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Chapter 1098 City Building Movement
Zhu Si ordered Luo An to go to Zhejiang to cooperate with Lu Wan to complete the shipbuilding and sailing matters.

When Luo An arrived at the boundary of Zhejiang Province, it was already November in the fifth year of Jiajing, and the battle between the officers and soldiers of the southeast coastal guards and the pirates had just started. Lu Wan got the news from the army and rushed back on a fast boat. , the two met at the command post in Haining Weicheng in Jiaxing Prefecture.

"Lu Zhongcheng, His Majesty's intention is to quickly build ten large ships, equipped with the necessary artillery, firecrackers and other firearms. Each ship will carry six hundred sailors, and a total of six thousand soldiers will go to sea."

What Luo An conveyed to Lu Wan was the oral order of Emperor Jiajing.

Lu Wan heard some unusual meanings, and immediately asked: "Your Majesty wants me to follow in Zhu Xueshi's footsteps and go overseas?"

Luo An didn't know how to answer.

Obviously, Emperor Jiajing asked Lu Wan to prepare [-] soldiers and horses this time because he saw that Zhu Hao had only [-] soldiers in the guard when he went to sea. To be able to "catch" Zhu Hao back, after all, not everyone under Zhu Hao is willing to follow him all the way to the dark.

It was precisely because of this implication that Lu Wan asked this question.

Lu Wan asked again: "I don't know how much time to prepare for this minister?"

"Before summer comes next year." Luo An said.

Lu Wan sighed and said: "The people who went to sea before have not heard from them until now. Their families are desperate and anxious, and there are many complaints in the southeast coastal areas. It went smoothly. Moreover, the sea people have been moving inland for a long time, and many of the guards along the coast have never boarded a ship, so it is difficult to withstand the turbulence of the wind and waves, and it may be difficult to adapt to drifting at sea in time."

Luo An frowned unceasingly: "Lu Zhongcheng, you won't resist the order, will you? Now His Majesty has greeted the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry, and the Bank will transfer to Jinling, Dinghai and other shipyards as soon as possible. You just build big ships and obey orders Just send troops."

Lu Wan hesitated for a moment, and said euphemistically: "But before Bachelor Zhu went to sea, he had taken away the shipbuilders from the major shipyards, I'm afraid..."

"It's man-made."

Even if Luo An wanted to act like an imperial envoy and threaten Lu Wan into submitting, he also understood that many things could not be forced. Now he said he wanted to build a ship and go to sea, but Lu Wan had no staff or supplies at present. How could it be so easy?
Anyway, the scheduled time to go to sea is half a year later, and Luo An is only responsible for supervising the shipbuilding, which can actually keep him away from the right and wrong of the capital's officialdom for a while.

Luo An has a gentle personality and is happy with the situation. He is not the kind of person who will use any means to climb up the ladder. Staying in Zhejiang can actually steal half a day of leisure.

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Daming is already preparing to go to sea. Although Lu Wan doesn't want to implement it, but after all, the emperor's order is in his body, no matter how reluctant he must act.

But the shipbuilding was really not going well, mainly because Zhu Hao took away all the skilled craftsmen who built the ship, and in the past two years, most of the wars against Japanese pirates in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places were by land, even if they needed to be cleared by boats Offshore islands, the ships used are also old ships built by Zhu Hao. They can only transport troops and cannot fight at sea. There is no problem in offshore navigation.

The shipbuilding and sea missions before Lu Wan are facing severe challenges - it is not whether the coastal guards can mobilize the [-] troops, the key is that no one is willing to go.

America at this time.

Zhu Hao set off again with his troops. This time his goal was Central America. He wanted to reoccupy the increasingly desolate Panama and build a city in the east and west of this area as a transit point connecting Central America and South America.

Occupying the Panama region has another meaning. He intends to use this as the center to radiate the surrounding territories and major coastal cities. In addition to completing the promotion of plantations and gathering indigenous people from all over the place, it is to vigorously develop the east coast of Panama, that is, to build on the Atlantic coast. Towns, open shipyards, and carry out large-scale shipbuilding campaigns.

The construction of Panama is more to echo Su Xigui's large-scale development in the east coast of Central America.

After all, that is the main target of the European colonists' next conquest. Once the European colonists land in large numbers, Su Xigui may not be able to persevere. It takes too long to bypass the southernmost tip of South America.

On the other hand, in Panama, since the narrowest part of the land is only [-] kilometers, both sides of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are suitable for building cities, and they can echo each other to complete shipbuilding and garrison.

In the future, whether the coast of the Gulf of Mexico is attacked by a European fleet, or the Pacific side is attacked, the two sides can form an echo.

The benefits of building cities on the two wings of Panama and stationing in this area can cut off the land traffic between the European colonists in North America and South America, which is equivalent to being stuck in the throat of the American continent. Zhu Hao must take this territory.

On his expedition to Panama, Zhu Hao took the water route this time.

When Zhu Hao went south to the Inca Empire for the second time, he didn’t deliberately detour through Panama, but it is expected that after he bombarded and destroyed Panama City last time, European colonists may have already started to try to build a second Panama City, Zhu Hao When I led troops northward through the land, the indigenous tribes around Panama basically fled away, and the European colonists were almost everywhere in Central America and the northern part of South America. This strategic location should not be ignored.

This time Zhu Hao went directly by water.

With the giant steel ship as the command ship, leading the huge fleet, Zhu Hao's team arrived at the offshore area on the Pacific side of Panama from SF City in only about [-] days. After landing, they found that the European colonists had not repaired the city. There are some shadows of towns around, but after Frangji discovered the arrival of the Ming ship, they all fled north in a swarm.

Unknowingly, Zhu Hao has turned the Ming army into a god-like existence in the Americas. Needless to say, the natives, whoever meets them will feel that the gods came down to save them, and the European colonists are now starting to use the Ming army As an invincible army, he no longer dared to confront the Ming army head-on.

This time Zhu Hao brought with him the newly organized and trained native soldiers, about 5000 of whom were Aztecs equipped with flintlock guns and who knew how to use cannons. This was regarded as Zhu Hao's subordinates who did not belong to the Ming army. The strongest existence of the system.Due to trust issues, they were not equipped with front-loading rapid-fire rifles with new rifle bullets. The power of flintlock guns alone was not comparable to that of European colonists who were still equipped with matchlock guns at this time.

Among the landing troops, there were no more than [-] officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, which accounted for a negligible proportion. At the same time, [-] Inca soldiers were also deployed. Cold weapon soldiers with bows and crossbows.

Including the accompanying craftsmen, the team has a total of 2 people. It is unrealistic to build a city on the east and west coasts of Panama with such a small number of people. The rest can only wait for the land army to come.

The Incas who migrated overland this time had a labor force of more than [-].

20 civilians will travel all the way from Ecuador to the later Colombian region. Together with their families, there will be 60 to [-] people. The speed along the way is not fast, but such a population base has the strength to establish a city-state.

In addition to the exiled Royal Guard soldiers of the Inca Empire, this group of people also had many frontier residents and homeless small tribal city-state people who were invaded by the Inca Empire. Zhu Hao let them move to Central America, which was equivalent to giving them a foundation. Opportunity to own a home.

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A month later, the Inca immigrants successfully arrived in Panama.

This power was discovered by the European colonists. They also sent a small group of people to take down these 10 people in one go, but then they discovered...they are no longer the easy-to-destroy persimmons in their previous impressions. Even if this group of troops basically did not have the escort of the Ming army, the [-] Aztec fusiliers alone would be enough to resist any form of harassment.

Not to mention that the European colonists are not opponents of the Ming army, even the Aztec armed forces trained by the Ming army can only bow down.

Unless the European colonists increase their dispatch and continuously send soldiers and horses from Europe to the New World, the era when they sent only one or two hundred troops at a time, or even dozens of people wanted to win a brilliant victory, is gone forever. reverted.

60 migrants arrive in the Panama region.

Together with the thousands of aborigines temporarily recruited from around Panama, and the [-] soldiers and craftsmen brought by Zhu Hao, the mighty Central American construction movement began.

The task that this group of people received was very simple, that is to build the city. They are not currently required to cultivate the land. Zhu Hao's fleet transported food and necessary living materials for them from Xincheng and SF City. As for the earthwork needed for building the city Wait, you can get local materials.

This has to talk about the talent of the Native Americans in building cities. They didn't even invent wheel technology before, but they can use huge rocks to build various stone statues and pyramids. The defense strength of the cities they built is also very high.

Now Zhu Hao brought them the well-formed construction technology, so that they would not have to worry about the future, and it was easy for them to build the city designed by Zhu Hao.

With the beginning of the city-building movement, the northern Aztecs also began to move southward and migrate to the northern part of Panama. There are many towns left by European colonists in Central America. These towns themselves also have indigenous peoples, but they are more Most of them are inferior people, responsible for heavy physical work, without any living security that they should have.

After the European colonists gradually withdrew from Central America, these aborigines needed new armed forces to protect them. When they heard that the natives of Panama had begun to build cities, a large number of Central American aborigines moved to Panama with their families.

Zhu Hao gave them enough land to build their own houses here. They don't need to grow all the food, but they can also grow cash crops such as cotton, hemp and even mulberry trees.

The biggest advantage of conquering the Inca Empire is that it solves the problem of food supply. Although the taste of several special food crops in South America may not be very good, they are superior in high yield and can support people. The planting of various crops makes these people in a primitive and backward life style. The tribesmen can fill their stomachs.

At the same time, these natives can also pay a large amount of taxes to help Zhu Hao promote the industrialization process.

While the city-building movement was going on, the construction of various workshops in the city was also on the right track, and various light industrial products appeared one after another, making the two Panama cities in the east and west become sweet pastries. The light industrial products here can be easily exchanged for the food grown by the indigenous people. , successfully solved the ration problem in the city.

With Zhu Hao operating in the Americas for nearly three years, the aborigines under his rule are no longer the kind of primitive people who wear animal fur and simply cover leaves. Basically, everyone is wearing clothes and shoes on their feet. , The medical and health conditions of the tribal population have also made great progress.

When ordinary people get sick, they don't rely on witch doctors to dance to the gods to cure their diseases. Zhu Hao brought a lot of medicinal materials before, planted them and vigorously promoted them. In addition, there are many doctors in the army, so diagnosis and treatment are not difficult.

At present, Zhu Hao is still promoting the research of various antibiotics. Some simple plant antibiotics such as allicin, berberine, Xiaobupleurum injection, Houttuynia cordata concentrate have greatly extended the life span of Native Americans.

(End of this chapter)