"It's not impossible to go to the East, and by the way, I can go to Australia and occupy the land there. Now in Australia, except for the aborigines, it is completely a covered land, and the fighting power of the aborigines is also very weak. Zhao Hongyu raised his hand and stroked his smooth chin gently, and said to Song Hu and Professor Liu at the same time.

"But the population of the Ming Dynasty, how do we get it? Working with pirates? And if we go to the East, we will inevitably clash with the Portuguese there, and with the remnants of Spain, and now that we have torn our faces with the Spaniards and the Portuguese, it is not certain that the fleet in the East already knows the way. ”

Zhao Hongyu voiced his worries.

When Professor Liu heard this, he smiled and said to Zhao Hongyu: "Your Highness, in fact, the problems you are worried about are easy to solve. Let's start with Portugal and the Spaniards in the East, their fleets are at most in India, Manila and Macau, and the fleet is less than a hundred, and it is also very scattered. As long as you take a fleet with you when you go, then there is nothing to fear from these people. ”

In Professor Liu's eyes, these Fanren warships, which are very powerful in the eyes of the Daming pirates, are actually not terrible at all.

With its longer-range and denser artillery, the Empire was able to defeat the opposing side.

So, there's no need to worry about it at all.

"And those Daming pirates who are united with the Spaniards, as long as His Highness lets them see our strength, these pirates will naturally retreat, they will not give the Portuguese and the Spaniards their lives, these guys are cheap to get on, and they are faster than anyone else if they are not cheap, just let them know that they are not easy to mess with, and they will learn to behave."

Professor Liu said to Zhao Hongyu very confidently.

After listening to Professor Liu's words, Zhao Hongyu himself secretly pondered in his heart.

Well, what Professor Liu said makes a lot of sense. If you think about it, that's really what happened.

"Go on, there is no problem with pirates and Portuguese and Spaniards, so what do you say about the population of the Ming Dynasty?"

Pirates are all trivial matters, and what Zhao Hongyu cares about is how to get people from the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty in this era did not close the country, and many official eunuchs would have ships to do maritime trade on the southeast coast, but after all, it was a big deal to get people from the Ming Dynasty, and they had to be cautious.

Moreover, Easterners are different from Westerners, and Easterners generally do not like to leave their hometowns.

Even if they suffer a major disaster, they will return when they leave their hometown.

Therefore, Zhao Hongyu wanted them to leave their homeland and come to the Americas. That's a bit of a dilemma.

Besides, those officials of the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court will not agree.

Seeing Zhao Hongyu ask this, Professor Liu's expression on his face was still so relaxed, as if he was not bothered by this problem at all.

"Your Highness, you don't know what to do. The Ming Dynasty of this era has begun to have the harbingers of internal and external troubles, and because of the arrival of the Ice Age, natural disasters are frequent, and the people are miserable, and there are displaced people who are bankrupt due to drought and floods. The number of these displaced people is very large, which has brought a heavy burden and hidden danger of turmoil to the Ming Dynasty, if the problem of these displaced people can be solved, I think it is too late for the officials and rulers of the Ming Dynasty to be happy. How could you refuse. ”

Professor Liu was very sure that he had calculated that the Ming Dynasty would definitely agree to 'sell' the exiles to the empire.

After a pause, Professor Liu continued: "Moreover, the current economy of the Ming Dynasty is very bad, and the taxes of the imperial court are often beyond their means. It's simply not enough. And the imperial court also had to take out silver to help the victims, so that they could have food and not make trouble, which made the already poor finances even more difficult. At the same time, these funds are used for relief to the victims. When it was allocated, it was deducted layer by layer and embezzlement, and there was not much that could be used on the victims, so there were many uprisings in the Ming Dynasty during this period, but these things were rarely recorded. Because these uprisings were suppressed very quickly, very quickly. ”

"Your Highness, you went to the east to buy these displaced people, in addition to being able to be relieved of the hidden danger of turmoil by the Ming Dynasty, you can also add income to the finances that cannot make ends meet, they will definitely be willing. It's great that you can bribe the officials when the time comes, anyway, our empire has money, and what we need is the population, don't we? And you can take advantage of this opportunity to sell the goods of the empire to the Ming Dynasty, as well as the surrounding Korea, Dongying, Annam, Siam and other countries, maybe we can buy the money from the Ming Dynasty and earn it from these countries, without touching the treasury of our empire. ”

Zhao Hongyu listened to Professor Liu's words and was moved.

Yes, what Professor Liu said is very feasible.

The Ming court solved it, and the pirates and the Portuguese and the Spaniards also solved it, so there would be no trouble.

All that's left is to transport the population from the Ming Dynasty.

"So where are you going to transport the population of the Ming Dynasty? Manhattan or Quebec, if these two places are really too far away. And during the eight-month voyage at sea, no one knows how many people will die in the road. We don't have enough warships, so we have to entrust merchants from other countries to ship these people. ”

Yes, it is impossible for Zhao Hongyu to use the warships of the empire to transport these populations, because there are not many warships in the empire now.

The thirteen fleets that were built with great difficulty have now also been transferred to the Caribbean.

And until the new battleship is launched, it will take half a year.

Since they can't use their own, they can only entrust merchants from other countries to transport those populations to the East.

But there is a big problem to solve.

That is, a long voyage can cause all kinds of diseases.

At the same time, in this era of sea navigation, the people on the ship have to experience all kinds of bad weather and the environment on the ship, which is very difficult.

It's not good that at sea, the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty will be attritional, and if this happens, it will be a loss.

As Zhao Hongyu voiced these concerns about himself, Professor Liu also fell into deep thought.

To be honest, he didn't think about it.

But he felt that this was a complete trivial matter, and he didn't need to care about it at all.

"Straight across the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of America. We can build a camp on the West Coast for the time being, and use this camp as a base to slowly annex the surrounding area. Professor Liu was silent for a while and then raised his head and said to Zhao Hongyu. This will greatly shorten the voyage, and we can also prepare some effervescent tablets for the migrants, so that they can solve their anemia and scurvy caused by the lack of food at sea......"

Professor Liu said the solution.

Go directly to the Pacific Ocean and send the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty to the West Coast.

Zhao Hongyu's heart moved.

In this way, the West Coast can also be in the hands of the Empire.

The empire's map of the Americas will be complete.

However, there will be another problem, if the population of the Ming Dynasty is too large, will there be any problems in the future?

But don't let those immigrants in the Ming Dynasty have ambitions and divide the Americas that they have fought so hard to conquer, then it will be a lot of fun.

Subsequently, Zhao Hongyu told Professor Liu about this hidden worry.

Hearing this, Professor Liu nodded seriously and said, "Yes, we do have to guard against this kind of thing, what we need is the population, but what we definitely don't need is trouble." Therefore, Your Highness, when you establish a colony, appoint a person with the authority of the township chief to be stationed there, and he can use half of the money every month to cultivate the Chinese genetic people, so that we can avoid the kind of thing you mentioned. As long as we have a certain percentage of the population, then we don't have to worry about any rebellion. ”

Someone who has the authority of the township chief.

After listening to Professor Liu's words, Zhao Hongyu thought about it.

Now the genetic people who have authority are basically delegated.

Besides, the number of genetic people with authority is not much, only eight people.

According to Professor Liu, then there is only one Wang Shan in his hands who can be sent to be stationed there.

He's the only genetive who has the authority but hasn't been sent out yet.

At the beginning, Wang Shan himself chose to stay by his side, using his monthly authority to cultivate genetic people to form the Royal Praetorian Guard.

It can be said that the powerful Praetorian Guards around him were all established by Wang Shan.

This Praetorian Guard of its own, emphasizing quality over quantity.

And after Wang Shan's general household considered the virtual world, although the selected genetic people were also children in the mountains, the cost was not low.

Because for the sake of the children's growth and physique, Wang Shan spent a lot of money to let them have a good diet and physique when they were children.

Therefore, the Praetorian Guards around Zhao Hongyu all looked very strong and mighty. However, the mere number of 800 people cost Wang Shan six billion yuan.

These genetic people were also spent a lot of money by Wang Shan, and they systematically learned some simple and lethal fighting techniques, otherwise they wouldn't have spent so much money.

It can be said that this is all the credit of Wang Shan.

But now he wants Wang Shan to leave him and stay on the west coast when the time comes.

Zhao Hongyu was a little reluctant all of a sudden.

Seeing that Zhao Hongyu was silent, Professor Liu knew that Zhao Hongyu was reluctant to Wang Shan.

At the same time, Professor Liu also learned from Song Hu that Wang Shan was a person who specially used his authority to form a military guard for Zhao Hongyu.

Therefore, Wang Shan's status and role for Zhao Hongyu are very unusual.

But no matter what, now he has to convince Zhao Hongyu to temporarily let Wang Shan become independent.

As for how to persuade Zhao Hongyu, Professor Liu already knew it. (To be continued.) )