The reason why Zhu Lian doesn't look down on Chen Zhouquan is not because Chen Zhouquan can't collect taxes, it's just a reason.

I don't look down on Chen Zhouquan because Chen Zhouquan's governance level is too poor, and the most important thing in the Heaven and Earth Society is craftsmen, but Chen Zhouquan has turned craftsmen into farmers.

The place that Zhu Lian occupies now is far less than that of Chen Zhouquan, and the population is not as large as Chen Zhouquan. However, Zhu Li built a shipyard, a lumber yard, a salt factory, two large harbors, and five large factories.

Zhu Dian can now build his own ships, and his level is no worse than that of the domestic ones, and he can produce his own weapons, and the level is not inferior to that of the domestic ones.

The reason why he did this was not because he knew it, but because he learned it from the emperor. Yes, he is learning how to be an emperor, since Chen Zhouquan can be an emperor, why can't he Zhu Li.

Zhou Lang became the emperor and he was convinced, so he paid attention to imitation everywhere, he knew how Zhou Lang came step by step, snatched a group of shipwrights from Guangzhou, built a shipyard in Taiwan, Zhu Lian didn't have to rob, in the past, his shipyard and the boatwrights were taken away by Zhou Lang, learned a lot of skills, and the favor was still there, and called these people to the Americas to help him build a shipyard, the kind of big ship with more than 60 guns can't be built, Zhu Mian doesn't need it, the old lock ship with 20 guns, they will build it ten years ago.

Zhou Lang asked foreigners to run an arsenal, and Zhu Lian also did it, he didn't need to invite foreigners, just poached people from the emperor's arsenal, and he didn't lack money at a heavy cost.

There are ships, there are cannons, and he still has people. The emperor built a musket team with great power and laid a big country, and Zhu Lian also imitated it and formed a new army, which belonged to the American Company.

He now has people, guns, and even the people, this is a soil emperor, and he doesn't have to worry about doing these things at all, it was the emperor who made them do this.

Just let him openly claim the king and dominate him, the time is not ripe, maybe when it comes to his son, the time will be ripe, as long as Zhou Lang does not die, Zhu Mian himself will never be king. Unless the emperor is on a whim, as he did with Chen Zhouquan, he is allowed to be called the emperor, or he is crowned a king.

It's just that the emperor's methods are endless, and Zhu Lian feels that the more he learns, the less confident he becomes, because he finds that he has played with Chen Zhouquan to operate here in the Americas, but he is still far worse than the emperor.

Where is the emperor in Luzon directly managed, it has only been a few years, and more people are sent every year than in the Americas, and the emperor does not pay a dime, only gives some policies, that is, to encourage rich households to reclaim famine, and the acres of land reclaimed belong to rich households, and do not pay taxes, as a result, hundreds of people who originally made a fortune in Luzon began to destroy forests and fields, and took the initiative to recruit people in the country to reclaim.

The emperor said that those who hold power, as long as they are well guided, power can be transformed into wealth faster than anything else. The emperor also said that this was all learned from the Manchus, and Taiwan was developed in this way, but the Manchus were a little childish, and there were restrictions on recruiting reclamation households, and they were reluctant to land.

Where there is more land, talent is the most valuable. Therefore, there is no limit to the emperor's recruitment of people to open up wasteland, and you can open as much as you want. Therefore, there are many large landowners in the Philippines who are tens of thousands of acres.

Zhu Li hated that he didn't expect that there was more land in the Americas, and he was the emperor here, so he began to follow suit and encourage immigrants to recruit immigrants, which was faster than his hard work to publish in the newspapers and give bounties to those immigrants to pull their relatives and friends.

In the past, he was recruiting people alone, but there were 100 or 1,000 people.

This is where he looks down on Chen Zhouquan, he doesn't understand anything, and he is a leopard.

What Zhu Mian didn't know was that Emperor Zhou Lang also admired another group of immigrants at this time, that is, the group of Eight Banners in the Americas.

That group of people really played colonization out of flowers.

The number of bannermen in the Americas was less than 100,000, and Jiaqing was now driven to Central Asia, and after Zhou Lang agreed that he had established his business in his hometown of Kokand, he had given up the idea of crossing to Kunlun, so he cut off the manpower delivery to Africa.

Africa is short of manpower, but the land of the Eight Banners is constantly expanding, because they have transferred another backward but suitable system of their ancestors for the state of African social development, that is, the coating system.

How it started, who started first, it's not clear, maybe after the conflict with the blacks, some blacks were arrested, I don't know how to deal with them, and then I stayed to help them farm, and over time they subdued these blacks and let the blacks be the coats. The coating system has always existed, and there are not a few children of the Eight Banners who have coatings in their families. Some coatings are good, and some are bad, it all depends on the identity of the master. There are powerful families with manors, and the coaters don't even have to work to help guard the farmland. There are only ordinary Eight Banners in Qitian, and the coating can only be used as hard labor.

The first batch of black people developed very slowly, and they slowly integrated into the Eight Banners society, but when everyone adapted to African life and accepted these blacks, suddenly the coating system broke out. Because with the smooth trade in Africa, it became profitable to raise cattle and sheep on the South African grasslands.

So they began to take the initiative to grab the coats, not limited to the past with the reclamation of the war with the blacks after the capture of prisoners, take the initiative to attack, destroy the black villages, capture more and more blacks to make coats, even the ordinary flag people now began to use the coats to farm for themselves, they have become off-production soldiers.

The difficult environment allowed these eight banners, who had overcome diseases and water and soil problems, to begin to have a common national consciousness, become more united, and seem to have restored the bravery of their ancestors. But in fact, there are not many Manchus among them, most of them are Han people or Han Eight Banners, and then there are Mongolian Eight Banners, and there are very few real Manchu Eight Banners.

Basically, the Han Eight Banners grasped the coating and farmed the land, and the Meng Eight Banners grabbed the coating and herded cattle and sheep, and the production mode of agriculture and animal husbandry merged in this area expanded with the expansion of the Eight Banners' power.

Within a decade they had expanded north to Durban Bay, which was unoccupied, a place where slave traders frequented, and where Eight Banners occupied because they became the main supplier of slaves; Expanding south to the borders of British power, it entered the vicinity of British-controlled Port Elizabeth.

The African companies had to build a port north of Port Elizabeth and one in Durban in order to prevent the flag men from breaking away from their control, and the monopoly of the Eight Flags trade was hugely profitable, which has now become a major profit for the African company.

In addition, the Eight Banners, or the armed group of coated slave owners, are now aggressively absorbing outlaws from the country, and all kinds of anti-government forces in the country have been exiled here by African companies, and the White Lotus Sect rebels, gang fights, as long as it is a crime of violence, it is indispensable to have an end of exile.

They wantonly recruited these outlaws to join, now there are 100,000 authentic banner people, and there are 200,000 outlaws, of course, these outlaws will not call themselves banner people, those old eight banners, now they have long forgotten the flag they belong to, and occasionally someone mentions it, and only says that they are old flag people, and it doesn't matter which flag it is.

The new outlaws were not as economically powerful as the old bannermen, who now generally had their own estates, either farming, or raising cattle and sheep, most of whom were half-cultivated and half-ranched. They are no longer fierce, it is no longer them who take the initiative to attack the Kunlun slaves, but the new outlaws, and the main force of the slave trade is no longer them, on the contrary, they are now starting to buy clothes, because there is a lot of land and few people.

Although the old banner people generally broke away from the ranks of the Kunlun slaves, it does not mean that they will not make profits from it, in fact, the big slave traders are still the old banner people with strong economic strength, and they are the leaders of the slave repair team, and the outlaws from the country are recruited by them. In fact, these outlaws are just working part-timers, and slave repair has become an industry that has been standardized and institutionalized.

In addition to turning the ports of Durban, Sanyang and Kovi into the world's largest slave trading ports in recent years, their actions have also made huge profits for African companies, which, in addition to imposing tariffs, are also involved in the blood-soaked business of the slave trade. They provided weapons and equipment to the slave repair teams, sold them on credit, charged higher prices, and armed one slave after another.

And it is the African companies that always ask the government for criminals on the grounds of labor shortage, and now it is not only the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, but also organized crimes such as gang fights in ports and docks, they even want criminals who are not so effective in scamming, abducting and selling children, and digging graves, as long as they are criminals, they can arm them to make up for slaves regardless of life or death.

As a result, their actions not only attracted a large number of American customers, but also shipped tens of thousands of slaves from here each year, and even forced the local black tribes to move westward. The slave replenishment team followed in the footsteps of the black migration and continued to penetrate deep into the interior of Africa.

As the small tribes near the sea moved westward, or were annexed by powerful clans like the Zulu, forming larger tribes, and the slave replenishment teams began to expand in size, the various leaders immediately joined forces as soon as they found a large Kunlun tribe, and they could unite thousands of people at every turn, becoming a formidable force in the local area. They even clashed with the Boers as far south, and as a result, the Boers were about to move. It provoked an outcry from the British, and it was the company that came forward to settle the matter.

In addition, there are not only old bannermen and outlaws in the slave team, but also a large number of blacks, in fact, these blacks are more like thugs, they are the coats brought in by the old bannermen, Kunlun slaves are actually very fierce, but they don't know how to fight.

And the Kunlun slaves are domesticated very obedient, the leaders of the slave repair team like to use these people, not only bring their coats, and even some friends will send their own excess coats, if the harvest is good, after an action, they will change one for two, or even change three or four coats back, and bad luck is just a dead coat.

Zhou Lang recently received news that these slave leaders actually wiped out the famous Zulu Kingdom in history and captured tens of thousands of clothes. It's just that their business is not so good, it seems to be the last, and after the Zulu country, the large black tribes have all but disappeared.

He also sighed that if he wanted to catch the new Kunlun slaves, he would have to go a long way, or even run to the territory of the Portuguese, and he hoped that the emperor would allow them to occupy the Portuguese port of Maputo, of course, in other names, such as letting the slave team seize it.

When the emperor heard about the history of the slaves' blood and tears, he was very sad and indignant, and forced African companies to ban the slave trade, openly criticized the behavior of African companies, strictly forbade any Chinese organizations and individuals to participate in this evil trade, and called on the world to abolish the slave trade.

The British were very interested in this and wanted to cooperate with China to abolish slavery around the world, with a focus on joint patrols with the fleets of Chinese and African companies on the African coast to combat slave fleets. He also denounced the United States and criticized the Americans' wanton purchase of black slaves, believing that this is the most shameful crime of mankind.

The British are more and more eager to cooperate with the Chinese who have broken into the sea, because of the huge scale, the expansion of the Chinese is very rapid, as if the Chinese can be seen everywhere, and it is a great loss not to cooperate with the Chinese.

But the British government is becoming more and more wary of China's expansion, but the cost of forcibly stopping it is too great, they want to draw a line with China as soon as possible, Australia has been talking about replacing India, and negotiations in the South Seas have also begun, because Britain has entered the South Seas, and he does not want to conflict with China in this place that is too close to China.