The weather is the clearest time, and the sun is emitting its light and heat at its fullest. Under its reflection, the mountains, rivers and earth are bright.

At the foot of the hill called Xiaohan Mountain, more than a dozen cavalrymen roared between the grass and shrubs, frightening the birds and beasts on the land to run around. These soldiers on the horse were all wearing gorgeous red silk battle jackets, all belonging to the guards of the commander of the United States.

Wu Guohao raised a well-made smoothbore gun, and a sound of a slug was heard. He was also a soldier. Although he had not been in the Great Zhou army for too long, he went home to inherit billions of property. However, his shooting skills were still very good. After the gunshots, a North American hare fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then passed away. Another gunshot was fired, and another North American hare was also shot, and his head was blown out, and he fell to the ground.

Wu Guohua, the commander of the United States of North America, laughed and handed the musket to his entourage. Then he took another musket filled with deerskin bombs, and said to Wu Guohao with a smile: "Eleven to nine, you are still two points behind."

Wu Guohao smiled bitterly and shook his head, and handed the smoothbore rifle to his entourage. He spread his hands and said with a smile: "My marksmanship is already very good. I didn't expect that I can't compare to you, Qi Geer. If you were born in the Western Song Dynasty, you would be able to pass the top scorer."

Wu Guohua fiddled with his musket, but did not look for the target to open fire, but laughed while strolling: "My marksman is only average, and I am older and have weak eyesight. I can't be considered a sharpshooter in Xinhua Palace."

The United States of North America is a society where everyone has guns. Playing with guns is a way of life here, just like the grassland people playing bows and arrows. If anyone in this world can compare the number of sharpshooters with the Western Song Dynasty who "target shooting imperial examination", then it must be the United States of North America.

Although this country has a population of only a few million, almost all adults are good at playing guns, both men and women!

In addition to being good at playing guns, the skill of using gunpowder for blasting is also quite popular in the United States of North America, which is a necessary thing for mining!

In addition, horses seem to be one of the necessities of life for the people of the United States of North America.

This is because North America has vast land and its industrial structure is a bit deformed, basically only mining and agriculture and animal husbandry. Mines, farms and pastures are very scattered on the extremely vast land. The transportation between them depends on horseback. The price of horses is very cheap compared to the income of North American people, so that every household can raise a few horses for transportation.

In other words, not only does everyone have guns, but everyone has horses, and is also good at fiddling with bombs...

When the Age of Hot Weapons just began, such people could be called a fighting nation!

A somewhat absurd thought suddenly emerged in Wu Guohao's mind. After the Great Zhou Republic unified the Chinese mainland, will the United States of North America grow into a powerful country that can confront the Great Zhou?

This thought lingers in his mind and lingers, causing him to leave.

"Brother Sixteenth, Brother Sixteenth...what are you thinking?"

Wu Guohua's smiling face came over and asked with concern.

Wu Guohao only realized that he had lost his mind and smiled awkwardly: "Seventh Brother, I am here to tell you a way to unite the three heroes of Xia."

"Ah?" Wu Guohua was stunned and stunned, "Aren't you going to talk about building a factory in Xinyuezhou today?"

"Oh, it's the same thing to develop the East Coast and return to the three heroes of Zhuxia."

"Is that true?" Wu Guohua still didn't understand.

Wu Guohao explained: "The Seventh Brother is unknown. Today's American market is becoming more and more important to the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty."

"That's right, our Americas are rich in gold, silver and copper." Wu Guohua said proudly.

Gold, silver, and brass are currency!

Among the gold, silver and brass produced in the New World, except for a small part (total 15) that flowed directly into the treasury of the Great Zhou Republic and the United States of North America, the rest would become the profits of the miners and the wages of the miners. Subsequently, part of this part of gold, silver and copper would flow to the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty in a trade exchange situation.

Because gold, silver and brass in the Americas account for a very high proportion of the world's total output, the purchasing power of the American market is particularly strong. The current American Chinese are even more prosperous than later Arab tycoons. For the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties, they are simply the God of Wealth.

In contrast, the traditional Western market seems very shameful.

The huge American market is in the hands of the Great Zhou Republic!

In other words, if the industry and commerce in the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty wanted to grow and grow, it was up to the Great Zhou Republic to open up the American market!

This is definitely a fatal temptation for Jiangnan industry and commerce, the most core of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

"Brother Qi, our idea is to further expand the market of the United States of North America! Take advantage of this opportunity to encircle the Great Mongolian. The United States government will provide subsidies to the business companies that set up factories to produce ordnances in the east. Use ordnance production to drive the development of other industries in the east to achieve the opportunity to gather population. The aggregation of population will generate new markets and supplies. For the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, the American market will become more important.

The merchants of the Eastern Song and the United Kingdom are profit-oriented! For them, as long as they are profitable, they can leave the Eastern Song and join the Great Zhou Dynasty. They are originally a country of the eighteen states. If they are united, they stay; if they are not, they will leave."

This method is actually "China first". It uses the huge wealth of America to buy the profit-oriented bourgeoisie of the Eastern Song Dynasty, and it is also wrapped in the cloak of nationalism.

The "United States system" of the Eastern Song Dynasty also had huge loopholes. The United States is a bit similar to the Confederacy or the Federation, and should be between the two. The Hezhong states had great power and all had powerful militias. The Eastern Song Dynasty court has always been relatively weak. After the death of Wu Meiniang, a powerful leader, the rulers of the Eastern Song Dynasty were relatively weak. They could not restrain the eighteen Hezhong states.

In addition, the royal family of the Eastern Song Dynasty had great selfish concerns in the New Song Continent since Zhao Kai and Wu Meiniang.

The New Song Continent was not a vassal state of the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty, but a property of the Eastern Song royal family!

Therefore, the gold mine tax on the New Song Continent (the gold mine was also discovered in the New Song Continent) does not belong to the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty, nor to the government of the New Song Kingdom, but to the Emperor of the Eastern Song Dynasty! As for the king of the New Song Kingdom, the Emperor of the Eastern Song Dynasty has always been the same as the Emperor of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

This huge sum of money was not used for the emperor's private consumption, but was used to build a royal territory in Xinsong, Xinkaifeng Prefecture, Xinkaifeng Prefecture, is located in the southeast of the Xinsong continent. It is a coastal port city. The specific location is probably where Sydney is located in later generations.

In order to build the new Kaifeng Prefecture, the Eastern Song royal family spared no expense. Not only did they use the power they held to set the new Kaifeng Prefecture as a place of exile. They also used the Xinsong Jin Mine Tax to subsidize the Eastern Song people who voluntarily immigrated to the new Kaifeng Prefecture. Not only did farmers be encouraged to move, but merchants and handicraftsmen were also encouraged to move.

After decades of unremitting efforts, Xin Kaifeng Prefecture now has 100,000 households and 500,000 people. It has become the most populous state-level administrative region in China outside the mainland of Zhuxia.

Moreover, the new Kaifeng Prefecture also has a relatively complete manual industrial structure, which is enough to maintain an overseas kingdom self-sufficiently.

According to people who are familiar with the inside story of the Eastern Song Dynasty, the purpose of the New Song Kingdom, which the Eastern Song royal family worked hard to run, was to move the royal family there to take refuge when the Eastern Song Dynasty encountered a crisis and could not survive.

"The United States of North America has such a big market?" Wu Guohua seemed not very confident about Wu Guohao's proposal, "There are only 8 million Han people in the entire America."

Immigration to the New World is definitely not an easy task!

Even though it has been more than 80 years since the discovery of the American continent, the population of Han people on the American continent is only more than 8 million.

This was achieved when the birth rate of the American Han people was much higher than that of the native Chinese!

The reason for this is that on the one hand, the journey is long and the cost of immigration is very high. On the other hand, many immigrants who have dug up gold in the New World will choose to return home in glory and return to the old world to live. However, a group of Han people with a broken dream of gold mining had to stay in the New World and become farmers...

However, there are more than 8 million Han people in the American continent than the million Han people in the New Song continent.

"Now there is only 8 million, and it may reach 0 million in a few decades." Wu Guohao seemed full of confidence. "The largest sailboat now is only 20,000 stones, and there may be 0,000 stones of sailboats in a few decades. The cost of shipping will be further reduced. Perhaps more trade goods suitable for transporting back to the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty will be found in addition to gold, silver, brass, and saltpeter.

By then, the importance of the American market to the eastern Song Dynasty will be more prominent."

In fact, another trade item suitable for long-distance shipping back to the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty will not be discovered until more than 50 years later. This trade item eventually became the fuse for the collapse of the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty... It is bird droppings!

Wu Guohao then said to the commander of the United States of North America: "We expect the Mongolian war to last for decades, and Europe, the Western Regions, North Africa, and even India will be involved. The demand for weapons will be large and long-term! The profit margins of weapons are extremely high. If the allowances issued by the United States government are added, factories in Xinyuezhou and other places can pay enough wages to attract tens of thousands of immigrants. After a large number of handicraft immigrants gathered in Xinyuezhou, agriculture, logging, mining and various other industries will be driven. Perhaps we will discover new gold, silver and copper mines in the vast east, and then we will attract more immigrants."

Wu Guohua took a breath, "It's right...but the road to the east is very difficult to walk! Starting from Xinhua Palace, I can't reach Xinyuezhou for a few months!"

There is no railway crossing the North American continent now, and there will probably not be one in the next three or four hundred years.

Therefore, the future development of North America will still rely on water transportation. However, the "Panama Canal" was also unable to be dug in the foreseeable era. Therefore, the transportation of bulk goods from the west coast of North America to the east coast is generally carried out bypassing the South American continent.

"There is no need to go," Wu Guohao had already made a suggestion. He smiled, "Immigrants can take a boat to the east."

"Take a boat? Bypass the South American continent?" Wu Guohua shook his head, "No, it's mainly against the wind along the west coast of the South American continent. The boat is driving very slowly. It's at least half a year to go around... How much does it cost to transport a person? It's okay to go a few less. It's going to cost thousands of people, but you'll lose money. In addition, taking a boat will kill people!"

There is nothing to do when materials are circling the South American continent. After all, they do not need to eat and drink, nor will they get sick. But the personnel are no longer able to do it. It is very costly to take a boat to circulate on the sea for several months.

Therefore, if you want to develop eastern North America, the first thing you need to overcome is the high cost of personnel transportation.

Wu Guohao had to find a channel that could transport a large number of Han people to the east coast of North America at a lower cost.

"There is no need to detour from the South American continent," Wu Guohao said, "You can pass through the eight countries in the United States of North America... you can reach the port of the Shanghai Sea in about seven or eight hundred miles, and then transfer to the merchant ship to Xinyuezhou north."

The so-called land of the Eight Kingdoms is the Central America area, where eight autonomous lords of the Xiao surname divided and occupied this narrow land. In addition, the Great Zhou Republic also set up several directly under the jurisdiction of Central America.

Compared with the empty United States of North America, the eight countries in Central America seem to be more prosperous. The population is large, and agriculture and handicrafts are also relatively developed. However, the Han people (Chinese) there do not account for the majority, and most of the residents are Yin people in Central America.

The Yin people are said to be descendants of the Shang ancestors who came from the Central Plains to the east... However, the Great Zhou scholars who came to the Americas did not find any evidence that they were descendants of the Shang Dynasty.

There is some evidence that proves that they have nothing to do with the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty!

The skills of these Yin people were too backward, without bronzes, bows and arrows, and even wheels. Their skills were much behind those of the Shang Dynasty more than two thousand years ago. How could they be descendants of the Yin people?

However, these studies were not recognized by the Great Zhou government. The Great Zhou government and the eight Central American countries defined the indigenous people of Central America as "Yin people", and forced them to learn Chinese, abide by the customs of the Han people, believe in the principles of the Heavenly Principles, and use "Yin" and "Shang" as their surnames.

This behavior has caused many unnecessary confrontations. In the past seventy or eighty years, the eight countries where the Yin people lived have been in turmoil.

The number of Yin people also decreased significantly due to war and epidemics.

However, no matter how much it is reduced, the base of the Yin people in the eight countries is there, not as rare as the Yin people in the United States of North America in the north. Therefore, millions of Yin people still live on the lands of the eight autonomous territories.
Chapter completed!