just as Zhu Hao expected.

As Zhu Hao took over the indigenous tribes around the San Diego River, the European colonists seemed to feel threatened, and their own goal was to wipe out all the Central American indigenous tribes on the west coast, and slowly migrate the white people over. occupy.

For the convenience of preparing for the war, Zhu Hao personally led the troops from the "New City" to the inland.

This time he brought 2 people.

Except for the 1 Ming troops and [-] artisans and their families, the remaining [-] people are native youths. Their purpose is to occupy a city that originally belonged to the local aboriginals, but they had to abandon it because of the approach of European colonists.

From the descriptions of the indigenous people, Zhu Hao probably knew that this should be the embryonic form of Guadalajara, the second largest city in Mexico in later generations.

Zhu Hao knew that Guadalajara was officially occupied by the Spaniards in 1532, that is, eight years later, in the 11th year of Jiajing, and the Spaniards established a relatively stable rule in this area.

With this time as a reference, Zhu Hao finally recalled that it was also eight years later that the Spaniards discovered the Inca Empire on the west coast of South America, and the indigenous population of the Inca Empire now exceeds 1000 million. To Zhu Hao, this is true. treasure.

Zhu Hao once thought about replicating the feat of more than 100 Spaniards attacking the Indo-Canadian Empire.

But for him, attacking the Indo-Canadian Empire was not in too much of a hurry. Back then, the Spaniards had to face all the rookies, and Zhu Hao had to face the bloodthirsty Spaniards. Naturally, the level of difficulty couldn't be compared.

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After more than ten days of marching, the party arrived in the town of Guadalajara.

Now there is only a small city, which has been deserted for at least three or four years. The surrounding fields are very fertile, but they are all barren.

The atrocities of the European colonists caused the natives to suffer the greatest disaster. With the sharp drop in population, they lacked confidence in the political system based on ethnic groups. More people chose to flee to the west coast, and many people directly migrated to the east. The slavery of European colonists...

After the European colonists discovered this continent, their favorite thing to do was to open silver mines.

The silver production in Central America is the highest in the world.

Silver itself cannot make weapons, which makes silver of little value in the Americas, but as a precious metal, it has become the most popular treasure of Europeans.

After Zhu Hao arrived in the town with his people, it took more than ten days to repair, heighten and reinforce the city wall with cement, and reopen a nearby silver mine. Then Zhu Hao sent troops to go south for about a hundred miles. , When we arrived at Lake Chapala, there were several small towns built by the aborigines on the freshwater lake. Zhu Hao planned to recruit all those townspeople, so that the population would increase by another 2 to [-] people.

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Zhu Hao's move to build a city in Guadalajara inevitably attracted the attention of European colonists.

Zhu Hao personally led troops to garrison the city for less than a month, when the natives came to report that there were Caucasian people riding tall horses, driving towards the new city of Guadalajara.

The Europeans didn’t seem to realize that it was the Ming army that reoccupied Guadalajara. They only sent a team of less than 200 people, but they brought nearly [-] natives to carry food, ammunition and wine for them. By the way Help them transport their loot back to the towns on the east coast.

"The scouts have found them, and they are about 250 miles away from us."

Lu Bing followed Zhu Hao to Guadalajara.

Originally, Lu Bing was also sent to attack the tribes around Lake Chapala, but unfortunately he learned of the emergency military situation before going out, and it happened to be a head-on confrontation with the Europeans.

Zhu Hao said: "Take [-] cavalry and hide in the nearby forest. Let's close the door and beat the dogs. From now on, this city will serve as a front-line fortress against the Frangji, so once the war breaks out, we can't let them go back alive! I I will sit in the city, wait for them to arrive, and let them figure out who is the master of the New World with cannons and blunderbusses!"

(End of this chapter)