Chapter 156, North American Passages, Tsarist Russia's Southward Journey, French Mission

Just as the governor of the new British Empire's Indian colony and commander of the Eastern Intervention Fleet arrived in Calcutta.

Zhongdu should be Tianfu.

The renovated Daming Palace, the diligent palace of His Majesty Zhu Daohua, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Outside the hall is the hot spring flowing water that is bubbling with white air, and the flowing water flows through the rockery, flower garden, and lotus leaf pond.

Pavilions, pavilions, pavilion

The steaming hot springs also raise the temperature outside the entire hall to the point that it is like a warm winter.

The corners of the hall are also surrounded by warm pipes, even if it is already the cold winter of December, it makes Chang Yinghu, who hurried by with a pile of documents, sweat for a while.

As the secretary of the Emperor of Liberation.

Chang Yinghu's daily work is basically to go back and forth between the Qinzheng Hall and the cabinet.

Although Zhu Daohua is not a too diligent emperor.

At least compared to his workaholic ancestors.

The Emperor of the Liberation Dynasty had a regular routine, waking up at six o'clock in the morning (eight o'clock in the morning), riding or running for three quarters of an hour in the palace, followed by reading books and newspapers in his imperial study, or meeting with two prime ministers.

In the afternoon, I will come to the Qinzheng Hall to start work.

However, there are generally no major events, and even many times Emperor Zhu will go out to inspect the army, factories, farmland, etc.

Walking back from the cabinet next door to the Qinzheng Hall with a bunch of concerts, Chang Yinghu heard the hearty laughter of His Majesty the Emperor before he entered the door.

"If you find a route to Hawaii, you're not far from finding a route to the North American continent!"

After walking in, I saw that His Majesty the Emperor was meeting with the commander of the North American Route Exploration Division, and Xie Guifang, a son of the Xie family in Jiaying Prefecture, was sitting in front of His Majesty the Emperor, and it seemed that the task of exploring the North American route had made new progress.

Chang Yinghu hurriedly walked in, sorted all the documents on Zhu Daohua's desk, and wrote labels for Zhu Daohua to consult at any time.

After that's done.

Chang Yinghu began to put some of the documents that Zhu Daohua had already commented with a red pen on the other side of the desk.

Chang Yinghu has to classify the documents according to their content and send them to different departments.

The paperwork can be very tedious.

However, many Hunan villagers in Chang Yinghu are very envious, because this is the secretary of the Son of Heaven, and the close minister of the Son of Heaven, what a great honor this is.

Chang Yinghu didn't listen to what Zhu Daohua and Xie Guifang were saying, but just did his job honestly.

This is also one of the reasons why he was able to work as a secretary by Zhu Daohua's side for more than a year.

However, even if Chang Yinghu didn't listen, he knew the reason why His Majesty the Emperor was so happy.

More than a year ago, before the capital was moved to Yingtianfu and His Majesty the Emperor was not yet proclaimed emperor, the North American Division was formed, and expeditions were to be sent from ports in Japan to find routes to the American continent and the island of Hawaii.

Now it looks like it's paying off.

"Your Majesty, the fleet docked in Hawaii, but there are already many European immigrants there, and the islands are ruled by indigenous chiefs."

Xie Guifang said.

Zhu Daohua nodded.

He spread out the map, pointed to the location of Hawaii and said: "The strategic location of this island in the future is quite important, this is a key node for whether China can seize North America, and it is also a key springboard for future immigration to the Americas!" ”

"The members of this expedition have made a great achievement, and they will also start to send a caravan to the Hawaiian Islands to conduct trade, and thoroughly understand the situation on the island."

The reason why Zhu Daohua is so concerned about the Hawaiian Islands is, of course, based on the consideration of the future naval combat model.

The era of all-ironclad ships is coming.

The fleet of the future is limited by fuel and has a limited range, so some key strategic nodes are very important.

For Da Ming.

The islands of Southeast Asia must be mastered, especially the Strait of Malacca.

And in the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, the so-called island chain in later generations was a natural defensive circle after being controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

Hawaii is the transit point for Daming to the Americas in the future, and it is also the most important port for Daming's Pacific Fleet.

This strategic point must be held in your hands no matter what.

After meeting with Xie Guifang and arranging the plan of the Hawaii trade route.

Zhu Daohua sat back at his desk.

"Your Majesty, this is news from the Central Plains and Manchuria..."

Chang Yinghu hurriedly handed Zhu Daohua several documents on the Central Plains War and Manchuria's reclamation.

This is also the issue that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is most concerned about at the moment.

The confrontation between the Qing court and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Henan, of course, it is impossible for the Ming side not to care.

This war was also the best window for the Ming Dynasty to observe how much combat power the soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had after the feudal reform.

The other is the news of Manchuria's reclamation.

Now the Ming Dynasty has built a fortress on Changshan Island in eastern Liaoning and Vladivostok in northern Liaoning, and sent troops to garrison them.

According to the information received from the advance team.

Now Liaobei is basically covered by primeval forests, there is no agricultural soil for a long time, to develop the forest must burn the forest, it is best to be able to carbonize the roots together, so that the cultivated land can be developed with ox ploughing or horse ploughing, there is a certain degree of difficulty, but in the dense forest, there are rivers meandering, swamps, wetlands, grasslands are also distributed from time to time, which greatly reduces the difficulty of early development, and the problem is not big.

The Songhua River basin in eastern Liaoning is a fertile soil, most of which are swamps, lakes and rivers evenly scattered throughout the vast Songhua River and Nenjiang Plain, and it is not difficult to develop.

More critically.

From Liaodong to Liaobei, a vast area comparable to the size of the Central Plains, there is black and swarthy black soil everywhere.

These news made the officials of the Ming cabinet quite excited.

Compared to the distant Americas, compared to the miasma and tropical rainforests of the South Sea islands.

This land in northern Liaobei is the most coveted fertile soil for the Han farming race.

Therefore, many officials have written to his majesty, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor will reduce his interest in North America and give full support to immigrants to settle in northern Liao.

Of course, Zhu Daohua has no opinion on this, and he has long thought about supporting the development of the Great Northeast.

However, we should not relax our exploration of North American routes.

Grasp with both hands, and be hard with both hands.

"Found traces of Cossacks in Vladivostok?"

Zhu Daohua frowned.

Sure enough, the Russians had already begun to explore south.

If they found out, the Ming built a fortress and a port in Vladivostok.

It's easy to guess that it's a port that can be used even in winter.

To be honest, the current ruling core of the Ming Dynasty is quite far from Vladivostok.

But it was always smoother than the arrival of Tsarist Russia in this region.

At that point, the Cossack cavalry was not enough to support Tsarist Russia to provoke a major battle in the Vladivostok region.

In fact, Tsarist Russia was able to occupy the vast expanse of Siberia, and there were not many troops at its disposal.

Before having rail transport.

The forces that Russia is able to invest in Eastern Siberia are quite limited.

Therefore, Zhu Daohua is not worried about what Tsarist Russia can do in this region.

He thought for a while and instructed: closely watch the movements of the Russians, and if you find the opponent's stronghold, resolutely uproot it!

Relying on the military tun, the forces that the Ming can mobilize in the Vladivostok area are much larger than those of the Russians, and there is no need to be afraid at all.

Subsequently, the second document was about how to stabilize the military cantonment, and the reclamation department requested that school-age women be purchased from Korea and Japan to be wives for the cantonment soldiers in the military cantonment to reassure the army.

Zhu Daohua thought about it and wrote down the word "can".

If you start a family, arrange a mother-in-law to farm in northern Liaobei with peace of mind.

After completing this, Zhu Daohua began to care about the Battle of the Central Plains.

The armies of the two sides have confronted each other under Tongguan, and the Qing court has driven all the people of Shaanzhou to Henan Mansion, and in the process there is a group of green flag soldiers who have made a fortune.

And due to the sudden drop in temperature in the last half a month or so, the two sides have not yet started a big battle, but the confrontation between small-scale scouts has become more and more intense.

According to this situation, as long as the weather warms up a little, the two sides will probably start a big war.

After giving these instructions, Zhu Daohua flipped through and frowned slightly.

"Where are the missions returning to Europe?"

Two days ago the Clippers came to report.

Lin Dagong has already set off from Batam, counting the days, it should be only these two days to arrive at Yingtianfu.

Chang Yinghu hurriedly said: "There was no clipper return yesterday, Xu is still on the way." ”

The voice just fell.

Someone came in a hurry.

"Your Majesty! Lin Shangshu has already passed Songjiang Mansion! Coming soon! "Read the full content

Zhu Daohua stood up with a sigh.

"Go, send the Jiangfang fleet to greet you, call the prime ministers from the left and right, I want to set up Jiangning Port!"

"Yes!"

..........

Finally back.

Grand Duke Lin stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the two sides of the general.

When he left, the world was still occupied by the Qing Tartars.

And now.

Half of the world has been recovered, and the task of restoring China has been half completed.

Louis. De Saint-Just looked curiously at this strange country.

The steamer rumbled past the river.

Factories spitting black smoke are on both sides of the river.

Dense factories, busy waterways.

The capital of an Eastern empire, which seemed to be more prosperous and powerful than London and Paris, was about to appear in front of him.

"I have to say... Until they arrived here, all Europeans could not have imagined the power of this country..."

De Saint-Just whispered.

Grand Duke Lin was also observing, in his eyes.

It was a country he knew very well.

Now it has become both strange and familiar.

Strange because the country was not the same as he remembered.

At least...

Before that, there were no factories with black smoke, no ships with black smoke.

Is this what the emperor said, the power of industrialization?

Lin Dagong looked into the depths of the river.

"It's so vibrant, sir."

Louis. De Saint-Just spoke.

When Lin Dagong heard this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Yes, it's really full of life.

"Maybe in the future, the Qinhuai River will be the same as the Thames... It's going to be black, right? ”

Lin Dagong said.

After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly got up from the bed. If you want to watch the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the content of the latest chapters, and the Star Reading APP has updated the content of the latest chapters.

He took a big breath of fresh air, and his chest trembled.

Confused, incomprehensible, all kinds of emotions come to my heart.

Where is this?

Then, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around, and then became even more dazed.

A single dormitory?

Even if he had managed to be rescued, he would have been in the ward by now.

And their own bodies...... How could it be that there was no injury at all.

With doubts, Shi Yu's gaze quickly swept from the room, and finally his gaze stayed on a mirror at the head of the bed.

The mirror reflected his current appearance, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his appearance was very handsome.

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The previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.

And now, no matter how you look at it, this appearance is only the age of a high school student......

This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.

Don't tell him that the operation was a success......

The body and face have changed, and this is not a question of surgery or not surgery at all, but immortal magic.

He's a different guy altogether!

Don't...... Did you cross by yourself?

In addition to the mirror at the head of the bed, which was obviously not good in feng shui, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.

Shi Yu picked it up and looked at it, and the title of the book instantly silenced him.

"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Novice Breeders"

Postpartum Care for Pet Animals

"Alien Beast Ear Girl Evaluation Guide"

Shi Yu: ???

The names of the first two books are quite normal, but what are you doing with the last one?

"Ahem."

Shi Yu's eyes were solemn and he stretched out his hand, but his arm quickly stiffened.

Just as he was about to open the third book to see what it was, his brain stabbed violently, and a flood of memories flooded back.

Icefield City.

Pet animal breeding base.

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