Volume 18 Chapter 68 Building a Railroad Through the Americas

Early the next morning, Zhao Mingfeng was ready to take people back, but despite Chief Azina's repeated graciously retainers, he politely declined.

There is no way, he still has too many tribes to visit, and if he has to delay each tribe for a few days, he is afraid that his task will not be completed in a few years.

To this end, he also specially asked Chief Azina to help spread the word to the nearby small tribes, so that he would not have to make a trip to each small tribe.

This was also a very simple matter for Chief Azina, he immediately shouted, called over a team of warriors, and gave a few words, and those warriors scattered on the road to help Zhao Mingfeng go to the nearby small tribe to promote the glory of the Great Ming Dynasty.

Afterwards, Chief Azina took a dozen warriors and sent them out of the tribe.

Zhao Mingfeng originally thought that this was a polite send-off, but when he came to the prairie outside the tribe, Chief Azina suddenly proposed to go on the road with them and take a look at Jinshan City!

Well, this is a good thing, Zhao Mingfeng naturally has no reason to refuse.

The people of the Indian tribe would be this good, just go, and there was no need to bring food tents or anything like that.

There are a lot of prey on the grassland when you are hungry, you can eat a lot of food by hunting a few heads at will, and lie down directly on the grass when you are tired.

Even Zhao Mingfeng is used to traveling like this, and now they don't bring food, grass and tents every time they come out, and each person brings a thick cloth blanket and two pots, and everything is solved.

Along the way, the relationship between Chief Azina and Zhao Mingfeng has simply improved by leaps and bounds, the so-called once born and twice matured, it is easier to shorten the distance between each other if they stay together for a day or two.

He hasn't been out for a long time, galloping in the wind, hunting in the grassland, and picnicking by the river, the feeling of simply excites him, plus Daming's wine and various spices and seasonings, after a few flavored picnics, he has begun to call Zhao Mingfeng brothers.

They camped on the grassland for a night, and the next afternoon, Chief Azina, Zhao Mingfeng and his party finally arrived at Jinshan City.

As soon as he saw the walls of Jinshan City, Chief Azina's eyes almost fell off.

It's so magnificent, it's just too spectacular, there are five or six people stacked up so high that the city wall is so high, I don't know how long it is, I can't see the edge at both ends, that feeling, it's even more imposing than a mountain, and this endless city wall is actually a masterpiece of man-made, how can he not be surprised.

You must know that at this time, on the American continent, the Indians built a three- or four-person tall earthen house at most, which had to be built by the chiefs of large tribes, and the size was only a few dozen zhang at most.

There is like this city wall, not only high and scary, but also long scary, just like a mountain range in front of you, such a majestic city wall is actually built by people, the Great Tomorrow Dynasty is really amazing!

At this time, Jinshan City has almost been built, the roads in the city are vertical and horizontal, all kinds of houses are neatly arranged on both sides of the road, the same can not see the edge at a glance, there are all kinds of factories, that are all big scary, what steel-making blast furnace, water tower, large boiler room and other buildings, simply give people a feeling of towering into the sky, Chief Azina is simply like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, the exclamation has never stopped.

Since immigration has not yet begun, most of the shops on both sides of the street are still empty, except for the huge branch of the Ming royal business, which is mostly occupied by Indians from nearby tribes.

Of course, they mainly came to see, after all, the factories had just been built, and they had not begun to recruit workers on a large scale, and the Ming army had not begun to build railways, and there were not many Indians with the currency of the Ming Empire in their hands.

However, this does not stop their enthusiasm, there are many good things that have never been seen before, and if you don't buy them, you can satisfy your curiosity by looking at them.

At this time, the major royal firms were recruiting some Indians as clerks in the Seattle tribe, and their main responsibility was now not to sell things, but to introduce various goods.

They are also working while training, constantly explaining the functions of various commodities or the usage, in fact, they are also memorizing training knowledge, sometimes they really can't remember it, and they have to ask a Mongolian translator to ask the shopkeeper.

At this time, there is also an interesting phenomenon, because the Tianxiong Army, the Loyal Warrior Army and the three vassal legions are basically stationed outside the city, and the streets are full of strange-looking Indians, it seems that this place has become a city of Indians!

Seeing the eyes full of Indians, Chief Azina, couldn't help but be surprised again, this great tomorrow dynasty really regarded the Indians as its own people, and did not see the army standing on the city wall, or even living outside the city, and there was no one in this city to control them at all, allowing them to wander freely, and look strange everywhere.

Of course, this is just the appearance, no matter how Lu Xiangsheng is, he will not be so negligent, the major factories are guarded, and no one can lead the Indians to enter, as for the streets, most of the people who are silent and just wandering around are Indians pretending to be the Ming army and Jinyi Wei agents, after all, this is the base of the Ming army, how can there be no precautions at all.

When he came to Jinshan City, Zhao Mingfeng didn't have time to accompany Chief Azina, he just took Chief Azina and Lu Xiangsheng to meet, and then asked the warriors of the Seattle tribe to take Chief Azina around, as for food and accommodation, the Seattle tribe naturally would not treat the chief of the big tribe badly.

Zhao Mingfeng continued to visit the various Indian tribes along the railway, and there were more and more Indian tribes who identified with the Great Ming Dynasty, and more and more Indians came to Jinshan City.

According to their meticulous investigation, the British colony was about 2,000 miles away from Jinshan City, and this railway was equivalent to crossing the entire American continent, and the amount of work can be imagined.

According to the normal progress, even if the three vassal army went all out to build the railway, it would be good to be able to advance thirty miles a day, after all, the railway was not only to lay the rails on the ground, but also to dig the roadbed, quarry and landfill, and make cement sleepers.

Fortunately, at this time, the Indian tribes along the railway have been gradually co-opted by Zhao Mingfeng, as soon as they heard that the Ming Empire was going to build a railway, transport troops and materials to clean up the demons on the east coast, they immediately mobilized to help!

Although they don't know how to lay railways, they can dig and transport stones, and what else can carry water and soil, transport sand, and even mix concrete, as long as someone carries it, there is no problem at all.

Although the population of the Indian tribes is not very large, but the people of the nearby tribes have come over, 300,000 is definitely more than 300,000, they almost all the simple manual work is covered, and the three vassal legions just fill the roadbed and lay the railroad.

In this way, the progress of the railway will not be 30 li a day, but 50 or 60 li a day, and according to this progress, it will only take more than a month for the Ming army to build the railway to the east coast.

Of course, the Ming army did not just build railways, but also built fortresses and large cities in dangerous locations and areas where Indian tribes were concentrated, and they did not only come to clean up the British, but also to turn this place into a colony!