The weather is at its sunniest, and the sun is radiating its light and heat to its fullest. Under its reflection, the mountains and rivers are bright.

At the foot of the hill called Xiaohan Mountain, a dozen cavalry roared among the grass and bushes, frightening the birds and beasts of the land. The soldiers on these horses were all dressed in ornate red silk jackets, and they all belonged to the guard of the Great Commander of the United States.

Wu Guohao raised a well-made smoothbore gun and fired it with a bang. He was also a soldier, although he didn't stay in the Great Zhou army for too long before returning home to inherit hundreds of millions of family properties. But his marksmanship is still very good. When the gun rang out, a North American hare fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, and passed away. There was another gunshot, and another North American hare was also shot, and its head was blown off, and it fell to the ground.

Wu Guohua, the commander of the United States of America, smiled, handed the smoothbore gun to his entourage, and then took a smoothbore gun that had been loaded with a deerskin bomb, and said to Wu Guohao with a smile: "Eleven to nine, you are still two points behind." ”

Wu Guohao shook his head with a wry smile, handed over the smoothbore gun to his entourage, and said with a smile: "My marksmanship is already very good, but I didn't expect it to be better than you, Seventh Brother." If you were born in the Western Song Dynasty, you can be admitted to the top prize. ”

Wu Guohua fiddled with his smoothbore gun, and did not look for a target to fire, but said with a smile while strolling around: "My marksmanship is just mediocre, and I am also old, my eyesight is weak, and I can't be regarded as a sharpshooter here in Xinhua Mansion." ”

The United States of America is a society where everyone has a gun, and playing with guns is a way of life here, just like the steppe peoples play with bows and arrows. If there is anyone in this world who can compare the number of sharpshooters with the Western Song Dynasty of the "target imperial examination", it must be the United States of America.

Despite the fact that the country has a population of only a few million, almost all adults are good at playing with guns, both men and women!

In addition to being good at playing with guns, the skill of blasting with gunpowder is also quite common in the United States of America - it is necessary to open a mine!

In addition, horses seem to be one of the necessities of life for the people of the United States of America.

This is because North America has a vast land area and a somewhat deformed industrial structure, which is basically only mining, agriculture and animal husbandry. Mines, farms, and pastures are scattered over unusually large areas. Transportation between each other is on horseback. The price of horses is very cheap compared to the income of people in North America, so that every family can have several horses to get around.

In other words, the people of North America not only have a gun, but also a horse, and they are also good at fiddling with bombs......

At the beginning of the era of hot weapons, such a people could be called a fighting nation!

A somewhat ridiculous thought suddenly appeared in Wu Guohao's mind, after the Great Zhou Republic unified the Chinese mainland, would this United States of America grow into a powerful country that could confront the Great Zhou?

This thought lingered in his mind, lingering, and he was distracted.

"Sixteen brothers, sixteen brothers...... What are you thinking? ”

Wu Guohua's smiling face leaned over and asked with concern.

Wu Guohao realized that he was distracted at this time, and smiled awkwardly: "Seventh brother, the younger brother is here to tell you a way to unify the three heroes of Zhuxia." ”

"Huh?" Wu Guohua was stunned and stunned, "Didn't you want to talk about setting up a factory in Xinyue Prefecture today?" ”

"Oh, it's the same thing to develop the East Coast and return the three heroes of Zhuxia to one."

"Really?" Wu Guohua still didn't understand.

Wu Guohao explained: "Brother Qi doesn't know that today's American market has become more and more important for the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty. ”

"That's right, our Americas are rich in gold, silver and copper." Wu Guohua said proudly.

Gold, silver, and brass are currencies!

Of the gold, silver, and brass produced in the New World, except for a small part (15 in total), went directly to the coffers of the Great Zhou Republic and the United States of America, the rest went to the profits of the miners and the wages of the miners. Subsequently, some of this part of the gold, silver and copper would flow to the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty in the form of trade exchange.

Because the Americas account for a very high proportion of the world's gold, silver and brass production, the purchasing power of the Americas is particularly strong. The current American Chinese are more proud than the Arab tyrants of later generations, and they are simply the God of Wealth for the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

In contrast, the traditional Western market is very pale.

And the huge American market is precisely in the hands of the Great Zhou Republic!

In other words, if the industry and commerce of the Eastern Song Dynasty want to develop and grow, it depends on the Great Zhou Republic to open the American market!

This is definitely a fatal temptation for Jiangnan industry and commerce, the core of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

"Brother Seven, our vision is to further expand the market of the United States of America! Take advantage of this opportunity to encircle and suppress the Great Mongolia. Subsidies were provided by the Government of the United States to comptoirs that set up factories in the East for the production of ordnance. The production of ordnance will be used to promote the development of other industries in the east, so as to achieve the opportunity to gather the population. And the concentration of the population will create new markets and supplies. For the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty, the American market will become even more important.

And the merchants of the Eastern Song Dynasty were mercenary! For them, as long as it is profitable, it is okay to break away from the Eastern Song Dynasty and join the Great Zhou. They were originally the United States of the Eighteen States! If you agree, you will stay, and if you don't, you will go. ”

This method is actually "China first". He used the huge wealth of the Americas to buy off the mercenary bourgeoisie of the Eastern Song Dynasty, and also wrapped it in the cloak of nationalism.

And the "United States system" of the Eastern Song Dynasty also had huge loopholes. The United States is somewhat similar to a confederation or a federation, and should be somewhere in between. The United States had a lot of power, and all had strong militias. The Eastern Song Dynasty has always been relatively weak, and after the death of Wu Meiniang, a strong leader, the subsequent rulers of the Eastern Song Dynasty were relatively weak. It can't restrain the eighteen United States.

In addition, the royal family of the Eastern Song Dynasty had great selfishness in the problems of the New Song Dynasty from Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang.

The New Song Continent was not a vassal state of the Eastern Song Dynasty, but the property of the Eastern Song royal family!

Therefore, the gold mining tax in the New Song Continent (gold mines were also found in the New Song Continent) did not belong to the Eastern Song Dynasty United States or the government of the New Song Kingdom, but to the Eastern Song Emperor! As for the king of the New Song Kingdom, it has always been concurrently held by the Eastern Song Emperor.

And this huge amount of money was not used for the emperor's private consumption, but was used to build the royal territory of the New Song Dynasty Xinkaifeng Mansion - Xinkaifeng Mansion is located in the southeast of the New Song Dynasty mainland, is a coastal port city, and the specific location is about where the later Sydney is located.

In order to build the new Kaifeng Mansion, the Eastern Song Dynasty royal family spared no expense. Not only did they use the power they held to condemn Xinkaifeng as a penal colony. It also used the New Song Dynasty gold mining tax to subsidize the people of the Eastern Song Dynasty who voluntarily immigrated to Xinkaifeng Prefecture. Not only farmers were encouraged to emigrate, but also merchants and craftsmen were encouraged to emigrate.

After decades of unremitting efforts, the new Kaifeng Province now has 100,000 households and 500,000 people. It has become a state-level administrative region with the largest population in China outside of Zhuxia.

Moreover, Xinkaifeng Province also has a relatively complete handicraft industry structure, which is enough to maintain an overseas kingdom for self-sufficiency.

According to people who are familiar with the political insiders of the Eastern Song Dynasty, the purpose of the New Song Kingdom, which was painstakingly operated by the Eastern Song Dynasty, was to move the royal family to take refuge there when the Eastern Song Dynasty encountered a crisis and could not survive.

"The United States of America has such a big market?" Regarding Wu Guohao's proposal, Wu Guohua was not very confident, "There are only 8 million Han people in the entire Americas." ”

Immigration to the New World is definitely not an easy task!

Even though it has been more than 80 years since the discovery of the American continent, the population of Han Chinese on the American continent is only a mere 800 million.

This was achieved when the birth rate of the Han people in the Americas was much higher than that of the native Han people in China!

On the one hand, this is due to the long distances and the high cost of immigration. On the other hand, many immigrants who have found gold in the New World will choose to return to their homeland and live in the Old World. However, a group of Han people who had broken their dreams of gold rush had to stay in the New World and become farmers......

However, the 8 million Han people in the American continent are still much more than the 000,000 Han people in the New Song Dynasty.

"Now it's only 8 million, and in a few decades it may reach 0 million." Wu Guohao seemed full of confidence, "The largest sailing ship is only 20,000 stone now, and there may be 0,000 stone sailing ships in a few decades." The cost of sea freight will also be further reduced. In addition to gold, silver, brass, and saltpeter, you may find more trade goods suitable for shipping back to the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty.

At that time, the importance of the American market to the Eastern Song states will be even more prominent. ”

In fact, another trade item suitable for long-distance shipping back to the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty would not be discovered until more than 50 years later. And this trade item eventually became the fuse for the collapse of the Eastern Song Dynasty...... It's guano!

Wu Guohao then said to the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America: "We expect that the Mongol War will last for decades, involving Europe, the Western Regions, North Africa, and even Tianzhu. The demand for weapons will be massive and long-term! The profit margins of weapons were so high that, when combined with subsidies from the United States government, factories in places like Xinyue could pay enough wages to attract tens of thousands of immigrants. When handicraft immigrants gather in Xinyuezhou, agriculture, logging, mining, and a variety of other industries will be stimulated. Perhaps we will discover new gold, silver and copper mines in the vast east, and then we will be able to attract more immigrants. ”

Wu Guohua took a breath, "That's a good point...... But it's hard to get to the east! Starting from Xinhua Mansion, you can't get to Xinyue Prefecture for a few months! ”

There is no railroad across the North American continent today, and probably not in the next three or four hundred years.

Therefore, the future development of North America still depends on water transportation. However, the "Panama Canal", in the foreseeable years, was also unable to be excavated. Therefore, the transportation of bulk goods from the west coast of North America to the east coast is generally carried out bypassing the South American continent.

"There's no need to go," Wu Guohao had already asserted, and he said with a smile, "Immigrants can make a boat to the east." ”

"By boat? Bypassing the South American continent? Wu Guohua shook his head, "No, going south along the west coast of the South American continent is mainly headwinds, and the ship is driving very slowly, so it really takes at least half a year to detour...... How much does it cost to transport a person? It's no problem to go a few, it's really thousands, but it's going to be a loss. Plus, it's a death story for a boat! ”

There is nothing for supplies to circumnavigate the South American continent, after all, they do not need to eat and drink, and they do not get sick. But the personnel are not good, and the cost of going around the sea for several months by ship is very high.

Therefore, if you want to develop the eastern part of North America, the first thing to overcome is the high cost of personnel transportation.

Wu Guohao had to find a way to transport large numbers of Han Chinese to the east coast of North America at a lower cost.

"You don't have to take a detour from the South American continent," said Wu Guohao, "you can pass through the land of the Eight Nations on the side of the United States of America...... About seven or eight hundred miles can reach the port of Yin Shanghai, and then change to a merchant ship to go north to Xinyuezhou. ”

The so-called land of eight countries is the area of Central America, and there are eight dominions with the surname Xiao who divide and occupy this narrow land. In addition, the Great Zhou Republic also set up several direct bases in Central America.

Compared to the empty United States of America, the land of the Eight Nations in Central America is relatively prosperous. The population is large, and agriculture and handicrafts are also relatively developed. However, the Han Chinese (Huaxia) are not the majority, and most of the inhabitants are local Yin people in Central America.

The Yin people are said to be the descendants of the ancestors of the Yin Shang who crossed from the east of the Central Plains...... However, the Great Zhou scholars who came to the Americas did not find any evidence that they were descendants of the Yin Shang.

However, there is some evidence that proves that they have nothing to do with the ancestors of Yin Shang!

The technology of these Yin people was too backward, there were no bronzes, no bows and arrows, and not even wheels. Their technology is much more backward than that of the Yin Shang people more than 2,000 years ago, how can they be the descendants of the Yin people?

However, none of these studies have been officially recognized by the Great Zhou. The Great Zhou government and the eight Central American countries defined the indigenous inhabitants of Central America as "Yin people", and forced them to learn Chinese, abide by the customs of the Han people, believe in Tianlijiao, and use "Yin" and "Shang" as their surnames.

And this kind of behavior has caused a lot of unnecessary confrontation. For the past seventy or eighty years, the land of the Eight Kingdoms inhabited by the Yin people has been in turmoil.

The number of Yin people has also been greatly reduced due to wars and epidemics.

However, no matter how much it is reduced, the base number of Yin people in the land of the Eight Kingdoms is there, and it is not as sparse as the Yin people in the territory of the United States of America in the north. So there are still millions of Yin people living on the lands of the eight Dominions.

So when Wu Guohao rode on a galleon, he arrived at Baiyin Port, which was under the jurisdiction of the American Governor's Office of the Great Zhou Republic. What he saw was a rather prosperous city, inhabited by indigenous and Han Chinese, with a little bit of chaos.