Historically, there have been many types of colonization, ranging from simple and crude predatory colonization to relatively mild economic colonization.

In the early days of colonization, due to the huge differences in economic and technological development, the great powers had the strength to crush the natives in many backward areas, and it was easy to defeat the indigenous countries and suppress the resistance of the natives, so they generally adopted predatory colonization.

Simple and rude, extremely ferocious, to put it bluntly, it is to rob, rob gold, grab silver, grab all kinds of resources, and use all kinds of means to rob.

However, in the late colonial period, with the proliferation of basic industries and the explosive growth of the colony's population, the great powers gradually discovered that brutal plunder was no longer feasible.

Because people will revolt, violently resist, it will become more and more difficult to suppress the rebellion of the colony.

In addition, the countries that have not been colonized have a certain strength, and it is more difficult to defeat them in one fell swoop and start colonization, so they began to adopt a relatively mild economic colonization method.

To put it bluntly, economic colonization is to turn the colonies into raw material processing sites and dumping sites for commodities, that is, to obtain raw materials from the colonies at low prices, and then process the raw materials into commodities with high added value and dump them into the colonies.

In fact, the wealth plundered in this way is more than direct robbery, because robbing things does not create wealth, but only turns the original wealth of the colony into the wealth of the colonizers, and these wealth will always be robbed at a time, while economic plundering is the exploitation of the wealth created by the colonial people with their labor force, and this wealth will not only not decrease, but will become more and more with the development of the colonial economy.

Of course, no matter what kind of plundering is adopted, in the end, the people of the colonies will still resist, and no one will want to be exploited and enslaved forever.

Zhu Cijiong naturally knew that endless plunder would lead to fierce resistance, and the final result would be overthrow and drive away.

Is this really necessary?

The European continental powers need this, because their land is relatively small, the population is relatively small, and the resources are not very rich, to be strong, to dominate the world and maintain their hegemony, the only way to rob and plunder, otherwise, they will slowly be overtaken by others.

And the Ming Empire is different, if you want to talk about the territory area, the current Ming Dynasty crushes all the powers; When it comes to population, it also crushes all the powers; If you want to talk about resources, you still crush all the powers.

Does Da Ming still need to rob it?

The answer is naturally no, with the current territory, population and resources, the Ming Dynasty can dominate the world, and all it takes is time.

And this time is not the time to sit there and wait, but to suppress the European powers while developing themselves, and prevent them from obtaining more resources to catch up with the Ming Dynasty, so that it will not be long before the Ming Dynasty can dominate the world.

If you sit there and wait, or if you only care about your own development, no matter how the enemy develops, it is very likely that the ship will capsize.

Because the Ming Dynasty does not occupy more than half of the world's land, to count the area of all continents, the Ming Dynasty does not even occupy a small half, if all other places are occupied by the anti-Habsburg coalition powers, then it is strange that the Ming does not capsize.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong wanted to send a colonial fleet to seize the North American colonies, not for plunder, but to prevent the anti-Habsburg coalition from developing and growing through plunder.

Of course, not plundering does not mean giving up colonization, if the Ming Dynasty gives up, the great powers will come to seize it sooner or later, and this colony will still be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Since it is only for the purpose of mastering this colony, not for plundering, there is no need to adopt the colonial methods of the great powers, for this reason, Zhu Cijiong came up with a new colonial method, that is, alternative colonization, assimilation of the natives.

The wooing and tenderness he talked to Lu Xiangsheng about were a way of assimilation, and Lu Xiangsheng also implemented it very well.

In the process of contacting the Indian tribes, Lu Xiangsheng always kept in mind the principle of wooing and gentleness, and after the Seattle chief agreed to sell the land, he even took the initiative to negotiate with him and give him something in return.

The Seattle chief was deeply pleased with this, and after discussion, he took the initiative to gather a group of people to demolish all the thatched houses on the land that was given to the Ming Dynasty and move them to other places, and called on all the young and strong laborers to go to quarry, dig sand, cut down trees, and provide materials for the Ming army to build the city.

Lu Xiangsheng's side first built a simple wharf to unload all the grain, grass and materials, and then began to build a wharf and repair the city wall.

The two sides cooperated very tacitly, and the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and the Dongying First Army did not need to consider the problem of materials at all, and the people of the Seattle tribe who owned the sand, gravel and timber kept sending over, and they just had to build.

The materials sent by the Seattle tribe were also paid, about 100 catties of sand and gravel could be exchanged for a piece of porcelain, and about 1,000 catties of sand and gravel could be exchanged for a piece of cotton cloth.

Of course, the price of these things itself is not so cheap, but the batch of things brought by Lu Xiangsheng was not originally used for business, but to win over the Indian tribes, even if they don't work, they have to be given away for free.

Now they can get so much paid for doing some work, just like the effect of the standing wood bounty, and the people of the entire Seattle tribe have more trust in the friends of the Ming Empire, and the friendship between them has become deeper and deeper.

With the help of Seattle tribesmen, the construction of the pier and the walls progressed very quickly, and in less than ten days, the first permanent pier was built.

At this time, most of the armed Fu ships and super battleships had already returned to Daming to pick up the second batch of personnel and supplies, and only a dozen or so armed Fu ships were parked in the harbor in front of Jinshan City.

As soon as the first wharf was built, more than ten armed ships docked one after another, and then, the sides of those armed ships were opened one after another, and one after another turned over the dragon slowly drove out of it, all of which was naturally commonplace for the Ming soldiers, but the Indians of the Seattle tribe were taken aback.

These white smoke steel beasts are simply too terrifying, and the faint of heart even turn around and run away in fear, as if they are afraid of being eaten by these monsters.

Soon, the Seattle chief hurried over with a Mongolian interpreter, and even those who dared to do so were taken aback by the steel beast, which was a little too scary.

The reason why Lu Xiangsheng didn't take him to visit the Earth Turning Dragon before was because he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to accept it and cause unnecessary trouble.

It's really hard to explain this thing to people, after all, his appearance is so scary, even many people in Daming were scared when he first appeared, not to mention the natives of the Indian tribes.

It was not easy to explain its function when the dragon stopped on the boat, but now it is easy to explain as soon as the boat is opened, Lu Xiangsheng specially took the Seattle chief to visit the whole process of the dragon building the road, and he didn't need to say anything, the Seattle chief understood, it turned out that this thing was used to build the road.

The Ming Empire is really powerful, just crushing it with this road-building thing, I'm afraid no tribe can stop it!