On the official road of the Daughter Port along the Dadongyang coast to the Xiaoshang Port along the Yin and Shanghai Sea, walking was a very large group of carriages. Horses pulled large carriages, and the goods on them were tied up. On each carriage, in addition to the driver, there was also a finely decorated Han man. He looked either "pure Han" or "Yin Han mixed-race". He wore short jackets, his muscular arms were exposed outside, holding a bullet-laden coercion, and looking around with his chest and a protruding belly. There were also some riders who looked quite energetic around the convoy, both Han or Yin and Han mixed-race, guarding the convoy. There were smoothbore guns on their backs, and some were carrying buffalo horn bows.

In the middle of the large fleet were several pretty gorgeous carriages, with transparent glass on the windows and tulle curtains for sunshade.

At this time, Wu Guohao was sitting in the carriage of one of the carriages, slapping the fan hard while talking to a young man in his twenties and wearing the official uniform of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"Jinqing, how long will it take to get to Xiaoshang Port?"

"There are more than 200 miles left." The young man was a big beard. Because it was hot, his beard was covered with sweat and looked wet. His surname was Yelu, his name was Chu Cai, and he was a royal family member of the Liao Kingdom. He was a descendant of Yelu Bei, the eldest son of Yelu Abaoji.

His ancestors stayed in Dongliao when the Liao Kingdom was divided into two parts and became Xiao Sesse's ministers. They also made mistakes during the Yelu Aoluo Rebellion, but later they surrendered to Da Aoye in time and saved their lives. Therefore, Yelu Chucai also got a knight family in this time and space.

But the knights, even Yelu Lu's generation, began to decline. There is no way. When wars are done, they can't help, so how can the knights not decline? Their class gradually became the source of officers, intellectuals and grassroots civil servants in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Yelu Lu also served in the army when he was young, just to handle responsibilities in order to preserve his manor and identity. His later main business was a professor in the Department of Astronomy of Yenching University.

Yelu Chucai was his youngest son. Yelu Lu only got Chucai when he was 60 years old and died at the age of 61. So he didn't have time to arrange a way out for Yelu Chucai. Moreover, Yelu Chucai was not the eldest son, so he could not inherit the family business. Moreover, Yelu Lu, a scholar, did not leave much inheritance for his youngest son Yelu Chucai.

So I could only leave home after completing the law department of Yenching University with the support of my brother Yelu Biancai and Yelu Shancai (the two brothers are much older than Chu Cai).

Because he was determined to be an official, but he had only one temporary citizen, so he was unlikely to get a satisfactory position in the Dazhou area. So he went to the overseas job of the Dazhou government and was appointed to serve in the Americas. Because of his outstanding performance in North America, Chu Cai, who was only 25 years old this year, has been appointed as the magistrate of Baiyinzhou.

The so-called silver states actually do not produce silver, but are states composed of several ports that export silver. As for silver, they are all produced by the "lands of the Eight Kingdoms", that is, the territory of Mexico in later generations.

This silver state does not belong to the eight countries, but is directly under the Governor's Office in North America. The officials are all sent by the Governor's Office.

This kind of overseas Governor's Office is under the overseas jurisdiction of the Great Zhou Republic. Yelu Chucai is a low-level overseas official, so he will be sent to Baiyinzhou in North America as an official.

When Wu Guohao arrived at Baiyin Port, the capital of Baiyinzhou, the prefect was not there, so the magistrate Yelu Chucai was entertained by Tongzhi Yelu Chucai. After a while, Yelu Chucai and Wu Guohao also got along well with Wu Guohao. Although Wu Guohao did not have an official position, everyone knew that he was a big shot! Those who had a little brain had to flatter him, let alone Yelu Chucai, who had become a master?

So Chu Cai has become a friend of Wu Guohao now, and he personally escorted him from the narrowest part of the Eight Kingdoms to the Shanghai Sea. The place they passed by is the Isthmus of Tevantepek. It takes about 490 miles from Daughter Port (the coast of the Great East Ocean, named from a matriarchal tribe) to Xiaoshang Port. It is now mostly half past.

"There are 200 miles left..." Wu Guohao shook his head, "I won't be here tomorrow?"

"If the weather is clear, you will arrive tomorrow." Yelu Chucai smiled, "But it often rains in this area, and the roads are muddy, so it will be even more difficult to walk. If Mr. Donghai (Wu Guohao's number) wants to transport immigrants in large quantities, he may have to repair the 500-mile official road first."

"Of course the road needs to be repaired," Wu Guohao nodded, "But are there so many laborers available? The climate in this area is hot, probably a place of miasma?"

For colonists who developed the tropics, miasma diarrhea is very terrible!

If you colonize tropical lands that have not been developed, two-thirds of the deaths will be killed in one year after development.

So now the United States of North America and the New Song Kingdom have colonized millions, but on the Taiwan Island, which is close to the mainland, the Han people still have only tens of thousands of households. They are all scattered in a few coastal ports, so they dare not go inland.

As for the Zhenla Kingdom on the Indochina Peninsula, although it was repaired by the Eastern Song Dynasty for many times, it still exists now! The development of the Siam Kingdom established by the Eastern Song Dynasty was very slow, and the population of the Han people always hovered around hundreds of thousands.

The Western Song Dynasty's attack on Bagan and Myanmar was also subject to miasma and caused a terrible start.

Now, people are transported from the Isthmus of Tevantepec to the coast of the Shanghai Sea. It takes a few days to go, but the problem is not very big. The doctors of the Great Zhou Dynasty already know how malaria is spread. So they will use anti-mosquito plaster to push it.

However, this method is useless for workers who have been working in the rainforest for a long time. Can you still apply plaster on your body all day long? How much does it cost?

Moreover, it is so hot in the rainforest. The ointment you applied on will wash away the sweat in a while.

"You can hire natives." Yelu Chucai said, "There are many Yin tribes in the areas of Daughter Port and Xiaoshang Port, and they are not afraid of miasma."

"Aren't you afraid of miasma?" Wu Guohao was stunned. "Didn't it mean that Yin Ren is weak and prone to disease?"

"But they don't get malaria," Yelu Chucai explained, "and after getting malaria, the mortality rate is not high... It is said that they have any way to treat malaria."

"What?" Wu Guohao was shocked, "Treat malaria? Is it true or false?"

"It's just a legend, I don't know the authenticity." Yelu Chucai said, "But it's certain that the indigenous people in this area are not afraid of malaria."

This legend is of course true... Indigenous people in Central America know to use the bark of the cinchona tree to dry and grind it into powder to treat malaria.

However, only a few witch doctors from the jungle tribes knew about this secret, and it was strictly guarded. The outside Zhou people were not very clear about it, and at most they had heard some legends.

"The matter must be found out anyway," said Wu Guohao, "It's not a problem to spend!"

Yelu Chucai smiled and said, "Mr. Donghai, this is not a matter of spending money... Money is of no use to the natives here."

"They don't want money?" Wu Guohao asked, "What do they want? Food? Cloth?"

Yelu Chucai shook his head, "They want land... a piece of land that is not disturbed by us! Can Mr. Donghai give it to them?"

"Yes!" Wu Guohao immediately waved his hand, "I'll buy a large piece of land for them... As long as they are willing to help us build a stone road." He smiled, "As long as there is a road, the cost of immigration to the East Coast will be controlled."

"Then the Xiaguan thanked Mr. Donghai for the natives of the Yin people."

Yelu Chucai and Wu Guohao didn't know at this time that the matter they discussed on the way to Xiaoshanggang was criticized by a group of human rights defenders who stood on the side of the indigenous peoples hundreds of years later.

Because Wu Guohao later bought the territory of the Yin people with money, it became the first "Yin people's reservation area". Later, the United States of North America, the eight Central American governments, the governments of colonial countries established in South America, and the direct territorial authorities of the Great Zhou Republic in the Americas repeatedly cited this example and established many Yin people's reservation areas. In the eyes of later human rights guards, the so-called reserve area was to divide a piece of land that originally belonged to the Yin people, and in fact, it was to take away the rest of the parts!

Therefore, Wu Guohao and Yelu Chucai, who set this precedent, must be the infamous colonists.

Especially Yelu Chucai, this guy made great contributions to the construction of the "Death Highway" (500 miles from Daughter Port to Xiaoshang Port, which later killed thousands of natives of Yin people, so he was called the Death Highway in later generations). In addition, he cursed the great figure Wu Guohao and became successful.

With the support of Wu Guohao, he became the director of East Coast Development in North America and the first senior official in Xinyue Province. Later, Yelu Chucai was elected as the Speaker of the United States of North America, served as a Secretary of State, and reached the peak of his life... Of course, he also did a lot of bad things that plundered the land of the Yin people!

Of course Wu Guohao was also bad! He later transferred the shares of the Republic Bank and Tianjin Bank to his eldest son. He then took his second son and three times to the east coast of North America to explore new businesses. He bought two narrow islands (Manhattan and Long Island) in the New Testament Province, named Changdao City. He also built ports, markets, factories, and shipyards there. He was the largest stronghold of the United States on the east coast of North America.

In a few hundred years, Changdao City will become one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Wu Guohao will also be passed down through history under the name of "Father of Changdao City".

The Wu family’s “Guohao faction” was also founded and later developed into a wealthy family on the east coast of North America, which has been in the glory for hundreds of years... However, the role played by Wu Guohao in the process of the Chinese colonizing the east coast of North America was still accused by later critics for many years!

In addition, Wu Guohao's third son Wu Jiaan did another bad thing thirty years later that was nailed to the pillar of historical shame. This made the entire Changdao Wu family the target of criticism of later generations hundreds of years later.

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When the Great Zhou Republic was busy developing the east coast of North America, it was on the other side of the earth. Temujin, a genius, was not idle either. In 1215 and 1216 of the Western calendar, he used the method of digging trenches to force the Daburis, the important town of the Dashi Empire, to surrender.

After seizing Tabriz, Temujin did not continue to advance to Asia Minor. Because bad news came from Central Asia, his eldest son Shu Chi was ambushed by the Song army on the front line of Saiye. He was shot into the soul by the Song army's sniper (a target Jinshi) and hit the shoulder. The lead bullet shattered inside his body. After tortured Shu Chi for more than ten days, it caused serious infection, which made Shu Chi die.

Speaking of which, this battle is not very important, nor is it a decisive battle. It is just an ambush caused by the Song army's scouts infiltrating into the Mongolian army's front.

Maybe the Song army snipers didn't know who they killed?

Because of similar attacks, they occur almost every day on the front line of the Yili River Valley of Saiye.

After the Song army was forced to retreat from the Suye Front due to supply issues, the two sides did not engage in major wars. However, they frequently engaged in small-scale conflicts.

On the one hand, the Mongols hoped to take advantage of their advantages on horseback to seize control of the front and limit the Song people to the military farming area in the Yili River Valley.

On the other hand, the generals of the Song army wanted to use the "target shooting scholar" and "target shooting juren" to eliminate a small group of Mongolian cavalry.

So a small group of troops from both sides fought fiercely on the front line!

The result of this kind of fight was far beyond Shu Chi's expectations that the Mongolian warriors under his command would have a good end when they met the Song scholar and Juren who could shoot black guns?

No matter how high your martial arts are, you are afraid of bullets!

If you want to fight with others, they also have horses, and they may not be able to catch them when riding. Moreover, if you chase them too tightly, you may fall into a trap and someone is ambushing somewhere and waiting to be shot!

To use the Mongols' best cavalry and shooting battles, the Song people's scouts, cavalry, scholars, and juren all have plate armor, and arrowheads are difficult to cause damage to them. Their quality smoothbore guns and deer-skin bullets have fatal lethality.

Therefore, Shu Chi soon discovered that his Mongolian warriors had no way to bear the consequences of these small but fierce armed conflicts.

In order to reverse the unfavorable situation on the front line, he led thousands of cavalry to dispatch, hoping to kill several small troops of the Song people by fighting less and saving the situation.

But I never expected that I would die before I could succeed and be shot black...

Shu Chi's death forced Temujin to turn his attention from the Western Front to the Eastern Front.

As soon as I studied the situation on the Eastern Front, Temujin couldn't help but frown.

Because he had discovered that the powerful Mongolian cavalry seemed to have lost the ability to master the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

At the same time, he also realized that the Song army's level of using muskets was far superior to the Dashi Guards, and was also more skillful than the Mongolians.

They are not only good at shooting guns, but also very good at sniping at long distances!

In Shu Chi's report, there was even a record of being shot by a black gun outside 200 steps!

This may show that the Song army has a very terrifying new musket with a much larger effective range than the traditional smoothbore gun.

If that is true, the combat effectiveness of the Western Song army is very likely to be much higher than originally expected, and it will cause great personnel losses to the Mongolians!

This made Temujin very worried, so he decided to lead his army to the Sadao front line in person.
Chapter completed!