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Chapter 1094 Ship Age
Zhu Hao started the Southern Conquest and Northern War mode in Central and North America.

At present, the troops are only divided into two groups. Lu Bing is heading for the vast North American region, while Zhu Hao is leading troops to sweep the east coast of Central America. In addition to occupying a large silver mine, he also took down several small silver mines. Zhu Hao doesn't need the small silver mines at the moment, what he has to do is to temporarily close these silver mines, and some even blow them up directly.

What he needs more now are iron ore and coal mines.

At the same time, he also needs to explore and mine some brand-new minerals, such as phosphate rock, sulfur rock, trona, limestone, mirabilite, saltpeter, etc., to produce chemical products and complete industrial accumulation. The technology tree does not only need iron and coal, but also many minerals that are not in great demand at the moment, but will be crucial in the future.

In addition, it is necessary to train a group of craftsmen to let some experiments start under his leadership.

Before the end of the year, Zhu Hao killed two rounds back and forth along the Gulf of Mexico, so that most of Central America fell into his hands, and the Europeans have not launched a decent counterattack so far.

Su Xigui led more than [-] people to the east coast. He will organize his manpower to build three relatively large cities along the coast, and set up artillery on the walls and bastions for defense.

"Little master, this new continent is boundless, maybe the territory of the Ming Dynasty is not as vast as this side?"

Su Xigui used to be short-sighted, and only saw the one-third of an acre of land on the west coast, but after living in the Chang'an Valley, and there are still so many territories, Su Xigui's eyes began to shine.

Zhu Haodao: "The territory of Daming is really not as vast as this side. More importantly, this is a wild land, like a piece of white paper, and we can completely govern it according to the ideas in our hearts."

Rules and regulations are not important to Su Xigui, what he wants is to make money, or to complete the accumulation of capital here.

Some of Su Xigui's qualities are very similar to Zhu Hao's. The greatest ideal in his heart is independence. In the Ming Dynasty, as a merchant, he had no chance to be in politics. All he could have was silver. Wealth will be wiped away.

Su Xigui now has a lot of territory in his hands and controls the lifelines of more than a hundred thousand people. Isn't this much better than catering to people everywhere in Daming?
"In the three cities, I can only leave [-] officers and soldiers and [-] militiamen to garrison. There is currently only one shipyard here, and there are not many ready-made ships, and it will take time to build and expand the shipyard, so it is impossible to build large ships in a short time Come to fight, but this place will soon become the frontier for fighting and fighting with Western bandits."

Originally, Su Xigui thought that Zhu Hao had driven away the invaders, and that he came to the east coast to receive benefits.

Back then in Daming, he invested in Zhu Hao going overseas, and now it's finally time for him to collect returns.

In the end, he realized that this place is the real crisis. Regardless of the large population on the east coast, the city has begun to be built. It seems that it is quite impressive to rule such a large area, but now he understands that this is just before the storm. The tranquility.

It may not be long before the European colonists will make a comeback, and the next time they come, they will no longer make small troubles. They may bring hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of soldiers in one go.

It is simply difficult to resist the few half-built cities along the coast.

"That idiot..."

Su Xigui wanted to run away when he heard it.

I probably think that Chang'an City is a safer place, and now that valley has gathered a population of 10,000+, it seems to be a super city-state.

Su Xigui almost enjoyed the treatment of a Tang Dynasty envoy there, integrating administrative and military powers in one body, why bother to come here to wade through the muddy waters?

Zhu Hao said: "Master Su, don't back down, I will leave you another [-] aboriginal soldiers, and equip them with the necessary iron weapons. All the forts and fortresses will be repaired for you. Rear support is always available. Keep up, if there is a war at the same time, you only need to stick to the city, and I will personally lead troops to reinforce."

"Uh……"

Su Xigui probably didn't want to stay.

Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Think about the fertile land here. Although you are near the coastline, there are hundreds of miles of land behind you. Now I officially entrust it to you, and you will be the ruler of this land. The Duke of a piece of land...I will now make you the Duke of Zhen Guo, what do you think?"

"Ha ha……"

Su Xigui didn't feel very honored when he heard that he was conferred the title of "Duke of the Town". He felt that Zhu Hao, as an official of the Ming Dynasty who was almost exiled, was not qualified to confer him a title at all.

Su Xigui asked: "What does Xiao Dangjia mean... are we going to start the country now?"

Zhu Hao said: "I have this idea, but we also need to ask the Emperor Ming for his opinion."

"Ask?"

Su Xigui didn't understand what Zhu Hao's words meant.

Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Of course it is to send a fleet back to Daming... In my opinion, in about two years, we will be able to bring back a team with a size of a thousand ships. Going to the capital, how about we go together and ask at that time?"

"This... can it work?"

Su Xigui knew for a long time that Zhu Hao had disobedience, so he was not surprised by this.

He knew that Zhu Hao had the support of so many natives now, if he really relied on this group of people to attack Daming, maybe Zhu Hao would be able to succeed.

Zhu Haodao: "We went back to reason, and we didn't want to be a traitor or traitor to Ming Dynasty. What are you afraid of?"

"Young master, we are all overseas now, so there's no need to hide it? Don't you want to be the emperor of Ming Dynasty?" Su Xigui asked.

"You mean I'm going to be the emperor? Why not let someone else do it, and I'm one level above them?"

Zhu Hao asked back with a smile.

Su Xigui nodded: "That is to coerce the emperor to command the princes!"

Zhu Hao didn't answer.

It depends on what Su Xigui thinks.

Zhu Haozheng had this idea.

Kill Zhu Si directly?
There's no need for that at all, besides, he must be confident that he can take down the huge territory that Daming gave him?Now the main force under his command is all the people of Ming Dynasty. It doesn't mean that if he brings back the weapons and equipment that is ahead of the times, he will definitely win.

"Young Master, I will take over the position of the Lord of the Town."

Su Xigui really doesn't want to leave now. With Zhu Hao's canonization, it means that he can settle down here. The territory is so large that it is even more vast than a province of Daming, and he will take care of it all. And hand it over to him to command, and you can recruit new native soldiers in the future.

This is simply the life of a fairy.

It's just that the population is a little less, because such a large area must have exceeded millions or even millions in Dingkou of Daming, but now even including the natives he brought and the Aztecs who already existed in the area, The total population is about 20.

Zhu Hao said: "It's up to you now, I'm going to the south. After about half a year, I will come back to check the situation. I believe that in the next six months, it is unlikely that the enemy will come from the east. This half year is just for you development period.

"After the workshop here is built, we must hurry up to cast muskets and cannons. The other iron mine and the two coal mines must be well managed. I will migrate about 20 people in batches in the future!"

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Zhu Hao wants to complete a large immigration in the Americas.

Central America was severely overwhelmed by the European colonists. Zhu Hao knew that if he wanted to fully develop the mineral treasure house in Central America, he must have enough manpower.

It's just that the population of the Inca Empire is very large, and there shouldn't be any problem with a migration of tens of thousands of people.

Unlike Ming people who have a strong rural complex, Native American tribes have developed slowly through long-term migration. For them, even if they have a rural complex, they are still willing to make changes as long as they have better living conditions. of.

Central America is full of fertile soil, Zhu Hao has no reason to let it go barren.

In the future, the entire Americas will be his territory. He needs to complete the migration between tribes, or population thinning, and divide the people in areas with insufficient living resources to every corner of this fertile land, and let them manage it. At the same time, complete their own evolution And development.

If we give about 100 years to develop to the fifth generation, Zhu Hao believes that the population of the Americas can be increased by about three or four times, and we will not be afraid of insufficient population by then.

But the problem is that Zhu Hao doesn't have such a long lifespan, and he doesn't have that much time to squander.

The best solution is still... immigration.

The next thing he wants to move over is the people of Daming, whose population is almost saturated on the land of Huaxia.

Conquering the world is not just lip service.

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When Zhu Hao returned to the new city on the west coast with his troops, the project of casting a large iron ship had come to an end.

A large iron ship with a displacement of more than [-] tons, with the concerted efforts of tens of thousands of craftsmen, basically has the ability to launch. Only some repairs are still being made on the deck of the ship. The giant cannon has been erected, and the range exceeds five miles. It is also equipped with various small cannons.

Using coal-burning steam turbines, Zhu Hao preliminarily calculated that the speed of this large iron ship could reach more than fifteen knots. For this era, such a magnificent iron ship is equivalent to a mobile fortress on the sea. With the current world's technology As far as he is concerned, the possibility of sinking this giant ship is extremely slim.

Unless there are hundreds of cannons that use solid shells at close range for dozens of rounds in a row, and do not make any repairs and reinforcements after the cabin is flooded, it is possible for the ship to flood and sink.

But according to Zhu Hao's understanding, if it weren't for the artillery he invented, they would not be able to scuttle the ship even if they were given a chance by relying on the existing artillery of various countries.

The big iron boat has not been launched for the time being, and Zhu Hao just can take a rest in the new city. He estimates that he can set off before the end of the year and arrive at SF City in South America at the beginning of next year.

Before that, Zhu Hao had sent a team of fifty boats to transport some resources from the north to the south, and at the same time brought over five thousand newly trained Ming soldiers.

In this way, Zhu Hao has the military power to completely conquer the Inca Empire, and then he can divide his troops into four or five groups, and within a year or two, include the entire Inca Empire into the overseas territory created by him, a Han.

(End of this chapter)