A slave ship that looks a little worn-out arrived at the dock of Changdao, Xinyuezhou. It is now the most suitable season for sailing on the Atlantic Ocean. The sky is blue and the sea breeze is warm. The dock is bustling with white coolies waiting to load and unload goods. The four-wheeled carriages that pick up and drop off passengers are crowded at the entrance of the dock. The Chinese greeting sounds are heard, and the decent people coming in and out are basically Han people from East Asia and their descendants. This is the most common morning in summer in Changdao, the largest commercial city on the east coast of the United States of North America.

Now, using Western calendars to calculate, it is already the 14th century after the Birth of Christ, that is, after 1340. It has been more than two hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Republic. The discovery in North America has been more than two hundred years.

However, in the eyes of people in North America, the real great development here began one hundred and twenty years later.

Yelu Chucai, a Zhixin Yuezhou who was suffering from the lack of labor at that time, proposed to Wu Guohao, the richest man on the east coast at that time, to buy a large number of white slaves!

The reason for this suggestion was that with the invasion of Great Mongolia in Europe intensified, a large number of refugees fled to Western Europe and North Africa, which could not digest these refugees. At the same time, arms ships heading to Europe often could not find suitable cargo and could only return empty ships.

In this case, spontaneous human smuggling is actually difficult to curb because for profit-oriented maritime merchants, there is really no more profitable activity to sell people from Europe to America!

A strong male white slave can easily sell dozens of silver coins on the east coast of North America at a high price. A beautiful female slave can be worth one or two hundred silver coins. If she can speak fluent Chinese, it is common to sell 500 silver coins in the population market. Since the Han people who have been in the Americas have always been male, the ratio of men and women in the New World Han people has always been relatively unbalanced.

Those men who want to settle down in the New World but don’t have much money, besides marrying an indigenous woman, can only spend a sum of money to buy a white female slave.

Moreover, the Han men who moved to America soon discovered that white female slaves were more diligent, stronger, smarter, and more obedient than Yin women.

The women of Yin were all born into primitive semi-primitive tribes, so of course they could not work with white European women. Moreover, they were easily infected, unlike European women who had stronger resistance. Needless to say, IQ. In addition, white female slaves all came from a society with distinct classes, most of them were serfs, and they were used to obeying, so naturally they were easy to command... So in the past few years, the indigenous Yin women were eliminated from the marriage market of Han people in North America.

Since supply is in short supply, Yelu Chucai and Wu Guohao, two guys with black conscience, have promoted the passage of the White Slave Act without regard to human rights, equality, and fraternity!

Of course, the United States of North America was not independent at this time, so it had to be legislated within the framework of the Constitution of the Great Zhou Republic. Therefore, the white slaves in the White Slave Act were actually contracted slaves. Compared with the black slaves in history, the situation was better.

A four-wheeled carriage with a license plate of the United States of North America was parked outside the slave dock in Little Long Island (Manhattan). There were two people standing around the car, one of whom was wearing the United States of North America's official uniform. He was not old and looked like he was a middle- and low-level official in the United States.

Both of them were very anxious. They watched the worn-out slave ship approaching the dock and quickly met.

The springboard was boarded with a slave ship, and a man in his forties and wearing the United States of North America appeared in his sight. He also found the officials coming to greet him and quickly walked off the springboard.

The officials on both sides saluted each other, and a young official who came to greet him asked: "Sir, how are you finally back in Europe?"

"Qingfeng" The middle-aged official who got off the boat looked at the young man and shook his head, "It's not very good, but the truce is confirmed!

It’s not okay to stop fighting! There are plague everywhere, and there are accidents in several cities. The plague has caused panic, who still has the heart to fight?"

The middle-aged official's surname is Song and his name is Yuanshan. He was an envoy to the Jin Horde of the United States of North America. The young man who told him was his son, named Song Qingfeng.

The "arms" mentioned by Song Yuanshan means that the "Mongolian War" that lasted for more than a hundred years has ceased.

After more than a hundred years of war, the wildness of the Mongols was finally fully exaggerated.

The Western Song, Egypt, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ayub-God Empire, which fought against Mongolia were also exhausted.

What's worse is that the terrible plague (the Black Death) began to spread across the vast land from Central Asia to the Atlantic Ocean, and thousands of people were taken away. The populations of the countries participating in the war suffered great losses and were unable to continue the war.

So more than 20 years ago, when Haidu Khan of the Great Mongolian Kingdom passed away, his daughter, the saint of light, Hutulunchahan, began to mediate between Egypt, Shenluo, Western Song Dynasty and Dashi.

Finally, a few months ago, the autumn of 1339 of the Western calendar, the final conditions of peace were reached.

The formal agreement was signed in Kiev, the capital of the Golden Horde, and was called the Treaty of Kiev.

The war that lasted for more than a hundred years finally came to an end, and this treaty also stipulated the territorial scope between Western countries such as Egypt, Mongolia, Jinzhang, Shenluo, France, and Dashi.

It can be said that it laid the general pattern of the Western world in the future.

The future Western world is really exciting. The country that led the Qunlun was actually Egypt! The Golden Tentros ruled the Great Plains of Eastern Europe. In the Balkans, Asia Minor and Persia dominated the Great Mongolia-Persian Empire. And the one who possessed brilliant civilization and absorbed the essence of Eastern and Western cultures was the Ayub-Gaoshi Empire. As for the ignorant, backward and uncivilized hats, it undoubtedly belonged to France, Germany, and England and other European barbarian countries...

Now such a strange Western world in Guli has been silenced a lot due to the Black Death and war-weariness. This is not a good thing for the United States of North America...

Over the past century, the east coast of the United States of North America has been benefiting from the war in the West. The east coast of North America exports a large amount of arms, imports gold, silver and slaves from the West, and at the same time, they can also receive subsidies from the New Washington authorities on the West Coast, which can be said to be a great war fortune.

The population of Han people on the east coast has grown from less than 100,000 before the beginning of the Mongolian War to nearly 8 million today! And the population of Han people in the entire United States of North America has thus increased to nearly 18 million. If considering the number of white slaves, the population on the east coast has now exceeded the west coast! It is precisely because of the reversal of population that the United States of North America has now made the decision to move the capital, and selected a village called Peanuts (producing peanuts) to build a new capital. The name of the new capital is the homonym of Peanuts, named Huasheng Mansion, abbreviated as Huafu.

Although the population of North America cannot be compared with the 100 million people in the Great Zhou area (including Japan and Goryeo), it can be regarded as the number one densely populated territory in the world.

While the population is growing rapidly, the economic development of the United States of North America is also very rapid. From the original single reliance on precious metal mining to the current factory handicraft industry, agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, and urban service industries, the economic prosperity has even exceeded that of the Western Song Dynasty, which consumed a lot in the Hundred Years War. It has become the second only to the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty in the Chinese world.

But now, good days in the United States of North America are likely to come to an end with the end of the Great Mongolian War.

In fact, in the past two or three years, the number of arms exported to the West has been declining year by year, and the population imported from the West has also decreased significantly due to the outbreak of the Black Death.

Even ships traveling to and from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have been reduced a lot due to the Black Death.

In Xinyuezhou, the economic center on the east coast of North America, signs of economic depression have long been due to the decline in the intensity of the Great Mongolian War and the spread of the Black Death in Europe.

Song Yuanshan, Song Qingfeng and his son boarded the four-wheeled carriage that had been waiting for a long time and left the crowded dock.

The carriage quickly entered the downtown area of ​​Little Long Island, about Manhattan in another time and space. Now it is the most prosperous place in the New World and the political center of the East Coast of the United States of North America.

Because the capital of the United States, New Washington, is too far from the east coast, the United States' parliament passed a "Deputy Capital Act" thirty years ago, setting up a "Deputy Capital" in Xiao Changdao City, Xinyuezhou, which is an administrative sub-center. It is permanently stationed by the deputy commander and the deputy secretary of state, and also has some departmental offices to handle some less important government affairs.

In addition, the new capital project of "Peanut Village" is also supervised by the deputy commander and deputy secretary of state.

Song Qingfeng is now the Jiyi text of Deputy Secretary of State Wu Yuankai, that is, secretary.

Song Yuanshan served as deputy envoy at the Embassy of the Great Zhou Republic to the Jin Horde in the Great Zhou Republic. Now the United States of North America is not an independent country, so he cannot send ambassadors to foreign countries. He can only send officials in the missions of the Great Zhou Republic to foreign countries. Generally, each embassy abroad in the Great Zhou Republic will have a North American deputy envoy and several North American officials. He is specifically responsible for handling matters related to the United States of North America.

The carriage passed through the small Changdao city without the protection of the city walls and was covered with Zhou-style buildings. It seemed a bit depressing here, at least much depressing than Song Yuanshan when he left a year and a half ago. However, Western cities such as Kiev, Mongo Castle, Alexander, and Rome, which were shrouded in the shadow of the Black Death, are still much more prosperous.

The Black Death appeared in Central Asia about twenty years ago. It is a plague with a sharp contagious and lethality. After it appeared, it spread to the East and the West at the same time.

Among them, the spreading speed to the east is slower, while the spreading speed to the west is faster.

This is because Central Asia is the territory of the Western Song Dynasty to the east, and now the Western Song Dynasty has already experienced a feudal separatist state. Many separatist forces have appeared in the territory, and the land transportation lines from west to east are very unblocked, which is naturally inconvenient to the spread of plague.

The separatist situation in the Western Song Dynasty actually has a lot to do with the century-old Mongolian and Song Dynasty war.

In order to support the war in Central Asia, the Western Song Dynasty court had to set up a large number of vassal kings in the Western Regions, and successively enthroned the four major princes, including the Prince of Saiye, the Prince of Chachi, and the Prince of Samargan. At the same time, in order to encourage soldiers to join the army to fight the west, the land grant amount of the military households in the Western Expedition was greatly increased. From a hundred acres to a 200 acres per farm, it increased to a 600 acres per farm!

Moreover, since the Western Song Dynasty court was away from Central Asia and Pacific, its control ability over these "600 acres of military households" was not strong. The strength of the "600 acres" military households was also stronger than that of the 100 acres and 200 acres of military households in the Central Plains.

In addition, there is no class of gun doctors in Central Asia that can restrain military household forces.

Therefore, the power of the Central Asian military households is increasing, and gradually colludes with the four major county and princes, including Suoye, Yilei, Chachi, and Samarkan, forming a vassal state power.

Later, the power of the princes such as Gaochang, Shule, Yutian, Qingtang, and Tubo also began to lose control, and gradually formed separatist vassal states!

If Xiliang, which occupied the Fergana Basin, was included, there would be ten major vassal states in the western part of the Western Song Dynasty. Each vassal state had at least tens of thousands of military households and could form an army of tens of thousands of people.

The Western Song courts both appeased and used them. On the one hand, they should prevent them from annexing each other and form a powerful force that threatens the court. On the other hand, they should use their force to maintain the rule of the Western Regions and Central Asia.

Although the century-long war transferred internal conflicts between the Western Song Dynasty, it also consumed limited financial resources of the Western Song Dynasty. Especially in the middle and late periods of the war, there was no land to be given to Central Asia. In order to maintain the war, the Western Song court had to distribute copper coins and Shu broth as military pay. The copper coins and Shu broth could not compensate the military households for their contributions, so the national strength of the Western Song Dynasty showed a significant decline.

Under such circumstances, the nine major vassal states were again a very necessary force for the Western Song court... Without them, the territory of Central Asia was taken away by the Chagatai Khanate.

In short, in the western part of the Western Song Dynasty, there is such a warlord separatist situation, but it can barely maintain a balance.

The vassal states located on the trade channel have widely set up tax cards, which have excessively restrained business activities and slowed down the spread of the plague.

The passage from Central Asia to the west is mainly controlled by the Great Mongolia-Persian Empire and its vassal state Chagatai Khanate. Although many separatist forces appeared within these two countries, the rulers of these two countries attached great importance to trade, so they could still maintain trade smoothly. The plague spread west along the trade route.

Of course, the route of spreading the plague is not just by land or by sea trade, but also by the terrible Black Death.

Therefore, the two world empires, the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, are now full of fear of the Black Death, and are considering whether to interrupt trade with Europe, Central Asia and West Asia to ensure that the Black Death does not break out in the local and colonies.

Compared with the Black Death, which can eliminate half of the population of a city in one outbreak, the profits brought by trade with Europe are really insignificant.
Chapter completed!