Chapter 476: Haiyan River Clearing
"Protest? If you have the ability, you will fight, if you don't have the ability, shut up, what is the protest? ”
Emperor Yang said disdainfully. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Because of the white slave trade in the Golden State, the Spanish minister once again protested to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and it was a strong protest.
Over the years, the Indians have captured more than 5,000 of them, and then all of them were bought by the slave traders of the Ming Dynasty in the slave market in Jinshan City, and the funds from the sale of slaves turned into more arms, arming more Indians to happily arrest more Spaniards, and finally it became a prosperous business. What's more, this became the motivation of the Indians, and the warriors of the Indian tribes, who had been scattered in the sand, now knew that catching white ghosts and selling them for money would be much more beneficial than killing each other over which valley to fight. So a large number of chiefs who were originally busy grabbing territory suddenly stopped the internal chaotic fighting, and then stared at the white ghosts with eager eyes, and even the tribes that were friendly in the past, and they all began to move at this time.
After all, this thing is too tempting.
Sharp steel weapons, colorful flower cloths, spices that can make their food more delicious......
Either way, they like it.
In the past, there was not much to sell some animal skins, the most important thing for Ming merchants was animal skins, how much in the primeval forests of Beihai, the Indians could not make a few dollars selling animal skins, but a white ghost could sell dozens of dragon yuan, and then these dragon dollars could give them enough flower cloth for half a tribal woman to wear, or in exchange for a steel knife used by half a tribal warrior, such a good business is simply crazy, and now those white ghosts who pour into their territory are the dragon yuan that will go in the eyes of the Indians, and it is the steel knife flower cloth spice that will go.
Then just grab it.
But the colonizers, especially the Spaniards, who bore the brunt of the attack, were dumbfounded.
"Your Majesty, the French minister also mentioned that their immigrants in Louisiana were also attacked by the Indians, and it is said that the final result was also to the people of Jinshan City, but he did not formally protest."
Liang Cheng said.
"In this way, since everyone is a friendly country, you can't help but express a little, you go and tell them that the slave trade is a legal trade in the Ming Dynasty, and it is absolutely impossible to cancel it before it is banned by the Inspectorate and passed by the House of Nobles and then signed by me, not only Jinshan, but even if it is an ordinary county town in Daming, it is also a human city, and this government has no right to interfere, whether it is a white slave or a brown slave sold there, as long as it is not a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, Even the sale of subjects as debt slaves was a legal trade.
But I have compassion.
If those people from friendly European countries are sold to Daming, their relatives can come here to look for them, and if they find them, they can redeem them at the original price.
Of course, the premise is that the original owner agrees. ”
Yang Feng said.
Well, he is indeed merciful.
After receiving the benevolent will of His Majesty the Emperor conveyed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers of France and Spain wanted to spit on Yang Feng's face, but they couldn't help it, this kind of thing deserved to be unlucky, not to mention this special time now, that is, when the Ming Dynasty was not so powerful as to suffocate before, it was impossible for them to do anything about it, let alone Yang Feng, the Ottoman Empire also had the habit of using white slaves, and they were also white slaves, and even the history of the Ming Dynasty was much longer than that of the Ming Dynasty.
Aren't they helpless?
This kind of thing can only be considered unlucky, anyway, the key is the Indians, without the Indians as minions of the Ming slave traders, this kind of trade will not be maintained, and they have killed the Indians for more than a hundred years, and now it is nothing more than going back and killing, can't you just kill the Indians? This kind of thing is what everyone has been doing, and it will be strengthened in the future.
Of course, how Louis XIV increased his troops in the Americas to retaliate against the Indians, this has nothing to do with Yang Feng.
This is what Emperor Yang wants.
"Kill, kill each other!"
He said sinisterly.
The result of the Indians and the white ghosts killing each other is to clean up the Americas to the greatest extent for him, and then leave a white land really clean, so it is the turn of the Ming colonists to appear.
But that's not enough, the killing must be made a little bloodier.
His second step is also well underway, as a Ming expedition is heading over the Rocky Mountains to places like Utah, Nevada, where it won't be long before they discover a lot of good things on this expedition. For example, the super crater next to Salt Lake City, where there is copper ore that has not been mined for nearly 200 years, and there is also a mixture of gold and silver, and for example, the Carlin gold mine, where dozens of tons of gold can be produced a year, and of course, the iconic silver of the American West is indispensable, and Nevada is not short of silver.
But the Europeans are lacking!
Louis is lacking, he is very, very eager for gold and silver, of course, this is what everyone wants, but Louis's hand is closer, Louisiana is now a French colony, once the Ming expedition finds these things, it will definitely come back to hype, and then the whole world knows it, everyone knows that in the semi-desert of western North America, there are countless gold and silver, but the Ming sphere of influence is separated by a Rocky Mountain, there are natural disadvantages in this regard, Louis has a natural advantage, In order to control this treasure land before the Ming Dynasty, he had to snatch more Indians.
And then the Indians, of course, didn't want to, and the area was all Indians' territory, and then they killed each other!
That's his second step.
He had a third step, but this one was more troublesome and not necessarily successful, which was to provoke the British colonists in New England to stand up, and then involve Britain in the colonial war.
Although it is now half a century earlier than the original history, it is not impossible.
Now New England is the main financial support of the United Kingdom, originally Britain had the fat of India every year to import wealth, in addition to their almost monopoly position in the cotton spinning industry, so the exploitation of the colonies is not very cruel, no matter how later generations for the United States Founding Fathers to exaggerate the cruel exploitation of Britain, but in fact the farmers in New England live much happier than those workers in the East End of London, they just don't want to mix with London.
But not anymore.
New England has become the main cow of Britain, and the British government is counting on all the finances to squeeze out of it, and they have no other source of money except New England, and the British government has gone to great lengths to put one bizarre tax after another on the immigrants in New England to ensure that they can expand their army against the Ming threat. The East India Company, which had also lost its advantage in Oriental trade, with the support of the aristocratic capitalists behind it, now regarded New England as its last purse, and forced its fellow New England to use one trade monopoly after another to send sweaty gold and silver coins to the pockets of the capitalists in London.
The people of New England have long been patient to the limit.
More than a hundred years of reproduction have long made the British immigrants in New England have no feelings for their home country, and they also don't feel the threat of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is from the land or the sea, the Ming and them are like two worlds, they are not interested in how the monarchs of Europe are trying their best to expand their strength, waiting to meet the Ming army that has set foot in Europe, they only know that those monarchs are now more and more cruel to squeeze their blood and sweat.
Yang Feng expected them to cry out for freedom.
Then the cry will sweep across the American continent.
"Freedom, equality, fraternity!"
He eeriely continued, "Or death!" ”
He was sitting in the luxurious cockpit of his airship at this time, and there was Her Majesty the Empress lying on the bed behind him, and as he grew older over the years, Emperor Yang was not as exaggerated as in the past in terms of women, but he shared the bed with Her Majesty the Empress more and more often. In fact, if you count the age, he is already forty-five years old at this time, although the golden dragon is almost immune to all external injuries, including virus invasion and the like, but it does not make him immortal and youthful, that is to say, he will still die after all, at most the life span is longer than ordinary people, it is estimated that there is not much pressure to live for more than a hundred years.
"Your Majesty, it's time for you to change your clothes!"
A maid said cautiously.
At this time, the dawn outside is shining, but because of the height, the ground is still dark, and then as the airship continues to move forward in the slight sound of the engine, the sun begins to gradually illuminate the earth from east to west, a verdant green slowly unfolds under his feet, and suddenly a huge earthy yellow spot appears in the green, at this time the airship begins to drop in height, the spot is getting bigger and bigger, and soon it becomes a huge construction site, in the middle of the construction site is a mountain of earth that is being piled up, A square hill that resembles a Mayan pyramid.
Much larger, of course.
"Changing clothes."
Yang Feng said.
After speaking, he patted the pi strands that Her Majesty the Queen had exposed.
At this time, around Tushan, there were already countless people kneeling on the ground, looking at the sky with the eyes of worshiping the gods, looking at this ship with a length of nearly 100 zhang, red all over, and two 60 zhang long golden dragons depicted on both sides, the golden dragon was surrounded by white auspicious clouds, and the tail was a huge air giant ship with a huge sun and moon emblem.
This is the construction site of Bongjingu.
The inhabitants of northern Shaanxi, or the Divine Domain, have all moved away, and a total of less than one million people have been moved to Sichuan, and while emptying this area, the population of Sichuan has exceeded four million, and it finally looks like a country of abundance. After the emptying of northern Shaanxi, after the use of airships to continuously sow drought-tolerant and sand-fixing grass seeds and shrubs, it has turned green in less than two years, and even the water of the Yellow River downstream is obviously not as turbid as before.
Although there is still some distance from the real Yellow River becoming clear, it finally shows that this possibility is possible.
You must know that this is the biggest dream of the people of the Central Plains in the agricultural era, the Yellow River water that gradually becomes clear is the best symbol of the prosperous era, and it is also the symbol of Emperor Yang's saint identity, and even the best beautification of this Fengshen Palace, which can be called the labor and wealth of the people, in the eyes of the people, it is because of Emperor Yang to build the Fengshen Palace, so that the return of the gods of heaven, so that the Yellow River water becomes clear.
This is a gift from the gods.
"Then build a little higher!"
Emperor Yang, who was standing in front of the huge earth mountain, said.
This earth mountain is actually the use of an original hill for repair, simply pile such a dirt mountain of the amount of engineering can be very terrifying, because of the fear of collapse so the slope is very small, at this time is still under construction, the whole project is expected to be completed within five years, at that time the outside of the earth mountain is all covered with evergreen shrubs and various flowers, of course, all kinds of drainage and irrigation facilities are also essential, and on the top of the earth mountain also make a garden, build a gorgeous palace in the garden, and Emperor Yang can entertain friends in the fairy world here in the future.
This is actually an oriental version of the Hanging Garden.
"According to the original plan, it should be eighty zhang."
The steward beside him said.
Eighty zhang is two hundred and fifty-six meters high, originally this hill is also two hundred and sixty meters high, they just repair the amount of work is not too large, but if the height is increased, they can only continue to pile up the soil above, but it is not an easy job to pile the soil from below to a height of 260 meters, even if they have a steam-powered bulldozer, not to mention that this is not a little bit of soil.
"That's ninety-nine!"
Yang Feng said heroically.
"It must be increased to ninety-nine zhang, but you don't need to pile up the earth mountain, pile the high platform according to this height, including the palace according to the original plan, just build a nineteen-zhang tower on it, and build a stargazing platform on the tower."
Then he said.
"Your Honor."
The manager hastened to agree.
It doesn't matter if the amount of work is this, the tower is only 19 zhang high, and it is not as high as the tower of the Great Bao'en Temple.
"Also, pass the decree, in the future, the longitude division on our map will be based on the Fengshen Palace Observatory, here is the zero degree of longitude, the prime meridian, east is east longitude, west longitude to west, and the final meeting point is the date change line, and then notify our countries that have diplomatic relations, and tell them that they must follow this standard in the future, and if they don't do it, be careful with me."
Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng said again.
At this time, there was no prime meridian, the official prime meridian was determined in 1884, but France always insisted on their Paris meridian, and at this time it was also the countries themselves to play, although the navigation clock was spread from the Ming Dynasty, but Britain set the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian, France set Paris as the prime meridian, and some people set Jerusalem as the prime meridian, and even used the Ptolemaic map to use the Canary Islands as the prime meridian, and before the Ming Dynasty, the Purple Mountain Observatory was the prime meridian, Now it is simply unified, as for whether Britain and France will agree......
Emperor Yang said that if they disagree, they had better be careful.