As a founding emperor, Zhou Lang enjoyed extremely high prestige. Whether it is an emperor like Yang Jian, who is partial to civil rule, or an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, who is partial to martial arts, it is no exception. Unless it is Li Yuan's kind, his son Li Shimin is even better than him, and he directly helps to defeat the emperor of the world, it is difficult for someone to suppress the authority of the emperor.

This kind of unparalleled authority can let go of the emperor to do almost any change he wants, only others adapt to it, he does not need to adapt to others, he will be the founder of the state system, and his ideas will affect an entire dynasty.

But the founding emperor must be accompanied by a problem, that is, his authority was established because they satisfied the desire of the people of the world for peace, and in the process of establishing this peace, he must have had competitors, and these competitors failed, but they were not willing to fail.

These losers will become eternal enemies, even as the founding emperor, it is difficult to eliminate these enemies in a short time, Zhu Yuanzhang has long purged the remnants of Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been unable to quell the rebellion for decades after entering the customs.

Zhou Lang's most important reference is actually the example of Zhu Yuanzhang, who is the emperor who expelled the alien race from the Central Plains, and the remnants of the enemy are often not the remnants of the alien regime, but the former rivals, one is the Heaven and Earth Society, and the other is the White Lotus Sect.

Zhou Lang did not go to great lengths to pull the net to hunt them down, but used Chen Zhouquan as a banner and called on these people to go overseas to explore, they were the first batch of rebels, and the rebels were often more adventurous, and these people were more suitable for pioneering; But how many people there are in the Heaven and Earth Society is really an unclear question, because this is not a consistent organization, and many people pull up a few brothers and call themselves Heaven and Earth Society.

So when Zhou Lang helped Chen Zhouquan recruit the old department of the Heaven and Earth Society in the official newspaper for a long time, there would be people fishing in troubled waters, in fact, Zhou Lang and Chen Zhouquan both knew in their hearts that in order to attract immigrants, Chen Zhouquan even provided two cows for the immigrants and allowed them to reclaim 100 acres of land.

If it was ordinary people, it would be forgotten, but even the White Lotus Sect was mixed in, which was a result that Zhou Lang and Chen Zhouquan did not expect.

The White Lotus Sect is the same as the Heaven and Earth Society, and even has a longer history than the Heaven and Earth Society, and has always been a professional rebel.

Chen Zhouquan is not afraid of the White Lotus Sect, he just doesn't want the White Lotus Sect to make trouble in his country, the White Lotus Sect is actually a group of Jianghu figures, such as Wang Cong'er is an entertainer. Due to the incomplete suppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, many White Lotus Sects hid in the deep mountains around Sichuan and Chu, and it is said that Zhao Wen's raid on Lantian Plain was the way for the White Lotus Sect.

After the world was settled, these White Lotus Sect members were naturalized as citizens, but some people refused to live honestly and gathered people to cause trouble to the local government, and as a result, they were suppressed by auxiliary soldiers from time to time. Most of them went straight into exile to Africa, but not to the Americas.

The White Lotus Sect that came to the Americas was all mixed in, and Chen Zhouquan called on the old ministry in the official newspaper, and they came to defect under the banner of the Heaven and Earth Society.

They are all brothers in the rivers and lakes, Chen Zhouquan didn't want to kill them all, after contacting the leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society, Chen Zhouquan sent them all out of the country, there is land here in the Americas, he supports these people to open up their country, these leaders are still eager to take the cattle, grain and seeds sent by Chen Zhouquan to the trade route, and go over the mountain to the other side.

Sending away these White Lotus Sect people, Chen Zhouquan can take care of his lair in a down-to-earth manner, although he only rules over 300,000 people, although the sparrow is small and has all the organs, he has everything he should have, there are official offices and military teams.

There is a shortage of everything here in the Americas, a lack of cloth to make clothes, a lack of bricks and tiles to build a house, and even a lack of salt to eat, but the most lacking is people, because the land is there, Chen Zhouquan now does not have the worry of 10,000 people dying 8,000 in the past, they have learned to survive, even if the wilderness is cleared, there are very few dead people. For they would first set fire to the ground, and burn it thoroughly, and then build houses on it, so that few people would get sick.

How this method came about, it's not very clear, where did Chen Zhouquan learn it from Zhu Li. Some people say that Zhu Lian's people learned from the local students, but some people don't admit this, Chen Zhouquan saw with his own eyes that when the students were hunting and moving to camp, they would burn the ground before setting up camp. Some people say that this is learned by the Han people. Later, Chen Zhouquan heard a doctor say that burning the ground is to burn the epidemic gas (germs) in the living land, and if there is less epidemic gas, people will not get sick.

In short, the improvement of various conditions has made land reclamation a simple matter. And Chen Zhouquan always sends troops to a place first, occupies the territory, and then recruits displaced people to reclaim the famine, one is to ensure that these people are his people, and the other is to prevent Shengfan from looking for trouble, the war with Shengfan has happened many times, whether it is Zhu Li or him, and now they are frequently fighting with Shengfan.

He is still relatively better, this is a closed river valley, he has cleaned it earlier, but there are still many people who have crossed the mountains and mountains from other places to get here, there is no big force, the largest is only a few hundred people, easy to deal with.

He recruited immigrants with two cows per household, regardless of whether they were real brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society. Because there is really no shortage of cattle here, by the third year of settlement, they have herds of cattle and sheep, because of the large pastures here. Chen Zhouquan used all the other side of the river as pastures, raising horses, cattle, and sheep, and cultivating the land in the east of the river.

Breeding livestock is very important, in addition to cattle and horses can be cleared, leather is the biggest output here, they must exchange with the outside world, otherwise they will not survive, there are local people who can weave, but there is no cotton here. The cotton harvest was not very good, and large areas were rotting in the ground, because there was a lot of rain here, and it was always at a time when it was no longer right. In addition to leather, there are also dried meat and salted meat, which can be sent to Shuanghe Ying, and then brought back to China through Zhu Lian to sell, in exchange for salt, cotton cloth and tea. The other main business is logging, which is still the largest export business today, and it relies on the wood in the mountains to exchange money every year.

In addition to that, there are not many things that can be sold here, resulting in expensive clothes and expensive uses. But in general, life is more comfortable than in China, because there is a lot of land here, and as long as you are willing to do it, you will not starve. There are also many cattle and sheep, and it is common for people here to eat meat. So many people call friends and bring their relatives and friends over. Every year, people go to the pier to pick up their loved ones.

Chen Zhouquan's own life is very simple, his family has already brought it over, his three wives have given birth to eight children for him, except for three who died young, the eldest can ride a horse and fight with him. But Chen Zhouquan only lived in a three-hall brick house, although it was very luxurious here, but as an emperor, he still lived too simply.

It's not that he doesn't have money, in fact he is rich.

He controls everything here, the pastures west of the river are his, and he also set up a card at the Feiliuying Waterfall, where all trade with the Shuanghe camp must pass through here, and he must pay taxes. The reason why he lived a simple life and the resources he saved were used to attract the people. Two cows per household are nothing, but grain, salt, and other supplies cost money.

Chen Zhouquan no longer has the ambition to chase the Central Plains in the past, and it has become a joke to go back and compete with Zhou Lang for the world, he himself thinks it is a fool's dream, but he still wants to lay a foundation for his children and grandchildren before he dies, the country of 300,000 people is too cold, and he plans to leave a country of millions of people to his sons.

So he put away his anger and began to communicate with all walks of life calmly, if he changed his temper in the past, the White Lotus Sect dared to sneak into his territory, and he was pulling it out and killing him. Even he began to learn from Zhu Lian, and adopted tenderness towards those shengfan, encouraging shengfan to come to him to trade. Raw hunting hides are worth more than cow and sheep skins. And he also learned from Zhu Li, and won over some students who were close to him to buy weapons for them. and then co-opt these people to sell their lives to themselves.

Shengfan is very good at talking, and after a few bottles of wine, he becomes a brother. This is easier than intrigue with Zhu Li, as for wine, Chen Zhouquan has a lot of grain, and he has already started making wine. Wine was his biggest trade item with Shengban.

There is also an advantage to trade with Shengfan, that is, you can buy a woman who is born, there are too many singles from the country, and many of them are poor ghosts who can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law in their hometown, so they can only buy a daughter-in-law for them and give birth to children in their own country.

Herdsmen, it's also a hard thing.

Zhu Li's river valley is a huge river valley, enough to support millions of people, but Zhu has recently begun to expand and establish new territories, and Zhu has arranged for his eldest son to run the area. The other valley was in the south, and along the coast to the south, there was a river over the mountains, and that river could also lead to the sea, and his son boiled salt by the sea, and the salt could be produced by himself. It's just that Chen Zhouquan mainly buys it from Zhu Lian, because it's cheaper.

The eldest son's river valley further south, over the mountains, and a river to the south, they later went south and found that it was the Shengke (San Francisco) occupied by Zhu Li. Chen Zhouquan opened up a place here and asked his second wife to take his three sons to sit down.

The reason why he keeps opening up new bases is because Chen Zhouquan feels that he is a little old, and he hopes that after his death in the future, his sons will be able to live their own lives, and everyone will have a foundation and will not fight for it.

The eldest was born to a concubine, so let the eldest go out and live alone, and let him fight for a family business by himself. And the eldest also has a little brother, a mother, and he has to earn his brother's share. The eldest wife gave birth to two daughters and a son, this is his own son, and his hometown is kept for him. The second wife was angry and gave birth to three sons in a row, he couldn't take care of these sons, and his wife was arguing, so he could only let himself earn the family business.

The rest are all girls, don't bother, when you grow up, just find someone to marry.

He is not too worried about the big room and the third room, but he is a little worried about the second room, because where is next to Zhu Li's pirate, he often hears people say that Zhu Li doesn't look down on him a hundred, saying that he is looking for people to reclaim the land like this to raise pigs, and he can't raise fat at all.

Zhu Li is almost free-range, just recruit people to reclaim the famine, give a year of seeds, grain, salt, etc., and don't care about anything else, but as a result, he collected more taxes than Chen Zhouquan.

But Chen Zhouquan felt that Zhu Lian could receive more taxes because he was standing in the harbor, and Chen Zhouquan wanted to build his own sea ship and go to sea, but when he thought of the life of going to the sea and not being buried, he was a little disdainful.

It's just that when he saw that Zhu Lian had more people than him, he became more and more unhappy.