In fact, the construction of Jinshan City does not require Lu Xiangsheng to worry too much, whether it is the port, the city wall, the road or the houses in the city, there are special people in charge, and he is at most just commanding and coordinating.

Once the construction of the city was on track, he could finally begin to colonize the North American continent.

Now there are two things in front of him, the first is to drive the British out of the North American continent, and the second is to slowly assimilate all the Indian tribes and integrate them into the Ming Dynasty.

The first thing is actually quite simple for him, just rush up and defeat the enemy, which is his specialty.

The problem is that he can't rush up at all now, the British army is still thousands of miles away, there is no railway, and he can't take a boat to get there, such a long distance, it is almost impossible to pull all the weapons and equipment and food and grass baggage of the Tianxiong army or other legions, he can only put it aside for the time being, and wait for the second batch of personnel and materials to arrive.

Now, the matter of co-opting and assimilating Indian tribes can be carried out at any time, but this kind of colonization method has never been tried, and Lu Xiangsheng has no good way to start it in an all-round way.

Judging from the situation found by Jinyiwei, there are many Indian tribes on the North American continent, there are more than ten Indian tribes in such a place near Jinshan City alone, and there are at least hundreds of Indian tribes in the entire North American continent, how to win them over?

How much time will it take to show goodwill to the Seattle tribe one by one and slowly enhance friendship?

In the end, Lu Xiangsheng still decided to ask the Seattle chieftain to help, invite all the tribal chiefs he knew to come over, find out what they think, and then say, if he wants to come one by one, he really doesn't have that time.

I have to say that many times, many things, success or failure, have a lot to do with luck, Lu Xiangsheng's luck this time is really good, this Seattle chief turned out to be the recognized leader of all the nearby Indian tribes, he sent a few people casually to all the nearby tribes to say hello, and the chiefs of those tribes actually ran over.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng knew that there were not more than ten Indian tribes nearby, but more than twenty.

With the help of the Seattle chieftain, the communication with them was quite smooth, and they soon accepted the Ming Empire as a good friend who sincerely helped them drive away the demons.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately struck while the iron was hot, took a bunch of subordinates and Mongolian translators, pulled gifts, and went to visit the nearby tribes one by one.

This lap has taken a lot of time, but the harvest is not small.

First of all, he found that the population of these more than 20 tribes is not very large, and the maximum is not more than 10,000 people, that is to say, the Seattle tribe is the well-deserved boss of all the tribes here, and the population of their tribe is almost equivalent to the total population of these more than 20 tribes.

Of course, this has a lot to do with this large freshwater lake next to Jinshan City, this big lake, the location is so good, and the surrounding land is so fertile, it is estimated that the entire North American continent will not be able to find a second one.

Then, the area of these more than 20 tribes is quite large, almost the size of a province in the Ming Dynasty, and the place where the Indian tribes themselves live is not very large, all of them are not as large as a state capital, that is to say, ninety percent of the places in this area are actually ownerless, and they simply do not have so many people to occupy so much land.

This is simply a good thing for Lu Xiangsheng, it is good to have fewer people, you can save a lot of trouble when you immigrate, as long as you have a good relationship with them, when the time comes, find a reason to say the past, and move people over, people are always embarrassed to object.

Everyone is their own people, there are few people and there is no one to live, and there are many people in the Ming Empire and there is no place to live, so it's not too much to move over.

Finally, and most importantly, they all seemed to be frightened by the barbaric massacre of the British, and at this time they all regarded the Ming Empire as a savior, and they all welcomed the arrival of the Ming army.

Because the Seattle chief said that the Ming Empire is here to help them drive away the demons;

Because the Ming army was very friendly to them, and even came to visit them with a lot of good things;

What's more, because the people of the Ming Empire are similar to them in terms of skin color and appearance, they naturally have a sense of intimacy.

After visiting a circle, I gained a lot, but there was also a little regret, that is, there were no Mongolian people in the nearby tribes who could speak Mongolian, let alone Song people who could speak Chinese.

The Mongolian-speaking Mongols of the Seattle tribe seem to be the only ones left in this large area, and the other tribes have either not joined the Mongols or have been assimilated by them.

The Mongols of the Seattle tribe are actually slowly giving up their own language, because they are all Indians all around, and they can only use Mongolian when communicating with their families, and this demand is becoming less and less, because everyone speaks this Indian language, and it is self-defeating to learn more languages.

After hundreds of years, it is not easy for someone to still be able to speak Mongolian, because there were more Mongolians who drifted here at the beginning, there were hundreds of people.

Maybe in a few decades, when these people grow old and pass away, no one will be able to speak Mongolian anymore, and the fact that the Mongolian people once drifted here will be drowned in the long river of history.

With the help of the Seattle chieftain, Lu Xiangsheng's colonization plan went quite smoothly, and he decided to first assimilate the nearby tribes, and then gradually spread around.

He began to propagate among the nearby tribes that the Ming could provide cloth, porcelain and other necessities of life to improve their living standards;

Daming can provide simple production tools to improve their production level, and even provide a floor ploughing dragon to help them turn the ground for free, and teach them the planting skills of various crops;

At the same time, he also vigorously promoted the Chinese language in various tribes, because they did not have their own writing at this time, no matter what was recorded, it was very inconvenient to rely on word of mouth, and more importantly, the Ming Empire would be friendly with them for a long time, and it was essential to learn Chinese and facilitate mutual communication.

Of course, these will not be carried out until the second batch of personnel and materials arrives, and at this time, Lu Xiangsheng did not stop his steps.

In order to show that Da Ming really helped them expel the demons, Lu Xiangsheng asked the tribes to seconded a group of warriors, and asked them to take the Jinyi Guard secret agents to the west to investigate and find the specific location of the demons.

At the same time, he began to make maps and explore the mineral deposits with the Seattle chiefs, of course, on the grounds that it was necessary to build railroads and make train cars to transport the army to the west as soon as possible, and that building railroads and making train cars required a lot of coal and iron ore.

As soon as the Seattle chieftain heard that they were trying to transport the army to the west coast as soon as possible and drive out the demons, he immediately sent the warriors of the tribe to look for mineral deposits with the professionals of the Ming Ministry of Industry to explore the mineral deposits, and his mood was even more urgent than that of Lu Xiangsheng.

The calm of the North American continent was once again broken, and the Ming army on the east coast was constantly extending its tentacles to the west coast, and the British army did not yet know that in the near future, a bad luck would befall them, and they would be completely driven away from this land!