Before the war with the European colonists, the Ming reclamation team led by Zhu Hao would not encounter any danger.

This is the west coast, itself is the favorite migration area of the Native Americans who escaped the European colonizers, Zhu Hao belongs to the sweet jujube and the stick together, along the rivers, mountains, etc., there are Jingjinger, Ah Da and other natives as guides, almost effortlessly to find many tribal gathering places.

As the Ming reclamation team entered the interior, a dry desert was soon found in the northeast, which made the exploring Ming army somewhat uncomfortable.

After exploration, it was found that about a hundred miles to the northeast, the forest suddenly disappeared here, bordering it with a large area of Gobi and desert, Zhu Hao knew very well that the terrain of Central America was basically high in the middle, gentle from east to west, and the deeper into the interior, the more mountains, it was not easy for the indigenous people to survive here, so he ordered this direction to be used as a secondary exploration area.

So the focus of exploration was naturally placed in the south.

In the next two months, Zhu Hao's soldiers and horses swept upstream along the river known as the Santiago River.

As they went deeper and deeper into the land, the Ming army slowly gained a firm foothold.

More indigenous tribes were conquered, and many tribes took the initiative to join, and the indigenous population successfully exceeded 40,000, which made the Ming reclamation team begin to have pressure in managing the tribes.

In mid-November, Su Xigui moved from the "bridgehead" where he landed to Settlement No. 2, near the mouth of the Santiago River, where Zhu Hao is located, which Zhu Hao has named "Xincheng", which was rebuilt from an indigenous city-state.

The old city-state was already inhabited by the natives, and the Ming soldiers and horses were stationed on the lower side of the hill, relying on the coastal hills at an altitude of more than 200 meters to build a city protected by walls on three sides, and at the same time built a dock and a dock in the city.

There is basically no need to worry about food right now.

On the one hand, the fishermen of the Daming reclamation team had the most advanced boats and fishing tools of this era, which could provide a large number of catches; On the other hand, the local natives also obediently took out their rations, and even if the Ming Dynasty levied a tax of up to seventy percent of the grain harvest, these natives did not complain, but hoped to be protected by the Ming army - compared to the brutality of the European colonists, the Ming army was simply a merciful army, and there has been no large-scale violence or bloodshed until now.

This is also related to the fact that the Ming army is from a "good citizen", and Zhu Hao restricts the army more strictly, and the pioneers of the Ming Dynasty still want to return to Daming to enjoy happiness after panning for gold overseas, the cost of crime is too great, and it is not worth committing a crime for those three melons and two dates.

The European colonizers originally used bloody methods to plunder, and most of the people who came to the New World to pan for gold were outlaws, wolf ambitions, and murderous habits, and the Europeans themselves also had a cruelty of survival of the fittest in a cruel environment in their bones, and almost every area they conquered was killed.

"Tens of thousands of people, all of them are black-eyed, black-haired and yellow-skinned natives, if you can bring them back to the Ming Dynasty......"

When Su Xigui saw Zhu Hao, he felt like he had come to do human trafficking.

Zhu Hao asked, "Why did you bring these natives back to Daming?" Sold? Or is it left to you as a tenant? ”

Su Xigui smiled, he naturally knew that these people were the foundation for the expansion of the colony.

"Little master, I heard that the team that went out to sweep has found coal and iron mines?" Su Xigui came over, mainly to get an official position in the hands of Zhu Hao.

Su Xigui is just an ordinary businessman by Zhu Hao's side until now, and he gets along more as a friend, and Zhu Hao has not entrusted him with any position, and when he set off for the New World, Zhu Hao promised that if he has a city in the future, he can let Su Xigui be responsible for external liaison and business as the city lord.

After the result came, I found that this continent is all indigenous and belongs to the objects of conquest, where is the use of what business?

Slowly he began to get anxious, under Zhu Hao, it is the most real thing to get power, after all, he can be regarded as the "founding father", and now he can only be more and more marginalized.

Zhu Hao said: "The mine has been opened, the iron ore is in good condition, but the quality of the locally produced coal is quite average, according to the refugees who fled from the upper reaches of the river, there are high-quality coal mines on the east coast, but unfortunately they are occupied by the Francophone people...... If you want to rob the coal mine in the past, the conflict with the Francophone is indispensable. ”

Zhu Hao was not in a hurry to confront the European colonizers.

Now that coal mines and iron ore have been found, even if the coal is not in good condition, the surrounding forest resources are extremely rich, and there is no problem in burning charcoal to make steel, plus there are a large number of indigenous people joining, and the manpower is much more abundant, and the conditions for the development of industry and agriculture have been met.

Of course, the expansion of territory needs to be carried out at the same time.

Zhu Hao is different from the European colonizers, he did not come to shoot and leave, with looting as the main purpose, but to continue to operate for a long time, and it was equally important for him to occupy and manage the territory well.

"Lord Su, there have been normal business activities in the city, and at present, some tribes in the south have not yet sent troops to attack, and the population of each tribe there may only be one or two thousand. But as we take root here, the Franco-Robot who hears the wind should come and loot before the wax moon, and there will inevitably be a fierce battle. ”

Zhu Hao's meaning, if you are afraid of death, you should go back to the "bridgehead" first, which is relatively safe as a rear base camp.

Su Xigui sighed: "Since I came here, I only guard my family every day, spend all day drinking, and live a life that is called a lake and a lake, which is quite a bit of a drunken meaning today...... Alas, it's not okay to fall like this, in life, you still have to find something to do for yourself. ”

Zhu Hao thought to himself, everyone else is working hard, and you take your family, as well as the singer and dancer you bought, and enjoy life on the ship docked in the port all day long, are you so embarrassed?

But who made you my great benefactor?

It doesn't seem realistic to expect the owner to fight together, anyway, you alone won't be able to help, and it's actually good for you to continue to eat and wait for death.

"Little master, what do we lack most now? Is there a place where contemptible people can help? ”

Su Xigui now finally has some sense of responsibility.

Zhu Hao said: "There is a shortage of people. ”

Su Xigui asked in surprise: "Ah, plus our own people, there are already more than 80,000, and there is still a shortage of people?" ”

Zhu Hao nodded: "It's very short, it's better to give me another 10 million people, maybe I won't worry about the shortage of manpower...... We want to build a country from scratch here, I am the king, you are the duke, of course, we can't get the edict of the Ming Emperor now, turn back...... There is no need for a seal. ”

"Understood, understood."

Su Xigui was suddenly full of energy.

After a few months of wandering at sea, when he arrived on land, he found that this was simply the primeval jungle where Ru Mao drank blood, so he was disheartened and rested for three months, and only now did he take out the shrewd mind of a businessman and prepare to do great things with Zhu Hao.

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As Zhu Hao expected.

As Zhu Hao gave a pot to the indigenous tribes around the San Diego River, the European colonists seemed to feel threatened, and their own goal was to exterminate all these indigenous tribes of Central America on the west coast, and slowly migrate the white people to occupy the Magpie's Nest.

In order to facilitate the preparation for war, Zhu Hao personally led his troops inland from the "new city".

This time he took 20,000 men with him.

In addition to the 3,000 Ming troops and 7,000 craftsmen and their family scrolls, the remaining 10,000 were indigenous young men who wanted to occupy a city that was originally indigenous to the local people, but had to be abandoned due to the proximity of European colonists.

From the descriptions of the indigenous people, Zhu Hao probably knew that this should be the prototype of Guadalajara, the second largest city in Mexico in later generations.

Zhu Hao knew that Guadalajara was officially occupied by the Spaniards in 1532, that is, eight years later, in the 11th year of Jiajing, and the Spaniards established a relatively stable rule in this area.

With this time as a reference, Zhu Hao finally remembered that it was also eight years later that the Spaniards discovered the Inca Empire on the west coast of South America, and now the indigenous population of the Inca Empire exceeds 10 million, which is a real treasure for Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao once thought of replicating the feat of more than 100 Spaniards attacking the Indian and Canadian Empire.

But for him, he was not too anxious to attack the Indian and Canadian empires, the Spaniards back then were all rookies, and Zhu Hao also had to face the murderous Spaniards, and the difficulty was naturally not comparable.

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After more than ten days of marching, the group arrived in the town of Guadalajara.

Now it is a small city, deserted for at least three or four years, and the surrounding fields are very fertile, but they are all deserted, and the natives here are scattered all over the place, and the inhabitants of the place are at least 100,000 in total, according to the indigenous description.

The atrocities of the European colonizers caused the greatest disaster to the indigenous people, and under the sharp decline in population, they had little confidence in the ethnic system of government, and more people chose to flee to the west coast, and many people migrated directly to the east to accept the enslavement of the European colonizers......

When European colonists discovered the continent, their favorite thing to do was to open silver mines.

Central America has the highest silver production in the world.

Silver itself could not be used to make weapons, making silver of little value in the Americas, but as a precious metal, it became the most favored treasure of Europeans.

After Zhu Hao led people to the town, it took more than ten days to repair and heighten and strengthen the city wall with cement, and reopened a nearby silver mine, and then Zhu Hao also sent troops to walk south for about a hundred miles, to Chapala Lake, where there are several small cities built by natives relying on the lake, Zhu Hao is ready to recruit those city residents, so that the population will increase by another 10,000 or 20,000 people.

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Zhu Hao's move to build a city in Guadalajara inevitably attracted the attention of European colonists.

Less than a month after Zhu Hao personally led his troops to garrison the city, some natives came to ventilate and report that a Caucasian man was riding a tall horse and drove towards the new city of Guadalajara.

The Europeans did not seem to realize that it was the Ming army that had reoccupied Guadalajara, and they sent a force of less than 200 men, but they brought nearly 2,000 natives to carry food, ammunition, and wine for them, and to help them transport the looted goods back to the towns on the east coast.

"The scouts have spotted them, and we're about two hundred and fifty miles away."

Lu Bing followed Zhu Hao to Guadalajara.

Originally, Lu Bing was also sent to attack the tribes around Chapala Lake, but unfortunately he learned of the emergency military situation before he went out, and he happened to have a head-to-head confrontation with the Europeans.

Zhu Hao said: "You take two hundred cavalry to hide in the nearby mountains and forests." Let's close the door and fight the dogs, in the future, this city will be used as a frontline fortress against the Francoman, so once the war breaks out, you can't let it go back! I'll sit in the city and wait for them to arrive, using artillery and guns to figure out who is the ruler of the New World! ”