If for North America, Zhang Lingyang is just greedy, then for South America, Zhang Lingyang is coveted by Chiguoguo.

The reason is simple.

From the perspective of later generations, North America was developed, while South America was poor.

But at this time, South America was much richer than North America.

Because South America produces gold and silver, and there are also the richest saltpeter mines in the world.

As one of the three major raw materials for the production of gunpowder, the value of saltpeter is self-evident.

Moreover, it was small European countries such as Francois that colonized South America.

Therefore, now Zhang Lingyang can't wait to swallow the whole of South America in one bite.

However, Zhang Lingyang did not choose to do anything to South America after all.

Because it takes a good opportunity.

And this opportunity has not yet taken shape.

What Zhang Lingyang wants to do now is to bring all those islands in the Pacific Ocean into the pocket of Da Zhou.

There are many islands in the Pacific Ocean, especially in the South Pacific, only a small part of which are occupied by European powers such as Britain and France, and most of the rest are actually terra nullius.

Take the Hawaiian Islands, for example, in the Central Pacific Ocean.

In fact, there is already a primitive country on the Hawaiian Islands today.

But it doesn't matter, because the so-called civilization is built by barbarism.

In the second year after the return of the First Fleet of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Lingyang officially launched the Pacific Raid.

The first of these targets is the Hawaiian Islands.

If you want to reach the Hawaiian Islands from Dazhou, you must use Ryukyu and Guam as springboards, and then you can reach Midway, the westernmost island in the Hawaiian Islands.

In the face of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which had just learned to use iron tools, the Great Zhou Royal Navy occupied the entire Hawaii without much effort.

Then, naturally, immigration is carried out.

Not only the Hawaiian Islands will be immigrated, but also the islands such as Guam, which will pass through during the period.

Of course, the number of immigrants is not large.

For example, Guam, where the imperial court only emigrated less than 500 people.

There were more in the Hawaiian Islands, and the imperial court emigrated more than 3,000 people at one time.

Most of these people are from Guangzhou, Fujian and Zhejiang.

Then, the imperial court began to build military fortifications in the Ryukyus, Guam, and the Hawaiian Islands.

It took about half a year to gain a firm foothold in these areas.

Next, the Great Zhou Royal Navy set off in two ways.

One route is to move south to the Hawaiian Islands, with the goal of capturing a series of islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean, including the Lane Islands, the Cook Islands, the Society Islands, and the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific.

The other route departed from Australia, now known as Anzhou, with the goal of occupying a series of islands in the western Pacific region, including Samoa, Tuvalu, Howland and the Marshall Islands.

Among the dozens of islands, large and small, except for some of the islands occupied by Britain, France and other European powers, which encountered some sporadic resistance, the vast majority of the remaining islands were taken by the Great Zhou without blood.

Britain, France and other Western powers were basically in a state of silence.

Because at this time, they didn't know that their colonies had been occupied by the Great Zhou!

Also, if you want to reach the Pacific Ocean from Europe, you have to cross the Atlantic Ocean and then go around the Strait of Magellan in the southern part of the Americas to get there, and the message is inconvenient to transmit.

In addition, the garrisons of Britain, France and other powers on these islands are more than thirty or fifty people, and as few as one or twenty people, not to mention that they cannot pose a threat to the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty at all, even if they want to escape from the islands, they have nowhere to escape.

So the last ones all became prisoners of the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou.

Immediately afterwards, these prisoners were transported to Anzhou to dig iron ore.

There are not many people in Da Zhou, but there are many people.

Especially in the more than 20 years since Zhang Lingyang ascended the throne, the population growth of the Great Zhou has reached a new height.

In the face of the explosion in China, Zhang Lingyang only has two words: immigration!

There are also thousands of islands in the Pacific Ocean, large and small.

Among these islands, there are three to five hundred small immigrants, and many immigrants are thousands or even tens of thousands.

It took less than five years for these large and small islands in the Pacific Ocean to be occupied by the Great Zhou immigrants.

And a long time passed, and after the media reports of the Great Zhou, the European powers led by Britain and France learned that their colonies in the Pacific had long been occupied by the Great Zhou.

It's already impossible to want Da Zhou to spit it out.

Then the next step is negotiation.

According to the size of the islands occupied and the number of garrisons, the Great Zhou spent as little as tens of thousands of taels and as much as 100,000 taels of silver on Britain and France and other powers.

In this way, the European powers, led by Britain and France, could barely save their face.

At the same time, the Royal Navy's Second Fleet finally encountered the French colonists on the southern shore of Lake Slave after half a year of exploration.

However, both sides kept their senses, and neither fired first, but started 'friendly' negotiations.

After that, it took half a year for Da Zhou and France to finally reach an agreement.

It is bounded by the south bank of the Great Slave Lake, and the land to the north belongs to the Great Zhou, and the land to the south belongs to France.

However, less than five years after the treaty was signed, the unexpected happened again.

Britain and France, in order to compete for colonies in North America, launched a protracted war on the shores of Lake Michigan in North America.

It ended with the defeat of the French colonists.

Zhang Lingyang naturally did not miss this golden opportunity, and quickly sent envoys to France, and after negotiations, France decided to sell all its colonies in North America to Da Zhou at a high price of five million taels of silver.

At this time, nine out of ten of the land south of Lake Michigan had been occupied by the English colonists, and France could only be trapped in the relatively cold Canadian region, and was unable to resist the attack of the English colonists.

If this situation is allowed to deteriorate, France's colonies in North America will be completely lost, and it is better to be a favor and sell to Da Zhou.

At least, he still has five million taels of silver to sell to Da Zhou.

With France's withdrawal from North America, the only remaining enemy of the Great Zhou was England.

If it was a naval battle, England would naturally not be worried about the Great Zhou, but now it is a land battle.

For the combat effectiveness of the Great Zhou Army, Ying Li has a deep understanding.

So at this time, England began to play the emotional card, talking about the desire of Victoria, the current Queen of England, and so on.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement to take the south bank of Lake Michigan as the border, and all the land north belonged to the Great Zhou, so the two sides could be considered to have restored a state of peace.

Soon after the agreement was reached, Zhang Lingyang ordered another immigration to the northern part of North America.

Because of the ocean, it took three years to immigrate a total of 3 million people to North America.

Moreover, Zhang Lingyang also divided the territory there into two and gave it to his two princes who were about to become adults......