"Good! I agree to the requests of various countries to trade with Daming and send students to Daming! After thinking about it, Zhu Ci nodded in agreement.

"His Majesty Emperor Xie Daming!" The envoys of the European countries were immediately overjoyed that they had achieved their goal.

Studying abroad is the two most important purposes for the envoys of European countries to come to Daming, and now that both purposes have been achieved, this time it is not in vain, and the faces of the envoys of various countries are full of joy.

After achieving the purpose of this mission, the envoys of various countries did not continue to stay in Daming, but immediately rushed back to Europe.

Although they are very reluctant to Daming, they really want to stay in the advanced and powerful Daming and continue to explore everything about Daming, but they must think about their own country, and many important information of Daming must be transmitted back to Europe as soon as possible.

Of course, the entire delegation of more than 1,000 people, not all of them went back to Europe, and a small number of people stayed behind to discuss with the Ming Dynasty some matters after the students from various countries came to the Ming Dynasty.

Immediately afterward, the delegations took a train from the Nanjing City Railway Station to the port of Singapore, and from there they had just boarded their ships in the port of Singapore and returned to the European continent.

If Daming is from Europe by sea, it will take at least more than a year to go back and forth, plus European countries have to select international students, etc., perhaps the first batch of international students from European countries to reach Daming, it should take a year and a half.

The matter of students studying in European countries did not affect the progress of other matters in Daming.

On May 15, in the 27th year of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cicheng ordered Yan Yingyuan, the governor of the American Army of the Ming Dynasty who was in the Americas, to personally supervise the excavation of the Panama Canal in Central America.

The excavation of the Panama Canal was a national policy that had not yet been fully conquered on the American continent.

Panama is located in the middle of the North and South American continents, and the canal dug here to connect the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean can greatly shorten the time for Ming warships to travel between the two sides of the American continent.

The route of the excavation has been worked out, and the length is about sixty-five kilometers.

Such a length is insignificant for the length of the North-South Grand Canal that was excavated in the Sui Dynasty, if it is just an ordinary canal, the amount of work is not very large, but the Panama Canal that Zhu Ci wants to excavate is excavated according to the standard of being able to navigate more than 100,000 tons of super warships.

100,000-ton super battleship, such a concept is very scary, you must know that the largest warship in the Ming Dynasty is only a 5,000-ton battleship, so that when Zhu Ci just put forward this standard, all the civil and military officials were shocked, even Li Yan was very unclear, so he was very surprised.

However, Zhu Ciji did not explain too much to the civil and military officials. A 100,000-ton super warship may not be possible at all in the current era, and even such a concept sounds a little whimsical, but Zhu Ciji knows that in the future, it may only be one or two hundred years later, and such a standard can be fully used.

The standard for the excavation of the Panama Canal is that it can pass super warships of more than 100,000 tons, and the amount of work is many times larger at once.

There is no doubt that such a large amount of work has to be borne by the nearly one million European soldiers and immigrants captured by the Ming Dynasty in the Americas, as well as about 300,000 Kunlun slaves.

'Kunlun slaves' are black Africans who were sold from Africa to the American continent as slaves by European colonists, most of whom were concentrated in the thirteen states of North America, eastern Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

For these Kunlun slaves, the Ming Dynasty originally let them work with the captured European colonists to cultivate the land and produce food.

However, there is no doubt that the land they cultivated will belong to the Ming immigrants in the future, and Zhu Ci is not ready to leave these Kunlun slaves in the original manor, because even if they are still slaves, but if the Ming immigrants live with them in the future, after a long time, the slaves may not still be slaves, but the population of slaves will multiply more and more, and finally reach the point where they are really mixed with the Ming immigrants, Zhu Ci hesitated to see this scene, so Zhu Ci hesitated to wait after the Panama Canal excavation was completed, He sent all the more than 300,000 Kunlun slaves back to Africa.

As more and more captives and Kunlun slaves from European countries were forcibly escorted to Panama, at the end of July of the 27th year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the huge Panama Canal was officially excavated.

Of course, Daming's actions in the Americas are not only the Panama Canal, but also another more ambitious project, the North-South Railway of the Americas.

The so-called South American Railway is not just a railway from south to north, but will divide the North and South American continents around the North and South American continents, with a total mileage of tens of thousands of kilometers, which is much larger than the Panama Canal.

This part of the project, Zhu Ciji decided to be undertaken by a large number of natives in North and South America.

Although the population of the Native Americans has been reduced by tens of millions after more than 100 years of brutalization by European colonizers, there are still nearly 30 million people in total, and millions of them are young and strong.

The Ming court provided food free of charge, and limited the 'good' conditions of working five hours a day, and conscripted all indigenous young men to participate in the construction of the North-South Railroad in the Americas.

Obviously, the so-called 'good' conditions of the Ming Dynasty cannot be recognized by all the natives, and some people choose to resist, but what is even more regrettable is that their rebellion has not only added a lot of bloodshed, but also has no effect on the Americas.

The bloody price, coupled with the recall of the Ming Dynasty's strength to drive out the European colonists, and the fear of the Ming Dynasty's strength, the natives finally had to compromise and agreed to undertake the huge siege of the North-South Railway of the Americas.

Of course, the Ming court did not completely enslave the American natives without giving them the slightest benefit, after all, the Ming Dynasty still intends to assimilate these natives in the future. Therefore, in order to appease the natives, the Ming court made a promise that as long as the North-South Railway in the Americas was completed, it would immediately issue the identity of the Ming people to all the natives in North and South America, and recognize them as the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and they would enjoy the preferential policies that ordinary Ming people could enjoy.

Even, in order to let the natives understand the benefits of becoming the real people of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also explained the details of those preferential policies to the natives, such as tax rates, free teaching and so on.

Sure enough, the natives were immediately completely captivated.

There is no way, the preferential policies of the Ming Dynasty for the people of the Ming Dynasty are too attractive for the natives who have been brutally suppressed, enslaved and slaughtered by the colonizers of European countries for a long time.

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