Chapter 35: The Five Great Forces Enter the Gathering (II)

Compared with the Eastern Coast Republics, which are accompanied by war every day and have an extremely strong military atmosphere, the strategic space of the Chinese Republic, which is located in North America, is relatively much more relaxed. Unlike the eastern coast of South America, the United States of China, with the New York region as the core in the later generations, was also isolated in a foreign land, but the surrounding competitors were not the Spaniards and Portuguese, who had been rooted in the Americas for hundreds of years, but only the indigenous Indians, who were relatively easy to deal with, and the British and French colonists, who were too weak to defend themselves. As for the most recent Spanish power, it is thousands of miles away in the Caribbean.

Moreover, from the very beginning of the crossing, the Huamei Group intermarried and allied with the local Delaware tribe Indians, so as to obtain valuable and reliable human resources supplement, instead of always agonizing over the unsolvable problem of the lack of population of the core people, as the East Coast Group did: hundreds, thousands of Indian men and women joined the construction team, and the same number of Indian children sat in the classrooms of the crossers and learned Chinese... There were also many young men who married Indian girls, and brought the Delaware tribe an advanced and wealthy way of life, so that they no longer had to worry about plague and famine, and even attracted other small Indian tribes in the vicinity to come and join one after another.

With such a solid foundation, the American Republic did not have to worry about losing its tail even if it still had to recruit many immigrants from Europe—in any case, the Indians and Chinese were both yellow races, and in the eyes of the European colonizers, they were the same outliers, and the Indians, who were less civilized, wanted to abandon their original backward customs and integrate into the group of traversers, but it was easier than the European Christians.

In this way, inadvertently, Huamei Group won the recognition and support of the aborigines and gained a firm foothold in this strange land. Previously, it flexibly used military strikes and economic inducements to gradually annex various Indian tribes and expand the territory and population of the republic.

As a similar civilizational competitor to the Chinese Republic, the only nearby are the French colonies of Quebec and the British colonies of Virginia. But the French colony of Quebec was nothing more than a trading post for collecting North American furs, and they couldn't even grow food to eat, so they needed supplies from overseas. Any severe famine, plague, and attack by the Native Americans, or even a collapse in the price of furs in the Parisian market, could push this fragile, fragile, internal and external troubled colony into a desperate situation, let alone deal with the distant American Republic.

The British, who were in the southern colonies of Virginia, were also poor and hungry, and had bad relations with the Indians in the neighborhood, struggling on the brink of death all day long. What's even worse is that Britain at this time was on the eve of the civil war, the confrontation between the royalists and the parliament was on the verge of white-hot, and the Virginia colony had unfortunately become an embarrassing existence because of the wrong position in the whirlpool of domestic politics, and it was impossible to borrow the power of the motherland to fight against the Huamei group - in fact, with the development and growth of the Huamei Republic, the current Virginia has almost become a vassal force of Huamei, and it is economically controlled by Huamei traversers. Under the political "guidance" of the Chinese and American Republics, it was not far from being formally annexed.

As for the other group of immigrants who founded the New England colony and are regarded by modern people as the ancestor of the United States, well, sorry, they have already been disarmed and captured by the Huamei Crossing Group with their men and ships, and now they have become loyal subjects of the Huamei Republic, and several of the "activists" who joined the army even followed the Huamei Far East Fleet to Batavia in Southeast Asia, and in a few days they will probably arrive at Lingao County on Hainan Island.

Since there are no foreign enemies around the border that need to be dealt with seriously, only all kinds of soft-footed and weak chickens and fat meat that can be abused at will, judging from the satellite pictures, the development speed of the Huamei Republic is quite astonishing, and the territory of development is far more extensive than that of the East Coast Republic. The current core of the country runs along the North American coast, centred on what would become New York's capital, Manchester City (named after the island of Manhattan), with the northernmost cantonment villages stretching to Maine and the southernmost sphere of influence reaching Virginia, where the modern capital of the United States stands. The tentacles of inland expansion also reached the shores of the Great Lakes. In another world, the territory of the thirteen states of the United States of America, which belonged to the North during the Civil War, has now fallen into the pocket of the American Republic, which has only been established for 11 years.

Compared with the densely populated Old World, the Chinese American Republic is still sparsely populated, but the entire New World, at least North America, is already a well-deserved supreme ......hegemon. Even the marginal Indian tribes of those who had been crossed were planted with crops and pastures, and lived in brick houses.

Although the industrial towns scattered along the Atlantic coast of the Chinese American Republic may not be as technologically advanced as the "bigwigs" of the Far East Company in Vladivostok, who carried too many household goods, which seemed to have just reached the level of the nineteenth century, they were no longer isolated strongholds, but initially formed a truly industrialized country, a large and complex system of industrial division of labor

If the Far East Company in Vladivostok is like a heavily guarded secret base, the city of Central South in Australia is like a shoddy refugee camp, and the East Coast Republic is like a murderous war fortress, then the Chinese American Republic is really like a prosperous modern country

“…… From Maine to Virginia, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Great Lakes, plus the overseas colonies in Cape Town, South Africa, there are almost two or three hundred thousand square kilometers of territory...... It's really robbed of the old United States, the 'chosen country', especially the capital of Manhattan Island, not only has the power system and radio station, but also the street parks and statues are so beautiful, it looks like the United States in the 19th century."

Looking at the animated simulation of the "Manchester City", the capital of the Chinese American Republic, Guo Yi couldn't help but sigh in admiration - although there are also broadcast loudspeakers and street lights in Lingao Dongmen City, but in terms of the scale of the city and the grandeur of the architecture, it seems that it cannot be compared with Manchester City in the Chinese American Republic: on Hainan Island, after all, there are not as many high-quality wood and stone resources as the North American continent......

As he spoke, he took out a mimeographed booklet from his bosom and spread it out on the table, "...... I thought it was because the Ming Dynasty scholar who wrote this thing was ignorant and loved to brag, so he boasted about Huamei so much. I didn't expect this Chinese American traverser to be really daring to underestimate......"

Wang Qiu and others curiously picked up the book, passed it one by one, and found that the title was "Ji Meiluo Ji", and then opened the cover, the content was in the literary style, and the opening volume was: "...... In the past, there was the former Han Dynasty who died recklessly, the Later Han Dynasty Guangwu Kuangfu, the north attacked the Xiongnu, the South An Baiyue, and now there is the former Song Dynasty died in Mengyuan, and then the Song Dynasty dominated the Taixi, crisscrossing the seven seas, and dominating the Western Ocean. Named "Ji Mei Luo Ji", I hope that you can get a glimpse of the gorgeous scenery with this book, and see and hear for a long time......"

-- Combined with the content of the book and Guo Yi's introduction, Wang Qiu and others learned that the person who wrote this "Ji Mei Luo Ji" was a Xiucai surnamed Zhang who was born in southern Fujian, but after being an official eunuch, he was unfortunately attacked by pirates in the last years of the Apocalypse, and the village was broken, and he himself was kidnapped by pirates, and then sold to the Portuguese in Macao, and then even crossed the ocean on an immigration ship, all the way to the Huamei Republic thousands of miles away.

Zhang Xiucai, a native of southern Fujian, had been in Huamei for nearly three years, and when he first arrived, he was very disdainful of this overseas state, but after seeing the scene of this traverser country with his own eyes, he was soon shocked...... This year, the Chinese American Republic organized an expeditionary fleet to the East, and Zhang Xiucai, who missed his hometown, learned about it, so he took the initiative to sign up, because he was knowledgeable and familiar with the officialdom and etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, so he was successfully hired and accompanied the Chinese American fleet all the way to Batavia on the island of Java. Although the Chinese and American fleets remained in Batavia for many days, they have not yet reached Chinese mainland. However, the giraffes, alpacas and other "auspicious tributes" carried by the fleet to the Ming court, as well as diplomatic envoys carrying national credentials, had already taken the fast boat provided by the Lingao Senate in advance and entered Guangzhou in October, causing a sensation in the whole city for a while.

So, this Zhang Xiucai also as a staff member, followed the Huamei envoy to Guangzhou in advance, and then because he met relatives and friends in Guangzhou, so he did not follow the Huamei envoy to escort the tribute north, but continued to circulate in the city, every day there were gentry and gentlemen invited him to come over the door to tell the wonderful experience in the "Huamei...... And after the "Ji Meiluo Collection" written by this talent was leaked, it quickly became the hottest bestseller in the Guangzhou book market, and people everywhere copied excerpts. Even after hearing the news, the Lingao Senate also got the manuscript as quickly as possible, and immediately launched this paperback version of the "Ji Mei Luo Edition", on the one hand, it was distributed to the elders for reading and reference, and on the other hand, it tried to put a small amount into the market, and then it was quickly snapped up, and the current price of the book has been speculated to two taels of silver a piece, but it is still in short supply.

Well, to get back to the point, because this book is written with the vision and way of thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the most profound first impression of the "China and the United States" thousands of miles away, or any traverser group and advanced forces, is nothing more than "strong ships and sharp cannons" - "Yu tastes and reads the heavenly work, the book says that the former Song Dynasty is good at making boats, and the wind can travel hundreds of miles a day, and it is extremely huge, and it can carry hundreds of people. When the time was sold out to sea, tossed to the land of Africa, the rest of the first to see the gorgeous ship, such as the mountains and mountains, the length of the ship is dozens of zhang, the width is more than ten zhang, the words can not be described as big, do not rely on the wind, only with fine charcoal coal can break the waves forward, do not hesitate the direction of the waves, it is said that Seiko is extreme, and the rest are sighing before the Song Gewu skills can be spiritual, the owner said that the most refined ship in the United States, abandon the sails with fire steam, called the steamer.

There are more warships and giant ships, the fast ones are called cruisers, the giants are called iron armor, the artillery giant ships are attached to the iron armor, the cannons are hard to hurt their cents, and they are all over the sea to cover the enemy, and the rest of them are shocked, these militaristic heavy weapons are not human enemies, although the Taizu of this dynasty chased the Meng Tartar to restore the Han family's clothes, but the Seiko secret skills of the former Song Dynasty were lost, and the skilled craftsmen crossed the American, and the descendants ......sighed in vain."

In addition, many magnificent buildings in "Huamei" that are very different from those of the Ming Dynasty also shocked the author: "...... Huamei is especially good at building, Yu Chu to Huamei Jingshi Manchester, standing on the deck, overlooking by the railing, Manchester City is near the sea and hills, the road is vertical and horizontal like a chessboard, during the mosaic of fine houses and mansions, it is endless, it can be seen that it is vast, the market is bustling, the people are boiling like a tide, the road in the city is straight and wide, distinguishing the pedestrian lanes, but where the intersection is located, there are professional people holding red and green double cards, commanding the line, orderly, the street is widely planted on both sides of the trees, such as the canopy cover, although the summer is not afraid of the heat, all the buildings regardless of size, are built with square bricks and boulders, and there are very few civil engineering, It can stand for a hundred years, and it is not afraid of water, fire, and ants, which is completely different from Middle-earth.

After Yu visited the magnificent Congress Pavilion, more personally saw the majesty, more than dozens of zhang high, the rock is drilled for the brick, the carved stone is the column, the brick pillar is huge, although the brick weight can not be shaken by a hundred people, the column is thick and needs three or four people to be embraced, there are one hundred and thirty-six huge pillars under the eaves of the building, there are exquisite and complex carvings on the eaves, the appearance of the characters and the clothing are Hua Feihua, I don't know where the gods arrive, no matter the brick and stone corridor columns are smooth and can be seen, the contact is like a mirror, the atrium hall of the Congress Building, the center of national politics is also, can be installed thousands of people without embarrassment, so broadly vast, I don't see a pillar, The beautiful little official guarding the door said that it was enough to lean on the dome, and Yu Fubi sighed; Such a beautiful, tall and majestic person, I don't know how much manpower and wealth are spent, Huamei is the country at the expense of the people, Qin Jian is not far away, the gorgeous little officials are overwhelmed, sneering and saying that only the engineering team is 500, and the construction period can be completed in three years, and we are all dumbfounded.

After the rest of the leisure often wander the market dwellings, personally experienced, more sense of the prosperity of the United States, the red top of the white bricks of the dwellings, all with ashlar as bricks, the seam bridging needle can not be inserted, more than two layers are common, the window edge is more potted flowers, spring and summer jacaranda clusters, as if the color practice is in the air, beautiful, a great victory for Manchester City, but there are more three or four layers of innumerable, six or seven floors are also ordinary, the windows are bright and clean, the windows are covered with glass, the appearance of the flow of color, not magnificent, high-rise buildings, gorgeous people said office buildings, Yu Bai thought about it.

Yu got acquainted with the Huamei master Tang, said that the family has been built for generations, Yu invited the soup to build the Huamei builders, the soup tasted Yu said, Huamei is good at building, all by machinery, digging the foundation and driving piles, it can be completed overnight, the giant pillar ashlar, weighing more than 10,000 catties, is like child's play. Practitioners need to study in junior colleges, three years before they can graduate, said architects, college knowledge and skills from generation to generation, more and more excellence, set Taixi Chinese Mahayana also. More talking about the Chinese people prefer the Roman and Greek neoclassical style Yunyun, Yu Zi worship can not interface also, sigh I Ming common people have their own houses but can't, Huamei but everyone has a place to live, the ancients Yun people have constant production and perseverance, honest do not deceive me

Next, the cultural entertainment of China and the United States also impressed the scholar of the Ming Dynasty: "...... Yu Chu to Huamei, see the child shoulder bag and paper along the street to sell, shouting nicknames endlessly, the peddler pawn dignitaries are also invited to buy endlessly, after living for a long time, is to know that this is a newspaper, or newsprint, national events, rural anecdotes, are published on the newspaper, there is a national policy change announcement also supplement newspaper, Huamei education is effective, the common people are literate, big things and small things are seen in the newspaper, all the beautiful people can submit books and newspapers, express their hearts, the speaker is not guilty, such as the selection of newspapers and periodicals, and pay the pen fee if in, the book is enthusiastic, the government measures are wrong, The newspapers attacked it, the officials were lazy and corrupt, they reported and exposed the relentless pursuit, and the temple officials were vigilant and did not dare to lose fairness and betray the will of the people. Yu Wei sighed; Huamei newspapers, officials are especially afraid of it, a little misconduct, immediately expose the world, everyone asks for it, how to deal with it, can be described as a paper to resist the history of thousands of thousands, officials dare not be clear, Yu Shen thinks it, print newspapers and periodicals in the newspaper, daily publication is not embellished, Huamei Wenhua is prosperous, the newspaper is numerous, the newspaper is numerous, there are many newspapers, there are big newspapers and small newspapers, big newspapers, the writing is rigorous and reasonable, the opening is clear, the main purpose is clear and powerful, there is reason and evidence, the national policy gains and losses are orderly, I love it, the famous people, Manchester City Times, The Atlantic Review, The Financial Times is the leader in this, Yu reads it every day, the tabloids, the content is unbearable, the scandal of celebrities **, known as gossip, practitioners called paparazzi, Yu does not know what it means, but the ignorant people are keen on this, so the sale is even bigger than the newspaper. Yu sighs that the people in the white snow in the spring have their own love.

There are a lot of novels in Huamei, there are many famous writers, the beauty of the book is like a thing, divided into categories, the variety is complex, Yu has traveled to the United States for many years, have dabbled, his martial arts novels Yu is the most respected, cover the most famous, is the Legend of the Condor Heroes, the Condor Heroes two ears, Yu read, the volume does not leave the hand, do not think about tea and rice, in the wonderful place when the festival hits, clap the knee and sigh the real hero, a good man, the family is surprised and inexplicable, throughout the whole book, the most eye-catching point is the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people, the so-called small words and righteousness are all here, but all those who are for the country and the people, Not to mention the great chivalry, it is a pity that the country and the court are all over the country, and the gentry of the world are few for the country and the people, and there are many people for selfishness. In addition to the rest of the martial arts, the gorgeous romance book is also a must. When Yu lived in a beautiful place, there was a scholar Yan who was in distress and Yu rented a house, young and romantic, especially in love, his Manchester City love story was praised, the words were the first of the gorgeous romance, the beauty was tear-jerking, Yu Qizhi, taste and read, in one go, during the water and rice did not enter, tea and rice did not think, read to the sad place, red eyes and tears, fists clenched, read to the joy place, Yan opened his eyes and smiled, such as a spring breeze. Reading to the end, there is a lover but it is difficult to become a family, Yu Da is happy and sad, covering the volume and crying, sure enough, tears, although what is said does not conform to the etiquette of the famous religion, men and women are guarded, but it is also touching, thanks to this book, the beautiful girl is named Lixiang, there are many people......"

Of course, after saying so many good things, this scholar, who was heavily influenced by feudal etiquette, even if he saw so many exotic wonders, was still completely unacceptable to some things: "Those who are gorgeous, those who are beautiful, although they are particularly famous, the gorgeous costumes are quite different from those of the country, the country has wide clothes and wide sleeves, and the right side of the collar is tied with a scarf." Gorgeous hair and short beard, short shirts, tops and trousers, clothes with buttons, trousers with belts, especially like belts, tough and beautiful, more than cloth belts. When the end is solemn, there are many gorgeous suits, neck ties, white shirts, trousers, quite solemn and solemn in practice, women are wearing skirts, girdles and jade, and even more, young women love short skirts, to have short and narrow knees over the foot, number miniskirts ♀, off-the-shoulder shirts, light and thin clothing, swaying demeanor, swaggering through the market and people are not different. Woohoo, where are the sons of Zhu Cheng of the Great Song Dynasty, abandon ...... for the rest of the etiquette keepers"

Flipping through this, Wang Qiu couldn't help but smile, threw the book to Ma Tong and Liu Chaozuo, who were already waiting impatiently, turned to Guo Yi and said, "...... Hey, I can't imagine that the ancients really couldn't see women showing their heads, and it was common for Nanyang natives to wear no clothes, and they saw women wearing short skirts, but they wanted to scold them for being immoral. Such an old ritual should have been abolished a long time ago...... However, according to the content of this book, it is estimated that as long as the readers of the Ming Dynasty read it, they will immediately associate you who are entrenched on Hainan Island with those two groups of people in the Americas-after all, no matter how you look at it, it is too similar......"

“…… Yes, actually, the Dutch in Batavia have noticed this since our tripartite meeting, and the 'naturalized people' in our tripartite camp have also been very surprised by this, and rumors have been flying all over the place, both inside and out. Even the Guangzhou government, which has always been sluggish, quietly sent people over this month to ask if we were 'in the same vein,......

Guo Yi shrugged his shoulders and replied with a wry smile, "... However, the Lingao side has not yet thought about how to explain it, so I can only deal with the past vaguely...... Where to look next? Huamei Group's South African colony? ”

“…… No, we only need to know about these forces outside China's territory. Now all that's left is Hainan Island, the closest to us, the Senate you're in. I don't know what kind of situation you have managed in the past few years, and whether you have reached the level of those people in North and South America...... Senior Guo Yi, you might as well introduce what they have to see on Hainan Island......"

Wang Qiu said this as he adjusted the observation object of the remote control screen to the neighboring Hainan Island...... The fifth and last large-scale traverser group base in this time and space was completely displayed in front of everyone's eyes.