Unconsciously, a vigorous colonial movement was launched at the same time in the Great Zhou, Eastern Song and Western Song dynasties.

This is a great colonial movement that is bound to change the political map and racial structure of the world, and it is also a time when the Chinese nation is still in obscurity in the West and the Middle East, quietly carving up the world......

In the future of this time and space, it is unlikely that the legend of any Chinese peasant uncle who relocated to the land and was unwilling to migrate out is unlikely to be heard. Because no one ever asks them if they want to!

Colonial expansion was never dominated by the peasants, and in most cases, they were forced to participate in it.

It's your turn, and it's impossible to think about it!

If it is not the turn of the country, it means that the country or the regime is simply not capable enough to organize a colonial movement.

Therefore, this pot should be carried by the rulers, not by the peasants who have relocated to the land below.

Lingzhou, Lingwu County.

I don't know what's going on in the past few days, on the official road leading to Lingwu County, there are groups of knights passing by from time to time!

The merchants and the peasants who farmed on both sides of the official road had to bend down and bow and salute the knights.

However, the old man seems to be in a bad mood during this time, and he is not interested in looking at the people on the side of the road at all, but while riding his horse, he is talking about something that makes them uneasy, but he is a little longing for - resealing!

The decree of the Privy Council of Chang'an arrived in Lingwu County a few days ago and conveyed the holy decree of the transfer to Gao Yaokang, the lord of Lingzhou.

The Lingzhou fiefdom will be taken back in its entirety!

As compensation, Gao Yaokang and the Lingzhou army could occupy a rich piece of land in the Hezhong region, which now belongs to Western Liao.

At the same time, the Chang'an Imperial Court will send an invincible iron army to help the Lingzhou Army and the Xiliang Kingdom, which has also received the order to be transferred, to lay down the territory for the transfer.

That is to say, the knights of Lingzhou must hand over the existing manor, and then organize a group of armed peasants, with their families, cattle and horses, farm tools, seeds, and other means of production, to travel thousands of miles to make another fief on the territory of other countries......

Where is this transsealing, it is simply confiscation!

But in the face of such a transfer order, which was actually confiscated, Gao Yaokang did not have the courage to resist.

Because the Lingzhou army, which has a high degree of feudalization, is now supported by about 1,000 knight families. Even if it is fully mobilized, the top of the sky is 2,000 armored cavalry plus a corresponding number of auxiliary cavalry.

How could it be possible to resist the Western Song army, which was armed with field artillery and heavy muskets?

Besides, Gao Yaokang and the generals of the Lingzhou Army know that the West is rich!

He also knew that Yelu Dashi was now powerless to protect the land of the river and the seven rivers.

Isn't the land of abundance and borderless a gift of heaven?

How can you take a little more from God's wealth?

If you go to the West, the land of the knights should increase a lot, right? With more land, all kinds of troubles can be easily solved.

It has been almost 30 years since Gao Yu established a domain in Lingzhou. The second generation of riders all married wives and had children, and they had to worry about the future of their sons.

If the land cannot be expanded, the heads of the more than 1,000 knight families in Lingzhou will have to worry about the future of the three and four generations of riders.

At this time, the will to transfer the seal came from Chang'an!

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"My lord, more than seven hundred heads of the family have arrived in Lingzhou."

In the mansion of Gao Yaokang, the lord of the Lingzhou Army, Li Yongqi, the deputy head of the Lingzhou Army, was reporting to the lord Gao Yaokang about the situation of the Zhujia Order.

Lingzhou's territory is not small, more than 1,000 knight families are scattered everywhere, and it takes a lot of time to gather their family masters, and naturally there are those who come first and come first.

"Oh, did you talk to them about the transfer?" Gao Yaokang is a person from "Benwu" this year, he has long been a grandfather, and his son has also given birth to a litter.

I've been worrying about the heir's affairs for the past few years!

Although Lingzhou is not small, it is not very big, and it cannot accommodate a group of "little Gao Taiwei". So a group of sons are staring at their father's throne and pinching there, if it weren't for the two big tigers of Xiliang and Xisong watching from the side, the Lingzhou army might have fought a civil war.

Therefore, Gao Yaokang did not object much to the transfer of the Western Regions.

At least that's a way out!

And the "they" in his mouth did not refer to the knight family masters who gathered in Lingzhou. Rather, it refers to Gao Yaokang's eight older sons.

They all studied military affairs with Li Yongqi and can be regarded as Li Yongqi's students. Moreover, Li Yongqi has a detached attitude on the inheritance issue of Lingzhou Town, and there is no serious conflict with them, so he is more able to speak.

"My lord, several young masters want to establish meritorious deeds in the West!" Li Yongqi said, "The Western Regions are vast, and with the skills of a few young masters, it is possible for one person to fight a state!" ”

Gao Yu's grandchildren actually don't have any big skills, they just look more alike - they are all inherited from Gao Yu! All of them are dignified, and they look very much like that.

But if you don't have great skills, it's nothing, they have people under them!

Among the 1,000 knight families in Lingzhou, I don't know how many second and third generations have no way out, all of them are professional knights, and there are always capable people among them. After all, Gao Yaokang's eight sons can make up an officer corps to come out!

The most difficult thing in training troops to fight a war is to put together an officer corps. Soldiers are always easy to recruit, and if you can't pull a strong man, you can pull it. If you have good weapons and equipment, you can almost get it. The only ones who can't compromise are the officers.

The so-called thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one will be hard to find!

And an army cannot rely on just one general, but can only be supported by a large number of professional officers.

Therefore, samurai, knights, or other military classes are very important for the maintenance of the military power of a feudal country.

If there is no such stratum, or this stratum is completely decayed. Then the defense of this feudal state will be very fragile!

Historically, the sudden collapse of the Northern Song Dynasty was largely caused by the decay or disintegration of the military class after a long period of emphasis on literature and light on military force.

In the original history, the Qinwang rebels in the late Northern Song Dynasty often had hundreds of thousands of people, which shows that the people still supported the Great Song Dynasty. However, the Great Song court did not have a corresponding number of professional officers to organize hundreds of thousands of people into a real army.

And in this time and space, the situation of the collapse of the civil and military class has been completely reversed.

Even if it is a town in Lingzhou, it can easily pull out two or three thousand knights who can act as armored cavalry or officers.

According to the standard of eighteen officers in one battalion, a hundred battalions can be supported.

A hundred battalions is an army of 100,000! As long as you can exert your combat effectiveness normally, even if you encounter the Jurchen Iron Cavalry that is at the peak of history, it is enough to win - the fortress, the car fort, the smoothbore gun, the field artillery, and the spear array are all together! Even if the Jurchens can win, it will be a tragic death that will kill tens of thousands, and if they win twice, the seed will be extinct.

"What about the people?" Gao Yaokang said, "Can you recruit enough military households?" ”

This time, the Lingzhou Army is going to go to the Western Regions where there are no Han people! Of course, you can't just bring the knights and not the people.

Otherwise, more than 1,000 knights would not be able to open up the situation when they arrived in the Western Regions!

And the people who follow the transfer will be organized into so-called military households. Among them, the strong men all joined the Lingzhou army, and the women and children were also formed into teams to facilitate the protection of the army.

This is not the transfer of more than 1,000 households, but the transfer of 20,000 and 30,000 households.

Historically, the great division and expansion of the Mongol Empire, as well as the rapid establishment of strong rule by the Zhu Ming Dynasty throughout the country, and the rapid inclusion of Yunnan, Yanyun, Liaodong, and Hexi, which had long been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty, into the method of control, in fact, the integration of the military and the people and the well-organized military household system.

"There is no problem," Li Yongqi said with a smile, "The people have received the great favor of the lord, and they are worried that they will not be able to repay the service, so they will naturally join the army enthusiastically." ”

Gao Yaokang nodded, thinking deeply, "That's what you said...... Serving in the army is also a way out! When they arrive in the Western Regions, they will be knights! ”

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"Old Führer, here is the household registration account book of 4,000 military households, please take a look!"

"Old Führer, this is the household registration ...... of 4,000 households cut out of Linhuang Mansion"

In the summer resort, Xiao Gan, the Xiangguo of the Great Xi Kingdom, and Xiao Feng, the chief of soldiers and horses of Linhuang Mansion, each brought several large boxes of household registration books to the big study of Wu Haogu.

These registers represent 8,000 military households, each of which is a family of five, for a total of 40,000 colonial pioneers.

Similar to the Lingzhou Army's method of coping with the transfer of seals, the method used by Wu Haogu to open up the New World was also to organize military households. However, there are not as many as 20,000 or 30,000, only 8,000 households, and the number of people must be controlled, no old or weak, even teenagers under the age of 10 cannot accompany them. Because these 8,000 households are to be transported to the Americas by sea ship, the cost is extremely high, and it must not be used to transport useless people. Nor should the elderly, infirm, or too young be allowed to get on board and suffer from wandering.

In addition, these 8,000 households did not directly cut the household registration of Daxi and Linhuang Mansion, but came from subdivided households and newly built households, that is, 5 eligible households were separated from the original "large households" to form colonial military households.

In addition, since these 8,000 households are called military households, they will naturally be organized into military households. From top to bottom, it is divided into four levels: thousand, hundred, fifty and ten.

The 8 thousand household chiefs are all the sons of Wu Haogu, and the older ones will set off with them and land in the New World.

The younger ones will be appointed by Wu Haogu as acting officials. When they grow up, they will go to the Americas to take over.

At the same time, the ruling government of the Great Zhou Republic will also establish the Governor's Office of the Americas, which will unify the command of all the thousands of households, chambers of commerce, and the Great Zhou army that have landed on the American continent.

The first governor of the Americas will have Wu Haogu's second son Takeshi Yoshinobu as the ...... This is, of course, the result of Wu Yijiu's arrangement.

Now that Wu Yiyong is firmly bound in Japan, among the sons of the samurai family, only Wu Yixin is left to threaten Wu Yijiu. Therefore, Wu Yijiu handed over the glorious mission of opening up the Americas to his second brother.