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A few days after completing the immigration work, Liu Sheng took Liu Rui and others to Longshou County.

His immigration to North America was actually incidental, and his main purpose was to welcome the North Pacific exploration fleet returning from Dachu.

The fleet sailed down the Xinluo River and arrived at Longshou County in half a day.

At this time, the North Pacific Exploration Fleet had been back for more than a month and had been undergoing repairs at the Hailongwei Third Brigade camp in Longshou County.

Upon learning of Liu Sheng's arrival, Shi Lang and others naturally followed him at the dock, along with Yang Minghe, the magistrate of Longshou County, and Chen Bo, the brigade commander.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

The welcoming crowd in Longshou County bowed to the sky together, and the mountains shouted long live.

Liu Sheng smiled and raised his hand, "Sit flat."

"Long live thanks!"

Liu Sheng then walked up to Shi Lang, Wang Shouzhe and other senior generals of the exploration fleet.

Although they have been repairing it for more than a month, they now look good, but compared to a few years ago, their faces have obviously changed a lot.

Liu Sheng patted Shi Lang on the shoulder, then looked at the other people and said, "You guys have gone to Dachu, traveled tens of thousands of miles, cut through waves, and taken huge risks. It's really hard work!"

With this short sentence, Shi Lang and others were quite moved, and their eyes even turned slightly red.

Shi Lang said: "With your Majesty's guidance, this trip is not too risky. Fortunately, I lived up to your Majesty's trust and completed the mission of exploring the waterway and China."

Liu Sheng laughed and said, "You have not only completed the task? You have simply exceeded the task. I am here this time, in addition to condolences to the officers and men of the exploration fleet, I also want to commend you."

Although they knew that they would definitely be promoted when they came back, Shi Lang and others couldn't help but feel excited when they heard Liu Sheng say so.

However, Liu Sheng did not start awarding the reward on the spot, but chatted a few more words with Yang Minghe, Chen Bo and others.

Then a group of talents walked to Longshou County.

After settling down in Longshou County, Liu Sheng asked the accompanying eunuchs to announce the rewards to the officers and soldiers of the exploration fleet.

Fleet commander Shi Langzhi granted the title of Dongyang Bo.

Military and political officer Wang Shouzhe, deputy commander Huang Tao, and staff officer Zheng Zunqian were all given the title of viscount.

The remaining battalion-level generals, Wang Yi, Huang Ting, Ruan Jin, Zhang Dahe, etc., as well as the two translators, were also granted the title of baron.

Although the rest of the soldiers failed to get the title, their military ranks were promoted by at least three levels!

In addition, the lowest reward for ordinary soldiers is one thousand silver dollars, and the highest reward among the generals, such as Shi Lang, was directly rewarded with 60,000 silver dollars!

Finally, all officers who sacrificed their lives in the exploration fleet will receive ten times the stipulated compensation in addition to the rewards corresponding to their military ranks!

After receiving this reward, the officers and soldiers of the exploration fleet all cheered excitedly, feeling that the hard work of traveling thousands of miles across the ocean in the past few years was all worth it.

At the same time, he became more loyal and loving to Liu Sheng.

It should be noted that as a Sea Dragon Guard officer and a member of the Guards, half of the daily military salary comes from the royal family's funds.

But on their previous ocean exploration mission, their lives and deaths were uncertain, and they received three times the military pay.

After receiving so much military pay in the past few years, coupled with Liu Sheng's reward and the money they received from the fleet's profits during the ocean voyage, even the lowest level of ordinary soldiers received a total of two to three thousand silver dollars!

With this money, even if they retire from the army now, they can buy land in Da'ei and become small landlords.

If you buy land or invest in industry and commerce in North America, you can get more, enough to buy an heirloom.

At the same time, Liu Sheng also rewarded Chen Bo, Zhang Shuiqing and other officers of the 3rd Hailongwei Brigade, but they were not worth mentioning compared to the officers of the Exploration Fleet. It was just to prevent these officers from getting too upset. It’s just unbalanced...
Later, Liu Sheng took Liu Rui and other entourage to inspect Yanchang Town, Luye County and "Jinshan Town" established in the San Francisco area as usual, before returning to Longshou County a few days later.

Liu Sheng first summoned Yang Minghe in the "palace".

"In addition to consolidating the fishery, agriculture, and salt industries, the next step in Longshou County is to speed up the development of Jinshan Town." "There are many gold mines there. At the current mining speed, they may not be able to be fully mined in 60 years."

"As for the problem of population shortage, we can't just rely on the imperial court - there are a lot of natives in North America. You can expand the number of naturalized natives."

Yang Minghe was a shrewd person, and he understood the deep meaning of Liu Sheng's words as soon as he heard it.

The so-called expansion of the scale of naturalized natives is not just as simple as increasing the registered population of Longshou County.

If the natives were to be converted into Wei people, their tribes must be made to submit to the Wei people.

However, there must be some tribes who are unwilling to surrender. Such a large force will inevitably use force. In this process, prisoners of war will inevitably be produced, and young and strong male prisoners of war are undoubtedly the best candidates to become miners.

Liu Sheng, as the Emperor of Damei, would definitely not speak out about this kind of thing.

But as a minister, he, Yang Minghe, had to know how to share the emperor's worries.

Although this move goes against the benevolence and righteousness upheld by Confucianism, it is much better than what the Westerners did in America.

At least Da'ei would not go out of his way to hunt down the natives and exterminate the tribe in order to occupy the land.

Even if those prisoners of war become miners, their treatment is guaranteed to a certain extent, which is very different from the mining slaves of Xiyi.

In fact, under Liu Sheng's guidance, Da'ei rarely died of starvation or exhaustion, whether he was a hard laborer converted from a criminal or a prisoner of war.

When they get sick, they even have doctors to treat them and give them medicine. Apart from being a little tired and having no freedom, their lives are even more secure than those of many refugees and disaster victims in the late Ming Dynasty...

After Yang Minghe, Liu Sheng summoned another person, the Xunfengwei battalion commander who was accompanying the exploration fleet, Ye Jianan.

"I have carefully read the information you collected about Tianmu Mountain several times in the past few days, and I am generally satisfied with it."

The main reason why Liu Sheng sent an exploratory fleet to Dachu was to find out whether a space-time gate also existed in Tianmu Mountain in Henan Province.

The main task of the fleet's accompanying news guards is to try their best to find out this matter.

As early as the first year after the exploratory fleet arrived in Dachu, Xunfengwei discovered that Tianmu Mountain in Henan is where the imperial mausoleum of Dachu is located, and is closely guarded by a Dachu imperial army stationed all year round.

Although the military and political affairs of Da Chu were corrupt, the morale of this army was much stronger.

Xunfengwei tried their best to sneak into the imperial mausoleum. At most, they entered Tianmu Mountain. Therefore, the information they have obtained in the past few years is quite limited.

Only Xiong Mingyuan, Taizu of Chu, his queen and a group of concubines are buried in the Tianmu Mountain Imperial Tomb.

The emperor of Da Chu later built his imperial mausoleum near Xiangyang - yes, Taizu Taizu of Da Chu established his capital in Xiangyang and renamed it Xiangjing.

When he first received the news, Liu Sheng once suspected that Xiong Mingyuan not only came from the late Ming Dynasty, but was also probably related to Li Zicheng's Dashun.

However, in the absence of insufficient information, this idea is just a guess and cannot be confirmed.

Later, Wuzong of the Great Chu felt that Xiangjing was a bit cramped, and considering strengthening control over the eastern region, he changed Jinling to Nanjing and made it the deputy capital of the Great Chu.

However, the emperor of Chu still stayed in Xiangjing most of the time, so the imperial tombs were all chosen in the mountains near Xiangjing.

Although Xunfengwei failed to sneak into the imperial mausoleum of Great Chu Taizu, they also found out that Xiong Mingyuan's mausoleum is most likely located underground in Fangshan.

At the same time, there are also many folk legends about Fangshan and Chu Taizu.

For example, Taizu of Chu was a god born in Tianmu Mountain, and there is a fairy cave in Tianmu Mountain, etc.

In addition, the first three generations of emperors of Da Chu all liked to visit their palaces on Tianmu Mountain.

It was not until the late period of Emperor Wuzong of the Great Chu Dynasty that the number of visits to Tianmu Mountain was reduced, and he only came every year during ancestor worship.

From this series of signs, Liu Sheng can basically conclude that there is definitely a big secret hidden in Tianmu Mountain in Henan Province in Dachu!

There is probably another door to time and space! (End of chapter)