Zhu Si issued an order to let Luo An go to Zhejiang and cooperate with Lu Wan to complete shipbuilding and going to sea.

When Luo An arrived at the border of Zhejiang Province, it was November of the fifth year of Jiajing, and the war between the officers and soldiers of the southeast coastal guard station and the pirates and pirates had just begun.

"Lu Zhongcheng, Your Majesty's intention is to quickly build ten large sea ships, equipped with the necessary artillery, guns and other firearms, each ship carries 600 sailors, a total of 6,000 soldiers and horses to go to sea."

Luo An conveyed to Lu Wan the dictate of Emperor Jiajing.

Lu Wan heard some unusual meanings, and immediately asked, "Your Majesty wants this official to follow in the footsteps of Master Zhu and go overseas?" ”

Luo An didn't know how to answer.

Obviously, this time Emperor Jiajing asked Lu Wan to prepare 6,000 soldiers and horses, because he saw that when Zhu Hao went to sea, the guards he commanded were only 5,000, and the number of ten ships seemed to be small, but the 6,000 soldiers and horses who occupied the name of righteousness could almost "capture" Zhu Hao back, after all, not everyone under Zhu Hao was willing to follow him all the way to the black.

Lu Wan saw this meaning and asked like this.

Lu Wan asked again: "I don't know how much time to prepare for Weichen?" ”

"Before the summer of the next year." Luo Andao.

Lu Wan sighed and said: "The people who went to sea before are still not heard from now, and they are anxious and anxious, and there are many complaints in the southeast coastal areas. In this case, if you want to recruit troops and horses to go to sea again, I am afraid that it will not be so smooth. In addition, the seafarers have been moving inward for a long time, and many of the soldiers of the coastal guards have never been on the boat, so it is difficult to withstand the turbulence of the wind and waves, and it may be difficult to adapt to the time to drift on the sea. ”

Luo An frowned: "Lu Zhongcheng, you won't resist and disobey the order, right?" Now that His Majesty has greeted the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, the two banks will be transferred to Jinling, Dinghai and other shipyards as soon as possible, and you can only build sea ships and send troops as ordered. ”

Lu Wan hesitated for a moment, and said euphemistically: "But before Master Zhu went to sea, he had taken away the shipbuilders from the major shipyards, so he was afraid of ......."

"It's man-made."

Even if Luo An wanted to take out the emperor's faction and intimidate Lu Wan into submission, he also understood that there were many things that could not be forced, and now he said that he wanted to build a ship and go to sea, but at present, Lu Wan's men and materials have no personnel, where is it so easy?

Anyway, the scheduled time to go to sea is half a year later, and Luo An is only responsible for coming over to supervise the shipbuilding, which can keep him away from the rights and wrongs of the officialdom in the capital for a while.

Luo An has a gentle personality and is at peace with what happens, he is not the kind of person who will do anything to climb up, but he can steal half a day of leisure if he stays in Zhejiang.

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Da Ming is already preparing to go to sea, although Lu Wan doesn't really want to carry it out, but in the end, the emperor's order is in his body, even if he is reluctant, he has to act.

But shipbuilding is really not smooth, mainly because Zhu Hao has taken away the skilled craftsmen who have built ships, and in the past two years, the war to exterminate the pirates in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and other places has mostly been marched by land, even if it is necessary to sail to clear the offshore islands, the ships used are all old ships built by Zhu Hao, which can only transport troops, not naval battles, and there is no problem with offshore navigation, but the power of the ocean is not enough, after all, the anti-wave performance is too poor.

Now the shipbuilding and sea missions facing Lu Wan are facing severe challenges -- not whether the coastal guard can transfer these 6,000 soldiers and horses, but the key is that no one wants to go.

Americas at this time.

Zhu Hao went out again with his soldiers and horses, this time his target was Central America, he wanted to reoccupy the increasingly desolate Panama, and build a city in the east and west of this region as a transit point connecting Central America and South America.

In addition to completing the promotion of plantations and gathering the indigenous people from all over the country, he also vigorously developed the east coast of Panama, that is, to build towns on the Atlantic coast, open shipyards, and carry out a large-scale shipbuilding campaign.

The construction of Panama is more to echo Su Xigui's large-scale development on the east coast of Central America.

After all, that side is the main target of the European colonizers in the next step, once the European colonists land on a large scale, Su Xigui may not be able to hold on, and can only rely on the men and horses in his hands to wait for reinforcements, but the Ming fleet has to sail from SF City, and it has to bypass the southernmost tip of South America, which takes too long.

On the other hand, on the Panamanian side, because the narrowest part of the land is only 50 kilometers, both the Pacific and Atlantic sides are suitable for repairing cities, which can echo each other to complete shipbuilding and garrisoning.

In the future, whether the Gulf Coast is attacked by a European fleet, or the Pacific Ocean is attacked, the two sides can form an echo.

The advantage of building a city on both flanks of Panama and stationing it in this area can cut off the land communication between the North and South American continents of the European colonizers, which is equivalent to being stuck in the choke point of the American continent, and this territory Zhu Hao must take it.

Going to Panama, this time Zhu Hao took the waterway.

Zhu Hao did not deliberately detour to Panama when he went south to the Inca Empire for the second time, but it is expected that after he bombarded Panama City last time and destroyed Panama City, European colonists are likely to have begun to try to build a second Panama City.

This time, Zhu Hao went directly by water.

With the steel giant ship as the command ship, leading a huge fleet, only about 15 days, Zhu Hao's team arrived from SF City to the coastal area of the Pacific side of Panama, and after landing, it was found that the European colonists had not repaired the city, even if there were some shadows of towns around, but after the Francophone found out that the Ming ship arrived, they all fled north.

Zhu Hao unknowingly, has made the Ming army a god-like existence in the Americas, not to mention the indigenous side, anyone who encounters it will feel that the gods have come down to save them, and the European colonists have now begun to regard the Ming army as an invincible hero, and they no longer dare to confront the Ming army head-on.

Zhu Hao brought his newly trained natives this time, about 5,000 people, who were Aztecs armed with flintlock pistols and could use artillery, which was the strongest existence under Zhu Hao's command that did not belong to the Ming army system. Due to trust issues, they did not yet have front-loading rapid-fire rifles equipped with new rifle cartridges, and the flintlock muskets alone were no match for the European colonists who were armed with arquebuses at this time.

In the landing force, the Ming officers and soldiers were only 600, accounting for a negligible proportion, and at the same time they were equipped with 5,000 Inca soldiers, who looked much rougher than before, with bulging tendons and flesh on their bodies, tall and strong, and mostly shield soldiers, spearmen and cold weapon soldiers with bows and crossbows.

With the accompanying craftsmen, there were 20,000 people in total, and it was not realistic to build a city on the east and west coasts of Panama with such a small number of people, and the rest could only wait for the arrival of the army by land.

The Incas, who migrated overland this time, had almost 200,000 strong laborers.

The 200,000 men would travel all the way from Ecuador to what would become Columbia, and with their families, there would be 500,000 or 600,000 people in tow, and the speed of the journey would not be fast, but such a population base would have the strength to establish a city-state.

In addition to the exiled soldiers of the Inca Royal Guard, there were also many border people and homeless people from small tribes and city-states invaded by the Inca Empire, and Zhu Hao asked them to migrate to Central America, which was tantamount to giving them a chance to establish their own homeland.

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A month later, Inca immigrants arrived in Panama.

This force was discovered by the European colonizers, who also sent a small force of men to take down these hundreds of thousands of people in one go, but then they found out...... In front of them is no longer the soft persimmon that they had in their previous impressions, even if this group of men and horses is basically not escorted by the Ming army, just relying on the five thousand Aztec flintlock pikemen who are in the formation are enough to resist any form of attack.

The European colonizers are now not the opponents of the Ming army, and even the Aztec armed forces trained by the Ming army can only bow to the upper hand.

Unless the European colonizers increased their dispatch and continuously transported troops and horses from Europe to the New World, the era when they could send only one or two hundred troops at a time, or even dozens of people, would be gone forever.

Six hundred thousand migrants arrived in the Panamanian region.

Coupled with the thousands of natives temporarily recruited from the surrounding areas of Panama, as well as the 20,000 soldiers and craftsmen brought by Zhu Hao, the mighty Central American construction movement began.

The task that this group of people received was very simple, that is, to build a city, at present, they do not need to cultivate the land, Zhu Hao's fleet from Xincheng and SF City continuously transported food and necessary living materials for them, as for the earthwork and stone needed to build the city, they could take local materials.

This has to talk about the talent of the native Americans in building cities, they didn't even invent wheel technology before, but they can use huge mountain rocks to build various stone statues and pyramids, etc., and the defense strength of the cities they built is also very high.

Now Zhu Hao has brought them the formed construction technology, so that they can avoid worries, so that they can build the city designed by Zhu Hao, which is easy for them.

With the beginning of the city-building movement, the northern Aztecs also began to move south, migrating to the northern part of Panama, and there were many towns left by European colonizers in Central America itself, and these towns themselves also had indigenous presences, but they were more of an inferior people, responsible for heavy manual work, and did not have any due living security.

After the European colonizers gradually withdrew from Central America, these indigenous people needed new armed forces to shelter, and when they heard that the native people of Panama had begun to build cities, a large number of Mesoamerican indigenous people dragged their families to the Panamanian region.

Zhu Hao gave them enough land to build their own houses here, not all of which were used to grow food, but also cash crops such as cotton, linen and even mulberry trees.

The biggest advantage of conquering the Inca Empire is to solve the problem of food supply, although the taste of several special food crops in the southern continent may not be very good, but the advantage is that the yield is high, can raise people, the cultivation of various crops allows these tribesmen in the primitive and backward life form to fill their stomachs.

At the same time, these natives were able to pay a large amount of taxes to help Zhu Hao promote the process of industrialization.

At the same time as the city-building movement was carried out, the construction of various workshops in the city was also on the right track, and various light industrial products appeared one after another, making the two Panama cities in the east and west become fragrant and sweet, and the light industrial products here could be easily exchanged for food grown by the indigenous people, and the food ration problem in the city was successfully solved.

With Zhu Hao's operation in the Americas for nearly three years, the natives under his rule are no longer the primitive people who wear animal fur and simply cover leaves, and basically everyone wears clothes and shoes on their feet, and the medical and health conditions of the tribal population have also made great progress.

Ordinary people are sick, and they no longer rely on witch doctors to heal their diseases, Zhu Hao has brought a large number of medicinal materials before, planted and vigorously promoted, plus there are many doctors in the army, and diagnosis and treatment are not difficult.

At present, Zhu Hao is still promoting the research of various antibiotics, such as allicin, berberine, Xiaochaihu injection, Houttuynia cordata concentrate and other plant antibiotics, which have greatly extended the life expectancy of Native Americans.