Daming Military Empire

Chapter 675 Colonization begins, luck is against the sky
In fact, the construction of Jinshan City did not require Lu Xiangsheng to worry too much. Whether it was the port, city walls, roads or houses in the city, there were special personnel responsible for it. At most, he was just directing and coordinating.

When the construction of the city was on the right track, he could finally start to colonize the North American continent.

There are two things before him now, the first is to drive the British out of the North American continent, and the second is to slowly assimilate all the Indian tribes and integrate them into Ming Dynasty.

The first thing is actually quite simple for him, just charge forward and defeat the enemy, this is his specialty.

The problem is that he can't rush up at all now. The British army is still thousands of miles away. There is neither a railway nor a boat to go there. Such a long distance requires all the weapons, equipment, food and grass of the Tianxiong Army or other legions. It was almost impossible to pull all the luggage there, so he had to put it aside for the time being and wait for the second batch of personnel and supplies to arrive.

Now, the matter of wooing and assimilating Indian tribes can be carried out at any time, but no one has ever tried this kind of colonization method, and Lu Xiangsheng has no good idea how to carry it out in an all-round way.

Judging from what Jin Yiwei found out, there are quite a few Indian tribes in the North American continent. There are more than a dozen Indian tribes in such a small area near Jinshan City. There are at least hundreds of Indian tribes in the entire North American continent. How to win them over? where are they?

How much time would it take to show favor one by one and gradually increase friendship like the Seattle tribe?
In the end, Lu Xiangsheng still decided to ask the chief of Seattle for help, and invite all the tribal chiefs he knew to come over to understand their thoughts. Besides, he really didn't have the time to come one by one.

I have to say that many times, success or failure of many things has a lot to do with luck. Lu Xiangsheng's luck this time is really good. This chief of Seattle is actually the recognized leader of all the nearby Indian tribes. A few people went to say hello to all the nearby tribes, and all the chiefs of those tribes ran over.

It was only then that Lu Xiangsheng realized that there were not more than ten Indian tribes nearby, but more than 20.

With the help of the chief of Seattle, the communication with them was quite smooth, and soon they accepted the Ming Empire, a good friend who sincerely helped them drive away the demons.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately struck while the iron was hot, took a bunch of his men and Mongolian translators, and brought gifts to visit nearby tribes one by one.

After this lap, it took a lot of time, but the rewards were not small.

First of all, he found that the population of these more than 20 tribes is not very large, and the largest one does not exceed 20 people. In other words, the Seattle tribe is the well-deserved boss of all the tribes here, and the population of one of their tribes is almost equivalent to this The sum of the population of more than [-] tribes.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the large freshwater lake next to Jinshan City. The location of this large lake is so good, and the surrounding land is so fertile. It is estimated that there is no second one in the entire North American continent.

Then, these more than 20 tribes are distributed in a very large area, almost the size of a province in Ming Dynasty, and the place where the Indian tribes themselves live is not very large. All of them are not as big as a state capital, that is to say , [-]% of the land in this area is actually unowned, and they simply don't have that many people to occupy so much land.

For Lu Xiangsheng, this is simply a good thing that can’t be better. It’s good to have fewer people. It can save a lot of trouble when immigrating. As long as we have a good relationship with them, we can find a reason to talk about it. People are always embarrassed to object to moving people here.

We are all our own people. If you have a small population and a lot of land, no one lives there. The Ming Empire has a lot of people and has no place to live. It is not too much to move here.

Finally, and most importantly, they seemed to have been frightened by the brutal British massacre, and now they all regarded the Ming Empire as their savior, and they all welcomed the arrival of the Ming army.

Because the chief of Seattle said that the Ming Empire came to help them drive away the demons;
Because the Ming army was very friendly to them, and even brought a lot of good things to visit them;

It is also because the people of the Ming Empire are similar to them in terms of skin color and appearance, so they naturally have a sense of intimacy.

After a round of visits, I have gained a lot, but I also have a little regret, that is, there are no Mongolian people who can speak Mongolian in the nearby tribes, let alone Song people who can speak Chinese.

The few Mongolian-speaking Mongolians in the Seattle tribe seem to be the only ones left in this large land. The other tribes either have no Mongolians to join, or have been assimilated by them.

The Mongolian people of the Seattle tribe are actually slowly giving up their own language, because they are surrounded by Indian-speaking people, and they can only use Mongolian when communicating with their own family members, and this demand is becoming less and less. Because everyone can speak the Indian language here, learning more languages ​​is asking for trouble.

After hundreds of years, it is not easy for someone to speak Mongolian. This is because there were hundreds of Mongolian people who drifted here.

Perhaps in a few decades, when these people grow old and pass away, no one can speak Mongolian anymore. At that time, the fact that the Mongolians drifted here will be submerged in the long river of history.

With the help of the chief of Seattle, Lu Xiangsheng's colonization plan went smoothly. He decided to assimilate the nearby tribes first, and then gradually spread to the surrounding areas.

He began to publicize among the nearby tribes that Daming could provide necessities such as cloth and porcelain to improve their living standards;
Daming can provide simple production tools to improve their production level, and even provide earth-digging dragons to help them plow the land for free, and teach them the cultivation skills of various crops;
At the same time, he also vigorously promoted the Chinese language in various tribes, because they did not have their own characters at this time, no matter what they recorded, they relied on word of mouth, which was very inconvenient. More importantly, the Ming Empire will continue to be friendly with them for a long time and learn Chinese , to facilitate mutual communication is also essential.

Of course, all these can only be carried out after the arrival of the second batch of personnel and supplies, and at this time, Lu Xiangsheng did not stop his footsteps.

In order to show that Daming really wanted to help them expel the demons, Lu Xiangsheng asked the tribes to second a group of warriors, and asked them to lead Jinyiwei spies to the west to find out the exact location of the demons.

At the same time, he began to make maps and explore mineral deposits with the chief of Seattle. The reason was, of course, that he wanted to build railways, manufacture train carriages, and transport the army to the west as soon as possible. However, building railways and manufacturing train carriages required a lot of coal and iron ore.

As soon as Chief Seattle heard that they wanted to transport the army to the west coast as soon as possible to drive away the demons, he immediately sent the warriors of the tribe to lead the professionals from the Daming Ministry of Industry to search for mineral deposits. His mood was even more urgent than that of Lu Xiangsheng.

The peace of the North American continent was broken again. The Ming army on the east coast is extending its tentacles to the west coast. The British army still doesn't know that in the near future, a bad luck will befall them and they will be completely driven out. Get off this land!

(End of this chapter)