Daming Military Empire

Chapter 670 Win over the natives and build a base
The aborigines in the Americas are Indians. Almost all people in later generations know this. In fact, the Ming Empire at this time also knew it. Not only did they know that the aborigines here were Indians, they also knew that the name of this place was America.

The reason is simple, because Columbus discovered the American continent as early as 1492 AD, and at the same time he also encountered Indians.

However, Columbus always thought that India was here, because he was originally going to India and Ming Dynasty, but he went in the wrong direction and came to America.

He thought that this was India until his death, because the greetings used by the Indians he met were: Yin Di'an, which sounds similar to India.

Even later, when he arrived at a certain island in the Caribbean Sea, he thought he had reached the coast of Daming, because the people there were all yellow-skinned in legend.

Ten years later, another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, came to this land again and confirmed that this is not the legendary Asian continent, but another new continent, and it is named after him. Name this continent America, or America.

These things happened more than a hundred years ago, and the sponsors of these two explorers happened to be the allies of the Ming Empire, Spain and Portugal. The Ming Empire naturally knew that this place was America, and the aborigines here were Indians.

As a time traveler, Zhu Cijiong naturally knows more than people of this era. At this time, no one has studied the origin of the Indians, but Zhu Cijiong knows that the American Indians migrated from Asia.

This so-called migration does not mean a one-time large-scale migration, but a slow migration in various ways over thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

And the last group, according to legend, were the Mongols and Song people who were blown to the American continent by a sea storm when Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, attacked Dongying hundreds of years ago.

There is no doubt about this. The weak Dongying was no match for the powerful Yuan Dynasty at that time. The reason why the Yuan Dynasty failed in its two expeditions to Dongying was the same as the reason why the Spanish Armada failed in its expedition to England. It was a storm at sea. Most of the warships and soldiers were blown away!

In other words, some of the Indians in the Ming Dynasty were probably not assimilated by the Indians who arrived in America thousands or even tens of thousands of years earlier, and they may still maintain their own language habits or customs.

For this reason, Zhu Cijiong specially recruited a group of Mongolians from Monan, Mobei, and the Western Regions. These Mongolians almost included most of the Mongolian tribes, that is, almost every Mongolian tribe had a few recruits, and they were A big family of men, women, old and young.

These people are Zhu Cijiong's countermeasures for Lu Xiangsheng. Simply put, it is to try to find the Mongols or even the Song people who have not been assimilated, and then build a good relationship with them, and then gradually build a good relationship with Indian tribes in North America through them. In this way, Conflicts can be avoided.

In fact, the Indians were very friendly to outsiders at the beginning. When Columbus explored, there were only a few people. If the local Indians were not friendly, they would definitely not be able to go back.

It's just that the European continental powers gradually had conflicts with the Indians for land and resources. This conflict gradually evolved into wars after the founding of the United States, until it turned into a massacre of Indians.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong would not do that. At this time, Ming Dynasty did not lack land, and the Indians in North America could not occupy much land, and the resources, the hunting resources needed by the Indians and the mineral resources needed by the Ming Empire did not substantially conflict.

Therefore, for the Ming Empire, there is no need to exclude and massacre the Indians at all. It would be more beneficial to turn them all into the people of the Ming Empire.

Naturally, Lu Xiangsheng knew that the emperor's policy towards the local Indians was mainly to win over and be gentle, so when he heard Chen Yutai say that he chose to build a joint army-naval base, or that there were Indian tribes in Jinshan City, his brows instantly frowned. up.

Going to build a city on someone else's territory, and you can't do it casually, this difficulty is really not ordinary.

He even wanted to change the place to build the city, but after some understanding, he had no choice but to give up, because the fresh water resources near the entire port were more abundant there.

What they want to build here is not a small city, it must reach at least a million people, and it will even be expanded later, because the regular legion and the vassal state legion that came here in the early stage alone totaled 50 people. The major factories employ at least more than [-] workers. How can there be so much fresh water for them to use in general places.

In the end, Lu Xiangsheng decided to take people there first. It is best to solve it peacefully. If not, then the only option is to drive away. What the emperor said about winning and loving is not blindly accommodating. For those who cannot win and warm, then It's just that you're welcome.

After everyone discussed it properly, Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered Yang Zhong and Zu Dashou to bring [-] Zhongyongjun and [-] Dongying First Army soldiers here to assist Chen Yutai in building the port, and all the materials for the port construction were also unloaded here.

And early the next morning, he took the 15 Tianxiong Army and the [-] Dongying First Army soldiers in a boat, and under the guidance of Zhao Mingfeng, rushed to the place selected to build Jinshan City. Naturally, the food and grass for the people and horses were also brought along.

Most of these armed blessing ships and super battleships have to turn around, and at most dozens of armed blessing ships will be left to assist them in transferring materials. Of course, the materials for building the city and the materials for building the port cannot be unloaded together, and the transfer will be troublesome. up.

Lu Xiangsheng's idea was to unload all the supplies as soon as possible, and let the fleet pick up the second batch of people and supplies. He didn't think about going back to find other places.

Fortunately, the place where the city was built is only more than 100 miles away from the port, and the speed of the ship took more than two hours to arrive.

Lu Xiangsheng has no experience in how to contact the local aborigines, but on the premise that peace is the most important thing, he still ordered the army not to disembark, but first sent Zhao Mingfeng and a few Jinyiwei masters to try to communicate with the local tribes. See if they can send someone to the ship to discuss.

If 15 people go down at once, nine out of ten people will be misunderstood. After all, people are not fools. With so many people going there with weapons in hand, it is hard to believe that you are not here to invade.

Zhao Mingfeng hadn't contacted the Indian tribes here before, and the emperor had confessed, because at that time the communication staff hadn't been found, and he didn't come with the expedition team, so he contacted them rashly. It's hard to make up for it.

Lu Xiangsheng was also quite cautious about the first contact with the Indians. He even left the super battleship he was on, and specially brought the summoned Mongolians and related materials to an armed blessing boat, just because he was afraid that the super battleship would be densely populated. The artillery frightened people.

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