Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 577 Developing the Americas
In the early spring of Apocalypse 50, Zhu Cijiong, the eldest son of the emperor who had been appointed as the governor of the Americas, led an American development team composed of officials, scholars, farmers and businessmen, and finally arrived at the east coast of the American Pacific Ocean after wandering at sea for several months.

As the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Cijiong has been dealing with the issue of assimilating the local indigenous people in Africa and Asia Minor for these years. Recently, he has also focused on the study of the American Indians. It can be said that he has a relatively good understanding of the customs and customs of the Americas. Colonial rule expert.

Seeing the endless green fields and moist air in front of him, Zhu Cijiong, who had just landed, fell in love with it, and couldn't help saying to Tang Zhen, the subordinate officer beside him: "Mr. Tang, from now on, this vast virgin land is our own territory." Well, this scene is indeed much better than the deserts of the Western Regions, but there are no people and towns and villages."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Before coming here, I have learned about the situation of this continent from the Ministry of War. Your Highness, I can assure you that as long as we work hard, the wealth here will not be inferior to that of Europa, especially across the continent. This section of mountains, in the middle of which are the five large lakes and the endless plains, is much better than the interior of my Ming Dynasty, which has many mountains and few lands. Now Your Majesty has a spring and autumn. No one can guarantee who the throne will be in the future, Your Highness, the eldest son of the emperor, you should try your best to develop this treasure land, so that you can gain the respect of your majesty, and you can support all officials and citizens."

The battle of seizing the heir has always been an inevitable thing for the royal family. After all, in order to maximize the interests, even if a prince has no intention of seizing the heir, the group behind him wants to use the big tree of the prince to pursue greater interests. Now the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Cijiong The same is true for the group. Although Tang Zhen's words were implicit and euphemistic, Zhu Cijiong agreed with him, saying:

"Now the third brother is the governor of England, the fourth brother is the governor of the Persian Gulf, the fifth brother is the governor of the Cape of Good Hope, the sixth brother is in Nanyang, the seventh brother has just succeeded Yang Gong as the governor of France, the eighth brother has gone to Siberia, and the ninth brother is mining in Australia. In important places, they are surrounded by important ministers who are either governors or fierce generals guarding the key points, and I, the eldest brother, came to this barren land, separated from the mainland by a vast ocean, and the emperor's arrangements are comprehensive."

Zhu Cijiong sighed, and couldn't help but look back to the west. Three years ago, his biological mother, Concubine Hui, passed away. Because he was obsessed with mining the largest coal field in Siberia, he didn't have time to see his mother for the last time. The biggest regret of his life.

"Your Highness, you don't have to sigh. Start all over again. It's better to build this place than anything else."

When Tang Zhen said this, Zhu Cijiong nodded: "Start from the beginning, let's start by finding a place to light a fire and sleep."

Zhu Cijiong and the others, who were either wearing bright yellow dragon robes or python robes and red robes, were all stunned, because it was difficult to find a place to sleep and light a fire here.

Hundreds of elite Jinyi guards had no choice but to pull out their Xiuchun knives and cut down many bushes around them to build a bonfire for Zhu Cijiong, a group of officials and scholars, to warm up first, while other officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion were also busy camping and cooking on the spot.

Zhu Cijiong, who had experienced the life of sleeping in the open air, didn't feel unbearable. Naturally, he sat on a rock and ordered the guards to spread out the map. He picked up a branch and scratched it on the map: "This place is located on this big land. In the middle of the plain, it is very close to the five great lakes in the north and a natural harbor in the east. In Gu’s opinion, this is the residence of the governor. It is also the first city we built after we arrived in America. What's your name?"

Because the Americas had not yet been developed at this time, the first thing that the first developers of Ming Dynasty did after they arrived was to draw land boundaries and take place names.

After Zhu Cijiong said, Tang Zhen said, "Your Highness is titled the King of Song. In the former Song Dynasty, Bianjing was the capital. How about calling it Bianliang?"

"Very good, it's called Bianliang. Bianliang in Song Dynasty was once the capital of the world at that time, and now I want to build a big city in this America that can rival Bianliang!" Zhu Cijiong said confidently.

Zhu Cijiong and others rushed to the east coast early the next morning after resting hastily in the wild on the west coast of North America overnight.

At this time, as soon as Zhu Cijiong's governor's order was issued, the Ming army in America gradually concentrated on the newly divided Bianliang land, and drove out the Indians in this area. Some primitive forest areas were directly burned to ashes by fire. Burning ashes into fertilizer is the most primitive way to make farmland, and the beasts are directly shot and killed on a large scale with guns.

For a time, the entire northern part of the Americas fell into an unprecedented massacre of other species by humans. The number of wild wolves, tigers and leopards dropped sharply, and the forests also began to decline sharply. However, the Ming army was relatively peaceful with the Indians. The Indians first captured Bianliang City, and then forced them to pay for the construction of Daming.

At first these Indians would resist, and even some unpleasant bloodshed occurred, but gradually they found that these people would pay them a silver dollar a month and even send them glass cups, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, and even a rich meal. After lunch, the Indians stopped resisting, and even more and more Indians took the initiative to accept Daming's employment.

Some slave laborers and third-class citizens who followed became the instructors and trainers for these Indians to build Bianliang City, while some Confucian scholars became their teachers.

In addition, Zhu Cijiong ordered that each of these local Indians be given two sets of clothes a year, one summer suit and one winter suit. Ten years ago, the low-level Han people wore linen and kudzu clothes, but it can be regarded as a great improvement.

Some Indians directly regarded Zhu Cijiong and others who suddenly appeared in this land as gods, and many people directly knelt down and prayed to the Governor's Mansion built by Zhu Cijiong later.

Many years later, under Zhu Cijiong's hard work, the whole of America has indeed developed rapidly. From the initial Bianliang City to two urban agglomerations on the east and west coasts, the urbanization construction has even been extended to the north, which is now Canada, and the south to the present. In Mexico, even ten years later, the permanent population of Bianliang City exceeded 30, and there were already more than ten schools. Even the great writer Zhang Dai traveled across the ocean to give a speech at Bianliang University in America.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Tang Zhen, who helped Zhu Cijiong build the Americas, was originally a famous political thinker in the middle and late seventeenth century.

(End of this chapter)