Chapter 585: The Americas Strategy
When Zhang San saw Shi Wengong, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Senior brother is dark and thin, you go to the staff headquarters first to hand in the debriefing report, the master is in the Praetorian Guard School, go and see his old man's house, let's get together in the evening." ”
After Shi Wengong left, Zhang San began to distribute various plants, these plants Huo Tingen wrote about the planting methods, found the location, some local aborigines have not planted things, he wrote about the growth environment, as well as the speculation of planting methods, which saved Zhang San a lot of time for the planting experiment.
In addition to the plants, the captain also took out a bamboo tube sealed with fire paint from his arms and solemnly handed it to Zhang San: "Your Majesty, Colonel Huo said that this is top secret information and should be handed over to Your Majesty personally, please see the secret detention of fire paint." ”
Zhang San handed over the bamboo tube in his hand to the secretary, the fire paint secret charge is different for each general, and there is a special comparison table Zhang San can't carry with him, so this thing can only be checked after the secretary returns to the palace.
Zhang San asked, "Where is Colonel Huo now?" ”
The captain clenched his fists and said: "Colonel Huo set out from Sakhalin Port all the way to the east according to the nautical chart provided by His Majesty, and found a new continent on the sixteenth day, and finally reached the southernmost part of the entire continent after stopping for half a year, according to His Majesty's instructions. After reaching the southernmost point, he began to return north, and is now drawing charts in the northern part of the New World in search of mines. ”
Zhang San nodded and asked the people on the ship to rest first, and he also returned to the palace, after the secretary verified that the fire paint was correct, he handed the bamboo tube to Zhang San, Zhang San slapped off the fire paint and took out a few pieces of paper from it, the first chapter is the music written by Huo Tingen, the second chapter is the latest nautical chart drawn by the fleet, and the third chapter is the mineral and indigenous distribution map.
Zhang San looked through them one by one, and these two maps were indeed of great value, and with this report, Zhang San's New World development plan was relied on, and the few places suitable for settlements that Hottingen circled were also the locations of rare large cities in the Pacific region of the United States and Canada in the later generations.
And the location where Huttingen is now is the San Francisco area of the United States in the future, why is San Francisco called San Francisco? That's because he used to have gold here, and there was a gold rush here in the United States, and then there was San Francisco City, so Zhang San doesn't remember other places, everyone knows about this place.
In addition to this city, there are many world-class copper mines along the Pacific Ocean in South America, which is also valued by Zhang San, although Zhang San's copper is still enough, but Zhang San can foresee that he will definitely establish a great empire in the future.
The world country must have a world currency, so the consumption of copper will be greater in the future, for the time being, the Americas have mining value is gold, silver and copper and a few valuable precious metals have mining value, so this time Hottingen is looking for the focus on these minerals.
On the map, Huo Tingen marked the San Francisco gold mine, one copper mine in South America and one copper mine in North America, for only one year to achieve such a result, Zhang San felt that it was already good, put the drawings away, Zhang San began to think.
Logically speaking, the number of Han Chinese is much larger than that of the British during the British colonial period, and the British can establish colonies all over the world, and Zhang San can naturally do it, but now most of the population is not controlled by Zhang San, and it is too troublesome for Zhang San to transfer the population from Ryukyu and other places.
It was not easy to immigrate people here, and now they are put in other places, it is better to recruit people directly from the mainland, so Zhang San is now wondering if he should engage in a gold rush like the United States to attract the Han people of the Great Song Dynasty to pan for gold?
In the end, after weighing it, forget it, although this disorderly and barbaric growth can bring a large number of people, but the same greed brings all kinds of evils, so it is better to develop slowly and orderly.
Zhang San now discovered the Americas three hundred years earlier than Europe, and with the absolute population of the Han people, he could easily surpass other colonists to establish a world power, so Zhang San was not in a hurry.
Perhaps when Europeans arrive in the New World in 300 years, they will think that this is the East, because there are already prosperous cities, rich people, and powerful armies.
However, Zhang San also knew that he might not be able to wait for Europe to discover the New World, and it was estimated that after a few decades of development, these American immigrants would take the initiative to start a war and trade with Europe, and then Europe would be discovered by the New World instead of discovering the New World.
These are not what Zhang San has to worry about now, what needs Zhang San to take the idea now is the treatment of the native Americans, the Indians are the native inhabitants of the Americas, and what kind of status Zhang San gives them will determine what kind of fate they will have in the future.
Zhang San used to condemn the massacre of Indians by the United States when he read history books, but now it is really time for Zhang San to make up his mind, Zhang San can't help this temptation, although Zhang San can't do the massacre, but if the Indians are turned into slaves, this is also a large number of labor, which will also greatly accelerate the development of the Americas.
There are nearly 100 million Indians in the entire Americas, and the labor force of these hundreds of millions of people can help Zhang San do a lot of things, and the planned reduction of the alien population has always been the basic national policy pursued by Zhang San.
How many people can Zhang San immigrate to the Americas? It's only 20 or 30 million if they die, but in the face of Indians with more than 100 million people, the Han people are still a minority, so Zhang San needs to reduce the number of Indians.
In the past, Zhang San enslaved Southeast Asia and the Japanese kingdom of Goryeo and other countries, which was also to avenge various feuds in the past and in the future, and now he goes to kill a group of Indians who have nothing to do with him, and there is no psychological burden at all.
In the end, Zhang San decided to divide the Indians, and there were three models: the first was the forces that were willing to trade with the Ryukyus, receive Ryukyu education, and were willing to work in the Ryukyu camps, so that such forces would support and pacify them, set up settlements, and carry out agricultural domestication.
The second type is the tribes who are unwilling to receive education and work in the Ryukyus, and this kind of slavery is captured and directly converted into slaves, but this kind of slavery is just a form of compulsory education, and eventually they learn to speak Chinese, write Chinese characters and live a farming life.
The third type is the hostile forces with the Ryukyus, which have nothing to say, and are directly eliminated, and then converted into slaves, used for mining, road construction, river digging and other things, this kind of use is completely used as coolies.
The strategy at this stage is to prosper and perish those who go against me, and it is always beneficial to catch a little more slaves, if it were not for the fact that the technical conditions for building the Panama Canal are not yet mature, Zhang Sandu wants to take advantage of the fact that there are a large number of slaves in his hands to repair this canal.