Dongzhou. East Pole City.

This is a natural deep-water port in the eastern part of the North Continent of Dongzhou, and the Norfolk Naval Base of the US Army in later generations is the largest shipbuilding and aircraft carrier home port in the United States.

Compared to New York, the harbor here is not only surrounded by land, but also because of its proximity to the central region, it has become the most important port trading city in Dongzhou.

The development of New York is because it is located at the node of trade between the Americas and Europe, but in this life, the Ming Dynasty did not trade with Europe, and it is still just an ordinary naval base today.

The main base of the Ming Navy is Panama, because after 30 years of excavation, the Panama Canal has been opened. The navy was stationed there, and it was very easy to get there wherever there was a riot.

Moreover, a large number of fleets want to return to Daming from Dongzhou, and it is also the best route to set sail from Panama.

This is mainly for strategic reasons, but in reality, many areas of the Eastern Continent are better suited to serve as home ports than Panama.

Although there is a naval base in Dongji City, this is the location of the Admiralty of the North Continent of Dongzhou. When the navy could not participate in the internal affairs of Dongzhou, this was the power center of the northern continent of Dongzhou.

Zhang Degong Yang Zhangde has participated in the development of Dongzhou since the first year of orthodoxy, although he was recalled to the Ming Dynasty for ten years in the middle. But in the twenty-third year of orthodoxy, smallpox was raging in Dongzhou, and even the newborn princes and grandsons died seven or eight.

At this time, Lan Guifei had already developed a safe cowpox, and Yang Zhangde was ordered to carry the vaccine from Daming to save the victim.

Nearly half of the children in countless Indian tribes died, and the plague of sixteen years ago caused the Indians to suffer heavy losses, with less than two-thirds of the population of thirty years ago.

Their tribal leaders have long been attached to the Ming Dynasty, and under the sugar-coated shells of the Ming Dynasty, they have also enjoyed the corruption brought by power.

Nowadays, they no longer have barefoot singles who are not afraid of wearing shoes, not to mention, the Ming Dynasty did take them to live a good life.

Since then, Zhu Zhanji's seventy-six adult princes have all been sealed to Dongzhou, and they have drawn the ground as a prison, only responsible for the affairs of their own area, and all external affairs have been handed over to the Internal Affairs Office and the Admiral's Office.

Yang Zhangde tried his best, and finally got Zhu Zhanji's permission to serve as the governor of the North Continent of Dongzhou.

Although this admiral can't manage the affairs of the fiefdoms of the princes, because of the role of tandem, his power is not small at all.

In contrast, although the commander of the Jinyi Guard also has a lot of power, he does not have so much oil and water.

Then, Yang Zhangde became the knife in the hands of the major princes, those princes managed the fiefs with the Huairou policy, and those disobedient tribes were almost all eradicated by Yang Zhangde.

Yang Zhangde was also awarded the title of Duke of Zhangde for this, but he was more of a joke as a duke. Throughout history, almost all duke titles have been well documented, and many are based on ancient place names.

However, Yang Zhangde's Zhang Degong is based on his own name, and it is not hereditary, but descending from generation to generation.

But Yang Zhangde was not ashamed at all, for him, the title of this duke was far less important than his position as the governor of the Northern Continent.

Only when you come to Dongzhou can you know how rich this land is.

The west is full of minerals, and the east is full of fertile fields, except for a little more storms, it is more suitable for survival than the Ming mainland.

As long as the Yang family can take root here and do not participate in disputes between princes, they can at least guarantee their glory and wealth for hundreds of years.

Moreover, because of his participation in the strategic containment of Europe, he also found a financial route in the middle, that is, to open a trade route between the East and the West.

The trade between Dongzhou and the Ming Dynasty was completely monopolized by the imperial court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and no one could participate in it, at most, it was to sell the property of the fiefdom to them and make a little money.

The fury of the Atlantic Ocean was almost a moat in this era, and although there was a map, no one dared to cross it at will.

In the thirty-third year of orthodoxy, a cargo ship transporting slaves sailed south from the Songhai Empire (Nigeria) due to a storm in the Cao State Mansion under the command of King Jin, and was lost in the wind of the storm.

They drifted at sea for more than a month, and when the fresh water on board was almost exhausted, the ship was blown to the city of Nan'an (Recife) on the southern continent of Dongzhou.

When the ship, which was loaded with more than 600 slaves, was discovered by the navy, it caused a huge sensation, and the more than 400 slaves who were alive were bought by the local seventy-six princes, King Ying, for a price of 100 silver coins each.

Dongzhou is vast and sparsely populated, especially in the eastern region, because of the miasma in the past, there were not many natives.

The area where Yingzhou is located is a relatively barren area in the southern mainland of Dongzhou, which is a hilly area, not only with little land, but also with few minerals.

King Ying ranked low among the sons, his mother's rank was low, and there were not many good places left in the end, and his life was relatively bitter.

Located close to the equator, it is currently home to the cultivation of rubber trees, the processing of rubber, and the sale of precious Brazilian timber as the largest source of income.

These more than 400 slaves were bought by him, and all of them were arranged to work in rubber plantations, which relieved a lot of pressure for his labor shortage here.

It was also from this time that the princes on the Dongzhou Continent also set their sights on the Kunlun Nu in the Xizhou.

After the Kunlun slaves in Xizhou were castrated, they were transported to Nanzhou, which has become an important foundation for the economic development of Nanzhou.

In the past, the Atlantic Ocean was difficult to cross, and Dongzhou was able to calmly rely on its own strength to develop, but now, they saw a faster channel.

From the thirty-third year of orthodoxy to the present, the major royal palaces of Dongzhou have privately sent no less than 20 fleets, and have been looking for a route to Xizhou.

Today, they had at least three safe shipping lanes, one of which was the route from the Northern Continent to the Marin Dynasty.

Yang Zhangde now has mastered this route, and he does not dare to disobey the imperial court's ban on trading with the Europas, but through the major royal mansions on the Dongzhou continent, he has been trading with the Han Wangfu and the Jin Wangfu in Xizhou, and it has been going on non-stop.

This has now become the largest income of the Zhangde Mansion in addition to the harvest of the fief.

The fiefdom of the Zhangde Mansion in Dongzhou was not on the territory of the major feudal kings, but on the island between the northern and southern continents, and was under the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Navy.

Although the scenery there is beautiful, it produces a meagre crop, that is, a brown bean that the Han King traded from Xizhou, which is suitable for growing there.

His Majesty named this brown bean coffee, because it has a significant refreshing effect like tea, and it is now gradually spreading.

However, the planting time in Dongzhou is late, and the income is not large.

It is also for this reason that Yang Zhangde has been looking for new sources of wealth for the development of his family.

In the Admiral's Mansion, Yang Shiyu, the third son of Yang Zhangde today, came to Dongji City from the fiefdom of Zhangde Island, and he came with several grandsons who had just come to Dongzhou from Daming.

They went from Daming to the Governor's City, and from the canal to the Western Ocean, to their own family fiefdom, where they recuperated for a period of time, and then specially rushed to Dongji City to spend the Spring Festival with Yang Zhangde.

Yang Zhangde hasn't seen these grandsons for six years.

They have been living in the Ming Dynasty, and six years ago, Yang Zhangde returned to Beijing to report on his work and spent some time with them in Yingtianfu.

One by one, they were in their prime, from the prosperous Yingtianfu to the poor and remote Zhangde Island, but they were not depressed at all. On the contrary, one by one, he scolded Fang Xuan, constantly showing his knowledge in front of Yang Zhangde, and making suggestions for the development of the family fiefdom.

Seeing these grandchildren, Yang Zhangde has always had a feeling of family prosperity in his heart.

"Father, now that the route between Dongzhou and Xizhou has been opened, my grandfather's development in Xizhou is also very smooth, as long as our two families form an alliance, the slave trade in the future will be the biggest source of wealth for our Yang family."

The eldest grandson, Yang Chuyuan, who came with several grandchildren this time, is almost thirty years old this year, and he and Yang Zhangde's eldest son have been living in Yingtianfu, where they serve as hostages while taking care of the younger generations of the family.

Hearing the third uncle's proposal, he said with some disapproval: "Grandfather, the slave trade is harmful to the heavens and the peace, the grandson went to Zhangde Island this time to inspect for some time, Zhangde Island is suitable for coffee planting, and according to the grandson's view, this coffee will become the country's financial source like tea in the future." As long as my Yang family develops with heart, this coffee planting is a long-term solution. ”

Yang Shiyu said disapprovingly: "Although coffee cultivation has been sustainable for a long time, what my Yang family needs now is to develop it as soon as possible." What's more, when it comes to coffee farming, how can we compare with Yaowang? ”

King Yao is the forty-sixth son of Zhu Zhanji and the second son of Lan Guifei.

Concubine Lan was in a high position in the harem, the eldest son was sealed to the north and south islands (New Zealand) in the southeast of Nanzhou, and when the second son was entitled, Concubine Lan personally came forward and asked His Majesty for the largest Hengduan Island in Dongzhou as a fief.

This Hengduan Island is actually the Cuba of the later generations, and the island of Zhangde is the Jamaica of the later generations, which belongs to the fiefdom of the Yaowang Mansion.

Yang Chuyuan said: "Third uncle, my nephew came to Dongzhou this time and met His Majesty before leaving. His Majesty said to his nephew: Coffee planting, Zhangde Island is a treasure land of feng shui, almost anywhere can be compared, and asked my nephew not to waste this treasure land. ”

Yang Zhangde smiled and asked the other three grandsons again, "What are your opinions?" ”

The fourth grandson, Yang Chuyu, is 20 years old this year, and when he was receiving higher education, he chose agriculture according to his family's needs and personal hobbies. He said: "The grandson does not have the foresight of the eldest brother, and only thinks about how to improve the property of the family fief. ”

Although the fifth grandson Yang Chuwen has a name, he loves martial arts since he was a child and graduated from Yulin Weixue. He said: "My grandson is willing to be a pioneer in the slave trade and gather wealth for the family. ”

The sixth Yang Chushan said: "Sun Er thinks that if the imperial court does not explicitly prohibit it, our Yang family can try it." The family is between the seventy-five princes' fiefdoms, and if they follow the step-by-step process, they are afraid that it will be difficult to get ahead. ”

Yang Zhangde said with a smile: "It's really right to let you study the Fa." If my Yang family wants to develop, it is not possible to follow the step-by-step process, let alone be a leading bird. This time you came to Dongzhou, have you met the brothers of the Donghai family? ”

Yang Chuyuan nodded and said, "We have been stranded in the Governor's City for five days, and we have gathered several times with more than ten brothers of the same generation from the Donghai Duke's family. ”

Yang Zhangde nodded and said: "I can't write two Yangs in one stroke, the Duke of Donghai is in charge of the Dongzhou Navy, and he is more important than His Majesty." The two of us in the Yang family should advance and retreat together. Also, after the New Year, let your third uncle take you to the Liangguo Mansion in Nanhua City. It is said that the young daughter of Liang Guogong looks better than the fairy, and the three of you have also reached the age of marriage, maybe you can achieve a marriage. ”

Yang Chuyuan is already married and has children, and he has three children, so he naturally knows that this is none of his business. He pondered for a while and asked, "Liang Guogong has always wanted to marry the royal family, doesn't he still want to renew this daughter to King Meng?" ”

Yang Zhangde shook his head with a smile and said, "Their eldest son married Princess Xiaoyuan, how could they marry their daughter to the royal family." What's more, King Meng is not in good health, and he is afraid that his life will not be long. ”

King Meng is the seventy-third son of Zhu Zhanji, the fourth to last of his adult princes. His fief was in the capital of Mengzhou, which later became the southern region of the Argentine Pampas.

His princess gave birth to only one daughter and died, and he is now seriously ill and has no future to come.

If he dies, King Meng's branch has no male descendants, and I am afraid that he will be removed.

And in Nanhua City, Admiral Zhang Wu is worried about the seriously ill King Meng, this is the farthest fief from the Ming Dynasty, and a trip back, I am afraid that it will not be enough for two or three months.

And King Meng can't take advantage of the boat now, if he dies halfway, the responsibility of these people will be greater.

As a last resort, he could only ask people to go to the Governor's Mansion to pick up the imperial doctor there, and on the other hand, let people take care of King Meng carefully.

Zhang Wu is sixty-three years old this year, but because of his long-term martial arts practice, he is still strong.

His first wife Sophia passed away ten years ago, and because he liked the plumpness of Westerners, he took a few concubines, all of whom were Westerners.

This also leads to the fact that the descendants of the entire Liang Guogong Mansion are all mixed-race, and the men are handsome and chic, and the women are as beautiful as flowers.

His children and grandchildren, don't worry about him, when they grew up in the Ming Dynasty to the fiefdom, they all found wives one by one.

In Yingtianfu, the Zhang family is full of descendants, and they all provoke the ladies of Yingtianfu, and the small jasper families are rushing to it one by one.

In this, there is only one accident, that is, Zhang Wu's second grandson Zhang Han.

His mother is Princess Yongqing, the second daughter of Hu Guifei, and she has been arrogant since she was a child, so she must find a stunning beauty as her wife.

But he fell in love with a person he shouldn't like, and it was his cousin's lord of Hannan.

The lord of Hannan is the granddaughter of Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, and she is a rare beauty in the clan, but although she is younger than Zhang Han, her generation is a generation higher.

Zhang Han was finally tempted, but he couldn't overcome this obstacle, so he could only return to Nanhua City sadly.

In the past few years, Princess Yongqing has been heartbroken for this son's marriage, but Zhang Han seems to be heartbroken and has always refused to get married.

Annoyed by Princess Yongqing's nagging, he simply ran to Lianggong Island, the family fiefdom.

Lianggong Island is the Puerto Rico of later generations, which is the same as Jamaica, suitable for growing coffee, and has more advantages than Jamaica in that there is more flat land here, and it is also suitable for growing sugar cane and boiling sugar.

Although it was a fief of the Zhang family, like Yang Zhangde's Zhangde Island, it is now very undeveloped, and most of the island is still densely forested.

There are not many natives here, and the Zhang family began to recruit thousands of people to develop on the island, and after decades of development, there are now about 30,000 Han people on the island, and ten years ago, they began to make a profit.

But if he hides again, Zhang Han will always go home for the New Year.

The area where Namhwa Fortress is located is the later Rio de Janeiro, which is a very beautiful place and the seat of the Chung Prince's Mansion.

King Zhong is the seventh son of Zhu Zhanji and the first batch of sons to receive the title.

His mother was just an ordinary concubine, so instead of competing with his brothers for those popular areas, he came to the East Coast.

However, after becoming the trade center and shipping center in the eastern part of the Southern Continent, and opening a route with the Western Continent, it became the most prosperous area in the Southern Continent.

As soon as Zhang Han arrived at the port on a sea ship that day, he encountered a slave ship from Xizhou arriving in the port.

The swarthy Kunlun slaves were driven off the ship one by one like cattle, and they had no will to resist at all, like walking corpses.

Zhang Han didn't have much sympathy, and if Dongzhou wanted to develop, he needed more people to work on plantations and mines.

Those jobs can't be forced to be done by the Ming people, and they can't be allowed to do it by the natives who are not much different from the Ming people, so they can only do it.

Let the entourage pack up the account books and carry the luggage, Zhang Han prepared to go home first.

As soon as he got off the boat, he heard someone calling out to him. This is also a person who has just come off the slave ship, messy hair, dirty clothes, he turned around and hysterically for a while, only to recognize that the other party was Zhu Qitan, the seventh son of the King of Han.

"Little prince, why are you so embarrassed? But encountered wind and waves on the way? ”

Zhu Qitan shook his head and sighed: "What's more, on the way, we met a Europa fleet, and in order to pursue the other party, we went around two thousand miles to catch up with the other party and sink their ship.

However, when I encountered wind and waves, I arrived in Nanhua for more than a month, and I was afraid that I would die of thirst at sea if I couldn't reach the shore. ”

No wonder those Kunlun slaves are so obedient, I am afraid that they are also thirsty and weak. Even Zhu Qitan, the little prince, has no water to wash his face, and they are already lucky to be able to save their lives.

However, Zhang Han's attention was not here, but asked, "Those white people are still not dead?" With their small boats, they dare to cross the Western Ocean? ”

Zhu Qitan said with a smile: "They are all poor and crazy, so they can only risk their lives." You don't know, I don't know now how many white people are willing to sell themselves to us, it's just that we don't! Hahaha......"

Because Zhang Han's grandmother is a Westerner, and there are many Westerners in his family, there is not much discrimination against Westerners. Hearing that the white people were having a hard time, he couldn't help but say: "In fact, there are many literate Westerners, and many of them are better than those big cannibals and Indians." ”

Zhu Qitan nodded and said: "Although the words are reasonable, just like the need to castrate the Kunlun slaves, curbing the development of the white population is also strictly forbidden by His Majesty." Unless it's a scholar or craftsman that I need, who would dare to use it! ”

Although Zhang Han has Western blood, he has always considered himself a Ming man, and he feels that the emperor's grandfather's decree is wrong, and he should not be so strict with white people.

Like yourself, after three generations, won't you become a real Ming person!

The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Han invited Zhu Qitan to the Admiral's Mansion as a guest, not to mention anything else, at least he should clean up.

Zhu Qitan said with a smile: "Although it is in Dongzhou, it is also taboo to be a secretary of general affairs." I'll go to stay in the Zhongwang Mansion, recuperate for a few days, and then go to the Admiral's Mansion to play with you. You want to take me to the most prosperous Baihualou in Nanhua City to have a good time. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, it doesn't matter what woman you want, it's guaranteed to make you satisfied."

The two said goodbye at the dock, and Zhu Qitan had to watch the slaves being escorted ashore. They will be cleaned and then quarantined for a few days without illness before they will be auctioned off at the auction house.

On the way home, Zhang Han kept thinking about policies against white people. In his opinion, there are too many unconscionable things in this.

Curbing the demographic development of whites is something that Zhang Han will not oppose. He also thinks that this world is all the world of the Han people.

Like here in Dongzhou, after one or two hundred years, even the natives here have Han blood, and no one in this world can beat the Han people.

He just wants His Majesty to be a little more tolerant of whites, and slowly integrate like the natives here, instead of blindly suppressing them.

White people are not Kunlun slaves, these Kunlun slaves have no culture of their own, writing, and are extremely ignorant. And white people, like Han people, are also civilized people!

But what can you do? If you want to influence the emperor's grandfather, I'm afraid you can only go back to the Ming Dynasty.

A thought arose in his heart, and he could no longer suppress it.

If you want to help white people, you can't help them all. I should go to Europe to see it myself and understand the specific situation, so that I can be reasonable.

Well, go to Xizhou, then go to Europe, and then go back to Daming from Europe.

But what excuse should I have?

Zhang Han groaned for a while, and laughed. For his own marriage, as long as he said that he would go back to Daming to find a wife, his parents would definitely let him go back.

On the side of the Admiral's Mansion, the second young master returned to the mansion, which naturally attracted the joy of everyone in the mansion. As soon as Zhang Han got out of the car, he was surrounded by a group of sisters and sisters, all of whom stretched out their hands to ask for gifts.

No matter which family is noble, almost all of them are prosperous and yang, not because they are all giving birth to daughters, but because all the boys have been sent back to Daming to study.

There are many families, in addition to those who have marriages, will also send girls back to the Ming Dynasty.

Yingtianfu now not only has a girls' school, but when he returns to Yingtianfu, it is also more convenient for girls to discuss marriage.

The demands of the sisters and sisters must be met, and even the little aunt, who is a few years younger than herself, has no less gifts.

After sending them away, Zhang Han kowtowed to his grandfather and parents.

The nobles of each family, the sons and grandsons of the family, and those who can inherit the title, must have one to stay in the capital.

After Zhang Feng and Princess Yongqing got married, they stayed in the capital. It wasn't until the eldest son Zhang Hai was eighteen years old that he came to the family fiefdom for three years to experience before returning to Yingtianfu to replace them.

And Zhang Hai and Zhang Feng, the father and son, in order to control the family fiefdom, always take turns to come to Dongzhou and take turns to be hostages in Yingtianfu.

If you don't follow the rules of the court, the court won't care if you have any excuses, and you won't have to discuss it.

Without the title, the fief will not be kept, and the family will decline.

Moreover, they will not be afraid that those concubines will seize power, because all power comes from titles and titles, not abilities.

No matter how capable you are, can you defeat the seventy-five princely coalition forces, and can you defeat hundreds of thousands of navies!