Although the name of the Tuke Weapon Fight is actually a genuine, "forgotten war", and its popularity is lower than that of the contemporaneous rebellion.

This war was not only in Guangdong, but also in Guangxi, Fujian, and southern Jiangxi, and it was extremely tragic.

The Hakka people have existed since ancient times, from the customer system of the Tang and Song dynasties, the concept of Hakka has always existed, and it refers to the northern immigrants who basically went south.

Of course, the subject of this concept is also constantly changing.

In fact, the so-called Cantonese people are essentially Han people who went south earlier.

However, with the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, another round of refugees from the north moved southward, squeezing the living space of the local ethnic groups, coupled with the differences in living habits and languages, the Qing government's "divide and rule" fanned the flames in the middle and intensified the ethnic contradictions, which eventually led to a vendetta of internal division among the Han people.

However, in the final analysis, this is also caused by the population explosion in the south after the "sweet potato boom", which seriously exceeded the carrying capacity of the land in the hilly areas.

This war has already begun since the ninth year of Xianfeng.

In a sense, the Balance of Heaven movement was even a by-product of this war.

"Everyone carries a sword, and every household carries a sword."

"Slaughtering men, plundering women's property, and burning down houses and villages, calling them 'shovel villages'."

"The Turks were taken captive and killed, each to hundreds of thousands."

I can't bear to read all this.

At the end of the day, it's still too rolly.

After the Chinese nation and even the Zhuxia civilization lost the space and ability to expand outward, whether it was the abundant martial virtues of the guests or the unity of the natives, in the end, they could only turn into a sigh in this ultimate Han involution.

Zhu Fugui had no intention of taking sides in this Han infighting, but compared to the natives with land and property, it was definitely easier to recruit guests.

In fact, most of the veterans of the Taiping Army were Hakka.

Such as Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Shi Dakai, Qin Rigang, Hu Yihuang, Chen Chengrong, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, Li Shixian, Yang Fuqing and other military Hakka.

This led to the fact that a considerable number of the Taiping prisoners bought by the Ming from the Huai army were also Hakka.

In the early days, Zhu Fugui paid attention to strictly guarding against this kind of phenomenon of pulling mountains with his origin within the Ming Dynasty.

What kind of guests are natives, Hakka is vernacular, anyway, those who don't speak the correct sound of the Ming Dynasty will all go to labor reform!

Under such a high-pressure policy, even the Japanese are bending their tongues to say the words of the Ming Dynasty, striving to be the pure ministers and filial sons of the Ming Dynasty, and the so-called difference between the local and the guest is just a joke.

However, the hundreds of thousands of guests and hundreds of thousands of natives recruited by the Ming Dynasty are still a drop in the bucket to alleviate the contradictions between the natives and customers.

Now that the demand for immigrants is increasing, Zhu Fugui naturally hopes to absorb some Turk refugees while continuing to absorb the victims of the disaster in North China.

The proportion is about 40% and 30%, and the other 3% are immigrants from Sichuan, Hunan and Jiangnan.

This is not only to increase the population of the Ming Dynasty, but also to alleviate and even eliminate the internal causes of this disaster in China as much as possible.

Whether it is a native or a guest, to tell the truth, even if there are a few good ports in Fujian and Guangdong, what is there to fight for in those barren and rugged rotten land in the hills?

Come to the vast black land of Amerika Mississippi and build hard!

It's no problem to have as much land as you want.

Isn't it more fragrant than that red clay?

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Negotiations with Hu Xueyan went well.

Hu Xueyan's motto for people in the world is "the sedan chair carries the people".

In short, there are three points of thin noodles everywhere you go.

Whether it is a Cantonese or a Hakka, Hu Xueyan has friends who can be said.

Of course, the Ming side also had to send some officials from the natives and guests to assist.

You must know that in this era, the Tuke villages were all war fortresses.

For example, the famous tulou in Fujian Province is a clan or a village living in one place, ploughing and fighting.

If there is no trustworthy person to come forward, or to give real assurances, it is impossible for people to lay down their arms, or even give up their land, even a few rotten pieces of land that are so barren that they will go to sea.

The work to be done is complex and tedious.

But as long as a few transactions are made, then under the demonstration effect, a chain reaction will soon be generated, and the subsequent work will be much easier.

Of course, whether the natives or guests come to Daming, it is also important to completely break up its establishment and destroy the soil for the existence of clan forces by thunderous means.

Therefore, the Naturalization Bureau estimates that compared with the North Chinese refugees, the immigration speed of Turkish immigrants should be further controlled.

This year, the new population of Daming must be controlled within 7% per month, so as not to affect the quality of migrant digestion.

In this way, it is expected that by the end of this year, the final revised total population of the Ming Dynasty will be about 15 million, barely accounting for 13 of the total population of North America.

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After signing a series of documents such as the "Mingtai Central Railway Equity Raising Letter" and the "Mingchu Population Transfer Agreement", Zhu Fugui took Hu Xueyan on the train.

Compared with the steam train with a speed of only 20 kilometers per hour when Li Hongzhang visited that year, Hu Xueyan took the "Fox Trainset" with a speed of 55 kilometers per hour.

Starting from Fengdu to the south, passing through Xinji to the west, about 8 hours later, the train arrived at Xinzheng, the most important transportation node in the north of Daming.

Xinzheng is a city born entirely out of traffic, which is very similar to the history of Zhengzhou.

The northern line of the Pacific Railway meets the New Yellow River (Columbisnek River) here.

Compared with the Yellow River, which has a raised riverbed and lacks runoff, the New Yellow River is an inland river with abundant water and suitable for navigation.

Zhu Fugui and his entourage changed into a small steamer here and went all the way south, and arrived at the Snake Lake area after a 600-kilometer voyage of one day and two nights.

Here, Zhu Fugui and his entourage were greeted by a cavalry brigade of the Railway Corps that had been waiting for a long time.

Cavalry brigades are generally smaller in number than infantry brigades.

And the ace cavalry brigade of this railway corps numbered 2,000 people and 5,000 horses.

The proportion of people and horses, Zhao Jie and Chongzhen cried when they heard it.

Raising horses in North America is much easier than raising horses in the Central Plains.

It's a pity that it's the sunset of the cavalry now.

In addition to the 2,000 soldiers who directly protected the holy car, two mobile armored units of the Wumu Army were also on standby in the nearby desert area.

It's just that the road Zhu Fugui has to take is too rugged for the armored troops to deploy, so they can only watch from a distance and sweep everywhere, so as not to disturb the holy car with any long-sighted horse bandits.

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It is still 250 kilometers away from Snake Lake to the southwest shore of the Great Salt Lake, avoiding the desert area of the Great Salt Lake.

The entire period was rugged mountainous and desert terrain.

On such terrain, horseback riding is still the most reliable mode of transportation.

Zhu Fugui's riding skills are not very good, and Hu Xueyan is even worse.

So for a distance of 250 kilometers, the group walked for more than ten days.

Riding on horseback, looking at the continuous mountains and the endless desert that continue to appear during the journey, if Lao Zuo comes here, I am afraid that he will not feel proud, and even write a poem.

However, Hu Xueyan obviously did not have this heroism, on the contrary, he was full of sadness.

Zhu Fugui drove his horse beside him and said: "Hu Aiqing, you see that these mountains and rivers are magnificent, they are all Ming land, and I have won a thousand-year-old foundation for China!" ”

"Your Majesty's merit is in the future, which is admired by Weichen!"

Hu Xueyan patted his ass, and then changed his words, and said worriedly, "It's just that Your Majesty, Weichen looks at this place as sinister, although the ape can't fly across, can manpower really build a railway here?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Fugui shook his head slightly.

After a half-sigh, Zhu Fugui looked up at the sky.

At this time, the accompanying secretary Ito Hirobumi had already prepared pen and paper.

As an excellent secretary, he naturally knows what it means for his big boss to make such a move.

This is Long Live Lord Shixing, ready to chant a poem!

Of course, these hadiths should be carefully recorded and passed on to future generations.

Sure enough, Zhu Fugui slowly groaned: "The Son of Heaven has not yet returned the border, and the children of Zhuxia are full of mountains." Horizontal planting sleepers for 3,000 miles, leading the iron horse to cross the heavy pass! ”

"Good poetry!"

Ito Hirofumi couldn't help but applaud loudly, "What a Zhuxia disciple is full of mountains!" We Japanese people are also descendants of Zhuxia Miao, such a feat, on behalf of the 16 million Japanese people, please Ying, please long live the Lord to allow us to overcome the difficulties together and serve the country! ”

Hu Xueyan on the side savored this poem, and a burst of atmosphere rushed straight to his chest.

What a poem indeed!

There is a faint wind of a battlefield veteran.

It seems that it is rumored that today's great tomorrow is a martial arts master who wears Lin Bei's legs, and in the early years, he was also stubborn and brave, which is by no means a lie!

It's just that the level of Zhu Datianzi's poetry is too unstable.

One moment it is the vulgarity of "poking and jumping", and the next moment it is such a good poem, which is really strange and strange!

Those who can't say that they can't achieve great things can be so coarse and fine, and they can be retracted and released freely!

In any case, from this poem, Hu Xueyan read Zhu Fugui's determination to overcome all difficulties and build the middle railway at the expense of all difficulties.

This made him put his heart back in his stomach.

What is the most feared thing about buying stocks and making investments?

Of course, it's unfinished.

If the project is too difficult, and the Ming railway is finally abandoned halfway, then the money raised by the Duke of Chu Province will be wasted.

After all, other businessmen have blackmailed money, and Zuo Dashuai has a way to collect debts, if this Daming is blackmailing money, I am afraid that there is really no one in the world who has a way.

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On January 25, Zhu Fugui's 19th birthday, the horse team finally arrived at its destination, a series of temporary tent camps.

(Zhu Fugui's date of birth is January 25, 1848, and when the story appears, that is, March 1, 1863, he is 15 years old, 16 years old.) Zhu Fugui has lived in the Yandang area for a long time, so he often talks about his empty age. ）

Julie, who had been waiting for many days, rushed out in slippers and dragged Banzai into the tent.

Such a barbaric foreign woman made Hu Xueyan stunned.

But the accompanying Ming officials all looked like they were looking at their noses and noses.

It wasn't until late in the evening that the Lord Banzai came out of the big tent, and his expression actually had a rare hint of malaise.

Of course, Julie's little elk was already slumped on the floor unconscious.

What's there to do here?

So on the first day of arrival, it is time to eat, drink, and rest.

In fact, Zhu Fugui also wanted to come and go, and the king would not be early from now on.

Unfortunately, many engineers are waiting.

These are the local talents accumulated by Daming through the previous railway, and the construction plan will be determined with the help of the later information provided by Zhu Fugui.

These Daming's own engineers are all Zhu Fugui's heart, but they are reluctant to let them idle.

Wouldn't it be nice to assign them tasks first, and then go all over the Great Salt Lake with Julie?

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As the Son of Heaven, Zhu Fugui naturally didn't know anything about how to build railways.

On the one hand, he came here to bring relevant information from later advisors to the engineering team and listen to their preliminary plans, and on the other hand, it also played a role in boosting morale.

In this day and age, the Great Salt Lake region is completely barren.

Salt Lake City, the future third-largest city in the western interior of the United States, is now just a ruin.

Yes, as early as 1847, a group of Mormons fled persecution in the Eastern Church and traveled across most of the United States to settle here.

In later generations, Salt Lake City has been the main altar and holy city for Mormons.

However, in this era, with the eastward advance of the Ming Dynasty, the colonial regimes in the central and western regions were swept away, leaving only horse bandits and so-called "free cowboys" who were difficult to completely eliminate in the wilderness, invading the Ming settlements from time to time, playing the role of Indians in the past hundred years.

A conspicuous organization like the Mormon Holy City was naturally smashed with a heavy fist at the first time.

Daming rescued white women who were "forced" to practice the doctrine of polygyny, and volunteers organized by the Daming Care for Foreign Women's Rights Foundation found them new jobs in Seattle.

So Salt Lake City is now in ruins.

With a population of 6.6 million, the Ming Dynasty cannot afford to establish settlements on the edge of the desert because it is not even able to build settlements on the edge of the desert because of the fact that it is not even able to build high-quality land plots along the West Coast and the Great River, as well as the newly incorporated Texas (Xingui Province).

However, after the opening of the middle line railway, Salt Lake City is bound to be developed.

Even the establishment of "Salt Lake City" has already been determined, and it is one of the few cities that does not have the title of "new".

Mainly because the name Salt Lake City is so straightforward.

The reason why the construction of Salt Lake City is so high is that Salt Lake City relies on the great salt lake to have rich strategic resources.

You may not believe it, but the most important natural resource of the Great Salt Lake is actually bugs.

Bugs, brine worms to be exact.

Artemia insects live in highly saline waters, feed on algae, and are high-quality live bait for aquaculture.

Artemia in the Great Salt Lake is of excellent quality and abundant production, accounting for more than half of the global market share in later generations.

The price of Artemia eggs in the Great Salt Lake reaches 200~300 US dollars per kilogram, and the profits are extremely lucrative.

Of course, Zhu Fugui has no interest in Daxing aquaculture for the time being.

Today's western part of North America is still in a state of 0 involution of "beating roe deer and scooping fish, and pheasants flying into the rice pot", plus there is no development of fishery resources in the East Taiping region at all, so Zhu Fugui does not need to consider artificial aquaculture at all.

But Daming doesn't need to raise aquatic products, a certain aquatic super empire in later generations needs it!

In later generations, the Chinese people relied on breeding to eat fish, and where is there enough wild fishing!

Artemia is almost a hard currency in aquaculture, as well as in ornamental fish farming.

The most important thing is that Artemia is neither a protected animal nor a high value-added product, but will be an important foreign exchange earning fist product for Zhu Fugui's export to future generations.

Of course, in addition to Artemia, there is also the world's largest open-pit copper mine 40 kilometers southwest of Salt Lake City.

However, it is said that it is the largest in the world, and because of the addition of the term "open air", in fact, the actual production is far less than that of Chile and other places.

But if this open-pit copper mine is not in the Great Salt Lake, where birds don't, but in the Mexican region, I am afraid that the history of world civilization is very likely to change.

In any case, copper smelting is an important pillar industry, and the more the better, for any industrial country.

Even this large copper mine is worthy of building a railway to develop.

In addition, as a salt lake, there are naturally various salt mines that can be mined, which will become the property of the Royal Mining Group.

After all, Zhu Fugui is not at ease when he hands it over to others, for fear that they will owe treasury taxes, Zhu Fugui guarantees that he will never evade taxes, and absolutely pays attention to environmental protection and protects the migratory birds in the Great Salt Lake wetland.

The people of Daming all said yes when they heard it!