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Chapter 1089 Huge Plan

The Great Steelmaking Movement of the Inca Empire was in full swing.

The west coast of South America has the first railway. Against this background, the admiration of the Inca Empire for the "territory directly under the jurisdiction of the gods" is increasing day by day.

With SF City as the center, a rich area with a radius of about [-] kilometers has been formed, which has become a representative of South American civilization.

Zhu Hao signed a treaty with Emperor Huaina and the Inca Empire behind him, and this area was legally determined to belong to Zhu Hao.

In the name of the gods, Zhu Hao included this area in his territory...

In fact, signing this kind of agreement has no practical significance. It is more to appease the people of the Inca Empire, so that the people of the Inca Empire feel that the Ming army will follow the rules no matter what they do, and even if they invade their territory, they will reason with them.

This can also make them temporarily relieved that Zhu Hao is not interested in their other territories.

Not long after, Luo Fei came to SF City again, and this time she came as the Crown Prince of the Inca Empire.

As far as Zhu Hao knew, because of the arrival of the Ming army, there were great differences within the Inca Empire. Luo Fei wandered among the dignitaries, seeking support everywhere, and finally became the regent of the Inca Empire as a daughter.

This move seems to have won the acquiescence of her father Vaina, and there are many nobles of the Inca Empire behind Luo Fei. It may be that those nobles feel that Luo Fei has a good relationship with Zhu Hao and can be protected by the gods. At the same time, a woman is in power , they are easier to control.

"We've found a lot of deposits, but they're far away."

In order to show her status as the crown prince of the Inca Empire, Luo Fei was quite careful in doing things for Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao said: "I have sent people to investigate some of the mines you introduced before, and found that most of them have very low reserves, and some are far-fetched. It is not worth sending people to mine at all."

Zhu Hao has been working hard to find new ore veins in South America, but the progress has not been good. The iron mine he has discovered so far is about 1000 miles away from SF City, in the middle of a mountain with an altitude of more than [-] meters, and the reserves are not ideal. A good way is to let the people of the Inca Empire organize the mining, but Zhu Hao doesn't want to give the formed technology.

After all, he has not completely tamed the Inca Empire yet, and as a foreigner, if the Inca Empire masters the iron-smelting technology, millions of people will take up iron weapons and rise up to resist, that is definitely not what Zhu Hao wants to see scene.

Even if iron weapons were to be given to the Incas, they could only be bestowed by him, instead of allowing the Inca Empire to master the smelting technology by itself.

With a tense face, Luo Fei said: "We are willing to offer more Sangku, and we only hope that the gods will bring us more technology. After all, we also want to obtain magic weapons."

Sangku is cornmeal.

In South America, corn is mainly ground into flour and made into food such as steamed buns. Now that the rice and flour brought from Ming Dynasty have run out, only the rice and wheat produced in the American continent are used. If they can eat refined grains, most of the time they have to rely on corn bread to satisfy their hunger.

Luo Fei made no secret of her ambition to obtain iron smelting technology. Now everyone in the Inca Empire has seen that if they want to improve the strength of their ethnic group, they must have technological innovation. It is obviously not right to ask the Ming army for firearms. In fact, in the eyes of the Inca Empire, firearms are artifacts that only gods can possess, and mortals cannot master this kind of technology.

But the Incas themselves had the technology of smelting bronze. They knew that iron could be made by manpower, just like the newly built railway was made of iron, and they wanted to master this technology very much.

Zhu Hao said: "What you get depends entirely on the guidance of the gods. Now you still do your duty as a faithful believer to the gods. I need more people to help me open the mine. The manpower given to me before is far from enough. I need you to send more people now." 30 people come... around Tucheng, I will build two smaller cities again, and let the newcomers live there."

When Zhu Hao met Luo Fei this time, he mainly wanted someone from Luo Fei.

Now Zhu Hao seems to control a lot of natives. SF City alone has a population of nearly 20, but the number of people will be less when they are used. You must know that the mining working environment in mining cities, coal cities and other places is extremely harsh, and you cannot expect the same A group of people have been working continuously inside, and they need to be replaced from time to time.

This is also for the sake of long-term development, and people cannot be used up at once!According to Zhu Hao's vision, the best time for each miner to work is four months a year, and the rest of the time is for them to farm and restore their spirit and physical strength. He can pick out some of the essence to form an army.

Now Zhu Hao needs about [-] new miners, plus about [-] new workers, in order to ensure the continuous expansion of the industrial scale and meet various steel needs.

In this way, Zhu Hao needs to have 70 million strong men at his disposal. In addition to the old and young behind these strong men, the number of residents in his territory should be maintained at more than 150 million.

But now in his territory, the total population is just over 30, which is a huge gap.

"We can no longer bring in people because we don't have enough people."

Luo Fei didn't get the ironmaking technology she wanted, so naturally she didn't want to hand it over to Zhu Hao.

If all the people were sent here, without Zhu Hao sending troops to destroy them, they would have destroyed the country first. Now the top leaders of the Inca Empire are still strictly restricting the migration of the population to the coastline, trying their best to keep the people on the land under their jurisdiction.

Zhu Hao said with a dark face: "This is not a discussion with you, but an order. I heard that some of your lords have united [-] soldiers and horses, preparing to resist the rule of the gods.

"Go back and tell them that if you don't submit to me, I will send troops to kill them directly! Who will dominate this country in the future, I can only decide, and you can't decide for yourself!"

Luo Fei looked at Zhu Hao with resentful eyes, but she couldn't do anything, stomped her feet after a long while, and left with a sad face.

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After Luo Fei left, Lou Suzhen came out from behind the screen.

She shook her head and said, "I didn't expect these aborigine women to be so tough and have weird looks. It seems that even if they are of the same race, they are still very different."

Zhu Hao didn't expect that Lou Suzhen would be interested in Luo Fei's appearance.

"Is it different? I think it's pretty much the same." Zhu Hao said with a smile, "Looking at the soldiers in the army, they all regard the women here as ordinary Han women."

It is different, but it is just that aristocrats like Luo Fei are different from ordinary people. Even if ordinary women are different from Daming women in terms of living habits, their appearance and skin color are the closest. Daming followed Zhu Hao to the sea. Men, married or not, are now accompanied by at least one woman from the Aztecs or the Inca Empire.

These women mainly light the fire and cook for them. Of course, they also provide some help in the family atmosphere, and they will communicate with each other.

But Zhu Hao knew that the lieutenants of the Ming Army looked down on these foreign women. After all, language communication was difficult. There were many dialects in the Inca Empire. In terms of writing... most of the lieutenants of the Ming Army were illiterate. Not the kind of man who would take care of women.

Rather than marrying a foreign woman back home, it is better to find a maid or mother-in-law who is responsible for taking care of their daily life.

"Before the end of this year, we will open the two mines that we have explored in the south by ourselves. I will lead my troops to sweep around there. In the next three to five years, we will build ten mines on the west coast of the mainland that are roughly equivalent to SF City. In a big city, the number of people under its jurisdiction exceeds 300 million, and those Fulangji people will be completely driven out of the New World."

Zhu Hao and Lou Suzhen roughly explained their plan.

It is impossible for him to stay in SF City all the time. For him, time is life. He needs to complete the climbing of the technology tree in the shortest possible time. The colonization of South America cannot always be limited to such a small place.

The expansion of the territory will allow him to have more areas for him to tax, more people to attach to him, and more sites for him to build cities and rely on these cities to resist European colonists.

When everything is on the right track, his vision will no longer be limited to this corner of the American continent, and then he will go to conquer the whole world.

Lou Suzhen said: "The battle line is too long. I don't know how big the New World is, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to conquer it all in ten or eight years. Will it be three to five years? Enough?"

Zhu Hao nodded: "Some primitive places can only be conquered in the future, and now the main thing is to occupy the rich coastal areas, these places will serve as bridgeheads against the Frangji people.

"Daming's expansion in the New World can't expect to build more railways to connect various places, and the transportation of goods mainly depends on ships, so you see...ships are being built in the south and north, and now we have more than [-] large ships alone.

"In terms of weapons, although the production of steel has been successfully increased, I still need to manufacture more black powder and yellow powder to supply the needs of the army. Now everyone in the army has more than two firearms, and the number of artillery has reached There are about five thousand doors..."

Zhu Hao roughly told Lou Suzhen about his family background.

Only then did Lou Suzhen know how much Zhu Hao had done in the Inca Empire.

The New World is like a treasure that has never been discovered. In the past, no one has ever developed iron ore, and no one has used coal. Now tens of thousands of people are fighting for the same goal. This is more than when Zhu Hao was in Daming. Industrial accumulation is much easier.

"Daming's side, is the young master really ignoring it?"

Lou Suzhen asked another question.

Since she came here, she has been helping Zhu Hao with administrative matters, and she is very aware of the obsession of the whole army with returning home.

Over time, this obsession will gradually deepen.

Zhu Hao said: "If possible, I'm going to transport two ships of silver back to exchange with His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty for the family members of overseas people."

"exchange?"

Lou Suzhen was surprised.

"Ah."

Zhu Hao nodded, "On the grounds that silver mines are being mined overseas and there is a shortage of manpower, the soldiers can't just go home. After all, we brought out less than 4 people. You said that if we sent back 1000 million taels of silver at one time, the ships Stop on the island and send envoys to negotiate with His Majesty, His Majesty should think more about it, right?"

(End of this chapter)