The sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high for the birds to fly. finally left Zhao Guangyi's nose. At this time, Zhao Weiji finally had a sense of relief.

San Francisco is very easy to find, because it is located in a huge bay on the west coast of the northern continent, and the fleet followed the mouth of the bay into the bay, and then sailed deeper to find a river, strictly two rivers. This location is exactly where the two rivers meet and flow into the bay.

It was here that they disembarked and prepared to build the city. Zhao Weiji named this new city Xinhua City, which means that this is the new land of China.

After the name of the place was decided, the whole advance force was ready to start the pioneering journey.

The first question facing the pioneers was whether the advance party of 2,000 men would be willing to pay their labor in exchange for a new life in this strange continent.

Fortunately, this first batch of people Zhao Weiji mainly brought poor people who had lost their homes in the Central Plains, and from the moment they landed in the New World, they had already received Zhao Weiji's promise that they could own as much land as you could reclaim here. This is a paradise for these simple farmers who have always longed for land.

In addition, Zhao Weiji's location is quite good, the two rivers have hit a large plain, and there is a vast forest in the south, and there is no shortage of materials. What's more, the fleet also brought enough grain reserves for half a year, as long as the corn can be harvested smoothly, grain will definitely not be a problem.

Since the first group of people who arrived in North America were basically willing to open up the land here, the action began.

"Come on, everyone, let's set up the tent first, and then send someone to explore the neighborhood." After getting off the boat, Zhao Weiji began to direct the group of people to set up tents.

"I'll take someone around the neighborhood." Seeing that some people had already begun to take charge of setting up tents, Tie Zheng came over and took the initiative to ask Ying to take people around the neighborhood.

"Okay, you go."

"Come on a few boys, grab your weapons, and let's go around the neighborhood and find some prey by the way." Tie Zheng left with a dozen people.

After Tie Zheng left, the work of setting up tents here went relatively smoothly.

"You've got to do it here." Seeing that there were a few students from the academy who were not too good at setting up tents, Zhao Weiji decisively went over to help. "If you see it clearly, you try again."

After watching Zhao Weiji's demonstration, those students quickly grasped the essentials, "Lord Xie, we understand." ”

The whole tent was erected for about two hours, and a large camp was set up.

After the camp was established, Zhao Weiji gathered all the people to the open space in the middle of the camp, and then said:

"We are gathered here today to carve out a new home in this new land. When each of us sets foot on this land, there is no longer any status of high or low. From now on, we will eat by our own labor, no one will exploit you anymore, and there is land here for everyone to cultivate.

Here everyone is their own master, and your fate is not up to me, but to you. In three months, I will prepare a ship to return to the Central Plains, and if any of you feel that you wish to return to the Central Plains, you can do so at that time. But if you want to stay here, put all your passion into building here, and I don't think you'll regret staying here.

Next, let's decide how to take the first step. In the future, I will only propose a plan for everything, whether to follow my plan or whether you have a better proposal, all of which will be decided by voting, and the minority will obey the majority. Everyone has the right to choose, and no one will force you to do anything you don't want to do.

Raise your hand if you approve of my proposal. ”

After listening to Zhao Weiji's speech, the people below were stunned except for those who were born in the academy and the people around Zhao Weiji before.

Decide your own destiny and vote on what everyone wants to do, not just follow orders and be your own master. These things are simply fantastical for these people whose obedience has been deeply rooted in their genes.

They couldn't believe what was in front of them and didn't know what to do.

Until a thin hand trembled and raised: "I agree." ”

All eyes were on him at this moment, and the eyes of everyone in the crowd revealed different emotions, confusion, approval, uneasiness, and so on.

But when everyone saw the firmness in the eyes of this thin young man, more and more hands were raised, until all agreed, and the fate of everyone was decided by voting.

Zhao Weiji knows that it is not easy to do this, and he does not expect to establish a so-called people's cooking society now. But he needed to sow a seed that had been boiled by the people.

The first step is to build a society in which I give you direction and you choose for yourself whether or not to go in that direction. He hopes to establish an experimental field in this new continent to see if it is possible to transform this society.

At this time, Tie Zheng also led the expedition back to the camp, and they harvested a lot and hunted a lot of bison. So the first dinner after arriving in North America everyone had meat to eat.

……

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

The day after Zhao Weiji finished his speech, the first decree of Xinhua City was passed, that is, division of labor and cooperation.

Each performs its own duties, farming, logging, and construction.

Under the guidance of this decree, the first 2,000 people found their jobs.

So, after a month, a large amount of farmland was reclaimed. Many trees fell, and many bricks and stones were burned.

The first house appeared in Xinhua City, and this house Zhao Weiji did not use it as his own mansion, but named it the city hall, and all the laws and policies in the future were issued here, and everyone also voted here.

When everything started, Zhao Weiji had to move on to the next step, which was to go to South America in search of potatoes, peppers, and sweet potatoes.

"Huanzhang, is the ship ready?"

"That's nature, you can go at any time, lord."

"Okay, let's go."

Now that everything was ready, Zhao Weiji, Wang Dayuan, and Snow led dozens of people to set off for South America to find Lake Titicaca in the Andes, because it is the origin of potatoes. And Xinhua City was temporarily handed over to Jiangyu Dali, anyway, it is still under construction, and it is estimated that nothing will happen.

The boat went further south along the coastline, and the hotter it became, Wang Dayuan had already taken off his clothes and was shirtless.

"Isn't it only February, how can it be so hot?" Wang Dayuan, who was not cool enough to be naked, complained while fanning the wind with a fan.

And Snow, who has lived in a cold region since he was a child, has experienced such a hot time, at this time he has suffered from heat stroke, and he was directly carried to the cabin to rest.

Of course, Zhao Weiji, who was also hot, might have told Wang Dayuan that he was close to the equator, but he could only change an explanation that he might understand: "Has Huanzhang ever been to Cochin Siam in winter?" ”

"Yes."

"Is it hot there?"

"It's hot, not as hot as it is now."

"Actually, this is about the same south as Cochin and Siam, so it's the same heat, or even hotter than there."

"Oh, so the further south you go, the hotter it gets."

Because people in this era don't understand the relationship between the earth and the sun, Zhao Weiji can only explain why it is so hot in such a plausible way.

After more than two months at sea, they finally reached the land of Peru in what would become South America. Just when Zhao Weiji landed to look for potatoes, something happened in Xinhua City.

"Why did you only give me thirty catties of firewood when you said that you would exchange thirty catties of corn for fifty catties of firewood?"

"The corn you look at is wilting, and you dare to open your teeth for fifty catties of firewood?"

"How good is my corn, why isn't it worth fifty catties of firewood? Your firewood is not dried in the sun, there is so much moisture in it. ”

"You're cheating."

"You're cheating."

The two quarreled and quarreled, you punched, I kicked, the big one is inseparable.

The two men fought for about five minutes, and finally two soldiers-like men separated them.

"What are you fighting?" These soldiers-like people are the guard system set up by Zhao Weiji, which is composed of about 50 people, who are responsible for general security management and resolving some disputes.

After being separated, the two people with blue noses and swollen faces told the cause of the incident, and the guards had no choice, because they couldn't tell who was right, because Xinhua City was basically in a barter stage.

Everyone's supplies are not very rich, and no one brought many copper coins when they set off, so no one used copper coins, but the problem also arises, if there is no currency, how can we measure the value of goods, so the scene just now appeared.

There was really no way to do it, so the two guards had to send the two to the city hall to find Jiang Yu to see if there was a way to deal with the problem.

After arriving at the city hall, Jiang Yu fully understood the cause of the incident, and then he and the two guards fell into the same conflict, how to judge what is reasonable.

Fortunately, at this moment, there was a business graduate of Tsinghua College in the city hall who was helping Jiang Yu deal with daily tax issues, so he stood up.

He looked at the peasant's corn, looked at the woodcutter's firewood, and then he said to the two: "Your corn is about 20 yuan a pound in the Central Plains, and I think your firewood is only 15 yuan a pound in the Central Plains, don't you think it's right?" ”

Both of them probably knew the market price in the Central Plains, so they nodded.

"In this case, then your thirty catties of corn are worth six hundred yuan, and six thousand yuan can probably buy forty pounds of his firewood, do you think what I said is reasonable?"

The two nodded again.

"Then you can give him forty catties of firewood, and then take these thirty catties of corn home, can you?"

Although there is still a gap from what was said at the beginning, basically everyone has taken a step back, and according to the Central Plains, it is basically reasonable, so the two of them gave up and exchanged things and went home.

Although the matter is over, the problem is beginning to come to the fore, before Zhao Weiji comes back, Jiang Yu must come up with a feasible plan, otherwise Xinhua City may collapse directly.