In June, the sun is scorching along the coast of Kingsoft Bay.

Decoration is being carried out on the square in front of the Duke of the United States on the Kingsoft Peninsula.

"It's been a year, and I didn't expect time to pass so quickly."

Li Shimin stood on the building of the Duke's Mansion, looking at the square in front from the window, watching everyone preparing for the bonfire at night.

"Yes, it's been a year in the blink of an eye. When I first came here, it was just a deserted island. But now, it's so lively and it's our home." The Supreme Queen Wu Meiniang held her one-year-old son and looked at the busy and happy crowd.

My mind couldn't help but fly to the distant West, where it is my hometown.

This year was not easy. They set off from Hanjing last year, first to Liuqiu and then to Luzon, then to Java, and finally sailed eastward. It took them half a year to reach China and the United States.

They were lucky there and traded with the local Mayan city-state. With the many exquisite goods brought by the Central Plains, they exchanged for many Mayan food and slaves, and then went north along the coast.

During this period, while sailing, we traded with the indigenous people along the coast. We arrived in North America smoothly and arrived at the Kingsoft arranged by Zhang Chao for them.

It is a good place in all aspects. In addition to the desolation, everything is actually very good. The weather is good, the land on the island is good, and there is also a good bay. Along the bay, there is indeed a lot of land suitable for cultivation. If you go deeper, there is a larger valley plain.

Li Shimin landed at the northern end of the Jinshan Peninsula and then set up the first wooden stake there.

Build a simple camp, and then rely on the boats and fishing nets given to them by Zhang Chao, to build American forts while fishing and hunting.

When he arrived in Central America, Li Shimin had 30,000 people, including many prisoners captured on the islands on the sea. From the coast of Central America, Li Shimin also exchanged many small slaves.

The slaves here are very cheap. A exquisite Tang silk can be exchanged for twenty slaves. When he arrived in Jinshan, Li Shimin already owned nearly 40,000 slaves. If his ship was not really blocked, Li Shimin would have replaced ten thousand more people.

Build castles, fishing and hunting, and also start planting in surrounding reclamation areas.

Li Shimin was ambitious and, with enough food, he kept the fleet from stopping and continued to sail the same way, continuing to trade with the city-states and tribes.

The silk, porcelain, etc. brought by the Central Plains were exchanged for their food and slaves. Because there were too many exchanges, the prices of food, dried fish, jerky meat and slaves along the coast increased a lot, but they still changed a lot after one trip.

A series of southbound trades.

At this time, the silk porcelain brought by Li Shimin was sold out, and the ones they were exchanged for were the large granaries in the Jinshan Peninsula camp, and the camp had a total of more than 30,000 slaves.

This landing point at the northern end of the Kingsoft Peninsula has a population of more than 50,000 in half a year.

They built a pretty wooden city, as well as a stone-studded American Duke's Mansion and the Supreme Palace.

Li Shimin also found three gold mines on the island and organized many slaves to dig gold.

Tens of thousands of acres of land were opened and a salt field was built.

Wood processing plants, shipbuilding and repairing plants, slaughtering plants, leather factories.

There are even breeding farms in the pier that raise various cattle, sheep, horses, chickens and ducks brought from the Central Plains, and there are also many livestock purchased in the Americas.

In half a year, this place has developed rapidly from scratch. During this period, a Yin tribe came to attack and was defeated by Xu Ji and Yuchi Gong. He followed the way and destroyed the other tribe, snatched a batch of tents, dried meat and a pile of skins, and hundreds of Yin prisoners.

Since then, no one in Yin dared to attack and harass him again.

But gradually, some Yin people learned about this and came to trade. They used fur, herbs, and dried meat to buy things from Li Shimin. Any Tang people's things were very popular.

There is even a market here now, just a little next to Kingsoft Castle.

The Yin people liked their silk, cloth, their boots, leather jackets, and even their leather armor, as well as their weapons, their salt, their tea, and their wine.

Li Shimin did not despise these poor fellow villagers. Those who come to trade and drink are welcome, as long as they can take out something to exchange. No matter whether you are a slave, gold, silver and gems, meadows, fur, jerky, or newly hunted beasts or fish caught, they are all collected here.

With a population of more than 50,000, the daily consumption is actually huge.

Li Shimin also organized his subordinates into many groups, including mining, construction, farming, hunting, fishing, craftsman, and special trading groups.

However, the complete food self-sufficiency has not been implemented yet. It mainly depends on the food jerky obtained from previous transactions, and the income from fishing and hunting has not yet occurred.

Li Shimin planned to reclaim along the bay coastline and build villages in the southeast direction, reclaim more fields and plant more grain.

Even his pasture has expanded a lot, and many livestock and poultry have died on the boat, but now it is slowly growing.

all is well.

The Tang tribe, which came from the opposite side of the sea, attracted many people to come. Some people came to trade, and some people came to inquire about the news. However, when they saw the Tang tribe's strong camp and city, their elite soldiers, especially they were even more amazed and awe-inspiring.

I have never seen a warrior riding this beast before.

Li Shimin held several trading conferences, and while attracting traders from all parties, he also took the opportunity to let his soldiers compete with the soldiers of other tribes.

Archery, horse riding, military formation.

Tang Jun's performance deeply shocked people from all over the tribes. Since then, more people came to trade, but no one dared to make any decisions.

Because of insufficient self-sufficiency in food, the silk that can be traded was almost sold, so Li Shimin did not dare to buy slaves everywhere.

In fact, he bought almost all the slaves he could buy.

If you want to expand your population, you can only send troops to conquer the Yin tribes.

Li Shimin did not rush to expand. He was waiting to reclaim more land and plant more food so that he could accommodate more people.

He actively sent scouts, dressed up as traded vendors, went deep into the valley plains, and explored the information and information of various tribes.

He also used the salt produced in his salt fields to be better, and then transported it to various places to sell it to Yin tribes, traded grain and fur, etc.

A lot of fur was piled up in the warehouse, and even some gold dug up was accumulated.

Some of the furs were processed into clothes, but all the gold was stored there. Li Shimin was waiting for the merchant ships from the Central Plains to come, and then he could get more silk cloth, even swords and armor, as well as various agricultural tools and iron materials.

If the Central Plains merchant ships did not come, it would be almost impossible for them to develop rapidly.

Now it has reached a bottleneck period. To develop more arable land, more cattle, horses and plowing tools are needed. Training more soldiers and forming larger armies is also needed, and more weapons and armor are needed.

The blacksmith he brought was at most to rebuild the damaged farm tools and swords. Without iron materials and more tools and craftsmen, he could not make more farm tools and weapons by himself, and it would be difficult to make a few kitchen knives.

Yuchi Gong and Xu Ji studied the battle plan every day and discussed where to fight.

But Li Shimin knew that without more arable land, he could not provide more food and could not support his war plan.

Or, he used gold and fur to trade goods such as silk, tea, porcelain and other goods to the Central Plains merchant ships, and then he sent people to exchange with the Yin tribes in the inland.

"Calculate the time, the original merchant fleet in Zhongyuan should have set off. If they go directly to the North Line and can sail directly to us, it will arrive in half a year." Li Shimin murmured to himself, "If we persist for another half a year, we will get a large amount of supplies, and then we will be able to expand the population of at least 40,000 to 50,000. In that way, we will have a population of 100,000."

It is difficult to buy 40,000 or 50,000 slaves, and there are not so many slaves to buy along the coast. Li Shimin planned to expand his army first after he had supplies, and then directly sent troops to conquer and annex the surrounding tribes by force.

Capture their population as slaves, cultivate more arable land, plant more food, train more troops, and then cycle through this, sweep the surroundings.

"Mei Niang, do you think Zhang Chao will send a supply fleet as agreed?" Li Shimin asked.

"Since the Grand Master agreed, he will definitely do it."

Li Shimin shook his head, "Zhang Chao is not trustworthy. I have always been worried recently. I don't know how the Central Plains are like, thousands of miles apart. I am very worried about Cheng Qian, he is not Zhang Chao's opponent at all."

"Is the emperor a student of the Grand Tutor or his son-in-law, he should be able to assist the emperor." Wu Mei defended her adopted father.

"Zhang Chao must not be trusted, that is the wolf in sheep's clothing. This damn guy, let the navigators go, otherwise, I would definitely send someone back to Zhongyuan to find out the news."

Without the navigator, Li Shimin had a fleet that could cross the ocean, but he could not accurately know the return route. Without the navigator, the fleet could not return to the Central Plains alone.

After leaving the Central Plains for a year, Li Shimin was very uneasy.

Xu Maogong and Yuchi Gong came.

"His Majesty."

Li Shimin nodded to the two, "Thank you for your hard work, sit down."

"Your Majesty, we feel that from now on we can select a group of reliable and loyal people from the slaves and start reorganization and training."

Now Kingsoft has organized personnel into multiple groups, each with its own tasks. Then Li Shimin took turns to draw people from these people to train, and these people are equivalent to militias.

He also has a more elite guard, but not many.

Both Xu Maogong and his wife thought that the weapons would arrive in another half a year, so it is very necessary to start selecting a group of people to train and expand the standing guard.
Chapter completed!