New Ming Empire mixed in America

To be honest, Li Mingqi also really wanted to make a semi-automatic rifle or a fully automatic rifle. But in reality, he didn't allow it. Without smokeless gunpowder, nothing could be done.

Back at his residence, Li Mingqi sent someone to call Liu Youcai to ask for information about the empire's population.

"Long live my lord, during this time, people are coming every day to defect. As of today, there are 3,520 imperial subjects who have shaved their heads and become naturalized."

"There are 5,062 people who have not shaved their heads but have been naturalized, and the rest are about 3,000."

Liu Youcai has recently shifted his focus to resettling residents.

Now he carries a small notebook with him wherever he goes. Whenever there is another naturalized person, he will add one to the number with a smile.

As for the remaining people who were unwilling to shave their heads and be naturalized, in his eyes they were classified into the other column.

Long live the Lord to give these people a job and reward them with food. This is what the Holy Emperor did.

But those stubborn people don’t care about the kindness of the king and cherish the innocence, hum!

After snoring heavily in his heart, Liu Youcai said seriously:

"Long live my Lord, I think it is extremely inappropriate for those remnants of the Qing Dynasty to live and work in our empire without paying taxes. If the people of our empire pay taxes in the future but they don't, I may lose the support of the people in the long run."

After hearing this, Li Mingqi also felt that it made sense. Even if we have to treat them differently, it should be the people of our empire who take advantage. Now it seems that those who are not naturalized take advantage.

This is definitely not possible. Li Mingqi could not do the kind of business of spending money to support black slaves in a certain country in later generations.

Have you not seen that there are no black dogs in the Xinming Empire?

"That's right. I'll leave this matter to you. We must not let the people of the empire feel cold."

After finishing speaking, Li Mingqi asked another more critical question.

"How many men and women are there among the subjects of the empire now?"

Liu Youcai was stunned by this question, but he quickly flipped through the small book in his hand and answered:

"Back to Lord Long Live, there are a total of one hundred and thirty-five women. Only seven are of the right age, but five of the seven are already engaged. The appearance of the remaining two... is really unbearable..."

Li Mingqi sounded normal in the first half, but after the second half, his face began to darken.

During this period, Liu Youcai paid great attention to those who had girls in their families among the people of the empire. Of course, this was not because he wanted the old trees to bloom, but because he was choosing suitable beautiful girls for Long Live Lord.

It's a pity that I haven't found a suitable one until now.

As for foreign women?

Pooh!

Long live the emperor is the real dragon emperor, how can he make a woman from a certain country his queen?

Don't talk about being a queen! Even if you are a concubine, those foreigners are not worthy.

If His Majesty's bloodline is tainted, how can he have the dignity to meet the late Emperor?

Well, to put it bluntly, Liu Youcai is the kind of supporter of Great Chinaism. Of course, so is Li Mingqi.

Rubbing his head, Li Mingqi felt that the entire empire did not let him worry.

Liu Youcai aside, Liu Erhe's study progress really made Li Mingqi very angry.

There are also those talented people from the Royal Academy who have designed a bunch of weird firearms.

By the way, there is also Sun Laifu.

If Li Mingqi hadn't stayed in the institute all day during this period, he would have gone out and kicked him long ago.

Joyce has come to report on Sun Laifu more than once.

The cause was provocation. When that guy led the National Defense Force soldiers passing by the construction site, they would always cause trouble.

And two days ago, I had a fight with those drunken Spanish navy men.

It was said that it was a group fight, but in fact, Sun Laifu led his men to ambush outside the tavern, and waited for the Spanish navy to get drunk. Then they came out to fight one, and two of them came out to fight a pair.

After seven or eight days of this, the Spanish navy gave up first.

Find Joyce and ask him to convey a message to Li Mingqi on his behalf, asking him to take charge of his subordinates.

"It's too much!" Li Mingqi's voice echoed throughout the container palace.

"Long live my lord, I didn't mean to cause trouble on purpose, it was those Spanish guys who did it first."

"A few days ago, three Spanish guys laughed at our soldiers who only knew how to walk, and also laughed at Wei Chen for his short stature..."

Sun Laifu was originally holding a stick in the training ground and watching the soldiers of the National Defense Forces playing goose. Unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor's oral instructions arrived, asking him to quickly enter the palace to face the saint.

As soon as he saw Li Mingqi's face, he was sprayed with saliva.

"Just three Spanish guys laughing at you? Joyce said that you squatted outside the tavern for a week!"

Li Mingqi glanced sideways at Sun Laifu, waiting for him to give him a reasonable explanation.

"There are really only three Spanish guys. The main reason is that the Spanish guys all look the same. I'm afraid that if one of the three of them slips through the net, wouldn't it be a loss..."

"So you just beat them all?"

Li Mingqi really wanted to open Sun Laifu's head and see if it was all muscles.

"Can't you just hit a few every now and then? How can you go there every day and be more punctual than the workers? Even a fool would know it was you."

It really makes Li Mingqi angry. It's okay for you to bully others, but don't let others catch you.

"Don't be so sad. Let me ask you, how are the training of the soldiers? Are they qualified to serve as junior officers?"

Upon hearing Li Mingqi ask this, Sun Laifu's spirit perked up.

He had long thought about expanding the army, but there was nothing he could do if Li Mingqi didn't ask. Now the opportunity finally came.

"Back to Long Live Lord, the soldiers already have a decent military posture, and they have basically learned the pinyin. As long as the pinyin is marked on the Chinese characters, the soldiers can basically understand the documents. I think it is completely useless to let them serve as grassroots officers.

question."

"Okay, the National Defense Force will probably expand to 2,000 people in the next few days. Also, prepare yourself. I will go to the training ground for a military parade tomorrow. If they perform well then, I will personally promote them."

Li Mingqi plans to expand the army to 2,000 men. In this case, all soldiers will be equipped with Xinming 60-type rifles. If the multi-barreled machine guns can be modified to be more practical, they will also be equipped with them.

In addition to other auxiliary equipment, wait until the soldiers complete training.

The name of Los Angeles can be changed, the bear star flag on the pier can be burned, and the sun and moon flag of our New Ming Empire will fly over this continent for the first time!

But there are still some problems, that is, how to train soldiers without alerting the California government.

You must know that there are many spies among those workers. Last time, I used the guild's excuse to kill a few who danced too happily.

But this is only treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. As long as the strength of the Xinming Empire is still weak, these hidden dangers will exist for one day.

After thinking for a while, Li Mingqi turned his attention to several maps of Los Angeles on the table.

Among these maps are later topographical maps of Los Angeles, and many more are simple maps drawn by bounty hunters.

As Li Ming used aluminum to tie himself to the capitalists in California, the use of bounty hunters became less and less.

Now all the bounty hunters have been sent out, along with a few clever Wehrmacht soldiers to draw the map.

The maps in front of Li Mingqi were drawn by them.

Now his eyes fell on these maps and on the river that ran through the entire Los Angeles.