With the help of the Inuit, Zhao and Man Gui survived the harsh winter in the cold far north, and in March of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao sent 5,000 people to meet the team, led by the young Fu Guan. Fu Guan is now thin and energetic, his expedition mission has been completed, so he returned to Beijing before the end of the year, and the people sent by Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui also returned to Beijing before the end of the year, so they met by chance on the road, in fact, it is not too accidental, because they need to be replenished at the supply point, but the time coincidence.

Zhu Youxiao saw them a few years ago, but it was about to be the New Year, and he didn't discuss this matter. After the Spring Festival, Zhu Youxiao was worried about Zhao Shujiao and Mangui, so he drew a sketch map of North America, prepared enough supplies, and asked people to send them over. Although the expedition to the extreme north made Fu Guan suffer a lot, it also opened his eyes, so when he heard that he was going to supplement supplies for Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui, he reported himself and was willing to go on the expedition, and the young man liked excitement, so he became the leader of the supply force.

Zhu Youxiao pointed to the sketchy map and told him some of the geographical conditions known to later generations, and after they crossed the Bering Strait, they walked south along the coastline and pointed to Vancouver, saying that they could enter a continent to the east here, and the idea was to mingle with the indigenous people there, settle there, and expand their territory.

Because there have been a lot of supply points on the road, plus there are soldiers who have come back from there to lead the way, more supplies are prepared in the northeast Wenzhen Meng, at will this march speed is very fast, after the fifteenth day of the first month, the troops set off, the troops of 5,000 people have increased 20,000 horses carrying goods in the northeast, and more than 1,000 of these 5,000 people are students trained by Daming Technical College, with good skills, they will make long-term plans for this expedition of Daming, The nature of some immigrants.

I saw the brigade of people coming over for supplies. Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui were very happy, but the local Inuit were frightened, thinking that this was to rob them of their territory, so they sent something to comfort them and put them at ease. Then tell them that he wants to explore the continent on the other side, hoping that they can help him transport these huge supplies there.

The Inuit, who had only a few thousand people here, had to try to contact the other tribes, and only then did they find enough reindeer and hounds, and they carried them to the other side with plows, and found some inhabitants of the same tribe on the other side, and let them lead the way south along the west coast of the Pacific Ocean until they reached what is now Vancouver.

It is a beautiful place, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the sea on one side, although it is in the same position as the three provinces of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, or even further north, but the south is affected by the Pacific monsoon and warm current, and the northeast has the Rocky Mountains that run through the North American continent as a barrier, the climate is mild and humid all year round, and the environment is pleasant, which is a very suitable place to live. Now it is still a wilderness, with only a few indigenous people living a primitive fishing and hunting life.

According to Zhu Youxiao's meaning, the Ming expedition could not destroy the survival of these primitive inhabitants, but wanted to coexist peacefully with them. However, a large number of more than 6,000 people and 20,000 horses were also very large, and the arrival of Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui still caused them uneasiness, and they even gathered thousands of people from several tribes in an attempt to attack. Fortunately, there are Inuit who are guides and they have explained that these people are all friends, they will not fight with them, and they can get along slowly.

According to the research of later archaeologists, the Indians scattered in the Americas may have come from East Asia during the ice age, according to this theory, Zhu Youxiao asked Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui to explore according to this idea. Zhao Shujiao discussed with Man Gui to take those Inuit guides along the way, but he didn't expect to help this time, and he could also easily communicate with the local residents to dispel their hostility.

Only the East Coast of North America has begun to establish a series of small towns, Boston, the largest colony of the English, is still a small town, and New York is now only a Dutch to deceive the natives for a short time. Zhao Shujiao and Mangui are not late, and now the Americas are still under the world of the Indians, but they are still in a primitive tribal state, and there is no political organization with national significance, only a large number of tribal organizations.

Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui began to build the city in Vancouver in later generations, which is the foot of the Rocky Mountains, there are enough building materials, they first let the soldiers clean up a flat land, and then built a castle wall with a radius of more than ten miles, through friendly consultation with the local indigenous people, with iron pots, machetes, crossbow arrows and other materials exchanged for a piece of their own territory, whether it is fishing, hunting or planting crops, this is their own right, this territory is about 10,000 square miles, Quite the size of a county with the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time as the construction of this territory, the craftsmen who came with them built a port, and there was a dock, and the indigenous Indians still use canoes, and they were surprised to see the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty building ships, and they were much larger than theirs, and they were made of a lot of wood, and they were very surprised, so that many people came to watch, and I think this is also the nature of people, and there is a sense of rarity for the things they have seen. There were even people who wanted to help the craftsmen in their work, and the craftsmen who worked here not only did not forbid them to watch, but also took care of the people who helped them to eat, and when they came home in the evening, they gave them some uneaten leftovers for these people to take back and give to their families to eat.

Training the army is a matter for Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui, and the management of the territory is a matter for Fu Guan. Of course, the cooperation between the three of them is very good, Zhu Youxiao's order is that Zhao Shujiao is fully responsible, he is equivalent to the governor of this territory, but Zhao Shujiao knows his own ability, and he will discuss everything with Man Gui and Fu Guan, this time I saw that there were many indigenous people watching the shipbuilding, so I wanted to discuss how to better attract these indigenous people, and I wanted to make more contact with them.

Zhao Shujiao first asked Fu Guan: "Mr. Fu, do you think today's incident will be the beginning of our closer contact with these indigenous people?" ”

Before Fu Guan could answer, Man Gui rushed and said: "Sir, you still have to think of ideas, we still have more than 6,000 singles who are soldiers, the emperor asked us to take root here, you have to be responsible for finding a daughter-in-law." ”

Fu Guan said with a smile: "Don't panic, two brothers, there is absolutely no problem with the soldiers marrying their daughters-in-law, the next step is to start building a factory, we will definitely need a lot of people, the technology is to use our craftsmen to do, those rough work can be done by some locals, iron ore has been found in the mountains, we build a steel mill, and then start to make iron tools to sell to these indigenous people, in exchange for the things in their hands, and then pay these things as wages to the workers who come to work, and then issue our Ming silver dollars, copper coins, When they see that we are living better, will there still be no woman who will marry our soldiers? ”

Fu Guan's economic theories, Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui did not understand, but after listening to what he said, they believed his words. However, this did not make them wait long, because Fu Guan also brought a large number of iron household items with him, as well as machetes, crossbow arrows, etc., and Fu Guan began to sell these things to the indigenous people.

I don't know how terrible it is for a literate person to become a hooligan, anyway, what Fu Guan is doing now is a literate hooliganism, he heard that there were two nearby tribes because of a dispute over territory, so he provided a part of the crossbow arrows and machetes to the slightly weaker party, and asked that if he won, he would give him the other party's general territory and all the captured women, and if he failed, he would give away these weapons for nothing.

Someone must do such a good thing, and it would be a fool not to do it, in fact, it is a fool to do it, but it is just to make a wedding dress for others. If the weak tribe does not want these weapons, it will definitely be destroyed by the other party, which is a common occurrence in the hundreds of tribes on the North American continent, and now with the sharp crossbow arrows and machetes provided by Fu Guan, winning the battle is inevitable, so after a few days, Fu Guan got more than two thousand prisoners, more than a thousand women suitable for marriage, and the rest are children, and by the way, he also got a large new territory, almost three times the size of the original, which suddenly extended this territory to the east for more than two hundred miles, Both issues are partially solved. The victorious tribe seemed to have tasted the sweetness, and the leader and Fu Guan became brothers, and sent many women from his tribe to Fu Guan, in exchange for more crossbow arrows and machetes, intending to continue to conquer more tribes.