Jinyi champion

Chapter 1101 Everything is ready
The fleet Zhu Hao sent to the south to conquer Chile and other coastal areas, as well as cross the Strait of Magellan to the east coast of South America, made a large circle and arrived in Cologne with a full load of goods.

The main task of this long-distance voyage is to investigate the situation in the Atlantic coast of South America. Although Zhu Hao has obtained a lot of information from the memory in his mind, the reality is different from what he expected.

After the fleet circumnavigated South America, the conclusion is that the east coast has begun to be invaded by European colonists, but the degree is not deep enough. In South America, especially in southern Brazil and the coastal areas of Argentina, the population of primitive tribes is relatively small, and European colonists have not The law uses the aborigines to develop large-scale plantations, so so far, their main purpose is to plunder the population and mine.

"A lot of people were caught along the way, and three times there were fierce battles with the European fleet, and each time their ships were sunk, and some prisoners were brought up.

"According to their confession, large-scale iron ore and gold mines have been discovered in the inland area of ​​the eastern and central parts of the mainland. People have already mined there, but most of them are gold mining. European colonists often bring two to three hundred people at a time, all to the inland Walk."

After hearing the news brought back by the fleet, Zhu Hao understood that the inland area mentioned by these people should be the state of Minas Gerais in the later generations of Brazil. This place is rich in various mineral deposits, especially gold. There used to be a gold rush, but now It was the beginning of the South American gold rush, when European explorers organized manual excavation of those shallow gold mines.

Some mines are only one or two hundred miles away from the coastline of Brazil. If there is a river connecting them, it is easy to send out the collected minerals.

The problem now is that Zhu Hao does not have his own territory on the east coast of South America, and it is far away from the cities he built on the east coast of Central America. Under control, even if a war breaks out, it is impossible for him to hear the news immediately and send reinforcements in time.

Because Zhu Hao's industrialization is now a bit big, he has to increase the output of various mineral deposits, and the mines in the Inca Empire and Central America are obviously not enough to support rapid expansion. After all, it may take several years to build a city. Thousands of tons or even hundreds of thousands of tons of steel, this is not counting his consumption of building steel warships and various muskets, artillery and other weapons.

Zhu Hao knew that once his industrialization started by relying on the development of the military industry, it would inevitably involve a problem--frequent wars and rapid expansion of territory, otherwise the weapons he created would be waste and could not be cashed in, and he expected to trade with Native Americans in exchange for More resources, simply not realistic.

The goods that Zhu Hao trades with the natives are mainly light industrial products, including cloth, salt, pottery, wine, sugar, etc., as well as livestock, in exchange for their labor and food from the natives. The result of such exchanges is the civilization of the natives level rises linearly.

Among them, Zhu Hao will sell them some important industrial products, such as iron tools, such as iron axes, hacksaws, hoes, sickles, etc., so that they can greatly improve production efficiency, so that the aborigines in America will quickly go to the Iron Age transition.

However, it is basically impossible for these aboriginals to trade larger quantities of goods with the government, such as industrial raw materials. Except for economic crops such as rubber, tobacco, and herbs, which can be planted by them, the rest basically depends on Zhu Hao organizing manpower to dig. .

At this moment, Zhu Hao had no choice but to think of plundering.

Directly plundering the wealth of Europe and Africa has been excluded from Zhu Hao's plan. The only thing he can do now is to capture some material transfer stations established by Europeans on the east coast of South America, so this time He plans to send a fleet from Cologne, not just to go around the south, but to directly occupy the mineral deposits on the east coast of Brazil and its inland areas under the leadership of the guide, and organize manpower there , carry out mining and transportation, and build several cities on the east coast of South America that completely belong to the empire under his control.

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A huge fleet consisting of 24 large ships and more than 50 medium-sized ships is about to set off.

In addition to the [-] Ming officers and soldiers in the fleet, there were [-] Aztec elite troops, and [-] Inca civilians who followed them. After completing the feat of migrating to Central America and building the city of Cologne, they will migrate again.

This time they will go to the east coast of Brazil to build a city.

In other words, let the citizens of these new empires travel north and south, and bring all the east coast of America into the empire's territory. This will be the most critical step for Zhu Hao to conquer South America.

Zhu Hao couldn't go there in person, so he wanted to appoint a new governor and army commander.

When Zhu Hao sent the team off at the pier, he could clearly feel the exhaustion of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Many of them are ready to return home. In the past few years overseas, they have experienced too much. Many of them abandoned their wives and children to come to America to work hard. They miss their wives and children very much.

Zhu Hao made a promise to them: "In one and a half years, I will either let you go back to Daming to reunite with your parents and family, or take them all over to enjoy the blessings. Everything is up to you to choose. But in the last year and a half , please put Daming's interests first!"

At this time, it was less than nine months before Zhu Hao sent troops to Daming, but in fact Zhu Hao was planning to send a fleet and troops to Daming in four or five months.

What Zhu Hao has to do in the recent period is to select elite soldiers and horses in the controlled areas of Cologne, Panama, the upper, middle and lower cities and Xincheng in Central America, and SF City in South America, and follow him to attack Daming. He will not be a Daming He didn't bring any soldiers, and all the soldiers who went out with him were those who had no family ties, maybe 500 at most, and the rest were all Native American soldiers.

Among them, [-] elite soldiers from the Aztecs were used together with [-] soldiers from the Inca Empire. This is also the team that Zhu Hao has been training strictly recently.

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Su Xigui came to Cologne by boat from his own territory.

In the city lord's mansion of Cologne, old friends Su Xigui and Zhu Hao met again after more than a year, and their moods were different from before.

"...It's too fast, the population is growing rapidly, it feels like a dream. With your own territory, you can develop as you want, do whatever you want, and no one restrains you... That feeling... Tsk tsk, it's extraordinary! "

Su Xigui has already begun to enjoy this feeling of being in control and being the only one in charge.

Zhu Hao understood that Su Xigui was originally just a businessman with money but no power, but without the support of his brother-in-law, he would be crushed every minute to nothing.But now, there are at least 50 million people under his jurisdiction and dispatch, directly becoming the master of one party, and the aborigines don't understand anything and are completely controlled by the government. The envoys sent can only be disobedient.

The aborigines in Central America were slaughtered and brutally oppressed by the European colonists, which made them deeply aware that they must find a powerful force to rely on, and the conditions given to them by the Ming Dynasty were far inferior to those of the European colonists.

Zhu Hao clearly explained the situation to Su Xigui: "Are you going to attack Daming in the future?"

"This……"

Su Xigui hesitated for a moment.

Zhu Hao said: "In the past year, I have sent ships back."

"what?"

Su Xigui looked unbelievable.

Zhu Hao has always said that everyone is developing overseas with peace of mind and has not made any contact with Daming, but now it seems that Zhu Hao has made some preparations for commanding Daming.

"I will go to Australia...that is, to mine iron ore as an excuse. I will recruit [-] warships, a total of [-] soldiers and horses. After the Nanyang Islands, I will divide the troops into two groups and attack directly from Tianjin Wei The capital, and the other route goes up the river from the mouth of the Yangtze River, taking Nanjing in one fell swoop!"

Zhu Hao unfolded the detailed battle map for Su Xigui to have a look.

Because he needed Su Xigui to go back with him.

Su Xigui asked: "The current situation of Daming... is it okay?"

"Everything remains the same."

Zhu Haodao, "The people I sent back were mainly to spy on information by buying the Francobots, and also to send secret agents to log in quietly in the coastal areas of Shandong, go deep into the cities and villages, and investigate the situation in the Ming Dynasty... Our ships are moored at On the coastal islands, it is unknown to the government. A month ago, the task force returned to Panama City... This is a summary report on the current situation of Ming Dynasty, take a look."

What Su Xigui was most concerned about was the situation of his brother-in-law Huang Zan.

When he saw that Huang Zan had resigned from his position as Minister of the Ministry of Officials and returned to his hometown to take care of his life, he felt a sense of loss.

Zhu Haodao: "In the past few years, many things in Daming have changed. For example, the construction of the railway has stopped, the shipyard has been abandoned, and the operation of the steel and textile factories we left behind are all in trouble... It's not that I have to do something, but Under the imperial power, no matter how hard one works, no matter how well one develops, everything will be brought back to its original form with the departure of the person concerned... Fei Hong is still the chief assistant of the cabinet, but it is said that he and Liu Chun will soon step down. The assistant will become Yang Yiqing.

"Zhang Cong and Gui E have already joined the cabinet. They have taken my previous position.

"The emperor is going to send a fleet to look for us overseas, but I don't think they will come to our place so easily. Even if we get away with it, we can easily defeat and accept them.

"The rest... is how to take down Daming quickly. The best way is to directly enter the capital."

Su Xigui asked: "Da Ming has dozens or even millions of troops, so it might not be so easy to attack the capital?"

Zhu Hao smiled and said: "With the artillery we have now, we can blow down the city walls of the capital casually. The best weapons of Ming Dynasty are the ones I researched and manufactured, but they are basically useless now. The Ministry of Finance did not use the Ministry of Finance to improve weapons and equipment.

"Our guns are at least two or three hundred years more advanced than theirs, and our army is composed of Native Americans. Although they are beginning to be familiar with the language of Ming Dynasty, they have no emotional bond with Daming Ke.

"As long as the capital is taken down, the rest depends on whether the soldiers and frontier troops of the other provinces want to fight us to the death.

"I will not change the status of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After all, Zhu Si is my friend. I will not endanger his life. It is more about coercing the emperor to make the princes, let the vast land of the Ming Dynasty, and tens of millions of Huaxia People, use them for me. By then, the development of our empire will be on the right track!"

(End of this chapter)