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In the winter of the twelfth year of Emperor Shenzong, the southern fleet stranded in Andong due to the freezing of Tianjin Port brought back to Dayu the largest enclave of no less than the mainland of China, 'Australia', which was included in the territory of Dayu together with the nine major islands of the South Sea. Ming Ting found a certain estuary in the southeast of the arable land, and set up a stronghold in Nanyu City (Melbourne). Zhou Ting couldn't communicate with the natives, so he took a warship and began to circle the island, and like Mana Island, he set up monuments at various landing sites as the boundary. Lu Xianting, in accordance with the instructions of Ming Ting, led his troops into the mountains and successfully discovered rich gold and silver deposits, and successfully completed the mission.

Expeditions on the Eastern Front also landed successfully on the western coast of the American continent, but it was not terra nullius. With the gold and silver mines of Mexico and the United States expected to be captured, the fleet continued south, preparing to make a circle to the east coast to assert sovereignty.

Bo Qiuge spent a lot of effort to become independent in the hands of the Great Eclipse, but lost to his compatriot Iberia in the Tariq Strait, lost access to the Damascus Sea, and was forced to recruit sailors, raise funds to build ships, and find a way to develop south, as a result, he explored the Cape of Good Hope route and made a detour to the east.

The Tariq Strait has always been a battleground for war, with the only route from the Damascus Sea, Europe's inland sea, to the vast Atlantic Ocean. To the north of the strait is the island of Tarifa and to the south is the only natural harbor of Tangier. Ships from the Atlantic Ocean passed through the Tariq Strait, entered the Sea of Damascus, and sailed east along the coast of North Africa in the Marin region of the Mecca hunting region, and at the corner of Carthage, sailed to Cairo, Damascus and other cities leading to the east.

At that time, Iberia was busy with the Reconquest Movement, fighting against the Marin Dynasty, controlling both Tarifa Island and Tangier in the palm of their hands, Gaul focused on Britain, Germania was caught in the internal strife of the Elector, the Kamal League and the Hongmaoyi competed for the control of the Valan Sea, and the unique Bochuge gradually occupied the sea advantage, and in the East, they were very prosperous, and they almost monopolized the commercial rights of the Chinese trading company in these years.

Later, Iberia, provoked by the prostitution next door, sent the famous 'Columbus' to try to sail along the 'round earth' to the rich East. Having discovered South America, the Mayan Empire's abundance of gold and silver was as attractive as a magnet, and they began to gradually occupy the west coast of South America from northeast to southwest, hoping to develop another route to the east. With the influence of the Pope, the two sides drew a straight meridian in the Atlantic Ocean, with Iberia in the west and Pochuge in the east. The following year, taking advantage of the Mughal people's stirring up of Europe into a pot of soup, Bo Qiuge almost monopolized the Tianzhu spice market, Lisbon replaced Venice as the center of maritime commerce, and also wanted to reap more benefits in South America, so he simply moved the meridian to the west and pulled Brazil to his own territory.

When the Hammaui, Gaul, Britain and other countries came to drink the soup, they could only establish a foothold in barren North America, and then find a way to pick up the leaks in the south. The former occupied a string of islands between the Caribbean Sea on the east coast of North and South America and its peninsula connected to North America, collectively known as 'Louisianaya', and Britain's territory on the northern side of the Gallic Peninsula was called 'New England'. There is only a small area in northeastern Brazil.

Compared to South America, which is full of gold, North America is almost a barbaric land, and if you stand here, there are uncultivated terra nullius everywhere, allowing the Han to use their racial talents to farm everywhere, and as long as the land route from the west coast to the east coast is opened, these maritime powers are not to be feared in terms of numbers. If it wants to participate in the gold competition in South America, then Dayu will face the two countries with the strongest navy today, and it is also questionable whether he can bypass South America to control the east coast of North America.

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The Privy Council was built to occupy North America at the narrowest point of the isthmus between North and South America, the future Panama Canal. At present, the fleet can test Iberia on the west coast of South America, and it would be good if they could cooperate with the Maya to drive them out and seize the silver mines in Bolivia, Peru and other places. As for the security of the East Coast, wait for the Black Death to pass. The first is to try to cooperate with Bo Qiuge, who have foolishly occupied the well-cultivated plains of Brazil, and if they are willing to provide supplies, the Anton army can go around and greet Britain and Gaul on the east coast, just taking advantage of the Black Death, to take their lives; If Bo Qiuge's ally position is not so solid, he may face a joint attack from the West along the way. The second is to completely abandon the idea of intervening in South America, find a place on the isthmus that can be transported, and build a stronghold on the east coast as much as possible, and build ships and forts.

In the absence of the Panama Canal, it would take more than two months to go around Cape Horn, the southernmost point in South America, to the east coast, and today's Isthmus of Panama is not a place for people at all, it is completely humid and sultry climate of tropical rainforest, with towering trees, dense miasma, rugged terrain, and no way out. It would be an impossible task to dig the Panama Canal, and it would be impossible to build a sluice gate with the current manpower and material resources, let alone dig a shallow lake on the isthmus as high as the sea level. Gu Ci could be of some help in this regard, she remembered the approximate route of another unformed Nicaragua Canal. Lake Nicaragua is closest to the west coast as a transit point for disembarkation, and across this short land route, there is a river in the lake that leads directly to the Caribbean Sea on the east coast. As for the depth of the river, it can only be explored on the spot.

Fortunately, the water and soil of the Americas have not been lost or changed because this is an era of many travelers, and after the Dayu expedition came ashore, they cut down giant trees, built a few small boats, and began to explore the hydrological conditions of the 'Ping'an River', and also paved the stone road, planning to get a transshipment port out to prepare for a possible naval battle.

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For the first time, the speed of the imperial court's response to the new land announced in the newspapers was comparable to that of the merchants. The China Mining Company learned about the mineral information of Mana Island and Australia, and together with other surrounding industries such as post offices, it prepared to set off on chartered ships for the spring of next year, and issued internal recruitment notices to recruit miners and staff. After a hundred years of silence, Anton's army expanded on a large scale for the first time, and the Privy Council specially asked Shenzong to issue a 'conscription order' to prepare for the upcoming naval battle.

Stimulated by the good news, before the sealing of the moon, Shenzong issued an order to withdraw the post of Zhengsanpin 'political envoy' in inland areas such as Chujingfu, and in the future, this post is only set up at the border pass, and the grade is not limited, in addition to the previously appointed Donghai, Nanyang, Funan, Bagan, Dali, Kangzang six political envoys, and then add Wulianghai, Hanhai, Bohai, Xining, Dunhuang, and Lengling six places, and the new areas are respectively held by Gu Ke, Luo Jing, Zhang Guibai, Zhou Mai, Wu Shenyang and Wu Shenzhou, in addition to Xining and Dunhuang, other prefectures are located in Zhaisang, Kulun, Buyeo and Khotan.

In addition to the prefect's position of 'promulgating government decrees, governing subordinate officials, and controlling financial resources', the most important thing is to 'run schools, open examinations, build roads, and protect merchants', popularize Chinese education, recruit local people to participate in official examinations or imperial examinations, build hard and wide official roads, and promote commerce and trade.

For the newly annexed nomads, all of them were pulled to do infrastructure construction, or enclosed land for pastures to raise cattle and horses, and other non-rice farming places, designated local people to grow specific crops, so that they could rely on the food provided by Dayu from the roots. For the land of fish and rice, only grain is allowed to grow, and the rest of the goods are provided by merchants, completely breaking the local self-sufficient economic structure at various borders and integrating it into the overall economic circle of Dayu.

The political envoys with outstanding political achievements were mainly in-laws of the Gu family, and they were nicknamed 'foreign relatives and border soldiers', and they controlled a lot of border trade resources, which invisibly intensified the dissatisfaction of many conservative people who rejected and opposed the development of commerce.

These conclusive news confirmed that the new land was full of gold, and finally sparked a nationwide gold rush at the beginning of the new year.

At the beginning of the opening of the sea, the sea trade was mainly carried out in coastal cities, and after a large number of young and middle-aged people went abroad to make a living, the population from the famine or poor areas naturally flowed to the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, which lacked tenant farmers, as a supplement, and the gold rush intensified the speed and depth of this flow. Large numbers of slaves and commoners left the land they had cultivated for hundreds of years for money and went overseas, forming a large-scale wave of migration.

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In North America, the former seized only a large part of the northeast, and the latter, as he advanced north on the west coast, encountered a fleet from the east.

This was the first formal maritime conflict between East Asia and the West, and in addition to being dozens of times more numerous than the other side, the power of ordnance, warships, and artillery completely crushed those dozens of wooden sailing ships. The Iberian fleet soon raised the white flag and retreated peacefully to South America. After 'cordial and friendly negotiations' between the two sides, Dayu took possession of the whole of North America and the narrow isthmus in the middle, and on the one hand, prepared to land and fort and build the 'sea-land-sea' passage of Lake Nicaragua and the Ping'an River, and on the other hand, continued to send warships to the east coast around Cape Horn to collect the whole of North America.

Yuan Xian and his entourage went around to the east bank to meet the Boqiu Ge people, and they happily 'let go' out of the cold area in the north, and invited Yuan Xian to go to Africa to have a good time. The land of the projectile in Hongmaoyi is completely negligible, and further north to see the Gauls, this peninsula place is marked orange on the map given by Shenzong before departure, indicating that it is 'the best that can be won', Yuan Xian rolled up his sleeves to negotiate. This time it was a real negotiation, because there were too few Gauls to fight and win the battle. When the Gallic lieutenant saw the Dayu fleet for the first time, he immediately shook Yuan Xin's hand, and wanted to give him a loving hug, and tried his best to get Dayu to kill the group of pigs engaged in dark cuisine in the north, and when the Black Death passed, he would definitely persuade the king to withdraw from North America. Before the Mughals came to challenge the fragile little hearts of the Europeans, a decisive naval battle took place between Gaul and Britain across the Channel, and Britain won a great victory and gained control of the English Channel. So the disadvantaged Gauls didn't mind exchanging these barren lands for other benefits. Yuan Xian went to the north to take a look, but there were so few people that he couldn't bear to fight, so he invited the two of them to get on the boat and negotiate a solution. The two waves of people greeted each other very gracefully, sat down and drank a few sips of tea, and then began to curse each other in different languages, completely ignoring their group of masters......

As a result, Gaul and Britain 'consciously' withdrew from the North American continent and settled down on the island chain.

This prolonged military contact dealt a psychological blow to the naval power that Westerners were proud of, and the distant Eastern empire was not only full of gold and jewels, but also had a military force higher than them and enough to threaten the European mainland. Now in North America, Dayu has shown its aggressiveness, so will these steel giants cross the ocean to Europe to play?

When the panic caused by the Black Death passed, the news of the Americas reached Europe, and under such worries, even if the Easterners seemed harmless, the Westerners also needed to consider a new strategic layout to deal with it, especially Iberia and Britain, one is to master a large amount of gold and silver and control the Strait of Tariq, and have the opportunity to gradually overwhelm Bo Qiuge to become a real maritime hegemon, and the other is completely free from the worry of land disputes, and can fully devote themselves to the sea hegemony, hoping to replace the island country of Iberia.

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This kind of land grabbing is not Gu Ci's focus, her excitement lies in the second year after the Eastern Front expedition set out to the Americas to send back the first batch of 'national gifts', including the rubber tree known as the 'tear tree' and several bags of cannabis seeds, she immediately arranged for Yiqing to set up the China Rubber Company, in the Nanyang Islands and Songkhla City area to open plantations, this is the only task of the China Trading Company this year, its important position is equivalent to grain! The rest of the white-gray finished products were all handed over to Song Yingxing, and he was asked to study vulcanization and shaping, which were used for soles, wheels, and other places that needed cushioning. Jean is preparing to work with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at GLG University to develop a variety of lathes that can mass-produce rubber-soled shoes, horse-drawn wheels, and tricycles.

Then, under the strong and fragrant pillow wind, the very satisfied Shenzong readily agreed to add one more rubber output to the assessment criteria of the Nanyang political envoy in the future. As the first unlucky guy who has not yet seen what rubber is, and is about to be assessed before the seeds have arrived, Gu Ce, the political envoy of Nanyang, said that it was too hard! In order to implement the examination law, the officials and officials who had to go to various regions outside their home country to verify the governance situation also expressed bitterness and hatred.

The merchants were overjoyed, and they were keenly aware that this thing called rubber would be as important as grain, jadeite, and hardwood in the future, and they would flock to the South Seas, the East China Sea, and Southeast Asia.

The Eastern Front expedition went for more than four years before it came back successfully, and in the fourteenth year of Shenzong, Professor Xu Hongzu was awarded the post of 'University Scholar' of Gregory University, and became one of the academic decision-makers who enjoyed the worship of the imperial court for life. After fifteen years of hard work, Dayu's territory is almost ten times larger than the beginning of the founding of the country, and the Indochina Peninsula, the Nanyang Islands, Australia, North America, and the Xianbei Wilderness in the central and eastern parts of the country are all intimidated by the military might of the Quartet.

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