In June, the sun is bright and the sky is clear.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the north and at the junction of the Eurasian continent, Sun Chuanting, deputy army marshal Sun Chuanting, led an army of 200,000 to confront nearly 300,000 anti-Habsburg powers, on the Wuhe line. Both sides were having a lot of fun.

At this time, Edo Port, which was in the extreme east of the Ming Dynasty, was full of joy.

On the sea, countless armed blessing ships from the Ming Empire were neatly arranged, and they could not see the edge at first sight. At the port, countless Japanese civilians were crowded together, admiring the power of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Takawa Qizaemon was already twenty-two. As early as two years ago, he succeeded to the throne as King of Japan, Zheng of the Ming Dynasty, two kings of one family, and Rong and for a while.

The reason why the Ming Empire gathered thousands of armed blessing ships was not to come to Japan to do business, but to set out from Edo Port and rush to the North American continent to develop the first overseas colony.

The Ming Empire is more than 20,000 miles apart from the North American continent. It took nearly three months for a large expedition team sent by Zhu Cijing to return from the North American continent. This is because of the ship. If you use a sailboat, it will take at least half a year to make a round trip.

The expedition team has found a natural harbor below the snow line in North America. Judging from the map they brought back, it should be Seattle or Vancouver in later generations. Zhu Cijiu couldn't remember that much, so he simply waved his pen and named it Kingsoft directly.

This is a name with a very Ming Dynasty character, meaning that there is a mountain full of gold and silver, and it is extremely rich.

Of course, Zhu Cijing knew that the Jinshan Mountain or San Francisco was not there in the future, but what does that matter? In this world, it will become a colony of the Ming Empire and a place name. He won't just take whatever he wants.

In order to occupy and develop the North American continent, Zhu Cijiu ordered the Royal Marine Transport Company of the Ming Dynasty to gather a thousand armed Fuhuo ships, and ordered the North Sea Fleet to send ten super battleships carrying the Tianxiong Army, the Loyal Army and countless food and supplies. He set out from Dongdaying New Port, rushed to Edo Port, the vassal state of Japan, and then set off from Edo Port and arrived directly to Jinshan Port on the American continent.

This time, he specially sent Lu Xiangsheng, the extremely powerful army marshal Lu Xiangsheng, who was both civil and military, to give him full responsibility for all matters in occupying and developing the North American continent.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was having a happy conversation with the Japanese king Takawa Qizaemon on the dock, while the soldiers of the 100,000 Japanese First Legion were lined up in an orderly manner on the armed blessing ship.

The reason why he wanted to come here to fight was mainly to pick up the First Legion of Japan.

The expedition team did not conduct in-depth investigations at this time. Their main purpose was to determine the construction location of the port.

It takes a lot of manpower to build ports and naval bases, and how many indigenous people there are and where they gather, the Ming Empire still knows nothing about this, so it is naturally unrealistic to go to the local area to recruit people temporarily. The Tianxiong Army and the Zhongyong Army cannot stay there to do infrastructure, so other people need to be dispatched to work.

Just so happened that there were two vassal legions in Japan, and they often participated in railway construction and were skilled in building a port, so Zhu Cijiu decided to let Lu Xiangsheng go to Japan halfway and take the first legion of Japan with him.

Originally, if a thousand armed blessing ships were forced into it, fifty or six hundred thousand people would be stuffed in. However, this time they had to bring too many supplies. Not only did they have the army's food, supplies, weapons and ammunition, but also cement and steel needed to build ports and bases, artillery needed to defend the base, etc., they could not accommodate so many people at all.

Of course, this is just the first wave. After this wave is sent, there will be a second wave. At that time, two more vassal state legions will have to be transported, and the materials needed to build steel mills, machinery factories, train factories, large power plants and other factories will also be carried.

It is not a matter of building railways there overnight. It is obviously not realistic to transport rails and trains from the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Cijiu decided to open a factory there directly and look for iron ore and coal mines there. Iron lumps with no technical content such as train cars and rails, which are directly manufactured there. At most, the local area of ​​Ming Dynasty transports the locomotives over there.

One of Takawa Qizaemon and Lu Xiangsheng is a vassal king and the other is the Grand Marshal of the Ming Empire Army. It seems that there is not much common topic, but they have been talking for a long time, and even after all the 100,000 troops of the Japanese First Army have boarded the armed blessing ship, they are still talking.

What's going on?

The main topic was mentioned by Takawa Qizaemon. As the lord of a country, he had to think about his people. In such a narrow place in Japan, the population has exceeded 30 million. At this time, he cannot restrict his childbirth, so he can only find a way to immigrate.

Originally, when the Ming Dynasty occupied Siberia, he applied to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, hoping to move some Japanese people to Siberia, but His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire did not agree.

The reason why Zhu Cijiu did not agree to his natural considerations is that Siberia is not suitable for migrating too much population due to climate. If there is too much population, it will cause food shortages, because for the time being, there is too little food production there.

Without food, the upper limit of the population is limited. The maximum number of people moving there is tens of millions is the limit. If there are too many, I don’t know how much transportation capacity will be wasted just by transporting food there.

And there is a newly occupied territory and a treasure house of resources. Zhu Cijiu naturally wants to control it in his own hands. Although Japan is now a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, who knows what will happen in the future?

As the emperor of the Ming Empire, he had to consider more than Takawa Shizaemon. He did not expect that Japan's population in Siberia exceeded that of the Ming Dynasty, causing unnecessary trouble, so he simply refused Takawa Shizaemon's application.

But this time it’s different. North America has a suitable climate and there is no upper limit for the population for the time being. It’s okay to migrate hundreds of millions of people in the past. At this time, there is no need to restrict the migration of Japanese population.

Japan can be moved, and other vassal states can also be moved. Of course, it is mainly the population of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, after immigration, the officials and garrisons there must be people of the Ming Empire after they are stationed. In this way, the people of the Ming Dynasty will form the mainstream there, and they are not afraid that these vassal states will turn the world upside down.

After Zhu Cijiu revealed this, Takawa Qizaemon became concerned. The reason why he pulled Lu Xiangsheng to talk was for immigration. Lu Xiangsheng was responsible for all matters in the North American continent. In other words, for a long time, he was the governor there, so he naturally had to win over this person.

Lu Xiangsheng was very polite to Takawa Qizaemon, because this person was not only the King of Japan, but also the son of King Zhennan, and the younger brother of Zheng Chenggong, the Navy Marshal of the Ming Empire. It can be said that his identity is more noble than him, so he naturally dared not neglect.

Sometimes when we get together, we will always leave. After carefully exchanging opinions on the immigration matters related to Lu Xiangsheng and Takawa Qizaemon, we finally set foot on the long-awaited super battleship.

Then, with ten super battleships in front and one thousand armed blessing ships behind, the first truly colonial fleet in the history of the Ming Dynasty finally set off, aiming directly at the North American continent!
Chapter completed!