The men and horses sent by Zhu Hao to conquer the Inca Empire have achieved phased results.

Cities of at least a slight size in the territory have been incorporated into the territory of the new empire in recent months, and emissaries from all over the country have gathered in SF City.

At the same time, large-scale construction of SF City and the surrounding areas is in full swing.

In order to ensure the stability of this new capital, Zhu Hao built many stone fortresses around it, and equipped with artillery, machine guns and other weapons of mass destruction, and the soldiers recruited from the Aztecs and Incas began to receive formal military training, from standing in military posture to organizing internal affairs, to walking in queues and practicing bayonet fighting, shooting, covering all aspects of the training of recruits in later generations.

At the same time, the recruits had to accept the idea that the Ming and Indians were all descendants of Yin Shang every day, and everyone had the same roots, and Zhu Hao represented the will of the gods, and this time he came to save the tribesmen who were suffering from white invasion in the Americas and were in the heat of water and fire, so whether it was the Aztecs or the Incas, they had to be loyal to Zhu Hao.

"Aren't you afraid to teach them a real threat to us?"

Lou Suzhen visited the training soldiers with Zhu Hao that day, standing on the high platform next to the school grounds, Lou Suzhen was curious about Zhu Hao's trust in this group of indigenous soldiers.

Zhu Hao said: "Teaching them how to use and maintain weapons and equipment correctly, and not letting them participate in the specific production, is the only thing I can do at present." In comparison, they are indeed not as credible as the Ming officers and soldiers we brought, but the trust between people is more based on mutual benefit. ”

"Hmm."

Lou Suzhen nodded, "People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, who can tell this kind of thing?" ”

Obviously, Lou Suzhen has a very thorough view of people's inferior nature.

Just like when her husband Zhu Chenhao went on the expedition, the rebellion of his subordinates could not be prevented at all, and the more she felt that a certain subordinate was credible, the more powerful his betrayal became.

Zhu Hao said: "In comparison, the Aztecs, that is, the aborigines of the north, I will have a higher degree of trust in them, they can be regarded as a real country ruined, experienced real suffering, more conscious in training, and more hard, they know that if we don't appear, what awaits them will be the tragic end of extermination, so now they have the opportunity to firmly control their fate in their own hands, and cherish it more than anyone else." ”

Zhu Hao pointed to the Aztec soldiers who were concentrating on training, and his face was full of emotion.

Lou Suzhen asked, "How many northern aborigines do we have under our command now?" ”

"Between 400,000 and 500,000, most of them are in Xincheng, Chang'an City, and the three cities on the east coast controlled by the Soviet Dongzhu. Among them, there are about 300,000 strong men, and their ethnic development has been seriously unbalanced, although they have also begun to intermarry with the aborigines of the south, but judging from the current results, it is not ideal. ”

The Aztec Empire, once the largest country in Central America, was almost wiped out after the Europeans invaded the Americas.

In addition to women, only a few strong men were left to work as coolies in the conquered areas, and the old and weak women and children who were currently included in the Aztec people under Zhu Hao's command were mostly submissive tribes in the coastal areas around the new city, and many people could not be regarded as Aztec Empire people in the strict sense, but only indigenous to small Indian tribes.

Lou Suzhen asked again: "Then how many aborigines are there in the south now?" ”

Zhu Hao smiled at this: "At present, there are about eight million, and there may be two or three million people living in the border areas of the empire, which is probably our entire population." ”

"More than 10 million people ......"

Only then did Lou Suzhen know why Zhu Hao came to conquer this continent that was still in the barbaric era.

Although Lou Suzhen does not know how many people the Ming Dynasty currently has, it is expected that it will not exceed 50 or 60 million people, while Zhu Hao only relies on less than 40,000 Ming people, and after two or three years of hard work, he has incorporated 10 million people into his territory.

More importantly, the technology of these aborigines is very backward, and all aspects of life such as clothing, food, housing and transportation are completely controlled by Zhu Hao, before Zhu Hao said that he would train 100,000 troops, Lou Suzhen also felt that it was exaggerated, but now it seems that it is not difficult to complete it at all.

Even if Zhu Hao said that he wanted to train a million troops, it was not impossible.

After all, the tactics used by Zhu Hao are not ordinary cold weapons to fight face-to-face, but to use firearms that shoot from a long distance, and the advantage is that soldiers do not necessarily have to use young adults, or have good physical strength to become soldiers, even ordinary people can be competent, and even trained women can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

Zhu Hao said: "I really want to get a batch of horses from somewhere else now, but unfortunately we can't think of many ways in terms of animal husbandry." ”

Lou Suzhen asked, "Do you want to continue with those ...... Europeans do business? ”

"No need, we can send a fleet to fetch it ourselves!"

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Zhu Hao is about to start ocean trade.

It is not difficult to open a route across the Atlantic, but it is difficult to find a foothold on the European continent and then obtain the supplies you need.

In short, he can't just look at the American continent, where he has established himself and needs to continue to forge ahead, and the foundation of this goal is to constantly train qualified recruits and forge new weapons.

At this time, in the Ming Dynasty, a discussion about whether to find Zhu Hao also moved from the dark to the light, and even the cabinet was involved.

Fei Hong, the first assistant, has been feeling exhausted recently.

He has been guarding against Zhang Xuan entering the cabinet, but as the pressure brought by Yang Yiqing increases, the pattern of the cabinet changes, and Liu Chun can provide less and less help to Fei Hong. and Jia Yong left the cabinet one after another, and the cabinet currently presents a troika pattern of Fei Hong, Liu Chun and Yang Yiqing.

On this day, the three members of the cabinet were summoned by Zhu Si to the Qianqing Palace, and they had not seen the emperor for more than a month.

"I want to increase the number of cabinet ministers, and according to the established strategy, I will use Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao to enter the cabinet, I don't know what your opinions are?"

As soon as the emperor came up, he made the topic clear.

The Emperor was not satisfied with the current structure of the Cabinet.

In the past year, Fei Hong has submitted his resignation many times, and almost everyone can see that Fei Hong's days as the first assistant will not be too long, and during his time as the first assistant, it seems that the power of the cabinet is increasing day by day, but the corresponding is that the emperor has rarely directly intervened in court affairs, and the lack of court meetings has plunged the court into a chaotic and disorderly state.

Many people think that it won't be long before something bad happens.

The emperor has made his attitude clear, and the three members of the cabinet will naturally have no opinions, who should be put in the court to push it, but now the emperor does not hold a court meeting, and this kind of thing is difficult to advance in a normal way.

Since the emperor said that Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao should enter the cabinet, it is almost that the two of them did not run away.

"In addition, I want someone to build a number of big ships and go to sea to find Zhu Jingdao."

This time, the emperor no longer consulted with the three members of the cabinet, but directly used the tone of order.

Liu Chun said: "Your Majesty, Master Zhu has been away from Daming for more than two years, and now I am afraid that it will be difficult to find, I don't know where he is now, and the court really doesn't need to work hard for it." ”

Zhu Si said coldly: "When my Daming Navy went to sea for the first time, a guide came back with him, and then Zhu Jingdao went to sea, that is to say, now someone in Daming knows where they are." If a fleet is dispatched, it should be possible to find out their whereabouts in more than half a year. ”

Yang Yiqing asked: "What if the fleet at sea encounters a storm and has all been buried in the sea?" ”

This is an inopportune question.

But it is also the true embodiment of Yang Yiqing's upright character, he will not completely follow the emperor's will to speak, and Yang Yiqing is much stronger than Fei Hong in dealing with court affairs.

Zhang Zuo stood up from behind the emperor and said loudly: "Elder Yang Ge, at that time, Mr. Zhu went to sea with hundreds of ships, and the number of large ships in the sea was not a few, such a large fleet comparable to the Three Treasure Eunuchs going to the Western Ocean back then, even if it encountered a storm, it would be impossible for the whole army to be wiped out, right?" ”

Zhu Sidao: "It is precisely because Zhu Jingdao may encounter a storm at sea and be stranded overseas and unable to return that I have to send someone to find it." Zhu Jingdao mentioned to me before that his trip was to find fairy grass for me, and at the same time to search for overseas silver and gold mines for the imperial court, and his loyalty was commendable...... The cost of building the ship this time was the gold and silver expenses he sent back for the first time before. ”

Yang Yiqing and others disagreed.

The gold and silver sent back by Zhu Hao had already been squandered by Zhu Si before, and now he wants to build a ship, to put it nicely, the emperor has to pay for it himself, but in the end, it is not the household department that pays for the silver...... Now that the little emperor's control of the treasury is becoming more and more arbitrary, the Ming courtiers have never felt such great pressure on the imperial power.

In their opinion, this little emperor is simply greedy, and even thinks that this is all a bad problem that Zhu Hao has developed for the little emperor.

"To build ten big ships, or it takes more than 100,000 or 200,000 taels of silver, the ship doesn't have to be too big, and it can ensure the needs of going to sea." Zhu Si gave a plan.

Ten boats will do!

Yang Yiqing said: "If you just build ten boats, you shouldn't need so much silver, right?" ”

"And artillery."

Zhu Si said coldly, "Plus the degree of training soldiers, it should be about the same!" When I turn around, I will make people make an edict, and you should do it! ”

The emperor was too lazy to discuss with the three people in front of him, since he had already decided on something, it was just a routine matter to say it.

The three members of the cabinet felt that the emperor was not only worried about Zhu Hao's saying that he would find him an elixir of immortality, but also worried about Zhu Hao's overseas mining, and now the emperor was short of money, and felt that the ministers of the court and the central government had no ability to make money, and planned to find Zhu Hao back to take care of the small treasury for him.

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"Is there a play?"

Coming out of the Qianqing Palace, Liu Chun asked in a weird tone of yin and yang.

Yang Yiqing was too lazy to answer such a boring question, and he didn't even want to get Zhu Hao back at all.

Zhu Hao's status in the emperor's heart is too high, obviously he has been away from the Ming Dynasty for more than two years, and the emperor still can't forget it, what is the benefit of such a barb that was once placed by the emperor in the civil officials?

Let Zhu Hao enter the cabinet as the first assistant?

Or let Zhu Hao be the secretary of the ministry?

With Zhu Hao here, what else is going on with them?

Fei Hong said: "Your Majesty's obsession with Zhu Jingdao is too deep, and now you should be worried that Your Majesty will use this to dispatch more money and food from the household department." In the past two years, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has been empty, and the northwest has been in a state of endless war. It's too difficult to be a good home to the court! Alas, I should have stepped back. ”

What he meant was that with Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao entering the cabinet, there was no need for him to stick to the cabinet anymore.

Just give up the position to the "young man".

Liu Chun smiled: "If you want to retreat, won't I have to retreat?" In the future, the Ming Dynasty will be handed over to a handsome man like Ying Ning. The more I think about it, the more I feel sorry......"