Zhu Cihong is happy to see that some people are willing to explore the Americas, and even have already found a route for this North American development fleet. In the past few years, the Daming fleet that travels between Europe and East Asia has also accumulated ocean-going experience and has a group of reliable ocean-going talents. Considering that Europeans were colonizing the east coast of North America and South America, the Ming Dynasty just filled the gap on the west coast of the Americas.

As for Alaska and Canada in later generations, it will take at least 200 years for European immigrants to set up settlements, and it is a bit wasteful to throw a stone monument now.

The west coast of North America is mostly forested, and further east is the desert Gobi, and the most suitable for farming is actually closer to the east. However, even the agricultural reclamation area in the Midwestern part of the United States was only opened more than a hundred years later, and there is still time for the Ming Dynasty.

As the world's most populous country, it has an advantage over Europe in terms of immigration.

After all, Zhu Hezhi insisted that he had no official relationship with Queen Christina, and insisted that he went to America to explore the new world and expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Cihong was really worried that Zhu Hezhi was impulsive, but seeing him so hard-mouthed, he also let go of the side, it is always more reliable to have a prince personally participate in this big project.

"All the unclaimed lands in the new world belong to the Ming Emperor, that is, I." Zhu Cihong made up his mind first.

Zhu Hezhi hurried: "The whole world is not the king's land, and there are no exceptions." ”

"The production of the land, the Er domain can be divided into one-tenth, the imperial family takes five-tenths, and the imperial court takes four-tenths." Zhu Cihong made an allocation: "Your tenth can be disposed of at will, and I will not interfere." Four-tenths of what the imperial court took was because there was a cost to the ship itself. ”

"Thank you." Zhu and Zhidao.

"As for me, I didn't take you for nothing." Zhu Cihong smiled: "You will know in the future." ”

Zhu Hezhi didn't think there was anything wrong with the emperor's "white take". I don't have much to look forward to in the future. However, in just three days, his own packing had not yet been sorted out, and a great tide had already surged in the DPRK and China, and many ministers even came to the door in person, hoping to get a ticket for the clan relatives.

Zhu Hezhi was quite puzzled. After knocking on the side, I learned that the recent newspapers, big and small, are deciphering the origin of the silver in the sea trade. In these newspapers, silver was found in the hometown of America as much as iron ore was in Daming, and a vein could be dug up at any random block.

This, of course, does not correspond to the facts, and for the sane Ming officials and merchants, they will never be deceived by this propaganda offensive.

What really attracted them was the vast terra nullius land of America.

In particular, there was a rumor in the cabinet. His Majesty the Emperor hoped to use this new large 6 to reward all civil and military officials who contributed to the national crisis, as long as they participated in the exploration, they could get the land free of charge.

With such a generous good emperor, of course, there must be stingy ministers who are dragging behind. After all, this "edict of giving land" was stopped by the cabinet and did not come out, but a strange holy decree was sent from the Ministry of Rites to the Feng Shikong clan. For his martyrdom in the national upheaval, he was loyal and set an example.

Feng Shikong's humiliation of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has long been spread in the streets, especially in Shaanxi, where he was regarded as a loyal and martyr, and did not let the young crown prince be bewitched by villains to do stupid things. Although everyone consciously denied the Venerable and did not dare to put the crown prince on the opposite side of Feng Shikong, the imperial court has never given Feng Shikong mourning, and finally expressed their dislike for this person.

Loyalty is not a very good name for Wenchen. But it's not bad, the most important thing is that the court recognizes him. With the awarding of the nickname, a thousand acres of land were also given. It only takes the people of the Feng family to go to the Americas to receive it, and settle more than ten people to reclaim it, so that it can be passed on forever.

Even Feng Shikong has been treated like this, will those civil and military ministers who have really made meritorious contributions to quelling the national change be treated badly?

Sure enough, after Feng Shikong, all the civil and military generals who were martyred for the Ming Dynasty received appropriate honors. And without exception, it has received thousands or even thousands of acres of land in the Americas.

What is particularly eye-catching is Lu Xiangsheng, who is Wenzheng. It is the best name that Wenchen thinks. At the same time, he was ordered to have a stepchild in the clan and inherit the incense. 10,000 acres of land in the Americas.

Among the generals, famous generals such as Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Bianjiao were also given good advice such as Wu Min, Wu Hui, and Wu Shun, each with thousands of acres of sealed soil.

From the second year of Chongzhen to the seventeenth year of the national change, there were many civil and military officials who died during this period, and the Ministry of Rites could only review and agree on the name in batches. Even so, there are still omissions, and in the face of the cry of his bereaved family, the progress is really not fast. However, everyone believed that the dead were greater, and when the affairs of the dead were properly settled, it would inevitably be the turn of the living.

Now the problem arises.

No one in the Ming Dynasty has ever been to the Americas, and even the name America has only recently been determined. All the information about this new big 6 was learned from the missionaries, and no one knew where the land was good and where the land was bad. This is often thousands of acres of entitlement, given is an index, there is no land number, you have to wait for people to actually pass, demarcate the land, by the civil affairs officer to review, and then the land number will be marked, which is considered an eternal industry.

Everyone knows that a good field can be ten acres of top land, and no one wants to take a very high gift, and in the end only the corner wasteland is left.

Within the so-called ten rooms, there must be loyal and brave people, as long as it is not a family whose whole family was martyred and died, who can't find a few loyal servants and righteous servants? Of course, we must first rush to the Americas in the first batch, choose a good place, and occupy the position.

As for those heroes who haven't made it their turn yet, there will definitely be rewards, who doesn't want to go over and choose the land early?

Zhu Hezhi saw this tide coming, and only then did he understand what the emperor said "There is no vain".

In August of the third year of Longjing, Zhu Hezhi arrived on Tsushima Island.

The reason why I went to Tsushima Island was because the Japanese had experience of traveling to the Americas on the Pacific route.

Of course, the Japanese did not show up for no reason to travel to the Americas.

Their guide was the Spaniards.

In the sixteenth century, the Spaniard Andrés? Morality? Urdaneta (a) now operates a route from Luzon to Mexico. From then on, Spain began shipping across the Pacific, which is why Luzon came under the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Because Spanish merchant ships often wrecked off the coast of Japan due to bad weather, the two countries came into contact. The Spaniards wanted to spread the Catholic faith in Japan, but this effort was strongly resisted by the Jesuits, who had been missionaries in Japan since 1549. In addition, Portugal and the Netherlands did not want Spain to participate in trade with Japan.

The turning point was that in 1609, the 37th year of Wanli, the Spanish large galleon São Francisco was wrecked in Chiba near Edo due to bad weather on the way from Manila to Acapulco. The crew was rescued and given a warm welcome, and the captain was received by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

On November 29 of that year, a treaty was signed. The treaty stipulated that the Spaniards would be allowed to establish factories in eastern Japan, that mining experts would be brought in from New Spain, that Spanish merchant ships would be allowed to visit Japan if necessary, and that the Japanese would send an envoy to the Spanish crown.

The first Japanese envoy was the Franciscan monk Soltello who traveled to New Spain (Mexico) on behalf of the shogun, where he met with the viceroy Vilaco. The Viceroy of New Spain sent explorers to Japan in search of the legendary "Treasure Island".

The explorer's diplomatic work did not go well, and he returned to Japan with a serious injury when he was shipwrecked in search of Treasure Island. So the Tokugawa shogunate decided to build a large ship to send the explorer back to Spain.

This task fell to Date Masamune, the daimyo of the Sendai Domain, and Date Masamune ordered his retainer Shikura Tosunaga to preside over the task.

It took him 45 days to complete what the Japanese called the Date Mura Maru, an ocean-going galleon known to the Japanese as the Date Mura Maru, with 800 shipbuilders, 700 blacksmiths, and 3,000 carpenters provided by the shogunate. The ship was later renamed San Juan by the Spaniards? The Bautista was drafted by the Spanish army in Luzon to fight the Dutch.

With ten shogunates, twelve Sendai samurai, one hundred and twenty Japanese merchants, sailors, and retinues, and more than forty Spaniards and Portuguese, Shikura Tsunecho embarked on an Asiatic voyage across the Pacific. Three months later, he arrived safely in New Spain, then traveled to Europe, where he was sent to the Spanish royal family, and even to Rome to meet the Pope and be baptized.

When Shikikura came out, the Tokugawa shogunate had not yet issued a national lockdown decree, but by the time he returned to Japan via the Guò Pacific route again, Japan had completely changed. Whether he was eventually executed or renounced his faith has become a historical mystery.

Today, thirty years later, it is no longer possible for the Ming Dynasty to find the sailors of the past in Japan, but Japan is also a grammar country, and it can still find enough navigation and ship information to provide technical reference for the Ming Dynasty to build ocean-going ships.

Thanks to the social system of inheriting the father's business, many Japanese craftsmen who participated in the construction of the Date Village Maru were also found, and they were bought by Chen De at a high price - a total of two Type 17 guns were spent.

"With so many shipbuilders, is the court going to build a new ship?" Zhu Hezhi asked Chen De. He said he was a starter, but more like an errand runner. What's even more tragic is that the loan provided to him by the royal family has to be repaid by him, so he has long given up the idea of building his own ship, and only hopes that His Majesty the Emperor can lend him two ships.

Chen De just smiled and shook his head in the face of this prince, and said, "The military orders obtained by the minister are limited to this, and they dare not ask about other matters." Don't be impatient, the court will have news. ”

Zhu Hezhi could only wait for the news, but he didn't know that the Dadu Governor's Mansion had already submitted a request to the military department to transfer Wang Yi's tank division to Mowen Hewei. (To be continued)

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