My Daming New Empire

However, because the amount of rubber is too small, most people still don't know the importance of rubber.

Although these rubber trees will not be harvested during his term of office, as long as these saplings are planted alive, it will be a great achievement for His Highness the Grandson.

With his uncle serving as the chief assistant of the cabinet, Xie Zhenqi naturally has one more important information channel than others. This is also his biggest advantage besides his own talent.

In mid-May, after half a month of sailing, the fleet turned slightly to the northwest and arrived in Hawaii, which is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In Zhu Zhanji's information to the fleet, it is named Honolulu, mainly because it is rich in sandalwood.

Although the reputation of Hawaii in later generations is famous both at home and abroad, Zhu Zhanji has also been there many times.But Zhu Zhanji is not clear about the history of Hawaii.

Before the eighteenth century, it was almost isolated from the outside world, and it was not until the eighteenth century that there were detailed historical records here.

So apart from the name Honolulu and a brief description of several main islands, Zhu Zhanji did not provide much information.

When Hou Xian and the others arrived here, they were surprised to find that the language problem was not a problem when they came to these small islands that were almost isolated from the world.

Although it is thousands of miles away from Nanzhou, the aborigines here belong to the same ethnic group as the people on some small islands near Nanzhou, and their language is similar.

The fleet originally had officers recruited from Nanzhou a few years ago. Although their tones are slightly different from those of the natives, they can still communicate.

Facing such a huge fleet, the tens of thousands of natives living on the island had no thought of resisting at all.

They regarded the Ming Fleet as gods, and when Hou Xian brought several islands under the management of Ming, they agreed directly.

Today's Hawaii has a total population of less than 4. They fish and grow sugar cane, pineapples, bananas, etc. In addition to fish, they are fruits, and there is no staple food such as wheat and rice.

The fleet stayed in Honolulu for half a month, repaired the ship, sent people to survey several islands on horseback, and took away dozens of teenage boys on the island when they left.

They will be taught Minghua, and will become the general staff of the mission in the future.

And because the Polynesian aborigines on the island are still living independently, there are only a few tribes on one island, and the tribes are too small. The mission didn't even bring their leaders, but just let these leaders take their children away for education.

Daming would not be willing to see a tribe formed here in the future, and it would be more conducive to the future rule of Daming to just spread out like this.

The geographical location here is very important, and it will definitely become an important supply point in the future. When he left, Yi Xin was already planning to set up a naval water fort here in the future.

Leaving from Hawaii, the fleet is still going smoothly, and there are hardly any wind and waves along the way.It was only in the Marshall Islands of later generations that the fleet ran aground and lost a vanguard ship because it could not escape.

On the sixth day of July, the fleet successfully arrived at the scheduled area in northern Luzon. Except for the half-month stay in Honolulu, the fleet traveled 55 miles in only [-] days.

This journey shocked everyone. It was a three-month journey that was originally planned, and there were no storms during the journey.

The Daming Ocean is also the Pacific Ocean. The widest part is [-] miles. The straight-line distance of the fleet from Panama to the Philippines is about [-] miles. Including a detour, the actual sailing distance is [-] miles. .

Calculated in this way, even if part of the sails were lowered, the fleet still sailed nearly [-] miles a day.

This speed of sailing was unbelievable to everyone before.

At the pier at the mouth of the Cagayan River, the unraveling period is in July, and they are already waiting here.

Waiting here at the same time with him are representatives sent by Xu Chailao and the internal supervisor. Although they promised to hand over half of the saplings to Xie Zhenqi for planting, because they don't know how many saplings the fleet will bring back, so the specific Allocation has not been determined.

When Xie Zhenqi knew that the fleet had brought back more than [-] saplings and two whole ships of seeds, Xie Zhenqi couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

Except for ships carrying rubber saplings and seeds, the other fleets did not stop in Luzon.

They have been away from home for more than two years, and what they miss most now are their relatives at home.

When they learned that the emperor had won a great victory in the Western Expedition and returned home via Luzon half a month ago, how could they think of repairing in Luzon?

With the south wind on the boat, they will be able to enjoy family happiness at home in less than half a month.

We traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, Daming, we are back.

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Six years ago, Taisun went to sea for three years and brought back more than 2000 million taels of silver.

Three years ago, the emperor personally conquered Timur, a powerful country in Central Asia, and brought the entire northwest into the scope of Ming Dynasty.

Today's Daming is much larger than it was in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and it has truly reached the pinnacle of prosperity.

That is to say, the territory of the Mongolian Yuan at the time of the Western Expedition could be larger than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the Mongolian Yuan only plundered and had no management ability, and those territories could not be directly regarded as the territory of the Meng Yuan.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty has now turned Nanyang into an inland sea, and Dongying has become a vassal state, which is something that the Mongolian Yuan did not do.

Looking around the world, there is no country that can pose a threat to Daming.Those wolves who used to be in the prairie have now become Daming's watchdogs one by one.

In the 12th year of Yongle, the Northern Expedition defeated Wala, and the Tatars returned to their hearts.

In the 14th year of Yongle, Taisun Zhanji conquered Dongying.

In the 15th year of Yongle, Taisun went to sea to investigate the map of tomorrow.

In the 18th year of Yongle, His Majesty marched to the west to destroy the western powers.

It will be the 20th year of Yongle this year. During these ten years, Daming has truly stood at the pinnacle of the world, both economically and militarily.

His Majesty the Emperor personally led the expedition and returned after a great victory. Since March, Yingtian Mansion has been preparing to welcome the Emperor back to the country.

Zhu Di in this era is far happier than in the original era.

In the original era, Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mobei, except for the first two with some success, the next three can only be said to have returned without success.

Because the enemy will never confront him head-on, if you come, I will run, and if you leave, I will come again.

But in this era, after the second Northern Expedition, Zhu Zhanji used a Beimingshan copper mine to win over the remnants of the Tatars and Wala.

The improvement of muskets directly raised Daming's military power to a higher level. Reliable hot weapons fought against cold weapons. No matter how fast the opponent's horse was, it would not be as fast as bullets.

Three fewer Northern Expeditions have reduced the burden on the common people of Ming Dynasty a lot.If it weren't for the huge manpower and material resources spent on the Western Expedition, today's Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a prosperous country and a peaceful country.

Even though the Western Expedition cost a lot, don't forget that Zhu Zhanji has provided Daming with a steady stream of power in terms of economic structure and resources over the years.

Vigorously develop maritime trade, conquer Japan, and trade with Europe, all of which have strengthened Ming's economy a lot.

Transporting grain from Nanyang liberated a lot of productivity accordingly. Even if the imperial court conscripted millions of laborers to transport grain to the northwest, Ming still did not worry about food shortages.

There is also the development of industry. Among other things, the emergence of bearings can allow more carts to be loaded and require less labor.

So even if Zhu Di launched the Western Expedition, today's Ming Dynasty is still stronger than in the original history.

Not to mention that because of Zhu Zhanji's foresight, Daming missed a peasant uprising.

Especially in the southeast area, because of the development of industry, people's lives today far exceed those in history.

The demand for manpower brought about by industrial development has correspondingly alleviated a lot of land acquisitions.