Dominate the Country

August 11th, another great day of the court.

Chen Ming sat on the throne and accepted the salutes of all officials.

The civil and military officials in the court were all filled with joy at this moment, because the news from Seoul had been transmitted back to the country. Not only the carrier pigeons, but also the detailed reports were delivered to Nanjing City by the clipper ships. The entire military and civilians in Nanjing knew that Chen Zhongsheng and Sun Xu had done a great thing. Their great move directly overthrew the Andong Jin family and directly accelerated the fruit of Korea to eighty percent maturity.

This was a great victory.

Chen Han not only recovered the former Han land, but also took down the entire Korea.

No matter how many corrupt scholars in the folk grumbled, anyway, Chen Han’s court was full of joy.

To describe it in one sentence, that is, joyous.

And there was more than one happy event.

The second batch of immigrants to North America also started to set off, and then there was good news from foreign trade. Although there were no Spanish and almost no French as China's foreign trade partners this year, the number of British ships coming to China did not decrease at all.

On the contrary, as the French merchant ships were blocked, the British saw their opportunity to make a fortune and spent 30% more on tea than in previous years.

In the past, Britain had serious tea smuggling due to the high [doubled] tea tax. Among them, their good friends Windmill and Gallic Rooster were the two main forces. Although the French and the Dutch buy a lot of tea from China every year, in fact, the sales volume of tea in their own countries is not large, and it is mainly smuggled to the UK. Without the high tea tax, the benefits of smuggling tea are huge, definitely not less than their counterparts in the 21st century.

Now the French are being strangled by the British, and the number of French merchant ships coming to China has been greatly reduced, with only five ships this year. The Dutch smuggling ships also had a much harder time because of the British blockade, which naturally left enough market space for legitimate British tea. This was the main reason for the explosion in the British tea trade this year. For China, this is great news.

Regardless of whether the British explosion can last for a long time, it is always a good thing.

This year's East-West trade has not shrunk in terms of overall trading volume. This is a victory!

And the news that the French and the Dutch are getting closer is very likely true.

Although this news has not been confirmed.

But at the end of July, a message came from Batavia that the Dutch were resting the fortifications of Batavia again. Haha, Chen Ming only laughed after seeing this news. Don't blame him for thinking too much, the news at this time is too ambiguous.

"The Han Dynasty has been established for five years. Its foundation has gradually stabilized, people's livelihood has been restored, and the country has been revived. This is the credit of all the nobles."

"I will keep it in mind."

"There will be a big reward in the future."

North America has already made a move. The entire west coast of North America belongs to China. There will be a lot of room for the nobles to move in. Chen Ming did not think of blocking them all in those ports. After these people sent people to North America to see the real situation, even before the first batch of immigrants arrived in North America, many news brought back by the expeditionary forces had already confirmed the superior natural environment of North America.

Now Chen Ming wants to give these nobles who are like hungry birds a signal-allow them to show their strength in North America. Rather than just limiting their steps to Hanjin and Tokyo [San Francisco, Los Angeles].

"North America is a newly expanded land. Fortunately, with the support of all the nobles, we have been able to gather so many immigrants. I am here to thank all the nobles."

"America has been cultivated by foreigners for more than 200 years, but due to geography, they mostly gather on the east coast of South America and North America. Fortunately, no one has touched the west coast of North America, so it is a great blessing for us Chinese to intervene."

"Today, tens of thousands of Chinese people have crossed the ocean and set foot in North America. They have opened up 100,000 acres of land and hundreds of villages, and established our own home. It has laid a solid foundation for the economy of our Chinese people in North America. I believe that with the joint efforts of all the nobles and the people of the world in the future, this new land in North America will surely become stronger and stronger. "

If this was at a banquet, Chen Ming would have to drink three bowls with all the ministers. Unfortunately, this is the court, this is the Fengtian Hall.

But even so, the ministers of Chen Han who walked out of the palace all had ruddy faces, as if they had drunk a bowl of mellow wine.

The emperor wants everyone to build a beautiful homeland in North America together. Isn't this allowing everyone to develop freely in North America? Although it's too late to say this now. Ge Er is going to fight with his colleagues in the Nanyang Office and the Nanmingzhou Office. He used the temptation of 20 acres of land to attract a large number of immigrants from Fujian. The third wave of immigrants is about to be gathered.

But there is still next year, right?

The eyes of the civil and military officials in the court are all on North America. The court's investment in North America is far greater than that in Nanmingzhou. Even Ge Er saw this and it became a magic weapon for him to attract people.

How many people are there in the first batch of immigrants in Nanmingzhou? It has been developed for several years, and the total number is far from the scale of 100,000 in the first year of North America.

And think about the terrible speed of immigration in North America, 100,000 people a year.

How long did Niu Niu operate in the thirteen states before he had 2 million people. And China has to attract 100,000 people a year.

Although Chen Ming prepared hundreds of large ships for immigrants, and almost emptied the ocean-going merchant ships under the China Foreign Trade Company and the ocean-going fleet of the military logistics department, this effort can be said to be overwhelming. It is impossible to maintain this number until next year, but the effect is absolutely great.

The huge fleet not only brought people, but also all the materials needed to open up a new life, from grain seeds to chickens and ducks, to sickles and hoes. This is also a major reason why a large number of Chinese goods flowed into Mexico.

Otherwise, how could an ocean-going ship only carry 300 people? If you squeeze in, 500 or 600 people are also normal. China's immigration route is full of ports for docking and supplies, whether it is Sakhalin Island, the Aleutian Islands, or the North American route.

The work of the Overseas Exploration Bureau is very solid. They have marked out suitable places for docking on the west coast of North America. This brings too much convenience to immigration work.

Anyway, when the good news from North Korea just came, Chen Ming's confession about North America was a double blessing in the eyes of the nobles and ministers of the court.

When Liu Dezhao returned to his home after get off work in the evening, he saw his son, nephew, nephew and important guests of the home all gathered in the lobby, waiting for his arrival.

Sitting on the chair and taking a sip of ginseng soup, Liu Dezhao felt that his body was finally lighter.

Although the morning court meeting made him very happy, Liu Dezhao was not young anymore, and a day's work was no joke.

"You have all heard about it. Tell me, how can my Liu family take the initiative this time?"

Among the first batch of people who signed up to immigrate to North America, there were of course people from the Liu family, and the leader was still a cousin of Liu Dezhao, who was forty years old and had no great ability. He was good at managing trivial matters and was now the head of Liujia Village outside Tokyo.

But Liu Dezhao didn't think that was enough. If possible, he hopes that Liujia Village can become Liujia Town, and Liujia Town can become Liucheng, which will become the support point for his Liu family to gain a foothold in America in the future. Before, Chen Ming had not opened his mouth, and no one dared to act rashly. But now, Liu Dezhao, who is in China, must continuously invest funds, manpower and material resources in North America.

"Manpower and material resources!" This is financial resources. Now as long as there is money, there will be no shortage of people and goods.

Chen Ming only found out after investigation that those who were sent to the first batch of North American immigrants by the Liu family actually received a share of the Liu family's money. And almost all powerful families do this. This is like in online game novels, a promising new game is open for testing, and major game unions, even young people and second generations have joined in. These people already have a large number of people behind them, and can concentrate their efforts on doing big things from the beginning. The development speed and level are naturally much higher than ordinary people.

Liujia Village and its similar Yaojia Village, Zhengjia Village, Shijia Village, etc., are just like the unions and gangs that are formed at the beginning of the game.

In the new chessboard of America, it can be said that ordinary immigrants have little chance to surpass these dignitaries. Except for the Chen Han court, the real game participants are only the families of Chen Han's noble ministers. The future South American countries may develop little by little from these inconspicuous small villages now. The future South America will also become a continent composed of countless small countries like the occupied areas composed of these small villages now. How long this pattern can be maintained and who will be the final winner is not something Chen Ming can imagine and determine.

"Dad, there are not many people willing to go to North America now." The Liu family needs to gain a foothold in America and lay a solid foundation. They can't just rely on throwing money, right? They need to exert their influence to attract people to join voluntarily.

In addition, Liujia Village is not for the purpose of creating a prosperous village or even a town within the scope of Tokyo. That is to prepare for the future expansion of South America. This requires that the people who gather them will be willing to go with them when the time comes. This is too difficult.

"There are always poor people in the world. We have to gather people from county to county." For the sake of the future, the Liu family must gnaw on these hard bones.

Liu Dezhao has not contacted the local area for a long time, but this does not mean that he is not aware of the local people's livelihood.

Four or five years of recuperation, the court lightened taxes and levies, and the landlords reduced rent and interest - they had to reduce rent and interest.

Factories and farms competed for labor for them, and the immigration bureau was a bottomless pit that swallowed poor ghosts.

There are fewer poor people in rural China, and the labor force has also decreased. Especially in recent years, the newspaper bombardment and information bombardment, coupled with the immigrants' personal stories, have really reduced a lot of pressure and burden on the Chinese mainland.

These are the unstable factors of society. When the accumulation is too much, it will trigger a series of peasant uprisings; when the accumulation is too heavy, it will be the rise of dragons and snakes and the collapse of the dynasty.

Why didn't Europe have a revolutionary peasant uprising when the peasants and working class were so oppressed in the past few hundred years? Why was there only a capitalist revolution?

That's because they had the New World as a place to vent their pressure. Once the pressure at home was too great, countless penniless peasants and bankrupts would cross the ocean and start their new life in the strange and vast New World. Chen Mingke still remembers "My Uncle Jules" by Maupassant, a famous French short story master.

In the words of the Chinese teacher, this novel depicts the different behaviors and psychology of Philip and his wife when they find that Rich Jules has become Poor Jules, and reveals and satirizes the alienation between people in class society through Philip and his wife's different attitudes towards Jules.

But now this article has a greater impression on Chen Ming - the New World.

Every Sunday, we would dress neatly and go for a walk on the seaside pier. At that time, as long as we saw the sea ship coming back from afar, my father would always say his unchanging words: "Oh! If Jules is on this ship, it will be such a surprise!"

My father's younger brother, Uncle Jules, was the only hope of the whole family at that time, and before that he was the terror of the whole family.

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After Uncle Jules ate up his share of the inheritance, he also occupied a large part of my father's share. According to the custom at that time, people sent him on a merchant ship from Havre to New York and sent him to America.

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What a perfect New World.

With this precious land, the social garbage of the whole Europe has a place to pile up. Moreover, European society itself also has the army, a place where scum is concentrated.

China needs such a negative energy-inclined land, which can eat up the heavy burden of the mainland bit by bit, so that the mainland can run forward quickly with a thinner body. At the same time, this garbage dump can also be turned into treasure bit by bit, and in turn, it can feed back to the mainland from the raw materials and commodity market.

Colonies are simply a perfect pressure relief valve, forming a perfect interest cycle with the mainland.

Therefore, the local power groups that occupy the absolute initiative will not let the colonies go beyond their control. After all, no power group is willing to watch their own interests fly out, and the local interest groups in the colonies are not fools. They let others cut their own knives. They hope to establish an independent country to safeguard their own rights and interests. This is the fundamental reason for the emergence of the United States and the outbreak of the South American War of Independence. At the same time, Canada and Australia, whose economic development is too closely related to the mainland, do not have colonies with independent development conditions at this stage, so they can only be tightly tied to the mainland.

Chen Ming will not suppress the development of America, because he has absolute confidence in the current China. With Nanyang and Australia as the back garden, China can continue to develop on the current path. How can such a China be afraid of America, which is divided into countless pieces?

"Liujia Village in North America represents not only our Liu family. There are also princes in the palace. With the face of the imperial concubine in front of His Majesty, even if the battle for the throne is lost in the future, she will definitely be able to find a good place. Maybe it will be Tokyo and Hanjin." Among all the families whose daughters gave birth to princes, which one of them would not look at Tokyo and Hanjin?

After all, there is only one throne for the emperor, and there is also the great goddess Queen Li in the palace. But the fiefdoms in North America will be one after another. Who doesn't want their fiefdom to be more developed?

Tokyo and Hanjin are real Feng Shui treasures, and gold mines have been found around Hanjin City.

"The development of Liujia Village is related to the future of our clan. You must pay attention when you go down, and this matter must be placed in the position of top priority."

"Mr. Zhu, Mr. Wang, Mr. Hong, you gentlemen are very grateful for your hard work. Please prepare the next batch of personnel and materials by the end of the year." Liu Dezhao has internal information. By next year, these large sea-going ships cannot be used for the transportation of immigrants to North America. Some of them must be withdrawn and returned to sea transportation. The domestic shipbuilding industry's productivity cannot make up for this huge gap. Therefore, the transportation quota to North America next year needs to be actively sought.

Then these personnel and materials must be prepared this year.

"Please rest assured, host."

Mr. Zhu, Mr. Wang, Mr. Hong and other guests agreed with ruddy faces. They are all old people of the previous dynasty who are unable to enter the officialdom in the new dynasty. Even the careers of their children and grandchildren may be affected by them. But if the vassal state of the Liu family is established, even if this vassal state is countless times smaller and weaker than China, they will also be old heroes.

In the future, we will just sit back and watch the world develop. Who would have thought how far the world would change?

Everything now is for a better future.

"Finally, keep an eye on the Li family's every move!"