Outside Paris.

The sun gradually rose in the east, and on the green earth, groups of cavalry continued to gather from the north.

Soon, Napoleon's strength, which had only more than 300 horsemen, was soon strengthened to more than 5,000 horsemen.

"Marshal! The Paris garrison is already under full control, and the 1st Grenadier Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division has taken control of all roads to Paris! ”、

An officer had just arrived on horseback, looked proudly at their commander with his head held high, and said.

"Well done!" Napoleon nodded, then stood up in stirrups, and smiled at the knights gathered from the various troops stationed around Paris.

Such a large-scale military movement was unbeknownst to the consuls in Paris.

France is led by these fools, and sooner or later it will go into the abyss.

"Everyone, please follow me to Paris together!"

Napoleon exclaimed.

"Marshal! Let's go to Paris together!! ”

Thousands of knights chanted en masse.

Napoleon waved his hand, and quickly. , a team of thousands of elite horsemen, marching towards Paris.

Paris was completely under control, and without resistance, the army carrying the banner of Napoleon's marshal entered the city.

The soldiers of the Paris garrison immediately shouted when they saw the marshal's banner.

Quite a few people even carried weapons and followed behind.

When Napoleon entered the city of Paris.

The team behind him already numbered more than 20,000 people.

It is so vast that you can't see the end from the beginning.

Historically.

I'm afraid there hasn't been such a blatant and upright coup d'état.

As the French soldiers and the citizens of Paris chanted "Long live the marshal", they followed Napoleon to the Directory.

The soldiers of the newly formed French National Guard also defected en masse.

"Your Excellency! Napoleon is back! ”

Someone broke into the Directory, and the Archons of Louisiana, who were still in the dark in panic, were immersed in the seizure of the New World.

"Where is he now? In Italy? ”

Someone asked in horror.

"No, he's in Paris!"

"Hurry up, let the National Guard take over the defense of Paris."

"Your Excellency, it's too late!"

"What? Has he entered the city of Paris? Fast! Pack up your things." The consuls were in a panic, and Paul. Barras shook his head slightly, closing his eyes in pain.

Do these fools really think that Napoleon was an honest man?

"He's right outside the door!" The official who had come back to ventilate the news said loudly.

The voice just fell.

Bang!

The doors of the Directory were slammed open.

A group of soldiers in colorful military uniforms squeezed in from the gate.

Judging by the military uniforms worn by these soldiers.

They came from many French armies.

There were the Paris garrison corps, and there were the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Infantry Divisions.

There were the Northern Defense Corps, and there were the Italian Corps.

in a word

Almost all the soldiers of the French field troops can be seen.

This also means:

The entire French army has defected.

And the consuls were unaware of this.

Flashing bayonets flickered in the Directory Chamber.

The soldiers stood against the corners, their heads held high, staring at the corrupt and power-vying consuls who had gained power through the Revolution.

Right now.

Their commander-in-chief, Napoleon, walked in with his head held high and as a victor.

Behind him were the military chiefs of the various units stationed around Paris.

Barrow. Barras couldn't help but feel a chill when he saw this scene.

No matter how much intrigue there is in the face of such a situation. I can't do it.

When people have the power to break any rules.

Intrigues, just jokes.

"I now declare that I am dictator for life of the French Republic, who is for and who is against?"

Napoleon asked.

Sichuan, Chengdu.

Xu Fugui grabbed the hemp rope, carried a broken burden full of patches, supported his wife, and the stupid son and ugly girl also followed, and the family of four was tied up like this, and walked from Luojiang to Chengdu together.

Arrived in Chengdu.

You'll be able to get on board.

It is said that the destination is Shanghai, and after arriving in Shanghai, you can change ships and walk for about a month to reach the legendary New World full of gold.

Bang Bang Bang!

It was the sound of whipping on the bluestone floor.

This voice sent chills down the spine of many Sichuan farmers who were going to the New World to make a living with Xu Fugui.

The road from Luojiang to Chengdu can be said to be bloody and tearful all the way.

The vicious servant didn't beat anyone much.

It's just urging everyone to hurry.

I don't have much time to eat on the road.

"Hurry up! Rub what! The turtle son delayed Lao Tzu's time, and you know how much money you have to lose! If you are delayed on the road for a day, Lao Tzu will have to pay an extra day when he goes back! ”

Of course, it is impossible to lose money.

At present, the royal consortium has taken the lead in establishing the New World Development Joint Stock Company, attracting a large amount of private capital to become shareholders.

And the income is the exclusive right to mine minerals and purchase agricultural products in the new world in the future.

There is an example of the Tohoku Development Corporation in front.

The recruitment of the original shares of Newland Development Company was very smooth.

The recruitment of the first tranche of 30 million yuan original shares was completed quickly.

With the leverage of 30 million original funds, Daming New World Development Corporation quickly became a super company that was enough to leverage hundreds of millions of yuan of capital!

With money.

The plan for large-scale immigration to the New World will also be able to proceed smoothly.

Of course, the New World Development Corporation's immigration program is in cooperation with the local government.

Local governments are responsible for recruiting immigrants.

The New World Development Corporation provides subsidies on a capitation basis.

This subsidy covers the cost of recruiting and transporting migrants.

Like in Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

With a dense population and no way out, local county officials are keen to organize immigrants to "make money".

Yes.

It's about making money.

Take Luojiang County as an example.

Luojiang County is a county on the edge of the Sichuan Basin.

The population is large, but there is nothing else to do but farm.

People who do business are also unlikely to come to Luojiang County to invest.

Therefore.

The immigration plan of the New World Development Corporation is a means of making money for Luojiang County from county officials to ordinary officials.

For example, Xu Fugui sent Xu Fugui from Daqiao Town, Luojiang County, to the immigration recruitment office of the New World Development Company in Chengdu, and he could get travel expenses and food expenses, which was about ten yuan per head.

And this official of Luojiang County, escorting more than 100 people on the road, arrived in Chengdu, handed over the people, and the remaining food expenses naturally fell into his pocket - of course, the big head is ordered by the county, and everyone up and down has to eat this mouthful of food.

Therefore.

along the way.

These newcomers have had enough.

In order to save food expenses, the officials did everything possible to deduct them along the way.

So it's now.

Many of them were so hungry that they couldn't walk, so the servant had to take out a leather whip to drive them away.

It's really bitter

Xu Fugui, who was hungry and a little dizzy, was in charge of his old wife, pulling his stupid son, and the ugly girl in the back was carrying two quilts - this is the most valuable item of Xu Fugui's family.

Ancestral.

"Hurry up, hurry up! When you arrive in Chengdu, the people of the New World Development Company will let you eat enough, people are very rich, and they are millions of dollars when they make a move, and they still lack this bit of food? ”

"Also, to go to the New World is to take a boat, to go to the Northeast is to walk, whether it is hard to walk or to take a boat, you weigh it yourself! Don't think that the journey to the New World is only a month, and the time it takes is not much longer than going to the Northeast! And the New World is good, it is a territory that can be compared with Jiangnan! There are enough bison herds in the wild to eat for years! ”

The official snapped his whip a few times.

It was found that no one was going forward at all.

He also knew that he couldn't scare people with a whip.

The New World Development Company's people don't want everyone.

If someone is found out on the road after being beaten, the lawyer of the New World Development Company is not a vegetarian.

Therefore, this whip can only scare people, and they dare not really hit people.

It's too much to scare people now.

The servant had no choice but to say that he had started to draw cakes.

It's all urban legends.

I don't know if it's true or false anyway.

For example, the land is so fertile that no one has cultivated it at all, and the local natives have very few iron tools, and they are very backward, etc.

Anyway, it's all good things that attract people,

But Xu Fugui and others don't believe this at all now.

They heard the officials say this.

Someone said in a loud voice: "Don't care what happens to the New World, if you don't give you food, you won't leave!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! If you don't give you food, you won't leave! ”

"If you don't go, you can't go, just kill me."

"I have the ability to cut off Lao Tzu's brain!"

Suddenly.

A group of Sichuan farmers shouted one after another.

The official couldn't help but have a headache.

In the end, there was no way.

He had no choice but to say loudly: "Walk another 10 miles, there is an official immigration guest house in the town ahead, let's go there to eat!" ”

In order to encourage immigration, the Ming court also fought hard.

Grain depots were set up in various places to sell food to migrants passing by at very good prices.

This is also due to the great development of Nanyang and Northeast China.

Both of these places are good places to grow rice.

The efficiency of large-scale agricultural production may not be comparable to that of intensive farming by small households.

However, the output of commercial grain far exceeds the intensive cultivation of small households.

Therefore, in recent years, the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty has continued to fall.

However, the phenomenon of starvation to death is much less.

Hearing that there was food in the town when they walked to the front, everyone hurriedly cheered up.

"Hurry up and keep up."

Xu Fugui turned his head to look at his stupid son and ugly girl, and whispered.

What awaits them is that they don't know what kind of unpredictable fate it is.

At this moment.

The first stronghold in the New World of the Ming Dynasty.

Governorate of Gold Hill.

Along the big river named Jinsha River to the east, four large villages rise from the ground.

The Jinsha River is the Fraser River in later generations, and the Fraser River is also known as the mother river of British Columbia. Powered by millennial snow cover in the Rocky Mountains, its catchment covers a quarter of B.C., providing 80 percent of the province's productive value, housing one-third of its population, and irrigating the people on both sides of the river.

The flat and fertile terrain of the lower Fraser River valley, coupled with a mild climate, is very suitable for agriculture and abundant products, driving the rapid development of Vancouver and surrounding cities.

The Fraser River is named after Simon Fraser, a famous American explorer and trader in the 19th century. In 1808, Simon Fraser led 23 men from Prince Georger, the fortress of George on the upper Fraser River, to open up trade routes.

However, there was no Vancouver at that time, and the estuary was just a primeval forest and swamp.

And now.

There is no Fraser in this world.

There is only the Jinsha River.

The plain area at the mouth of the Jinsha River will become the garrison of the first batch of Ming immigrants.

It is the river with the largest salmon return in the world.

Every year at the end of September and the beginning of October.

Dense salmon will swim up the ocean along the estuary of the Jinsha River.

At this time.

That's when the fishermen are most excited.

And in fact.

These migratory salmon also made a significant contribution to the first immigrants of the Ming Empire.

Therefore.

At this time at the mouth of the Jinsha River.

The first built in front of the open space.

People erected a salmon statue, and at the same time named this village salmon village.

At the same time, at the end of September and the beginning of October every year, it is also a festival commemorated by the Chinese people of the New World in later generations.

The name is also easy to remember.

It's called Thanksgiving.

It's pretty much the same thing as Thanksgiving for whites on the other side of the continent.

It's just that the whites are grateful to the Indians, and almost exterminate the Indians.

The Chinese people are grateful for the salmon that brought the first food to the Chinese immigrants who originally came to the Jinshan Governor's District, and in later generations, in response to the fact that the Chinese people ate the extinction of the migratory salmon in the Jinsha River, the Europa people mentioned it every day in their textbooks.

It's like the sin of eating salmon and going extinct.

It's a little bigger than stripping the scalp of the Indians.

These Dazhai are all in the shape of a fortress of a military nature.

The future Jinshan City is based on the four large villages that present a square distribution, and the city walls are connected by construction, which is the basic scope of the inner city of Jinshan City later.

Now there is no city wall between these villages, and they are independent of each other and are each other's horns.

There are 500 strong men stationed in each village.

The first group to come was 2,000 strong men.

There are no women, and there are no old and infirm.

I thought that the first pioneers who came here needed to complete the most dangerous and hard work.

Build stockades, open up wasteland, and find out the surrounding situation.

The building materials used in this village are also very primitive: the most common logs in the surrounding forest, thousands of logs, tied together with iron wire, small half buried in the soil, most half buried in the ground, between the two rows of logs filled with rammed earth, and then built a platform on top of the official work, between the exterior walls painted with shell powder, yellow mud mixed paint for fire prevention.

It's very sturdy.

It is no less defensive than a brick-clad wall.

Outside the city walls.

Trenches were dug.

It is two feet wide and one foot deep.

Batteries were installed on the ramparts.

The Great Bright Sun and Moon Banner fluttered high on the city wall.

At the same time, several hot air balloons took off into the air, keeping an eye on the surrounding movements.

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