In the early spring of the 50th year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Cijiong, the eldest son of the emperor, who had been appointed governor of the Americas, led an American development group composed of officials, scholars, farmers, and businessmen to finally reach the eastern coast of the American Pacific after several months of wandering at sea.

As the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Cijiong has been dealing with the problem of assimilating the local indigenous people in Africa and Asia Minor for many years, and has recently focused on the study of the Indians living in the Americas.

Looking at the endless green fields and humid air in front of him, Zhu Cijiong, who had just landed on the shore, fell in love with this place, and couldn't help but say to Tang Zhen, a subordinate official beside him: "Mr. Tang, from this moment on, this vast virgin land is our own territory, and this scene is indeed much better than the desert in the Western Regions, but there are no people and towns and villages." ”

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, before coming, Wechen has learned about the situation of this continent from the Ministry of War, Your Highness, Wechen dare to guarantee that as long as we do a good job, the wealth here will not be inferior to Europa, especially across this section of the mountains, in the middle of which are connected by five large lakes and boundless plains, compared to the interior of my Ming Dynasty with many mountains and few lands are much better, and now Your Majesty has a spring and autumn, although the prince has been decided, but no one can guarantee who the throne belongs to in the future, Your Highness, you come to the emperor's eldest son, when you try your best to develop this treasure land, The upper can be the weight of His Majesty's weapons, and the lower can support the hope of hundreds of officials and citizens. ”

The battle for the heir has always been an inevitable thing for the royal family, after all, in order to maximize interests, even if a prince does not have the heart to seize the heir, the group behind it also wants to use the big tree of the prince to pursue greater interests, and now the group of the emperor's eldest son Zhu Cijiong is the same, although Tang Zhen's words are subtle and euphemistic, but Zhu Cijiong also agrees with it, and said:

"Now the third brother is the governor of England, the fourth brother is the governor of the Persian Gulf, the fifth brother is the governor of the Cape of Good Hope, the sixth brother is in the South Seas, the seventh brother has just replaced Yang Gong as the governor of France, the eighth brother has gone to Siberia, and the ninth brother is mining in Australia, all of which are rich or critical places, and they are either important ministers around them as governors or fierce generals guarding the key passes, and I, the eldest brother, came to this barren land, separated from the mainland by a vast ocean, and the father's arrangements are also comprehensive."

Zhu Cijiong sighed, and couldn't help but look back at the west, three years ago, his biological mother Hui Fei died, and he didn't have time to see his mother for the last time because he was obsessed with mining the largest coal field in Siberia, which became the biggest regret in his life.

"Your Highness doesn't have to sigh, everything starts all over again, and it's better to build this place than anything."

As soon as Tang Zhen said this, Zhu Cijiong nodded: "Start from the beginning, let's start by finding a place to make a fire and sleep." ”

Zhu Cijiong and the others, who were either wearing bright and yellow dragon robes or python robes and red robes, were all stunned, because it was difficult to find a place to sleep and light a fire here.

Hundreds of elite brocade guards had to pull out embroidered spring knives and cut down many shrubs around to build a bonfire, which was first used by Zhu Cijiong, that is, officials and scholars, to keep warm, while other officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion were also busy camping and cooking on the spot.

Zhu Cijiong, who had experienced the life of eating and sleeping in the open air, didn't feel unbearable, so he naturally sat on a stone and ordered the guards to spread out the map, picked up a branch and drew it on the map: "This place is located in the middle of this great plain, very close to the Great Lakes in the north and a natural harbor in the east. ”

Because the Americas had not yet been developed at this time, the first thing the first developers of the Ming Dynasty did after arriving was to demarcate the land and take the place name.

After Zhu Cijiong said, Tang Zhen said: "His Royal Highness is titled King of Song, and the former Song Dynasty took Bianjing as its capital, so how about calling it Bianliang here?" ”

"Very good, it's called Bianliang, Song Zhibianliang was also the capital of the world at that time, and now Lone wants to build a big city comparable to Bianliang in this America!" Zhu Cijiong said with confidence.

After resting hastily overnight in the wilderness on the west coast of North America, Zhu Cijiong and the others rushed to the east coast early the next morning, at most they only rested for a while at the military station, and spent the rest of the time on the road.

At this time, as soon as the governor of Zhu Cijiong issued an order, the Ming army in the Americas successively concentrated on the newly divided Bianliang land, and drove out the Indians in this area.

For a time, the entire northern part of the Americas fell into an unprecedented human slaughter of other species, the wild number of jackals, tigers and leopards plummeted, and the forests began to decline sharply, but the Ming army was relatively peaceful with the Indians, and captured these local Indians to Bianliang City first, and then forcibly ordered them to pay labor for the construction of the Ming Dynasty.

At first, these Indians would rebel, and there were even some unpleasant bloodsheds, but gradually they found that these people would give them a monthly silver dollar, and even give them glasses and toothpaste, toothbrushes and soap, and even a rich lunch, the Indians no longer resisted, and even more and more Indians took the initiative to accept the Ming employment.

Some of the slaves and third-class citizens who came with them became the instructors and trainers of the Indians in the construction of Bianliang City, and some Confucian scholars became their teachers.

In addition, Zhu Cijiong ordered to give each of these local Indians two sets of clothes a year, one summer clothes and one winter clothes.

Some Indians regarded these sudden appearance of Zhu Cijiong and others in this land as gods, and many people directly bowed down and prayed to the governor's palace built by Zhu Cijiong.

Many years later, the whole of America under Zhu Cijiong's hard work is indeed rapid development, from the initial only one Bianliang City to the east and west coast of two urban agglomerations, and even the urbanization construction extended to the north is now Canada, the south extends to the current Mexico region, and even ten years later, the permanent population of Bianliang City exceeded 300,000, and there are more than ten schools, even the great writer Zhang Dai has traveled to the United States Bianliang University Hall to give a speech.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that Tang Zhen, who helped Zhu Cijiong build America, was himself a famous political thinker in the mid-to-late seventeenth century.