Dinghai City, that is, the temporary capital of the Tang Dynasty in the Americas, because it is close to the sea, and it is the birthplace of the Tang Navy, so it was named Dinghai City, but Li Yuanji is not very satisfied with this temporary capital, first, Dinghai City is a little small, and secondly, it is too close to the sea, in his heart, the capital is at least an inland city, so Dinghai was designated as the temporary capital, he plans to wait until the strength is strong, and then attack a few large cities in the interior of the Mayans, and then select one of them to be the capital. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In contrast, Li Chengdao is very satisfied with Dinghai City, because he feels that the future of America here is on the sea, and the role of the port will become more and more important in the future, which is also the main reason for him to establish the navy, so he has been working hard to develop Dinghai City and expand the scale of Dinghai City in the past two years.

Thinking about his future plans for Dinghai City, Li Chengdao also showed a somewhat calm smile, and at the same time stretched out his hand and patted the horses pulling the cart in front of him, speaking of which, there are not even horses here in the Americas, and bison are everywhere, but they still prefer horses, so they asked the bearded guest to transport a batch of horses from the Central Plains, and now a small horse farm has been established, but there are still too few horses that can be used now.

After a while, Li Chengdao's carriage came through the city gate into Dinghai City, only to see all kinds of lanterns hanging on the street, although it can not be compared with the Chang'an City in his memory, but it is also very beautiful, but if you look so closely, you will find that these lamps are very rough, for example, the bread outside the lantern is not paper, but the layer of coating on the outside of corn, because there are too few people who know how to make paper, and the paper used for writing is not enough, let alone waste paper to make lanterns.

Although the lanterns are a little rough, but looking at the lights all over the street, it still makes people feel very spectacular, this is also the first time that Li Chengdao and they came to the Americas to officially hold the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, because a few years ago they really did not have this mood, nor did they have this strength, but now they have a firm foothold in the Americas, and they have also learned to make candles with whale oil, which also makes them have the strength to hold the lantern festival.

Most of the residents of Dinghai City are Mayans, many people are participating in the Lantern Festival for the first time, but it does not prevent the Lantern Festival from being lively, in fact, as early as a few days ago, Li Chengdao let people explain the meaning of the Shangyuan Festival to the people in the city, so today many boys and girls are walking hand in hand on the streets, while saying continuous love words, while enjoying the rare grand scene.

Li Yuanji has always wanted a larger population and a larger land, but Li Chengdao persuaded him several times, because he felt that the current land was big enough, and there were too few Han people under them, and if they wanted to rule the Mayans, they had to assimilate these people, so after occupying several city-states, Li Chengdao began to implement Sinicization, and also encouraged his Han soldiers to marry as many Mayans as wives, and then desperately give birth, and expand the number of Han people as much as possible.

After several years of hard work, Li Chengdao's implementation of sinicization has achieved some initial results, such as in their ruling area, the upper Mayan officials must communicate in Chinese, and the people below are also encouraged to use Chinese and wear Hanfu, and the number of Han people is also expanding, such as Xue Wanche, for example, he married more than a dozen Mayan women, and now there are more than 20 children alone, and it is said that even he himself does not remember the names of all his children.

Men are originally womanizers, and the Mayans and Han people look about the same, which also makes people like Xue Wanche very happy, so all the Han soldiers who followed Li Chengdao and they came to the Americas almost all have a huge family, and some even compete to have sons, anyway, they are not afraid that they can't afford to raise them, and if they have more children, Li Chengdao will give a certain reward.

Passing through the periphery of Dinghai City, I saw that there were more lanterns on the street, and the production was more exquisite, and there was even a Han man shopping with a group of wives and children on the street, these are the Tang Dynasty soldiers and their wives and children, they generally live in the inner city, the distance from the palace is very close, and it is also the highest status of a group of people in Dinghai City.

Through the lively crowd, the carriage finally came to a majestic imperial city, which was originally the temple of the original city-state, and was later transformed into an imperial city by Li Yuanji, their family and Li Chengdao's family lived here, of course, this imperial city can not be compared with the Taiji Palace in Chang'an City, if it is placed in the Tang Dynasty, it is even just a larger house, and there is not even a guard outside, in fact, there is no need, because in recent years, Li Chengdao has firmly controlled the entire Dinghai City in his hands, and there is no need to worry about safety at all.

When the carriage entered the palace, as soon as he entered, he saw that several large tables had been set up in the front yard, and the family was sitting and chatting there, Li Yuanji saw him and immediately shouted: "Chengdao hurry up and sit down, the family is waiting for you to come to dinner!" ”

"Fourth uncle, I'll bring some whale meat and let people cook it for everyone to taste!" Li Chengdao also jumped up from the carriage at this time, and then his mother Zheng immediately stepped forward, helped him pat the dust on his body, and then asked him to sit down, and he took Li Yuanji's wife to cook with whale meat.

"Well, how powerful is that new crossbow you made?" As soon as Li Chengdao sat down, Li Yuanji immediately asked with great interest, he knew that Li Chengdao was going to test crossbow arrows today, and this was also the first batch of crossbow arrows they made.

"The power is quite good, but there are still some problems with the accuracy, but it's nothing, after all, the cost of this kind of crossbow is too low, and you don't pick materials, you can make as many as you want!" Li Chengdao was also very excited at this time.

The crossbow manufacturing in the Central Plains is very complicated, and it takes a year just to prepare the materials, but Li Chengdao modified the crossbow arm according to the knowledge he learned from Li Xiu, and made a torsion spring with cow hair, leather, etc., and used this torsion spring as the crossbow arm, so that the cost of the crossbow is extremely low, although there are still some problems with accuracy, but he believes that he can solve this problem in the future.

"That's great, with crossbow arrows, we will be even more invincible on this American continent, and our Datang has stabilized internally, I think it's time to expand again!" Li Yuanji slapped his thigh when he heard this, and then said excitedly, in terms of force, there are almost no people in the Americas who are their opponents, but they only occupy five city-states, which makes him feel that it is too wasteful, so he has always wanted to expand his territory.

"This ......" Li Chengdao saw Li Yuanji's excited appearance, and he didn't know what to say for a while, he actually didn't approve of expansion, because in his opinion, it is better to build the existing place into a real small Huaxia first, and then it is not too late to expand outward, but now most of the people under their rule do not speak Chinese, although they accept their rule, but there are many places that are still not satisfactory, if it expands again, it will definitely bring more problems.

"Chengdao, don't hesitate any longer, the Americas are so big, but we only occupy a small piece of land, I know you want to make this a small Huaxia, and I support this very much, but don't you think the area we control now is too small, the last time the bearded guest came here, he even laughed at our Datang is not as big as the big state capital in the west, it's just too annoying!" Li Yuanji saw that Li Chengdao didn't speak, and immediately persuaded again.

"Fourth uncle, it's not that I don't approve of expansion, it's just that there are too few people we can use, now we control the five city-states, and we have already divided all the soldiers we brought, if we defeat the other city-states, we have no one to govern at all, with the Mayans, we are not at ease, so I think it is better to govern the current five city-states first, and wait until we cultivate a group of talents!" Lee Seung-do spoke again.

After gaining a foothold in the Americas, Li Chengdao opened a school, and sent his younger brothers, cousins, and some family members of other soldiers, as well as a few Mayans who were loyal to them, to the school to learn Analects, arithmetic, etc., many of the textbooks used were notes he took when he learned from Li Xiu, and sometimes he would go to class in person, these people were all talents he reserved, and when these people grew up, he didn't have to worry about no one available.

"That being said, but the people in your school won't be needed for a while, and our population can't increase in a short period of time, so we can't just stop expanding because of this, right?" Li Yuanji said a little impatiently at this time, although he knew that what Li Chengdao said was the truth, but he couldn't control his ambition to expand.

"Actually, it's not impossible, if the father-in-law is willing to help us, he can recruit some people from the coastal areas of Datang, for example, his subordinates are no less than tens of thousands, more than ten times more than ours, and most of these people are recruited by him from Datang!" Li Chengdao pondered for a moment and spoke.

"I'm afraid this old fox has been guarding us, it's good if he doesn't go against us, it's impossible to ask him to help us recruit people!" Li Yuanji snorted coldly when he heard this, only the bearded guests can travel back and forth between the Americas and the Tang Dynasty, but the bearded guests have a very ambiguous attitude towards them, on the surface, the two families are very close, Li Chengdao even recognized the bearded guests as his father-in-law, but in fact, the bearded guests have been guarding against them becoming bigger, thus threatening the power of the bearded guests in the Americas.

"Fourth uncle, you can't be so arbitrary, my father-in-law's thoughts about us are actually more complicated, and if you want him to help us, it's actually not impossible!" At this time, Li Chengdao smiled again, and there was incomparable confidence in his eyes, as if everything was under his control.