New Ming Empire mixed in America

The Los Angeles River meanders down from the San Fernando Valley and finally joins the ocean.

One of the tributaries branched off from the main river flows near Xinming Town.

The current Los Angeles River is not the obedient baby that it will be in later generations, restricted to a fixed river channel by steel and concrete.

Its numerous large and small tributaries have formed various ponds or swamps.

Of course, it also flows through some very flat lands, such as Xinming Town, which is one of them.

The original creek between Xinming Town and the industrial zone was turned into a small river that can be used for boating after Li Mingqi arranged for people to blow up a wide opening in the upper reaches.

This section near Xinming Town was specially excavated, and a small pier was built with stones and cement.

After diversion, this newly formed tributary of the Los Angeles River has turned into a natural moat half-circle around Xinming Town.

The military camp of the Xinming Empire was built on the other side of the moat adjacent to Xinming Town.

In the military camp at this time, one hundred and fifty soldiers of the National Defense Force were arranged into three small square formations based on their respective squadrons.

Although there were few people, all the soldiers stood upright.

Today, Li Mingqi did not wear the custom-made dragon robe (pictured), but changed into a black commander's uniform (pictured).

And through Li Mingqi's personal experiments, black is more resistant to stains than yellow.

In addition, Li Mingqi didn't even have a qualified maid around him, so he put the previous dragon robe into the closet after wearing it a few times.

Standing on the wooden platform specially built in the military camp, Li Mingqi glanced at the three small square formations under the high platform.

In Los Angeles in November, the morning temperature was still a bit cold, so Li Mingqi put on a black cloak.

Behind him were the imperial guards led by Liu Erhe. They seemed to be competing with the soldiers of the National Defense Force, and they stood upright.

Sun Laifu walked out of the queue and reported loudly to Li Mingqi: "There are 151 people in the National Defense Force brigade. There are actually 151 people. Your Majesty, please review!"

"Start!" Li Mingqi's voice came from the square dance speakers, which made Sun Laifu's ears buzz.

After receiving the order, the three square formations slowly began to move.

A total of 30 rows of National Defense Force soldiers, five in a row, slowly walked across the high platform with neat steps.

There were not many of them, but every step they took was steady and powerful, and their protective shoes made a sound like gold hitting stone when they stepped on the gravel road.

In addition to queue performances, volley shooting, individual shooting, horseback riding, armed swimming and other events were also conducted.

After a set of procedures, Li Mingqi, who was wearing a velvet cloak for inspection, broke into a sweat.

After all the projects were over, Li Mingqi took out the speech he had prepared long ago and began to pour chicken soup into the soldiers.

Because it was too hot, Li Mingqi had to condense the originally planned one-hour speech into five minutes.

"Next time, you must speak for an hour!" This was Li Mingqi's emotion after all the soldiers of the National Defense Force were promoted.

Sun Laifu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Long Live Master's back disappearing in front of the military camp.

After the soldiers had lunch, Sun Laifu took these soldiers with happy faces to select new recruits.

Since the later citizens of the Xinming Empire came here, they were assigned to work on nearby construction sites.

For example, it was these people who dredged the tributary in front of Xinming Town.

There are also chores such as paving roads with cobblestones, hoeing weeds, and digging drainage ditches.

The work is not tiring and the wages are paid, which makes these new immigrants very happy.

But today all the citizens of the empire were required to gather in the town square.

It was not difficult to select 2,000 people from more than 3,500 people. After Sun Laifu led someone to read through the benefits, all the people of the empire began to sign up enthusiastically.

Without him, it would have been too much.

However, high wages also come with high requirements, which is to train hard so that in the future, you can fight the enemy to the death for His Majesty Li Mingqi.

Maybe you don't believe it.

In fact, until the 21st century, this kind of thing of selling one's life for money was very normal in the eyes of ordinary people.

After recruiting enough people, all that's left is to build new military camps.

The original military camp was just a dormitory with a color steel plate wall surrounding it. It can be said that there was almost no confidentiality.

If you continue to live where you are now, the California government will receive the news within half a month and send soldiers to come and cause trouble for Li Mingqi.

So the task for these new recruits was to build a larger military camp across the Los Angeles River.

Because the location is in the forest, there is no need to worry about being discovered in a short period of time.

Supplies can also be transported along a tributary of the Los Angeles River that passes through the forest, directly into the location of the military camp.

In addition, a large amount of building materials were sent in in the name of building a private estate.

In less than a week, the military camp has basically taken shape.

A wall made of wood and colored steel plates filled with earth and stone surrounds the military camp.

And there are countless barbed wire fences that firmly protect the military camp inside.

Several guard towers were also built in hidden locations more than a mile away from the military camp.

The sentry with a walkie-talkie can definitely report any disturbance nearby to the camp immediately.

Although these recruits have no weapons, each one is equipped with a hand ax for self-defense and a Mauser 98K soft bullet gun used for training.

After the Royal Research Institute has assembled the Xinming Type 60 rifle, it can be issued to them.

You read that right, it’s assembly!

After separating the various parts for online purchase, Li Mingqi discovered that there was only an order for more than 5,000 pieces, except for sensitive parts such as gun barrels, and there was no need to chat privately.

Just send the samples to all the machining manufacturers with the words "Customized on drawing" marked in the store, then pay the money and wait to receive the goods.

Of course, because his order is only for small batch production, the price is much more expensive than ordinary parts.

However, Li Mingqi has made a lot of money recently by reselling wild marine fish, and the little money he spends to buy parts is just drizzle in his eyes.

You must know that there is no such thing as a fishing moratorium in this era.

Hearing that Dongfang Li purchased large quantities of marine fish, many people who could not find jobs went to sea one after another.

Not only fish, but also crabs and shrimps are within his purchase range. To this end, he also opened a special grocery store to temporary fishermen.

We mainly sell bamboo shrimp pots and crab pots, as well as trawl nets, fishing rods, various accessories, etc...

A complete fishery industry circle has been formed near Long Beach and Terminal Island.

As for the pine, cypress and birch trees that can be seen everywhere in Los Angeles, Li Mingqi didn't touch them because those trees were too big (pictured)

Just when Li Mingqi was living his daily life of eating and waiting to die, a letter from San Francisco reminded him that the New Ming Empire should...maybe...there seemed to be an important minister.

That is General Cui Jianguo who was left in San Francisco to recuperate!

This important official of the empire, who had disappeared for more than twenty chapters, brought some bad news to his long-lived master from San Francisco.

That is, the California government is preparing to send a tax official to Los Angeles and is discussing proposals to send other officials.

"This is too much!" Liu Youcai cursed angrily after reading the letter Li Mingqi gave him.