It was already the beginning of November when Luo Jian and his entourage returned to Nanjing, and Luo Jian, who returned to Nanjing, did not go home, but went directly to the office to find Shi Kefa.

"Xinghua, you're back, how is this investigation?" Shi Kefa said happily when he saw that Luo Jian was finally back.

"Brother Xian, is this matter in a hurry, you are in such a hurry to urge me back, and some situations have not yet been figured out." Luo Jian said with a smile.

"I can't say this very clearly, if you want to say that you are in a hurry, you must be in a hurry, but I don't know how anxious it is, let Shi Lang tell you tomorrow." Shi Kefa shook his head and said.

Luo Jian knew that Shi Lang was taking the battleships "Qi Jiguang" and "Huo Quai" to escort supplies and Wu Sangui to North America, and he had returned some time ago, and this Shi Kefa had already said in the telegram.

"How's they doing?" Luo Jian asked.

"It's okay, let Shi Lang tell you the specific situation tomorrow, can you tell me about this investigation? I'm anxious too. Shi Kefa said.

"Brother Xian, are we going to gather all the cabinet members, and I will report the situation to you in detail?"

Although Luo Jian had already communicated with the cabinet members before the purpose of this investigation, the situation is very unoptimistic now, there are too many things to change, and the thinking of the cabinet members must be unified first.

"Okay, Xinghua, you might as well take a day off, right? It's still hard to come back all the way. Shi Kefa said.

"Brother Xian, I don't have a problem, it depends on whether everyone has time, if you can arrange it, we will have a meeting in the afternoon. Shall I tell us about the situation? Luo Jian thought that there were so many things. I really don't have time to rest. Only then did he say to Shi Kefa.

"Okay, Xinghua, these things can't be done in a day, you better go home and rest for a day, go back and accompany Liulan and Ting'er, so as to save Liulan a day to find Ting'er to find my father, where can I find him?" Shi Kefa said with a smile.

"I said Brother Xian, you rushed me back in a hurry. I'm back, aren't you in a hurry? Luo Jian said with some dissatisfaction.

"Originally, I was in a hurry, I was worried that something would happen to my sister, but now that you are back, I am anxious, anyway, it is so far away, and I am not in a hurry for this day." Shi Kefa said with a somewhat playful smile.

"Okay, then I'll go home first." Luo Jian said.

Luo Jian returned to the mansion to take a look, the mansion was really lively, everyone surrounded the lock pillar and Chunxiang in the middle, and was asking gossips.

I heard that Haruka was forced to jump into the lake. Everyone began to scold the Qian Juren.

"I said that Xinghua is too soft-hearted, and he has to clean up this kind of person ruthlessly. Why did you let him go so easily? The old lady held Luo Ting in her arms and said to Liu Lan.

"That is, if I meet this kind of person, I will definitely beat him eighty boards first." Xing'er said angrily while sitting on the sofa and munching on an apple.

"What about eighty boards? You don't see Qian lifting people like that, ten boards can kill him. Lockpost said.

"Chunxiang girl, don't be nervous, when you get here, it's like going home, can your father and mother still find it?" Liu Lan saw that Chunxiang was very nervous, so she gently hugged her and said.

"Madam, the slave maid was sold to the money family at the age of five, and the slave maid can't remember what her father and mother are like. Madam, Chunxiang wants to ask what kind of official the master is? Why are those officials so afraid of him? Chunxiang wiped a handful of tears and asked Liulan.

"He's not a master, he's the governor of the Nanjing government." Liu Lan said with a smile.

"Huh? The lord is the angel governor? Haruka asked in surprise.

Luo Jian stood at the door and looked at it with a smile, this girl has arrived here, and she will get along with the lock post in the future, and she will have a good home in this life.

"Xinghua, are you back? Sit down and rest, I'll make you tea. Liu Lan saw Luo Jian coming back first, stood up and said.

Liu Lan had just finished brewing the tea, but Luo Jian didn't have time to rest, and the guards at the door came in to report that Shi Lang was coming.

Luo Jian saw that Shi Lang looked a little anxious, and he didn't talk nonsense, and said directly to Shi Lang: "Let's go, let's go to the study and let them make trouble here." ”

When he arrived at the study, Shi Lang gave Luo Jian a detailed report on his trip to North America.

This time, in addition to the "Luwang", the fleet led by Shi Lang also had more than 30 large merchant ships, which had to transport personnel and materials to Hawaii Island and North America.

After the fleet arrived in North America, it first arrived in Daming City, and Wu Sangui met with the Empress Zhu Yujiao in Daming City, but as he said before, Wu Sangui paid homage to Zhu Yujiao and expressed his surrender.

According to the plan, Wu Sangui and his more than 800 people were going to rush to the east coast after resting in Daming City for a few days, but when Zhu Yujiao, Huang Daozhou and the others heard that Luo Jian had arranged for Wu Sangui to go to the east coast, they all had strange looks on their faces.

"General Shi, General Wu, it's too far to rush from here to the east coast, are you sure that the Metropolitan Governor arranged it like this?" The second assistant Huang Daozhou asked Shi Lang.

"Yes, I don't believe you asked General Wu, that's how the Metropolitan Governor arranged it." Shi Lang took out the map, pointed to the route on the map and said to everyone.

"I said General Shi Lang, it must be the Metropolitan Governor who made a mistake, right? We can't get through here, we've already seen it, and there's a river on the map given to us by the Governor, but let's go over and take a look..."Huang Daozhou shook his head and said.

"You're saying there's no river here?" Shi Lang asked in surprise.

"Where? From here, you have to go to the East Coast, and you have to make a big circle. Zhu Yujiao said.

"This..."Shi Lang didn't know what to do.

"If you want me to say that the Metropolitan Governor must have made a mistake, if not, let General Wu stay here first, anyway, we are also very short of manpower here, if the Metropolitan Governor insists on letting General Wu go to the east in the future, we can also explore the road by land first." Huang Daozhou saw that Shi Lang and Wu Sangui were very embarrassed, so he suggested.

When Luo Jian heard Shi Lang say this, he stood up and looked at the map hanging on the wall, and he actually made the same mistake as the "Suez Canal". Where is the Panama Canal, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans at this time?

"I was mistaken. What did they do then? Luo Jian said with some self-reproach.

"Everyone thinks that Scholar Huang's advice is good. Anyway, the place in North America is so big, and we really don't have too few people to spread out. Later, it was decided to let Wu Sangui stay near Daming City, and while helping the emperor stabilize these territories, he sent people to explore the road to the west from the land. Shi Lang said.

"How are they doing now?" Luo Jian asked.

"Now there are many local barbarian tribes who have come to defect to the imperial court, and Daming City has been basically completed, but the emperor's palace is still under construction, and it is estimated that it will take two years to complete." Shi Lang said.

"Two more years? Are they going to rebuild the Forbidden City there? Luo Jian asked strangely.

"I heard that it was the Shoufu Wang scholar who insisted, and he said that if he wanted to build it, he would build a palace like the Forbidden City." Shi Lang said.

"What nonsense. They are just such a small number of people, how can such a big project be done? Don't they have an opinion? Luo Jian asked.

"They also feel that in order to deter the local natives, it is also necessary to build a magnificent palace, I have been to see it, these natives are working, and our people basically do not work except as overseers." Shi Lang said.

Listening to Shi Lang's words, Luo Jian pondered, in another time and space history, the Americans almost killed the Native American Indians before they really occupied these lands. Now Zhu Yujiao is using this way to make the Indians submit, maybe it is also a strategy. As for the final result, we can only wait to see later.

"Are they able to feed themselves now?" Luo Jian asked.

"There is a lot of food, there are so many natives who grow grain for the imperial court, and they can't eat it at all." Shi Lang said with a smile, seeing Luo Jian's satisfied expression, Shi Lang continued:

"Now many workshops in the imperial court have begun to expand slowly, some have become like our factories, and schools have also been set up, and scholars Wang want to teach the study of saints, but the emperor and scholar Huang both insist on paying equal attention to the learning of saints and the way of science and technology, and in the end the emperor is the master."

"Then King Lu and King Lu, are they still their duty?" Luo Jian was worried that King Lu and King Lu would not listen to them, and it would be difficult for them to develop and deal with them only with Zhu Yujiao's ******.

"They are far away, but they still pay tribute to the court on time, all by sea, and I have not heard of any disagreement with the court. By the way, the Governor, the Imperial Court has already begun to build ships, but they can't build warships like ours, and the Emperor also asked me to bring a message to the Governor, wanting us to support them with some more artillery, they want to install it on the ship, and the Emperor also said that they can exchange it for copper mines, and I heard that they found a big copper mine there. ”

Hearing Shi Lang say that Zhu Yujiao and they began to build ships, Luo Jian was a little happy in his heart, he couldn't just focus on the land, he had to look at the ocean, in a few years, many Europeans would also come to these places, if there was no strong enough navy, I am afraid it would be difficult to deal with it in the future.

After Shi Lang finished reporting and left, Luo Jian felt as if he had ignored something, and quickly turned on the computer, Luo Jian wanted to check the history of America again.

I don't know if I don't check, but Luo Jian was startled when I checked it.

In the past, Luo Jian only paid attention to the situation on the east coast of the Americas, and did not pay much attention to the situation on the west coast, but this time he wanted Wu Sangui to go to the west coast to prevent trouble, but he didn't expect that there were already many Europeans on the west coast of the Americas at this time.

According to the data, in 1607, Britain had established its first colonial stronghold - James City, and since then 13 colonies have been established on the Atlantic coast. The most are British, Irish, Germans and Dutch. Among the immigrants are those fleeing war and religious persecution, voluntary and involuntary "indentured servants", beggars and criminals; There are also blacks who have been trafficked from Africa.

Luo Jian slapped his head vigorously, feeling very annoyed that he had ignored this important situation.

"Xinghua, what's wrong?" Liu Lan walked up with Luo Jian's cup, and when she saw Luo Jian patting her head, she asked.

"Liu Lan, come and see, why did I ignore this problem?" Luo Jian pointed to the situation on the screen and said.

"Xinghua, this exists objectively, right? It's not your fault, you just know that with our current capabilities, it's still easy to solve these people? Why should you blame yourself? Liu Lan said with a smile.

"In the future, I will always deal with these people, and I don't know what will happen." Luo Jian shook his head and said. (To be continued.) )