The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

Liu Sheng first asked Liu Rui to pass through the time and space gate by himself.

Seeing that there was no problem, Liu Rui was asked to take a little rabbit through the time and space gate.

The result was no problem either.

However, when Liu Sheng wrapped Liu Rui's hair around the little rabbit and drove the little rabbit to the other side of the door, it was unable to pass through the space-time gate.

In other words, Liu Rui, like Liu Yao, can pass through the time and space gate himself, and can also bring living creatures through, but their hair and other materials no longer have the characteristics of allowing other living creatures to pass through the time and space gate.

This result is exactly what Liu Sheng speculated.

Although Liu Rui was not as smart as Liu Yao, he was also quite precocious. When he saw the experiment was completed, he asked: "Father, can the child help transport the victims to the other side of the door?"

Liu Sheng smiled and touched his head, "Not bad."

Liu Rui was very happy to hear this, "That's great. My father won't have to be so tired next year."

In the following days, Liu Sheng and Liu Rui once again inspected various towns and camps in Weichu County, and even went to Longshou County.

Now there are 700,000 people living in Dawei in North America, which is quite a lot.

At present, some small European countries only have a population of hundreds of thousands or millions.

It can be said that Dawei’s foundation in North America is already quite solid.

Liu Sheng knew that after his death, North America would one day separate from China and become independent.

But he still hopes that day comes as late as possible.

At least his children's generation should be able to control North America.

Although Liu Rui has not yet been established as the prince, Liu Sheng has vague ideas in this regard.

Therefore, it is necessary to let him know the situation in North America in advance...

Longshou County.

After Liu Sheng inspected the main warships of the 3rd Hailongwei Brigade, he convened brigade and regiment-level generals for a meeting in the brigade headquarters combat command hall.

"I have given you all the information on the North Pacific Passage and the South American Passage. Therefore, in the next few years, the Third Brigade will have two main tasks."

"One is to explore the North Pacific waterway based on data and strive to open a navigation route to China as soon as possible."

"The second is to continue exploring South America and establish permanent bases along the way to facilitate subsequent exploration."

"In addition, we are looking for the rubber trees and other plants that I told you about, bringing them back and transferring them to Tianmu Mountain."

"The last thing is to trade with the natives of South America by the way, exchanging goods from Weichu County and Longshou County for gold and silver to generate income."

Having said this, Liu Sheng paused.

After several people digested and absorbed what he said, he continued: "Of these two tasks, the first one is more difficult and more important."

"You can form a dedicated North Pacific exploration fleet to complete this task."

"Next, I will go to Yanchang Town for inspection for two days. I hope you can come up with a reference list of the main generals of the exploration fleet in these two days. After I come back, we will hold a meeting to decide on the candidates."

"As ordered!"

It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. No matter what several people think, they all accept the order in unison at this time.

Two days later.

Liu Sheng returned to Longshou County from Yanchang Town.

Chen Bo and others presented their reference list of the main generals of the North Pacific Exploration Fleet.

After understanding the situation of these people, Liu Sheng finally decided on the following personnel configuration for the exploration fleet.

Shi Lang is the commander-in-chief of the fleet, and Huang Tao, commander of the third regiment of the 3rd Hailongwei Brigade, is the deputy commander-in-chief.

Huang Tao comes from the Huang Fei tribe and is originally from the Huanglong tribe. He has just turned forty this year, but has been working in the navy for nearly twenty years. Although his talent is not as good as Shi Lang, he is quite stable in his work and can be regarded as a veteran of the navy.

It would be a good idea to serve as a deputy to the talented but still young Shi Lang. In addition, Wang Shouzhe, a regiment-level military and political officer, came from the Wei tribe.

Regiment staff officer Zheng Zunqian, a former official in Zhejiang and a former Ming Dynasty boy, led a group of local warriors to surrender to Wei when the Wei army invaded Zhejiang. He later studied at the Nanjing Military Academy and became a naval staff officer after graduation.

Next are four important battalion-level generals: Ruan Jin (from Fujian, formerly Zhang Mingzhen's subordinate), Huang Ting (from Fujian), Zhang Dahe (from Hubei, from the Wei tribe), and Wang Yi (from Zhejiang).

The first three of them are naval generals, and Wang Yi is a land war general.

In terms of ship equipment, there are two specially-made sailing ships made of 3,000 materials, three frigates made of more than 1,000 materials, and 28 ship-borne speedboats (actually paddle boats).

Here, two sailing ships were built by Liu Shengrang Longshou Shipyard specifically for exploring the North Pacific route.

These two large ships each have only twenty-two cannons on board, but they are extremely strong and reliable, with large cabin capacity and can carry a large amount of supplies.

The cabin capacity of the three frigates is also large, but they are also equipped with a lot of artillery, each with twenty-two.

Considering that the most dangerous things on the North Pacific route are ice floes and severe cold, both these two large ships and the three frigates have steel plates installed in collision-prone areas.

In addition, the ship is also equipped with a heating system that is quite advanced nowadays.

Finally, for the sake of the mental health of the crew, some entertainment facilities are also prepared on the two large ships, such as table tennis tables, bookstores, horse crane halls, etc.

The entire fleet has more than 1,500 people.

Among them, there are three small battalions of Sea Dragon Guard officers who serve as sailors, with a total of more than 1200 people.

There is also a Marine Battalion (three posts) adapted from the land expedition team, with a total of 300 people.

After confirming the candidates, Liu Sheng summoned the generals above the battalion level and gave some encouragement before leaving.

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Time came to early December of the sixth year of Qianyuan (1647), and Liu Sheng had returned to Nanjing.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Sheng convened a meeting with the Minister of Military and Aircraft and the heads of relevant ministries and departments such as the Ministry of Household Affairs for a meeting to summarize the new policy that had been carried out for more than a year.

"Your Majesty, in the past year and one month, the North and South Zhili Provinces have successfully completed several scheduled rounds of land clearing work."

“In South Zhili, an inventory of more than 11.93 million acres of hidden farmland was found, and in Northern Zhili, an inventory of more than 1.85 million acres of hidden farmland was found.”

"That is to say, a total of more than 13.78 million acres of hidden land has been identified in the northern and southern Zhili provinces."

"A total tax payment (five years) of 10.22 million silver dollars..."

Liu Sheng couldn't help but feel emotional as he listened to the figures reported by Zhang Youyu, the Minister of Household Affairs.

As far as he knew, there were more than 80 million acres of farmland in Southern Zhili Province during the former Ming Dynasty.

When we arrived in Damei, after Huainan Province was carved out from the original Nanzhili, on paper there were only over 50 million acres of farmland left.

Now, more than 1.1 million acres of hidden farmland have been identified, accounting for nearly one-fifth!

This shows how serious the hidden field phenomenon was in the past!

In Beizhili, if it hadn't been for the repeated wars, the number of hidden fields that had been cleared would probably not have been small.

After all, the northern and southern Zhili were the two largest provinces in the pre-Ming Dynasty.

After this land clearing, Da'ei not only gained more than 13 million acres of farmland in the northern and southern Zhili provinces, but also received a one-time tax repayment of more than 10 million silver dollars.

And the subsequent land tax also increased by one to two million silver dollars compared with before.

It can be seen from here that for the moment, Qingtian is still an important method to increase the court's financial revenue.

Therefore, after Zhang Youyu, Yuan Jixian and others finished their reports, Liu Sheng said: "Since the trial implementation of the land clearing order and census order in the northern and southern Zhili provinces has been very effective, starting from next spring, we will promote it to 11 provinces including Henan and Shandong as planned. ”

"If there are no problems, we will promote it to Fujian, Guangdong and other southern coastal and southwest provinces as planned in two years."

"Four years from now, I hope my land will no longer be hidden and my annual income will increase greatly!"

All the ministers in the Wenhua Hall heard this and cheered in unison.

"I will definitely live up to His Majesty's expectations!" (End of this chapter)