A somewhat shabby-looking slave ship has arrived at the dock in Changdao City, Xinyue Prefecture, and now is the perfect season to sail on the Atlantic, with blue skies and warm sea breezes. The wharf was bustling with white coolies waiting to load and unload goods. Horse-drawn carriages to pick up and drop off passengers are crowded at the entrance to the pier. The greetings in Chinese rang out, and the decent people who came in and out were basically Han Chinese from East Asia and their descendants. This is the most common summer morning in Long Island, the largest commercial city on the East Coast of the United States of America.

Now using the Western calendar, it is already the forties of the 14th century after Christmas, that is, after 1340. It has been more than 200 years since the founding of the Great Zhou Republic. And the discovery of North America has been going on for more than 200 years.

However, in the eyes of the people of North America, the real great development here began 120 years after the republic.

At that time, Yelu Chucai, who was suffering from a shortage of labor, proposed to Wu Guohao, the richest man on the East Coast at that time, to buy a large number of white slaves!

The reason for this suggestion is that as the invasion of Europe by the Great Mongols intensified, a large number of refugees fled to Western Europe and North Africa, which were unable to absorb these refugees. At the same time, munitions ships bound for Europe often could not find suitable cargo and had to return empty.

In this case, spontaneous human smuggling is practically impossible to curb – because there is really nothing more lucrative for the mercenary maritime merchants to sell human beings from Europe to the Americas!

A strong male white slave can easily sell for dozens of silver coins on the East Coast of North America. A beautiful slave girl was worth one or two hundred silver coins, and if she could still speak fluent Chinese, it was not uncommon for her to sell for 500 silver coins in the population market - since the Han Chinese who roamed the Americas had always been male-dominated, the ratio of men to women in the New World had always been relatively imbalanced.

Men who wanted to settle in the New World and didn't have much money had to spend a sum of money to buy a white slave girl except to marry an indigenous woman.

Moreover, Han Chinese men who emigrated to the Americas soon discovered that white female slave girls were more industrious, stronger, smarter, and more obedient than Yin women.

The Yin women are all from primitive and semi-primitive tribes, and of course they cannot be compared with the white women of Europe. And they are very susceptible to disease, unlike European women, who are more resistant. As for IQ, it goes without saying. In addition, the white female slaves all came from a well-defined society, and most of them were serfs, accustomed to obedience, and naturally commanded...... So within a few years, indigenous Yin women were eliminated from the marriage market of Han Chinese in North America.

Since the supply exceeds demand, Yelu Chucai and Wu Guohao, two guys with a black conscience, no matter what human rights, what equality, and what fraternity, they have grandly promoted the passage of the "White Slave Act"!

Of course, the United States of America at this time did not have independence, so it had to be legislated within the framework of the Constitution of the Great Zhou Republic. Therefore, the white slaves in the White Slave Act are actually contract slaves. Compared with the black slaves in history, the situation is still better.

A horse-drawn carriage with a license plate from the Ministry of Rites of the United States of America was parked outside the Slave Wharf in the city of Little Long Island (Manhattan). There were two people standing around the car, one of them was wearing the official uniform of the United States of America, he was not very old, and he looked like he should be a middle- and low-level official of the United States.

Both of them were very anxious, and when they saw the dilapidated slave ship approaching the dock, they hurried to meet it.

The gangplank boarded the slave ship, and a man in his forties, also wearing the official uniform of the United States of America, came into view. He also spotted the officials who had come to greet him, and walked off the gangplank quickly.

The officials on both sides saluted each other, and a young official who came to greet him asked, "Your Excellency, you have finally returned...... How's going on over there in Europe? ”

......The middle-aged official who got off the boat looked at the young man and shook his head, "It's not very good, but it's sure to be a truce!"

You can't stop fighting! There was a plague everywhere, and there were accidents in a few more cities. The plague has made people panic, who has the heart to fight? ”

The middle-aged official's surname is Song, and his name is Yuanshan. He was an envoy of the United States of America to the Golden Horde, and the young man who made peace with him was his son, named Song Qingfeng.

The "armistice" mentioned by Song Yuanshan refers to the fact that the "Mongol War", which lasted for more than 100 years, has stopped.

After more than 100 years of warfare, the wildness of the Mongols was finally fully revealed.

The Western Song Dynasty, Egypt, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ayyubid-Great Food Empire, which fought against the Mongols, were also exhausted.

To make matters worse, the terrible Great Plague (Black Death) began to spread across the vast land from Central Asia to the Atlantic, killing thousands of people. The populations of all the countries participating in the war have suffered great losses, and they really cannot afford to continue the war.

Therefore, more than 20 years ago, when Haidu Khan of the Great Mongolian Kingdom died, his daughter, the Holy Maiden of Light, Kubald Lun Chahan, began to mediate between Egypt, the HRE, the Western Song Dynasty, and the Great Eclipse.

Finally, a few months earlier, in the autumn of 1339 in the Western calendar, the final terms of peace had been reached.

The formal agreement was signed in Kiev, the capital of the Golden Horde, known as the Kiev Treaty.

The war, which lasted for more than 100 years, finally came to an end, and the treaty also defined the territorial boundaries between Egypt, Mongolia, the Golden Horde, HRE, France, and the Great Eclipse.

It can be said that it laid the general pattern of the Western world in the future.

The Western world in the future is really exciting, and the country with the leader is actually Egypt! It was the Golden Horde that ruled the Great Plain of Eastern Europe. In the Balkans, Asia Minor, and Persia was the Great Mongol-Persian Empire. And with a brilliant civilization that has absorbed the essence of Eastern and Western cultures, it is the Ayyub-Great Food Empire. As for the ignorant, backward and uncivilized hats, they undoubtedly belong to the Barbarian states of Europe, France, Germany, and England......

Now such a quaint and eccentric Western world has been subdued by the Black Death and war weariness. And this is not a good thing for the United States of America......

For the past hundred years, the East Coast of the United States of America has benefited from the wars of the West. The east coast of North America exported a large amount of arms, gold, silver and slaves from the West, and at the same time received subsidies from the Xinhua authorities on the west coast, which can be said to be a great war fortune.

The Han Chinese population on the east coast has also grown from less than 100,000 before the start of the Mongol War to nearly 8 million today! As a result, the Han Chinese population in the entire United States of America has grown to nearly 18 million – if you take into account the number of white slaves, the population of the East Coast has now surpassed that of the West Coast! It is precisely because of the reversal in population that the government of the United States of America has now made the decision to move the capital, choosing a village called Peanutun Tun (peanut production) on the banks of the Nushui River (Potomac) to build the new capital. The name of the new capital is the homonym of Peanutun Tun, and the name is Huasheng Mansion, referred to as Washington.

Although the population of North America cannot be compared with the 100 million in the Great Zhou region (including Japan and Goryeo), it can be regarded as the most densely populated territory in the world.

At the same time as the population is growing rapidly, the economic development of the United States of America is also very fast. From the original reliance on precious metal mining, to today's factory handicraft industry, agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, and urban service industry are in full bloom, the degree of economic prosperity even exceeds that of the Western Song Dynasty, which was greatly consumed in the Hundred Years War. It has become the existence of the Chinese world second only to the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Now, however, the good times of the United States of America are likely to come to an abrupt end with the end of the Great Mongol War.

In fact, in the past two or three years, the amount of arms exported to the West has been declining year after year, and the number of people imported from the West has also decreased greatly because of the outbreak of the Black Death.

Even ships traveling between the Atlantic sides were much reduced by the Black Death.

In Xinyue Prefecture, the economic center of North America's east coast, signs of economic depression have long been due to the decline in the intensity of the Great Mongol war and the spread of the Black Death in Europe.

Song Yuanshan and Song Qingfeng, father and son, boarded the four-wheeled carriage that had been waiting for a long time and left the noisy dock.

The carriage soon entered the downtown area of Little Long Island, which was about Manhattan in another time and space. It is now the most prosperous part of the New World and the political center of the East Coast of the United States of America.

Because Xinhua Province, the capital of the United States, was too far from the east coast, the United States Congress passed a "Vice-Capital Act" 30 years ago, establishing a "vice-capital" in the city of Xiaochangdao in Xinyue Prefecture, which is an administrative sub-center. It is manned by the Deputy Commander and the Undersecretary of State, and there are also offices in a number of departments to deal with less important matters.

In addition, the new capital project of "Peanutun Tun" is also supervised by the deputy commander and the deputy secretary of state.

Song Qingfeng is now the secretary of Deputy Secretary of State Wu Yuankai.

Song Yuanshan, on the other hand, served as a deputy envoy at the embassy of the Great Zhou Republic in the Golden Horde - now the United States of America is not an independent country, so it cannot send ambassadors to foreign countries, but can only send officials in the foreign missions of the Great Zhou Republic. Under normal circumstances, in each Great Zhou embassy abroad, there will be a North American deputy envoy and several North American envoys. Specialized in matters relating to the United States of America.

The carriage passed through the small city of Long Island, which was not protected by a city wall and was full of Zhou-style buildings. It's a bit depressed, at least a lot more depressed than when Song Yuanshan left a year and a half ago. However, it is still much more prosperous than Kyiv, Montfort, Alexandria, Rome, and other Western cities shrouded in the shadow of the Black Death.

The Black Death, which emerged in Central Asia about two decades ago, was a rapidly contagious and deadly plague. After it appeared, it spread to the east and west at the same time.

The eastward propagation is slower, while the westward propagation is faster.

This is because Central Asia to the east is the territory of the Western Song Dynasty, and the current Western Song Dynasty has appeared in a state of feudal separation. There were many separatist forces in the territory, and the land lines of communication from west to east were very difficult, which naturally made it inconvenient for the spread of plague.

The situation of secession in the Western Song Dynasty actually had a lot to do with the century-old Mongol-Song War.

In order to support the war in Central Asia, the Western Song Dynasty had to set up a large number of vassal kings in the Western Regions, and successively canonized the four major county kings, including the king of Shaye County, the king of Yilie County, the king of Chachi County, and the king of Samarkan County. At the same time, in order to encourage soldiers to join the army in the west, the quota of land granted to military households in the westward expedition was greatly increased. From 100 acres and 200 acres to 600 acres and a village!

And because the Western Song Dynasty was far away from the Central Plains, the ability to control these "600 acres of military households" was not strong. The strength of the "600 mu" military households is also stronger than that of the 100 mu and 200 mu military households in the Central Plains.

In addition, there is no class of gunmen in Central Asia who can contain the power of military households.

Therefore, the power of the military households in Central Asia increased day by day, and gradually colluded with the four major county palaces such as Shaye, Yilie, Chachi, and Samarkand, forming a feudal power.

Later, the forces of Gaochang, Shule, Khotan, Qingtang, Tubo and other county kings also began to get out of control, and gradually formed a divided feudal town!

If we count Xiliang, which occupies the Ferghana Basin, there are ten major feudal towns in the western part of the Western Song Dynasty. Each feudal town has at least tens of thousands of military households, which can form an army of tens of thousands.

The Western Song Dynasty court both appeased and took advantage of them. On the one hand, it is necessary to prevent them from merging with each other and forming a powerful force enough to threaten the imperial court. On the one hand, they also want to use their military force to maintain their domination in the Western Regions and Central Asia.

Although the century-long war diverted the internal contradictions of the Western Song Dynasty, it also consumed the limited financial resources of the Western Song Dynasty. Especially in the middle and late stages of the war, when there was no land to grant in Central Asia, in order to maintain the war, the Western Song Dynasty court had to issue copper coins and Shu brocade to supplement military salaries. And the copper money and Shu brocade could not compensate for the military households, so the national strength of the Western Song Dynasty declined significantly.

In this case, the Nine Great Feudal Towns were a very necessary force for the Western Song Dynasty...... Without them, the territory of Central Asia was taken away by the Chagatai Khanate.

In short, today's western Western Song Dynasty is this kind of warlord separation, but can barely maintain a balance.

The feudal towns located on the trade routes were heavily taxed, which severely suppressed commercial activity and slowed the spread of the plague.

The passage from Central Asia to the west was mainly controlled by the Great Mongol-Persian Empire and its vassal state of the Chagatai Khanate. Although there were many separatist forces within these two countries, the rulers of these two countries attached great importance to trade, so they were able to keep trade flowing. The plague spread westward along trade routes.

Of course, the route of the plague spread was not limited to land. Maritime trade routes, too, could spread the dreaded Black Death.

Therefore, the two world empires of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty are now also full of fear of the Black Death, and are considering whether to interrupt trade with Europe, Central Asia, and West Asia to ensure that the Black Death does not break out in their own countries and colonies.

Compared to the Black Death, which wiped out half the population of a city in a single outbreak, the little profit from trade with Europe was really insignificant.

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