Chapter 981 Colonization of America
And Aken's so-called overseas fairy is also another major weight for the Ming Emperor. Because for the feudal Chinese emperor. No matter how much territory you occupy outside, you have not extended your life. It is important to enjoy the glory, wealth and supreme power of this life! In order to live, he can even send people from half of the country out to find immortals!
The advantage of being stationed in Florida is that the whole Daming sailors know that there is indeed an overseas fairy called 'Spring of Youth' in this area. Therefore, Aken's efforts to find the fairy will be confirmed by many people, so he can also be fully trusted by Emperor Jiajing. As long as Aken offers even a spoonful of 'the fountain of youth', he can make the emperor of the Ming Dynasty bow down and obey his words.
This does not seem difficult. In the 'boat of the dead (life)' of the green wing, a little 'spring of life' is enough to fool the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Aken is very confident about this!
After a long sea journey, the Daming sailors finally returned to the Ming sea border after tens of thousands of miles. Hu Zongxian had been looking forward to it for a long time. When he saw countless exotic continental specialties piled up like mountains, he knew that his eunuch's journey was already bright this time! Therefore, he wrote a memorial overnight and wrote to the court, demanding the opening of the sea ban so that people can freely immigrate to the distant territory of the Ming Dynasty to fight for the interests of the country. His memorial was quickly passed, but the reason why it went so smoothly was not that Hu Zongxian wrote it well. It is not that Emperor Jiajing coveted the wealth of the New World, which is not worth mentioning for this old emperor.
However, Aken's tribute to a small bottle of overseas fairy water made Emperor Jiajing not hesitate to open the sea and encourage the Ming people to go to foreign countries to explore their territory! Because after drinking this small mouthful of fairy water, he actually felt younger! Even some senile diseases have been mostly cured! Not only was he refreshed, but even after the imperial doctor diagnosed his pulse, he said it was strange why his pulse was powerful overnight, as if he were in his prime? And that night, I worked with the youngest concubine all night, and the next day she was magically able to get up!
I heard from Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayu and other overseas sailor generals that in the treasure land that produces fairy water, those Western countries actually want to compete with themselves for territory. And my own people are too few to occupy the vast land there! If they don't send people to colonize, maybe those subdued Western countries will occupy their territory again.
Grandma, it's nothing to lose territory. This fairy water is bound to win! What's more, there must be more magical fairy herbs in the new continent of overseas America, which can rejuvenate and immortalize yourself! It is estimated that the monarchs of Western countries also want to get these precious fairy water before they can occupy the land. How can this be? I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the proud son of heaven! Can't my subjects and army defeat the monarchs of your small countries?!
So a larger fleet of Daming sailors is ready to go again! The imperial court issued an edict, encouraging coastal people to go on their own or ship to settle in the New World of the Americas! All the wealth you get there belongs to yourself, and you don't need to pay taxes! However, if you find clues about overseas fairy prescriptions, you must report to local officials as soon as possible and inform them to return to China. No private collection is allowed, and violators will be punished for treason!
This edict makes the whole country boil! No need to pay taxes! Many people who have seen Daming sailors bring back mountains of American specialties are even more crazy! It is said that there is gold everywhere! Eat ginseng as a meal! All kinds of exotic beasts run all over the mountain! The pebbles in the water are big pearls! There is also the legendary cash cow! The savages there are all beautiful men. As long as you want to do it, you can do whatever you want...
At the inspitation of the imperial court, the major docks along the coast built sea boats with full power! This time, it's not just the fleet of Daming Marine Division. The people raised funds to raise funds, and there were more than 500 sea boats built by themselves! Countless boats that can transport hundreds of people! The fleet of Daming sailor this time is also even larger, with five treasure ships and more than 200 other large and small ships!
Many large propeller sailboats of the Daming Marine have only installed a few double-mounted artillery on the first deck to vacate all the deck cabins below to maximize the loading of immigrants and supplies. Civil sea ships are more fully considering how to load the most people, and other configurations revolve around this core consideration.
On the day of departure, the scene on the sea is spectacular! Local officials on the coast even found that half of the residents in their jurisdiction had left! This is the million migration at sea! At this time, the population of Daming has already crossed 200 million, so even if it loses millions of people along the coast, there is not much pressure on the country's productivity.
But the reduction of taxes imposed by coastal officials in recent years is determined. Moreover, it is necessary to allocate a large number of materials to build towns and select basic administrative officials of the colony. This large-scale migration is also the strength of the whole country. If it weren't for the huge ** of the overseas immortal fairy, Emperor Jiajing would never agree!
And at this stall, the Daming Marine Division, which was led by Aken to Australia, also returned with a full load! It has stimulated another wave of immigration! With the encouragement of the government and the enthusiasm of the people, this great migration will be of epoch-making significance! Once these millions of Chinese colonized and settled in the New World, the whole American continent will definitely be the world of Chinese in decades!
Because of the traditional concept of 'unfilial piety, no future is the big', the reproductive ability of the Chinese has always been ahead of other nations in the world. As long as the Chinese are given time, no matter how vast the territory is, it will become crowded...
This time, there are two major immigrants. Australia set sail relatively late, and the number of immigrants is also relatively small. Their route passed through the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, to the South Pacific islands, and finally Australia. Along the way, Chinese immigrants were sown like seeds and hundreds of large and small colonial sites were established. There are also uncivilized cannibal tribes on some islands, and the Chinese colonists also fought a cruel war with them! It seems that plunder and slaughter are inevitable during the colonial process.
The main immigration direction of Daming Marine is still the New World. Nearly 1,000 sea boats sailed in the wind and sailed in the Pacific Ocean. After several storms along the way, at least one-fifth of the sea boats were lost. Most of the ships destroyed were small and medium-sized sea ships made by the people, with poor resistance to wind and waves. After paying the price of nearly 10,000 Chinese immigrants buried in the sea, the fleet finally arrived in North America.
Zhang Fan Aken looked at the dense Chinese sea ships on the Pacific Ocean and knew that with the efforts of his team, he had created a new era. A nation with dragons as a totem will rise on this planet. These millions of immigrants are just the beginning. As long as the Daming Sea is closed, there may be immigrants of this size.
Even if the gate of the Ming Dynasty is closed again, the trend of civil immigration will not be extinguished. And the coast of Daming will also be peaceful. Because I'm afraid that those pirates have also joined the tide of immigration.
The fleet arrived in San Francisco. After resting here for a while, they began to lay down immigrants along the coast of the Americas. Every time a good port can be established and the land is fertile, a group of immigrants will be put down, some of the materials for building towns will be unloaded, and then set sail again. In this way, the planned establishment of colonies is very fast.
But because the colony has no infrastructure, it will be very difficult for the first Chinese immigrants to arrive. However, in the Chinese tradition, diligence and thrift is a virtue, and the supplies and supplies left by the fleet are enough for them to live for a long time. And among the remaining immigrants, there are administrative officials selected by the imperial court and appointed by the people, and some of them are uniformly assigned. It is believed that the town will soon be established.
According to the plan given by the book demon analysis, each colony will release 3,000 to 10,000 immigrant populations. Millions of immigrants, that is to establish about 200 colonies! Two hundred colonies, thousands of administrative personnel alone!
For the protection of the colony, in addition to the Daming navy, which left a regular army ranging from 30 to 100 according to the population of the colony, also selected young men from the immigrants to form a militia guard.
Two hundred colonies are basically located in major areas along the coast of North and South America. According to the immigration plan drawn up by the book demon, it was roughly divided into 20 colonial provinces and built a large colonial framework for the New World. In these colonies, the Spaniards laid part of the foundation for the Ming Dynasty. Because the concession treaty signed by the Spanish king in desperation made their decades of efforts in the New World cheap the Chinese colonists. Although all the property has been shipped back to China, the infrastructure cannot be taken away. There are also many indigenous workers left. This saved the Chinese colonists who occupied these places a lot of trouble.
Some Spanish colonists originally thought that China had a long way to go and could not occupy such a vast new continent. Even if Daming has this ability, it can't be fast. But they didn't expect that only two years after signing the treaty, they saw the overwhelming Chinese ships in the Pacific Ocean and could only leave the New World in dismay when the Daming sailors showed a copy of the treaty.
Of course, there are also Spaniards who are willing to join China and accept the rule of the Ming Empire. Zhang Fan's team and the senior management of Daming sailors also accepted their surrender after they vowed allegiance to China. However, for Spaniards who are unwilling to accept the jurisdiction of the Ming Empire and are reluctant to leave, they will be forcibly sent back to China by the Ming sailors...
At this time, more than half of the Panama Canal has been repaired with the help of the giant turtle. After a large number of Chinese immigrants joined, the excavation period of the canal may be shortened much.
It took nearly two years for the fleet to travel around the North and South America to the Caribbean. In mainland China, many immigrants from civil organizations have successively joined the colonies of the New World, and the population has increased by 10%.