It is about 160 kilometers southeast of New Spike (San Diego).

In the future, a city called Mexicali will be built here.

And now, in the Ming Dynasty's reclamation manual, this area is called Xinyangfu, and the target is Yangjiang Zhili Prefecture in Guangdong.

Yangjiang is an ancient city with a superior geographical location, mountains and rivers, and bays along the coast.

Although it is not rich in Guangdong Province, it is also a treasure land in the whole country, and it is naturally an important town for local and guest contention.

Until later generations, there were still many Hakka settlements in the southwest and west of Yangchun County.

Of course, it is only a coincidence that Xinyang Mansion took the name of Yangjiang, just because the location map is similar.

The geography of Xinyang Province bears no resemblance to Yangjiang.

Later, Mexicali was a city on the Mexican-American border in northwestern Mexico, one of the most important ports of entry for smugglers to the United States, and a vacation garden for middle-class Americans.

Historically, however, Mexicali was an agricultural city.

Despite its location in a desert basin, the climate is hot, precipitation is scarce, and earthquakes are frequent, but the land of Mexicali is unusually fertile.

Around 1885, a large number of Chinese workers came here because of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States.

They built canals to divert water from the Colorado River and then cleared land in the desert to grow cotton.

The cotton grown by the Chinese was of high quality and gradually opened up a market, bringing a steady stream of wealth to the local area, and the town of Chinese workers became the predecessor of Mexicali.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Mexicali had nearly 40,000 Chinese laborers, compared with only 3,000 white colonists and mixed-race descendants of white men and women.

It can be said that Mexicali is a complete Chinatown, where shop plaques are almost all written in Chinese, Chinese checks circulate among merchants, and even the chairman of the bank is Chinese.

The city was founded by the Chinese, reclaimed by the Chinese, and prospered by the Chinese.

However, in 1937, the Mexican government issued a decree that confiscated the wealth of the Chinese overnight and nationalized Chinese companies and banks.

The Chinese could only open restaurants, wash dishes, buy clothes, and engage in limited trades.

In the 21st century, Mexicali is still one of the largest Chinese communities in Mexico, although only 5,000 Chinese remain, while the number of mixed descendants of white colonists and white mothers has reached 800,000.

The proportion of Chinese is only 0.6%.

Therefore, even if it is not for the abundant natural resources of northern Mexico, Zhu Fugui is also determined to win the city.

It is bound to turn him into a veritable Chinatown, a city that belongs to China.

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However, for a long time in the past, due to the serious shortage of population in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Fugui and the Ming court did not have the energy to make overall arrangements in a remote area like Xinyang.

It is mostly semi-free-range.

For example, the Colorado River water diversion irrigation project, the imperial court has not yet come up with a reasonable construction plan.

This is not a simple copy of the plan of the afterlife.

Later generations because the Colorado River was upstream to the United States, and downstream was Mexico.

Americans are known for what virtue they are.

And whenever they accuse China of doing something, they usually do.

For example, in later generations, Americans and American capital-controlled NGOs frantically accused China of building a large-scale water conservancy project on the Lancang River, which would cause drought and water shortages in the lower reaches of the Mekong River (the Mekong River and the Lancang River are one river).

This is, of course, a lie.

Because the runoff of the Mekong River is extremely large, and the Indochina Peninsula itself is extremely rich in precipitation, forming a large number of tributaries, it is worth China's scientific assessment of hydrology as a responsible major country, and it is impossible to cause water shortages downstream.

But they actually did the evil act that the United States accused.

Known as the "diamond in the desert," the Hoover Dam is the pinnacle of American hydraulic engineering and has always been a model of American power.

However, this dam is the blood and tears of Mexico.

The Hoover Dam, along with 14 follow-up reservoirs and 32 large water conservancy facilities that the Americans were unreasonable about, transformed the Colorado River Delta into a famous vegetable and fruit base for the United States.

But.

"Diamonds in the Desert", the focus is on the desert and not diamonds!

The Mekong River is a big river in the rainforest, and the Colorado River flows in the desert!

According to the Americans, China is going to run out of water from the Mekong, so of course they really did it!

Almost all of the Colorado River's water resources are used up by the Americans.

Since 1998, the Colorado River has never flowed into the sea.

Mexico lost its most fertile agricultural region, but the United States didn't care.

But for the Ming Dynasty, the northern part of Mexico to the Colorado estuary is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming cannot afford not to care about the water needs of these lands.

Daming's use of the Colorado River must not be "Hoover Dam style", and it needs to rely on the wisdom of Daming's engineers to find the answer to the problem.

Therefore, until now, the water use in the Xinyang area still relies on the natural tributaries of the Colorado River.

One such tributary is the Amon River, which flows down the mountains of Southern Nevada and joins the Colorado River eastward.

In the past, the water of this small river was not very deep, only about two meters.

Compared to the land near the desert area of Xinyang, the land on both sides of the Amun River can be described as fertile.

Lai Xinyou's family came to settle on the banks of the Amun River last winter.

At that time, it was the time when the northern waterfowl went south for the winter, and there was a shallow lake near the fork of the river, and the waterfowl frolicked, drawing a picture of the blue sky and green fields.

These waterfowl are not only beautiful, but they also taste very good.

At least that's what the two and a half sons of Lai Xinyou's family think.

The imperial trainer of the production team seriously criticized Lai Xinyou's family.

Waterfowl can be eaten, but not so much, pay attention to the inner ...... What protection is born inside!

In fact, the imperial trainer of the production team only studied in Fengdu for half a year, barely getting rid of the category of illiteracy.

However, according to the above notice, Xinsui will also open a training point in the future.

Imperial trainers like him have to go to a week's retraining every year to systematically study His Majesty Zhu Fugui's various advanced ideas on grassroots governance.

This kind of centralized training will become the norm for grassroots officials in the Ming Dynasty.

Although it seems that it is inevitable to be suspected of formalism, Zhu Fugui knows that only by not relaxing his control over the grassroots can he maintain the strong mobilization capacity of a country and a nation.

Many things that seem to be poor and tossed, once faced with the real test, will play their valuable value in improving the bottom line of cadres.

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Lai Xinyou smoked two and a half sizes with a rattan.

He didn't understand what kind of ecological protection was inside, but he knew that this was not his hometown in Fujian, and what flew in the sky and downstream here was earned by the emperor himself.

The emperor took pity on everyone, so he drove the big ship to fish everyone here, give them food and drink, and return the land to plant, and they didn't pay for food!

The only requirement is for everyone to take shotguns, and not to let the Kunlun slaves from the east and the Zahu'er from the south touch in.

Lai Xinyou has never read any books, but he also knows that from ancient times to the present, the emperor who does not want the people to pay food, this little genius of the Ming Dynasty is the first one.

How can such a good person still eat his birds?

This is too undeserved!

Throughout the winter, Lai Xinyou's family was clearing the wasteland.

Because the winter here is not cold, Lai Xinyou, his wife and two and a half sons have cultivated more than 100 acres of land together, ready to plant crops next year.

In fact, the imperial trainer came to persuade him several times, saying that the Ming Dynasty was not short of food at all.

Do you know Xinjin Farm?

Corn and wheat as far as the eye can see.

The military masters drove big iron oxen to grow wheat, one of which was three or four zhang wide.

The granary that is harvested every year can't be stored, so it can only be used to make alcohol for the big iron cow to drink!

The 100 acres of land you rely on are not enough to fill people's teeth.

Listen to my brother's words, you might as well raise cattle and raise the Dutch cow that our foreign princess dedicated to our emperor.

Last time, I had a meeting in the house, and I heard that Long Live Lord was going to invest in building a sterilized milk factory in our Xinyang to supply Xinsui to a new school......

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The bitter heart of the imperial trainer did not waver Lai Xinyou in the slightest.

What Dutch cows, what sterilized milk factory, Lai Xinyou has never heard of it.

On the contrary, the only thing he was interested in was the kind of big iron bull that the imperial trainer said.

In fact, during the months of studying in the naturalization class, Lai Xinyou also saw those powerful iron bulls.

It's just that he just came to Daming at that time, just like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, the huge information explosion made his whole brain buzz, and he also had too many ideas.

Now listening to what the imperial trainer said, Lai Laosan's mind became active.

The kind of big iron ox that cultivates three or four zhang wide at one time is not extravagant.

But he felt that he had planted land for a few years with peace of mind, and he couldn't say that he would be able to go to Xinsui Mansion to buy one or two small iron cows.

At that time, my family of four may be able to reclaim 500 acres of land!

More than 500 acres of land!

The landlord in Fujian's hometown doesn't have so much land, and it's still watered by the riverbank!

Although he only has the right to use and no permanent property rights, can being a tenant directly to the landlord be the same as being a tenant to the emperor?

Lai Xinyou recognized that as long as his family of four farmed with peace of mind, even if the emperor began to collect rent again, his family would no longer be hungry and poor.

At that time, the two boys became a family, took their mother-in-law, and each of them was divided into 250 acres, so it was still a big family, right?

Imagining a better life, Lai Laosan is looking forward to the day when the seedlings are sown day by day.

But something is starting to go wrong this day.

For four months, the sky of Xinyang only saw clouds, and no rain fell.

The water level of the Amun River is also visibly lower.

Early this morning, Lai Laosan and his mother-in-law went to the Amun River to fetch water.

Before coming to the river beach, Lai Laosan was dumbfounded.

The Amun River, which had already had a smaller runoff, dried up today.

The muddy riverbed is bare in the air, and a few fish and shrimp are fluttering in the few puddles that are there.

The remaining waterfowl kept circling, occasionally snatching a large fish.