On the official road leading to the small commercial port on the coast of the Great Eastern Ocean. There was a rather large team of horses and carts. Horse-drawn carts, with bundles of goods on them. On each cart, in addition to the coachman, there is also a hardcover Han person, who looks either "pure Han" or "Yin and Han mixed blood". They were all dressed in short coats, their muscular arms were exposed, and they were holding bullet-loaded arquebuses, and they looked around with their chests and bellies protruding. There were also some rather skilled-looking riders around the convoy, all of whom were of Han or Yin and Han descent, guarding the convoy. There were those with smoothbore guns on their backs, and there were also people with buffalo horn bows on their shoulders.

In the middle of the large convoy were several rather ornate carriages, with transparent glass on the windows and gauzy curtains to shade the sun.

Wu Guohao was sitting in the carriage of one of the carriages at this time, fanning the fan vigorously while talking to a young man in his twenties wearing the official uniform of the Great Zhou.

"Jin Qing, how long does it take to get to Xiaoshang Port?"

"There are more than 200 miles left." The young man was a bearded man, and because of the heat, his beard was covered with beads of sweat, and he looked wet. His surname is Yelu, his name is Chucai, he is a clan of the Liao State, and he is a descendant of Yelu Bei, the eldest son of Yelu Abaoji.

His ancestors stayed in Eastern Liao when the Liao Kingdom was divided into two parts and became Xiao Sese's courtiers. He also made a mistake during the rebellion of Yelu Aolu, but later took refuge in Da Okuno in time to save his life. Therefore, Yelu Chucai was also from a knight family in this time and space.

But the knights have also begun to decline in Jerod's generation. This is also no way, the war depends on guns, can the knights not fall? Gradually, their class became the source of officers, intellectuals, and grassroots civil servants in the Great Zhou.

As a young man, Jerod also served in the army, just to cope with errands in order to keep the estate and status. Later, his main career was a professor in the Department of Astronomy at Yenching University.

And Yelu Chucai is his youngest son, Yelu only got Chucai when he was 60 years old, and died at the age of 61. So he didn't have time to arrange a way out for Yelu Chucai, and because Yelu Chucai was not the eldest son, he couldn't inherit the family business. Moreover, Yelu Lu, a scholar, did not leave much inheritance to his youngest son Yelu Chucai.

So I could only leave home with the financial support of my elder brother Yelu Fencai and Yelu Shancai (these two elder brothers were much older than Chu Cai) and after completing their studies in the Department of Law of Yenching University.

Because he aspires to be an official, but he only has the status of a temporary citizen, it is unlikely that he will get a satisfactory position in the Great Zhou region. So he went to the Overseas Department of the Great Zhou government to apply for a job, and was assigned to the Americas to serve in public office. Because of his outstanding performance in North America, Chu Cai, who is only 25 years old this year, has already been sentenced to Baiyin State.

The so-called silver state does not actually produce silver, but is composed of several ports that export silver. As for the silver, it was produced from the "Land of the Eight Nations", that is, the territory of later Mexico.

This silver state is not part of the Eight Kingdoms, but is directly governed by the Viceroyalty of North America. The officials were all sent by the Governor's Office.

This kind of overseas governor's office is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the ruling government of the Great Zhou Republic. Yelu Chucai is a low-level official in the Ministry of Overseas, so he will be sent to the Silver State in North America as an official.

When Wu Guohao arrived at Baiyin Port, the capital of Baiyin Prefecture, Zhizhou happened to be absent, so he was entertained by the general judge Yelu Chucai. After going back and forth, Yelu Chucai and Wu Guohao are also familiar with each other - although Wu Guohao has no official body, everyone knows that he is a big man! Those who have a little brain have to work hard to convince him, not to mention Yelu Chucai, who has become a master?

Therefore, Chu Cai has now become a friend with Wu Guohao, and personally escorted him from the narrowest point of the Land of the Eight Kingdoms to Yin Shanghai - the place they are now passing through is the Tehuantepec Isthmus, from the daughter port (the coast of the Great Eastern Ocean, named after a matriarchal tribe) to the small merchant port, about 490 miles. It's more than halfway through now.

"There are still 200 miles to ......," Wu Guohao shook his head, "It will only arrive tomorrow?" ”

"If the weather is nice, we will be there tomorrow." Yelu Chucai said with a smile, "But it often rains in this area, and when the roads are muddy, it will be more difficult to walk." If Mr. Donghai (Wu Guohao's number) wants to transport a large number of immigrants, I am afraid that he will have to repair the 500 miles of official roads first. ”

"Of course the road needs to be repaired," Wu Guohao nodded, "but are there so many laborers available?" The climate in this area is hot, I'm afraid it's a place of miasma, right? ”

For the colonists who pioneered the tropics, dysentery was terrible!

If you colonize undeveloped tropical habitats, it is very common for two-thirds of people to die of illness after one year of development.

So now the United States of America and the New Song Kingdom have colonized millions of people, but on the island of Taiwan, which is close to the mainland, the population of Han Chinese is still only tens of thousands. They are scattered in several ports along the coast, and they dare not go inland.

As for the Zhenla Kingdom on the Indochina Peninsula, although it was repaired by the Eastern Song Dynasty, I don't know how many times. But it's still there! The development of the Kingdom of Siam, established by the Eastern Song Dynasty, was very slow, and the Han Chinese population was always hovering in the hundreds of thousands.

The Western Song Dynasty's attack on Bagan and Burma was also subject to miasma, and it also caused a lot of trouble.

Now transporting people from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the shores of the Yinshang Sea for a few days is not a big problem - the doctors of Da Zhou in this era already knew how malaria spread. So I will use a pinch to repel mosquitoes.

However, this method does not work for workers who work in the rainforest for long periods of time. Can you still keep plastering your body all day long? How much does that cost?

And how hot it is in the rainforest, the ointment rubbed on it will be washed away by sweat for a while.

"Indigenous people can be hired." Yelu Chucai said, "There are many Yin tribes in the area of Daughter Port and Xiaoshang Port, and they are not very afraid of miasma. ”

"Not afraid of dysentery?" Wu Guohao was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you say that Yin's physique is thin and easy to get sick?" ”

"But they don't get much malaria," Jeruchucai explained, "and when they do, the mortality rate is not high...... It is said that they are said to have some way to treat malaria. ”

"What?" Wu Guohao was taken aback, "Treatment of malaria? Really? ”

"It's just a legend, I don't know if it's true or not." "But it's certain that the natives of this area are not very afraid of malaria. ”

This legend is certainly true...... Indigenous people in Mesoamerica know that the bark of the cinchona tree is dried and ground into a powder that is used to treat malaria.

However, this secret is only known to a few witch doctors of the jungle tribe, and it has been strictly guarded, and the foreign Zhou people are not very clear, and at most they have heard some legends.

"This matter has to be investigated anyway," Wu Guohao said, "and it doesn't matter how much it costs!" ”

Yelu Chucai smiled: "Mr. Donghai, this is not a matter of spending money...... Money is of little use to the natives here. ”

"They don't want money?" Wu Guohao asked, "What do they want?" Grain? Cloth? ”

Yelu Chucai shook his head, "They want land...... I want a piece of land that won't be disturbed by us! Can Mr. Tokai give them to them? ”

"Yes!" Wu Guohao immediately waved his hand, "I'll buy a large piece of land and give it to them...... As long as they are willing to help us build a stone road. "As long as there is a road, the cost of immigration to the East Coast is manageable." ”

"Then the next official will thank Mr. Donghai for those Yin natives."

Yelu Chucai and Wu Guohao did not know at this time that the matter that the two of them discussed on the way to Xiaoshang Port was criticized by a group of human rights defenders who stood on the side of the indigenous peoples hundreds of years later.

Because Wu Guohao later spent money to buy the Yin people's autonomous territory, it became the first "Yin people reservation area". Later, the governments of the United States of America, the governments of the eight Central American countries, the governments of the colonial countries that also established in South America, and the authorities of the Great Zhou Republic in the Americas, repeatedly cited this example and established many Yin reservations - in the eyes of later human rights defenders, the so-called reserved areas were set aside for the Yin people on the land that originally belonged to the Yin people, and in fact the rest was taken away!

Therefore, Wu Guohao and Yelu Chucai, who set this precedent, must be notorious colonists.

Especially Yelu Chucai, this guy was meritorious because he presided over the construction of the "Death Highway" (the 500-mile road from Daughter Port to Xiaoshang Port later caused the death of thousands of Yin people, so it was called the Death Highway by later generations), and he made a fortune because he befriended Wu Guohao, a big man.

With Wu Guohao's support, he became the director of development for the East Coast of North America and the first senior official of Xinyue Province. Later, Yelu Chucai was also elected Speaker of the Congress of the United States of America, and also served as Secretary of State for a term, reaching the pinnacle of his life...... Naturally, he also did a lot of bad things to plunder the land of the Yin people!

And Wu Guohao, of course, is also bad! He later transferred shares in both the Republic Bank and the Bank of Tianjin to his eldest son. Then he took his second son and three times across the ocean to the east coast of North America to start a new business. In the New Testament Province, he bought two narrow islands (Manhattan and Long Island) and named them Long Island City. Ports, markets, factories, and shipyards were built there. As the largest stronghold of the United States of America on the East Coast.

In a few hundred years, Long Island will become one of the most prosperous cities in the world. And Wu Guohao will also be known as the "Father of Long Island City".

The Wu family's "Guohao faction" was also created from this, and later developed into a wealthy family on the east coast of North America, which has been prosperous for hundreds of years...... However, Wu Guohao's role in the colonization of the East Coast of North America by the Huaxia people was blamed by later critics for many years!

In addition, Wu Guohao's third son, Wu Jia'an, did another bad thing that was enough to be nailed to the pillar of historical shame thirty years later. Let the entire Nagashima Takeshi family become the object of criticism from later generations hundreds of years later.

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When the Republic of Great Zhou was busy developing the east coast of North America, it was on the other side of the world. In 1215 and 1216 of the Western calendar, he used trenches to besiege Tabriz, an important town of the Dashi Empire, to surrender.

After the capture of Tabriz, Temujin did not continue his advance into Asia Minor. Because of the bad news from Central Asia, his eldest son Jochi was ambushed by the Song army on the front line of Broken Leaves, and was shot in the soul by a sniper of the Song army (who was a target shooter), and was hit in the shoulder, and the lead bullet shattered in the body, and after torturing Jochi for more than ten days, it caused a serious infection and killed Jochi.

Speaking of which, this battle was not very important, nor was it a decisive battle, it was just an undulating attack created by the scouts of the Song army infiltrating the Mongol army's battle line.

Maybe the Song army snipers didn't know who they killed at all?

Because similar attacks take place almost every day on the front line of the Ili Valley.

After the Song army was forced to retreat from the Broken Leaf front due to supply problems, the two sides did not fight again. However, skirmishes are frequent.

On the one hand, the Mongols hoped to use their advantage on horseback to seize control of the battle line and confine the Song to the Tuntian area in the Ili River Valley.

On the other hand, the generals of the Song army wanted to use the "target showman" and "target lifter" to eliminate the small group of Mongol cavalry.

So small units of troops on both sides launched a fierce battle on the front line!

And the result of this kind of fight greatly exceeded Jochi's expectations - what good end could the Mongolian warriors under his command have met Song Xiucai and Juren, who can shoot black guns?

No matter how high your martial arts are, you are afraid of bullets!

You have to fight hand-to-hand with others, and they also have horses, and if you run on them, you may not be able to catch them. And if you chase too closely, you may fall into a trap - someone is waiting to shoot a black gun somewhere!

To fight with the Mongols' best cavalry archery, the Song people's scout cavalry and Xiucai and Juren all had plate armor, and it was difficult for arrows to damage them. And their fine smoothbore guns and deerskin bullets have lethal power.

As a result, Jochi soon discovered that its own Mongol warriors simply could not afford the consequences of these small but fierce armed conflicts.

In order to reverse the unfavorable situation on the front line, he took thousands of cavalry out, hoping to save the situation by annihilating several small forces of the Song people by fighting more and fighting less.

But he never expected to die before leaving the school, and he was shot black......

Jochi's death forced Temujin to shift his attention from the Western Front to the Eastern Front.

And as soon as he studied the situation on the Eastern Front, Temujin could not help frowning.

Because he had already discovered that the powerful Mongol cavalry seemed to have lost the ability to master the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

At the same time, he also realized that the Song army's use of muskets far surpassed that of the Dashi Guards, and that they were also more skilled than the Mongols.

Not only do they shoot platoon guns, but they are also very good at sniping from a distance!

In Jochi's report, there is even a record of being hit by a black gun 200 steps away!

This may indicate that the Song army had a very terrifying new musket with a much greater effective range than the traditional smoothbore gun.

If that is the case, then it is very likely that the combat effectiveness of the Western Song Army will be much higher than originally expected, and it will cause great losses to the Mongols!

This worried Temujin so much that he decided to personally lead his army to the Broken Leaf front.

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